The Baroness Hodgson of Abinger CBE
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Hodgson of Abinger's full title is The Baroness Hodgson of Abinger CBE. Her name is Fiona Ferelith Hodgson, 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.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
82 Content(50.6%)
3 Not-Content(1.9%)
77 didn't vote(47.5%)
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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
My Lords, while I am delighted that the Government are still prioritising women and girls, how are they going to ensure that this priority remains through the multilateral grants?
2026-05-21
King’s Speech
My Lords, I pay tribute to the hereditary Peers, who gave time and expertise to this House with a true sense of public service and duty passed down over generations. They will be missed.
I begin by declaring my interests. I co-chair and run the APPG o
2026-03-06
International Women’s Day
My Lords, I wholeheartedly welcome this debate and thank the noble Baroness, Lady Lloyd, for her excellent introduction. I declare my interests as co-chair of the APPG on Women, Peace and Security, a steering board member of the Preventing Sexual Violen
2026-01-29
UK Development Partnership Assistance
My Lords, I declare my interests as co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security, a member of the steering board of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative and chair of the Afghan Women’s Support Forum. I congr
2026-01-20
Atrocity Crimes
My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Alton, on introducing this debate. I am incredibly grateful to him for all he does to ensure that human rights are never forgotten in this House. This is an important topic to address, now more than ever.
2025-12-01
Walking, Wheeling and Cycling Paths
My Lords, are there any plans to increase the number of bridle paths as well? The roads are becoming ever more dangerous for horse riders—and I declare my interest as a horse rider.
2025-12-01
Walking, Wheeling and Cycling Paths
My Lords—
2025-11-04
Official Development Assistance
My Lords, we all know that women and girls are disproportionately affected by conflict. There are, I think, about 116 conflicts raging around the world. The UK is a penholder for the women, peace and security agenda at the UN Security Council. We talk ab
2025-11-03
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
I thank the Minister for her response, although I am, of course, slightly disappointed by it.
I worry about when people are approached for land, either for leasing or buying, and not treated with honesty and transparency. I do not see how saying that
2025-11-03
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I shall also speak to Amendment 241. Amendment 240 is a return to the debate that we had about the issues of transparency and the right of landowners to be fully informed of the potential scale of a project. It would insert a new clause after C
2025-11-03
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2025-11-03
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 250. I know that many noble Lords are much better versed in the law around this than I am. However, I want to touch on the point about land held in trust for enjoyment by the public. In situations where such a purchase
2025-10-27
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 91 in my name, which would insert a new subsection in Clause 52, “Spatial development strategies”, which amends the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.
According to the House of Commons Library paper on the
2025-10-27
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 96 in the name of my noble friend Lady Scott, to which I have added my name and which requires the prioritisation of brownfield and other sites, and to speak to my noble friend’s Amendment 239, to which I have also a
2025-09-15
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her considered response. I am disappointed in her response to my amendment, because I think that, although I understand her point about confidentiality, there may be ways of communicating when landowners are approached,
2025-09-15
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, Amendment 227C in my name would insert a new clause after Clause 106 creating a duty to declare other approaches to purchase or lease land round about. As the explanatory statement highlights, this is
“to ensure that any landowner being appr
2025-09-15
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2025-09-15
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. I am slightly mystified by the phrase that the Act provides a robust framework for resolving disputes. As somebody who has had party wall notices served on me, I do not see any mechanism for resolving disp
2025-09-15
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 221 and 223, which are in my name. Before I do so, I should perhaps remind the Committee of the interest I declared at Second Reading: I have been the recipient of three party wall notices in the past three years. Tha
2025-09-15
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2025-09-15
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 325 in this group but, first, I would like to support the remarks made by my noble friends Lord Roborough and Lord Sandhurst. I echo what has been said about compulsory purchase orders. We live in a country that is mea
2025-09-15
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I am afraid that I am not completely in tune with my noble friend Lady Coffey, for which I hope she will forgive me. While I agree that maintenance and repairs are essential and should not be held up in any way, I urge caution about some intern
2025-09-11
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, Amendment 215 is in my name, but I also support Amendment 157 and echo many of the words of the noble Baroness, Lady Grender. Amendment 215 would insert a new clause after Clause 106 that would provide existing villages with protection equivale
2025-09-11
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 152ZA and 216A. I hope that noble Lords will not think I am in any way discourteous, but I think that there has been a transposition of numbers on Amendment 216ZA. I cannot find any such amendment in the Marshalled L
2025-09-09
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 222 and 224 in my name. Both refer to regeneration: supporting brownfield sites and repurposing buildings in preference to the use of new sites in the green belt, cutting into our countryside.
