The Rt Hon. the Lord Hope of Craighead KT
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Hope of Craighead's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Hope of Craighead KT. His name is James Arthur David Hope, 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
7 Content(4.3%)
6 Not-Content(3.7%)
149 didn't vote(92.0%)
2026-01-12
Not-Content
201–169
Content
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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
2026-06-22
HS2 Ltd: Consultants
My Lords, given the purpose of HS2, why was phase 2a, running to Crewe, cancelled? It was a very short section—some 30 miles or so—and would have provided a very valuable link to the west coast main line.
My Lords, it was a privilege to serve on this committee under the chairmanship of the noble Baroness, Lady Rock. It was a privilege not only because of the outstanding way in which our work was guided by her and supported by our clerk, our policy analyst
2026-06-02
Windrush Compensation Scheme
Can the Minister say something about the training that those who have to administer the scheme receive? Proper training would be one way of ensuring that equality of treatment is achieved across the board.
2026-05-18
King’s Speech
My Lords, in January 2022 the Constitution Committee, of which I had the privilege of being a member together with my noble friend Lord Hennessy, published a report. The title, crafted by my noble friend himself, was Respect and Co-operation: Building a
2025-12-03
Sentencing Bill
My Lords, I could not possibly improve on the speeches that we have heard so far, but my reason for speaking is that I think I am the only Peer here with previous judicial experience to have actually conducted a statutory resentencing exercise. Perhaps I
2025-12-03
SEND Budget Funding
My Lords, is more being done to ensure that teachers have the time they need to assess the needs of people with particular educational needs? It takes time: no person is the same and individuals need to be assessed according to their own individual probl
2025-11-19
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, since the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, mentioned my name, perhaps I should just say that his recollection of what happened in Glasgow is indeed correct. Lord Carmont was dealing with convicted criminals. These were people who had been convicte
2025-09-15
IPP Sentences
My Lords, will the Minister inform the House of how many of these prisoners are now refusing to engage with the processes required to satisfy the Parole Board’s current tests for release because they have lost confidence in the system? If they have, is i
2025-09-03
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
My Lords, I rise to support Amendments 104 and 203J, and to join the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, in inviting the Minister to consider carefully the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Murray. I was a member of the court in the decision to which t
2025-07-21
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Baroness the Leader of the House for all the work that she and those in her office have been doing over many months to find a solution to this problem on behalf of the families of Peers who lack capacity. I know that
2025-07-09
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, it is quite clear that legislation is needed if we are to control people coming into the House. I support very much the line of thinking that the noble Lord, Lord Burns, outlined. There is just one point that troubles me, and perhaps I can dare
2025-07-09
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, I tried to deal with this problem when I was convenor in 2018. In that year my noble friend Lord Burns produced his report, which received quite a lot of support across the House, and I was persuaded that it was one of my duties as convenor to
2025-07-09
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Before the noble Baroness the Leader sits down, has any thought been given to the fact that the law of Scotland may not be precisely the same as England’s? I was not able to catch what she was saying in her original statement as to what the formula is sh
2025-06-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, my noble friend Lord Carlile was kind enough to mention that I was a member of the Select Committee that looked into the whole matter of the Holocaust memorial, and security in particular. As the Minister will recall, the Select Committee said:
2025-06-03
Diego Garcia Military Base
The fact that the Minister has made this case so effectively raises a question about what happens next. With great respect, I do not think he has answered the question about what happens when the treaty comes to an end. I cannot imagine that the needs of
My Lords, what a pleasure it was to listen to the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Nichols of Selby. I am so glad that she took such trouble to explain the complicated background that brought her to this House; it greatly adds to our understandi
2025-03-27
Holocaust Memorial Bill
We were presented, in the committee, with a plan that showed that, during construction, the whole of the garden area would have to be regarded as subject to works—in other words, the whole of the grass area, up to quite close to the memorials at the nort
2025-03-25
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, I hope the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, will forgive me for intervening. I certainly do not wish to prolong these proceedings, and I agree with a great deal of what he said about their irrelevance to the Bill, but I should say a word because, as i
2025-03-25
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, I shall make one point about the amendment in the name of the noble Earl, Lord Devon. Until the Law Lords were removed from the House, these peerage claims were decided by a committee on which the Law Lords sat. Members of the House who were no
My Lords, I very much welcome this Bill and it is a great pleasure to follow the former moderator, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace of Tankerness. This is indeed a necessary reform which, as the Lord Privy Seal has told us, clears the way for Lad
2025-03-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I will speak to the amendment from the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Albans on closure dates. I was a member of the Select Committee, which, as he told us, took the view that it should not table an amendment to the Bill. Select Commit
2025-03-05
Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who took part in this short debate, and especially to the Minister for his very helpful reply.
