The Lord Farmer

Conservative Member of the House of Lords M

Lord Farmer's full title is The Lord Farmer. His name is Michael Stahel Farmer, and he is a current member of 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

2014-09-05 → present

Conservative current

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2015-06-11 → 2016-03-16

Social Mobility Committee

2019-03-06 → 2019-06-14

Draft Domestic Abuse Bill (Joint Committee)

2025-01-30 → 2025-10-27

Home-based Working Committee

2026-01-27 → present

National Resilience Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office

contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 3000 · Dr. Samantha Callan OBE, Parliamentary Advisor, House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

Website

https://www.lordmichaelfarmer.co.uk/

X (formerly Twitter)

https://x.com/thelordfarmer

APPGs (2026) · 4 active officership(s) · 2 historic

Group	Role(s)	Funders	Officers in group	Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Family Hubs Subject Group	Officer	Spurgeons	4	2026-06-05
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Issues Affecting Men and Boys Subject Group	Vice Chair	—	4	2024-07-16
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Men and Boys' Issues Subject Group	Officer	—	4	2027-01-11
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Relationships Subject Group	Vice Chair	—	9	2024-04-07

One row per active APPG. Funder names link out via the /appgs Top secretariat funders panel — click any funder there to open its full relationship graph. Officer matching is name-based against the parliament.uk register text and may miss titled / hyphenated variants.

Officer	Role	Party
Tom Collins	Chair & Registered Contact	Labour
Chris Bloore	Officer	Labour
Rebecca Paul	Officer	Conservative
Lord Farmer	Officer	Conservative

Officer	Role	Party
Nick Fletcher	Chair & Registered Contact	Conservative
Caroline Ansell	Vice Chair	Conservative
Lord Farmer	Vice Chair	Conservative
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede	Vice Chair	Labour
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede	Vice Chair	Labour

Officer	Role	Party
Mims Davies	Chair & Registered Contact	Conservative
Sam Rushworth	Co-Chair	Labour
Lord Farmer	Officer	Conservative
Baroness Eaton	Officer	Conservative

Officer	Role	Party
Andrew Selous	Chair & Registered Contact	Conservative
Siobhan Baillie	Co-Chair	Conservative
Sally-Ann Hart	Vice Chair	Conservative
Baroness Eaton	Vice Chair	Conservative
Baroness Tyler of Enfield	Vice Chair	Liberal Democrat
Lord Farmer	Vice Chair	Conservative
Jim Shannon	Vice Chair	Democratic Unionist Party
Danny Kruger	Vice Chair	Reform UK
Sir Stephen Timms	Vice Chair	Labour

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
Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Act 2023		Supported	Royal Assent	2022-06-15

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