Register of Interests - Members of the House of Lords
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Baroness Anelay of St Johns
Conservative
Life peer
Category 5: Land and property
- Residential holding in Dorset
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- As a member of the All-Parliamentary Parliamentary Group for Iraq, the member receives invitations to lunch meetings and receives gifts under £300 in value, 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 Government of Iraq
- 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
- Honorary membership of Carlton Club, given by Carlton Club (London) Ltd, St James’s Street, London SW1
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Parliamentary Human Rights Trust
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom
Conservative
Life peer
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)
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 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Electricity Resilience Ltd (strategic advice on resilience)
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Electricity Resilience Ltd
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chairman, Advisory Board, Thales Group UK (aerospace, defence, security)
- Member, Advisory Board, Montrose Associates (strategic intelligence and advice)
Category 1: Directorships
- Chairman, Electricity Resilience Ltd (strategic advice on resilience)
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 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Artdeal Limited (art dealers)
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
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Artdeal Limited
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)
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Consultant on Women's Work, Changing Lives (formerly Cyrenians (Tyneside and North East))
- Trustee, Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales (interest ceased 31 December 2019)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Member, Advisory Board, GovNet Communications (publisher and event organiser) (interest ceased 31 March 2020)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Chair, Commission looking at the Needs of Vulnerable Women who have suffered from Neglect and Abuse (supported by AVA (Against Violence and Abuse) and AGENDA) (interest ceased 31 December 2019)
- Member, Strategic Group, Fulfilling Lives, Newcastle and Gateshead
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)
- Trustee, Certain family trusts
Lord Ashton of Hyde
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
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 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Ashton Charitable Trust
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Government Chief Whip, House of Lords (Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms)
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
Baroness Ashton of Upholland
Non-affiliated
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chair, Global Europe Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Member, Advisory Board, Project Associates Ltd (communications consultancy specialising in reputation and crisis management)
- Member, Advisory Group, GardaWorld Security
- Senior Adviser, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland
Category 1: Directorships
- Non-executive Director, De La Rue plc (currency and authentication solutions)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Member, Advisory Board, EUTOPIA European University Alliance
- Senior Policy Adviser, Chatham House
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Chancellor, Warwick University
Lord Astor of Hever
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
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
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- President, Durand Group (historical research)
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 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chairman, NewWaves Solutions Limited (marine and environmental services)
- Occasional consultancy for FIRST (international affairs organisation)
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 client: NewWaves Solutions Limited (see category 2))
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 5: Land and property
- Residential holdings in Oxfordshire
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Ancroft Tractors Ltd (farm machinery dealer)
- Cliveden Securities Ltd (corporate financial advice)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Partner, Tarbert Estate Partnership (farm and sporting tenant)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (c)
- Trustee, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, Berkshire
Earl Attlee
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
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
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
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 (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)
- Member, National Express Foundation (provides grants to charities, community groups and educational bodies in areas where National Express operates)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Member, Advisory Group of the Warwick Manufacturing Group, at the University of Warwick
- Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Israel
Lord Bach
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Director, Independent Custody Visitors Association
- Member of Court, University of Leicester
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
Lord Baker of Dorking
Conservative
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Deputy Chairman, Genting UK plc (leisure & gaming)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Chairman & Trustee (unpaid), Baker-Dearing Educational Trust
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chairman, Trilantic Capital Partners' European Merchant Banking Advisory Council (EMBAC)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Career Colleges Trust (educational charity) (interest ceased 4 March 2020)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (c)
- Trustee, Cartoon Art Trust
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Liberal Democrat
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- A Vice-President, Local Government Association
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Fellow, Yeovil College
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chair of the Trustees of the National Community Land Trust
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
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 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Honorary President, British Dietetic Association (BDA) (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) (interest ceased 31 October 2019)
- 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 4: Shareholdings (b)
- AstraZeneca (pharmaceuticals)
- Diageo (beverages)
- GlaxoSmithKline (pharmaceuticals)
- Unilever (consumer goods)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Committee Member, European Parliament Former Members Association (FMA)
Category 7: Overseas visits
- Visit to Istanbul, 27-29 October 2019, to attend the Bosphorus Summit; costs of air travel and accommodation met by the organiser
- Visit to Istanbul, Turkey, 20-23 October 2019, to participate in a conference organised by the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT); cost of flights and accommodation met by TRT
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Chairman, European Parliament Members' Pension Fund
Category 9: Miscellaneous financial interests
- The member receives a pension from the European Parliament
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)
- 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
- Wootton Organic Wholesale Ltd
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Director, Centre for Policy Studies Limited (think-tank)
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 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)
- 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 5: Land and property
- Property in Cabasson, France
- Residential and commercial properties in Gloucestershire, London and Staffordshire
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)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- BHoldings Limited
- JCB Deutschland GmbH
- JCB US Holdings Inc
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- President, Midlands Industrial Council
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 1: Directorships
- Director, Barker and Woodard Consulting Limited (strategic advice to charities, local authorities and companies engaged in charitable activities; income received from the member's work in this connection is paid to the company) (interest ceased 10 January 2020)
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- 50 per cent holding in Barker and Woodard Consulting Limited (see category 1) (interest ceased 10 January 2020)
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)
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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