The Baroness Gohir OBE
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Gohir's full title is The Baroness Gohir OBE. Her name is Shaista Gohir, 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
4 Content(2.5%)
4 Not-Content(2.5%)
154 didn't vote(95.1%)
2026-04-13
Not-Content
178–231
Not-Content
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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
2026-06-18
Transnational Marriage Abandonment
My Lords, transnational marriage abandonment has devastating consequences. It separates mothers from their children—a form of gender-based abuse. Australia has made it illegal, so perpetrators who abandon their wives and children abroad are charged with
2026-06-18
Transnational Marriage Abandonment
My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper, and I declare an interest as CEO of Muslim Women’s Network UK.
2026-06-18
Transnational Marriage Abandonment
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the prevalence of transnational marriage abandonment cases since 2024; and how many perpetrators have been prosecuted for this type of domestic abuse.
2026-05-20
Unite the Kingdom March
My Lords, Muslim women’s safety matters too. When will the Government announce funding for the safety and security of Muslim women? I know about the funding for mosque security and the helpline, so I am not asking about that. What about Muslim women? We
2026-05-18
King’s Speech
I had ended.
2026-05-18
King’s Speech
My Lords, I will focus on the plans in the gracious Speech to modernise hate crime legislation. I declare my interests as CEO of the Muslim Women’s Network and non-executive member of the Law Commission board. The Government must confront a growing and d
2026-03-16
Social Cohesion Action Plan
My Lords, I declare an interest as the CEO of the Muslim Women’s Network UK. I was also a member of the working group on the definition. There was an orchestrated campaign to derail the work. Thankfully, it did not, and I thank the Government for adopt
My Lords—
2026-03-06
International Women’s Day
My Lords, I congratulate all noble Baronesses on their maiden speeches. I declare an interest as a Muslim woman and CEO of the Muslim Women’s Network, because my contribution for International Women’s Day will be focused on Muslim women.
I start with
2026-03-04
Maternity Commissioner
My Lords, Louise Thompson and Theo Clarke are present today and I thank them for joining us. They started a petition several weeks ago asking the Government to appoint a maternity commissioner. That petition has now reached more than 146,000 signatories,
2026-03-04
Maternity Commissioner
My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper and declare an interest that I am the CEO of the Muslim Women’s Network, whose report recommending a maternity commissioner is cited in the Question.
2026-03-04
Maternity Commissioner
To ask His Majesty’s Government why they have not appointed a Maternity Commissioner; and what assessment they have made of calls to appoint such a Commissioner in (1) the report by Muslim Women’s Network UK Invisible—Maternity Experiences of Muslim
2026-02-03
Shamima Begum
My Lords, the Government keep citing vague evidence that Shamima Begum is a threat to national security. When the Government are able to, will they put that evidence before an independent inquiry so that it can be scrutinised, and we can be assured that
2026-01-20
Maternal Mortality
My Lords, the Government have launched a maternity inquiry, but we have already had lots of maternity inquiries and reports from the charity sector, such as the Muslim Women’s Network— I declare my interest as its CEO—Five X More and Birthrights, all wit
2026-01-13
Official Development Assistance
My Lords, the UK Government have chosen to withdraw a vital safety net from the world’s most vulnerable people at a time of unprecedented global instability. There are currently around 59 active conflicts worldwide, the highest since the Second World War
2025-12-17
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I declare my interest of CEO of the Muslim Women’s Network UK. We have a helpline and we deal with honour-based abuse cases.
While I support in principle the introduction of a statutory definition of honour-based abuse, it is essential that
2025-12-17
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I was not going to speak on this amendment, but the noble Lord, Lord Marks, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, have inspired me to speak. I support the amendment and would add another set of people who do exactly the same: spiritual
2025-12-17
Violence against Women and Girls Strategy
My Lords, the Minister has said that it is a full strategy. Does the strategy address the disproportionately higher domestic homicide rates among black, Asian and minority ethnic women? Will there be ring-fenced funding for minoritised women’s groups?
2025-12-17
Violence against Women and Girls Strategy
My Lords—
2025-12-09
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I was unable to speak at Second Reading about the amendments to which I have added my name. I am extremely grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Owen, for her persistence in pursuing the issues that she raised about a year ago. I highlighted the
2025-12-09
Crime and Policing Bill
I too would like to thank the Government for these amendments, because helplines have seen a rise in non-fatal strangulation offences, and not everything gets reported to the police. We have seen a rise at the charity that I run, the Muslim Women’s Netwo
2025-11-24
Non-Crime Hate Incidents
My Lords, non-crime hate incidents, even if they are not investigated but recorded, are a good way of assessing the rising levels of hatred in society. For example, increasing levels of anti-social behaviour appear to be linked to hate crime. Can the Min
2025-11-04
Elon Musk
My Lords, I declare that I am CEO of Muslim Women’s Network, which has just set up the Muslim Safety Net helpline. What are the Government doing to protect the safety of Muslim women, who are very vulnerable to hate crime? So far, they have announced pro
2025-10-30
National Curriculum: Religious Education
My Lords, can the Minister say when the school curriculum will include the contribution of minority ethnic communities—for example, to World Wars I and II, to rebuilding Britain after World War II and to the NHS, which is a contemporary contribution? Som
2025-10-23
MBRRACE-UK Report 2025
My Lords, NHS Resolution was, strangely, not collecting ethnicity data for maternity negligence claims. It is apparently doing so now—after I challenged them. This was the case even though minority-ethnic women have poorer outcomes. Can the Government pr
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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.
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Non-executive board member, Law Commission
registered 2023-10-27 · amended 2025-07-01
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CEO, Muslim Women's Network UK
registered 2022-07-19 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Nisa Global Foundation (women led grant-making international charity)
registered 2022-07-19 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 4: Sponsorship
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The member receives research and administrative support from the Muslim Women’s Network UK
registered 2022-07-20 · amended 2025-10-23
Category 5: Overseas visits
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Visit to Doha, Qatar, 4–9 December 2025, to attend Doha Forum 2025; flights, accommodation and subsistence costs paid by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of State of Qatar (subsistence costs for the member’s parliamentary assistant also paid by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of State of Qatar)
registered 2025-12-12
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Visit to Saudi Arabia, 16-20 November 2025, to attend Cityscape Global; flights, accommodation paid by the organisers Tahaluf
registered 2025-11-24
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Party history
2022-06-24 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2023-01-31 → 2026-01-27
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Domestic Abuse Act 2021 Committee
Contact
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APPGs (2026) · 2 active officership(s) · 3 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Britain-Pakistan Trade and Tourism
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 15 | 2024-01-29 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Muslim Women
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Muslim Women’s Network UK | 4 | 2025-02-20 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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