The Baroness Caine of Kentish Town CBE
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Caine of Kentish Town's full title is The Baroness Caine of Kentish Town CBE. Her name is Dinah Elizabeth Caine, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£5,936
16 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed
£5,936
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
4 Content(2.1%)
136 Not-Content(72.0%)
49 didn't vote(25.9%)
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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 23
2026-09-07
Creative and Performing Arts Teaching Grants
My Lords, £76 million of capital funding from this grant has been let out to competitive bidding. The OfS prospectus, subject to separate guidelines and the guidance letter, identifies bids that relate to the creative industries nationally and locally as
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Morgan for her excellent speech and this important debate, which is ever more critical as we live in and look to a future revolutionised by digital automation.
The evidence is unequivocal: creativity is becoming
2026-07-23
Creative Industries: Qualifications
My Lords, I warmly thank my noble friend Lady Keeley for securing this debate and warmly welcome my noble friend the Minister back to her place.
To add to the statistics, Skills England estimates that the creative industries will need to fill around 1
2026-07-07
Arts Education
To ask His Majesty’s Government, further to their commitment in their response to the recommendations from the independent review of Arts Council England, published on 26 March, when they intend to establish the advisory group to help ensure strategic
2026-07-07
Arts Education
I thank my noble friend the Minister for her positive reply and look forward to a speedy establishment. Does she agree with me that if it had been in place then one example—the serious omission by the curriculum review which has now informed the new nati
2026-06-04
EU-UK Cultural Exchange Arrangements
I thank my noble friend the Minister for her reply. The Brexit deal delivered complex, costly arrangements for touring artists, now made even worse by the recent introduction of digital passports, or carnets, for equipment. In a recent UK Music creators
2026-06-04
EU-UK Cultural Exchange Arrangements
To ask His Majesty’s Government what progress they have made in securing better cultural exchange arrangements between the creative sectors of the EU and the UK.
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Leaman; it is excellent to have another woman on our Benches. I also congratulate the noble Lords, Lord Hobby and Lord Blackwater, on their excellent speeches. We look forward to hearing much more fro
2026-03-26
Curriculum and Assessment Review
My Lords, developing a cutting-edge curriculum to equip children and young people with the essential knowledge and skills which will enable them to adapt and thrive in the world and workplace of the future was a key purpose of this review. Media literac
My Lords, as a recently joined member of the Communications and Digital Committee, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Keeley on her leadership, other committee members on the report and their contributions today, and other noble Lords who have supported
2026-03-09
British Business Bank
My Lords, the creative industries is a priority sector for the modern industrial strategy but not for the National Wealth Fund, as business structures seem to be better fitted to investment from the British Business Bank. Can my noble friend provide reas
2026-03-06
International Women’s Day
My ladies and Lords, it is a pleasure and a privilege to welcome my noble friend Lady MacLeod of Camusdarach and congratulate her on an excellent maiden speech. It vividly described her cultural background and journey to the Lords from Glencoe and made c
2026-01-28
Schools: Music and Dance Scheme
My Lords, these specialist music and dance providers, and others, such as the BRIT School and the London Screen Academy, provide opportunities for very gifted young people to enter the talent pipeline so vital to the creative industries, a key growth sec
2026-01-13
Youth Guarantee Scheme: Evaluation
My Lords, as my noble friend the Minister has agreed, this vital new guarantee requires the enthusiastic commitment of employers, and I would say that is particularly important in key growth sectors where we are expecting employment to grow. Can she outl
2025-11-12
BBC Leadership
My Lords, as other noble Lords have noted, we must never shy away from discussing and addressing the BBC’s challenges and shortcomings. Charter renewal will be an important milestone in the history of a cherished national institution, and I trust that my
2025-11-12
BBC Leadership
My Lords—
2025-10-22
Post-16 Education and Skills Strategy
My Lords, alignment with the industrial strategy is vital, and I am really pleased to see that the White Paper is taking a national view of skills in target sectors. It is good news that sector skills packages with significant investment attached have be
2025-09-10
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I apologise as I was not able to speak at Second Reading as I missed the start of the session for family reasons. So I hope noble Lords will bear with me as I make a contribution linked to this group and Amendment 497 in the name of the noble
2025-07-16
Newspapers: Foreign Ownership
My Lords, we have all experienced the closure of local newspapers and radio stations—a worrying loss to local identity and politics—with those that remain generally having sought a future by being subsumed into a larger group. Does my noble friend the Mi
2025-06-24
Music and Dance Scheme
My Lords, now that we hear the good news that the Government have agreed to extend bursary funding for the music and dance scheme, including the National Centres for Advanced Training in Dance programme, will the Minister be able to help facilitate an op
2025-06-16
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I support Amendment 287 tabled by the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, which provides an opportunity to address a long-standing gap in protection for freelance workers. To illuminate that, I will focus on one area of specific concern: health and saf
2025-04-23
National Centre for Arts and Music Education
My Lords, the welcome announcement regarding the national centre for arts and music education will provide much-needed support for the arts and cultural provision in schools. It was made on the same day as the publication of the interim report of the cur
2025-03-19
Finance Bill
My Lords, it is a life-memorable moment to be making my maiden speech in the customary way. I owe my sincere thanks to my noble friends Lady Morris and Lord Stevenson, who supported and introduced me to this place, and to my noble friend Lady Smith, the
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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No registrable interests
registered 2026-06-01
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Party history
2025-01-30 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2026-01-27 → present
Communications and Digital Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
cainede@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Freelancers
Subject Group
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Officer | — | 4 | 2027-07-09 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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