A selection of Baroness Howells of St Davids's votes

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• 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
• Generally voted against an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency Show votes 0 votes for, 4 votes against, 3 absences, in 2011
• Generally voted for more EU integration Show votes 13 votes for, 1 vote against, 1 absence, between 2008–2011
• Consistently voted against fewer MPs in the House of Commons Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, 2 absences, in 2011
• Consistently voted against university tuition fees Show votes 0 votes for, 2 votes against, in 2010

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Recent appearances

• International Women’s Day - Motion to Take Note 9 Mar 2017

  My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Shields, for initiating this debate and for her generous introduction to it. I think that we all enjoyed it and learned from it. It seems only yesterday that I had the privilege to stand before your Lordships in this very Chamber to mark the 100th anniversary of the International Women’s Day movement. Today, I begin with a quote from the...

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Adoption 10 May 2016

  To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the Movement for an Adoption Apology campaign, whether they have any plans to make a public apology to the mothers whose children were taken away from them between the 1950s and 1980s.

• Black and Minority Ethnic People: Workplace Issues - Motion to Take Note 3 May 2016

  My Lords, I put on record my thanks to the Minister for raising this debate and for the eloquent way in which she set out her arguments. It affords me the opportunity to quote the words of Edmund Burke, who said: “It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph”. There remain alive in this country today a number of African-Caribbean persons who can still...

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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1999

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Social Mobility Committee (11 Jun 2015 to 16 Mar 2016)
• Member, Works of Art Committee (Lords) (25 Nov 2009 to 14 May 2014)
• Member, Constitution Committee (28 Jun 2001 to 18 Nov 2004)

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• Has spoken in 1 debate in the last year — below average amongst Lords. See all Baroness Howells of St Davids’s speeches
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 70.84% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — above average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 0 annotations on this Lord’s speeches — average amongst Lords.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 101 times in debates — average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)