The Lord Markham CBE
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Markham's full title is The Lord Markham CBE. His name is Nicholas Francis Markham, 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
235
225 meetings ·
5 hospitality ·
1 gift ·
4 overseas trips
· 2022-10-01 → 2024-06-30
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 225
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-22 | NHS Providers | to discuss digital and health infrastructure | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-21 | Vindi Banga | to discuss innovation and med tech | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-20 | NHS Confederation | to discuss challenges around innovation and adoption | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-20 | Baroness Bloomfield, Minister Stephenson, Royal Marsden Hospital | to discuss service reconfiguration | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-15 | Public Investment Fund, Lean, Huma | to discuss medtech and innovation in healthcare | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-15 | Health Holding Company | to discuss the role of HHC in KSA health system | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-15 | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Government, NHSE, IHG, King's College Hospital Jeddah, GE Healthcare, Q5, PWC, National Centre for Aging, Health Holding Company, Interhealth Canada, Hevolution, Maximum, Cloud Solutions | roundtable discussion on health as part of GREAT FUTURES | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-15 | Q5 | to discuss experience of Q5 working in Saudi Arabia | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-15 | Duncan Selbie | to discuss healthcare in Saudi Arabia | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-14 | Cloud Solutions, Huma and Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital | to discuss digital transformation in hospitals | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-13 | Huma, Public Investment Fund | to discuss health data and GREAT FUTURES conference | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-09 | Bain and Company | to discuss NHS Productivity | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-07 | UK Biobank, HDR UK, Our Future Health, Moderna, Pfizer, ABHI, GSK, MSD, AZ, Roche, IQVIA, Microsoft, IBM, J&J, Google, HDR UK, Nucleome Therapeutics, Jiva.ai, TechUK, Verily, Closed Loop Medicine, Open Medical, BIA, ABPI, Novo Nordisk, Dementia Mission,Genomics England | to discuss data for research and development | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-02 | Bain and Company | to discuss NHS Productivity | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-05-01 | Charles Conn | to discuss the UK MedTech industry | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-04-29 | NHSBT, Baroness Merron, Baroness Finlay and Lord Evans of Rainow | to discuss work and progress of NHSBT | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-04-29 | Lazard; Visionable, IESO, Ufonia, SalesForce, Flagship Pioneering, Pando, Birdie, Tortus, Tympa Health, LifeBit, DoctorDoctor, NHS | to discuss Innovation in health | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-04-29 | Iain Duncan Smith MP | to discuss the NHP scheme in Whipps Cross | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-04-23 | Michael Branagan Harris | to discuss the UK MedTech industry | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2024-04-03 | Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust | Trust to update on the NHP scheme progress | department-of-health-and-social-care |
Recent hospitality
| Date | Host | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-09 | — | Rugby Tickets | — |
| 2023-10-01 | — | N/A | — |
| 2023-01-01 | — | NILL RETURN | — |
| 2022-11-24 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2022-11-23 | — | Dinner | — |
Recent gifts
| Date | Gift | From / To | Outcome | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-01 | N/A | N/A | N/A | — |
Recent overseas travel
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-26 → 2024-05-28 |
Geneva, Switzerland
Scheduled flight
|
Attendance at World Health Assembly | — |
| 2024-05-13 → 2024-05-16 |
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Private charter
|
Attendance at GREAT FUTURES | — |
| — |
Paris, France
Eurostar
|
OECD Meeting on Health | — |
| — |
NIL RETURN
NIL RETURN
|
NIL RETURN | — |
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HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial
Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
Lords votes · 2026
176 divisions
88 Content(50.0%)
4 Not-Content(2.3%)
84 didn't vote(47.7%)
2026-04-13
Not-Content
69–332
Not-Content
2026-03-25
Content
95–137
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Content
194–140
Content
2026-03-05
Content
198–139
Content
2026-03-05
Content
208–142
Content
2026-03-05
Content
214–142
Content
2026-02-04
Not-Content
62–295
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Content
131–127
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2026-01-05
Content
194–130
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2026-01-05
Content
168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
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
2026-07-20
EU Technological Sovereignty Package
My Lords, as someone who has experienced a few PM changes myself, I genuinely wish all the Ministers good luck and thank them for the work that they have done—I know how hard it is. Technological sovereignty ultimately depends not on where AI is regulate
2026-07-09
Artificial Intelligence: Vaccine Technology
My Lords, the best recent example of vaccine technology is the pandemic and Covid, and the UK rightly champions the 100-day mission to develop vaccines against any future pandemics. As I am sure the Minister is aware, AI can rapidly compress that discove
2026-06-24
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
I thank both noble Lords for their interventions, and it shows the richness of this discussion. I agree with my noble friend Lord Moynihan on review timeframes that should be not just six months but longer terms. To the point on legacy from the noble Lor
2026-06-24
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
I thank the noble Lords for their contribution to this debate. As I believe I get almost the last word of the whole Committee stage, I thank everyone. We have had some expert contributions over the two days. We have had Olympic medallists, Games organise
2026-06-24
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
Yes, I am moving Amendment 83 and speaking to Amendment 86 from my noble friend Lady Sater.
