Find a member of the House of Lords to contact about PIP
Members of the House of Lords can ask ministers questions, speak in debates and check proposed changes to disability benefits. Choose a topic below, then follow a peer’s name to read why they may be worth contacting.
You can also browse all peers alphabetically. Please choose one or two relevant people and write a short, personal message. Inclusion does not mean a peer agrees with your views.
What the labels mean
- Likely to be sympathetic
- Has raised concerns about cuts, assessments or protecting disabled people.
- May need persuading
- Has considered or supported changes to PIP, as well as recognising the support it provides.
- Likely to need persuading
- Has argued for major changes or questioned disability benefit claims.
- Position unclear
- Has a relevant interest, but we do not have enough evidence to judge their views.
- Government minister
- Speaks for the government. This does not tell us their personal views.
Writing to a peer
Explain why you have chosen that person, how the issue affects you or someone you support, and what you would like them to raise. Personal messages are more useful than identical campaign emails.
Click an email address to open your email app, or select and copy the address into your webmail. Where a shared House of Lords address is listed, include the peer’s name in the subject and at the start of the message.
Choose an issue
- Timms Review and changes to PIP
- Assessments and evidence
- Reviews and reassessments
- Extra disability costs and cash payments
- Mobility and Motability
- Appeals, legal rights and advice
- Carers and family support
- Young people
- Work and benefits
- Disabled people having a say
Choose a health condition
- Autism and ADHD
- Mental health
- Learning disabilities
- ME/CFS and Long Covid
- Multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions
- Parkinson’s
- Epilepsy
- Cerebral palsy
- Conditions that vary from day to day
- Severe or lifelong conditions
A health-condition interest does not by itself tell us a peer’s views on PIP. Read their label and description before deciding whom to contact.
Peers by issue
Timms Review and changes to PIP
- Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Stroud — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Davies of Brixton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Dacres of Lewisham — Government minister
- Baroness Andrews — May need persuading
- Lord Freud — May need persuading
- Lord Young of Cookham — May need persuading
- Lord Godson — Likely to need persuading
Assessments and evidence
- Baroness Browning — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Finlay of Llandaff — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Gale — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Grey-Thompson — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Hollins — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Hughes of Stretford — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Janke — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Scott of Needham Market — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Thomas of Winchester — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Davies of Brixton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord German — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Palmer of Childs Hill — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Touhig — Likely to be sympathetic
- The Lord Bishop of Gloucester — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Addington — Position unclear
- Baroness Dacres of Lewisham — Government minister
- Baroness Sherlock — Government minister
- Lord Willetts — May need persuading
- Baroness Buscombe — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Jenkin of Kennington — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Watkins of Tavistock — Likely to need persuading
Reviews and reassessments
- Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Finlay of Llandaff — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Gale — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Davies of Brixton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Palmer of Childs Hill — Likely to be sympathetic
- The Lord Bishop of Gloucester — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Dacres of Lewisham — Government minister
- Lord Young of Cookham — May need persuading
- Baroness Jenkin of Kennington — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Stedman-Scott — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Watkins of Tavistock — Likely to need persuading
Extra disability costs and cash payments
- Baroness Drake — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Grey-Thompson — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Thornton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Alton of Liverpool — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Davies of Brixton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Dubs — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Palmer of Childs Hill — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Willetts — May need persuading
- Baroness Jenkin of Kennington — Likely to need persuading
Mobility and Motability
- Lord Alton of Liverpool — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord German — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Altmann — May need persuading
- Baroness Stowell of Beeston — May need persuading
- Baroness Watkins of Tavistock — Likely to need persuading
Appeals, legal rights and advice
- Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Hughes of Stretford — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Janke — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Thomas of Winchester — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Alton of Liverpool — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Davies of Brixton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Hendy — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Loomba — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Bach — Position unclear
- Baroness Coffey — May need persuading
- Lord Young of Cookham — May need persuading
- Baroness Buscombe — Likely to need persuading
Carers and family support
- Baroness Gale — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Lister of Burtersett — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Pitkeathley — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Primarolo — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Dubs — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest — Position unclear
- Lord Sterling of Plaistow — Position unclear
- Baroness Sherlock — Government minister
Young people
- Baroness Smith of Llanfaes — Likely to be sympathetic
- The Lord Bishop of Gloucester — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Antrobus — Position unclear
- Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest — Position unclear
- Baroness Pidgeon — Position unclear
- Baroness Dacres of Lewisham — Government minister
- Baroness Sherlock — Government minister
- Baroness Smith of Malvern — Government minister
- Baroness Coffey — May need persuading
- Baroness Stowell of Beeston — May need persuading
