The Rt Hon. the Lord Soames of Fletching
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Soames of Fletching's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Soames of Fletching. His name is Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, 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
4 Content(2.5%)
0 Not-Content(0.0%)
158 didn't vote(97.5%)
2026-01-12
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201–169
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publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the
figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-06-11
Bosnia and Herzegovina
My Lords, I thank the Lord Speaker for giving me permission to speak sitting down. I am afraid that I am immobile at the moment. The expertise of the my noble friend Lady Helic in these matters is very well known. I share her concern, as do many of us, a
2025-09-08
Gaza City
My Lords, given the general consensus that the displacement of the Palestinian people is in itself a war crime, will the Government now take the opportunity to place before the House all the assistance that we give to the State of Israel now, so that har
2025-09-08
Gaza City
My Lords—
2025-07-18
Strategic Defence Review 2025
My Lords, I start by congratulating the noble Lord, Lord McCabe, on his excellent maiden speech. May I also say how wonderful it is to see the noble Lord, Lord Hennessy, in his place again?
I agree with practically everything that the noble Lord, Lord
2025-07-01
F35A and F35B Jets
My Lords—
2025-07-01
F35A and F35B Jets
My Lords, would the Minister confirm that the F35A is capable of being fully marinised?
2025-05-21
Armed Forces Recruitment
My Lords, would the Minister consider a trial run of reopening high street recruiting centres, the closing of which was, in my view, a disaster? They enable people who know the area in which they are recruiting and the people whom they want to recruit mu
2025-03-20
G7
Following the ongoing work and conclusions of the G7, will the Minister have a further word with the Ministry of Defence about the extreme inadvisability of dispatching a carrier group to the Far East at this time, taking with it a very large amount of t
2025-03-14
Palestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I strongly support the Bill introduced by the noble Baroness, Lady Northover. In the very brief time available to me, I wish to concentrate on one of the major obstacles to a two-state solution: the massive Israeli settlement enterprise in the
My Lords, I join in the congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord De Mauley, and, before him, the noble Lord, Lord Ashton, to our wonderful committee staff and to all those who took the trouble and time to give us evidence for this important and substantia
2025-03-03
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Wolfson and the noble Lord, Lord Collins, for their contributions. I particularly express my thanks for another wonderful speech from my noble friend Lady Finn, who, to my mind, absolutely nailed it. I thank my nobl
2025-03-03
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, in moving the amendment in my name, may I say first, without sounding too much like Lord Copper, what a great privilege it is to take part in this debate, and to have listened in particular to two magnificent speeches from my noble friends Lord
2025-03-03
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
2025-01-15
Gaza: Peace Talks
My Lords, can the Minister confirm that in respect of these particular talks, quite apart from the vital necessity of the release of the hostages, it is very much the imperative that the Israelis are made to open more spaces for relief to starving Palest
My Lords, I feel honoured and privileged to sit on the International Relations and Defence Committee. I am privileged to have sat under the enlightened and skilful chairmanship of my noble friend Lord Ashton of Hyde, from whom I have learned a great deal
2025-01-06
Gaza: Humanitarian Situation
My Lords, is the Minister aware that, for many of us, this institutionalised cruelty is contrary to all the laws of war? It does not seem to many of us that Britain is making enough of this. We owe it to those children and others in the freezing cold to
2024-11-14
Defence: 2.5% GDP Spending Commitment
My Lords, were any instructions or guidance given to the SDR team on guarantees about the financing of what will inevitably be the findings of the SDR?
2024-07-29
Horseracing and Bloodstock Industries
My Lords, I declare my interest as in the register. While we all want to tackle problem gambling, very wealthy punters who can comfortably sustain large losses really are not the issue. However, by driving them to the black market with poorly targeted af
2024-07-25
King’s Speech
My Lords, I join other noble Lords in welcoming the new Front Bench team, and congratulate them on the smooth way in which they have moved swiftly into government. I offer every good wish to the noble Lord, Lord Robertson, as chair of this very importa
2024-03-11
809 Naval Air Squadron
My Lords, will my noble friend confirm that there will be, and is, a pipeline of training sufficient for the pilots of both the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm to cover these mythical beasts?
2024-02-12
Royal Navy: Aircraft Carriers
Would my noble friend the Minister agree with me that, disappointingly, these aircraft carriers, which are in any event extremely vulnerable in the theatre of operations, also appear to be unreliable? Will he confirm to the House that there will have sai
2024-01-29
RAF Aerobatic Team: Historical Allegations
My Lords, does my noble friend the Minister agree that this shows serious failure of command and leadership at both operational and command level? Is he satisfied that this matter was dealt with at a fast enough pace? It seems that the first complaints w
2024-01-15
Defending the UK and Allies
My Lord, I join other noble Lords in congratulating the pilots of those four Typhoons, who undertook an astonishing, skilful and very courageous mission—an eight-hour return flight, including what must have been a very difficult attack. It is clear that
2023-11-28
Ukraine
My Lords, would my noble friend pay tribute to the extraordinary skills of the British service men and women who are training these brave Ukrainian warriors? Would he further agree that now that general winter has a grip of the battle line, we are in for
2023-09-07
Armed Forces
My Lords, I think we can safely say that this House has taken note of the role of the Armed Forces and the UK’s defence policy, in what has been an exceptional debate. We have heard some very informative and important speeches from many people whose inte
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Register of Interests · 11 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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Speaking engagement, 14 October 2025, Amazon Web Services Financial team, London (fee paid by Beyond Curated Ltd)
registered 2025-10-20
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Roundtable lunch and talk with The Johns Hopkins University board of trustees, 24 June 2025, London (fee paid by Dream Escapes Ltd)
registered 2025-07-16
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Occasional articles for Daily Mail
registered 2025-03-20 · amended 2025-04-05
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Senior Adviser, Panmure Gordon (investment bank)
registered 2022-12-07 · amended 2025-04-05
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Senior Adviser, FMA (a company providing advice to overseas governments on efficiency, implementation and public sector reform)
registered 2022-11-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Chairman, ESG Committee, Conduit Holdings Limited (reinsurance brokers) and Chairman of the Conduit Foundation
registered 2022-11-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Senior Adviser on international geopolitical matters, Horatius Advisory (corporate advisory)
registered 2022-11-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Senior Adviser, Convex UK Services Limited (reinsurance broker)
registered 2022-11-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chairman, GW Consulting UK Limited (integrated security risk assessments)
registered 2022-11-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chairman, Beaumont Hotel Properties Limited
registered 2022-11-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chairman, The Beaumont Hotel Limited
registered 2022-11-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2019-10-30 → present
Conservative
current
2019-09-04 → 2019-10-29
Independent
1983-06-09 → 2019-09-04
Conservative
Government posts
1994-07-20 → 1997-05-01
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Armed Services)
1992-04-14 → 1994-07-20
Parliamentary Secretary (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)
Opposition posts
2003-11-08 → 2005-05-05
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
Committee memberships
1999-07-02 → 2000-01-18
Public Administration Committee
2001-12-12 → 2005-05-05
Consolidation etc. Bills (Joint Committee)
2006-01-31 → 2010-05-06
Standards and Privileges
2013-03-25 → 2014-03-10
Administration Committee
2023-01-31 → 2026-01-27
International Relations and Defence Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
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020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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