Register of Interests - Members of the House of Lords
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Lord Dholakia
Liberal Democrat
Life peer
Category 7: Overseas visits
- Visit to Doha, Qatar, 15-18 December 2019, to attend Doha Forum; travel and accommodation costs met by Government of Qatar through their Ambassador in UK
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- President & Trustee, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- YouGov plc (market research) (interest ceased 2 August 2020)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- President, Friends Circle International
- Trustee, Police Foundation
Lord Dixon-Smith
Conservative
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Non-executive Chairman, Gateway 120 Limited (see category 5)
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- As a member of the Lords and Commons Cigar Club the member receives regular hospitality and invitations to events which during the course of the calendar year together amount to more than £300 in value and all of which are paid for by the Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Vodafone Group plc
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- The member has an 18 per cent holding as Non-executive Chairman of Gateway 120 Limited (see category 5)
Category 5: Land and property
- The member owns land in Essex east of Coggeshall and east of Braintree; some 180 acres of this land is placed in Gateway 120 Limited for the purposes of development, giving the member a holding of 18 per cent in that company; the development is a major undertaking but the member is not himself concerned with the day-to-day work of development
Category 1: Directorships
- Director, RW Dixon Smith (Houchins) Ltd (farming company)
Lord Dobbs
Conservative
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Director, Michael Dobbs Entertainment Ltd (see category 4(a))
- Non-executive Director, M&C Saatchi plc (international marketing company) (interest ceased 10 December 2019)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Income from writing and broadcasting: Books (Simon & Schuster); HarperCollins; Sourcebooks; Public Lending Right (PLR); Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS))
- Income from writing and broadcasting: Film (Media Rights Capital II LP; various others)
- Income from writing and broadcasting: Speeches (Specialist Speakers and others)
- Income from writing and broadcasting: Television (BBC; various others)
- Speaking engagement, 28 February 2020, Lake Nona Impact Forum, Florida
- Speaking engagement, 8 September 2020, Danish Media Forum, Copenhagen
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Sole owner with wife (each holding 50 per cent) of Michael Dobbs Entertainment Ltd
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Michael Dobbs Entertainment Ltd
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Executive Board Member, Conservative Friends of the Chinese (interest ceased 18 May 2020)
- President, Langford and Wylye Branch, Royal British Legion
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Member of Advisory Board, Edward R. Murrow Center, Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA
- Visiting Parliamentary Fellow, St Antony's College Oxford
Baroness Donaghy
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Chair, Diffuse Mesothelioma Oversight Committee (Department for Work and Pensions)
- Member, Birmingham University Business Advisory Group
Lord Donoughue
Labour
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Chairman, Starting Price Regulatory Commission
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- The Common Good Foundation (interest ceased 31 December 2019)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Canadian Western Bank NPV
- Nestle SA (foods)
- Nichols plc (soft drinks)
- Novartis AG (pharmaceuticals)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Chairman, Global Warming Policy Foundation (interest ceased 31 December 2019)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Animals in War (interest ceased 31 January 2020)
- Trustee, Common Good Foundation (interest ceased 31 December 2019)
- Trustee, Global Warming Policy Foundation (interest ceased 31 December 2019)
- Trustee, Victoria County Histories
Baroness Doocey
Liberal Democrat
Life peer
Nil
- No registrable interests
Baroness Drake
Labour
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Adviser to TISA (Tax Incentivised Savings Association) (interest ceased 31 March 2020)
- Director, Byhiras Trust Ltd (investment data management business)
- Independent Member, ENGIE UK Scrutiny Board (energy and services company)
- Independent Member, Private Equity Reporting Group (formerly Walker Guidelines Monitoring Group) (for UK private equity; fee paid by British Venture Capital Association)
Category 1: Directorships
- Director and Trustee, The People’s Pension Trustee Limited
- Trustee, Telefonica (O2) Pension Scheme (trust company)
Category 5: Land and property
- Flat in Southwark from which rental income is received
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Governor, Pensions Policy Institute
- Member of Advisory Council, Blueprint for Better Business
Lord Drayson
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Drayson Foundation (registered charity)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Cambridge Mechatronics Ltd (development of precision actuators)
