Register of Interests - Members of the House of Lords
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Lord Horam
Conservative
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Non-executive Director, CRU International Ltd (business consultants)
Lord Houghton of Richmond
Crossbench
Life peer
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Avonhurst (advisory company)
- Byzgen (tech start-up)
- Tadaweb (technology company specialising in open source data search)
- Whitespace (tech company specialising in AI assisted decision making)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (c)
- Chair of Trustees, Royal Chapels, Tower of London
- Trustee, Historic Royal Palaces
- Trustee, Royal Armouries
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Director, Tickets for Troops (charity)
- Trustee, Royal United Services Institute
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Adviser, BP plc (oil and gas company) (interest ceased 30 June 2020)
- Advisor, Draken International LLC(aviation services company)
- Occasional speaker, Leading Authorities International (specialist agency for keynote and after-dinner speakers)
- Senior Defence and Security Adviser, Thales UK (defence and technical company)
- Strategic Adviser, Avonhurst (advisory company)
- Strategic Adviser, Crossword (cyber security)
- Strategic Adviser, Tadaweb (technology company specialising in open source data search)
- Strategic Adviser, Whitespace (tech company specialising in AI assisted decision making)
- Strategic Advisor, Rebellion Defense (tech security company)
Category 1: Directorships
- Chairman, Byzgen (tech start-up)
- Chairman, Draken (Europe) and FR Aviation (aviation services company)
- Founder and Controlling Director, De Vinculis Ltd (corporate consultancy)
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- De Vinculis Ltd
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- De Vinculis Ltd (corporate consultancy)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Constable, HM Tower of London (role comes with rent free accommodation)
Lord Howard of Lympne
Conservative
Life peer
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- As a member of the All-Party British-American Parliamentary Group the member receives occasional hospitality and invitations to events which during the course of the calendar year together amount to more than £300 in value
- Guest Lecturer, together with wife, on cruise on Seabourn Ovation 1-15 February 2020; flights and hospitality provided
- Honorary membership, 10 Trinity Square (private members' club)
- Honorary membership, Buck's Club
- Honorary membership, Carlton Club
- Honorary membership, Pratt's Club
Category 9: Miscellaneous financial interests
- Member of various racehorse-owning syndicates
Category 7: Overseas visits
- Visit to Grenada, St. Vincent and Trinidad, 17-24 January 2020, in connection with duties as Patron of the British-Caribbean Chamber of Commerce; costs of transport, accommodation and subsistence met by the BCCC
Category 5: Land and property
- Flat in London SW1 from which rental income is received
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Occasional newspaper articles and television appearances
- Queen's Counsel (non-practising)
Category 1: Directorships
- Non-executive Chairman, South West Strategic Developments Limited (property development)
- Non-executive Director, Watchstone plc (formerly Quindell plc) (insurance technology provider)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Member, International Advisory Board, Institute for Free Trade (research foundation)
- Trustee, Atlantic Partnership
- Trustee, Council of Christians and Jews
- Vice President (formerly Chairman), Hospice UK (formerly Help the Hospices)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Entrée Resources Limited (formerly Entrée Gold Inc) (exploration and mining)
- Kape Technologies plc (develops and distributes variety of digital products in online security space)
- NMC Health plc (interest ceased 5 April 2020)
- Soma Oil & Gas Holdings Limited
- Tritax Big Box REIT plc (interest ceased 5 April 2020)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Member, Advisory Board, Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit
Lord Howard of Rising
Conservative
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chairman of Trustees, Trinity Hospital Castle Rising
- Trustee, Chagall Window Preservation Trust
- Vice President, National Playing Fields Association
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Assetco Ltd
- EKF Diagnostics (healthcare)
- Marlowe Holdings Ltd (services to industry)
- North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc
- Renalytics (healthcare)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Dalbini Ltd
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Chairman, Castle Rising Parish Council
- Member, King's Lynn Internal Drainage Board
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Councillor, Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Category 1: Directorships
- Board Member, North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc
- Castle Rising Holdings Ltd and subsidiaries (Trafford Engineering Ltd; Wicksteed Ltd)
- Chateau Limited (non-trading company)
- Director, Jardentome Limited (holding company) and of the following susidiaries - Fawns Recreational Services Limited (manufacture and installation of recreational equipment); McLays Supplies Limited (dormant); Roydon Limited (property investment and lending); Roydon Nominees Limited (nominee company); Wickstead Leisure Limited (dormant); Wickstead Playground Equipment Limited (dormant); Wicksteed Leisure Limited (design, manufacture and installation of playground equipment); Wicksteed Playground Equipment Limited (dormant); Wicksteedathome Limited (dormant)
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Castle Rising Holdings Ltd
- Chateau Limited
- GSE Trustees Ltd (Goldsmid Settled Estates)
