The Baroness Penn
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Penn's full title is The Baroness Penn. Her name is Joanna Carolyn Penn, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£7,234
19 days attended across 1 published month
Travel claims
£77
· UK £77
Total claimed
£7,311
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
111
90 meetings ·
16 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
5 overseas trips
· 2022-04-01 → 2024-03-31
Total overseas travel cost
£423
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 90
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-29 | Lord bishop of Leicester | To discuss faith literacy, interfaith funding, the recent unrest in Leicester | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-02-28 | Robert Colville, Journalist for CPS | To discuss the home ownership portfolio | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-02-21 | PricewaterhouseCoopers; Reform; Energy UK; Green Alliance; Nottingham City Council; Royal London Asset Management; The Graham Institute for Climate Change; UK 100; UK Energy Research Centre; Nesta; The Northern Powerhouse Partnership; Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education; National Audit Office; Hartlepool Borough Council | To discuss Net Zero | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-02-20 | Future Homes Hub; Federation of Master Builders; Home Builders Federation; National House Building Council; Thakeham; Gleeson; Taylor Wimpey; Bargate Homes; | To discuss Building regulation changes | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-02-19 | Simon Brown, Landmark | To discuss Home Buying and Selling | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-02-14 | Propertymark; Citizens Advice; National Trust; National Housing Federation; Local Government Association; Property Energy Professional Association; Elmhurst Energy; Quidos; ecmk; Sterling; CIBSE Certification; Kaizen Certification | To discuss Energy Performance Certificates | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-02-13 | Climate Change Committee; Energy Systems Catapult; Centre for Net Zero; Building Research Establishment; Green Finance Institute; Bankers for Net Zero; Santander (Green improvements) | To discuss Energy Performance Certificates | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-01-29 | Octopus Energy | To discuss energy efficiency and Net Zero | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-01-25 | Hadiya Masieh , Groundswell | To discuss Hate Crime | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-01-25 | National Economic Crime Centre; Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering; Law Society (City of London); Association of Taxation Technicians; Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; Practical Law; Who Owns England; City of London law Society; John Forbes Consulting LLP; McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP; Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner; Pump Court Tax Chambers; Herbert Smith Freehills; Macfarlanes & The Law Society; Taylor Wessing; Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales | To discuss the Trust Transparency consultation | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-01-24 | Iman Atta, Tell MAMA | To discuss Hate Crime and routes to control | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-01-24 | Dr Nicola Blacklaws, Institute for Government and Chloe Smith MP | To discuss Ministerial Maternity leave | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-01-24 | Maria Harris, Home Buying and Selling Group | To discuss Home Buying and Selling reforms | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-01-23 | Northern Ireland DA / Executive, Open Ownership, Transparency International, British Property Federation, The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, London School of Economics, National Economic Crime Centre, The Scottish Government, Boodle Hatfield LLP, Burges Salmon LLP, Forsters LLP, The Association of Investment Companies, Mourant, Apex, Registers of Scotland, Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP | To discuss the Trust Transparency consultation | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-01-18 | Ben Cowdock and Duncan Hames, Transparency International | To discuss the Trust Transparency consultation | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-01-17 | Kate Faulkner, Home Buying and Selling Group | To discuss Home Buying and Selling reforms | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-01-16 | Joseph Roundtree Foundation, Centre for Policy Studies, Institute for Economic Affairs, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Tony Blair Institute, London Schoold of Economics, Resolution Foundation, University of Cambridge, Onward, Nationwide, Leeds Building Society, Homeowners Alliance | To discuss Home Ownership and the future of home ownership | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2024-01-15 | Building Research Establishment | To discuss the prospects of Net Zero within the building space | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2023-12-17 | — | to discuss counter-extremist communications activity. | department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities |
| 2023-11-14 | — | General meeting to discuss fraud, anti-money laundering and the economic crime plan. Also discussed UK-US FS relations | hm-treasury |
Recent hospitality
| Date | Host | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-02 | Flemish Regional Government | Dinner | — |
| 2023-11-08 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-07-12 | — | Tickets and hospitality to Wimbledon Semi Finals | — |
| 2023-07-10 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-06-23 | — | Ticket to Queens Club and hospitality | — |
| 2023-06-22 | — | Theatre ticket | — |
| 2023-05-23 | — | Theatre ticket | — |
