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
- Honorary membership of Carlton Club, given by Carlton Club (London) Ltd, St James’s Street, London SW1
- 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 (interest ceased 28 February 2023)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Parliamentary Human Rights Trust
- Chair (formerly Chair-designate), United Nations Association - UK (UNA-UK)
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom
Conservative
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Non-executive Director, Gusbourne Estate Ltd (UK wine producer)
- 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)
- Fee received from Swiss Government for moderating discussion on Cyber Security at request of Swiss Embassy, 11 October 2022 (the member's earnings for this work fell within the £0 - £5,000 band)
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Electricity Resilience Ltd (strategic advice on resilience)
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Electricity Resilience Ltd (strategic advice on resilience)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Neuro-Bio Ltd (a biotechnology company)
Category 7: Overseas visits
- Visit to Rabat, Casablanca and Laayoune, Morocco, 1-5 May 2023, as guest of Moroccan Government for introductory meetings with ministers, politicians and businessmen; flights and accommodation paid for by Moroccan Foreign Ministry
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 (b)
- Member, Group Litigation Order (GLO) Compensation Scheme Advisory Board (advising Ministers on how best to manage delivery of Scheme resulting from Horizon scandal; appointed by Kevin Hollinrake MP, Minister with responsibility for Post Office)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- 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)
- Chairman, Nuffield Trust for the Forces of the Crown (registered charity)
- Chairman and Trustee, Airey Neave Trust
- President, PTSD Resolution (charity treating mental health issues for the armed forces and others)
Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare
Non-affiliated
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Novelist
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Artdeal Limited (art dealers)
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Artdeal Limited (art dealers)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- YouGov (market research and data analytics)
- Little Green Home Limited (organic, natural and non-toxic products) (interest ceased 18 April 2023)
- Snap HR Limited (formerly Circalit Limited) (literary)
- Homie Limited (rental accommodation)
- B J London Limited (jewellery) (interest ceased 5 December 2022)
- Playing Field (Theatre) Limited
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 (interest ceased 31 December 2022)
- Member, Steering Group, Gambling Policy and Research Unit, Behavioural Insight Team (in partnership with Cabinet Office)
- Member, Expert Advisory Group for Agenda and Changing Lives project in Northumberland and Tyne and Wear (exploring how services can be optimised to improve lives of women facing multiple complex needs)
- Chair, Advisory Group, North East Child Poverty Strategy Commission
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Consultant on Women's Work, Changing Lives (formerly Cyrenians (Tyneside and North East))
- A Vice Chair, Peers for Gambling Reform
- Trustee, GambleAware (charity)
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)
- Trustee, Certain family trusts
Lord Ashcombe
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- A Managing Director, Marsh Limited (insurance broker)
Lord Ashton of Hyde
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Smilepod Hygiene Ltd (dental services)
- British American Tobacco plc (international tobacco group)
Category 5: Land and property
- Farm and cottages in Gloucestershire owned jointly with wife, from which rental income is received
- Property in Eastbourne, Nottingham and Newcastle from which rental income is received
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- Honorary membership of Carlton Club, given by Carlton Club (London) Ltd, St James’s Street, London SW1
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
Viscount Astor
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Category 1: Directorships
- Ancroft Tractors Ltd (farm machinery dealer)
- Cliveden Securities Ltd (corporate financial advice)
- Silvergate Media Limited and Group (media rights)
- Director, Ross Holding Company LLC (finance)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Partner, Tarbert Estate Partnership (farm and sporting tenant)
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Cliveden Securities Ltd (corporate financial advice)
- Ancroft Tractors Ltd (farm machinery dealer)
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 Advisory Ltd (formerly Olive Tree Campaigns and Communications Ltd) (member’s own strategic consultancy company; income from the provision of consultancy advice in category 2 is paid through the company)
- Chair, Midland Heart (housing association)
- Non-executive Director, CP Plus Ltd (provides car parking services)
- Director, Olive Tree Media Limited (member’s own media company; income from the provision of media work in category 2 is paid through the company)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Member provides strategic consultancy advice to RCL Partners (investment advisers and managers to the Richardson family)
- Occasional journalism and media work; payments over the registration threshold have been received from News UK, The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph
- Columnist for The Jewish Chronicle
- Non-executive Director, Homes England (Government's housing and regeneration agency)
- Member provides strategic consultancy advice to Hineni Capital (private equity firm) and serves on its advisory board
- Chair, independent review into civil unrest in Leicester
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Olive Tree Advisory Ltd (formerly Olive Tree Campaigns and Communications Ltd) (member’s own strategic consultancy company)
- Olive Tree Media Limited (member’s own media company)
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Olive Tree Advisory Ltd (formerly Olive Tree Campaigns and Communications Ltd) (member’s own strategic consultancy company)
- Olive Tree Media Limited (member’s own media company)
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
- Corporation Member, Dudley College of Technology
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)
- Honorary President, Holocaust Learning UK (registered charity educating school students about the Holocaust and its impact)
- President, West Mercia Scout County
- Chair, Aston Villa Benevolent Fund (in which capacity the member is occasionally invited to attend football matches)
- Board Member, Dudley Academies Trust (nominated representative of Corporation of Dudley College of Technology (sponsor member))
Lord Bach
Labour
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Member of Court, University of Leicester (interest ceased 18 May 2023)
Lord Bailey of Paddington
Conservative
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Member, London Assembly, Greater London Authority
- Contributor and Panellist, GB News
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Governor, Future Academies, Pimlico, London
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, Baker-Dearing Educational Trust
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Liberal Democrat
Life peer
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
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
