The Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe's full title is The Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe. His name is Clive Brooke, 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
2 Content(1.2%)
87 Not-Content(53.7%)
73 didn't vote(45.1%)
2026-04-27
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58–138
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2026-04-23
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152–207
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2026-04-13
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65–173
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2026-04-13
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178–231
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2026-04-13
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69–332
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2026-03-26
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115–197
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2026-03-26
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64–140
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2026-03-24
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80–166
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2026-03-12
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26–134
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2026-03-05
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193–143
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2026-03-05
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2026-03-05
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198–139
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2026-03-05
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2026-02-04
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2026-01-12
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2026-01-05
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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
2026-06-18
Child Poverty
I too join others in congratulating my noble friend Lady Lister on securing this debate. Like others, I express my great gratitude to her for the lifetime of campaigning that she has undertaken on this front and the great successes that she has seen de
Is my noble friend the Minister aware of the growing desire for the UK to have an independent sovereign entity in this field? That is going to cost a great deal of money, of course. First, can she copy the letter that she is sending to the noble Lord on
My Lords, I am grateful to the committee for its work and its recommendations, and in particular very grateful to the chairman, the noble Baroness, Lady Scott of Needham Market, for a very comprehensive introduction.
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I too am most grateful to the most reverend Primate for selecting this important topic, for her wide-ranging and stimulating speech and for proposing the three questions that we should address. On her third, the truth, it is worth remembering that there
2026-04-28
Middle East: Economic Update
My Lords, the Treasury gets criticised for being too short-termist these days. I am wondering whether it undertakes market research among the public about the extent to which there may be an opportunity to get greater investment from them if we were ambi
2026-04-21
House of Lords: Legislative Procedures
My Lords, just over 15 years ago, there was considerable dissatisfaction here with the way our scrutiny work was being performed. The Leader’s Group was set up and reported in 2011, recommending improved focus and better organisation for more effective a
2026-04-21
House of Lords: Legislative Procedures
To ask the Leader of the House what plans she has, if any, to establish a modernisation committee to review the effectiveness, efficiency and cost of the House of Lords’ legislative procedures.
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My intervention will be brief and is addressed to the noble and learned Lord. Does he believe that his amendments will ever be adopted and incorporated into a piece of legislation that will be passed in this Session? If in fact, as we read in many newsp
2026-03-17
Spring Forecast Statement
My Lords, I think the Minister ought to get my noble friend Lord Sikka a job in HMRC. I have some connections there too. However, I start by paying great tribute to my good friend and associate, the noble Lord, Lord St John, with whom I have spent many h
2026-02-04
NHS: Corridor Care
My Lords, my recent experience in care homes is that there are vacancies—unfilled beds—in private care homes. When are we going to do something about the mismatch of people in corridors, when beds are available? There needs to be some system introduced
2026-02-04
NHS: Corridor Care
My Lords—
2026-01-19
Digital ID
My Lords, does my noble friend the Minister not agree that this is a typical example of what is now alleged to be “broken Britain”? We were moving forward in 2010 to deal with the changes that were taking place, and it was abandoned by the alliance. It w
2025-12-15
Technology Adoption Review
My Lords, the report is critical of skills shortages, problems with regulations and the financial constraints on investments. I know that it is not directly the Minister’s responsibility, but could she talk to the Treasury about looking for alternative s
2025-12-09
Facial Recognition Technology: Safeguards
My Lords, could the Minister say whether this will extend to the use of drones, which are being used privately and publicly?
2025-12-04
Autumn Budget 2025
My Lords, like the financial markets, I am reasonably comfortable overall with the Budget, with its focus on endeavouring to reduce the cost of living and improve the circumstances and prospects of children and on investment in and protection of essentia
2025-12-04
Welfare of Domestic Animals
My Lords, is the Minister aware that some of us were in Downing Street yesterday, and there was a cat wandering around in Downing Street. Can she make sure that the owners are acting responsibly?
