Register of Interests - Members of the House of Lords
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Lord Palumbo of Southwark
Liberal Democrat
Leave of Absence - 18 August 2021
Nil
- On leave of absence; exempt from registration
Lord Pannick
Crossbench
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Practising member of the Bar
- Contributes occasional column on legal issues to newspapers
- The member received £5,000 in professional fees as a barrister from the Danish Customs and Tax Administration on 20 August 2021; a further £550,000 on 17 December 2021; a further £550,000 on 21 January 2022; and a further £82,500 on 24 June 2022
- The member received £140,000 in professional fees as a barrister from The Deposit Guarantee Fund of Ukraine, 10 June 2022
Category 5: Land and property
- Various properties (flats) in London (owned by wife) from which rental income is received
Category 9: Miscellaneous financial interests
- Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Bencher, Gray's Inn
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chairman, British Legal Friends of Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Lord Parekh
Labour
Life peer
Category 5: Land and property
- House in Kenton, Middlesex owned jointly with wife from which rental income is received
Category 10: Non-financial interests (c)
- Member of Court, University of Bedfordshire
- Member of Court, University of Hull
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Anne Frank Educational Trust
- Trustee, Rathbone Trust
- President, The Gandhi Foundation
- Trustee, Wells for India
Lord Parker of Minsmere
Crossbench
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Independent Non-executive Director, Babcock International Group (defence and security engineering services)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Lord Chamberlain of the Queen's Household
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Flitcham Limited
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Strategic advice given to Telicent (software start-up company) (unremunerated but member has share options)
- Director, Flitcham Limited (non-trading intellectual property company)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Visiting Professor, Northumbria University
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee and Director, The Royal Collection Trust (charity)
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
Conservative
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- A Lord in Waiting (Government Whip) and spokesperson on higher education business in House of Lords (interest as spokesperson ceased 30 September 2021)
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- Hospitality received from National Trust at dinner during Conservative Party Conference, 4 October 2021
- Gift of one ticket received from Lord Cruddas to Conservative Winter Party, Victoria and Albert Museum, 22 November 2021
- Two tickets received from Columbia Records to attend Harry Styles concert at Wembley Stadium, 18 June 2022
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Baroness Parminter
Liberal Democrat
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Charity Consultant (non-practising)
- Member, House of Lords Appointments Commission
Lord Patel of Bradford
Non-affiliated
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Chair and Director, Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chair, Social Work England
- Vice President, British Board of Film Classification
- Senior Independent Director (non-executive), Cygnet Health Care
- Chair, Independent Health Providers Network (IHPN)
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- KYA Global Ltd
- International Deaf Empowerment Foundation
- Community Innovations Enterprise Limited Liability Partnership
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Senior Partner, Community Innovations Enterprise Limited Liability Partnership (CIE LLP) (agency that provides research and service evaluation that promotes equality, human rights and inclusion)
- Director, KYA Global Ltd
- Co-chair, Breaking Barriers Innovations, (independent research programme to inform the improvement of public services)
- Adviser, Global Policy Institute, Queen Mary University, London
- Director, Parkplay Limited
- Director, KJS Opportunities Ltd (tech innovation company)
- Director and Chair, Areobic Technologies Limited (climate change food waste reduction company)
- Director, UK Inertia Business & Consulting Limited (sports, media and events advice and consultancy)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Dementia, University of Salford
- Vice President, Institute of Healthcare Management
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- President, Bradford Courts Chaplaincy Service (Bradford based charity providing support for those engaged in the criminal justice system)
- President, National Appropriate Adult Network (NAAN) (national organisation ensuring network of appropriate adults for children and vulnerable adults detained or interviewed by Police)
- President (formerly Vice President), Royal Society for Public Health
- Trustee, New Era Foundation and Director of associated company
- Trustee, International Deaf Empowerment Foundation and Director of associated company
Lord Patel
Crossbench
Life peer
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Emeritus Professor (formerly Professor of Obstetrics & Consultant Obstetrician, Ninewells Hospital), University of Dundee (retired)
- Member, UK-Israel Science Council
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Member, Advisory Board, Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG)
Lord Patten of Barnes
Conservative
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Non-executive Director, Russell Reynolds Associates Inc (company research) (interest ceased February 2022)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Member, European Advisory Board, Bridgepoint (private equity group) (interest ceased December 2021)
- Occasional income from writing and speaking engagements
- Adviser, Hutchison Europe (telecomms, property, transport)
- Member of Advisory Council of Vontobel Asset Management (fixed annual fee)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Chancellor, Oxford University
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- International Adviser, Praemium Imperiale, Japan Art Association
- Trustee, the Tablet Journal
Lord Patten
Conservative
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Senior Adviser, Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP (UK and European based private equity)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Lockheed Martin Corporation (global security company)
- Royal Dutch Shell plc (oil and gas)
- Vodafone Group plc (telecommunications)
- Legal and General (life assurance and asset management)
- Phoenix Group Holdings (closed life assurance funds consolidator)
