The Rt Hon. the Lord Deben

Conservative Member of the House of Lords M

Lord Deben's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Deben. His name is John Selwyn Gummer, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.

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Allowance claims · 2026

Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.

Party history

1970-06-18 → present

Conservative current

Government posts

1993-05-27 → 1997-05-01

Secretary of State for Environment

1989-07-24 → 1993-05-26

Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

1988-07-25 → 1989-07-24

Minister of State (Department of Environment) (Local Government)

1985-09-02 → 1988-07-26

Minister of State (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)

1984-09-11 → 1985-09-01

Paymaster General (HM Treasury)

1983-10-18 → 1984-09-11

Minister of State (Department of Employment)

1983-01-06 → 1983-10-18

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Employment)

1981-10-01 → 1983-01-06

Lord Commissioner (HM Treasury) (Whip)

1981-01-09 → 1981-09-30

Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2002-01-31 → 2005-05-05

Ecclesiastical Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office

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

APPGs (2026) · 3 active officership(s)

Group	Role(s)	Funders	Officers in group	Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dalits Subject Group	Vice Chair	—	4	2024-07-10
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dalits and Adivasis (Tribals) Subject Group	Vice Chair	—	4	2026-07-19
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Energy Costs Subject Group	Vice Chair	Royal Public Affairs	6	2024-05-21

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.

Officer	Role	Party
Yasmin Qureshi	Chair & Registered Contact	Labour
Lord Harries of Pentregarth	Co-Chair	Crossbench
Lord Deben	Vice Chair	Conservative
Jeremy Corbyn	Vice Chair	Independent

Officer	Role	Party
Jeremy Corbyn	Chair & Registered Contact	Independent
Lord Harries of Pentregarth	Co-Chair	Crossbench
Ms Diane Abbott	Vice Chair	Independent
Lord Deben	Vice Chair	Conservative

Officer	Role	Party
Alan Brown	Chair & Registered Contact	Scottish National Party
Lord Whitty	Co-Chair	Labour
Lord Deben	Vice Chair	Conservative
Peter Aldous	Vice Chair	Conservative
Julie Elliott	Vice Chair	Labour
Lord Lucas	Vice Chair	Conservative

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)

2 bills 2 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter

Bill	Info	Role	Status	Introduced
Ecumenical Marriage Bill [HL]		Sponsored	2nd reading	2017-06-29
Catholics (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill	—	Sponsored	2nd reading	2007-02-20

Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.