- Lord Rook — May need persuading
- Lord Willetts — May need persuading
- Lord Young of Cookham — May need persuading
- Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Maclean of Redditch — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Spielman — Likely to need persuading
Work and benefits
- Baroness Donaghy — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Drake — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Fookes — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Grey-Thompson — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Pitkeathley — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Stroud — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Thornton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord German — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Hendy — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Palmer of Childs Hill — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Goudie — Position unclear
- Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest — Position unclear
- Baroness Rock — Position unclear
- Lord Addington — Position unclear
- Baroness Dacres of Lewisham — Government minister
- Baroness Sherlock — Government minister
- Baroness Smith of Malvern — Government minister
- Baroness Altmann — May need persuading
- Baroness Stowell of Beeston — May need persuading
- Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell — May need persuading
- Lord Freud — May need persuading
- Lord Rook — May need persuading
- Lord Willetts — May need persuading
- Lord Young of Cookham — May need persuading
- Baroness Jenkin of Kennington — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Spielman — Likely to need persuading
- Lord Liddle — Likely to need persuading
Disabled people having a say
- Baroness Lister of Burtersett — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Alton of Liverpool — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Palmer of Childs Hill — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Antrobus — Position unclear
- Baroness Dacres of Lewisham — Government minister
Peers by health condition
Autism and ADHD
- Baroness Browning — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Hollins — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Hughes of Stretford — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Tyler of Enfield — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Touhig — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Wigley — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Antrobus — Position unclear
- Baroness Goudie — Position unclear
- Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest — Position unclear
- Baroness Murphy — Position unclear
- Baroness Rock — Position unclear
- Lord Addington — Position unclear
- Lord Crisp — Position unclear
- Lord Sterling of Plaistow — Position unclear
- Baroness Dacres of Lewisham — Government minister
- Baroness Smith of Malvern — Government minister
- Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell — May need persuading
- Lord Kamall — May need persuading
- Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Fox of Buckley — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Maclean of Redditch — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Spielman — Likely to need persuading
Mental health
- Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Brinton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Browning — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Donaghy — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Drake — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Fookes — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Gale — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Hollins — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Hughes of Stretford — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Thomas of Winchester — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Thornton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Tyler of Enfield — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Goudie — Position unclear
- Baroness Murphy — Position unclear
- Baroness Nargund — Position unclear
- Baroness Pidgeon — Position unclear
- Baroness Shah — Position unclear
- Baroness Coffey — May need persuading
- Lord Kamall — May need persuading
- Baroness Buscombe — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Cash — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Fox of Buckley — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Maclean of Redditch — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Spielman — Likely to need persuading
- Baroness Watkins of Tavistock — Likely to need persuading
Learning disabilities
- Baroness Browning — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Hollins — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest — Position unclear
ME/CFS and Long Covid
- Baroness Brinton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Scott of Needham Market — Likely to be sympathetic
Multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions
- Baroness Thornton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Dubs — Likely to be sympathetic
Parkinson’s
- Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Gale — Likely to be sympathetic
Epilepsy
- Baroness Thornton — Likely to be sympathetic
Cerebral palsy
- Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie — Likely to be sympathetic
Conditions that vary from day to day
- Baroness Brinton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Gale — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Scott of Needham Market — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Davies of Brixton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Dubs — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord German — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Palmer of Childs Hill — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Dacres of Lewisham — Government minister
Severe or lifelong conditions
- Baroness Donaghy — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Drake — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Finlay of Llandaff — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Fookes — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Janke — Likely to be sympathetic
- Baroness Primarolo — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Davies of Brixton — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Touhig — Likely to be sympathetic
- Lord Wigley — Likely to be sympathetic
- The Lord Bishop of Gloucester — Likely to be sympathetic
All peers: descriptions and contact details
Baroness Altmann
Non-affiliated · May need persuading
As a minister she defended stricter PIP mobility rules. Later she supported a court decision that widened access to PIP for some people, so her record is mixed.
Useful for: PIP, Motability, mobility criteria, disability employment, independent living.
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Baroness Andrews
Labour · May need persuading
She welcomed the removal of PIP changes from the 2025 Bill but supported its wider changes to benefits. She may support some changes while opposing others.
