The Rt Hon. the Lord Knight of Weymouth
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Knight of Weymouth's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Knight of Weymouth. His name is James Philip Knight, 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
2 Content(1.2%)
71 Not-Content(43.8%)
89 didn't vote(54.9%)
2026-04-27
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152–207
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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
My Lords, I am grateful to the most reverend Primate for securing this debate and for the way she has just introduced it. Alongside the Pope’s recent encyclical, moral leadership in this issue is vital.
I should declare my interest in Century-Tech, Go
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Keeley on the comprehensive way that she introduced our committee’s report on media literacy, of which committee I am lucky to be a member. I also welcome the Government’s media literacy action plan that was
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, and congratulate her on bringing forward this important debate. It is a good Question. I agree with her that the Public Office (Accountability) Bill should be welcomed, but I will wait until Second Readin
My Lords, I remind the House of my education interests, in particular as chair of STEM Learning and of the E-ACT multi-academy trust. At some of our E-ACT primary schools in Bristol, we have been investing in speech and language therapy training for all
2026-01-21
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I will move on. I will try harder to read further to get to the same place as the noble Lord, Lord Nash—but I doubt it.
Pinterest was implicated in the suicide completed by Molly Russell. Molly’s father, Ian, is thoughtful, brave and inspiring. I list
2026-01-21
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
The noble Lord and I debate with great respect and friendship. My reading of
“regulations made by statutory instruments require all regulated user-to-user services to use highly effective age-assurance measure to prevent children under the age of 16 f
2026-01-21
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I have followed these issues closely through my work on the Online Safety Act, first as a member of the Joint Committee, then on the Opposition Front Bench and now on your Lordships’ Communications and Digital Committee. I added my name to Amen
2025-10-22
Post-16 Education and Skills Strategy
My Lords, while I associate myself with the comments on the IB from the noble Lord, Lord Storey, I want to focus on the issue of NEETs. The White Paper seeks to address the growing problem of NEETs with pre-NEET targeted support in schools, the youth gua
2025-09-10
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I will speak briefly on this group of amendments in the same vein as have my noble friends Lady Morris and Lady Bousted, and emphasise that we need qualified teachers, particularly for the most disadvantaged pupils in our country.
Some years
2025-09-10
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend, particularly for the last sentiment in her wind-up on this small but perfectly formed debate on these amendments.
My noble friend referred to the reality that the Teaching Regulation Agency does not want to
2025-09-10
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 436ZB in my name. I remind your Lordships of my education interests, particularly as the chair of the Council of British International Schools. I thank Emily Konstantas, chair of the British International Schools
2025-09-10
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
2025-09-10
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I am not suggesting that local authorities appoint the boards; I am suggesting that local authorities appoint the members who, in effect, are the shareholders to whom the boards have to report on an annual basis at the annual general meeting.
2025-09-10
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I will speak in support of Amendment 435 in the name of my noble friends, led by the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett. In doing so, I remind the House of my interests, in particular as chair of the E-ACT multi-academy trust.
I have thought for some
2025-07-22
Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025
There is a difference, but the argument the noble Lord is making is that people are seeking to get influence rather than a financial return. If you are taking 5%, you are doing so for a financial return. Why would investors not also be looking for a fi
2025-07-22
Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025
As ever, the noble Lord has made a good case. He made his point—as did the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth—around what a percentage stake might mean if the returns are not going to be great. What difference is there between 5% and 15% in respect of the argument
2025-06-23
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I do not disagree with a word that the noble Baroness has said about these weapons of mass distraction. I am not saying that young people should be able to carry them around—I was advocating the use of lockable pouches. However, is it not possible that t
2025-06-23
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Is that not what is happening at the moment? A vast number of schools are, in effect, banning smartphones—as many people would like—some have an intermediate approach, and then there are a few outliers that are not banning them. Is it not the case that t
2025-06-23
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
At what age does the noble Baroness think that children should be taught how to use phones safely?
