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The Baroness Berridge

Conservative Member of the House of Lords F
Baroness Berridge's full title is The Baroness Berridge. Her name is Elizabeth Rose Berridge, 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 151
148 meetings · 1 hospitality · 1 gift · 1 overseas trip · 2019-10-01 → 2026-05-01

Recent meetings · latest 20 of 148

Date Met with Purpose Source
2021-09-09 National Governance Awards department-for-education
2021-09-07 Intro meeting to the organisations work department-for-education
2021-08-19 School System Roundtable department-for-education
2021-08-17 Discussion re: ESFA Review department-for-education
2021-08-17 Meeting to discuss policy proposal department-for-education
2021-08-16 Meeting to discuss independent school regulation department-for-education
2021-07-22 Meeting to discuss independent school regulation department-for-education
2021-07-14 Meeting to discuss Berwick Academy department-for-education
2021-07-13 Stakeholder engagement department-for-education
2021-07-12 Intro meeting with new CEO department-for-education
2021-07-12 To discuss how NSN can support facilitating mergers between trusts department-for-education
2021-06-30 to discuss elective home education department-for-education
2021-06-29 to discuss academies in Northumberland department-for-education
2021-06-24 to discuss independent schools department-for-education
2021-06-22 discussion with members of Maths Schools' network department-for-education
2021-06-16 to discuss academisation strategy department-for-education
2021-06-16 to discuss education reform and eligibility department-for-education
2021-06-16 to discuss enforcement of Schools Company Trust department-for-education
2021-06-10 to discuss Ofsted Review department-for-education
2021-06-10 to discuss independent schools department-for-education

Recent hospitality

Date Host Type Value
2021-05-13 Lunch

Recent gifts

Date Gift From / To Outcome Value
2026-05-01 Nill return Nill return Nill return

Recent overseas travel

Dates Destination Purpose Total cost
Nill return
Nill return
Nill return
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 94 Content(58.0%) 4 Not-Content(2.5%) 64 didn't vote(39.5%)
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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

