The Rt Hon. the Lord Blunkett
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Blunkett's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Blunkett. His name is David Blunkett, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£7,049
19 days attended across 1 published month
Overnight / accommodation
£945
Travel claims
£532
Attendance £532
Postage / secretarial / family travel
£17
Total claimed
£8,543
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Political donations made
Total donated (all years on record)
£15,897
5 donations across 1 distinct recipient
Matched donor names:
Lord David Blunkett · Lord David Blunkett
| Date | Recipient | Type | EC Ref | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-21 | Labour Party · Central Party | Cash | C0596596 | £10,000 |
| 2024-05-30 | Labour Party · Newark CLP | Cash | C0596597 | £1,000 |
| 2024-01-29 | Labour Party · Sheffield Hallam CLP | Cash | C0596598 | £1,000 |
| 2016-06-01 | Labour Party · Sheffield Local Campaign Forum | Cash | C0246759 | £2,598 |
| 2015-12-01 | Labour Party · Sheffield Local Campaign Forum | Cash | C0240178 | £1,299 |
Showing the 5 most recent donations on record.
Source: Electoral Commission donations register
(search.electoralcommission.org.uk).
Match confidence: unique-surname.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
3 Content(1.6%)
105 Not-Content(55.6%)
81 didn't vote(42.9%)
2026-07-22
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69–332
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2026-03-25
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2026-03-12
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Source: lordsvotes-api.parliament.uk. "Result" shows the headline
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
My Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lady Taylor on her skill, good humour and patience, not least with me, and I thank our fellow committee members. I actually found myself agreeing with the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, who will speak after me
2026-09-16
Procedure and Privileges
My Lords, this is an important short debate, but I hope that all those who have contributed will be with us at 10 pm tonight.
2026-09-11
Local Plans (Burial Space) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Mohammed. I can call him my noble friend because, until last May, he was my local councillor. I hope he achieves as much in this place as he did in mine.
2026-09-01
Public Office (Accountability) Bill
It is my privilege to follow the noble Baroness and to commend the part she played as Home Secretary and Prime Minister in listening to the families. I hope the House will forgive me for reiterating words that have already been used this afternoon, but I
2026-07-16
Imprisonment for Public Protection
I commend my noble friend for the enormous amount of work, time and energy that he is putting into this area. I know it is greatly appreciated by those who have campaigned for years. Will he take a look at the slowing of the work on progression plans and
2026-07-08
Police Leadership Commission Report
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his generous response. With the House’s indulgence, I want to say what a great pleasure it has been, and how much I appreciate the tremendous collaboration with the noble Lord, Lord Herbert of South Downs, the 10 oth
2026-07-06
Imprisonment for Public Protection Prisoners
My Lords, I commend my noble friend on the time and commitment he has given to talking to organisations on behalf of prisoners and their families. Does he agree, however, that there appears to be an increasing logjam of those on recall who are held in pr
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull, and to thank him for initiating this short debate. I agree entirely with his opening remarks in relation to what has happened in Scotland. Even my guide dog would have been able to see t
2026-06-24
Hares: Close Season
My Lords, it may be a little obscure to look at legislation from 1892, but from my experience all those years ago in government, there were possibilities of getting the Civil Service to be really creative in looking at how subsidiary legislation could be
2026-06-17
Integrated Care Boards: Budgets
My Lords, I hope my noble friend will forgive me for concentrating on the South Yorkshire ICB because of the considerable difficulties that have been experienced locally. I know that she cannot give me a clear answer this afternoon, but given that the pr
2026-06-04
Young People and Work
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for that excellent response. As she knows, I have been obsessed with this issue for many years, and I strongly welcome the fact that the Secretary of State asked Alan Milburn to undertake this review. Does she agree that
2026-05-21
Youth Offending
I know my noble friend will want to do the right thing, but is it not a fact that the only part of the criminal justice system that has worked really effectively over the last quarter of a century is youth justice, and that the ability to retain and prom
I think it was near the end.
My Lords, I shall be very brief for the reasons that we all know about—the number of votes that have taken place in the House this afternoon.
I offer my support to the movers of the amendments that have just been spoken to, first on accessibility. It
2026-02-27
Arrangement of Business
My Lords, I am sure the Chief Whip and my noble and learned friend Lord Falcolner would agree that it is impossible to improve a Bill if you do not get to a point where you can pass it.
I am putting the proposition that Clause 59 and Schedule 27 should not stand part of the Bill. I was very grateful to my noble friend and her colleagues last September for the modest amendments they moved to what was then Clause 57 in the Commons —Amendm
I thank my noble friend for that response. I shall of course not press my amendment at this stage. I cannot promise the Liberal Democrats what I shall do when we reach Report, not least since—as I said in a meeting a couple of days ago—I am a critical fr
2026-02-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I apologise to the House and to the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Harries, for not being here at the beginning of this group. I have a member of staff who lives a normal life, and I quite rightly agreed that she should go home. As a conse
2026-01-30
Arrangement of Business
Before my noble friend responds, I just want to say that when I have not been able to sit in the House in Committee, I have followed the debate. Does my noble friend agree that it would be really helpful if people debated the Bill that is before us and n
2026-01-27
Asylum and Immigration: Children
Would my noble friend accept that politics is given a very bad name when people condemn Britain and say it is broken, when they were Ministers in Government—in fact, were Home Secretaries —and were responsible for breaking it?
2026-01-16
Rare Cancers Bill
My apologies.
