The Baroness Buscombe
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Buscombe's full title is The Baroness Buscombe. Her name is Peta Jane Buscombe, 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.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
32
26 meetings ·
2 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
4 overseas trips
· 2017-07-01 → 2019-09-30
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 26
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-10 | — | Employment and Skills Convention 2019 | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2019-06-28 | — | Support Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) Day | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2019-06-14 | — | To share good practice for welfare reform | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2019-05-23 | — | Supporting Armed Forces | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2019-05-14 | — | Supporting Armed Forces | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2019-04-02 | — | Veterans Programme Update | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2019-03-12 | — | Supporting paralympians following attendance at Paralympics in 2018 | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2019-02-28 | — | Household Debt | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2019-01-30 | — | Employment for Veterans | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2019-01-08 | — | Supporting Veterans | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2018-12-18 | — | Meeting with Directors - Fraud & Error Portfolio | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2018-11-13 | — | Joint meeting with MoD - re employment for veterans - Military Covenant Portfolio | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2018-10-19 | — | Visit as part of rememberance - Military Covenant policy | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2018-10-13 | — | Meeting with CEO - Military Covenant portfiolio | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2018-10-10 | — | Supporting MfFSH&CH with stakeholder engagement policy - Domestic Violence | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2018-10-10 | — | Supporting MfFSH&CH with stakeholder engagement policy - Funding for Refugees | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2018-05-17 | — | Introduction meeting to Military Covenants Stakeholder, porfolio policy | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2018-03-20 | — | Homecoming Celebration for Paralympics Lunch | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2018-02-28 | — | An audience with the Queen | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2018-01-23 | — | Barclays run an employment scheme for ex servicemen, this meeting was to assess Ministerial backing under the armed services covenant | department-for-work-pensions |
Recent hospitality
| Date | Host | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-03 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2017-08-08 | — | Lunch | — |
Recent overseas travel
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| — |
New York, USA
Scheduled flight
|
UN Convention on Disabilities | — |
| — |
Paris, France
Eurostar
|
G7 Summit | — |
| — |
Argentina
Scheduled flight
|
DWP representation G20 summit | — |
| — |
Seoul
Scheduled flight
|
Government Representative at Paraolympics in South Korea | — |
Source: gov.uk ministerial transparency returns. Coverage:
HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial
Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
66 Content(40.7%)
3 Not-Content(1.9%)
93 didn't vote(57.4%)
2026-03-25
Content
95–137
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Content
193–143
Content
2026-03-05
Content
194–140
Content
2026-03-05
Content
198–139
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
168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Content
210–131
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
2026-03-18
High Streets and Towns: Regeneration
My Lords, I hate to be a killjoy, but will the Minister accept that she has no hope of regenerating our high streets unless she works closely with the Minister from the Home Office to sort out the ever-increasing infection of streets full of county lines
2026-03-11
Crime and Policing Bill
2026-03-11
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I will be brief. I heard what the Minister said and I support everything that the Government are trying to do to attack the scourge on our society, and all our villages and towns. I am sorry to say that the noble Lords, Lord Marks and Lord Pann
2026-03-11
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, and also addressing the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, I am concerned that the noble Lords feel, “What’s the point?” That is one of the reasons we are where we are in this country, which is in a terrible place. What
2026-03-11
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 387A. Let me begin by explaining the reason and intent behind this simple amendment. On 20 January, further to an Urgent Question regarding business rates in the hospitality sector, I asked,
“are any of the many
They need to root out obfuscation and denial, fear of making decisions and preferment to work from home, and understand just how vital it is to make the Home Office and Ministry of Justice fit for purpose, so that better prisons really will lead to less
My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Redwood. I welcome him to your Lordships’ House and congratulate him on his excellent and, may I say, pithy maiden speech. My noble friend brings a wealth of in-depth and current politic
2026-01-22
Creative Industries: Freelance Champion
My Lords, is one of the problems not that, in spite of the creative industries enjoying vast subsidies recently and throughout Covid—the Government were very generous—there are scant employment rights? The noble Baroness asked about freelancers, but the
2026-01-22
Creative Industries: Freelance Champion
My Lords—
2026-01-22
Creative Industries: Freelance Champion
My Lords—
My Lords, when we are talking about business rates, are any of the many thousands of Turkish barbers, as they are so called, vape shops and nail bars—which are all cash only and which have infected our villages, towns and cities—paying any business rates
2026-01-20
Maternal Mortality
My Lords, something is happening. In the last decade or so, I have been watching the extraordinary increase in the number of healthy young mothers having C-sections. Why is this phenomenon—if I might call it that, though that is probably the wrong word t
My Lords, to the Minister’s point about employers, I remember that in government we offered all employers up to £52,500 per year for every person with disabilities to be supported into work. What has happened to that offer?
