The Baroness Sherlock OBE
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Sherlock's full title is The Baroness Sherlock OBE. Her name is Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock, 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
38
38 meetings ·
0 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
0 overseas trips
· 2024-07-01 → 2025-06-30
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 38
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-20 | One Parent Families Scotland, Fife Gingerbread, and Institute for Public Policy Research | meeting to provide an update on the second stage of the "Transforming child maintenance project" | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-05-08 | Church of England, Alvaston Churches Together, Derby City Mission, Jubilee Debt Project, Food4Thought Alliance, Padley Centre (YMCA) | Roundtable with faith organisations in local areas to discuss work they do in the community | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-05-01 | Marie Curie, Childhood Bereavement network, Widowed and Young | Introductory meeting with Bereavement charities to discuss Bereavement Support and Tell us Once Service | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-04-30 | Bliss | Introductory meeting with Bliss to discuss support for families of babies in neonatal care and to discuss Bliss' priorities | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-04-02 | Pension Protection Fund | Attended event hosted by pension protection fund | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-04-02 | Fair Chance Alliance | Introductory meeting to discuss how to increase fair chance hiring to benefit those furthest away from labour market and working with employers to hire people with criminal convictions | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-04-02 | Domestic Abuse Commissioner | Quarterly meeting with domestic abuse commissioner to discuss current DWP priorities | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-03-21 | Bishop of Leicester, Bishop of Manchester, Bishop of Huddersfield, Bishop of Bedford, Bishop of Barking, Bishop of Warrington, Acting Bishop of Ely, Bishop of York, Deputy head of Parliamentary Affairs in the Church of England, Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Plymouth, Bishop of London | Meeting with Church of England Bishops to discuss the Green Paper and impacts | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-03-04 | Methodist Church, Let's End Poverty | Meeting with Let's End Poverty movement to hear from people who have experienced poverty and for their insight and experience to be embedded in the policy-making process from the outset | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-03-04 | One Parent Families Scotland, Fife-Gingerbread, Institute of Public Policy Research | Meeting to discuss the "transforming child maintenance" project and their findings from the interim report "Child Maintenance and its impact on child poverty and financial security for single parent families" | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-27 | Gingerbread | Meeting to discuss Gingerbread's report "Fix the CMS" | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-13 | Refugee Council | Introductory meeting to discuss the support provided to asylum seekers and refugees | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-12 | Starling Bank, Nationwide, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Trustee Savings Bank, Santander | Meeting with Financial service to discuss the Fraud, Error and Debt Bill | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-10 | Surviving economic abuse | Introductory meeting with the organisation to discuss the work of the organisation | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-06 | Information Commissioners Office | Meeting to discuss the Fraud, Error and Debt Bill | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-06 | Crisis | Introductory meeting with Crisis | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-04 | Maternity Action, Women's Budget group | Introductory meeting to discuss the organisation's priorities, campaigns and asks of the government | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-01-30 | UK Finance, Financial Conduct Authority, Natwest, Lloyds | Meeting with Financial Services to discuss the Fraud, Error and Debt Bill | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-01-29 | Step Change, Trussell Trust, Money and Pensions Service, Citizens Advice, Age UK, Turn2Us, Christians against poverty | Meeting with Stakeholders to discuss Fraud, Error and Debt Bill | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-01-27 | Disability Rights UK, National Survivor User Network, Parkinsons, Carers UK, Disability People's organisations, disability charities | Meeting with Disability Charities to discuss the Fraud, Error and Debt Bill | department-for-work-pensions |
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
5 Content(3.1%)
143 Not-Content(88.3%)
14 didn't vote(8.6%)
2026-04-27
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58–138
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2026-04-23
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2026-03-12
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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
figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-06-18
Child Poverty
My Lords, let me add my words of appreciation to my noble friend Lady Lister, who must at this point be blushing from the compliments showered upon her, but they are very well deserved. I am thrilled that she got this debate and introduced it so well. I
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
I will not dwell on the point that the challenge we are facing is the challenge the previous Government faced, and we did not invent telephone assessments.
