The Baroness Blower
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Blower's full title is The Baroness Blower. Her name is Christine Blower, 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
2 Content(1.2%)
89 Not-Content(54.9%)
71 didn't vote(43.8%)
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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
I thank the noble Baroness for the intervention. I am sure that the pupil premium is being used as best as it possibly can be in every school. Often schools are having to top up their pupil premium because, frankly, there is not enough money in it, but I
2026-06-18
Child Poverty
My Lords, I am grateful to all the organisations that provided briefings on this crucial subject. I congratulate my noble friend Lady Lister on securing this debate and pay tribute to her for the considerable and tireless work she has done in this area o
My Lords, I heard what my noble friend the Minister said, but given reports of some universities seeking to move staff out of the TPS to reduce employer costs against the background of a likely drop in that figure, will the Government take action to stop
2026-05-20
Disadvantaged Pupils: Music Attainment Gap
My Lords, my noble friend the Minister has already recognised that there is a gap not just in attainment between advantaged and less advantaged students and pupils; there is also a gap in whether they can access any music education in school. That will l
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, I too congratulate all the Peers who have given their maiden speeches today. I would also like to endorse the speech of my noble friend Lady Bousted in all its particulars. There is a widespread agreement that the current SEND system is, as the
2026-03-23
Migraine Care: 10-year Health Plan
My Lords, speaking as a person who was identified as possibly prediabetic and having a significant heart and cholesterol problem, I can tell the House that, when I looked at the charts of what I might be able to eat from both of those sources, it seemed
2026-02-24
Prisons: Education
Does my noble friend agree with me and the University and College Union that this is the time to make a clean break with the outsourced delivery of prison education and to bring it back in-house to be run by the Department for Education, for the benefit
2026-01-29
Water Companies: Fines
My Lords, fines were levied in August 2024 on Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water, and they have not been collected, as I understand it, because the companies have subsequently invested in infrastructure. Is that not like someone driving, injuring a p
2026-01-28
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, it was a pleasure to listen to the speech from the noble Baroness, Lady Evans, which was about a modest change to the remit of the TRA. However, I support Amendment 190, to which I have added my name, precisely not to extend the TRA’s remit in
2026-01-21
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I urge my noble friend the Minister to look at the amendment and think carefully about what the Government could conceivably do. I honestly think that anyone who has met Ceri, Frances or both of them could do nothing other than to say that we r
2026-01-13
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I have a number of amendments in this group, and I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Hain for having signed them. It will not come as a great surprise to the noble Lord, Lord Walney, that I have differences with his presentation. My amendment
2026-01-08
Schools and Universities: Language Learning
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, on securing this debate and acknowledge the enormous amount of work that she does through the APPG and any other channels to make sure that the question of modern languages teaching and learning
2025-12-17
Special Educational Needs: Investment
My Lords, my noble friend the Minister knows that there is at least a problem, if not a crisis, in teacher recruitment and retention. Is she able to say anything positive about what the Government will do to seek more teachers who will be trained and qua
2025-12-09
Mobile Phone and Broadband Prices
My Lords, services such as NHS appointments, banking and even shopping, regrettably, have moved online. The typical cost of broadband is around £400 a year—assuming, of course, that people can afford to buy a phone or computer. A new class of social excl
2025-11-13
Prisoner Releases in Error
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his characteristic frankness in the way that he is responding to these questions, for his commitment to make sure that the Prison Service works better than it has hitherto, and in particular for his positive remarks
2025-11-11
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
My Lords, I did not intend to speak, but I feel that I must, particularly about those who arrive here as children. Some in this House will know that I was a teacher in my professional life. I dare say that, on some days, some of those I taught showed bad
My Lords, does my noble friend the Minister share my concern that details of aspects of the code are being conducted through public letters in the press rather than through proper parliamentary scrutiny? In the other place, the Secretary of State has sug
2025-11-05
Prison Services: Insourcing
I thank my noble friend for that Answer. As a former trade union leader, I have seen time and again what privatisation does. The public end up paying a higher price for poorer-quality service while private profits soar. Prisons are no exception, with out
2025-11-05
Prison Services: Insourcing
On behalf of my noble friend Lord Woodley, and with his permission, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in his name on the Order Paper.
2025-11-04
Official Development Assistance
My Lords, I thank my noble friend very much for her warm words about education, which I am sure all of us in this Chamber would echo and welcome. Can she also please bear in mind the absolute centrality and importance of education when the replenishment
2025-10-29
Prisoner Release Checks
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his response to this Statement. He has already said more than once from the Dispatch Box that any release in error is one too many. Can he say whether we have a timeframe for Dame Lynne Owens’s report so that we can
2025-10-29
Water Companies: Private Ownership
My Lords, I speak as a Thames Water customer. On 6 August 2024, Ofwat announced fines of £104 million on Thames Water, £47 million on Yorkshire Water and £17 million on Northumbrian Water. Almost a year later, the Minister said that Thames Water should p
2025-09-18
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, it is both a pleasure and somewhat of a challenge to respond to this extremely good and wide-ranging debate. I am extremely grateful for the mentions of our late noble friend Lady Massey, whose absence from this debate we feel quite deeply. I t
2025-09-18
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, having worked on these amendments with my noble friend Lady Lister, and in her unavoidable absence from the Chamber today, I shall move Amendment 469, speak to Amendment 470 and also mention Amendment 502F.
Amendment 469 introduces a duty ro
2025-09-18
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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Visit to Madagascar, 14–22 March 2026, for meetings about sex education, sexual health and reproductive rights; travel, accommodation, subsistence and incidental costs met by European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights
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Party history
2019-10-15 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2020-10-15 → 2021-11-24
National Plan for Sport and Recreation Committee
2021-07-22 → 2021-11-16
Youth Unemployment Committee
2022-01-19 → 2022-11-21
Children and Families Act 2014 Committee
2023-01-31 → 2023-11-23
Education for 11–16 Year Olds Committee
2025-01-30 → 2025-11-04
Social Mobility Policy Committee
2026-01-27 → present
International Agreements Committee
Contact
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020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 12 active officership(s) · 4 historic
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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.
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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)
2 bills
1 as lead sponsor
1 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| School (Reform of Pupil Selection) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2022-06-13 | |
| Education and Training (Welfare of Children) Act 2021 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2020-02-05 |
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year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.