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The Lord Mohammed of Tinsley MBE

Liberal Democrat Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Mohammed of Tinsley's full title is The Lord Mohammed of Tinsley MBE. His name is Shaffaq Mohammed, 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 101 Content(62.3%) 24 Not-Content(14.8%) 37 didn't vote(22.8%)
2026-04-28
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91181 Not-Content
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2026-03-26
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2026-03-10
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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

2026-06-22 Master’s Level History Scholarships
My Lords, does the Minister share my concern that the decline in scholarships will disproportionately affect people from lower-income backgrounds? If she does, what steps will His Majesty’s Government take to make sure that people get to study based on t
2026-06-17 State of Extremism Report
My Lords, given the recent incidents in Southampton and Belfast—in which individuals who appeared to belong to either the Black or the Asian community were particularly targeted for no reason other than what they looked like—does the Minister agree that
2026-06-16 Children: Physical Punishment
My Lords, I turn to the point mentioned by my noble friend Lady Walmsley about the experiences of Scotland and Wales. Have the Government looked at the assessments that have been made by those Governments on safeguarding and the number of incidents repor
2026-06-11 Welfare Reforms and Youth Unemployment
My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Evans, for securing this important debate and all noble Lords for their thoughtful contributions. As I have listened, I have been struck by how this debate is not merely about stats, forecasts and the Governm
2026-06-10 Middle East
My Lords, there have been plenty of Conservative contributions. I want to press the Minister. He said the Government would regularly review potential action against those involved in illegal settlement activities. Will they commit to reviewing that on a
2026-06-10 Middle East
My Lords—
2026-06-10 North Belfast: Violent Attack
My Lords, people are conflating those who come here illegally with those who are here legally. Among the people who were firebombed out of their homes last night was an African family who have been here for 20 years. We also saw pictures of a business, p
2026-06-10 Best Start Family Hubs
My Lords, I welcome the family hubs, particularly the support for young people aged five to 19, or up to 25 with special educational needs. One of the issues we always have around these initiatives is the consistency of delivery and what is often referre
2026-06-09 Further Education Colleges: Recovery of VAT
My Lords, I will return to colleges and the original Question from the noble Lord, Lord Forbes. I want to follow up on the issue that he raised about the amount of VAT that is collected from colleges—about £200 million, if I heard the noble Lord right. W
2026-06-08 Children’s Social Care: Enduring Relationships Strategy
My Lords, I also welcome the Statement. It is important that we in this House send a strong message to young people in care that we are on their side. I know that on many occasions my noble friend Lord Purvis, who has just left his place here, has referr
2026-05-20 Unite the Kingdom March
My Lords, I welcome the statement from the Minister, but I have to share with your Lordships’ House the profound anger and hurt that some of the speeches from the stage just outside here caused, not just in London but across the country. I will share my
2026-05-20 Unite the Kingdom March
To ask His Majesty’s Government what actions they are taking in response to incidents of hate speech and Islamophobia at the Unite the Kingdom march held in London on 16 May.
2026-05-19 King’s Speech
My Lords, I congratulate our maiden speakers, the noble Lord, Lord Hobby—it is fantastic to see someone with his experiences joining your Lordships’ House—the noble Lord, Lord Blackwater, and my noble friends and colleagues Lady Leaman and Lord Dixon, wh
2026-04-28 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I pay tribute to the work of the noble Lord, Lord Nash, and to the tireless campaigning of my colleague and noble friend Lady Benjamin, as well as the noble Baroness, Lady Cass, who I do not see in her place at the moment. This issue has bee
2026-04-27 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Hacking, for all the service that he has given over many years. It was an absolute pleasure to join him at the dining table before this debate to exchange views about his long history here and his guidan
2026-04-27 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I was intending basically to agree with my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones. I therefore had not intended to speak on issues around social media. However, I have to say that I agree with not only my noble friend but the noble Baronesses, Lady Kidron and
2026-04-24 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I am one of the newbies the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, referred to, although I have not spent time in government—I have spent a lot of time in local government and a brief time in the European Parliament. Noble Lords will note that I have spoken
2026-04-23 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, I want briefly to speak in favour of my noble friend Lord Shipley’s amendment. I listened very carefully to what the Minister said about how the committee system does not necessarily work. I want to share the Sheffield experience with the no
2026-04-22 Burial Provision in England and Wales
I thank the Minister for the Answer, but, since I tabled this Question, a number of individuals and groups from Birmingham, Dewsbury and Croydon, as well as my home city of Sheffield, have been in touch with me, deeply concerned about the lack of burial
2026-04-22 Burial Provision in England and Wales
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy of burial provision in England and Wales; and whether they consider existing statutory duties on local authorities to be sufficient to ensure long-term burial capacity.
2026-04-20 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I thank the Minister for her response to the issue of the cost of school uniforms in particular. I am partly reassured by her commitment. I wish her and her Government well in trying to help with dealing with the cost of school uniforms. She can rest ass
2026-04-20 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister for the time she gave last week. It enabled me to better understand where she and the Government are coming from and gave me the opportunity to highlight why I think school uniforms and their cost are important, hence my am
2026-04-20 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
At end insert “, and do propose Amendment 41D in lieu of Amendment 41B—
2026-04-20 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I thank the Minister for her comments and response to the points raised. I thank all noble Lords, in particular my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones, for setting out clearly, alongside myself, our position on social media. I welcome the comments on having
2026-04-20 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I personally welcome the noble Baroness back to her place after a short period of illness and thank her for taking the time last week to engage with us to better understand where we are coming from and give us the opportunity to understand wher
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.

  • Councillor, Sheffield City Council
    registered 2025-03-26 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 3: Land and property

  • Property in Sheffield from which rental income is received
    registered 2025-03-26 · amended 2025-04-05
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

2025-02-21present
Liberal Democrat current

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

2025-11-10present
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Education)

Committee memberships

2026-01-27present
Public Services Committee

Contact

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

APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Subject Group
Vice Chair Yorkshire Leaders Board 4 2027-02-22
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 1 of 1 tabled 1 answered(100.0%) 1 departments
2026-02-09
Home Office
Offences against Children: Proceeds of Crime
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

1 bills 1 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Local Plans (Burial Space) Bill [HL] Lead 2nd reading 2026-06-02
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)

1 bills 1 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Local Plans (Burial Space) Bill [HL] Sponsored 2nd reading 2026-06-02
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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