Valerie Ann Amos,Baroness Amos,is a British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN,she served as British High Commissioner to Australia. She was created a life peer in 1997,serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council from 2003 to 2007.
Margaret Ann Jay,Baroness Jay of Paddington,,is a British politician for the Labour Party and former BBC television producer and presenter.
Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy,Baron McAvoy,was a British Labour and Co-operative politician serving as a life peer in the House of Lords from 2010 until his death in 2024. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Rutherglen from 1987 to 2005,and Rutherglen and Hamilton West from 2005 to 2010.
Angela Evans Smith,Baroness Smith of Basildon is a British politician and life peer serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal since 2024. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Parties,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Basildon from 1997 to 2010.
Joyce Anne Anelay,Baroness Anelay of St Johns,,is a British Conservative Party politician,previously serving as Minister of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from August 2014 to June 2017. Anelay was appointed as Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union in the Second May ministry,after the 2017 reshuffle.
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss,Baroness Butler-Sloss,GBE,PC is a retired English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom until 2004,when Baroness Hale was appointed to the House of Lords. Until June 2007,she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana,Princess of Wales,and Dodi Fayed. She stood down from that task with effect from that date,and the inquest was conducted by Lord Justice Scott Baker.
Margaret Mildred "Meta" Ramsay,Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale is a Labour Party member of the House of Lords.
Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock,Baroness Sherlock,is a British politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 2010. A member of the Labour Party,she is an ordained priest of the Church of England.
Dianne Hayter,Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town is a British politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 2010. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party,she was Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords from 2017 to 2021.
Denis Tunnicliffe,Baron Tunnicliffe,,is a British pilot and railwayman. He is a Labour Life Peer,who has had several roles in the House of Lords ranging from a Government Whip to a Defence Spokesman. He recently spent years as the Opposition Deputy Chief Whip;when Labour returned to power after the 2024 United Kingdom general election the incoming Starmer ministry allotted the deputy chief whip's position to Margaret Wheeler,Baroness Wheeler.
Doreen Miller,Baroness Miller of Hendon,MBE was a British politician.
The representation of women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom has been an issue in the politics of the United Kingdom at numerous points in the 20th and 21st centuries. Originally debate centred on whether women should be allowed to vote and stand for election as Members of Parliament. The Parliament Act 1918 gave women over 21 the right to stand for election as a Member of Parliament. The United Kingdom has had three female Prime Ministers:Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990),Theresa May (2016–2019),and Liz Truss (2022). The publication of the book Women in the House by Elizabeth Vallance in 1979 highlighted the under-representation of women in Parliament. In more modern times concerns about the under-representation of women led the Labour Party to introduce and,decades later,abandon all-women short lists,something which was later held to breach discrimination laws.
Annie Patricia Llewelyn-Davies,Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe,,was a British Labour Party politician and life peer. In 1973 she became the first woman to take charge of a whip's office in either of the houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,and she served in the 1974 to 1979 Labour Government as Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms.
Roy Francis Kennedy,Baron Kennedy of Southwark,is a British politician and life peer serving as Chief Whip of the House of Lords since 2024. He is a member of the Labour and Co-operative Parties.
Deborah Stedman-Scott,Baroness Stedman-Scott,is a Conservative member of the House of Lords and the former Chief Executive Officer of Tomorrow's People Trust. She had served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2019 until 2023.
Tina Wendy Stowell,Baroness Stowell of Beeston,is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.
Susan Frances Maria Williams,Baroness Williams of Trafford is a Conservative life peer who served as the Chief Whip of the House of Lords and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms between 2022 and 2024. In March 2022 she was made a member of the Privy Council. She has been Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords since July 2024.
Alison Mary Suttie,Baroness Suttie is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She was appointed a life peer in the House of Lords in September 2013. A party whip,she is a member of the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs team. She is also a trustee on the board of IPPR.
Judith Vivienne Blake,Baroness Blake of Leeds is a British Labour politician serving as a life peer in the House of Lords since 2021. She serves as a Baroness-in-Waiting in the House of Lords.