2025-12-01
Sentencing Bill
My Lords, I apologise for not having spoken at Second Reading; I was not present due to domestic circumstances. Had I been present, I would have spoken on the importance—following on from the remarks of noble Lord, Lord Foster—of addressing the problems
2025-11-24
Ukraine: Forcible Removal of Children
My Lords, will the Minister, recognising how sensitive it is at the moment to ask questions, say something about where we are with a coalition of the willing? Given that periodically the USA indicates that it will not allow NATO to go in certain directio
2025-11-03
Public/Private Partnerships: Shares
My Lords, since I tabled this Question, my noble friend Lord Livermore has been appointed Labour’s national campaign co-ordinator for next year’s elections. I am sure that everyone would wish to congratulate him on that, even in his absence. He is now, o
2025-11-03
Public/Private Partnerships: Shares
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking in consulting on, revising and updating public/private partnerships with shares open to the public.
My Lords, does my noble friend the Minister agree that we are very good at telling other people what to do? Is it not time that we started having a look at our practices and productivity to see whether we can run Parliament and the Commons much more effe
2025-10-29
Water Companies: Private Ownership
I will try to help the Minister. Is he aware that the American President is now investing in private companies in a way that the USA has not seen or done before, seeing that there is strategic advantage in that? When we are presented with the water Bill
2025-10-22
Drink-Drive Limit
My Lords, is the Minister aware that the Labour Government were minded to make this change in 1998, in moving from 80 milligrams down to 50 milligrams? We are now the only country in Europe that is still on 80 milligrams; everyone else has gone down to 5
2025-10-21
Education in Prisons
My Lords, one of the omissions from the report from the group of the noble Lord, Lord Foster, is that there is no mention of AI. AI provides us with an opportunity for low-cost training, education and rehabilitation. Could the Minister say that, within t
2025-10-14
Digital ID
My Lords, I welcome this initiative and I have listened with interest to the two opposition spokespersons. In 2010 and 2011, they abandoned the work that had been done, and we have fallen so far behind. We have seen people come into the country and work
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Register of Interests · 1 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 3: Land and property
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House and flat in London SW11 owned jointly with spouse from which rental income is received intermittently
registered 2018-06-19 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1997-10-23 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1999-12-06 → 2002-11-07
European Union Committee
2002-06-19 → 2005-05-05
House of Lords Reform (Joint Committee)
2003-07-11 → 2003-11-28
Draft Civil Contingencies Bill (Joint Committee)
2015-06-08 → 2016-08-31
Information Committee (Lords)
2004-12-07 → 2008-11-26
Information Committee (Lords)
2008-01-17 → 2008-11-26
Crossrail Bill
2016-05-25 → 2017-04-04
Licensing Act 2003 Committee
2024-01-24 → 2025-03-28
Food, Diet and Obesity Committee
Contact
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APPGs (2026) · 6 active officership(s) · 3 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Twelve Steps Recovery Programme from Addiction
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 5 | 2023-07-05 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Harm
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Alcohol Change UK | 8 | 2024-04-17 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Liver Health
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | The Hepatitis C Trust | 7 | 2021-06-11 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nutrition: Science and Health
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | The Nutrition Society | 4 | 2024-05-17 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Psychology
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | British Psychological Society | 6 | 2024-07-10 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Twelve Steps Recovery Programme for Addiction
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | — | 4 | 2021-07-05 |
One row per active APPG. Funder names link out via the
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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2026-02-02
Leader of the House of Lords
Written Questions: Government Responses
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Written Questions: Government Responses
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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)
7 bills
7 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Road Traffic Act 1988 (Alcohol Limits) (Amendment) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 1st reading | 2022-01-06 | |
| Video Gaming Health and Wellbeing Strategy Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2020-01-20 | |
| Video Gaming Health and Wellbeing Strategy Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2019-10-28 | |
| Awards for Valour (Protection) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2017-07-12 | |
| Lobbying (Transparency) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 3rd reading | 2016-05-24 | |
| Road Traffic Act 1988 (Alcohol Limits) (Amendment) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 3rd reading | 2015-06-03 | |
| Licensing Act 2003 (Amendment) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2014-06-12 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.