Amendment 222 insert
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Register of Interests · 9 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, Johnson Brothers (Leasing) Limited (dormant)
registered 2018-06-20 · amended 2025-12-15
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Chair, Independent Health Advisory Services Complaints and Adjudication Service
registered 2013-10-30 · amended 2025-12-15
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Director, Johnson Bros & Company, Limited (investment company, including owning limited amount of agricultural land; see category 2(a))
registered 2013-10-30 · amended 2025-04-07
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Johnson Bros & Co Ltd, Walsall (investment company; jointly with husband)
registered 2013-10-30 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 5: Overseas visits
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Visit to Istanbul, Turkey, 25-29 March 2026, invited by Forward Thinking to attend a meeting of The Women for a Sustainable Future (WSF) network and Stratcom26 organised by the Turkish Government; Forward Thinking covered all costs for the WSF meeting on 26 March (hotel for the extra night, subsistence from 25-27 March), and Stratcom covered all costs for the conference (including flights, accommodation, subsistence and transport between the airport and hotel)
registered 2026-04-15 · amended 2026-04-20
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Visit to Doha, Qatar, 3–8 December 2025, to attend Doha Forum 2025; flights, accommodation and subsistence costs paid by government of State of Qatar
registered 2025-12-15
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Visit to Amman, Jordan, 21-24 July 2025, invited by Forward Thinking to attend a conference of The Women for a Sustainable Future (WSF) network; travel, accommodation and subsistence costs met by the organisers
registered 2025-07-30
Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
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Honorary Associate Member, British Veterinary Association
registered 2021-10-18 · amended 2025-04-05
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As a member of the All-Parliamentary Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces, the member receives invitations to breakfast and dinner briefings which during the calendar year together exceed £300 in value and all of which are paid for by sources listed in the register of APPGs
registered 2016-09-08 · amended 2025-12-15
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Party history
2013-09-16 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2015-06-11 → 2016-03-22
Sexual Violence in Conflict Committee
2018-10-09 → 2019-03-26
Rural Economy Committee
2019-07-01 → 2023-01-31
National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
2023-01-31 → 2023-11-23
AI in Weapon Systems Committee
2025-01-30 → 2025-11-10
Autism Act 2009 Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Childhood Vaccinations Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
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APPGs (2026) · 9 active officership(s) · 8 historic
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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39 answered(95.1%)
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departments
2026-06-18
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023
Pending
2026-06-05
Women and Equalities
UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Answered
2026-06-01
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Meat: Ritual Slaughter
Answered
2026-06-01
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Gender Based Violence
Answered
2026-06-01
Department for Transport
Hammersmith Bridge: Repairs and Maintenance
Answered
2026-04-15
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Import Controls
Answered
2026-04-13
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Slaughterhouses
Answered
2026-04-13
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Slaughterhouses
Answered
2026-03-16
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Women
Answered
2026-03-13
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Ritual Slaughter
Answered
2026-03-13
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences
Answered
2026-03-11
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sudan: Humanitarian Aid
Answered
2026-02-24
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Cattle: Exports
Answered
2026-02-23
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Meat: Ritual Slaughter
Answered
2026-02-23
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Meat: Ritual Slaughter
Answered
2026-02-23
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Meat: Ritual Slaughter
Answered
2026-02-23
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Meat: Ritual Slaughter
Answered
2026-02-04
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
UN Commission on the Status of Women
Answered
2026-01-29
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Syria: Politics and Government
Answered
2026-01-29
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Syria: Gender Based Violence
Answered
2026-01-21
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Ritual Slaughter
Answered
2026-01-15
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Peace Negotiations: Women
Answered
2026-01-06
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Peace Negotiations: Women
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.
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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)
3 bills
2 as lead sponsor
1 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women, Peace and Security Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2024-09-04 | |
| Women, Peace and Security Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 1st reading | 2022-06-08 | |
| Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2017-07-19 |
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year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.