List of members of the House of Lords
This is a list of members of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Current sitting members
[edit]Lords Spiritual
[edit]Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit in the House of Lords: the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York, the Bishops of London, of Durham and of Winchester, and the next 21 most senior diocesan bishops (with the exception of the Bishop in Europe and the Bishop of Sodor and Man). Under the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015, female bishops take precedence over men until May 2025 to become new Lords Spiritual for the 21 seats allocated by seniority.
Lords Temporal
[edit]Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 (some of whom have been elected to the House after being removed from it in 1999), and remaining law life peers.
‡ | Indicates peer who returned to the House after leaving it |
Peer | Date joined | Party | Type | Notes | |
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Lord Aberdare | 20 July 2009 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Businessman, Deputy Lieutenant of Dyfed | |
Baroness Adams of Craigielea | 28 June 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Paisley North (1990–2005) | |
Lord Addington | 17 June 1986 | Liberal Democrat | Hereditary peer | President of the British Dyslexia Association | |
Lord Adebowale | 30 June 2001 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former chief executive of Turning Point, chair of the NHS Confederation | |
Lord Adonis | 16 May 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former Secretary of State for Transport (2009–2010), former chairman of European Movement UK (2021–2022) | |
Lord Agnew of Oulton | 19 October 2017 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Minister of State for Efficiency and Transformation (2020–2022), former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for School System (2017–2020), founder of the Inspiration Trust | |
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon | 13 January 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Merton London Borough Councillor for Wimbledon Park (2002–2014), Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and United Nations (since 2017) | |
Lord Alderdice | 8 October 1996 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–2004), former MLA for Belfast East (1998–2003), former member of Belfast City Council (1989–1997), former president of Liberal International (2005–2009) and former leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (1987–1998) | |
Lord Allan of Hallam | 22 July 2010 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former MP for Sheffield Hallam (1997–2005) | |
Lord Allen of Kensington | 2 October 2013 | Labour | Life peer | Businessman, chairman of THG plc, Global Radio and 2 Sisters Food Group, former chairman of EMI, former chief executive of Granada Group and ITV plc | |
Lord Alli | 18 July 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Media entrepreneur, co-creator of Survivor, former chancellor of De Montfort University, first openly gay peer in parliament | |
Lord Alliance | 1 July 2004 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Chairman of N Brown Group | |
Baroness Altmann | 19 May 2015 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former Minister of State for Pensions (2015–2016) | |
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 12 June 1997 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former MP for Liverpool Edge Hill (1979–1983) and for Liverpool Mossley Hill (1983–1997) | |
Lord Altrincham | 23 June 2021 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Banker, non-executive director of The Co-operative Bank | |
Baroness Amos | 24 September 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, former Secretary of State for International Development, former British High Commissioner to Australia, and former Leader of the House of Lords | |
Lord Anderson of Ipswich | 10 July 2018 | Crossbench | Life peer | Barrister, former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation (2011–2017) | |
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent | 18 November 2022 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Stoke-on-Trent North (2015–2019) | |
Lord Anderson of Swansea | 28 June 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Swansea East (1974–2005) | |
Baroness Andrews | 9 May 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Former senior researcher in the House of Commons Library (1970–1985), former parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Children, Schools and Families, former chair of English Heritage (2009–2013) | |
Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 14 October 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and former Government Chief Whip in the Lords | |
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 1 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Wanstead & Woodford (1987–1997) and for North East Hampshire (1997–2015) | |
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 18 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for North West Durham (1987–2010) | |
Earl of Arran | 25 April 1983 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Sits as Baron Sudley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland | |
Lord Ashcombe | 28 October 2022 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Insurance broker and civil engineer. | |
Lord Ashton of Hyde | 25 July 2011 | Non-affiliated | Hereditary peer | Insurance broker | |
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 2 August 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, First-Vice-President of the European Commission, European Commissioner for Trade, Leader of the House of Lords, and Lord President of the Council | |
Viscount Astor | 4 July 1973 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Businessman and Chairman of Silvergate Media | |
Earl Attlee | 2 March 1992 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Former Government whip | |
Lord Austin of Dudley | 2 September 2020 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former MP for Dudley North (2005–2019) | |
Lord Bach | 27 July 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former parliamentary under-secretary of state in several departments and former Minister of State for Defence Procurement | |
Lord Bailey of Paddington | 10 July 2023 | Conservative | Life peer | Member of the London Assembly (since 2016), journalist and political adviser | |
Lord Baker of Dorking | 16 June 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Acton (1968–1970), St Marylebone (1970–1983) and Mole Valley (1983–1997), former Home Secretary (1990–1992), Secretary of State for Education and Science and of the Environment | |
Baroness Bakewell | 21 January 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Writer and broadcaster | |
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville | 9 September 2013 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Councillor on South Somerset District Council | |
Lord Banner | 6 March 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Barrister | |
Lord Balfe | 19 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Member of the European Parliament for London (1979–2004) | |
Baroness Barker | 31 July 1999 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Liberal Democrats spokesperson on Health | |
Baroness Barran | 21 June 2018 | Conservative | Life peer | Former hedgefund manager | |
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 3 November 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former Labour Chief Whip in the Lords. Former leader of Brighton Council | |
Baroness Batters | 16 August 2024 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former president of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales (2018–2024) | |
Baroness Beckett | 14 August 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Former Foreign Secretary (2006–2007), Former MP for Lincoln (1974–1979) and for Derby South (1983–2024) | |
Lord Beamish | 15 August 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for North Durham (2001–2024) | |
Lord Beith | 19 October 2015 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed (1973–2015) | |
Lord Bellamy | 14 June 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice | |
Lord Bellingham | 5 November 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for North West Norfolk (1983–1997, 2001–2019) | |
Baroness Benjamin | 26 June 2010 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Actress, author and television presenter | |
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle | 7 October 2019 | Green | Life peer | Former Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales | |
Lord Benyon | 26 January 2021 | Crossbench | Life peer | Lord Chamberlain and former MP for Newbury (2005–2019) | |
‡Lord Berkeley | 18 April 2000[k] | Labour | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Gueterbock | |
Lord Berkeley of Knighton | 26 March 2013 | Crossbench | Life peer | Composer and music broadcaster | |
Baroness Berridge | 18 January 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former executive director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship | |
Baroness Bertin | 2 September 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | Former deputy press officer for David Cameron | |
Lord Best | 4 June 2001 | Crossbench | Life peer | President of the Local Government Association | |
Lord Bethell | 19 July 2018 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Journalist, former nightclub manager. | |
Lord Bew | 26 March 2007 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor of Irish politics at Queen's University Belfast | |
Lord Bichard | 24 March 2010 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former permanent secretary for the Department for Education (and later the Department for Education and Employment) | |
Lord Bilimoria | 16 June 2006 | Crossbench | Life peer | Founder and chairman of Cobra Beer | |
Baroness Billingham | 2 May 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Former Member of the European Parliament for Northamptonshire and Blaby (1994–1999) | |
Lord Bird | 30 October 2015 | Crossbench | Life peer | Social entrepreneur and founder of The Big Issue | |
Lord Birt | 11 February 2000 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former director-general of the BBC | |
Lord Black of Brentwood | 9 July 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group | |
Baroness Black of Strome | 26 April 2021 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor and forensic anthropologist | |
Baroness Blackstone | 18 March 1987 | Labour | Life peer | Former Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts | |
Lord Blackwell | 2 October 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit under the government of John Major from 1995 to 1997 | |
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford | 1 February 2019 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Oxford West and Abingdon (2010–2017) | |
Lord Blair of Boughton | 20 July 2010 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police | |
Baroness Blake of Leeds | 1 February 2021 | Labour | Life peer | Former Leader of Leeds City Council | |
Lord Blencathra | 28 February 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Penrith and The Border (1983–2010), former Minister of State for Home Affairs and former opposition chief whip | |
Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist | 5 September 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | Former political organizer | |
Baroness Blower | 15 October 2019 | Labour | Life peer | Former general secretary of the National Union of Teachers | |
Lord Blunkett | 28 September 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Sheffield Brightside (1987–2015), former Cabinet minister(1997–2004, 2005), former Home Secretary | |
Lord Boateng | 27 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Brent South (1987–2005), Chief Secretary to the Treasury and British High Commissioner to South Africa | |
Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury | 23 June 2004 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Lead Liberal Democrats spokesperson on Culture, Media and Sport in the House of Lords | |
Lord Booth | 7 March 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman, chairman of the National Conservative Convention | |
Lord Booth-Smith | 21 August 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Downing Street Chief of Staff under Rishi Sunak | |
Lord Borwick | 26 July 2013 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Businessman, founder of Modec | |
Lord Boswell of Aynho | 8 July 2010 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former MP for Daventry (1987–2010); Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees | |
Lord Botham | 10 September 2020 | Crossbench | Life peer | Cricket commentator, former professional cricketer, chairman of Durham County Cricket Club (since 2017) | |
Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone | 24 June 2005 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for South West Surrey (1984–2005), Secretary of State for Health and Secretary of State for National Heritage | |
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 9 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Former leader of the Welsh Conservative Party and member of the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 to 2011 | |
Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted | 23 October 2015 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former member of the European Parliament for South East England | |
Lord Bowness | 17 January 1996 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former leader of Croydon London Borough Council | |
Baroness Boycott | 9 July 2018 | Crossbench | Life peer | Journalist | |
Lord Bradley | 12 June 2006 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Manchester Withington (1987–2005) | |
Lord Bradshaw | 22 July 1999 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Liberal Democrats spokesperson on transport in the House of Lords | |
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 19 August 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Altrincham and Sale West (1997–2024), former chairman of the 1922 Committee (2010–2019, 2019–2024) | |
Baroness Brady | 22 September 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Vice-chairman of West Ham United FC and senior non-executive director of the Syco and Arcadia brands | |
Lord Bragg | 4 August 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Broadcaster and author | |
Baroness Bray of Coln | 8 November 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Ealing Central and Acton (2010–2015), former member of the London Assembly for West Central (2000–2008), radio journalist | |
Lord Brennan | 2 May 2000 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Chair of the APPG on Legal and Constitutional Affairs | |
Viscount Bridgeman | 20 January 1983 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Chartered accountant, lieutenant in the Royal Green Jackets, Knight of Malta | |
Lord Bridges of Headley | 28 May 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office | |
Baroness Brinton | 4 February 2011 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Executive Director of the Association of Universities in the East of England | |
Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 23 October 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former general secretary of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation and former joint-general secretary of the Public Services Tax and Commerce Union | |
Viscount Brookeborough | 10 September 1987 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh | |
Baroness Brown of Cambridge | 30 October 2015 | Crossbench | Life peer | Vice-Chancellor of Aston University | |
Lord Browne of Belmont | 12 June 2006 | Democratic Unionist | Life peer | Former Member of the Legislative Assembly for Belfast East (2007–2011) | |
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 22 July 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (1997–2010) and Secretary of State for Defence | |
Lord Browne of Madingley | 28 June 2001 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former chief executive of BP (1995–2007) | |
Baroness Browning | 9 July 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Tiverton and Honiton (1997–2010) | |
Lord Brownlow of Shurlock Row | 9 October 2019 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman | |
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 19 October 2015 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Gordon from 1983 to 2015, president of the Scottish Liberal Democrats | |
Baroness Bryan of Partick | 20 June 2018 | Labour | Life peer | Writer and political campaigner | |
Baroness Bull | 11 July 2018 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former ballet dancer and writer | |
Lord Burnett | 31 May 2006 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Torridge and West Devon from 1997 to 2005 | |
Lord Burnett of Maldon | 30 October 2017 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2017–2023) | |
Lord Burns | 20 July 1998 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former chief economic advisor and permanent secretary at the treasury | |
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 9 October 2015 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Solihull (2005–2015) | |
Baroness Buscombe | 23 July 1998 | Conservative | Life peer | Chair of the Press Complaints Commission | |
Lord Butler of Brockwell | 12 February 1998 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service | |
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 13 June 2006 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Lady Justice of Appeal and former president of the Family Division of the High Court | |
Lord Caine | 2 September 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | Former political aide | |
Earl of Caithness | 2 December 1969 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Chief of Clan Sinclair | |
Lord Callanan | 24 September 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MEP for North East England (1999–2014) | |
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 17 November 2023 | Conservative | Life peer | Former prime minister (2010–2016), former Foreign Secretary (2023–2024), former MP for Witney (2001–2016), former Leader of the Opposition (2005–2010) | |
Lord Cameron of Dillington | 29 June 2004 | Crossbench | Life peer | President of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists, former chair of the Countryside Agency | |
Lord Cameron of Lochiel | 4 March 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Chief of Clan Cameron, former MSP for Highlands and Islands (2016–2024) | |
Lord Camoys | 28 November 2023 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Entrepreneur | |
Baroness Campbell of Loughborough | 10 November 2008 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chairman of UK Sport | |
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 13 October 2015 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former leader of the Liberal Democrats (2006–07), former MP for North East Fife (1987–2015) | |
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton | 30 March 2007 | Crossbench | Life peer | Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, former chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence and former commissioner of the Disability Rights Commission | |
Lord Campbell-Savours | 4 July 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Workington (1979–2001) | |
Viscount Camrose | 6 April 2022 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Business manager and consultant | |
‡Lord Carey of Clifton | 1 November 2002[l] | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Archbishop of Canterbury | |
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 27 July 1999 | Crossbench | Life peer | Deputy High Court judge, former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, president of the Howard League for Penal Reform and former MP | |
Lord Carrington | 4 December 2018 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Lord Great Chamberlain (since 2022), businessman, Deputy lieutenant of Buckinghamshire | |
Lord Carrington of Fulham | 11 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Fulham (1987–1997) | |
Lord Carter of Barnes | 15 October 2008 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former chief executive of Ofcom, group chief executive at Brunswick Group LLP and former Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting | |
Lord Carter of Coles | 8 June 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of the NHS Pathology review panel | |
Lord Carter of Haslemere | 30 October 2019 | Crossbench | Life peer | Lawyer | |
