The Rt Hon. the Lord Harper
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
M
Lord Harper's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Harper. His name is Mark James Harper, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£7,420
20 days attended across 1 published month
Overnight / accommodation
£2,000
Travel claims
£557
Attendance £557
Total claimed
£9,977
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
182
135 meetings ·
30 hospitality ·
8 gifts ·
9 overseas trips
· 2015-04-01 → 2024-06-30
Total overseas travel cost
£641
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 135
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-06 | — | To discuss the zero emission vehicle mandate and rollout of electric vehicle charging in the UK. | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-22 | Road Haulage Association | To discuss the UK logistics and haulage sector | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-21 | Mayor Ben Houchen | To discuss the transport sector and opportunities in the Tees Valley | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-20 | Cycling safety campaigner | To discuss dangerous cycling and cycling offences | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-15 | Logistics UK | Attended Presidents Council meeting to discuss UK logistics and haulage sector | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-07 | Stellantis | To discuss the UK automotive sector and electric vehicles | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-30 | Port of Dover | To discuss infrastructure at the Port of Dover and readiness for the rollout of the EU Entry Exit System | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-29 | DP World | To discuss the UK maritime sector and seafarer welfare | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-24 | Virgin Atlantic | To discuss the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate and revenue certainty mechanism | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-24 | British Airways | To discuss the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate and revenue certainty mechanism | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-24 | Stellantis | To discuss the UK automotive sector and electric vehicles | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-24 | Loganair | To discuss the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate and revenue certainty mechanism | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-24 | EasyJet | To discuss the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate and revenue certainty mechanism | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-24 | Heathrow | To discuss the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate and revenue certainty mechanism | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-22 | Mitsui | To discuss investment in the UK and the UK rail sector | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-22 | Stellantis | To discuss the UK automotive sector and electric vehicles | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-18 | Jet Zero Council | To discuss decarbonisation of the aviation industry | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-17 | Unite the Union, Hitachi | To discuss the workforce in the UK rolling stock sector | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-16 | Electric vehicle manufacturer roundtable | To discuss the UK electric vehicle market, zero-emission vehicle mandate and investment opportunities | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-16 | Alstom | To discuss rail rolling stock | department-for-transport |
Recent hospitality · latest 20 of 30
| Date | Host | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-16 | Farnborough Airport | Lunch | — |
| 2024-05-07 | Virgin Atlantic | Reception | — |
| 2024-04-30 | Allister Heath (Sunday Telegraph), Camilla Turner (Sunday Telegraph) | Lunch | — |
| 2024-03-19 | Airport Operaters Association | Dinner | — |
| 2024-02-27 | Airlines UK | Dinner | — |
| 2023-12-18 | — | Lunch | — |
| 2023-12-06 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-12-04 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-12-04 | — | Lunch | — |
| 2023-11-29 | — | Flight (as part of SAF Transatlantic flight) | — |
| 2023-11-28 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-10-03 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-10-03 | — | Breakfast | — |
| 2023-10-01 | — | Lunch | — |
| 2023-09-14 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-07-12 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-07-09 | — | Ticket | — |
| 2023-05-18 | — | Breakfast | — |
| 2023-05-10 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-03-15 | — | Dinner | — |
Recent gifts
| Date | Gift | From / To | Outcome | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-12 | Scarves | Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini | Held by department | — |
| 2024-04-12 | Lego tram model | Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini | Held by department | — |
| 2023-11-02 | Horse figurine | Saudi Transport Minister,H.E Saleh Al-Jasser | Held by department | — |
| 2023-06-17 | Ceramic sake set | Tetsuo Saito Japanese Transport Minister | Held by department | £200 |
