The Rt Hon. the Lord Herbert of South Downs CBE
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Herbert of South Downs's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Herbert of South Downs CBE. His name is Nick Herbert, 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
64 Content(39.5%)
1 Not-Content(0.6%)
97 didn't vote(59.9%)
2026-04-13
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69–332
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2026-03-05
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193–143
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2026-03-05
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194–140
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2026-03-05
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198–139
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2026-03-05
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208–142
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2026-03-05
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214–142
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2026-01-05
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194–130
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168–178
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2026-01-05
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210–131
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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
My Lords, I join others in paying tribute to my noble friend Lord Gascoigne for his report. I recognise the need for new homes, and the role that new settlements can play in that provision. The question, of course, is where those new settlements should b
My Lords, on a similar point to that raised by the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, I am a trustee of the National Opera Studio, which trains brilliant young opera singers and is sponsored by the country’s leading opera companies. There are problems in the opera
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, I draw attention to my entries in the register of Members’ interests as chairman of the Countryside Alliance and related positions, and I add my congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Hobby, and my noble friend Lord Blackwater on their fine m
My Lords, I want to add to the comments and questions made by my noble friend Lady Harding about the potential impact of this regulatory change on horseracing. It is a very important sport, as the Minister responsible knows, and a sport that is already u
2026-03-09
Crime and Policing Bill
Okay; that is helpful. I thank my noble friend, and I am sure the Government will respond to that. But if part of the purpose of this is to ensure that it meets the concern my noble friend set out—that people may, to use his words, be prevented from gett
2026-03-09
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register of interests showing that I am the chair of the College of Policing. We are broadly in agreement about the way forward. There is a large measure of agreement that the current system of non-crime hate
2026-03-04
Crime and Policing Bill
But my argument was against the proposal that these offences in their entirety should be rejected by this House—that the Government’s proposal in its entirety should be rejected by this House. I was not engaging with my noble friend’s argument. I have so
2026-03-04
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register of interests. I chair the College of Policing, but I am not speaking in that capacity, nor have I spoken to policing colleagues about this matter.
I want to make a couple of observations about the
2026-03-04
Crime and Policing Bill
I am grateful for the noble Baroness’s intervention. This issue merits further and deeper discussion, which is a matter for the Government to address. Yes, of course, the whole principle of aggravated offences and hate crime is that it may involve an inf
2026-02-12
Animal Welfare Strategy: Rural Communities
My Lords—
2026-01-21
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I too am puzzled why it is not possible to include this wording in the Bill. Given that the Bill makes provision for the construction of a Holocaust memorial and learning centre, why on earth can we not define what the learning centre is for? H
2026-01-20
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I draw attention to my declaration in the register of interests that I am chair of the College of Policing.
As I said at Second Reading, we need to remember that there were benign reasons for the introduction of this regime over three decade
2026-01-13
Official Development Assistance
My Lords, in the two minutes I have been allotted, another four people globally will die from tuberculosis. That is 1.25 million people a year. It is the world’s deadliest disease and still exacts this terrible toll, quite unnecessarily.
For 20 years,
2025-10-16
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I draw attention to my interest declared in the register as chair of the College of Policing.
For our police service, founded on the principle of consent, to be effective, the trust and confidence of the communities they serve is essential.
2025-09-12
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, earlier this week, this House earnestly discussed in Oral Questions how to reduce suicides. Suicide has not been a crime for over six decades, but we still think that it is wrong and we still try to prevent it—until today. Today, we consider cr
2025-07-21
Official Development Assistance
My Lords, sustainable development goal 3.3 says that HIV, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis must be beaten by 2030. On the current rate of progress, TB will not be beaten for 100 years. I was pleased to hear the Minister say that global public health will b
2025-06-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
I would like to interrogate the argument, which is an important one, that, to use the noble Baroness’s phrase, the location of the learning centre next to our Parliament is essential. That is not the case in relation to other Holocaust learning centres a
2025-06-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, some years ago I visited the Dachau concentration camp just outside Munich. It made a huge impression on me, as did visiting the memorial and learning centres in Jerusalem and in Berlin. One thing particularly struck me, perhaps because it touc
My Lords, the advance of equality for lesbian and gay people over the course of the last half century has largely become settled because it was achieved without diminishing the rights of others. But, in seeking protections for transgender people, there i
2025-03-20
HIV/AIDS: US Withdrawal from WHO
My Lords, tuberculosis is the single biggest cause of death for people with HIV/AIDS, killing 1.25 million people a year. It is the most deadly infectious disease of all. Given the reduction of funding and the dismantling of USAID, and the withdrawal of
2024-11-21
Farming Families
My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Lords’ Interests as chairman of the Countryside Alliance.
I was proud to join the farmers’ demonstration in Whitehall on Tuesday. The sentiment was clear: farmers were already desperately worri
2024-11-19
Non-crime Hate Incidents
My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register of Member’s interests as chair of the College of Policing. Did not the recording of non-crime hate incidents have its genesis in the Macpherson review, as the noble Lord, Lord Austin, said? But that
2024-09-04
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, like so many noble Lords who have spoken, I find myself wondering how an idea that is so right can have gone so wrong. As is the case with so many good intentions, I fear it has foundered because of legitimate feelings so strong that the conseq
2024-07-29
Horseracing and Bloodstock Industries
My Lords, I welcome the Minister to her place. She may have anticipated my sporting plans for later this week. Racing is the country’s second biggest spectator sport; it is worth over £4 billion a year to the economy, and it contributes to the Exchequer,
2024-07-29
Horseracing and Bloodstock Industries
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to support the horseracing and bloodstock industries.
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Register of Interests · 3 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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Nick Herbert Consulting Ltd (member’s own company; he provides services as development consultant and gives strategic guidance and insight); clients are Countryside Alliance, The Project for Modern Democracy and Get Licensed Limited (booking agency for security industry)
registered 2021-04-10 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chair, College of Policing (professional body for police service in England and Wales) and Director of associated company
registered 2021-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Nick Herbert Consulting Ltd (member’s own company; he provides services as development consultant and gives strategic guidance and insight)
registered 2021-04-10 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2005-05-05 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
2010-05-13 → 2012-09-06
Minister of State (Home Office) (Policing) (Jointly with the Ministry of Justice)
2010-05-13 → 2012-09-06
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
Opposition posts
2009-01-19 → 2010-05-06
Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
2007-07-03 → 2009-01-19
Shadow Secretary of State (Justice)
2005-05-10 → 2007-07-03
Shadow Minister (Home Affairs)
Committee memberships
2005-07-12 → 2006-01-16
Home Affairs Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
External or private office
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APPGs (2026) · 2 active officership(s)
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Global Tuberculosis
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | Results UK | 4 | 2026-07-24 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT+) Rights
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | Kaleidoscope Trust | 4 | 2026-07-12 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
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0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading
date.
Historic bills (all-time)
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year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.