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

Current composition of the House of Lords
Group Sitting members
Conservative Party
 
255
Labour Party
 
204
Crossbench
 
181
Liberal Democrats
 
103
Non-affiliated
 
26
Democratic Unionist Party
 
3
UK Independence Party
 
3
Ulster Unionist Party
 
2
Green Party
 
1
Plaid Cymru
 
1
Independent Labour
 
2
Independent Social Democrat
 
1
Independent Ulster Unionist
 
1
Lords Spiritual
 
26
Total number of sitting members: 809

Lords Spiritual

26 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.

Bishopric Name Summoned
to Lords
Bishop since
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby 2011 2011
Lord Archbishop of York John Sentamu 2005 2002
Lord Bishop of London Richard Chartres 1996 1992
Lord Bishop of Durham Paul Butler 2014 2010
Lord Bishop of Winchester Tim Dakin 2012 2012
Lord Bishop of Birmingham David Urquhart 2010 2006
Lord Bishop of Bristol Mike Hill 2009 2003
Lord Bishop of Carlisle James Newcome 2013 2009
Lord Bishop of Chelmsford Stephen Cottrell 2014 2010
Lord Bishop of Chester Peter Forster 2001 1996
Lord Bishop of Coventry Christopher Cocksworth 2013 2008
Lord Bishop of Derby Alastair Redfern 2010 2005
Lord Bishop of Ely Stephen Conway 2014 2006
Lord Bishop of Gloucester Rachel Treweek 2015 2015
Lord Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines 2014 2003
Lord Bishop of Newcastle Christine Hardman 2015 2015
Lord Bishop of Norwich Graham James 2004 1999
Lord Bishop of Oxford Steven Croft 2013 2009
Lord Bishop of Peterborough Donald Allister 2014 2010
Lord Bishop of Portsmouth Christopher Foster 2014 2010
Lord Bishop of Rochester James Langstaff 2014 2010
Lord Bishop of St Albans Alan Smith 2013 2009
Lord Bishop of Salisbury Nick Holtam 2014 2011
Lord Bishop of Southwark Christopher Chessun 2014 2011
Lord Bishop of Truro Tim Thornton 2013 2009
Lord Bishop of Worcester John Inge 2012 2008

Lords Temporal

Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999, and remaining law life peers.

