The Rt Hon. the Baroness Garden of Frognal
Liberal Democrat
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Garden of Frognal's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Garden of Frognal. Her name is Susan Elizabeth Garden, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£7,420
20 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed
£7,420
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
1
1 meeting ·
0 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
0 overseas trips
· 2014-12-01 → 2014-12-01
Recent meetings
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-12-09 | — | Discussion of equalities issues | cabinet-office |
Source: gov.uk ministerial transparency returns. Coverage:
HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial
Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
91 Content(48.1%)
24 Not-Content(12.7%)
74 didn't vote(39.2%)
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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
2026-09-07
Creative and Performing Arts Teaching Grants
My Lords, given that the creative industries are one of the country’s most productive money earners, is it not perverse to cut grants to young people hoping to bring their skills and talents to the world of work? I was recently up at the Edinburgh Fringe
My Lords, this was a fascinating committee with a very impressive chair and enthusiastic members. We asked witnesses for a definition of social mobility and received a very wide variety of answers. We ended up with, “Ensuring that the situation that you
My Lords, I too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, for this debate and her masterly opening remarks. It is most welcome that this Government have realised how harmful has been the purely academic emphasis of the previous Government, which alienated t
2026-07-23
Creative Industries: Qualifications
I echo that. Have a very well-earned rest.
2026-07-23
Creative Industries: Qualifications
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Keeley, for initiating this debate. I should also like to give a shout out to level 1 and level 2 qualifications, because level 1 may go to an adult who has never gained a national qualification, and the boost t
2026-06-09
Further Education Colleges: Recovery of VAT
My Lords, I endorse everything that the noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, said about the disparity in pay between FE lecturers and schoolteachers, and the iniquity of that. FE is simply not treated in the same way as other educational systems. The Minist
2026-05-20
Disadvantaged Pupils: Music Attainment Gap
My Lords, partnerships between independent and state schools are making a tangible difference in closing the music attainment gap. Programmes such as MusicShare in the West Midlands have reached over 30,000 pupils across 500 schools, and community initia
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, I congratulate all the maiden speakers on excellent contributions and particularly welcome my two new colleagues, the noble Baroness, Lady Leaman, and the noble Lord, Lord Dixon, who are both taking a well-earned break. We are delighted to have
2026-04-28
Ballet
My Lords, I confess that I had to do compulsory ballet when I was a little, round, fat six year-old, so I am not in the elite. As well as the Central School of Ballet, a great number of small, specialist performing arts providers, highly regarded interna
2026-04-20
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, in calling Motion A1, I must inform the House that, if it is agreed to, I will not be able to call Motion A2 by reason of pre-emption.
Motion A1 (as an amendment to Motion A)
2026-03-26
Curriculum and Assessment Review
My Lords, we broadly welcome this report as it shows more commitment to the arts and creative subjects, and sees the end of the EBacc, which focused so heavily on academic learning. As the noble Lord, Lord Freyberg, said, it has been sad indeed to see mu
2026-03-26
Curriculum and Assessment Review
My Lords, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by the votes, national qualifications were supposed to be the lasting solution—and where are they now? I remember the concerns people had that the qualifications which had shaped so many career
My Lords, further to what my noble friend has just said, can I say that there used to be a very highly regarded City & Guilds qualification for teachers in further education, which virtually all of them held? Of course, teachers in FE are nearly alwa
2026-03-17
Plan 2 Student Loans: Repayment Terms
My Lords, the presence of EU students in our universities has always been a net benefit to our students, enhancing their breadth of vision and making them understand how other people live. Is it not time we looked again at introducing better ways for EU
My Lords, the Committee stands adjourned and will resume at 5.53 pm.
2026-02-24
Student Loans: Review
My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Young, said, the student finance system is broken. Students face soaring repayments that they never signed up for. May I suggest, for instance, that public sector workers—doctors, nurses, teachers, members of the Armed F
2026-02-23
Arrangement of Business
My Lords, if there is a Division in the Chamber while we are sitting, this Committee will adjourn as soon as the Division Bells are rung and resume after 10 minutes.
