Register of Interests - Members of the House of Lords

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Chairman, Spearfish Security Limited
Non-executive Director, MCM Solutions (extraction and management of data from digital and non-digital sources)
Member, Advisory Board, Kraken Technology Group Ltd (provides precision design, advanced engineering and technological innovation to performance marine market)

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

Security Exhibitions Ltd
Response Exhibitions Ltd
Spearfish Security Ltd

Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality

As a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces the member attends regular meetings at which the value of the hospitality received over the course of a calendar year exceeds the registration threshold of £300
As a member of the House of Lords Defence Group the member attends regular meetings at which the value of the hospitality received over the course of a calendar year exceeds the registration threshold of £300

Lord Wharton of Yarm

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Director, GBMW Ltd (member's company providing strategic and management advice, and running his private office) (member draws ad hoc dividends); current clients are Aquind Ltd (electricity transmission), Cenergist (energy solutions), Eversleigh LLP (property), Heartland Solutions Group Inc (strategic consultancy), Parking Places Ltd (property), Policy Exchange Ltd (think tank), Squire Patton Boggs LLP (law firm), Iogen Corporation (green fuel), Northpoint Strategy Ltd (provides strategic communications and PA advice), RU Consulting (business consultancy), RTC Education Ltd (education provider) and Total Care and Support Limited (utilities construction company)
Chair, Office for Students (independent regulator) (part-time) (interest ceased 9 July 2024)
Chair and Director, Northpoint Strategy Ltd (provides strategic communications and PA advice) (unremunerated but dividends may be received)

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)

GBMW Ltd (member's company providing strategic and management advice, and running his private office)
Secure Energy Limited (proposal to develop liquefied natural gas and hydrogen terminal)

Baroness Wheatcroft

Crossbench

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Freelance journalism including regular column for The New European
Chair, Appointments and Oversight Committee of the Financial Times
Speaking engagement, 14 November 2024, Signum Global Advisors, London

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

Stellantis NV (formerly Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV)
Ferrari NV (luxury sports car manufacturer)

Category 3: Land and property

Flat in London SE13 from which rental income is received

Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality

Party to a legal challenge against the Government for alleged failure to investigate foreign state interference in the UK’s democratic process, which has been crowd funded by The Citizens (For The Citizens Limited is a non-profit organisation registered as a UK limited company)
Hospitality with husband received from Global Radio for Classic FM concert at Royal Albert Hall, 21 October 2024

Baroness Wheeler

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Government Deputy Chief Whip (Captain of The King’s Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard)

Baroness Whitaker

Nil

No registrable interests

Lord Whitby

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Chairman and Director, Skeldings Ltd (springs, pressings, tools)
Non-executive Chairman, Made in the Midlands Ltd
Chairman, Eco Removal Systems Ltd
Director, Harborne Consultancy Midlands Limited (member's own company; clients are listed in category 1)
President, Surface Engineering Association
Strategic Adviser, Gem Limited (heating systems)

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)

Skeldings Ltd (springs, pressings, tools) (see category 1)
Harborne Consultancy Midlands Limited (member's own company) (see category 1)

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

Eco Removal Systems Ltd

Lord Whitty

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Non-executive Director, The Water Retail Company
Member, Advisory Committee on Business Appointments

Category 4: Sponsorship

The member also receives assistance from Peers for the Planet Ltd in his role as Director for the Peers for the Planet Group

Lord Wigley

Plaid Cymru

Baroness Wilcox of Newport

Category 3: Land and property

Part share in a flat, Cardiff
6 acres of land near Caernarfon from which rental income is received

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Appointed by National Executive Committee of Labour Party to panel to investigate leak of confidential party document
Commissioner, South Wales Fire and Rescue Authority (one of four appointed by Welsh Government to oversee running of service)

Lord Willetts

Baroness Williams of Trafford

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Non-executive Director, The Biotech Growth Trust plc (venture capital fund investing in life sciences)
President, The Resolution Foundation (think-tank)
Visiting Professor, King’s College, London
Director and sole owner, Marchmount Executive Services Limited
Occasional journalism
Occasional lectures and presentations
In receipt of royalties from writing books
Member, Advisory Board of Open Classrooms (education technology) (member has share options) (interest ceased 17 May 2025)
Director, Thames Holdings Ltd (promoting education and life sciences links with China)
Non-executive Director, Tekcapital plc (investment group focused on creating market value from technologies) (member has share options)
Non-executive Director, SatixFy UK (communications technology company)
Non-executive Director, Darktrace Limited (cyber security) (interest ceased 1 October 2024)
Chair, UK Space Agency Board
Strategic Adviser, HighTide (pharmaceutical company) (remunerated via contract with Thames Holdings Ltd)
Non-executive Director, SatixFy Communications Ltd (parent company of SatixFy UK; communications technology company)
Speaking engagements, 11 and 17 June 2024, Global Issues Dialogue Centre, Jesus College, Cambridge
Speaking engagement, 18 June 2024, presentation to Board of Aviva plc, Horsham (fee donated to The Resolution Foundation)
Chair, Gen IP (company assessing value of new technologies)
Chair, Regulatory Innovation Office, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)

Marchmount Executive Services Limited (100 per cent owner: see category 1)

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

Vantix Diagnostics Inc (formerly Vantix Limited) (company developing biosensors)
Sirius Constellation Limited
Darktrace Ltd (cyber security) (interest ceased 1 October 2024)
SynBioVen Limited

Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality

Visit to California, 5-8 May 2025, to attend the SynBioBeta conference; flights and accommodation costs paid by SynBiCITE, a Synthetic Biology centre at Imperial College, London.
Attended Ecole Polytechnique Ball, 16 May 2025, Paris (guest of OHB)

Lord Willis of Knaresborough

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Government Chief Whip, House of Lords (Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms) (interest ceased 5 July 2024)
In receipt of salary as Opposition Chief Whip in House of Lords

Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality

Honorary membership of Carlton Club, given by Carlton Club (London) Limited, St James's Street, London SW1

Liberal Democrat

Baroness Willis of Summertown

Category 3: Land and property

House in York YO23
Flat in London SE11

Crossbench

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Non-executive Director, Natural Capital Research Limited (provides bespoke models, tools and datasets to measure, map and enhance aspects of nature (natural capital assets) that provide societal benefits)
Principal and Pro-Vice Chancellor (without portfolio), St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Professor of Biodiversity, Department of Biology, University of Oxford

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

Natural Capital Research Limited (provides bespoke models, tools and datasets to measure, map and enhance aspects of nature (natural capital assets) that provide societal benefits)

Category 4: Sponsorship

The member receives research assistance from Peers for the Planet Ltd in her role as chair of the Peers for the Planet parliamentary group

Lord Wills

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Director, Eggz Limited (mobile entertainment company) (member's company owned 50 per cent by member and 50 per cent by member's wife)

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)

Eggz Limited (mobile entertainment company) (see category 1)

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

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 Vanneck Equity Fund (formerly CFIC Loudwater Fund managed by Loudwater Investment Partners)
The member with his wife have investments in the CF Ruffer Absolute Return Fund

Category 3: Land and property

Commercial premises in London owned jointly with wife from which rental income is received

Lord Wilson of Dinton

Crossbench

Lord Wilson of Sedgefield

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Fees for occasional lecturing, mainly for University of Cambridge, including Judge Business School, Department of Economics, Moller Institute and Institute for Manufacturing

The Lord Bishop of Winchester

Category 3: Land and property

Property in Teesside from which rental income is received (property owned by wife; rental income received jointly)

Bishops

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

In receipt of episcopal stipend

Lord Winston