The Lord Rees of Ludlow OM
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Rees of Ludlow's full title is The Lord Rees of Ludlow OM. His name is Martin John Rees, 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%)
1 Not-Content(0.6%)
161 didn't vote(99.4%)
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publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the
figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-06-04
AI Regulation Bill
My Lords, the smartphone, the web and ancillaries would have seemed magical just a generation ago. There is no gainsaying their benefits to billions worldwide. It is welcome that machines supplement, if not replace, white-collar jobs, routine legal work,
My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Brown, for adeptly chairing the sessions that led to this report. More than that, since she retires from our committee this month, she deserves congratulations on being so effective and benign throug
2024-11-14
Universities
My Lords, we should welcome this debate on the excellent and thought-provoking report from UUK. It recommends that the long-term goal should be 70% of young people with qualifications at level 4 or above, to be achieved via flexible co-operation between
2024-10-31
Science and Technology: Economy
My Lords, I add my thanks to the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate, for his fine introduction to this debate and add a welcome to our very well qualified new Minister who will reply to the debate. I am sure he would agree that the prospect of a scientific c
2024-09-12
Higher Education Funding
My Lords, the UK’s whole post-18 education system surely needs not only a greater funding stream but more institutional variety, and increased flexibility in its offerings.
There is currently a systemic weakness. The missions of individual institution
2024-01-18
Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases
My Lords, we should be grateful to my noble friend Lord Trees for securing this wide-ranging debate. I will focus on the threat of global pandemics to humans.
Covid-19 was a wake-up call. The published national risk register had been inadequate. No pa
2023-11-14
King’s Speech
My Lords, ideally, crucial sectors such as education and science should be governed by a bipartisan consensus that offers long-term stability. In depressing contrast, turbulence in the Government has triggered unstable policies and a rapid churn of Minis
2023-07-24
Advanced Artificial Intelligence
My Lords, the seemingly superhuman achievements of AI are enabled by a greater processing speed and memory storage of computers compared to flesh and blood brains. AI can cope better than humans with data-rich, fast-changing networks—traffic flow, electr
My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of Cambridge University. Along with other speakers, I welcome the introduction of the LLE and hope that what is now proposed is just the first step towards creating an expanded and more flexible support system,
My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Baroness, Lady Brown, and the committee staff. I will venture a few words on schools, universities and R&D. Ideally, these crucial sectors should be governed by a bipartisan consensus that offers long-term stability.
My Lords, Governments are torpid in their response to the climate threat. This is, of course, because its worst impacts will not be manifest until the second half of the century, beyond the time horizon of political and even investment decisions. We are
2023-01-12
Preparing for Extreme Risks (RARPC Report)
My Lords, I add my tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Arbuthnot, for his benign and effective chairmanship of this special inquiry, which illuminated crucial issues that are still underdiscussed. Indeed, we are still in denial about a whole raft of newly em
2022-12-21
Cross-government Cost-cutting
My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Bird, for instigating this debate and for his fine opening speech, and above all for his lifelong campaign to promote a fairer society.
We should welcome some savings—for instance, tightening of terms of
2022-10-13
Times Education Commission Report
My Lords, we should thank the noble Lord, Lord Lexden, for instigating this debate. I was privileged to be one of the Times Commissioners, and the report’s thoroughness and readability are owed especially to two people: Rachel Sylvester and Sir Anthony S
2021-11-02
Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill
My Lords, there is surely general agreement of the worthwhileness of ARIA’s goals. What is less clear is whether the small, stand-alone administrative construct conceived in the Bill is optimal, or indeed necessary, for achieving these goals, especially
2021-10-22
Assisted Dying Bill [HL]
My Lords, very few people consider maximal extension of life, irrespective of its quality, to be a moral imperative. We can choose not to be resuscitated if we have a heart attack; we can decline invasive cancer treatment.
Viewed in this context, the
My Lords, the Minister’s statement should surely be welcomed and uncontroversial. I have no specific involvement to declare, but as Astronomer Royal I am probably one of the few Members of this House familiar with the SKA. I will therefore supplement wha
Our research universities are major assets because of the collective expertise of their faculties and the consequent quality of the graduates they feed into all walks of life. They are a seedbed for new ideas, some of which have major potential impact,
2020-03-13
Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill [HL]
My Lords, the commitment of the noble Lord, Lord Bird, to the disadvantaged is an inspiration to us all and we should surely welcome the Bill. Urgent and immediate matters understandably preoccupy our leaders; in contrast, some of the most threatening is
2020-02-06
Climate Change
My Lords, a key message of the UK FIRES report is that it is tough to meet even our declared 2050 targets without a drastic speed-up in the deployment of novel technologies. I argue that there is a more compelling motivation for prioritising and expandin
2020-01-29
Social Mobility
My Lords, my remarks will focus on the need for greater flexibility in higher education.
We should abandon the view that a standard three-year residential degree is the minimum worthwhile goal. Students who realise that the course they embarked on is
2020-01-09
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, the Government’s rhetoric indicates a welcome willingness to contemplate radical initiatives in research and education. That is especially crucial if we are to confront the energy challenge. The Climate Change Act’s 2050 target is indeed daunti
My Lords, we should be grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Jenkin, for the chance to address what is surely an ethical imperative: responsible stewardship of the entire natural world. Biodiversity is essential for our health, well-being and prosperity.
2019-07-15
Space Science and Technology
My Lords, the Americans committed 4% of the federal Budget to Apollo. Had that level of spend been sustained, there would have been footprints on Mars by now. But once that race against the Russians was won, there was no imperative to sustain that massiv
2019-07-10
Sustainable Development Goals
My Lords, it is good that this debate has focused both on what the UK itself is doing to remedy the shameful inadequacies within its own border with regard to justice and poverty and the even more challenging global issues confronting less-developed nati
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Register of Interests · 8 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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Gruber Foundation (philanthropic foundation) (fees for committee work)
registered 2020-07-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Nesta (innovation foundation) (fee for committee chairmanship)
registered 2020-07-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Fees are received for writing articles for The Times, Guardian, Financial Times, various magazines and occasional lectures
registered 2015-12-07 · amended 2025-04-05
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Royalties are received from the following publishers for books written by the member: Brockman Inc, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press and Polity Press
registered 2015-12-07 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Oxford Instruments plc (designs and manufactures tools and systems for industry and research)
registered 2020-11-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Royal Dutch Shell plc (oil and gas)
registered 2017-05-15 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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Joint owner of two flats in Cambridge from which rental income is received
registered 2010-04-14 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 7: Miscellaneous financial interests
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As Fellow and former Master of Trinity College Cambridge the member receives benefits in kind (meals, office accommodation etc)
registered 2015-12-07 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2005-09-06 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2022-01-19 → 2025-01-30
Science and Technology Committee
2010-06-22 → 2015-03-30
Science and Technology Committee
2015-06-23 → 2019-07-02
EU Internal Market Sub-Committee
2020-10-15 → 2021-11-24
Risk Assessment and Risk Planning 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
mjr@ast.cam.ac.uk; mjr36@cam.ac.uk
01223 338412 · Trinity College, Cambridge, CB2 1TJ
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 1 historic
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dark Skies
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | — | 4 | 2027-03-06 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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