Register of Interests - Members of the House of Lords
- Director, Next plc (general clothing and homewares retailer and parent company of Next Group of companies)
- Chief Executive, Next plc (general clothing and homewares retailer)
- Director, Brecon Debt Recovery Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Lipsy Limited (retailing of ladies' and men's fashion brands)
- Director, Next Beauty Limited (formerly Marie Claire Beauty Limited (retailer of beauty products)
- Director, Next Brand Limited (investment company)
- Director, The Next Directory Limited (non-trading company)
- Director, Next Distribution Limited (operation of warehousing and distribution of clothing and home furnishing products on behalf of Next Group plc)
- Director, Next Europe & North Africa Morocco SARL (product design and development business)
- Director, Next Europe & North Africa Tunisia SARL (product design and development business)
- Director, Next Financial Services Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Next Holdings Limited (intermediary holding company)
- Director, Next Group plc (intermediary holding company)
- Director, Next Near East Limited (non-trading company)
- Director, Next-E-NA Portugal Unipessoal LDA (product design and development business)
- Director, Next Retail Limited (retailing of clothing, homewear, accessories, fashion jewellery, beauty products and finance business offering credit to customers)
- Director, Next Sourcing (UK) Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Paige Group Limited(The) (dormant company)
- Director, Next Manufacturing Limited (manufacture of furniture)
- Director, Ventura Network Distribution Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Ventura Group Limited (dormant company)
- Director, Pink Topco Limited (holding company of Reiss fashion retailing business) (interest ceased 27 January 2025 - notified 12 May 2025)
- Agratech Limited (product design and development business)
- Director, The Harborough Hare Ltd (retailer of clothing)
- Director, The Harborough Hare Holding Ltd (holding company)
- Director, Pink Holdco Limited (holding company of Reiss fashion retailing business)
- Director, Bridgetown Holdco Limited (holding company of Fatface fashion retailing business)
- Director, FatFace Limited (retail sale of clothing in stores)
- Director, Fulham Parent Limited (holding company)
- Director, Fat Face Holdings Limited (holding company for FatFace Group)
- Director, FatFace Group Borrowings Limited (holding company for FatFace Group)
- Next plc (general clothing and homewares retailer)
- Tokamak Energy Limited (formerly Tokamak Solutions UK Limited) (fusion research)
- ADC Therapeutics (clinical-stage oncology drug discovery and development company)
- National Grid plc (energy)
- Practising barrister at One Essex Court, London
- Chair, Football Regulatory Authority (part of The Football Association; any remuneration received will be donated to charity for retired players who have fallen on hard times)
- LLP member (as investor), Cobalt Data Centre 2 LLP (construction of data centre)
- Traders Tools Limited (User interface of financial applications)
- Residential property in London (NW11, EC1M), Margate, Switzerland and Israel from which rental income is received
- Visit to Paris, 16 December 2024, to attend "E3 - Israel strategic dialogue", travel and accommodation costs met by Elnet (organisers)
- Director, Good Law Project Limited (interest ceased 31 August 2024)
- Senior Adviser on public policy issues to Bradshaw Advisory Ltd (consultancy) (interest ceased 31 January 2025)
- Lecturer, University of Virginia in London
- Lecturer, New York University in London
- Member, Advisory Board, Cera (digital home care company) (unremunerated but member receives shares)
- The member receives fees from participation in BBC current affairs programmes which collectively may exceed the registration threshold over the course of a calendar year
- Non-executive Director, Bradshaw Advisory Ltd (economics consultancy)
- Consultant, Embignell Limited (holding company whose main subsidiary, Union Income Benefit Holdings Limited, is engaged in insurance, prepaid card services and print management services)
- Income from time to time for speeches, lectures, writing articles and contributing to books (including editing) on legal subjects
