The Earl Russell
Liberal Democrat
Member of the House of Lords
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Earl Russell's full title is The Earl Russell. His name is John Francis Russell, 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
98 Content(60.5%)
26 Not-Content(16.0%)
38 didn't vote(23.5%)
2026-06-09
Not-Content
13–66
Not-Content
2026-04-23
Not-Content
152–207
Not-Content
2026-04-13
Not-Content
178–231
Not-Content
2026-03-26
Not-Content
115–197
Not-Content
2026-03-12
Not-Content
26–134
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
2026-02-04
Content
62–295
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Content
131–127
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2026-01-05
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194–130
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2026-01-05
Not-Content
168–178
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2026-01-05
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210–131
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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 note the comment just made. I welcome the probing amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Harper. That is useful in the Bill, so I thank him for that.
I will speak to my Amendments 106 and 107. Together, they seek to form a coherent
My Lord, I shall speak to Amendment 114, standing in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle. She is unable to attend the Committee today. I will speak to both her amendments, this one and one in a later group. I am mindful of what t
My Lords, this has been a really interesting and informative group. I know that we have spent a bit of time of it, but it has been time well spent in understanding the Bill. Four key points have come up. There is the whole issue of the need for modernisa
My Lords, it is a pleasure to start the second day in Committee on this Bill. I open this group on airspace modernisation, consultation and charging and move Amendment 60 in the name of my noble friend Lady Grender, as she is unfortunately unable to be h
2026-06-17
Social Housing Bill [HL]
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 85 in my name and respond to the other amendments in this group on behalf of these Benches. These amendments collectively address the design and accessibility of social housing. I am grateful to other noble Lords for t
My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 9, which seeks to strengthen the consumer protection provisions at the heart of the Bill. This amendment would insert two paragraphs into Clause 1. We believe that both are desirable and necessary if this legislatio
I welcome the Minister’s comments. There is just one thing that I would like to raise: the need for a bit of parliamentary oversight before the CfDs are signed. Can the Minister go away and think about whether there is some process through which Parliame
My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing this instrument. On the face of it, it is a modest instrument. It alters just 12 words in the 2014 regulations to allow contracts for difference to support the continued operation of existing nuclear power s
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Wilson, for stepping in for the Minister and for introducing the SI. The instrument revises the hourly rate used to determine fees paid by the offshore oil and gas industry for environmental regulatory services prov
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction—clearly, this stuff is more complicated than eBay. I also thank my noble friend for raising important questions about geothermal that I hope the Minister will come to answer, but we support the inclusio
My Lords, we welcome and support the Energy Prices Act 2022 (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026—and particularly the continued effort to ensure that consumers in Northern Ireland receive appropriate protection from the continued volatility of
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, for tabling this Motion to Regret. We are broadly supportive of most of it, but we have one central reservation about the framing.
There are seven clean air zones—CAZs—in England using the central service
2026-06-08
Royal Mail
My Lords, I want to ask the Minister about future access to Post Office counter services now contained in TGJones stores. What steps are the Government taking to ensure that those counters are not closed, particularly in deprived urban areas and rural ar
2026-06-04
UK Electricity Prices
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lilley, and all those who have contributed. On these Benches, we support the energy transition and reducing our energy bills. They are in fact fundamentally linked, but we must be honest about the cause and the solu
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, for introducing the Bill and for the briefings that he and his team have kindly provided to Members of the House. We approach this Bill with an open mind and with a clear desire for greater c
2026-06-01
Social Housing Bill [HL]
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Young, and I endorse the comments that she has made.
Decent, affordable and secure housing is a basic human right. To start, I thank the Minister for the way that she introduced the Bill, p
2026-05-21
Offshore Oil and Gas: Venting and Flaring
My Lords, the Green Alliance has found that North Sea operators are still wasting gas worth £300 million a year—enough to heat around 570,000 homes. That lost gas is nearly a third of Jackdaw’s projected peak output. Why are the Government tolerating suc
2026-05-21
Offshore Oil and Gas: Venting and Flaring
To ask His Majesty’s Government what progress they have made in reducing emissions and wasted gas via venting and flaring on offshore oil and gas infrastructure.
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, it is an honour to speak in this debate on energy security. I look forward to the maiden speeches of all the new noble Lords and noble Baronesses, and I wish them well in their time here.
If a week is a long time in politics, the period sinc
2026-05-19
El Niño: Impact
My Lords, I very much welcome this Question. The coolest years are now warmer than the warmest years used to be, and all the signs are that we have a record weather event coming up over the next two summers. Can I also return to wildfires? I think they a
2026-05-19
Climate Change: Government Action
My Lords, our understanding of climate change is fundamentally reliant on international global science, which is under threat. I implore this Government to do more to support international climate science. What specific actions are the Government taking
2026-04-28
National Emergency Plan for Fuel
My Lords, the double blockade of the strait is still in place and shows no signs of easing. The national fuel emergency plan was last updated in April 2024, yet current pressures across aviation fuel, diesel and fertilisers are unique and complex. What c
2026-04-22
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. I pick up on a point that my noble friend made as part of her formal response to the Statement in relation to the retail energy market. The Minister may need to go away and think about it, and that may wel
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Nagaraju, on a fine maiden speech, and I recognise his work in the field of AI. I also thank the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, for bringing this debate, and I thank her and others for their cont
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Register of Interests · 4 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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Board Member and Director, The Water Retail Company Limited
registered 2024-05-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Professional Freelance Photographer
registered 2023-07-19 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (c)
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Residential holdings in London E11
registered 2023-07-19 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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Residential holdings in London SW4 from which rental income is received
registered 2023-07-19 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2023-06-19 → present
Liberal Democrat
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
2024-01-09 → present
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Energy and Climate Change)
Committee memberships
2023-07-12 → 2024-01-31
Built Environment Committee
2024-01-31 → present
Environment and Climate Change Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sustainable Plastics
Subject Group
|
Co-Chair | — | 4 | 2026-10-17 |
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
10
of 10 tabled
10 answered(100.0%)
4
departments
2026-04-20
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change
Answered
2026-04-15
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Strait of Hormuz: Tankers
Answered
2026-03-26
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Solar Power: Agriculture
Answered
2026-03-25
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Gas Fired Power Stations
Answered
2026-03-25
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Gas Fired Power Stations
Answered
2026-03-25
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fly-tipping: Ashford
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.
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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)
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.