The Rt Hon. the Viscount Hailsham KC
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Viscount Hailsham's full title is The Rt Hon. the Viscount Hailsham KC. His name is Douglas Martin Hogg, 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
26 Content(16.0%)
1 Not-Content(0.6%)
135 didn't vote(83.3%)
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
My Lords, I shall ask about another class of skilled and creative workers in need of temporary visas—namely, sheep-shearers during the sheep-shearing season. They are fundamental to animal welfare. There is a serious issue about the grant of visas. I do
2026-06-03
Murder of Henry Nowak
My Lords, the guidelines are being reviewed. May I suggest that part of the review should address the use of handcuffs? In this case, it is not at all clear to me that it was right, or indeed seemly or appropriate, to apply handcuffs to Mr Nowak.
2026-06-03
Equality Act 2010: Code of Practice
My Lords, although I very much welcome the decision of the Supreme Court, there may be room for statutory exemption in respect of persons who have fully transitioned—that is to say, certificated and having gone through the gender-affirming surgery. Ther
2026-05-20
Youth Justice
My Lords, the Statement refers to the Southport murders and the lack of co-ordination between the appropriate authorities. Does the Minister accept that, when a review or inquiry is commissioned, the terms of reference should provide for the explicit inc
2026-05-20
Unite the Kingdom March
My Lords, can I ask the Minister to confirm that the police will be very robust in tackling antisemitic remarks and actions at pro-Palestinian marches?
2026-05-19
Supreme Court Dillon Judgment
My Lords, I commend to the Minister the Amnesty Act 1924, which she will know was passed by the Irish Government at the conclusion of the civil war. It was a very useful precedent, and I commend it to the House as a very sensible way forward.
2026-04-16
Crime and Policing Bill
I follow the noble Baroness by apologising to your Lordships that I was not here for the commencement of the Minister’s speech, but I heard the great majority of what he said, and I was also present for the speeches of the noble Lords, Lord Walney and Lo
2026-04-16
Crime and Policing Bill
On Motion R1, I agree with the Minister, not with my noble friend Lord Davies. It is important to remember—
2026-03-23
UK Homeland Defence
My Lords, may I suggest that there is now widespread public support for a very substantial and rapid increase in expenditure on defence?
2026-03-23
Companies: Online AGMs
My Lords, may I suggest that members of the awkward squad are more readily controlled in virtual meetings, and that is thoroughly undesirable? It is much better to have open general meetings, when members of the awkward squad can speak out.
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 423 which is in my name. The purpose of my amendment is to see if it is possible to effect a compromise between strongly held opinions. If a compromise is not possible, then subject to pre-emption, I could certainly su
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
I am not sure that I accept that. It is certainly true that when I started practising at the Bar, which was a very long time ago, investigations were not conducted with great sensitivity, but the police service has advanced a long way from that. So I do
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
I am very grateful for the support of the Liberal Democrat Benches, but for a similar reason to that advanced by the noble Baroness, I am not going to trouble the House by seeking to divide.
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
2026-03-18
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, in the circumstances I shall confine my observations to Amendments 422A and 422B. Before I do so, I say that I strongly support the amendment just moved by the noble Baroness. Were she to divide the House on it, I would support it, but I gather
2026-03-11
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I cannot support this amendment, for two reasons. First, it imposes a regime which is wholly different from the regulatory practices in every other regulatory authority. For the last 15 years, I have practised exclusively as a legal adviser to
2026-03-11
Crime and Policing Bill
The noble Lord was suggesting, I think, that it is wrong to hold a subsequent disciplinary proceeding on precisely the same facts that gave rise to the acquittal. But in the regulatory proceedings of which I have been speaking, that is precisely the case
2026-03-11
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I have real reservations about Amendment 385, which I am afraid I cannot support. I am glad that my noble friend is not thinking of testing the opinion of the House.
I speak as a cyclist and I fear, for the reason touched on by the noble Lor
2026-02-25
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I do not think it inappropriate that, although Amendment 14 was not moved, it should be spoken to.
2026-02-25
Crime and Policing Bill
I do not want to intrude unnecessarily, but I did have a brief word to say about Amendments 14 and 21, both of which I welcome very much. This arises from a particular problem I had in my own area. We had a very efficiently run waste disposal area, which
2026-02-25
Crime and Policing Bill
Would the Minister be good enough to focus on this argument? If a burden were placed on the waste disposal authority, either by being liable to clear up the mess or by having to pay for it, it would be much less willing to close waste sites, and if waste
2026-02-25
Cyclists: Safety
My Lords, I am a regular cyclist. I suggest that the wearing of helmets and high-vis jackets and, in urban areas, the provision of cycle-only tracks is the most effective way of reducing injuries.
2026-02-03
Shamima Begum
My Lords, I re-emphasise that when Shamima Begum went to Syria, she was 15 years-old. She absconded from school. She was a child. What is the public interest in excluding her from the United Kingdom now? Are we just making political gestures? I of course
2026-02-03
Shamima Begum
My Lords—
2026-02-02
Crime and Policing Bill
Is it not the problem that in criminal cases where the reasonable doubt test applies, you often have external evidence, such as witnesses or documents? What my noble friend is talking about here is really an oral conversation, and the only material avail
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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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Practising barrister, at present, exclusively as a legal assessor to the Health and Care Professions Council; although the member might work on an ad hoc basis for other regulators
registered 2015-10-19 · amended 2026-06-01
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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The member has sector-specific vehicles namely property trusts run by Aviva and Threadneedle
registered 2015-10-19 · amended 2025-05-01
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Party history
1979-05-03 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
1995-07-05 → 1997-05-01
Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
1990-11-02 → 1995-07-05
Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
1989-07-24 → 1990-11-01
Minister of State (Department of Trade and Industry)
1986-09-10 → 1989-07-26
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
1983-02-22 → 1984-10-10
Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1979-05-03 → 1982-05-24
Agriculture
1997-07-16 → 1998-03-02
Home Affairs Committee
2009-04-20 → 2010-05-06
Justice Committee
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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