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Baroness Golding
Labour Peer

  • Also represented Newcastle-under-Lyme

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  • Entered the House of Lords on 22 October 2001
  • Previously MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme until 14 May 2001 — General election
  • Positions held at time of appointment: Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under- Lyme, 1986-2001. Member of Opposition team on: social security, 1992-95; children and families, 1993-95; food, agriculture and rural affairs, 1995-97. Member, Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2001. (from Number 10 press release)
  • Entered Parliament on 17 July 1986 — unknown

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Baroness Golding voted on key issues since 2001:

  • Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
  • Voted for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
  • Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
  • Voted very strongly against laws to stop climate change. votes
  • Has never voted on replacing Trident. votes
  • Voted moderately against the hunting ban. votes
  • Voted very strongly for university tuition fees. votes
  • Has never voted on a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
  • Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against a smoking ban. votes
  • Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
  • Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
  • Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
  • Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes

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Written Answers — House of Lords: Agriculture: Single Farm Payment (5 Dec 2011)

“To ask Her Majesty's Government whether a landowner who is in receipt of the single farm payment is entitled to keep receiving all the payment if they sell all or most of the land. To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, following a land sale, a right to receive the single farm payment can pass to a new owner of the land in relation to which it was received.”

Written Answers — House of Lords: Identity Documents (24 Oct 2011)

“To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will issue revised guidance, in particular via the mandatory licensing code, to require licensees and those working at their premises to recognise valid identity cards, such as citizencards, that bear the proof of age standards scheme hologram.”

Fixed-term Parliaments Bill: Committee (1st Day) (15 Mar 2011)

“My Lords, I was an election agent for some 15 years, so I do not think that there is very much that I have not seen. I have dealt with four elections-parish, county, district and general elections-all on the same day and all over a big area, and have learnt much through practice. Does the amendment refer just to a general election? Will all other elections follow suit? If we have a general...”

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