The Rt Hon. the Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Chapman of Darlington's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Chapman of Darlington. Her name is Jenny Chapman, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Ministerial activity
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122
95 meetings ·
0 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
27 overseas trips
· 2024-07-01 → 2025-12-31
Total overseas travel cost
£136,743
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 95
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-15 | African Development Fund | To discuss UK's pledge to the African Development Fund | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-12-05 | Paul Butler, former Bishop of Durham | To discuss Burundi, Rwanda | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-12-04 | Protection Approaches | To discuss Sudan | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-12-03 | Terrence Higgins Trust | To discuss ODA spending | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-12-03 | Alex de Waal | To discuss Sudan | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-12-01 | World Bank; Caribbean Development Bank; European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Inter-American Development Bank; Asian Infrastructure Development Bank; African Development Bank; Asian Development Bank | To discuss UK priorities for international development finance | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-11-26 | Labour African Network | To discuss Africa | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-11-25 | Stefan Dercon | To discuss Development | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-11-19 | Halo Trust | To discuss mining | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-11-17 | Archbishop of Sudan | To discuss Sudan | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-11-11 | AU Centre for Disease Control | To strengthen relationship with the African lead on disease control | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-11-10 | Geneva Call | To discuss UK's support | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-11-06 | Project Everyone; Gates Foundation; CIFF; ONE; More In Common | To discuss Development strategy | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-11-03 | Global Fund | To discuss UK's pledge to the Global Fund | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-10-22 | Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDE) | To discuss EMDE Investor Taskforce Group progress and deliverables | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-10-21 | Agence Française de Développement Group | To discuss Development and priorities for France's G7 Presidency | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-10-13 | Palestinian Monetary Authority | To discuss Palestine | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-09-16 | Bond | To discuss localisation / locally led development | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-09-15 | ONE | To discuss International Development | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2025-09-01 | Alliance for Public Health | To discuss global health especially in Ukraine | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
Recent overseas travel · latest 20 of 27
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-08 → 2025-12-12 |
Islamabad, Pakistan
Scheduled Flight
|
Bilateral meetings with President and Foreign Minister. | £2,367 |
| 2025-11-20 → 2025-11-20 |
Brussels, Belguim
Eurostar
|
Palestinian Donor Group Ministerial level session | £809 |
| 2025-11-12 → 2025-11-15 |
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Scheduled Flight
|
Bilateral meetings with President and Foreign Minister. | £8,815 |
| 2025-10-30 → 2025-10-30 |
Paris, France
Eurostar
|
Paris Peace Forum / The Great Lakes Conference | £406 |
| 2025-10-14 → 2025-10-17 |
Washington DC, USA
Scheduled Flight
|
World Bank Annuals conference | £9,513 |
| 2025-10-08 → 2025-10-11 |
Kigali, Rwanda
Scheduled Flight
|
Bilateral meetings with President and Foreign Minister. | £4,154 |
| 2025-09-23 → 2025-09-25 |
New York, USA
Scheduled Flight
|
UN General Assembly Conference | £5,363 |
| 2025-09-09 → 2025-09-11 |
Accra, Ghana
Scheduled Flight
|
Bilateral meetings with President, Vice President, and Foreign Minister. | £3,967 |
| 2025-07-24 → 2025-07-25 |
Johannesburg, South Africa
Scheduled Flight
|
G20 Development Ministerial Meeting | £5,187 |
| 2025-06-30 → 2025-07-01 |
Seville, Spain
Scheduled flight
|
Financing for Development Conference | £745 |
| 2025-06-26 → 2025-06-29 |
St John, Antigua and Barbuda
Scheduled flight
|
Organization of American States Conference | £8,345 |
| 2025-06-25 → 2025-06-25 |
Brussels, Belgium
Train
|
GAVI Conference | £300 |
| 2025-05-20 → 2025-05-23 |
Sinjil, Occupied Palestinian Territory; Tel Aviv, Israel
Scheduled flight
|
Bilateral and Humanitarian programme | £1,816 |
| 2025-05-06 → 2025-05-09 |
N'djamina, Chad
Scheduled; Non-scheduled flight
|
Bilateral and Humanitarian programme | £5,845 |
| 2025-04-22 → 2025-04-27 |
Washington DC, USA
Scheduled flight
|
To attend World Bank Spring Meetings | £13,279 |
| 2025-04-22 → 2025-04-25 |
Washington DC, USA
Scheduled flight
|
World Bank Springs | £13,298 |
| 2025-03-26 → 2025-03-27 |
Paris, France
Eurostar
|
Nutrition 4 Growth Conference (N4G) | £576 |
| 2025-03-22 → 2025-03-25 |
Amman, Jordan
Scheduled flight
|
Development focused trip, bilaterals | £3,248 |
| 2025-02-27 → 2025-03-03 |
Montevideo, Uruguay
Scheduled flight
|
Attended the Presidential inauguration representing UK | £6,707 |
| 2025-01-06 → 2025-01-10 |
Santiago, Chile
Scheduled flight
|
Biliteral meetings with Foreign Minister | £9,116 |
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Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
Given that UNRWA is the only agency that can really deliver what is needed at scale in what has become an incredibly challenging and militarised context, it is important that we maintain our funding of UNRWA, and we reinstated it when we came into power.
I think that is a shrewd observation. I recently returned from DRC, and I understand completely the point my noble friend makes. There is very little trust among the community in that part of the world. Particularly, they do not trust military actors, an
I hear the noble Baroness’s suggestion and I disagree with it.
