The Lord Ashcombe
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Ashcombe's full title is The Lord Ashcombe. His name is Mark Edward Cubitt, 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
189 divisions
112 Content(59.3%)
4 Not-Content(2.1%)
73 didn't vote(38.6%)
2026-07-22
Content
64–95
Not-Content
2026-07-21
Content
173–234
Not-Content
2026-07-13
Content
41–118
Not-Content
2026-07-13
Content
142–138
Content
2026-07-13
Content
158–239
Not-Content
2026-04-13
Not-Content
69–332
Not-Content
2026-03-25
Content
95–137
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Content
193–143
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
2026-01-12
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
2026-07-21
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
My Lords, the more astute among your Lordships will have realised that this is the first time I have taken part on this Bill. I do so because, unfortunately, my noble friends Lord Markham and Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, who led from these Benches on t
My Lords, like all other noble Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Farmer for securing this important debate. I thank him for continuing to draw attention to the vital link between successful rehabilitation and stable accommodation.
This
My Lords, my noble friend Lady Harding talked about speaking half way down the list, and the noble Lord, Lord Moraes, of being nearly at the end of the list. I am last, as your Lordships will be glad to hear.
I must declare my interest as an employee
2026-07-08
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I remind the House of my interest as an employee of Marsh, an FCA-regulated firm. I wish to speak in support of this amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, but before doing so, I would like to pick up briefly on something I s
2026-07-06
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I declare my interest as an employee of Marsh, which is an FCA-regulated firm. I shall speak to Amendment 142C in my name, which seeks, in essence, to achieve something modest but necessary: equipping the regulator with a clearer and more effe
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
The wording in the Bill is “changing”, so it can go up or down, but we are asking for it to be reduced. That is significantly different.
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I declare my interest as an employee of Marsh, an FCA-regulated entity. These amendments in the names of my noble friends Lady Neville-Rolfe, Lord Altrincham and Lord Holmes concern Clause 21, which I very much welcome in principle. The improve
2026-07-01
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
Then the Treasury can do it, but it should be down and not up.
My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to speak to these regulations, which form part of the ongoing work to strengthen and refine the register of overseas entities, a register introduced by the Conservative Government to bring greater transparency to over
2026-06-29
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I declare my interest as an employee of Marsh, the insurance broker regulated by the FCA. A number of amendments in this group discuss the downgrading of the “have regard to” requirement for proportionality, which would be a backward step. At a
2026-06-24
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, what an interesting debate this turned out to be. There are a number of flaws, which have been extremely well demonstrated by all noble Lords on this side of the Room. I thank the Minister for his answer to my question. I am also extremely grat
2026-06-24
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, unfortunately, I was unable to speak at Second Reading—like the noble Lord, Lord Vaux of Harrowden, as he mentioned on Monday—but I am delighted to be back in time to speak in Committee. I declare my interest as an employee of Marsh, an FCA-reg
2026-06-24
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-06-23
Carbon Budget Order 2026
My Lords, I wish to express my regret at these statutory instruments. Let me begin by recognising that carbon budgets are a vital part of the UK’s approach to tackling climate change. They provide long-term clarity on the pathway to net zero at some futu
2026-04-27
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I declare my interest as an employee of Marsh, whose sister company Mercer is a pension consultancy, master trust provider and, importantly, a signatory to the Mansion House Accord. What would the Noble Baroness the Minister say to firms that s
My Lords, the Energy Prices Act 2022 was brought forward in circumstances that were, by any measure, extraordinary. It was a moment of acute global volatility, when Governments across Europe were forced to act at speed to shield households and businesse
2026-03-19
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I declare my interest as an employee of Marsh, whose sister company Mercer is a pension consultancy, master trust provider and signature to the Mansion House Accord. I speak in strong support of this group, beginning with Amendment 52, which wo
2026-03-12
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 2026
We have a problem with the Isle of Wight. One of the vessels has done everything that it could possibly do to decarbonise. It has no option to go anywhere else because the power is not there. It is a fully hybrid boat, as the noble Lord, Lord Greenway, p
2026-03-12
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 2026
My Lords, we have heard from the noble Baroness, Lady Hoey, my noble friend Lord Moynihan and from other noble Lords regarding the situation facing Northern Ireland’s ferry services and the shenanigans that are certainly coming to light today. Having bee
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his responses and thank those who have taken part in this short debate. I am not sure that we have unknown unknowns, because the Minister has again stated where these various documents are scattered around, but we have
My Lords, I speak to my Amendment 34 in this group, and I am grateful for the support from the noble Lord, Lord Londesborough. Pensions legislation is, as many of your Lordships appreciate, inherently complex and difficult to understand. It is also curre
My Lords, very briefly, I support Amendments 6 and 22 from my noble friends Lord Mackinlay and Lord Fuller. As we have heard, the practical application of the £2,000 cap per person must be clearly defined in primary legislation. Leaving such a significan
My Lords, this is a very large group with a number of issues to address. First, I support my noble friends Lady Neville-Rolfe and Lord Altrincham in Amendment 1 in this group. I remind the House that the Department for Work and Pensions has acknowledged
I thank the Minister for giving way. He has mentioned up to five different publications where this information may be found. Is it not possible for the Government to bring it into one place, so that we can actually see what the information is?
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Register of Interests · 2 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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Managing director, Marsh Risk Limited (insurance broker)
registered 2022-11-28 · amended 2026-06-15
Category 5: Overseas visits
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Member was part of UK parliamentary ski team participating in annual race against Swiss MPs in Davos, Switzerland, 29 March to 4 April 2026; member paid own travel and accommodation costs; ski pass and ski tuition for the week for member and wife supplied by Skigruppe der Bundesversammlung (ski group of the Federal Assembly)
registered 2026-04-29
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Party history
2022-10-28 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
2026-06-15 → present
Opposition Whip (Lords)
Committee memberships
2026-06-15 → present
Environment and Climate Change Committee
2025-01-30 → 2026-04-29
Environment and Climate Change Committee
Contact
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APPGs (2026) · 2 active officership(s)
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Floating Offshore Wind
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | RenewableUK | 3 | 2026-03-20 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance and Financial Services
Subject Group
|
Officer | Chartered Insurance Institute Group | 4 | 2026-06-12 |
One row per active APPG. Funder names link out via the
/appgs Top secretariat funders panel — click any funder
there to open its full relationship graph. Officer matching is name-based against
the parliament.uk register text and may miss titled / hyphenated variants.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
Showing
10
of 10 tabled
10 answered(100.0%)
4
departments
2026-07-23
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Climate Change: Loans
Answered
2026-07-23
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Renewable Energy: Angola
Answered
2026-07-23
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Climate Change: Vanuatu
Answered
2026-03-26
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Offshore Industry: Exploration
Answered
2026-03-26
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Liquefied Natural Gas: Carbon Emissions
Answered
2026-03-26
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Offshore Industry: Exploration
Answered
2026-03-26
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Liquefied Natural Gas: Carbon Emissions
Answered
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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.