Peer Year[fn 1] Party Type Notes
Lord Aberdare 2006 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Baroness Adams of Craigielea 2005 Labour Life peer Former MP for Paisley North from 1990 to 2005
Lord Addington 1986 Liberal Democrats Hereditary peer
Lord Adebowale 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
Lord Adonis 2005 Non-affiliated Life peer Former Secretary of State for Transport, previously a Labour Peer 2005–15, Non-affiliated since his appointment to lead the National Infrastructure Commission in 2015
Baroness Afshar 2007 Crossbencher Life peer Commissioner of the UK Drug Policy Commission
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon 2011 Conservative Life peer Former Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party
Lord Ahmed 1998 Non-affiliated Life peer Expelled from the Labour Party following conviction for dangerous driving
Lord Alderdice 1996 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly and former leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Lord Allan of Hallam 2010 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former chair of the Information Select Committee in the House of Commons
Lord Allen of Kensington 2013 Labour Life peer Chairman of Executive Board of the Labour Party
Lord Alli 1998 Labour Life peer First openly gay peer in parliament
Lord Alliance 2004 Liberal Democrats Life peer Chairman of N Brown Group
Baroness Altmann 2015 Conservative Life peer Pensions expert and campaigner
Lord Alton of Liverpool 1997 Crossbencher Life peer Former MP for Liverpool Mossley Hill from 1983 to 1997
Lord Anderson of Swansea 2005 Labour Life peer Former MP for Swansea East from 1974 to 2005
Baroness Andrews 2000 Labour Life peer Former parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Children, Schools and Families; chair of English Heritage
Baroness Anelay of St Johns 1996 Conservative Life peer Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and former Government Chief Whip in the Lords
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom 2015 Conservative Life peer Former MP for Wanstead & Woodford 1987-1997 and for North East Hampshire 1997-2015.
Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare 1992 Non-affiliated Life peer Conservative whip withdrawn following conviction for perjury in 2000
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top 2010 Labour Life peer Former MP for North West Durham from 1987 to 2010
Lord Armstrong of Ilminster 1988 Crossbencher Life peer Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Earl of Arran 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 Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon 2001 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former leader of the Liberal Democrats and United Nations High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lord Ashton of Hyde 2011 Conservative Hereditary peer
Viscount Astor 1973 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Astor of Hever 1986 Conservative Hereditary peer
Earl Attlee 1992 Conservative Hereditary peer Government whip
Lord Bach 1998 Labour Life peer Former parliamentary under-secretary of state in several departments and former Minister of State for Defence Procurement
Lord Baker of Dorking 1997 Conservative Life peer Former Home Secretary, former Secretary of State for Education and Science and former of the Environment
Baroness Bakewell 2011 Labour Life peer Writer and broadcaster
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville 2013 Liberal Democrats Life peer Councillor of South Somerset District Council
Earl Baldwin of Bewdley 1977 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Balfe 2013 Conservative Life peer Former Member of the European Parliament for London from 1979 to 2004
Lord Bamford 2013 Conservative Life peer Chairman of JCB
Baroness Barker 1999 Liberal Democrats Life peer Liberal Democrats spokesperson on health matters
Lord Barker of Battle 2015 Conservative Life peer Former MP for Bexhill & Battle 2001-2015
Lord Bassam of Brighton 1997 Labour Life peer Labour Chief Whip in the Lords. Former leader of Brighton Council
Lord Bates 2008 Conservative Life peer Former MP for Langbaurgh from 1992 to 1997
Lord Beecham 2010 Labour Life peer Former chairman of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee
Lord Beith 2015 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1973 to 2015
Lord Bell 1998 Conservative Life peer Advertising and public relations executive who advised Margaret Thatcher for her three successful general election campaigns
Baroness Benjamin 2010 Liberal Democrats Life peer Actress, author and television presenter
Lord Berkeley 2000 Labour Life peer Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Gueterbock
Lord Berkeley of Knighton 2013 Crossbencher Life peer Composer and music broadcaster
Baroness Berridge 2011 Conservative Life peer Former Executive Director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship
Baroness Bertin 2016 Conservative Life peer Former Deputy Press Officer for David Cameron
Lord Best 2001 Crossbencher Life peer President of the Local Government Association
Lord Bew 2007 Crossbencher Life peer Professor of Irish Politics at Queen's University Belfast
Lord Bhattacharyya 2004 Labour Life peer Founder of the Warwick Manufacturing Group
Lord Bichard 2010 Crossbencher Life peer Former permanent secretary for the Department for Education (and later the Department for Education and Employment)
Lord Bilimoria 2006 Crossbencher Life peer Founder and chairman of Cobra Beer
Baroness Billingham 2000 Labour Life peer Former Member of the European Parliament for Northamptonshire and Blaby from 1994 to 1999
Lord Bird 2015 Crossbencher Life peer Social entrepreneur and founder of The Big Issue
Lord Birt 2000 Crossbencher Life peer Former Director-General of the BBC
Lord Black of Brentwood 2010 Conservative Life peer Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group
Baroness Blackstone 1987 Labour Life peer Former Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts
Lord Blackwell 1997 Conservative Life peer Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit under the government of John Major from 1995 to 1997
Lord Blair of Boughton 2010 Crossbencher Life peer Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
Lord Blencartha 2011 Conservative Life peer Former opposition chief whip
Baroness Blood 1999 Labour Life peer First woman in Northern Ireland to be given a life peerage
Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrish 2016 Conservative Life peer
Lord Blunkett 2015 Labour Life peer Former MP for Sheffield Brightside 1987-2015. Cabinet minister 1997-2004 & 2005. Former Home Secretary.
Lord Boateng 2010 Labour Life peer Former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and British High Commissioner to South Africa
Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury 2004 Liberal Democrats Life peer Lead Liberal Democrats spokesperson on Culture, Media and Sport in the House of Lords
Baroness Boothroyd 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Former Speaker of the House of Commons
Lord Borwick 2013 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Boswell of Aynho 2010 Non-affiliated Life peer Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees
Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone 2005 Conservative Life peer Former Secretary of State for Health and former Secretary of State for National Heritage
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth 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 2015 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former Member of the European Parliament for South East England
Lord Bowness 1996 Conservative Life peer Former leader of Croydon London Borough Council
Lord Boyce 2003 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Brabazon of Tara 1976 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Bradley 2006 Labour Life peer Former MP for Manchester Withington from 1987 to 2005
Lord Bradshaw 1999 Liberal Democrats Life peer Liberal Democrats spokesperson on transport in the House of Lords
Baroness Brady of Knightsbridge 2014 Conservative Life peer Vice-chairman of West Ham United FC and senior non-executive director of the Syco and Arcadia brands
Lord Bragg 1998 Labour Life peer Broadcaster and author
Lord Brennan 2000 Labour Life peer Chair of the APPG on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Viscount Bridgeman 1983 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Bridges of Headley 2015 Conservative Life peer Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office
Baroness Brinton 2011 Liberal Democrats Life peer Executive Director of the Association of Universities in the East of England
Lord Broers 2014 Crossbencher Life peer Former president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Former Vice-Chancellor University of Cambridge
Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe 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 1987 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Brookman 1998 Labour Life peer Former General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation from 1993 to 1999
Lord Brougham and Vaux 1968 Conservative Hereditary peer
Baroness Brown of Cambridge 2015 Crossbencher Life peer Vice-Chancellor of Aston University
Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood 2004 Crossbencher Law life peer Justice of the Supreme Court (2009–2012), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2004–2009)
Lord Browne of Belmont 2006 Democratic Unionist Life peer Former Member of the Legislative Assembly for Belfast East from 2007 to 2011
Lord Browne of Madingley 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Former chief executive of BP from 1995 to 2007
Baroness Browning 2010 Conservative Life peer Former MP for Tiverton and Honiton from 1997 to 2010
Lord Bruce of Bennachie 2015 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former MP for Gordon from 1983 to 2015, President of the Scottish Liberal Democrats
Lord Burnett 2006 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former MP for Torridge and West Devon from 1997 to 2005
Lord Burns 1998 Crossbencher Life peer Former chief economic advisor and permanent secretary at the treasury
Baroness Burt of Solihull 2015 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former MP for Solihull from 2005 to 2015
Baroness Buscombe 1998 Conservative Life peer Chair of the Press Complaints Commission
Lord Butler of Brockwell 1998 Crossbencher Life peer Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Baroness Butler-Sloss 2006 Crossbencher Life peer Former Lady Justice of Appeal and former president of the Family Division of the High Court
Baroness Byford 1996 Conservative Life peer Conservative spokesperson on Food, Farming and Rural Affairs from 1997 to 2007 in the House of Lords
Lord Caine 2016 Conservative Life peer
Earl of Caithness 1969 Conservative Hereditary peer Chief of Clan Sinclair
Lord Callanan 2014 Conservative Life peer Former Conservative MEP for North East of England
Lord Cameron of Dillington 2004 Crossbencher Life peer President of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists, former chair of the Countryside Agency
Baroness Campbell of Loughborough 2008 Crossbencher Life peer Chairman of UK Sport
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem 2015 Liberal Democrats Life peer Leader of the Liberal Democrats 2006–07, MP for North East Fife 1987–2015
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton 2007 Crossbencher 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 2001 Labour Life peer MP for Workington 1979–2001
Lord Carey of Clifton 2002 Crossbencher Life peer Former Archbishop of Canterbury
Lord Carlile of Berriew 1999 Liberal Democrats Life peer Deputy High Court Judge, Former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, president of the Howard League for Penal Reform,
Lord Carrington 1941 Conservative Life peer Former Secretary General of NATO, former Secretaries of State for Defence, Foreign Affairs and Energy, former First Lord of the Admiralty; hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Carington of Upton
Lord Carrington of Fulham 2013 Conservative Life peer Former MP for Fulham from 1987 to 1997
Lord Carswell 2004 Crossbencher Law life peer Former Law Lord and former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
Lord Carter of Barnes 2008 Labour 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 2004 Labour Life peer Chairman of the NHS Pathology review panel
Lord Cashman 2014 Labour Life peer Former MEP for West Midlands, former actor
Earl Cathcart 1999; 2007 Conservative Hereditary peer Chief of the Name and Arms of Clan Cathcart
Lord Cavendish of Furness 1990 Conservative Life peer Former High Sheriff of Cumbria and a member of the Cumbria County Council, current Chairman of the Holker Estate Group and President of South Cumbria Rivers Trust
Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice 2016 Conservative Life peer
Lord Chadlington 1996 Conservative Life peer Former chairman, former chief executive and currently executive director of Huntsworth; former director of Halifax
Baroness Chakrabarti 2016 Labour Life peer Former director of Liberty
Baroness Chalker of Wallasey 1992 Conservative Life peer Former Minister of State for Overseas Development
Viscount Chandos 2000 Labour Life peer Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Lyttelton of Aldershot
Lord Chidgey 2005 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former MP for Eastleigh from 1994 to 2005
Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen 2014 Conservative Life peer Co-chairman of the Conservative candidates committee
Lord Christopher 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 1995; 2010 Crossbencher Hereditary peer Sits as Viscount Clancarty in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Lord Clark of Windermere 2001 Labour Life peer Former Chair of the Forestry Commission
Lord Clarke of Hampstead 1998 Labour Life peer Former chairman of the Labour Party, former Deputy General Secretary of the Union of Communication Workers
Lord Clement-Jones 1998 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former head of legal services and legal director in LWT and Grand Metropolitan respectively and former group secretary of Kingfisher plc, chairman of Environmental Context Ltd
Lord Clinton-Davis 1990 Labour Life peer Former European Commissioner for environment, consumer protection and transport
Baroness Cohen of Pimlico 2000 Labour Life peer Author and former governor of the BBC
Lord Collins of Highbury 2011 Labour Life peer Former Assistant General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and former General Secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Collins of Mapesbury 2009 Non-affiliated Life peer Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2009), Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009–2011)
Viscount Colville of Culross 2011 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Colwyn 1967 Conservative Hereditary peer Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Royal Society of Medicine, former president of the Huntingdon's Disease Association, the Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry, the Arterial Health Foundation, of the Metropolitan branch of the British Dental Association and practising dentist for forty years
Lord Condon 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
Lord Cooper of Windrush 2014 Conservative Life peer Vice-chairman of West Ham United FC and senior non-executive director of the Syco and Arcadia brands
Lord Cope of Berkeley 1997 Conservative Life peer Former Paymaster General
Earl of Cork and Orrery 2016 Crossbencher Hereditary peer Sits as Baron Boyle of Marston, in the Peerage of Great Britain; his senior titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Lord Cormack 2010 Conservative Life peer Former chairman of the Northern Ireland Select Committee
