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The Baroness Morris of Bolton OBE

Conservative Member of the House of Lords F
Baroness Morris of Bolton's full title is The Baroness Morris of Bolton OBE. Her name is Patricia Morris, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.

Allowance claims · 2026

Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.

Lords votes · 2026

162 divisions 119 Content(73.5%) 5 Not-Content(3.1%) 38 didn't vote(23.5%)
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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

2026-06-18 Prostate Cancer Screening: AI
My Lords, at the other end of the scale of artificial intelligence is canine intelligence. The wonderful charity Medical Detection Dogs has had wonderful results in early and accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer. Are the Government looking at this as on
2026-03-19 Refugee Movements: Lebanon
My Lords, the Palestinian refugee camps have been particularly affected by the military action. I have visited Shatila and Ain al-Hilweh in Lebanon, and life was pretty fragile at the best of times. I understand that the Lebanese Government are doing all
2026-03-19 Refugee Movements: Lebanon
My Lords—
2026-03-18 Crime and Policing Bill
As the noble Baroness, Lady Falkner of Margravine, has already pointed out, if Amendment 422E is agreed to, I am unable to call Amendments 423, 423ZA or 423A by reason of pre-emption.
2026-02-03 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Before the noble Baroness tells us what she is going to do, I turn to the noble Lord, Lord Freyberg, to find out what he is going to do with his amendments.
2025-12-17 Crime and Policing Bill
I cannot call Amendment 355A, as it is an amendment to Amendment 355.
2025-12-11 The UK’s Demographic Future
In introducing this debate, I give all best wishes to the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, for his valedictory speech.
2025-12-03 Sentencing Bill
My Lords, Amendment 130 cannot be called as it is an amendment to Amendment 129.
2025-10-22 Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, the Question should be that further consideration on Report be now adjourned.
2025-09-12 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, it is 19 years since I first spoke in your Lordships’ House on the hugely emotive topic of assisted dying. My view then, that however well-intentioned legislation may be, the safeguards just are not good enough, has not changed in the interveni
2025-07-03 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, if Amendment 211 is agreed to, I will be unable to call Amendment 215 by reason of pre-emption.
2025-06-24 Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, there is an error in the page numbering of Amendment 334A, which means that it was marshalled incorrectly. It should have been marshalled as Amendment 330DA, so I will now dispose of Amendment 334A, which was already debated. The noble Lord, Lo
2025-06-16 Conflict in the Middle East
My Lords, I welcome the Statement and the sensitive way in which the Minister has answered questions at a very difficult time. Last week in the other place, the Minister for the Middle East, Hamish Falconer, said right at the beginning of his Statement:
2025-05-13 Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. Last week, the Palestinian Authority declared a famine in Gaza. It was caused not by a flood, by a drought or by any natural causes; it is entirely manmade. I welcome what the Lord Privy Seal s
2025-05-07 Middle East Update
My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. I very much thank the Minister for his comments and the Government for their support. The Government are absolutely right to oppose the expansion of Israel’s operation in Gaza and to question h
2025-04-01 House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, I must inform the Committee that if Amendment 104 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments 105 to 110 by reason of pre-emption.
2025-03-31 Chancel Repair (Church Commissioners’ Liability) Measure
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Harris of Richmond, is taking part remotely, and I invite her to speak.
2025-03-31 Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, I must inform the House that if Amendment 26 is agreed to, I will not be able to call Amendment 27 by reason of pre-emption. Amendment 26
2025-03-18 Gaza: Ceasefire
My Lords—
2025-03-18 Gaza: Ceasefire
My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. Given the horrifying events of the last 24 hours, there is an inescapable irony in uttering the words “durability” and “ceasefire in Gaza” in the same breath. The Minister talked about diploma
2025-03-14 Palestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, on bringing forward this Private Member’s Bill and on her powerful introduction, and I am delighted to support her. In doing so, I declare my interests as president of Medical Aid for Palestini
2025-03-10 House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Before I deal with Amendment 12, the noble Lord, Lord Howard of Rising, moved his Amendment 12A; does he wish to withdraw it?
2025-01-30 Gaza: Humanitarian Situation
My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. The world has rightly been focused on the horrors of the past 16 months in Gaza. As the right reverend Prelate said, during that time the situation in the West Bank has been rapidly deteriorati
2025-01-21 Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I must inform the House that if Amendment 17 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment 18 for reasons of pre-emption.
2025-01-21 Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
I call on the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, to speak to Amendment 17. Amendment 17
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown verbatim from the search API; click any debate title for the full record.

Register of Interests · 1 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.

  • Chairman, Centre for Islamic Finance (interest ceased 28 February 2026)
    registered 2014-02-25 · amended 2026-03-24
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly. Read the full Lords Code of Conduct for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.

Party history

2004-06-09present
Conservative current

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2010-06-232011-03-09
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2012-05-292013-02-26
Adoption Legislation Committee
2013-05-162014-03-11
Soft Power Committee
2014-06-122015-02-11
Affordable Childcare
2016-05-252016-09-13
European Union Committee
2016-05-262016-09-13
EU External Affairs Sub-Committee Chair +£15,025/yr
2017-07-112022-01-19
Services Committee
2023-01-312026-01-27
International Relations and Defence Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 3 active officership(s) · 2 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims
Subject Group
Vice Chair Muslim Aid · The Aziz Foundation · The Lady Fatemah (A.S.) Charitable Trust 4 2027-01-10
All-Party Parliamentary Group on International Mediation and Conflict Resolution
Subject Group
Co-Chair 4 2025-04-13
Britain-Palestine All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country, Area or Region Group
Vice Chair 4 2027-01-05
One row per active APPG. Funder names link out via the /appgs Top secretariat funders panel — click any funder there to open its full relationship graph. Officer matching is name-based against the parliament.uk register text and may miss titled / hyphenated variants.

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
Equal Pay and Flexible Working Bill [HL] Sponsored 2nd reading 2008-12-08
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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