The Lord McNicol of West Kilbride
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord McNicol of West Kilbride's full title is The Lord McNicol of West Kilbride. His name is Iain Mackenzie McNicol, 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
162 divisions
3 Content(1.9%)
129 Not-Content(79.6%)
30 didn't vote(18.5%)
2026-06-09
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13–66
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2026-04-27
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2026-04-13
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2026-03-26
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115–197
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2026-03-26
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64–140
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2026-03-25
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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
2026-05-14
King’s Speech
My Lords, it is a privilege to speak in response to His Majesty’s gracious Speech, and I am grateful to my noble friends who moved and seconded the Address with such witty eloquence. I want to use my time to speak about two issues I think are critical to
My Lords, I thank the Minister for setting out so clearly the warm home discount SI before us today. How confident are the Government that this scheme will both reach the right people in Scotland and, probably more importantly, will spend the full envelo
2026-02-25
Local Government Reorganisation
My Lords, I am quite heartened that the questions from across your Lordships’ House have not descended into an attack on local authorities’ electoral registration officers and their ability to carry out these elections. Many of us in the House tonight ha
2026-02-23
US Tariffs
My Lords, one way to deal with this issue is by the acceleration of the free trade agreements. Under the last Government, we had agreements with New Zealand, Australia and then the CPTPP. Under this Government, we have accelerated those agreements. The M
2026-02-23
V-levels
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to communicate the purpose and value of the newly introduced V-Levels to students, parents, and employers, to ensure widespread understanding and uptake of these qualifications.
2026-02-23
V-levels
I thank my noble friend the Minister and welcome the clarity and reassurance she has given. Given the concerning new figures on youth unemployment, what steps are being taken to ensure that businesses engage with the meaningful work placements that are e
2026-01-22
Artificial Intelligence: UK Preparedness
My Lords, I want to agree with one of my noble friend the Minister’s previous answers about opportunity. Yes, there are risks, but the UK is best placed to seize the opportunities that will come forward and the developments that will happen with AI. AI i
2026-01-06
Graduate Jobs
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the decline in graduate jobs and the extent to which it is a long-term trend that requires intervention.
2026-01-06
Graduate Jobs
My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for her Answer and agree with many of the points she has made. For a number of decades now, Governments of all shades have encouraged school leavers to go to university. I did not. I attended one of the old
2025-11-13
Jobs Market
My Lords, I bring to the House my registered interest—I chair the Nuclear Industry Association. We had the recent announcement of the SMR, the small modular reactor, the Rolls-Royce build, going to Wylfa in Wales. Will the Minister join me in welcoming t
2025-07-17
Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1
My Lords, like others across the House, I welcome Wyn Williams’s first report into this IT scandal, and it is an IT scandal. It is clear from looking at the Green Paper that there are huge historical failings across the Post Office’s management and board
2025-03-13
Integration and Community Cohesion
My Lords, I start by congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Verma, on a wonderful introduction to today’s debate. As a Scot who prefers curry to stew and broth, I am quite happy to swap.
It is a real pleasure to follow the maiden speeches by the nobl
My Lords, Monday’s Statement on the AI Opportunities Action Plan highlighted the Government’s ambitious vision on AI adoption across the UK, and I welcome it. While the plan outlines significant investment and initiatives to boost AI infrastructure and c
2024-12-03
Planning Reforms: Net-zero Carbon Emissions
I thank my noble friend the Minister for her response. Nye Bevan said in 1947 that
“we shall be judged for a year or two by the number of houses we build”,
but we shall be judged over decades
“by the type of houses we build”.
There is an oppo
2024-12-03
Planning Reforms: Net-zero Carbon Emissions
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that their proposed planning reforms contribute to the delivery of net zero carbon emissions.
2024-11-04
Scotland
My Lords, what discussions have His Majesty’s Government had with the Scottish Government following the launch last month of the UK industrial strategy? Have the specific Scottish commitments in it, on medicine manufacturing, offshore wind and the Advanc
2024-07-22
King’s Speech (4th Day)
My Lords, I will focus the short time I have on one of the starkest areas of contrast between the priorities of this new Labour Government as set out in the gracious Speech and those of the previous 14 years.
Contained within the first few lines of th
2024-05-23
Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
My Lords, as the Bill reaches its final stages, I have a few thank yous from my side. I put on record my thanks to my colleague and friend, the noble Lord, Lord Leong, for his support during the Bill’s passage, to our team in the Labour Lords office—Milt
2024-05-23
Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
My Lords, this Bill has always been about justice and getting it quickly for the victims of the Post Office/Fujitsu scandal. We can all agree—and have all agreed—that they have waited far too long.
