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Official portrait of The Rt Hon. the Baroness Taylor of Bolton

The Rt Hon. the Baroness Taylor of Bolton

Labour Member of the House of Lords F
Baroness Taylor of Bolton's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Taylor of Bolton. Her name is Winifred Ann Taylor, 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.

Party history

1974-10-10present
Labour current

Government posts

2009-06-082010-05-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Defence and Security) (also in the Ministry of Defence)
2008-10-052010-05-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (International Defence and Security) (also in Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
2007-11-072008-10-05
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Procurement)
1998-07-272001-06-07
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip)
1997-05-031998-07-26
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Privy Council Office)
1977-01-191979-05-04
Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)

Opposition posts

1994-08-011997-05-01
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
1994-08-011995-07-01
Shadow Secretary of State
1992-04-111994-08-01
Shadow Secretary of State

Committee memberships

1994-11-161995-11-08
Standards in Public Life
1996-10-231997-03-21
Standards and Privileges
1997-07-301999-11-11
Parliamentary Privilege (Joint Committee)
2001-07-302005-07-11
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
2010-12-062014-05-14
National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
2017-06-272022-01-19
Constitution Committee Chair +£15,235/yr
2014-06-122022-01-19
Constitution Committee
2015-03-232016-01-14
Leader's Group on Governance
2016-12-20present
Lord Speaker's committee on the size of the House
2022-01-192022-06-22
Fraud Act 2006 and Digital Fraud Committee
2022-06-162025-01-30
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2024-01-312026-01-27
Industry and Regulators Committee Chair +£17,806/yr
2022-06-222026-01-27
Industry and Regulators Committee
2025-12-18present
Retirement and Participation Committee Chair +£18,305/yr

Contact

Parliamentary office
taylora@parliament.uk
020 7219 5183 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 2 active officership(s) · 2 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Furniture Industry
Subject Group
Officer Brevia Consulting · do Different. 4 2026-07-19
Football All-Party Parliamentary Group
Subject Group
Vice Chair Fair Game 4 2027-01-04
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

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 members of either House who backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading date.

Historic bills (all-time)

1 bills 0 as lead sponsor 1 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023 Supported Royal Assent 2022-06-15
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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