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The Rt Hon. the Lord Lilley

Conservative Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Lilley's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Lilley. His name is Peter Bruce Lilley, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.

Allowance claims · 2026

Daily attendance allowance £7,049
19 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed £7,049
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.

Lords votes · 2026

189 divisions 111 Content(58.7%) 5 Not-Content(2.6%) 73 didn't vote(38.6%)
2026-09-07
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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

2026-09-08 Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026
I end on that sombre note.
2026-09-08 Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, for securing this debate and ensuring that we have three whole minutes to discuss the dismemberment of the United Kingdom. I began by trying to find out what this was about by reading the Explanat
2026-09-02 Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme: Plant Health) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
My Lords, first, it is entirely unacceptable that we have only two minutes to discuss this piece of legislation. Secondly, it is an outrage that the democratically elected Chamber has been given no opportunity at all to discuss it. Thirdly, it sets a
2026-07-14 State of Climate and Nature
My Lords, the Statement in another place said that reducing emissions would lower bills. This country has reduced emissions by more than any other country, yet our bills are now higher than any other OECD country, nearly all of which rely on gas like us.
2026-06-23 Carbon Budget Order 2026
Me.
2026-06-10 Farming and Food Production
My Lords—
2026-06-04 UK Electricity Prices
My Lords, it is a great privilege to open this debate, especially with the high calibre of people proposing to participate in it. The basic science of global warming is rock solid, but we have been told fairy tales about its economics ever since the C
2026-06-04 UK Electricity Prices
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of why UK electricity prices are among the highest in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
2026-05-14 King’s Speech
My Lords, does the noble Baroness speak to the NFU, which does not want to rejoin Europe because it believes that the divergences from EU rules since Brexit have benefited it enormously? Doing away with those divergences would cost £600 million to £800 m
2026-05-14 King’s Speech
My Lords, it is always a great and nostalgic pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, whose enthusiasm for rejoining the European Union reminds me of the remarks of Samuel Johnson about a friend of his who was contemplating a second marriage—that
2026-04-14 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
My Lords, in response to a question from the Liberal Democrat spokesman Al Pinkerton in the other House about what the collapse of the treaty means in practice for the long-promised right of return for Chagossians, the Minister replied, “we believe th
2026-03-25 Northern Ireland After Brexit (Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee Report)
They were, of course, signed by the past Government, but they were described by the EU as temporary. That was the sole justification the EU gave for including trade with Northern Ireland in the withdrawal agreement. She cannot make a party-political poin
2026-03-25 Northern Ireland After Brexit (Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee Report)
My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Lords, Lord Murphy and Lord Carlile. I do so with some temerity; I cannot understand why I have been put so high up the list, since my expertise in these areas is probably less than almost everybody e
2026-03-16 Treaty Scrutiny in Westminster (International Agreements Committee Report)
My Lords, I congratulate the committee and its chairman on the report. I hesitate to participate in this debate since I have limited expertise in foreign affairs, and still less on the scrutiny of foreign treaties, but I was puzzled by the report’s focus
2026-03-11 Secondary International Competitiveness and Growth Objective (FSR Committee Report)
My Lords, it has been a great pleasure and privilege to serve on this committee, not just because I have served under the distinguished and stimulating chairmanship first of my noble friend Lord Forsyth and now of my noble friend Lady Noakes but because
2026-03-03 Carbon Budget 6
My Lords, given that the pursuit of carbon budgets has so far given us the highest electricity prices in the OECD, can the Minister confirm that the pursuit of decarbonisation has so far primarily resulted in the deindustrialisation of Britian, and that
2026-03-03 Carbon Budget 6
My Lords—
2026-02-26 Resetting the UK-EU Relationship (European Affairs Committee Report)
My Lords, I congratulate the committee on trying to establish the Government’s reset negotiating objectives, which the Government have failed to publish. But the Government have published what they call an explainer. I have a copy of it here. It lists th
2026-02-26 Diego Garcia and British Indian Ocean Territory
My Lords—
2026-02-05 US Department of Justice Release of Files
My Lords, can the Minister tell us what role Peter Mandelson played as ambassador in convincing the American Government of the merits of the Chagos deal? Did he discuss it personally with the President and the Secretaries of State? In so doing, did he ho
2026-01-29 UK-EU Customs Union
In fact, it was jointly negotiated by member states and the European Commission. I was there for all nine days of the negotiations in the Heysel stadium, so the noble Lord is wrong.
2026-01-29 UK-EU Customs Union
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Docherty of Milngavie, to congratulate him on his excellent and witty speech and to welcome him to your Lordships’ House, where he will no longer have to depend on the votes of his opponents
2026-01-22 Diego Garcia: Comments by the President of the United States
My Lords, the Government claim that, although neither the International Court of Justice nor the tribunal of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea can reach a judgment binding on us on the sovereignty of Chagos, other countries may respond to opinions
2026-01-12 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
My Lords, apart from thanking the Minister and her noble colleague for the courteous way in which they have responded the points I made—which she found exuberant and my noble colleague found forensic—I can limit my remarks to four sentences, two of which
2026-01-12 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
I am sorry that the Minister has chosen to end this debate adopting a totally different tone from that which she pursued during Committee and Report. I asked a clear question: which goods, services and facilities will be withheld by which countries if we
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown verbatim from the search API; click any debate title for the full record.

