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Monday 23rd March 2026 Department for Work and Pensions Baroness Sherlock (Labour - Life peer) Legislation - Main Chamber Subject: Pension Schemes Bill – report stage (day 3) Pension Schemes Bill 2024-26 View calendar - Add to calendar
Thursday 26th March 2026 Department for Work and Pensions Baroness Sherlock (Labour - Life peer) Legislation - Main Chamber Subject: Pension Schemes Bill – third reading Pension Schemes Bill 2024-26 View calendar - Add to calendar
Monday 16th March 2026 Department for Work and Pensions Baroness Sherlock (Labour - Life peer) Legislation - Main Chamber Subject: Pension Schemes Bill - report stage (day 1) - part one Pension Schemes Bill 2024-26 View calendar - Add to calendar
Thursday 19th March 2026 Department for Work and Pensions Baroness Sherlock (Labour - Life peer) Legislation - Main Chamber Subject: Pension Schemes Bill - report stage (day 2) Pension Schemes Bill 2024-26 View calendar - Add to calendar

Division Votes
25 Feb 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 127 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 43 Noes - 131
25 Feb 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 156 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 205 Noes - 188
25 Feb 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 143 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 213 Noes - 150
25 Feb 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 141 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 59 Noes - 152
25 Feb 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 154 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 86 Noes - 178
25 Feb 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 143 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 172 Noes - 148
24 Feb 2026 - Tobacco and Vapes Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 153 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 78 Noes - 246
2 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 136 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 142 Noes - 140
2 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 147 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 192 Noes - 155
2 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 136 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 143 Noes - 140
2 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 137 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 144 Noes - 143
2 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 135 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 144 Noes - 140
2 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 147 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 202 Noes - 155
2 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 156 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 61 Noes - 178
2 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 154 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 71 Noes - 177
2 Mar 2026 - Crime and Policing Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Sherlock voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 139 Labour No votes vs 2 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 121 Noes - 145

Speeches
Baroness Sherlock speeches from: Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2026 Baroness Sherlock contributed 4 speeches (2,254 words) Tuesday 3rd March 2026 - Grand Committee Department for Work and Pensions
Baroness Sherlock speeches from: Child Poverty Strategy Baroness Sherlock contributed 8 speeches (1,206 words) Monday 2nd March 2026 - Lords Chamber Department for Work and Pensions
Baroness Sherlock speeches from: Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 Baroness Sherlock contributed 3 speeches (1,827 words) Monday 2nd March 2026 - Grand Committee Department for Work and Pensions
Baroness Sherlock speeches from: Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 Baroness Sherlock contributed 1 speech (17 words) Monday 2nd March 2026 - Grand Committee Department for Work and Pensions
Baroness Sherlock speeches from: Pension Schemes Bill Baroness Sherlock contributed 13 speeches (6,763 words) Committee stage Monday 23rd February 2026 - Grand Committee Department for Work and Pensions

Baroness Sherlock mentioned

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26 Feb 2026, 3:46 p.m. - House of Commons "with full compensation. The Pensions Minister, the noble Baroness Sherlock, rejected this proposal. Also in the laws, the " Adjournment: AEA Technology pension scheme - View Video - View Transcript
26 Feb 2026, 3:47 p.m. - House of Commons "by the noble Baroness Sherlock, claiming that the 1996 Gad note highlighted the risk that the " Adjournment: AEA Technology pension scheme - View Video - View Transcript

Parliamentary Debates
AEA Technology Pension Scheme 7 speeches (3,654 words) Thursday 26th February 2026 - Commons Chamber Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) The Lords Minister, the noble Baroness Sherlock, rejected that proposal. - Link to Speech

Written Answers
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification Asked by: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bishops - Bishops) Wednesday 25th February 2026 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sherlock on 3 February (HL13743), what assessment they have made of the reasons that Universal Credit sanction rates vary by (1) ethnicity, and (2) region. Answered by Baroness Sherlock - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) No formal assessment has been made, but work is ongoing to expand the benefit sanction statistics, detailed below, to allow analysis in the future. The Department regularly publishes Universal Credit sanction rate statistics for Great Britain as part of the benefit sanction statistics. These include a breakdown of the sanction rate by ethnic group and an analysis of the sanction ethnicity statistics which can be found at section 5 of the latest publication. The Department also published an ad-hoc analysis in February 2025 of the Variation in the Universal Credit sanction rate by jobcentres using the UC Sanction Rate dataset on Stat-Xplore. The ‘Benefit sanction statistics to August 2025’ and the ‘Variation in the Universal Credit sanction rate by jobcentres from January 2017 to August 2024’ are provided in the attached PDF documents.

Written Answers

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
Asked by: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bishops - Bishops)
Wednesday 25th February 2026

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sherlock on 3 February (HL13743), what assessment they have made of the reasons that Universal Credit sanction rates vary by (1) ethnicity, and (2) region.

Answered by Baroness Sherlock - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

No formal assessment has been made, but work is ongoing to expand the benefit sanction statistics, detailed below, to allow analysis in the future.

The Department regularly publishes Universal Credit sanction rate statistics for Great Britain as part of the benefit sanction statistics. These include a breakdown of the sanction rate by ethnic group and an analysis of the sanction ethnicity statistics which can be found at section 5 of the latest publication.

The Department also published an ad-hoc analysis in February 2025 of the Variation in the Universal Credit sanction rate by jobcentres using the UC Sanction Rate dataset on Stat-Xplore.

The ‘Benefit sanction statistics to August 2025’ and the ‘Variation in the Universal Credit sanction rate by jobcentres from January 2017 to August 2024’ are provided in the attached PDF documents.