Baroness Casey of Blackstock | 30 October 2020 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Victims' Commissioner | |
Lord Cashman | 23 September 2014 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former MEP for West Midlands, former actor | |
Baroness Cass | 22 August 2024 | Crossbench | Life peer | Paediatrician, author of the Cass Review, former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health | |
‡Earl Cathcart | 9 March 2007[m] | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Chief of the Name and Arms of Clan Cathcart | |
Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice | 6 September 2016 | Crossbench | Life peer | Journalist, academic and former director of the Number 10 Policy Unit | |
Lord Chadlington | 16 October 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Former chairman, former chief executive and currently executive director of Huntsworth; former director of Halifax | |
Baroness Chakrabarti | 6 September 2016 | Labour | Life peer | Former director of Liberty | |
‡Viscount Chandos | 19 April 2000[n] | Labour | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Lyttelton of Aldershot | |
Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 1 February 2021 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Darlington (2010–2019) | |
‡Lord Chartres | 7 November 2017[o] | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Bishop of London | |
Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen | 16 September 2014 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Queen's companion, former spokesperson for the Cabinet Office | |
Lord Choudrey | 9 October 2019 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman and philanthropist | |
Lord Christopher | 30 July 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former chairman of the Tyre Industry Economic Development Council, former vice-president of the Building Societies Association, former general secretary of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation | |
‡Earl of Clancarty | 28 June 2010[p] | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Sits as Viscount Clancarty in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland | |
Baroness Clark of Calton | 21 June 2005 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former MP for Edinburgh Pentlands (1997–2005) and judge of the Inner House of the Court of Session in the Supreme Courts of Scotland | |
Lord Clark of Windermere | 2 July 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Colne Valley (1970–1974) and for South Shields (1979–2001) and chair of the Forestry Commission | |
Lord Clarke of Hampstead | 29 July 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former chairman of the Labour Party, former deputy general secretary of the Union of Communication Workers | |
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 4 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Rushcliffe (1970–2019), Lord Chancellor, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary | |
Lord Clement-Jones | 17 July 1998 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former head of legal services and legal director of London Weekend Television and Grand Metropolitan respectively and former group secretary of Kingfisher plc, chairman of Environmental Context Ltd | |
Lord Coaker | 3 February 2021 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Gedling (1997–2019) | |
Baroness Cohen of Pimlico | 3 May 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Author and former governor of the BBC | |
Lord Colgrain | 27 March 2017 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Former High Sheriff of Kent, Deputy Lieutenant of Kent | |
Lord Collins of Highbury | 20 January 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Former assistant general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and former general secretary of the Labour Party | |
Viscount Colville of Culross | 25 July 2011 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Television producer and director | |
Lord Cooper of Windrush | 17 September 2014 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Co-founder of the research and strategy consultancy Populus Ltd, former Director of Strategy in the Cameron–Clegg coalition | |
Earl of Cork and Orrery | 19 July 2016 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Sits as Baron Boyle of Marston, in the Peerage of Great Britain; his senior titles are in the Peerage of Ireland | |
Earl of Courtown | 24 July 1979 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Sits as Baron Saltersford, in the Peerage of Great Britain; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland | |
Baroness Coussins | 23 March 2007 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former chief executive of the Portman Group | |
Baroness Cox | 24 January 1983 | Crossbench | Life peer | Founder of Christian Solidarity Worldwide, former chancellor of Bournemouth University and of Liverpool Hope University, former nurse and sociology lecturer, longest-serving life-peer. | |
Lord Craig of Radley | 30 July 1991 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Chief of the Defence Staff | |
Viscount Craigavon | 26 July 1974 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Chartered accountant | |
Lord Crathorne | 25 May 1977 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Former director of (variously) Blakeney Hotels Ltd, Woodhouse Securities Ltd, Hand Picked Hotels, Cliveden Ltd | |
Baroness Crawley | 24 July 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former chair of the Women's National Commission | |
Lord Crisp | 28 April 2006 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former chief executive of the NHS | |
‡Lord Cromwell | 10 April 2014[q] | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Businessman, executive chair of Banking Competition Remedies Ltd | |
Lord Cruddas | 27 January 2021 | Conservative | Life peer | Banker, businessman and former Conservative Party Co-Treasurer | |
Lord Cryer | 15 August 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Hornchurch (1997–2005) and Leyton and Wanstead (2010–2024) | |
Baroness Cumberlege | 18 May 1990 | Conservative | Life peer | Vice President of the Royal Colleges of Nursing and Midwives | |
Lord Cunningham of Felling | 27 June 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Whitehaven (1970–1983) and for Copeland (1983–2005), Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
Lord Currie of Marylebone | 1 October 1996 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former chairman of Ofcom | |
Lord Curry of Kirkharle | 13 October 2011 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former chair of NFU Mutual | |
Baroness D'Souza | 1 July 2004 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Lord Speaker, formerly Convenor of the Crossbench peers | |
Lord Dannatt | 19 January 2011 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Chief of the General Staff of the British Army | |
Lord Darroch of Kew | 11 November 2019 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former British Ambassador to the United States | |
Lord Darzi of Denham | 12 July 2007 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Professor of surgery at Imperial College London | |
Lord Davidson of Glen Clova | 22 March 2006 | Labour | Life peer | Former Advocate General for Scotland, author of Judicial Review in Scotland, and the International Commission of Jurists' chef de mission for Egypt in 1998 | |
Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links | 16 July 2021 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party | |
Lord Davies of Brixton | 18 September 2020 | Labour | Life peer | Former trade unionist, actuary and member of the Greater London Council | |
Lord Davies of Gower | 10 October 2019 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Gower (2015–2017) | |
Lord de Clifford | 26 September 2023 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Veterinarian | |
Lord de Mauley | 15 March 2005 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Master of the Horse, Royal Wessex Yeomanry officer | |
Lord Dear | 15 June 2006 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary and former chief constable of West Midlands police | |
Lord Deben | 21 June 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Lewisham West (1970–1974), for Eye (1979–1983) and for Suffolk Coastal (1983–2010) and Secretary of State for the Environment 1993–97; former chairman of environment consultancy company Sancroft International and of Veolia Water | |
Baroness Deech | 5 October 2005 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chair of the House of Lords Appointments Commission (since 2023), former chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (1994–2002), former Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford (2001–2004), former professor of law at Gresham College, former chair of the Bar Standards Board | |
Lord Deighton | 1 November 2012 | Conservative | Life peer | Chief executive, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games | |
Lord Desai | 5 June 1991 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor Emeritus of Economics at the London School of Economics | |
Earl of Devon | 12 July 2018 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Barrister | |
Lord Dholakia | 24 October 1997 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Chair of Nacro | |
Lord Dobbs | 18 December 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Author | |
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 18 September 2020 | Democratic Unionist | Life peer | Former MP for Belfast North (2001–2019) | |
Baroness Donaghy | 26 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former chair of ACAS | |
Lord Donoughue | 21 May 1985 | Labour | Life peer | Visiting Professor of Government at the London School of Economics | |
Baroness Doocey | 21 December 2010 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Chair of the London Assembly and has run DD Enterprises Management Consultancy | |
Lord Douglas-Miller | 15 December 2023 | Conservative | Life peer | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Biosecurity, Animal Health and Welfare | |
Baroness Drake | 20 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former president of the Trades Union Congress and commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission | |
Lord Drayson | 1 June 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Co-founder and former chief executive of PowderJect Pharmaceuticals | |
Lord Dubs | 27 September 1994 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Battersea South (1979–1983) and for Battersea (1983–1987), director of the Refugee Council, chair of Liberty and chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission | |
Lord Duncan of Springbank | 14 July 2017 | Conservative | Life peer | Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and former MEP for Scotland | |
Earl of Dundee | 28 October 1983 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Farmer, Chief of Clan Scrymgeour, honorary consul for Croatia in Edinburgh | |
Lord Dunlop | 26 May 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Under-Secretary of State for Scotland | |
Lord Dykes | 21 June 2004 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former MP for Harrow East (1970–1997) | |
Lord Eames | 25 August 1995 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh | |
Baroness Eaton | 21 July 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of the Local Government Association | |
Lord Eatwell | 14 July 1992 | Labour | Life peer | Former president of Queens' College, Cambridge (1996–2020), former professor of financial policy at Cambridge Judge Business School, former chair of the British Library Board (2001–2006) | |
‡Viscount Eccles | 24 March 2005[r] | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Businessman, chairman of the Bowes Museum Trust, soldier | |
Baroness Eccles of Moulton | 10 May 1990 | Conservative | Life peer | As the wife of Viscount Eccles, she is also entitled to the style "Viscountess Eccles" | |
Earl of Effingham | 28 October 2022 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Financier | |
Lord Elis-Thomas | 18 September 1992 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former MP for Meirionnydd (1974 – 1983) and for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (1983–1992), presiding officer of the National Assembly for Wales and leader of Plaid Cymru | |
Lord Elliott of Ballinamallard | 16 August 2024 | Ulster Unionist | Life peer | MLA for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (2003–2015, since 2022), former MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (2015–2017), former Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (2010–2012). | |
Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell | 6 February 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Political strategist and lobbyist, founder of TaxPayers' Alliance and Big Brother Watch, chief executive of Vote Leave and campaign director for NOtoAV | |
Lord Empey | 15 January 2011 | Ulster Unionist | Life peer | Former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party | |
Earl of Erroll | 30 June 1978 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Lord High Constable of Scotland and Chief of Clan Hay, soldier, marketing and computer consultant | |
Lord Etherton | 23 December 2020 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Master of the Rolls (2016–2021) and Chancellor of the High Court (2013–2016) | |
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park | 12 September 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal, former director of the New Schools Network and deputy director at Policy Exchange | |
Lord Evans of Rainow | 9 November 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Weaver Vale (2010–2017) | |
Lord Evans of Watford | 28 July 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of several publishing companies | |
Lord Evans of Weardale | 3 December 2014 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former director of the Security Service | |
‡Lord Fairfax of Cameron | 26 November 2015[s] | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Barrister | |
Baroness Fairhead | 19 October 2017 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former chairman of the BBC Trust | |
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 14 May 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former Lord Chancellor | |
Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 2 June 2004 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chief executive of Student Partnerships Worldwide | |
Baroness Fall | 22 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff | |
Lord Farmer | 5 September 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Founding partner of RK Mine Finance group, trustee of the Kingham Hill Trust and Conservative Party co-treasurer | |
Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 14 July 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Communications advisor to the Leader of the Labour Party in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections | |
Lord Faulks | 21 July 2010 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Recorder, chairman of the Independent Press Standards Organisation | |
Baroness Featherstone | 20 October 2015 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Hornsey and Wood Green (2005–2015) | |
Lord Fellowes of West Stafford | 12 January 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, chairman of the RNIB appeal for Talking Books and vice-president of the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust | |
Lord Filkin | 29 July 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former parliamentary under-secretary of state in various government departments | |
Lord Fink | 18 January 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | CEO and chairman of the Man Group, the largest listed hedge fund company in the world | |
Lord Finkelstein | 11 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Current Executive Editor of The Times | |
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 28 June 2001 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor of Palliative Medicine at the Cardiff University School of Medicine and former president of the Royal Society of Medicine | |
Baroness Finn | 14 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former special adviser at the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills | |
Baroness Fleet | 15 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Chair of Arts Council London and former newspaper editor and political advisor | |
Lord Flight | 13 January 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Arundel and South Downs (1997–2005) | |
Baroness Fookes | 30 September 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Merton and Morden (1970–1974) and for Plymouth Drake (1974–1997), chair of the RSPCA and deputy speaker of the House of Commons | |
Baroness Ford | 5 June 2006 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chair of the London 2012 Olympic Park Legacy Company, former chief executive of Good Practice Limited, managing director (Social Infrastructure and Development) of Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, chairman of Irvine Bay Urban Regeneration Company and president of Epilepsy Action | |
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 14 July 1999 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Stirling (1983–1997) and Secretary of State for Scotland | |
Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee | 9 November 2022 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former First Minister of Northern Ireland, former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, broadcaster, presenter on GB News | |
Lord Foster of Bath | 7 October 2015 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Bath (1992–2015) | |
Baroness Foster of Oxton | 29 January 2021 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MEP for North West England (1999–2004, 2009–2019) | |
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 16 June 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for South Ayrshire (1979–1983) and for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (1983–2005), and MSP (2007–2011), former chairman of Hearts Football club and president of the Caribbean Council | |
Lord Fowler | 3 July 2001 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Lord Speaker, former chairman of the House of Lords Communications Select Committee and former MP | |
Lord Fox | 11 September 2014 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | PR director at GKN engineering and former Liberal Democrat chief executive | |
Baroness Fox of Buckley | 14 September 2020 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former MEP for North West England (2019–2020) | |
Lord Framlingham | 14 January 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Central Suffolk (1983–1997) and Deputy Speaker in the House of Commons | |
Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie | 26 January 2021 | Conservative | Life peer | Chief executive of Cerebral Palsy Scotland | |
Baroness Freeman of Steventon | 5 June 2024 | Crossbench | Life peer | Science communicator and former television producer | |
Lord Freyberg | 7 March 1994 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Freelance editor and assistant editor for post-production in TV and film | |
Lord Frost | 12 August 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Designated National Security Adviser and former British ambassador to Denmark | |
Lord Fuller | 8 March 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Leader of South Norfolk District Council (since 2007) | |
Lord Gadhia | 31 August 2016 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Investment banker and Conservative Party donor | |
Baroness Gale | 4 August 1999 | Labour | Life peer | President of National Association of Old Age Pensioners, Wales and president of Treherbert and District British Legion | |
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 15 October 2007 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Vice President of the Institute of Export | |
Lord Gardiner of Kimble | 23 June 2010 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Senior Deputy Speaker and deputy chief executive of the Countryside Alliance | |
Lord Garnier | 22 June 2018 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Harborough (1992–2017) | |
Lord Gascoigne | 10 July 2023 | Conservative | Life peer | Political adviser and secretary to Boris Johnson | |
Lord Geddes | 20 March 1975 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, lieutenant-commander in the Royal Naval Reserve | |
Lord German | 24 June 2010 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former Deputy First Minister of Wales | |
Lord Giddens | 16 June 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics of sociology and social theory with fifteen honorary degrees from other universities, author of The Politics of Climate Change | |