Baroness Corston 2005 Labour Life peer Former Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party
Lord Cotter 2006 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former MP for Weston-super-Mare from 1997 to 2005
Earl of Courtown 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 2007 Crossbencher Life peer Former chief executive of the Portman Group
Baroness Couttie 2016 Conservative Life peer Leader of Westminster City Council
Baroness Cox 1983 Crossbencher Life peer Founder and CEO of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust
Lord Craig of Radley 1991 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Viscount Craigavon 1974 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Crathorne 1977 Conservative Hereditary peer Former director of (variously) Blakeney Hotels Ltd, Woodhouse Securities Ltd, Hand Picked Hotels, Cliveden Ltd.
Baroness Crawley 1998 Labour Life peer Former Chair of the Women's National Commission
Lord Crickhowell 1987 Conservative Life peer Former Secretary of State for Wales
Lord Crisp 2006 Crossbencher Life peer Former chief executive of the NHS
Lord Cromwell 1982; 2014 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Cullen of Whitekirk 2003 Crossbencher Life peer Former Lord Justice General and former Lord President of the Court of Session, both senior positions in the Scottish judiciary
Baroness Cumberlege 1990 Conservative Life peer Vice President of the Royal Colleges of Nursing and Midwives
Lord Cunningham of Felling 2005 Labour Life peer Former Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lord Currie of Marylebone 1996 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chairman of Ofcom
Lord Curry of Kirkharle 2011 Crossbencher Life peer Current Chair of NFU Mutual
Baroness D'Souza 2004 Non-affiliated Life peer Former Lord Speaker, formerly Convenor of the Crossbench peers
Lord Dannatt 2011 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chief of the General Staff of the British Army
Lord Darling of Roulanish 2015 Labour Life peer Chancellor of the Exchequer 2007–2010
Lord Darzi of Denham 2007 Labour Life peer Professor of Surgery at Imperial College London
Lord Davidson of Glen Clova 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
Lord Davies of Abersoch 2009 Non-affiliated 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 Davies of Coity 1997 Labour Life peer Former General Secretary of USDAW
Lord Davies of Oldham 1997 Labour Life peer Government Deputy Chief Whip 2003–2010 and Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
Lord Davies of Stamford 2010 Labour Life peer Former Minister of State for Defence Equipment and Support, former diplomat
Lord De Mauley 2005 Conservative Hereditary peer
Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde 1993 Labour Life peer Former General Secretary of SOGAT, former chair of the Housing Corporation and former vice-chair of University College London Hospitals NHS Trust
Lord Dear 2006 Crossbencher Life peer Former HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary and former chief constable of West Midlands police
Lord Deben 2010 Conservative Life peer Secretary of State for the Environment 1993–97, former Chairman of environment consultancy company Sancroft International and of Veolia Water
Baroness Deech 2005 Crossbencher Life peer Gresham Professor of Law at Gresham College
Lord Deighton 2012 Conservative Life peer Chief Executive, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Lord Denham 1949 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Desai 1991 Labour Life peer Professor Emeritus of Economics at the London School of Economics
Lord Dholakia 1997 Liberal Democrats Life peer Chair of Nacro
Lord Dixon-Smith 1993 Conservative Life peer Former Chairman of Essex County Council
Lord Dobbs 2010 Conservative Life peer Author
Baroness Donaghy 2010 Labour Life peer Former chair of ACAS,
Lord Donoughue 1985 Labour Life peer Visiting Professor of Government at the London School of Economics
Baroness Doocey 2010 Liberal Democrats Life peer Chair of the London Assembly and has run DD Enterprises Management Consultancy
Baroness Drake 2010 Labour Life peer Former President of the Trades Union Congress and commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission
Lord Drayson 2004 Labour Life peer Co-founder and former chief executive of PowderJect Pharmaceuticals
Lord Dubs 1994 Labour Life peer Former director of the Refugee Council, former chair of Liberty and former chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission
Earl of Dundee 1983 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Dunlop 2015 Conservative Life peer Current Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
Lord Dykes 2004 Crossbencher Life peer Former MP for Harrow East from 1970 to 1997
Lord Eames 1995 Crossbencher Life peer Former Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh
Baroness Eaton 2010 Conservative Life peer Chairman of the Local Government Association
Lord Eatwell 1992 Labour Life peer Former Professor of Financial Policy at Judge Business School
Viscount Eccles 1999; 2005 Conservative Hereditary peer
Baroness Eccles of Moulton 1990 Conservative Life peer As the wife of Viscount Eccles, she is also entitled to the style "Viscountess Eccles"
Lord Elder 1999 Labour Life peer Former General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party
Lord Elis-Thomas 1992 Non-affiliated Life peer Former Presiding officer of the National Assembly for Wales, former leader of Plaid Cymru
Lord Elton 1973 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Elystan-Morgan 1981 Crossbencher Life peer Former circuit judge
Lord Empey 2011 Ulster Unionist Life peer Former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
Earl of Erroll 1978 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park 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 Watford 1998 Labour Life peer Chairman of several publishing companies
Lord Evans of Weardale 2014 Crossbencher Life peer Former Director of the Security Service
Lord Fairfax of Cameron 1977;
2015
Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Falconer of Thoroton 1997 Labour Life peer Former Lord Chancellor
Baroness Falkender 1974 Labour Life peer Former Political Secretary to Harold Wilson
Viscount Falkland 1984 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Baroness Falkner of Margravine 2004 Liberal Democrats Life peer Chief executive of Student Partnerships Worldwide
Baroness Fall 2015 Conservative Life peer Former Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff
Lord Farmer 2014 Conservative Life peer Founding partner of RK Mine Finance group, trustee of the Kingham Hill Trust and Conservative Party co-treasurer
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton 1994 Labour Life peer Former member of the Council of Europe and a councillor in local government
Lord Faulkner of Worcester 1999 Labour Life peer Communications advisor to the Leader of the Labour Party in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections
Lord Faulks 2010 Conservative Life peer Recorder
Lord Fearn 2001 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former MP for Southport from 1987 to 1992 and 1997 to 2001
Baroness Featherstone 2015 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former MP for Hornsey and Wood Green from 2005 to 2015
Lord Feldman 1996 Conservative Life peer Former Director of The Young Entrepreneurs Fund
Lord Feldman of Elstree 2010 Conservative Life peer Chief executive and former managing director of Jayroma (London) Ltd, former chairman of the Conservative Party
Lord Fellowes 1999 Crossbencher Life peer Chair of the Prison Reform Trust and former Private Secretary to the Queen
Lord Fellowes of West Stafford 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 1999 Labour Life peer Former parliamentary under-secretary of state in various government departments
Lord Fink 2011 Conservative Life peer CEO and chairman of the Man Group, the largest listed hedge fund company in the world
Lord Finkelstein 2013 Conservative Life peer Current Executive Editor of The Times
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Professor of Palliative Medicine at the Cardiff University School of Medicine and former president of the Royal Society of Medicine
Baroness Finn 2015 Conservative Life peer Former special adviser at the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Baroness Flather 1990 Crossbencher Life peer First Asian woman to receive a peerage
Lord Flight 2011 Conservative Life peer Former MP for Arundel and South Downs from 1997 to 2005
Baroness Fookes 1997 Conservative Life peer Former Chair of the RSPCA and former deputy speaker of the House of Commons
Baroness Ford 2006 Non-affiliated 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 the Epilepsy Action
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean 1999 Conservative Life peer Former Secretary of State for Scotland
Lord Foster of Bath 2015 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former MP for Bath from 1992 to 2015
Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland 2005 Labour Life peer Former opposition chief whip in the Commons
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock 2005 Labour Life peer Member of the Scottish Parliament, former chairman of Hearts Football club and President of the Caribbean Britain Business Council
Lord Fowler 2001 Non-affiliated Life peer Lord Speaker, former chairman of the House of Lords Communications Select Committee
Lord Fox 2014 Liberal Democrats Life peer PR director at GKN engineering and former Liberal Democrat chief executive
Lord Framlingham 2011 Conservative Life peer Former deputy Speaker in the House of Commons
Lord Fraser of Corriegarth 2016 Conservative Life peer
Lord Freeman 1997 Conservative Life peer Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lord Freud 2009 Conservative Life peer Former vice-chairman of investing banking at UBS AG
Lord Freyberg 1994 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Baroness Fritchie 2005 Crossbencher Life peer Honorary Professor of Creative Leadership at the University of York and six other Universities
Lord Gadhia 2016 Conservative Life peer
Baroness Gale 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 2007 Liberal Democrats Life peer Vice President of the Institute of Export
Lord Gardiner of Kimble 2010 Conservative Life peer Deputy chief executive of the Countryside Alliance
Baroness Gardner of Parkes 1981 Conservative Life peer Australian-born dentist
Lord Garel-Jones 1997 Conservative Life peer Former whip in the House of Commons and Minister for Europe
Lord Geddes 1975 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord German 2010 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former deputy First Minister of Wales
Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen 2000 Labour Life peer Former President of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
Lord Giddens 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 2015 Conservative Life peer Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party
Earl of Glasgow 1984; 2005 Liberal Democrats Hereditary peer
Lord Glasman 2011 Labour Life peer Senior lecturer in political theory at London Metropolitan University
Lord Glenarthur 1977 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Glendonbrook 2011 Conservative Life peer Owner of BMI
Lord Glentoran 1995 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Goddard of Stockport 2014 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former leader of Stockport Council
Lord Gold 2011 Conservative Life peer Lawyer
Baroness Goldie 2013 Conservative Life peer Former Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party in the Scottish Parliament from 2005 until 2011
Baroness Golding 2001 Labour Life peer Radiographer and former Member of Parliament
Lord Goldsmith 1999 Labour Life peer Former Attorney General
Lord Goodlad 2005 Conservative Life peer Former chairman of the Constitution Committee
Lord Gordon of Strathblane 1997 Labour Life peer Former political editor of STV, former managing director of Radio Clyde, former chief executive and chair of Scottish Radio Holdings, currently chair of Johnston Press plc, Radio Audience Research and AIM Trust Plc
Viscount Goschen 1988 Conservative Hereditary peer
Baroness Goudie 1998 Labour Life peer Former European director of public affairs for the World Wide Fund for Nature, chair of the Women Leaders’ Council to Fight Human Trafficking at UN Gift
Baroness Gould of Potternewton 1993 Labour Life peer Former pharmacist, former director of organisation for the Labour Party and former executive member of the Women's National Commission
Lord Grabiner 1999 Crossbencher Life peer Head of Chambers at One Essex Court and deputy High Court Judge
Lord Grade of Yarmouth 2011 Conservative Life peer Former Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors
Lord Graham of Edmonton 1983 Labour Life peer Former National Secretary and President of the congress of the Co-operative Party and President of the Institute of Meat
Lord Grantchester 1995; 2003 Labour Hereditary peer Former director of Littlewoods and former chairman of the Dairy Farmers of Britain,
Lord Greaves 2000 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former member of Lancashire County Council for 25 years
Lord Green of Deddington 2014 Crossbencher Life peer Former British Ambassador
Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint 2010 Conservative Life peer Former Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc
Baroness Greenfield 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University and former director of the Royal Institution
Baroness Greengross 2000 Crossbencher Life peer Former director-general of Age Concern England
Lord Greenway 1975 Crossbencher Hereditary peer Former chairman of The World Ship Trust
Baroness Grender 2013 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former Head of Communications for the Liberal Democrats
Baroness Grey-Thompson 2010 Crossbencher Life peer Former paralympic athlete
Lord Griffiths of Burry Port 2004 Labour Life peer Former President of the Methodist Congress
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach 1991 Conservative Life peer Vice-president of the Nature in Art trust and vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International
Lord Grocott 2001 Labour Life peer Former presenter and producer at Central Television and former MP
Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Hague of Richmond 2015 Conservative Life peer Former MP and former Leader of the House of Commons
Viscount Hailsham 2015 Conservative Life peer Former MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham from 1979 to 2010; hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe.
Lord Hain 2015 Labour Life peer Former MP for Neath from 1991 to 2015
Lord Hall of Birkenhead 2010 Crossbencher 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
Lord Hameed 2007 Crossbencher Life peer Chairman of Alpha Hospital Group, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the London International Hospital, former Executive Director & 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 2005 Conservative Life peer Former MP and former chairman of the 1922 Committee
Baroness Hamwee 1991 Liberal Democrats Life peer Vice president of Parity and
Baroness Hanham 1999 Conservative Life peer Chairman of St. Mary's Hospital NHS Trust and Westminster Primary Care Trust, parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Communities and Local Government
Lord Hannay of Chiswick 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Former senior diplomat
Lord Hanningfield 1998 Non-affiliated Life peer Former leader of Essex County Council and former chair of the Council of Local Education Authorities and former leader of the Association of County Councils, co-founder of local government think-tank Localis
Viscount Hanworth 1996; 2011 Labour Hereditary peer
