Rosalie Wilkins, Baroness Wilkins

Rosalie Catherine Wilkins, Baroness Wilkins (born 6 May 1946) is a British politician (Labour).

The Right Honourable

The Baroness Wilkins
Member of the House of Lords
Assumed office
30 July 1999
MonarchElizabeth II
Personal details
Born
Rosalie Catherine Wilkins

(1946-05-06) 6 May 1946
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour

Wilkins has been a member of the Central Health Services Council from 1974 1976, the BBC General Advisory Council from 1976 to 1978, and the Prince of Wales' Advisory Group on Disability from 1982 to 1990. She was also President of the College of Occupational Therapists from 2003 to 2008.

On 30 July 1999 she was created a life peer with the title Baroness Wilkins, of Chesham Bois in the County of Buckinghamshire.[1]

She has been a member of two Lords Select Committees: the Hybrid Instruments Committee from 2000 to 2005, and the Administration and Works Committee from 2003 to 2007.

She is currently Treasurer of the Learning Disability All-party Group, and Vice-Chair of the Disability, Deafness, and Continence Care All-party Groups.

She has sat on the Lords backbench Joint committees on the draft mental incapacity bill 2003-04 and the draft disability discrimination bill 2004.

She lists her political interests as disability, housing, international development, and energy conservation.

References
  1. "No. 55572". The London Gazette. 4 August 1999. p. 8409.

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