Useful for: PIP reform, disability, social security.
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Shared House of Lords address. Put Baroness Andrews in the subject and at the start of your message.
Baroness Antrobus
Labour · Position unclear
She has spoken about autistic young people, special educational needs and disabled people having a say. Her parliamentary record is still limited, so her PIP position is unclear.
Useful for: Autism, SEND, young people, lived experience.
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Shared House of Lords address. Put Baroness Antrobus in the subject and at the start of your message.
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Liberal Democrat · Likely to be sympathetic
She has raised concerns about PIP rules affecting people with mental distress and Parkinson’s, and highlighted the high number of successful appeals.
Useful for: PIP, mental health, Parkinson's, appeals, welfare reform.
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Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
Green · Likely to be sympathetic
She has warned that PIP reviews can cause distress and lead to people wrongly losing support. She has raised concerns about the effect on mental health.
Useful for: PIP, mental health, reviews, poverty.
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Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone
Conservative · Likely to need persuading
She has questioned rising disability benefit claims among young people and called for stricter checks on diagnoses such as ADHD and autism.
Useful for: PIP, disability benefits, ADHD, autism, youth.
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Baroness Brinton
Liberal Democrat · Likely to be sympathetic
She has challenged unfair descriptions of disabled claimants and changes that reduce their support. She has also spoken about how Long Covid affects daily life and work.
Useful for: PIP, disability, mental health, fluctuating conditions, Long Covid.
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Baroness Browning
Conservative · Likely to be sympathetic
She has long worked on autism and has raised problems with PIP assessments for autistic people, people with learning disabilities and people with mental health conditions.
Useful for: Autism, PIP, learning disability, mental health.
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Baroness Buscombe
Conservative · Likely to need persuading
As a former benefits minister, she defended PIP rules and assessments. She has also questioned future PIP costs and argued that benefit spending is too high.
Useful for: PIP, assessments, appeals, mental health, disability-benefit costs.
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Baroness Cash
Conservative · Likely to need persuading
She has linked rising benefit payments to diagnoses and argued that the state can be quicker to pay benefits than to provide treatment.
Useful for: Anxiety, depression, diagnosis, agency.
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Baroness Coffey
Conservative · May need persuading
She has asked detailed questions about PIP and mental health. She has also supported a stronger focus on getting people into work, so she may need persuading about some concerns.
Useful for: PIP, young claimants, depression, anxiety, appeals.
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Shared House of Lords address. Put Baroness Coffey in the subject and at the start of your message.
Baroness Dacres of Lewisham
Labour · Government minister
She speaks for the government on disability benefits and has responded to questions about the Timms Review, assessments and reassessments. She may defend government policy, but she is an important person to contact because of her role.
Useful for: Timms Review, government PIP policy, assessments and reassessments.
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Baroness Donaghy
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
She has warned about debt, lost support and difficulties managing Universal Credit, especially for people with mental health conditions.
Useful for: UC, severe disability premium, mental health, sanctions, deductions.
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Baroness Drake
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
She has warned that cuts can leave severely disabled people struggling with extra costs and isolation. She has also raised problems faced by people who find Universal Credit hard to manage.
Useful for: UC, severe disability premium, mental health, disability costs, financial resilience.
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Shared House of Lords address. Put Baroness Drake in the subject and at the start of your message.
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
Crossbench · Likely to be sympathetic
She has challenged repeated assessments of people with severe lifelong disabilities and called for people whose conditions will not improve to be spared unnecessary reassessments.
Useful for: Severe disability, lifelong conditions, disability benefits, assessments, medical evidence.
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Baroness Fookes
Conservative · Likely to be sympathetic
She has raised the difficulties people with mental health conditions face when claiming benefits and shown concern for severely disabled people losing support.
Useful for: PIP, mental health, severe disability premium, Universal Credit, claimant access.
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Shared House of Lords address. Put Baroness Fookes in the subject and at the start of your message.
Baroness Fox of Buckley
Non-affiliated · Likely to need persuading
She has questioned rising mental health claims and argued for changes to PIP. She has also supported privacy and fair treatment for people claiming benefits.
Useful for: PIP, mental health, ADHD, autism, overdiagnosis.
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Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie
Conservative · Likely to be sympathetic
She has experience of supporting people with cerebral palsy. She has warned that delays and cuts to Access to Work can cost disabled people their jobs.
Useful for: Cerebral palsy, disability, employment, welfare reform.
