Baroness Thornton
The Baroness Thornton
Labour
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 22 July 1998
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Female Genital Mutilation
15/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, first I will pay tribute to our noble friend Baroness Rendell, who championed this and ensured it was put on the statute book; she is much m...
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NHS 10-Year Plan
08/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I recently had a major operation by robotic surgery. It was very successful; I was out and at home within two and a half days. How will the ...
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life
06/07/2025 • Lords
At the moment, family hubs can provide language support for parents from two years through the home learning scheme. Will the Government consider ensu...
Welfare Reform
01/07/2025 • Lords
I would like my noble friend to expand on why it is so important that we tackle the issue of ill and disabled people being disproportionately out of w...
India: Minorities
01/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, what steps are the Government taking to urge the Government of India to ratify key international human rights treaties and withdraw reservat...
Humanist Weddings
29/06/2025 • Lords
I thank my noble friend for that and I apologise to the House for the fact that I have persistently been asking this question for the last few years. ...
To ask His Majesty’s Government what progress has been made to enable legal humanist weddings.
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
22/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I have put my name to this amendment in the name of the noble Lords, Lord Russell of Liverpool and Lord Young of Cookham, though not because...
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
18/06/2025 • Lords
I invite the noble Baroness to acknowledge that this Government, since they were elected, have committed £1 billion to school meals. It would be nice ...
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
16/06/2025 • Lords
How does the noble Lord feel that we need to make the transition to the kind of system that we want, if he is so worried about the reduction in capaci...
My Lords, in many ways the test of the Government’s success in reforming public services will be whether we can crack the tough
View full contribution →Complications from Abortions (Annual Report) Bill [HL]
05/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, it was a great honour to listen to the last debate. I commend my noble friend Lord Patel for leading a wonderful debate. However, we move on...
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