Lord Gilbert of Panteg | 30 September 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party | |
‡Earl of Glasgow | 17 January 2005[t] | Liberal Democrat | Hereditary peer | Chief of Clan Boyle, sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve, television documentary producer | |
Lord Glasman | 4 February 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Senior lecturer in political theory at London Metropolitan University | |
Lord Glenarthur | 21 June 1977 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Businessman, consultant, pilot, governor and a trustee of King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes, former government minister | |
Lord Glendonbrook | 1 February 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Owner of BMI | |
Lord Goddard of Stockport | 15 September 2014 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former leader of Stockport Council | |
Lord Godson | 25 January 2021 | Conservative | Life peer | Chair of Policy Exchange and former political aide, political candidate, author and journalist | |
Baroness Gohir | 24 June 2022 | Crossbench | Life peer | Women's rights campaigner, CEO of Muslim Women’s Network UK | |
Lord Gold | 1 February 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Lawyer | |
Baroness Goldie | 3 October 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party in the Scottish Parliament (2005–2011) | |
Baroness Golding | 13 July 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Radiographer and former MP | |
Lord Goldsmith | 29 July 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former Attorney General for England and Wales | |
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 7 January 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Richmond Park, Minister of State for Environment and International Development | |
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 11 March 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Wycombe (2001–2010), journalist, editor of the political blog ConservativeHome, former news editor at Catholic Herald, former lead writer with The Daily Telegraph | |
Viscount Goschen | 15 July 1988 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Former stockbrocker and conservationist | |
Baroness Goudie | 21 July 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Activist, former European director of public affairs for the World Wide Fund for Nature | |
Lord Grabiner | 26 July 1999 | Crossbench | Life peer | Head of Chambers at One Essex Court and deputy High Court Judge | |
Lord Grade of Yarmouth | 25 January 2011 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former chairman of the BBC Board of Governors | |
‡Lord Grantchester | 31 October 2003[u] | Labour | Hereditary peer | Former director of Littlewoods and former chairman of the Dairy Farmers of Britain, | |
Lord Grayling | 20 August 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Epsom and Ewell (2001 –2024), Lord Chancellor (2012–2015), Leader of the House of Commons, Lord President of the Council and Secretary of State for Transport | |
Lord Green of Deddington | 28 November 2014 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former British ambassador | |
Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint | 16 November 2010 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former group chairman of HSBC | |
Baroness Greenfield | 18 June 2001 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University and former director of the Royal Institution | |
Lord Greenhalgh | 16 April 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Minister of State for Building Safety and Fire Former Deputy Mayor of London for Policing and Crime, medical company executive and political candidate | |
Lord Greenway | 8 October 1975 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Former chairman of The World Ship Trust | |
Baroness Grender | 4 September 2013 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former head of communications for the Liberal Democrats | |
Baroness Grey-Thompson | 23 March 2010 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former paralympic athlete | |
Lord Griffiths of Burry Port | 30 June 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former president of the Methodist Conference | |
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach | 5 February 1991 | Conservative | Life peer | Vice-president of the Nature in Art trust and vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International | |
Lord Grimstone of Boscobel | 8 April 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Minister of State for Investment and former bank executive and civil servant | |
Lord Grocott | 2 July 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Former presenter and producer at Central Television and former MP | |
Baroness Gustafsson | 15 November 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Businesswoman, Minister of State for Investment | |
‡Lord Hacking | 19 November 2021[v] | Labour | Hereditary peer | Lawyer, arbitrator and mediator. | |
Viscount Hailsham | 12 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham (1979–2010); hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe. | |
Lord Hain | 22 October 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Neath (1991–2015) | |
Baroness Hale of Richmond | 12 January 2004 | Crossbench | Law life peer | Former president of the Supreme Court (2017–2020), Deputy President of the Supreme Court (2013–2017), Justice of the Supreme Court (2009–2020) and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2004–2009) | |
Lord Hall of Birkenhead | 19 March 2010 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chief executive of the Royal Opera House, former director of news at the BBC, chairman of Creative & Cultural Skills and former chair of the Royal Television Society | |
Baroness Hallett | 11 October 2019 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Lady Justice of Appeal | |
Lord Hameed | 27 March 2007 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chairman of Alpha Hospital Group, chairman and chief executive officer of the London International Hospital, former executive director and chief executive officer of the Cromwell Hospital, president of The Little Foundation and chairman of The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths | |
Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 17 June 2005 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Epsom and Ewell (1978–2001) and former chairman of the 1922 Committee | |
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 30 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
Lord Hampton | 25 October 2022 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Photographer | |
Baroness Hamwee | 6 June 1991 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Vice president of Parity and former chair of the London Assembly | |
Lord Hannan of Kingsclere | 25 January 2021 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MEP for South East England (1999–2020) | |
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 19 June 2001 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former senior diplomat | |
Lord Hannett of Everton | 12 March 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Former general secretary of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers | |
Lord Hanson of Flint | 19 July 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Minister of State in the Home Office, former MP for Delyn (1992–2019) | |
‡Viscount Hanworth | 30 March 2011[w] | Labour | Hereditary peer | Economist, Professor of Econometrics and Computational Statistics at the University of Leicester | |
Lord Hardie | 21 May 1997 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Lord Advocate and former Senator of the College of Justice | |
Baroness Harding of Winscombe | 15 September 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Chief executive of TalkTalk Group | |
Lord Harlech | 21 July 2021 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Landowner, business manager and consultant, army reservist with the London Guards | |
Baroness Harman | 19 August 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Former Leader of the Opposition (2010, 2015), former MP for Peckham (1982–1997) and for Camberwell and Peckham (1997–2024) | |
‡Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 30 June 2006[x] | Crossbench | Life peer | Gresham Professor of Divinity, former Bishop of Oxford; chair of the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority Ethics and Law Committee and former chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cell Research | |
Lord Harrington of Watford | 15 March 2022 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former MP for Watford (2010–2019), Minister of State for Refugees | |
Lord Harris of Haringey | 5 August 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former chair of the Association of London Government, former leader of Haringey Borough Council, former chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, member of the London Assembly and chair of Freedom | |
Lord Harris of Peckham | 11 January 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of Carpetright | |
Baroness Harris of Richmond | 6 August 1999 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Chair of the Industry and Parliament Trust, president of the National Association of Chaplains to the Police and former chair of North Yorkshire County Council and Police Authority | |
Lord Haselhurst | 22 June 2018 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Middleton and Prestwich (1970–1974) and for Saffron Walden (1977–2017), and Chairman of Ways and Means (Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons) | |
Lord Haskel | 4 October 1993 | Labour | Life peer | President of the Environment Industries Commission, former international president of The Textile Institute | |
Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick | 12 October 2005 | Crossbench | Life peer | Vice-president of Catch22, ambassador of Make Justice Work | |
Lord Haughey | 18 September 2013 | Labour | Life peer | Businessman and philanthropist | |
Lord Hay of Ballyore | 16 December 2014 | Democratic Unionist | Life peer | Former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly | |
Baroness Hayman | 2 January 1996 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former MP for Welwyn and Hatfield (1974–1979), Lord Speaker (2006–11), chair of Cancer Research UK, chair of the Human Tissue Authority and chair of Whittington Hospital NHS Trust | |
Baroness Hayman of Ullock | 9 September 2020 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Workington (2015–2019) | |
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 22 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | General secretary of the Fabian Society (1976–1982), chief executive of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (1990–1996) and Chair of the Labour Party (2007–2008) | |
Lord Hayward | 28 September 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Psephologist, Former MP for Kingswood (1983–1992) and former business and charity executive | |
Baroness Hazarika | 14 March 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Journalist and political adviser | |
Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill | 19 July 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former political aide | |
Baroness Helic | 18 September 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Government special adviser on preventing sexual violence in conflict zones | |
Lord Hendy | 15 October 2019 | Labour | Life peer | Barrister | |
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill | 17 November 2022 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of Network Rail and former Commissioner of Transport for London | |
Lord Henley | 28 February 1978 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Sits as Baron Northington, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland | |
Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield | 8 November 2010 | Crossbench | Life peer | Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London | |
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 1 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Arundel and South Downs (2005–2019) | |
Lord Hermer | 18 July 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Attorney General for England and Wales (since 2024), Advocate General for Northern Ireland (since 2024) | |
Lord Heseltine | 12 July 2001 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Tavistock (1966–1974) for Henley (1974–2001), Deputy Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Defence, Environment and President of the Board of Trade | |
Lord Hill of Oareford | 27 May 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former European Commissioner for Financial Stability Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, former Leader of the House of Lords, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools | |
Lord Hintze | 3 November 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman and philanthropist, founder of asset management firm CQS | |
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 14 August 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Barking (1994–2024), former leader of Islington London Borough Council (1982–1992), former chair of the Fabian Society (1998–1999) | |
Baroness Hodgson of Abinger | 16 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Conservative politician | |
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 7 June 2000 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Walsall North (1976–1979) | |
Baroness Hoey | 14 September 2020 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former MP for Vauxhall (1989–2019) | |
Lord Hoffmann | 21 February 1995 | Crossbench | Law life peer | Former Law Lord and Professor of Law at Queen Mary College, University of London | |
Lord Hogan-Howe | 7 November 2017 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis | |
Baroness Hogg | 3 February 1995 | Crossbench | Life peer | As the wife of Viscount Hailsham, she is also entitled to the style "Viscountess Hailsham" | |
Lord Hollick | 20 June 1991 | Labour | Life peer | Business executive and former banker, businessman and print-media executive | |
Baroness Hollins | 15 November 2010 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor of the psychiatry of learning disability at St George's, University of London, former president of the Royal Society of Psychiatrists | |
Lord Holmes of Richmond | 13 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Former swimmer, Paralympian, journalist and solicitor | |
Baroness Hooper | 10 June 1985 | Conservative | Life peer | President of Waste Watch, president of the European Foundation For Heritage Skills, and president of Good Guy's Cancer Appeal | |
Lord Hope of Craighead | 28 February 1995 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and former Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
Lord Horam | 4 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Gateshead West (1970–1983) and for Orpington (1992–2010) | |
Lord Houchen of High Leven | 12 July 2023 | Conservative | Life peer | Tees Valley Mayor (since 2017), former councillor on Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council (2011–2017) | |
Lord Houghton of Richmond | 20 November 2017 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Chief of the Defence Staff | |
Lord Howard of Lympne | 13 July 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Folkestone and Hythe (1983–2010), Home Secretary, Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition | |
Lord Howard of Rising | 4 June 2004 | Conservative | Life peer | Director of Fortress Holdings | |
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 25 June 2001 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chair of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, former chief executive of ChildLine and vice-chair of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation | |
Lord Howarth of Newport | 15 June 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Stratford-Upon-Avon (1983–1997) and for Newport East (1997–2005) | |
Earl Howe | 30 October 1984 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Deputy Leader of the House and Minister of State for Defence | |
Lord Howell of Guildford | 6 June 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Guildford (1966–1997), Secretaries of State for Energy and Transport | |
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 15 July 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former head of the Department of Social Policy at the University of Manchester and former Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families and former MP for Stretford and Urmston (1997–2010) | |
Baroness Humphreys | 18 September 2013 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former AM for North Wales and President of the Welsh Liberal Democrats | |
Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green | 16 October 2019 | Crossbench | Life peer | Foinistertive of Stonewall | |
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 20 October 1997 | Labour | Life peer | President of the Royal Society for Public Health and former chief executive of the NHS Confederation, and former director of its two predecessor organisations | |
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 20 October 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Wirral (1976–1983) for Wirral West (1983–1997); Partner at the law firm Beachcroft LLP | |
Lord Hussain | 20 January 2011 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Deputy Group Leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Luton Borough Council | |
Baroness Hussein-Ece | 25 June 2010 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former non-executive director of Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust, and former equality and human rights commissioner | |
Lord Hutton of Furness | 27 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Barrow and Furness (1992–2010), Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Secretary of State for Defence | |
Lord Inglewood | 23 November 1989 | Non-affiliated | Hereditary peer | Barrister and chartered surveyor | |
Lord Irvine of Lairg | 25 March 1987 | Labour | Life peer | Former Lord Chancellor | |
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 16 November 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Peterborough (2005–2017), former councilor on the Ealing Borough Council (1990–1998) | |
Lord James of Blackheath | 9 June 2006 | Conservative | Life peer | Corporate trouble-shooter and former agent for MI5 | |
Lord Jamieson | 11 March 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Former leader of the Central Bedfordshire Council and former chair of the Local Government Association | |
Baroness Janke | 24 September 2014 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former leader of Bristol City Council | |
Lord Janvrin | 10 October 2007 | Crossbench | Life peer | Permanent Lord-in-waiting; former Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II | |
Lord Jay of Ewelme | 18 September 2006 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former permanent secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and head of the Diplomatic Service | |
Baroness Jay of Paddington | 29 July 1992 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of the House of Lords Constitution Committee | |
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington | 26 January 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | PR consultant, and active in promoting women in Parliament | |
Lord Johnson of Lainston | 19 October 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Minister of State for Investment, hedge fund manager, financier and former councilor for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (2006–2010) | |
Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 12 October 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Orpington (2010–2019) | |
Lord Jones | 6 July 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for East Flintshire 1970–1983 and for Alyn & Deeside 1983–2001 | |
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb | 20 September 2013 | Green | Life peer | Green Party politician and former 2nd Statutory Deputy Mayor of London and Member of the London Assembly | |
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 5 June 2006 | Labour | Life peer | Director of Policy and Public Affairs at UNISON and former chair of the Labour Party | |
Lord Jopling | 5 June 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Westmorland (1964–1983) and for Westmorland and Lonsdale (1983–1997) | |
Lord Jordan | 5 June 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Former president of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, former general secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, former governor of both the BBC and the London School of Economics | |