2026-05-18 King’s Speech
My Lords, in my response to the gracious Speech, I shall focus on what is missing. Soon, the noble Lord, Lord Hennessy, will be missing. The noble Lord joined your Lordships’ House shortly before I did and was so gracious as I enthusiastically presented
2026-04-24 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I recognise that this is a day of disappointment. I am keenly aware of those who viewed this law as the solution to their plight, but also of those for whom the clear failure of proper provision of palliative services will not be solved any tim
2026-04-24 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords—
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
I am grateful to the Minister for that assurance of continuity. I would have been grateful for clarity that there cannot be the possibility of two sets of statutory instruments, because that is where the possibility of a gap exists, but I am grateful for
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, Amendment 317 seeks to amend the Lieutenancies Act 1997 to ensure the continuation of Rutland as a ceremonial county with its own lord-lieutenant. I am grateful to the Minister for her email today relating to this matter, and for acknowledging
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2026-03-27 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
In relation to what the noble and learned Lord said in response to the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, about not being rostered being a sensible solution, that is a different language from having a legally enforceable right to say to your employer, “I do no
2026-03-27 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I am grateful for the clarity, but I draw attention to the fact that this is a position that could have been put, and still could be put, in a meeting with the various royal colleges to assure them that the Bill does what the noble and learned
2026-03-27 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I have added my name to Amendments 359, 660, 665 and 681, as I believe they would ensure the widest possible protection for those people who, due to issues of conscience, are not able to participate in assisted dying. I specifically use “not ab
2026-03-20 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
To clarify, is the noble and learned Lord saying that a mandatory exclusion would be in a code of practice? We cannot do that unless it is in the Bill. In relation to the latter point, we will just have to agree to differ on the safeguarding issues in re
2026-03-20 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The noble and learned Lord has not covered my point.
2026-03-20 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, Amendment 174 is in my name, and I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord for the meeting on this issue. This amendment states: “Any interpreter provided under subsection (4) must be aged 18 … or over”. It is a probing amendment.
2026-03-18 Crime and Policing Bill
It was a crime, and she was given eight years in prison for that. On the question about the offences that the judge also considered—murder, manslaughter and infanticide —I emailed the Minister about the clarification I asked for in Committee on guida
2026-03-18 Crime and Policing Bill
I would be grateful for clarification as to whether the Government have considered their own current inquiries into the grooming gangs. There was evidence there that: “Victims and survivors were also critical about how easy it can be to obtain emergen
2026-03-18 Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords—
2026-03-18 Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords—
2026-03-13 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I do not think we have fully understood these two categories. I was grateful to the noble and learned Lord for the meeting with Professor Ruck Keene. It is clear, particularly when you are talking about the Mental Health Act, when there are two different
2026-03-13 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, probing Amendment 200C, in my name, would prohibit people from raising with children assistance in taking your own life, and deals with the method by which the issue of assisted dying can be raised with someone under 18. It particularly should
2026-03-13 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Am I right in understanding that the noble Baroness’s amendments are designed to achieve a situation where someone experiences and receives the best palliative care before the discussion takes place? Otherwise, as the most reverend Primate the Archbishop
2026-03-13 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The noble and learned Lord is correct that the amendment refers to the wrong person at the local authority. However, the substance of what I said two weeks ago about Amendment 462A is this: does not the panel need a power to ensure it can ask a local aut
2026-02-27 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
When I mention drafting changes, I mean in relation to the timing of this. As drafted, it would need to be done before the application is granted, and it may be that the requirement to go to the local authority could be at the same time as having approve
2026-02-27 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Absolutely, and therefore the medical examiner’s evidence is that, when they have the body in that circumstance, they are under an obligation, we think, to locate and find a relative. Sadly, this happens more frequently than we would like to think, and t
2026-02-27 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord. I accept that drafting changes might be needed between now—
2026-02-27 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 462A in my name, which outlines that, before approving any application, the panel must be satisfied that the person requesting assistance has had the requisite assistance from the local authority in relation to the del
2026-02-27 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
For the accuracy of the record, I am grateful that my noble friend referred to a story that I presented to him at lunchtime because it was relevant to Suffolk. Marie Curie’s overnight nursing service—the part of the service that offers palliative care in
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown verbatim from the search API; click any debate title for the full record.

Register of Interests · 6 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.

  • Senior Research Fellow, Regents Park College, University of Oxford
    registered 2026-01-16
  • Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture, Regent’s Park College, Oxford (interest ceased 30 September 2025)
    registered 2023-10-17 · amended 2026-02-23

Category 3: Land and property

  • Rental income received from lodger in member’s personal residence
    registered 2023-05-08 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 4: Sponsorship

  • The member receives support from a researcher funded by Dr John Etherton
    registered 2025-10-15
  • The member receives financial support from a number of friends and family towards the cost of secretarial and research support for the member's parliamentary duties
    registered 2011-10-24 · amended 2025-06-24

Category 5: Overseas visits

  • Visit to Brigham Young University, Utah, 5-8 October 2025, to attend Law and Religion Conference; flights and accommodation met by organisers
    registered 2025-10-13
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly. Read the full Lords Code of Conduct for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.

Party history

2011-01-18present
Conservative current

Government posts

2020-02-132021-09-17
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
2020-02-132021-09-17
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for International Trade) (Minister for Women)
2019-07-292020-03-19
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2011-03-242012-05-01
Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)
2011-10-172015-03-30
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2015-06-112016-03-16
Social Mobility Committee
2015-07-092019-09-02
Ecclesiastical Committee
2019-06-202019-07-23
Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2022-07-192024-05-30
Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee)
2024-01-242024-09-16
Statutory Inquiries Committee
2025-10-142025-11-05
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 8943 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adoption and Permanence
Subject Group
Officer Adoption UK · Home for Good 4 2026-07-04
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

Showing 2 of 2 tabled 2 answered(100.0%) 1 departments
2026-01-22
Ministry of Justice
Crown Court: Juries
Answered
2026-01-22
Ministry of Justice
Juries: Mental Health
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.
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
Specialist Printing Equipment and Materials (Offences) Act 2015 Supported Royal Assent 2014-09-10
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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