The Rt Hon. the Lord Deben
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Deben's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Deben. His name is John Selwyn Gummer, 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
75 Content(46.3%)
3 Not-Content(1.9%)
84 didn't vote(51.9%)
2026-01-12
Content
201–169
Content
2026-01-05
Content
131–127
Content
2026-01-05
Content
194–130
Content
2026-01-05
Content
168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
Content
210–131
Content
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
2026-06-16
Compassionate Use Medicine Schemes: VAT
Can I bring the noble Baroness back to the last part of my noble friend’s question? It looks as though the VAT department in HMRC is behaving most peculiarly. First, it lost the case about VAT on entry to the Great Yorkshire Show, yet it is fighting ever
2026-06-15
Social Housing Bill [HL]
I support the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, in particular on the ESG framework. The reason is, frankly, that we need better figures about what is happening. I say to the Minister that this is not because I disagree with the Bill—
2026-06-09
Water Companies
My Lords, does the Minister accept that it has to be faced that in the east of England we spend a lot of money pumping fresh water out to sea during the winter and then do not have enough of it for agriculture, industry and homes? Nobody at this moment i
2026-06-09
Further Education Colleges: Recovery of VAT
Does the Minister accept that there are some areas where the law has already told the HMRC that it ought not to be demanding VAT—for example, agricultural shows—and that it refuses to accept the law and keeps on standing in the way of spreading what it h
2026-06-08
South East Water: Disruption of Supply
My Lords, working as the chairman of a small water company means that one does know a bit about it. I just want to ask the Minister: when are we going to stop pouring fresh water into the sea during the winter in the east of England and then being so sho
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My concern is merely to say that, whatever your views are, I do not know of a previous occasion when such concerted concerns have been, frankly, not faced up to.
The second thing that I find very difficult is for it to be said that this is a robust an
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, as a fellow Catholic, I make a confession. I have learned an enormous amount from listening to almost every moment of the Bill. The argument that most distresses me is that which suggests that this has been subject to a filibuster. I have learn
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords—
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords—
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
There is one last thing I would like clarification on. When the noble and learned Lord spoke about hospices, he said in a slightly confusing way that that did not necessarily refer to care homes. I am concerned about care homes that are run by organisat
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I am genuinely trying to help the noble and learned Lord for this reason: I am concerned about the person who wishes to avail themselves of this Bill. I do not understand how you do that effectively unless you can look at a list and get the person you wa
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Does the noble Baroness not find it peculiar that people who are very keen on employment rights in every other circumstance are not keen on employment rights in these circumstances and put their views on assisted suicide ahead of the right of very ordina
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, as a Welsh-speaking Welshman, who has, in this House, consistently supported Plaid’s perfectly right demand that there should be fairer funding for Wales—I am not a Plaid supporter, but I support that aspect—I hope that the House will have list
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I knew I would do that. I am sorry. I will not refer to the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy.
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I am pleased that I gave time for the noble Baroness to talk, given that she thinks all of this is nitpicking. I remind the House that is what she said about the work we are doing. The fact is—
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
First, it is said on both sides that they want more money for palliative care, but we now know that palliative care includes assisted dying. I therefore do not accept that the demand for more money for palliative care from those in favour of this Bill is
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
We are not going to change the devolution settlement in this Bill—of course we are not. That is not the issue and that is not what is before us. Instead, this comes back to the Government. I entirely agree with the speech from the noble Lord, Lord Carlil
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
What I am saying is very simple: the proposers of this Bill have not properly taken into account the particularities that the Welsh have put forward so nobly and well by the noble Baroness, Lady Smith. I never hear from the proposers of this Bill any com
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Does the noble and learned Lord agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy, that assisted dying is part of palliative care?