Lord Kakkar | 22 March 2010 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor of Surgical Sciences at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University | |
Lord Kamall | 28 January 2021 | Conservative | Life peer | Professor of Politics and International Relations at St Mary's University and former MEP for London (2005–2019) | |
Baroness Keeley | 13 August 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Worsley and Eccles South (2010–2024) and Worsley (2005–2010), former Member of Trafford Council for Priory (1995–2004) | |
Lord Keen of Elie | 8 June 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Lawyer, Conservative Party politician and former Advocate General for Scotland and Chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party | |
Lord Kempsell | 11 July 2023 | Conservative | Life peer | Political journalist, former political director of the Conservative Party and former director of the Conservative Research Department | |
Baroness Kennedy of Cradley | 19 September 2013 | Labour | Life peer | Political aide, politician and former deputy general secretary of the Labour Party | |
Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 21 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Labour Party official, politician and Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords | |
Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws | 27 October 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Criminal and human rights lawyer, chair of JUSTICE | |
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 30 June 2004 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Permanent Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and head of the Diplomatic Service | |
Lord Kestenbaum | 24 January 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Chief executive of National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts | |
Lord Khan of Burnley | 4 February 2021 | Labour | Life peer | Former MEP for North West England (2017–2019) | |
Baroness Kidron | 25 June 2012 | Crossbench | Life peer | Film director | |
Lord Kilclooney | 17 July 2001 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former MP for Strangford (1998–2007), former MEP for Northern Ireland (1979–1989) | |
Lord King of Bridgwater | 9 July 2001 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Bridgwater (1970–2001), Environment Secretary, Transport Secretary, Employment Secretary, Northern Ireland Secretary and chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee | |
Lord King of Lothbury | 19 July 2013 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former governor of the Bank of England | |
Baroness Kingsmill | 1 June 2006 | Labour | Life peer | Former deputy chair of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and of the Competition Commission | |
Lord Kinnock | 28 January 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Bedwellty (1970–1983) for Islwyn (1983–1995), Leader of the Labour Party 1983–92, European Commissioner for Transport and Administrative Reform and Vice-President of the European Commission | |
Earl of Kinnoull | 6 February 2015 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | President of the Royal Caledonian Ball Trust and commanding officer of the Atholl Highlanders | |
Lord Kirkham | 23 July 1999 | Conservative | Life peer | Executive Chairman of DFS Furniture Company Ltd | |
Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate | 7 October 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber (1999–2016) and MP for Leeds North East (1987–1997) | |
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 23 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for South Dorset (2001–2010) | |
Baroness Kramer | 22 December 2010 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former vice-president of Citibank, director and co-founder of International Capital Partners, former MP for Richmond Park (2005–2010) and Minister of State for Transport (2013–2015) | |
Lord Krebs | 28 March 2007 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, former chair of the Food Standards Agency, member of the committee on climate change and chair of adaptation sub-committee, chair of the Royal Society Science Policy Advisory Group | |
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 22 August 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Epping Forest (1997–May 2024) | |
Lord Laming | 27 July 1998 | Crossbench | Life peer | Psychiatric social worker and chairman of the Harold Shipman inquiry and the Baby P inquiry | |
Lord Lamont of Lerwick | 24 July 1998 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Kingston-upon-Thames (1972–1997) and Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
Baroness Lampard | 17 November 2022 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former barrister | |
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 16 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Milton Keynes North (2010–2019) and for North East Milton Keynes (2005–2010) | |
Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho | 25 March 2013 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chancellor of the Open University, businesswoman and philanthrope | |
Lord Lansley | 5 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for South Cambridgeshire (1997–2015) and Leader of the House of Commons | |
Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon | 6 September 2013 | Labour | Life peer | Former chancellor of De Montfort University, campaigner for police reform and mother of Stephen Lawerence | |
Baroness Lawlor | 3 November 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Founder of the think tank Politeia | |
Lord Layard | 3 May 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics | |
Baroness Lea of Lymm | 31 October 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Political economist and former civil servant, economic adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group | |
Lord Lebedev | 19 November 2020 | Crossbench | Life peer | Businessman, owner of Lebedev Holdings Ltd (The Evening Standard, The Independent, London Live) and son of Alexander Lebedev | |
Lord Lee of Trafford | 26 May 2006 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Nelson and Colne (1979–1983) for Pendle (1983–1992) | |
Earl of Leicester | 23 June 2021 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Former officer in the Scots Guards, former equerry to the Duke of Kent | |
Lord Leigh of Hurley | 16 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Former accountant, banker and Treasurer of the Conservative Party | |
Lord Lennie | 22 September 2014 | Labour | Life peer | Former deputy secretary general of the Labour Party | |
Lord Leong | 31 October 2022 | Labour | Life peer | Former barrister, founder of Cavendish Publishing | |
Lord Levy | 23 September 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former special envoy to the Middle East, President of JFS, President of Sense & Sense International, President of Jewish Care | |
Lord Lexden | 23 December 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former consultant and editor in chief of the Conservative Research Department and former lecturer in modern history | |
Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke | 7 July 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Monklands East (1994–1997) and for Airdrie and Shotts (1997–2005), British High Commissioner to Australia and Secretary of State for Scotland | |
Lord Liddle | 19 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of the International Think Tank Policy Network and former chairman of the Public Policy Centre and former managing director of Prima Europe Ltd, a consultancy company | |
Lord Lilley | 18 June 2018 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP, Secretary of State for Social Security, for Trade and Industry, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party | |
Earl of Lindsay | 21 December 1989 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Businessman, president of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, former president of the National Trust of Scotland | |
Lord Lingfield | 17 December 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of the League of Mercy Foundation, former director-general of St. John Ambulance and advocate of free schools | |
Lord Lipsey | 30 July 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Journalist, former chairman of the Fabian Society and political advisor to Anthony Crosland | |
Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 31 January 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University | |
Lord Lisvane | 11 December 2014 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Clerk of the House of Commons | |
Lord Livermore | 21 October 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Strategy and communications consultant | |
Earl of Liverpool | 23 October 1969 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Businessman | |
Lord Livingston of Parkhead | 12 July 2013 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former Minister for Trade and Investment | |
‡Lord Londesborough | 23 June 2021[y] | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Businessman, chairman and director of Tussell Limited | |
Lord Loomba | 12 January 2011 | Crossbench | Life peer | Executive chairman of the Rinku Group and pioneer of widow's rights | |
Lord Low of Dalston | 13 June 2006 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chairman of the Royal National Institute for the Blind, Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Leeds | |
Lord Lucas | 21 February 1992 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Chartered accountant, publisher and editor of The Good Schools Guide | |
Baroness Ludford | 30 September 1997 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | MEP for London (1999–2014) | |
Lord Lupton | 6 October 2015 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Bank executive and former Co-Treasurer of the Conservative Party | |
‡Earl of Lytton | 16 May 2011[z] | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Chartered surveyor | |
Lord McColl of Dulwich | 25 July 1989 | Conservative | Life peer | Professor Emeritus of Surgery at Guy's Hospital, associated with King's College London | |
Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale | 28 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former First Minister of Scotland | |
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 19 June 2018 | Democratic Unionist | Life peer | Former MP for South Antrim (2000–2001, 2005–2015) and for Mid Ulster (1983–1997) | |
Lord Macdonald of River Glaven | 12 July 2010 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Director of Public Prosecutions | |
Lord McDonald of Salford | 27 January 2021 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and British ambassador to Germany and to Israel | |
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 17 June 2010 | Lord Speaker | Life peer | Former Senior Deputy Speaker, former chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Committee and former MP | |
Baroness McGregor-Smith | 16 October 2015 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Businesswoman and former CEO of Mitie Group PLC | |
Lord McInnes of Kilwinning | 1 September 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Councillor on the Edinburgh City Council | |
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall | 3 August 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former associate producer at the Royal Shakespeare Company, former executive director of the Royal National Theatre | |
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 6 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Vale of York (1997–2010) and for Thirsk and Malton (2010–2015) | |
Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate | 17 July 1998 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former chief superintendent in the Durham Constabulary, former president of the Police Superintendents' Association | |
Lord Mackinlay of Richborough | 23 August 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for South Thanet (2015–2024), former acting leader of the UK Independence Party (1997) | |
Lord McLoughlin | 8 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for West Derbyshire (1986–2010) and for Derbyshire Dales (2010–2019), Secretary of State for Transport and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
Lord McNally | 20 December 1995 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Stockport South (1979–1983), Minister of State for Justice and leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords | |
Lord McNicol of West Kilbride | 21 June 2018 | Labour | Life peer | Former general secretary of the Labour Party | |
Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court | 4 October 2016 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury | |
Lord Magan of Castletown | 25 January 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Chartered accountant | |
Lord Mair | 29 October 2015 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Cambridge | |
Baroness Mallalieu | 19 June 1991 | Labour | Life peer | President of the Countryside Alliance | |
Lord Mance | 3 October 2005 | Crossbench | Law life peer | Former Deputy President (2017–2018) and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009–2018) and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2005–2009) | |
Lord Mancroft | 23 February 1988 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Former chair of the Addict Recovery Foundation, former chair of the Drug and Alcohol Foundation | |
Lord Mandelson | 13 October 2008 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Hartlepool (1992–2004), Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Northern Ireland and European Commissioner for Trade | |
Lord Mann | 28 October 2019 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Bassetlaw (2001–2019) | |
Baroness Manningham-Buller | 2 June 2008 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former director of the Security Service | |
Baroness Manzoor | 6 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Businesswoman, civil servant and nurse | |
Lord Markham | 7 October 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman, chairman of London & Continental Railways | |
Lord Marks of Hale | 8 March 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman | |
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames | 11 January 2011 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Commercial and family law QC with specialist interest in human rights and constitutional reform | |
Lord Marland | 8 June 2006 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of Herriot Ltd and of Hunter Boot Ltd | |
Lord Marlesford | 7 June 1991 | Conservative | Life peer | Farmer, soldier, Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk, former Councillor on the East Suffolk County Council | |
Lord Maude of Horsham | 26 May 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for North Warwickshire (1983–1992) and for Horsham (1997–2015) | |
Lord Mawson | 29 March 2007 | Crossbench | Life peer | Founder board member of Poplar HARCA (housing association) and author of The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work | |
Lord Maxton | 17 June 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Glasgow Cathcart (1979–2001) | |
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 21 August 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Former prime minister (2016–2019), former Home Secretary (2010–2016), former MP for Maidenhead (1997–2024) | |
Baroness Meacher | 16 June 2006 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former chairman of the Security Industry Authority, former chair of the Police Complaints Authority and two NHS trusts | |
Lord Mendelsohn | 5 September 2013 | Labour | Life peer | Lobbyist | |
Lord Mendoza | 16 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, businessman, publisher, philanthropist. | |
Baroness Merron | 28 January 2021 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Lincoln (1997–2010) | |
‡Lord Meston | 26 September 2023[aa] | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Lawyer | |
Baroness Meyer | 19 June 2018 | Conservative | Life peer | Businesswoman and activist for women and children | |
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 6 October 1998 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former Leader South Somerset District Council, Somerset County Councillor, environmental campaigner | |
Earl of Minto | 25 October 2022 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Chief executive of Paperchase | |
Lord Mitchell | 10 May 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Businessman | |
Baroness Mobarik | 19 September 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MEP for Scotland (2017–2020) | |
Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest | 12 March 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Businesswoman and charity campaigner | |
Lord Monks | 26 July 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former general secretary of both the Trades Union Congress and the European Trade Union Confederation | |
Lord Moore of Etchingham | 17 September 2020 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Sunday Telegraph | |
Lord Morgan | 12 June 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Professor of History at Brunel University | |
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 6 January 2020 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former MP for Loughborough (2010–2019), Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | |
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 11 June 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former director or chief executive of various voluntary sector organisations such as Shelter, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Workplace Nursery Campaign and Childcare Umbrella | |
Baroness Morgan of Huyton | 20 June 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge | |
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 9 June 2004 | Conservative | Life peer | President of the National Benevolent Institution | |
Baroness Morris of Yardley | 14 June 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Birmingham Yardley (1992–2005), former Secretary State for Education | |
Baroness Morrissey | 3 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Financier, former chief executive at Newton Investment Management | |
Lord Morrow | 7 June 2006 | Democratic Unionist | Life peer | Chairman of the Democratic Unionist Party, former MLA for Fermanagh & South Tyrone (1998–2017), former Minister for Social Development (2000–2001) and Minister for Communities (2016) | |
Lord Morse | 26 March 2021 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Comptroller and Auditor General | |
Lord Mott | 19 June 2023 | Conservative | Life peer | Former chief executive of the Conservative Party | |
Lord Mountevans | 8 July 2015 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Shipbroker, former Lord Mayor of London | |
Lord Moylan | 9 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Banker, merchant, former member of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council | |
Lord Moynihan | 30 April 1997 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Former MP for Lewisham East (1983–1992), former Minister for Sport (1987–1990), former chairman of the British Olympic Association (2005–2012), Olympic rower | |
Lord Moynihan of Chelsea | 6 February 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman, former CEO and executive chairman of PA Consulting Group (1992–2013) | |
Baroness Moyo | 8 November 2022 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Zambian-born economist and author | |
Baroness Murphy | 17 June 2004 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former professor of psychiatry of old age at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals United Medical School | |
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 20 October 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Torfaen (1987–2015) | |
Lord Murray of Blidworth | 21 October 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Barrister, Minister of State for Home Affairs, councilor on the Gedling Borough Council | |
Lord Naseby | 28 October 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Northampton South (1974–1997), former chairman of Ways and Means (1992–1997) | |
Lord Nash | 21 January 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman | |
Baroness Neuberger | 15 June 2004 | Crossbench | Life peer | Philanthropist, author, social reformer, rabbi, former chair of Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust, former chairman of the King's Fund | |
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury | 11 January 2007 | Crossbench | Law life peer | Former president of the Supreme Court (2012–2017), Master of the Rolls (2009–2012) and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2007–2009) | |