2025-06-23
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I am interested in what the noble Baroness said—that the laptop and tablet learning devices that schools have would be sufficient for teaching media literacy. Does she suggest, therefore, that they should install social media apps on those devices, and t
2025-06-23
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, as this is my first substantive contribution in Committee, I declare my education interests as chair of E-ACT multi-academy trust, of STEM Learning, of Century-Tech and of COBIS. I also own half of Suklaa Ltd, which has a number of education cl
2025-06-10
Free School Meals
My Lords, I very much welcome this announcement, as others have done, because, in the words of the Statement, it is not just anti poverty but pro learning. As chair of the E-ACT multi-academy trust, I see the context of too many children’s lives coming t
2025-06-04
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I have yet to vote with the Government on this issue. We all owe a great debt of gratitude to the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, for the way in which she has championed the interests of the creative sector against the daylight robbery of its righ
2025-05-20
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord, whom I respect and enjoy debating with, but does he accept that if all 80 of us who made Second Reading speeches—and I enjoyed his four minutes—speak for nine minutes, as he has done, ranging across the whole of th
2025-05-19
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I shall be brief. We are in a pickle. This is an important Bill that needs to gain Royal Assent quickly, for EU data adequacy reasons if nothing else. Incidentally, I do not believe that the Bill does active harm to the creative sector as it is
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Register of Interests · 6 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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Chair of the Board and Non-executive Director, STEM Learning Ltd (not for profit company which provides science, maths and computer science continuous professional development for teachers and runs national STEM ambassadors programme)
registered 2024-07-05 · amended 2025-04-05
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Member, Qualifications Advisory Board, Pearson plc (publishing and education)
registered 2023-08-01 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chair, Board of Directors, Council of British International Schools (COBIS)
registered 2023-05-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chair, Board of Directors, (previously Non-executive Director), Century-Tech Limited (edtech company using AI and neuroscience to deliver individualised learning for children in support of the teacher; payment made to Suklaa Ltd)
registered 2021-09-14 · amended 2025-04-07
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Director, Suklaa Ltd (educational consultancy); clients are Nord Anglia Education (international school provider); Blackbaud Europe (formerly EVERFI Ltd) (helping companies engage with schools through provision of learning content); Good Notes (developing note-taking software); The Edwin Group (suppliers of software and staffing services for schools); CPPIB Canada Inc. and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (collectively, “CPPIB”) (investment company); Bain & Company (management consultancy); and Corndel Limited (apprenticeship and training provider)
registered 2020-09-28 · amended 2026-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Suklaa Ltd (educational consultancy)
registered 2020-09-28 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2001-06-07 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2009-06-09 → 2010-05-06
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
2009-06-09 → 2010-05-06
Minister of State (Regional Affairs) (South West)
2007-06-29 → 2009-06-09
Minister of State (Department for Children, Schools and Families) (Schools and Learners)
2006-05-05 → 2007-06-28
Minister of State (Education and Skills) (Schools and 14-19 Learners)
2005-05-10 → 2006-05-05
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity)
Opposition posts
2011-10-17 → 2014-07-18
Shadow Spokesperson (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
2010-10-08 → 2011-09-05
Shadow Spokesperson (Work and Pensions)
Committee memberships
2001-07-16 → 2003-10-20
Defence Committee
2018-05-17 → 2019-03-19
Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities Committee
2019-06-13 → 2022-06-16
Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee
2020-10-15 → 2021-11-24
National Plan for Sport and Recreation Committee
2021-07-22 → 2024-05-30
Draft Online Safety Bill (Joint Committee)
2023-01-31 → 2023-11-23
Education for 11–16 Year Olds Committee
2024-01-31 → present
Communications and Digital Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
knightja@parliament.uk
0207 219 8209 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 8 active officership(s) · 8 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Parents
Subject Group
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Officer | Parentkind | 4 | 2027-03-12 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for School Exclusions and Alternative Provision
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | The Centre for Social Justice | 4 | 2025-02-12 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Digital Skills
Subject Group
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Officer | — | 16 | 2024-05-28 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Education Technology
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | Ranelagh Ltd | 10 | 2023-01-09 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Independent Education
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Independent Schools Council | 4 | 2025-05-15 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Media Literacy
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | The Student View | 7 | 2024-03-23 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Future of Work
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | Warwick Business School | 4 | 2027-02-28 |
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Oracy All-Party Parliamentary Group
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 6 | 2024-05-14 |
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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
1 as lead sponsor
1 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education (Environment and Sustainable Citizenship) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2021-05-25 | |
| Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2017-07-19 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.