Baroness Hamwee

Liberal Democrat

MP for Life peer

Parliamentary Office

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

Top Focus Areas

Home OfficeMinistry of JusticeDepartment for Levelling Up, Housing and CommunitiesTreasuryDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology

Parliamentary Career

Positions Held

Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Immigration)

Opposition Department

Jun 2017 - Apr 2021

Registered Interests

No registered interests found.

Recent Votes

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Committee Memberships

Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) BillCommons Administration CommitteeCommons Administration Estimate Audit and Risk Assurance CommitteeCommons Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords)Lords Autism Act 2009 CommitteeLords Backbench Business CommitteeCommons Bishop's Stortford Cemetery BillCommons Built Environment CommitteeLords Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]Commons Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]: Programming sub-committeeCommons Business and Trade CommitteeCommons Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export ControlsCommons Cheltenham Borough Council (Markets) BillCommons Childhood Vaccinations CommitteeLords City of London (Markets) BillCommons Committee of PrivilegesCommons Committee of SelectionCommons Committee of Selection (Lords)Lords Committee on StandardsCommons Committees on Arms Export ControlsCommons Commons Reference Group on Representation and InclusionCommons Communications and Digital CommitteeLords Conduct CommitteeLords Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)Joint Constitution CommitteeLords Controlled Drugs (Procedure for Specification) BillCommons Court of RefereesCommons Courts (Remote Hearings) BillCommons Courts and Tribunals BillCommons Courts and Tribunals Bill: Programming Sub CommitteeCommons

Recent Questions

172 questions on record

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 20 October 2025, what recent progress they have made in the testing of facial age estimation technology for assessing the age of asylum seekers.

Answered

To: Home Office • 27 Mar 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government what impact they expect the recently-announced package of changes to the Immigration Rules to have on organisations supporting refugees and asylum seekers.

Answered

To: Home Office • 5 Mar 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to announce transitional arrangements for people awaiting the outcome of an asylum claim submitted before 2 March.

Answered

To: Home Office • 5 Mar 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government whether refugees who have already been granted status in the UK will remain on a five-year route to settlement, or whether they will be put on a 20-year route along with refugees with core protection.

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To: Home Office • 5 Mar 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact from the recently-announced package of changes to the Immigration Rules (1) on refugee children who have grown up in the UK, (2) on refugees who have already faced prolonged sepa

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To: Home Office • 5 Mar 2026

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