The Lord Monks
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Monks's full title is The Lord Monks. His name is John Stephen Monks, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£5,936
16 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed
£5,936
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
2 Content(1.1%)
132 Not-Content(69.8%)
55 didn't vote(29.1%)
2026-07-22
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64–95
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2026-07-21
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173–234
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2026-04-27
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58–138
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2026-04-23
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152–207
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2026-04-13
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27–89
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30–130
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135–154
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2026-03-26
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2026-03-26
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2026-03-25
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2026-03-24
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70–132
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2026-03-12
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26–134
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2026-03-05
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193–143
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194–140
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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 25
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Scott, who chaired the proceedings of the committee with considerable skill and good temper, as we were all searching for data which does not exist and may never exist, I suspect, given the G
2026-01-29
UK-EU Customs Union
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Gill, for that absolutely excellent speech, revealing her rich experience in many areas across both the European Union and localities in the UK. She has already made one significant mark on our work: I was not
2026-01-29
UK-EU Customs Union
I finish with an appeal to the other side to open their minds and maybe open their hearts a little bit, recognise the situation we are now in, not the situation we were in, and take the country forward on that basis.
2025-11-20
Private Equity
My Lords, I am grateful for this opportunity to revisit one of the darker corners of the financial services sector and to see what has altered since noble Lords last debated the issue in 2022. The excellent Library brief defines private equity as “a mana
2025-11-20
Private Equity
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the role of private equity in the UK economy.
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I oppose Amendment 147. The compromise formula that my noble friend Lord Barber has just talked about was a very practical solution to a tricky problem in the period when the noble Lord, Lord Burns, and his committee did such good work. However
2025-07-21
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Hendy for directing our attention to collective bargaining, its historic importance in our national life and its relevance today.
Many in this Chamber today might know that the hero of establishing that
2025-06-24
Employment Rights Bill
I was just sitting here looking at the noble Lord, a member of Mrs Thatcher’s Cabinet, with another one over there, the noble Lord, Lord Deben. When they passed a major piece of legislation, were there were any cases where you went to Mrs Thatcher and sa
2025-06-10
Employment Rights Bill
I will not be specific about it because I do not want to generally insult people, but over the years, there has been some dodgy funding of the Conservative Party. Maybe something has been done about it; maybe it has not. The noble Lord will tell us in a
2025-06-10
Employment Rights Bill
I look forward to that degree of clarity in Conservative Party funding. We could all be enlightened by the explanation that I believe is about to come. We are talking about an amount of—
2025-06-10
Employment Rights Bill
I was around when the noble Lord, Lord Burns, was chairing his committee and I was involved on the fringes of some of the work that was done. From the unions’ side, we appreciated very much what he did and the work the committee did with his colleagues.
2025-05-21
Employment Rights Bill
Thirty-four.
2025-05-21
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I do not doubt that critics of this part of the Bill speak with a lot of personal experience as well as commitment to their employees and the way they run their affairs. However, let me remind people that the argument that is really coming from
2025-05-21
Employment Rights Bill
Oh, he has already done it—very good.
Let us be real about this. A lot of situations call for tact and diplomacy, and for us to be careful about the way we express difficult thing. A lot of people do not do that; they say what they like, thinking it i
2025-05-21
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, it is commonplace for individuals who express personal views that clash with the ethos of a particular company or institution to run into some trouble. Gary Lineker is the latest and most topical example, for displaying material that is conside
2025-04-29
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 1 and avoid the temptation to engage in a mini-debate across the whole width. So far, I feel I have been sitting in a Second Reading debate. I have given speeches in this House before, reflecting similar sentiments to
2025-03-27
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I add my congratulations to the quartet of maiden speakers. I think they have all laid down a mark and people will look forward to their future contributions in this House.
I want to pitch my remarks at some of the messages coming from acros
2025-02-27
Post Office Horizon Compensation Scheme
My Lords, it is a real pleasure for me to follow that excellent and inspiring speech by my noble friend and fellow Lancastrian—we are doing the northern bit at the moment, so I will join in with that. As my noble friend Lord Barber said, he comes from Ai
2025-02-06
Lifelong Learning
My Lords, it is a real pleasure and privilege to follow my noble friend Lady Curran and the excellent maiden speech we have just been treated to. She is a graduate of a tough school. Clydeside politics is not for wimps and the faint-hearted, but it is a
2024-12-05
Retail Crime: Effects
I add my congratulations to my noble and long-standing friend Lord Hannett of Everton on securing this important debate. As the noble Baroness, Lady Hazarika, has just said, my noble friend Lord Hannett was a distinguished and highly effective general se
2024-11-11
Autumn Budget 2024
My Lords, in my contribution to this debate, a debate so well led by my noble friend Lord Livermore, I will focus on growth and vocational skills.
We have to start by honestly acknowledging that the UK performs a lot worse on growth and skills than ot
2024-10-24
Hospices: Funding
My Lords, I too am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, for allowing us to shine a light on our hospices. They deserve all the help we can give them in return for all the help they give us and our families.
My son, Daniel, died earlier this year u
2024-07-22
King’s Speech (4th Day)
My Lords, it is a real pleasure for me today to welcome the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Vallance, and welcome him to this House. It was a very interesting and inspiring speech in many ways. I also congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Petitgas, on his spe
2024-05-16
Community Sports: Impact on Young People
My Lords, I warmly congratulate my noble friend Lord Hannett of Everton on his excellent maiden speech. It demonstrated to everyone in the House that we have acquired a new Member with a deep knowledge of the rough ends of the world of work in the UK, co
My Lords, I express my gratitude to the noble Lord, Lord Balfe, for his work to promote the role of trade unions and their members in the rather desolate area of the Conservative Party, which is not necessarily receptive to his ardent cultivation of this
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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registered 2012-05-07 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2010-07-26 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2020-03-04 → 2023-01-31
Economic Affairs Committee
2014-06-12 → 2016-05-12
Economic Affairs Committee
2019-12-04 → 2023-01-31
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2015-12-08 → 2016-03-04
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2025-01-30 → 2025-10-27
Home-based Working Committee
2026-09-07 → present
Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)
Contact
Parliamentary office
monksj@parliament.uk
020 7219 6943 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 6943 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 2 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 2 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)
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.