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The Lord Powell of Bayswater KCMG

Crossbench Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Powell of Bayswater's full title is The Lord Powell of Bayswater KCMG. His name is Charles David Powell, 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 7 Content(4.3%) 12 Not-Content(7.4%) 143 didn't vote(88.3%)
2026-04-16
Content
115121 Not-Content
2026-04-16
Content
186144 Content
2026-04-16
Content
192142 Content
2026-04-16
Not-Content
135154 Not-Content
2026-04-16
Not-Content
142192 Not-Content
2026-04-15
Not-Content
270200 Content
2026-04-15
Not-Content
209260 Not-Content
2026-04-13
Not-Content
214156 Content
2026-04-13
Not-Content
65173 Not-Content
2026-04-13
Content
178231 Not-Content
2026-03-18
Not-Content
225189 Content
2026-03-16
Content
276165 Content
2026-03-09
Not-Content
88172 Not-Content
2026-03-09
Not-Content
75190 Not-Content
2026-03-04
Content
41181 Not-Content
2026-03-02
Not-Content
61178 Not-Content
2026-03-02
Not-Content
71177 Not-Content
2026-01-14
Content
213211 Content
2026-01-14
Not-Content
278176 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 2

2022-07-07 NATO Accession: Sweden and Finland
My Lords, as probably the only Finnish-speaking Member of this House, could I remind the Minister that Finland, with its 800-mile border with Russia, will be right in the front line of NATO, but also has the bitter experience of having sacrificed a lot o
2020-06-04 Hong Kong: Human Rights
My Lords, I draw attention to my declaration of interests. There is nothing unusual about security legislation; after all, Britain made use of emergency legislation during its stewardship of Hong Kong. What matters is how such legislation is implemented
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown verbatim from the search API; click any debate title for the full record.

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.

  • Member of the Board, Northern Trust Corporation, USA (financial services)
    registered 2014-12-08 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Adviser, HCL Technologies (India)
    registered 2014-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Chairman, LVMH (Moet-Hennessy Louis Vuitton) Services UK
    registered 2010-04-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Director, Financière Agache (wholly owned with controlling shareholding in Dior and LVMH and a portfolio of other investments)
    registered 2010-04-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Director, LVMH (Moet-Hennessy Louis Vuitton)
    registered 2010-04-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Director, Matheson & Co (wholly owned subsidiary in UK of Jardine Matheson trading and property group head-quartered in Hong Kong)
    registered 2010-04-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Adviser, Bowmark Capital
    registered 2010-04-27 · amended 2025-06-26
  • Member, Barrick Gold International Advisory Board
    registered 2010-04-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Member, Advisory Board, Thales UK
    registered 2010-04-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Member, International Advisory Board, Chubb Insurance (formerly ACE Insurance)
    registered 2010-04-27 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

  • Bowmark Participations LLP
    registered 2020-08-10 · amended 2025-04-05
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly. Read the full Lords Code of Conduct for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.

Party history

2000-02-15present
Crossbench current

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2005-06-062006-11-08
Economic Affairs Committee
2006-11-212010-04-08
European Union Committee
2010-06-222015-03-30
Constitution Committee
2015-06-082019-07-01
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2017-11-062021-01-28
National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
2016-05-252017-04-27
National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
2022-01-192025-01-30
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
External or private office
pa@charlespowell.com
020 7199 3916 · -

APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)

No APPG officerships found for this peer. (Officer matching is by name — if the parliamentary register lists them under a slightly different form, the join may miss; check /appgs directly.)

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)

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.
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