Baroness SherlockMinister
House of Lords
LabourBaroness Sherlock's full title is The Baroness Sherlock OBE. Her name is Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Overall, across health & social care this Parliament
Alive and kicking!
Ranks 96th of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 7%. 74 contributions since 2024-07-24.
What they’ve raised
Baroness Sherlock has engaged primarily through debate speeches, with a particular focus on employment support for autistic and neurodivergent people, addressing barriers to work and calling for personalised support independent of diagnosis. While the extracts provided relate mainly to pensions, unemployment, and child poverty rather than the full range of her tracked health topics, her contribution on autism and employment demonstrates substantive engagement on disability employment policy, including discussion of the £1 billion connect to work programme and reform of the Access to Work scheme.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
Record by topic
- Mental health88th of 86740.0
- Learning disability & autism84th of 89838.0
- Unpaid carers22nd of 27722.0
- Maternity & neonatal62nd of 42714.0
- Public health & prevention120th of 68312.0
- NHS waiting lists136th of 53010.0
- Adult social care & reform83rd of 3618.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)45th of 139
What they’ve said
“I now realise that I did a terrible job, because repeatedly during the passage of the Pension Schemes Act I tried to explain why that was not right, and I utterly failed—I will have one last go. The Government set out a pensions investment review to look at the state of the landscape of private pension saving.”
Pensions Commission · 2026-07-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I am not pre-empting anything that the commission will say, but the Government are very aware of the position of people who have terminal illnesses. As the noble Baroness of course knows very well, we have looked at some of the rules around how, for example, the benefits system can best assist people.”
Pensions Commission · 2026-07-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, the Government are committed to supporting autistic people into employment, including through targeted specialist support. Our £1 billion connect to work programme includes a supported employment pathway for neurodivergent people and is now live across most of England and Wales, with recent data showing encou…”
Unemployment: People with Autism · 2026-06-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…done and from the early report from the Department of Health, which looked into questions around prevalence of autism and other neurodivergent conditions, that one challenge is that people are having to seek out diagnosis in order to get support. In fact, we need to make sure that support is not dependent on diagnosis.”