The Baroness Freeman of Steventon
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Freeman of Steventon's full title is The Baroness Freeman of Steventon. Her name is Alexandra Lee Jessica Freeman, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£4,450
12 days attended across 1 published month
Travel claims
£589
Attendance £589
Total claimed
£5,039
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
36 Content(19.0%)
12 Not-Content(6.3%)
141 didn't vote(74.6%)
2026-07-13
Not-Content
158–239
Not-Content
2026-02-04
Content
62–295
Not-Content
2026-01-12
Content
201–169
Content
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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
2026-09-10
Patient Data: Research
My Lords, I have worked on decision aids to help patients and healthcare professionals, and I am also an unpaid adviser on the board of OpenSAFELY, a system for allowing research to be carried out securely on data.
Every healthcare decision we make i
My Lords, I will briefly add my support to the amendments in this group, particularly the “red lines” amendment and the “last resort” amendment. Nobody who has read the report on the Hugging Face incident can fail to think that we need legislation now to
2026-07-02
Higher Education: Affordability and Quality
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Deech for initiating the debate. I declare my interest as principal of Hertford College, Oxford.
I was incredibly lucky to have one-to-one and one-to-two tuition at university. My tutor said, “I have you for thre
My Lords, one of the greatest challenges that the committee faced when writing this report was the lack of good data on how we work in the UK. I would like to expand on some of the points made by our excellent chair, the noble Baroness, Lady Scott.
Wi
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, as the final Back-Bench speaker in this debate, I want to speak about something that seems to be missing from His Majesty’s gracious Speech: a sense of the bigger picture and why it feels to so many as though the country “just isn’t working”.
My Lords, I add my support for Amendments 255 and 257. I will not repeat what has been so eloquently said by my noble friend Lord Freyberg and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, but, as the Minister pointed out in Committee, environmental ass
My Lords, I support these amendments. I spoke to Amendment 132 in Committee. I will not repeat what I said then, but I just want to say that the Minister said in Committee that the reason why the Government want to stick with their own wording on Clause
2026-02-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I will introduce Amendment 144A in my name. It is related to my other Amendments 726A and 728A, which are grouped much later and to which I do not expect to speak. I draw attention to my registered interests.
When I was at the Winton Centre
2026-02-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I am sorry, but the noble and learned Lord has not addressed Amendment 144A.
My Lords, my Amendment 225 is supported by my noble friend Lord Freyberg and many outside this Room, including the Wildlife Trusts. Similar amendments were tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, which the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, will speak to in
At the end of the clause, in the list of health determinants, there is a particular exclusion for genetically inherited characteristics. Is that supposed to exclude people suffering differences in health due to the colour of their skin?
This is supposed to be a guide to best practice. The noble Lord has noted some of the poor practices. A guide would help to avoid some of those. That is important. I totally agree that there has been some terrible practice and it is usually done through
My Lords, I will introduce Amendment 141B in my name. This amendment is designed to help address perceptions that economic growth and environmental growth are in competition with each other. Tony Juniper of Natural England said it as eloquently as anyone
My Lords, Amendment 241E is in my name. I hope that it does not need much introduction, because it pretty much does what it says on the tin. Where a spatial development strategy involves a national park, the national park authority should be involved in
My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 159, to which I have added my name, and a series of amendments in my name. I apologise to the Committee that they had to be put in individually for procedural reasons, but essentially they would add to the list in C
2026-01-30
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I will make a very quick point. I was not expecting to speak on this, so I apologise for not being prepared. When I was at Cambridge, I worked on many risk communication tools that were used by doctors to help calculate somebody’s prognosis, pa
2026-01-12
Heritage Craft and Building Sector
My Lords, government funding for level 2 and 3 diploma courses in some building crafts, such as stonemasonry, has recently been withdrawn. For a craftsperson, who is usually a micro-entity business, to take on a novice apprentice without previous foundat
2026-01-05
Toilet-training: Support for Parents
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that parents are given enough support to toilet train their children between 18 and 30 months.
2026-01-05
Toilet-training: Support for Parents
I thank the Minister for that Answer. I am delighted to talk about this important subject first thing in the new year. It is not just for the health of children that it is best to potty-train early; we send about 3.6 billion single-use nappies to landfi
2025-11-24
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
I want to speak briefly to Motion K1. I too will not be giving the speech that I prepared, in the light of the assurances from the Minister, for which I am very grateful as this is a very important area. However, I hope that she can give a couple of clar
2025-11-10
Office for National Statistics
My Lords, the UK Statistics Authority’s new code of practice now covers the trustworthy communication of data and statistics. Are there plans to update the Ministerial Code to reflect this?
2025-11-03
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her constructive comments in the debate. I think we all want to find proportionate ways to stop 30 million birds a year being killed on our windows in the UK. I was very interested in her suggestion that a targeted meas
2025-11-03
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2025-10-29
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
I rise briefly, because I spoke already on these matters on Amendment 130. All the concerns that I had about the scientific evidence and its basis are covered very nicely in this amendment. I would support the noble Baroness if she decided to test the op
2025-10-29
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, we should make our homes and houses and gardens as supportive to the lives of other species as is feasible, especially where the solutions are so low-cost. I was very happy to add my name to Amendment 140, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lad
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Register of Interests · 5 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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Member, ESRC Council
registered 2026-05-06
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Principal, Hertford College, University of Oxford
registered 2026-03-17
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Honorarium received from Schmidt Sciences Foundation for interviewing science Fellows, 23-25 January 2026
registered 2026-02-24
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Consultant on decision-making tools for NHS, Cambridge Enterprise
registered 2024-08-08 · amended 2025-04-05
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Partner, Mirror Free LLP (television game show development) (currently inactive)
registered 2024-08-08 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2024-06-05 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2025-01-30 → 2025-10-27
Home-based Working Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Childhood Vaccinations Committee
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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2026-09-02
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Cyprus: Nature Conservation
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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