The Baroness Thomas of Winchester MBE
Liberal Democrat
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Thomas of Winchester's full title is The Baroness Thomas of Winchester MBE. Her name is Celia Marjorie Thomas, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£2,590
14 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed
£2,590
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
119 Content(63.0%)
30 Not-Content(15.9%)
40 didn't vote(21.2%)
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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
2024-10-10
Social Care Strategy
My Lords, I welcome this debate and declare that I receive NHS home care.
The whole social care landscape is unbelievably complex, as we have heard. Select Committee reports in both Houses in recent years have all stressed the need for urgency to esta
2024-05-16
People with Disabilities: Access to Services
My Lords, I welcome this debate and declare that I receive DLA.
The Government have made no secret about wanting to cut the benefit PIP—personal independence payment—which is paid to disabled people of working age, in work or out of work, who qualify,
2022-10-24
Energy Prices Bill
My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lady Brinton for tabling the amendment, to which I have added my name.
There will be a lot of severely disabled people who, like me, are terrified of power cuts. We rely through the day and night on elec
2022-09-07
Disabled People: Personal Assistants
My Lords, the Minister has partly replied, but can he say a bit more about Home Office bureaucracy which is holding up the recruitment of care workers from overseas?
2022-06-21
Equality Act 2010: The Impact on Disabled People: Follow-Up Report (Liaison Committee Report)
My Lords, I welcome the chance afforded us by the Liaison Committee taking the Equality Act 2010 and Disability Committee report of 2016 out of the long grass and producing its report, published last July. I was a member of the Equality Act 2010 and Disa
2022-06-09
Neurological Conditions
My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, for securing this debate, and the Neurological Alliance for undertaking such a large patient survey of people living with a neurological condition in the UK. Its findings include the views of people like
2022-05-26
Social Homes for Rent
My Lords, what action are the Government taking to address the need for more accessible housing, and when can we expect a response to the consultation on raising accessible housing standards?
2022-05-17
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, I declare that I receive disability living allowance. I shall make just one point, but it is an important one for disabled people and must be looked at in the light of the cost-of-living crisis. It is the unacceptable delay in the waiting time
2022-03-25
British Sign Language Bill
My Lords, I warmly welcome this Bill and pay tribute to all those people who have made it possible, particularly my old friend David Buxton, chair of the British Deaf Association, and of course the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond.
Some years ago,
2022-02-10
National Disability Strategy
My Lords, disabled people look forward to being consulted properly on the National Disability Strategy; in particular, on more accessible housing for rent, fair benefit assessments and reliable social care. Does the Minister agree and please will she giv
My Lords, I shall speak in shorthand in this very welcome debate. As a former chair of the Delegated Powers Committee, I am familiar with this battleground, and I have the scars to prove it, particularly from the Public Bodies Bill.
First, as the nobl
2021-12-09
Disabled Students’ Allowance Scheme
My Lords, a student I know with the hidden disabilities of ADHD and dyslexia has had very good support from Brunel University because she had been told about DSA not at her school but at her diagnosis. Could the Minister encourage all schools to be more
2021-12-02
Adult Social Care
My Lords, could the Minister say exactly what the Government are doing right now to recruit more carers, in view of the huge shortfall in the workforce? Are they largely leaving it to hard-pressed local authorities?
2021-11-22
Personal Independence Payments
My Lords, I thank the Minister and welcome that reply—as far as it went. However, is it not high time that assessments right now are improved, which would make most of these PIP appeals unnecessary? If assessors need reports from GPs or other healthcare
2021-11-22
Personal Independence Payments
My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper and declare that I receive a disability benefit.
2021-11-22
Personal Independence Payments
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking in response to the First Tier Tribunal overturning 70 per cent of the decisions of the Department for Work and Pensions in respect of Personal Independence Payments assessments between April a
My Lords, I hope that I have the right statutory instrument and that I am not speaking on the wrong one. I am particularly pleased to welcome this statutory instrument, which means that children will not have to go through compulsory face-to-face assessm
2021-11-08
Covid-19 Vaccinations
My Lords, will the Minister look into booster vaccines for vulnerable people such as me who need to be vaccinated at home? There is never any information about this cohort of people who are at the mercy of there being a healthcare professional from a loc
2021-10-14
Social Care in England
My Lords, I declare that I receive self-funded care and disability living allowance. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Pitkeathley, for securing this debate, and for her very powerful opening speech. I will speak very briefly about home carers. This is a
2021-09-14
Supported Housing: Funding
My Lords, as well as supported housing for disabled people, more wheelchair-accessible housing is greatly needed. What action will the Government take to ensure that it is provided?
2021-06-24
Social Care and the Role of Carers
My Lords, I shall speak about home carers which is something I know about as I have them myself. So, I declare that interest. I feel strongly that being a carer is not a low-skilled job. Even helping to dress a frail, elderly or disabled person safely i
2021-06-08
Disability Benefit Claimants
My Lords, I welcome that reply as far as it goes, but what we need to know now is what measures the Government have in place to identify vulnerable disability claimants who have died, some by suicide and some by serious harm in which the DWP or its contr
2021-06-08
Disability Benefit Claimants
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that guidance to frontline staff on how to treat vulnerable disability benefit claimants is followed.
2021-03-17
Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Bill
My Lords, Amendment 3 seeks to exploit the opportunity—as the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews, said—that the Bill gives the Government to find out whether we have enough public lavatories throughout England, particularly for the growing number of disabled a
2021-02-24
Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Bill
My Lords, I so agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, just said. I support Amendment 11, but am speaking to Amendment 14, which follows Amendment 11 in this group, calling on the Government to undertake a review of the impact of the Act on the provi
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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Party history
2006-05-26 → present
Liberal Democrat
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2006-11-23 → 2010-04-08
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
2017-06-27 → 2022-01-19
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2006-11-27 → 2014-05-14
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2007-11-15 → 2012-06-20
Refreshment Committee (Lords)
2010-06-09 → 2015-03-30
Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
Chair
+£14,582/yr
2015-06-11 → 2016-03-15
Equality Act 2010 and Disability Committee
2024-09-05 → present
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)
2017-07-19 → 2024-05-30
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)
2015-06-17 → 2017-04-27
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)
2022-02-22 → present
Standing Orders (Private Bills) Committee (Lords)
Contact
Parliamentary office
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 1 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Muscular Dystrophy
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | Muscular Dystrophy UK | 4 | 2024-06-12 |
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
Showing
16
of 16 tabled
14 answered(87.5%)
5
departments
2026-09-17
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Disability
Pending
2026-09-02
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Disability
Answered
2026-09-01
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Disability and Neurodiversity
Answered
2026-06-15
Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme: Visual Impairment
Answered
2026-05-13
Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
Answered
2026-04-13
Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Occupational Therapy
Answered
2026-03-24
Department of Health and Social Care
Occupational Therapy: Vacancies
Answered
2026-03-13
Department of Health and Social Care
Occupational Therapy: Vacancies
Answered
2026-02-12
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Disability
Answered
2026-01-29
Department of Health and Social Care
Disability Aids: Overseas Trade
Answered
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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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)
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0 as lead sponsor
1 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disabled Persons’ Parking Badges Act 2013 | — | Supported | Royal Assent | 2012-06-20 |
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year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.