The Rt Hon. the Lord Benyon GCVO
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Benyon's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Benyon GCVO. His name is Richard Henry Ronald Benyon, 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.
Political donations made
Total donated (all years on record)
£10,000
2 donations across 1 distinct recipient
Matched donor name:
Lord Richard H R Benyon
| Date | Recipient | Type | EC Ref | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-15 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Newbury | Cash | C0578325 | £5,000 |
| 2023-10-11 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Newbury | Cash | C0574829 | £5,000 |
Showing the 2 most recent donations on record.
Source: Electoral Commission donations register
(search.electoralcommission.org.uk).
Match confidence: unique-surname.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
221
192 meetings ·
4 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
25 overseas trips
· 2021-04-01 → 2024-06-30
Total overseas travel cost
£80,285
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 192
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-22 | Orsted | To discuss offshore wind | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-05-22 | Green Alliance | To discuss nature markets | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-05-02 | Marine Conservation Society, Blue Marine Foundation, Oceana, Surfers Against Sewage, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Pew International, Ocean Conservation Trust, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, National Oceanography Centre, WWF, Environmental Justice Foundation, RSPB | To discuss ocean conservation issues | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-05-01 | Zac Goldsmith | To discuss Unlocking Blue Pacific Prosperity | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-05-01 | Convention on Biological Diversity | To discuss preparations for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in October, Digital Sequence Information and international green finance. | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-05-01 | Royal Agricultural University | To discuss monitoring contaminated agricultural land in Ukraine | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-04-30 | Wildlife Trust | To discuss offshore wind | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-04-29 | Green Finance Institute | To discuss the Nature Risk Quantification Report | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-04-17 | International Energy Agency | To discuss the IEA Summit on clean cooking in May | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-03-26 | Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) | Meeting to discuss Climate Prosperity Plans and Climate Vulnerable Forum funcionality. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2024-03-26 | Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) | To discuss Climate Prosperity Plans and CVF functionality | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-03-25 | The International Conservation Caucus Foundation (ICCF) Group | Meeting to discuss nature finance and the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2024-03-25 | The International Conservation Caucus Foundation (ICCF) Group | To discuss nature finance and the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-03-06 | Joint Nature Conservation Committee; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; British Trust for Ornithology; National Trust; Natural England; Wildlife and Countryside Link. | Meeting to discuss seabirds and the impacts of avian influenza outbreak, roundtable meeting | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2024-03-06 | Joint Nature Conservation Committee; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; British Trust for Ornithology; National Trust; Natural England; Wildlife and Countryside Link. | To discuss seabirds and the impacts of avian influenza outbreak, roundtable meeting. | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-02-28 | CCm Technologies | Meeting to discuss Green Finance | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2024-02-28 | CCm Technologies | To discuss Green Finance | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-01-29 | Green Alliance | Meeting to discuss Improving the environment initiatives | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2024-01-29 | Green Alliance | To discuss Improving the environment initiatives | foreign-commonwealth-development-office |
| 2024-01-24 | Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) | Meeting to discuss Climate Vulnerable Forum strategy across Afric, bialateral with incoming Secretary General | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
Recent hospitality
| Date | Host | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-01 | — | Nil Return | — |
| 2023-05-22 | — | President's Lunch | — |
| 2022-06-06 | — | Breakfast, dinner and accomodation | — |
| 2022-05-26 | — | Breakfast, lunch, dinner and accomodation | — |
Recent overseas travel · latest 20 of 25
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-27 → 2024-05-30 |
St John's, Antigua
Scheduled flight
|
Attended the Small Island Developing States Conference | £2,151 |
| 2024-05-13 → 2024-05-15 |
Paris, France
Eurostar
|
Attended the International Energy Agency Clean Cooking Summit; and International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits event | £664 |
| 2024-04-19 → 2024-04-20 |
Paphos, Cyprus
Scheduled flight
|
Attended the Commonwealth Ocean Ministerial meeting | £319 |
| 2024-04-15 → 2024-04-15 |
Paris, France
Eurostar
|
