• Labour Peer
• Became a Lord in 1987
• Send a message to Baroness Blackstone (via WriteToThem.com)
• Email me whenever Baroness Blackstone speaks (no more than once per day)

• Voting record
• Recent appearances
• Numerology

How Baroness Blackstone voted on key issues since 2001:

• Voted moderately for introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
• Voted a mixture of for and against the hunting ban. votes, speeches
• Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes, speeches

Read about how the voting record is decided.

• Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.

Education: Adult Learners (3 Dec 2007)

“My Lords, where does my noble friend think that those 20,000 extra students are going to come from? Many universities are struggling to meet their HEFCE contracts. Money will be taken away from one group, but there is no obvious solution to where that new group of students is going to emerge from. There is a bit of a misconception around, unless there is a dramatic improvement in the number...”

Education: Adult Learners (3 Dec 2007)

“My Lords, I should declare an interest as the vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich. I have five questions for my noble friend. First, does he agree that the Leitch agenda will not be addressed unless we expand continuing professional development? If he agrees, will he accept that it is vital to exempt institutional credit and short-course awards from the ELQ policy? Secondly, will...”

Higher Education and the Economy (19 Apr 2007)

“My Lords, I too declare an interest, as the vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich. Some speakers have emphasised the vital role of universities in research, knowledge transfer, spin-out companies and innovation, all of which are spurs to economic growth in a knowledge economy, and I endorse that. But I want to draw attention to two other important economic roles of UK universities:...”

More of Baroness Blackstone's recent appearances

RSS feed (?)

Please note that numbers do not measure quality. Also, representatives may do other things not currently covered by this site. (More about this)

• Has spoken in 1 debate in the last year — below average amongst Lords.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 54% of votes in parliament — above average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 0 comments on this Lord's speeches — average amongst Lords.
• 3 people are tracking whenever this peer speaks — email me whenever Baroness Blackstone speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 535 times in debates — well above average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)