The Rt Hon. the Lord McNally
Liberal Democrat
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord McNally's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord McNally. His name is Tom McNally, 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.
Political donations made
Total donated (all years on record)
£19,700
6 donations across 1 distinct recipient
Matched donor name:
Lord na McNally
| Date | Recipient | Type | EC Ref | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-29 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0245057 | £2,100 |
| 2014-12-29 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0545711 | £2,400 |
| 2014-02-14 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0103956 | £2,100 |
| 2013-02-14 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0088634 | £4,200 |
| 2011-12-31 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0076848 | £4,200 |
| 2010-12-31 | Liberal Democrats · Central Party | Cash | C0037699 | £4,700 |
Showing the 6 most recent donations on record.
Source: Electoral Commission donations register
(search.electoralcommission.org.uk).
Match confidence: unique-surname.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
20 Content(12.3%)
2 Not-Content(1.2%)
140 didn't vote(86.4%)
2026-04-23
Not-Content
152–207
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Content
208–142
Content
2026-03-05
Content
214–142
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
It is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Shinkwin, with his thoughtful and perceptive comments on our society. I have now been in the House of Lords for just over 30 years. When I accepted Paddy Ashdown’s invitation to take a nomination to
2026-06-04
AI Regulation Bill
My Lords, my first duty is to thank the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, for that introduction. He and I are members of the Lords Communications and Digital Committee. We have both benefited from discussions and hearings about AI held by the Select Committee und
2026-05-21
Youth Offending
My Lords, I do not think that anybody doubts the Minister’s sincerity, but she should have a little tingle between the shoulder blades when somebody such as the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, and Members of all Benches express concerns about how the Governme
2026-05-20
Youth Justice
My Lords, the YJB is one of the great successes of government over the last 25 years and a great credit to those involved. I do not think the time is wrong for a thorough review of youth justice. As the Minister indicated, there is a whole range of new f
My Lords, this has been an encouraging debate, although the Government’s response to our report was a little last-minute, as has been said. My noble friend Lord Storey did not even know that we now have a Minister to cover this. That was not his fault: r
That came out wrong. When he referred to the Government’s response to the White Paper, he also reminded me of my old friend, Fred Peart. Fred was Leader of the House a long time ago. He had an absolutely fail-safe way of answering questions, however host
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Gloucester. I commend the work of the chaplaincy service in prisons. I also welcome this debate, inspired as it is by the report of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee.
T
2026-01-08
Broadcasting: Recent Developments
My Lords, I suppose the usual sources will say, “Well, this is the House of Lords typically mumbling out its old prejudices”, but it has been very encouraging for me, as a long-time supporter of the BBC, to listen to those who have far more experience of
2025-07-16
Parthenon Sculptures: Return
My Lords—
2025-07-16
Parthenon Sculptures: Return
My Lords, the Minister has been rolling out excuses for no action on the Parthenon sculptures that have been used by Ministers of all parties for the last 50 years, at least to my knowledge. The role of museums is changing and there is great capacity fo
2025-07-07
Artificial Intelligence: News Media
Do noble Lords not want to hear it?
“A hormonal collapse from another femme failure who can’t cope when the going gets tough. A woman who wilts like a stick of damp rhubarb at the first sign of trouble”.
Unless we deal with that kind of misogyny
2025-07-07
Artificial Intelligence: News Media
My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the Select Committee on Communications and Digital, under the chair, the noble Baroness, Lady Keeley. I am as keen to see trustworthy journalism as are the Minister and the noble Lord, Lord Black, but before
2025-07-03
Music Festivals: Hate Speech
My Lords, I draw the Minister’s attention, and indeed that of the noble Lord, Lord Bellingham, to the article by Hugo Rifkind in the Times yesterday. Hugo Rifkind actually spent five days at Glastonbury and, right at the end of the article, he points ou
My Lords, I hope we will see the noble Lord, Lord Hamilton, here for the wind-up, because there is a wicked old habit in the House of Commons of intervening very early in a debate to which you have not put your name, so you are in Hansard but you can the
My Lords. I feel as if I am also making a maiden speech, in that it is some four months since I have been in this House while doctors have been testing me for various ailments. They have now come to the grand conclusion that I must have, or have had, som
2024-11-04
Olympic and Paralympic Games: Team GB
My Lords, the Minister should be very grateful to her father: being thrown in at the deep end is very good training for ministerial life. Has she thought that this might also be a time for some socialist planning? Should not those individual sports that
2024-10-31
International Engagements
My Lords, during many years, on all sides of the House, there was a campaign for 0.7% of GNI on overseas aid, not just as a number but as a direction of travel. No one doubts the Minister’s commitment on these issues, but it is very worrying that virtual
2024-09-12
Prison Capacities
My Lords, by this time, the Minister must be thinking that this is going to be an easy job. I am afraid he has to learn, if he has not learned already, that the House of Lords is not the best place to assess either public opinion or opinion in the other
2024-09-05
House of Lords: Composition
My Lords, one of the benefits of this House is that some of us have been around a long time. I was much involved in the decision 25 years ago. The truth was that Viscount Cranborne, now the Marquess of Salisbury, had tied the Labour Government up in knot
2024-07-24
King’s Speech
My Lords, I give congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Goodman of Wycombe, on his maiden speech, and to what is now a very formidable Front Bench, with the noble Lords, Lord Timpson, Lord Hanson and Lord Ponsonby, answering on these issues.