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
If the Minister does not mind me saying so, this is a real problem. If we do not know—because only the Government can tell us—what the mechanism whereby drugs would be dealt with would be, how can we make decisions about this? We really need to know fro
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The point about the drugs and their control will surely have to be dealt with by the Government, whatever happens. What assessment have they made—surely they ought to make it in any circumstances—about how that should be done, what it would cost and how
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
One problem with using the word “compassionate” is that it is a mechanism for suggesting that one’s own answers to these issues are compassionate and other people’s are not. I happen to think that the most compassionate way of dealing with this is, first
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The proposal here is not isolating them in all the things that matter; it is doing something quite different. It is saying that those who are looking after them continue to look after them and give the information that is necessary for those who will mak
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I will give way in a moment but I wish to finish my sentence—and to being a society that cares for people right to the end of their lives. I know what sort of society I want to live in: one that looks after the most vulnerable at their most vulnerable t
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
That may well be the view of the noble Baroness, but it is not the view of the Royal Colleges, and it is not the view of the Select Committees of this House that have looked at this. It is perfectly reasonable for me to suggest that there is an alternati
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Register of Interests · 14 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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President, IACCSEA (International Association for Catalytic Control of Ship Emissions to Air)
registered 2026-01-30
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President and Chairman, Advisory Board, Manufacture2030 (software as a service company that helps manufacturers and suppliers reduce carbon emissions)
registered 2024-02-13 · amended 2025-04-05
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Member, Steering Group, NewVest Green Energy Transition Private Index Fund (GET-PIF) (remuneration is in the form of shares)
registered 2023-12-18 · amended 2025-04-05
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Member, Strategic Advisory Board, Knowledge Exchange Group Limited (events, conferences and training courses)
registered 2023-11-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Sancroft International Ltd has been asked by Bain & Company (management consultants) to work with them in advising the Qatari Government on their sustainability programme
registered 2021-11-23 · amended 2025-04-07
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Income from chairing conferences and journalism
registered 2010-07-22 · amended 2025-04-05
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The subjects of the above two interests are usually property, sustainable development and religious issues. The commitments arise largely from my previous profession of journalism and all payments go to Sancroft International Ltd, which provides research staff, information services and all other facilities
registered 2010-07-22 · amended 2025-04-07
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Income from articles written for Country Life
registered 2010-07-22 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chairman, Sancroft International Ltd (consultants in corporate responsibility and environmental, social, ethical and planning issues; payments made for certain work done by the member are made to Sancroft International Ltd)
registered 2010-07-22 · amended 2025-04-07
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Non-executive Chairman, Valpak Holdings Limited and Valpak Limited (organisation for compliance with producer responsibility directives)
registered 2010-07-22 · amended 2025-04-05
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Director and Chairman, Personal Investment Management & Financial Advice Association (interest ceased 1 March 2026)
registered 2010-07-22 · amended 2026-03-02
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Red Lion Resurgent Ltd (owns a public house)
registered 2023-07-28 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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Two houses and farmland in Suffolk
registered 2013-04-26 · amended 2025-04-05
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A residential and commercial property in London SW1, owned by family
registered 2010-07-22 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1970-06-18 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
1993-05-27 → 1997-05-01
Secretary of State for Environment
1989-07-24 → 1993-05-26
Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
1988-07-25 → 1989-07-24
Minister of State (Department of Environment) (Local Government)
1985-09-02 → 1988-07-26
Minister of State (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)
1984-09-11 → 1985-09-01
Paymaster General (HM Treasury)
1983-10-18 → 1984-09-11
Minister of State (Department of Employment)
1983-01-06 → 1983-10-18
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Employment)
1981-10-01 → 1983-01-06
Lord Commissioner (HM Treasury) (Whip)
1981-01-09 → 1981-09-30
Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2002-01-31 → 2005-05-05
Ecclesiastical Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 3 active officership(s)
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dalits
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2024-07-10 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dalits and Adivasis (Tribals)
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2026-07-19 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Energy Costs
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Royal Public Affairs | 6 | 2024-05-21 |
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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)
2 bills
2 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecumenical Marriage Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2017-06-29 | |
| Catholics (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill | — | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2007-02-20 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.