Attended Ministerial meeting for advancing the peace initiatives for Sudan; and Sudan Humanitarian Pledging event | £890 |
| 2024-04-07 → 2024-04-11 |
Luanda, Angola
Scheduled flight
|
Bilateral meetings with President, Foreign Minister; discussing conflict in eastern DRC and UK-Angola climate work and opportunities. | £6,705 |
| 2024-03-12 → 2024-03-15 |
Kinshasa; Democratic Republic of the Congo
Scheduled flight
|
Bilateral meetings on conflict in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo with DRC President, Foreign Minister & Economy Ministers | £8,712 |
| 2024-03-12 → 2024-03-15 |
Kinshasa, DRC
Scheduled flight
|
Bilateral meetings on conflict in Eastern DRC; with DRC President, Foreign Minister, & Econ Ministers | £8,712 |
| 2024-03-07 → 2024-03-07 |
Brussels; Begium
Eurostar
|
To attend the Blue Leaders High-Level Event | £291 |
| 2024-03-07 → 2024-03-07 |
Brussels, Belgium
Eurostar
|
To attend Blue Leaders High-Level Event | £291 |
| 2024-02-18 → 2024-02-22 |
San Jose; Coasta Rica
Scheduled flight
|
To attend Mission Bioeconomy Futures conference | £9,318 |
| 2024-02-18 → 2024-02-22 |
San Jose, Costa Rica
Scheduled flight
|
To attend Mission Bioeconomy Futures conference. | £9,318 |
| 2024-02-06 → 2024-02-08 |
Saint Georges; Grenada
Scheduled flight
|
To attend Grenadas 50th anniversary of independence (from the UK) ceremonial events | £7,843 |
| 2024-02-06 → 2024-02-08 |
Saint Georges, Grenada
Scheduled flight
|
To attend Grenada’s 50th anniversary of independence (from the UK) ceremonial events. | £7,843 |
| 2024-01-13 → 2024-01-17 |
Guatemala City; Guatemala, Flores; Guatemala
Scheduled flight
|
To attend the Presidential inauguration and hold bilaterial meetings on climate and environment. Also visited a Department for Ennvironment, Food & Rural Affairs funded Biodiverse Landscapes Fund project to push for effective implementation. | £8,613 |
| 2024-01-13 → 2024-01-17 |
Guatemala City and Flores, Guatemala
Scheduled flight
|
To attend the Presidential inauguration and hold bilaterial meetings on climate and environment. Lord Benyon also visited a DEFRA funded Biodiverse Landscapes Fund project to push for effective implementation. | £8,613 |
| — |
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Scheduled flight
|
Attending COP29 | — |
| — |
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Scheduled flight
|
Attending COP28 | — |
| — |
Dubai
Scheduled flight
|
Attending COP29 | — |
| — |
Dubai
Scheduled flight
|
Attending COP28 | — |
| — |
Meknes, Morocco
Scheduled flight
|
Guest of honour representing Defra at the Siam Royal Agriculture Show 2023 | — |
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HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial
Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
Lords votes · 2026
No Lords votes recorded for 2026.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-01-12
Message from the King
My Lords, I have the honour to notify your Lordships that His Majesty the King, having been informed that your Lordships have elected Lord Forsyth of Drumlean to be Lord Speaker, has pleasure in confirming your Lordships’ choice of him as your Speaker.
2024-07-25
King’s Speech
My Lords, it is a privilege to have been taken off the subs’ bench to conclude this debate for the Opposition. I will start where many others have, by welcoming the noble Baroness, Lady Anderson, and the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, to their places on the Go
2024-05-09
Uganda: Anti-Homosexuality Act
I thank the noble Lord for that very important point. I spoke to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth on this subject and we have agreed to continue to discuss it in the lead-up to CHOGM. We want to make sure that human rights and the very values th
2024-05-09
Uganda: Anti-Homosexuality Act
Our bilateral ODA, which is due to increase quite considerably this financial year, goes not to the Government of Uganda but to very specific areas of need, such as strengthening health systems and empowering women. We prevented 2.4 million unintended pr
2024-05-09
Uganda: Anti-Homosexuality Act
I think I can reassure the noble Lord. I met with our high commissioner to Uganda this week, and she gave me details of many of the projects we are doing with civil society organisations. For example, some of our overseas development assistance money goe
2024-05-09
Uganda: Anti-Homosexuality Act
I thank my noble friend. We will work with any Government of Uganda; they are important allies and members of the Commonwealth, and they are doing important work elsewhere in Africa for peace and security. However, it is only through having a good, frien
2024-05-09
Uganda: Anti-Homosexuality Act
The noble Lord has done so much work in this area, and of course we agree with him. The problem with this kind of legislation is that it deters people from seeking the medical help that they need for what is now a curable disease, maybe to the point wher
2024-05-09
Uganda: Anti-Homosexuality Act
I will start with the last point: I entirely agree with the noble Lord, and I thank him for all the work he has done on this and many other related issues. This is an appalling situation for minorities in Uganda and is part of a pattern that, unfortunate
2024-05-09
Uganda: Anti-Homosexuality Act
My Lords, Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act has increased violence and discrimination against LGBT+ people. The UK has made its opposition clear to all levels of the Ugandan Government. On 3 April, the Ugandan Constitutional Court struck down some provisio
2024-05-09
Artificial Light and Noise: Effects on Human Health (Science and Technology Committee Report)
Six years.
