The Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Anderson of Ipswich's full title is The Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC. His name is David William Kinloch Anderson, 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
13 Content(8.0%)
13 Not-Content(8.0%)
136 didn't vote(84.0%)
2026-01-05
Content
194–130
Content
2026-01-05
Not-Content
168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Not-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
2026-06-17
State of Extremism Report
My Lords, I welcome the proposals outlined in Protecting What Matters, namely, to tackle the abuse of charitable status for the purpose of promoting violence and hatred. However, phrases in the extremism definition such as creating a “permissive environ
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I have sympathy, as I usually do, with the concerns of the noble Baroness, Lady Foster, but I will make two short points.
First, by removing the emulation requirement, inserted very deliberately in 2006, this amendment would criminalise the
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I add a few comments in support of the noble Lord, Lord Pannick—but without repeating him—on the proposed ouster clause suggested by the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, in his Amendments 421 and 422DA. The schedule of proscribed organisations is o
2026-02-12
Counter-Extremism Strategy
I have one and a half sentences left. If our laws on online safety, public order, hate crime, counterterrorism, hostile state activity or proscription are insufficient, let us revisit, amend and supplement them. But the trick is to excise the tumours wit
2026-02-12
Counter-Extremism Strategy
I hate to stand up again, but I want to put on the record that I made 10 recommendations. Sir William Shawcross had already made 34, and I felt that that was about as much as the system could stand.
2026-02-12
Counter-Extremism Strategy
I am grateful to the Minister. He described it as a “statutory definition of extremism”. I am not encouraging him, but is there an intention to put it into statute?
2026-02-12
Counter-Extremism Strategy
My Lords, extremism is not what it used to be. In October 2024, MI5’s director Ken McCallum said:
“Straightforward labels like ‘Islamist terrorism’ or ‘extreme right wing’ don’t fully reflect the dizzying range of beliefs and ideologies we see”.
2026-02-03
Shamima Begum
My Lords, the United States has begun the transfer of 7,000 Islamic State detainees from prisons in north-east Syria to Iraq. Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council said the other day that it would commence legal proceedings against transferred detainees of wha
2026-01-15
Crime and Policing Bill
I thank the Minister and all noble Lords who have contributed to this excellent debate. Frankly, I am overwhelmed by the quality and quantity of the interventions. With the exception of the noble Lord who signed the amendment, I have not approached any n
2026-01-15
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, the amendments in this group are designed to probe a proposed extension of counterterrorism and national security powers, usable only at ports, airports and places near the land border with Ireland, that are among the very strongest of all thos
2026-01-15
Crime and Policing Bill
2025-12-17
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I entirely agree with everything that has been said about the need to highlight this appalling practice and, so far as possible, bring it to an end. But if one’s chosen means is the fettering of the discretion of a sentencer, one has to be extr
2025-12-17
Crime and Policing Bill
I thank the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, and the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, for raising a point that really had not occurred to me in years of gazing at Sections 4A and 5 of the Public Order Act. I also thank the noble Lord for his reference to the H
2025-10-16
Crime and Policing Bill
I very much appreciated the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe. Although I see more value in this this Bill than the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, was prepared to admit, I agree with what they each said about hard topics that this Bill mig
I have a question for the Minister about the possibility that perhaps in the future the deprivation of citizenship would be used as a prelude to deportation, even in circumstances where the first-instance tribunal had decided that the deprivation of citi
My Lords, I declare an interest as the author of a report, required by statute and published almost 10 years ago, on citizenship removal resulting in statelessness. It was a short report, since that power introduced by the Immigration Act 2014, which was
2025-09-09
Daesh Crimes: Accountability (JCHR Report)
I hate to trouble the Minister again, but I asked a question about the Ljubljana-Hague convention, which is absolutely central to what the committee is talking about. The intention of that convention is to facilitate co-operation between states in invest
2025-09-09
Daesh Crimes: Accountability (JCHR Report)
I am sorry to interrupt the Minister, but he heard what I had to say about the independent chief inspector. As I understand his reports—and I have read both of those just referred to—they are limited to the processes applied by the Home Office, and the m
2025-09-09
Daesh Crimes: Accountability (JCHR Report)
My Lords, as the final Back-Bench speaker, I echo all noble Lords who have wished the noble Lord, Lord Alton, a speedy recovery. He is, for so many of us, the outstanding example of a successful campaigning Cross-Bench Peer. I look forward to his speedy
2025-09-08
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
When the Minister goes back to the policy Minister, will he reassure her that nobody in this debate has questioned the policy that the Government are seeking to pursue? All we are questioning is the method they have chosen.
2025-09-08
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
I am grateful to the Minister. He has really said just one thing, which is not in dispute across the House: he and his colleagues would use these powers on a case-by-case basis and in a very responsible way. However, with great respect, he has not answer
2025-09-08
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
My Lords, I have tabled a notice to oppose Clause 43, which has been signed by a former immigration Minister, the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope, and the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee.
I have listened with great attention to what the noble Lord, Lord Davies
My Lords—
My Lords, I will be brief. Invoking the terrorism laws has consequences and, although I do not object to invoking them in relation to any of these three groups, we need to understand properly what those consequences are. Many people want to speak, and I
2025-05-08
Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL]
My Lords, as the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate, who is not in his place but currently on the Woolsack, said on Report, the two clauses of this Bill fully reflect neither the nearly 1,000 pages of learning that the Law Commission produced on the subject
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Register of Interests · 4 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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Provision of legal advice and representation to the Government of Cyprus in multiple proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights and Committee of Ministers (the member's annual earnings for this work in 2024/25 were £101,394.63)
registered 2021-11-19 · amended 2026-01-14
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Judge of the Court of Appeal, Jersey (interest ceased 31 December 2024)
registered 2018-07-26 · amended 2026-01-15
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Judge of the Court of Appeal, Guernsey (interest ceased 31 December 2024)
registered 2018-07-26 · amended 2026-01-15
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Practising Barrister (King's Counsel)
registered 2018-07-26 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2018-07-10 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2019-07-02 → 2020-04-23
EU Justice Sub-Committee
2020-04-23 → 2021-03-31
EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee
2023-01-31 → 2026-01-27
Constitution Committee
2024-11-18 → 2025-02-03
Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Justice and Home Affairs Committee
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 1 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Rule of Law
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law | 4 | 2025-06-08 |
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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.
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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)
3 bills
3 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service (Ethics, Integrity and Independence) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 1st reading | 2025-01-22 | |
| Public Service (Integrity and Ethics) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 1st reading | 2023-12-07 | |
| Public Service (Integrity and Ethics) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 1st reading | 2022-09-05 |
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year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.