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The Lord Sassoon

Conservative Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Sassoon's full title is The Lord Sassoon. His name is James Meyer Sassoon, 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) £10,000
1 donation across 1 distinct recipient
Matched donor name: Lord James M Sassoon
Date Recipient Type EC Ref Amount
2019-12-19 Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party Cash C0479295 £10,000
Showing the 1 most recent donations on record. Source: Electoral Commission donations register (search.electoralcommission.org.uk). Match confidence: unique-surname.

Lords votes · 2026

162 divisions 54 Content(33.3%) 1 Not-Content(0.6%) 107 didn't vote(66.0%)
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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 18

2026-03-20 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Would my noble friend, who as ever makes passionate and eloquent interventions, first accept that point about the need for additional resources for palliative care across both England and Wales has been made repeatedly through these debates? I think the
2025-09-19 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, my reason for speaking in this debate is that I also feel that the many people who have written to us deserve to know where each of us stands. I support the introduction of a carefully circumscribed assisted dying regime along the lines of the
2025-06-11 Holocaust Memorial Bill
I am quite prepared to believe that the gardens will be improved, and the paths and the drainage, but this does not go to the heart of what this amendment is all about, which is preserving, among other things, the world heritage site which is Westminster
2025-06-11 Holocaust Memorial Bill
I am now getting more and more confused. The Minister has just said that there will be a new planning inquiry, or a new planning process, but before he said that there might be only a round table or written representations. He just used the word “new”—I
2025-06-11 Holocaust Memorial Bill
I did not want to be discourteous by interrupting his flow, so I am following the normal convention. Before he sits down, can he explain something that is rather puzzling me? If there is to be this immense improvement to the site, why has UNESCO said tha
2025-06-11 Holocaust Memorial Bill
Before my noble friend sits down—
2025-06-11 Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I am sorry that we are getting a bit diverted from the main purpose of the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Verdirame, because I very strongly support it. What he and my noble friend Lord Goodman of Wycombe had to say got to the essence of
2025-06-11 Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I was not going to speak to this amendment, but I believe that my noble friends Lady Harding of Winscombe, Lord Pickles and Lord Harper have misunderstood—I would not say misrepresented—what the amendment is all about. I declare my interests in
2025-03-20 Holocaust Memorial Bill
I appreciate that the Minister does not want to repeat multiple times his definitive words on the world heritage site, and I fully accept that. On the planning, what he has just said—which I have heard him say before—seems to give absolutely no comfort a
2025-03-20 Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I also support Amendment 16, or something like it. This is a very important amendment: it takes us right back to the core of the Bill, which is really about the nature of an appropriate memorial in this specially protected location for this uni
2025-03-20 Holocaust Memorial Bill
The noble Lord, Lord Austin, says that he wants to move things on in this Committee; I completely agree with him. So why does not he let the Minister answer the direct question about the assurances—or non-assurances—he gave about the content, rather than
2025-03-11 Holocaust Memorial Bill
The noble Lord did not address my point about UNESCO. This has nothing to do with planning processes. Under the World Heritage Convention, state parties—in this case, the UK Government— “are also expected to protect the World Heritage values of the pr
2025-03-11 Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I start by referring to my interests, which I set out at earlier stages of the Bill. I speak now in support of my noble friend Lord Blencathra’s Amendment 11, in particular, because it really is the key to reconciling the positions of my two n
2025-02-04 UK–China Economic and Financial Strategy Dialogue
I note my interest as president of the China-Britain Business Council and as having other China interests. Does the Minister agree with me that in total there are some £40 billion of UK exports going to China each year, including to Hong Kong, and those
2024-09-04 Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, legislation to overrule decisions of the courts that the Government do not like should be used very rarely. It should not be used in this case to promote a scheme which started with the best of intentions but has gone sadly, badly wrong. My
2022-03-30 British Museum: Ethiopian Sacred Altar Tablets
My Lords, as a former trustee of the British Museum, may I ask my noble friend the Minister whether he agrees with me that, more generally, museums have a responsibility to be clear about the provenance of contested objects and that the British Museum’s
2022-02-08 Parthenon Marbles
My Lords, as a former trustee of the British Museum, may I ask my noble friend the Minister if he agrees with me not only, as he said, that the British Museum is prepared to lend objects—and is at this point lending objects to many countries generously o
2019-10-24 Hong Kong
My Lords, I refer to my business interests in Hong Kong and mainland China as set out in the register. As someone involved in business in Hong Kong, I record my sadness and concern at the events of recent months. I add my condolences to all those affecte
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 · 69 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.