2024-05-09
Artificial Light and Noise: Effects on Human Health (Science and Technology Committee Report)
I thank all noble Lords for their valuable contributions to this debate, which has been fascinating. I particularly thank the noble Baroness, Lady Brown of Cambridge, for securing this debate on an important subject that affects people’s daily lives and
The judgment did not actually criticise the measures. The plan has more than 300 measures and proposals for the Government to deliver. It was a process failure, if you like, to make sure that the Secretary of State had all the information at his fingerti
I am not aware of those sites, but it is predicted that, even if all those licences are taken up, there will be a continuing reduction of 7% a year in oil and gas requirements for this country. That is one of the fastest reductions in fossil fuel require
My noble friend may be right—but why would we not want to do this? The net-zero economy grew by 9% last year, and there is £74 billion of gross value added to British businesses in the net-zero work being done right across the industrial sectors. So it
This is a matter on which my colleague, my noble friend Lord Callanan, will have the facts at his fingertips. I will make sure that he or I contact the noble Baroness for the details of how carbon capture and storage will deliver and can be a major sourc
That is precisely an example of what the Government can do by putting their money where their mouth is. Some £6 billion has been put into that scheme up until 2025, and that will go a long way to tackling the greenhouse gas emissions from housing, which
We have to work with the Climate Change Committee to show that they can be. Interestingly, the judge said in his judgment that the assessment involved
“an evaluative, predictive judgment as to what may transpire up to 14 years into the future, based o
The noble Lord asks a very detailed question. The third carbon budget ended in 2022, so I do not think that issues such as Covid will have been particularly relevant to that. We exceeded that by 15%. The noble Lord outlined some of the most difficult are
The Government are determined, as all of us who supported the Climate Change Act are, to live by the legal requirements we set for all Governments to hit the carbon budgets. The Carbon Budget Delivery Plan was not criticised for the measures it included.
My Lords, we are immensely proud of our record on climate change, having gone further and faster than any other major economy in cutting our carbon emissions. The Carbon Budget Delivery Plan sets out more than 300 policies and proposals which the Governm
I entirely agree with the noble Baroness. A sector whose currency is risk should be at the forefront of this. This is about making sure that investments of whatever form are investable, and if an insurance company is not thinking about that, it is way be
I do. At the TNFD’s early adopters moment at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, 320 institutions from 46 countries publicly confirmed their commitment to adopt the TNFD recommendations. Of those early adopters, 46 were UK- headquartered organi
There is a lot of talking about it but there is also a lot of action. Any day now, we will publish our forest risk commodities regulation, which will be debated by this House and will be an effective way of making sure that consumers here know that they
Climate and nature finance are raised at all those fora. The most important thing is that the Government have put a large amount of money in. We have backed the Green Finance Institute, a wonderful organisation, with £4.8 million to do a number of differ
The noble Baroness is absolutely right. Assessing the Materiality of Nature-Related Financial Risks for the UK is an outstanding report, which needs to be read by chairmen of risk companies all over the world. It identifies precisely that this problem is
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Register of Interests · 6 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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Adviser (formerly director), ELT Recovery Ltd (tyre recycling) (remuneration is in the form of share options)
registered 2025-06-27 · amended 2025-11-27
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Director, De Beauvoir Block (letting and operating of commercial property)
registered 2024-11-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chairman and Director, Englefield Estate Trust Corporation Ltd (EETCLtd) (company holds trusteeship of various family trusts of the member which hold land and property)
registered 2024-11-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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Lord Chamberlain of HM the King's Household
registered 2024-11-01 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Englefield Estate Trust Corporation Limited (company holds trusteeship of various family trusts of the member which hold land and property)
registered 2021-02-24 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Ceed Ltd (educational technology company)
registered 2021-02-24 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2024-09-10 → present
Crossbench
current
2019-10-30 → 2024-09-09
Conservative
2019-09-04 → 2019-10-29
Independent
2005-05-05 → 2019-09-04
Conservative
Government posts
2024-11-04 → present
Lord Chamberlain (HM Household)
2023-11-14 → 2024-07-05
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
2022-10-30 → 2024-07-05
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
2021-05-13 → 2022-10-29
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
2010-05-17 → 2013-10-07
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Opposition posts
2009-01-19 → 2010-05-06
Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
2007-07-03 → 2009-01-19
Opposition Whip (Commons)
Committee memberships
2005-07-12 → 2007-10-22
Home Affairs Committee
2010-07-26 → 2013-11-25
Environmental Audit Committee
2014-11-03 → 2015-03-30
Committees on Arms Export Controls
2015-07-06 → 2016-10-31
Defence Committee
2014-11-03 → 2015-03-30
Defence Committee
2015-09-08 → 2016-10-31
Defence Sub-Committee
2016-10-20 → 2017-05-03
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
Contact
Parliamentary office
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 2 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2022-05-25 | |
| Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2021-05-13 | |
| Armed Forces (Statute of Limitations) Bill | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2017-11-01 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.