The Rt Hon. the Lord Hague of Richmond

Conservative Member of the House of Lords M

Lord Hague of Richmond's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Hague of Richmond. His name is William Jefferson Hague, and he is currently on leave of absence from the House of Lords.

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Allowance claims · 2026

Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.

Party history

1989-02-23 → present

Conservative current

Government posts

2014-07-15 → 2015-05-08

First Secretary of State and Leader of the House of Commons

2010-05-12 → 2014-07-15

Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State

1995-07-05 → 1997-05-01

Secretary of State for Wales

1994-07-20 → 1995-07-05

Minister of State (Department of Social Security)

1993-05-27 → 1994-07-20

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Social Security)

Opposition posts

2005-12-08 → 2010-05-06

Shadow Secretary of State (Foreign Affairs)

1997-06-19 → 2001-09-13

Leader of HM Official Opposition

Committee memberships

2002-06-19 → 2005-05-05

House of Lords Reform (Joint Committee)

2014-07-15 → 2015-03-30

Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

2014-07-15 → 2015-03-30

Public Accounts Commission

Contact

Parliamentary office

contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

X (formerly Twitter)

https://twitter.com/WilliamJHague

APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)

No APPG officerships found for this peer. (Officer matching is by name — if the parliamentary register lists them under a slightly different form, the join may miss; check /appgs directly.)

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)

1 bills 0 as lead sponsor 1 as supporter

Bill	Info	Role	Status	Introduced
European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Act 2012		Supported	Royal Assent	2012-05-10

Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.