Register of Interests - Members of the House of Lords
- Writer of regular weekly articles for Daily Post newspaper (North Wales news) Occasional income from broadcasting for BBC, ITV and independent broadcasters
- 6 acres of land near Caernarfon from which rental income is received
- Part share in a flat, Cardiff
- Director, Gwernafalau Cyf (designers of medical equipment)
- Trustee, Sir Kyffin Williams Trust, Llangefni
- Vice President, Local Government Association
- Vice President, MENCAP
- Member, Local Government Association City Regions Board (interest ceased 31 July 2020)
- Teacher (non-practising)
- Appointed by National Executive Committee of Labour Party to panel to investigate leak of confidential party document
- Director, Gaer Community Network
- Vice-President, Local Government Association
- Chair, Verditek plc (clean energy technologies)
- Director and sole owner, Marchmount Executive Services Limited
- Director, Thames Holdings Ltd (company promoting education links between UK and China (unremunerated until 1 July 2020)
- Member of the Board, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
- Non-executive Director, SatixFy UK (communications technology company)
- Non-executive Director, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (a company manufacturing satellites)
- Non-executive Director, Tekcapital plc (investment group focused on creating market value from university technology) (member has share options)
- Non-executive Director, The Biotech Growth Trust plc (venture capital fund investing in life sciences)
- Executive Chair, The Resolution Foundation, (think-tank)
- In receipt of royalties from writing books
- Member, Advisory Board of Open Classrooms (education technology) (member has share options)
- Occasional journalism
- Occasional lectures and presentations
- Senior Adviser to Skyrora (space technology company; income from this work is paid to Marchmount Executive Services Ltd)
- Speaking engagement (delivered by video), 9 July 2020, 2020 Sino-UK Innovation Partnership Summit, Nanjing, China
- Strategic Adviser to 2U (a company based in America which delivers on-line degree programmes; income from this work is paid to Marchmount Executive Services Limited) (interest ceased 3 September 2020)
- The member expects to receive an income as Chairman of the Eight Great Technologies Investment Fund of which Farm Street Partners are the designated investment manager; Farm Street Partners do not employ the member but are providing financial support for the start-up costs of the Fund, including payment of expenses for the member for his work in securing commercial funding for the enterprise
- The member receives fees from participation in BBC broadcasts which collectively may exceed the registration threshold over the course of a calendar year
- Marchmount Executive Services Limited
- Marchmount Executive Services Limited (100 per cent owner: see category 1)
- Sirius Constellation Limited (see category 10(a))
- Vantix Diagnostics Inc (formerly Vantix Limited) (company developing biosensors)
- A flat in West London
- Board Member, President’s Advisory Committee, Royal Society
- Director, Konigswinter Steering Committee
- Director, Sirius Constellation Limited
- Member, Raspberry Pi Foundation (registered charity; computer science education)
- Chancellor, University of Leicester
- Visiting Professor, King’s College, London (remunerated until 3 September 2020)
- Chair, Foundation of Science and Technology
- Co-Chair, Pontignano Conference
- Governor, Pensions Policy Institute
- Trustee, Man Booker Prize
- Minister of State, Home Office
- Flat in London NW1
- Chair, Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration Strategy Board
- Chairman, National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for Yorkshire and Humber (CLAHRC YH) (interest ceased 1 April 2020)
- Consultant, Health Education England
- Consultant, Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Council Member, Natural Environment Research Council (interest ceased 1 April 2020)
- Flat in London SE11
- House in York YO23
- Chairman, Talent Retention Solution Employers Group
- Chairman, S.M.Theatre Limited
- 77 Warrington Crescent Limited
- S.M.Theatre Limited
- S.M.Theatre Limited
- Amazon.com Inc (retail)
- Arable and grass farm in Warwickshire/Gloucestershire, including commercial lettings
- Residential property in London from which rental income is received