Baroness Harding of Winscombe 2014 Conservative Life peer Chief executive of TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC
Lord Harries of Pentregarth 2006 Crossbencher Life peer Gresham Professor of Divinity, former Church of England 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 Harris of Haringey 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 1996 Conservative Life peer Chairman of Carpetright Plc
Baroness Harris of Richmond 1999 Liberal Democrats 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 Harrison 1999 Labour Life peer Former MEP
Lord Hart of Chilton 2004 Labour Life peer Former planning solicitor with Herbert Smith
Lord Haskel 1993 Labour Life peer President of the Environment Industries Commission, and former international president of The Textile Institute
Lord Haskins 1998 Crossbencher Life peer Former chairman of Northern Foods, former chairman of the Better Regulation Task Force and Chairman of the Council of the Open University
Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick 2005 Crossbencher Life peer Vice-president of Catch22, ambassador of Make Justice Work
Lord Haughey 2013 Labour Life peer
Lord Haworth 2004 Labour Life peer Former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and former Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Affairs
Lord Hay of Ballyore 2014 Democratic Unionist Life peer Former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Baroness Hayman 1996 Crossbencher Life peer Lord Speaker (2006–11) and former chair of Cancer Research UK, former chair of the Human Tissue Authority and former chair of Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town 2010 Labour Life peer Former General Secretary of the Fabian Society 1976-1982. Chief Executive of the European Parliamentary Labour Party 1990-1996. Chair of the Labour Party 2007-2008.
Lord Hayward 2015 Conservative Life peer
Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill 2010 Labour Life peer
Baroness Helic 2014 Conservative Life peer Government special adviser on preventing sexual violence in conflict zones
Baroness Henig 2004 Labour Life peer Chair of the Security Industry Authority
Lord Henley 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 2010 Crossbencher Life peer Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London
Lord Heseltine 2001 Conservative Life peer Former Deputy Prime Minister, former Secretary of State for Defence, the Environment and former President of the Board of Trade
Baroness Heyhoe-Flint 2011 Conservative Life peer President of the Lady Taverners, former captain of the woman's cricket team, cricket journalist and broadcaster, director of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
Lord Higgins 1997 Conservative Life peer
Lord Hill of Oareford 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
Baroness Hilton of Eggardon 1991 Labour Life peer Former Commander of the Metropolitan Police
Baroness Hodgson of Abinger 2013 Conservative Life peer
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts 2000 Conservative Life peer
Lord Hoffmann 1995 Crossbencher Law life peer Former Law Lord and Professor of Law at Queen Mary College, University of London
Baroness Hogg 1995 Crossbencher Life peer As the wife of Viscount Hailsham, she is also entitled to the style "Viscountess Hailsham"
Lord Hollick 1991 Labour Life peer
Baroness Hollins 2010 Crossbencher Life peer Professor of the psychiatry of learning disability at St George's, University of London, former president of the Royal Society of Psychiatrists
Baroness Hollis of Heigham 1990 Labour Life peer Former lecturer in modern history, reader and Dean at the University of East Anglia
Lord Holmes of Richmond 2013 Conservative Life peer
Earl of Home 1996 Conservative Hereditary peer
Baroness Hooper 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 1995 Crossbencher Life peer Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and former Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Horam 2013 Conservative Life peer
Lord Howard of Lympne 2010 Conservative Life peer Former Home Secretary and former Leader of the Opposition
Lord Howard of Rising 2004 Conservative Life peer Director of Fortress Holdings
Baroness Howarth of Breckland 2001 Crossbencher 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 2005 Labour Life peer Former MP for Stratford-Upon-Avon 1983-1997 and for Newport East 1997-2005.
Earl Howe 1984 Conservative Hereditary peer
Baroness Howe of Idlicote 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission
Lord Howell of Guildford 1997 Conservative Life peer Former Secretaries of State for Energy and Transport
Baroness Howells of St Davids 1999 Labour Life peer
Lord Howie of Troon 1978 Labour Life peer
Lord Hoyle 1997 Labour Life peer Former MP for Nelson & Colne 1974-1979 and for Warrington 1981-1983 and then Warrington North 1983-1997.
Baroness Hughes of Stretford 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
Lord Hughes of Woodside 1997 Labour Life peer Vice-president of the British Humanist Association
Baroness Humphreys 2013 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Hunt of Chesterton 2000 Labour Life peer Former director-general and chief executive of the Meteorological Office, professor of climate modelling at University College London
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath 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 1997 Conservative Life peer Partner at the law firm Beachcroft LLP
Lord Hussain 2011 Liberal Democrats Life peer Deputy Group Leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Luton Borough Council
Baroness Hussein-Ede 2010 Liberal Democrats 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 2010 Labour Life peer Former Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and former Secretary of State for Defence
Lord Hylton 1968 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Imbert 1999 Crossbencher Life peer Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
Lord Inglewood 1989 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Irvine of Lairg 1987 Labour Law life peer Former Lord Chancellor
Lord James of Blackheath 2006 Conservative Life peer Corporate trouble-shooter and former agent for MI5
Baroness Janke 2014 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former leader of Bristol City Council
Lord Janvrin 2007 Crossbencher Life peer Permanent Lord-in-Waiting; former Private Secretary to the Queen
Lord Jay of Ewelme 2006 Crossbencher Life peer Former Permanent Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service
Baroness Jay of Paddington 1992 Labour Life peer Chairman of the House of Lords Constitution Committee
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington 2011 Conservative Life peer PR consultant, and active in promoting women in Parliament
Baroness Jolly 2010 Liberal Democrats Life peer Chair of Executive Committee of Liberal Democrats in Devon and Cornwall
Lord Jones 2001 Labour Life peer Former MP for East Flintshire 1970-1983 and for Alyn & Deeside 1983-2001
Lord Jones of Birmingham 2007 Labour Life peer Former director-general of the Confederation of British Industry
Lord Jones of Cheltenham 2005 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former computer programmer and systems analyst at International Computers Limited and former MP
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 2013 Green Life peer
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch 2006 Crossbencher Life peer Director of Policy and Public Affairs at UNISON and former Chair of the Labour Party
Lord Jopling 1997 Conservative Life peer
Lord Jordan 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
Baroness Jowell 2015 Labour Life peer Former MP for Dulwich and West Norwood from 1992-2015
Lord Judd 1991 Labour Life peer Former director of Oxfam
Lord Judge 2008 Crossbencher Life peer Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales 2008-13
Lord Kakkar 2010 Crossbencher Life peer Professor of Surgical Sciences at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University
Lord Kalms 2004 Non-affiliated Life peer Life president and former chairman of DSG International plc and former chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies
Lord Keen of Elie 2015 Conservative Life peer
Baroness Kennedy of Cradley 2013 Labour Life peer
Lord Kennedy of Southwark 2010 Labour Life peer
Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws 1997 Labour Life peer Criminal and human rights lawyer, Chair of JUSTICE
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard 2004 Crossbencher Life peer Former Permanent Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service
Lord Kerslake 2015 Crossbencher Life peer Former Permanent Secetary to the Department of Communities and Local Government and Head of the Home Civil Service
Lord Kestenbaum 2011 Labour Life peer Chief Executive of National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
Baroness Kidron 2012 Crossbencher Life peer Film director
Lord Kilclooney 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Former deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party; the only active politician to have served in all levels of government in Northern Ireland, from local council, the Parliament of Northern Ireland, Westminster, Europe, all previous failed Assemblies and Conventions and the current incarnation of the Assembly
Lord King of Bridgwater 2001 Conservative Life peer Former Environment Secretary, former Transport Secretary, former Employment Secretary, former Northern Ireland Secretary and former chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee
Lord King of Lothbury 2013 Crossbencher Life peer Former Governor of the Bank of England
Baroness Kingsmill 2006 Labour Life peer Former deputy chair of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and of the Competition Commission
Lord Kinnock 2005 Labour Life peer Leader of the Labour Party 1983–92, former European Commissioner for Transport and Administrative Reform and Vice-President of the European Commission
Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead 2009 Labour Life peer Former Minister of State for Europe and for Africa and the United Nations
Earl of Kinnoull 2015 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Kirkham 1999 Conservative Life peer Executive Chairman of DFS Furniture Company Ltd
Lord Kirkhill 1975 Labour Life peer
Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate 2016 Conservative Life peer Former MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber from 1999 to 2016 and MP for Leeds North East from 1987 to 1997
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope 2005 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former MP
Lord Knight of Weymouth 2010 Labour Life peer MP for South Dorset 2001-2010
Baroness Kramer 2010 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former Vice-President of Citibank, Director and co-founder of International Capital Partners, former MP. Minister of State for Transport 2013-
Lord Krebs 2007 Crossbencher 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
Lord Laird 1999 Non-affiliated Life peer Former Chairman of the Ulster-Scots Agency
Lord Laming 1998 Crossbencher Life peer Psychiatric social worker and chairman of the Harold Shipman inquiry and the Baby P inquiry
Lord Lamont of Lerwick 1998 Conservative Life peer Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho 2013 Crossbencher Life peer
Lord Lang of Monkton 1997 Conservative Life peer Former 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 Lansley 2015 Conservative Life peer Former Leader of the House of Commons
Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon 2013 Labour Life peer
Lord Lawson of Blaby 1992 Conservative Life peer Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lord Layard 2000 Labour Life peer Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
Lord Lea of Crondall 1999 Labour Life peer Former Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
Lord Lee of Trafford 2006 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Leigh of Hurley 2013 Conservative Life peer
Lord Leitch 2004 Labour Life peer Chairman of Bupa, Scottish Widows and Intrinsic Financial Services, former Chairman and Chief Executive of Zurich's British operations
Lord Lennie 2014 Labour Life peer Former deputy secretary general of the Labour Party
Lord Lester of Herne Hill 1993 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Levene of Portsoken 1997 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chairman of Lloyd's of London and former vice chairman of Deutsche Bank
Lord Levy 1997 Labour Life peer President of Jews' Free School, former Special Envoy to the Middle East; arrested but not charged in relation to the Cash for Honours affair
Lord Lexden 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 2010 Labour Life peer Former British High Commissioner to Australia and former Secretary of State for Scotland
Lord Liddle 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
Earl of Lindsay 1989 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Lingfield 2010 Conservative Life peer Chairman of the League of Mercy, former Director-General of St. John Ambulance and advocate of free schools
Lord Lipsey 1999 Labour Life peer
Baroness Lister of Burtersett 2011 Labour Life peer Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University
Earl of Listowel 1998 Crossbencher Hereditary peer Sits as Baron Hare in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Lord Lisvane 2014 Crossbencher Life peer Former Clerk of the House of Commons
Lord Livermore 2015 Labour Life peer
Earl of Liverpool 1969 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Livingston of Parkhead 2013 Conservative Life peer Minister for Trade and Investment
Lord Lloyd-Webber 1997 Conservative Life peer Composer of musical theatre
Lord Loomba 2011 Liberal Democrats Life peer Executive chairman of the Rinku Group and pioneer of widow's rights
Marquess of Lothian 2010 Conservative Life peer Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Kerr of Monteviot
Lord Low of Dalston 2006 Crossbencher Life peer Chairman of the Royal National Institute for the Blind, Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Leeds
Lord Lucas 1992 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Luce 2000 Crossbencher Life peer Former Governor of Gibraltar and Lord Chamberlain
Baroness Ludford 1997 Liberal Democrats Life peer MEP for London 1999-2014
Lord Lupton 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord Lyell 1960 Conservative Hereditary peer
Earl of Lytton 1985; 2011 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord McAvoy 2010 Labour Life peer Former deputy chief whip in the House of Commons
Lord McCluskey 1976 Crossbencher Life peer Former Solicitor-General for Scotland
Lord McColl of Dulwich 1989 Conservative Life peer Professor Emeritus of Surgery at Guy's Hospital, associated with King's College London
Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale 2010 Labour Life peer Former First Minister of Scotland
Baroness McDonagh 2004 Labour Life peer Former general secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Macdonald of River Glaven 2010 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former Director of Public Prosecutions
Lord Macdonald of Tradeston 1998 Labour Life peer Former chair of Scottish Media Group plc and former minister
Lord McFall of Alcluith 2010 Non-affiliated Life peer Senior Deputy Speaker, former chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Committee
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market 2001 Conservative Life peer Former Secretaries of State for Transport and Education and Science, chairman of the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee
Baroness McGregor-Smith 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord McInnes of Kilwinning 2016 Conservative Life peer
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall 1999 Labour Life peer Former Associate Producer at the Royal Shakespeare Company, former Executive Director of the Royal National Theatre
