The Lord Barber of Chittlehampton
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Barber of Chittlehampton's full title is The Lord Barber of Chittlehampton. His name is Michael Bayldon Barber, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£4,821
15 days attended across 1 published month
Travel claims
£754
Attendance £754
Total claimed
£5,575
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
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48 didn't vote(25.4%)
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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
2026-09-16
Government Debt
My Lords, generating growth is the key to paying off interest and reducing the debt. The Government are doing good work on that across the economy. I hope that they will not forget public sector productivity as part of generating growth. As a Government,
2026-09-10
Defence Spending
My Lords, given the pace of change in the nature of defence and warfare, does my noble friend the Minister agree that expenditure on defence research is increasingly important and that the establishment of the Defence Universities Alliance is a major ste
My Lords, it is an honour to follow the right reverend Prelate; I strongly support the sentiments he described. I also thank the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, for putting this on the agenda in the way that the noble Lord, Lord Baker, welcomed, because it
2026-09-02
Direction of Government
My Lords, I welcome the strong message yesterday from the Prime Minister on hope. Hope is definitely the right message, but it can be sustained only if it is followed by real, visible, continuing delivery. It is great to see the progress on small boats,
2026-09-01
Public Office (Accountability) Bill
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend the Minister on his speech this afternoon, and the many Members across the House who made moving and powerful contributions, including the noble Lords, Lord Blunkett, Lord Bichard and Lord Roe, and the right rever
2026-09-01
United Kingdom: Business Competitiveness
My Lords, I congratulate my good and noble friend on his appointment to this job, which is a wonderful thing for the country as well as for him. On growth, does he agree that, while the amount of tax is obviously important, so too is the effectiveness wi
My Lords, I declare an interest as the chair of the former Devon land use framework under the previous Government. Does the Minister agree that, in the past, decisions about land use were too often made in silos; that the land use framework will encourag
2026-07-14
State of Climate and Nature
My question to the Minister is: in taking through the agenda set out in the Statement, will the Government think in the sophisticated way I have described about broad areas of land as our population grows and the challenges of every acre of land become g
2026-07-14
State of Climate and Nature
My Lords, I had the privilege of chairing the Devon land use pilot a few years ago. We learned that people think in silos but the solutions are in combinations. On Exmoor, you have water challenges and energy challenges, and challenges relating to touris
2026-07-14
Death of Ann Widdecombe
My Lords, I am humbled by the quality of this debate and conversation about somebody I did not know. My association comes from being a resident of Devon, living on the other side of Dartmoor and having spent significant time at Buckfast Abbey, and the sh
2026-07-08
Police Leadership Commission Report
My Lords, it is an honour to follow my noble friend Lord Blunkett. I congratulate the noble Lords, Lord Blunkett and Lord Herbert, on an outstanding report. Does the Minister agree that police leadership is at its best when police leaders feel they can c
2026-06-23
G7 Summit
My Lords, I pay tribute to my noble friend for her comments this afternoon and to the Prime Minister for his work on Britain’s interests abroad. I particularly appreciated my noble friend’s comments on settler violence in answer to a previous question. I
2026-06-22
Master’s Level History Scholarships
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the decline in the number of scholarships available for the study of history at master’s level.
2026-06-22
Master’s Level History Scholarships
I thank my noble friend the Minister for her constructive reply. I should declare an interest as the founder of the accomplishment scholarship in history at Queen’s College, Oxford. This year is the 250th anniversary of one of the huge achievements of th
2026-06-15
Middle East: Iran Conflict
My Lords, will the Minister assure me that she and the Government, at the highest levels, intend to congratulate the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, on an awesome achievement, not just what is going to be signed on Friday but his long-term co
2026-06-03
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
My Lords, I rise in strong support of the Bill and my noble friend’s excellent introduction to it. It is rather humbling and daunting to follow the legendary noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson. She is an inspiration to us all, in both what she did as an
2026-05-14
King’s Speech
My Lords, it is an honour to follow the excellent contribution from the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Newcastle. Her messages are directly relevant also to the area where I live, the south-west of England, and I congratulate her on her thoughts. I
2026-04-20
Trains: Punctuality
I thank my noble friend for his very comprehensive Answer and the very important work that he is doing to improve the quality of our railway. When I was responsible for delivery in No. 10 years ago, I asked DfT officials why performance was so much worse
2026-04-20
Trains: Punctuality
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans train operators have to improve the punctuality of passenger train services in every season of the year.
2026-04-15
Knife Crime
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend on the strategy and specifically on the collaboration across government, which is fundamental to ensuring that this knife crime plan works, as I am sure it will. I draw attention to the big increase in school atte
2026-04-14
Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Bill
My Lords, as someone relatively new to the House I am very struck by how hard Ministers work in this House, as we have just heard from the noble Lord, Lord True. Having spent 20 or more years working with Governments of different persuasions and seeing M
2026-04-13
Britain’s Battery Future Report
My Lords, I thank the Minister for the work she is doing on this subject. I want to draw attention, in my role as chancellor of Exeter University, to three things in the south-west that she might not be aware of. Agratas, in Somerset, is building the big
2026-03-19
Middle East
My Lords, I thank the Minister for this Statement and applaud the Prime Minister and the Government for the way that they have responded to the crisis in the Middle East all the way through, both in relation to British people abroad and the entire intern
2026-03-17
Spring Forecast Statement
My Lords, following a distinguished former Chancellor of the Exchequer and a brilliant speech from the noble Lord, St John of Bletso, I rise with some anxiety to make a speech on the economy. Nevertheless, I want to try to bring a note of optimism into o
2026-03-02
Middle East
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for her wisdom and the Statement that she has repeated. Among the many important questions that this conflict raises is the prospect of a two-state solution. In a Statement about the Middle East, it is important to look
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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 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Delivery Associates Ltd (consultancy on delivery in government)
registered 2026-01-26
Category 3: Land and property
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House in Hackney, London, from which rental income is received (owned by the member's wife but rent received jointly)
registered 2026-01-26
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Farmland and woodland in Devon (owned jointly with the member's wife)
registered 2026-01-26
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Party history
2026-01-21 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2026-06-01 → present
Public Services Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
barbermb@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
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