The Lord Mackinlay of Richborough
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
M
Lord Mackinlay of Richborough's full title is The Lord Mackinlay of Richborough. His name is Craig Mackinlay, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£5,194
14 days attended across 1 published month
Travel claims
£724
Attendance £724
Total claimed
£5,918
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
54 Content(28.6%)
1 Not-Content(0.5%)
134 didn't vote(70.9%)
2026-07-21
Content
173–234
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Content
193–143
Content
2026-03-05
Content
194–140
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2026-03-05
Content
198–139
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2026-03-05
Content
208–142
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2026-03-05
Content
214–142
Content
2026-01-12
Content
201–169
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2026-01-05
Content
194–130
Content
2026-01-05
Content
168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
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210–131
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2026-01-05
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132–124
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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
2026-09-14
Representation of the People Bill
My Lords, I had not anticipated to be on my feet quite so quickly. I have been watching proceedings for the period that I have not been in the Chamber this afternoon, and there seems to have been a lot of—I would not quite call it hysteria—grave concern
2026-09-14
Hospitality Industry: VAT
My Lords, the Minister uses a European example: most countries abroad seem to have a holiday tax, so it must be a good idea here. I know this Government love most things EU-related, but many EU countries have a lower rate of VAT on hospitality, for a ver
2026-09-08
Data Security: UK Citizens
My Lords, I have long been concerned about the internet of things, especially the internet of things that we tend to buy on eBay or Temu or one of those predominantly Chinese importation agents. How can we be sure that there are not data flows going on,
2026-09-07
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I have only put forward one amendment to this entire Bill, Amendment 70. I spoke at great length in Committee and highlighted then, as I will highlight now, that I am a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser, and have conducted probate
2026-09-07
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I will say a couple of words on Amendment 10 in the name of my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe, which I fully support. The phrase:
“The Treasury may by regulations make such provision as they consider appropriate in connection with providing
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
I listened carefully to what the Minister had to say; I thought he was on a good track for a while but he finished rather poorly.
I am grateful for the very sensible words from my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe, who understood the situation completel
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
Facilitating means merely that any financial institution registered with the FCA in this country would have to use the IHT423 procedure—it could not say no. At the moment, we have a framework that is purely discretionary. In my professional life every si
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, as noble Lords have noticed, this is a very skinny list of amendments; it is a group of one. I will put on record my registered interests: I am a chartered accountant and a chartered tax adviser, and, back in the day, I did the appropriate exa
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-07-01
Farming Road Map and Profitability Review
My Lords, I pay tribute to the Minister for so adroitly finding her way through the document, but are we not rather discussing it in a vacuum? She said clearly that she did not want to stray into issues relating to the EU reset, but is it not the fact th
2026-06-24
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I add some comments to what the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, has said and what he is trying to achieve. I put on record my interests in the register as a chartered accounts and chartered tax adviser—I am very well versed in the burdens, I
2026-06-11
Sustainable Drainage Systems
My Lords, when I was young, some time ago, it was more commonplace that councils cleared out the storm drains on a cyclical maintenance basis. Many councils on discretionary cost-cutting no longer do that; some exemplary councils do. Can the Minister ens
2026-06-04
UK Electricity Prices
My Lords, I put on record my registered interest as the director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Let me restate what Labour’s manifesto said. It promised to get power bills down by £300. The latest price cap is £294 higher than in those lofty
2026-06-01
Middle East: Economic Response
My Lords, it must be noted that the Government are enjoying and using many of the Brexit dividends that were given to them: that is zero tariffs on anything they please; that is using subsidy—not a mechanism I particularly promote—in various places, nota
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, I start with compliments and thanks to all those who have given their maiden speeches today; I look forward to hearing much more from them. I put on record my registered interest that I am the director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
2026-04-28
RMT Strikes: Impact on Businesses
My Lords, last week I was not singing the praises of the RMT when I was walking with two prosthetic legs between here and Victoria, and I probably speak for many disabled people who rely on the Tube to get to work. But I speak in this place for the small
2026-03-18
Digital ID: Public Consultation
My Lords, as ever with many big government ideas, there is a solution that is yet to find a problem.
