The Rt Hon. the Lord Grocott
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Grocott's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Grocott. His name is Bruce Joseph Grocott, 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
0 Content(0.0%)
13 Not-Content(8.0%)
149 didn't vote(92.0%)
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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
Can my noble friend cheer us all up by reminding us, in the election following five years of coalition government, when the public were asked to give their judgment on it, how many Liberal MPs were left?
My Lords—
2026-01-20
Railways: East Coast Main Line
My Lords, it is great to hear my noble friend’s tributes to the railway engineers, who keep the trains going at the same time that they are trying to build in many places new rail developments—which is a much harder job than building a new railway on a c
2026-01-19
Northern Powerhouse Rail
My Lords, there is a great deal in this Statement that I warmly welcome: in particular, the bit the Minister has just referred to about what was HS2, the link from Crewe to Manchester. He has repeated, and it is clear in the Statement, that
“we will
My Lords, I particularly want to speak today because I am on the IRDC. I am proud that we completed a near-impossible task given to us by Parliament, which was to try to summarise the feelings of the Chagossian community on the UK-Mauritius agreement. I
2025-12-18
UK-EU Common Understanding Negotiations
My Lords, on Erasmus, I remind my noble friend that, as I am sure she knows, we are talking about very large sums of money. It was £570 million in the first year alone, and that is with a terrific 30% discount. When large sums of money are involved, I am
2025-12-08
Local Elections
Does my noble friend, with her long and distinguished experience of local government leadership, agree that, all too often, major local government reorganisations take longer than anticipated, cost more than anticipated and deliver fewer savings than ant
2025-12-08
OBR: Resignation of Chair
My Lords, this is a question asked in all innocence. It is now 15 years since the OBR was established. Some of us have lived through the period before the OBR and the period since. Does my noble friend know of any academic studies or the like that sugges
2025-12-01
Walking, Wheeling and Cycling Paths
Further to the question asked by my noble friend Lord Watts, we all know, and the Minister knows, that if a motorist goes through a red light, there are consequences, whether that is points on the licence, fines or maybe increased insurance costs. Can th
My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendment 1 by the noble Lord, Lord Callanan. I take it that he was not entirely serious when he dreamt up this particular innovation, which is right at the start of the Bill, whereby the purpose of the Bill should be p
How far back is the noble Lord going to go in his historic examination of British Governments? Is his position that the British Government should never ever cede sovereignty to any former colony? I am thinking of Australia, South Africa or Canada. How fa
2025-11-18
Police Reform
My Lords, I strongly support the Statement to which my noble friend the Minister is responding. He was right to remind us of the history, which is that the Labour Party opposed the creation of these positions. We were 100% right in doing so, because they
2025-11-03
Gaza and Hamas
My Lords, amid all the other things that have been going on in Israel and Palestine in the past few weeks, would my noble friend the Minister like to comment on the vote in the Israeli Parliament—which passed by 71 to 13—to annex the West Bank and incorp
2025-10-22
Rules on Duty-Free Goods
My noble friend will notice the support he gets from the Liberal Democrat Benches.
Can I have my noble friend’s assurance that we stand very strongly by the Labour Government’s manifesto promise that there will be no question of us rejoining either th
2025-10-22
Rules on Duty-Free Goods
My noble friend, on this Question and a number of others that I have heard him reply on, demonstrates the passion that he feels for the European Union. It is a passion not shared by everyone. Some of us remember that the 40 years when we were in the Euro
2025-10-22
Rules on Duty-Free Goods
My Lords—
2025-10-21
Great British Railways: Rolling Stock
Can my noble friend the Minister tell me how adversely the rolling stock strategy has been affected by the cancellation of the Crewe and Manchester legs of HS2?
2025-10-14
Business of the House
I am sorry; I apologise to the Lib Dems. It is an error I have made frequently in life.
It is not uncommon at all to have such numbers of people in the House scrutinising. It is beyond argument that, if we are looking at the detail of a Bill at a sens
2025-10-14
Business of the House
My Lords, I will make two very brief points: one specifically aimed at the noble Lord, Lord True, and the other a more general point about the House and its procedures.
The point for the noble Lord, Lord True, concerns the wording of his amendment, wh
2025-10-13
Chinese Espionage: Parliament
Does my noble friend recall that we once had a Chancellor of the Exchequer called George Osborne? Among the many things he said—this was 10 years ago, in the dying days of the Osborne-Cameron Government—was that we should “stick together” with China and
2025-09-18
Gaza: UN Commission of Inquiry Report
My Lords, the exchanges here, as is often the case, really do not reflect the horror of what we see on our television screens night after night after night, which constitutes what is happening in Gaza. We have become immune. It is almost routine these da
2025-09-18
Gaza: UN Commission of Inquiry Report
My Lords, it is time for this side. The Front Benches do not come first.
2025-09-18
Gaza: UN Commission of Inquiry Report
My Lords—
2025-09-18
Gaza: UN Commission of Inquiry Report
My Lords—
2025-09-16
Undocumented Migrants
Does my noble friend agree that we would be in a far better position to deal with issues like border security, access to services and knowing who is in the country illegally and who is not if the last Labour Government’s identity card scheme had not been
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Party history
1974-10-10 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2002-05-29 → 2008-01-25
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
2001-06-11 → 2002-05-29
Lord in Waiting (Whip)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2002-06-10 → 2008-01-28
Administration and Works Committee (Lords)
2002-06-10 → 2008-01-28
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2002-06-10 → 2008-11-28
Committee for Privileges and Conduct (Lords)
2002-06-10 → 2002-11-07
House of Lords Offices Committee
2002-06-10 → 2008-01-28
Committee of Selection (Lords)
2002-06-10 → 2002-11-07
Refreshment Sub Committee
2002-11-25 → 2004-11-18
Refreshment Committee (Lords)
2008-02-18 → 2008-11-26
Communications and Digital Committee
2010-07-27 → 2011-04-26
Leader's Group on Working Practices
2024-01-31 → present
International Relations and Defence Committee
2016-05-25 → 2021-01-28
International Relations and Defence Committee
2020-11-24 → 2024-05-30
Joint Committee on the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act
2021-04-14 → 2023-01-31
Built Environment Committee
2023-01-31 → 2023-11-23
AI in Weapon Systems Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
grocottb@parliament.uk
020 7219 5097 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5097 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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)
8 bills
7 as lead sponsor
1 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 1st reading | 2023-12-05 | |
| House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) (No. 2) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 1st reading | 2022-07-18 | |
| House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2021-06-07 | |
| House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | Committee stage | 2020-01-08 | |
| House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | Report stage | 2017-06-26 | |
| House of Lords Act 1999 (Amendment) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | Committee stage | 2016-05-24 | |
| Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (Repeal) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2014-06-12 | |
| Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2007-12-05 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.