The Lord Tarassenko CBE FREng FMedSci FIET
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Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Tarassenko's full title is The Lord Tarassenko CBE FREng FMedSci FIET. His name is Lionel Tarassenko, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£2,968
8 days attended across 1 published month
Travel claims
£566
Attendance £566
Total claimed
£3,534
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
13 Content(6.9%)
6 Not-Content(3.2%)
170 didn't vote(89.9%)
2026-07-21
Content
173–234
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
2026-09-10
Patient Data: Research
My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Patel for securing this timely debate, in which I only have time to speak about UK Biobank. I declare an interest, as I have been not only a participant since 2007 but also a co-investigator in a resea
2026-09-10
Australia: Social Media Algorithms
My Lords, the Expert Panel for Growing Up in an Online World was convened by DSIT earlier this year to provide independent, evidence-based advice supporting the growing up in the online world national consultation. It met three times in May and June this
My Lords, one of the advantages of being in this Committee Room for these debates in Committee is that I can use Claude—I hope that is allowed—to answer the question of what the cyber security community thinks about the Computer Misuse Act. The answer co
My Lords, I shall speak in support of Amendment 83 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, to which I have added my name. In my speech, I will focus just on the aspects of the digital sovereign strategy that are relevant to the NHS. I speak as so
It is 5 trillion a year.
My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 12, 85 and 86 in my name, and in support of Amendment 6 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, to which I have also added my name.
At Second Reading, several noble Lords spoke about the AI-shaped hole in t
My Lords, any reorganisation like this will take of the order of 12 months, which is an eternity in AI. It is equivalent to three generations of frontier AI models. Can the Minister reassure the House that both the AI Security Institute and the sovereign
My Lords, it was a privilege to be a member of the UK Engagement with Space Committee, served so well by its two clerks, Sabrina Asghar and Steph Coulter, and expertly chaired by the noble Baroness, Lady of Ashton of Upholland. I realised that she was go
2026-07-09
Artificial Intelligence: Vaccine Technology
My Lords, given that this ground-breaking work was done in Cambridge by both a university group and its spin-out biotech company, can the Minister reassure the House about access to the intellectual property beyond the University of Cambridge?
2026-07-02
Higher Education: Affordability and Quality
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Deech on securing today’s debate. Her commitment to the issues of quality and affordability in higher education is second to none. I declare an interest as the founding president of Reuben College, Oxford’s n
My Lords, I declare a conflict of interest as a senior adviser to the Alan Turing Institute, the national AI institute. We have known for a while that access to US big tech models might be restricted, and it will happen again. We should not rely on Chine
My Lords, as an AI researcher for nearly four decades and honorary lay canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford since 2012, I congratulate the most reverend Primate on securing this hugely important debate. I declare an interest as the founder and dire
2026-06-04
AI Regulation Bill
My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond, on his commitment to AI regulation and on securing today’s QSD. In the time available, I will follow the noble Lord, Lord Harper, and concentrate on AISI, the AI Security Institute.
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow maiden speeches, and I congratulate the noble Lords, Lord Hobby and Lord Blackwater, on their distinctive and excellent speeches.
There was no AI Bill in the gracious Speech, but AI will play a major role in
2026-04-28
UK Biobank Data
May I ask the Minister a follow-up question to the one I asked previously? He is absolutely right that UK Biobank should get in touch with the institutions where the principal investigators are based, but a lot of inadvertent leakage, if you will, of the
2026-04-28
UK Biobank Data
I declare two conflicts of interest. First, I was a participant in UK Biobank, having been recruited in Oxford in 2007. My wife is also a participant and has been far more assiduous—for example, she underwent whole-body imaging about two years ago, which
2026-03-17
Plan 2 Student Loans: Repayment Terms
My Lords, the proportion of home students in full-time postgraduate study has fallen from 46% to just 29% in five years. At the start of a PhD, a home student with a typical undergraduate loan will have a debt of around £55,000. At the end of the PhD, th
2026-02-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
2026-02-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Very briefly, given the time, I just want to reassure noble Lords, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Storey, that none of the amendments—not just mine—stops the use of edtech; they introduce rules for its development and introduction into schools. For ex
2026-02-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, Amendment 227 is in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. We started with AI during Oral Questions what is now yesterday afternoon. We considered the use of AAI in the debate on Amendment 209 yesterday evening. We are now back wi
2026-02-03
AI Superintelligence
My Lords, the second International AI Safety Report is being published today. It is a scientific assessment, guided by 100 experts from 30 different countries and chaired by Yoshua Bengio, one of the three so-called godfathers of AI. A key finding is tha
2026-01-29
Superintelligent AI
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, on securing this debate, but it is going to take a superhuman effort to give an intelligent speech on this topic in four minutes. Paradoxically, Google DeepMind’s paper on artificial general intelligenc
2026-01-21
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I will speak briefly about the lack of scientific evidence for Amendment 94A in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Nash. No one disputes that rates of suicide, depression, anxiety and self-harm have increased among teenagers in the last decade. H
2025-11-17
Artificial Intelligence Legislation
My Lords, several European countries, including Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland, have recently launched their own sovereign large language models to reduce dependence on models from the US and China. Now that hardware compute capabilities are no
2025-10-15
Modular Nuclear Programme
The announcement that the SMR contract was to be awarded to Rolls-Royce was welcome, but the impact on UK manufacturing is also important. Have the Government made an assessment of how many suppliers in the supply chain are going to be first-tier compani
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Register of Interests · 6 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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Member of Advisory Board, Time Trace Labs
registered 2026-02-10
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Machine Learning Advisor, Deep Medical
registered 2026-02-10
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Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford
registered 2024-08-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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Research Professor, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
registered 2024-08-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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President, Reuben College, University of Oxford
registered 2024-08-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director, LIO (previously Oxehealth Limited) (University of Oxford spin-out company in field of digital health)
registered 2024-08-12 · amended 2026-02-10
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Party history
2024-06-10 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2025-01-30 → 2025-10-20
UK Engagement with Space Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Communications and Digital Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
tarassenkol@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
External or private office
lionel.tarassenko@eng.ox.ac.uk; president@reuben.ox.ac.uk
01865 617675 · Reuben College, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QP
01865 617675 · Reuben College, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QP
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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