The Rt Hon. the Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke. Her name is Helen Lawrie Liddell, 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%)
62 Not-Content(38.3%)
99 didn't vote(61.1%)
2026-06-09
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13–66
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2026-04-23
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2026-04-13
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2026-03-24
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70–132
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80–166
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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
2026-01-29
UK Development Partnership Assistance
My Lords, it is a rare privilege to hear such excellent maiden speeches as those we have heard today—inspiring maiden speeches that make us proud to be part of this House and what it can achieve. It has been quite inspiring to listen to two people who ha
My Lords, at times this afternoon, I was beginning to think that I had turned into my namesake, Alice Liddell, walking through the looking glass. The speech that began this debate was from a noble Lord who had been a Minister in the previous Government.
2025-06-25
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I am the chair of Annington, a housing company that specialises in affordable homes, but I will not talk about that because, for many years now, I have been the honorary president of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association, which also includ
2025-05-14
BBC Sounds: Access from Abroad
My Lords, I am delighted that we have so many youngsters in your Lordships’ House. I echo the fact that the BBC is an important source of soft power. Like many Members of the House, I worked abroad, and I ended up with an addiction to the BBC World Servi
2025-03-05
Armed Forces Commissioner Bill
I also take this opportunity to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Carberry. That was a truly impressive speech. It brings something to this House to have someone from a family that is so closely associated with the military because it allows us to un
2025-02-11
Great British Energy Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for what he has said and am happy to withdraw my amendment. We understand that Great British Energy is independent, but we are very grateful for the statements that the Government have made around the issue.
2025-02-11
Great British Energy Bill
My Lords, I refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Interests: I am the honorary president of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association. The amendments listed in my name all relate to the same issue so, with the permission of the House, I will gro
2025-02-11
Great British Energy Bill
2024-11-11
Autumn Budget 2024
My Lords, listening to the Benches opposite, from the comedy turn at the beginning and onwards, there is no recognition of how they managed to get the worst result in the party’s history at the last general election. It is because they crashed the econom
2024-11-04
Scotland
My Lords, is the noble Baroness aware that £47.7 billion was given to the Scottish Government last week—the highest amount in history? Will she join me in congratulating the Chancellor on that distinctive amount of money? But will she also call into ques
2024-07-18
King’s Speech
My Lords, I pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Hunt on the Front Bench; he has a distinguished career behind him and I think he has an even more distinguished career before him. I also pay tribute to my noble friend Lady Hayman of Ullock, who will proba
My Lords, I compliment the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan of Chelsea, for a very interesting maiden speech. I am sure that we will hear an awful lot more from him in the months and years that lie ahead.
I must start with a confession: I took the Bank of En
2023-11-13
King’s Speech
My Lords, this was a very lightweight gracious Speech, especially on critical aspects of the economy. I know we are in the run-up to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, but the Speech makes it look as if improving our economic performance is of secondary
2023-04-24
Energy Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am grateful to everybody who took part on the Bill because I never expected to see carbon capture and storage—I am the honorary president of its association—getting such a good hearing in this House. I put on record my appreciation of the £20
2023-03-28
Energy Bill [HL]
I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.
2023-03-28
Energy Bill [HL]
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 17. I will not take up much of the House’s time, because this is just about consistency.
The Government have defined a UK low-carbon hydrogen standard, which was updated in July this year, and it includes guidance a
2023-03-28
Energy Bill [HL]
Ironically, I am also going to talk about some of the responsibilities for Ofgem in among other issues. If noble Lords look at the Explanatory Statement, they will see that we are talking about how to put in place a setting within which Ofgem can better
2023-03-28
Energy Bill [HL]
2023-01-18
Scotland Act 1998: Section 35 Power
My Lords, this is a very difficult issue to get your head around. In a previous incarnation, I was a non-executive director of the Scottish Prison Service. I saw the terrible vulnerability of women in prison, many of whom had been abused since being babi
2023-01-09
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
My Lords, I welcome the Minister to his position. It is quite exciting to do your first Bill before any House and he has got off to a good start. I used to have a colleague in the other place who, at the end of a speech, would often say “it says here” be
2022-12-14
Clean Energy: Investment
Does the noble Lord agree that cleaning up energy is just as important as clean energy? As he knows, I have an interest in carbon capture and storage. So many times over the past few years has the investment community been marched up to the top of the hi
2022-10-12
Energy Supplies
My Lords, many of the issues that we are discussing today could be covered in the Energy Bill. What has happened to it?
2022-09-07
Energy Bill [HL]
Given that explanation, I am prepared to withdraw the amendment.
2022-09-07
Energy Bill [HL]
I thank the Minister very much for that very full response. The noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, raised some interesting points that I was not aware of. It would be useful to explore those further as we get towards Report. However, I am content to beg l
2022-09-07
Energy Bill [HL]
I will speak to Amendments 43, 45, 48 and 58. Again, they are trying to cope with some of the wide definitions that are contained within the Bill. I am most impressed with the fact that the Government have defined a UK Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard, which
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Register of Interests · 1 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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Chairman, Annington Ltd (residential property)
registered 2017-03-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1994-06-30 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2001-01-25 → 2003-06-12
Secretary of State for Scotland
1999-07-29 → 2001-01-24
Minister of State (Energy and Competitiveness in Europe)
1999-05-17 → 1999-07-29
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions)
1998-07-28 → 1999-05-17
Minister of State (Scottish Office) (Education and Industry)
1997-05-06 → 1998-07-27
Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2011-03-17 → 2011-06-14
Draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects (Temporary Extension) Bills (Joint Committee)
2013-01-01 → 2015-03-30
EU Sub Committee E - Justice, Institutions and Consumer Protection
2013-01-22 → 2013-02-13
Partnerships (Prosecution) (Scotland) Bill Special Public Bill Committee
2016-12-06 → 2020-04-23
EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee
2020-04-23 → 2023-01-31
International Agreements Committee
2023-01-31 → 2026-01-27
Economic Affairs Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
liddellh@parliament.uk
020 7219 3000 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 1 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 1 group(s) historically — those rotated off in later snapshots.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
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No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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Historic bills (all-time)
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