A selection of Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton's votes

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• Consistently voted against university tuition fees Show votes 0 votes for, 2 votes against, in 2010
• Consistently voted against an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency Show votes 0 votes for, 7 votes against, in 2011
• Consistently voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, in 2010
• Consistently voted against fewer MPs in the House of Commons Show votes 0 votes for, 3 votes against, in 2011
• Generally voted for more EU integration Show votes 14 votes for, 1 vote against, between 2008–2011

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Recent appearances

• Education: Design Subjects - Question 26 Apr 2017

  My Lords, will the Minister admit that it is shameful that the Government are wasting money on creating new free schools where school places are not needed and cutting the funding for pupils in adjacent schools where the money is needed? The Minister is presiding over a system that is depriving pupils in general because of his and his colleagues’ pet theory about independence.

• Alcohol: Children’s Health - Question 3 Apr 2017

  Will the Minister give an undertaking that, in looking at this issue in the broad, the Government will have regard to the number of children who grow up in households where there is a severe alcohol problem among the parents or adults? Will he undertake to monitor carefully how much the public health authorities are providing and enhancing alcohol treatment centres, which appear to be...

• Young Carers - Question 23 Mar 2017

  My Lords, will the Minister undertake to ensure that psychiatric nurses treating patients are very careful? Often they have responsibility for doing what is best for the parent in a case of severe and distressing mental illness, but sometimes no one looks to the needs of the child, who may be in a home with a parent in an extremely distressing state. Surely there should be somebody there to...

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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1994

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Currently held offices

• Member, Procedure Committee (Lords) (since 8 Jun 2015)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee (17 Jul 2013 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Leader's Group on Members Leaving the House (L) Committee (1 Jul 2010 to 13 Jan 2011)
• Government Whip (7 May 1997 to 11 May 2010)

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• Has spoken in 43 debates in the last year — well above average amongst Lords. See all Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton’s speeches
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 91.92% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — well above average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 1 annotation on this Lord’s speeches — average amongst Lords.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 545 times in debates — well above average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)