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The Lord Shipley OBE

Liberal Democrat Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Shipley's full title is The Lord Shipley OBE. His name is John Warren Shipley, 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.

Political donations made

Total donated (all years on record) £19,090
11 donations across 1 distinct recipient
Matched donor names: Lord John Shipley · Lord na Shipley · Lord na Shipley
Date Recipient Type EC Ref Amount
2017-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Northumberland Cash C0337677 £1,540
2016-12-31 Liberal Democrats · North East Cash C0262505 £1,600
2015-12-31 Liberal Democrats · Central Party Cash C0239659 £2,450
2015-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0210960 £1,600
2014-12-31 Liberal Democrats · Northumberland Cash C0146139 £1,700
2014-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0107367 £1,800
2013-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0093826 £1,800
2012-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0083777 £1,800
2011-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0052689 £1,600
2010-12-31 Liberal Democrats · Newcastle upon Tyne Cash C0027088 £600
2010-06-30 Liberal Democrats · Newcastle upon Tyne Cash C0026099 £2,600
Showing the 11 most recent donations on record. Source: Electoral Commission donations register (search.electoralcommission.org.uk). Match confidence: unique-surname.

Lords votes · 2026

162 divisions 41 Content(25.3%) 9 Not-Content(5.6%) 112 didn't vote(69.1%)
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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

2026-06-11 Welfare Reforms and Youth Unemployment
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Walker of Broxton. He has a huge amount of practical advice but, as he said, we cannot keep kicking the can down the road. Youth unemployment, he said, was a tragedy, and I agree with him. We have
2026-06-08 Reforming the Child Maintenance Service (Public Services Committee Report)
My Lords, I too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Morris of Yardley, for her leadership in what was an important and complex inquiry. I also thank her for what she said just now, which I found a forensic analysis of the operation of the Child Maintenance Se
2026-04-28 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, I want to thank the Minister for introducing this third round of ping-pong and for her willingness to listen to alternative points of view and effect numerous changes to the Bill. The Government have demonstrated that willingness to compromise
2026-04-27 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Leave out from “House” to the end and insert “do insist on its Amendments 36, 90 and 155, and do disagree with the Commons in their Amendments 155A to 155F and 155H.”
2026-04-27 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, there have been four very powerful speeches on the agent of change principle. I support the Motion in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering. If she decides to test the opinion of the House, she will have the support of thes
2026-04-23 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, I will speak to my Motion E1. It has been a very helpful debate. Indeed, each time we have debated this issue it has been very helpful. At the end of it, the issue is a simple one: are local people, who actually pay the bills, going to be tr
2026-04-23 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s statement a moment ago. We have debated this issue several times. I still believe that the case I have been making, with colleagues, remains the right one. I was interested in the fact that the Minister cited
2026-04-23 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Moved by Leave out from “House” to the end and insert “do insist on its Amendments 36, 90 and 155 and do disagree with the Commons in their Amendments 155A to 155F to the words so restored to the Bill.”
2026-04-23 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, my name has not been attached to either of these issues to date, but I give our support to both of them. They are both extremely important and I find myself convinced, having listened to the debate so far on both matters, that the case is suffi
2026-04-23 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, I shall add some comments on rural affairs, but first, I am grateful for the Government’s movement on the appointment processes for commissioners. At Second Reading, in Committee and on Report, I had a lot to say about commissioners, their appo
2026-04-15 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, I extend the thanks of these Benches to the Minister, all her staff and the Bill office. She was right to point to the amount of work that has gone into getting the Bill to Third Reading. I thank her for her engagement with the Bill; it is of m
2026-04-15 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, to be clear, Amendment 5 removes a reference to a clause and a schedule that were removed from the Bill on Report on Monday. It is a consequential amendment, which I beg to move formally.
2026-04-15 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, this is an important contribution, and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Norton of Louth, for proposing it. I support it, but I think the Government will want to do things more quickly than five years. What is being proposed is a review of the impac
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, for pointing out the possibility of the gap. I have to confess that I had not fully understood that there was likely to be a gap between the two. I have been told that this matter would be sat
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, I had not realised that the noble Lords, Lord Thurlow and Lord Cromwell, may well be leaving. As the noble Baroness, Lady Scott of Bybrook, has said, it has been a pleasure working with them over a long time on a range of planning and infrastru
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Will the Minister define more carefully the phrase “market value”? She said many times “market value” and “hope value” and that there could be negotiations about the value of a piece of land. I think that by “market value” she means current use value. Wi
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
I want to say one thing in response to this group and will try not to repeat anything that anybody has said. I am very puzzled by the Conservative Party’s stance on our first past the post electoral system. I think it has passed its use-by date. It is h
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lord, I am grateful to the Minister for her reply and for reminding the House that the Government have agreed that three councils— Sheffield, Bristol and the Isle of Wight—can stay with the committee system temporarily. However, I remind the House tha
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
I shall speak also to Amendment 212 in my name. I should say at the outset that, unless the Minister can give a very convincing response about the rights of a local authority and local people to adopt a committee system if they want to in their governanc
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Pinnock for making most of the points that I would have liked to make myself, so, given the need to move on, I will try to be brief. This Bill is about English devolution and, in practice, decentralisati
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, there were an awful lot of questions there for the Minister to answer. It would be better for the House if she responds to them, in particular to the nub of the question raised by the noble Lord, Lord Fuller, and the noble Viscount, Lord Trenc
2026-03-26 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister for the clarity of his explanation: that as of today, existing legislation holds sway in this respect. With that assurance, I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown verbatim from the search API; click any debate title for the full record.

Register of Interests · 1 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.

Nil

  • No registrable interests
    registered 2025-04-07
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

2010-07-14present
Liberal Democrat current

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

2017-07-202019-07-22
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Housing)
2015-06-012015-12-03
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Communities, Decentralisation and the Northern Powerhouse)

Committee memberships

2010-11-242015-03-30
Economic Affairs Committee
2019-07-022020-04-23
EU Internal Market Sub-Committee
2020-04-232021-03-31
EU Goods Sub-Committee
2021-01-282021-11-16
Youth Unemployment Committee Chair +£15,928/yr
2023-01-312026-01-27
Public Services Committee

Contact

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

APPGs (2026) · 2 active officership(s) · 8 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Deliberative Democracy
Subject Group
Vice Chair 18 2023-05-15
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sleep
Subject Group
Vice Chair 4 2025-06-21
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)

1 bills 1 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Local Authorities (Transport Powers) Bill [HL] Sponsored 2nd reading 2020-01-29
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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