The Baroness Gustafsson CBE
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Gustafsson's full title is The Baroness Gustafsson CBE. Her name is Poppy Clare Veronica Gustafsson, 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.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
371
361 meetings ·
0 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
10 overseas trips
· 2024-10-01 → 2025-09-30
Total overseas travel cost
£40,017
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 361
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-31 | Open-Cosmos | To discuss operations in the UK and opportunities for scale up | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-31 | Prosus | To discuss artificial intelligence and expansion plans in Europe | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-30 | Lansdowne Partners | To discuss UK scale-up finance and the Oxford-Cambridge Corridor | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-30 | Bicycle Therapeutics | To discuss UK biotech investment opportunities | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-30 | Statkraft UK | To discuss renewable energy development, Long Duration Energy Storage and expansion plans | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-29 | Fractile AI | To discuss AI infrastructure investment and chip design innovation in the UK | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-24 | Kyndryl | To discuss Kyndryl's Liverpool AI Innovation Lab and future investment priorities | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-24 | Heathrow | To discuss Heathrow's planned third runway expansion | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-24 | Lockheed Martin | To discuss proposed defence and security investments into the UK | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-24 | Nazara | To discuss Nazara's UK investments | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-24 | SEGRO | To discuss the UK's investment environment and SEGRO's infrastructure investments in the UK | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-23 | British Infrastructure Taskforce | To discuss UK infrastructure investment priorities and barriers, and the role of the Office for Investment | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-23 | Alastair Paterson | To discuss how HMG can better support UK tech scaleups | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-23 | Hanwha Aerospace | To discuss strategic partnerships between the UK and South Korea and defence and security investment | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-23 | Cambridge Growth Company | To discuss development plans for the Oxford-Cambridge Corridor | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-23 | IHI | To discuss collaboration between the UK and Japan in advanced manufacturing | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-22 | Siemens Energy | To discuss UK operations and strategic ambitions, and the UK renewable energy sector | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-22 | Investcorp | To discuss a recent visit to Bahrain, UK-Bahrain investment links and the investment environment | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-22 | Equinor | To discuss investments in the UK's offshore wind and technology sectors | department-for-business-and-trade |
| 2025-07-22 | Rolls Royce | To discuss operations in the UK, aerospace, and the Small Modular Reactor programme | department-for-business-and-trade |
Recent overseas travel
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-06 → 2025-07-10 |
Seoul; Republic of Korea and Tokyo; Japan
Scheduled flights
|
Meetings with businesses to progress key investment projects in the UK | £7,305 |
| 2025-05-14 → 2025-05-15 |
Manama; Bahrain
Scheduled Flight
|
To meet with key investors involved in the 2025 investment partnership, and to meet key counterparts in the Bahrani government | £3,392 |
| 2025-05-04 → 2025-05-07 |
Los Angeles; USA
Scheduled Flight
|
To attend the Milken Global conference and meet with US investors | £10,429 |
| 2025-04-28 → 2025-04-29 |
Paris; France
Eurostar
|
To meet with key French investors in the UK, as well as the French Government to discuss the UK-EU reset work | £223 |
| 2025-03-03 → 2025-03-04 |
Barcelona, Spain
Scheduled Flight
|
To attend Mobile World Congress in Barcelona | £640 |
| 2025-02-23 → 2025-02-27 |
Mumbai and Bangalore, India
Scheduled Flight
|
Meetings with Indian investors into the UK; to attend NASSCOM NTLF | £2,857 |
| 2025-02-16 → 2025-02-20 |
Riaydh, Saudi Arabia and Doha, Qatar
Scheduled Flight
|
To meet key investors and ministerial counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and to attend the Capital Markets Forum in Riyadh | £9,036 |
| 2024-12-01 → 2024-12-04 |
Hong Kong SAR and Shenzhen, China
Scheduled commercial flights
|
To represent HMG at MIPIM Asia and engage with investors in Hong Kong and South China | £5,592 |
| 2024-11-19 → 2024-11-20 |
Madrid, Spain
Scheduled commercial flights
|
Engagement with Spanish government, investors and scaleups | £307 |
| 2024-11-06 → 2024-11-07 |
Amsterdam and The Hague, The Netherlands
Scheduled commercial flights
|
To represent HMG at the World Pension Summit and engage with investors | £236 |
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HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial
Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
0 Content(0.0%)
2 Not-Content(1.2%)
160 didn't vote(98.8%)
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figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2025-06-03
Gulf States: Trade and Human Rights
I confirm that we hold our standards around human rights, and value our press, incredibly dearly and we would not do anything in a free trade agreement that takes away or dilutes any of those assets that we hold dear within the UK.