| 2023-03-20 | — | Theatre tickets | — |
| 2023-03-11 | — | Match tickets to see England v France | — |
| 2023-03-02 | — | Awards Ceremony with drinks reception | — |
| 2022-09-07 | — | Social drinks reception to mark 10 years of the Evening Blend Newsletter | — |
| 2022-07-31 | — | Ticket to the Women's Euro 2022 | — |
| 2022-07-19 | — | Financial and Professional Services Dinner | — |
| 2022-07-08 | — | Tickets to the mens semi-finals plus lunch, afternoon tea and drinks | — |
| 2022-07-05 | — | Drinks reception | — |
| 2022-04-28 | — | Dinner and Reception | — |
Recent overseas travel
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-08 → 2024-02-09 |
Mechelen, Belgium
Eurostar, Bus, Taxi
|
To attend a conference on the integration of newcomers, present the UK's approach and learn from other countries on their integration processes. Baroness Penn was invited to attend given DLUHC's remit on Communities and Integration (which falls under Baroness Penn's portfolio). The conference included panel talks, which Baroness Penn contributed to, as well as breakout rooms with other delegates to discuss the various challenges and opportunities of integration in EU countries as well as further afield. Baroness Penn held bilaterals with delegates from Denmark, Norway, and Germany, to compare approaches. | £423 |
| — |
Brussels, Belgium
Eurostar
|
International economic security roundtable and international engagement | — |
| — |
Washington DC, USA
Scheduled flight
|
Overseas engagement on sanctions, green finance and economic crime. Involved bi-lats with foreign ministers and US representatives | — |
| — |
Warsaw, Poland
Scheduled flight
|
Attend Moneyval anti money laundering conference | — |
| — |
Montreal Canada
Scheduled flight
|
Bio-Diversity COP15 | — |
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
189 divisions
112 Content(59.3%)
5 Not-Content(2.6%)
72 didn't vote(38.1%)
2026-07-21
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2026-04-13
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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
2026-09-08
Armed Forces Bill
My Lords, I support Amendment 56 from the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Craig of Radley, which would waive fees for indefinite leave to remain applications for spouses and immediate family members of serving personnel and veterans. I have tabled Amendment
2026-09-08
Armed Forces Bill
My Lords, I rise briefly to support my noble friend Lord Harlech in Amendments 42 and 43. He has again brought before the Committee sensible, pragmatic amendments that surely must be addressed if we want reservists to continue to play a growing role in o
My Lords, I am grateful to the Economic Affairs Committee for this report. It reminds us that an ageing society is not simply about older people, it is about how we structure our whole lives and how that may need to change in future. I will touch on two
2026-07-06
Armed Forces Bill
My Lords, it is a real pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate. This is my first contribution in this House on the matter of defence. The reasons it has come now are twofold.
The first reason is the time we are living through. In my time in gove
2026-06-29
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I will speak very briefly to Amendment 140 on transition plans and Amendment 172 on forest risk commodities, to which I have added my name. On transition plans, I do not think it is really an interest to declare, but a reason I signed that amen
2026-05-20
Self-employed: Paternity Leave
My Lords, why do the Government need another review to tell us what is obvious: that excluding nearly one in four fathers from our system of paternity pay is unfair and needs fixing? Becoming a new father can be stressful and expensive, as well as wonder
2026-05-20
Self-employed: Paternity Leave
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to provide paternity leave to the self-employed.
2026-05-20
Self-employed: Paternity Leave
Does the Minister recognise that the lack of proper pay is the number one reason for a lack of take-up of existing rights? Will she confirm whether the new day one right to paternity leave is for paid or unpaid leave?
2026-05-14
King’s Speech
My Lords, following the noble Baroness, Lady O’Grady, I too want to focus on the theme from yesterday’s gracious Speech as being one of security—defence security, energy security and economic security. I will resist the temptation to make a joke about jo
2026-04-14
Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Bill
My Lords, I, too, welcome the Bill. I do not think it is acceptable that we ask Ministers to do their work unpaid, a burden that has fallen disproportionately on Members of this House. As we have heard, former Leaders on these Benches have worked hard to
My Lords, a key part of this mission is focused on the first 1,001 critical days of a child’s life. Evidence shows that having a father involved at this time supports the child’s future social and emotional development, as well as their future academic o
2026-02-23
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I will speak in support of Amendment 218A. Before I do so, on Amendment 212, the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, made a valiant attempt to square the circle of opposing some forms of mandation while supporting others, but it did not quite get me ove
2026-01-26
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, my noble friend Lord Younger has asked many of the questions that my Amendments 116A and 130A seek to probe on the rationale for the Government’s timescales in the Bill. They are also intended to shorten those timescales and implement an absolu
2026-01-26
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I will speak briefly in support of Amendments 112, 114 and 117 in the names of my noble friends Lady Coffey and Lady McIntosh of Pickering, which aim to set a cap on asset allocation.
