The Lord Agnew of Oulton DL
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Agnew of Oulton's full title is The Lord Agnew of Oulton DL. His name is Theodore Thomas More Agnew, 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.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
479
462 meetings ·
11 hospitality ·
1 gift ·
5 overseas trips
· 2017-10-01 → 2026-05-01
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 462
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-23 | — | To discuss the training of government board members. | cabinet-office |
| 2021-10-07 | — | To discuss the Northern Economic Campus. | cabinet-office |
| 2021-09-23 | — | To discuss EU Exit process | cabinet-office |
| 2021-09-22 | — | To discuss EU Exit process | cabinet-office |
| 2021-07-20 | — | To discuss EU Exit process | cabinet-office |
| 2021-07-13 | — | To discuss EU Exit process | cabinet-office |
| 2021-07-05 | — | To discuss the Places for Growth Programme | cabinet-office |
| 2021-07-05 | — | To discuss EU Exit process | cabinet-office |
| 2021-07-03 | — | To discuss EU Exit process | cabinet-office |
| 2021-07-01 | — | To discuss social value in public procurement | cabinet-office |
| 2021-06-23 | — | To discuss LSE's research on economic multiplier effects. | cabinet-office |
| 2021-05-20 | — | To discuss the launch of the government consulting hub | cabinet-office |
| 2021-05-19 | — | To discuss EU Exit readiness | cabinet-office |
| 2021-05-19 | — | To discuss EU Exit readiness | cabinet-office |
| 2021-05-19 | — | To discuss EU Exit readiness | cabinet-office |
| 2021-05-18 | — | To discuss EU Exit readiness | cabinet-office |
| 2021-05-11 | — | To discuss EU Exit readiness | cabinet-office |
| 2021-05-04 | — | To discuss EU Exit readiness | cabinet-office |
| 2021-04-22 | — | To discuss EU Exit readiness | cabinet-office |
| 2021-04-13 | — | To discuss EU Exit readiness | cabinet-office |
Recent hospitality
| Date | Host | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | — | Nill Return | — |
| 2018-09-06 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2018-09-04 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2018-05-14 | — | Lunch | — |
| 2018-04-25 | — | Afternoon tea | — |
| 2018-04-25 | — | Afternoon tea | — |
| 2018-03-28 | — | Breakfast | — |
| 2018-03-06 | — | Breakfast | — |
| 2018-01-07 | — | Breakfast | — |
| 2018-01-05 | — | Lunch | — |
| 2017-11-20 | — | Dinner | — |
Recent gifts
| Date | Gift | From / To | Outcome | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | Nill Return | Nill Return | Nill Return | — |
Recent overseas travel
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| — |
Return internal flight to Mendoza
Scheduled flight
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To attend the g20 summit | — |
| — |
Return international flight to Argentina
Scheduled flight
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To attend the g20 summit | — |
| — |
The Hague
Scheduled flight
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To find out about the Dutch system of education | — |
| — |
Nill Return
Nill Return
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Nill Return | — |
| — |
Nil Return
Nil Return
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Nil Return | — |
Source: gov.uk ministerial transparency returns. Coverage:
HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial
Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
76 Content(46.9%)
3 Not-Content(1.9%)
83 didn't vote(51.2%)
2026-04-13
Not-Content
69–332
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2026-03-05
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198–139
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208–142
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2026-03-05
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214–142
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2026-01-05
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131–127
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194–130
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2026-01-05
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168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
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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
2026-04-20
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I support Motion C1 from the noble Baroness, Lady Barran. I emphasise to the Minister that schools with falling rolls receive enormous support at the moment through lagged funding. They receive payment for pupils whom they no longer have, for a
2026-03-25
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Barran, with this reinstatement of her original Amendment 102. I speak as the chairman of an academy trust; I have faced the dead hand of the bureaucratic tidying-up exercise. To the point made by the noble Lo
2025-09-16
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I will address my Amendment 481. This group is a bit of a mixed bag, but I think that my amendment is relevant and important, as it seeks to level the playing field by ensuring that there is a high level of financial governance for local author
2025-09-16
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I speak in support of my Amendments 452 and 454, on the control of admissions into schools. This is a fraught issue for parents trying to get their children into excellent schools that lack sufficient places, so rationing—that unpleasant word—h
2025-09-10
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I would like to explain my Amendment 437A, which relates to qualified teachers, and to offer a different point of view from the noble Baroness, Lady Bousted—although we are both trying to achieve the same thing, I think.
The first thing to e
2025-09-10
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I speak strongly in defence of the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, and his Amendment 435, supported by my noble friends Lady Barran and Lady Spielman, which is long overdue. When I was the Minister in 2017, it was the first thing I tried to do, and
2025-09-10
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 432A from the noble Baronesses, Lady Morris and Lady Blackstone, who spoke very well. I am sorry that the noble Lord, Lord Glasman, is not here. He spoke very movingly, but I do not believe that any group in our soci
2025-07-21
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Barran in her Amendments 111A, 111B, 116A and 116B. I have not spoken on the Bill before, so I refer noble Lords to my registered interests, in particular as a founder of a multi-academy trust with 18 schools and
2025-07-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Nash’s Amendment 279. It suggests a very mild tweak to the proposed legislation, largely because he is respectful of the majority of parents who do a good job in home education, which I completely agree with. Howe
2025-07-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I am taking a slightly different approach with my Amendment 200, which relates to school uniform policy.
It is important to recognise that a tiny minority of schools use the cost of uniforms as an unpleasant instrument to screen out children
2025-06-23
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I was not going to speak on this group—I was a minute or so late, for which I apologise. I wanted to hear the arguments of those who oppose Amendment 177 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Nash, and I will just address a couple of those.
