The Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
Liberal Democrat
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted's full title is The Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted. Her name is Sharon Margaret Bowles, 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.
Political donations made
Total donated (all years on record)
£3,400
2 donations across 1 distinct recipient
Matched donor name:
Baroness Sharon Bowles Of Berkhamsted
| Date | Recipient | Type | EC Ref | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-30 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0337760 | £1,800 |
| 2016-12-31 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0262560 | £1,600 |
Showing the 2 most recent donations on record.
Source: Electoral Commission donations register
(search.electoralcommission.org.uk).
Match confidence: place-suffix.
Lords votes · 2026
176 divisions
84 Content(47.7%)
15 Not-Content(8.5%)
77 didn't vote(43.8%)
2026-07-13
Not-Content
158–239
Not-Content
2026-04-23
Not-Content
152–207
Not-Content
2026-04-13
Not-Content
178–231
Not-Content
2026-03-26
Not-Content
115–197
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Content
193–143
Content
2026-03-05
Content
194–140
Content
2026-03-05
Content
198–139
Content
2026-03-05
Content
208–142
Content
2026-03-05
Content
214–142
Content
2026-02-04
Content
62–295
Not-Content
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
2026-07-21
Commercial Payments Bill [HL]
That was a hint to rise. I will speak to my Amendment 52, but I must first apologise to the Committee that I was unable to speak at Second Reading, my scrutiny hours having been occupied in the passage of another Bill, which also accounts for why this wa
2026-07-08
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank all those who have spoken in the debate. I must say that I find the Minister’s response rather disappointing. He is saying that the status quo is all right, but the status quo is not all right, so we will not have the business. I think
2026-07-08
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, this amendment is about insurance-linked securities—ILS—which are the UK’s version of fully funded risk transfer vehicles, which were legislated for in 2017. They include catastrophe bonds, collateralised reinsurance, sidecars and other fully f
2026-07-08
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I support these amendments. They almost follow naturally from the debate that we had earlier about the need for a structurally competent wholesale function within the FCA. It is clear that you cannot produce a credible cost-benefit analysis wit
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, building societies occupy a unique place in the United Kingdom’s financial system. Unlike banks, they are not owned by external shareholders; they are owned by their members. That distinction is fundamental. It means that the legitimacy of a bu
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, and the Minister for their comments in this debate. The noble Lord, Lord Carlile, may be interested to know that I am a victim of the PBO too. The reason that “Treasury” appears where I put “Lord Chancellor
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, my amendment proposes that the Treasury makes litigation funding a regulated activity, with a list of matters that I propose should be covered in the amendment.
Litigation funding has come into the spotlight for several reasons. There was th
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I broadly support Amendment 142A, and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for bringing it forward. I also think that the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Ashcombe, or something similar would obviously be needed as some kind of compa
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
I thank the Minister and the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe; I might take the noble Baroness up on her offer to proceed further with something to do with blind voting. I accept that this is the “Full Monty” version, which I put in at this stage becau
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, the Committee will be pleased to know that this will be very short. I will speak briefly to my Amendment 122, which is quite simple. It is intended to encourage the sharing of analysis, findings, information and judgments between the FCA and th
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply, and everybody else who has spoken in the debate—I do not need to go over any of it again. It was interesting that the Minister elaborated on some of the co-operation that already goes on. I think that it coul
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
I am sorry, but I am replying to the Minister, and I have to say some things again because he was out of the Room. I am trying to explain that the Bill introduces a second need, because we will no longer have access to the information. It is going into a
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I sometimes think that a useful thing to do with the Minister would be to sit down with him with the rulebook and go through some scrutiny. Perhaps he might then begin to see the scale of the task.
As I have said, when I chaired the ECON in
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
Shortly after my proposal first surfaced, I was contacted by people involved in the Australian royal commission on financial services, because they had noted that I had reached the same conclusion as them: that it was too big a job for Parliament to do b
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am moving my Amendment 121, and I support the amendments in this group in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Bridges. My proposal is for an independent oversight mechanism for our financial services regulators. It builds on the ideas in Section
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, in moving this amendment, I shall speak also to Amendment 123 in my name. As I have said before in Committee, when we have been talking about proportionality, it is at least possible to look at rules and assess whether they appear proportionate
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank all those who have spoken in this debate, in particular the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, for her last intervention; I presume that the Minister had finished speaking. Perhaps we need 200 amendments on Report saying, “This has to be done
2026-06-29
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, before turning directly to proportionality, I will touch briefly on sustainable growth, because its meaning has drifted over time. Sustainable growth was not part of FSMA 2000. It was introduced later, in the post-crisis reforms, as a macroecon
2026-06-29
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
The Minister mentioned taking away regulatory burdens, but the Government are actually taking away regulator burdens. They are not the same thing.
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 · 7 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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Non-executive Director, Valloop Impact Captive (captive insurance company for Valloop Holdings)
registered 2025-03-22 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director, Valloop Holdings Limited (holding company for social impact investing fintech)
registered 2021-09-03 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director, London Stock Exchange plc (interest ceased 31 December 2025)
registered 2015-12-01 · amended 2026-03-19
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Valloop Holdings Limited (holding company for social impact investing fintech)
registered 2023-05-02 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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A commercial holding in Berkhamsted, Herts (former office of member’s professional practice)
registered 2015-12-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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One residential holding in Hemel Hempstead, Herts
registered 2015-12-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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Two residential holdings in Aylesbury, Bucks
registered 2015-12-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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
2015-10-23 → present
Liberal Democrat
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2016-05-25 → 2021-01-28
Economic Affairs Committee
2016-09-13 → 2016-11-09
Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2025-09-02 → present
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2020-01-21 → 2021-01-22
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2016-12-06 → 2017-03-17
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2018-09-04 → 2019-04-30
SLSC Sub-Committee A
2021-04-14 → 2024-01-31
Industry and Regulators Committee
2022-01-19 → 2022-10-31
Fraud Act 2006 and Digital Fraud Committee
2024-01-24 → present
Financial Services Regulation Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 2 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Islamic Finance
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 9 | 2021-06-04 |
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
7
of 7 tabled
7 answered(100.0%)
2
departments
Source: UK Parliament Members API. The amber "interest" tag is set
by Parliament's own system when the asking member has a register entry
it deems related — typically a paid role or directorship in the
sector being asked about. Click any "i" icon to see the full
question and the department's answer.
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)
3 bills
3 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listed Investment Companies (Classification etc) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2024-09-05 | |
| Unconscionable Conduct in Commerce Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2020-01-20 | |
| Unconscionable Conduct in Commerce Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2019-10-22 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.