Nicola Chapman, Baroness Chapman

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Nicola "Nicky" Jane Chapman, Baroness Chapman (born 1961), is a British peer.

She was appointed to the House of Lords in 2004 as Baroness Chapman, of Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire and was the first person with a congenital disability to be appointed a peer. She was elected under the People's Peers scheme.

[edit] External links

• Daily Telegraph article (2005)
• Lords Hansard: Baroness Chapman's maiden speech, on the Mental Capacity Bill 2005

[edit] Reference

• Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 8 September 2004