The Rt Hon. the Lord Taylor of Holbeach CBE
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Taylor of Holbeach's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Taylor of Holbeach CBE. His name is John Derek Taylor, 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
17
6 meetings ·
10 hospitality ·
1 gift ·
0 overseas trips
· 2015-04-01 → 2019-06-30
Recent meetings
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-01 | — | Nil Return | cabinet-office |
| 2018-01-01 | — | Nil Return | cabinet-office |
| 2017-11-29 | — | Pre-meet ahead of Speech | cabinet-office |
| 2017-07-01 | — | NIL Return | cabinet-office |
| 2015-11-03 | — | Discussion on organic milk (in personal role as a farmer) | cabinet-office |
| 2015-04-01 | — | Trustee business | cabinet-office |
Recent hospitality
| Date | Host | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-24 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2018-11-27 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2018-11-20 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2017-12-08 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2017-07-18 | — | Light Refreshments | — |
| 2017-03-28 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2016-04-01 | — | Lunch (x2 - also for his wife) | — |
| 2015-10-22 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2015-04-01 | — | Tickets to Wimbledon - ordinary matches (x 2) | — |
| 2015-04-01 | — | Tickets to Opera and dinner (x2) | — |
Recent gifts
| Date | Gift | From / To | Outcome | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-20 | Half a gold sovereign coin | Bhagwan Shree Lakshmi Narayan Dham | Held by department | £140 |
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
108 Content(66.7%)
5 Not-Content(3.1%)
49 didn't vote(30.2%)
2026-06-09
Content
13–66
Not-Content
2026-04-13
Not-Content
69–332
Not-Content
2026-03-25
Content
95–137
Not-Content
2026-02-04
Not-Content
62–295
Not-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
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
2026-06-11
Rural Economy
My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey. I join her in saying how nice it is to be sitting just behind the noble Lord, Lord Roborough, whose return to the House is, I am sure, welcomed by everybody.
I have a great interest i
2026-02-06
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
As the Minister will know, I have made it clear that I am concerned about suffering in the last days of life. One of the key elements of that is palliative care. When one talks about treatment, one of the incentives for death is suffering. Does the Minis
2026-01-30
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I am reluctant to involve myself in this debate, but I see this whole legislative process as being about practicalities in the end. It is good that we have had an exposition of the articulation of the motivation of the people seeking success fo
2026-01-20
Railways: East Coast Main Line
My Lords, I do not often find myself at odds with the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate, but I am on this. Indeed, yesterday I came up to London and my EMR train from Spalding to Peterborough was cancelled. I had to seek an earlier train, and then, on that
2026-01-09
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I think that part of the difficulty is that we are trying to find a pragmatic method of discussing this complicated Bill. There are some 80 amendments in this particular group and it is impossible for the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer,
2025-10-20
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Before the noble Earl sits down, where is his amendment to improve the Bill? Why has he not presented something to this House? I think it insults the House that he condemns positive constructions from the House in general while not presenting anything of
2025-10-20
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, I would just like to say a few words, because I actually believe that solar energy is a very good thing. We have installed it—and I must declare my interest, in that my family bulb-growing and farming industry business in south Lincolnshire is
2025-09-19
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter. We often debate and we do not necessarily agree; we do not on this occasion. I wish I were participating in the Second Reading of a government Bill, but we are where we are. Most of us
2025-06-12
Parliamentary Commercial Department
The noble Baroness was talking about the minutes. I have asked the Printed Paper Office if it has copies of the minutes of the commission’s meetings. In fact, I have asked several times. There are some copies, but they date from February; they are on the
2025-06-12
Parliamentary Commercial Department
A number of Peers present at the moment, and indeed the Clerk of the Parliaments, went home rather late last night. As we did so—the door was conveniently left open for us to go through at our liberty—I noticed a large number of heavy-duty lorries outsid
2025-06-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
There are four gates.
2025-03-25
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, I put on a tie this morning which represents the royal agricultural societies of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Where are they on this list? I learnt something about this—and the former Leader of the House my noble friend Lord S
2025-03-25
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Perhaps I may say a few words as the predecessor of my noble friend Lord Ashton of Hyde as Chief Whip for the Government in this House. When I was serving under the noble Baroness, Lady May, she was very keen to make sure that the numbers in this House d
My Lords, I have spoken on many subjects in Grand Committee in this Room, and this is the first time that I have spoken on local government. In fact, there is a much better qualified inhabitant of Lincolnshire to speak on this subject—the noble Lord, Lor
2025-01-23
Climate Change: Support for Farmers
My Lords, this may be a Question for Short Debate, but the right reverend Prelate has attracted a fine speakers’ list which includes many of my noble friends, and I am delighted to follow my noble friend Lady Shephard.
