The Baroness Young of Old Scone
Non-affiliated
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Young of Old Scone's full title is The Baroness Young of Old Scone. Her name is Barbara Scott Young, 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
2 Content(1.2%)
83 Not-Content(51.2%)
77 didn't vote(47.5%)
2026-04-27
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58–138
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46–117
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65–173
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178–231
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69–332
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201–169
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2026-01-05
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131–127
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194–130
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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
My Lords, I welcome the Select Committee report, particularly its emphasis on an infrastructure-first approach, mandatory basic design standards and capturing land values. I welcome the overall direction set out in the Government’s consultation on the dr
2026-06-08
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I declare my environmental interests as listed in the register, and I thank the Minister for his engaging introduction. He obviously knows something about this, and I look forward to discussing amendments with him in Committee.
I want to dra
2026-06-01
Social Housing Bill [HL]
Or I might just cheat, if I have enough space at the end, and put the odd little bit of dagger between the ribs.
The Bill is very welcome. It helps put a knife through the heart of a highly damaging Thatcherite right-to-buy policy that has persisted f
2026-06-01
Social Housing Bill [HL]
My Lords, the degree of political ideology that this Bill has provoked has been quite entertaining this afternoon. I was terribly tempted to wade in, especially when my namesake, the noble Lord, Lord Young, talked about where the money went. But I will r
2026-05-20
King’s Speech
My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the speech that we have just heard and I hope we will all ponder it. I am going to be a bit more frivolous in my contribution. When I saw the notice of the King’s Speech debate arrangements, I felt a bit like C
I finish by saying that I also support the amendments so ably put forward by the noble Baronesses, Lady Freeman and Lady Bennett, about bringing forward the third leg of the three-legged stool that is supposed to be sustainability. It is difficult to sit
My Lords, I support Amendment 239, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott. I will be brief, given the stage of the evening we are at. She gave me a good lead line there in talking about Incredible Edible. A friend of mine founded that movement,
My Lords, I too support Amendment 241B in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Willis, to which I have added my name. I also support Amendment 192 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, which was moved so ably by the noble Baron
Quite a lot of local authorities are doing well on this. Many of the things that they are delivering do not require additional funding but are about making the right decisions on their day-to-day routine responsibilities for planning, regeneration, growt
2026-01-30
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I have one note of question. We are all quoting Kim Leadbeater and how she felt about the Oregon example, but, in fact, it may be that she was not talking about the issue of videolinking but about assessments that were done solely on the basis of paperwo
2026-01-30
Arrangement of Business
My Lords, I will make one point on behalf of silent Back-Benchers across the House. If we are not actively speaking to amendments, the only opportunity to express a view about the elements of the Bill will be when we get to vote. On the current progress,
2026-01-27
Warm Homes Plan
My Lords, I welcome the Statement from the bottom of my heart because, for a long time, I have been very uneasy that we have approaching 1.6 million children living in conditions that can only be described as Dickensian. It simply should not happen in a
My Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 46, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Lansley. Spatial development strategies are a really big opportunity and much to be welcomed. We have long needed a spatial view at that sort of level, so we have to get this ri
2026-01-19
Offshore Wind
My Lords, I commend the Minister on this Statement and welcome it very much. It is a welcome return from the terrible days when you put out an auction and nobody played the game. It really was quite heartbreaking when we had those dreadful doldrum days.
2026-01-08
Environmental Improvement Plan 2025
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, both for giving us this opportunity to talk about a very important issue and for his excellent introduction. I, too, welcome the EIP, in particular the concept of delivery plans. However, some of the delivery
2026-01-08
Environmental Improvement Plan 2025
I am glad to have identified something that the Minister will have to find out about. The whole business of the contribution of agri-environment schemes and the farming road map to the EIP is huge. Nature-friendly farming is fundamental: it will be key,
My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 7 and 7A, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Callanan, even though he has not yet introduced them.
The Chagos Islands are a globally important area. This is the first time in the documented history of the human ra
2025-12-10
Drax
My Lords, the Minister’s own department is consulting on sustainability criteria for biomass as we speak, which will inform future subsidy eligibility and reporting requirements for the rest of the market. In addition, the Financial Conduct Authority is
My Lords, I declare my environmental interests in the register and join other noble Lords in welcoming the noble Lord, Lord Whitehead, to our House—an environmentalist to the FCDO, which is wonderful. I also welcome this Bill which, as many noble Lords h
2025-11-27
Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce Review
My Lords, I welcome the report in overall terms, but is my noble friend the Minister aware of the considerable concern in the scientific community about the accuracy of some of the data on fish impacts used in case studies about disproportionate decision
2025-11-24
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I too thank the Minister for the discussions and assurances she has given us on Motion K1. I was rather fond of Motion K1 and would have preferred the amendments in it being in the Bill—it represented a fair compromise. The reasons why it is ve
2025-11-13
Biodiversity and the Countryside
My Lords, I declare my environmental interests as listed in the register. I am sure we all know that nature in this country is in serious decline, with species and habitats disappearing and only 33% of SSSIs in favourable condition, and they are the jewe
2025-11-03
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
I do not want to take up the time of the House at this stage of the evening, but I want to speak against Amendment 250 in the name of the noble Lords, Lord Banner, Lord Pannick, Lord Grabiner and Lord O’Donnell. I absolutely agree with the noble Lord, Lo
2025-11-03
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I support the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Willis, to which I have put my name. I will talk briefly about the opportunity that the new towns offer by ensuring that they are beacons for providing green and blue space close t
2025-10-29
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, it would be exceptional if I did not support this amendment, in that it takes the provisions of my Private Member’s Bill and puts them into the amendment—so it would be a bit two-faced of me if I did not support it.
The noble Baroness, Lady
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Register of Interests · 2 entries on file
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Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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Chair, Forestry Commission
registered 2026-02-10
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Member, Commission on Food, Farming and the Countryside
registered 2018-01-26 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2026-02-01 → present
Non-affiliated
current
2015-02-25 → 2026-01-31
Labour
2000-12-01 → 2015-02-24
Non-affiliated
1997-11-04 → 2000-11-30
Labour
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2015-07-08 → 2016-02-11
National Policy for the Built Environment Committee
2024-01-31 → 2026-01-27
Science and Technology Committee
2016-05-25 → 2021-01-28
Science and Technology Committee
2018-05-17 → 2019-03-26
Rural Economy Committee
2021-04-14 → 2024-01-31
Environment and Climate Change Committee
2022-01-19 → 2022-11-28
Land Use in England Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
youngb@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords , London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 9 active officership(s) · 3 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Choice at the End of Life
Subject Group
|
Officer | Dignity in Dying | 4 | 2027-01-11 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Classics
Subject Group
|
Officer | — | 4 | 2027-02-21 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Nature
Subject Group
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Officer | Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management | 4 | 2023-06-24 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Wetlands
Subject Group
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Officer | Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) | 4 | 2025-02-28 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Woods and Trees
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2027-01-11 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agroecology for Sustainable Food and Farming
Subject Group
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Officer | White Stork Consultancy Limited | 13 | 2022-07-10 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Crohn's and Colitis
Subject Group
|
Officer | Crohn's and Colitis UK | 4 | 2024-10-28 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Game and Wildlife Conservation
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2025-05-26 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure
Subject Group
|
Officer | Institution of Civil Engineers | 4 | 2027-03-27 |
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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)
1 bills
1 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage Trees Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 1st reading | 2023-12-05 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.