2025-12-11
The UK’s Demographic Future
My Lords, I associate myself with all the good things that have been said thus far by noble Lords about my noble friend Lord Hodgson. I pay tribute to him for securing this debate and say a major thank you. I well remember him encouraging me back in in t
2025-11-24
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, I entirely support my noble friend Lady Berridge. Following on from the noble Lord, Lord Meston, this is a really important issue in relation to my noble friend’s amendment. It is unfortunate that this issue was not put out to consultation bec
My Lords, is the Minister aware of how many pumping stations are either completely inoperable or malfunctioning?
2025-11-10
River Pollution
My Lords, does the Minister agree that a key challenge for this Government is the lack of effective planning enforcement? I have a classic example from my own village of Goring-on-Thames in connection with a retrospective application for an Airbnb on a z
2025-05-22
Social Care Reform
My Lords—
2025-03-31
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, the Minister will know that I pledged at the very beginning, before the Bill came to this House, that I would do all I could to help its passage. I made that pledge to the Secretary of State. Given the continued conflict, as we see it, with the
2025-03-25
Disruption at Heathrow
My Lords, I shall try once more. I am rather tired because I, too, was very badly directly affected by this incident.
The incident itself was deeply unfortunate, but one key issue is the lack of rigour in customer support from our principal carrier fo
2025-03-25
Disruption at Heathrow
My Lords—
2025-01-27
Mental Health Bill [HL]
At the risk of giving the Minister a rather hard time on his first outing in Committee, on the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, about people saying that it will not happen, is he not fearful, as I am, that, given the way life is, if we do not
2025-01-27
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, perhaps I may quote from our report on the draft Mental Health Bill on this point, while agreeing 100% with both previous speakers. During our evidence sessions, we heard from a number of people who had real concerns about the issue of nominate
2025-01-20
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, this is an area where I feel I have the possibility of a solution or part of a solution, while supporting very much what my noble friend has put forward in her amendment. My solution comes from knowledge that we have gained from the world of pa
2025-01-20
Mental Health Bill [HL]
My Lords, I want to add to what the noble Baroness just said. Amendment 139 goes to the heart of the Bill in terms of changing the culture and the way that we treat people. The Bill will become a piece of law that is practical only if we can honestly put
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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 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
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From time to time the member receives hospitality from the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Shooting and Conservation, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on France, the All-Party Parliamentary Gardening and Horticulture Group, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union which over the course of a calendar year may exceed £300 in value
registered 2021-05-06 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1998-07-23 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
2017-06-15 → 2019-07-30
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
2016-12-21 → 2017-06-15
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
Opposition posts
2005-05-10 → 2007-01-11
Shadow Minister (Education)
2003-02-03 → 2004-11-18
Shadow Minister (Home, Constitutional and Legal Affairs)
2002-11-26 → 2005-06-22
Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
1999-12-21 → 2001-02-02
Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)
1999-11-29 → 2002-11-20
Shadow Minister (Home, Constitutional and Legal Affairs)
1999-06-30 → 2000-06-22
Shadow Spokesperson (Social Security)
1999-06-29 → 2000-10-27
Shadow Spokesperson (Trade and Industry)
Committee memberships
2013-05-16 → 2014-02-26
Inquiries Act 2005 Committee
2015-07-16 → 2016-05-12
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2014-01-15 → 2015-03-30
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2015-12-03 → 2017-04-27
National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
2020-03-04 → 2022-10-20
Communications and Digital Committee
2022-07-21 → 2024-05-30
Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee)
Chair
+£16,422/yr
2022-07-19 → 2024-05-30
Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee)
2023-01-31 → 2023-10-26
Horticultural Sector Committee
2024-01-31 → present
Finance Committee (Lords)
2024-01-31 → present
Justice and Home Affairs Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
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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
Showing
18
of 18 tabled
15 answered(83.3%)
6
departments
2026-02-09
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Pride in Place Programme
Answered
2026-02-09
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Pride in Place Programme
Answered
2026-01-27
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Diego Garcia: Military Bases
Answered
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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)
1 bills
1 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial Guidance and Claims Act 2018 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2017-06-22 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.