The Lord Winston
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Winston's full title is The Lord Winston. His name is Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, 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
176 divisions
2 Content(1.1%)
66 Not-Content(37.5%)
108 didn't vote(61.4%)
2026-07-21
Not-Content
173–234
Not-Content
2026-07-13
Not-Content
41–118
Not-Content
2026-07-13
Not-Content
142–138
Content
2026-07-13
Not-Content
158–239
Not-Content
2026-03-26
Not-Content
115–197
Not-Content
2026-02-04
Not-Content
62–295
Not-Content
2026-01-12
Not-Content
201–169
Content
2026-01-05
Not-Content
132–124
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
2026-07-20
Music Teachers: Recruitment
My Lords, I fear my noble friend underestimates the issue. Music teachers make a great difference to education generally. Music teaches collaboration, awareness of emotions, memory, social awareness, reading ability and a range of other things as well. T
My Lords, I listened to this short debate with a bit of amazement. We are looking at the end results, but we need to look a little further up the channel. My noble friend Lady Blackstone touched on a very important point, as indeed did the noble Barones
2026-07-06
Fracture Liaison Services
My Lords, the noble Lord asks a very important Question. Can the National Health Service make sure that there is a checklist for all fractures, just as an aircraft pilot does when he is taking off? There are numerous examples in the NHS—I speak from pers
2026-07-03
Nature’s Rights Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in the gap. I congratulate the noble Baroness on introducing this interesting debate. I hope the Bill goes to Committee where I am going to have some serious objections to it, but we will come to that
2026-06-29
Food Security
My Lords, as my noble friend the Minister knows, there were some concerns from many scientists about the precision breeding Bill. I wonder whether he might be able to give us an update on what is currently happening with regard to the modification of cro
2026-06-22
NHS: Dementia Treatment Trials
My Lords, does the Minister agree with me that, while the noble Lord, Lord Patel, is quite keen on screening tests, we can both agree that screening tests have all sorts of major disadvantages, such as false diagnosis or unclear diagnosis? If we are not
My Lords, I wish to raise a personal issue. For about three months now, I have been plagued by complaints from members of the public who have seen videos and digital images apparently of me promoting certain medicines on Instagram and Facebook. These med
2026-06-15
Rare Cancers: Diagnosis and Treatment
My Lords, the noble Baroness’s attempt to get early treatment is commendable, and we are glad to hear what the Government are saying, but does she agree that one problem is that cancer is really a multimorbidity, so that often a number of different organ
2026-06-04
Fertility Treatment Regulation
Before the Minister sits down, I wonder whether she would be kind enough to answer one question for me. The figures that I presented on embryo freezing show that there were 909 births, some of which miscarried. However, it is clear that at least 42,000 t
2026-06-04
Fertility Treatment Regulation
My Lords, I would like to come down to earth a little bit. First of all, I suggest that infertility is not a disease; it is actually a symptom of something wrong, and that is the basic problem here. What we are doing here with in vitro fertilisation is u
2026-05-20
King’s Speech
It is with great pleasure that I follow the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley. I want to offer something of importance to all women. A newborn girl has around 1 million eggs at birth in her ovaries. By puberty, most of those microscopic eggs have already dis
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The noble Baroness and I are relatively unique in that we were two of the 12 members of the Lords Select Committee panel that looked at the Bill. One issue that we found on our side was that the people against the Bill refused to take the evidence that w
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Is the noble Lord aware that virtually no specialism has 100% of those posts filled? In fact, in most cases in the UK, as can be checked using the recent figures from the Department of Health, many specialisms are down to about 30%, and many specialist a
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I will just ask this question. I am genuinely a very simple doctor, and I do not really understand this problem. It is clearly a problem in ways that I think are humanitarian. At the moment in the House of Lords, we are discussing complex issues regardin
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords—
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords—
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I am grateful that the Chief Whip will offer me the chance to speak for a couple of minutes. We have always agreed that this is an expert House, and it helps to make sure that legislation is best addressed by expertise where it can be. One of t
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I wonder whether my noble friend the Minister might be able to help me. I presume that the Government would look at the extensive literature that is available in medical and scientific journals on the action, tests and usage of these drugs in a number of
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, I too am a little bit concerned about unintended consequences. It is a real pleasure to see my noble friend Lord Darzi in his place, because I hope he will have comments on this issue.
I trained as a clinical academic. Indeed, we know that c
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
The NHS is a complex organisation which is going to be rapidly changing, with increasing issues regarding its employees and all sorts of new technologies that will develop in a way we have never seen before. In view of that, does the Minister think there
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, it is an honour to support the noble Baroness, Lady Gerada. The best surgical training I had was with a Maltese surgeon, who was absolutely fantastic and taught me lessons I have never forgotten. One has to see that that cross-fertilisation hap
2026-02-06
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Would the noble Lord agree that the word is “suffocated”, rather than “die”?
My Lords, I declare an interest as having been in this House a little longer than the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett. I have great respect for many of the things that she has said, and we have worked together on other Bills. Over 50 years, I have continued
Does the noble Lord accept that proper animal research goes on well beyond laboratories, in fields and many other places? He underestimates the issue in considering laboratories; it is far wider than that.
2026-02-04
Baby Milk Powder: Cereulide
My Lords, I have in the past given notice to the Minister about this, with regard not to milk but to other issues: for example, where small humans, such as embryos or babies, come in contact with fluids or chemicals that might be dangerous. It is not onl
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Register of Interests · 11 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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Director, Startransfer Limited (biotechnology company)
registered 2020-08-26 · amended 2025-04-05
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Occasional journalism for national newspapers
registered 2018-08-20 · amended 2025-04-05
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Royalties received as author of Books for adults on popular science and medicine
registered 2018-08-20 · amended 2025-04-05
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Royalties received as author of Children’s book on science (formerly consultant), Dorling Kindersley publishers
registered 2018-08-20 · amended 2025-04-05
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Occasional remuneration for public lectures
registered 2018-08-20 · amended 2025-04-05
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Professor, Science and Society, Imperial College London
registered 2010-05-18 · amended 2025-04-05
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Regular speaking engagements at festivals, conferences and dinners
registered 2010-05-18 · amended 2025-04-05
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Occasional Radio and TV presenting
registered 2010-05-18 · amended 2025-04-05
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Director, Kayplot Limited (broadcasting/journalism)
registered 2010-05-17 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Startransfer Limited (biotechnology company)
registered 2020-08-26 · amended 2025-04-05
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Kayplot Limited (broadcasting/journalism)
registered 2010-05-18 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1995-12-18 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2026-01-27 → present
Science and Technology Committee
2021-01-28 → 2024-01-31
Science and Technology Committee
2010-06-22 → 2015-03-30
Science and Technology Committee
1996-10-28 → 2006-11-08
Science and Technology Committee
1997-10-06 → 2001-05-11
Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I
2007-05-09 → 2007-08-08
Draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill (Joint Committee)
2024-01-24 → 2024-11-14
Preterm Birth Committee
2025-10-14 → 2025-11-05
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee
Contact
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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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)
1 bills
1 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicinal Labelling Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2013-05-13 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.