The Lord Layard
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Layard's full title is The Lord Layard. His name is Peter Richard Grenville Layard, 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
1 Content(0.6%)
23 Not-Content(14.2%)
138 didn't vote(85.2%)
2026-01-05
Not-Content
132–124
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
2025-09-18
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I am most grateful to everyone who spoke in this excellent debate. The noble Lord, Lord Macpherson, got us off to a good start on the economics, which is, of course, a central part of this—but economics can appear to look just at the whole econ
2025-09-18
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, this amendment aims to remedy one of the greatest injustices in our whole education system: the acute shortage of apprenticeships for young people not going to university.
If you qualify for university and want it, you can expect to find a p
2025-09-18
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
2025-05-01
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, children’s well-being is referenced in the title of this Bill, and so it should be. Obviously, children’s well-being matters, but it is also the best predictor of how happy the child will be in their subsequent life, predicting it far better th
My Lords, there have been two main criticisms of the Bill. The first is that it expands the size of the state and is therefore bad, and the second is that it destroys jobs. Both arguments are misconceived. I will take them in turn.
As we all know, the
2024-10-22
Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Beamish. I warmly welcome this Bill for two reasons. The first is economic growth. That is obvious, but equally importantly—I want to stress this perspective—skills are crucial for people and their individual
2024-07-22
King’s Speech (4th Day)
My Lords, how wonderful that we have two such excellent new Ministers. We are talking about growth, and growth depends on only two things: productivity and employment.
Higher productivity depends hugely, of course, on higher skills. Higher skills are
2024-02-08
Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report)
My Lords, I am delighted to follow our chairman, who does such a wonderful job in leading our work.
This report is timely because everybody wants to see more economic growth. The most obvious way to achieve that is to increase employment. The central
2022-10-20
Cost of Living: Public Well-being
My Lords, we all know the problem facing our country: as a nation, we have become poorer. Our import prices have risen more than our export prices and, on that account, we are 5% poorer than we were a year or so ago. That is a lot of money—over £100 bill
My Lords, I had the honour of being a member of this committee. It was beautifully chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Grade, and had a brilliant secretary. It is an outstanding report.
I will talk about the problem of addiction. As we know, there are man
2022-01-20
Health and Care Bill
My Lords, Amendment 101B, in my name and those of the noble Baroness, Lady Watkins, and the noble Lord, Lord Alderdice, is a fundamental amendment to remedy the shocking imbalance between the provision of mental and physical healthcare. As was said in th
2021-10-22
Assisted Dying Bill [HL]
I want to make just three points. The main argument that we have heard against the Bill is the fear that relatives will exert undue pressure. For many years, I was persuaded by that argument. However, we now have evidence on these matters. We should look
2021-10-21
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]
I support Amendment 50, which could transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of our young people. Given the time, I shall make just four points. The problem is much bigger than most people, maybe myself included, have realised. In 2019-20, the propor
2021-07-19
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]
My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 76. As the noble and learned Lord, Lord Clarke, has argued so powerfully, we are, as a nation, very good at producing graduates and pretty bad at producing skills for the other 50%.
I start with a quite extraordin
2021-06-15
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]
My Lords, we should really welcome this Bill, because, as we know, our country does a pretty good job with its graduates but a much less good job with the other 50%. If we are looking for reasons for the difference in the treatment of these two, we shoul
2020-06-04
Covid-19: Economy
My Lords, the huge danger that we face is mass long-term unemployment. Once that takes root, it is extremely difficult to reduce it. It kills the human spirit but also of course costs the Exchequer a lot of money. However, there is a well-tested way to p
2020-03-12
Well-being
My Lords, I really welcome this debate and congratulate the noble Baroness on securing it. As she said, this is a timely moment to consider the fundamental question of what the objective of government is, because that should be reflected in the spending
2020-03-12
Coronavirus
My Lords, if we look abroad, especially to Japan and China, it is clearly not as inevitable as the Government assume that this disease will become widely spread through the population. Extraordinarily, in Hubei province, the epicentre of the disease, th
2019-10-22
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, the first question one should ask about any Queen’s Speech is: what is the overall objective of government policy? Is it the nation’s wealth? Is it the well-being of the citizens? What is it? To have coherent government, you must have an overal
2019-07-04
Apprenticeships
My Lords, I welcome this debate because we are talking about the future of at least half of all our young people. For those who do not go to university, apprenticeship has always been the main route to a skill. It has also been the biggest source of soci
2019-07-02
Post-18 Education and Funding Review
My Lords, many years ago I worked on the Robbins report, and I believe that the Augar review could well turn out to be at least as important. Robbins unleashed the expansion of HE and I hope that the Augar report will unleash the expansion of FE. That is
2019-06-20
Policy-making: Future Generations’ Interests
My Lords, I welcome this debate about what is a central issue of our time. It is an ethical issue because the starting point of ethics is that every human being matters equally. This means that future generations are of equal importance to our own. Howev
2019-05-16
Mental Health of Children and Young Adults
My Lords, in her excellent speech my noble friend Lady Royall described the dismal state of access to treatment for young people with mental health problems—a point repeated by almost every speaker. The question is how to deal with it. I think that the w
My Lords, I thank our great leader for the way in which he led us to produce what is, I think, a landmark report. For me, its most landmark feature concerns non-graduate vocational education, so I want to talk about our three main proposals in that area.
My Lords, I, too, congratulate the committee and, like many earlier speakers, think that something more radical is needed on funding. The fundamental problem with the present system is the complete disconnect between the Government’s funding decisions an
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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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Programme Director, Well-Being Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
registered 2010-04-23 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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House in London
registered 2010-04-23 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2000-05-03 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2022-05-12 → 2025-01-30
Economic Affairs Committee
2015-06-08 → 2019-07-01
Economic Affairs Committee
2004-11-29 → 2008-11-26
Economic Affairs Committee
2019-06-13 → 2020-06-16
Gambling Industry Committee
2021-01-28 → 2021-11-16
Youth Unemployment Committee
2022-01-19 → 2022-05-12
Land Use in England Committee
2025-01-30 → 2026-04-29
Environment and Climate Change Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
External or private office
R.Layard@lse.ac.uk
020 7955 7048 · Director, Wellbeing Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
020 7955 7048 · Director, Wellbeing Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
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
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0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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Historic bills (all-time)
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year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.