I very much welcome the question from the noble Lord. He will be aware that we had a Global Partnerships Conference just a few weeks ago addressing specifically that problem. I think it is understood now, if it was not before, that with all the aid spen
I think that is right. I think we need to work more closely with our colleagues in the MoD because there is clearly a high degree of complementarity between our development investments and the work that we need to do to keep our country safe in the field
What we are doing to make this better—I appreciate that there is less money—is to give three years’ worth of certainty to our posts. We are also requiring them, rather than submitting for approval programme by programme, to do that as a portfolio, so tha
The Government are committed to publishing FCDO country ODA allocations in or before the FCDO annual report and accounts 2025-26. The annual report is due to be published in July. Publishing the annual report is in line with previous FCDO practice.
We have been doing this for quite a long time. I do not know specifically the programmes that the noble Lord is talking about, or the funds that he is talking about, but his suggestion is very much in line with the approach that we are taking, whether th
It is absolutely a serious challenge. While we see medical advances that enable us to make progress, we see problems emerge in other areas. We see prevalence among young girls, in particular, increasing to a worrying extent. This is one of the reasons th
I think it is impossible to do development without prioritising women and girls, and almost everything we do benefits disproportionately—and quite rightly—women and girls. It is one of the reasons why we prioritise health, because most of that does go to
Noble Lords do not need me to tell them just what a difficult context this is. Since the return of the Taliban, the prospects for women and girls have diminished greatly. We work closely with our partners, we still fund programmes in Afghanistan and we w
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
These are great questions, and they are the exact questions we have been asking ourselves in the department. This is a framework agreement that we have at the moment. I echo what the noble Lord said: shukran to Pakistan for the role that it has played in
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
My Lords, the UK welcomes the agreement between the United States and Iran and commends all involved in securing this diplomatic breakthrough. Our priority now is to support the full implementation of the agreement and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
I encourage the noble Lord to attend the debate on an SI that we shall be discussing in about 20 minutes, where we will be dealing with the issue of products from Russia and Belarus that are refined in third countries and then imported into this country
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
Every time we hear of Craig and Lindsay and the ordeal they are suffering, we must remember that point. As much as we admire the strength and stoicism they show every time they are able to communicate, it is wrong that they are being held. It is not just
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
I am proud of the decision that our Prime Minister made to ignore advice that he was given by the leader of the Opposition and others to involve this country in an ill-thought-out proposition. It was the right decision for the country, and it has enabled
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
We work through many different agencies, as the noble Baroness knows. Specifically on this issue, my honourable friend the Foreign Secretary has recently met 11 different Foreign Ministers to discuss this issue. The Prime Minister, along with President M
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
The noble Lord has made an astute observation about exactly where we are in relation to where we were a few months ago. He is right to say that we must work closely with our Gulf partners and others to ensure that free passage through the strait is maint
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
I sincerely apologise to the noble Lord for the failure to respond to his letter. I will go back to the department and find out why it has not been replied to—that is most discourteous. I will make sure that the noble Lord gets his response promptly.
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
I am not aware that that is the case, so I am unable to confirm that. There is a great deal of speculation at the moment before the detail of this is worked through, and I would guard against that in this House. This is a framework. It is a beginning and
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
I am happy to assure my noble friend of that. Mr Sharif in Pakistan has done a good job and he deserves the commendation of all of us who wish to see the strait reopened.
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
That is really important. Even if the strait were to open immediately for goods to flow, there is already a scarring on many economies. We are particularly concerned about a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The impact will depend on planting se
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
I do not think anyone is talking about tolls or us patrolling in order to secure payment of tolls. I do not know where the noble Lord has got this from. That is not anything that anyone in the Government is seriously considering.
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
It is the deal that we have today. It is a framework and it is a start. It is better than we had previously and it is enabling, for now, a ceasefire. The challenge, as I think is alluded to by my noble friend, is that this is just the beginning and there
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
I have heard that argument and, frankly, we do not know at this stage what the final agreement will look like. As I said in responding to a question earlier, it is a framework at this point. It enables a ceasefire to take place, which is incredibly posit
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Party history
2010-05-06 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2025-02-28 → present
Minister of State (Development)
2024-07-18 → 2025-02-28
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Opposition posts
2023-02-21 → 2024-07-05
Shadow Spokesperson (Treasury)
2023-02-21 → 2023-10-26
Shadow Spokesperson (Business and Trade)
2022-05-10 → 2023-02-20
Shadow Spokesperson (Education)
2021-12-04 → 2023-02-20
Shadow Spokesperson (Justice)
2021-12-04 → 2022-06-17
Shadow Spokesperson (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and International Trade)
2021-06-22 → 2024-07-05
Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office
2021-06-22 → 2022-12-21
Opposition Whip (Lords)
2016-10-09 → 2019-11-06
Shadow Minister (Exiting the European Union)
2016-01-07 → 2016-06-27
Shadow Minister (Education)
2011-10-07 → 2016-01-07
Shadow Minister (Justice)
Committee memberships
2016-11-07 → 2017-05-03
Procedure Committee
2015-07-13 → 2016-10-31
Procedure Committee
2010-07-26 → 2015-03-30
Procedure Committee
2010-12-06 → 2015-03-30
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Folk Arts
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Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2025-02-25 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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| Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Act 2026 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2025-09-10 | |
| Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill | Supported | Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons | 2025-07-15 | |
| Television and Radio Advertising (Credit and Debt Management Services) Bill | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2010-12-21 |
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