Baroness Neville-Jones | 15 October 2007 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Minister of State for Security, former diplomat and former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee | |
Baroness Neville-Rolfe | 10 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Businesswoman, former civil servant and former Commercial Secretary to the Treasury | |
Lord Newby | 25 September 1997 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Chair of Sport at The Prince's Trust | |
Baroness Newlove | 14 July 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Community reform campaigner | |
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne | 3 November 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Executive Chairman of the AMAR International Charitable Foundation and of the Iraq Britain Business Council, former MP for Torridge and West Devon (1987–1997) | |
Baroness Noakes | 7 June 2000 | Conservative | Life peer | Chartered accountant, former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales | |
Duke of Norfolk | 14 February 2003 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Earl Marshal | |
Lord Northbrook | 23 September 1991 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Director of Almanach de Gotha Ltd | |
Baroness Northover | 1 May 2000 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Academic, lecturer at University College London | |
Lord Norton of Louth | 1 August 1998 | Conservative | Life peer | Professor of Government at the University of Hull | |
Baroness Nye | 19 July 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former director of government relations, former diary secretary to the then–prime minister Gordon Brown | |
Lord O'Donnell | 10 January 2012 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service | |
Baroness O'Loan | 11 September 2009 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's Human Rights Enquiry | |
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve | 25 February 1999 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, founding president of the British Philosophical Association, former chair of the Nuffield Foundation and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and former president of the British Academy | |
Baroness O'Neill of Bexley | 7 November 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Leader of the Bexley London Borough Council | |
Lord O'Neill of Gatley | 28 May 2015 | Crossbench | Life peer | Economist, honorary professor at the University of Manchester, and former Commercial Secretary to the Treasury | |
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay | 1 May 2000 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Investment manager | |
Lord Oates | 5 October 2015 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former communications adviser to David Cameron and Nick Clegg | |
Lord Offord of Garvel | 13 October 2021 | Conservative | Life peer | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland | |
Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway | 9 December 2022 | Labour | Life peer | General secretary of the Trades Union Congress | |
Baroness Osamor | 26 November 2018 | Labour | Life peer | Community activist and civil rights campaigner, a former councilor in the London Borough of Haringey | |
Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge | 12 July 2023 | Conservative | Life peer | Former parliamentary assistant and special adviser. | |
Earl of Oxford and Asquith | 24 October 2014 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Former diplomat, First Secretary at the British Embassy in Moscow (1983–1985) | |
Lord Paddick | 12 September 2013 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former police officer and current non-executive director of the Metropolitan Police | |
Lord Palmer of Childs Hill | 17 January 2011 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Chartered accountant, former councillor on the Barnet London Borough Council, former treasurer for the Liberal Party | |
Lord Pannick | 3 November 2008 | Crossbench | Life peer | Leading human rights barrister, arguing over a hundred cases before the UK's highest court and the European Court of Justice and of Human Rights | |
Lord Parekh | 10 May 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Centennial Professor in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, emeritus professor of political theory at the University of Hull, emeritus professor of political philosophy at the University of Westminster | |
Lord Parker of Minsmere | 29 January 2021 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Lord Chamberlain and Director General of MI5 | |
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 8 October 2019 | Conservative | Life peer | Special adviser to Theresa May, lobbyist | |
Baroness Parminter | 15 July 2010 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former head of public affairs at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and former chief executive of the Campaign to Protect Rural England | |
Lord Patel | 1 March 1999 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, former chairmen of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges of Scotland and of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges of the United Kingdom and former professor of Obstetrics at the University of Dundee | |
Lord Patel of Bradford | 8 June 2006 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Professor at the University of Central Lancashire | |
Lord Patten | 17 June 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Oxford (1979–1983) and for Oxford West and Abingdon (1983–1997) and Secretary of State for Education | |
Lord Patten of Barnes | 11 January 2005 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Bath (1979–1992), chairman of the BBC Trust, Secretary of State for the Environment, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong, European Commissioner for External Relations | |
Lord Paul | 9 October 1996 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Resigned the Labour whip in October 2010 | |
Lord Peach | 21 November 2022 | Crossbench | Life peer | Air Chief Marshal, former chair of the NATO Military Committee, former Chief of the Defence Staff, former Chief of Joint Operations, former Chief of Defence Intelligence | |
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 18 June 1990 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former leader of UK Independence Party | |
Earl Peel | 15 May 1973 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Former Lord Chamberlain | |
Baroness Penn | 10 October 2019 | Conservative | Life peer | Political advisor, Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May | |
Lord Petitgas | 7 March 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Investment banker, former president of Morgan Stanley International | |
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers | 12 January 1999 | Crossbench | Law life peer | President of the Supreme Court (2009–2012), Senior Law Lord (2008—2009), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2005–2008), Master of the Rolls (2000–2005), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1999–2000) | |
Lord Pickles | 18 June 2018 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Brentwood and Ongar (1992–2017), Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Chairman of the Conservative Party | |
Baroness Pidgeon | 12 August 2024 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former Member of the London Assembly (2008–2024), former Member of Southwark London Borough Council for Newington (1998–2010) | |
Baroness Pidding | 8 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Chiltern District Councillor | |
Baroness Pinnock | 23 September 2014 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former leader of Kirklees Council | |
Baroness Pitkeathley | 6 October 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former chief executive of Carers UK and a founding member of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations | |
Lord Polak | 2 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman and business consultant | |
‡Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede | 19 April 2000[ab] | Labour | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton | |
Lord Popat | 10 July 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Founder and chairman of hospitality and health care firm TLC Group Ltd | |
Baroness Porter of Fulwood | 13 February 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff under Prime Minister Liz Truss | |
Lord Porter of Spalding | 15 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Leader of South Holland District Council | |
Lord Powell of Bayswater | 15 February 2000 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former diplomat | |
Baroness Prashar | 15 July 1999 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission and president of the Royal Commonwealth Society | |
Lord Prentis of Leeds | 18 November 2022 | Labour | Life peer | Trade unionist, former general secretary of UNISON (2001–2021) | |
Lord Price | 29 February 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman, writer, former Managing Director of Waitrose, former store manager for John Lewis | |
Baroness Primarolo | 26 October 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Bristol South (1987–2015) | |
Lord Prior of Brampton | 29 May 2015 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former MP for North Norfolk (1997–2001), former chair of NHS England (2018–2022) | |
Baroness Prosser | 11 June 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Deputy Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and former president of the Trades Union Congress | |
Lord Purvis of Tweed | 13 September 2013 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (2003–2011) | |
Baroness Quin | 30 May 2006 | Labour | Life peer | Chair of the Franco-British Council (British Section); former MP and Minister of State for Europe | |
Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale | 11 October 1996 | Labour | Life peer | Former diplomat and former case officer in the Secret Intelligence Service | |
Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath | 13 March 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Former chair of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, former vice chair of University College London Hospitals | |
Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 25 June 2018 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Uxbridge and Uxbridge and South Ruislip (1997–2015) | |
Baroness Randerson | 27 January 2011 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Culture, Sport and the Welsh Language, Acting Deputy First Minister and former Cardiff Council Opposition Leader | |
Lord Ranger | 11 October 2019 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman, founder of Sun Mark | |
Lord Ranger of Northwood | 11 July 2023 | Conservative | Life peer | Strategy and communications executive, board member of TechUK | |
Lord Ravensdale | 3 April 2019 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Engineer, project director for Atkins | |
Baroness Rawlings | 5 October 1994 | Conservative | Life peer | President of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and former chairman of King's College London Council | |
Lord Razzall | 22 October 1997 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Solicitor, cricketer, former Treasurer of the Liberal Party and for the Liberal Democrats | |
Lord Reay | 28 January 2019 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Financier and Clan Chief of Clan Mackay | |
Baroness Rebuck | 18 September 2014 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of Penguin Random House UK publishers | |
‡Lord Redesdale | 18 April 2000[ac] | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Mitford | |
Baroness Redfern | 7 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Leader of North Lincolnshire Council | |
Lord Rees of Ludlow | 6 September 2005 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and Astronomer Royal, president of the Royal Society | |
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 16 July 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Motherwell North (1987–1997), for Hamilton North and Bellshill (1997–2005) and for Airdrie and Shotts (2005–2010), Secretaries of State for Scotland, Health, Defence and Home Secretary | |
Lord Remnant | 11 July 2022 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Businessman | |
Lord Rennard | 21 July 1999 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Foinistertive of the Liberal Democrats | |
Lord Richards of Herstmonceux | 24 February 2014 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Chief of the Defence Staff | |
Lord Ricketts | 17 October 2016 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former UK Ambassador to France, former National Security Adviser and former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
Lord Risby | 24 December 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party, responsible for business links in the City of London and former MP for Bury St Edmunds (1992–1997) and for West Suffolk (1997–2010) | |
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 16 October 2019 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for South Down (2010–2017) | |
Lord Robathan | 13 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for South Leicestershire (2010–2015) and for Blaby (1992–2010) | |
Lord Roberts of Belgravia | 1 November 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Historian and journalist, visiting professor at the Department of War Studies, King's College London | |
Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 15 June 2004 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former president of the Welsh Liberal Democrats | |
Lord Robertson of Port Ellen | 24 August 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Hamilton (1978–1997) and for Hamilton South (1997–1999), NATO Secretary General and Secretary of State for Defence | |
Lord Roborough | 25 October 2022 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Investment banker | |
Baroness Rock | 15 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Businesswoman and consultant | |
Lord Rogan | 16 July 1999 | Ulster Unionist | Life peer | Former president of the Ulster Unionist Party | |
Lord Rooker | 16 June 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Birmingham Perry Barr (1974–2001) and Chairman of the Food Standards Agency | |
Lord Rose of Monewden | 17 September 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Former chief executive and chairman of Marks & Spencer | |
Lord Rosenfield | 13 July 2023 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former Downing Street Chief of Staff, former principal private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
Earl of Rosslyn | 17 December 1979 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Former Metropolitan Police Commander, Master of the Household to the former Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall at Clarence House | |
Lord Rowlands | 28 June 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Cardiff North (1966–1970), for Merthyr Tydfil (1972–1983) and for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (1983–2001) | |
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 25 June 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former Leader of the House of Lords | |
Earl Russell | 19 June 2023 | Liberal Democrat | Hereditary peer | Photographer | |
‡Lord Russell of Liverpool | 11 December 2014[ad] | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Business consultant | |
Lord Saatchi | 4 October 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Co-founder and executive director of Saatchi and Saatchi and M&C Saatchi | |
Lord Sahota | 2 November 2022 | Labour | Life peer | Councillor on the Telford and Wrekin Council | |
Lord St John of Bletso | 8 June 1978 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Businessman and solicitor | |
Baroness Sanderson of Welton | 8 October 2019 | Conservative | Life peer | Journalist for The Mail on Sunday | |
Lord Sandhurst | 23 June 2021 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Barrister | |
Lord Sarfraz | 8 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Singapore, businessman and former treasurer to the Conservative Party | |
Lord Sassoon | 29 May 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Commercial Secretary to the Treasury and former president of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering | |
Baroness Sater | 20 June 2018 | Conservative | Life peer | Marketing executive and magistrate | |
Lord Sawyer | 4 August 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former general secretary of the Labour Party | |
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 30 October 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Commonwealth Secretary-General, former Attorney General for England and Wales and former Advocate General for Northern Ireland | |
Baroness Scott of Bybrook | 8 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former leader of Wiltshire County Council | |
Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 11 May 2000 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former president of the Liberal Democrats | |
Lord Scriven | 19 September 2014 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former leader of Sheffield City Council | |
Baroness Seccombe | 14 February 1991 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Councillor on West Midlands Council (1977–1981) and former Conservative Party Vice Chair (1987–1997) | |
Lord Sedwill | 11 September 2020 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Cabinet Secretary | |
Lord Sewell of Sanderstead | 16 December 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities | |
‡Lord Sentamu | 27 April 2021[ae] | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Archbishop of York | |
Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia | 21 December 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Solicitor | |
Baroness Shafik | 30 September 2020 | Crossbench | Life peer | President of Columbia University, former president and vice-chancellor of the London School of Economics, former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England | |
Lord Shamash | 6 March 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Solicitor, former councilor on the Barnet London Borough Council | |
Lord Sharkey | 20 December 2010 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Chairman of the Liberal Democrat 2010 general election campaign | |
Lord Sharma | 20 August 2024 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Reading West (2010–2024), Secretary of State for International Development, Business Secretary and President for COP26 | |
Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 15 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Broker | |
Baroness Sheehan | 2 October 2015 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former councilor for Kew on Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council | |
Baroness Shephard of Northwold | 21 June 2005 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for South West Norfolk (1987–2005), Secretary of State for Education and Employment and Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | |
Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury | 12 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Political Secretary for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chief of Staff to Conservative leader Michael Howard | |
Baroness Sherlock | 17 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former chief executive of the Refugee Council, former chief executive of the National Council for One Parent Families and former director of the education charity UKCOSA | |
Baroness Shields | 16 September 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Former digital adviser to David Cameron, former CEO of Tech City UK | |
Lord Shinkwin | 14 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, public affairs consultant | |
Lord Shipley | 14 July 2010 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former leader of Newcastle City Council | |
Earl of Shrewsbury | 16 February 1981 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Lord High Steward of Ireland | |
Lord Sikka | 10 September 2020 | Labour | Life peer | Professor of accounting | |
Lord Singh of Wimbledon | 12 October 2011 | Crossbench | Life peer | Journalist and broadcaster, former mine manager | |
Lord Skidelsky | 15 July 1991 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor emeritus of political economy at the University of Warwick, economic historian | |
Baroness Smith of Basildon | 7 July 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Shadow Leader of the House of Lords, former Minister of State for Third Sector, former MP for Basildon (1997–2010) | |