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord Mackay of Clashfern 1979 Conservative Law life peer 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 Mackay of Drumadoon 1995 Crossbencher Life peer Former Judge of the Inner House of the Court of Session
Lord MacKenzie of Culkein 1999 Labour Life peer Former nurse and President of the Trades Union Congress
Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate 1998 Labour Life peer Former Chief Superintendent in the Durham Constabulary, former President of the Police Superintendents' Association
Lord McKenzie of Luton 2004 Labour Life peer Former Partner at accounting firm Price Waterhouse
Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth 1996 Conservative Life peer Former Chairman of Vodafone and former Chairman and former Chief Executive of Tesco
Lord Maclennan of Rogart 2001 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former leader of the Social Democratic Party and the Social and Liberal Democrats
Lord McNally 1995 Liberal Democrats Life peer Minister of State for Justice and leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court 2016 Crossbencher Life peer Former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury
Baroness Maddock 1997 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Magan of Castletown 2011 Conservative Life peer
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass 2001 Independent Ulster Unionist Life peer Former Ulster Unionist MP and Peer. Resigned from the UUP on 28 August 2012[1]
Lord Mair 2015 Crossbencher Life peer Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Cambridge
Baroness Mallalieu 1991 Labour Life peer President of the Countryside Alliance
Lord Malloch-Brown 2007 Crossbencher Life peer Former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and briefly Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Lord Mancroft 1988 Conservative Hereditary peer Former heroin addict, chair of the Addict Recovery Foundation, chair of the Drug and Alcohol Foundation
Lord Mandelson 2008 Labour Life peer Former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Northern Ireland and former European Commissioner for Trade
Baroness Manningham-Buller 2008 Crossbencher Life peer Former Director of the Security Service
Baroness Manzoor 2013 Conservative Life peer
Countess of Mar 1975 Crossbencher Hereditary peer President of the Elderly Accommodation Counsel, former President of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists and former chairman of both Honest Food and the Environmental Medicine Foundation
Earl of Mar and Kellie 1993;
2000
Liberal Democrats Life peer Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Erskine of Alloa Tower
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames 2011 Liberal Democrats Life peer Commercial and family law QC with specialist interest in human rights and constitutional reform
Lord Marland 2006 Conservative Life peer Chairman of Herriot Ltd and of Hunter Boot Ltd
Lord Marlesford 1991 Conservative Life peer
Lord Martin of Springburn 2009 Crossbencher Life peer Former Speaker of the House of Commons
Baroness Masham of Ilton 1970 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chair of Phoenix House
Baroness Massey of Darwen 1999 Labour Life peer Chair of the National Treatment Agency for substance misuse
Lord Maude of Horsham 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord Mawhinney 2005 Conservative Life peer Chairman of the Football League; former Secretary of State for Transport and former chairman of the Conservative Party
Lord Mawson 2007 Crossbencher Life peer A founder and board member of Poplar HARCA (housing association) and author of The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work
Lord Maxton 2004 Labour Life peer
Lord May of Oxford 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London, former president of the Royal Society
Baroness Meacher 2006 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chairman of the Security Industry Authority, former chair of the Police Complaints Authority and two NHS trusts, and a social worker
Lord Mendelsohn 2013 Labour Life peer
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer 1998 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Mitchell 2000 Non-affiliated Life peer
Baroness Mobarik 2014 Conservative Life peer Businesswoman, founder of the Scotland Pakistan Network
Baroness Mone 2015 Conservative Life peer Businesswoman, founder Ultimo
Lord Monks 2010 Labour Life peer Former General Secretary of both the Trades Union Congress and the European Trade Union Confederation
Duke of Montrose 1995 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Moonie 2005 Labour Life peer Former clinical pharmacologist and community medicine specialist and former MP for Kirkcaldy 1987-2005.
Lord Moore of Lower Marsh 1992 Conservative Life peer Former Secretaries of State for Social Services and Transport
Lord Morgan 2000 Labour Life peer Professor of History at Brunel University
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin 2004 Crossbencher 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 Ely 2011 Labour Life peer Honorary Distinguished Professor at Cardiff University and former MEP
Baroness Morgan of Huyton 2001 Labour Life peer
Lord Morris of Aberavon 2001 Labour Life peer Former Attorney General for England and Wales and for Northern Ireland
Baroness Morris of Bolton 2004 Conservative Life peer President of the National Benevolent Institution
Lord Morris of Handsworth 2006 Labour Life peer Former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union
Baroness Morris of Yardley 2005 Labour Life peer Former MP for Birmingham Yardley 1992-2005. Former Secretary State for Education
Lord Morrow 2006 Democratic Unionist Life peer Former Minister for Social Development in Northern Ireland
Lord Mountevans 2015 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Moynihan 1997 Conservative Hereditary peer
Baroness Murphy 2004 Crossbencher Life peer Former Professor of Psychiatry of Old Age at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals United Medical School
Lord Murphy of Torfaen 2015 Labour Life peer Former MP for Torfaen from 1987 to 2015
Lord Myners 2008 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chairman of the Guardian Media Group and former Chairman of the Low Pay Commission
Lord Naseby 1997 Conservative Life peer
Lord Nash 2013 Conservative Life peer
Baroness Neuberger 2004 Crossbencher 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
Baroness Neville-Jones 2007 Conservative Life peer Minister of State for Security, former diplomat and former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee
Baroness Neville-Rolfe 2013 Conservative Life peer
Lord Newby 1997 Liberal Democrats Life peer Chair of Sport at The Prince's Trust
Baroness Newlove 2010 Conservative Life peer Community reform campaigner
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne 1997 Conservative Life peer Executive Chairman of the AMAR International Charitable Foundation and of the Iraq Britain Business Council
Baroness Noakes 2000 Conservative Life peer Former partner at KPMG
Duke of Norfolk 2003 Crossbencher Hereditary peer Earl Marshal
Lord Northbourne 1982 Crossbencher Hereditary peer Deputy chair of Toynbee Hall, chair of Betteshanger Farms Ltd, chair of the Parenting Support Forum and former chair of the Stepney Children's Fund
Lord Northbrook 1991 Conservative Hereditary peer
Baroness Northover 2000 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Norton of Louth 1998 Conservative Life peer Professor of Government at the University of Hull
Baroness Nye 2010 Labour Life peer Former Director of Government Relations, former diary secretary to the then–prime minister Gordon Brown
Baroness O'Cathain 1991 Conservative Life peer Former director of, amongst others, Midland Bank plc, Tesco plc, British Airways plc, BNP Paribas and Allders
Lord O'Donnell 2012 Crossbencher Life peer Former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Baroness O'Loan 2009 Crossbencher Life peer Former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's Human Rights Enquiry
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve 1999 Crossbencher 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
Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan 2005 Labour Life peer Former MP for Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire 1979-1983, Clackmannan 1983-1997 and Ochil 1997-2005
Lord O'Neill of Gatley 2015 Non-affiliated Life peer
Lord O'Shaughnessy 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay 2000 Non-affiliated Life peer
Lord Oates 2015 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes 1989 Conservative Life peer Former social worker
Lord Ouseley 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Chair and chief executive of the Commission for Racial Equality
Lord Owen 1992 Independent Social Democrat Life peer Former Foreign Secretary, and former co-chairman of the Conference on Yugoslavia, and leader of the Social Democratic Party 1983–87, and the continuing Social Democratic Party 1988–90
Lord Oxburgh 1999 Crossbencher 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
Earl of Oxford and Asquith 2014 Liberal Democrats Hereditary peer
Lord Paddick 2013 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Palmer 1990 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Palmer of Childs Hill 2011 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former councillor
Lord Palumbo 1991 Conservative Life peer Property developer and Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain
Lord Palumbo of Southwark 2013 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Pannick 2008 Crossbencher 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 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
Baroness Parminter 2010 Liberal Democrats 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 1999 Crossbencher 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 Blackburn 2000 Labour Life peer
Lord Patel of Bradford 2006 Labour Life peer Professor at the University of Central Lancashire
Lord Patten 1997 Conservative Life peer Former Secretary of State for Education
Lord Patten of Barnes 2005 Conservative Life peer Chairman of the BBC Trust, former Secretary of State for the Environment, former Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong, former European Commissioner for External Relations
Lord Paul 1996 Non-affiliated Life peer Resigned the Labour whip in October 2010
Lord Pearson of Rannoch 1990 UK Independence Life peer Former leader of UK Independence Party
Earl Peel 1973 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Pendry 2001 Labour Life peer President of Oyston Steel Estates Ltd, President of the Football Foundation Ltd
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers 1999 Crossbencher 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)
Baroness Pidding 2015 Conservative Life peer
Baroness Pinnock 2014 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former leader of Kirklees Council
Baroness Pitkeathley 1997 Labour Life peer Former chief executive of Carers UK and a founding member of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations
Lord Plant of Highfield 1992 Labour 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 Plumb 1987 Conservative Life peer Former general-secretary of the National Farmers Union and former president of the European Parliament
Lord Polak 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede 1990;
2000
Labour Life peer Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton
Lord Popat 2010 Conservative Life peer Founder and chairman of hospitality and health care firm TLC Group Ltd
Lord Porter of Spalding 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord Powell of Bayswater 2000 Crossbencher Life peer Former diplomat
Baroness Prashar 1999 Crossbencher Life peer Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission and president of the Royal Commonwealth Society
Lord Prescott 2010 Labour Life peer Former Deputy Prime Minister
Lord Price 2016 Conservative Life peer
Baroness Primarolo 2015 Labour Life peer Former MP for Bristol South from 1987-2015
Lord Prior of Brampton 2015 Conservative Life peer
Baroness Prosser 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 2013 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Puttnam 1997 Labour Life peer Film producer
Baroness Quin 2006 Labour Life peer Chair of the Franco-British Council (British Section) and former Minister of State for Europe
Lord Quirk 1994 Crossbencher Life peer Former Professor of English Language at the University of Durham and former Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London
Lord Radice 2001 Labour Life peer Author, Chairman of the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe and former Chairman of Policy Network
Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale 1996 Labour Life peer Former diplomat and former case officer in the Secret Intelligence Service
Lord Ramsbotham 2005 Crossbencher Life peer Former General and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons
Lord Rana 2004 Crossbencher Life peer President of Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Baroness Randerson 2011 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Culture, Sport and the Welsh Language and former Cardiff Council Leader
Baroness Rawlings 1994 Conservative Life peer President of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and former Chairman of King's College London Council
Lord Razzall 1997 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Rea 1982 Labour Hereditary peer Doctor
Baroness Rebuck 2014 Labour Life peer Chairman of Penguin Random House UK publishers
Lord Redesdale 1991;
2000
Liberal Democrats Life peer Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Mitford
Baroness Redfern 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord Rees of Ludlow 2005 Crossbencher Life peer Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and Astronomer Royal, president of the Royal Society
Lord Reid of Cardowan 2010 Labour Life peer Former Secretaries of State for Scotland, Health, Defence and former Home Secretary
Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn 1991 Conservative Life peer Emeritus Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton
Lord Rennard 1999 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Renwick of Clifton 1997 Crossbencher Life peer Former diplomat, and former British Ambassadors to South Africa and to the United States
Lord Ribeiro 2010 Conservative Life peer Former Consultant General Surgeon; member of the Health Policy Research Advisory Board of the American College of Surgeons
Lord Richard 1990 Labour Life peer Former British Ambassador to the United Nations and former European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs and former Leader of the House of Lords
Lord Richards of Herstmonceux 2014 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Baroness Richardson of Calow 1998 Crossbencher Life peer Former President of the Methodist Conference
Lord Ricketts 2016 Crossbencher Life peer Former UK Ambassador to France, former National Security Adviser and former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Viscount Ridley 2013 Conservative Hereditary peer Scientist, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Lord Risby 2010 Conservative Life peer Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party responsible for business links in the City of London
Lord Robathan 2015 Conservative Life peer Former MP for South Leicestershire from 2010 to 2015 and for Blaby from 1992 to 2010
Lord Roberts of Llandudno 2004 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former President of the Welsh Liberal Democrats
Lord Robertson of Port Ellen 1999 Labour Life peer Former NATO Secretary General and Secretary of State for Defence