I am yet to hear a ministerial Statement on the very serious data events that happened at Companies House over the last week. I have not heard a State
This is an important point in many ways. The Minister will be aware that within an owner-managed director business, the director has absolute discretion about how he or she may take their overall package, whether that is dividends, usual PAYE employment
My Lords, I am pleased to support my noble friend Lord Fuller, who has similarly reciprocated his enthusiasm for one of my amendments. Quite a few things come to mind in the amendment from my noble friend. One is the normality across other parts of the t
My Lords—
My Lords, I declare my directorship of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. When I was the MP for South Thanet, we had a proposal for one of these battery farms—let us call them that—in the constituency. I wrote to Kent Fire and Rescue Service with my c
My Lords, I will ask the question in a slightly different way, which may flush out what I think we are trying to get there. Say, for instance, that there is an inflationary rise by an employer every year—there always has been and, one would have expected
Is the Minister’s understanding of the Bill that the £2,000 threshold will be in the entirety of a single employee or across each employment? At the moment, with NI regulations the employee benefits from different thresholds in each employment that is he
My Lords, I normally do not support measures that carve out certain sectors from others in the normal weft and weave of enterprises in the country, but I support this one, particularly Amendments 12 and 24 which seek to carve out small and medium-sized c
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Register of Interests · 13 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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Regular columnist, The Telegraph
registered 2026-01-28
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Speaking engagement, 17 September 2025, PLMR (Political Lobbying & Media Relations Limited), London
registered 2025-09-30
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Regular columnist, Kent Life magazine, part of the Newsquest Media Group, London
registered 2025-09-09
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Director, The Global Warming Policy Foundation
registered 2025-03-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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Consultant on accountancy and tax (formerly partner), Beak Kemmenoe (chartered accountants and chartered tax advisers)
registered 2024-11-05 · amended 2025-04-30
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Richborough Properties Limited (property)
registered 2026-09-02
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Sha Tin Consulting Limited (business consultancy; personal services company)
registered 2024-11-05 · amended 2025-04-05
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Mama Airlines Limited (dormant)
registered 2024-11-05 · amended 2025-04-05
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Mackinlay Ltd (property)
registered 2024-11-05 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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Five properties in Kent (three of which are owned jointly with wife, one of which is under joint family ownership) from which rental income is received
registered 2024-11-05 · amended 2026-09-02
Category 4: Sponsorship
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The member receives research assistance with his parliamentary work on listed properties, including as co-chair of the APPG on Listed Properties, which is funded by the Listed Property Owners’ Club
registered 2025-11-27
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The member receives research assistance with his parliamentary work on sepsis, including as co-chair of the APPG on Sepsis, which is funded by the UK Sepsis Trust
registered 2025-08-12
Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
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Extended loan of TASKA prosthetic hands from Steeper Group (prosthetics manufacturer and distributor)
registered 2025-04-30
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Party history
2015-05-07 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2015-07-08 → 2017-05-03
Work and Pensions Committee
2020-03-02 → 2024-05-30
European Scrutiny Committee
2015-07-15 → 2017-05-03
European Scrutiny Committee
2017-09-11 → 2019-11-06
Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union
2016-10-31 → 2017-05-03
Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union
2020-01-21 → 2024-05-30
Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
2020-03-02 → 2022-10-25
Public Accounts Committee
2023-01-24 → 2024-05-30
Finance Committee (Commons)
2023-03-20 → 2024-05-30
Administration Estimate Audit and Risk Assurance Committee
2023-03-20 → 2024-05-30
Members Estimate Audit Committee
2025-01-21 → present
Restoration and Renewal Programme Board
Contact
Parliamentary office
mackinlayc@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Website
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APPGs (2026) · 4 active officership(s)
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Access to Disability Equipment
Subject Group
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Officer | Tendo Consulting Limited | 4 | 2026-09-14 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Antimicrobial Resistance
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 4 | 2027-05-21 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Listed Properties
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | — | 2 | 2026-06-11 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sepsis
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | — | 4 | 2026-08-01 |
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
25
of 25 tabled
25 answered(100.0%)
14
flagged: member has interest
7
departments
2026-09-10
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Boiler Upgrade Scheme and Warm Homes Plan: Listed Buildings
interest
Answered
2026-09-01
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Authorities: Fees and Charges
interest
Answered
2026-07-23
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Price Caps
interest
Answered
2026-05-20
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Cultural Heritage: Buildings
Answered
2026-04-21
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Electricity: Carbon Emissions
interest
Answered
2026-04-21
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Electricity: Carbon Emissions
interest
Answered
2026-04-21
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Electricity: Carbon Emissions
interest
Answered
2026-03-18
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Livestock: UK Trade with EU
Answered
2026-03-18
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Livestock: UK Trade with EU
Answered
2026-02-03
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Performance Certificates: Rented Housing
interest
Answered
2026-01-28
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Warm Homes Plan: Listed Buildings
interest
Answered
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it deems related — typically a paid role or directorship in the
sector being asked about. Click any "i" icon to see the full
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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)
5 bills
5 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHS Prescriptions (Drug Tariff Labelling) Bill | Sponsored | 1st reading | 2022-10-25 | |
| Election Expenses (Authorisation of Free or Discounted Support) Bill | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2019-03-12 | |
| Representation of the People (Gibraltar) Bill | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2018-06-19 | |
| Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 (Amendment) Bill | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2016-07-13 | |
| Harbour, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 (Amendment) Bill | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2016-05-10 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.