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Ambassador, The Almshouse Association
Lord Balfe
Conservative
Life peer
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- AstraZeneca (pharmaceuticals)
- GlaxoSmithKline (pharmaceuticals)
- Diageo (beverages)
- Unilever (consumer goods)
Category 9: Miscellaneous financial interests
- The member receives a pension from the European Parliament
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- 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)
- Fellow, Royal Statistical Society
Lord Bamford
Conservative
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- 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
- Director, JCB Service
- Director, JC Bamford Excavators Limited
- Director, JCB Research
- Director, JCB Farms Limited
- Director, JCB Earthmovers Limited
- Director, JC Bamford Investments
- Director, JCB Power Products Limited
- Director, JCB US Holdings Inc (interest ceased 8 February 2023)
- Director, JCB India Limited
- Director, Wootton Organic Wholesale Ltd
- Director, Bamford Collection Limited (formerly BHoldings Limited)
- Director, Bamford Limited
- Director, Editallied Limited (marine charter hire)
- Director, JCB Nano Technology Limited (dormant company)
- Director, A C Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Director, A P Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Director, C G Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Director, G H Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Director, J C Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Nano JCB Limited (dormant company)
- Director, JCB Sitewear Limited (dormant company)
- Director, JCB Mini Excavators Limited (dormant company)
- Director, JCB Dump Trucks Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Bamfords Limited (dormant company)
- Director, JCB Attachments Ltd (dormant company)
- Director, JCB Limited (dormant company)
- Director, A Bamford Trading Company Limited (dormant company)
- Director, JCB Groundcare Limited (dormant company)
- Director, JCB International Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Bamford Architecture Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Bamford Home Limited (dormant company)
- Director, JCB Equipment Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Daylesford Organic Limited (formerly Daylesford Limited)
- Director, Daylesford Organic Farms Ltd
- Director, JCB Green Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Director, JCB Hydrogen Energy Limited (dormant company)
- Director, JCB Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Bamford Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Bamford Green Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Director, JCB Group Holdings SARL
- Director, Hydrogen Equity Partners UK Limited (to provide investment advisory and portfolio management services, associated administrative services and to act as holding company for entities to be established as general partner for private equity funds) (interest ceased 20 July 2023)
- Director, Bamford Blue Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Bamford Gold Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Bamford Pure Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Director, JCB Hydrapower Limited (dormant company)
- Director, JCB Hydropower 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)
- C G Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- G H Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- J C Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Nano JCB Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Sitewear Limited (dormant company)
- Bamfords Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Dump Trucks Limited (dormant company)
- Editallied Limited
- JCB International Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Nano Technology Limited (dormant company)
- St Peter's Church, Daylesford, Charitable Trust
- JCB Research
- JCB Access Limited
- JCB Green Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Hydrogen Energy Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Green Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Hydrogen Equity Partners UK Limited
- Bamford Blue Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Gold Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Pure Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- HyCap FP SCSp (the carried interest partner in the HyCap Fund I SCSp; Hydrogen Equity Partners UK Limited is the sole shareholder of the General Partner of both HyCap FP SCSp and the HyCap Fund I SCSp)
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- JCB Research
- JCB Access Limited
- A C Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- A P Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Bamfords Limited (dormant company)
- C G Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Editallied Limited (marine charter hire)
- G H Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- J C Bamford Limited (dormant company)
- Nano JCB Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Nano Technology Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Green Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Hydrogen Energy Limited (dormant company)
- JCB Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Green Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Blue Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Gold Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
- Bamford Pure Hydrogen Limited (dormant company)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- JCB Deutschland GmbH
- Bamford Collection Limited (formerly BHoldings Limited)
- JCB US Holdings Inc
- Hydrogen Equity Partners UK Limited (to provide investment advisory and portfolio management services, associated administrative services and to act as holding company for entities to be established as general partner for private equity funds)
- HydraB Power Limited (to provide advisory and management services to its subsidiaries, acts as holding company for entities who develop renewable energy projects and transports and distributes low carbon hydrogen fuel)
Category 5: Land and property
- Residential and commercial properties in Gloucestershire, London and Staffordshire
- Property in Cabasson, France
Category 9: Miscellaneous financial interests
- HyCap FP SCSp (the carried interest partner in the HyCap Fund I SCSp; Hydrogen Equity Partners UK Limited is the sole shareholder of the General Partner of both HyCap FP SCSp and the HyCap Fund I SCSp)
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)
- Trustee, Bamford Charitable Foundation
- Trustee, Daylesford Foundation (interest ceased 21 June 2023)
- Trustee, Lord Bamford Charitable Foundation (formerly Sir Anthony Bamford Charitable Foundation)
- Director, St Peter's Church, Daylesford, Charitable Trust
- Trustee, J C Bamford Foundation
- Trustee, Joseph Cyril Bamford 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 7: Overseas visits
- Visit to Tokyo, Japan, 22-26 April 2023, to attend Global Conference of Parliamentarians on Population and Development Toward the 2023 G7 Hiroshima Summit (GCPPD2023) and visit local Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights projects; flights, four nights accommodation and per diem paid by Asian Population and Development Association and Asia Forum for Parliamentarians on Population and Development
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- President, National Association of Care Catering
- Board Member, UK-Japan 21st Century Group
- Trustee, GiveOut (charity)
- Ambassador, Albert Kennedy Trust
- Vice President, Peter Tatchell Foundation
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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