The Rt Hon. the Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston. Her name is Gisela Stuart, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£3,339
15 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed
£3,339
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
19 Content(10.1%)
29 Not-Content(15.3%)
141 didn't vote(74.6%)
2026-07-13
Not-Content
158–239
Not-Content
2026-04-23
Not-Content
152–207
Not-Content
2026-04-13
Not-Content
65–173
Not-Content
2026-04-13
Not-Content
178–231
Not-Content
2026-03-24
Not-Content
80–166
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Content
194–140
Content
2026-03-05
Content
198–139
Content
2026-03-05
Content
208–142
Content
2026-01-05
Content
132–124
Content
Source: lordsvotes-api.parliament.uk. "Result" shows the headline
Content vs Not-Content tally (including tellers). The Lords doesn't
publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the
figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-09-17
Civil Service: Impartiality
My Lords, I welcome today’s debate and register my interest as the First Civil Service Commissioner. The commission is an independent statutory body and plays a key role in safeguarding the impartiality of our Civil Service. The Civil Service’s professio
2026-09-01
Nepal: Flooding
My Lords, will the Minister join me in paying tribute to Rajendra Dawadi, the head teacher who saved 900 schoolchildren from the floods, and hundreds more by alerting the bus drivers so they did not deliver them to the school? It is an example of individ
2026-07-20
Strait of Hormuz: Merchant Shipping
My Lords, I declare my interest as an honorary captain in the Royal Navy Reserve. I draw the Minister’s attention to the welfare of the seafarers in the Merchant Navy. While those ships are blocked in the straits, a lot of their seafarers have been onboa
2026-07-16
Future Capability of the Armed Forces
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Harlech, on initiating this debate. I apologise for starting with something that he might feel he left out, because I am inviting this House to remember 1968. Quite a number of us will remember it, but I am
2026-07-14
Death of Ann Widdecombe
My Lords, I send my condolences to Ann Widdecombe’s family. I served as a Member of Parliament with her on the other side and, rather surprisingly, when I stepped down as an MP in 2017, a very kind letter arrived from Ann thanking me for my public servic
2026-07-08
Police Leadership Commission Report
My Lords, I am grateful for the report and I see that the recommendations include the creation of a national academy of police leadership. I declare my interest, as the First Civil Service Commissioner, as a regulator for entry into the senior Civil Serv
2026-07-01
Defence Investment Plan
My Lords, all European countries are struggling with coming to terms with new realities and what that requires for their defence and equipment to be appropriate to modern warfare. However, irrespective of the money and the percentages spent, if we do not
My Lords, following the Question from the noble Earl, Lord Russell, before we have all those solar systems in place, I urge the Minister to audit major hospital trusts on their back-up power systems, and in particular to ensure that the refrigeration fac
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
My Lords, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led to some shortages in critical supply chains. I am particularly thinking of fertiliser, which is important for food production here and globally. Have the Government made any assessment of how long it
2026-06-11
Antisemitism
My Lords—
My Lords, in the last four years, in the role of the First Civil Service Commissioner, I have increasingly seen AI being used in all stages of recruitment. The Civil Service uses AI and so does the commission, but we have always been very clear that AI i
2026-06-02
Bosnia and Herzegovina
My Lords, the noble Baroness mentioned all the organisations that we are working with. Could she say more about how supportive of, and in line with, our colleagues from the United States we are on this policy?
2026-05-19
El Niño: Impact
My Lords, some local authorities have in the past identified places such as churches, which may provide cool shelter during very high temperature periods. Are the Government doing any work with local authorities to make information available for those ki
2026-02-09
Royal Navy: Caribbean
My Lords, the United Kingdom has historically played a significant part in intelligence gathering in the Caribbean. Some difficulties were reported towards the end of last year. Is the Minister able to give some reassurance to the House that these proble
2026-01-15
Royal Navy: Nuclear Submarines
My Lords, the 2025 SDSR committed to £15 billion of investment in the sovereign warhead programme by the end of this Parliament. Can the Minister indicate what progress has been made in implementing that investment programme?
2026-01-12
Ukraine and Wider Operational Update
My Lords, when asked about the deployment of a multinational force, the Secretary of State for Defence in the House of Commons said:
“Any deployment of a multinational force into Ukraine will take place only after a peace deal”.
That is fine. He
2026-01-08
Schools and Universities: Language Learning
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, on initiating this debate. I would like to focus on the second part of the Motion, on the sustainability of language learning in schools and universities.
We have to start with the question o
2026-01-05
Muslim Brotherhood
My Lords, the Minister said that a range of other tools is available to the Government to deal with particular threats, and he mentioned the Charity Commission. Could I press him a little more on whether this is an area in which they are taking more acti
2025-12-11
The UK’s Demographic Future
My Lords, it is an honour and a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbott, opening this debate, and I add my admiration for his work over the years. Although in those years when I was a party-political politician we were “on the ot
My Lords, this is not just about legal frameworks; what is also important is the physical security of some of the data structures. Are we in discussions with other European partners, in particular with Ireland, to ensure that their undersea cables are se
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I shall be even more brief than the noble Lord, Lord Tyrie, but I put on record that I am quite in favour of Damascene conversions on this occasion. This last hour and a half have shown us that this is irrespective of the aims of the Bill. Th
2025-10-27
Undersea Cables: National Security Threat
My Lords, following up on the question in relation to Ireland from the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup, the Taoiseach set up a Ministerial Council on National Security earlier this year. What government-to-government conversations are going on to e
2025-10-16
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
My Lords, there are moments which stick in your mind because they tell you that “something has changed”. Sometimes it is obvious, such as when the Brandenburg Gate was opened and the Berlin Wall fell, but at other times it takes a bit longer before it be
2025-10-16
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the challenges presented to the international order by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation following the recent summit held in Tianjin.
2025-09-12
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, we have had several references in the debate so far to a settled public view: that the public are in favour of this legislation. I briefly revert to my previous existence as a Member of Parliament, when I took part in the 2015 Private Member’s
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Register of Interests · 4 entries on file
Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.
Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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First Civil Service Commissioner
registered 2022-03-14 · amended 2025-04-05
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Member, Parliamentary Advisory Board, The House magazine, Dods Group plc
registered 2021-04-22 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chair, Wilton Park (executive agency of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
registered 2020-10-07 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 5: Overseas visits
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Visit to Cadenabbia, Italy, 24-26 October 2025, Economic and Finance Conference; flight and accommodation met by the organisers Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
registered 2025-11-03
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Party history
2021-10-12 → present
Crossbench
current
2020-09-07 → 2021-10-11
Non-affiliated
1997-05-01 → 2017-05-03
Labour
Government posts
1999-07-29 → 2001-06-07
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1997-07-14 → 1998-11-09
Social Security
2001-07-16 → 2010-05-06
Foreign Affairs Committee
2006-05-17 → 2006-10-31
Conventions (Joint Committee)
2010-07-12 → 2015-03-30
Defence Committee
2011-07-14 → 2012-03-12
Privacy and Injunctions (Joint Committee)
2015-07-13 → 2017-05-03
Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
2015-07-20 → 2017-05-03
Administration Committee
2015-09-09 → 2017-05-03
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
Contact
Parliamentary office
stuartg@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wilton Park
Subject Group
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Joint Chair | Wilton Park | 4 | 2024-09-19 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the
primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are
members of either House who
backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading
date.
Historic bills (all-time)
1 bills
1 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funding for Local Authorities Bill | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2013-10-23 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.