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
Daily attendance allowance
£4,823
13 days attended across 1 published month
Travel claims
£305
Attendance £305
Total claimed
£5,128
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
84 Content(44.4%)
3 Not-Content(1.6%)
102 didn't vote(54.0%)
2026-07-21
Content
173–234
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
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 3
My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, but it is alarming that respect for the rule of law, once unquestioned, should be increasingly fragile, and that this vital requirement of our ordered and free society is under threat. If belief in the r
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
blackwater@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 —
if the parliamentary register lists them under a slightly different
form, the join may miss; check
/appgs directly.)
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
Showing
5
of 5 tabled
5 answered(100.0%)
1
departments
2026-07-23
Department of Health and Social Care
Community Health Services: Standards
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.