I
2025-06-19
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I will speak briefly in support of my noble friend Lady Stedman-Scott’s amendment on jobcentres. I hear the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Storey, about resource stretch, but from my own experience of this in my academy trust, we have about
2025-06-17
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, there are around 35 state boarding schools in the country, but there are also a number of private boarding schools that are ready to provide support, which is why I mentioned the Royal SpringBoard scholarships and bursaries that are available.
2025-06-17
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, my Amendment 119 would provide further opportunities for looked-after children, or those on the edge of care, to have access to boarding school places where appropriate. The principles of this amendment are the same as those of my Amendment 82,
2025-06-12
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, my Amendment 82 would provide further opportunities for children in kinship care to have access to boarding school places where appropriate. The Government should be applauded for their commitment to raising the profile of kinship care as a vit
2025-06-05
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Barran in her amendments, as I am rather confused by how this will improve the education system.
I speak as someone on the front line. As of today, my academy trust employs 717 non-teaching staff across our 18
2025-05-22
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I thank the Minister for her answers. I reassure her that I was not trying to suggest that this is a whole new scale of undertaking for teachers. My noble friend Lady Barran was right: I was trying to understand the scale of it, because this is a big and
2025-05-22
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, this is really a probing amendment. I am the first to admit that this is not an area in which I have deep expertise, but my questioning comes from the angle of the impact on schools and is on how much time and cost would be involved.
I unde
2025-05-22
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
2025-05-20
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I support this amendment. Clearly, the family decision-making groups are extremely important, and we are discovering them rather late in the day. I could have said this on any of the other amendments involving family groups, but this one partic
2025-05-20
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I speak in support of the purpose clause, in particular, subsection (1)(a) and (c), improving
“the safety and wellbeing of children”,
and improving
“standards”,
to
“remove barriers to opportunity”.
I also refer to my interests
2025-05-01
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I refer to my interests in the register, in particular as the founder and chairman of an academy trust with 11,000 children and 18 schools.
In the short time I have available, I will focus on one specific area in the schools Bill. In Part 1,
2025-01-23
Free Schools and Academies
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Evans for securing this debate, and I note my interest in the register.
I am pleased to speak today, but of course hanging over us is the Damoclean sword of the schools Bill. Why does it matter? In 2010,
2025-01-23
Economic Growth
My Lords, I am pleased to speak in this debate, and I thank my noble friend Lord Farmer for securing it. I refer to my interests in the register.
Today, we have a Government who wish to spend other people’s money to advance social justice and deal wit
My Lords, I refer to my interests in the register, which include being a member of the Industry and Regulators Committee that produced this report. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, for her highly effective stewardship of the report to publication
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Register of Interests · 19 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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Director, All Perspectives Limited (holding company of GB News)
registered 2024-04-26 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director, Eori (UK) Limited (customs services)
registered 2024-02-19 · amended 2025-04-05
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Independent Non-executive Director, Markerstudy Group Holdings Ltd (general insurance intermediary)
registered 2023-06-28 · amended 2025-04-05
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Director, Match The Cash Limited (financial services)
registered 2022-11-15 · amended 2025-04-05
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Partner, Ovington Operations LLP (partnership owned by member and wife holding rental property)
registered 2017-11-21 · amended 2025-04-07
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Winterton Capital Limited (investment company)
registered 2022-03-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Ovington Investments Ltd (diversified investments)
registered 2017-11-21 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Abingdon Software
registered 2025-07-10
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Halma (safety equipment)
registered 2025-07-10
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Burford Capital (litigation funding)
registered 2025-07-10
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Zen Educate Limited (education)
registered 2022-03-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Intermediate Capital Group plc (investment company)
registered 2022-03-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Faculty (artificial intelligence)
registered 2022-03-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Equinor ASA (energy company engaged in oil and gas exploration and production activities)
registered 2020-04-07 · amended 2025-04-05
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Hampden & Co plc (banking)
registered 2017-11-21 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (c)
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Warburg Pincus No XI (international private equity fund)
registered 2023-10-26 · amended 2025-04-07
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Warburg Pincus No X (international private equity fund)
registered 2023-10-26 · amended 2025-04-07
Category 3: Land and property
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Farm in Suffolk (from which rental income is received)
registered 2017-11-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Farm in Norfolk owned by member and wife in a partnership
registered 2017-11-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2017-10-19 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
2020-02-13 → 2022-01-24
Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
2020-02-13 → 2022-01-24
Minister of State (HM Treasury)
2017-09-28 → 2020-02-13
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2022-05-12 → 2025-01-30
Industry and Regulators Committee
2025-01-30 → 2026-01-27
Economic Affairs Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Numeracy for Life Committee
Chair
+£18,305/yr
Contact
Parliamentary office
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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
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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)
12 bills
1 as lead sponsor
11 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Benchmarks (References and Administrators’ Liability) Act 2021 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2021-09-08 | |
| Health and Social Care Levy Act 2021 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2021-09-08 | |
| Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2021 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2021-06-30 | |
| Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2021 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2021-03-10 | |
| Contingencies Fund Act 2021 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2021-03-09 | |
| Finance Act 2021 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2021-03-09 | |
| Taxation (Post-transition Period) Act 2020 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2020-12-08 | |
| Financial Services Act 2021 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2020-10-21 | |
| Stamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) Act 2020 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2020-07-13 | |
| Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2020 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2020-07-09 | |
| Finance Act 2020 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2020-03-17 | |
| Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2020 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2020-03-02 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.