Baroness Smith of Cluny | 9 October 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Advocate General for Scotland (2024–present) | |
Lord Smith of Finsbury | 22 June 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Islington South and Finsbury (1983–2005), Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and chair of the Advertising Standards Authority | |
Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill | 17 February 1995 | Labour | Life peer | President of Scottish Opera and chairman of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe | |
Lord Smith of Hindhead | 29 September 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Chief executive of the Association of Conservative Clubs | |
Lord Smith of Kelvin | 29 May 2008 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chairman of Weir Group and Scottish and Southern Energy former governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation | |
Baroness Smith of Llanfaes | 13 March 2024 | Plaid Cymru | Life peer | Former acting president of National Union of Students Wales, youngest person ever to receive a life peerage. | |
Baroness Smith of Newnham | 12 September 2014 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Senior lecturer in international relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Cambridge University | |
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 17 July 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education (since 2024), former MP for Redditch (1997–2010), former Home Secretary (2007–2009) | |
Lord Snape | 9 June 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for West Bromwich East (1974–2001) | |
Lord Soames of Fletching | 28 October 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Crawley (1983–1997) and Mid Sussex (1997–2019), former Minister of State for the Armed Forces, grandson of Sir Winston Churchill | |
‡Duke of Somerset | 12 December 2014[af] | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Landowner, surveyor, Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire and for Devon | |
Lord Spellar | 12 August 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Birmingham Northfield (1982–1983), Warley West (1992–1997), and Warley (1992–1997) | |
Lord Spencer of Alresford | 17 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Founder of NEX Group | |
‡Earl of Stair | 29 May 2008[ag] | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Farmer and businessman. | |
Viscount Stansgate | 15 July 2021 | Labour | Hereditary peer | Consultant to the American Chemical Society | |
Baroness Stedman-Scott | 12 July 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Chief executive of Tomorrow's People Trust | |
Lord Stephen | 2 February 2011 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Kincardine and Deeside (1991–1992), Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Deputy First Minister of Scotland | |
Lord Sterling of Plaistow | 17 January 1991 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of Motability, former executive chairman of P&O | |
Baroness Stern | 13 July 1999 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former director of NACRO, former secretary general of Penal Reform International and author of books on prison reform | |
Lord Stern of Brentford | 10 December 2007 | Crossbench | Life peer | IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, author of the Stern Report | |
Lord Stevens of Birmingham | 5 July 2021 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former chief executive of NHS England | |
Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington | 6 April 2005 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police | |
Lord Stevens of Ludgate | 27 March 1987 | Conservative Ind. | Life peer | Former chairman of United Newspapers | |
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 13 July 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former adviser to Gordon Brown | |
Lord Stewart of Dirleton | 6 November 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Advocate General for Scotland | |
Lord Stirrup | 28 January 2011 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Chief of the Defence Staff | |
Lord Stone of Blackheath | 29 October 1997 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former joint-managing director of Marks and Spencer, chairman of Sindicatum Climate Change Foundation | |
Lord Stoneham of Droxford | 17 January 2011 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Liberal Democrats HQ Operations Director | |
Lord Storey | 2 February 2011 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Councillor and former leader of Liverpool City Council | |
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 10 January 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Whip, BBC Head of Corporate Affairs, and civil servant | |
Lord Strasburger | 10 January 2011 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Businessman | |
Lord Strathcarron | 18 February 2022 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Journalist, novelist, publisher and businessman, founder of Strathcarron Sports Cars plc | |
Lord Strathclyde | 18 March 1986 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Former leader of the House of Lords | |
Baroness Stroud | 1 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Political adviser, CEO of the Legatum Institute, former executive director of the Centre for Social Justice | |
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 7 September 2020 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former MP for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1997 to 2017 | |
Lord Sugar | 20 July 2009 | Crossbench | Life peer | TV personality and businessman | |
Baroness Sugg | 30 August 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | Political adviser | |
Lord Suri | 11 September 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman and formerly the general secretary of the Board of British Sikhs | |
Baroness Swinburne | 20 June 2023 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MEP for Wales (2009–2019) | |
Lord Swire | 1 November 2022 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for East Devon (2001–2019) and former Minister of State for Northern Ireland and for Europe and the Americas | |
Baroness Suttie | 17 September 2013 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Teacher, political consultant, government adviser and lobbyist | |
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 7 October 1996 | Labour | Life peer | Trade unionist, former general secretary of the FDA, chair of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce | |
Lord Tarassenko | 10 June 2024 | Crossbench | Life peer | Electrical engineer and academic, president of Reuben College, Oxford | |
Lord Taverne | 5 February 1996 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Lincoln 1962–1974 | |
Baroness Taylor of Bolton | 13 June 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Bolton West (1974–1983), former MP for Dewsbury (1987–2005), Cabinet minister (1997–2001) | |
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor | 16 July 2010 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Truro (1987–1997) and then Truro and St Austell (1997–2010), former chair of the Liberal Democrats | |
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 31 May 2006 | Conservative | Life peer | Government Chief Whip in the Lords | |
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage | 28 October 2022 | Labour | Life peer | Leader of Stevenage Borough Council and councillor for Hertfordshire County Council | |
Lord Taylor of Warwick | 2 October 1996 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Barrister, radio and television presenter, former chancellor of Bournemouth University | |
Lord Teverson | 1 June 2006 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MEP for Cornwall and West Plymouth (1994–1999) | |
Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd | 4 October 2013 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2013–2017) | |
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 30 September 1996 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Deputy High Court Judge | |
Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 26 May 2006 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Political activist and election agent for the Liberal Party | |
Baroness Thornhill | 21 October 2015 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Teacher, former Mayor of Watford | |
Baroness Thornton | 23 July 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former chair of the London Labour Party, former general secretary of the Fabian Society, chief executive of the Young Foundation | |
Lord Thurlow | 6 February 2015 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Chartered surveyor | |
‡Viscount Thurso | 20 April 2016[ah] | Liberal Democrat | Hereditary peer | Former MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross 2001–2015 | |
Lord Timpson | 18 July 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Minister of State for Prisons, Parole and Probation (since 2024), Chancellor of Keele University (since 2022), CEO of Timpson (2002–2024) | |
Lord Tope | 4 October 1994 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Sutton and Cheam (1972–1974) and Councillor | |
Lord Touhig | 28 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Islwyn 1995–2010 | |
Lord Trees | 3 July 2012 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chairman of the Moredun Research Institute, veterinarian and professor emeritus of veterinary parasitology at the University of Liverpool | |
Lord Trefgarne | 29 June 1962 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Longest-serving member of the House of Lords | |
‡Viscount Trenchard | 17 May 2004[ai] | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Businessman, consultant, Royal Green Jackets officer | |
Lord Trevethin and Oaksey | 22 October 2015 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Barrister | |
Lord Triesman | 9 January 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former general secretary of the Labour Party | |
Lord True | 23 December 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit | |
Lord Truscott | 10 June 2004 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Petroleum and mining consultant, former MEP for Hertfordshire (1994–1999) | |
Lord Tugendhat | 15 October 1993 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Cities of London and Westminster (1970–1974) and for City of London and Westminster South (1974–1977) | |
Lord Tunnicliffe | 2 June 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Pilot and railwayman, chairman of the Rail Safety and Standards Board, former chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, former managing director For London Underground | |
Lord Turnberg | 4 May 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Former Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester | |
Lord Turnbull | 11 October 2005 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service | |
Lord Turner of Ecchinswell | 7 September 2005 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chair of the Climate Change Committee and former chair of the Financial Services Authority | |
Baroness Twycross | 7 November 2022 | Labour | Life peer | Former member of the London Assembly, Deputy Mayor of London | |
Baroness Tyler of Enfield | 28 January 2011 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Chief executive of Relate | |
Lord Tyrie | 12 June 2018 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former MP for Chichester (1997–2017) | |
Baroness Uddin | 18 July 1998 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Community activist, former Councillor in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets | |
Lord Udny-Lister | 6 November 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Prime Minister's Chief Strategic Advisor | |
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 1 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Wantage (2005–2019) | |
Baroness Valentine | 10 October 2005 | Crossbench | Life peer | Financial manager | |
Lord Vallance of Balham | 17 July 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation (since 2024), chair of the Natural History Museum in London (since 2022), clinical pharmacologist. | |
Lord Vaux of Harrowden | 11 August 2017 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Chartered accountant | |
Baroness Vere of Norbiton | 30 August 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | Former executive director of the Girls' Schools Association | |
Lord Verjee | 17 September 2013 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Businessman | |
Lord Verdirame | 2 November 2022 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Barrister, legal scholar, professor of international law at King's College London | |
Baroness Verma | 2 June 2006 | Conservative | Life peer | Businesswoman | |
Lord Wakeham | 24 April 1992 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Maldon (1974–1983) and South Colchester and Maldon (1983–1992) | |
Lord Waldegrave of North Hill | 28 July 1999 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Bristol West (1979–1997), chancellor of the University of Reading (since 2016), Provost of Eton (since 2009) | |
Lord Walker of Aldringham | 19 December 2006 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Chief of the Defence Staff | |
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 19 December 1995 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Emeritus professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, former director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs | |
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 17 October 2007 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Orkney and Shetland (1983–2001), Advocate General for Scotland and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords | |
Baroness Walmsley | 15 May 2000 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Cytologist, professor and PR consultant | |
Lord Walney | 4 September 2020 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former MP for Barrow and Furness (2010–2019) | |
Baroness Warsi | 11 October 2007 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Solicitor, former chairman of the Conservative Party, former Minister of State for Faith and Communities | |
Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe | 10 July 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Trade unionist, former general secretary of the Association of University Teachers | |
Lord Wasserman | 11 January 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Internationally recognised expert on management of police forces | |
Baroness Watkins of Tavistock | 2 November 2015 | Crossbench | Life peer | Professor emeritus of healthcare management at the University of Plymouth | |
Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 6 November 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Glasgow Central (1989–1997) and MSP for Glasgow Cathcart (1999–2005) | |
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 21 November 2022 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for West Bromwich East (2001–2019), former chair of the Labour Party, former deputy leader of the Labour Party, former Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, chairman of UK Music | |
Lord Watts | 23 October 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for St Helens North (1997–2015) | |
Viscount Waverley | 29 June 1990 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Businessman | |
Lord Wei | 28 May 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Social entrepreneur and political consultant | |
Lord Weir of Ballyholme | 16 November 2022 | Democratic Unionist | Life peer | Former Minister of Education in Northern Ireland, former member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Down (1998–2017) and for Strangford (2017–2022) | |
Duke of Wellington | 17 September 2015 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Former MEP for Surrey (1979–1984) and Surrey West (1984–1989) | |
Lord West of Spithead | 9 July 2007 | Labour | Life peer | Former admiral | |
Lord Wharton of Yarm | 2 September 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Chair of the Office for Students (since 2021), former MP for Stockton South (2010–2017) | |
Baroness Wheatcroft | 22 December 2010 | Crossbench | Life peer | Journalist and editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal Europe and former editor of the Sunday Telegraph | |
Baroness Wheeler | 20 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Trade unionist (UNISON) | |
Baroness Whitaker | 5 August 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former magistrate | |
Lord Whitby | 10 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Former leader of Birmingham City Council | |
Lord Whitty | 21 October 1996 | Labour | Life peer | Former general secretary of the Labour Party | |
Lord Wigley | 19 January 2011 | Plaid Cymru | Life peer | Former MP Caernarfon for (1974–2001) and Leader of Plaid Cymru | |
Baroness Wilcox of Newport | 14 October 2019 | Labour | Life peer | Newport City Councillor, former head of the Welsh Local Government Association, former teacher | |
Lord Willetts | 16 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Havant (1992–2015) | |
Baroness Williams of Trafford | 20 September 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Minister of State for Home Affairs | |
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 18 June 2010 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough (1997–2010) | |
Baroness Willis of Summertown | 8 July 2022 | Crossbench | Life peer | Biologist, professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford and of biology at the University of Bergen, principal of St Edmund Hall | |
Lord Wills | 10 July 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Swindon North (1997–2010) | |
Lord Wilson of Dinton | 18 November 2002 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service | |
Lord Winston | 18 December 1995 | Labour | Life peer | Professor of Science and Society and emeritus professor of fertility studies at Imperial College London | |
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 13 August 2024 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Doncaster Central (1997–2024) | |
Baroness Wolf of Dulwich | 2 December 2014 | Crossbench | Life peer | Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College London | |
Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise | 18 June 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman and CEO of Next plc | |
Lord Wolfson of Tredegar | 30 December 2020 | Conservative | Life peer | Barrister | |
Lord Wood of Anfield | 15 January 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Lecturer in politics at the University of Oxford and co-founder of Nexus think-tank | |
Lord Woodley | 2 November 2020 | Labour | Life peer | Trade unionist, former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and of Unite the Union | |
Lord Woolf | 1 October 1992 | Crossbench | Law life peer | Former Law Lord and chairman of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, visiting professor of law at University College London | |
Lord Woolley of Woodford | 14 October 2019 | Crossbench | Life peer | Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge; political activist and government adviser, founder of Operation Black Vote | |
Lord Wrigglesworth | 5 September 2013 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Thornaby (1974–1983) and for Stockton South (1983–1987) | |
‡Lord Wrottesley | 11 July 2022[aj] | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Chair of Ice Hockey UK, skeleton racer | |
Baroness Wyld | 22 June 2017 | Conservative | Life peer | Communications consultant | |
Lord Young of Cookham | 29 September 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Acton (1974–1983), for Ealing Acton (1983–1997) and for North West Hampshire (1997–2015) | |
Baroness Young of Hornsey | 22 June 2004 | Crossbench | Life peer | Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, actress, social worker, lecturer in media studies. | |
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 25 June 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Trade unionist, former general secretary of the National Communications Union and the Communication Workers Union | |
Baroness Young of Old Scone | 4 November 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former chancellor of Cranfield University | |
Lord Young of Old Windsor | 13 June 2023 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former Private Secretary to the Sovereign | |
Viscount Younger of Leckie | 28 June 2010 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Businessman |
Notes
- ^ On 11 November 2024, Welby issued a letter of resignation writing, "exact timings will be decided once a review of necessary obligations has been completed[1].