Baroness Rock 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank 1992 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former Secretary of State for Transport, former Director-General of the Royal Institute of British Architects, former Chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority; member of the Gang of Four that founded the Social Democratic Party
Lord Rogan 1999 Ulster Unionist Life peer Former president of the Ulster Unionist Party
Lord Rogers of Riverside 1996 Labour Life peer Modernist architect and winner of the RIBA Gold Medal, the Thomas Jefferson Medal, the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Minerva Medal and Pritzker Prize
Lord Rooker 2001 Labour Life peer Chairman of the Food Standards Agency
Lord Rose of Monewden 2014 Conservative Life peer Former chief executive and chairman of Marks & Spencer
Lord Rosser 2004 Labour Life peer
Earl of Rosslyn 1979 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Rotherwick 1996 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Rowe-Beddoe 2006 Crossbencher Life peer Deputy Chair of the UK Statistics Authority
Lord Rowlands 2004 Labour Life peer
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon 2004 Labour Life peer Former Leader of the House of Lords
Lord Russell of Liverpool 1981; 2014 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Ryder of Wensum 1997 Conservative Life peer Former vice-chairman of the BBC
Lord Saatchi 1996 Conservative Life peer Co-founder and executive director of Saatchi and Saatchi and M&C Saatchi
Lord Sacks 2009 Crossbencher Life peer Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
Lord St John of Bletso 1978 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Sanderson of Bowden 1985 Conservative Life peer
Earl of Sandwich 1995 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Sassoon 2010 Conservative Life peer Commercial Secretary to the Treasury and former President of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering
Lord Saville of Newdigate 1997 Crossbencher Law life peer Former Law Lord and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Sawyer 1998 Labour Life peer Former General Secretary of the Labour Party
Baroness Scott of Bybrook 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord Scott of Foscote 2000 Crossbencher Law life peer Former Law Lord
Baroness Scott of Needham Market 2000 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former President of the Liberal Democrats
Lord Scriven 2014 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former leader of Sheffield City Council
Baroness Seccombe 1991 Conservative Life peer
Earl of Selborne 1971 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Selkirk of Douglas 1997 Conservative Life peer
Lord Selsdon 1963 Conservative Hereditary peer
Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia 2010 Conservative Life peer Solicitor
Lord Sharkey 2010 Liberal Democrats Life peer Chairman of the Liberal Democrat 2010 General Election campaign
Baroness Sharples 1973 Conservative Life peer
Baroness Sheehan 2015 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Sheikh 2006 Conservative Life peer Chairman and executive of Camberford Law
Baroness Shephard of Northwold 2005 Conservative Life peer Former Secretary of State for Education and Employment and former Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury 2013 Conservative Life peer
Baroness Sherlock 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 2014 Conservative Life peer Digital adviser to David Cameron, chairwoman of Tech City UK
Lord Shinkwin 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord Shipley 2010 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford 1981 Conservative Hereditary peer Lord High Steward of Ireland
Lord Shutt of Greetland 2000 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Viscount Simon 1994 Labour Hereditary peer
Lord Singh of Wimbledon 2011 Crossbencher Life peer
Lord Skelmersdale 1974 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Skidelsky 1991 Crossbencher Life peer Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick
Viscount Slim 1971 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Baroness Smith of Basildon 2010 Labour Life peer Shadow leader of the House of Lords. Former Minister of State for Third Sector. Former MP for Basildon 1997-2010.
Lord Smith of Clifton 1997 Liberal Democrats Life peer Professor of Politics at Queen Mary College, honorary Professor of Politics of the University of Ulster and former visiting Professor of Politics at the Universities of York and Portsmouth
Lord Smith of Finsbury 2005 Non-affiliated Life peer Former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and former chair of the Advertising Standards Authority
Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill 1995 Labour Life peer President of Scottish Opera and chairman of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Lord Smith of Hindhead 2015 Conservative Life peer Chief Executive of the Association of Conservative Clubs
Lord Smith of Kelvin 2008 Crossbencher Life peer Chairman of Weir Group and Scottish and Southern Energy former Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation
Lord Smith of Leigh 1999 Labour Life peer Chairman of Local Government Leadership
Baroness Smith of Newnham 2014 Liberal Democrats Life peer Senior lecturer in international relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Cambridge University
Lord Snape 2004 Labour Life peer Former MP and implicated in the Cash for Influence scandal
Lord Soley 2005 Labour Life peer Former chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party and former MP
Duke of Somerset 1984; 2014 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Spicer 2010 Conservative Life peer Former MP and former Chairman of the 1922 Committee
Earl of Stair 1996; 2008 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Baroness Stedman-Scott 2010 Conservative Life peer Chief Executive of Tomorrow's People Trust
Lord Steel of Aikwood 1997 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former leader of the Liberal Party and former MP and MSP
Lord Stephen 2011 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and former deputy first minister of Scotland
Lord Sterling of Plaistow 1991 Conservative Life peer Chairman of Motability, former executive chairman of P&O
Baroness Stern 1999 Crossbencher Life peer Former director of NACRO, former Secretary General of Penal Reform International and author of many books on prison reform
Lord Stern of Brentford 2007 Crossbencher Life peer IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, author of the Stern Report
Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington 2005 Crossbencher Life peer Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
Lord Stevens of Ludgate 1987 UK Independence Life peer
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara 2010 Labour Life peer
Lord Stevenson of Coddenham 1999 Crossbencher Life peer Chairman of Manocap, former chairmen of Aerfi, Pearson and HBOS
Lord Steyn 1995 Crossbencher Law life peer Former Law Lord
Lord Stirrup 2011 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Stoddart of Swindon 1983 Independent Labour Life peer Former MP for Swindon 1970-1983
Lord Stone of Blackheath 1997 Labour Life peer Former joint-managing director of Marks and Spencer, Chairman of Sindicatum Climate Change Foundation
Lord Stoneham of Droxford 2011 Liberal Democrats Life peer Liberal Democrats HQ Operations Director
Lord Storey 2011 Liberal Democrats Life peer Councillor and former leader of Liverpool City Council
Baroness Stowell of Beeston 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 2011 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Strathclyde 1986 Conservative Hereditary peer Former Leader of the House of Lords
Baroness Stroud 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord Stunell 2015 Liberal Democrats Life peer Former MP for Hazel Grove from 1997-2015
Lord Sugar 2009 Non-affiliated Life peer TV personality and businessman
Baroness Sugg 2016 Conservative Life peer
Lord Suri 2014 Conservative Life peer Businessman and formerly the general secretary of the Board of British Sikhs
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood 2001 Crossbencher Life peer Former Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion
Baroness Suttie 2013 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Swinfen 1977 Conservative Hereditary peer
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean 1996 Labour Life peer
Lord Tanlaw 1971 Conservative Life peer
Lord Taverne 1996 Liberal Democrats Life peer MP for Lincoln 1962-1974
Baroness Taylor of Bolton 2005 Labour Life peer MP for Bolton West 1974-1983; MP for Dewsbury 1987-2005. Cabinet minister 1997-2001.
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor 2010 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Taylor of Holbeach 2006 Conservative Life peer Government Chief Whip in the Lords
Lord Taylor of Warwick 1996 Non-affiliated Life peer
Lord Tebbit 1992 Conservative Life peer Former MP 1970-1992; former cabinet minister. Chairman of the Conservative Party 1985-1987.
Lord Temple-Morris 2001 Labour Life peer Former MP for Leominster 1974-2001
Lord Teverson 2006 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Thomas of Gresford 1996 Liberal Democrats Life peer Deputy High Court Judge
Lord Thomas of Swynnerton 1981 Crossbencher Life peer
Baroness Thomas of Winchester 2006 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Baroness Thornhill 2015 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Baroness Thornton 1998 Labour Life peer
Lord Thurlow 2015 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Viscount Thurso 1995; 2016 Liberal Democrats Hereditary peer Former MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross from 2001 to 2015
Lord Tomlinson 1998 Labour Life peer Former MP for Meriden 1974-1979. Former MEP for Birmingham West 1984-1999.
Baroness Tonge 2005 Non-affiliated Life peer MP for Richmond Park 1997–2005, Liberal Democrat peer 2005–2012
Lord Tope 1994 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Touhig 2010 Labour Life peer MP for Islwyn 1995-2010
Lord Trees 2012 Crossbencher Life peer
Lord Trefgarne 1962 Conservative Hereditary peer
Viscount Trenchard 1987; 2004 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord Trevethin and Oaksey 2015 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Triesman 2004 Labour Life peer Former General Secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Trimble 2006 Conservative Life peer Former First Minister of Northern Ireland. Former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
Lord True 2010 Conservative Life peer Former Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit
Baroness Trumpington 1980 Conservative Life peer
Lord Truscott 2004 Independent Labour Life peer
Lord Tugendhat 1993 Conservative Life peer
Lord Tunnicliffe 2004 Labour Life peer
Lord Turnberg 2000 Labour Life peer Former Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester
Lord Turnbull 2005 Crossbencher Life peer Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Baroness Turner of Camden 1985 Labour Life peer
Lord Turner of Ecchinswell 2005 Crossbencher Life peer Chair of the Climate Change Committee and former chair of the Financial Services Authority
Lord Tyler 2005 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Baroness Tyler of Enfield 2011 Liberal Democrats Life peer Chief executive of Relate
Baroness Uddin 1998 Non-affiliated Life peer
Viscount Ullswater 1966; 2003 Conservative Hereditary peer
Baroness Valentine 2005 Crossbencher Life peer
Lord Vallance of Tummel 2004 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Baroness Vere of Norbiton 2016 Conservative Life peer
Lord Verjee 2013 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Baroness Verma 2006 Conservative Life peer
Lord Vinson 1985 Conservative Life peer
Lord Wakeham 1992 Conservative Life peer
Lord Waldegrave of North Hill 1999 Conservative Life peer
Lord Walker of Aldringham 2006 Crossbencher Life peer Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe 2002 Crossbencher Law life peer Former Law Lord and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Baroness Wall of New Barnet 2004 Labour Life peer Trade unionist
Lord Wallace of Saltaire 1995 Liberal Democrats 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 2007 Liberal Democrats Life peer Her Majesty's Advocate General for Scotland and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Baroness Walmsley 2000 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Walpole 1989 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Warner 1998 Crossbencher Life peer
Baroness Warsi 2007 Conservative Life peer
Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe 1999 Labour Life peer
Lord Wasserman 2011 Conservative Life peer Internationally recognised expert on management of police forces
Baroness Watkins of Tavistock 2015 Crossbencher Life peer
Lord Watson of Invergowrie 1997 Labour Life peer
Lord Watson of Richmond 1999 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Watts 2015 Labour Life peer Former MP for St Helens North from 1997 to 2015
Viscount Waverley 1990 Crossbencher Hereditary peer
Lord Wei 2010 Conservative Life peer
Duke of Wellington 2015 Conservative Hereditary peer
Lord West of Spithead 2007 Labour Life peer Former Admiral
Baroness Wheatcroft 2010 Conservative Life peer Journalist and editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal Europe and former editor of the Sunday Telegraph
Baroness Wheeler 2010 Labour Life peer
Baroness Whitaker 1999 Labour Life peer
Lord Whitby 2013 Conservative Life peer
Lord Whitty 1996 Labour Life peer Former General Secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Wigley 2011 Plaid Cymru Life peer Former leader of Plaid Cymru
Baroness Wilcox 1996 Conservative Life peer
Lord Willetts 2015 Conservative Life peer Former MP for Havant from 1992 to 2015
Lord Williams of Baglan 2010 Crossbencher Life peer Former United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon
Lord Williams of Elvel 1985 Labour Life peer
Lord Williams of Oystermouth 2013 Crossbencher Life peer Former Archbishop of Canterbury
Baroness Williams of Trafford 2013 Conservative Life peer
Lord Willis of Knaresborough 2010 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Willoughby de Broke 1986 UK Independence Hereditary peer
Lord Wills 2010 Labour Life peer Former MP for Swindon North 1997-2010
Lord Wilson of Dinton 2002 Crossbencher Life peer Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Lord Wilson of Tillyorn 1992 Crossbencher Life peer
Lord Winston 1995 Labour Life peer Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London
Baroness Wolf of Dulwich 2014 Crossbencher Life peer Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College London
Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise 2010 Conservative Life peer
Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale 1991 Conservative Life peer
Lord Wood of Anfield 2011 Labour Life peer Lecturer in politics at the University of Oxford and co-founder of Nexus think-tank
Lord Woolf 1992 Crossbencher Law life peer Former Law Lord and chairman of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, visiting professor of law at University College London
Lord Woolmer of Leeds 1999 Labour Life peer
Baroness Worthington 2011 Labour Life peer Career focusing on promoting environmental and social change
Lord Wrigglesworth 2013 Liberal Democrats Life peer
Lord Wright of Richmond 1994 Crossbencher Life peer Former Head of the Diplomatic Service
Lord Young of Cookham 2015 Conservative Life peer
Lord Young of Graffham 1984 Conservative Life peer
Baroness Young of Hornsey 2004 Crossbencher Life peer
Lord Young of Norwood Green 2004 Labour Life peer
Baroness Young of Old Scone 1997 Labour Life peer
Viscount Younger of Leckie 2010 Conservative Hereditary peer
Note
  1. Two years are given in the case of hereditary peers who did not continue to sit after 1999, but were later elected to sit again in the House of Lords.