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Castle Rising Holdings Ltd
- Dalbini Ltd
Category 5: Land and property
- The Castle Rising Estate, which includes residential and commercial property; farmland and woodland; and Castle Rising Castle, an ancient monument open to the public on paying basis
Baroness Howarth of Breckland
Crossbench
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Vice President (formerly President and Trustee), Livability
- Vice President, Little Hearts Matter
- Vice President, Lucy Faithful Foundation
- Vice President, Tracks
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Vice President, Local Government Association
Lord Howarth of Newport
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- President, Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance
- Vice President, Victorian Society
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chair of Trustees, National Centre for Creative Health
Earl Howe
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Category 5: Land and property
- Commercial property in London and Nottingham
- Farmland in Buckinghamshire, including residential properties, offices and woodland
- Residential property in London
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Partner in family farming business (arable)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chairman, Friends of Curzon Centre Beaconsfield
- President, Association of Art and Antiques Dealers LAPADA
- President, Curzon Centre, Beaconsfield
- President, RNLI Chilterns Branch
- President, South Buckinghamshire Association for the Disabled
- Trustee, Kedleston Estate, Derbyshire
- Trustee, Penn Trust
- Trustee, The Portman Estate (family trust) (unremunerated except to the extent necessary to compensate for expenses incurred by reason of the trusteeship)
- Vice President, RNLI
Category 10: Non-financial interests (c)
- Chairman, Friends of Little Missenden Festival of the Arts (interest ceased 21 July 2020)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Deputy Leader of the House of Lords and Minister of State without Portfolio
- Governor, King William IV Naval Foundation
Lord Howell of Guildford
Conservative
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chairman, Council of Commonwealth Societies
- President, Royal Commonwealth Society (registered charity)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Chairman, Windsor Energy Group
- Member, Advisory Board of Crystol Energy (advisers to developing countries on energy issues)
- Member, Economic Advisory Group to the British Chambers of Commerce
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Adviser to Japan Central Railways Ltd
- Consultant to Mitsubishi Electric Europe BV
- Member, UK Advisory Committee to the Kuwait Investment Office (the member's annual earnings for this work fall within the £20,000 - £30,000 band)
Lord Hoyle
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Labour Friends of Israel
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- President, Adlington Cricket Club
- President, Warrington Wolves Rugby League Football Club
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Non-executive Director, Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce (part-time)
- Non-Executive Director, The Lowry Trust
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, M20 Learning Trust (multi-academy trust in Manchester)
- Trustee, The Lowry Theatre
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Deputy Mayor for Greater Manchester (police and crime lead)
Lord Hughes of Woodside
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Sponsor, Canon Collins Trust
Baroness Humphreys
Liberal Democrat
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Crafnant Trust
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Board Member (unremunerated), Conwy Voluntary Services Council
- Shareholder (unremunerated), Conwy and Denbighshire Care and Repair (formerly Board Member, Conwy Care and Repair)
- Town Councillor, Llanrwst Town Council, Conwy Valley, North Wales (unremunerated)
Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green
Crossbench
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Member, Think Tank, The Co-Operative Group (payment made to Deeds and Words Limited - see category 1)
- Speaking engagement, 16 November 2020, virtual event for The Brit People Forum (insurance industry) (payment made to Deeds and Words Limited - see category 1)
Category 1: Directorships
- Director, Deeds and Words Limited (consultancy services and leadership programmes relating to inclusion, culture and behaviours)
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Deeds and Words Limited
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Deeds and Words Limited (owned jointly with partner)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Director and Trustee, Engage Britain (think-tank)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Member, Management Committee and Volunteer, Bow and Bethnal Green Foodbank
- Member, Parochial Church Council (PCC), St Matthew's Church, Bethnal Green
Lord Hunt of Chesterton
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Emeritus Earth Sciences Professor, University College London
- President and Adviser, Advisory Committee On Protection of the Sea (ACOPS)
- Trustee, Cambridge Development Educational Trust
- Trustee, Royal Institution
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Chairman, Just Ghana Limited
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chair, Advisory Committee, Tokamak Energy Ltd
- Professor, Arizona State University (interest ceased 21 July 2020)
- Professor, Technological University of Delft, Netherlands
- Scientific Consultant, Institut Mecanique de Fluides de Toulouse
- Scientific Consultant, Ministry of Defence and its subcontractors
- Scientific Consultant, University College London
- Visiting Fellow, Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre, Cambridge
Category 1: Directorships
