The Earl of Kinnoull
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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The Earl of Kinnoull's full title is The Earl of Kinnoull. His name is Charles William Harley Hay, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
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
189 divisions
23 Content(12.2%)
10 Not-Content(5.3%)
156 didn't vote(82.5%)
2026-04-13
Not-Content
65–173
Not-Content
2026-03-24
Not-Content
80–166
Not-Content
2026-02-04
Not-Content
62–295
Not-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
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the typically energetic noble Lord, Lord Hunt. I enjoyed his contribution as ever. I am yet another to add my congratulations to the committee and particularly to its redoubtable chair, the noble Baroness, Lady
My Lords, the Interministerial Group for Business and Industry last met on 3 February by videophone. The communique lays out the four items that were discussed, which did not include this very important area. Will the Minister, whom I welcome to his posi
2026-09-08
No. 10 North
My Lords, No. 10 North is approximately 200 miles north of where we are. Perthshire, where I am from, is more than 200 miles further north than that. The north of Scotland is another more than 200 miles north of that. I wondered whether there were any pl
2026-09-07
Rural Businesses: Taxation
My Lords, there is some speculation in the press that farmland might be included in the calculation of the value of a home when it comes to the mansion tax. Perhaps the Minister could confirm whether or not that is true because, clearly, if it is, an awf
2026-09-02
Electoral Commission Investigations
My Lords, Section 44(4) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act says that you must not tell your auditor either “knowingly or recklessly” something which is incorrect. Can the Minister tell me whether there have been any prosecutions unde
2026-07-22
Tributes: Lord Laming
My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow three such wonderful speeches that have so captured the man who is so dear to my colleagues on the Cross Bench here. Herbert Laming was born in 1936. He left school at 15, and in 1954 he was called up for natio
2026-07-16
BBC Royal Charter: Gaelic Broadcasting
My Lords, another language in Scotland is Scots. Indeed, Burns wrote roughly half his poetry in in Scots, not least “Address to a Haggis”. Can the Minister tell us whether there will be money directed at the preservation of Scots as a language as well in
Can the Minister tell us what the Treasury is doing to collect the stamp duty that should be chargeable on transactions where there is documentation executed in the United Kingdom, and whether looking at that might represent some method of providing a to
2026-07-14
National Crime Agency: Reform Party Funding
My Lords, is it not the case that one thing that has allowed Reform and Nigel Farage to get off a little here is the sheer complexity of electoral law and the whole area around this? We are about to start consideration of the 27th Representation of the P
2026-07-09
Tributes: Lord Mackay of Clashfern
My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow three such speeches. The cries of dismay that greeted the Lord Speaker’s sad news of the death of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, were as loud on our Benches as anywhere else in the House,
2026-07-08
Lord Advocate
I also welcome the Minister to her seat. The conflicts that have been described are particularly bad for political party and election law. The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, which applies to the whole of the United Kingdom, has an
My Lords, at the core of any western liberal democracy is trust. The citizen must trust the institutions that make up their democracy and the people within those institutions. They must trust also that the oversight arrangements will work and, if someone
I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the last very interesting 90 minutes. I thank particularly the Minister for answering very fully quite a lot of questions that were put to him in an encouraging way.
In summary, the first thing that was a
That this House takes note of the regulatory regime for political party finance and the role of the Electoral Commission.
2026-06-24
Hares: Close Season
My Lords, I declare an interest in that I farm organically in Scotland and we have a number of hares around. In fact, when the close season came in in Scotland, it did not really do much to help the hare population, because there are enough foxes around
2026-06-03
Access to Nature Green Paper
My Lords, the current 2p piece has an image on the back of a red squirrel. I wonder, as a serious point, whether the Green Paper could look at the establishment of red squirrel enclosures as one way of getting people access to nature. There are one or tw
2026-05-13
Senior Deputy Speaker
My Lords, on behalf of the Cross Benches, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, on his appointment as Senior Deputy Speaker, and most importantly, actually, as Chairman of Committees, which is sometimes forgotten. I wish the names were reversed i
2026-05-13
King’s Speech
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow on from the speeches of the noble Lords, Lord True and Lord Purvis. It was, if they do not mind me saying so, an even greater pleasure to hear from the noble Baroness, Lady Crawley, and the noble Lord, Lord Roe—
My Lords, flood prevention still requires affordable insurance to back it up, because floods still happen when you try to prevent them. The eligibility criteria of Flood Re mean that for the outbuildings of small farms, if the farm office is inside the f
2026-04-13
Clerk of the Parliaments
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, and indeed to hear the wonderful remarks from the Leader and from the noble Lord, Lord True, earlier on. I am in the rare and happy position of agreeing with every word that has been
2026-03-19
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, has graciously allowed me to intervene briefly. Earlier today during Question Time there were two Questions which involved insurance. I forgot to mention my insurance interests in the register. I would like to u
My Lords, Network Rail—being, of course, a state entity—does not buy third-party insurance from anywhere, but the insurance industry has an amazing number of modellers and information about the natural perils in the United Kingdom, particularly the sweet
My Lords, no matter how good one is at detection and prevention, there will always be floods. That is why it is important to have insurance. The Flood Re scheme, which was generated some years ago and was time-limited, applies only to buildings that were
2026-03-18
Strait of Hormuz
My Lords, one of the precursors to the reopening of the commercial shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz would be the availability of reasonably priced insurance—and lots of it. The main marine insurance markets for the world are based in London. What d
2026-03-10
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, I will be brief. Finding the balance between, first, the Government’s 2024 manifesto, secondly, the maintenance of the separation of powers among the three legs of our constitutional stool—the Executive, Parliament and the judiciary—and, thirdl
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Register of Interests · 7 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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Partner in family farming partnership
registered 2021-07-20 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Truedose Technologies Limited (soft drinks)
registered 2023-06-27 · amended 2025-04-05
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Resolution Underwriting Holdings Limited (insurance underwriting agency)
registered 2023-06-27 · amended 2025-04-05
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Schroders plc (non-voting) (fund management)
registered 2015-02-23 · amended 2025-04-05
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Hiscox Ltd (insurance)
registered 2015-02-23 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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Farmland and associated cottages in Perthshire from which rental income is received and a farm subsidy is received
registered 2015-02-23 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 4: Sponsorship
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The member receives research support from a PhD student from King’s College London, as part of a training scheme for which the student receives a stipend
registered 2022-10-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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
2021-04-30 → present
Crossbench
current
2019-09-09 → 2021-04-29
Non-affiliated
2015-02-06 → 2019-09-08
Crossbench
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2015-06-11 → 2016-03-16
Social Mobility Committee
2016-01-28 → 2016-02-29
Trade Union Political Funds and Political Party Funding Committee
2019-09-09 → 2021-03-31
European Union Committee
Chair
+£15,509/yr
2016-05-25 → 2021-03-31
European Union Committee
2016-05-26 → 2019-09-09
EU Justice Sub-Committee
2021-04-14 → 2023-06-12
European Affairs Committee
Chair
+£15,928/yr
2023-04-27 → present
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2023-04-27 → present
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2023-04-27 → present
Committee of Selection (Lords)
2023-04-27 → present
Services Committee
2023-04-27 → present
House of Lords Commission
2024-07-22 → present
Restoration and Renewal Client Board
2023-04-27 → 2024-05-30
Restoration and Renewal Client Board
2023-04-28 → present
Sub-Committee on Leave of Absence
Contact
Parliamentary office
kinnoull@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 1 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 1 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.