Baroness Hollins

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 0520
hollinss@parliament.uk

Biography

Political interests

Health and social care (especially mental health and learning disability), welfare reform, special education (long term conditions), human rights abuses of disabled people

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baroness Hollins, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton and of Grenoside in the County of South Yorkshire 2010

Register of Interests

2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.

Royalties from writing professionally-related publications on learning disability

6: Sponsorship

An educational intern is part-funded by the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales

An educational intern is provided by the Hansard Society through the Hansard Scholars Programme

9: Miscellaneous financial interests

Appointee for Member's disabled son's welfare benefits

10: Non-financial interests (a)

Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry of Disability, St George’s University of London

President elect, British Medical Association (June 2011 - June 2012)

Past President, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Vice President, Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability

Assistant to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor during Vatican visitation to Ireland, 2011

10: Non-financial interests (e)

Executive Chair, Books Beyond Words, a not-for-profit company