The Lord Evans of Weardale KCB DL
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Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Evans of Weardale's full title is The Lord Evans of Weardale KCB DL. His name is Jonathan Douglas Evans, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
4 Content(2.5%)
2 Not-Content(1.2%)
156 didn't vote(96.3%)
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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
2026-01-13
Official Development Assistance
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Bates, on securing this debate. I declare an interest as chairman of the Halo Trust, the global mine and explosives removal charity. I recognise that the pressing nature of the security threats we face may me
2025-11-13
Hillsborough Law
My Lords, like others, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for the opportunity to debate this important matter, and I shall be brief.
The long and painful process of inquiry into the Hillsborough tragedy demonstrated atrocious behaviour by a
2025-06-09
Elections: Political Party Spending
My Lords, I welcome the Minister’s undertaking to publish a strategy for electoral finance regulation. In so doing, may I encourage her to revisit the report by the Committee on Standards in Public Life, of which my colleague, the noble Baroness, Lady Ra
I do not want to comment on my predecessors in the role, but I point out that I have not appeared myself in the media to comment on that, despite many invitations. Rather similarly to the people who run the security service, it is probably better to shu
My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I should declare that I am the former chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
The Committee on Standards in Public Life is the custodian, so to speak, of the Nolan p
2024-07-30
AI Technology Regulations
My Lords, artificial intelligence poses a risk not only to high-profile issues such as existential threats and safety, but also potentially to public standards—a matter on which the new Government have made many statements. Areas such as objectivity and
2024-05-10
Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Featherstone, and I will echo a number of her comments and remarks.
The Zoological Society of London is a tremendous national asset. It provides knowledge and research in areas of zoology t
2024-01-23
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I was not intending to speak in this debate, but it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lords, Lord Carlile and Lord Anderson. I will make two brief observations.
First, I support the suggestion that airing this question of conflict of interes
2023-11-20
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]
Not at all.
My Lords, I do not intend to make a long speech. This Bill proposes an important but, I suggest, relatively modest updating of the existing authorisation regime for the use of surveillance powers. It is also based on the excellent and clea
My Lords, I declare an interest as the chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, and I am grateful to the Minister for his reference to the report made by my predecessors in 1998. I draw the Minister’s attention to a 2021 report, made by that s
2023-03-07
National Security Bill
My Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble Lord, Lord Alton. I have considerable sympathy for what he says in view of the appalling behaviour of the IRGC. However, this amendment, as I understand it, would open the door to the proscription of state or
2023-03-01
National Security Bill
My Lords, I declare an interest as the chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. In 2021, my committee reviewed the regulation of electoral finance. I have to tell the Minister that “stringent” was not what we concluded as to the rigour of the
2023-03-01
National Security Bill
If I am being invited to comment on whether I would support a different amendment, I say that might well be the case. However, I do not support the amendment that is before us.
2023-03-01
National Security Bill
My Lords, I acknowledge the changes that have been made to Amendment 79 since it was introduced in Committee, but I still do not feel that it would be appropriate and right for us to accept it. The noble Lord, Lord West, has pointed out a number of the r
2023-01-18
National Security Bill
I thank the noble Baroness very much for that clarification; in that case, the amendment certainly needs some amendment itself.
I am also puzzled as to the route proposed that any disclosure, particularly from one of the intelligence agencies, can go
2023-01-18
National Security Bill
My Lords, I must confess to being rather puzzled by some of the detail in Amendment 120 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer. When I got to proposed new subsection (4), I assumed that the office was intended to be a regulatory body ensuring tha
2023-01-16
National Security Bill
On the extent of the schedule of those to be included, unless I have misunderstood or misread, there does not appear to be any reference to senior members of the security and intelligence services, who I do not think fall into any of the other categories
2023-01-11
National Security Bill
My Lords, I listened with great interest to the argument made by the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed. I wonder whether I could ask the Minister, when he replies, to clarify the way in which the liabilities and immunities under this clause might impact,
2022-12-21
National Security Bill
My Lords, I support Amendments 44 and 45A. It is striking that in the electoral finance regulations there is a great dissonance between what is required of political parties fighting a democratic election and what would, for instance, be required of not
2022-12-19
National Security Bill
My Lords, I have reservations about this amendment, because it seems to me that, for the reasons outlined by the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, we are talking about a grey-zone threat from foreign powers and not just the traditional threat which focus
2022-12-06
National Security Bill
My Lords, I welcome the introduction of this Bill. It has been very clear for many years that our official secrets legislation is extremely elderly and was set up to counter threats that have changed and developed a great deal. It is right that we should
2022-11-30
Independent Adviser on Ministerial Interests
My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. The Minister may recall that 12 months ago, we issued a report, Upholding Standards in Public Life, which made a number of recommendations for improving and reinforcin
2022-10-13
Corruption in the United Kingdom
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, on allowing us to talk about this important topic. I declare an interest as chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, although I speak in my own capacity this afternoon.
I do not share
2022-06-08
Upholding Standards in Public Life
My Lords, I declare an interest as the chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. I am aware from the work we do that much of the process leading to the recommendations we are currently discussing depends on hard work by independent members of t
2022-05-25
AI in the UK (Liaison Committee Report)
My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register of interests as an adviser to Luminance Technologies Ltd and to Darktrace plc, both of which use AI to solve business problems.
I welcome the opportunity to follow up the excellent 2018 report fro
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Register of Interests · 11 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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Occasional input to education programmes at the Cambridge Security Initiative
registered 2026-04-24
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Lecture, 11 February 2026, Daunrsey's School, Wiltshire
registered 2026-02-13
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Adviser on risk and ethics, Lockhouse Systems Ltd (software company)
registered 2026-02-13
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Adviser, Pict Ventures Ltd (technology company)
registered 2025-11-11
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Occasional journalism
registered 2020-06-16 · amended 2025-04-05
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Advice on risk related issues, Quantexa (data analytics company)
registered 2020-01-09 · amended 2025-07-31
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Occasional input to Executive Education programmes at Kings College London
registered 2019-03-25 · amended 2025-04-05
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Adviser, Luminance Technologies Ltd (artificial intelligence platform)
registered 2017-12-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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Independent non-executive chair, Public Interest Committee, KPMG UK (interest ceased 22 March 2026)
registered 2017-04-28 · amended 2026-04-09
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Non-executive Director, Ark Data Centres Ltd
registered 2015-07-01 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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Property in Kent from which rental income is received
registered 2024-10-07 · amended 2025-04-05
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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