The Rt Hon. the Baroness May of Maidenhead

Conservative Member of the House of Lords F

Baroness May of Maidenhead's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness May of Maidenhead. Her name is Theresa Mary May, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.

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Allowance claims · 2026

Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.

Party history

1997-05-01 → present

Conservative current

Government posts

2016-07-13 → 2019-07-24

Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service

2010-05-12 → 2016-07-13

Home Secretary

2010-05-12 → 2012-10-15

Minister for Women and Equalities

Opposition posts

2009-01-19 → 2010-05-06

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

2007-07-03 → 2010-05-06

Shadow Minister (Women)

2005-12-10 → 2009-01-19

Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

2005-05-10 → 2005-12-10

Shadow Secretary of State for the Family, Culture, Media and Sport

2004-06-14 → 2005-05-10

Shadow Secretary of State for the Family

2003-11-10 → 2004-06-14

Shadow Secretary of State for Environment and Transport

2002-01-01 → 2002-12-31

Shadow Secretary of State for Transport

2001-09-01 → 2002-01-01

Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

1999-06-15 → 2001-09-01

Shadow Secretary of State for Education

1999-06-15 → 2001-09-01

Shadow Spokesperson (Women)

1998-07-01 → 1999-06-15

Shadow Spokesperson (Education)

Committee memberships

1997-07-14 → 1998-12-07

Education & Employment

2005-12-10 → 2009-01-26

Members Estimate Committee

2005-12-10 → 2009-01-26

House of Commons Commission

Contact

Parliamentary office

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

Website

https://www.theresamayoffice.com/

Facebook

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Instagram

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X (formerly Twitter)

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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)

Group	Role(s)	Funders	Officers in group	Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Western Rail Link to Heathrow Subject Group	Co-Chair	—	4	2027-03-13

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.

Officer	Role	Party
Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi	Chair & Registered Contact	Labour
Baroness May of Maidenhead	Co-Chair	Conservative
Gerald Jones	Vice Chair	Labour
Ruth Cadbury	Treasurer	Labour

Written parliamentary questions · 2026

No written questions tabled in 2026.

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)

2 bills 0 as lead sponsor 2 as supporter

Bill	Info	Role	Status	Introduced
Psychoactive Substances Act 2016		Supported	Royal Assent	2015-05-28
Crime and Courts Act		Supported	Royal Assent	2012-05-10

Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.