Baroness Sherlock

Baroness Sherlock

The Baroness Sherlock OBE

Labour
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Member since 16 June 2010

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Universal Credit Bill

21/07/2025Lords

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My Lords, social security is transferred in Northern Ireland, but there is a long-standing principle of parity between the social security systems of ...
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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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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...
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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 ...
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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

01/07/2025Lords

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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...
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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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

11/05/2025Lords

7 contributions
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...
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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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