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Angela Billingham, Baroness Billingham

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Subsistence Allowances are designed to help peers who live in the country to attend late-night votes and debates in Parliament, Billingham, who has a flat in Hampstead and a country house in Suffolk claimed £26,983 in 2006–07 in overnight allowances, prompting calls for an inquiry.
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a day. She also cites economic, environmental and safety concerns as important reasons for reform of the current system. She is also a keen tennis player, and is Chair/Captain of the Commons and Lords Tennis Club and the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Tennis Group.
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She has promoted sports for people with disabilities and is a regular on Sky News where she previews the following morning's newspapers. Angela also campaigns for reform of the current
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She married Peter Billingham in 1962 and they had two daughters, Zoë and Caroline. Peter died in 1992. Zoë is married to Dennis Skinner, son of
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Hartley-Brewer, Julia; Woodward, Will (31 March 2000). "Policy and Politics: Blair 'balances' Lords with 33 new peers".
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Foster, Jonathan (13 June 1994). "The European Elections: Working-class voters wooed back".
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Baroness Billingham was a councillor for many years. From 1970 until 1974, she served on
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in 1994. In 1999 she unsuccessfully stood for the European Parliament in the new
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system, arguing that lighter evenings could end the national scourge of
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Official Portrait of Angela, Baroness Billingham (2019)
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Council. She was Mayor of Banbury in 1976. She was an
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The Right Honourable
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Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Life Peerage
British
Labour
Aylesbury Grammar School
Alma mater
Institute of Education
University of Oxford
JP
Labour
politician
Liverpool
Aylesbury Grammar School
Institute of Education
Oxford University
Banbury
Borough Council
Cherwell District
Oxfordshire
county councillor
Banbury
European Parliament
Northamptonshire and Blaby
East Midlands
life peer

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