The Viscount Eccles
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Viscount Eccles's full title is The Viscount Eccles. His name is John Dawson Eccles, and he was excluded from the House of Lords on 29 April 2026.
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
76 Content(46.9%)
1 Not-Content(0.6%)
85 didn't vote(52.5%)
2026-01-12
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201–169
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2026-01-05
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194–130
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2026-01-05
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168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
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210–131
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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
2026-01-06
Sentencing Bill
My Lords, I will make a very short intervention before my Front Bench replies. I believe we should remember that Farage, in more or less a chance remark, said he thought that the council should be abolished. So, the issues raised by the noble and learned
2025-11-12
Sentencing Bill
My Lords, I want to start on the Sentencing Council and I want to say how sad and unfortunate it is that we have lost the Lord Justice Sir William Davis, who sadly died on 7 June. I believe that William Davis was a very fine public servant and, if anybod
2025-10-23
Steel Industry (Special Measures) Act 2025
My Lords, in welcoming the opening speech, my primary thought is, “What a difficult job you’ve taken on”. We have been battling with the strategy for the steel industry for rather a long time, we have not made a very good job of deciding what to do, and
My Lords, I apologise; I am very conscious of the time. I support my noble friend’s amendment.
In making another suggestion for the list, I declare my interests: I was the chairman of Kew Gardens and I am involved in the Millennium Seed Bank and all i
2025-06-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
Who is going to manage the memorial and learning centre programme?
2025-06-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
So there is nobody appointed who can make preparations and think the whole thing through until it starts?
2025-06-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
2025-06-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, this is not an easy debate to reply to. I thank noble Lords who have spoken but will not attempt to sum up what they said. Many things were said about what has happened so far, why we should have a memorial and what the dangers will be, but tha
2025-06-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, in discussing funding and expenditure, I will consider the present funding and whether there are restrictions on how the money can be properly spent. This will entail consideration of the plans to build the Adjaye/Arad building in Victoria Towe
2025-05-01
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I am not sure that I am really the right person to talk about the Bill, but I thought it might be worth giving a few reflections. I cannot even count how many education Acts have taken place during my lifetime, but it is a very considerable num
2025-03-27
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I have an amendment in this group which, I regret to say, I should probably have asked to be degrouped because I do not intend to follow the debate so far, except to say that it highlights the tremendous importance of what is set up as the lear
2025-03-27
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, does the Minister believe that the description “collocated” includes being in the same building? What the commission actually said was that the learning centre should be located in close proximity, not in the same building. If one organisation
2025-03-20
Holocaust Memorial Bill
I will have one more try. It seems to me that, whatever the Minister has said, it does not deal with the problem the Government have: that there was and still is cross-party support for the conclusions and recommendations of Britain’s Promise to Remember
2025-03-20
Holocaust Memorial Bill
There is a point that has not been dealt with. In January 2015, there was cross-party support for the conclusions and recommendations of the Holocaust Commission. I do not think that the Minister has addressed the argument that the Adjaye design does not
2025-03-20
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I have always supported having a national memorial, and I am very keen to see it. I was 14 when we went into Belsen, and I have lived with the memory of the reports and photographs that came back ever since. As it happens, I live in a flat in S
2025-03-20
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I support what my noble friend has just said. I very much admire the commission’s report and I think that the way that it is being treated now shows a degree of disrespect that is little short of appalling. The debate that we have just heard fr
2025-03-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, on that last point, that is exactly what the management of a non-departmental public body would discuss with the management of the gardens—how they will cope with litter and what facilities there are. They would need to work together, but we ha
2025-03-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, that was a very interesting but not particularly easy debate to sum up and comment on. If I may, I will stay rather tightly focused on the management of the project and I need to ask the Minister some questions. I think he is saying that there
2025-03-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
I wonder if I could just make a very small point of clarification. As a personal view, I entirely agree that the memorial should be in Victoria Tower Gardens. What I worry about is the attempt to shoehorn in the learning centre as well. If we were able t
2025-03-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, when I put down this amendment it seemed to me that we had arrived at a time when we needed clarification about who was going to manage this project. It is approaching construction and has been under consideration for a long time. We have known
2025-03-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
2025-03-04
Holocaust Memorial Bill
Who is the “we” who will work with these other institutions? Because, as noble Lords will know, as we come on to the next group, if we do, there is no management. Therefore, I do not understand who is going to work with these other institutions.
2025-03-04
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I have a clause stand part Motion in this group. I am a neighbour of Victoria Tower Gardens, I live with my wife in Smith Square and I was a petitioner to the House of Lords Committee.
After what my noble friend Lord Blencathra told us, as w
2025-02-13
Holocaust Memorial Day
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate and a particular pleasure to speak in a debate where we have heard three varied, enjoyable, interesting and informative maiden speeches.
I was 14 at the end of the war. I was at boarding
2024-12-11
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Viscount, Lord Trenchard. We were elected very early in the days of by-elections. The most important thing about this House is that as a revising Chamber, it works. However, this House has influence, but it
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
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Party history
1999-03-31 → 2026-04-29
Conservative
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2005-06-06 → 2007-10-30
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
2005-06-07 → 2006-11-08
Information Committee (Lords)
2006-11-23 → 2010-04-08
Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
2012-05-17 → 2015-03-30
EU Sub Committee E - Justice, Institutions and Consumer Protection
2012-05-29 → 2013-02-26
Adoption Legislation Committee
2024-09-05 → 2026-04-29
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)
2017-07-19 → 2024-05-30
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)
2015-06-17 → 2017-04-27
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)
Contact
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
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No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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