The Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames KC
Liberal Democrat
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames's full title is The Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames KC. His name is Jonathan Clive Marks, 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)
£7,120
4 donations across 1 distinct recipient
Matched donor name:
Lord Jonathan Marks Of Henley-On-Thames
| Date | Recipient | Type | EC Ref | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-30 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0337744 | £1,800 |
| 2016-12-31 | Liberal Democrats · Central Party | Cash | C0262506 | £1,720 |
| 2016-09-30 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0252168 | £1,800 |
| 2015-09-30 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0210940 | £1,800 |
Showing the 4 most recent donations on record.
Source: Electoral Commission donations register
(search.electoralcommission.org.uk).
Match confidence: place-suffix.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
88 Content(54.3%)
16 Not-Content(9.9%)
58 didn't vote(35.8%)
2026-04-23
Not-Content
152–207
Not-Content
2026-03-26
Not-Content
115–197
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Content
193–143
Content
2026-03-05
Content
194–140
Content
2026-03-05
Content
198–139
Content
2026-03-05
Content
208–142
Content
2026-03-05
Content
214–142
Content
2026-01-05
Not-Content
168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Content
210–131
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
2026-05-20
Youth Justice
My Lords, the success in reducing the number of children in custody has been a great achievement, and we should still be concentrating on further bringing down that number. That success has been largely achieved through the work of the Youth Justice Boar
2026-05-18
King’s Speech
My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield, for his brilliant valedictory speech. He will be greatly missed, both for the warmth of his company and for his combination of erudition and deep understanding, in contributions not onl
2026-04-27
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, despite everything that the Minister has said on proscription of the IRGC, we are now in something of an Alice in Wonderland world. The Prime Minister has told the media in recent days that the Government propose to introduce further legislatio
2026-04-23
Victims and Courts Bill
My Lords, I repeat and echo all the thanks that my noble friend Lady Brinton has just made to the Minister, her officials and all the others who have helped with this Bill. I was going to say this at the end, but I shall say it now—I am also enormously g
2026-04-22
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, regarding Motion A1, moved so ably by my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones, on disincentivising fining for profit and, importantly, ensuring that contractors found to be profiteering from fixed penalty notices may risk losing their contracts, I h
2026-04-16
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I hope I will be permitted to speak briefly. I have followed the arguments on all these matters throughout these proceedings.
2026-04-16
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, on that basis, unless I am stopped, I will speak briefly.
On the first Motion I was going to address, that of the noble Lord, Lord Walney, we have a great deal of sympathy for his proposal. Indeed, we would go so far as to say that it seems
2026-04-16
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I entirely accept the point made by the noble Lord on the Woolsack about the inadequacy of an apology for late arrival in the Chamber, and I am bound to say it is not something I have ever had to make before, but I was late into the Chamber tod
2026-04-15
Victims and Courts Bill
My Lords, I turn first to the issue of private prosecutions, which is the contentious area in this group. I say at the outset that we on these Benches agree with Motion D1, and the Amendments 4B and 4C in lieu, proposed by the noble and learned Lord, Lor
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I expressed some doubt in Committee about the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Foster. I recognised the strength of feeling around the House in favour of her position, forcefully expressed, then as now, by the noble Lord, Lord Weir, and
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I will deal with this group as briefly as I can. I too support the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, supported by the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, and the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss. The idea that you can bundle
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
I have one question for the Minister. The statutory test that is said to have been applied in the House of Commons is the statutory test of proscription. If Members differed on the result of the statutory test in respect of the three different organisati
2026-03-11
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I will answer very briefly, and perhaps on behalf of the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, as well, because I suspect that what we are saying is roughly the same. I am entirely with the noble Baroness on the question of juries, and on the question of n
2026-03-11
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, Amendment 385 is the face covering amendment, in which I note that motorcyclists strangely are not covered but scooter riders are. I am not sure I see the need for a new general stand-alone police power to require someone to stop, and I see rea
2026-03-10
Victims and Courts Bill
My Lords, I will express support for Amendment 20 moved by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Keen; my noble friend Lady Brinton will address the other amendments in the group. Amendment 20, to remove Clause 12 from the Bill, may be technical but it is imp
2026-03-10
Victims and Courts Bill
2026-03-10
Victims and Courts Bill
My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for her comprehensive response on the question of a review. I know that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, was grateful for the meeting. Our continuing frustration is about the timescale. The noble Lord
2026-03-10
Victims and Courts Bill
My Lords, noble Lords will remember an amendment in these terms from the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, who moved it in Committee. He is the lead tabler of this amendment on Report but cannot be here today, so he has asked me and its other co-sign
2026-03-09
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Faulks, for the elegant way that he introduced this amendment and the noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe, for explaining his perspective on it. In effect, it was a police perspective, given that the police find it difficul
2026-03-09
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, said that the fact that this access is to be authorised by regulations is a saving grace. We know full well that in this House, fatal Motions virtually never succeed. The Conservative Front Bench may take some comf
2026-03-09
Crime and Policing Bill
Before the noble Baroness sits down, can I ask her gently to explain why she does not accept that the margin of appreciation permits the Government to do things outside what we would want to see? I know that she and I both are great advocates for the ECH
2026-03-09
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, for all the reasons given by the noble Lord, Lord Katz, protests outside officeholders’ homes are in a special category. These amendments are plainly directed at harassing or intimidatory behaviour towards public officeholders, and they affect
2026-03-09
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I will be very brief in explaining why I do not propose to withdraw my amendment. First, our amendment would introduce a dynamic right, with a duty on local authorities and public authorities to respect, protect and facilitate the right to prot
2026-03-09
Crime and Policing Bill
I am sorry to keep pestering the Minister, but the difficulty is that there is absolutely no reason why the criminality has to be connected with the attitudes of those Iranians who are frightened. The criminality simply has to be connected with the prote
2026-03-09
Crime and Policing Bill
The answer to that is that the cumulative nature of the disruption is not what causes the oppression to worshippers at synagogues or mosques or anywhere else. We have accepted, for the purpose of Report, restrictions on the right to protest near places o
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Register of Interests · 3 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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Practising barrister (King's Counsel) and Arbitrator (commercial)
registered 2011-02-02 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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House in Warwickshire from which rental income is received
registered 2021-05-11 · amended 2025-05-20
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Holiday home in Greece from which rental income is received for part of the year
registered 2011-02-02 · amended 2025-04-05
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly.
Read the full
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for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.
Party history
2011-01-11 → present
Liberal Democrat
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
2015-06-01 → present
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Justice)
Committee memberships
2011-03-31 → 2011-10-12
Draft Defamation Bill (Joint Committee)
2012-07-02 → 2015-03-30
Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
2024-01-24 → 2024-03-27
Arbitration Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
1 bills
1 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohabitation Rights Bill [HL] | Lead | 2nd reading | 2026-06-05 |
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)
7 bills
7 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohabitation Rights Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2026-06-05 | |
| Cohabitation Rights Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2020-02-06 | |
| Cohabitation Rights Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2017-07-05 | |
| Cohabitation Rights Bill [HL] | — | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2016-06-13 |
| Cohabitation Rights Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2015-06-04 | |
| Cohabitation Rights Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2014-06-09 | |
| Cohabitation Rights Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2013-10-09 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.