3 APPG memberships (as of 12 Feb 2025)
Food and Drink, Global Education, School Food10 Former APPG memberships
Art, Craft and Design in Education, Family Separation, Kurdistan in Turkey and Syria, Kurds, Oracy, Parental Participation in Education, Pedagogy, Curriculum and Accountability, Race Equality in Education, Showing Racism the Red Card, Teaching ProfessionDivision Voting information
Debates during the 2024 Parliament
Speeches made during Parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. For ease of browsing we have grouped debates into individual, departmental and legislative categories.
Sparring Partners
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
(6 debate interactions)
Department Debates
(11 debate contributions)
(9 debate contributions)
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(4 debate contributions)
Legislation Debates
(505 words contributed)
(410 words contributed)
(368 words contributed)
Lords initiatives
These initiatives were driven by Baroness Blower, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
1 Bill introduced by Baroness Blower
A Bill to prohibit state-funded schools from admitting students wholly or partially on the basis of criteria relating to ability or aptitude; and for connected purposes
Friday 2nd December 2022
Baroness Blower has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
Latest 2 Written Questions
(View all written questions)The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme, although aimed at those children in receipt of benefits-related free school meals (FSM), is not exclusively for them. As set out in the HAF guidance, while the majority of funding that local authorities receive should be used for holiday club places for children in receipt of FSM, local authorities have discretion to use up to 15% of their funding to provide free or subsidised holiday club places for children who are not in receipt of benefits-related FSM, but who the local authority believe could benefit from HAF provision.
Many holiday clubs provide a mixture of HAF and paid-for places for children. Where this is the case, children funded through HAF must be provided with the same food and treated equally.
Minister of State (Education)
As part of our intensive diplomatic engagement with international partners, and in discussions with the interim Syrian authorities, we have consistently advocated for an inclusive political transition and underlined the importance of protecting the rights of religious and ethnic minorities. The Foreign Secretary raised this most recently with interim Foreign Minister Al Shaybani at the International Contact Group for Syria in Riyadh on 12 January. We want to see a political transition process which leads to an inclusive, non-sectarian and representative government. We will continue to work with our international partners in support of this.
Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)