The Rt Hon. the Baroness Hughes of Stretford
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Hughes of Stretford's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Hughes of Stretford. Her name is Beverley June Hughes, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£2,968
8 days attended across 1 published month
Overnight / accommodation
£396
Travel claims
£1,220
Attendance £1,220
Total claimed
£4,584
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
1 Content(0.5%)
50 Not-Content(26.5%)
138 didn't vote(73.0%)
2026-07-13
Not-Content
41–118
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2026-07-13
Not-Content
142–138
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2026-07-13
Not-Content
158–239
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2026-04-27
Not-Content
58–138
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Not-Content
131–127
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2026-01-05
Not-Content
194–130
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2026-01-05
Not-Content
168–178
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2026-01-05
Not-Content
210–131
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
2026-09-01
Public Office (Accountability) Bill
My Lords, it is an honour to follow the distinguished noble and learned Baroness, Lady Hale. I too am conscious, as she said, that most things have probably already been said. None the less, this is such important legislation that it is crucial that thos
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friends and noble Lords on their excellent maiden speeches. I look forward to those to come and welcome them to the House. I thank the chair and the witnesses and contributors who helped produce this excellent and detail
2026-01-20
Maternal Mortality
I thank my noble friend for that Answer. She will know that the Conservatives promised to halve maternity mortality by 2025. Instead, as the report shows, it has risen substantially, with stark disparities for older women and those from BME and disadvant
2026-01-20
Maternal Mortality
To ask His Majesty’s Government what action they plan to take in response to the finding in the MBRRACE-UK report Maternal mortality 2022–2024, published on 8 January, that the maternal death rate in pregnancy rose by 20 per cent between 2009–11 and 2
2025-06-24
Baby Foods: Nutrition and Marketing
I thank my noble friend for her Answer. In response to mounting evidence of and concern about the poor nutritional and high sugar content in commercial baby foods, despite their being marketed as a healthy substitute for home-cooked food, the NHS has iss
2025-06-24
Baby Foods: Nutrition and Marketing
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to improve nutritional and marketing standards for baby foods.
2025-01-21
Homelessness
Does my noble friend agree that we have a crisis now with the number of children and young people trapped in bed and breakfast accommodation, in totally unsuitable conditions, which will have an important and deleterious effect on their well-being? On th
2024-12-10
National Youth Strategy
I thank my noble friend for that Answer and support the Government’s initiative. Does she agree that all young people need access to positive out-of-school activities with trusted adults, to develop confidence and resilience and to reach their own potent
2024-12-10
National Youth Strategy
To ask His Majesty’s Government what progress they have made in developing a National Youth Strategy.
2024-11-05
Education: Early Years Attainment Gap
I thank my noble friend for that Answer. I know she will agree that the previous Labour Government made significant progress in improving the well-being of our youngest children and reducing the early attainment gap through Sure Start parenting and famil
2024-11-05
Education: Early Years Attainment Gap
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have for reducing inequality and closing the early years educational attainment gap for pre-school children.
2024-07-24
King’s Speech
My Lords, I welcome both my noble friends to the Front Bench. As a former Prisons Minister myself, I am in awe of my noble friend Lord Timpson’s pioneering work on the rehabilitation of offenders and congratulate him on his maiden speech. My noble friend
2024-05-16
People with Disabilities: Access to Services
My Lords, this has been an absolutely extraordinary debate, with powerful contributions from right across the House that have been passionate, challenging and full of insight. I thank all noble Lords who have made their contributions, many from personal
2024-05-16
People with Disabilities: Access to Services
My Lords, according to the Family Resources Survey: Financial Year 2022 to 2023, published recently by the Department for Work and Pensions—the primary measure of disability prevalence in the UK—the number of disabled people has been rising steadily over
2024-05-16
People with Disabilities: Access to Services
That this House takes note of the challenges faced by those with disabilities including access to benefits, work, education, housing and healthcare.
2024-04-23
Personal Independence Payments
I thank the Minister for his Answer. In his announcement, the Prime Minister singled out people with mental health problems as a particular group that could be excluded from personal independence payments in the future. As we know, these were introduced
2024-04-23
Personal Independence Payments
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on disabled people and their families of changes being considered in the review of personal independence payments announced by the Prime Minister on 19 April.
My Lords, according to the Government’s recent statistics, in only 49% of cases of children who have been assessed as needing an education, health and care plan are those plans produced within the 20-week statutory limit, leaving children, families and s
2024-03-26
Child Poverty
My Lords, the Minister was quite selective in the figures he gave in his Answer because, in fact, by every official measure, child poverty has been rising faster in the UK than in most OECD and EU countries, many of which have actually reduced child pov
2024-03-05
Angiolini Inquiry Report
My Lords, recommendation 14 says:
“With immediate effect, every police force should commit publicly to being an antisexist, anti-misogynistic, anti-racist organisation in order to address, understand and eradicate sexism, racism and misogyny, contribu
2024-03-05
Police Recruitment: Reform
My Lords, in addition to the 16 recommendations pointing to specific system and individual failings that explain what happened in this very tragic case, Lady Angiolini identifies two factors. One of them, mentioned by the right reverend Prelate, is the c
2016-07-11
Children and Social Work Bill [HL]
My Lords, I have a question about these clauses, which are generally welcome. The more information we have about child death comprehensively, the easier it will be to take any necessary action. As I read the clauses, however, although I may have missed so
2016-07-06
Children and Social Work Bill [HL]
I was rather concerned about the wording of Clause 4 in extending the virtual head teacher role as it refers only to “advice and information”, so we made inquiries of the Bill team, who said that they envisage that the role of the virtual head teacher as
2016-07-06
Children and Social Work Bill [HL]
My Lords, I also support very strongly the amendments tabled by my noble friends and other noble Baronesses and noble Lords in this group. I will speak briefly but very particularly in relation to the points about siblings and grandparents. The noble Baro
2016-07-06
Children and Social Work Bill [HL]
My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 88A and 88B, which are tabled in my name. In doing so I declare an interest in this area because of my role as chair of the Governing Council of Salford University. These amendments are slightly different from those
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Party history
1997-05-01 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2007-06-28 → 2009-06-05
Minister of State (Department for Children, Schools and Families) (Children and Youth Justice) (and Minister for the North West)
2005-05-10 → 2007-06-28
Minister of State (Education and Skills) (Children, Young People and Families)
2002-05-29 → 2004-04-01
Minister of State (Home Office) (Citizenship, Immigration and Counter-Terrorism)
2001-06-11 → 2002-05-28
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
1999-07-29 → 2001-06-07
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions)
Opposition posts
2010-10-13 → 2014-07-01
Shadow Spokesperson (Education)
Committee memberships
1997-07-16 → 1998-11-09
Home Affairs Committee
2015-06-12 → 2017-04-27
EU Justice Sub-Committee
2024-02-14 → 2024-11-14
Preterm Birth Committee
2024-05-07 → present
Justice and Home Affairs Committee
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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