2026-01-16
Rare Cancers Bill
I apologise to the House for my premature and ill-timed intervention earlier. After 10 years in the House, I need to go back and sharply revise my understanding of procedure. I am grateful to the House for the opportunity of being able to intervene.
I
2026-01-16
Rare Cancers Bill
My Lords, may I take one minute of the House’s time? I commend what was just said by the noble Lord, whom I was pleased to work with many years ago, when he was the Minister. I am very pleased that he recalled the last contribution that my long-standing
2026-01-15
Exercise Pegasus 2025
I do not want to put my noble friend the Minister on the spot, but will she take cognisance of what has happened with the noble and learned Baroness’s interim report in relation to the use of statistics and the suggestion that a week-earlier lockdown wou
2025-12-03
Sentencing Bill
Before my noble friend on the Front Bench replies, could he also reflect that this took place on a Court of Appeal ruling two years after the implementation of the Act in 2005? That judgment then determined the hearings and therefore the sentences grante
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Register of Interests · 19 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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Speaking engagement, 9 June 2026, Duolingo, London
registered 2026-06-19
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Speaking engagement, 28 April 2026, The Public Service Consultants Ltd, London
registered 2026-04-29
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Speaking engagement, 3 December 2025, the Post Office, London
registered 2025-12-04
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Speaking engagement, 20 November 2025, Schools & Academies Show, Birmingham
registered 2025-11-26
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Speaking engagement, 20 November 2025, Management Consultancies Association Council, London
registered 2025-11-26
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Adviser on regulation, Indepen (construction, energy supply and distribution consultancy) (income paid to HADAW)
registered 2025-10-01 · amended 2025-10-06
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Senior Home Affairs Advisor and Co Chair of the CEG Fellowship programme for the Counter Extremism Group (CEG)
registered 2025-05-19
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Skills Adviser, Lower Thames Crossing, National Highways (income paid to HADAW)
registered 2024-05-13 · amended 2025-04-07
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Payments received for articles written for News UK
registered 2024-05-13 · amended 2025-04-05
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Adviser on public policy and internal understanding of government and policy development to DLA Piper LLP (law firm)
registered 2024-03-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chair, Advisory Board, FutureLearn (digital education platform) (interest ceased 31 May 2026)
registered 2022-12-20 · amended 2026-06-01
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Chair, Heathrow Sustainable Economic Growth Taskforce (HSEG Taskforce) (income paid to HADAW)
registered 2020-08-02 · amended 2025-04-07
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Regular columnist, The Yorkshire Post
registered 2018-04-04 · amended 2025-04-05
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Payments made for articles written for Associated Newspapers (payments made direct to member)
registered 2015-12-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chairman, EasyJet Assisted Travel Advisory Board (improving support for persons requiring special assistance for air travel) (income paid to HADAW)
registered 2015-10-13 · amended 2025-04-07
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Holder of a personal Chair of Politics in Practice, The Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield (income paid direct to member) (interest ceased 31 March 2026)
registered 2015-10-13 · amended 2026-04-01
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Director and Chairman of the Board, University of Law Limited (subsidiary and affiliated institution of Global University Systems and Interactive Pro Limited) (income paid to HADAW)
registered 2015-10-13 · amended 2025-05-01
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Director, HADAW Productions and Investments Limited (publishing, broadcast and print media; advisory services; skills, employment and productivity advice; cyber and internet security advice; income from some of the sources listed below is paid to HADAW)
registered 2015-10-13 · amended 2025-04-07
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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HADAW Productions and Investments Limited (see category 1)
registered 2015-10-13 · amended 2025-04-05
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly.
Read the full
Lords Code of Conduct
for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.
Party history
1987-06-11 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2005-05-06 → 2005-11-02
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
2001-06-08 → 2004-12-15
Home Secretary
1997-05-01 → 2001-06-08
Secretary of State for Education and Employment
Opposition posts
1995-07-05 → 1997-05-01
Shadow Secretary of State (Education and Employment)
1994-07-22 → 1995-07-05
Shadow Secretary of State for Education
1992-07-01 → 1994-07-22
Shadow Secretary of State for Health
1988-06-01 → 1992-07-01
Opposition Spokesperson (Local Government and Poll Tax)
Committee memberships
2009-07-13 → 2010-05-06
Committee on Issue of Privilege (Police Searches on Parliamentary Estate)
2017-06-29 → 2018-03-28
Citizenship and Civic Engagement Committee
2021-04-14 → 2024-01-31
Justice and Home Affairs Committee
2025-12-18 → present
Retirement and Participation Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
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APPGs (2026) · 3 active officership(s) · 10 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sixth Form Education
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2026-08-30 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Supported Internships and Disability Employment
Subject Group
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Officer | DFN Project SEARCH | 7 | 2024-11-18 |
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United Arab Emirates All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country, Area or Region Group
|
Vice Chair | UAE Embassy · United Arab Emirates Embassy | 4 | 2026-09-07 |
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
Showing
26
of 26 tabled
24 answered(92.3%)
6
departments
2026-09-16
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Democratic Engagement Fund
Answered
2026-09-14
Department of Health and Social Care
Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy
Answered
2026-09-09
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Democratic Engagement Fund
Answered
2026-02-04
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Property Management Companies: Fees and Charges
Answered
2026-02-03
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman: Appeals
Answered
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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)
1 bills
1 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extension of Franchise (House of Lords) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2016-06-08 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.