The nobl
2024-05-23
Media Bill
Who is this Bruce Springsteen that everybody has been talking about?
2024-05-23
Media Bill
I had misjudged this debate. I thought that the noble Lord, Lord Black, would be the Don Quixote—I did not imagine that he would be the Sancho Panza. Has he ever heard of the term used in the United States, “a sweetheart union”? That is what IPSO is. It
2024-05-23
Media Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister and Members from all parts of the House for their good wishes about my health. I went into hospital yesterday morning for a procedure on a long-standing back complaint. It went very well and as I left, the doctor said, “Oh,
2024-05-23
Media Bill
My Lords, I was happy to add my name to this, because it underlines the benefit of Channel 4. I am always a little worried that, if you leave gaps in behaviour, the bean-counters will take opportunities and the good intentions will take a back seat—so I
2024-05-20
Media Bill
My Lords, one of the great values of Committee stage for Ministers and regulators is that it gives them a warning of trouble ahead if they do not listen to what is said during it. This debate has been a very good example of that. I do not think Parliamen
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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registered 2025-04-07
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Party history
1995-12-20 → present
Liberal Democrat
current
1981-10-07 → 1983-06-09
Social Democratic Party
1979-05-03 → 1981-10-07
Labour
Government posts
2010-05-13 → 2013-12-18
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
2010-05-13 → 2013-10-14
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1979-05-03 → 1983-06-09
Consolidation etc. Bills (Joint Committee)
1979-05-03 → 1987-05-15
Trade & Industry
1996-04-30 → 1998-11-19
Public Service, Committee on
2002-04-29 → 2002-11-07
Draft Communications Bill (Joint Committee)
2004-11-24 → 2013-10-16
Committee of Selection (Lords)
2004-12-01 → 2013-10-16
House Committee (Lords)
2008-12-10 → 2013-10-16
Committee for Privileges and Conduct (Lords)
2004-12-02 → 2007-10-30
Committee for Privileges and Conduct (Lords)
2004-12-02 → 2013-10-16
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2023-01-31 → 2026-01-27
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2004-12-02 → 2013-10-16
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2006-05-22 → 2006-10-31
Conventions (Joint Committee)
2012-06-19 → 2012-07-24
Trusts (Capital and Income) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2013-10-28 → 2013-12-16
Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Bill [HL]
2014-11-19 → 2014-12-24
Insurance Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2018-05-17 → 2019-03-19
Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities Committee
2019-07-02 → 2020-04-23
EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee
2020-04-23 → 2021-03-31
EU Services Sub-Committee
2024-01-31 → present
Communications and Digital Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
mcnallyt@parliament.uk
020 7219 5443 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5443 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 6 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 6 group(s) historically — those rotated off in later snapshots.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
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)
10 bills
7 as lead sponsor
3 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online Harms Reduction Regulator (Report) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2020-01-14 | |
| Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Act | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2013-07-30 | |
| Offender Rehabilitation Act | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2013-05-09 | |
| European Union (Approvals) Act 2013 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2012-11-26 | |
| Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2013 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2012-10-10 | |
| Defamation Act | Supported | Royal Assent | 2012-05-10 | |
| Trusts (Capital and Income) Act 2013 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2012-02-29 | |
| Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2011-06-21 | |
| Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2010-07-22 | |
| Iraq War Inquiry Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2008-03-20 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.