The Baroness Bousted
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Bousted's full title is The Baroness Bousted. Her name is Mary Winefride Bousted, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£4,081
11 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed
£4,081
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
6 Content(3.2%)
126 Not-Content(66.7%)
57 didn't vote(30.2%)
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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
2026-09-11
Creative Education Access Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Featherstone, for bringing forward this Bill. I look forward to the maiden speech from the Minister, the noble Baroness, Lady Mackenzie of Sherwood. I will do my best to follow the marvellous speech from the nob
2026-09-07
Creative and Performing Arts Teaching Grants
My Lords, before I ask my question, I must apologise to the House for my inadvertent failure to declare my interest as chair of the independent inquiry into the Police Federation of England and Wales when I spoke last week in the Second Reading of the Pu
2026-09-01
Public Office (Accountability) Bill
My Lords, I am a panel member of the public inquiry into Orgreave, now a modern housing estate on the outskirts of Sheffield. In 1984, it was a major South Yorkshire coking plant. On 18 June 1984, Orgreave was the site of conflict between approximately 6
2026-07-15
Social Security: Child Poverty
My Lords, the Government’s scrapping of the two-child limit will see half a million children lifted out of poverty. As 40% of the attainment gap is created before children start school and is driven by poverty, does my noble friend the Minister agree tha
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
My Lords, when in office, the party opposite oversaw an exponential rise in child poverty. It abolished Sure Start, the most successful programme which improved children’s physical and mental health, boosted their educational attainment and reduced seri
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, I congratulate all the noble Lords and noble Baronesses on their excellent maiden speeches. In particular, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Hobby, who, when I was general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, was general se
2026-03-25
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I stand to support the Government in their attempt to create a situation where there is an adequate regulator for school admissions. At a time of greatly falling rolls, particularly in primary, this is especially important, and even more so whe
2026-03-09
Iran and the Middle East
Could the Minister comment on the emerging evidence from BBC Verify that a US Tomahawk missile hit an Iranian primary school in Minab, where more than 168 people, mostly children, were killed? Are the Government liaising with the United States on this ca
2026-03-09
Iran and the Middle East
My Lords—
2026-02-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
If that was the case, let me apologise for saying that. They have got better at inclusion, and the noble Baroness is quite right to upbraid me on that.
However, it is really important that there is a power to direct schools to take pupils in order tha
2026-02-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I shall speak against Amendment 199, and I am following the very wise words of my noble friend Lady Morris in doing so. I just do not understand how this amendment would allow the management of school places and the good use of taxpayers’ money
2026-02-02
Crime and Policing Bill
Can I say further—
2026-02-02
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I ask the noble Baroness how criminalisation of the mother would provide any protection against abortions on sex-selective grounds. That is the argument she is making, it appears to me. How would criminalisation stop this?
2026-02-02
Crime and Policing Bill
We have to ask the question of why there are these inequities. Other noble Lords have made longer interventions; I do not know why I am being barracked in this way.
2026-02-02
Crime and Policing Bill
Would the noble and learned Baroness, with her outstanding history in the law, recognise that women and men are not treated equally in the criminal justice system, nor in police investigations; that it is the case that women, when they are convicted of a
2026-02-02
Crime and Policing Bill
Will the noble Baroness then take the intervention?
2026-01-28
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
It is really late, but I tabled a similar amendment to this in Committee. Unregulated CEO pay is becoming an ever greater problem in the sector. Last year the policy think tank EDSK called for mandatory CEO pay scales capped at £263,000, with fines for t
2026-01-12
Sexual Harassment in Educational Settings
My Lords, in 2017 the National Education Union published, with UK Feminista, a report on girls’ experiences of sexual harassment in schools, called “It’s Just Everywhere”. The report found that over a third of girls experienced sexual harassment at schoo
2026-01-05
Toilet-training: Support for Parents
Does the Minister agree that the exponential rise in child poverty in the period in government of the previous Administration caused huge harm to children in school readiness, in toilet-training, and in speech and language development? Teachers reported
My Lords, does the Minister agree that the recruitment of qualified teachers is clearly essential, and that the Government have made great strides in that the picture of recruitment looks much better this year than it has done in the past 10 years? Does
2025-11-10
Curriculum and Assessment Review
My Lords, I very much welcome this new curriculum and its emphasis on widening the scope to engage more pupils. Does the Minister agree with me that when the Opposition talk about dumbing down and powerful knowledge, the fact is that the current curricul
2025-11-10
Office for National Statistics
Does my noble friend the Minister share my concern that the response rate to the Labour Force Survey dropped to just over 14.5% in 2023, down from nearly 48% a decade earlier, and that the gender pay gap has been underreported for the past 20 years? Does
2025-11-10
Office for National Statistics
To ask His Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to support the improvement of the data produced by the Office for National Statistics.
2025-10-16
Youth Unemployment
Does the Minister agree that a major factor in the persistence of youth unemployment is that 32% of 16 year-olds failed to achieve a grade 4 in English and Maths at GCSE in 2024? Does she also agree that the ongoing curriculum and assessment review, led
2025-09-18
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I am sorry, but I have to interject here to say that the narrowing of the curriculum and the teacher supply crisis was a direct result of austerity, teacher pay falling by 12% in real terms and chronic underfunding of schools, all of which were initiated
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Register of Interests · 2 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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Panel Member, The Orgreave Inquiry
registered 2026-09-01
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Consultant, Police Federation of England & Wales
registered 2026-06-01 · amended 2026-09-01
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Party history
2025-01-27 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2026-01-27 → 2026-04-29
Public Services Committee
Contact
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
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No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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