Baroness Sherlock

Shadow Spokesperson (Work and Pensions)

Labour Peer

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Recent appearances

  • Written Answers — Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Inter Faith Network: Finance 4 Mar 2024

    To ask His Majesty's Government, following the letter of 19 January from the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to the Inter Faith Network (IFN) about the possible withdrawal of the offer of funding for the financial year 2023–24, what representations they have received from the IFN in response to the Minister's letter; what reply they have made, if any, to these...
  • Housing Benefit: Temporary Accommodation - Question 28 Feb 2024

    My Lords, unaccountably, I am not a vice-president of the Local Government Association—no one has asked me to become one, but who knows? A number of issues come into play here, but, basically, councils are probably going to spend heading for £2 billion on temporary accommodation this year. They have to pay up front to procure the accommodation, and then they can get back some but not all...
  • UNICEF: Child Poverty Rankings - Question 28 Feb 2024

    My Lords, the Minister mentions various measures, but when it comes to international comparisons, the Government do not get to mark their own homework. Relative poverty is used because it is used internationally to measure poverty over time and across countries. The Minister may not like the way it was measured in other countries, but the UNICEF report card compares the UK’s performance in...

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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 5 July 2010

Currently held offices

  • Shadow Spokesperson (Work and Pensions) (since 8 Oct 2013)

Other offices held in the past

  • Shadow Spokesperson (Education) (18 May 2021 to 10 May 2022)
  • Opposition Senior Whip (Lords) (27 May 2015 to 15 Apr 2020)
  • Opposition Whip (Lords) (18 Mar 2013 to 27 May 2015)

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