The Rt Hon. the Earl Howe GBE
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
M
Earl Howe's full title is The Rt Hon. the Earl Howe GBE. His name is Frederick Richard Penn Curzon, 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.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
127
70 meetings ·
32 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
25 overseas trips
· 2016-01-01 → 2023-06-30
Total overseas travel cost
£303
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 70
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-19 | — | Earl Howe was a guest at an awards dinner hosted by the Muslim News at the Marriott Hotel, Earl Howe presented an award . | cabinet-office |
| 2023-06-19 | — | This was a meeting with 2 individuals (Mr & Mrs Head) who had sucessfully bid at a MK Foundation charity auction to have a tour of the House of Lords and tea with Earl Howe. | cabinet-office |
| 2022-10-24 | — | Discussion about the Old Talbot House Charity and it's work | cabinet-office |
| 2022-10-10 | — | Discussion about the privisions and implications of the Online Safety Bill | cabinet-office |
| 2022-09-21 | — | Round table at Kings College London, discussions focused on the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill | cabinet-office |
| 2022-04-05 | — | Interview for book about hereditary peers in the House of Lords | cabinet-office |
| 2021-11-09 | — | Discussion about the Affordable Homes Programme | cabinet-office |
| 2021-10-28 | — | Discussion on promoting mutual understanding and beneficial relationships between different statutory and third sector organisations | cabinet-office |
| 2021-05-25 | — | Medical regulation | cabinet-office |
| 2021-05-19 | — | The adoption of novel medicines | cabinet-office |
| 2021-03-25 | — | Discussion in his capacity as Trustee | cabinet-office |
| 2021-03-10 | — | Committee Discussion as chair of patrons | cabinet-office |
| 2020-01-13 | — | To contribute to research on the formulation of government health policy whilst Health Minister | cabinet-office |
| 2019-09-10 | — | Met as part of the Armed Forces APPG visit to DSEI 2019 to discuss the UK Defence industry | cabinet-office |
| 2019-07-25 | — | Launch of the independent study by Professor John Louth into the condition of the Defence Veterans Ecosystem | ministry-of-defence |
| 2019-06-04 | — | To discuss the cost of VISAs for Commonwealth military staff. | ministry-of-defence |
| 2019-05-20 | — | A visit to Royal British Legion Industries headquarters. | ministry-of-defence |
| 2019-05-07 | — | To discuss physical threats to Hormuud Telecom's staff in Somalia. | ministry-of-defence |
| 2019-05-02 | — | To discuss Raytheon's Defence Programmes | ministry-of-defence |
| 2019-02-27 | — | Update on company work with OGDs | ministry-of-defence |
Recent hospitality · latest 20 of 32
| Date | Host | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-19 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2022-11-04 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2022-10-27 | — | Hotel room for the night | — |
| 2022-10-10 | — | Lunch | — |
| 2022-07-04 | — | Drinks reception | — |
| 2021-07-12 | — | British Grand Prix and lunch tickets | — |
| 2019-09-18 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2019-07-04 | — | Lunch | — |
| 2019-06-11 | — | Reception | — |
| 2019-05-21 | — | Reception | — |
| 2019-05-04 | — | Reception | — |
| 2019-04-28 | — | Reception | — |
| 2019-04-05 | — | Reception/Dinner | — |
| 2019-04-04 | — | Reception/Dinner | — |
| 2019-04-03 | — | Reception/Dinner | — |
| 2019-02-14 | — | Lunch | — |
| 2018-11-22 | — | Dinner and accomodation at Dunbar Castle for 1 night during Aurora Forum Conference | — |
| 2018-11-20 | — | Lunch | — |
| 2018-10-27 | — | Trafalgar Night Dinner on HMS Nelson Wardroom, Portsmouth | — |
| 2018-10-26 | — | Dinner & Accomodation in hotel for 1 night during Tertulias Spain-UK Conference | — |
Recent overseas travel · latest 20 of 25
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| — |
Paris, France
Train
|
Speak at Department for International Trade Strategy Awayday | — |
| — |
Podgorica, Montenegro
Scheduled flight
|
Accompany Typhoon deployment | — |
| — |
Normandy, France
No 32 (The Royal) Squadron
|
D-Day 75 Commemoration | — |
| — |
Brussels, Belgium
Eurostar
|
EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) | — |
| — |
Berlin, Germany
Scheduled flight
|
Berlin Airlift 70 Commemorations | — |
| — |
Zagan and Poznan, Poland
No 32 (The Royal) Squadron
|
The Great Escape 75 Commemoration event | — |
| — |
Bucharest, Romania
Scheduled flight
|
Foreign Affairs Council-Defence | — |
| — |
Brussels
Eurostar
|
Foreign Affairs Council | — |
| — |
The Hague Netherlands
Eurostar
|
Bilateral with Netherlands Defence Minister, visited Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and International Criminal Court | — |
| — |
Madrid
Scheduled flight
|
Bilateral Defence Visit | — |
| — |
Luxembourg & Netherlands
Scheduled flight
|
FAC(D) & OPCW | — |
