The Rt Hon. the Viscount Thurso
Liberal Democrat
Member of the House of Lords
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Viscount Thurso's full title is The Rt Hon. the Viscount Thurso. His name is John Archibald Thurso, and he was excluded from the House of Lords on 29 April 2026 pursuant to section 1 of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£6,307
17 days attended across 1 published month
Overnight / accommodation
£756
Travel claims
£2,946
Attendance £2,946
Postage / secretarial / family travel
£503
Total claimed
£10,512
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
87 Content(46.0%)
25 Not-Content(13.2%)
77 didn't vote(40.7%)
2026-04-23
Not-Content
152–207
Not-Content
2026-04-13
Not-Content
178–231
Not-Content
2026-03-26
Not-Content
115–197
Not-Content
2026-03-12
Not-Content
26–134
Not-Content
2026-02-04
Content
62–295
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Content
131–127
Content
2026-01-05
Content
194–130
Content
2026-01-05
Not-Content
168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Content
210–131
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 25
2026-04-28
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I rise for the last time in your Lordships’ House to congratulate the Minister, to thank her for all the hard work that she has done and to say how much I have appreciated my interaction with her. We have arrived at a perfect compromise in that
My Lords, I declare my interests as president of the Tourism Society of the United Kingdom, and all the other things I am involved in within the hospitality industry—none of which now, sadly, is remunerated. I congratulate the Minister on underlining the
2026-04-20
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I will speak on Motion K and my Motion K1. I have rehearsed the arguments around this question fully both in Committee and on Report, so will therefore not do so again. I listened very carefully to what the Minister said and I am extremely grat
2026-04-13
Rail Freight
My Lords, does the Minister agree that, if we are to get a substantial move of freight on to the railways, we need to move to palletisation as opposed to containerisation as the principal unit that is used, and that to do that we need to construct proper
2026-03-26
Pension Schemes Bill
2026-03-26
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, my Amendment 6 is entirely consequential on the amendment your Lordships agreed to. I am very grateful to the Public Bill Office for its advice in helping me to correct this, and I will move it formally when the moment comes.
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Davies, for his support. As an actuary himself, his words were of great comfort and support. I am also grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, who ha
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, very briefly, I will support our Front Bench and the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, because it is quite a wise thing to have an inquiry. I wholly reject the argument the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, just made: his maths is suspect and his co
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
Might I ask the noble Lord what the notional employer’s contribution is that he is putting into his calculation?
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, as I move my Amendment 161, I can hear the Minister saying, “Not another review”. I apologise. I say to her at the outset that I recognise how much the Government have done in many of the areas that we have been pushing. Notwithstanding my ingr
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, briefly, I support the noble Baroness in her amendments, to which I have added my name. As usual, she has done a splendid technical exposition of the amendments. More importantly, as the noble Lord, Lord Hain, said, she outlined the immense emo
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I support Amendment 155 from the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, and will speak briefly to my Amendment 162, which seeks to achieve exactly the same effect. Since the noble Baroness has explained it so well, I do not have to repeat the arguments
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
I beg to move.
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
2026-03-16
Pension Schemes Bill
2026-03-16
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I am grateful for the comments of the noble Viscount, Lord Younger, and only sorry that I was not persuasive enough to get him to join my side. I am also grateful to the Minister, because the tea and sympathy has actually gone further than I mi
2026-03-16
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, as the Minister indicated earlier, we left much of the meat for this debate around pre-1997 indexation to this group, not anticipating the events that happened outside, which I know we all regret. Knowing who was involved, who was a friend, I v
2026-03-16
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I wish to test the opinion of the House.
2026-03-16
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I rise briefly to offer support from these Benches, particularly for Amendments 24 and 25 and more broadly across all the amendments that the noble Baroness indicated.
In particular, I was taken by Amendment 24 and the idea that value for mo
2026-03-16
Pension Schemes Bill
2026-03-16
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendments 14, 16, 17 and 18, in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Palmer. It is always a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, and I thank her for her support, which I am happy to reciprocate. As it is the first tim
2026-02-23
Pension Schemes Bill
The noble Baroness has answered the broad point in my noble friend’s first amendment, but there is the narrow point in AEA Technology, which seems to meet exactly what she said: namely, that there is a specific gap that members have fallen through, where
2026-02-23
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I was not going to take part in this short debate, but I am drawn into it by some of the comments that the noble Lord made. In respect of future funding, it is an absolutely valid point that we should have regard to the liability we are accruin
2026-02-23
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I rise to support my noble friend, particularly in respect of Amendment 218, to which I have added my name. I do so because I have something of an interest: for most of its existence and until quite recently, the superannuation fund of the Unit
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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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Non-executive Director, AMTE Power plc (battery manufacturer)
registered 2020-06-18 · amended 2025-04-05
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Joint Chairman, International Property Media Awards
registered 2017-11-30 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Ulbster Estates (Sporting) Limited (member's company owned 100 per cent by member; owns estates and sporting interests in Caithness)
registered 2016-05-11 · amended 2025-04-07
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Ulbster Holdings Limited (member's company owned 100 per cent by member; manages family properties and investments)
registered 2016-05-11 · amended 2025-04-07
Category 3: Land and property
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Moorland estate and hill farm in Altnabraec, Caithness
registered 2016-05-11 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1995-10-31 → 2026-04-29
Liberal Democrat
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
2008-10-08 → 2010-05-06
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Business, Innovation and Skills)
2003-05-10 → 2005-05-10
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Transport)
2001-07-01 → 2006-03-10
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Scotland)
2001-06-01 → 2005-06-01
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Culture, Media and Sport)
2001-06-01 → 2002-06-01
Liberal Democrat Whip
Committee memberships
2005-07-12 → 2010-05-06
Administration Committee
2006-04-24 → 2015-03-30
Treasury Committee
2010-07-27 → 2015-03-30
Finance and Services Committee
Chair
+£14,582/yr
2010-07-26 → 2015-03-30
Finance and Services Committee
2010-07-27 → 2015-03-30
Liaison Committee (Commons)
2011-06-23 → 2012-03-26
Draft House of Lords Reform Bill (Joint Committee)
2012-07-16 → 2013-06-12
Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (Joint Committee)
2020-10-15 → 2021-11-24
Risk Assessment and Risk Planning Committee
2023-07-13 → 2026-04-29
Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords)
2024-01-31 → 2026-04-29
Industry and Regulators Committee
Contact
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)
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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.
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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.