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.

  • Chairing/speaking in seminars on process of government for Public Policy Exchange
    registered 2022-04-28 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Member, Advisory Board, Yi Mei Capital (principal investment firm specialising in private equity funds in China)
    registered 2018-07-16 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

  • Idox plc (supplier of specialist information management solutions and services to the public sector and highly regulated asset intensive industries)
    registered 2018-07-16 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 3: Land and property

  • Small agricultural land holding with sheep in France
    registered 2018-10-19 · amended 2025-04-05
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly. Read the full Lords Code of Conduct for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.

Party history

1983-06-09 → present
Conservative current

Government posts

1992-04-10 → 1997-05-01
Secretary of State for Social Security
1990-07-14 → 1992-04-09
Secretary of State for Trade
1989-07-24 → 1990-07-13
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
1987-06-13 → 1989-07-23
Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)

Opposition posts

1997-06-11 → 1998-06-02
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer

Committee memberships

1989-07-27 → 1990-10-15
Public Accounts Committee
2011-07-18 → 2011-12-13
Draft Financial Services Bill (Joint Committee)
2012-11-05 → 2015-03-30
Energy and Climate Change Committee
2015-07-20 → 2017-05-03
Environmental Audit Committee
2016-10-31 → 2017-05-03
Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union
2018-09-04 → 2019-04-30
SLSC Sub-Committee A
2019-07-02 → 2020-04-23
EU Internal Market Sub-Committee
2020-04-23 → 2021-03-31
EU Goods Sub-Committee
2021-04-14 → 2024-01-31
Environment and Climate Change Committee
2024-01-24 → present
Financial Services Regulation Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
lilleyp@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 3 active officership(s)

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Project Delivery
Subject Group
Officer Tendo Consulting 4 2026-06-11
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trade out of Poverty
Subject Group
Vice Chair ODI 8 2024-05-28
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs
Subject Group
Officer — 4 2027-01-04
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 1 of 1 tabled 1 answered(100.0%) 1 departments
2026-02-02
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agricultural Products: UK Trade with EU
Answered
Source: UK Parliament Members API. The amber "interest" tag is set by Parliament's own system when the asking member has a register entry it deems related — typically a paid role or directorship in the sector being asked about. Click any "i" icon to see the full question and the department's answer.

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)

7 bills 7 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Elderly Social Care (Insurance) Bill [HL] Sponsored 2nd reading 2021-05-24
Office for Science Quality Assessment Bill [HL] Sponsored 2nd reading 2020-02-26
International Trade and Investment (NHS Protection) Bill Sponsored 2nd reading 2016-06-29
House of Commons Members’ Fund Bill Sponsored 2nd reading 2014-09-10
House of Commons Members' Fund Bill Sponsored 2nd reading 2013-12-16
Programming of Bills (Suspension) Bill Sponsored 2nd reading 2009-06-17
Members of Parliament (Pay and Responsibilities) Bill Sponsored 2nd reading 2008-06-03
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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