The Rt Hon. the Lord Maude of Horsham
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Maude of Horsham's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Maude of Horsham. His name is Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, 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.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
143
120 meetings ·
6 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
17 overseas trips
· 2014-01-01 → 2026-05-01
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 120
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | — | Functional Leadership and major projects | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Efficiency and reform | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Commercial Reform | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | SMEs and social investment | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Identity assurance Programme | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Identity Assurance Programme | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Professional Business Services Council | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Community Action and Social investment | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | G Cloud | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Community Action and NCS | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | NCS | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | General discussion | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Commercial Reform | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Data sharing | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Civil Society | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Trade and British Economic Policy | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Trade and British Economic Policy | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Pakistan and Britain | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Youth engagement activity and community action | cabinet-office |
| 2026-05-01 | — | Introductory meeting | cabinet-office |
Recent hospitality
| Date | Host | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-01 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2014-04-01 | — | Lunch | — |
| 2014-04-01 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2014-01-01 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2014-01-01 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2014-01-01 | — | Lunch | — |
Recent overseas travel
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | The Hague | Global Cyber Security Conference | — |
| — | Pakistan and Qatar | Civil Service and public sector reform, Government efficiency and digital reform. | — |
| — | Israel | Cyber Security, Digital Transformation and Civil Service Reform | — |
| — | Paris | OECD Conference on public sector innovation | — |
| — | Brussels | 2014 European Summit for Government Transformation | — |
| — | The Hague | Global Cyber Security Conference | — |
| — | Pakistan and Qatar | Civil Service and public sector reform, Government efficiency and digital reform. | — |
| — | USA | The Minister attended the UN General Assembly in New York and met with officials in Washington to discuss the Civil Service and public sector reform, efficiency and the digital agendas. | — |
| — | Germany | Transparency, Civil Service Reform and Efficiency | — |
| — | Italy | Invited by Minister Madia to talk about UK'S efficiency and reform agenda | — |
| — | Ireland | Open Government Partnership conference, and meetings on civil service reform and efficiency | — |
| — | Indonesia | Open Government Partnership Summit and meeting with ministers | — |
| — | France | Government meetings and discussions including transparency and public sector reform | — |
| — | US & Mexico | Digital, Technology and Transparency | — |
| — | Prague | Bilateral meetings with Deputy Prime Minister and Czech counterparts. | — |
| — | Dubai | To attend and speak at the Dubai Government Summit. | — |
| — | Spain | Speech to pan European conference on Government efficiency. Bilateral meetings with ministerial counterparts. | — |
Source: gov.uk ministerial transparency returns. Coverage:
HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial
Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
40 Content(24.7%)
1 Not-Content(0.6%)
121 didn't vote(74.7%)
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168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
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210–131
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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
My Lords, does the Minister agree that the last, albeit inadvertent, public service that Peter Mandelson delivered was to enable to be laid bare for public scrutiny the extraordinary vacuum at the centre of this Government—that there is a lack of leaders
2026-05-19
King’s Speech
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Alexander. It is also a pleasure to speak on the same day as so many distinguished maiden speakers, particularly my noble friend Lord Blackwater. We are fellow alumni, and those of us who are
2026-03-02
Middle East
My Lords, I do not think I can be the only Member of this House who has close family members living and working in the Gulf region who find themselves in possible physical jeopardy at this time. I want to probe the Leader on the legal justification for t
2025-09-02
Civil Service: Interns
My Lords, does the Minister accept that the biggest contribution to social diversity in the Civil Service would be to create genuine parity of esteem between the so-called policy profession and the professions in the Civil Service to do with implementati
2025-07-15
Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble and right reverend Lord.
As the new football season approaches, those of us who are season ticket holders at these debates relish the prospect of further discussion on this important issue. I pay tribute
The noble Lord’s point about what we mean when we talk of a public authority is really important. I make a distinction between entities that are part of central government—where the writ of the Cabinet Office and the Treasury should absolutely run withou
My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 5 and 6 in the names of my noble friends on the Front Bench.
As I have said, I was the Minister for the Cabinet Office for five long years, during the entirety of the coalition Government—I am not sure that anyone
My Lords, I apologise for not having been present for the Second Reading debate on this Bill—it is a subject rather dear to my heart—and for not being here at the beginning of this Committee’s proceedings this afternoon. In both cases, I had unmoveable p
2025-03-25
Disruption at Heathrow
My Lords, I should probably declare an interest as one of the tens of thousands of people who, in the small hours of Friday morning, had his flight turned round in mid-air and returned to the point of departure. In my case, the flight departed from the C
2025-03-11
Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions to this important debate. On the comments made at the outset by the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, I am open-minded about whether the Bill should contain what is effectively a veto or whether it sh
2025-03-11
Football Governance Bill [HL]
Of course, it is right that it is usual for an adverse vote in a Select Committee where there is pre-appointment scrutiny to be only advisory. I cannot remember, but there may even have been an example of a Government ignoring that, and it has not been b
2025-03-11
Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, Amendment 8 is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Goodman of Wycombe. I do not need to detain your Lordships for long on this.