  • Independent Non-executive Director, China Construction Bank Corporation
    registered 2023-10-18 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Non-executive Director, Arbuthnot Latham & Co Limited (bank)
    registered 2023-09-05 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Non-executive Director, Arbuthnot Banking Group plc (bank holding company)
    registered 2023-09-05 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Non-executive Director, Barco NV (imaging technology)
    registered 2023-04-28 · amended 2025-12-11

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

  • CAE Inc (aviation simulation and testing)
    registered 2026-06-04
  • Tungsten West (mining)
    registered 2026-03-17
  • Magnum Ice Cream (interest ceased 13 February 2026)
    registered 2025-12-11 · amended 2026-02-17
  • Medtronic (medical devices)
    registered 2025-12-11
  • Siemens AG (technology)
    registered 2025-05-12
  • Woolworths Group (retail)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • The Timken Company (bearings)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-12-11
  • Stanley Black & Decker (tools)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • RTX (aerospace and defence)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Royal Bank of Canada
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-12-11
  • Qualcomm (computing)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Parker Hannifin (technology)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Occidental Petroleum
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-12-11
  • Microsoft Corporation (software)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Manulife Financial Corporation (insurance)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Man Japan CoreAlpha Fund (investment company)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • L3 Harris Technologies (technology)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Kraft Heinz (food)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • GE Vernova (energy equipment and services)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • GE Aerospace (aero engines)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Freeport-McMoRan (mining)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Emera Inc (utilities)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • ConocoPhillips (oil and gas)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Brambles Ltd (logistics)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Becton, Dickinson and Company (medical devices)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Australian Foundation Investment Company
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-12-11
  • AT&T Inc (telecommunications)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • APA Corporation (oil and gas)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Air Products and Chemicals Inc (industrial gases and chemicals)
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Haleon plc (consumer health products)
    registered 2023-07-26 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Barco NV (imaging technology)
    registered 2023-07-26 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Trane Technologies plc (climate technologies)
    registered 2021-04-30 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Eaton Corporation plc (engineering products)
    registered 2017-10-30 · amended 2025-04-05
  • City of London Investment Trust plc
    registered 2014-11-03 · amended 2025-12-11
  • Murray Income Trust (UK investment company)
    registered 2014-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Abbott Laboratories (healthcare)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • ANZ Banking Group Ltd
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-12-11
  • Argo Investments Ltd
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-12-11
  • BAE Systems plc (aerospace and defence)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Bank of Montreal
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-12-11
  • Bank of Nova Scotia
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-12-11
  • BCE Inc (communications)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • BHP Group Ltd (mining)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-12-11
  • British American Tobacco plc
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-12-11
  • Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-12-11
  • Chevron Corp (oil and gas)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-12-11
  • Emerson Electric Co (industrial manufacturing and technology)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Experian plc (support services)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • GlaxoSmithKline plc (pharmaceuticals)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-12-11
  • Honeywell International Inc (technology manufacturing)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • International Business Machines Corp (information technology)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • IMI plc (industrial engineering)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Ingersoll-Rand plc (engineering and manufacturing)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Johnson & Johnson (medical and consumer products)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Kimberly-Clark Corp (personal and healthcare products)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Merchants Trust plc (UK investment company)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Morgan Advanced Materials plc
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-12-11
  • Rio Tinto plc (mining)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Royal Dutch Shell plc (oil and gas)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Standard Chartered plc (banking)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Unilever plc (food and household products)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Xylem Inc (water technology)
    registered 2013-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality

  • Hospitality and certain incidental costs relating to attendance at UK–China Senior Leadership Forum in China met by International Department of the Chinese Communist Party, 24–28 May 2026
    registered 2026-06-02
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

2010-05-29present
Conservative current

Government posts

2010-05-132013-01-01
Commercial Secretary (HM Treasury)

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2011-09-052011-12-01
Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Bill [HL]

Contact

Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 1 historic

Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 1 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)

18 bills 3 as lead sponsor 15 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2012 Supported Royal Assent 2012-07-04
Finance Act 2012 Supported Royal Assent 2012-03-26
Financial Services Act 2012 Supported Royal Assent 2012-01-26
Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2011 Supported Royal Assent 2011-07-06
Sovereign Grant Act 2011 Supported Royal Assent 2011-06-30
Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012 Sponsored Royal Assent 2011-05-16
Finance Act 2011 Supported Royal Assent 2011-03-29
Appropriation Act 2011 Supported Royal Assent 2011-03-02
Loans to Ireland Act 2010 Supported Royal Assent 2010-12-09
Consolidated Fund Act 2010 Supported Royal Assent 2010-12-08
Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 Sponsored Royal Assent 2010-10-21
National Insurance Contributions Act 2011 Supported Royal Assent 2010-10-14
Finance (No. 3) Act 2010 Supported Royal Assent 2010-09-15
Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Act 2010 Supported Royal Assent 2010-09-15
Equitable Life (Payments) Act 2010 Supported Royal Assent 2010-07-22
Appropriation (No. 3) Act 2010 Supported Royal Assent 2010-07-19
Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Act 2010 Sponsored Royal Assent 2010-07-15
Finance (No. 2) Act 2010 Supported Royal Assent 2010-06-28
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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