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The Viscount Craigavon

Crossbench Member of the House of Lords M
Viscount Craigavon is deceased. His full title was The Viscount Craigavon. His name was Janric Fraser Craig.

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

No Lords votes recorded for 2026.

Recent Hansard contributions · latest 18

2024-09-04 Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, speaking very much as a local Westminster inhabitant, I declare an interest in being affected by the proposals in this Bill to my local park. But in addition to recording its negative effects on the more general and longer-term users of this pa
2024-07-25 King’s Speech
My Lords, I am grateful to be able to contribute today on the role that international development plays in the FCDO. In that department’s various guises, that has been one of my main interests in my time in this House, mainly in the form of what one migh
2023-11-23 Mopeds, Motorcycles and Powered Light Vehicle Industry
My Lords, I am grateful to take part in this debate encouraging motorcycling in its regulation. I have been a motorcyclist for some years, largely in London, and have always felt that, with a few judicious pushes—or perhaps more than a few—motorcycling c
2022-03-04 Office for Demographic Change Bill [HL]
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, on introducing this Bill and the way that he has done it; I speak very much in support of it. I spoke in favour of these same ideas contained in an amendment previously offered by t
2021-10-22 Assisted Dying Bill [HL]
My Lords, I strongly support the Bill before us, as I had its predecessors, and, as has been said, public support on this is somewhat more than 80% in favour of such a measure, even among faith communities. It goes without saying that one supports pallia
2020-09-16 Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to be able to express my support for these amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts. I particularly support the tour d’horizon of his opening speech. I accept that these amendments are trying to
2019-05-07 Atrial Fibrillation
My Lords, we should be grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Black of Brentwood, for tabling this important subject for debate and for his tour d’horizon of the facts and circumstances of AF. I have chosen to focus more on the Question, which may be a mistake
2019-02-26 Offensive Weapons Bill
My Lords, as I moved the original amendment in Committee, I will intervene first. I am grateful to the Government and the Minister for coming up with these amendments, which give me and the people I am interested in more than I asked for. That is a very
2019-01-28 Offensive Weapons Bill
My Lords, I am extremely grateful for the spirit of that reply and to all noble Lords who have spoken in support. There is a genuine problem, which I outlined. It is useful to know that the Government are discussing this and coming up with some sort of a
2019-01-28 Offensive Weapons Bill
My Lords, of the two amendments in this group, both in my name, the first is a paving amendment to Amendment 18, in Clause 3, which has the heading, “Delivery of corrosive products to residential premises etc”. Clause 3 would carry on the same definition
2019-01-28 Offensive Weapons Bill
2018-12-12 Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2018
My Lords, I will say a few words, partly reflecting what the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, said. I spoke on this subject in her debate some time ago. We should be extremely grateful to the Law Commission for taking on this, in my opinion, very difficul
2018-03-23 Conscientious Objection (Medical Activities) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I spoke at Second Reading against this Bill, very much in support of the result of the judgment of the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Hale. From what she says towards the end of her judgment, we are not tied to the literal meaning of “hands o
2018-01-26 Conscientious Objection (Medical Activities) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I oppose this Bill, but I was grateful to have the article, which has been referred to, in the House magazine by the noble Baroness, Lady O’Loan, to provide some sort of background to how she got to this point, as well as the excellent Lords Li
2017-11-16 Brexit: Least Developed Countries
My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend Lord Sandwich for raising this debate and focusing our minds on this aspect of international development. For what it is worth, and as a fellow strong Brexit supporter, I hope that I may congratulate Penny
2017-03-06 Assisted Dying
My Lords, the message I derive from this debate is that, on this issue, the tide of history is continuing to flow one way. We have heard how things are changing. In this country, as we have heard today, we have used for a long time the uncontested figure
2016-12-14 Surrogacy
My Lords, we should be grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, for initiating this debate and taking the lead on this subject as she has done. As she said, the law relating to surrogacy is seriously out of date. My main message this evening is that t
2016-02-10 Cycling
My Lords, I am grateful to my fellow pedalling Peer and old friend the noble Lord, Lord Young. I think the noble Earl, Lord Caithness, will provide the headwind that we have missed so far in this debate. First, I declare my interest as a frequent cycli
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Register of Interests · 2 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 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

  • Royal Dutch Shell plc (oil and gas)
    registered 2017-04-24 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 3: Land and property

  • Flat in South Kensington, London SW7
    registered 2010-04-22 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history

1974-07-262025-03-31
Crossbench

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

1993-12-022005-05-07
Hybrid Instruments Committee (Lords)
2010-06-092015-03-30
Procedure and Privileges Committee

Contact

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APPGs (2026) · 4 active officership(s) · 1 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Iceland
Country Group
Officer 5 2025-01-01
British-Danish All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country Group
Secretary 4 2024-05-22
British-Finnish All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country Group
Secretary 4 2024-06-11
British-Swedish All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country Group
Secretary 4 2024-06-11
One row per active APPG. Funder names link out via the /appgs Top secretariat funders panel — click any funder there to open its full relationship graph. Officer matching is name-based against the parliament.uk register text and may miss titled / hyphenated variants.

Written parliamentary questions · 2026

No written questions tabled in 2026.

Bills sponsored & supported · 2026

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the 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)

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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