Register of Lords' Interests
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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
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Michael Dobbs Entertainment Ltd
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Sole owner with wife (each holding 50 per cent) of Michael Dobbs Entertainment Ltd
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
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
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 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Canadian Western Bank NPV
- Nestle SA (foods)
- Nichols plc (soft drinks)
- Novartis AG (pharmaceuticals)
- Reynolds American Inc (tobacco) (interest ceased 27 June 2019)
- TREATT plc (flavour and fragrance ingredient supplier) (interest ceased 27 June 2019)
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 1: Directorships
- Director and Trustee, The People’s Pension Trustee Limited
- Trustee, Telefonica (O2) Pension Scheme (trust company)
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 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, Drayson Wireless Limited (interest ceased 24 July 2019)
- 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 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Drayson Holdco 2 Limited
- Drayson Racing Technologies Limited
- Drayson Technologies Limited (interest ceased 24 July 2019)
- Sensyne Health plc (formerly Sensyne Health Limited)
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Drayson Holdco 2 Limited
- Drayson Racing Technologies Limited (currently being liquidated)
- Drayson Technologies Limited (technology development business) (interest ceased 24 July 2019)
- Sensyne Health Limited (interest ceased 24 July 2019)
Baroness D'Souza
Crossbench
Life peer
Category 7: Overseas visits
- Visit to Taiwan, 27 July - 2 August 2019, as leader of delegation to meet with officials and parliamentarians and give lecture at Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs; travel and hospitality provided by Taiwanese Government
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- Guest of Coutts and Co Bank at lunch for Omani Delegations, London, 12 June 2019
- 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)
- 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)
Category 7: Overseas visits
- Visit to Seoul, South Korea, 22-28 September 2019, as guest of the International Bar Association to speak at their annual conference; cost of travel and accommodation met by the IBA
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.
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland (interest ceased 26 July 2019); 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)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Member, Board of Advisors of the Schwarzenegger Institute, University of Southern California, USA
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Honorary President, English-Speaking Union Scotland
The Earl of Dundee
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Scottish Consul for Croatia
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Founder and Main Trustee, Dundee Trust (charity working in Former Yugoslavia providing education and cultural facilities)
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 1: Directorships
- Board Director, Scottish Swimming (honorarium 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 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Board Member, Scottish Council for Development and Industry
- 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)
- Intercontinental Hotels plc (hotels)
- Pernod Ricard plc (food & drink)
- Real Estate Credit Investment Ltd (property)
- 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; 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 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- In receipt of episcopal stipend
Category 6: Sponsorship
- Research and policy advice is provided by The Good Faith Partnership LLP
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 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 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Member, Independent Commission on Referendums, Department of Political Science, UCL
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Occasional broadcasting and newspaper activities
- Receipt of church pension as former Archbishop of Armagh
Category 5: Land and property
- Part-ownership of small shops in East Belfast
Baroness Eaton
Conservative
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Member of Advisory Board, Marston Group Ltd (bailiffs for public and private sector companies)
Category 5: Land and property
- Residential properties in Bingley, West Yorkshire, from which rental income is received
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 (a)
- Director, Near Neighbours Charitable Company (see category 10(e))
Category 10: Non-financial interests (c)
- Member of Advisory Panel, National Media Museum
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- A Vice-President, Local Government Association
- Vice President, Trading Standards Institute
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chairman and Trustee, Near Neighbours (national registered charity to support Big Society action in multi-faith communities)
- 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)
Lord Eatwell
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Institute for Public Policy Research, London
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Chairman, Royal Opera House (interest ceased 16 January 2020)
- Chairman, Royal Opera House Pension Fund (interest ceased 16 January 2020)
- Director, 175 S B R Limited
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Chairman, Institute of Policy Research, University of Bath
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chairman (formerly Commissioner), Jersey Financial Services Commission
- Chairman, Global Financial Institute, Deutsche Bank
- Economic Adviser, Palamon Capital Partners LLP
- Emeritus Professor of Financial Policy, University of Cambridge
- Occasional articles for the press on economic and financial matters
- President, Queens' College, Cambridge
- 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 1: Directorships
- Chairman, Higher Ed Partners Limited (formerly Higher Ed Partners - UK Limited) (online education)
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)
Viscount Eccles
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- AstraZeneca plc (pharmaceuticals and biotechnology)
- BAE Systems plc (defence and aerospace)
- Castings plc (iron castings and machining)
- ICAP (markets operator)
- National Grid plc (utilities)
- Rights and Issues (Capital) Investment Trust
- Royal Dutch Shell "B" (oil and gas)
- Sainsbury's plc (supermarkets)
- Standard Chartered Bank plc 8.25% Prefs (banking)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Director, St John's House Ltd (company holds freehold of St John's House, 30 Smith Square, London SW1P 3HF)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Council Member, Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library
- Trustee, Craft Pottery Charitable Trust
- Trustee, Sylvia Crathorne Memorial Fund
Lord Elder
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chancellor, Al-Maktoum Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Chair of Trustees, Smith Institute
Category 1: Directorships
- Director, Daval International Ltd (UK pharmaceutical company) (interest ceased 6 September 2019)
Lord Elis-Thomas
Non-affiliated
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Assembly Member, National Assembly for Wales, and Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport in the Welsh Government