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Baroness Gale
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
She has warned that PIP assessments can fail people with Parkinson’s and that repeated reviews cause anxiety. She has also raised the needs of carers.
Useful for: Parkinson's, PIP, DLA, fluctuating conditions, reassessment.
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Baroness Goudie
Labour · Position unclear
She has raised issues affecting autistic women and girls, including late diagnosis, mental health and employment. Her views on PIP rules are unclear.
Useful for: Autism, women and girls, diagnosis, employment.
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Baroness Grey-Thompson
Crossbench · Likely to be sympathetic
She has spoken about receiving PIP herself. She has challenged unfair claims about disabled people and warned against making PIP harder to get.
Useful for: PIP, disability costs, assessments, employment.
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Baroness Hollins
Crossbench · Likely to be sympathetic
She has called for assessors to understand autism, learning disabilities and mental illness, and to use evidence from the professionals supporting claimants.
Useful for: Autism, learning disability, mental health.
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Baroness Hughes of Stretford
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
She has challenged claims that PIP is easy to get and raised concerns about assessments and appeals, including for autistic people and people with mental illness.
Useful for: PIP, autism, mental illness, disability services.
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Baroness Janke
Liberal Democrat · Likely to be sympathetic
She has criticised PIP assessments for failing disabled people and causing stress. She has highlighted successful appeals and argued for protection of disability support.
Useful for: PIP, disability benefits, UC, severe disability premium, appeals.
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Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
Conservative · Likely to need persuading
She has argued for significant changes to PIP and has questioned whether the current system is working properly. However, she has also raised concerns about the way some people with permanent or fluctuating conditions are assessed.
Useful for: PIP reform, assessments, fluctuating conditions and mental health.
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Baroness Lister of Burtersett
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
She has long worked on social security and poverty. She has called for disabled people to have a real say in changes to benefits and warned about hardship and insecurity.
Useful for: Social security, PIP, poverty, carers, disabled people having a say.
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Baroness Maclean of Redditch
Conservative · Likely to need persuading
She has questioned benefit support linked to anxiety, depression and ADHD and argued that some everyday difficulties are being treated as medical conditions.
Useful for: PIP, ADHD, anxiety, depression, young claimants.
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Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest
Conservative · Position unclear
She has practical experience of learning disability, autism and employment. She has raised gaps in support when young people turn 18, but her views on PIP rules are unclear.
Useful for: Learning disability, autism, young disabled people, transition, employment.
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Baroness Murphy
Crossbench · Position unclear
She is a psychiatrist who has questioned some diagnoses of ADHD, autism, depression and anxiety. This does not give us a clear view of her position on PIP.
Useful for: Psychiatry, ADHD, autism, diagnosis, mental health.
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Baroness Nargund
Labour · Position unclear
She has experience of mental health, including issues affecting women and girls. She has stressed the need for treatment, but her views on PIP rules are unclear.
Useful for: Mental health, women and girls, anxiety, depression.
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Baroness Pidgeon
Liberal Democrat · Position unclear
She has spoken sympathetically about mental health and diagnosis, particularly for young people. Her views on who should qualify for PIP are unclear.
Useful for: Mental health, young people, diagnosis.
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Baroness Pitkeathley
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
She has challenged PIP cuts because of the support carers could also lose, including Carer’s Allowance. Carers are a particular area of experience.
Useful for: Carers, PIP, Carer's Allowance, Universal Credit, disability poverty.
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Baroness Primarolo
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
She has called for more support for disabled people and carers. She has also asked how people can try paid work without fearing the loss of their benefits.
Useful for: PIP, UC, legacy benefits, severe disability, carers.
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Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
She has an interest in autism and disability benefits. Her record suggests concern for claimants, although her views on specific PIP changes need further checking.
Useful for: Autism, disability benefits, social security.
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Baroness Rock
Conservative · Position unclear
She has worked on autism policy and support. We do not yet have enough evidence to say what she thinks about changes to PIP.
Useful for: Autism, autism strategy, employment/support.
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Baroness Scott of Needham Market
Liberal Democrat · Likely to be sympathetic
She has raised concerns about assessments for people with ME/CFS and conditions that vary from day to day. She has called for assessors to understand these conditions better.
Useful for: ME/CFS, fluctuating conditions, assessments, disability benefits.
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Baroness Shah
Labour · Position unclear
She has spoken about severe mental illness, anxiety and depression. We do not yet have a clear position from her on PIP rules.