2026-01-30
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell of Surbiton, is taking part remotely. I invite the noble Baroness to speak.
2026-01-29
UK Development Partnership Assistance
My Lords, my name will be mud because I have allowed this to overrun for two minutes, which is absolutely impossible in your Lordships’ House. But the question now is that this Motion be agreed to.
2026-01-29
UK Development Partnership Assistance
My Lords, I much regret that the time allotted has run out, but we might allow just a couple of minutes for the noble Baroness.
2026-01-29
Erasmus+ Eligibility: Asylum Seekers
Thank you, my Lords. I entirely agree with everything the noble Baroness has said, but are we rejoining Erasmus on the same conditions? Will our young people have the same opportunities as they had under the old system of Erasmus?
2026-01-29
Erasmus+ Eligibility: Asylum Seekers
My Lords, it was an absolute travesty that we left Erasmus with Brexit.
2026-01-12
Heritage Craft and Building Sector
My Lords, the time was when schools—particularly boys’ schools, sadly—routinely taught woodwork and metalwork, which led young people into the crafts and skills that are now in such short supply. Given the importance of heritage craft skills to the econ
2026-01-08
Schools and Universities: Language Learning
My Lords, I will be brief. I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, on her brilliant introduction to this debate and I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Shephard. We are both alumni of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and we are bot
2026-01-06
Graduate Jobs
My Lords, can the Minster assure us that university undergraduates are not only learning academic skills but skills that will be useful for work? Many years ago, when I graduated from Oxford and told them that I was marrying an RAF officer, I was told th
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Register of Interests · 2 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 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
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From time to time the member receives hospitality from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Defence and Security Issues which over the course of a calendar year may exceed £300 in value
registered 2017-07-17 · amended 2025-04-05
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As a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces, the member receives invitations to breakfast and dinner briefings which during the course of the calendar year together amount to more than £300 in value and all of which are paid for by sources listed in the register of APPGs
registered 2016-09-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2007-10-15 → present
Liberal Democrat
current
Government posts
2014-11-05 → 2015-05-07
Lords Spokesperson (Women & Equalities)
2014-11-04 → 2015-05-07
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
2012-09-06 → 2013-10-07
Lords Spokesperson (Department of Business, Innovation and Skills)
2010-10-13 → 2012-09-06
Lords Spokesperson (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
2010-10-13 → 2013-10-07
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2014-06-12 → 2014-11-04
Digital Skills
2024-01-31 → present
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2015-09-10 → 2019-07-01
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2020-12-15 → 2021-03-08
Highgate Cemetery Bill [HL] Committee
2023-01-31 → 2023-11-23
Education for 11–16 Year Olds Committee
2025-01-30 → 2025-11-04
Social Mobility Policy Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Numeracy for Life Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
gardens@parliament.uk
020 7219 2747 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 2747 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 9 active officership(s) · 9 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Adult Education
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | WEA | 7 | 2024-06-04 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Funerals and Bereavement
Subject Group
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Officer | GK Strategy | 4 | 2026-03-04 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Funerals, Coroners and Bereavement
Subject Group
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Officer | GK Strategy | 4 | 2027-03-04 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Skills and Employment
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Policy Connect | 10 | 2021-06-12 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Skills, Careers and Employment
Subject Group
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Officer | Policy Connect | 4 | 2027-02-28 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for T-Levels
Subject Group
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Officer | Connect Public Affairs | 4 | 2027-02-28 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Further Education and Lifelong Learning
Subject Group
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Officer | Association of Colleges | 4 | 2026-05-21 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Independent Education
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Independent Schools Council | 4 | 2025-05-15 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Veterans
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | CIPCR International Ltd | 15 | 2024-11-20 |
One row per active APPG. Funder names link out via the
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the parliament.uk register text and may miss titled / hyphenated variants.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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departments
2026-03-03
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
City and Guilds Group: Inquiries
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Act 2011 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2011-03-16 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.