The Lord Hendy KC
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Hendy's full title is The Lord Hendy KC. His name is John Hendy, 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
134
134 meetings ·
0 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
0 overseas trips
· 2024-07-01 → 2025-12-31
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 134
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-13 | Network Rail, Transport For All,Better Transport, Guide Dogs, Disability Rights UK | Roundtable to provide reassurance on the Railways Bill | department-for-transport |
| 2025-12-18 | High Speed 2 | Monthly meeting with CEO of High Speed 2 to discuss progress | department-for-transport |
| 2025-12-17 | Northern Railway, Network Rail | To discuss Northern Railyway's Performance | department-for-transport |
| 2025-12-10 | Avanti West Coast, Network Rail | To discuss Avanti West Coast's Performance | department-for-transport |
| 2025-12-03 | Great Western Railway, Network Rail | To discuss Great Western Railway's Performance | department-for-transport |
| 2025-11-26 | Va Rail, Network Rail | To disuss RDW and Depot Stats | department-for-transport |
| 2025-11-26 | Siemens | To discuss what the new Government can do to provide the long-term certainty that companies like Siemens need to continue and increase investment in skills, R&D and facilities in the UK. | department-for-transport |
| 2025-11-26 | Siemens Mobility | To discuss Siemens Mobility in the United Kingdom | department-for-transport |
| 2025-11-25 | Institute for Customer Service, Rail Delivery Group | Meeting to discuss the Service with Respect campaign and how protections can be extended to apply across all public-facing roles including those in the rail sector. | department-for-transport |
| 2025-11-12 | Rail Freight Group, Great British Rail Freight, Deutshcebahn, Freightliner, Colasrail, | Roundtable to provide reassurance on the Railways Bill | department-for-transport |
| 2025-11-12 | High Speed 2 | Monthly meeting with High Speed 2 to discuss progress | department-for-transport |
| 2025-11-04 | Southeastern Railway | Meeting with Southeastern to discuss an integrated railway | department-for-transport |
| 2025-10-21 | Great British Rail Freight, Infracapital | Meeting with Great British Railfreight and their shareholders, Infracapital regarding the Railways Bill and the Government's future ambitions with the Railfreight sector | department-for-transport |
| 2025-10-15 | High Speed 2 | Monthly meeting with CEO of High Speed 2 to discuss progress | department-for-transport |
| 2025-10-13 | Eurostar | Meeting with Eurostar to discuss progress | department-for-transport |
| 2025-10-13 | Paul Dyson, CEO of CrossRail Internationa | Introductory meeting to discuss the companies review of the merger of CrossRail international with Network Rail Consulting | department-for-transport |
| 2025-10-02 | Mike Putnam | Meeting to receive an update on progress with Network Rail | department-for-transport |
| 2025-10-02 | David Hughes, East West Rail | Meeting to discuss progress with East West Rail | department-for-transport |
| 2025-07-01 | Govia Thameslink Railway, Network Rail | Meeting to discuss Govia Thameslink Railway's performance | department-for-transport |
| 2025-07-01 | High speed 2 | Monthly meeting to discuss updates on High Speed 2 | department-for-transport |
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
4 Content(2.5%)
107 Not-Content(66.0%)
51 didn't vote(31.5%)
2026-04-27
Not-Content
58–138
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2026-04-13
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27–89
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2026-04-13
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30–130
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2026-04-13
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46–117
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2026-04-13
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135–154
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2026-04-13
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65–173
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2026-04-13
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178–231
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2026-04-13
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69–332
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2026-03-26
Not-Content
115–197
Not-Content
2026-03-26
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64–140
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2026-03-25
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95–137
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2026-03-24
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70–132
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2026-03-24
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80–166
Not-Content
2026-01-12
Not-Content
201–169
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
2026-06-18
Child Poverty
My Lords, I, too, thank my noble friend for securing this debate and for her eloquent opening which, together with the contributions of other noble friends, identifies the appalling and, indeed, rising levels of child poverty in this, one of the richest
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
The answer to that question is complex, but there is one proposition that is not: institutions that constitute an arm of the state are bound by international law. That will apply to the Local Government Pension Scheme and, as I understand it, to other pe
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, what a pleasure it is to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, in supporting the Government’s amendments and Amendment 167 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, and others, which all propose that the Secretary of
2026-03-18
EU Directive: Adequate Minimum Wages
My Lords, the 80% minimum collective bargaining coverage in the directive curiously mirrors the 80% coverage achieved in Britain from 1945 until 1980, mandatorily through the wages councils and voluntarily by the joint industrial councils. The Government
2026-03-04
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I am pleased to support Amendments 359 and 361 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell of Beeston. On the basis of those amendments, I will not advance the amendment I proposed in Committee for a stand-alone offence for transport worker
2026-02-05
Pension Schemes Bill
