The Viscount Colville of Culross
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Viscount Colville of Culross's full title is The Viscount Colville of Culross. His name is Charles Mark Townshend Colville, and he was excluded from the House of Lords on 29 April 2026.
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
12 Content(7.4%)
25 Not-Content(15.4%)
125 didn't vote(77.2%)
2026-04-23
Not-Content
152–207
Not-Content
2026-03-26
Not-Content
64–140
Not-Content
2026-02-04
Not-Content
62–295
Not-Content
2026-01-12
Not-Content
201–169
Content
2026-01-05
Not-Content
132–124
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
2026-06-16
Social Media Ban for Under-16s
I thank the Minister for the comments she has just made. She has just said that Ofcom will have a consultation on which age verification method will be used for identifying under-16s. However, I understand that the preferred form of age verification in t
2026-03-26
Middle East: Economic Update
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, is taking part remotely. I invite the noble Lord to speak.
2026-03-26
AI Growth Lab
My Lords, any AI growth in this country will depend on trust between tech companies and content rights holders. This will depend on robust transparency requirements being created, and quickly. However, the Government, in their report on AI and copyright
2026-03-25
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I welcome the government consultation, but I am distressed by how very wide its scope is and, as the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, said, how very vague the outcomes seem to be.
The arguments that I put forward in my AI chatbot amendments to the
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I support Amendment 422D and the consequential Amendments 434 to 437, to which I have added my name. In Amendment 429B the Government have gone far to respond to concerns over AI-generated harms, but this amendment, as the noble Baroness, Lady
My Lords, I am proud to be a member of the Communications and Digital Committee, which produced this report. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Keeley, for focusing and steering us towards the important conclusions we reached. Following the noble Baroness,
2026-03-11
EU Digital Services Act and Regulation
My Lords, the EU already has AI legislation. Do the Government intend to bring forward their own legislation on AI and how to regulate it?
2026-03-02
UK Streaming and Cinema Sector
My Lords, I declare an interest as a television producer. The Media Act set up prominence for public service broadcasters in the digital space, but it does not cover video-sharing platforms such as YouTube, which is where increasing numbers of young peop
2026-03-02
UK Streaming and Cinema Sector
My Lords—
2026-02-06
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I apologise: this is the first time I have spoken on the Bill. I have added my name to Amendment 115 in the name of my noble friend Lady Finlay. My concern is that, as other noble Lords have told the Committee, the Mental Capacity Act has the p
2026-02-03
AI Superintelligence
My Lords, the California AI Transparency Act has set up a mechanism for developers of large language frontier models to publish a report on a model’s intended uses and an assessment of catastrophic risks before it is released. Is that a requirement that
2026-01-27
Crime and Policing Bill
A word of warning to the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Harries: if at this stage a noble Lord starts making a speech, we normally have to call the voices on it. But we will keep going.
Amendments 441 to 444
2026-01-22
Creative Industries: Freelance Champion
My Lords—
2026-01-22
Creative Industries: Freelance Champion
My Lords—
2026-01-21
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I apologise. They suggest that the Act should be amended to ensure safety by design for all users, particularly young users.
There is a need to strengthen Ofcom’s response to tech platforms that breach their risk assessments. It needs to put the onus
2026-01-21
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I support many of the amendments in this group, but I also want to express my concerns about Amendment 94A in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Nash. I have listened carefully to his arguments and those of other noble Lords who support the amend
My Lords, I speak in support of Amendments 6 in the name of my noble friend Lord Clancarty and Amendment 10 in the name of my noble friend Lady Prashar. I have spoken to a number of people in local government and become convinced that the new strategic a
2026-01-08
Broadcasting: Recent Developments
I declare an interest as having worked for all five public service broadcasters, and I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, for procuring this debate.
I will concentrate in my speech on the future of the BBC in developing technology in the public in
My Lords, work is under way with the national centre for violence against women and girls to improve the police’s response to non-consensual intimate image abuse so that they can proactively report such content for removal and hashing. Does the Minister
2025-12-10
Children: Social Media
My Lords, the social media ban on under-16s in Australia is well-intentioned but is not the right solution to protect children from harms. Does the Minister agree with the Molly Rose Foundation that the ban risks creating a cliff edge for young people wh
2025-12-09
Crime and Policing Bill
Will the Minister meet with me?
2025-12-09
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I am pleased to support the noble Baroness, Lady Owen, in the latest stage of her campaign to stop online image abuse. I too applaud her success against deepfakes in the Data (Use and Access) Act. The Government have done much good work to prog
2025-12-09
Crime and Policing Bill
I too support all the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Bertin, but I shall speak particularly to Amendment 298.
As other noble Lords have pointed out, these nudification apps are horrific and bring untold harm to the women and men wh
My Lords, a recent survey by BECTU, the broadcasting union, found that 49% of new entrants to the creative industries have been pressurised to take on unpaid work, often in the form of unpaid internships. Can the Minister tell the House whether the new f
2025-11-27
Crime and Policing Bill
I want to repeat what I said in my speech. There are some chatbots, such as Replika, that do not have user-to-user functionality. They are created for just one user, and that user cannot pass it on to any other users. There is concern that the law does n
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Register of Interests · 2 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.
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Series producer for GTV Docs making a series 'One year in Ukraine'
registered 2022-12-05 · amended 2026-06-15
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Series producer for GTV (content for Smithsonian Channel)
registered 2020-09-01 · amended 2026-06-15
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Party history
2011-07-25 → 2026-04-29
Crossbench
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2025-01-30 → 2026-04-29
Communications and Digital Committee
2017-06-27 → 2022-01-19
Communications and Digital Committee
2022-01-19 → 2022-10-31
Fraud Act 2006 and Digital Fraud Committee
2024-01-24 → 2024-11-14
Preterm Birth Committee
Contact
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 3 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Channel 4
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Channel 4 | 4 | 2025-03-03 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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2026-02-02
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Shared Rural Network
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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Historic bills (all-time)
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