- Arbitrator, Mediator, legal consultant and expert (practising from Blackstone Chambers)
- LLP Member, West Bar BPRA LLP
- Solar Dividend Limited (production of electricity)
- Solar Growth Limited (renewable energy)
- Director, Youth Futures Foundation Ltd (tackling youth unemployment)
- Principal, Homerton College, University of Cambridge
- Non-executive director, Co-operative Group Limited
- Woodford Eurasia Assets Ltd (trading as Woodford Finances) (financial services) (interest ceased 26 November 2024)
- Leadership Works Ltd (company owned 100% by member)
- Residential property in London E17 from which rental income is received
- On leave of absence; exempt from registration
- Director, Durham Group Estates Ltd
- Director, Northern Corporate Finance Ltd (non-trading)
- Director, TRNKLD (Holdings) Ltd (property)
- Northern Corporate Finance Ltd (non-trading)
- Consultant, Torrance Yachts Ltd (yacht brokerage)
- The Natural Burial Company Limited
- Noble Rot Fine Wine Limited
- Agricultural land and woodland around Perton, Staffordshire
- Wrottesley Park Natural Burial Ground, near Perton, Staffordshire
- Member was part of UK Parliamentary ski team participating in annual race against Swiss MPs in Davos, Switzerland, 3-5 January 2025 and prize giving reception offered by British Embassy in Bern; member paid his own travel and accommodation costs; ski pass for one day of competition was supplied by Skigruppe der Bundesversammlung Schweizerischen (ski group of Swiss Federal Assembly)
- Guest of National Rifle Association on 26 July 2024 as participant in House of Lords vs House of Commons target rifle match at Bisley for the Vizianagram trophy; target shooting, professional instruction and lunch were provided
- Board member, Ofsted
- Senior Adviser, AGL Communication (communications consultancy; member carries out freelance work on a project basis advising on communications strategy and presentation)
- Ticket and hospitality received from Bestway Wholesale to attend Royal Ascot meeting, Ascot Racecourse, 20 June 2025
- In receipt of archiepiscopal stipend
- House in Ripon, from which rental income is received
- General Secretary, The Free Speech Union
- Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Sceptic
- Associate Editor and columnist, The Spectator
- Associate Editor and columnist, The Critic
- Freelance contributor, GB News
- Freelance contributor, BBC programmes
- Freelance contributor, LBC radio
- Freelance contributor, TalkTV
- Freelance contributor, Sky News
- The Free Speech Union Limited
- Skeptics Ltd (publisher of The Daily Sceptic)
- Honorary membership of Carlton Club, given by Carlton Club (London) Ltd, St James’s Street, London SW1
- Operates as a sole trader, Professor Lola Young, trading as Cultural Brokers
- Freelance consultant, adviser and creative producer; Clients include Booker Prize Foundation
- Consultant, Learning Disability England
- Non-executive Director, Bloomsbury Publishing plc
- Mentor on MA in Sustainable Fashion, Polimoda Fashion Institute, Florence, Italy
- Non-executive Director, Futerra (environmental and sustainability consultancy)
- Contracted author with Penguin Random House
- Visit to Grace Farms Foundation, Connecticut, USA, 25-28 March 2025, to deliver speech at Design for Freedom Initiative meeting; flights and accommodation costs paid by Grace Farms Foundation
- No registrable interests
- Member, Commission on Food, Farming and the Countryside
- Westingham Ltd (personal service company) (through Westingham Ltd the member is: senior adviser to Bank Pictet & Cie (Europe) AG, London Branch; independent member, International Advisory Council, APCO Worldwide LLC (public relations and communications consultancy); global chairman, APCO Family Office Practice, APCO Worldwide LLC; non-executive director, GSA Global Limited (security risk consultancy); and adviser and consultant to the Royal Household)
- Speaking engagement, 26 November 2024, LHH Group (employment and career consultants), London (remuneration received through Westingham Ltd)
- Westingham Ltd (personal service company)
- Flat in London SW11 owned jointly with wife, from which rental income is received
- Holiday home in Salcombe, Devon, from which rental income is received (held in a trust of which member is a trustee)
- House in London SW6 owned jointly with wife, from which rental income is received
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