The Baroness Valentine
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Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Valentine's full title is The Baroness Valentine. Her name is Josephine Clare Valentine, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 19
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Aberdare for introducing this topic. We have the economic challenge of building relevant skills for the future and the social challenge of one in 10 youngsters being unemployed. I shall focus on the need to
2024-03-14
Housing: Young People
On the subject of migration, as far as I recall, a very large number of migrants are students. I wonder whether the noble Lord would like to comment on student housing in that context?
2024-03-14
Housing: Young People
My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Lord for introducing this debate. I have been aware of housing challenges, particularly in London and Blackpool, for a long time, but the subject of this debate has encouraged me to look more intensely at the chall
2023-02-22
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Can I clarify my involvement with the various areas I have been talking about? I work some of the time with Business in the Community to persuade businesses to get involved in levelling up in all sorts of places across the country, including Blackpool, B
2023-02-22
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
My Lords, my Amendment 57 is about the distribution of levelling-up funding. The premise of it is, first, that levelling-up challenges are by their nature long-term and difficult and, secondly, that any attempt to address them must be locally sensitive a
2023-02-20
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
I have added my name to Amendments 32 and 38, both of which deal with the independent evaluation of progress against the levelling-up missions. I begin by apologising that I was unable to be present for Second Reading. Levelling up is a subject I care de
2023-01-26
Vulnerable Teenagers
I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I work part-time for Business in the Community where, as director of place and levelling up, I aim to facilitate long-term and transformational change in some of the UK’s most deprived neighbourhoo
2022-05-11
Queen’s Speech
I begin by adding my welcome to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Guildford. I also declare that I am director of place and levelling up at Business in the Community, as well as chair of Heathrow Southern Railway. Also, for many years I ran London
2022-03-23
Universal Credit (EAC Report)
I am grateful for this opportunity to discuss this important topic. I will focus on one particular aspect of universal credit: housing benefit. I should first say that I work part-time for Business in the Community on levelling up left-behind towns, in p
2021-10-14
Inequalities of Region and Place
Before I start, I should say that I support the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, on HS2. I have sat on the boards of Crossrail and HS2, but I cannot say it as passionately as the noble Lord just said it. I will talk about some of the issues associated with trans
2020-03-18
Budget Statement
In these testing times, I thought it was important to speak up today for those towns at the end of the line, which rarely reach the consciousness of our Westminster world. These towns, which have some of the worst deprivation in the UK, will suffer great
2019-07-01
Future of Seaside Towns
My Lords, it was a pleasure to be on this committee. We looked at a wide range of issues and there was always constructive debate, ably chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Bassam.
Flaubert’s Madame Bovary says:
“Doesn’t it seem to you … that the mind m
2018-01-08
Industrial Strategy
I am honoured if somewhat hesitant to follow the noble Lord, Lord Heseltine, and I am pleased to say that I will pick up a few of those themes in my remarks.
I congratulate the Government on bringing forward their industrial strategy. I believe that i
2017-07-03
Air Quality: London
I know that we are preparing to leave the European Union, but I start by recognising that it is Europe that has kept the pressure on successive Governments over air pollution standards—or, rather, tried but on the whole failed, given that we have been br
2016-12-01
Brexit: UK-EU Relationship
I will limit my remarks today to the impact of our relationship with continental Europe on London’s talent mix. London is possibly the most successful and concentrated service-sector economy in the world, and given that it contributes nearly a third of th
2016-04-14
High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill
My Lords, I declare that I am a non-executive director of HS2 and chief executive of London First.
I begin by congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Mair, on his excellent and interesting maiden speech. I am delighted to have someone who knows about tunne
2016-03-23
Housing and Planning Bill
My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Tope. Making better use of surplus public land represents one of the best and quickest ways of getting homes built and thus meeting the Government’s targets.
2016-03-10
Airports: Expansion
As the Minister will be aware, various Governments have avoided taking a decision on where to put a runway in the south-east since the Second World War, so he is in good company in failing to be too precise about exactly when that decision might be taken.
2016-03-10
Airports: Expansion
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether a final decision will be taken on airports expansion before the summer recess.
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Register of Interests · 15 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 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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Director, Value and Indexed Property Income Trust plc
registered 2020-11-13 · amended 2026-05-13
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Director of Place, Business in the Community
registered 2017-04-25 · amended 2026-05-13
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Chair, Heathrow Southern Railway Ltd
registered 2017-04-25 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Standard Life plc (financial services)
registered 2026-05-13
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Helios Towers plc (telecommunications)
registered 2026-05-13
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Cordiant Digital Infra Ltd
registered 2025-11-03
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Biopharma Credit Inv TST Plc
registered 2025-11-03
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Supermarket Income Reit Plc
registered 2025-11-03
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CERES (Portugal) investment (real estate fund investing in supermarkets in Portugal)
registered 2025-05-09
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Pantheon Infrastructure Inv Tst (infrastructure assets)
registered 2024-11-04 · amended 2025-04-05
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International Public Partnerships Ltd
registered 2023-12-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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BH Macro plc (macroeconomics hedge fund)
registered 2018-06-06 · amended 2025-04-05
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Alphabet Inc (search)
registered 2018-06-06 · amended 2025-04-05
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Amazon Inc (retail)
registered 2018-06-06 · amended 2025-04-05
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3i Infrastructure plc (invests in infrastructure and greenfield projects)
registered 2017-05-04 · amended 2025-05-09
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Party history
2005-10-10 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
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Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2009-11-25 → 2014-05-14
Works of Art Committee (Lords)
2018-05-17 → 2019-03-19
Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities Committee
2023-09-05 → 2024-05-30
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2025-01-30 → present
Industry and Regulators Committee
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