The Lord Woodley
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Woodley's full title is The Lord Woodley. His name is Anthony Woodley, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£4,823
13 days attended across 1 published month
Overnight / accommodation
£500
Travel claims
£1,585
Attendance £1,585
Total claimed
£6,908
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
2 Content(1.1%)
59 Not-Content(31.2%)
128 didn't vote(67.7%)
2026-01-12
Not-Content
201–169
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
2026-09-16
IPP Prisoners: Recall System
My Lords, it is fantastic to see that we are now moving along the road of getting justice for IPP prisoners, but, once an IPP prisoner has been deemed safe and released by the Parole Board, that should be the end of the matter: IPP finished. If they are
2026-09-14
International Financial Fraud
My Lords, I raised this last week, talking about the billions of pounds in fraud. Can the Minister kindly tell me when they are going to recover the millions of pounds of fraud from the noble Baroness, Lady Mone?
2026-09-09
UK Automotive and Components Sector
My Lords, Jaguar partly blames the ZEV mandate for these job cuts, a situation that I am glad to say the Government acknowledge with their current consultation aimed at reducing this mandate to protect up to 200,000 automotive jobs. However, do the Gover
2026-09-08
Criminal Justice Reform
My Lord, I warmly welcome this Statement. The Government’s commitment to end the IPP scandal, as has been mentioned, is long overdue. A transition with public protection at its heart is the right way forward, but may I suggest that we start straightaway
2026-09-08
No. 10 North
My Lords, does the Minister agree with me that, whatever the cost of No. 10 North, it pales into complete insignificance compared with the £1 billion in PPE contracts that the party opposite fraudulently gave its friends and others?
2026-07-02
Imprisonment for Public Protection
My Lords, the impact of IPP sentences on family members is absolutely devastating, especially with miscarriages of justice, which IPPs indeed are on an industrial scale. On Wednesday 15 July, many of these families will be at Westminster again to protest
2026-06-08
Royal Mail
My Lords, I know from personal experience that urgent letters, particularly those associated with hospital appointments, are not getting through in time. Have the Government made any assessment of the devastating effect that this is having on healthcare
2026-03-26
HBOS: Fraud Investigation
My Lords, can the Minister assure the House that the victims of this incredible £1 billion HBOS fraud will have the opportunity to challenge and correct the published version of the Dobbs review?
The Minister is well aware that, almost a year ago, an agreement was reached at ACAS between the chief executive of the council and Unite to end this dispute, only for it to be vetoed by the commissioners appointed by the last Government on about £1,200
In begging leave to ask the Question standing in my name, I declare an interest as the former general secretary of Unite the Union.
To ask His Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the parties involved in the industrial dispute between Birmingham City Council and Unite regarding the pay of refuse workers.
2026-03-10
Student Loan System
My Lords, as we all know, there are no university tuition fees in Scotland and across most of Europe, while in England it is completely different. The average student loan repayment scheme at the moment in Scotland is £18,000 while in England it is £53,0
2026-01-07
Public Sector Productivity
My Lords, in a recent pilot of private sector companies which were working a four-day week, over 90% chose to keep these arrangements because of seriously increased productivity. Does the Minister agree that this should be expanded to the public sector,
2025-12-08
Employee Car Ownership Schemes
My Lords, I welcome the Minister to the Dispatch Box, as I am sure all colleagues do. I thank him for his positive response, having listened to the motor industry’s concerns. However, while welcome, this delay to wiping out ECOS, a 40 year-old industry l
2025-12-08
Employee Car Ownership Schemes
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the potential impact on the economy of changes to Employee Car Ownership Schemes announced on 21 July.
2025-12-04
UK Citizens in Venezuela
My Lords, it is very clear that our Government are nervous about directly criticising Trump. It is undeniable that the extrajudicial killings he has ordered in blowing up small boats off the coast of Venezuela are a grave violation of international law.
2025-12-03
Sentencing Bill
My Lords, I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for my stumble at the beginning. My inexperience in the process here got in the way. Having listened to all the contributions, some of them were very emotional and some heart-rending, but I am
2025-12-03
Sentencing Bill
My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 89 on IPP resentencing, and in support of all the other amendments in this group.
I am genuinely grateful for the opportunity to make the argument for resentencing to your Lordships again, although I am under no
2025-12-03
Sentencing Bill
2025-12-03
Sentencing Bill
My apologies—I was waiting for a colleague to jump in. Late though it may be, it is very difficult to follow that outstanding contribution from the noble Lord, Lord Foster. It was exhilarating for me to listen to it.
My Amendment 134 is on probation c
2025-11-13
Jobs Market
My Lords, the Government have given notice that they will stop the employee car ownership scheme, ECOS, in the British car industry. That will reduce production by at least 80,000 units and cost 5,000 jobs. Does the Minister agree that it is time to re-e
2025-11-12
Sentencing Bill
My Lords, I am co-chair of the Justice Unions Parliamentary Group, and I very broadly welcome this Bill as a logical and rational response to the serious problems of prison overcrowding and of years, even decades, of sentence inflation. I will focus my
2025-11-05
Prison Services: Insourcing
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to insource prison services.
2025-10-21
Education in Prisons
My Lords, as has been said, prison education is in a dire state. That is very clear from the report. Why have the contracts just been re-awarded to the same failing providers that are responsible for the mess? Rather than shoring up their profits, surely
2025-07-23
Jobs Market
My Lords, concerning changes to the jobs market, changes to the skilled worker visa mean that public sector workers, including prison officers, can now face deportation because the salary threshold has jumped over their wages—which ignores why we wanted
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Register of Interests · 1 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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Consultant, Embignell Limited (holding company whose main subsidiary, Union Income Benefit Holdings Limited, is engaged in insurance, prepaid card services and print management services)
registered 2023-02-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2020-11-02 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
None recorded.
Contact
Parliamentary office
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020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 1 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Miscarriages of Justice
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2027-02-15 |
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
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of 1 tabled
1 answered(100.0%)
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departments
2026-03-19
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Waste Disposal: Birmingham
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)
3 bills
3 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | Committee stage | 2024-09-04 | |
| Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 3rd reading | 2023-11-21 | |
| Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 1st reading | 2022-06-15 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.