The Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho CBE
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Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho's full title is The Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho CBE. Her name is Martha Lane Fox, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
My Lords, I too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Scott, for her amazing, herculean efforts to pull together such a difficult subject. I start, however, by offering a data point that I am not sure would have surfaced in the research. I started a small karao
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts, and the European Affairs Committee on their report. Our EU relationship has always concerned trade, regulation and security. What has changed is that each of these now runs through technology. Compe
2026-01-08
Schools and Universities: Language Learning
My Lords, I too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, for securing this debate, and more importantly for her tireless leadership in this subject.
I think that I will have to be the first to confess that I have a Duolingo addiction, but I know that
2025-12-11
Wheelchair and Community Equipment Strategy
My Lords, it is great honour to listen to the noble Baroness, Lady Gerada, and to have enjoyed a small sample of the immense knowledge that she will bring to this House. It is, however, somewhat ironic that I am asked to talk about her in a time-limited
My Lords, I am very pleased to contribute to this debate on an important and extremely thoughtful report from the House of Lords Public Services Committee. I thank the committee members and their chair for this great publication.
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My Lords, I, too, start by welcoming the noble Lords, Lord Massey and Lord Evans, to this Chamber and congratulating them on their maiden speeches, and by congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, on her masterful chairmanship of the committee and
2025-05-15
Planning Reforms: Energy and Housing Costs
My Lords, the Minister herself referred to the sclerotic system. I declare my interest as president of the British Chambers of Commerce. One contributor to that system is the chronic lack of planners themselves. We are working on a project with Aviva to
2025-05-15
Planning Reforms: Energy and Housing Costs
My Lords—
2025-03-06
International Women’s Day
My Lords, I too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, for her masterful introduction to this important debate, but I have to say that I am angry. I am not a person prone to rage and fury, but I am angry. I am angry because this is an urgent and importan
2025-03-06
Schools: Mobile Phones
My Lords, has the Minister had any discussions about the innovation that is going on in mobile phones? I am particularly struck by “smart dumbphones” that do not have access to social media and allow children only to text and to keep out of danger. I thi
2025-01-23
Economic Growth
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, for instigating this important debate. I want to offer some practical solutions, with three different hats on.
The first hat that I wear is as an adviser to the digital centre of government. This week, we
2025-01-16
Rules-based International Order
I too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, for her masterful introduction to this debate. I intend to drill down into one of the threats she noted—the one we all face from unregulated technologies and the unchecked influence of technology billionair
My Lords, I declare my interests as noted in the register, most particularly as president of the British Chambers of Commerce and as a director of Peers for the Planet.
Last year, the British Chambers of Commerce published its green innovation challen
My Lords, I declare my interests as stated in the register, most particularly as chair of the Government’s digital centre design panel.
It is appropriate that we are discussing this on Friday the 13th because, on looking into the engine of the Governm
2024-11-28
Civil Service: Politicisation
My Lords, I too thank my noble friend for this important debate. I draw attention to my interests—particularly that I am currently chairing the Government’s advisory board on the digital centre of government.
Arguably, one of the most severe pressures
2024-11-12
Transport Infrastructure: North of England
My Lords, as president of the British Chambers of Commerce, I have spent many happy days in Doncaster and can attest to how delighted local businesses are at the reopening of the airport. How are the Government thinking of addressing the very substantial
2024-10-17
UN Sustainable Development Goals
My Lords, I also thank the noble Lord, Lord McConnell, for this important debate, in particular for focusing on the human experience at the end of his remarks. I too will tell a story.
Like many other noble Baronesses, I am sure, I somewhat dread Inte
My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Aberdare, for this extremely important debate. I am beginning to think that the only place that there is no skills shortage is in this Chamber, although the real skill might well be fitting all that we have to s
My Lords, I too thank the committee for this extremely effective and wide-ranging report. I shall make a short intervention with three different hats on.
The first of those hats is as president of the British Chambers of Commerce. We work closely with
2024-02-22
Poverty Reduction
My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Bird, for his timely debate and his relentless and indefatigable championing of this issue. I declare my interests, most particularly as president of the British Chambers of Commerce and chancellor of the Open U
My Lords, I, too, thank the committee for its work on this important subject, although I must confess to raising my eyes to heaven when I saw that it was still necessary to do this work. I studied ancient history, so forgive me a minute, but my ancient h
I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. It has been incredibly interesting to hear about some substantial areas of coalition, particularly around health inequalities and disparities. I have been surprised at how many noble Lords have h
My Lords, I will start with some thanks. First, I thank the team that helped us during our committee; it was patient beyond belief, especially with the novice chair. I thank the Whips’ Office for a protracted process of finding a date to debate our vario
That this House takes note of the Report from the COVID-19 Committee Living in a COVID World: A Long-term Approach to Resilience and Wellbeing (3rd Report, Session 2021–22, HL Paper 117).
2023-09-06
Beyond Digital (COVID-19 Committee Report)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his concluding remarks, and I thank everyone for participating in the debate. These are complex issues and tricky to unpick, and this is the first of what I hope will be two or three debates about our work looking at th
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Register of Interests · 10 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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Adviser, Lakestar Resilience Fund (registered collective investment scheme) (the member provides advice on investments in companies that build whole society resilience in Europe)
registered 2026-04-20
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Adviser on strategic and financial matters, GiveWheel CIC (the member is paid in equity)
registered 2025-10-13
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Non-executive Director, British Airways plc
registered 2024-10-07 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director, Multiverse (apprenticeships and skills business)
registered 2024-09-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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Director, Chanel S.A. (high fashion house)
registered 2018-06-07 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chairman, Lucky Voice Group Ltd (karaoke)
registered 2013-03-27 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Lucky Voice Group Ltd
registered 2013-03-27 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Schroeder International Selection Fund
registered 2013-03-27 · amended 2025-04-05
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SSE plc (utilities)
registered 2013-03-27 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 4: Sponsorship
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The member receives research assistance from Peers for the Planet Ltd in her role as a director of the Peers for the Planet parliamentary group
registered 2025-07-25
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Party history
2013-03-25 → present
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Government posts
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Opposition posts
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Committee memberships
2017-11-06 → 2022-01-19
National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
2020-06-11 → 2022-04-28
COVID-19 Committee
Chair
+£15,928/yr
Contact
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