2025-06-03
Gulf States: Trade and Human Rights
What I am hearing from the noble Lord is that our work here is not yet done. It is a long way from being done, and it is a constantly evolving situation where all of us are raising our own standards—here in the UK but in other countries as well. Where we
2025-06-03
Gulf States: Trade and Human Rights
Trade is the consequence of a relationship: working with someone across the table with whom you have a shared ambition to work together. That drives both economic benefit and influence, and I do not believe that one ever comes at the cost of the other.
2025-06-03
Gulf States: Trade and Human Rights
First, there is no signed agreement with the GCC yet; it is under continuous negotiation. However, one of the opportunities we have is to reaffirm what standards a country should have and how it can rearticulate them within the terms of a free trade agr
2025-06-03
Gulf States: Trade and Human Rights
I thank the noble Lord for his agreement. The key point is that there is never an end state; the work here is never done. We are continuously building on our standards, sharing best practices and learning from what other countries are doing. One thing is
2025-06-03
Gulf States: Trade and Human Rights
I do not believe that is what I said. What we are seeing is a combination of understanding that human rights are complex and broad. It is a much broader range of things: modern slavery and thinking about our labour standards, cultural things, same-sex ma
2025-06-03
Gulf States: Trade and Human Rights
Free trade agreements such as this are hugely beneficial to both economies, and I do not think that is at the cost of things such as human rights. It is really important that we all hold dear to us our own standards and become huge ambassadors and advoca
2025-06-03
Gulf States: Trade and Human Rights
My Lords, the UK is a leading advocate for human rights around the world. We remain committed to the promotion of human rights. This Government are in negotiations for a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council, comprising Bahrain, Kuwait,
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
I will be happy to write to the noble Baroness.
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
I assure the noble Lord that that worry is unfounded and that the numbers will not change. I am happy to write to him to follow up on the sectors that will now be included.
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
I try to be as honest and straightforward as I possibly can. I refer to the numbers that we talked about when we talked about modelling the numbers. There are a lot of what ifs and hows, but the reality is that we have to deal with the state of the world
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
I shall repeat some of the statements that I made earlier. We are not giving away more visas or creating new routes as part of the deal. Existing mobility routes have been expanded to cover additional sectors, so a broader number of sectors will now be c
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
In terms of the process and the timing of the impact statement, negotiations have concluded so we are in the final stages to get the treaty signed; it will happen as quickly as possible— I hope in the coming months. There will be a process for CRaG, and
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
To provide some reassurance, there is no change in the visa process. The points-based immigration system is not affected, so there is no change in the various routes for visa applications as a consequence of this deal. In those limited instances where de
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
I thank my noble friend for that question. This free trade agreement presents a selection of opportunities for trade between India and Northern Ireland, but it is not the only one. We will be working closely with the devolved Governments to think about t
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
On the environmental aspect, this is India’s first ever chapter on the environment within a free trade agreement and it goes further into this area than it has ever gone before. The agreement requires India to promote high and continually improving level
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
I hear the noble Baroness’s frustration. We want businesses in Northern Ireland to be able to benefit from this to the fullest extent that they can, and that is absolutely what we expect here. Businesses in Northern Ireland, exporting their goods and ser
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
I will follow that up with the noble Lord.
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
On the investor treaty and how we are making sure that we get investor protections for people looking to invest across borders, the bilateral investment treaty is not included as part of this free trade agreement. That is the next stage in these agreemen
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
That is wonderful to hear—a worthy celebration indeed. Of course, I am delighted that, as a result of this deal, Scotland will benefit from significant tariff liberalisation for a whole variety of its exports, which includes whisky, for which the current
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
I thank the noble Lord for his question. I think he knows that yesterday I commented that I would follow up in writing with the specifics on that, and I will endeavour also to include the noble Lord in that response. As I commented yesterday, my parliame
2025-05-13
Trade Negotiations
My Lords, I thank the noble Lords for their questions and responses to the Minister of Trade’s policy Statement. It is lovely to see the full support for trade that we all share. I am happy to answer the questions, but, before I do, I will take a step ba
2025-05-12
UK-US Trade
For the remaining areas of trade that are not covered by this agreement, where there still are reciprocal tariffs, there is a number of industries that we identify as key and there is an ongoing dialogue and conversation. It is important to note that thi
2025-05-12
UK-US Trade
We are operating in incredibly fast-moving times. This agreement lays down those anchor points and principles to allow our great industries to be able to continue to trade, but there is more work to be done in fleshing out the specifics and making sure t
2025-05-12
UK-US Trade
I thank the noble Baroness for her question. It is an important point that we have been able to open up such trading opportunities while protecting our incredibly powerful and well-respected food standards. I am not necessarily familiar with the specifi
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Register of Interests · 2 entries on file
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How to Talk to Robots Productions Ltd (production company)
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Party history
2024-11-15 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2024-10-10 → 2025-09-05
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
2024-10-10 → 2025-09-05
Minister of State (HM Treasury)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
None recorded.
Contact
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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