- ^ Welby was an ex officio Lord Spiritual as Bishop of Durham from 2011, continuing as such on his translation to Archbishop of Canterbury in 2013.
- ^ Cottrell was a Lord Spiritual by seniority of service as Bishop of Chelmsford from 2014, continuing ex officio on his translation to Archbishop of York in 2020.
- ^ Faull entered the House under the provisions of the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015.
- ^ Francis-Dehqani entered the House under the provisions of the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015.
- ^ Lane entered the House under the provisions of the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015.
- ^ Treweek entered the House under the provisions of the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015.
- ^ Conway was a Lord Spiritual by seniority of service as Bishop of Ely from 2014, continuing as such on his translation to Bishop of Lincolnin 2023.
- ^ Hartley entered the House under the provisions of the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015.
- ^ Croft was a Lord Spiritual by seniority of service as Bishop of Sheffield from 2013, continuing as such on his translation to Bishop of Oxford in 2016.
- ^ Lord Berkeley was previously a member of the House by virtue of his hereditary peerage from 1992 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Lord Carey of Clifton was previously a member of the House as an ex officio Lord Spiritual while Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002.
- ^ Earl Cathcart was previously a member of the House from June 1999 until the House of Lords Act in November 1999.
- ^ Viscount Chandos was previously a member of the House by virtue of his hereditary peerage from 1980 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Lord Chartres was previously a member of the House as an ex officio Lord Spiritual while Bishop of London from 1995 to 2017.
- ^ Earl of Clancarty was previously a member of the House from 1995 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Lord Cromwell was previously a member of the House from 1982 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Viscount Eccles was previously a member of the House from February 1999 until the House of Lords Act in November 1999.
- ^ Lord Fairfax of Cameron was previously a member of the House from 1977 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Earl of Glasgow was previously a member of the House from 1984 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Lord Grantchester was previously a member of the House from 1995 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Lord Hacking was previously a member of the House from 1971 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Viscount Hanworth was previously a member of the House from 1996 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Lord Harries of Pentregarth was previously a member of the House as a Lord Spiritual by seniority of service as Bishop of Oxford from 1993 to 2006.
- ^ Lord Londesborough was previously a member of the House from 1980 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Earl of Lytton was previously a member of the House from 1985 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Lord Meston was previously a member of the House from 1984 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede was previously a member of the House by virtue of his hereditary peerage from 1990 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Lord Redesdale was previously a member of the House by virtue of his hereditary peerage from 1991 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Lord Russell of Liverpool was previously a member of the House from 1981 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Lord Sentamu was previously a member of the House as an ex officio Lord Spiritual while Archbishop of York from 2005 to 2020.
- ^ Duke of Somerset was previously a member of the House from 1984 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Earl of Stair was previously a member of the House from 1996 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Viscount Thurso was previously a member of the House from 1995 until the House of Lords Act 1999.
- ^ Viscount Trenchard was previously a member of the House from 1987 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
- ^ Lord Wrottesley was previously a member of the House from 1993 until the House of Lords Act in 1999.
Current non-sitting members
[edit]There are also peers who remain members of the House, but are currently ineligible to sit and vote.
Peers on leave of absence
[edit]Under section 23 of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords, peers may obtain a leave of absence for the remainder of a Parliament.[2] The following peers are currently on a leave of absence.[3]
Lord | Party | On leave since | Type | Notes | |
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Lord Barker of Battle | Conservative | 27 February 2019 | Life peer | Former MP for Bexhill and Battle (2001–2015) | |
Lord Barwell | Conservative | 1 February 2023 | Life peer | Former Downing Street Chief of Staff and former MP for Croydon Central (2010–2017) | |
Lord Bates | Conservative | 11 October 2021 | Life peer | Former MP for Langbaurgh (1992–1997) | |
Lord Boyd of Duncansby | Non-affiliated | 17 July 2024 | Life peer | Former judge, Outer House of the Court of Session in the Supreme Courts of Scotland | |
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | Labour | 24 May 2022 | Life peer | Former MP for North Ayrshire and Arran (2005–2015) | |
Lord Collins of Mapesbury | Crossbench | 11 May 2022 | Law life peer | Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2009), Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009–2011) | |
Lord Davies of Abersoch | Non-affiliated | 9 June 2022 | Life peer | Former minister of state for trade promotion and investment, former chairman of Standard Chartered Bank and Nordic Windpower, currently chairman of PineBridge Investments and partner at Corsair Private Equity partners | |
Lord Feldman of Elstree | Conservative | 22 June 2020 | Life peer | Chief executive and former managing director of Jayroma (London) Ltd, former chairman of the Conservative Party | |
Lord Freud | Conservative | 16 December 2021 | Life peer | Former vice-chairman of investing banking at UBS AG | |
Baroness Fullbrook | Conservative | 31 December 2022 | Life peer | Former MP for South Ribble (2010–2015) | |
Lord Geidt | Crossbench | 18 July 2024 | Life peer | Former Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II | |
Lord Hague of Richmond | Conservative | 31 January 2021 | Life peer | Former MP for Richmond (Yorks) (1989–2015), former Foreign Secretary, former Leader of the House of Commons and former Leader of the Opposition | |
Lord Llewellyn of Steep | Conservative | 1 November 2016 | Life peer | UK Ambassador to Italy, former UK Ambassador to France and former Downing Street Chief of Staff | |
Lord Malloch-Brown | Crossbench | 30 July 2024 | Life peer | Former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and briefly Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations | |
Baroness Mone | Conservative | 6 December 2022 | Life peer | Businesswoman, founder of Ultimo | |
Duke of Montrose | Conservative | 30 July 2024 | Hereditary peer | Former shadow minister for the Scotland Office | |
Baroness Morgan of Ely | Labour | 12 May 2021 | Life peer | Leader of Welsh Labour (since 2024), MS for Mid and West Wales (since 2016), Minister for Health and Social Services in the Welsh Government (since 2021), Honorary Distinguished Professor at Cardiff University and former MEP for Mid and West Wales (1994–1999) and Wales (1999–2009) | |
Lord O'Shaughnessy | Conservative | 17 December 2021 | Life peer | Director of Policy to Prime Minister David Cameron | |
Lord Palumbo of Southwark | Liberal Democrat | 18 August 2021 | Life peer | Businessman and novelist | |
Baroness Vadera | Non-affiliated | 16 May 2022 | Life peer | Investment banker and economist, chair of Prudential plc, former chair of Santander UK, former government adviser | |
Baroness Worthington | Crossbench | 17 April 2023 | Life peer | Environmental campaigner, founder of Sandbag |
Peers disqualified
[edit]Under section 137(3) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, holders of certain judicial offices who are peers are disqualified from sitting and voting in the House of Lords while in office.[4] The following peers are currently subject to this provision.
Lord | Party | Disqualified since | Type | Notes | |
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Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill | Non-affiliated | 6 November 2023 | Life peer | Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales | |
Lord Reed of Allermuir | Crossbench | 11 January 2020 | Life peer | President of the Supreme Court |
Peers suspended
[edit]The following peer is currently suspended from the House in accordance with section 1 of the House of Lords (Expulsion and Suspension) Act 2015.
Lord | Party | Suspended since | Type | Length of suspension | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass | Independent Ulster Unionist | 7 December 2020 | Life peer | Minimum 18 months[5] |
Ceased to be members
[edit]Apart from retired Lords Spiritual and the surviving hereditary peers excluded under the House of Lords Act 1999, including the Marquess of Cholmondeley who was exempt from the 1999 Act by virtue of his position as Lord Great Chamberlain until the accession of Charles III in September 2022,[6] there are a number of living peers who have permanently ceased to be members of the House.
Resigned
[edit]Under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, peers may permanently retire or otherwise resign their membership of the House.[7] The following peers have exercised that right and are still living:[8]
Lord | Party | Date | Type | Notes | |
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Lord Grenfell[9] | Labour | 1 October 2014 | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sat by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Grenfell of Kilvey Previously retired under the Resolution of the House of 27 June 2011 on 31 March 2014 | |
Lord Lloyd of Berwick | Crossbench | 27 March 2015 | Law life peer | Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
Lord Nickson | Crossbench | 27 March 2015 | Life peer | Businessman, former chairman of the Clydesdale Bank, Scottish & Newcastle, and CBI Scotland, former chancellor of the Glasgow Caledonian University | |
Lord Ashcroft | Conservative | 3 April 2015 | Life peer | Businessman and pollster | |
Lord Hope of Thornes | Crossbench | 30 April 2015 | Life peer | Former Archbishop of York | |
Lord Sharman | Liberal Democrat | 30 April 2015 | Life peer | Accountant, former chairman of Aviva Group and former chairman of KPMG International | |
Lord Edmiston | Conservative | 22 July 2015 | Life peer | Businessman, motor trade entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Christian Vision | |
Lord Sewel | Non-affiliated | 30 July 2015 | Life peer | Former chairman of committees | |
Lord Simpson of Dunkeld | Labour | 30 July 2015 | Life peer | Businessman, former CEO of Marconi plc, former CEO of Lucas Industries | |
Lord Cameron of Lochbroom | Crossbench | 21 April 2016 | Life peer | Former Lord Advocate | |
Baroness Perry of Southwark | Conservative | 26 May 2016 | Life peer | Educator, former Chief Inspector of Schools in England and former president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge | |
Lord Hurd of Westwell | Conservative | 9 June 2016 | Life peer | Former MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Home Secretary | |
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | Liberal Democrat | 31 July 2016 | Life peer | Economist | |
Lord Scott of Foscote | Crossbench | 21 December 2016 | Law life peer | Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
Lord Macdonald of Tradeston | Labour | 27 April 2017 | Life peer | Television executive and journalist, trade unionist, former chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University, former chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, former Minister of State for Transport | |
Lord Hattersley | Labour | 19 May 2017 | Life peer | Former MP, Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party | |
Marquess of Salisbury | Conservative | 8 June 2017 | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sat by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil Formerly known as Viscount Cranborne; former MP and Leader of the House of Lords | |
Lord Simon of Highbury | Non-affiliated | 9 June 2017 | Life peer | Businessman, former chief executive of BP | |
Earl of Mar and Kellie | Liberal Democrat | 30 June 2017 | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sat by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Erskine of Alloa Tower | |
Lord Lloyd-Webber | Conservative | 17 October 2017 | Life peer | Composer and impresario of musical theatre | |
Baroness Paisley of St George's | Democratic Unionist | 30 October 2017 | Life peer | Former MLA for Belfast East, widow of Ian Paisley | |
Lord Tanlaw | Conservative | 3 November 2017 | Life peer | Former director of Inchcape plc and former chancellor of the University of Buckingham | |
Lord Condon | Crossbench | 21 December 2017 | Life peer | Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police | |
Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth | Conservative | 22 December 2017 | Life peer | Businessman, chairman of Vodafone and chairman of Tesco, former chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, former president of the Marylebone Cricket Club and former chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire | |
Lord Blyth of Rowington | Conservative | 1 January 2018 | Life peer | Businessman, former chairman of the London Business School | |
Lord Sanderson of Bowden | Conservative | 29 March 2018 | Life peer | Former chairman of the Conservative Party in Scotland | |
Lord Glentoran | Conservative | 1 June 2018 | Hereditary peer | Former bobsledder and Olympic champion | |
Baroness Richardson of Calow | Crossbench | 20 December 2018 | Life peer | Methodist Minister, first female President of the Methodist Conference | |
Lord Higgins | Conservative | 1 January 2019 | Life peer | Former MP | |
Baroness Howells of St Davids | Labour | 10 January 2019 | Life peer | Former chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire | |
Lord Mogg | Crossbench | 14 January 2019 | Life peer | Former chairman of Ofgem | |
Lord Cullen of Whitekirk | Crossbench | 1 February 2019 | Life peer | Former Lord President of the Court of Session | |
Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes | Conservative | 25 February 2019 | Life peer | Former MP | |
Baroness Gould of Potternewton | Labour | 22 July 2019 | Life peer | Former president of the Family Planning Association, trade unionist and political activist | |
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market | Conservative | 26 July 2019 | Life peer | Former MP, Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Education and Science and Leader of the House of Commons | |
Lord Palumbo | Conservative | 2 September 2019 | Life peer | Property developer and art collector, last chair of the Arts Council of Great Britain | |
Baroness Emerton | Crossbench | 1 November 2019 | Life peer | Nurse | |
Lord Vallance of Tummel | Liberal Democrat | 13 January 2020 | Life peer | Businessman, former chairman of BT | |
