Baroness Lister of Burtersett
The Baroness Lister of Burtersett CBE
Labour
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 31 January 2011
Parliamentary Activity
Recent Debate Contributions
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Universal Credit Bill
21/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I pay tribute to the many disabled people and disability and anti-poverty organisations, as well as colleagues in the Commons who listened t...
Employment Rights Bill
15/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Penn, for building on the amendments that she and I tabled in Committee. I will speak to Amendment...
Renters’ Rights Bill
14/07/2025 • Lords
I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Thornhill, for taking over this amendment, to which I was pleased to add my name. I assure her that I am as ...
Employment Rights Bill
13/07/2025 • Lords
Sorry, I think that is the parental leave review. I am talking about the carer’s leave review, which my noble friend just said, at the end of his spee...
Before my noble friend sits down, I very much welcome what he said about the review now being more transparent. Did he say that clear terms of referen...
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Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
09/07/2025 • Lords
That is what I was talking about: the pilots showed that there was a very effective way, alternative to detention, that still kept people where they w...
I thank the noble Lords who spoke. As I said, we will come back to the issue of detention later, and it is helpful to have heard the arguments of the ...
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Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
09/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I will speak briefly in support. I, too, am supported by RAMP, and that is in the register—that is done for Committee now. I warmly welcome ...
Universal Credit: Two-child Limit
08/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, it is generally accepted that the abolition of the two-child limit and, many would argue, the benefit cap must be, in the words of the Child...
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the cost of abolishing the two-child limit for Universal Credit.
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life
06/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I warmly welcome this daughter of Sure Start. One of Sure Start’s great strengths was the way in which it involved parents so as to boost th...
Renters’ Rights Bill
06/07/2025 • Lords
This amendment does not preclude the use of guarantors; it just limits their use. I will leave it at that. As I said in Committee, if there is a bette...
My Lords, I am pleased to support my noble friend Lady Kennedy of Cradley, and I am grateful to her for taking over the amendment. She is much better ...
Welfare Reform
01/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I welcome the fact that common sense finally prevailed, so that the review of PIP will be undertaken before any decisions about eligibility....
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