The Baroness Whitaker
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Whitaker's full title is The Baroness Whitaker. Her name is Janet Alison Whitaker, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£7,234
20 days attended across 1 published month
Travel claims
£77
Attendance £77
Total claimed
£7,311
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
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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
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-09-14
International Financial Fraud
My Lords, will my noble friend encourage positive engagement with the draft international anti-corruption treaty during our presidency?
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the inclusive approach of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Coventry. I congratulate my noble friend Lady Morgan on instigating a vital debate, and my noble friend the Minister on policies that widen access to
2026-07-07
Railways Bill
It is instructive to follow the noble Lord, Lord Harper, with his detailed knowledge of the subject, but I have rather more enthusiasm than he does for the Bill. I think this magnificent Bill is what the country has been waiting for. It is one of the key
2026-06-18
Livestock Grazing on Dartmoor National Park
My Lords, could not some of these ponies be sent to the South Downs National Park, where I declare I live, so that they could eat the tussocky grass, thus allowing the natural grassland to regenerate? This has been done in the past and it has been very s
2026-06-16
Online Hate Speech
Is my noble friend aware that online hate speech websites record just as virulent remarks about Gypsies and Travellers as about other protected minority ethnic groups? I have seen remarks such as, “Hitler had the right idea”, and “Bring back the gas oven
2026-05-21
King’s Speech
My Lords, following the most welcome reference in the gracious Speech to
“drive global growth and reinforce global stability”,
I want to raise the subject of international action against corruption. I should first declare an interest in that my dau
2026-04-27
Chemicals (Health and Safety) (Amendment, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
The noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, is making some very serious points. However, in respect of the responsibilities of the HSE, surely she recognises that it is not just restricted to workplace activities? Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Ac
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
May I check that I have understood the noble Baroness correctly? When she said that the patient’s preference should not prevail if they wanted an assisted death but that the doctor should decide, does she mean that the doctor knows best? Is that what sh
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Will the noble Baroness give way?
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I thank the noble Lord for giving way. There is a substantial difference between the Bill that was not accepted in Scotland and the Bill that we are debating now. The Bill that was debated in Scotland had fewer safeguards; it is not the same Bill and the
2026-03-16
Humanist Weddings
My Lords, my noble friend is against making an order. Is she aware that the lead civil servant on the Equality Act and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act thinks that the evidence for removing the discrimination against humanists by making an order, eve
2026-03-09
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I first declare an interest as president of Friends, Families and Travellers and the Advisory Council for the Education of Romany and other Travellers, and co-chair of the relevant APPG. It is in that connection that I applaud these amendments.
2026-02-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I apologise for interrupting, but I am a little confused. It seems that there is a considerable principled difference between expertise and conflict of interest. People who have been involved in assisted dying have expertise; they do not necessarily have
2026-02-06
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Does the noble Baroness, Lady Gerada, agree that the cardinal difference between suicide and voluntary assisted death is that voluntary assisted death applies to people who are already dying? There is no way that they are going to survive, and that seems
2026-01-30
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, that provision is in the Bill, if the noble Baroness would just look. I am afraid that I cannot put my finger on the actual clause, but the assessing doctor is required to provide interpreters where necessary.
2026-01-16
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, in connection with Amendment 30, I will just say, in a point of distinction to some of the speeches, that if I were interested in having an assisted death, part of the reason would most definitely be that I would not want to be a burden on my f
2026-01-06
Nitrogen Reduction, Recycling and Reuse (Environment and Climate Change Committee Report)
My Lords, I too am grateful for the chance to speak in the gap. I concur with all the thanks given to such expert and helpful colleagues. My focus is on the impact of nitrogen dioxide on the indoor environment, as this has been less fully considered than
2025-12-05
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, when considering this group, in particular, perhaps, Amendments 300A and 306A, I realised that the small number of noble Lords who have tabled most of the very large number of amendments to the Bill recognise compassion as their guiding intent
2025-12-02
Criminal Court Reform
My Lords, I should declare that my daughter is a recorder. Very many people have put to me a lot of points, and there is just one that makes me want to ask my noble friend a question. I should say that all absolutely recognise the primacy of dealing wit
2025-11-17
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken, in particular my cosignatories, the noble Baronesses, Lady Bakewell and Lady Bennett, but also the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Manchester, who spoke tellingly about recent experience. I thank wa
2025-11-17
Crime and Policing Bill
I apologise for interrupting the noble Lord, but does he accept that there is no definition of “alarm and distress”, and that it is in fact a subjective view on the part of the landowner? Does he also accept that majority of the police did not want this
2025-11-17
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, Amendment 49 in my name and those of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Lincoln and the noble Baronesses, Lady Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville and Lady Bennett of Manor Castle—for whose wide-ranging support I am most grateful—would righ
2025-11-17
Crime and Policing Bill
2025-11-10
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I add my support for Amendment 1. There should be a review of all these orders before layering another one on. In fact, some of that work has been done: freedom of information data demonstrates that people from minority ethnic communities are f
2025-10-29
Corruption: Low and Middle-income Countries
My Lords, first, I apologise that my interest overran courtesy. Following the speaker’s question, there is already a plan for measures to deal with corruption on an international scale, which, I am sure my noble friend will agree, totally undermines both
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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.
Nil
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No registrable interests
registered 2025-04-07
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Party history
1999-08-05 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2001-07-03 → 2003-11-20
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2003-03-24 → 2003-07-31
Draft Corruption Bill (Joint Committee)
2007-11-15 → 2008-07-07
Intergovernmental Organisations Committee
2009-05-11 → 2009-07-16
Draft Bribery Bill (Joint Committee)
2015-06-11 → 2016-02-11
National Policy for the Built Environment Committee
2017-06-29 → 2018-03-13
Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 Committee
2018-05-17 → 2019-03-19
Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities Committee
2019-06-20 → 2019-07-23
Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2020-12-15 → 2021-03-08
Highgate Cemetery Bill [HL] Committee
2024-01-31 → present
Environment and Climate Change Committee
Contact
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APPGs (2026) · 3 active officership(s) · 10 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma
Subject Group
|
Co-Chair | Friends, Families and Travellers | 4 | 2027-01-04 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Speech and Language Difficulties
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists | 3 | 2026-07-12 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Baha'i Faith
Subject Group
|
Co-Chair | Office of Public Affairs, Baha'i Community of the UK | 4 | 2027-01-03 |
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.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
Showing
23
of 23 tabled
23 answered(100.0%)
9
departments
2026-05-13
Department of Health and Social Care
Aphasia: Speech and Language Therapy
Answered
2026-04-21
Department of Health and Social Care
Aphasia: Speech and Language Therapy
Answered
2026-03-25
Department for Work and Pensions
Apprentices: English Language and Mathematics
Answered
2026-02-11
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Travellers: Women
Answered
2026-02-11
Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes and Growth and Skills Levy: Travellers
Answered
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
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No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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