In response to our debate on the previous group, the Mini
2026-01-21
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
2026-01-21
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I will be brief. My only plea to noble Lords, as we take this issue forward beyond today’s debate in the Chamber—as I have no doubt that we will—is that we keep the interests of our very youngest children in mind. If we think that companies and
2026-01-21
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 91, in my name and the names of the noble Lords, Lord Storey and Lord Knight, and the noble Baroness, Lady Cass, and Amendment 106, also supported by the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron.
I am conscious that I am the
2026-01-20
Parental Leave and Pay Review
My Lords, the Minister talked about the evidence needed. When Quebec introduced five weeks of paid paternity leave 20 years ago, not only did it increase the take-up and length of leave taken by dads, but it increased mothers’ labour-market participation
2026-01-20
Parental Leave and Pay Review
My Lords, the Minister referred to the call for evidence, which closed in August. I appreciate that there were around 1,300 responses, but it has been five months since then, with not a word of an update from the Government. Could we get an update from t
2026-01-14
Early Years Education
My Lords, research published by the Government on Monday showed some two year-olds spending five hours a day on average on screens, with a strong negative association with their language development. In that context, I welcome the Government’s commitment
2025-12-18
Pension Schemes Bill
The Minister has made a valiant attempt to answer all questions. Can she commit to writing to the noble Lords in this debate on the questions she did not reach, and to that letter reaching us before we start Committee?
2025-12-18
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, we have had a wide range of expertise in the speakers today, although I suspect that the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Brixton, might be the only one of us who could not think of a better Christmas present than a pensions Bill. I am also conscious
2025-12-18
Preschool Children: Digital Technology
My Lords, I thank the Minister for taking time to meet me and the noble Baroness, Lady Cass, last month to discuss this issue. The evidence shows that digital device use among early years children is growing rapidly, and education and health professional
2025-12-18
Preschool Children: Digital Technology
To ask His Majesty’s Government what information they provide to parents and early-years providers about safe and appropriate use of digital technology by pre-school children.
2025-12-10
Children: Social Media
My Lords, the Minister talked about support for parents. Last week, the Centre for Social Justice released a new analysis showing that almost 1 million preschool children are active on social media, something that even the platforms, I would say, do not
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
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Two tickets and hospitality received from Silverstone Circuits Limited at British Grand Prix, Silverstone, 4 July 2026
registered 2026-07-07
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Party history
2019-10-10 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
2024-03-01 → 2024-07-05
Minister on Leave (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State)
2023-11-14 → 2024-02-29
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
2022-10-30 → 2023-11-13
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
2020-03-19 → 2022-09-20
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
Opposition posts
2024-09-01 → 2024-11-10
Shadow Minister (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
Committee memberships
2019-10-29 → 2020-04-21
Science and Technology Committee
2026-09-01 → 2026-09-07
Economic Affairs Committee
Chair
+£18,305/yr
2026-01-27 → present
Economic Affairs Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Flexible and Family Friendly Working
Subject Group
|
Co-Chair | Working Families | 4 | 2026-08-23 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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departments
2026-03-23
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Children
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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)
11 bills
1 as lead sponsor
10 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2023 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2023-07-05 | |
| Finance (No. 2) Act 2023 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2023-03-21 | |
| Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2023 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2023-03-08 | |
| Finance Act 2023 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2022-11-22 | |
| Stamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) Act 2023 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2022-10-24 | |
| Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2022-07-20 | |
| Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2022 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2022-07-06 | |
| Energy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy Act 2022 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2022-07-05 | |
| UK Infrastructure Bank Act 2023 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2022-05-11 | |
| National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) Act 2022 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2022-03-24 | |
| Finance Act 2022 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2021-11-02 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.