Lord Steel of Aikwood | Non-affiliated | 27 March 2020 | Life peer | Former MP, Leader of the Liberal Party and Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament | |
Lord Brookman | Labour | 2 April 2020 | Life peer | Steel worker and trade unionist, former general secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation | |
Countess of Mar | Crossbench | 1 May 2020 | Hereditary peer | Farmer and goats cheesemaker, former civil servant | |
Baroness Byford | Conservative | 5 May 2020 | Life peer | Former president of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers, Deputy Lieutenant for Leicestershire | |
Lord Cope of Berkeley | Conservative | 13 May 2020 | Life peer | Former MP and Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords | |
Lord Woolmer of Leeds | Labour | 26 May 2020 | Life peer | Former MP | |
Lord Luce | Crossbench | 29 June 2020 | Life peer | Former MP, Lord Chamberlain and Governor of Gibraltar | |
Lord Morris of Handsworth | Labour | 21 July 2020 | Life peer | Trade unionist, former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union | |
Baroness Hanham | Conservative | 22 July 2020 | Life peer | Former leader of the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council | |
Lord Jones of Birmingham | Crossbench | 31 August 2020 | Life peer | Businessman former director general of the Confederation of British Industry and former Minister of State for Trade and Investment | |
Lord Williams of Oystermouth | Crossbench | 31 August 2020 | Life peer | Formerly Archbishop of Canterbury | |
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | Liberal Democrat | 2 September 2020 | Life peer | Former MP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (1983–2005) | |
Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony | Crossbench | 14 September 2020 | Life peer | Former Justice of the Supreme Court and Master of the Rolls | |
Lord Freeman | Conservative | 1 October 2020 | Life peer | Former MP | |
Lord Ahmed | Non-affiliated | 14 November 2020 | Life peer | Property developer | |
Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank | Crossbench | 1 December 2020 | Life peer | Former Chief of the Defence Staff | |
Lord Haskins | Crossbench | 1 December 2020 | Life peer | Businessman | |
Baroness Wilcox | Conservative | 17 December 2020 | Life peer | Businesswoman | |
Lord Cavendish of Furness | Conservative | 1 January 2021 | Life peer | Landowner, former High Sheriff of Cumbria and former member of the Cumbria County Council | |
Lord Wilson of Tillyorn | Crossbench | 12 February 2021 | Life peer | Former Governor of Hong Kong | |
Baroness Tonge | Non-affiliated | 19 February 2021 | Life peer | Former MP | |
Lord Ryder of Wensum | Conservative | 12 April 2021 | Life peer | Former MP | |
Lord Sainsbury of Turville | Labour | 1 July 2021 | Life peer | Businessman, chairman of Sainsbury's and chancellor of the University of Cambridge | |
Lord Beecham | Labour | 1 September 2021 | Life peer | Former leader of Newcastle City Council and current councilor for Benwell and Scotswood, former chairman of the Local Government Association | |
Lord Puttnam | Labour | 27 October 2021 | Life peer | Film producer, former chancellor of the Open University and former chancellor of the University of Sunderland | |
Lord Tyler | Liberal Democrat | 28 October 2021 | Life peer | Former MP for Bodmin (1974) and North Cornwall (1992–2005), former chairman of the Liberal Party | |
Lord Hunt of Chesterton | Labour | 30 October 2021 | Life peer | Meteorologist, former chief executive of the Meteorological Office | |
Baroness Hilton of Eggardon | Labour | 5 November 2021 | Life peer | Former police officer with the Metropolitan Police | |
Lord Broers | Crossbench | 17 December 2021 | Life peer | Electrical engineer, former vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge and former master of Churchill College | |
Viscount Ridley | Conservative | 17 December 2021 | Hereditary peer | Science writer, journalist and businessman, former chairman of Northern Rock | |
Lord Coe | Conservative | 31 January 2022 | Life peer | Former track and field athlete, president of World Athletics, former MP for Falmouth and Camborne (1992–1997) | |
Lord Rotherwick | Conservative | 1 February 2022 | Hereditary peer | Landowner and estate manager | |
Lord Tebbit | Conservative | 31 March 2022 | Life peer | Former MP | |
Lord Lea of Crondall | Non-affiliated | 7 April 2022 | Life peer | Former assistant general secretary of the Trades Union Congress | |
Lord Brabazon of Tara | Conservative | 28 April 2022 | Hereditary peer | Former Chairman of Committees | |
Lord Oxburgh | Crossbench | 28 April 2022 | Life peer | Geophysicist and geologist, former head of the department of earth sciences at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Geological Society of London | |
Lord Moonie | Non-affiliated | 28 April 2022 | Life peer | Former MP for Kirkcaldy (1987–2005) | |
Lord Lang of Monkton | Conservative | 30 June 2022 | Life peer | Former MP and President of the Board of Trade, current chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments and future chairman of the board of directors of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc | |
Lord Vinson | Conservative | 13 July 2022 | Life peer | Entrepreneur and philanthropist | |
Viscount Ullswater | Conservative | 20 July 2022 | Hereditary peer | Former Minister of State for Housing and former Private Secretary to Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon | |
Earl of Listowel | Crossbench | 21 July 2022 | Hereditary peer | Sat as Baron Hare in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland | |
Lord Astor of Hever | Conservative | 22 July 2022 | Hereditary peer | Businessman, Deputy Lieutenant of Kent, Life Guards officer | |
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | Conservative | 22 July 2022 | Life peer | Lord Clerk Register, Formerly Lord Chancellor and Law Lord, Lord Advocate, a former judge of the Court of Session and editor-in-chief of Halsbury's Laws of England | |
Lord Soley | Labour | 19 January 2023 | Life peer | Former chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party and former MP | |
Baroness Chalker of Wallasey | Conservative | 3 February 2023 | Life peer | Former MP for Wallasey (1974–1992) and Minister of State for Overseas Development, president of the Royal Geographical Society | |
Viscount Falkland | Crossbench | 21 March 2023 | Hereditary peer | Vice-President of the Royal Stuart Society, officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars | |
Lord Davies of Stamford | Labour | 25 July 2023 | Life peer | Former MP, Minister of State for Defence Equipment and Support and diplomat | |
Lord Watson of Richmond | Liberal Democrat | 25 July 2023 | Life peer | Broadcaster and communications consultant, former president of the Liberal Party | |
Lord Hylton | Crossbench | 27 July 2023 | Hereditary peer | Former assistant private secretary to the Governor-General of Canada | |
Lord Stevenson of Coddenham | Crossbench | 1 October 2023 | Life peer | Chairman of Manocap, former chairman of Aerfi, Pearson and HBOS | |
Lord Ribeiro | Conservative | 23 October 2023 | Life peer | Former consultant general surgeon; member of the Health Policy Research Advisory Board of the American College of Surgeons | |
Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank | Liberal Democrat | 12 December 2023 | Life peer | Former MP, Secretary of State for Transport, director-general of the Royal Institute of British Architects and chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority; member of the Gang of Four that founded the Social Democratic Party | |
Lord Plant of Highfield | Labour | 28 February 2024 | Life peer | Professor of Jurisprudence and Philosophy at King's College London and former Professor of European Political Thought at the University of Southampton | |
Lord Goodlad | Conservative | 29 February 2024 | Life peer | Former MP and chairman of the Constitution Committee | |
Lord Bamford | Conservative | 1 March 2024 | Life peer | Chairman of JCB | |
Earl of Sandwich | Crossbench | 20 May 2024 | Hereditary peer | Businessman | |
Lord Saville of Newdigate | Crossbench | 20 June 2024 | Law life peer | Former Law Lord and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
Baroness Fritchie | Crossbench | 1 July 2024 | Life peer | Chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire (since 2012) | |
Lord Rana | Conservative | 2 July 2024 | Life peer | President of Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry | |
Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare | Non-affiliated | 4 July 2024 | Life peer | Former MP for Louth (Lincolnshire) (1969–1974), novelist | |
Lord MacKenzie of Culkein | Labour | 8 July 2024 | Life peer | Former nurse and president of the Trades Union Congress | |
Baroness King of Bow | Labour | 9 July 2024 | Life peer | Former MP for Bethnal Green and Bow (1997–2005) | |
Baroness Jolly | Liberal Democrat | 31 July 2024 | Life peer | Chair of Executive Committee of Liberal Democrats in Devon and Cornwall | |
Lord Warner | Crossbench | 1 August 2024 | Life peer | Former civil servant | |
Lord Owen | Ind. Social Democrat | 13 August 2024 | Life peer | Former MP for Plymouth Sutton (1966–1974) and for Plymouth Devonport (1974–1992), Foreign Secretary, co-chairman of the Conference on Yugoslavia, leader of the Social Democratic Party 1983–87, and the continuing Social Democratic Party 1988–90 | |
Lord Levene of Portsoken | Crossbench | 28 November 2024 | Life peer | Former chairman of Lloyd's of London and former vice chairman of Deutsche Bank |
Removed for non-attendance
[edit]Under section 2 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, peers who fail to attend any sittings of the House during a whole parliamentary session cease to be members of the House at the start of the next session. The following peers have been subject to this provision since the Act came into force and are still living:[10]
Lord | Party | Date | Type | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lord Dixon-Smith | Conservative | 7 November 2023 | Life peer | Former chairman of Essex County Council | |
Lord Black of Crossharbour | Non-affiliated | 9 July 2024 | Life peer | Businessman, former newspaper publisher, convicted fraudster | |
Baroness Corston | Labour | 9 July 2024 | Life peer | Former MP for Bristol East and Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party | |
Lord Davies of Oldham | Labour | 9 July 2024 | Life peer | Former MP, Government Deputy Chief Whip (2003–2010) and Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard | |
Lord Kalms | Non-affiliated | 9 July 2024 | Life peer | Life president and former chairman of Dixons Retail and former chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies | |
Lord Willoughby de Broke | Non-affiliated | 9 July 2024 | Hereditary peer | Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire |
Resigned under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010
[edit]Under section 41 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, peers are automatically and compulsorily treated as domiciled in the United Kingdom for tax purposes. Section 42 allowed peers who did not wish to comply with the provision to choose within three months of the act coming into force to give notice with the same effect as to resign and retire from the House of Lords.[11] The following peers opted to exercise that right and are still living:[8]
Lord | Party | Date | Type | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lord Laidlaw | Conservative | 15 April 2010 | Life peer | Retains tax residency (domicile) in Monaco | |
Baroness Dunn | Crossbench | 30 June 2010 | Life peer | Retains tax residency (domicile) in Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) | |
Lord Foster of Thames Bank | Crossbench | 6 July 2010 | Life peer | Retains tax residency (domicile) in Switzerland |
Recently deceased
[edit]The following life peers and elected hereditary peers have died since December 2023:[12]
Name | Party | Ceased to be member (if applicable) |
Date of death | Type | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead | Labour | 9 April 2021 | 3 December 2023 | Life peer | |
Lord Bhatia | Non-affiliated | 7 November 2023 | 12 January 2024 | Life peer | |
Lord Tomlinson | Labour | 20 January 2024 | Life peer | ||
Baroness Flather | Crossbench | 6 February 2024 | Life peer | ||
Lord Cormack | Conservative | 25 February 2024 | Life peer | ||
Baroness Henig | Labour | 29 February 2024 | Life peer | ||
Lord McAvoy | Labour | 8 March 2024 | Life peer | ||
Lord Hoyle | Labour | 25 July 2023 | 6 April 2024 | Life peer | |
Lord Rosser | Labour | 10 April 2024 | Life peer | ||
Baroness Gardner of Parkes | Conservative | 14 April 2024 | Life peer | ||
Baroness Massey of Darwen | Labour | 20 April 2024 | Life peer | ||
Lord Field of Birkenhead | Crossbench | 23 April 2024 | Life peer | ||
Lord Stunell | Liberal Democrat | 29 April 2024 | Life peer | ||
Lord Fellowes | Crossbench | 10 February 2022 | 29 July 2024 | Life peer | |
Lord Colwyn | Conservative | 21 July 2022 | 4 August 2024 | Hereditary peer | |
Lady Saltoun | Crossbench | 12 December 2014 | 3 September 2024 | Hereditary peer | |
Lord Selsdon | Conservative | 11 May 2021 | 15 September 2024 | Hereditary peer | |
Marquess of Lothian | Conservative | 1 October 2024 | Life peer | ||
Lord Ouseley | Crossbench | 24 May 2019 | 2 October 2024 | Life peer | |
Lord Leitch | Labour | 4 October 2024 | Life peer | ||
Lord Harrison | Labour | 11 July 2022 | 18 October 2024 | Life peer | |
Lord Hanningfield | Non-affiliated | 20 October 2024 | Life peer | ||
Lord Renwick of Clifton | Crossbench | 31 March 2018 | 4 November 2024 | Life peer | |
Lord Prescott | Labour | 9 July 2024 | 20 November 2024 | Life peer | |
Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn | Conservative | 15 September 2021 | 24 November 2024 | Life peer | |
Baroness Wilkins | Labour | 23 July 2015 | 1 December 2024 | Life peer |
Incoming members
[edit]The following people have been announced to become peers but have not yet received their writ of summons or letters patent and have not been introduced.
Name | Party | Date of announcement | Type | |
---|---|---|---|---|
[to be determined] | Crossbencher | 20 November 2025[a] | Hereditary peer | |
[to be determined] | Conservative | 9 January 2026[a] | Hereditary peer |
See also
[edit]- List of life peerages
- List of excepted hereditary peers
- List of hereditary peers in the House of Lords by virtue of a life peerage
- Women in the House of Lords
References
[edit]- ^ "Statement from the Archbishop of Canterbury".
- ^ "Standing Orders of the House of Lords".
- ^ "House of Lords, Official Website - Members of the House of Lords granted leave of absence".
- ^ Constitutional Reform Act 2005, Section 137 (3) at legislation.gov.uk
- ^ "Conduct Committee Report Volume 808". House of Lords Hansard. 7 December 2020.
That, in accordance with Standing Order 12, Lord Maginnis of Drumglass be suspended from the service of the House for a period of at least 18 months and until the Conduct Committee confirms that he has satisfactorily completed the other requirements of the sanction
- ^ "House of Lords Act 1999 § 2". legislation.gov.uk.
- ^ House of Lords Reform Act 2014 s 1.
- ^ a b "Retired members of the House of Lords". Parliament.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ "Lords Hansard for 13 October 2014". 13 October 2024.
- ^ "Non-attending Lords". Parliament.uk.
- ^ Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 s 42.
- ^ "Deceased Lords". Parliament.uk.