Kathryn Felice Lampard, Baroness Lampard, (born 20 April 1960) is an English politician and former

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. She undertook a number of senior non-executive roles within the

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, including chairing SouthEast Coast Strategic Health Authority. From 2016 to July 2024 she served as chair of the trustees of the national charity GambleAware. She is also a former Deputy Chair of the

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. In 2012 Lampard was appointed by the

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to oversee the investigations into the activities of the late broadcaster

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, and elsewhere within the National Health Service after allegations of sexual abuse by Savile. In 2015 Lampard was appointed by Serco Plc to undertake an independent review of the circumstances surrounding allegations, made in a Channel 4 news report, of the mistreatment of detainees at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre. In 2017 she was appointed by G4S plc to undertake an independent review of the circumstances surrounding allegations, made in a

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television programme, of the mistreatment of detainees at the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre. In 2019 the Home Secretary,

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, appointed Lampard to lead a review of the Borders, Immigration and Citizenship service. Lampard served as interim chair of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (November 2015-June 2016). She served as a trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation (1999–2023). She is a trustee of the Royal Horticultural Society. Lampard was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to the National Health Service and to the community in Kent. Lampard is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Kent. It was announced on 14 October 2022, that as part of the

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, Lampard would receive a

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. On 17 November 2022, she was created Baroness Lampard, ''of

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in the

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'' and sat as a member of the Conservative Party. In July 2024 she became a non-affiliated peer. In September, 2023, Lampard was appointed Chair of the Statutory Inquiry into mental health deaths in Essex, known as the

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, primarily the death of 2,000 mental health patients in

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