Register of Interests - Members of the House of Lords
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Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom
Conservative
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Chairman, Electricity Resilience Ltd (strategic advice on resilience)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chairman, Advisory Panel (formerly Advisory Board), Thales Group UK (aerospace, defence, security)
- Member, Advisory Board, Montrose Associates (strategic intelligence and advice)
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Electricity Resilience Ltd
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Electricity Resilience Ltd (strategic advice on resilience)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Neuro-Bio Ltd (a biotechnology company)
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- From time to time the member receives hospitality from the UK Defence Forum, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Defence and Security Issues which over the course of a calendar year may exceed £300 in value
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Non-executive Director, Gusbourne Estate Ltd (UK wine producer)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chairman and Trustee, Airey Neave Trust
- Chairman, Information Assurance Advisory Council (brings together public, private and other sectors to discuss and research strategic level information assurance issues)
- Chairman, Nuffield Trust for the Forces of the Crown (registered charity)
- Member, Board of Advisers of The Electric Infrastructure Security (EIS) Council (protection against severe geomagnetic storms and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) risks) (some travel and accommodation expenses covered)
Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare
Non-affiliated
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Member, William Archer Investors LLP (theatre investments)
- Novelist
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Artdeal Limited
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Artdeal Limited (art dealers)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- B J London Limited (jewellery)
- Homie Limited (rental accommodation)
- Little Green Home Limited (organic, natural and non-toxic products)
- Playing Field (Theatre) Limited
- Snap HR Limited (formerly Circalit Limited) (literary)
- William Archer Investors LLP (theatre investments)
- YouGov (market research and data analytics)
Category 5: Land and property
- Property in London from which rental income is received
- Urban property in Tyne & Wear and North Shields from which rental income is received
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Member, Strategic Group, Fulfilling Lives, Newcastle and Gateshead
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- A Vice Chair, Peers for Gambling Reform
- Consultant on Women's Work, Changing Lives (formerly Cyrenians (Tyneside and North East))
The Earl of Arran
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Member of Lloyd's: marine, non-marine, aviation; motors
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- President, CCHF All About Kids (formerly Children's Country Holidays Fund) (interest ceased 31 December 2019)
- Trustee, Certain family trusts
Lord Ashton of Hyde
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Government Chief Whip, House of Lords (Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- British American Tobacco plc (international tobacco group)
- Marsh Inc (insurance broking/financial services) (interest ceased 26 July 2020)
- Smilepod Hygiene Ltd (dental services)
- Smith and Nephew plc (medical technology)
- Vodafone Group plc (mobile communications) (interest ceased 26 July 2020)
Category 5: Land and property
- Farm and cottages in Gloucestershire owned jointly with wife, from which rental income is received
- Property in Eastbourne, Nottingham, Newcastle and Hinckley from which rental income is received
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Ashton Charitable Trust
Baroness Ashton of Upholland
Non-affiliated
Leave of Absence - 22 December 2020
Nil
- On leave of absence; exempt from registration
Lord Astor of Hever
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Category 1: Directorships
- Director, Roundwood Management Limited (trade and investment consultancy; company owned 100 per cent by member; income from category 2 interests is paid to Roundwood Management Limited; personal clients: NewWaves Solutions Limited (see category 2) and MARSS Group (see category 2))
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chairman, NewWaves Solutions Limited (marine and environmental services)
- Member, Advisory Board, MARSS Group (developing marine and land-based systems for asset protection and life-saving)
- Occasional consultancy for FIRST (international affairs organisation)
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Roundwood Management Limited (see category 1)
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Roundwood Management Limited (see category 1)
Category 5: Land and property
- Residential Property and woodlands (formerly Residential holdings and stables) in Kent
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- President, Durand Group (historical research)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Defence Secretary's Adviser for Military Co-operation with the Sultanate of Oman
- Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Oman
Category 10: Non-financial interests (c)
- Vice President of St George’s Church in Ypres
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Member, Chairman's Advisory Group, British-Kazakh Society
- Member, Regimental Council, The Life Guards (interest ceased 17 August 2020)
- President, Motor Sport Industry Association
