The Rt Hon. the Lord Patten
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
M
Lord Patten's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Patten. His name is John Haggitt Charles Patten, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
42 Content(25.9%)
2 Not-Content(1.2%)
118 didn't vote(72.8%)
2026-01-12
Content
201–169
Content
2026-01-05
Content
168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Content
210–131
Content
Source: lordsvotes-api.parliament.uk. "Result" shows the headline
Content vs Not-Content tally (including tellers). The Lords doesn't
publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the
figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-03-17
Spring Forecast Statement
My Lords, I shall certainly miss the noble Lord, Lord St John of Bletso, around the place. With his economic and business acuity, he will be sorely missed—a real person in every sense.
Today I shall address only the so-called spring forecast Statement
2025-11-10
Financial Provision on Divorce
My Lords, I happily join the congratulations the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, gave to the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, on getting this timely debate, and the firm tone in which she addressed the Minister and the Government: for heaven’s sake, get on and d
2025-09-19
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I have two points that I wish to make. First, I do not support the Bill in its stated aims; neither do I support the increasingly strange and weird way it has proceeded before Parliament, mutating into some sort of ever-changing hybrid Private
2025-09-03
Prostate Cancer
My Lords, first, the key word in my noble friend’s very important question is “proactively”. Axiomatically, it is Ministers who must decide to be proactive in the end, not national screening committees. This is a time when worried men face a blizzard of
2025-06-25
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, first, I declare my long-standing interest in Persimmon plc, a middle-market mass housebuilder. This position has given me a ringside seat to observe the vicissitudes that have beset house building and planning over decades, with their cycles o
My Lords, I listened with great care to what the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, said, and I should begin by saying I agree with all the words of regret in her amendment. It seems clear to me that, in recent responses to public inquiries, delay, obfuscatio
2025-01-20
Asylum Seekers: Hotels
My Lords, it has become something of a trope to call the first day of the third week in January—that is today—Blue Monday, when people feel at their lowest and nothing much works. Sometimes people make that accusation of migration policy. When I got to w
2024-12-12
Domestic Abuse: Victims and Survivors
My Lords, I take a pretty broad view of the phrase “domestic abuse”, for it includes not just men and women battering each other, using emotional abuse or battering children, but sometimes partners jointly abusing the elderly, the frail and confused men
2024-10-09
Public Sector Productivity
One aspect of the great productivity mystery and great productivity debate that I want to draw to the attention of the House is the relationship between productivity and the growing practice of working from home, which I think deserves close scrutiny. Th
2024-07-24
King’s Speech
My Lords, we are all lucky to have been here to listen to the notable maiden speech by my noble friend Lord Goodman of Wycombe. On the grounds of transparency, I must tell noble Lords that I have known him for many decades, and we are friends. Over those
My Lords, there is a lot of evidence that, once a certain standard of living is reached—economic security in particular—good relationships, happy families, and friends and community quite often follow, although not always necessarily, and both of these d
2024-03-07
Higher Education
My Lords, of the three key words in the very thought-provoking Motion before us, and following the provoking and thought-provoking speech we have just heard from the noble Lord, I intend to home in on productivity linked to how degree apprenticeships can
2023-11-08
King’s Speech
My Lords, I hope that during this debate, and indeed all the days of debate that we face on the King’s Speech, we will not hear too much of what we are endlessly told about new legislation and new measures: “This is the biggest and most important new mea
2023-06-29
UK: Violence Against Women and Girls
My Lords, I will make three points about this very serious and demanding issue. First, dealing with it may take a much longer time than any of us would like; secondly, identifying early, or identifying at all, those likely to abuse or kill is one of the
2023-02-21
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
My Lords, it is always good to follow the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, particularly in a debate such as this, where he has such a long and detailed recall of history over many decades. I listened to him with respect; it is genuine respect rather than just sa
2022-10-18
Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022
My Lords, I rise somewhat nervously to speak, because I am not an expert in this field. I am not a lawyer. There are clearly many noble Lords in your Lordships’ Chamber tonight who are experts. Unlike some of my dafter colleagues in another place, I rath
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Brixton. I will follow his excellent example by also declaring my interest as a resident for the whole working week in London for many years and a regular user of the District and Circle
2021-11-02
Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill
My Lords, the general tone of this debate—one of overall welcome and support for the Bill, in reaction to what my noble friend said in his excellent introduction—was set, if I may say so, by the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate. I listened most carefully t
2021-10-22
Assisted Dying Bill [HL]
My Lords, I wish to make three points. First, I am totally opposed to this Bill because of my belief in the sanctity of human life and because of its unsafe contents; I respectfully agree with the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury in wha
My Lords, I have only three points to make. First, I welcome the eventual bringing forward of these regulations, which have been on the shelves of successive Labour, coalition Liberal-Conservative and Conservative Administrations since 2008. It is good t
2021-05-26
Dormant Assets Bill [HL]
Lots of barbs are sometimes chucked at the House of Lords from different directions, sometimes quite rightly, but there seems to be a consensus among most people when they say that at least it is a House of experts and that they should listen to the expe
My Lords, my noble friend Lord True spoke of Covid-secure working. It is very good to see him on the Bench today and so many Members speaking in the Chamber. That has been a characteristic of the Order Paper today, with far more Peers here and speaking.