- Sensyne Health plc (healthcare technology)
Category 1: Directorships
- Director, Drayson Holdco 2 Limited
- Director, Drayson Racing Formula E Team Limited (electric racing business)
- Director, Drayson Racing Limited
- Director, Drayson Racing Technologies Limited
- Director, Drayson Technologies (Europe) Limited
- Director, Drayson Technologies Inc (incorporated in US)
- Director, Drayson Technologies Limited
- Director, Drayson Technologies Mexico (Services) S.A. de C.V (incorporated in Mexico)
- Director, Drayson Technologies Mexico S.A. de C.V (incorporated in Mexico)
- Director, DTLM Limited
- Director, Sensyne Health Group Limited (formerly Sensyne Health Co Limited)
- Director, Sensyne Health plc (formerly Sensyne Health Limited)
- Non-executive Director, Airbus SE (formerly Airbus Group Limited)
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Drayson Holdco 2 Limited
- Drayson Racing Technologies Limited (currently being liquidated)
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Drayson Holdco 2 Limited
- Drayson Racing Technologies Limited
- Sensyne Health plc (formerly Sensyne Health Limited)
Baroness D'Souza
Crossbench
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Member, Executive Committee, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA)
- Member, Executive Committee, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
- President, Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management (ICPEM)
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- Regular hospitality is received from Japanese and Taiwanese Embassies in the form of lunch, dinner and receptions which over the course of the calendar year exceeds the registration threshold of £300
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Wise Investment (formerly T Bailey TB Wise Investment Account)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- President, The Children First Alliance (CFA)
- President, Young Citizens
- Trustee, Parliamentary Human Rights Trust
Lord Dubs
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Committee Member, Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (UK-registered charity)
Lord Duncan of Springbank
Conservative
Life peer
Category 5: Land and property
- Flat in Aberdeen from which rental income is received
- Flat in Glasgow from which rental income is received
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chair, CONFOR and Director of associated limited company
- Honorary President, Association for Decentralised Energy
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (interest ceased 14 February 2020); Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Climate Change, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (interest ceased 14 February 2020)
- Senior Counsel, Terrestrial Energy
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chair, The National Forest, and Director of the associated charitable company
- Honorary President, English-Speaking Union Scotland
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Member, Advisory Board, Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research, University of St Andrews
- Member, Advisory Panel, Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD)
- Member, Board of Advisors of the Schwarzenegger Institute, University of Southern California, USA
The Earl of Dundee
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Founder and Main Trustee, Dundee Trust (charity working in Former Yugoslavia providing education and cultural facilities)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Scottish Consul for Croatia
Category 1: Directorships
- Director, Dundee Farming Company
Category 5: Land and property
- Forestry, farmland and residential property in Fife and Angus
Lord Dunlop
Conservative
Life peer
Category 5: Land and property
- Cottage in West Sussex from which rental income is received
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Deployable Civilian Expert Member, UK Civilian Stabilisation Group (fees paid only when member carries out a project)
Category 1: Directorships
- Board Director, Scottish Swimming (honorarium received)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Board Member, Scottish Council for Development and Industry (interest ceased 3 August 2020)
- Chair, Scottish Business Taskforce
- Chair, Scottish Future Growth Council
- Independent Reviewer, Review of UK Government Union Capability
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Diageo plc (food & drink)
- GlaxoSmithKline plc (pharmaceuticals) (interest ceased 3 August 2020)
- Intercontinental Hotels plc (hotels)
- Pernod Ricard plc (food & drink) (interest ceased 3 August 2020)
- Primary Healthcare Properties plc (property)
- Real Estate Credit Investment Ltd (property) (interest ceased 3 August 2020)
- Reckitt Benckiser plc (household products)
- Renewables Infrastructure Group Ltd (energy)
- Rio Tinto plc (mining and mineral resources)
- Royal Dutch Shell plc (energy)
- Unilever plc (consumer goods)
- Unilever plc (consumer goods; food)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Advisory Board Member, Ionad Hiort (a charity)
- Advisory Board Member, Scottish Policy Foundation (educational charity)
- Chair, City of Portsmouth Athletics Club
The Lord Bishop of Durham
