A selection of Baroness Ford's votes

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• Has never voted on university tuition fees
• Has never voted on fewer MPs in the House of Commons
• Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year
• Voted a mixture of for and against more EU integration Show votes 4 votes for, 0 votes against, 11 absences, between 2008–2011
• Has never voted on an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency

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Recent appearances

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

  My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to participate in the debate which marks International Women’s Day and I thank the Minister for her introduction. I always learn so much from my colleagues in your Lordships’ House, who in different ways are supporting women in very different walks of life. My pleasure this year is tinged with sadness, in that we will miss hearing from the...

• Written Answers — Department for Communities and Local Government: Local Government: Land 15 Sep 2016

  To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many requests have been received from local authorities in the last three years for permission to sell land at undervalue under section 123 of the Local Government Act 1972; and whether those requests were granted or refused.

• Written Answers — Department for Communities and Local Government: Government Departments: Land 15 Sep 2016

  To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much public land held by central government departments and their agencies has been disposed of for house building since 2012, broken down by department.

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Non-affiliated Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 10 July 2006

Positions held at time of appointment: Chairman, English Partnerships. (from Number 10 press release)

Party was Labour until 19 Apr 2009; Other until 6 Jun 2010; Labour until 23 Jan 2013

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Committee on Regulators (23 Nov 2006 to 30 Oct 2007)

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• Has spoken in 8 debates in the last year — average amongst Lords. See all Baroness Ford’s speeches
• Has received answers to 16 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 7.24% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — well below 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") 37 times in debates — below average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)