Useful for: Mental illness, anxiety, depression, bipolar.
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Baroness Sherlock
Labour · Government minister
She speaks for the government on disability benefits. She has supported changes to assessments and work support, while recognising that many people depend on these benefits.
Useful for: PIP, disability benefits, assessments, UC health, young people.
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Baroness Smith of Llanfaes
Plaid Cymru · Likely to be sympathetic
She has warned about the effects of disability benefit changes in Wales and supported changes intended to protect people from losing support.
Useful for: Disability benefits, young people, Wales.
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Baroness Smith of Malvern
Labour · Government minister
She speaks for the government on skills and employment, including support for young disabled and autistic people. Her personal views on PIP rules are unclear.
Useful for: Young people, disability employment, autism, Youth Guarantee, Universal Credit.
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Baroness Spielman
Conservative · Likely to need persuading
She has questioned the growth in PIP and disability benefit claims, particularly among younger people and people with mental health conditions, autism and ADHD.
Useful for: mental health, autism, ADHD, young people and child DLA.
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Baroness Stedman-Scott
Conservative · Likely to need persuading
She has supported closer checks on disability benefits and raised concerns about costs. She has also said reviews should not simply catch people out or remove their support.
Useful for: PIP, reviews, welfare sustainability, work.
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Baroness Stowell of Beeston
Conservative · May need persuading
She has defended limits on benefit increases while pointing to protection for disability support. Her more recent work focuses on social mobility and young people’s employment.
Useful for: Welfare uprating, social mobility, youth employment, disability protection, fiscal restraint.
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Baroness Stroud
Conservative · Likely to be sympathetic
She strongly supports helping people into work, but has also called for protection for people who cannot work because of sickness or disability.
Useful for: Universal Credit, poverty, disability, sickness, work incentives.
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Baroness Thomas of Winchester
Liberal Democrat · Likely to be sympathetic
She has described PIP as a lifeline and called for fairer assessment rules and appeals. She has challenged the 20-metre walking rule and raised mental health concerns.
Useful for: PIP assessments, psychiatric conditions, disability.
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Baroness Thornton
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
She has explained that PIP helps with extra disability costs and can support people who work. She has also raised barriers to work and problems with mental health services.
Useful for: PIP, mental health, epilepsy, neurological conditions, disability employment.
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Baroness Tyler of Enfield
Liberal Democrat · Likely to be sympathetic
She has challenged claims that rising numbers of ADHD, autism, depression and anxiety diagnoses can simply be dismissed. Mental health is a particular interest.
Useful for: Mental health, ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety.
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Baroness Watkins of Tavistock
Crossbench · Likely to need persuading
She has supported more face-to-face PIP assessments and frequent reviews, and questioned some claims and Motability costs. She has also said disabled people must not lose needed support.
Useful for: PIP assessment, mental health, health services.
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Lord Addington
Liberal Democrat · Position unclear
He has experience of neurodiversity, dyslexia and employment. He has raised the need for flexible benefit assessments, but his views on PIP rules are unclear.
Useful for: Neurodiversity, autism, dyslexia, employment.
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Lord Alton of Liverpool
Crossbench · Likely to be sympathetic
He has challenged the PIP walking-distance rule and raised concerns about mobility, extra costs and disabled people having a say in changes.
Useful for: PIP, mobility, Motability, disability rights, consultation.
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Lord Bach
Labour · Position unclear
He has argued for better access to legal advice and representation on benefit problems. His views on PIP rules are unclear, but his experience is useful for appeals and advice.
Useful for: Social welfare law, welfare benefits advice, legal aid, appeals, access to justice.
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Lord Crisp
Crossbench · Position unclear
He has worked on autism and health services and called for better support. We do not yet have a clear view from him on disability benefit rules.
Useful for: Autism, health services, accountability.
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Lord Davies of Brixton
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
He has raised concerns about cuts to PIP and about making disabled people prove that they have particular extra costs. He has also spoken against unnecessary reassessments.
Useful for: PIP cuts, extra costs, reassessments, fluctuating conditions.
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Lord Dubs
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
He has spoken about multiple sclerosis, extra disability costs and independent living, drawing on family experience. He has also raised the move from DLA to PIP.
Useful for: MS, neurological conditions, PIP, DLA, disability costs.
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Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell
Conservative · May need persuading
He has an interest in autism and employment. He has also emphasised reducing reliance on benefits, so his views may differ from people campaigning against cuts.
