The Lord Blackwater
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Blackwater's full title is The Lord Blackwater. His name is Simon James Heffer, 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
72 Content(44.4%)
3 Not-Content(1.9%)
87 didn't vote(53.7%)
2026-04-13
Not-Content
69–332
Not-Content
2026-03-25
Content
95–137
Not-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 2
2026-06-11
Welfare Reforms and Youth Unemployment
My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow my noble friend Lord Elliott, and I congratulate my noble friend Lord Evans on the excellent way he presented this debate and the figures he set out. He touched a real nerve with me because, like him, my first
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, it is a great honour to follow the noble Lord, Lord Isaac, and his extremely intelligent speech. I speak partly as a professor, and I know that what he is saying about higher education is exactly true and that it is a great challenge for all pa
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 · 8 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, Blackwater Associates Limited (personal service company) (income from work registered in this category is paid to Blackwater Associates Limited)
registered 2026-02-10
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Professorial Research Fellow, Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham
registered 2026-02-10
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In receipt of book royalties from Penguin Random House, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Faber & Faber
registered 2026-02-10 · amended 2026-03-25
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Occasional contributor to BBC programmes
registered 2026-02-10
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Occasional columnist, The Spectator, Literary Review, The New Criterion, The Connexion, Financial Review, The Wall Street Journal and The New Statesman
registered 2026-02-10 · amended 2026-04-27
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Regular columnist, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph
registered 2026-02-10
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Blackwater Associates Limited (personal service company)
registered 2026-02-10
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Imperial Brands plc (tobacco)
registered 2026-02-10
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
2026-01-27 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2026-06-22 → present
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)
No APPG officerships found for this peer. (Officer matching is by name —
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
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.