Current non-sitting members

There are also peers who remain members of the House, but are currently ineligible to sit and vote.

Peers on leave of absence

The following peers have been granted a leave of absence for the remainder of the session or the current parliament[2] under section 23 of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords.[3]

Lord Party Type Notes
Baroness Amos[4] Labour Life peer 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
Baroness Ashton of Upholland Non-affiliated 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
Lord Black of Crossharbour[5] Non-affiliated Life peer
Lord Blyth of Rowington[6] Conservative Life peer
Lord Browne of Ladyton Labour Life peer Former Secretary of State for Defence
Marquess of Cholmondeley[7] Crossbencher Hereditary peer Lord Great Chamberlain
Lord Coe Conservative Life peer Athlete and chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations
Earl of Crawford and Balcarres Conservative Life peer Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Balniel
Baroness Emerton Crossbencher Life peer Former Chancellor and Chief Commander of St John Ambulance and former Chief Nursing Officer of South East Thames Regional Health Authority
Lord Hardie Crossbencher Life peer
Lord Hattersley Labour Life peer Former Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection
Lord Hutton Crossbencher Law life peer Former Law Lord
Baroness King of Bow Labour Life peer Former MP for Bethnal Green & Bow 1997-2005
Lord Llewellyn of Steep Conservative Life peer UK Ambassador to France and former Downing Street Chief of Staff
Baroness Lockwood Labour Life peer President of the Yorkshire Arthritis Research Campaign and former chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission
Lord Millett[8] Crossbencher Law life peer Former Law Lord
Lord Mogg Crossbencher Life peer Chairman of Ofgem and former Director General for the Internal Market and Financial Services in the European Commission
Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead Crossbencher Law life peer Former Law Lord
Baroness Nicol[8] Labour Life peer
Baroness Paisley of St George's Democratic Unionist Life peer Vice-president of the Democratic Unionist Party
Lord Prior[4] Conservative Life peer Former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Employment and former Leader of the House of Lords
Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover[7] Conservative Life peer President of J Sainsbury
Lord Sainsbury of Turville[9] Labour Life peer Former chairman of Sainsbury's
Marquess of Salisbury[7] Conservative Life peer Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil
Baroness Scotland of Asthal Labour Life peer Former Attorney General for England and Wales and former Advocate General for Northern Ireland
Lord Simon of Highbury[10] Labour Life peer
Baroness Vadera[11] Labour Life peer

Peers temporarily disqualified

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.[12] The following peers are currently subject to this provision.