- President, Thai-United Kingdom Business Council (organisation to promote Thai-UK business relations)
- Trustee, Astor of Hever Trust
Viscount Astor
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Category 1: Directorships
- Ancroft Tractors Ltd (farm machinery dealer)
- Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd (oil & gas)
- Cliveden Securities Ltd (corporate financial advice)
- Silvergate Media Limited (media rights)
- Vampire Squid Productions Limited (entertainment)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Partner, Tarbert Estate Partnership (farm and sporting tenant)
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Ancroft Tractors Ltd (farm machinery dealer)
- Cliveden Securities Ltd (corporate financial advice)
Category 5: Land and property
- Residential holdings in Oxfordshire
Category 10: Non-financial interests (c)
- Trustee, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, Berkshire
Earl Attlee
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- As a member of the All-Parliamentary Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces, the member receives invitations to breakfast and dinner briefings which during the course of the calendar year together amount to more than £300 in value and all of which are paid for by sources listed in the register of APPGs
Category 10: Non-financial interests (c)
- President, The Thornycroft Register (organisation for owners of Thornycroft Vehicles in varying states of preservation)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Patron, Steamship Freshspring Society; attends Trustees meetings
Lord Austin of Dudley
Non-affiliated
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Director, Olive Tree Campaigns and Communications Ltd (member’s own media and strategic consultancy company; income from the provision of consultancy advice and media work in category 2 is paid through the company)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chair, Mainstream - the campaign against extremism
- Member provides strategic consultancy advice to RCL Partners (investment advisers and managers to the Richardson family)
- Occasional journalism and media work
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Olive Tree Campaigns and Communications Ltd
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Olive Tree Campaigns and Communications Ltd
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Corporation Member, Dudley College of Technology
- Member, Advisory Group of the Warwick Manufacturing Group, at the University of Warwick
- Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Israel
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Member, Steering Committee of West Midlands Friends of Israel (grassroots group in the West Midlands promoting links between the UK and Israel)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Honorary President, Holocaust Learning UK (registered charity educating school students about the Holocaust and its impact)
- Member, National Express Foundation (provides grants to charities, community groups and educational bodies in areas where National Express operates)
- President, West Mercia Scout County
Lord Bach
Labour
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Director, Independent Custody Visitors Association
- Member of Court, University of Leicester
Lord Baker of Dorking
Conservative
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Deputy Chairman, Genting UK plc (leisure & gaming)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chairman, Trilantic Capital Partners' European Merchant Banking Advisory Council (EMBAC)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Chairman & Trustee (unpaid), Baker-Dearing Educational Trust
Category 10: Non-financial interests (c)
- Trustee, Cartoon Art Trust
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Liberal Democrat
Life peer
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- The member received a payment above the registration threshold towards her expenses during the Covid-19 pandemic from the Liberal Democrat parliamentary group, 31 July 2020
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Fellow, Yeovil College
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- A Vice-President, Local Government Association
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- A Vice Chair, Peers for Gambling Reform
- Chair of the Trustees of the National Community Land Trust
Baroness Bakewell
Labour
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Broadcaster: freelance radio and television
- Public speaker
- Writer, journalist and novelist
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- President, Birkbeck, University of London
Lord Balfe
Conservative
Life peer
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- AstraZeneca (pharmaceuticals)
- Diageo (beverages)
- GlaxoSmithKline (pharmaceuticals)
- Unilever (consumer goods)
Category 9: Miscellaneous financial interests
- The member receives a pension from the European Parliament
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Chairman, European Parliament Members' Pension Fund
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- President (formerly Vice President), British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) (TUC-registered Trade Union) (the role is unpaid, but the union meets certain travel and accommodation costs incurred by the member when on union business)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Committee Member, European Parliament Former Members Association (FMA)
Lord Bamford
Conservative
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- A Bamford Trading Company Limited (dormant company)
- A C Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- A P Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Architecture Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Green Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Home Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Limited