My Lords, I have listened with great respect to what the noble Lord, Lord Empey, has just said, and I agree with him about the importance of a United Kingdom. Like him, I intend to warmly welcome this order. It is vital that we give our neighbours and fr
2020-03-09
Continuity Agreement: Kingdom of Morocco
My Lords, I admired the stoicism of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, as he sat waiting for his eagerly awaited speech in your Lordships’ Chamber for such a long period, while what I can describe only as a lot of wet fish filibustering went on during the p
2020-01-29
Social Mobility
My Lords, these two reports have pointed all their recommendations, almost without exception, at government. However, government is not the only body responsible for promoting social equality and growth.
Two bodies in particular spring to mind. The fi
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Register of Interests · 7 entries on file
Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.
Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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Senior Adviser, Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP (UK and European based private equity) (interest ceased 27 February 2026)
registered 2010-04-19 · amended 2026-03-02
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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HSBC plc (global banking services)
registered 2019-06-26 · amended 2025-04-05
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Persimmon plc (UK housebuilder)
registered 2017-05-04 · amended 2025-04-05
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Standard Life (formerly Phoenix Group Holdings) (closed life assurance funds consolidator, insurance and asset management)
registered 2017-01-12 · amended 2026-03-02
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Legal and General (life assurance and asset management)
registered 2017-01-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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Shell plc (formerly Royal Dutch Shell plc) (oil and gas)
registered 2013-10-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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Lockheed Martin Corporation (global security company)
registered 2010-04-19 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1979-05-03 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
1992-04-10 → 1994-07-20
Secretary of State for Education and Science
1987-06-13 → 1992-04-09
Minister of State (Home Office)
1985-09-02 → 1987-06-12
Minister of State (Department of Environment) (Housing)
1983-06-14 → 1985-09-02
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Security)
1981-01-05 → 1983-06-13
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Northern Ireland Office)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
None recorded.
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
Showing
49
of 49 tabled
37 answered(75.5%)
12
departments
2026-06-16
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
Pending
2026-06-16
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Community Development
Pending
2026-06-11
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
New Towns: Construction
Pending
2026-04-22
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tunisia: Travel Information
Answered
2026-04-20
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tunisia: Foreign Relations
Answered
2026-04-20
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tunisia: Foreign Relations
Answered
2026-04-16
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning: Stonehenge
Answered
2026-04-14
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Ragwort: Weed Control
Answered
2026-04-14
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Ragwort: Health Hazards
Answered
2026-03-24
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning: World Heritage Sites
Answered
2026-03-24
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Lighting: Pollution
Answered
2026-03-23
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
New Towns: Construction
Answered
2026-03-23
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Lighting: Pollution Control
Answered
2026-02-11
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Telecommunications Cables: Seas and Oceans
Answered
2026-02-10
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Religious Buildings: Change of Use
Answered
2026-02-10
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
Answered
2026-01-20
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Inland Waterways
Answered
2026-01-20
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Houseboats: Inland Waterways
Answered
2026-01-20
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Inland Waterways
Answered
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are
members of either House who
backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading
date.
Historic bills (all-time)
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.