The Lord Allan of Hallam
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Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Allan of Hallam's full title is The Lord Allan of Hallam. His name is Richard Beecroft Allan, 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.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
7 Content(4.3%)
1 Not-Content(0.6%)
154 didn't vote(95.1%)
2026-04-13
Not-Content
178–231
Not-Content
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
2024-05-23
National Immunisation Programme
My Lords, while the politicians may be distracted over the next few months, there is nothing to stop technical teams continuing to work on important tools such as easy online access to immunisation records for adults and children. Before he shuts his off
2024-05-20
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
My Lords, the Getting It Right First Time review that the Minister mentioned recommended increased access to endoscopy services over six and seven days and with extended hours. These are especially important for people trying to manage a bowel condition
2024-05-16
Whooping Cough
My Lords, Education Ministers have been very active recently telling parents to send their children to school with coughs and colds, yet the NHS tells us that the early signs of whooping cough are very similar to those of a cold, and we advise people wit
2024-05-16
Folic Acid Fortification
My Lords, it is good to hear that the legislation will be coming forward in July. I am sure that it will have a fair wind, given the cross-party and cross-nation support. One of the questions that the Government consulted on was the implementation period
2024-05-15
Health Data: Research and Analysis
My Lords, the Government deserve credit for supporting the development of secure data environments such as OpenSAFELY, but a lot of health research data is still moving around using older and less secure environments, and those who are seeking unauthoris
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Pitkeathley, and all the members of the committee for a very useful report on the challenges of integrating primary and community care, and for some potential solutions. I am grateful particularly for an
2024-05-08
Immunisation: Children
My Lords, I know the Minister agrees that it would help if parents had online access to their children’s vaccination records and, with his customary efficiency, he kindly wrote to me following a previous exchange on the digital red book to say that paren
2024-05-07
International Health Regulations: Amendments
My Lords, objective 2 of the UK’s Global Health Framework says that the Government will:
“Reform global health architecture, including through a strengthened World Health Organization, driving more coherent governance and collaboration across the inte
My Lords, I am grateful to the committee for looking into this service, which is important to so many people, as we have heard, and involves significant if not fully understood public expenditure. I think we have it to the nearest penny on national insur
2024-05-02
NHS England: Ovarian Cancer
My Lords, I recently looked at the prostate-specific antigen screening programme advice, which was very good and met the requirements that the Minister has set out. However, I got there only because of a Peer-to-Peer networking episode, where I bumped in
2024-05-01
Immigration Update
My Lords, I cannot resist a buy one, get one free offer, so I want to come back in on the health and social care workforce, as we have this opportunity, and pick up one of the points that the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, made around transparency and the im
2024-05-01
Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules
My Lords, my noble friend Lord Oates has done us all a favour by ensuring that we are able to have this debate today—a debate which, as he has pointed out to us, involves some of the most vulnerable people coming to this country in order to fill a need t
2024-04-24
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
My Lords, I want briefly to contribute to this debate, which I think is somewhat less contentious than the previous group of amendments. As somebody, again, who was working on the Online Safety Act all the way through, I really just pay tribute to the te
2024-04-23
Care Worker Visa Regime
My Lords, there are accounts of care workers coming to the UK being exploited, as either the jobs do not exist as advertised or they find themselves in hock to middlemen. Does the Minister agree that people who come here and apply for these visas in good
2024-04-23
Covid-19 Vaccination: Coronary Disease
My Lords, there is one substance that we put into our bodies during Covid that has been clearly linked to thousands of excess deaths: alcohol. Are the Government carrying out studies into what happened with alcohol consumption during the pandemic, who wa
2024-04-22
Medical Student Places
My Lords, I associate these Benches with the condolences to the families of the noble Baronesses, Lady Gardner and Lady Massey. The Government, in their response to a Guardian article that queried the student numbers, said that numbers will be increasing
2024-04-18
NHS: Long-term Sustainability
My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for this opportunity and for the reminder of the time of the coalition Government, which I think we might accurately describe as the last sustained period of strong and stable government that we
2024-04-17
Cass Review
My Lords, if I could add to the Minister’s correspondence list, this is really following up the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay. Dr Cass rightly highlights that we need data about all the young people who present to the services—what servic
2024-04-16
Immunisation: RSV
My Lords, will the Minister commit to making the vaccination records for new programmes such as RSV available through the NHS app from the outset? I ask this as a parent who has just had to verify his teenage children’s MMR status by hunting down the red
2024-04-16
Midwives: Bullying
My Lords, workplace bullying is particularly toxic where managers are involved. This is where non-executive members of the NHS trust boards may come into their own if complaints involve executive members. What is being done to help non-executive members
2024-04-15
Pandemic Preparedness
My Lords, procurement during the pandemic has left a bitter taste in the country. While many good citizens stepped up in the public interest, there are legitimate concerns that others were profiteering at that difficult time. Can the Minister give a firm
2024-03-27
Stroke Treatment
My Lords, to follow up on the issue of screening, atrial fibrillation is a well-known risk factor for stroke, but fortunately can now be checked for with some very cheap devices that connect to smartphones. What progress is being made on AF checks as par
2024-03-19
Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lady Barker for setting out so clearly the challenges and some of the potential solutions. The noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, has just reinforced why this issue is so pressing and urgent, as we see levels an
2024-03-13
Covid-19: Lockdown Costs and Benefits
My Lords, I am sure the Minister would agree that policy-making is best done based on hard evidence rather than on opinion and speculation. In that respect, can she say whether the Government will publish a review independent of the inquiry of all the ma
My Lords, I echo the condolences to Lord McAvoy’s family from these Benches. I always enjoyed working with him in another place.
On the Question before us, the Government have rightly been bigging up the digital revolution in the NHS, but many of the
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Register of Interests · 8 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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Director, Miqst Ltd (artificial intelligence services for businesses)
registered 2026-04-28
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Non-executive Chair, Worldmodeldata Ltd (data products supporting training of artificial intelligence world models)
registered 2025-11-18 · amended 2025-11-25
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Non-executive Director, Ofcom (UK's communications regulator)
registered 2025-05-07
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Director, RTFM Club Ltd (member's own company, providing the member’s services; income from the member's employment is paid to this company)
registered 2024-08-21 · amended 2025-04-07
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Self-employed information and communications technology specialist
registered 2020-05-29 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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RTFM Club Ltd (member's own company, providing the member’s services; income from the member's employment is paid to this company)
registered 2024-08-21 · amended 2025-04-07
Category 3: Land and property
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Residential property in Sheffield
registered 2019-06-17 · amended 2025-04-05
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Property in London W10 from which rental income is received
registered 2019-06-17 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2024-10-02 → present
Non-affiliated
current
1997-05-01 → 2024-10-01
Liberal Democrat
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
2023-01-01 → 2024-06-30
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Health)
2001-06-07 → 2005-05-05
Shadow Spokesperson (Trade and Industry)
1999-01-01 → 2001-06-07
Shadow Spokesperson (Education and Employment)
1997-05-01 → 1999-01-01
Shadow Spokesperson (Home Office)
Committee memberships
1997-07-16 → 1998-06-08
Home Affairs Committee
1997-11-14 → 2001-05-11
Finance and Services Committee
1998-04-29 → 2005-07-11
Liaison Committee (Commons)
2000-11-13 → 2001-05-11
Education & Employment
2003-07-10 → 2003-11-28
Draft Civil Contingencies Bill (Joint Committee)
2003-11-17 → 2005-04-11
Public Accounts Committee
2022-01-19 → 2022-10-31
Fraud Act 2006 and Digital Fraud Committee
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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