I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness, but I emphasise that this amendment is to propose regulations that will be drafted by the Secretary of State. One would expect the Secretary of State to determine whatever issues there are about international l
2026-02-05
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 218C; I express my gratitude to the noble Baroness, Lady Janke, for supporting it. This amendment would require the Secretary of State to make regulations to ensure that pension schemes invest their funds in a manner
2026-01-30
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, and I am particularly grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Harper, for advancing Amendments 70 and 78, which I drafted. Unfortunately, I was unable to be here last week when I thought they
2026-01-13
Crime and Policing Bill
I raise a point on Amendment 378B, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra. Unless I have missed something in that lengthy amendment, the effect of it might well be to interfere with the exercise of the right to picket in an industrial dispute. Th
2026-01-07
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I wonder whether my noble friend the Minister could find time in his busy timetable to see me and the RMT about this, because I did not quite understand what the distinction was between the creation of an offence of assaulting a retail worker
2026-01-07
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Cotes. My proposed Amendment 356F is complementary, in a sense, to hers. My amendment would create a specific offence of assaulting a transport worker at work. It would be an equival
2025-12-10
Employment Rights Bill
I am coming to the end.
2025-12-10
Employment Rights Bill
I am coming to the conclusion. The Trade Union Act 1913 changed the definition of a trade union to allow it legitimately to spend funds on other objects beyond industrial relations and, if approved by a ballot of the members, a union could have a politi
2025-12-10
Employment Rights Bill
Thanks for bearing with me. In December 1909, all this changed. The Judicial Committee of this House held, in the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants v Osborne, that the statutory definition was exhaustive and it was therefore unlawful for a union to
2025-12-10
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I will make two points. The first relates to Motion B and the removal of the arbitrary statutory limit on compensation. My noble friend the Minister mentioned the tribunal statistics for 2023-24, published by the Government, and the fact that t
2025-10-28
Employment Rights Bill
I think it was suggested that it might be difficult, if not impossible, for members to find out how their political fund was expended. Does the Minister agree that Section 30 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 gives every me
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, no one hearing the speeches of the noble Lords who have spoken could be other than sympathetic to the objects of the amendments in this group.
However, although it may seem churlish, I have a point on the definition of freelancers in Amendme
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who spoke in the debate on my amendment. I have a couple of words by way of reply.
I point out to the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, that the P&O Ferries scandal was not the basis of the argument that I a
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, this amendment is a reproduction of the amendment on secondary action that I moved in Committee. Of course, your Lordships are far too polite to give expression to the collective groan that would otherwise emanate from all sides of the House.
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
I will try to finish the point in just a couple of sentences. The point is that somebody who does not like paying the political subscription can simply leave the union. If they object to it, that is what they can do. That freedom is protected by Article
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
Can I finish the sentence?
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, the difference is that, if you are a member of a trade union, you can leave the trade union. There is no compulsion to remain a member of a trade union. If you do not like paying the political—
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
Yes, not again—we rehearsed that in Committee. However, those cases do not support the proposition that the noble Baroness advanced. The case of Young, James and Webster v the United Kingdom concerned three railway workers, who were compelled to join a t
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, the House will not want a legal argument between me and the noble Baroness.
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Register of Interests · 3 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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Practising barrister, Old Square Chambers
registered 2025-06-02
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Royalties are received from chapters contributed to legal textbooks
registered 2020-08-08 · amended 2025-04-05
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Honorary Professor, Faculty of Laws, University College, London (remuneration received for ad hoc lectures)
registered 2020-08-08 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2019-10-15 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2021-01-28 → 2024-01-31
Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
2024-01-24 → 2024-09-16
Statutory Inquiries Committee
Contact
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APPGs (2026) · 3 active officership(s) · 2 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Democracy and the Constitution
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | Institute for Democracy and the Constitution | 7 | 2024-07-15 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2027-02-14 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Rule of Law
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law | 4 | 2025-06-08 |
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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.
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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)
2 bills
2 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status of Workers Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 1st reading | 2023-12-06 | |
| Status of Workers Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2021-05-26 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.