The Baroness Seccombe DBE JP
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Seccombe's full title is The Baroness Seccombe DBE JP. Her name is Joan Anna Dalziel Seccombe, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£5,936
16 days attended across 1 published month
Overnight / accommodation
£1,188
Travel claims
£293
Attendance £293
Total claimed
£7,417
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
107 Content(56.6%)
5 Not-Content(2.6%)
77 didn't vote(40.7%)
2026-07-22
Content
64–95
Not-Content
2026-07-21
Content
173–234
Not-Content
2026-07-13
Content
142–138
Content
2026-07-13
Content
158–239
Not-Content
2026-04-13
Not-Content
69–332
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Content
208–142
Content
2026-03-05
Content
214–142
Content
2026-02-04
Not-Content
62–295
Not-Content
2026-01-12
Content
201–169
Content
2026-01-05
Content
194–130
Content
2026-01-05
Content
168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Content
210–131
Content
2026-01-05
Content
132–124
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
My Lords, I want to add my thanks to the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton, for the many months that she and her committee wrestled with this matter, but I cannot accept the report.
I feel strongly that some Peers do not consider all the relevant
2026-09-10
Home Owners and Home Ownership
My Lords, in this short contribution, I will stress just one point. But first, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Eaton on procuring this debate. I take the opportunity to thank her for her copious contributions to the House and for the many years of se
2026-06-25
Places of Worship Renewal Fund
My Lords, I thank my noble and learned friend Lady Prentis for bringing this important debate before the House. Parish churches are so often the centre of local communities, including for people of all faiths and none. Nothing can compensate when a centu
2025-11-19
Road Injuries and Deaths
My Lords, does the Minister understand the agony and trauma of losing a much-loved child? A teenage driver, having passed his driving test six weeks earlier, killed his three passengers on the way home from school. If the Minister does understand, what i
2025-11-19
Road Injuries and Deaths
My Lords—
2025-06-06
Preterm Birth Committee Report
My Lords, it was a privilege and indeed a pleasure to sit on the committee under the chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lord Patel. He is an absolute master of his brief, and with his deep knowledge of all medical matters, he was able to procure witnesses w
2025-04-01
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, I feel almost ashamed to speak to this amendment, as doing so gives it credibility. I speak in sadness, as I cannot believe that any Member of this House would wish ill on our hereditary colleagues, as is suggested by the wording of this amendm
2024-11-11
Newly Qualified Young Drivers
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to introduce legislation further to regulate newly qualified young drivers.
2024-10-29
Pensioners: Winter Support
My Lords, can the Minister update the House on the number of people on pension credit today?
2024-02-22
NHS: Dementia Commission Report
My Lords, my husband, having had two strokes, was part of a project called OPTIMA, so he left his brain to that project. When the report was sent to me, OPTIMA assured me that my husband had had vascular dementia, not Alzheimer’s.
2024-01-17
Housing: New Homes Target
My Lords, there was never a time when the housing division was not under stress. Does my noble friend agree with me that, if we had 750,000 extra people coming here last year, the stress will be much greater?
2024-01-17
Housing: New Homes Target
My Lords—
2023-10-18
State Pensions: Canada Free Trade Agreement
My Lords, will my noble friend the Minister tell the House that we do fulfil our legal obligations to our overseas pensioners?
2023-09-20
Railway Stations: Ticket Office Closures
My Lords, I travel from Banbury to Marylebone every Monday. When I approach the ticket office there is at least one person ahead of me. I hope that there will be flexibility in this: maybe some stations do not need ticket offices, but places that are bus
2023-07-13
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
My Lords, I disagree wholeheartedly with my noble friend. In the lockdown period, I thought it was awful when people had to vote remotely and were charged with being on a beach somewhere. I believe that, in politics, we need each other; we need debate an
2023-03-10
International Women’s Day
My Lords, my husband had just been elected as a ward councillor in 1960 when I began my political life as a member of the women’s committee of the branch of a ward committee of the Yardley Conservative Association in Birmingham. At that time, the treasur
2023-01-09
Food Banks
My Lords, in the past three weeks, whether in the newspaper, on TV or even in our own homes, food has seemed to dominate. Can my noble friend the Minister tell me whether anybody or any group in food production can assist those who, for whatever reason,
2022-12-13
Railway Station Ticket Offices
My Lords, the person who sold me my ticket yesterday certainly made her views clear. She said, “What’s all this nonsense about doing away with the House of Lords? They can’t do that, can they?”
2022-10-17
Out-of-work Benefits
In the Restart programme, what does “strengthening support” mean and what proportion of those on the programme gain a position and are still in it six months later?
2022-09-10
Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
My Lords, in wartime, life was grim, with sadness all around. There was no TV, but a radio, which I was told to sit and listen to for the main evening news. I know many parents tussled with whether they should send their children abroad, but many followe
2022-05-23
Senior Citizens: Means-tested Benefits
My Lords, I know that there has been extensive advertisement of pension credit in the national newspapers, but has my noble friend considered using local papers—particularly any freebies that are going, because they are read by a lot of older people?
2022-02-03
Benefit Sanctions on Jobseekers
My Lords, some people seem to find great difficulty in securing a job, so what has been done by the Government to help these people to secure employment?
My Lords, I begin by making a small practical suggestion. Since the start of lockdown, payment for goods and services has been by card only and I believe that has been a great success. Peers and staff have not had to handle filthy coins and notes. There
2020-09-08
Parliamentary Constituencies Bill
My Lords, parliamentary boundaries seem to have been at the heart of my political life. Legislation concerning alteration of constituency boundaries has always been a challenge for constituencies, as close friendships are formed and jealously guarded, bu
2020-03-10
International Women’s Day
My Lords, over the years this annual debate has had contributions on many differing subjects, ranging from praise for those brave women who face hostile opposition to women having the vote and the hot issues of the day. There are many exciting positive t
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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Nil
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No registrable interests
registered 2021-11-03
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Party history
1991-02-14 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1991-11-11 → 1994-11-03
House of Lords Offices Committee
2001-06-26 → 2002-11-07
Administration and Works Committee (Lords)
2012-11-22 → 2015-03-30
Information Committee (Lords)
2024-09-05 → present
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)
2017-07-19 → 2024-05-30
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)
2015-06-17 → 2017-04-27
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)
2014-01-22 → 2015-03-30
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)
2015-06-08 → 2017-04-27
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2024-01-24 → 2024-11-14
Preterm Birth Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
seccombej@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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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)
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0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.