The Lord Farmer
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
M
Lord Farmer's full title is The Lord Farmer. His name is Michael Stahel Farmer, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£4,452
14 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed
£4,452
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Political donations made
Total donated (all years on record)
£5,457,000
71 donations across 3 distinct recipients
Matched donor names:
Lord Michael S Farmer · Lord Michael S Farmer · Lord Michael S Farmer · Lord Michael Farmer · Lord Michael Farmer of Bishopsgate
| Date | Recipient | Type | EC Ref | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-24 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Cash | C0840348 | £25,000 |
| 2026-02-01 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Cash | C0840347 | £5,000 |
| 2025-08-08 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Cash | C0833822 | £50,000 |
| 2025-08-08 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Cash | C0833821 | £125,000 |
| 2024-12-04 | Conservative and Unionist Party · South Yorkshire | Cash | C0595895 | £14,000 |
| 2024-06-17 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Kensington, Bayswater, Chelsea and Fulham | Cash | C0583535 | £4,000 |
| 2024-06-10 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Scarborough & Whitby | Cash | C0583536 | £4,000 |
| 2024-06-10 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Cash | C0583537 | £50,000 |
| 2024-06-04 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Cash | C0578637 | £50,000 |
| 2024-05-30 | Conservative and Unionist Party · South West Devon | Cash | C0583538 | £4,000 |
| 2024-05-23 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Loughborough | Cash | C0583533 | £7,000 |
| 2024-05-02 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Cash | C0583534 | £50,000 |
| 2024-02-29 | Conservative and Unionist Party · West Suffolk | Cash | C0578387 | £6,000 |
| 2024-02-09 | Mr Bim Afolami | Non Cash | NC0575477 | £5,000 |
| 2023-12-14 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Winchester | Cash | C0574828 | £5,000 |
| 2023-11-01 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Cash | C0574827 | £5,000 |
| 2023-10-17 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Didcot and Wantage | Cash | C0574826 | £6,000 |
| 2023-06-09 | Conservative and Unionist Party · South West Devon | Cash | C0570296 | £6,000 |
| 2023-05-22 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Cash | C0570295 | £90,000 |
| 2022-08-05 | Rishi Sunak | Cash | C0559851 | £15,000 |
Showing the 20 most recent donations on record.
Source: Electoral Commission donations register
(search.electoralcommission.org.uk).
Match confidence: unique-surname.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
55 Content(29.1%)
1 Not-Content(0.5%)
133 didn't vote(70.4%)
2026-01-05
Content
168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Content
210–131
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
2026-09-17
Prison and Probation Service
I am the barrier between everyone and Recess.
This has been a good, valuable and collaborative debate. We have worked together. There has not been partisanship. That is important because this is an important and, to be quite frank, depressing subject.
2026-09-17
Prison and Probation Service
My Lords, I thank all who will contribute this afternoon. It is an impressive list, and I am looking forward to hearing some valuable contributions to what is, at the present time, a very important subject. I thank you for making time after a busy week.
2026-09-17
Prison and Probation Service
That this House takes note of the state of the prison and probation service in England and Wales.
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews.
It is worth reflecting on Ian Dunt’s comments on How Westminster Works and Why It Doesn’t:
“There is a place with a proud record of standing up to government. It works diligent
2026-09-14
Representation of the People Bill
My Lords, I was sad to hear from the right reverend Prelate that this was his last contribution in the House and that he is retiring at the end of the month. I served with him on the Council for Christians and Jews—he was a chairman and I was a Christian
2026-07-20
Social Housing Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate. I thank my noble friend Lady Eaton and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Thornhill, for her support, particularly in highlighting the variability of councils’ responses to notification
2026-07-20
Social Housing Bill [HL]
My Lords, Amendment 82 is in my name and I support the three other amendments in this group, tabled by my noble friends Lady O’Neill of Bexley and Lord Jamieson. Amendment 82 augments my Committee stage Amendment 94, and I thank MHCLG for two meetings wi
2026-07-20
Social Housing Bill [HL]
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of partnership working between prisons and local housing authorities in preventing homelessness and rough sleeping among prisoners released early.
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who are here today to debate an issue that could get lost amidst the penal populism informing much of the response to the next waves of early release following the Sentencing Act 2026.
Why do I refer to penal populism
2026-06-17
Social Housing Bill [HL]
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville. I will be following along with her arguments but will speak to my Amendment 94. I start by thanking the Minister for the helpful meeting I had yesterday with
2026-06-11
Rural Economy
My Lords, the memoir of the noble Baroness, Lady Batters, titled Harvest: A Farmer’s Story of Heritage, Home and Hope, has just been published. I notice that she dedicated it:
“To farmers, their families and all those who feed us”.
That is a fitt
Have parliamentary Members’ offices been checked for any of these devices, in the other place and in this place? I imagine that foreign powers could be quite interested in the conversations going on in the offices of certain Members of Parliament. Is the
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper. I declare my interest as co-founder of the not-for-profit Family Hubs Network Ltd.
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
To ask His Majesty’s Government what progress they have made in ensuring that Best Start Family Hubs support families with children aged 5–19 years old and up to 25 years old for those with special educational needs and disabilities.
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
I thank the Minister for that reply. Family hubs are not Sure Start rebranded. There is a multitude of problems affecting families with older children, yet all that is ever talked about, in my opinion, is the early years. Hubs need to support parents of
My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Baroness, Lady Morris of Yardley, her committee and its support team for this report, which covered much ground and recommended far-reaching reforms that stand a good chance of improving outcomes. They address long-runni
2026-05-18
King’s Speech
My Lords, first, I support the Government’s health plans, which include a strong focus on prevention and neighbourhood, and I want to help them build on the integration of health and other services required by the Health and Care Act 2022.
