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The Lord Ashcombe

Conservative Member of the House of Lords M
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

176 divisions 112 Content(63.6%) 4 Not-Content(2.3%) 60 didn't vote(34.1%)
2026-07-20
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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

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
2026-07-16 Early Release Prisoners: Preventing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping
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
2026-07-14 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
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]
Then the Treasury can do it, but it should be down and not up.
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
2026-06-30 Register of Overseas Entities (Protection and Trusts) and Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
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]
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
2026-06-23 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
2026-04-13 Energy Prices Act 2022 (Extension of Time Limit) Regulations 2026
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
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
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
2026-03-05 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill
2026-03-05 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill
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
2026-03-05 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill
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
2026-03-05 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill
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
2026-03-05 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill
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
2026-02-24 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill
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?
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown verbatim from the search API; click any debate title for the full record.

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.

  • Managing director, Marsh Risk Limited (insurance broker)
    registered 2022-11-28 · amended 2026-06-15

Category 5: Overseas visits

  • 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
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly. Read the full Lords Code of Conduct for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.

Party history

2022-10-28present
Conservative current

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

2026-06-15present
Opposition Whip (Lords)

Committee memberships

2026-06-15present
Environment and Climate Change Committee
2025-01-302026-04-29
Environment and Climate Change Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

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
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Climate Change: Loans
Answered
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
Water: Grenada
Answered
2026-07-23
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Climate Change: Vanuatu
Answered
2026-03-27
Department for Business and Trade
Disciplinary Proceedings
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
Source: UK Parliament Members API. The amber "interest" tag is set by Parliament's own system when the asking member has a register entry it deems related — typically a paid role or directorship in the sector being asked about. Click any "i" icon to see the full question and the department's answer.

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.
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