As I was saying, there is real concern about the impact of the CQC regulations on these grass-roots sports. If my noble friend Lady Sater was here, she would f
2026-06-24
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
Noble Lords will notice that I am not my noble friend Lord Young of Acton, who, unfortunately, cannot be here this evening. Unfortunately, my noble friend Lady Davies is also not able to be here. But I would be grateful if the Minister is able to reply t
2026-06-24
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
2026-06-24
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
I thank my noble friend Lord Holmes, and all other noble Lords, for what I hope people will see as a good debate and a helpful contribution. We hope to make sure the UK is best placed for the best planned events, so I hope this will be taken in the spiri
2026-06-24
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
I thank the noble Lord, Lord Addington, and other noble Lords for their gold medal contributions today—if I am allowed to say that, at this stage at least. As the noble Lord, Lord Foster, and my noble friend Lord Hayward set out, there are quite often un
2026-06-23
Artificial Intelligence: Global Governance
My Lords, recent restrictions by the United States on access by foreign nationals to certain advanced AI models have highlighted the extent to which access to frontier AI technology can be determined by decisions taken overseas. What discussions have the
2026-06-22
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
I thank my noble friend Lord Moynihan for introducing this group and thank noble Lords for their contributions. This whole debate shows that it is a complicated area and begs the question whether this is the right Bill for it to be in. At the very least,
2026-06-22
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
I am grateful for the contributions of all noble Lords and thank the Minister for her comments. I welcome the general support from noble Lords. I hope the Minister can see that this is all brought with the constructive view of making sure that this frame
2026-06-22
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
My Lords, I start by declaring that, further to the comments made by my noble friend Lord Hayward, if I was ever to win anything significant, it would definitely be by a massive stroke of luck.
The Government’s clearly stated intention for the Bill is
2026-06-22
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
2026-06-22
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
My Lords, what an honour it is to follow such distinguished experts in this field: my noble friend Lord Moynihan—like other noble Lords, I am delighted to have him back—my noble friend Lord Holmes and the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson. It is yet ano
2026-06-09
Digital Safety: Children
My Lords, there is total agreement across the House that children must be protected from harms online. Noble Lords will recall that amendments tabled by my noble friend Lord Nash on the impact of social media on children’s well-being were repeatedly resi
My Lords,
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness … it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair”.
Charles
2026-06-04
AI Regulation Bill
I add my thanks to my noble friend Lord Holmes for bringing this debate forward today. It is a complex area, and we would all agree that it is difficult to do it justice with such limited time. I think we also all agree that there are some areas where we
2026-06-03
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
As others have said, it is a pleasure to speak after such an august gathering of former Olympians, sporting legends, relatives and “Flying Fullers”. Of course, it is a pleasure to have the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, back and making his points in his inimi
2026-06-01
Sovereign AI Fund
My Lords, the Competition and Markets Authority has expressed concerns that AI may entrench the market power of a small number of cloud providers. If the sovereign AI fund is not designed to increase the UK’s strategic authority in the cloud space, what
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, I declare an interest as a founder of a health tech company, HealthTech Fund, which is likely to have many investments in the AI space. It is late, so I will not try to summarise all the excellent speeches we have heard tonight, particularly as
2026-05-18
EU-UK SPS Agreement: Food-related Standards
I thank the noble Baroness for her Answer, and I am very encouraged by her response, because in this area I have seen first-hand how we have used our innovation and flexibility to create inward investment and a world-leading industry. Can I take from the
2026-05-18
EU-UK SPS Agreement: Food-related Standards
My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper, and declare an interest as chair of a biotech company.
2026-05-18
EU-UK SPS Agreement: Food-related Standards
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to maintain regulatory flexibilities and innovation in fields such as novel foods and precision fermentation in the proposed EU-UK sanitary and phytosanitary agreement to harmonise food-relate
2026-04-28
UK Biobank Data
My Lords, I thank the Minister for the Statement. This is clearly a serious incident that goes to the heart of public trust in one of our most important research assets. I pay tribute to the hundreds of thousands of volunteers whose data underpins the su
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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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Director, Evogenix Limited (antibody therapeutics)
registered 2025-12-04
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Chair, Spex Capital Ltd (healthcare technology fund)
registered 2025-11-25
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Director, Penneys Gib Ltd (family investment company)
registered 2025-10-20
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Director, Seed Invesco Ltd
registered 2025-07-24
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Director, Seed Developments Ltd
registered 2025-07-24
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Director, Express Test Investments Ltd (Covid testing and health screening services provider to the private sector)
registered 2025-02-17 · amended 2025-04-05
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Director, Cignpost Express Test Ltd (Covid testing and health screening services provider to the private sector)
registered 2025-02-17 · amended 2025-04-05
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Director, Penneys XI Ltd (family investment company)
registered 2024-11-05 · amended 2025-04-05
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Director, R2B H Ltd (management consultancy services)
registered 2022-10-07 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Penneys XI Ltd (family investment company)
registered 2025-07-03
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R2B H Ltd (management consultancy services)
registered 2022-10-07 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Seed Invesco Ltd (seed / gardening company)
registered 2022-10-07 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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House in East Horsley from which rental income is received
registered 2024-08-23 · amended 2025-04-05
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Property in Sotogrande, Spain, owned by R2B H Ltd (see category 1) from which rental income is received
registered 2023-05-10 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2022-10-07 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
2022-09-22 → 2024-07-05
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Opposition posts
2024-09-01 → present
Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)
Committee memberships
2025-10-14 → 2025-11-05
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)
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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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