The Rt Hon. the Lord Freud
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Freud's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Freud. His name is David Anthony Freud, and he is currently on leave of absence from the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2021-11-02
Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill
I ask your Lordships’ indulgence to make a few observations following events last week, in the context of Amendment 5 on poverty, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock. My noble friend Lady Stroud and I are not pursuing our amendment on univer
2021-10-26
Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill
My Lords, it is with the greatest possible reluctance that I have felt compelled to join my noble friend and former colleague Lady Stroud in putting down this amendment, which is considered inadmissible by the clerks of the House.
My noble friend Lady
2021-10-13
Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill
My Lords, this Bill is designed to control pension spending and I am broadly in agreement with its direction. However, as the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durham has just pointed out, there is another pressing issue in social security: the remova
2021-02-09
Personal Statement
My Lords, with the leave of the House I will make a personal statement. Today, the Commissioner for Standards has published a report into my conduct. The report relates to letters, to which I was a signatory, to members of the judiciary about references
2019-06-06
Employment
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Leigh on obtaining this debate. I would like to make some observations on the role of the changes to the welfare system in the record levels of employment. I acknowledge that any such impact has taken place i
2019-01-21
Poverty: Metrics
My Lords, I add my congratulations to my noble friend for securing this debate and, more significantly, for the achievement of setting up the Social Metrics Commission and for delivering this important report. Not the least of her achievements is to have
My Lords, I want to pick up on two statements made by the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, one of which I agree with and one of which I do not. The first and possibly more substantial statement is the claim that 1 million children will lose out and that the new
2018-02-21
Volunteering
My Lords, I add my thanks to the noble Baroness, Lady Armstrong. I want to draw the attention of the House to my entry in the register as a trustee of the Jecda Foundation. Over the last nine years, we have been steadily building an initiative to organis
2016-12-21
Universal Credit
My Lords, I start by congratulating my noble friend Lord Farmer on getting this debate. I do not know what Houdini-like skills he has to secure this timing, but it clearly shows that he knows how to operate the House systems. I also congratulate the nobl
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
My Lords, the effect of Amendment 25 would be to widen the definition of administration charges for the purposes of Part 1 of the Bill, so that it is capable of including transaction costs. It may be helpful if I explain that we considered the inclusion o
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
I shall take the opportunity to go through the matter of transfers because there has been a lot of discussion of it and this at the heart of it. I will pick up what we did in Committee, where the amendment from my noble friend Lord Flight referred to auto
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
The noble Baroness has been so generous and I will take the opportunity to go over this because it is slightly back to front from normal. This is not like a defined benefit scheme worth billions of pounds which are at severe risk. This is about the costs
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
I am grateful to the noble Baroness for inviting me to intervene again. Under the Bill, if there are costs, they will not fall on the members, so who is she trying to protect? As to my point about the sledge-hammer, if we could have found tail-end insuran
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
I am saying that the clause is carefully drafted to allow tail-end insurance as part of the capital adequacy when the regulator looks at what is required. We are not in a position to do any more at this stage because that particular insurance is not ava
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
I should make it clear to the noble Baroness that we looked closely at tail-end risk insurance. It works within the legislation and the regulator can accept it. We have not made it a major issue at this stage because, at the moment, no such insurance is a
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
My Lords, I will address Amendment 6, which was tabled by the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, and the noble Baronesses, Lady Drake and Lady Bakewell. This is a valuable opportunity for us to discuss member protection, which is clearly at the heart of the Bill
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
2016-12-19
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
To make it clear, it incorporates legislation that now exists and the legislation that we will prospectively pass with this Bill.
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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On leave of absence; exempt from registration
registered 2021-12-16
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Party history
2009-06-27 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
2015-05-12 → 2016-12-21
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Welfare Reform)
2010-05-17 → 2015-05-07
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) (Welfare Reform)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
None recorded.
Contact
Parliamentary office
freudd@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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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.
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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)
8 bills
4 as lead sponsor
4 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pension Schemes Act 2017 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2016-10-19 | |
| Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2015-07-09 | |
| European Union (Approvals) Act 2015 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2015-06-25 | |
| Mesothelioma Act | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2013-05-09 | |
| Pensions Act | Supported | Royal Assent | 2013-05-09 | |
| Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2013-03-14 | |
| Welfare Reform Act 2012 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2011-02-16 | |
| Pensions Act 2011 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2011-01-12 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.