The Lord Sikka
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Sikka's full title is The Lord Sikka. His name is Prem Nath Sikka, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£4,823
13 days attended across 1 published month
Travel claims
£248
Attendance £248
Total claimed
£5,071
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
4 Content(2.1%)
83 Not-Content(43.9%)
102 didn't vote(54.0%)
2026-07-22
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64–95
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2026-07-21
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173–234
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2026-07-13
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158–239
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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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2026-03-26
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115–197
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2026-03-26
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64–140
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2026-03-24
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80–166
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2026-03-12
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26–134
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2026-02-04
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62–295
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2026-01-12
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201–169
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2026-01-05
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168–178
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2026-01-05
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210–131
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2026-01-05
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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
My Lords, I support some of the committee’s suggestions but not others. I have never knowingly supported discrimination based on gender, race, religion, disability or age and will not support a mandatory retirement age of 80 for Members of this House. Th
2026-09-16
Procedure and Privileges
My Lords, saying that questions need to be completed in 30 or 45 seconds is incredibly regressive. We have more Members, more Ministers, more ministries and more legislation than ever before, and to imagine that you can ask a detailed question in about 3
2026-09-16
Business Rates Avoidance Schemes
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply. After claiming empty property relief, some businesses place empty boxes in premises to give the appearance of occupation, subsequently removing them to trigger an additional period of relief. One scheme opera
2026-09-16
Business Rates Avoidance Schemes
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they plan to take to disable business rates avoidance schemes and the industry promoting them.
My Lords, 90% of England’s water industry is foreign owned, including by the Chinese state. The result has been low investment, high bills, raw sewage in rivers, over 1,200 criminal convictions, and harms to nature, health and national security. Everyone
2026-09-14
Representation of the People Bill
My Lords, this Bill does not end the power of the rich to hijack democracy. Corporations and the super-rich do not donate; they invest and get a return for themselves and their class. Numerous laws are bent to advance their interests. The result is that
2026-09-14
International Financial Fraud
My Lords, according to a former Minister, 40% of global illicit financial flows pass through the UK, its Crown dependencies and overseas territories. Can the Minister explain why UK Governments continue to fail to curb the flow of illicit financial funds
My Lords, ageing problems begin during childhood and are incubated by poor government policies. A June 2026 paper in Nature Human Behaviour noted that consequences of poverty, inequality and discrimination accelerate biological ageing from a very young a
2026-09-02
Direction of Government
My Lords, I welcome the Prime Minister’s Statement, and he faces a daunting task in reversing the Conservative legacy. This includes 25.3 million people living below the minimum living standard, declining life expectancy, potholed roads in every street,
2026-09-02
Data Centres: Water Resources
The proposed data centre at Thurrock in Essex will concrete over habitat for bees, butterflies, plants and birds. It will consume up to 3 million litres of water a day in an area routinely subject to hosepipe bans. It will consume 2.65 billion kilowatt h
2026-09-01
Public Office (Accountability) Bill
My Lords, I welcome the Bill and congratulate all campaigners who helped to secure the duty of candour and extend human rights. However, I have several concerns. The Bill imposes a duty of candour only after a formal inquiry, inquest or government-led re
2026-07-20
British Steel
My Lords, I welcome the Government’s decision to nationalise British Steel, but I seek some clarification from the Minister on potential compensation to be paid to British Steel’s owners. Can he assure the House that the following factors will be taken i
2026-07-15
Maximum Temperature for Indoor Workplaces
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to introduce legislation or issue guidance to specify a maximum temperature for all indoor workplaces.
2026-07-15
Maximum Temperature for Indoor Workplaces
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply, but let me outline the urgency. There were 1,311 heat-related deaths in 2024, 1,504 in 2025 and 2,700 in the last two months alone. Research shows that high workplace temperature damages health and is a safet
2026-07-14
Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill
My Lords, I will confine my comments to Clause 1, which will increase the rate of the electricity generator levy from 45% to 55%. I fully support this increase and wish it had been higher.
Despite various initiatives mentioned by the Minister, Ofgem’s
2026-07-13
Clean Water Bill: Chalk Streams
My Lords, Wessex Water, Thames Water, Southern Water, Anglian Water and Yorkshire Water have terrible records of dumping untreated sewage into chalk streams. None has had its licence to operate revoked. Can the Minister explain how many criminal convicti
2026-06-30
University Student Finance
As the Minister just said, the student debt in England is £296 billion and is expected to hit £500 billion by the late 2040s. Interest is added until debt is repaid or written off. What assessment have the Government made of the impact of student loan re
2026-06-29
Covid Fraud
My Lords, one of the problems with the commissioner’s report on Covid fraud is that it pays little attention to the role of consultants in devising various schemes. For example, the furlough support scheme did not ask companies to provide the national in
2026-06-23
G7 Summit
My Lords, my concern is about the relevance of the G7. It was held together by the economic might of various countries, but now India and China are challenging, and they are not part of the G7. It was held together by the advancement of the rules-based i
2026-06-18
Child Poverty
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Lister for securing this valuable debate. I welcome the Government’s child poverty strategy, breakfast clubs, free school meals for all children in households on universal credit and the abolition of the two-child b
2026-06-17
Thames Water
My Lords, on 9 June the Minister said that
“we consider the regulated capital value of the water sector to be the closest proximity for the total value of the sector’s debt and equity; it is currently £107 billion”.—[Official Report, 9/6/26; col. 1241
2026-06-16
Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill
My Lords, this enabling Bill paves the way for a possible nationalisation of steel companies, with a particular emphasis on British Steel, currently owned by the China-based Jingye Group. This nationalisation may or may not happen—we have to wait and see
2026-06-15
World Ocean Day
My Lords, carbon emissions harm the oceans through warming, acidification and deoxygenation, and threaten climate, food and jobs. Since 1990, the carbon emissions of the UK’s richest 0.1% have increased by 53%, while the bottom 90% have cut theirs by 26%
2026-06-09
Water Companies
My Lords, water companies have knowingly violated their licence conditions and have more convictions than hardened criminal gangs, yet no executive has been fined and no company forced to relinquish its licence. What will it take for the Government to re
2026-06-08
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, this is primarily an enabling Bill and much of the substance will follow later, through the FCA and PRA rule-making and secondary legislation. Parliament will not have a proper opportunity to amend whatever the FCA agrees with the industry lobb
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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No registrable interests
registered 2025-04-07
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Party history
2020-09-10 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
None recorded.
Contact
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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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of 6 tabled
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departments
2026-03-25
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency
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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)
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.