sentences:  She was a member of the Labour opposition front bench in the House of Lords from 1994 until 1997, and a member of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education that published an influential report in 1997.She chaired the armed forces pay review body (1999-2004), the Covent Garden market authority (2005–13) and the Housing Corporation, now Homes England, (1997-2003); and was a member of the Royal Commission on House of Lords Reform in 1999.She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1992.