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The Baroness Sugg CBE

Conservative Member of the House of Lords F
Baroness Sugg's full title is The Baroness Sugg CBE. Her name is Elizabeth Grace Sugg, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.

Allowance claims · 2026

Daily attendance allowance £6,678
19 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed £6,678
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.

Ministerial activity

Records on file 134
117 meetings · 12 hospitality · 1 gift · 4 overseas trips · 2017-04-01 → 2020-12-31

Recent meetings · latest 20 of 117

Date Met with Purpose Source
2918-10-30 — Aviation issues department-for-transport
2020-11-24 — To discuss civil society relationship with FCDO foreign-commonwealth-development-office
2020-11-19 — To discuss upcoming Girls' Education Action Plan foreign-commonwealth-development-office
2020-11-16 — To discuss the role of businesses in global education foreign-commonwealth-development-office
2020-11-13 — To discuss civil society response to COVID-19 foreign-commonwealth-development-office
2020-11-04 — To discuss global education work foreign-commonwealth-development-office
2020-10-09 — To discuss Global Partnership for Education replenishment conference foreign-commonwealth-development-office
2020-10-09 — To discuss civil society response to COVID-19 foreign-commonwealth-development-office
2020-10-05 — To discuss global education work and impacts of COVID-19 foreign-commonwealth-development-office
2019-04-11 — To discuss aviation issues department-for-transport
2019-04-08 — To discuss nuts/allergies policy on flights department-for-transport
2019-03-26 — Discussion of aviation consumer issues department-for-transport
2019-03-20 — Roundtable with drone manufacturers department-for-transport
2019-03-15 — Disucssion of aviation safety department-for-transport
2019-03-14 — Discussion of general aviation issues department-for-transport
2019-03-07 — Dsiscussion of Heathrow Expansion department-for-transport
2019-02-27 — Discussion of EU Exit aviation issues department-for-transport
2019-02-18 — Dsiscussion of Heathrow Expansion department-for-transport
2019-02-18 — Discussion of EU Exit aviation issues department-for-transport
2019-02-07 — Discussion of EU Exit aviation issues department-for-transport

Recent hospitality

Date Host Type Value
2019-04-18 — Breakfast —
2019-03-05 — Drinks and Dinner —
2019-01-30 — Drinks and Dinner —
2018-11-21 — Breakfast —
2018-11-14 — Dinner —
2018-11-01 — Dinner —
2018-10-25 — Dinner —
2018-10-18 — Lunch —
2018-09-11 — Dinner —
2018-03-06 — Dinner —
2018-01-24 — Dinner —
2017-06-18 — Ticket to cricket match —

Recent gifts

Date Gift From / To Outcome Value
2018-09-14 Plane ride from Gloucestershire to London Biggin Hill Bristol Aero Club Used for hospitality —

Recent overseas travel

Dates Destination Purpose Total cost
— Leipzig
Scheduled flight
International Transport Forum —
— Washington
Scheduled flight
UK / USA Aviation Security visit —
— Mexico
Scheduled flight
Airports trade mission —
— New York
Scheduled flight
UN General Assembly —
Source: gov.uk ministerial transparency returns. Coverage: HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.

Lords votes · 2026

189 divisions 116 Content(61.4%) 8 Not-Content(4.2%) 65 didn't vote(34.4%)
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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

