Baroness Coussins

Crossbench

MP for Life peer

Parliamentary Office

House of Lords, SW1A 0PW

Top Focus Areas

Department for EducationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeHome OfficeMinistry of JusticeDepartment of Health and Social Care

Parliamentary Career

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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 Culture, Media and Sport CommitteeCommons Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and DisinformationCommons

Recent Questions

325 questions on record

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will continue to fund the Mandarin Excellence Programme beyond August.

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To: Department for Education • 19 Jan 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Smith of Malvern on 8 January (HL Deb col 1408), when the research that showed that bursaries and scholarships are more important to overseas trainee modern foreign language teachers than

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To: Department for Education • 13 Jan 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the introduction of the advanced maths premium on take-up of A level maths.

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To: Department for Education • 13 Jan 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government what the basis was for the decision not to introduce an advanced languages premium to boost A level take-up.

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To: Department for Education • 13 Jan 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for (1) issuing revised and streamlined guidance to schools about sponsoring visas for overseas teachers of modern foreign languages, and (2) making the process of sponsoring those visas cost-free for s

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To: Department for Education • 13 Jan 2026

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