UK Parliament House of Lords Podcast: at the table with Chloe Mawson 23 July 2021 How has life changed for women in Parliament over the last 21 years? What do clerks do when they’re sat at the table in the chamber? How does it feel to miss out on a tour of the Washington Post with Brad Pitt? This month we hear from Chloe Mawson on all of these questions and more. Chloe is the Clerk Assistant, the second most senior role in the House of Lords Administration and the first woman to hold the role since the 1600s. ‘People were going through some of the most stressful periods of their life totally away from work and then having to deliver the most extreme changes that we've seen in this place for a long, long time.’