| 2023-06-17 | Pearl lapel pin | Tetsuo Saito Japanese Transport Minister | Held by department | £150 |
| 2023-05-26 | Berlin bear ornament | Volker Wissing German Transport Minister | Held by department | £190 |
| 2023-05-24 | Pen | Albert Rösti Swiss Transport Minister | Held by department | £200 |
| 2023-02-09 | Pen | Minister Beaune | Held by department | £165 |
Recent overseas travel
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-11 → 2024-04-12 |
Milan, Italy
Scheduled flight
|
To attend the G7 Transport Ministers Meeting | £641 |
| — |
Manama, Bahrain and Dubai UAE
Scheduled flight
|
Engagement with the Bahraini Government and supporting British businesses operating in Bahrain. Demonstration of high-level UK engagement, support and promotion of decarbonisation and adaptation work at COP28. | — |
| — |
New York and San Francisco, USA
Scheduled flight
|
Demonstration of high-level UK engagement, support and promotion of SAF development and use. Promotion of the newly announced AV Bill and the UKs role in the development of technology and regulation in this space | — |
| — |
Tokyo, Japan
Scheduled flight
|
To attend the G7 Transport Ministers meeting, hosted by Japan and meetings to promote investment in the UK. | — |
| — |
Leipzig, Germany
Scheduled flight
|
To attend the International Transport Forum Summit, which the UK held the presidency of. | — |
| — |
Washington and Detroit, USA
Scheduled flight
|
To promote UK-US collaboration on transport issues, trade and investment. | — |
| — |
Rzeskow, Poland
Scheduled flight
|
To atend high level dialogue on Ukraine | — |
| — |
Paris, France
Eurostar
|
To attend UK-France summit | — |
| — |
Paris, France
Eurostar
|
To meet with Minister Beaune and other transport stakeholders. | — |
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
189 divisions
123 Content(65.1%)
6 Not-Content(3.2%)
60 didn't vote(31.7%)
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-09-17
G20 Summit 2027: Objectives
My Lords, I got the message from the Minister that she is not able to tell us what is going to be on the Government’s list on priorities, so can I just make a suggestion? All I am asking is that she will at least say she will go away and consider it. Giv
2026-09-16
Railways Bill
Before the Minister moves on, perhaps I may raise one point and then the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson, will respond at the end. I follow the Minister’s argument about whether the strategy is the right place. The only thing I would be concerned about is whe
2026-09-16
Railways Bill
My Lords, I want to touch on four parts of this group. First, Amendment 90, which I strongly support, was ably moved by my noble friend Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay. The constituency I represented in the House of Commons for many years, and in which I s
2026-09-16
Railways Bill
My Lords, I wish to speak to several amendments in this group. They cover the role of the ORR. As my noble friend Lord Grayling has just said, it is arguably a bit weird continuing to have a regulator when you are bringing track and train together in GBR
2026-09-16
Railways Bill
From the little frisson I have created here, I hope I have not damaged the noble Lord’s reputation among his Labour colleagues by agreeing with him. I do not wish to do that. Noble Lords should wait for my remarks and see how in line they are.
I thank
2026-09-16
Railways Bill
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the short but well judged speech of the noble Lord, Lord Liddle. I think he will discover it is not enormously dissimilar to one or two of the things that I am going to say.
2026-09-16
Railways Bill
Before the Minister moves on, I will add to my noble friend’s point—and this is also aimed at the Whip. The danger for the Minister is that if we debate the amendments on the long-term rail strategy, as we will today, and then we study the document publi
2026-09-16
Railways Bill
My Lords, I will speak briefly to this group. First, I echo what my noble friend Lord Moylan said about the courtesy of the Minister. I thank him for the two letters I received this week. One, which I think was also sent to my noble friends Lord Moylan a
2026-09-14
Hospitality Industry: VAT
My Lords, I apologise to my noble friend on the Front Bench, and to the House, for jumping the gun in my attempt to ask a question. I listened carefully to what the Minister said. I think he accepted that the industry is under a great deal of pressure, b
2026-09-14
Hospitality Industry: VAT
My Lords, I listened very carefully to—
2026-09-10
Railways Bill
I am grateful for the noble Lord’s intervention. I had not yet started dealing with his amendment in detail—I was dealing with my noble friend Lord Moylan’s—but I listened carefully to what he said and will deal with it when I get to his amendment.
I
2026-09-10
Railways Bill
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 54 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, and Amendment 55 in the name of my noble friend Lord Moylan. Obviously, I have not heard my noble friend’s exposition of the purpose of his amendment, which I look forwa
2026-09-10
Railways Bill
That would be very helpful.