- Director and President, Moreton Morrell Tennis Court Company Limited
- Director, 77 Warrington Crescent Limited (company responsible for the care and maintenance of four flats in 77 Warrington Crescent, London)
- Governor (Hon), Royal Shakespeare Company
- Director, Eggz Limited (mobile entertainment company) (member's company owned 50 per cent by member and 50 per cent by member's wife)
- Eggz Limited
- Eggz Limited (mobile entertainment company) (see category 1)
- Member and wife have interests in a SIPP but no identifiable holding in the SIPP is of registrable value
- The member with his wife have investments in CFIC Loudwater Fund managed by Loudwater Investment Partners
- The member with his wife have investments in the CF Ruffer Absolute Return Fund
- Commercial premises in London owned jointly with wife from which rental income is received
- House in North London owned jointly with wife from which rental income is received (interest ceased 20 July 2020)
- Property in Haute-Savoie region of France owned jointly with wife from which rental income is received
- The member is currently working with a number of institutions, including charities, local authorities and institutions of higher education, on schemes to encourage and help the entry into higher education of young persons who are leaving care (“care leavers”)
- President of the Wiltshire Association of Local Councils (unpaid)
- Member of Advisory Council (unpaid), Transparency International UK (non-governmental anti-corruption organisation)
- Patron, The Harbour Project (supports asylum seekers in Swindon)
- Fees for occasional lecturing, mainly for University of Cambridge, including Judge Business School (formerly Judge Institute of Management Studies) and Moller Centre
- Chairman, Blue Lion Limited (owned by Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
- Chairman of the Friends of Kettle’s Yard (charity which falls within the ambit of the University of Cambridge) (interest ceased 25 September 2020)
- Chairman, Ely Cathedral Council
- In receipt of episcopal stipend
- Residential holdings in Oxfordshire
- Governor, Winchester University
- Chairman and Trustee, Anglican Missioners of Africa Development and Education Trust
- Trustee, Bishop of Winchester's Uganda Church Trust
- Director, Kayplot Limited (broadcasting/journalism)
- Startransfer Limited (biotechnology company)
- Adviser, Norton Lifelock Pandemic Parenting Campaign; remunerated by David J Edelman Ltd (software for protection of children from online harms)
- Author of Books for adults on popular science and medicine
- Author of Children’s book on science and consultant, Dorling Kindersley publishers
- Member, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Occasional journalism for national newspapers
- Occasional Radio and TV presenting
- Occasional remuneration for public lectures
- Professor, Science and Society, Imperial College London
- Regular speaking engagements at festivals, conferences and dinners
- Atazoa Limited
- Kayplot Limited
- Startransfer Limited
- Kayplot Limited (broadcasting/journalism)
- Startransfer Limited (biotechnology company)
- Adviser, The Essential Parent Company Ltd
- Director, Atazoa Limited (genetic engineering)
- Director, Chairman and Trustee, Genesis Research Trust (scientific research)
- Director, Dream Learners Limited
- Director, The British Neurological Research Trust
- Director, The UK Stem Cell Foundation
- Development Committee Member, Imperial College London
- Co-Chairman, British-Israel Science Council
- Vice President (formerly Chairman), Royal College of Music
- Occasional journalism (multiple sources)
- Professor of Public Sector Management, King's College, University of London (currently seconded to Number 10 Policy Unit three days a week as an expert adviser on skills and workforce)
- Royalties from books published by Penguin-Random House
- Royal Dutch Shell plc (oil and gas)
- Part-owner (with husband and children) of a flat in London NW3 from which rental income is received
- Academic Member of Council, King's College, London
- Governor, King's College London Mathematics School
- President, Somerville Association
- Trustee, Abbeyfield (Newbury) Society
- Director, Next plc (general clothing and homewares retailer)
- Non-executive Director, Deliveroo (food delivery company)
- Chief Executive, Next plc (general clothing and homewares retailer)
- ADC Therapeutics (clinical-stage oncology drug discovery and development company)
