The Rt Hon. the Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
F
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top. Her name is Hilary Jane Armstrong, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£6,307
17 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed
£6,307
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
4 Content(2.1%)
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-06-29
Media Green Paper
My Lords, the Green Paper is really welcome. If this is got right, then digital switchover will mean many more people in this country will get sufficient media and digital understanding to be able to use what they need to improve their lives, so this is
2026-06-18
Face-to-face Banking Services
My Lords, I wonder whether my noble friend is aware of the recent Age UK survey. It notes the relatively large number of elderly people who do not like using digital access for banking, but who are using it for shopping. The international evidence is cle
My Lords, I welcome the Statement from the Government. It is uplifting to see the shift from being just the corporate parent to it being our responsibility—all our responsibilities—to ensure that for those children who enter the care system, for reasons
2026-06-01
Business Hiring
My Lords, all the analysis of NEETs shows that the resilience of young people is an absolutely critical aspect of getting them into the modern labour market and labour force and keeping them working. The previous Government stopped, through austerity, ma
2025-12-17
Violence against Women and Girls Strategy
I thank my noble friend for coming to the House today, but I hope he shares my disappointment. Because violence against women and girls covers so many issues, one key thing is what happens in early years and in the neighbourhoods people live in, and how
I think the noble Lord needs to hear my arguments first and then, when he comes to speak and in Committee, he can challenge them. The reality is that in the north-east we have really suffered. The then chair of the PAC called the newly elected mayors to
My Lords, first I declare an interest as a recipient of a local government pension. I also congratulate my noble friend; having been a Local Government Minister for four years, I know how difficult any local government legislation is, as is anything that
2025-12-02
Public Services: Online Communications
My Lords, as chair of the Digital Inclusion Action Committee, I wonder whether I can intervene. I have just spent the last hour talking with two sub-committee chairs, the Minister may want to know, precisely about easier accessibility but also about a re
2025-11-27
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I thank everyone for their contributions to this debate and to the previous one.
This is complex and we all want to have good outcomes. I appreciate that the Minister is saying that we need more discussion and to make sure that we address th
2025-11-27
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, we have already demonstrated today just how complex this issue is. We began talking about it on the last day in Committee and, as I said last week, it affects children and young people in ways we never imagined; nor did we imagine years ago th
2025-11-27
Crime and Policing Bill
2025-11-20
Child Grooming Victims: Compensation Awards
My Lords, we discussed criminal exploitation of children last night. I know from my experience that a young woman was denied any compensation because of the way the trial was conducted. She was in the position where, when the third barrister had been app
2025-11-19
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, the amendments in this group, as the Minister has explained, are about child criminal exploitation. This is something that, quite honestly, when I started my career, we did not think of—it is something that I think we all became aware of in the
2025-10-14
Digital ID
My Lords, I chair the Digital Inclusion Action Committee. I do that not because I am a digital expert like the two Front-Bench people opposite and my noble friend, but because I know and have worked throughout my life on social exclusion. I know that we
2025-06-18
Child Sexual Abuse and Rape Gangs Inquiry
My Lords, following the grooming gang trial in the north-east, in Newcastle, the safeguarding committee said that one of the institutions that needed to be looked at was how the court undertook the trial, and that cross-examination had been used as anoth
2025-05-20
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I have five amendments in this group, all of which come from my knowledge and understanding of evidence-based work. I declare my interest as a trustee of the Foundations What Works Centre for Children and Families.
I have been involved in th
My Lords, it seems clear that this support is critical for many children, and I am thinking in particular of children in kinship care. The problem is that at the moment the criteria restrict the fund to those who have previously been in the care system.
2025-04-02
Free School Meals
My Lords, I was told before the election that this was a GDPR issue, but it became very clear that it is not. Now that that is clear, every single one of the 23 local authorities in the north-east is now engaged in auto-enrolling every eligible child for
2025-03-13
National Youth Strategy
My Lords, this is such an important issue. We have let down a generation of children and young people. The National Citizen Service, good as it was, and the International Citizen Service, good as it was, were never going to be a replacement for decent yo
2025-03-12
US Steel and Aluminium Tariffs
My Lords—
2025-03-12
US Steel and Aluminium Tariffs
My Lords, will my noble friend comment on how she sees the development of steel in this country? I am pleased that the Opposition are now interested in that. I represented a community that lost what I think was at the time the most cost-effective steel-m
2025-03-10
Plan for Neighbourhoods
My Lords, I thank the Minister for ensuring that we get the chance to speak on this Statement and to ask questions. I am name-checked in the Statement because, in my previous life as a Minister, I introduced the new deal for communities along with my bos
2025-02-12
Gambling Levy Regulations 2025
My Lords, I am not sure about declaring interests, because I have never understood how on earth I got involved in this issue. It is in an incredibly difficult arena where so many people have experienced trauma. I have never laid a bet or bought a lottery
2025-02-11
Local Government: Electoral Quotas
My Lords, I apologise for being too keen.
Does my noble friend the Minister recognise that, if one simply thinks about numbers, it can end up being a perverse electoral solution that undermines local people’s faith in who represents them? When communi
2025-02-11
Local Government: Electoral Quotas
My Lords—
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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Party history
1987-06-11 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2006-05-05 → 2007-06-28
Minister (Cabinet Office) and Minister (Social Exclusion) and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
2001-06-08 → 2006-05-05
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip)
1997-05-06 → 2001-06-08
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions) (Local Government)
Opposition posts
1995-01-01 → 1997-01-01
Shadow Spokesperson
1994-01-01 → 1995-01-01
Shadow Spokesperson
1988-01-01 → 1992-01-01
Shadow Spokesperson
Committee memberships
2012-05-29 → 2013-02-26
Adoption Legislation Committee
2013-05-16 → 2014-03-11
Soft Power Committee
2015-06-08 → 2019-07-01
European Union Committee
2015-06-12 → 2019-07-02
EU External Affairs Sub-Committee
2019-03-06 → 2019-06-14
Draft Domestic Abuse Bill (Joint Committee)
2019-06-13 → 2020-06-16
Gambling Industry Committee
2020-02-13 → 2023-01-31
Public Services Committee
Chair
+£15,928/yr
2023-01-31 → 2023-11-27
Integration of Primary and Community Care Committee
2024-01-31 → 2025-01-30
Industry and Regulators Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
armstrongh@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 5 active officership(s) · 1 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for 'Left Behind' Neighbourhoods
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Local Trust | 18 | 2024-10-17 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Complex Needs
Subject Group
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Officer | — | 8 | 2021-05-30 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Kinship Care
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Family Rights Group | 4 | 2027-01-10 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Medomsley Detention Centre
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2021-11-20 |
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Northern Powerhouse All-Party Parliamentary Group
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Northern Powerhouse Partnership | 12 | 2022-06-05 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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departments
2026-09-08
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Audit
Answered
2026-09-08
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Audit
Answered
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