| — |
Sofia, Bulgaria
Scheduled flight
|
FAC(D) | — |
| — |
Latvia
Scheduled flight
|
RIGA Conference | — |
| — |
Japan & Republic of Korea- joint trip
Scheduled flight
|
Bilateral visit including Seoul Defence Dialogue | — |
| — |
Austria
Scheduled flight
|
Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) | — |
| — |
Ukraine
Scheduled flight
|
Bilateral visit including attending Ukraine AF Day | — |
| — |
Paris, France
Eurostar
|
European Intervention Initiative Meeting | — |
| — |
Brussels, Belgium and Den Haag, Amsterdam
Eurostar to Brussels, car to Den Haag and civilian air to London City Airport
|
Foreign Affaris Council-Defence & OPCW Conference (Organisation of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) | — |
| — |
Malaga, Spain
Civilian Air
|
Tertulias Conference | — |
| — |
Vietnam/Japan/Korea
Civilian Air
|
Overseas Visit | — |
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
162 divisions
104 Content(64.2%)
3 Not-Content(1.9%)
55 didn't vote(34.0%)
2026-03-25
Content
95–137
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
2026-01-12
Content
201–169
Content
2026-01-05
Content
131–127
Content
2026-01-05
Content
194–130
Content
2026-01-05
Content
168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Content
210–131
Content
2026-01-05
Content
132–124
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
2026-04-21
Cancer Outcomes in the UK
My Lords, I declare my interest as an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. If I have learned one thing during my time in the House of Lords, it is that any pronouncement emanating from the lips of the noble Lord, Lord Patel, should be list
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, the sheer number of amendments from noble Lords on all sides of the Committee that are seeking to prevent medical practitioners initiating a conversation about assisted dying with a patient demonstrates how strongly noble Lords feel about this
2026-03-03
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, in moving Amendment 192A I will speak also to Amendment 194A standing in my name. In Committee, I raised a question relating to Clause 136, which I make no apology for raising with the Minister again. Under the Health Act 2006, Ministers have a
2026-03-03
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, this has been a very useful debate with some powerful contributions, but I should like to turn first to the amendments tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Hoey. It was reported last week in the Times that seven EU member states have formally ex
2026-03-03
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response and all noble Lords for their contributions to this debate. I welcome what the Minister had to say on my Amendment 192A. It seems that the key must be for clear guidance to be issued to enforcement authorit
2026-03-03
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2026-03-03
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I am sorry to disappoint the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, but, unless it is designed as a probing amendment, I fear I am not drawn to Amendment 123. In essence, it would tie the Government’s hands on the rules around the packaging and display
2026-03-03
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her response to my amendment, which was largely reassuring and provided useful clarity. I think we all agree that, with the new licensing regime, enforcement must be effective and proportionate while also ensur
2026-03-03
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, Amendment 21A is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Kamall. In Committee the Minister stated that the Government would design a licensing regime that would support compliant retailers while targeting rogue operators. She also spoke of
2026-03-03
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2026-02-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I shall speak very briefly to the amendment in this group in the name of my noble friend Lord Wolfson of Tredegar. His Amendment 913A seeks to probe an issue raised by a number of noble Lords in this debate: namely, the means by which the assis
2026-02-24
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I begin by thanking my noble friends Lord Moylan and Lord Udny-Lister for their amendments in this group. I welcome the fact that the Government have accepted my noble friend Lord Moylan’s amendments and congratulate my noble friend on pressing
2026-02-24
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I will speak to my Amendments 13A and 14A only as a means of thanking the Minister very much for her Amendments 14 and 15 in this group. As a number of us argued in Committee, including in particular my noble friend Lord Moylan, there is a stro
2026-02-24
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Murray for his amendments in this group and all noble Lords for their contributions to this important and lively debate.