2026-09-10
Railways Bill
Can I press the Minister on the question I asked? As he said, the Secretary of State is the holder of the licensing power, but the Office of Rail and Road is given a general authority to issue licences for non-GBR operators, but I still do not understand
2026-09-10
Railways Bill
My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendment 46 in the names of my noble friends Lord Grayling and Lord Moylan, which I think is a probing amendment. It would remove proposed new Section 8(6) in Schedule 1, which says:
“The Office of Rail and Road may
2026-09-10
Railways Bill
My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendments 35 and 36, which are in the names of my noble friends Lord Grayling and Lord Moylan. Respectively, they deal with amending Clause 7, on the power to give directions, and Clause 9, on the power to give guidanc
2026-09-10
Railways Bill
Before the Minister concludes, may I respond, since I was one of the Members who raised this issue? I thank him for what he has just said and for the very helpful letter that he sent, to which the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, referred. I took the time to stu
2026-09-10
Railways Bill
My Lords, I rise briefly to support what my noble friend Lord Lansley has said on his Amendment 26. I had some dealings on this when the Prime Minister was the Mayor of the Greater Manchester and when Andy Street was Mayor of the West Midlands. Both of t
2026-09-08
Railways Bill
Here is my final point—as the Minister will be pleased to know. He has just, perhaps inadvertently, flagged that the drafting of the Bill in Clause 15 is not correct. The Secretary of State will not be producing a long-term strategy for the development a
2026-09-08
Railways Bill
As I was just saying before we resumed, the advantage of a break is that I had a chance to slightly firm up my question. Before we broke for the Division, I was saying that I thought that not synchronising the rail strategy publication and the memorandum
2026-09-08
Railways Bill
I do not want to overly labour this point, but that is not very clear. The way it works at the moment is that the Scottish Ministers have a role in helping to shape—
2026-09-08
Railways Bill
Can I just check that the rail strategy that the Secretary of State will produce will be a strategy for Great Britain, and that the memorandum of understanding will be about how that interacts? If the Secretary of State’s rail strategy is for England onl
2026-09-08
Railways Bill
My Lords, I just want to speak briefly about three groups of amendments within this group. Amendment 145 in the name of my noble friend Lord Moylan has quite a lot to recommend it. The Bill, as set out, sensibly says that the UK Government and the Scotti
2026-09-08
Railways Bill
My Lords, I will start by referring to the amendment that the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, talked to, because it just so happened that, as I was travelling to London yesterday, a car struck a bridge at Burnham. I see that the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner, is
2026-09-08
Railways Bill
Before the Minister moves on, this might sound a very picky point, but it is quite important. On his point about joint ventures, he talked about the Government always having a majority stake and having control. Is a 50-50 joint venture possible? If you a
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Register of Interests · 2 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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Occasional appearances, BBC current affairs programmes
registered 2025-11-26
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Non-executive chair, RVL Aviation (Reconnaissance Ventures Limited) (specialist aviation services)
registered 2025-06-02 · amended 2025-10-20
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Party history
2005-05-05 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
2022-10-25 → 2024-07-05
Secretary of State for Transport
2015-05-08 → 2016-07-14
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Whip
2014-07-15 → 2015-05-08
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Disabled People)
2012-09-06 → 2014-02-08
Minister of State (Home Office) (Immigration)
2010-05-12 → 2012-09-06
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Opposition posts
2007-07-03 → 2010-05-06
Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)
2005-12-08 → 2007-04-01
Shadow Minister (Defence)
Committee memberships
2014-03-10 → 2014-12-01
Administration Committee
2005-07-12 → 2006-11-06
Administration Committee
2009-06-29 → 2009-11-23
Work and Pensions Committee
2022-10-19 → 2022-10-25
Speaker's Conference (2022)
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Leader of the House of Lords
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Iron and Steel: Public Consultation
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2026-03-17
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Freedom of Information: Complaints
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Women and Equalities
Office for Equality and Opportunity: Written Questions
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2026-03-02
Women and Equalities
Equality and Human Rights Commission: Codes of Practice
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedicabs (London) Act 2024 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2023-11-08 | |
| Automated Vehicles Act 2024 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2023-11-08 | |
| Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2022-07-06 |
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