- Persimmon plc (UK housebuilder)
- HSBC plc (global banking services)
- WPP plc (global advertising and communications services) (interest ceased 1 November 2021 - notified 13 April 2022)
Lord Paul
Non-affiliated
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Chairman & Director, Caparo Group Limited (UK holding company of UK based businesses involved in property, hotels and investments) (interest ceased 5 May 2022)
- Chairman & Director, Caparo Holdings (US) Limited (UK holding company of North American based manufacturing businesses) (interest ceased 5 May 2022)
- Chairman & Director, Caparo Holdings Canada Limited (UK holding company of Canadian based manufacturing businesses) (interest ceased 5 May 2022)
- Chairman & Director, Caparo Bull Moose Inc (US holding company of USA based manufacturing businesses) (interest ceased 29 April 2022)
- Director, Bull Moose Tube Co (US tubing manufacturer) (interest ceased 29 April 2022)
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Caparo Holdings (US) Limited
- Caparo Group Limited
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Together with Paul family members jointly and indirectly interested in the whole of the share capital of a number of businesses in UK and internationally; the shares are held through family trusts and principal businesses are: Caparo Group Limited (hotels and property); Caparo Holdings (US) Limited (manufacturing in North America); Caparo India Limited (conference and leisure centre in India); Caparo Engineering India Limited (manufacturing in India); Caparo Financial Solutions Limited (Indian non-banking financial company); Caparo Management SA (industrial products sales, warehousing and distribution in Middle East)
Category 5: Land and property
- Farmland, Buckinghamshire, from which rental income is received
- Two cottages, Buckinghamshire, from which rental income is received when tenanted
- Three apartments in Coppet, Switzerland, from which rental income is received when tenanted
Category 6: Sponsorship
- The member's PA is paid by Caparo plc and does some work in connection with the member's parliamentary duties
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Chancellor, University of Wolverhampton
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Chair of Trustees, Ambika Paul Foundation (charity)
Lord Pearson of Rannoch
Non-affiliated
Life peer
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- All shareholdings are managed by Rathbones and the member has no influence over any of the dealings although the following registrable shareholdings are held: First Property Group plc (property fund manager)
- Schroders plc (investment management)
Category 5: Land and property
- Deer forest and forestry in West Highlands of Scotland, including residential property
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Member of Council, The Freedom Association (non-partisan, centre-right, classically liberal campaign group)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Rannoch Charitable Trust
Earl Peel
Crossbench
Excepted Hereditary
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- International Public Partnerships
- HSBC 9.5 AC7373.72 EIS60EDIP 29/3/23 (interest ceased 18 May 2022)
- SG8 .15% EIS 60EDIP 15/1/24
- Citi 8.50 AC7550 EIS60DIP 23/7/25
- TR Property Investment Trust plc (property)
- Life Science REIT plc (real estate)
Category 5: Land and property
- Moorland and farms in North Yorkshire let on agricultural tenancies
- Residential property in North Yorkshire
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Vice President, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust
- A Permanent Lord in Waiting to the Royal Household
Lord Pendry
Non-affiliated
Life peer
Nil
- No registrable interests
Baroness Penn
Conservative
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- A Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip)
The Lord Bishop of Peterborough
Bishops
Bishops
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- In receipt of episcopal stipend
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Governor, Oakham School
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Vice President, Leprosy Mission
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
Crossbench
Leave of Absence - 31 December 2021
Nil
- On leave of absence; exempt from registration
Lord Pickles
Conservative
Life peer
Category 1: Directorships
- Director, Oakworth Services Limited (consultancy)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Chairman, Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA)
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Oakworth Services Limited
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Advisory Board member, Combat Anti-Semitism
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Prime Minister's Envoy for Post Holocaust Issues
Category 10: Non-financial interests (c)
- Co-chair, UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Chairman (House of Lords), Conservative Friends of Israel (PA support provided by CFI)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Vice President, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
- President, Enterprise Forum
- Trustee, The Holocaust Memorial Charitable Trust
- Member, Advisory Board, Community Security Trust (charity)
Baroness Pidding
Conservative
Life peer
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- Honorary membership of Stoke Park Club, Buckinghamshire
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Conservative Party Archives
- Member, General Committee and Membership Committee, The Carlton Club
Baroness Pinnock
Liberal Democrat
Life peer
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Elected Councillor, Kirklees Council
Category 5: Land and property
- House in Huddersfield, from which rental income is received
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Governor, Whitcliffe Mount School, Cleckheaton
- Council Member and Vice Chair of Council, University of Huddersfield
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
- Vice-President, Local Government Association
- Member (formerly President), Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Trustee, Scholes Village Shelter
- Trustee and Chair, Yorkshire Water Community Trust
- Trustee (formerly Director), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Ltd
- President, Guild of British Indians
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
Read the Code of Conduct and the standards expected of Members of the House of Lords in discharging their parliamentary and public duties
House of Lords code of Conduct
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
Register of Journalists' InterestsRegistration forms
Registration form for Members of the House of Lords
- Registration form for Members Microsoft Word (1.5 MB)
- Registration form for Members PDF version (170 KB)
Registration form for Members' staff