The Lord Tarassenko CBE FREng FMedSci FIET
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Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Tarassenko's full title is The Lord Tarassenko CBE FREng FMedSci FIET. His name is Lionel Tarassenko, 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
162 divisions
10 Content(6.2%)
6 Not-Content(3.7%)
146 didn't vote(90.1%)
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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 declare a conflict of interest as a senior adviser to the Alan Turing Institute, the national AI institute. We have known for a while that access to US big tech models might be restricted, and it will happen again. We should not rely on Chine
My Lords, as an AI researcher for nearly four decades and honorary lay canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford since 2012, I congratulate the most reverend Primate on securing this hugely important debate. I declare an interest as the founder and dire
2026-06-04
AI Regulation Bill
My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond, on his commitment to AI regulation and on securing today’s QSD. In the time available, I will follow the noble Lord, Lord Harper, and concentrate on AISI, the AI Security Institute.
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow maiden speeches, and I congratulate the noble Lords, Lord Hobby and Lord Blackwater, on their distinctive and excellent speeches.
There was no AI Bill in the gracious Speech, but AI will play a major role in
2026-04-28
UK Biobank Data
May I ask the Minister a follow-up question to the one I asked previously? He is absolutely right that UK Biobank should get in touch with the institutions where the principal investigators are based, but a lot of inadvertent leakage, if you will, of the
2026-04-28
UK Biobank Data
I declare two conflicts of interest. First, I was a participant in UK Biobank, having been recruited in Oxford in 2007. My wife is also a participant and has been far more assiduous—for example, she underwent whole-body imaging about two years ago, which
2026-03-17
Plan 2 Student Loans: Repayment Terms
My Lords, the proportion of home students in full-time postgraduate study has fallen from 46% to just 29% in five years. At the start of a PhD, a home student with a typical undergraduate loan will have a debt of around £55,000. At the end of the PhD, th
2026-02-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
2026-02-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, Amendment 227 is in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. We started with AI during Oral Questions what is now yesterday afternoon. We considered the use of AAI in the debate on Amendment 209 yesterday evening. We are now back wi
2026-02-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Very briefly, given the time, I just want to reassure noble Lords, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Storey, that none of the amendments—not just mine—stops the use of edtech; they introduce rules for its development and introduction into schools. For ex
2026-02-03
AI Superintelligence
My Lords, the second International AI Safety Report is being published today. It is a scientific assessment, guided by 100 experts from 30 different countries and chaired by Yoshua Bengio, one of the three so-called godfathers of AI. A key finding is tha
2026-01-29
Superintelligent AI
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, on securing this debate, but it is going to take a superhuman effort to give an intelligent speech on this topic in four minutes. Paradoxically, Google DeepMind’s paper on artificial general intelligenc
2026-01-21
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I will speak briefly about the lack of scientific evidence for Amendment 94A in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Nash. No one disputes that rates of suicide, depression, anxiety and self-harm have increased among teenagers in the last decade. H
2025-11-17
Artificial Intelligence Legislation
My Lords, several European countries, including Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland, have recently launched their own sovereign large language models to reduce dependence on models from the US and China. Now that hardware compute capabilities are no
2025-10-15
Modular Nuclear Programme
The announcement that the SMR contract was to be awarded to Rolls-Royce was welcome, but the impact on UK manufacturing is also important. Have the Government made an assessment of how many suppliers in the supply chain are going to be first-tier compani
2025-09-18
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I support Amendments 493, 494, 502K and 502YI, as someone with an interest in the use of educational technologies, including AI, both in schools and universities. I declare my interest as chair of the Maths Horizons project, funded by XTX Marke
My Lords, I draw the House’s attention to my registered interests as the founder director of Oxehealth, a University of Oxford spin-out which uses AI for healthcare applications and which will be looking for scale-up capital in the near future. I congrat
2025-06-05
AI Opportunities Action Plan
My Lords, a strong emphasis in the AI Opportunities Action Plan is the development of human capital to maintain the UK as one of the leading countries in the world for AI. In the last four years for which the figures are available there has been a decrea
2025-06-04
Special Educational Needs: Dyscalculia
My Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lady Bull on securing this debate and making such a strong case for action in just under 10 minutes.
On Monday, we released the final report of the Maths Horizons Project, which I have had the privilege of
2025-05-12
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I rise to speak as the founder of two AI spin-outs, and I draw the House’s attention to my registered interests as the founder-director of Oxehealth, a University of Oxford spin-out that uses AI for healthcare applications. I am also the autho
2025-05-12
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am authorised to speak on Motion 43A, as someone with regular day-to-day experience of scientific research. Since I started my PhD in 1981, I have had the privilege of spending more than half my working life doing scientific research in the U
My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Brown of Cambridge, on her excellent report. I would not say that it is too long; rather, it is very comprehensive. However, I was surprised that the only research institute mentioned in it was the Sa
2025-01-28
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I speak in support of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, on Amendment 58, to which I have also put my name. Given the time, I will speak only about NHS datasets.
There have been three important developments since the Committee stage of this Bi
2025-01-22
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Spellar, mentioned the AI opportunities action plan, including the plan to build data centres—among them, the largest UK data centre so far. These data centres, which have been designated by the Government as sovereign data
2024-12-18
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Kidron’s Amendment 211, to which I have put my name. I speak not as a technophobe but as a card-carrying technophile. I declare an interest as, for the past 15 years, I have been involved in the development of alg
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Register of Interests · 6 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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Member of Advisory Board, Time Trace Labs
registered 2026-02-10
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Machine Learning Advisor, Deep Medical
registered 2026-02-10
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Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford
registered 2024-08-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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Research Professor, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
registered 2024-08-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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President, Reuben College, University of Oxford
registered 2024-08-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director, LIO (previously Oxehealth Limited) (University of Oxford spin-out company in field of digital health)
registered 2024-08-12 · amended 2026-02-10
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Party history
2024-06-10 → present
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Government posts
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Opposition posts
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Committee memberships
2025-01-30 → 2025-10-20
UK Engagement with Space Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Communications and Digital Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
tarassenkol@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
External or private office
lionel.tarassenko@eng.ox.ac.uk; president@reuben.ox.ac.uk
01865 617675 · Reuben College, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QP
01865 617675 · Reuben College, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QP
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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