- Bamfords Limited (dormant company)
- BHoldings Limited
- C G Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Daylesford Organic Farms Ltd
- Daylesford Organic Limited (formerly Daylesford Limited)
- Director, Companies within the JCB Group (see below); the JCB Group designs, manufactures and sells a comprehensive range of excavating, earthmoving, materials handling and agricultural machines and provides after sales service and supply of parts for those machines in construction, agricultural and industrial markets
- Editallied Limited
- G H Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Hydrogen Equity Partners UK Limited
- J C Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- JC Bamford Excavators Limited
- JC Bamford Investments
- JCB Attachments Ltd (dormant company)
- JCB Dump Trucks Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Earthmovers Limited
- JCB Equipment Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Farms Limited
- JCB Green Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Groundcare Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Group Holdings SARL
- JCB Hydrogen Energy Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- JCB India Limited
- JCB International Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Mini Excavators Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Nano Technology Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Power Products Limited
- JCB Research
- JCB Service
- JCB Sitewear Limited (dormant company)
- JCB US Holdings Inc
- Nano JCB Limited (dormant company)
- Transmissions & Engineering Services Netherlands BV (interest ceased 16 April 2021)
- Wootton Organic Wholesale Ltd
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- A C Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- A P Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Green Hydrogen (dormant company)
- Bamford Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamfords Limited (dormant company)
- C G Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Editallied Limited
- G H Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Hydrogen Equity Partners UK Limited
- J C Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Access Limited
- JCB Dump Trucks Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Green Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Hydrogen Energy Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- JCB International Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Nano Technology Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Research
- JCB Sitewear Limited (dormant company)
- Nano JCB Limited (dormant company)
- St Peter's Church, Daylesford, Charitable Trust
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- A C Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- A P Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Green Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamfords Limited (dormant company)
- C G Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Editallied Limited
- G H Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- J C Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Access Limited
- JCB Green Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Hydrogen Energy Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Nano Technology Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Research
- Nano JCB Limited (dormant company)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- BHoldings Limited
- Hydrogen Equity Partners UK Limited
- JCB Deutschland GmbH
- JCB US Holdings Inc
Category 5: Land and property
- Property in Cabasson, France
- Residential and commercial properties in Gloucestershire, London and Staffordshire
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Director, Centre for Policy Studies Limited (think-tank)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- President, Midlands Industrial Council
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Director, St Peter's Church, Daylesford, Charitable Trust
- Trustee, Bamford Charitable Foundation
- Trustee, Daylesford Foundation
- Trustee, J C Bamford Foundation
- Trustee, Joseph Cyril Bamford Foundation
- Trustee, Lord Bamford Charitable Foundation (formerly Sir Anthony Bamford Charitable Foundation)
Lord Barker of Battle
Conservative
Leave of Absence - 27 February 2019
Nil
- On leave of absence; exempt from registration
Baroness Barker
Liberal Democrat
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Self-employed Management Consultant, trading name: Third Sector Business (income received from the member's work in this connection is paid to Third Sector Business)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Ambassador, Albert Kennedy Trust
- Board Member, UK-Japan 21st Century Group
- President, National Association of Care Catering
- Trustee, GiveOut (charity)
- Vice President, Peter Tatchell Foundation
Baroness Barran
Conservative
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Minister for Civil Society and DCMS)
Lord Barwell
Conservative
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Director, Gavin Barwell Consulting Limited (provides advice on current affairs and UK public policy specialising on housing)
- Non-executive Director, Clarion Housing Group
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Speaking engagement, 22 October 2020, virtual event for Jersey Society of Chartered and Certified Accountants
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Gavin Barwell Consulting Limited
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Gavin Barwell Consulting Limited (advice on current affairs)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Member, Advisory Board, The Work Foundation (think-tank)
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
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