The Rt Hon. the Lord Wallace of Saltaire
Liberal Democrat
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Wallace of Saltaire's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Wallace of Saltaire. His name is William John Lawrence Wallace, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£5,565
15 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed
£5,565
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Political donations made
Total donated (all years on record)
£16,715
9 donations across 1 distinct recipient
Matched donor names:
Lord William Wallace Of Saltaire · Lord na Wallace of Saltaire
| Date | Recipient | Type | EC Ref | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-30 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0337765 | £1,800 |
| 2016-12-31 | Liberal Democrats · Central Party | Cash | C0262585 | £2,215 |
| 2016-06-30 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0245055 | £1,800 |
| 2015-12-31 | Liberal Democrats · Central Party | Cash | C0239666 | £1,900 |
| 2015-09-30 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0210972 | £1,800 |
| 2014-09-30 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0107371 | £1,800 |
| 2013-09-30 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0093830 | £1,800 |
| 2012-09-30 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0083788 | £2,000 |
| 2011-09-30 | Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords | Cash | C0052694 | £1,600 |
Showing the 9 most recent donations on record.
Source: Electoral Commission donations register
(search.electoralcommission.org.uk).
Match confidence: place-suffix.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
9
6 meetings ·
2 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
1 overseas trip
· 2014-01-01 → 2026-09-01
Recent meetings
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-12-11 | — | Discussion of protected maritime areas | cabinet-office |
| 2014-10-30 | — | Trustee meeting (member of) | cabinet-office |
| 2014-10-20 | — | Discussion of digital public services | cabinet-office |
| 2014-04-01 | — | Foreign Policy discussion | cabinet-office |
| 2014-01-01 | — | Discussion on Iran | cabinet-office |
| 2014-01-01 | — | Discussion of apprenticeships | cabinet-office |
Recent hospitality
| Date | Host | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-20 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2014-02-05 | — | Dinner | — |
Recent overseas travel
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Brussels | Visit to European Parliament | — |
Source: gov.uk ministerial transparency returns. Coverage:
HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial
Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
95 Content(50.3%)
19 Not-Content(10.1%)
75 didn't vote(39.7%)
2026-07-21
Not-Content
173–234
Not-Content
2026-07-13
Not-Content
158–239
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
2026-03-05
Content
193–143
Content
2026-03-05
Content
194–140
Content
2026-03-05
Content
198–139
Content
2026-03-05
Content
208–142
Content
2026-03-05
Content
214–142
Content
2026-02-04
Content
62–295
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Content
131–127
Content
2026-01-05
Content
194–130
Content
2026-01-05
Not-Content
168–178
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
2026-09-14
Representation of the People Bill
Do not forget Lloyd George.
2026-09-14
Representation of the People Bill
My Lords, in the light of the mega donations we have heard about to Reform in the past week, I start by emphasising the difference between liberal democracy and popular democracy—or illiberal democracy, as Viktor Orbán and others call it. Liberal or con
2026-09-14
International Financial Fraud
I am glad that the British Government are taking the lead in combating international financial fraud and money laundering, particularly now that cryptocurrency and its problems are so much in our minds. I note that one of the Government’s priorities as p
2026-09-14
International Financial Fraud
To ask His Majesty’s Government what progress in combatting international financial fraud they hope to make during their two-year presidency of the Financial Action Task Force.
2026-07-09
Foreign Interference in UK Politics
My Lords, I welcome the Government’s acceptance of the recommendations of the Rycroft report. The Statement says:
“We will also strengthen our response to the wider influencing environment”.
Recommendation 16 specifically talks about think tanks.
2026-07-07
Historical Forced Adoption
My Lords, I declare a painful personal interest. My mother was working as a volunteer for the Church of England Moral Welfare in the 1950s and I did not fully understand what it was about. I now look back at that inhibited and illiberal period in our soc
2026-07-06
Armed Forces Bill
My Lords, I find it rather rich that the noble Earl, Lord Minto, has attacked the Government for not spending enough on defence when the Conservative Party is still calling for tax cuts, as well as economies in other areas, and we are still discovering j
My Lords, in following the noble Lord, Lord Maude, with whom I worked in the coalition many years ago, I am thinking of the 2022 Act, through which the Conservative Government were certainly trying to advantage themselves and disadvantage their competito
2026-06-25
Democratic Institutions: Threats
My Lords, I am sure we are all grateful for how cool the Chamber is today. I want to talk about the interconnection between domestic and foreign threats to British democracy.