2026-09-17 G20 Summit 2027: Objectives
My Lords, does the Minister agree that the UK presidency of the G20 is a historic opportunity for action on debt? Will she consider the call to champion changes to the common framework laid out in the African Union’s common African position on debt?
2026-09-04 Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains (JCHR Report)
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for bringing this debate to the House and I commend the Joint Committee on Human Rights for a report that is both sobering and constructive. Its central conclusion, that goods produced through forced
2026-07-21 Bycatch Risk Prioritisation Framework
My Lords, I note what the Minister said in her earlier answer about the complexity of this issue, but I want to ask about transparency, which is very important here. Will the Government publish the underlying evidence and risk assessments alongside the f
2026-07-17 Genocide Determination Bill [HL]
My Lords, in previous debates on atrocity crimes, I have said that we cannot continue to look away when there is credible evidence of genocide. The Bill before us today is an opportunity to address this challenge, and I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lor
2026-07-15 Sudan: Operational Restrictions on Humanitarian Actors
My Lords, we are hearing deeply concerning reports of continued assaults in El Obeid, and I welcome the recent statement from the UK and like-minded partners on that. Given these reports and the strategic importance of El Obeid as a humanitarian hub and
2026-07-09 International Development Outcomes for Women and Girls
My Lords, I am pleased to bring forward this debate and I thank all noble Lords who will speak. Although speaking time is unfortunately short, I hope that today’s interest leads to further opportunities to examine the impact of cuts to official developme
2026-07-09 International Development Outcomes for Women and Girls
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of cuts to Official Development Assistance on international development outcomes for women and girls.
2026-06-16 Official Development Assistance: Bilateral Allocations
I am grateful to the Minister for that Answer, and I look forward to the publication. The cuts to the UK’s official development assistance—some of the most severe across G20 countries—mean that the remaining bilateral spend will need to be targeted to re
2026-06-16 Official Development Assistance: Bilateral Allocations
To ask His Majesty’s Government when they intend to publish a full list of bilateral allocations for Official Development Assistance spending for 2026–27 to 2028–29.
2026-06-15 World Ocean Day
My Lords, my noble friend referred to bottom trawling, and I previously asked the Minister about the Government’s response to bottom trawling in our marine protected areas, which is causing extreme damage to the ecosystem. The noble Baroness pointed to a
2026-06-10 Mindanao Earthquake
My Lords, are the Government having discussions about deploying emergency response teams to assist on the ground, such as the excellent Hazardous Area Response Team or UK-Med, which have been trained in providing life-saving assistance in these cases?
2026-06-04 Combating Atrocity Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide
My Lords, I express my sincere thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for securing today’s debate and for his tireless and principled leadership on atrocity prevention. His work, including the Genocide Determination Bill and the genocide amendment to the
2026-04-23 Women’s Health Strategy
My Lords, I welcome the commitment in the strategy to women’s health hubs: “Where high quality women’s health hubs exist, they will continue to lead service delivery. In other areas we anticipate there will be a dedicated space within broader neighbou
2026-04-21 Sudan
My Lords, as the noble Baroness has highlighted and acknowledged, the conflict in Sudan has been marked from the very beginning by horrific violence against women and girls, including sexual violence, abductions, forced marriage and countless other abuse
2026-04-15 Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling
I thank the Minister for that response. She will know that bottom trawling is a hugely destructive fishing practice that causes widespread, severe and often irreversible environmental damage to our marine ecosystems. I would like to push the Minister a b
2026-04-15 Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling
To ask His Majesty’s Government what progress they have made towards banning bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas.
2026-03-06 International Women’s Day
My Lords, I am pleased to speak in this debate and to congratulate the noble Baronesses opposite on their excellent maiden speeches. It is good to hear that they will be joining noble Lords from across this place to champion women and girls. I say that
2026-03-04 Crime and Policing Bill
I am very grateful to the Minister for that response, and it is great to hear that the Home Office is considering how this might impact the legislation. However, I do not think I have heard exactly what harm this might do or why it is allowed in other le
2026-03-04 Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to the Government for tabling their Amendments 339 and 340, and thank all noble Lords who supported this call in Committee. These amendments respond to a campaign from Karma Nirvana and 60 other specialist violence against wome
2026-02-02 Crime and Policing Bill
Yes, from the people who provide the abortions. As I say, I am very happy to share that information with the noble Baroness. Telemedicine is a choice—
2026-02-02 Crime and Policing Bill
On the noble Baroness’s first point, as I said, I acknowledge that the number of complications has gone up, but we have actually seen that the rate has gone down, because the number of abortions has increased. Even though that number has gone up, the act
2026-02-02 Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, we have all received briefings on this clause, telling us that, unamended, it would allow abortion up to birth. I will address that in two ways. First, Clause 191 does not fully decriminalise abortion or alter the legal time limits. The legal f
2026-02-02 Crime and Policing Bill
It is not the prosecutions that I am referring to, it is the cases themselves. I absolutely acknowledge that telemedicine is not available through medical services in Northern Ireland, but the pills are available illegally online and people are purchasin
2026-02-02 Crime and Policing Bill
I am specifically referring to telemedicine here, which is provided under 10 weeks. That is what I am talking about when I refer to complication rates. I have absolutely already acknowledged that later medical abortions have a higher rate of complication
2026-02-02 Crime and Policing Bill
I hear what the noble Baroness is saying. I was talking about the decriminalisation of women. Those are the jurisdictions which never prosecute a woman for ending her own pregnancy. I acknowledge, as I did previously, that gestational limits differ and w
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Register of Interests · 6 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.

