The Viscount Brookeborough KG KStJ DL
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Member of the House of Lords
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Viscount Brookeborough's full title is The Viscount Brookeborough KG KStJ DL. His name is Alan Henry Brooke, and he was excluded from the House of Lords on 29 April 2026.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
No Lords votes recorded for 2026.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2025-07-24
Voting at 16
My Lords, I have the privilege of being a Lord Lieutenant and therefore presiding at oath-taking at citizenship ceremonies. We always make a point of telling people getting their citizenship that they should register to vote, since otherwise they cannot
2025-07-24
Young Futures Hubs
My Lords, does the Minister not agree that one of the main drivers of mental problems among young people, and indeed older ones, is financial instability? That arises from a lack of financial education, and not only in primary and secondary schools. Ther
2025-02-12
Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill
My Lords, I support this amendment. I wonder whether the Minister and the advisers have been to Northern Ireland, where, for a long time, buildings have been designed for the exact threats he is talking about. I am not sure of the system, but I do not t
2025-02-03
Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill
My Lords, I too recognise that inevitably we have got to fix a figure, and that is for this House and/or another place to do. I would just like to say one thing about Amendment 8, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Murray, where he says,
“if smaller
2025-02-03
Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill
My Lords, I may be accused of intruding, because I have not been here for the whole thing. It just interests me that, on one side, we are talking about what is in Clause 5, what we do when a terrorist incident takes place, and on the other hand, the nobl
My Lords, will the Minister consider that there are a lot of good lessons to be learned from Northern Ireland on community relations? Those relations have come on a great deal, and that is often about creating neutral spaces and reasons for communities t
2024-11-18
Future of the Post Office
My Lords, the Minister appears quite optimistic, but does she not accept that the withdrawal of some of these post offices through closures hits the most vulnerable people in rural communities? It is no good saying that this will be coped with; withdrawa
2023-12-12
Bovine Tuberculosis
My Lords, is it not about time that we put badgers more on the basis of deer—permissible culling throughout the country? People see deer old and diseased, and everybody realises what the problem is. With badgers, they have no idea of the cruelty going on
2023-09-14
Northern Ireland Budget (No. 2) Bill
My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for presenting this budget. I feel rather sympathetic towards him in that he cannot come here for happy debates. One day, I hope that he will be able to do so. Luckily, much of what I was going to say has been said bu
I have just a quick point. When we talk about the individual giving all the relevant and truthful knowledge, to what extent will he be asked about the other people involved in the incident, whenever it was? If he fails to give information on them, does t
My Lords, I have listened to everything. I have not bothered to intervene because I basically agree that this is not a great Bill and that all we can hope to do is make it less damaging to what is happening in Northern Ireland.
The one thing that stri
2023-04-19
VAT: Building Repairs and Maintenance
My Lords, this is not a devolved issue, and it therefore affects Northern Ireland as well. Does the Minister not agree that conservation of the countryside and the built environment is a very high priority? The effect of continued government policy along
My Lords, I support these amendments and I support what the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Eames, just said about children. Children are the future for Northern Ireland, and integrated education and more understanding between the communities are all
Does he mean that the commission will ask them who their accomplices were and that they must not refuse to name them?
Perhaps the noble Lord would like to ask the question of what information given to the commission by somebody seeking immunity will be made available to the victims. That is the point at which reconciliation breaks down—when the names of the other people
My Lords, I would like to mention one factor which may be naïve and maybe I just cannot see it, but we appear to be talking about amnesty for individuals who have committed a heinous crime of some type. I wonder whether noble Lords understand what actual
I suggest that the noble Lord may have meant GB-based veterans and not UK-based veterans, since Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.
My Lords, I want to say briefly why I support this amendment. I must declare an interest in that I am a military veteran who served for a long time in Northern Ireland and members of my family were in the police.
Veterans are, inevitably, really again
My Lords, it is an honour and a privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, whose stand on terrorism and violence, and what she has done for many years, I admire very much. I do not necessarily come to the same conclusions as her on everything,
My Lords, I declare an interest in that I am a member of the Order of St John in Northern Ireland—and therefore St John Ambulance—and we do not have a heatwave. Can I ask the Minister: what consultations have gone on with volunteer ambulance services in
2022-06-14
Elections: Multiple Voting
My Lords, would the Minister like to recognise that his answers smack of the Government burying their head in the sand and not accepting that some malpractices do go on? Those of us who have lived in Northern Ireland—where the motto used to be, “Vote ear
2022-04-04
Nationality and Borders Bill
My Lords, I rise to support Motion T1 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Murphy. Because this is something which has been brought in, one must look at what the current situation is. The current situation is that it is an open border, and we have heard t
2022-03-23
Universal Credit (EAC Report)
My Lords, I am grateful for being allowed to speak in the gap. I apologise for not giving notice; I did not think I was going to be here. I had not even noticed that the debate was going on.
The report led by the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, seems excell
2022-03-08
Nationality and Borders Bill
My Lords, I support this amendment. At this late hour I will not go into everything I said in Committee, but I live on the border and see it every day. I deal with and know people who cross the border every day. I know of many people who do not have Iris
2022-02-10
Nationality and Borders Bill
As I understand it, people are allowed to apply before they leave the services. While people are serving, the Government have huge charges for every soldier, airman and seaman every day of the week. For those who choose to apply for citizenship prior to
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Party history
1987-09-10 → 2026-04-29
Crossbench
Government posts
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Opposition posts
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Committee memberships
1998-12-03 → 2002-11-07
European Union Committee
2002-11-19 → 2005-04-07
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2016-05-25 → 2017-03-25
Financial Exclusion Committee
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on War Heritage
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 13 | 2024-06-11 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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