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Official portrait of The Rt Hon. the Baroness Laing of Elderslie DBE

The Rt Hon. the Baroness Laing of Elderslie DBE

Conservative Life peer F
Baroness Laing of Elderslie's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Laing of Elderslie DBE. Her name is Eleanor Laing, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.

Pay & earnings · 2026

MP base salary £0 / £93,904 annual
0 days served — year-to-date · annual rate £93,904
Committee chair additional salary £1,505
Constitution Committee · 30 days £1,505
Declared outside earnings £0
0 registered interests published in 2026
Total (salary + chair + declared) £1,505
Base salary: House of Commons Library SN02644 / IPSA. Earnings from Register of Interests (API), published during 2026.

Constituencies represented

2010-05-062024-05-30
Epping Forest
1997-05-012010-05-06
Epping Forest

Party history

1997-05-01present
Conservative current

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

2007-07-032010-05-06
Shadow Minister (Justice)
2005-12-082007-07-03
Shadow Minister (Women and Equality)
2005-05-102005-12-08
Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
2004-07-062005-05-10
Shadow Minister (Women)
2003-07-012003-12-01
Shadow Minister (Children)
2001-07-012003-07-01
Shadow Spokesperson (Education)
2000-07-012001-07-01
Opposition Spokesperson (Constitutional Affairs, Scotland and Wales)
1998-10-012000-07-01
Opposition Whip (Commons)

Committee memberships

1997-07-141999-11-29
Education & Employment
1998-06-221999-07-05
Environment, Transport & Regional Affairs
2010-07-122013-10-31
Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
2010-07-262011-03-28
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2011-06-232012-03-26
Draft House of Lords Reform Bill (Joint Committee)
2012-11-122013-11-22
Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
2012-12-032015-03-30
Parliamentary Privilege (Joint Committee)
2013-01-282014-01-06
Scottish Affairs Committee
2020-01-152024-05-30
Panel of Chairs
2017-06-282019-11-06
Panel of Chairs
2013-10-162017-05-03
Panel of Chairs
2020-03-092022-12-13
Finance Committee (Commons)
2023-05-092024-12-31
Parliamentary Works Estimates Commission Chair +£16,900/yr
2023-03-062024-12-31
Parliamentary Works Estimates Commission
2023-01-302023-01-30
Parliamentary Works Estimates Commission
2020-09-232023-01-30
Parliamentary Works Estimates Commission
2021-04-122024-05-30
Standing Orders Committee (Commons) Chair +£15,928/yr
2024-01-102024-05-30
Bishop's Stortford Cemetery Bill
2026-05-14present
Constitution Committee Chair +£18,305/yr
2025-01-30present
Constitution Committee
Chair additional salary only applies to specified select committees under Standing Order 122B. Regular members receive no additional pay.

Contact

No contact details recorded.

APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
Cayman Islands All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country, Area or Region Group
Officer 4 2026-09-07
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.

Commons votes · 2026

No Commons votes recorded for 2026.

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 MPs 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
Magna Carta Anniversary (Bank Holiday) Bill Sponsored 2nd reading 2011-09-07
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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