We are gett
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, this is a Private Member’s Bill, finally passed in the Commons with a shrinking majority of 26. I have spoken to a number of Labour MPs since, and what is possibly not known is that there was considerable pressure from No. 10 to pass the Bill.
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords—
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I will continue. Almost 250 Members of this House have been involved in a massive and sustained effort to try to make the Bill safe and workable. The House staff, as we have heard, have been outstanding in their service to us all and I am sure we are ext
2026-04-20
Civil Preparedness for War
My Lords, I too am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Harris of Richmond, for securing this vital and timely debate, and it is an honour to follow the noble Lord, Lord Harris, who is such an expert on resilience.
I am on this House’s National Resil
2026-03-25
Crime and Policing Bill
I am addressing the point of impact assessment, which had not been properly debated.
2026-03-25
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I disagree with the noble Lord, Lord Pannick. We did not debate an impact assessment. We need a proper government impact assessment for this clause before it is made law. There are foreseeable consequences to taking down important guardrails w
2026-03-25
Crime and Policing Bill
I would prefer to get a move on so that everybody is happy that this comes to an end. Have we forgotten that hard cases make bad law and public policy should be a consideration? Knowing that she aborted a perfectly viable baby can haunt a woman for years
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Register of Interests · 26 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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Farm manager, Farmer-White Contracting (agriculture)
registered 2017-12-08 · amended 2025-05-21
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Trinipol Ltd (service company)
registered 2024-12-06 · amended 2025-04-05
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FHN Holding Limited (owns The Family Hubs Network Ltd)
registered 2023-05-15 · amended 2025-04-05
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RK Trinity Limited (service company) (dissolved 11 December 2025)
registered 2021-05-19 · amended 2026-01-05
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Red Kite Partners Limited (investment holding company)
registered 2021-05-19 · amended 2025-04-05
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New Barn Farm Estate (farming)
registered 2017-12-08 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Elemental Works (green chemicals manufacturer)
registered 2026-01-05
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RK Mine Finance Fund I Limited (investment fund company)
registered 2025-05-08
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Woodside Energy Group Ltd (oil and gas)
registered 2024-04-16 · amended 2025-04-05
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13Books Capital (venture capital fund for fintech industry)
registered 2024-01-10 · amended 2025-05-08
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Thor’s Skyr (yoghurt manufacturer)
registered 2023-11-24 · amended 2025-04-05
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Hetz Ventures III LP (venture capital)
registered 2022-06-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Parlement Technologies Inc (technology services company) (placed into Chapter 11 bankruptcy 15 April 2024)
registered 2022-01-06 · amended 2025-04-05
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The New York Sun Company LLC (media)
registered 2021-10-15 · amended 2025-04-05
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The Emissions Capture Company Ltd (in liquidation from 19 June 2025)
registered 2021-10-15 · amended 2025-12-02
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BHP Group plc (mining)
registered 2021-05-19 · amended 2025-04-05
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All Perspectives Limited (parent of GB News) (24 hour television news channel)
registered 2021-05-19 · amended 2025-04-05
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Hetz Ventures II L.P. (venture capital)
registered 2020-12-22 · amended 2025-04-05
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Lamb’s Passage Holding Limited (holding company for Kingdom Bank Limited)
registered 2020-02-25 · amended 2025-04-05
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InfraSalience Limited (green chemicals manufacturer) (in liquidation) (interest ceased 19 December 2025)
registered 2019-05-24 · amended 2026-01-05
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Tokamak (commercialisation of fusion energy)
registered 2018-11-27 · amended 2025-04-05
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Hetz Ventures LP (venture capital)
registered 2018-05-25 · amended 2025-04-05
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Cora Gold (gold exploration)
registered 2018-05-02 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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Farm in Hampshire
registered 2014-10-22 · amended 2025-04-05
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Flat in Pimlico, London SW1
registered 2014-10-22 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 4: Sponsorship
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The member receives assistance from an intern on Christian Action, Research and Education's Leadership Programme, for which the intern receives a bursary
registered 2025-09-30 · amended 2025-12-02
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly.
Read the full
Lords Code of Conduct
for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.
Party history
2014-09-05 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2015-06-11 → 2016-03-16
Social Mobility Committee
2019-03-06 → 2019-06-14
Draft Domestic Abuse Bill (Joint Committee)
2025-01-30 → 2025-10-27
Home-based Working Committee
2026-01-27 → present
National Resilience Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
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APPGs (2026) · 4 active officership(s) · 2 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Family Hubs
Subject Group
|
Officer | Spurgeons | 4 | 2026-06-05 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Issues Affecting Men and Boys
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2024-07-16 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Men and Boys' Issues
Subject Group
|
Officer | — | 4 | 2027-01-11 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Relationships
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 9 | 2024-04-07 |
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.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
Showing
16
of 16 tabled
16 answered(100.0%)
4
departments
Source: UK Parliament Members API. The amber "interest" tag is set
by Parliament's own system when the asking member has a register entry
it deems related — typically a paid role or directorship in the
sector being asked about. Click any "i" icon to see the full
question and the department's answer.
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)
5 bills
4 as lead sponsor
1 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support for Infants and Parents etc (Information) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2024-07-26 | |
| Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Act 2023 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2022-06-15 | |
| Front-loaded Child Benefit Bill [HL] | Sponsored | Committee stage | 2022-05-19 | |
| Front-loaded Child Benefit Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 1st reading | 2021-06-16 | |
| Family Relationships (Impact Assessment and Targets) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2017-06-29 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.