The Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
Liberal Democrat
Member of the House of Lords
F
Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted's full title is The Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted. Her name is Sharon Margaret Bowles, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£5,936
16 days attended across 1 published month
Travel claims
£532
Attendance £532
Total claimed
£6,468
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Political donations made
Total donated (all years on record)
£3,400
2 donations across 1 distinct recipient
Matched donor name:
Baroness Sharon Bowles Of Berkhamsted
| Date | Recipient | Type | EC Ref | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-30 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0337760 | £1,800 |
| 2016-12-31 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0262560 | £1,600 |
Showing the 2 most recent donations on record.
Source: Electoral Commission donations register
(search.electoralcommission.org.uk).
Match confidence: place-suffix.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
95 Content(50.3%)
15 Not-Content(7.9%)
79 didn't vote(41.8%)
2026-07-13
Not-Content
158–239
Not-Content
2026-04-23
Not-Content
152–207
Not-Content
2026-04-13
Not-Content
178–231
Not-Content
2026-03-26
Not-Content
115–197
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Content
193–143
Content
2026-03-05
Content
194–140
Content
2026-03-05
Content
198–139
Content
2026-03-05
Content
208–142
Content
2026-03-05
Content
214–142
Content
2026-02-04
Content
62–295
Not-Content
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
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I have signed this amendment because there are bad things in this Bill and I do not want any more of them.
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply. There is nothing in my amendment that is intended to stop pursuit of things that are wrong, but the evidence is that the guidance is not understood. I welcome the opportunity to have a meeting with HMRC offic
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 87, and I support the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, on superfunds. These are two issues that need attention. My amendment is about one thing: tax certainty for insurance-linked secu
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
I wish to test the opinion of the House.
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Altrincham, for supporting my Section 166 amendment. With regard to my Amendments 63 and 66, the Government have interpreted this exactly as I said it was not: I said that it is not telling the PRA what to do, but t
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I declare my interests as chair of the ownership dividend inquiry into employee ownership and as director of Valloop Holdings Ltd.
Amendments 63 and 66 address a structural flaw in financing employee ownership, co-operative and mutual transi
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply to the debate. I recognise the movement that he has indicated, but I did ask him to say something about transparency, which was, I am afraid, absent from what he said just then. He talked about proportionality
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, as discussed on Monday, we have received constructive letters from the chief executives of the FCA and the PRA. They show genuine willingness to engage, and they elaborate on transparency of activity—consultations, responses, reports, strategie
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-09-07
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, it is late, so I shall be relatively brief and not revisit the issues that we looked at in Committee. When I tabled these amendments, I still hoped that there would be some agreement reached on restoring the information hooks that Parliament ha
2026-09-07
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I rise briefly to support my noble friend Lord Sharkey’s amendments. Some years ago, I gave a speech on ethics in finance in connection with the international Robin Cosgrove Prize in which I outlined what I called my eggshell strategy. The prem
2026-09-07
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I will speak to my non-diminution Amendments 2 and 3, and to Amendments 4 and 5, which stem from them. In Committee, the Government made it clear that they wish to remove tail risk for firms—a theme running through the changes to the CCA and FO
2026-07-21
Commercial Payments Bill [HL]
That was a hint to rise. I will speak to my Amendment 52, but I must first apologise to the Committee that I was unable to speak at Second Reading, my scrutiny hours having been occupied in the passage of another Bill, which also accounts for why this wa
2026-07-08
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank all those who have spoken in the debate. I must say that I find the Minister’s response rather disappointing. He is saying that the status quo is all right, but the status quo is not all right, so we will not have the business. I think
2026-07-08
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, this amendment is about insurance-linked securities—ILS—which are the UK’s version of fully funded risk transfer vehicles, which were legislated for in 2017. They include catastrophe bonds, collateralised reinsurance, sidecars and other fully f
2026-07-08
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I support these amendments. They almost follow naturally from the debate that we had earlier about the need for a structurally competent wholesale function within the FCA. It is clear that you cannot produce a credible cost-benefit analysis wit
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
I thank the Minister and the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe; I might take the noble Baroness up on her offer to proceed further with something to do with blind voting. I accept that this is the “Full Monty” version, which I put in at this stage becau
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, building societies occupy a unique place in the United Kingdom’s financial system. Unlike banks, they are not owned by external shareholders; they are owned by their members. That distinction is fundamental. It means that the legitimacy of a bu
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, and the Minister for their comments in this debate. The noble Lord, Lord Carlile, may be interested to know that I am a victim of the PBO too. The reason that “Treasury” appears where I put “Lord Chancellor
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, my amendment proposes that the Treasury makes litigation funding a regulated activity, with a list of matters that I propose should be covered in the amendment.
Litigation funding has come into the spotlight for several reasons. There was th
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
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 · 7 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.
-
Non-executive Director, Valloop Impact Captive (captive insurance company for Valloop Holdings)
registered 2025-03-22 · amended 2025-04-05
-
Non-executive Director, Valloop Holdings Limited (holding company for social impact investing fintech)
registered 2021-09-03 · amended 2025-04-05
-
Non-executive Director, London Stock Exchange plc (interest ceased 31 December 2025)
registered 2015-12-01 · amended 2026-03-19
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
-
Valloop Holdings Limited (holding company for social impact investing fintech)
registered 2023-05-02 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
-
A commercial holding in Berkhamsted, Herts (former office of member’s professional practice)
registered 2015-12-01 · amended 2025-04-05
-
One residential holding in Hemel Hempstead, Herts
registered 2015-12-01 · amended 2025-04-05
-
Two residential holdings in Aylesbury, Bucks
registered 2015-12-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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
2015-10-23 → present
Liberal Democrat
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2016-05-25 → 2021-01-28
Economic Affairs Committee
2016-09-13 → 2016-11-09
Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2025-09-02 → 2026-04-29
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2020-01-21 → 2021-01-22
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2016-12-06 → 2017-03-17
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2018-09-04 → 2019-04-30
SLSC Sub-Committee A
2021-04-14 → 2024-01-31
Industry and Regulators Committee
2022-01-19 → 2022-10-31
Fraud Act 2006 and Digital Fraud Committee
2024-01-24 → present
Financial Services Regulation Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 2 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Islamic Finance
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 9 | 2021-06-04 |
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
8
of 8 tabled
8 answered(100.0%)
3
departments
2026-09-17
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Accountancy: Standards
Answered
Source: UK Parliament Members API. The amber "interest" tag is set
by Parliament's own system when the asking member has a register entry
it deems related — typically a paid role or directorship in the
sector being asked about. Click any "i" icon to see the full
question and the department's answer.
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)
3 bills
3 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listed Investment Companies (Classification etc) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2024-09-05 | |
| Unconscionable Conduct in Commerce Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2020-01-20 | |
| Unconscionable Conduct in Commerce Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2019-10-22 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.