The amendment puts into the Bill what the Minister has already committed to in her letter to my noble fri
2025-03-11
Football Governance Bill [HL]
2025-03-11
Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I think there is a severe danger of there being a consensus around the sentiments, at any rate, reflected in this group of amendments. The point has been made by a number of your Lordships that this is what good clubs do. Successful clubs are d
2025-03-11
Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I rise merely to add my support to what has been said, and to commend the Government for having been on a journey to recognise some of the points made in Committee, which, as my noble friend Lord Parkinson said from the Front Bench, was some tw
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend, and indeed the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, who is a neighbour of mine in Sussex. I had the pleasure of him being a constituent of mine, when I was a Member in the other place. He speaks with enormo
2025-01-22
Political Parties: Donations from Abroad
My Lords, will the Minister give an undertaking that his Government will follow the practice in the latter part of the last Labour Government, where Jack Straw, who had responsibility for these matters, was absolutely meticulous in ensuring that among th
2025-01-09
Civil Servants: Compulsory Office Attendance
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Farmer for introducing this topic and giving us a chance to debate something that is important, because it relates to the productivity of the Civil Service, which is vital to the success of the United Kingd
2024-12-18
Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I find my noble friend’s arguments very persuasive, and I will ask just one question. I do not know what the answer is, so others who know much more about this will correct me if I am wrong. My understanding is that no one made the Premier Leag
2024-12-18
Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Brady, who speaks with passion and deep expertise. I support this amendment.
I suspect I am not the only football supporter sitting in your Lordships’ House who had never heard of parachute pay
2024-12-18
Football Governance Bill [HL]
With respect to the Minister, it was not just a random individual; it was a really significant player in the whole scheme of what we are talking about here.
2024-12-18
Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I want to pick up one particular word that my noble friend Lady Brady raised: divisive. There is no doubt that this Bill has turned what was intended to be a backstop—a last resort or nuclear option, however it was described—into something that
2024-12-18
Football Governance Bill [HL]
What the noble Lord says is simply not the case. When the European Super League was proposed, what stopped it from happening and what made the clubs drop it like a red-hot potato was the fact that the fans reacted with fury. Admittedly, the rather populi
2024-12-18
Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I have some concerns about what the noble Lord advocates in this amendment. He advocates setting up a central fund in one of his other amendments, and the purpose of that is not clear, unless it is to provide a mechanism, in effect, for redistr
2024-12-17
Prison Capacity Strategy
My Lords, I believe that the reason we have a larger prison population than most comparable countries in Europe is not that more of our population are prone to become criminals; it is because of reoffending. Our rate of reoffending is much higher than in
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Register of Interests · 5 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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Chairman, FMAP Ltd (trading as FMA) (advice to overseas governments on efficiency, implementation and public sector reform) (the member has been personally involved in delivering professional advice to the following clients: Prime Minister’s Office, government of Bahrain (the member's earnings for this work in 2024–25 fell in the £50,001–60,000 band); Office of the Prime Minister, government of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (the member's earnings for this work in 2024–25 fell in the £20,001–30,000 band) (interest ceased 20 June 2024); Inter-American Development Bank - work is carried out for: Growth Fund, Greece (the member's earnings for this work in 2024–25 fell in the £0–5,000 band) (interest ceased 21 January 2025); Tech Garden, Kazakhstan (the member's earnings for this work in 2024–25 fell in the £10,001–20,000 band) (interest ceased 31 December 2025); Ministry of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Jamaica (no registrable earnings in 2024–25); Digital Government Authority, Thailand (the member's earnings for this work in 2024–25 fell in the £0–5,000 band); KomDigi, Indonesia (the member's earnings for this work in 2024–25 fell in the £10,001–20,000 band); World Bank and Central Bank, Mozambique (the member's earnings for this work in 2024–25 fell in the £0–5,000 band)
registered 2018-12-21 · amended 2026-02-23
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Senior Adviser, Covington and Burling LLP (legal and public policy) (interest ceased 31 December 2025)
registered 2016-10-21 · amended 2026-02-02
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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FMAP Ltd (a company providing advice to overseas governments on efficiency, implementation and public sector reform)
registered 2018-12-21 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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Residential property in South London from which rental income is received
registered 2015-06-19 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 4: Sponsorship
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Secretarial and other assistance with the member's parliamentary duties is provided by two employees of FMAP Ltd
registered 2025-04-08
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Party history
1983-06-09 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
2015-05-11 → 2016-03-11
Minister of State (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) (Trade and Investment)
2015-05-11 → 2016-03-11
Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) (Trade and Investment)
2010-05-12 → 2015-03-30
Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
1990-07-14 → 1992-04-13
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
1989-07-24 → 1990-07-14
Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
1987-06-13 → 1989-07-26
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Trade and Industry)
1985-10-07 → 1987-06-15
Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)
Opposition posts
2007-07-03 → 2010-05-06
Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)
2005-05-10 → 2007-07-03
Shadow Minister without Portfolio
2000-02-02 → 2001-06-07
Shadow Secretary of State (Foreign Affairs)
1998-06-02 → 2000-02-02
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
1997-06-11 → 1998-06-02
Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (also Shadow Deputy Prime Minister)
Committee memberships
1990-10-15 → 1992-03-16
Public Accounts Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 1 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 1 group(s) historically — those rotated off in later snapshots.
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)
3 bills
2 as lead sponsor
1 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Bodies Act 2011 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2010-10-28 | |
| Superannuation Act 2010 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2010-07-15 | |
| Infrastructure Audit (Housing Development) Bill | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2006-12-13 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.