A selection of Baroness Hollins’s votes

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• Voted against fewer MPs in the House of Commons Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, 2 absences, in 2011. Absences for this policy may be affected COVID-19 restrictions.
• Voted a mixture of for and against an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency Show votes 1 vote for, 2 votes against, 4 absences, in 2011.
• Consistently voted against university tuition fees Show votes 0 votes for, 2 votes against, in 2010.
• 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 more EU integration Show votes 1 vote for, 2 votes against, 3 absences, in 2011.

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Recent appearances

• Health and Disability White Paper - Commons Urgent Question 20 Mar 2023

  I am glad that the Minister mentioned autistic people. How will the proposals in this White Paper impact on people with learning disabilities? They probably have the lowest rate of successful employment of any group, with some 6% or fewer of adults in employment, and it is difficult to see how such a complicated system is going to help them. Can the Minister help?

• Railways: Driver-Only Operated Trains - Question 8 Feb 2023

  My Lords, driver-only trains will be accompanied by the closure of ticket offices and no platform staff in rural areas. Is the Minister concerned that these measures will discriminate against groups such as people with learning disabilities, who may often need reassurance, have difficulty buying tickets from machines or worry about last-minute changes to train times, and so on?

• Online Safety Bill - Second Reading 1 Feb 2023

  My Lords, I thank Mencap and the Royal College of Psychiatrists for their briefings. I will speak against the change in the other place which waters down the protections offered to adults, and focus in particular on adults without capacity. The original Bill included protections for adults under the umbrella of “legal but harmful”, which gave robust directions to platforms on what content...

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Crossbench Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 15 November 2010

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Currently held offices

• Member, Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill (since 19 Jul 2022)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Mental Capacity Act 2005 Committee (16 May 2013 to 25 Feb 2014)