The Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Stevenson of Balmacara's full title is The Lord Stevenson of Balmacara. His name is Wilf Stevenson, 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.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
4 Content(2.5%)
35 Not-Content(21.6%)
123 didn't vote(75.9%)
2026-03-26
Not-Content
115–197
Not-Content
2026-03-26
Not-Content
64–140
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Not-Content
193–143
Content
2026-03-05
Not-Content
194–140
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2026-03-05
Not-Content
198–139
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2026-03-05
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208–142
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2026-03-05
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214–142
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2026-02-04
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62–295
Not-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
2026-03-25
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, there have been very few speakers from the Labour Benches and I want to make sure that those who are supporting the amendments before the House today understand that, within this party, it is not exactly as was set out by the Minister. There ar
2026-03-25
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, at Third Reading it is extraordinarily rare to find issues still in contest, and to be presented, as we have been today, with a choice on which we will have to vote. Normally, by this stage, the issues have been clearly discussed and the partie
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I speak from the Labour Benches and first congratulate the Minister on listening to the debates we had in Committee. I thank him very much for bringing forward an amendment which is as close as I have seen this Government move to try and patch
My Lords, it is very welcome that we have, in the space of a fortnight, two chances to debate committee reports from one of our most senior committees—I say that as a recent member of it. I find it is often the case that the House does not see the work g
My Lords, like many others who have spoken today, I pay tribute to my noble and learned friend Lord Goldsmith for his superb chairmanship of the International Agreements Committee. In particular, I thank him for his work in guiding us through the process
2026-03-02
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I was also at the meeting, which has been referred to, that was held this lunchtime and dealt with the troubling question of what seems to be an epidemic of growth in the exploitation of children on the internet. I must say that it revealed fig
2026-03-02
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, in speaking on issues related to online safety, I seem to spend most of my time apologising for the fact that the Act is not as up-to-date, efficient or effective as it should be, but here is another example of where technology has overtaken th
The Minister answered very fully the question about the fees and how they would be monitored, but those were the fees to the consumers. I asked a separate question about why it did not seem to be a cost to the provider of the services, who would also ben
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for introducing the statutory instruments. This is not a very complicated issue and I do not have much to say about it, but I do have one or two questions.
First, this emerged from the digital markets Bill, w
2026-02-04
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
My Lords, it is a real pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Roe of West Wickham, and to congratulate him not only on his excellent maiden speech but on the wealth of experience and expertise that he brings to our House. I look forward to a lot more—bu
2026-01-29
Superintelligent AI
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Hunt on securing this important debate and concealing the real purpose of it in a rather confusing title. I also want to declare that this speech was made entirely by myself and my brain, and I have not consu
I am grateful to my noble friend for trying to explain the “just and reasonable” approach. Just to unpick what he said, what is Ofcom consulting about? There seems a disjuncture in what we are trying to do here. We are going to pass this regulation tomor
My Lords, I welcome this SI, although I have some questions about it. I would be grateful if the Minister could respond to them and, if not, write to me about them.
It is good to see progress being made on these issues. This was an area of considerabl
I may not have made the point as clearly as I should have. It is not the fact that Ofcom will be unaware of an issue that is being raised as much as that the need to get a super-complaint going may frustrate Ofcom finding out about small but high-risk ac
My Lords, I welcome my noble friend’s comments, which set the context for this interesting statutory instrument.
In the process of consultation that led to the final decisions, was there time for the department to begin to implement the Parkinson rule
2025-06-19
HS2 Reset
My Lords, one of the problems encountered by all major projects such as HS2 is the difficulty of getting the public generally on side. I declare an interest here as a former owner of a property that was on the route of the original plans for HS2. I am su
2025-06-04
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
I am sorry to interrupt these exchanges, which are of great interest. I have not been able to participate in ping-pong for some time, but the House will be aware that I am very keen on the issues being discussed and have been involved in a number of Bill
Sorry to interrupt but, to return to the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, is it the Government’s position that, although the law says it is permissible, and indeed was expected, that in making their decision about category 1 the Government
My Lords, often in this House one is tempted to wander down memory lane and is filled with wonderful memories of good times and shared experiences, but none so present as the one that was referred to by the noble Baroness when she spoke earlier about the
My Lords, it is a privilege to be in a debate that has three maiden speeches. We have already had two brilliant ones, and I am sure the third will be the same. Both the earlier speakers have managed to do something which is quite hard to do in your Lords
2025-02-05
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I was very pleased to hear my noble friend Lord Vallance’s words in relation to what we have been doing today and also taking a broader conspectus of what we have been doing in the longer periods of Committee and Report. I think he has answered
2025-02-05
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
My Lords, the little exchange we have just had, which was most welcome, arose because it became clear in Committee that there were meetings of minds but not meetings of words in what had been presented there. I am pleased to join the noble Baroness, Lady
2025-01-28
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
I have signed Amendment 58. I also support the other amendment spoken to by the noble Baroness, although I did not get around to signing it. They both speak to the same questions, some of which have been touched on by both previous speakers.
My route
2025-01-28
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
Before the Minister sits down, that was exactly the point I was trying to make, and I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, for raising it again. It does need the Minister to say to the clerk that it is possible for the noble Baroness, Lady O
2025-01-28
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, who did so much during the Online Safety Bill—now Act—to champion the issues that are now before us. She should get full credit for the first steps she made. I think I said it before, and
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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registered 2025-04-07
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Party history
2010-07-13 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
2023-02-21 → 2024-07-05
Shadow Spokesperson (Science, Innovation and Technology)
2022-10-10 → 2023-02-20
Shadow Spokesperson (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
2020-05-14 → 2021-01-28
Shadow Spokesperson (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
2020-04-15 → 2021-01-28
Shadow Spokesperson (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and International Trade)
2019-05-01 → 2020-04-14
Shadow Spokesperson (International Trade)
2016-07-14 → 2017-06-21
Shadow Spokesperson (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
2016-07-01 → 2017-06-21
Shadow Spokesperson (Education)
2011-10-17 → 2021-01-28
Opposition Whip (Lords)
2011-09-05 → 2016-07-14
Shadow Spokesperson (Business, Innovation and Skills)
2010-10-13 → 2017-06-21
Shadow Spokesperson (Culture, Media and Sport)
Committee memberships
2021-01-28 → 2022-01-19
Communications and Digital Committee
2010-11-15 → 2011-01-21
Communications and Digital Committee
2016-09-13 → 2016-11-09
Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2021-07-22 → 2024-05-30
Draft Online Safety Bill (Joint Committee)
2023-09-05 → 2024-05-30
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2025-01-30 → present
International Agreements Committee
2025-01-30 → 2025-10-27
Home-based Working Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Numeracy for Life Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
stevensonw@parliament.uk
020 7219 8914 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 8914 · 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
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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)
3 bills
3 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goods Mortgages Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2020-02-05 | |
| Goods Mortgages Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2019-10-21 | |
| Goods Mortgages Bill [HL] | — | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2018-11-29 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.