  • Advisor, International Development Committee, Ridne (Ukrainian food consortium)
    registered 2025-10-29 · amended 2026-02-03
  • Chair, Airlines UK (trade body representing UK airlines)
    registered 2025-03-26 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)

  • LSLL Consulting Limited (member's company to which all income from employment in category 1 is paid)
    registered 2022-08-11 · amended 2025-07-01

Category 4: Sponsorship

  • Support provided by the Coalition for Global Prosperity in the form of a Parliamentary Researcher for one day a week. All costs covered by the Coalition for Global Prosperity
    registered 2026-04-14

Category 5: Overseas visits

  • Visit to New York City, USA, 11-12 March 2026, to attend UN Commission on the Status of Women and associated meetings; flights, meals and accommodation costs paid by the European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
    registered 2026-04-13
  • Visit to Bogotá, Colombia, 3–6 November 2025, to participate in International Conference on Family Planning; flights and accommodation costs paid by European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights
    registered 2025-11-17
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

2016-08-30 → present
Conservative current

Government posts

2020-09-02 → 2020-11-25
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
2020-02-13 → 2020-09-02
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
2019-04-23 → 2020-09-02
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for International Development)
2017-10-27 → 2019-04-23
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
2017-06-20 → 2017-10-27
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2021-01-28 → 2023-11-17
International Relations and Defence Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Domestic Abuse Act 2021 Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 3 active officership(s) · 6 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health and Security
Subject Group
Vice Chair — 4 2026-09-14
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK
Subject Group
Vice Chair College of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (formerly the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare) 4 2026-02-28
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women in Defence
Subject Group
Officer — 4 2026-11-09
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 21 of 21 tabled 21 answered(100.0%) 7 departments
2026-09-14
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
UN Population Fund and UN Women: Mergers
Answered
2026-09-14
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
UN Population Fund and UN Women: Mergers
Answered
2026-09-14
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
UN Population Fund and UN Women: Mergers
Answered
2026-07-23
Cabinet Office
Answered
2026-07-23
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered
2026-07-23
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered
2026-07-23
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered
2026-07-23
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered
2026-07-23
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered
2026-07-22
Ministry of Justice
Rape: Criminal Proceedings
Answered
2026-07-22
Department of Health and Social Care
Sodium Valproate and Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation
Answered
2026-07-22
Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release
Answered
2026-07-22
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Chagos Islands: Sovereignty
Answered
2026-07-22
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Mauritius: Foreign Relations
Answered
2026-07-22
Attorney General's Office
Chagos Islands: Sovereignty
Answered
2026-06-02
Women and Equalities
Gender: Equality
Answered
2026-06-02
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Baroness Harman
Answered
2026-02-23
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling
Answered
2026-02-23
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling
Answered
2026-02-04
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Independent Commission for Aid Impact
Answered
2026-02-04
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Independent Commission for Aid Impact
Answered
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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)

4 bills 2 as lead sponsor 2 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022 Supported Royal Assent 2021-06-16
Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act 2018 Sponsored Royal Assent 2018-02-07
Laser Misuse (Vehicles) Act 2018 Sponsored Royal Assent 2017-12-19
Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 Supported Royal Assent 2017-10-18
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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