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The Lord Turnbull KCB CVO

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Lord Turnbull's full title is The Lord Turnbull KCB CVO. His name is Andrew Turnbull, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.

Allowance claims · 2026

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Lords votes · 2026

No Lords votes recorded for 2026.

Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25

2024-11-28 Civil Service: Politicisation
My Lords, I share the premise of this debate that all is not well within the triangle of relationships between Ministers, civil servants and special advisers, but the term “politicisation” may be a misdiagnosis. The problem is not so much that civil serv
2024-09-04 Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I consider that this Bill is an abuse of power. When the Government take something away from one group of people, who have for 120 years had access to this park, and give it to another group without compensation, we call that confiscation. We c
2024-09-02 Crown Estate Bill [HL]
My Lords, that brings me to the starting point of my remarks. I have no issues with the Bill—indeed, I welcome most of its provisions—although I am unclear on the impact on the sovereign grant if a more highly geared Crown Estate manages to increase net
2024-05-02 Bank of England (Economic Affairs Committee Report)
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bridges, for his skilful chairmanship of the committee and the support we had from the staff. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, on shoehorning so many interesting insights into the conventional constrain
2024-02-08 Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report)
My Lords, in the seven or so years since I joined the Economic Affairs Committee, it has produced a number of excellent reports such as those on education, training and skills for the half of the school leavers who do not go to university, building more
2023-10-16 Net Zero (Economic Affairs Committee Report)
My Lords, I am now a member of the Economic Affairs Committee, but I was not when this report was published. Had I been, I would have endorsed it for bringing a measure of realism and proportion to the debate about net zero. It is helpful that the report
2023-09-12 Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
My Lords, I am sorry that I was not able to speak at Second Reading; I found out that it was scheduled only after the speakers’ list had closed. However, I have read the Hansard for that debate. Like others, I am now struggling to find a rationale for
2023-03-01 Financial Services and Markets Bill
My Lords, I have not spoken before in this Committee, but as one of the surviving members of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, I want to address an instance where an amendment directly challenges one of the proposals that was incorporate
2022-03-31 Economy: Spring Statement
My Lords, a number of what Jane Austen would have called “truths universally acknowledged” have slipped into public debate about economic policy, but many are fallacies. I start with the contention that it is pointless developing the UK’s oil and gas res
2021-11-03 Budget Statement
My Lords, as headlines scream “State spending and taxes at the highest since Clement Attlee”, I wonder whether the Budgets of 2021 and the health and social care levy could prove a turning point in our history. With the framework for debt and borrowing s
2020-01-23 High Speed 2 (Economic Affairs Committee Report)
My Lords, at various times in government, business and private lives we find ourselves faced with a choice when things are not going well. Do we press on, having invested time, money and reputation, or do we step back and rethink? This dilemma was faced
2019-07-17 Devolution: English Cities
My Lords, while reading the excellent report by the noble Lord, Lord Heseltine, I was at times overcome by nostalgia, having followed the history of local government finance, functions and boundaries since I joined the Treasury in 1970. I remember in the
2019-07-02 Post-18 Education and Funding Review
My Lords, I start by congratulating Philip Augar and his review team on a thoughtful and comprehensive report on post-18 education and funding. Alongside housing and long-term care, this is one of the three great unresolved issues crowded out by Brexit.
2019-07-01 Inflation
I said it does not. In other words, it fails the time reversibility test. If it goes up by 25% and then comes down by 25%, it ought to end up where it was before, but the price level is not the same. We believe that if the ONS is going to continue publis
2019-07-01 Inflation
I think the noble Lord should go away and write this down on a piece of paper—I think he will find that it does not end up where it started.
2019-07-01 Inflation
The basis on which that was done was that the statistics authority said it was flawed; that, I thought, was sufficient. Anyway, it said it would go on publishing the RPI and no longer designate it as a “national statistic” but rather, treat it as a legac
2019-07-01 Inflation
My Lords, earlier today, the House confirmed my P45 from membership of the Economic Affairs Committee. I greatly enjoyed working under the chairmanship first of the noble Lord, Lord Hollick, and latterly that of the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth. It was also
2019-05-08 Competition and Markets Authority: Legislative and Institutional Reforms
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, on promoting this debate, which is both timely and important. It is a pleasure to have something meaningful to get one’s teeth into. I start by declaring an interest. The CMA is working on two
2019-02-07 Finance (No. 3) Bill
My Lords, the principle of financial privilege means that this House has no powers in relation to the structure of tax, its rates and its incidence. It can, however, examine the way in which the tax system is administered, its governance and the complian
2018-06-28 Police and Crime Commissioners
My Lords, I have a long-standing friend who became a PE teacher. For 50 years he worked tirelessly to promote sport in schools and communities. He was the sort of the person we should give an MBE to. But two years ago someone went into a police station a
2018-03-12 European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
I do not think I was making a distinction between fees and charges—they are just words. They broadly mean the same thing and both suffer from the same defect.
2018-03-12 European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
If something generates a surplus, it is equivalent to a tax and should be covered by the same legislative understandings about taxes. There is a third category, where a conscious policy relates the fee not according to how much it costs to administer
2018-03-12 European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
I am about to get to that. There are other fees and charges which, as a matter of policy, raise more than enough to cover costs and these should be treated as taxes. I think that in the national accounts, even if the words “fee” or “charge” or “levy” are
2018-03-12 European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
My Lords, I regret that I was unable to attend all of Wednesday’s Committee stage, thereby missing a number of important speeches, but I have the opportunity now to speak on behalf of the noble Lord, Lord O’Donnell. I hope that your Lordships will accept
2018-02-08 Brexit and the Labour Market (Economic Affairs Committee Report)
My Lords, this was a very difficult report to prepare, the main sources of difficulty being the unsatisfactory evidence base and confused policy objectives. The noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, has highlighted the deficiencies in the statistics. The main source
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file

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Party history

2005-10-11present
Crossbench current

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2013-07-162015-07-09
Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords) Chair +£14,876/yr
2009-10-272015-03-30
Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords)
2012-07-172013-06-12
Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (Joint Committee)
2015-03-232016-01-14
Leader's Group on Governance
2023-01-312026-01-27
Economic Affairs Committee
2015-06-082019-07-01
Economic Affairs Committee
2022-07-202023-01-31
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2018-09-042019-11-04
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2016-12-062017-03-17
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2015-12-082016-03-04
Finance Bill Sub-Committee
2019-07-012023-01-31
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2019-07-022020-04-23
EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee
2020-04-232021-03-31
EU Goods Sub-Committee
2026-01-27present
Financial Services Regulation Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
andrew@the-turnbulls.com
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

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Written parliamentary questions · 2026

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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026

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Historic bills (all-time)

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