Lord Party Type Notes
Lord Boyd of Duncansby Labour Life peer Judge of the Outer House of the Court of Session
Baroness Clark of Calton Labour Life peer Judge of the Inner House of the Court of Session
Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony Crossbencher Life peer Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Baroness Hale of Richmond Crossbencher Law life peer Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore Crossbencher Law life peer Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Mance Crossbencher Law life peer Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury Crossbencher Law life peer President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd Crossbencher Life peer Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

Peer suspended

The following peer is currently suspended from the House under section 12 of the Standing Orders, in implementation of section 1 of the House of Lords (Expulsion and Suspension) Act 2015.

Lord Party Type Notes
Lord Bhatia[13] Non-affiliated Life peer Suspended from 21 April 2016 until 21 December 2016 due to expenses misuse

Recently deceased

The following peers have died since December 2015:[14]

Name Party Date of Death Type
Lord Janner of Braunstone Labour 19 December 2015 Life peer
Lord Ezra Liberal Democrats 22 December 2015 Life peer
Lord Weidenfeld Crossbencher 20 January 2016 Life peer
Lord Avebury Liberal Democrats 14 February 2016 Hereditary peer
Lord Brooks of Tremorfa Labour 4 March 2016 Life peer
Lord Briggs Crossbencher 15 March 2016 Life peer
Lord Walton of Detchant Crossbencher 21 April 2016 Life peer
Lord Peston Labour 23 April 2016 Life peer
Lord Leach of Fairford Conservative 12 June 2016 Life peer
Lord Evans of Temple Guiting Labour 6 July 2016 Life peer
Lord Goff of Chieveley Crossbencher 14 August 2016 Law life peer
Lord Rix Crossbencher 20 August 2016 Life peer
Lord Borrie Labour 30 September 2016 Life peer
Lord Taylor of Blackburn Labour 25 November 2016 Life peer

Ceased to be members

As well as the hereditary peers excluded under the House of Lords Act 1999 and retired Lords Spiritual, there are a number of peers, who have permanently ceased to be members of the House.

Resigned

Under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, peers may permanently resign their membership of the house.[15] The following peers have exercised that right since the Act came into force in August 2014 and are either still living or have died since December 2015:[16]

Lord Party Date Type Notes
Lord Grenfell[17] Labour 1 October 2014 Life peer Hereditary peer who sat by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Grenfell of Kilvey
Lord Cobbold[17] Crossbencher 13 October 2014 Hereditary peer
Lord Chorley[18] Crossbencher 17 November 2014 Hereditary peer Died 21 February 2016
Lady Saltoun of Abernethy[19] Crossbencher 12 December 2014 Hereditary peer
Lord Jenkin of Roding[20] Conservative 6 January 2015 Life peer
Lord Waddington[21] Conservative 26 March 2015 Life peer
Lord Nickson Crossbencher 27 March 2015 Life peer
Lord Lloyd of Berwick Crossbencher 27 March 2015 Law life peer
Lord Joffe Labour 30 March 2015 Life peer
Lord Tombs Crossbencher 31 March 2015 Life peer
Lord Shaw of Northstead Conservative 31 March 2015 Life peer
Lord Ashcroft Conservative 3 April 2015 Life peer
Lord Evans of Parkside Labour 20 April 2015 Life peer Died 5 March 2016
Lord Sharman Life peer 30 April 2015 Life peer
Lord Hope of Thornes Crossbencher 30 April 2015 Life peer
Viscount Tenby Crossbencher 1 May 2015 Hereditary peer
Lord Phillips of Sudbury Liberal Democrats 7 May 2015 Life peer
Lord Sandberg Liberal Democrats 8 May 2015 Life peer
Lord Goodhart Liberal Democrats 15 May 2015 Life peer
Lord Sheldon Labour 18 May 2015 Life peer
Lord Roper Liberal Democrats 23 May 2015 Life peer Died 29 January 2016
Lord Prys-Davies Labour 23 May 2015 Life peer
Baroness Warnock Crossbencher 1 June 2015 Life peer
Lord Mayhew of Twysden Conservative 1 June 2015 Life peer Died 25 June 2016
Lord Eden of Winton Conservative 11 June 2015 Life peer
Lord Edmiston Conservative 22 July 2015 Life peer
Baroness Wilkins Labour 23 July 2015 Life peer
Viscount Montgomery of Alamein Crossbencher 23 July 2015 Hereditary peer
Lord Simpson of Dunkeld Labour 30 July 2015 Life peer
Lord Sewel Non-affiliated 30 July 2015 Life peer
Lord Parkinson Conservative 14 September 2015 Life peer Died 22 January 2016
Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville Conservative 18 September 2015 Life peer
Lord Chalfont Crossbencher 10 November 2015 Life peer
Lord Stewartby Conservative 12 November 2015 Life peer
Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior Conservative 31 December 2015 Life peer
Lord Dixon Labour 9 February 2016 Life peer
Baroness Williams of Crosby Liberal Democrats 11 February 2016 Life peer
Baroness Linklater of Butterstone Liberal Democrats 12 February 2016 Life peer
Lord Browne-Wilkinson Crossbencher 1 March 2016 Law life peer
Lord Vincent of Coleshill Crossbencher 9 March 2016 Life peer
Baroness Knight of Collingtree Conservative 24 March 2016 Life peer
Lord Barber of Tewkesbury Crossbencher 25 March 2016 Life peer
Earl of Snowdon Crossbencher 31 March 2016 Life peer Hereditary peer who sat by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Armstrong-Jones
Lord Renton of Mount Harry Conservative 14 April 2016 Life peer
Lord Cameron of Lochbroom Crossbencher 21 April 2016 Life peer
Lord Inge Crossbencher 25 April 2016 Life peer
Baroness Perry of Southwark Conservative 26 May 2016 Life peer
Lord Hurd of Westwell Conservative 9 June 2016 Life peer
Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden Conservative 21 July 2016 Life peer
Baroness Sharp of Guildford Liberal Democrats 31 July 2016 Life peer
Lord Tordoff Liberal Democrats 13 October 2016 Life peer
Lord Wade of Chorlton Conservative 1 November 2016 Life peer

Additionally, the following peers elected to retire from the House of Lords in accordance with the Resolution of the House of 27 June 2011, under which peers were granted the option to signal their intention to voluntarily retire and have their service recognised in the House and marked informally outside the House.[22][23]

Lord Party Date Type Notes
Lord Habgood Crossbencher 3 October 2011 Life peer
Lord Hutchinson of Lullington Liberal Democrats 3 October 2011 Life peer
Lord Bramall Crossbencher 25 April 2013 Life peer

Removed for non-attendance

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 or have died since December 2015:[24]

Lord Party Date Type Notes
Lord Bridges Crossbencher 18 May 2016 Hereditary peer
Lord Neill of Bladen Crossbencher 18 May 2016 Life peer Died 28 May 2016
Lord Thomas of Macclesfield Labour 18 May 2016 Life peer
Baroness Thomas of Walliswood Liberal Democrats 18 May 2016 Life peer

Permanently disqualified

Under section 41 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, peers must be 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 become permanently disqualified from being members of the House.[25] The following peers opted to exercise that right and are still living or have died since December 2015:

Lord Party Date Type Notes
Lord Laidlaw Conservative 15 April 2010 Life peer
Baroness Dunn Crossbencher 30 June 2010 Life peer
Lord Bagri Conservative 6 July 2010 Life peer
Lord Foster of Thames Bank Crossbencher 6 July 2010 Life peer

See also

References

  1. "Maginnis quits Ulster Unionist Party". BBC News. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  2. "House of Lords, Official Website - Members of the House of Lords granted leave of absence".
  3. "Standing Orders of the House of Lords".
  4. 1 2 House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Thursday 27 May 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  5. House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Monday 25 June 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  6. House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Thursday 21 March 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Tuesday 25 May 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  8. 1 2 House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Monday 11 June 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  9. House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Monday 15 July 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  10. Minutes of Proceedings of Wednesday 23 June 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  11. House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Thursday 8 December 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  12. Constitutional Reform Act 2005, Section 137 (3) at legislation.gov.uk
  13. House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Thursday 21 April 2016
  14. "Deceased Lords". House of Lords Information Office. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  15. House of Lords Reform Act 2014 s 1.
  16. http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/lords/retired-lords/ Retired Lords
  17. 1 2 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/141013-0001.htm Lords Hansard for 13 October 2014
  18. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/141117-0001.htm#1411179000426 Lords Hansard for 17 November 2014
  19. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/minutes/141028/ldordpap.htm#minproc House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Monday 27 October 2014
  20. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/150106-0001.htm Lords Hansard for 6 January 2015
  21. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/150326-0001.htm#15032625000647 Lords Hansard for 26 March 2015
  22. "Procedure Committee, 5th Report: Members Leaving the House".
  23. House of Lords Debates 27 June 2011 c. 1519–31.
  24. Non-attending Lords – UK Parliament
  25. Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 s 42.

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