The Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng FRS
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Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Brown of Cambridge's full title is The Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng FRS. Her name is Julia Elizabeth King, 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.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
1 Content(0.6%)
11 Not-Content(6.8%)
150 didn't vote(92.6%)
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-04-22
Plastic Pollution Reduction
My Lords, disused fast food containers contribute significantly to litter and plastic pollution, as we know. Can the Minister review the definition of “natural polymer” used in the plastic packaging tax to accelerate the use of natural polymers beyond ce
2026-01-21
Great Western Railway: Infrastructure
My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the Adaptation Sub-Committee of the Committee on Climate Change. My sub-committee’s recent advice to the Government was that we need to prepare for 2 degrees of warming by 2050. That implies that, in many area
Let me start by thanking all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. We have heard some fascinating speeches; I apologise that I will not mention them all by name, but the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, gave us an absolute masterclass in managin
My Lords, I am delighted to introduce for debate the Science and Technology Committee report entitled Don’t Fail to Scale: Seizing the Opportunity of Engineering Biology. I am looking forward to hearing the contributions from others to the debate, and pa
That the Grand Committee takes note of the Report from the Science and Technology Committee Don’t fail to scale: seizing the opportunity of engineering biology (1st Report, HL Paper 55).
2025-02-25
Airport Expansion
My Lords, when we did the Airports Commission review, the UK’s 2050 target was only an 80% emissions reduction, yet the third runway at Heathrow still required reduced growth at regional airports to keep within our carbon budgets. Has this analysis been
It is my pleasure to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Gustafsson, on her maiden speech and again welcome her to the House. Most of us will be feeling enormously grateful that we did not have to give our maiden speeches under such pressure and on suc
My Lords, I am delighted to introduce for debate this Science and Technology Committee report on long-duration energy storage. It is my pleasure to welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Gustafsson, of Chesterton, who brings her valuable business and technolog
That this House takes note of the Report from the Science and Technology Committee Long-duration energy storage: get on with it (1st Report, Session 2023–24, HL Paper 68).
2024-05-09
Artificial Light and Noise: Effects on Human Health (Science and Technology Committee Report)
I misheard; I apologise. It is good to hear that he thinks six years is too long; that is even more encouraging. I was worried that 60 years was quite a long time. It was also good to hear about the UKHSA’s working group on a UK lighting strategy. Those
2024-05-09
Artificial Light and Noise: Effects on Human Health (Science and Technology Committee Report)
My Lords, I too thank everyone for their insightful contributions to this debate. It has been fascinating to hear about issues ranging from lighting in hospitals to turtles and volcanoes, right through to heat pumps.
I thank the Minister for his respo
2024-05-09
Artificial Light and Noise: Effects on Human Health (Science and Technology Committee Report)
My Lords, I am delighted to introduce this Science and Technology Committee report on the effects of artificial light and noise on human health. I thank past and present committee members who participated in the report, especially those who will speak in
2024-05-09
Artificial Light and Noise: Effects on Human Health (Science and Technology Committee Report)
To move that this House takes note of the Report from the Science and Technology Committee The neglected pollutants: the effects of artificial light and noise on human health (2nd Report, Session 2022-23, HL Paper 232).
2024-01-10
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
My Lords, I will make a comment on Amendment 1, but perhaps also a more general comment on some of the amendments in this group and the next. I absolutely recognise that these automated driving systems need to be accepted by the public, and I see that ma
2023-07-11
Climate Change
My Lords, I declare my interests as chair of the adaptation committee of the Climate Change Committee. Very hot weather often goes with periods of drought. Can the Minister tell me what he is doing to make sure that the farmers of the fenlands are able t
My Lords, I thank all speakers in what has been a very interesting debate. I welcome and thank the noble Viscount, Lord Camrose, the relatively new Minister from a relatively new department, and agree that we celebrate the creation of DSIT. It does indee
My Lords, I am delighted to introduce for debate this Science and Technology Committee report on the UK as a science and technology superpower. Before I start, I declare my interests as a non-executive director of two UK technology companies: Ceres Power
That the Grand Committee takes note of the Report from the Science and Technology Committee “Science and technology superpower”: more than a slogan? (1st Report, HL Paper 47).
I thank the Minister for his extensive response. I was pleased that he mentioned a lot of numbers and actions, and I too will study Hansard carefully—I will take them away and think about them further. At the moment, however, I fear I am still not convin
My Lords, I start by declaring my interest as chair of the adaptation committee of the Climate Change Committee.
I am delighted to introduce for debate this Science and Technology Committee report on nature-based solutions for climate change on behalf
That the Grand Committee takes note of the Report from the Science and Technology Committee Nature-based solutions for climate change: rhetoric or reality? (2nd Report, Session 2021-22, HL Paper 147).
2022-09-08
Care Homes: Energy Costs
My Lords, have the Government considered the impact of increased energy costs on our major scientific facilities, such as the Diamond Light Source? If increased energy costs eat up the increases in UKRI budgets, this will severely impact our ability to d
2022-06-14
UK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]
My Lords, I rise briefly to give general support to the amendments in this group and specifically to support Amendment 4 in the name of my noble friend Lady Hayman and other noble Lords. I declare my interest as chair of the Adaptation Committee of the C
2022-06-09
Retrofitting Buildings: National Strategy
My Lords, can the Minister assure the House that future government initiatives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings will also include climate adaptation measures such as addressing overheating and poor indoor air quality, as recommended b
2022-03-16
Health and Care Bill
My Lords, at this very late hour, I just rise to say that I hope your Lordships will not confuse individual anecdotes, however moving, with the very extensive scientific evidence base quoted by the noble Baronesses, Lady Sugg and Lady Watkins.
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Register of Interests · 8 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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Senior Advisor, Holtec UK (part of a US company in the nuclear industry which supplies components to the nuclear industry in the UK and is participating in the UK Small Modular Reactor competition) (interest ceased 30 June 2025)
registered 2024-03-01 · amended 2025-07-23
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Chair, CleanTech Advisory Board, BGF (investments)
registered 2022-01-06 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director, Ceres Power Holdings (develops IP for the energy transition, particularly high temperature fuel cells and electrolysers)
registered 2022-01-06 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chair and Non-executive Director,
Frontier IP (invests in technology-based spin out companies)
registered 2021-11-05 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director, Ørsted (energy) (the member's annual earnings for this work are £55,000)
registered 2021-03-11 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chair, Carbon Trust (for-mission company that helps governments, organisations and companies reduce their carbon emissions and become more resource efficient) (interest ceased 11 December 2025)
registered 2018-06-14 · amended 2025-12-16
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Chair, Adaptation Sub-Committee of the Committee on Climate Change
registered 2017-01-20 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Frontier IP (invests in technology-based spin out companies)
registered 2025-01-06 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2015-10-30 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2016-05-25 → 2021-03-31
European Union Committee
2016-05-26 → 2020-04-23
EU External Affairs Sub-Committee
2020-04-23 → 2021-03-31
EU Environment Sub-Committee
2022-01-19 → 2025-01-30
Science and Technology Committee
Chair
+£16,422/yr
2024-12-16 → present
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
Contact
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kingjb@parliament.uk
020 7219 5463 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 2 active officership(s)
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Diversity and Inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Subject Group
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Officer | British Science Association | 4 | 2027-02-22 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Diversity and Inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
Subject Group
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Officer | British Science Association | 4 | 2025-06-10 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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