I am glad that, in wash-up today, we are pushing this
2024-05-23
Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
My Lords, I am obviously dealing with this in wash-up. The priority is to ensure that we get this Bill through. The arguments have been very well rehearsed across your Lordships’ House and in the other place about Horizon, the Post Office, Fujitsu and th
2024-05-23
Pedal Cyclists: Insurance
My Lords, as both a cyclist and a driver I understand the strength of feeling on this issue. Cycling insurance would be impractical to implement, particularly since so many cyclists are young children, and it would be unfair for those who have no other m
2024-05-17
Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Bill
My Lords, I start in the same way as my noble friend Lady Taylor of Bolton, by thanking my noble friend Lady Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent and Chris Elmore MP for sponsoring this vital piece of legislation. I am very glad to see that the Government have giv
2024-05-13
Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister and the departmental team for their work on this Bill and for being available to meet me, my noble friend Lord Leong and others from across the House.
In reading back over some of my speeches from 2019, 2020 and 2021—I a
My Lords, one of the other great issues facing the skilled craft industry today is that 98% of skilled practitioners are solo traders or microbusinesses, as we have heard. That means that without effective apprenticeship schemes, their skills and knowled
2024-05-10
Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Young of Hornsey, for bringing such an important Bill before the House and for giving all of us an opportunity to debate this significant topic. I also thank the many trade unions—particularly Unison
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Register of Interests · 14 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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Senior Adviser on business and ESG advice, N3XUS (provides the infrastructure layer for ESG and sustainability intelligence)
registered 2026-02-12
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Strategic adviser, Trafalgar Strategy (strategic communications)
registered 2025-12-11
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Speaking engagement, 15 October 2025, UBS Investment Bank, London
registered 2025-10-30
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Non-executive Director, Salad Holdings (holding company of fin-tech open banking business)
registered 2025-01-23 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chair, Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) (trade body representing civil nuclear industry)
registered 2025-01-23 · amended 2025-04-05
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Strategic Adviser, LINK Scheme Ltd (ATM and cash access network)
registered 2024-12-11 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director, RCK Partners (specialist tax advice)
registered 2024-11-27 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director, ELCOM (cloud-based procurement technology company) (interest ceased 31 December 2025)
registered 2024-11-06 · amended 2026-01-23
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Member, Higher Education Advisory Board, Oxford International Education Group
registered 2023-10-10 · amended 2025-04-05
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Advisor, The Investing and Saving Alliance (TISA) (representative body for retail investment management industry)
registered 2023-07-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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Director, McNicol Consulting Limited (member's company providing advice and consultancy services; income from member's advisory work is paid to MCL)
registered 2018-07-20 · amended 2025-10-30
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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McNicol Consulting Limited (member's company providing advice and consultancy services)
registered 2018-07-20 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
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Hospitality and accommodation received from Google to attend EMEA Zeitgeist conference, Hertfordshire, 17–19 May 2026
registered 2026-06-01
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Tickets and hospitality received from the directors of Ascot Racecourse Ltd to attend Royal Ascot, 19 June 2025
registered 2025-07-02
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Party history
2018-06-21 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
2023-10-27 → 2024-07-05
Shadow Spokesperson (Business and Trade)
2023-10-27 → 2024-07-05
Shadow Spokesperson (Scotland)
2018-09-04 → 2020-04-15
Opposition Whip (Lords)
Committee memberships
None recorded.
Contact
Parliamentary office
mcnicoli@parliament.uk
020 7219 6704 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 6704 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 13 active officership(s) · 12 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Trade and Investment
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 15 | 2024-01-21 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Turnaround and Business Improvement
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | The Institute for Turnaround | 4 | 2027-07-09 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain Technologies
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Vice Chair | British Blockchain Association | 4 | 2026-07-17 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Crypto and Digital Assets
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Officer | — | 4 | 2026-11-08 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Technology
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Officer | Innovate Finance | 4 | 2027-01-10 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Geographically Protected Foods
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 8 | 2023-06-12 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Industrial Strategy
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Hanover Communications | 4 | 2026-02-09 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Media Literacy
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | The Student View | 7 | 2024-03-23 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Open Banking and Payments
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Open Banking Limited · Stewart Public Affairs Ltd | 3 | 2026-02-15 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Open Finance and Payments
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | Open Banking Limited · Stewart Public Affairs Ltd | 4 | 2027-02-15 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Political Literacy
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | Shout Out UK | 4 | 2025-05-19 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Political and Media Literacy
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | — | 4 | 2027-02-28 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Southern Yemen
Country Group
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Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2024-04-07 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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