The Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
Liberal Democrat
Member of the House of Lords
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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
Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.
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
162 divisions
81 Content(50.0%)
11 Not-Content(6.8%)
70 didn't vote(43.2%)
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
2026-06-22
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
I would like to join in this discussion because it is probing thoughts. I shall make a few comments on Amendment 17A, because the issue overlaps with an amendment of mine that comes later in the main FOS group.
Amendment 17A raises an important point
2026-06-22
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank the Minister and all who have spoken in this debate. I am sorry that, to some extent, having it in two separate bits has made it more awkward. We are at a kind of impasse here. The Minister replies as though we are saying that nothing i
2026-06-22
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I oppose Clause 1 and Schedule 1 standing part of the Bill. I shall speak also to my detailed amendments to the schedule, which appear as Amendments 4 to 17.
We all know how consumer agreements work, whether for credit or anything else. Ther
2026-06-22
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, this and the following group dwell on the same territory; I will make my main intervention in the next group alongside my detailed amendments. I am sorry that I had to separate them out, but that was only because of the Chief Whip’s speaking-ti
2026-06-22
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, my Amendment 34 again concerns symmetry of enforcement and redress periods. The Bill introduces a 10-year hard stop on complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service, but the problem is that the 10-year figure is already riddled with exemptions:
2026-06-22
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendment 30 in my name, which would introduce a fiduciary-style duty on firms in their dealings with consumers and small businesses.
This group is about affordable credit and consumer protection. The problem that we
2026-06-22
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendments 24 and 27 in my name. I support what has just been said by the noble Lord, Lord Vaux. To some extent, we are again fishing in the same constitutional pond that regulators are not Parliament. Parliament should
2026-06-08
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I declare my interests as a director of Valloop Impact Captive.
The Bill is a chunky addition to the impenetrable forest of financial services legislation, relocating key issues into the even larger forest of regulator rules. Who is it for?
2026-04-28
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I am pleased to have reached this stage, where we are now all back on the same side. We have had some exchanges when we have said, once upon a time, that we were all pointing in the same direction, and then we had a little bit of slippage away
2026-04-27
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, the arguments have been well rehearsed. I am not convinced that this coercion is as innocent as has been made out and I therefore wish to test the opinion of the House.
2026-04-27
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister, including for our meeting on Friday. For the record, we suggested a “have regard” framework, requiring trustees to consider private market investment in alignment with the Mansion House Accord and to report to the regulato
2026-04-27
Pension Schemes Bill
Leave out from “House” to end and insert “do insist on its Amendments 15 to 24, 27, 30 to 34, 36, 38 to 42, 83 and 88, do insist on its disagreement to Commons Amendments 88A, 88C and 88E to 88P and do disagree with the Commons in their Amendments 88R
2026-04-22
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I thank all those who have contributed. As the Minister said, we have been around the arguments many times, so I will be brief. This was sold as a backstop to the accord, so it is not a case for celebration when something that bit off a lot mo
2026-04-22
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her explanation and for our meeting with her and the Pensions Minister yesterday. Small movements are better than none, but she will know from that conversation that, as regards the so-called reserve power, there is sti
2026-04-22
Pension Schemes Bill
Leave out from “House” to end and insert “do insist on its Amendments 15 to 24, 27, 30 to 34, 36, 38 to 42, 83 and 88, do insist on its disagreement to Commons Amendments 88A and 88C, and do disagree with the Commons in their Amendments 88E to 88P to
2026-04-20
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, we have heard continued disagreement with mandation and coercion from across the House. As the Minister has said, we do not need to re-rehearse all the things that we have already said, but something that stuck in my mind from a previous stage
2026-04-20
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, the Commons has asked us to accept a clause that reintroduces strict mandation of pension scheme asset allocation, traducing trustee fiduciary duty. There are two problems with the clause: the mandation itself and the discriminatory definition
2026-04-20
Pension Schemes Bill
Moved by
As an amendment to Motion E, leave out from “House” to end and insert “do insist on its Amendments 15 to 24, 27, 30 to 34, 36, 38 to 42, 83 and 88, and do disagree with the Commons in their Amendments 88A to 88C to the words restored to the B
2026-03-26
Pension Schemes Bill
2026-03-26
Pension Schemes Bill
2026-03-26
Pension Schemes Bill
2026-03-26
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I did not expect to be back moving amendments quite so quickly, but despite the 20 consequential amendments that I moved on Report, four more have come to light. They are printed on the Marshalled List. They are entirely consequential on Amendm
2026-03-26
Pension Schemes Bill
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
2026-03-19
Pension Schemes Bill
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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.
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Non-executive Director, Valloop Impact Captive (captive insurance company for Valloop Holdings)
registered 2025-03-22 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director, Valloop Holdings Limited (holding company for social impact investing fintech)
registered 2021-09-03 · amended 2025-04-05
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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)
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Valloop Holdings Limited (holding company for social impact investing fintech)
registered 2023-05-02 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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A commercial holding in Berkhamsted, Herts (former office of member’s professional practice)
registered 2015-12-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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One residential holding in Hemel Hempstead, Herts
registered 2015-12-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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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 → present
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
7
of 7 tabled
7 answered(100.0%)
2
departments
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.