On the first part of my amendment, which concerns consultation with the devolved Administrations, I absolute
2025-03-05
Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble and learned lord, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, and the noble Lord, Lord Fox, for adding their names to this amendment, which is in my name. The amendment seeks to insert into Part 1 a new clause, which has two object
2025-03-05
Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]
My Lords, I added my name to this amendment for the reasons the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace, has given. It is, obviously, quite important to bring the Scottish position into line with the rest of the United Kingdom.
It also gives me an opport
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Register of Interests · 4 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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Member of arbitration tribunal in which one party is Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (the member's income from this work in financial year 2024–25 was in the £5,001–10,000 band)
registered 2024-01-11 · amended 2026-01-23
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Royalties received from Avizandum Publishing Ltd for series of books called "Lord Hope’s Diaries"
registered 2019-07-24 · amended 2026-01-23
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Chief Justice, Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts (commercial court system in Abu Dhabi) (the member earned £347,431 in 2025)
registered 2015-10-29 · amended 2026-01-23
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Door Tenant, Brick Court Chambers, London, as an arbitrator
registered 2014-12-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2013-06-28 → present
Crossbench
current
2009-10-01 → 2013-06-27
Non-affiliated
1995-02-28 → 2009-09-30
Crossbench
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1998-12-03 → 2001-05-11
European Union Committee
2013-11-12 → 2014-03-31
Personal Service Companies
2014-06-12 → 2019-05-09
Committee for Privileges and Conduct (Lords)
2014-11-11 → 2015-02-03
Draft Protection of Charities Bill (Joint Committee)
Chair
+£14,876/yr
2014-11-10 → 2015-02-03
Draft Protection of Charities Bill (Joint Committee)
2015-10-12 → 2016-08-31
House Committee (Lords)
2015-10-12 → 2016-08-31
Administration and Works Committee (Lords)
2015-10-12 → 2019-09-30
Sub-Committee on Leave of Absence
2015-10-12 → 2019-10-03
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2015-10-28 → 2015-10-28
Liaison Committee (Lords)
Chair
+£15,025/yr
2015-10-12 → 2019-10-03
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2015-10-12 → 2019-10-03
Committee of Selection (Lords)
2016-09-01 → 2019-10-03
House of Lords Commission
2016-09-01 → 2019-10-03
Services Committee
2020-03-05 → 2020-10-14
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill Select Committee (Lords)
Chair
+£15,928/yr
2020-09-17 → 2023-12-31
Common Frameworks Scrutiny Committee
2021-01-28 → 2024-01-31
Constitution Committee
2024-01-24 → 2025-03-28
Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee
2024-10-10 → 2025-01-15
Holocaust Memorial Bill Select Committee (Lords)
2025-01-30 → 2025-11-10
Autism Act 2009 Committee
2025-10-14 → 2025-11-05
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee
Chair
+£18,305/yr
2025-10-15 → 2026-04-22
Malvern Hills Bill [HL] Committee
Chair
+£18,305/yr
Contact
Parliamentary office
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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
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