Useful for: Autism, neurodiversity, employment, welfare.
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Lord Freud
Conservative · May need persuading
He helped design Universal Credit and earlier PIP changes. He has supported tighter limits in the past, but later called for more generous support for people on low incomes.
Useful for: PIP, DLA, Universal Credit, disability additions, welfare reform.
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Lord German
Liberal Democrat · Likely to be sympathetic
He has raised concerns about people losing Motability support and about assessments failing to reflect conditions that vary from day to day.
Useful for: PIP, Motability, fluctuating conditions, assessments, Universal Credit.
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Lord Godson
Conservative · Likely to need persuading
He has supported proposals for regular reviews of PIP eligibility and has spoken in favour of significant reform.
Useful for: Timms Review, PIP reform and proposals that could restrict entitlement.
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Lord Hendy
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
He has opposed cuts to the Universal Credit health element and argued that people should not lose disability support regardless of their needs.
Useful for: Universal Credit health element, disability rights, poverty, human rights, welfare cuts.
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Lord Holmes of Richmond
Conservative · Likely to be sympathetic
He has argued that being physically active should not mean a disabled person loses PIP. He has wider experience of disability rights, although his views on all PIP rules are not clear.
Useful for: Disability, PIP, neurodiversity, checking benefit changes.
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Lord Kamall
Conservative · May need persuading
He has discussed autism, mental health, diagnosis and the cost of support. His views on PIP rules are unclear.
Useful for: Autism, mental health, diagnosis, dyslexia.
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Lord Liddle
Labour · Likely to need persuading
He has called for benefit changes that focus more on work and controlling spending. His views on particular PIP rules are less clear.
Useful for: Welfare expenditure, worklessness, employment, benefits.
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Lord Loomba
Crossbench · Likely to be sympathetic
He has described PIP as essential support and stressed that successful appeals show people were wrongly denied help they needed.
Useful for: PIP, tribunal appeals, basic needs, claimant hardship.
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Lord Palmer of Childs Hill
Liberal Democrat · Likely to be sympathetic
He has raised concerns about poor assessments, especially for people with fluctuating conditions, and about unnecessary reassessments and delays.
Useful for: assessments, fluctuating conditions, evidence, delays and reassessments.
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Lord Rook
Labour · May need persuading
He has focused on helping young people into work and avoiding long periods outside education or employment. His experience may be useful, but he is not yet a PIP specialist.
Useful for: Young people, young people outside work or education, health, employment, welfare.
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Lord Shinkwin
Conservative · Likely to need persuading
He has argued for concentrating support on people he considers most disabled and raised concerns about benefit spending. He may need persuading about protecting wider access to PIP.
Useful for: Disability, welfare sustainability, targeting.
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Lord Sikka
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
He has strongly criticised benefit cuts and the hardship they can cause disabled people and people on low incomes.
Useful for: Disability benefits, poverty, welfare cuts.
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Lord Sterling of Plaistow
Conservative · Position unclear
He has family experience of autism and special educational needs. We do not yet have enough evidence to judge his views on PIP.
Useful for: Autism, SEND, family carers.
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Lord Touhig
Labour · Likely to be sympathetic
He has argued for lifelong PIP awards where a condition will not improve. He has also challenged assessment practices that disadvantage autistic people.
Useful for: Autism, disability rights, social care.
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Lord Wigley
Plaid Cymru · Likely to be sympathetic
He has argued for lifelong awards where a condition is lifelong and for benefit decisions to reflect each person’s circumstances. He also has a long interest in autism and disability in Wales.
Useful for: Autism, disability, Wales.
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Lord Willetts
Conservative · May need persuading
He has taken a detailed interest in PIP and has argued that the system needs reform. He has also recognised that PIP provides important support for many disabled people.
Useful for: PIP reform, younger claimants, work, extra costs and assessments.
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Lord Young of Cookham
Conservative · May need persuading
He has taken a close interest in PIP reform and the Timms Review. He has discussed changes to PIP, particularly for younger people, but has also shown an interest in protecting people who need support.
Useful for: Timms Review, younger claimants, work and PIP reform.
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The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
Bishops · Likely to be sympathetic
She has challenged repeated PIP assessments of young people with severe lifelong disabilities, describing the distress and wasted effort they can cause.
Useful for: PIP, severe lifelong disability, reassessment, young disabled people, transition.
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