The noble Baroness raises an important point. The truth is that it depends on the case. The job
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
My noble friend raises a very important point—and one that I suspect at least maybe half of the House could empathise with in some way. I reassure my noble friend that the Government take menopause support seriously. We have been doing work specifically
My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken and to the Public Services Committee, especially the former chair, my noble friend Lady Morris of Yardley, for her serious work on this. I am also grateful for the detailed and constructive repor
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
These were long-term contracts and were signed only in late 2023 and took effect shortly after, but we are not simply taking that as meaning that we cannot do anything. We are in close negotiations with all the contractors to look at how we can drive up
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
I am grateful to the noble Baroness for raising such an important point and for her work and expertise in this area. Our job is to make sure that we assess the right people at the right time. There is always a danger when debating this that we forget the
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
That is so often correct, I have to say to my noble friend. In this case, we are in a situation where we are doing all we can to drive up face-to-face assessments. The most important question is that we get everyone into work who possibly can work. The b
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
The noble Lord raises an important point and I am grateful to him. There have traditionally been different ways of doing assessments: some are face to face, some are on the telephone and some are video assessments. The starting point is that the health p
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness about the challenge that we face with the number of young people not in employment, education or training. That is why the Government commissioned the Milburn review, and why we welcome that report, and that is w
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
My Lords, face-to-face assessments are an important part of our multichannel approach. For some individuals, they are the best way for us to understand the impacts of their health condition or disability, and they can help boost public confidence in the
2026-04-28
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I am very grateful to noble Lords for their remarks. I will not detain the House for long. I want to say just a couple of things.
One is that this Bill is about so much more than the reserve power. We should take a moment to think about what
2026-04-28
Pension Schemes Bill
Noble Lords will be aware that we have one outstanding issue on this Bill still in play. Unsurprisingly, it is the reserve power on asset allocation. As this is the fourth time the House has been asked to consider the question, I will spare noble Lords a
2026-04-28
Pension Schemes Bill
That this House do not insist on its Amendments 15 to 24, 27, 30 to 34, 36, 38 to 42, 83 and 88, and do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 88C, 88E to 88P, 88R, 88S, 88W and 88Y to 88Z8 to the words restored to the Bill by the Commons disagree
2026-04-27
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, my speech says, “I would like to thank all noble Lords who have spoken in today’s debate”—but that will not take long.
I will not hold us here for a long time, tempting though it is to go over the arguments in considerable detail, but I will
2026-04-27
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, the other place has once again considered this House’s amendments and has once again disagreed with them, tabling further amendments in lieu. I will set out in a moment what those amendments contain, but I want first to say something about wher
2026-04-27
Pension Schemes Bill
That this House do not insist on its Amendments 15 to 24, 27, 30 to 34, 36, 38 to 42, 83 and 88, and do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 88A, 88C, 88E to 88P and 88R to 88W to the words restored to the Bill by the Commons disagreement to Lo
2026-04-27
Chemicals (Health and Safety) (Amendment, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
My Lords, I will come to the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, in a moment, but first, let me introduce the regulations. The measures in this instrument form an important part of the Government’s programme to ensure that Great Britain’s p
2026-04-27
Chemicals (Health and Safety) (Amendment, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 24 February be approved.
Relevant document: 55th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (special attention drawn to the instrument)
2026-04-27
Chemicals (Health and Safety) (Amendment, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords for their thoughtful contributions. Although we are having this debate in the Chamber rather than in Grand Committee, it is always good to have the opportunity to scrutinise things. The noble Baroness, Lady Gre
2026-04-22
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I have already spoken to Motions B to D. I beg to move.
2026-04-22
Pension Schemes Bill
That the Commons amendments now be considered forthwith.
2026-04-22
Pension Schemes Bill
That this House do not insist on its Amendments 77 and 85, and do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 85C to 85E in lieu.
2026-04-22
Pension Schemes Bill
That this House do not insist on its Amendment 35B, and do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 35C and 35D in lieu.
2026-04-22
Pension Schemes Bill
That this House do not insist on its Amendments 37B and 37C, and do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 37D and 37E in lieu.
2026-04-22
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken. I thank them for being very constructive in their engagements—possibly more so offstage than onstage, but I am always grateful for and will take whatever I can find. I thank in particular the no
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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Party history
2010-06-17 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2024-12-17 → present
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
2024-07-09 → 2024-12-16
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Opposition posts
2021-05-18 → 2022-05-10
Shadow Spokesperson (Education)
2015-05-27 → 2020-04-15
Opposition Senior Whip (Lords)
2013-10-08 → 2024-07-05
Shadow Spokesperson (Work and Pensions)
2013-03-18 → 2015-05-27
Opposition Whip (Lords)
Committee memberships
None recorded.
Contact
Parliamentary office
sherlockm@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 2 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 2 group(s) historically — those rotated off in later snapshots.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
1 bills
0 as lead sponsor
1 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Act 2026 | Supporter | Royal Assent | 2026-01-08 |
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)
4 bills
0 as lead sponsor
4 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Act 2026 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2026-01-08 | |
| Universal Credit Act 2025 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2025-06-18 | |
| Pension Schemes Act 2026 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2025-06-05 | |
| Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2025-01-22 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.