Philip Rycroft, in his report this spring, warned that
“there is a long-t
2026-06-25
Democratic Institutions: Threats
My Lords, I thank the Minister for that very thoughtful reply. I am very sorry to hear about the noble Baroness, Lady Anderson. We all hope we will see her again soon.
We will be continuing this debate in a range of other contexts over the next year—o
2026-06-25
Democratic Institutions: Threats
That this House takes note of the threats to democratic institutions in the United Kingdom, including disinformation, foreign interference, and levels of public trust in politics.
My Lords, on Thursday, this House will be discussing threats to democracy. We are close to the point now where one has to see X— and Elon Musk—as something of a threat to British democracy, deliberately putting out misinformation, using algorithms to pro
2026-06-22
HS2 Ltd: Consultants
My Lords, as someone who has spent most of my life living in the north of England, I strongly agree with the Minister that we need very considerably to improve the capacity of railway lines to the whole of the north of England, north-west Yorkshire and t
My Lords, the report that the noble Lord, Lord Pack, referred to was by a French government agency about the apparent operations of an Israeli company in exerting influence over campaigns in France, Britain and a number of African countries. The report m
2026-06-15
Immigration: Eurodac and SIS II
Will the Minister confirm that it has always been very strongly in the interests of the British police and other authorities to promote closer co-operation with our neighbours? I remember when I was a very junior Minister being told in Yorkshire that the
2026-06-08
UK Defence Capability
My Lords, the SDR made it clear that the Russian threat is now not simply a threat from abroad in eastern Europe and the North Sea but is also a homeland threat. It suggested a number of measures for mobilising our domestic population and improving homel
My Lords, I welcome this announcement and thank the Minister for alerting me to the Statement yesterday. The coalition Government produced the Cabinet Manual as a guide for future Governments to the conventions of our unwritten constitution. It was inten
To ask His Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to including in the Cabinet Manual guidelines for government formation in the event of the next election not providing a Commons majority for a single party.
2026-06-01
Donations to Political Parties
My Lords, how are the Government going to get at the increasingly shadowy area of what the Minister has just called political life, where donations are not specifically to political parties but are being used to support particular causes? It is widely re
2026-05-21
Higher Earners: Emigration
My Lords, does the Minister remember the argument, at the time of the Brexit referendum, that the divide in Britain was between the intellectual elite, who were people from anywhere, and the real people of Britain, who were people from somewhere? Are we
2026-05-20
Disadvantaged Pupils: Music Attainment Gap
The Minister mentioned music hubs. The key thing in getting an opportunity for disadvantaged students from schools that do not have good musical education is to put them in touch with music hubs. I declare an interest as I used to be chair of the VOCES8
2026-05-18
King’s Speech
My Lords, like others, I note that the King’s Speech did not mention constitutional or political reform. The Representation of the People Bill addresses many of the external threats to our constitutional democracy but does nothing to address the domestic
2026-05-18
Local Government Pension Fund
My Lords, this is about local government pension funds and we are discussing guidance; the Minister has just talked about an instruction. Does she recognise that the autonomy of local government ought to be an important principle that we all hold to and
My Lords, I will raise a couple of broader points about where we are. A strong leadership system operates well when you have only two parties represented on a council. We are about to have local elections in which the number of councils elected with only
My Lords, I declare an interest as a recipient of very considerable welfare payments in the form of my old-age pension and my wife’s old-age pension. The whole discussion about cutting welfare seems to leave out the very substantial chunk of welfare that
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Register of Interests · 1 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.
Nil
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No registrable interests
registered 2025-04-07
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly.
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Lords Code of Conduct
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Party history
1995-12-19 → present
Liberal Democrat
current
Government posts
2011-09-05 → 2015-05-07
Lords Spokesperson (Cabinet Office)
2010-10-13 → 2015-05-07
Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
Opposition posts
2017-07-23 → 2026-05-12
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Cabinet Office)
2015-06-01 → 2016-10-28
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)
Committee memberships
1997-06-03 → 2002-11-07
European Union Committee
1998-03-25 → 2010-04-08
Ecclesiastical Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
wallacew@parliament.uk
020 7219 3125 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 3125 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 3 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2026-10-10 |
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
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)
6 bills
0 as lead sponsor
6 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House of Commons Commission Act 2015 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2015-02-04 | |
| Recall of MPs Act 2015 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2014-09-11 | |
| Deregulation Act 2015 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2014-01-23 | |
| Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2012-05-10 | |
| Superannuation Act 2010 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2010-07-15 | |
| Academies Act 2010 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2010-05-26 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.