The Rt Hon. the Lord Adonis
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Adonis's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Adonis. His name is Andrew Adonis, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
No Lords votes recorded for 2026.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2024-05-15
Renters (Reform) Bill
My Lords, I will address the fundamental change that the Bill makes, which is to Section 21 evictions. Although there is a difference between the two sides of the House on this issue in terms of what will happen, and Ministers have rightly been asked wha
2024-03-27
Building Safety
I want to press further on the business of insurance premiums. Did the Minister say that there was an agreement with the Association of British Insurers that, once remediation work had been completed, there would not be any net increase in insurance prem
2024-03-27
Building Safety
So that is for buildings of 11 metres that are social housing. There are two questions that arise from that. First, if it is in respect of social housing alone, what about non-social housing blocks? What is the equivalent figure there? The second, stark
2024-03-27
Building Safety
My Lords, did I hear the Minister say that, in respect of buildings higher than 11 metres, 87% had a remediation plan that would be delivered by 2028? Could she clarify what she said?
2024-03-27
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
My Lords, I follow the noble Lords, Lord Moylan and Lord Young, in pressing the Minister further on this vexed issue of ground rents. The history of the proposals on ground rents is of a kind of mirage on the horizon, which the Government are constantly
2023-11-30
Residential Leasehold for Flats
My Lords, the wider problem, of course, is that there are far too few new homes, either leasehold or freehold. Is the noble Baroness aware that France, with a population of about the same size as ours, now has 12 million more homes than Britain, and has
2023-11-23
Levelling Up: Project Delivery
My Lords, will the noble Baroness tell the House how much damage to levelling up is being done by the cancellation of HS2 to Manchester? Is she aware that, once HS2 is built to Birmingham but not to Manchester, it will take 40 minutes from Euston to Birm
2023-11-15
King’s Speech
My Lords, it is a pleasure to welcome the noble Lord, Lord Roberts, to the House, and I congratulate him on his brilliant maiden speech. As a fan of all his biographies, the one I most enjoyed and that is most relevant to this House is his magisterial bi
My Lords, I follow on immediately from the brilliant speech by the noble Lord, Lord Young, on the subject of housing.
The single biggest failure of local governance—as opposed to local government; and therefore incorporating the role of central govern
2023-05-24
G7 Summit
My Lords, I reinforce the cross-party unity on the issue of Ukraine. Might this be an appropriate time to congratulate all our fellow citizens who have been giving personal support to Ukrainians by hosting them in their own homes? This is now going into
2023-01-19
Ukraine: Update
My Lords, the Ukrainian Prime Minister has said that the Ukrainians need and could deploy more than 100 tanks. We are providing 14 Challenger 2 tanks. The Minister said that there are 227. Could we not do rather better than 14?
2022-12-05
Energy Security
My Lords, how many new nuclear reactors do the Government think they might be able to get operational in the next 20 years with their new planning framework and Great British Nuclear? Will the Minister also indicate, to whet our appetite, if the Governme
2022-12-02
School (Reform of Pupil Selection) Bill [HL]
The noble Lord is making his case, but the school in which it was piloted in Liverpool, the Belvedere School, has since joined the state system as a state academy and does not have selective admissions or fees any more. Might there not be a lesson from t
2022-11-22
Newport Wafer Fab
Are there any other national security investigations of this kind under way?
2022-11-17
G20
My Lords, the noble Lord did not answer my noble friend Lady Smith’s question directly as to whether a trade deal with the United States was raised in the meeting with President Biden. Will he confirm that it was not raised?
On the Ukraine issue, wher
2022-11-14
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
My Lords, if I followed the earlier debate correctly, we have now had six months without a free speech director. I believe that that is correct, based on my noble friend’s earlier amendment probing when the appointment was going to be made. If it were so
2022-09-06
Leasehold Reform
The issue of ground rents that the noble Baroness has just raised is fundamentally different from the issue of social rents. As the Government themselves recognise, it is totally unjustified to be charging exorbitant ground rents, for which landlords off
2022-06-13
Schools Bill [HL]
Since the noble Lord has raised the issue of Clause 3 standing part of the Bill, I wonder whether I might add a few remarks in the form of a question to the Minister. Unusually, the debates on this Bill in your Lordships’ House appear to be attracting th
2022-06-08
Schools Bill [HL]
My Lords, I intervene briefly. In listening to and reflecting on this debate, the bad news is that this Bill gives excessive powers to the Secretary of State. There seems to be consensus on that across the Committee. The good news is that there is no ind
2022-05-19
Levelling-up Report
My Lords, as a contribution to levelling up, does the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, have any proposals to relocate his department and the noble Lord the Minister to Stoke? Does he not think that this might be a constructive suggestion and, in particu
2022-03-24
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]
My Lords, as the Minister who gave the authorisation to Crossrail, I can say that it was never the intention that the Central line would close; there would be pandemonium in London if it did. The whole purpose of Crossrail was to supplement and improve t
2022-03-21
Elections Bill
My Lords, I was not absolutely clear from what the Minister said whether the phrase “undue spiritual pressure” exists in existing legislation. He may not have the answer to that, but could he write to us about it?
2022-03-21
Elections Bill
I will elaborate on the noble Lord’s point. There is a difference here, in the ordinary reading of the words, between pressure and intimidation. I took the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, to be referring to intimidation, which is clearly something that we want
2022-03-21
Elections Bill
My Lords, the underlying issue here clearly might lead to concern in certain circumstances, but the point I took the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, to be making is that this is a very new category of injury. I have never seen in legislation before the concept
2022-03-21
Elections Bill
My Lords, the figures that the noble Lord gave will of course be of concern to the Committee and to any reasonable person following our proceedings. I have just been reading the Ballot Act 1872, Section 2 of which makes it clear that the vote shall be se
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Register of Interests · 5 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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Non-executive Director, Heylo Housing Group Ltd
registered 2022-01-24 · amended 2025-04-05
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Contributing Editor, Prospect Magazine
registered 2020-12-03 · amended 2025-04-05
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Royalties are received as author of various books
registered 2013-02-28 · amended 2025-04-05
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Occasional speaker, JLA Speaker Bureau (specialist agency for keynote and after-dinner speakers)
registered 2012-06-26 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Sharetego (travel company)
registered 2019-06-28 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2017-06-21 → present
Labour
current
2015-10-05 → 2017-06-20
Non-affiliated
2005-05-16 → 2015-10-04
Labour
Government posts
2009-06-06 → 2010-05-06
Secretary of State for Transport
2008-10-05 → 2009-06-05
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
2007-06-29 → 2008-10-05
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Children, Schools and Families) (Schools and Learners)
2005-05-10 → 2007-06-28
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education and Skills) (Schools)
Opposition posts
2011-10-07 → 2015-09-18
Shadow Spokesperson (Treasury)
Committee memberships
2023-01-31 → 2025-01-30
European Affairs Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
adonisa@parliament.uk
020 7219 3000 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 3 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 3 group(s) historically — those rotated off in later snapshots.
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.
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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)
5 bills
4 as lead sponsor
1 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representation of the People (Young People’s Enfranchisement) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2021-06-10 | |
| Voting Age (Reduction) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2017-07-05 | |
| Education and Skills Act 2008 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2007-11-28 | |
| Children and Young Persons Act 2008 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2007-11-14 | |
| Further Education and Training Act 2007 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2006-11-20 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.