Baroness Sherlock
The Baroness Sherlock OBE
Labour
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 16 June 2010
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Universal Credit Bill
21/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, social security is transferred in Northern Ireland, but there is a long-standing principle of parity between the social security systems of ...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions this evening. It has been a really interesting debate. I particularly thank the noble Barone...
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National Accident Prevention Strategy
16/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lady Crawley for her powerful introduction to this short debate and to all noble Lords for their contr...
Universal Credit: Two-child Limit
08/07/2025 • Lords
I thank the right reverend Prelate for that, and, indeed, for the work that he and his colleagues do in this area. Like him, one of the reasons I was ...
My Lords, since the noble Viscount’s Government brought in the policy, he probably does not need me to remind him there are exceptions—for example, th...
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Welfare Reform
01/07/2025 • Lords
I apologise. We consulted on support for young people in the Green Paper and will look carefully at the results.
This Government are committed to m...
I assure the noble Baroness that the department is absolutely focused on this. There is not one single aspect of these changes. We are trying to turn ...
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Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
24/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Viscount for introducing his amendment and welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, back to the debate.View full contribution →
I am grateful to the noble Viscount for his understanding. Just to be clear, the questions that we are not able to answer are primarily operational on...
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Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
17/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, in the absence of a crowd of supporters, I thank the noble Viscount for setting out his amendment so clearly. I hope that my remarks will re...
It is up to the court to determine if someone has an essential need for a licence. We have deliberately drawn it broadly so that the court can make th...
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Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
15/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, my noble friend Lord Sikka’s Amendment 90 would require the independent oversight of the EVM to be carried out by a panel of people, at leas...
My Lords, I thank noble Lords, especially the noble Viscount, for doing some of my work for me; I am very grateful. I cannot support my noble friend’s...
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Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
10/06/2025 • Lords
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
14/05/2025 • Lords
I have a wodge of answers to questions asked by a lot of noble Lords, and I am afraid time has run out. But to be clear, we need to not ally fraud and...
I will keep going for a bit.
A number of noble Lords asked whether the banks want to engage. We have been engaging very much with the banks. Meeti...
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Autism Employment Review
11/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords, those are excellent points. We want to help individuals see their own potential and help employers see the potential in everyone who comes i...
Well, that is an offer I cannot refuse. When I used to work with families with children, there was a saying that every child deserves to have at least...
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