Reducing smoking rates and, in particular, preventing young people from taking up tobacco,
2026-02-23
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, with these amendments, the noble Lord, Lord Mohammed, has reprised proposals he made, and which we debated, in Committee. In Committee, the Minister emphasised a point that I must say resonated particularly strongly with me. She pointed out tha
2026-02-23
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, I too am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for leading the debate on his amendments, which seek to establish a new prioritisation hierarchy that puts UK medical graduates first, ahead of those in the priority group who are not UK medical
2026-02-23
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, the amendments in this group seek to change the definition of the priority group. We debated the principle behind the amendments tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Gerada, and the noble Lord, Lord Darzi, in Committee. I shall come back to the a
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Mohammed, for his amendment and his very helpful introduction. From these Benches, we have consistently raised our concerns about the downsides of emergency legislation. The Constitution Committee chairman,
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendments 20 and 21 and in support of the other amendments in this group.
My amendments are intended to work together and to return us to one of the salient themes of our debates at Second Reading, a theme which has been
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, especially those from around the Committee who felt able to support my Amendment 4. I think there will be very many people in the medical community who will read the Minister’
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, I begin by making it clear that this is very much a probing amendment, for reasons which I shall explain. Across all the many representations I have received on the provisions of this Bill—from UK medical graduates; UK citizens studying medicin
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
2026-02-12
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Patel, deserves our thanks for opening our Committee debate in a cogent and powerful way. He is absolutely right: in this country, we train some of the very best doctors in the world—at great expense to them and to the tax
2026-02-09
National Cancer Plan
My Lords, I begin by welcoming the publication of the national cancer plan and make it clear we fully share the Government’s desire to tackle cancer and to succeed in the fight against a condition that has affected almost every family in the country in o
2026-02-06
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, before the Minister rises to speak, I have a question for her about workability arising from one of the amendments included in this debate. In his Amendment 581A, my noble friend Lord Sandhurst posed a specific question on capacity at the momen
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 · 5 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.
-
Trustee, The Portman Estate
registered 2026-06-10
-
Partner in family farming business (arable)
registered 2010-05-17 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
-
Commercial property in London and Nottingham
registered 2010-04-30 · amended 2025-04-05
-
Farmland in Buckinghamshire, including residential properties, offices and woodland
registered 2010-04-20 · amended 2025-04-05
-
Residential property in London
registered 2010-04-20 · 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
1984-10-30 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
2015-05-12 → 2024-07-05
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
2015-05-11 → 2019-07-26
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
2010-05-17 → 2015-05-11
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health)
Opposition posts
2024-09-01 → 2026-04-29
Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Committee memberships
2026-06-15 → present
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2019-10-03 → 2026-04-29
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2026-06-15 → present
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2026-01-27 → 2026-04-29
Procedure and Privileges Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)
No APPG officerships found for this peer. (Officer matching is by name —
if the parliamentary register lists them under a slightly different
form, the join may miss; check
/appgs directly.)
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
Showing
22
of 22 tabled
19 answered(86.4%)
1
departments
2026-06-15
Department of Health and Social Care
Cardiovascular Diseases: Health Services
Pending
2026-06-15
Department of Health and Social Care
Cardiovascular Diseases: Health Services
Pending
2026-06-15
Department of Health and Social Care
Cardiovascular Diseases: Health Services
Pending
2026-04-16
Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Police
Answered
2026-03-24
Department of Health and Social Care
Resident Doctors: Learning Disability and Neurodiversity
Answered
2026-03-24
Department of Health and Social Care
Resident Doctors: Learning Disability and Neurodiversity
Answered
2026-03-10
Department of Health and Social Care
Resident Doctors: Learning Disability and Neurodiversity
Answered
2026-03-10
Department of Health and Social Care
Resident Doctors: Learning Disability and Neurodiversity
Answered
2026-03-09
Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Valve Disease: Health Services
Answered
2026-03-09
Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Valve Disease: Health Services
Answered
2026-03-04
Department of Health and Social Care
Resident Doctors: Learning Disability and Neurodiversity
Answered
2026-03-04
Department of Health and Social Care
Doctors: Learning Disability and Neurodiversity
Answered
2026-03-04
Department of Health and Social Care
Resident Doctors: Learning Disability and Neurodiversity
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)
9 bills
2 as lead sponsor
7 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2021-05-12 | |
| Financial Services Act 2021 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2020-10-21 | |
| Business and Planning Act 2020 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2020-06-25 | |
| Armed Forces (Flexible Working) Act 2018 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2017-06-28 | |
| Investigatory Powers Act 2016 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2016-03-01 | |
| Armed Forces Act 2016 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2015-09-16 | |
| Care Act | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2013-05-09 | |
| Mental Health (Approval Functions) Act 2012 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2012-10-30 | |
| Health and Social Care Act 2012 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2011-01-19 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.