- Agrifirma Brazil Ltd (investing in unproductive/unforested land in Brazil for conversion into agricultural land; and farming of such land) (interest ceased 14 July 2020)
- Legal & General Group plc (financial services) (interest ceased 7 January 2021)
- Next plc ((general clothing and homewares retailer)
- Pembroke Venture Capital Trust
- Superdry plc (clothing)
- Tokamak Energy Limited (formerly Tokamak Solutions UK Limited) (fusion research)
- Holiday home in Cornwall owned jointly with siblings
- Chairman, Open Europe (interest ceased 14 July 2020)
- Trustee, Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust
- Trustee, Policy Exchange
- Barrister in the Chambers of Lord Grabiner, QC at One Essex Court, Temple, London (non-practising)
- Jewish Chronicle Trust Limited (dissolved) (Jewish Chronicle newspaper) (interest ceased 19 January 2021)
- Traders Tools Limited (User interface of financial applications)
- Residential property (owned by wife) in London (NW11, EC1M), Switzerland and Israel from which rental income is received
- Director, Benesco Charity Limited (a company limited by guarantee without share capital) (property investment) (unremunerated, but member may nominate charities to receive donations from the charitable funds)
- Director, Jewish Chronicle Trust Limited (dissolved) (Jewish Chronicle newspaper) (interest ceased 19 January 2021)
- LLP member (as investor), Cobalt Data Centre 2 LLP (construction of data centre)
- Bencher, Inner Temple
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice
- Trustee, Cambridge University Jewish Society (interest ceased 8 January 2021)
- Trustee, Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (UK)
- Director, Henderson Diversified Income Trust
- Director, Good Law Project Limited
- Emeritus Fellow in Politics, Magdalen College, Oxford University
- Fellow in Practice, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
- Board Member, English Stage Company (Royal Court Theatre)
- Chair, United Nations Association (UK)
- Member of Board, Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission
- Non-executive Director, UIA (Insurance) Ltd (insurance company for trade union members)
- Arbitrator, Mediator, legal consultant and expert (practising from Blackstone Chambers)
- Income from time to time for speeches, lectures, writing articles and contributing to books (including editing) on legal subjects
- Bradmore Investments Limited
- Bradmore Investments Limited
- Bencher, Gray's Inn
- President or Chairman of numerous voluntary bodies working in the areas of prisons, justice and interfaith organisations (e.g. The Woolf Institute)
- Director, Youth Futures Foundation Ltd (tackling youth unemployment)
- Non-executive Board Member, Convivia Ltd (property developers)
- Adviser, Co-Op Think Tank (youth employment)
- CEO, Operation Black Vote Ltd
- Residential property in London E17 from which rental income is received
- Director, Police Now Ltd and Police Now Enterprises Ltd (independent social enterprise)
- In receipt of episcopal stipend
- The member receives an annual honorarium as President and Senior Non-executive Director, Woodard Corporation
- Property in Cambridgeshire
- Property in Herefordshire
- Trust Protector, Common Purpose
- Trustee and Chair of Council, Archbishop of Canterbury’s Examination in Theology
- Trustee, Saltley Trust
- Visitor, Community of the Holy Name
- Visitor, Mucknell Abbey
- Co-Director, Quadrature Climate Foundation
- The member receives research assistance from Peers for the Planet Ltd in her role as co-chair of the Peers for the Planet parliamentary group
- Unpaid non-executive Director, Sandbag Climate Campaign CIC (not-for-profit community interest company)
- Joint Chair, Peers for the Planet (cross-party parliamentary group) and director of the associated company
- Trustee, WWF-UK and Director of associated company
- Director, Durham Group Estates Ltd
- Director, Durham Group Investments Ltd
- Director, Northern Corporate Finance Ltd (non-trading)
- Director, Rudchester Estates Ltd (non-trading)
- Director, TRNKLD (Holdings) Ltd (property)
- Durham Group Estates Ltd (commercial property company)
- Durham Group Investments Ltd (commercial property company)
- Northern Corporate Finance Ltd (non-trading)
- Rudchester Estates Ltd (non-trading)
- Caspian Learning Ltd (company providing financial analysis using artificial intelligence)
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