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Official portrait of The Rt Hon. the Lord Taylor of Holbeach CBE

The Rt Hon. the Lord Taylor of Holbeach CBE

Conservative Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Taylor of Holbeach's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Taylor of Holbeach CBE. His name is John Derek Taylor, 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.

Party history

2006-05-31present
Conservative current

Government posts

2014-08-062019-07-26
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
2012-09-062014-08-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
2011-09-162012-09-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
2010-05-112011-09-15
Lords Spokesperson (Cabinet Office)

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2014-10-142016-08-31
Administration and Works Committee (Lords)
2014-10-142019-10-03
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2014-10-142019-10-03
Committee of Selection (Lords)
2014-10-142019-05-09
Committee for Privileges and Conduct (Lords)
2015-06-102019-10-03
Sub-Committee on Leave of Absence
2016-09-012019-10-03
Services Committee
2022-01-192025-01-30
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2024-10-31present
Ecclesiastical Committee
2023-04-202024-05-30
Ecclesiastical Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
taylorjl@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 9 active officership(s) · 5 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Gardening and Horticulture Group
Subject Group
Vice Chair Whitehouse Communications Ltd 4 2027-01-11
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fruit, Vegetable and Horticulture
Subject Group
Officer 8 2022-09-17
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fruit, Vegetables and Horticulture
Subject Group
Officer 9 2024-09-17
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future of UK Freight and Logistics
Subject Group
Vice Chair 13 2023-09-24
All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Mayflower 400
Subject Group
Secretary 10 2021-06-05
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Emerging Drugs and Online Behavioral Trends
Subject Group
Co-Chair University of Hertfordshire (Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences Department) 4 2026-08-28
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freight and Logistics
Subject Group
Vice Chair Pagefield Communications 4 2027-01-10
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Long Covid
Subject Group
Officer 4 2027-04-09
Netherlands All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country, Area or Region Group
Vice Chair 4 2027-02-28
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)

3 bills 1 as lead sponsor 2 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 Supported Royal Assent 2014-07-14
Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act Supported Royal Assent 2013-05-09
Crime and Courts Act Sponsored Royal Assent 2012-05-10
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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