Bishops
Bishops
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chair, Durham Diocesan Board of Finance
- Chair, Hild Bede Trust
- Chair, National Society (linked to The Church of England Education Office)
- Chairman, Friends of Byumba Trust
- Director and Trustee, Reset
- Trustee, Child Theology Movement
- Trustee, Safe Families for Children
Category 6: Sponsorship
- Research and policy advice is provided by Refugee, Asylum and Migration Policy Project (RAMP)
- Research and policy advice is provided by The Good Faith Partnership LLP (interest ceased 21 July 2020)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- In receipt of episcopal stipend
Category 5: Land and property
- Part ownership of house in London E7 (my wife has majority share) from which rental income is received
- Property in Bishop Auckland owned jointly with wife from which rental income is received
Lord Dykes
Crossbench
Life peer
Nil
- No registrable interests
Lord Eames
Crossbench
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Member, Independent Commission on Referendums, Department of Political Science, UCL
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- As a member of the Lords and Commons Cigar Club the member receives regular hospitality and invitations to events which during the course of the calendar year together amount to more than £300 in value and all of which are paid for by the Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association
Category 5: Land and property
- Part-ownership of small shops in East Belfast
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Occasional broadcasting and newspaper activities
- Receipt of church pension as former Archbishop of Armagh
Baroness Eaton
Conservative
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Governor, Lady Lane Park Preparatory School, Bingley, West Yorkshire
- Member, Beckfoot Multi Academy Trust, Bingley West Yorkshire
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chairman and Trustee, Near Neighbours (national registered charity to support Big Society action in multi-faith communities) (interest ceased 30 June 2020)
- Guardian Emeritus (formerly Director) of the Holy Shrine at Walsingham, Norfolk
- Trustee, Cottingley Town Hall (historic building in village of Cottingley, West Yorkshire)
- Trustee, Cottingley Town Hall, Cottingley, Bradford
- Trustee, Tracks of Peace (charity)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- A Vice-President, Local Government Association
- Vice President, Trading Standards Institute
Category 10: Non-financial interests (c)
- Member of Advisory Panel, National Media Museum
Category 5: Land and property
- Land and property in Bingley, West Yorkshire and Thornton-le-Dale, North Yorkshire
- Residential properties in Bingley, West Yorkshire, from which rental income is received
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Member of Advisory Board, Marston Group Ltd (bailiffs for public and private sector companies) (interest ceased 21 July 2020)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Director, Near Neighbours Charitable Company (see category 10(e)) (interest ceased 30 June 2020)
Lord Eatwell
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Chairman, Royal Opera House Pension Fund (interest ceased 16 January 2020)
- Director, 175 S B R Limited
- Director, I.P.P.R. Trading Limited
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chairman (formerly Commissioner), Jersey Financial Services Commission (interest ceased 17 April 2020)
- Chairman, Global Financial Institute, Deutsche Bank (interest ceased 30 January 2020)
- Economic Adviser, Palamon Capital Partners LLP
- Occasional articles for the press on economic and financial matters
- President, Queens' College, Cambridge (interest ceased 30 September 2020)
- Providing lectures and reports on economic and financial matters to public and private bodies at home and abroad
- Visiting Professor, University of Southern California
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- I.P.P.R. Trading Limited
- Institute for Public Policy Research
Category 1: Directorships
- Chairman, Higher Ed Partners Limited (formerly Higher Ed Partners - UK Limited) (online education)
- Director, Higher Ed International, Dallas, Texas (online education)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Honorary Fellow, Queens' College, Cambridge
- Trustee, Institute for Public Policy Research, London and Director of associated company
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Chairman, Institute of Policy Research, University of Bath
- Emeritus Professor of Financial Policy, University of Cambridge
Baroness Eccles of Moulton
Conservative
Life peer
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- BP plc (oil)
- GlaxoSmithkline (healthcare)
- Pennon Group plc (utilities)
- Royal Dutch Shell "B" (oil and gas)
- SSE plc (utilities)
- Vodafone Group plc (mobile communications)
Contact details
Members of the House of Lords may contact the Registrar of Lords' Interests as follows:
Telephone: 020 7219 3120
Post: Registrar of Lords' Interests, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW
Email: lordsregistrar@parliament.uk
Related information
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Registration form for Members of the House of Lords
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