- Chairman, Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Labour
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Advisory Board Member, SweatCo Ltd (interactive leisure and entertainment software development)
- Chair, Advisory Board, TenXHealth (health technology investment company)
- Consultant and Trainer, Eden & Partners (formerly Cumberlege Connections Ltd) (NHS leadership/awareness programmes)
- Council Member, General Medical Council
- President, GS1 UK (an independent, not-for-profit organisation that allocates a unique prefix for users to create bar codes for their products)
- Self-employed consultant on NHS and wider health issues, t/a Philip Hunt Consultancy
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- As a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group the member attends regular breakfast meetings at which the value of the hospitality received over the course of a calendar year exceeds the registration threshold of £300
Category 9: Miscellaneous financial interests
- My daughter and brother-in-law have interests in organisations which receive grants from or have contracts with government departments and other public bodies; my brother-in-law owns Happy Computers, which also trades as Happy Ltd, and is paid by Parliament and government departments for training programmes; my step-son is a partner in an IT company, Pen Test Partners LLP which works in the public and private sectors; they have a number of contracts with parliament and various government departments either directly or through system integration companies; member's wife started on Monday 28 July 2014 as an associate consultant at the Education and Training Foundation (Foundation was funded by a grant from the former Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, now funded by Department for Education) and is working on projects at ETF directly funded by DfE to support the Prevent Duty for the training and education sector and on FE governance and leadership issues
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Co-President, West Midlands Finance and Industry Group
- President, Asian Guild (celebrating the contribution of Asian people to UK)
- President, Health Care Supply Association (purchasing/supply network across UK, with a range of educational programmes)
- President, Hospital Caterers Association
- Trustee, Foundation for Liver Research
- Trustee, Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Patron, Co-Gas Safety (a campaigning organisation)
- Patron, Consumer Safety International (a campaigning organisation)
- President, British Fluoridation Society
- Vice President, West Midlands Labour Finance & Industry Group
Lord Hunt of Wirral
Conservative
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Honorary Life Vice President, Association of Conservative Clubs
- Joint Chairman, International Tax and Investment Centre
- President (non-Director), Case Management Society UK
- Vice President, Holocaust Educational Trust
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Board Member, ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 (interest ceased 23 January 2020)
- Chair, CWC19 Risk and Finance Committee (interest ceased 23 January 2020)
- Director, Small Business Relief (BI) Limited
- Independent Member, Covid-19 Support Fund Committee
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Practising Solicitor and Partner since 1968, DAC Beachcroft LLP (international commercial law firm)
Category 1: Directorships
- Non-executive Director, Global Risk Partners Limited (global and specialty insurance acquisition and development)
- Non-executive Director, GRP MGA Holdco Limited (global and specialty insurance acquisition and development)
- Non-executive Director, Link Scheme Limited (business support services)
Lord Hussain
Liberal Democrat
Life peer
Category 7: Overseas visits
- Visit to Pakistan, 19-23 February 2020, with the APPG on Kashmir; cost of travel and accommodation met by the government of Pakistan
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Member, Board of Governors, Central Bedfordshire College, Dunstable
Baroness Hussein-Ece
Liberal Democrat
Life peer
Category 5: Land and property
- Flat in London Borough of Islington
Lord Hutton of Furness
Labour
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Adviser, Redington Ltd (investment consultants)
- Chair, Energy UK
- Occasional public speaking and conference appearances arranged through Specialist Speakers
- Senior Adviser, Newton Europe Ltd (specialists in operational improvement)
Category 1: Directorships
- Chairman and Director, Apartments for London (developer and provider of affordable housing in London)
- Chairman and Non-executive Director, GMET Nuclear Ltd (nuclear services and development company)
- Non-executive Director, Circle Holdings plc (healthcare)
- Non-executive Director, Sirius Minerals plc (interest ceased 17 March 2020)
- Non-executive Director, Total Decom Ltd (decommissioning conferences)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Panel member, Sir Oliver Letwin Review of Build-out Rates
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, International Air Cadet Training
Lord Hylton
Crossbench
Excepted Hereditary
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- President, PEOPLE (after-care of prisoners in Somerset)
- Vice President (formerly Director), Ammerdown Centre Ltd
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Member of Court, Bath University
Category 5: Land and property
- Family landholdings in Surrey
- Landholdings and farms in Somerset including residential properties
- Woodland in Somerset and personal farm business
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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List of All-Party Groups made up of MPs and Members of the Lords
Register of the financial interests of journalists accredited to the Parliamentary Press Gallery
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