The Rt Hon. the Lord Wakeham DL
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Wakeham's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Wakeham DL. His name is John Wakeham, 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
4 Content(2.5%)
1 Not-Content(0.6%)
157 didn't vote(96.9%)
2026-01-12
Content
201–169
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 23
2024-12-11
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, although it is almost certain this Bill will become law, we have heard enough from a good part of the House to say that it is unwise to try to reform the House piecemeal in the way that the Government propose. It is a serious mistake. When I sp
2024-11-12
House of Lords Reform
My Lords, it is well over 50 years since I first got into the House of Commons, but I do not think I have ever sat in a debate and heard reports that I had written 25 years ago quoted as freely as some have quoted them this afternoon. The first thing I o
2023-11-13
King’s Speech
My Lords, I enjoyed the speech of the noble Lord. I have not heard him speak before. As he said at the beginning of his speech, he has been here only about a year and I have not managed to speak in the House for quite a bit longer than a year because I h
2022-09-09
Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
My Lords, I have only recently come out of hospital, so I hope I can hang on to my stick and keep straight. I particularly wanted to come to this debate, not to say anything very remarkable but to listen to the speeches. The standard of the speeches that
2022-05-16
Queen’s Speech
2050—I am just 100 years out. Even if we get to that, a lot of countries in the world will not. Two things follow from that. The first is that climate change will not be significantly improved. We in this country produce 1% of the world’s emissions, so i
2022-05-16
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, I am tempted to start by saying that, for the last three or four speeches I have made in the House, I have been preceded by a bishop. I always thought that the people who organise these things thought that perhaps it was a good idea for a bisho
My Lords, this is the first time I have been in this Chamber for over a year, but I could not miss the opportunity of coming here today to express my sympathies to Her Majesty the Queen and the rest of the Royal Family on their very sad loss. It is an en
2020-02-06
Cairncross Review
My Lords, I will do my best to keep the speed debating going. It is some time since I was directly involved in the affairs of the press as chairman of the Press Complaints Commission. Back then, the name Google was barely mentioned and Facebook had not e
2020-01-09
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, the last few times I have spoken in this House, I have been preceded by a bishop. I wonder if those who draw up these lists have been trying to send me a message. I enjoyed, as I always do, the speech of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of
2019-10-22
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, first, I say to the right reverend Prelate how much we appreciated her speech today and on other occasions. It takes me back 25 years, to when I was Leader of the House and invited the then Archbishop of Canterbury to have dinner with me, becau
2019-03-20
Spring Statement
My Lords, the right reverend Prelate should not underestimate his contribution over the years to our economic debates. I have heard him many times, and he always brings a great whift of common sense to our debates. We are very grateful for his contributi
2019-03-20
Trade Bill
Perhaps I might say a word, because I was the Chief Whip in the Commons when the Pepper v Hart decision was taken. What the Minister has said is of great advantage to her, because the difficulty I had then was that Ministers were being inhibited from giv
2018-11-13
Economy: Budget Statement
My Lords, the last time I followed the noble Lord, I had never heard him speak before. I was at a considerable disadvantage, because I had received a message—which came from his mother—asking how he was doing. I waffled on a bit about how good and effect
2018-10-26
Duchy of Cornwall Bill [HL]
My Lords, first, I congratulate the noble Lord on his persistence. He has obviously done a lot of work and, as he said, this is the fourth time he has produced a Bill, although I think it is only the second time that any of them have been debated. That,
My Lords, I shall say just a few words at this stage. First, I must declare an interest: I was chairman of a royal commission some years ago that produced a number of proposals for reform of the House of Lords, and I have to say to the noble Lord, Lord G
My Lords, I cannot pretend that I come to this subject entirely with a fresh mind. I have been at it for years. When I chaired the royal commission some 17 years ago—a number of very good friends were on the commission with me at that time—the House then
2017-12-04
Budget Statement
My Lords, I am delighted to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Portsmouth. I do not quite live in his diocese—I live on the very edge of it, in Winchester—but I have heard him speak on many occasions. I do not usually agree with him and I am
2017-11-15
Finance Bill
My Lords, before I say what I am going to say about the Finance Bill, I have been waiting for an opportunity to say how much I appreciate my noble friend’s contributions from the Front Bench. He seems to be speaking on all kinds of different subjects at
2016-12-05
House of Lords: Size
My Lords, I feel greatly honoured to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, in his speech. I think it is the nearest I will ever get to addressing the Supreme Court. First, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Cormack on securing this important deba
2016-06-09
Government and Parliament
Somebody who has spent as many years in business management as I have knows that there are ways around all sorts of things. However, the fact is that a statutory instrument which is rejected by this House is dead and another way has to be found of dealing
2016-06-09
Government and Parliament
My Lords, it is one of the great strengths of the House of Lords that a considerable amount of thinking seems to go on between one debate on a subject and the next time that it comes up. That is a credit to everyone, but today I think credit is due partic
2016-05-24
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, I think this is the 43rd Queen’s Speech debate that I have attended but it is the first time the Whip has got up just before I rise to my feet, to remind us that I have only five minutes. As I intend to speak about just five words in the Queen’s
2016-04-20
Strathclyde Review
My Lords, my noble friend is absolutely right to reflect on these reports, but I hope that she will bear in mind that the proposals of the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, were to make sure that secondary legislation was dealt with more democratically in Par
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Genner Securities Ltd owned jointly with family (investment holding company)
registered 2010-04-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1974-02-28 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
1992-04-10 → 1994-07-19
Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords
1989-07-24 → 1992-04-09
Secretary of State for Energy
1988-01-10 → 1989-07-23
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
1987-06-13 → 1988-01-09
Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons
1983-06-11 → 1987-06-12
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip)
1982-04-06 → 1983-06-13
Minister of State (HM Treasury)
1981-09-15 → 1982-04-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Industry)
1981-01-09 → 1981-09-15
Lord Commissioner (HM Treasury) (Whip)
1979-05-16 → 1981-01-09
Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1988-11-22 → 1989-11-14
Privileges
Chair
2010-06-09 → 2015-03-30
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2003-12-02 → 2007-10-30
Procedure and Privileges Committee
1992-05-20 → 1994-11-03
Procedure and Privileges Committee
1992-05-20 → 1994-11-03
House of Lords Offices Committee
1992-06-01 → 1994-11-03
Committee for Privileges and Conduct (Lords)
2010-05-26 → 2015-03-30
Committee of Selection (Lords)
1993-11-23 → 1994-11-03
Committee of Selection (Lords)
2006-11-27 → 2010-04-08
Liaison Committee (Lords)
1993-12-01 → 1994-11-03
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2003-12-02 → 2008-11-26
Economic Affairs Committee
2015-06-08 → 2016-08-31
House Committee (Lords)
2007-11-13 → 2013-05-15
House Committee (Lords)
2008-11-26 → 2015-03-30
Joint Committee on Security
2016-12-06 → 2017-03-17
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2014-01-08 → 2014-03-11
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2012-12-04 → 2013-03-05
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2016-09-01 → 2021-01-28
House of Lords Commission
2016-12-20 → present
Lord Speaker's committee on the size of the House
Contact
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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