Noble Lords will know of my inte
2024-12-12
Small Farms and Family Businesses
My Lords, it is a real privilege to follow my noble friend Lady Cumberlege. She has been a remarkable Member of this House and we are very lucky to have had a speech which was so characteristic of her. My noble friend was in this House 16 years before I
2024-11-28
Storm Bert: National Preparedness
I will follow up on the planning issue. One of the places that flooded was the Billing Aquadrome, which was built as a leisure resort and temporary accommodation for people to spend riverside holidays. One of the problems with temporary caravan homes is
2024-11-21
Farming Families
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness—my coalition friend—on getting this debate. How topical it is. The industry is in shock; the truth is that nobody expected this, probably including Defra. Farmers are having to cope with lots of other difficult
2024-09-05
Independent Schools: VAT Exemption
My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Griffiths. I have always liked his contributions to debate and today is no exception. I particularly wish to thank my noble friend Lord Lexden for proposing this debate, because it is opportune. It
2024-09-05
Emergency Alert Service
I have the good fortune to have a house in France in a small village where the mayor has collected all the mobile numbers of everybody in the village and as a result I can sit here and, were I looking at my phone—of course I am not looking at my phone wh
2024-05-20
Business of the House
Would the Leader of the House be willing to discuss with his colleagues in the usual channels a debate on the ongoing review into the Code of Conduct? As noble Lords will know, the Conduct Committee is conducting a wide-ranging review of the code, and th
2024-05-13
Passport e-Gates Network Outage
My Lords, I will recount a personal anecdote, and ask my noble friend the Minister some questions, because I travel frequently between here and the European Union. I had the good fortune to arrive at Gatwick in the mid-afternoon of the day in question; h
My Lords, what a pity it is that a subject so important, and which has had such an input from the House of Lords, has such little time to be debated. I hope there will be other occasions on which we can talk about this.
I speak as a professional horti
2024-01-18
Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Trees. He is a distinguished Member of this House and this is an important topic. I might tend to disagree with some of what he said—probably because of my slightly different job as a hortic
2023-06-15
Nottingham Incident
My Lords, I had not intended to contribute to this Statement, but I would like to thank my noble friend the Minister for giving us the chance to talk about it.
We all have a political hinterland, and mine very much includes Nottingham—it is a politica
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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.
Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
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As a member of the All-Parliamentary Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces, the member receives invitations to breakfast and dinner briefings which during the course of the calendar year together amount to more than £300 in value and all of which are paid for by sources listed in the register of APPGs
registered 2024-01-24 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2006-05-31 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
2014-08-06 → 2019-07-26
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
2012-09-06 → 2014-08-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
2011-09-16 → 2012-09-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
2010-05-11 → 2011-09-15
Lords Spokesperson (Cabinet Office)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2014-10-14 → 2016-08-31
Administration and Works Committee (Lords)
2014-10-14 → 2019-10-03
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2014-10-14 → 2019-10-03
Committee of Selection (Lords)
2014-10-14 → 2019-05-09
Committee for Privileges and Conduct (Lords)
2015-06-10 → 2019-10-03
Sub-Committee on Leave of Absence
2016-09-01 → 2019-10-03
Services Committee
2022-01-19 → 2025-01-30
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2024-10-31 → present
Ecclesiastical Committee
2023-04-20 → 2024-05-30
Ecclesiastical Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
taylorjl@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 9 active officership(s) · 5 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
All-Party Parliamentary Gardening and Horticulture Group
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | Whitehouse Communications Ltd | 4 | 2027-01-11 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fruit, Vegetable and Horticulture
Subject Group
|
Officer | — | 8 | 2022-09-17 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fruit, Vegetables and Horticulture
Subject Group
|
Officer | — | 9 | 2024-09-17 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future of UK Freight and Logistics
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 13 | 2023-09-24 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Mayflower 400
Subject Group
|
Secretary | — | 10 | 2021-06-05 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Emerging Drugs and Online Behavioral Trends
Subject Group
|
Co-Chair | University of Hertfordshire (Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences Department) | 4 | 2026-08-28 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freight and Logistics
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | Pagefield Communications | 4 | 2027-01-10 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Long Covid
Subject Group
|
Officer | — | 4 | 2027-04-09 |
|
Netherlands All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country, Area or Region Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2027-02-28 |
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)
7 bills
3 as lead sponsor
4 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2014-07-14 | |
| Serious Crime Act | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2014-06-05 | |
| Immigration Act | Supported | Royal Assent | 2013-10-10 | |
| Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act | Supported | Royal Assent | 2013-05-09 | |
| Police (Complaints and Conduct) Act 2012 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2012-11-22 | |
| Crime and Courts Act | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2012-05-10 | |
| Public Bodies Act 2011 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2010-10-28 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.