Baroness Brown of Silvertown

My Lords, the UK High Court has ordered South Sudan, one of the world’s poorest countries, to pay $657 million in debt servicing to a for-profit bank....

To ask His Majesty’s Government what progress they have made towards tackling unsustainable debt in cooperation with partners in the global South, as ...

My Lords, homelessness and housing costs are driving factors in both child poverty and ever-escalating costs of homelessness. My council alone is spen...

My Lords, phone thefts using e-bikes and e-scooters, and general antisocial behaviour by those using such vehicles, plagued the residents of Stratford...

My Lords, as an MP, it was an absolute pleasure to visit schools, but it was really hard to be unaware of a growing despondency among young people—a r...

My Lords, can the Minister assure me that we will not use volunteers to plug the gap in NHS services and that people will get an appropriate level of ...

Much of the knife crime in my former constituency in east London was fuelled by county lines drug gangs. I worked with some amazing mums, who were des...

To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to tackle knife crime.

I started my working life as a residential social worker, and I am godmother to a beautiful boy being cared for by his wonderful grandparents. Kinship...

My Lords, I too am grateful to the Food, Diet and Obesity Committee, which wrote this report. It is excellent, but it paints a picture that this count...

My Lords, last week UNICEF published a harrowing report that described the rape of young girls by combatants in Sudan; four were just one year-old. Th...

To ask His Majesty’s Government what support they are providing to women and girls in Sudan, in the light of reports of sexual violence.

My Lords, I once represented an area that had massive child poverty and where children had great needs. I have been told by children that it was not t...