The Baroness Rock
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Rock's full title is The Baroness Rock. Her name is Kate Harriet Alexandra Rock, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
27 Content(16.7%)
0 Not-Content(0.0%)
135 didn't vote(83.3%)
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
That this House takes note of the Report from the Autism Act 2009 Committee Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy (HL Paper 205, Session 2024–26).
My Lords, I thank all participants in today’s debate. Passion, care, empathy and understanding have really shone through, and I am grateful to Members of this House. It is incredibly important that we support our autistic community.
I know that many p
My Lords, I am delighted to introduce this important and timely debate. I thank the members of the committee for their hard work, dedication and thoughtfulness. I thank our specialist adviser, Professor Laura Crane, professor of autism studies at the Sch
2026-04-16
Farming Road Map
My Lords, I declare my interest as a tenant farmer. Far from there being billionaire farmers, there are a huge number of tenant farmers in the UK who pay commercial rent to farm. They are worried about fertiliser prices and input prices just as much as a
2025-11-03
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
I am very grateful to the Minister for her response. As I said, I am disappointed. This is absolutely the right place to address these issues around tenant farmers. I have given very clear examples of why these amendments sit firmly in government policy
2025-11-03
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
These reviews take years and years, but this is a clear and present danger now. Therefore, before the Minister sits down, will she agree to meet with me and the Tenant Farmers Association to discuss what can be done in this Bill to protect tenant farmers
2025-11-03
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
My Lords, you will be delighted to hear that we are now in the home stretch as we debate just before midnight. I shall speak to the three amendments standing in my name, which, unsurprisingly, deal with matters connected with agricultural tenancies. I a
2025-11-03
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2025-05-01
Inheritance Tax: Impact on Rural Businesses
I thank the Minister for his Answer, but these changes are already stifling investment. A Farmers Guardian and Tenant Farmers Association joint survey reports that 55% of tenant farmers will invest less in their farms and 25% of tenant farmers expect the
2025-05-01
Inheritance Tax: Impact on Rural Businesses
My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper and draw attention to my interests as set out in the register.
2025-05-01
Inheritance Tax: Impact on Rural Businesses
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of changes to inheritance tax rules on rural businesses and economic growth.
2024-12-02
Food Security
My Lords, tenant farmers do not own their land but they do produce food. Can the Minister tell me what conversations she has had with her colleague the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on solar planning applications that h
2024-11-05
Budget: Implications for Farming Communities
My Lords—
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Jones. I declare my interests, as set out in the register, as a trustee of the Royal Countryside Fund and a director of a tenanted farming business. I was chair of the Rock review, comm
2024-03-08
International Women’s Day
My Lords, I join colleagues in welcoming the esteemed noble Baroness, Lady Casey, and I greatly look forward to her maiden speech. Women are too often the unsung heroines in their contribution to farming and agriculture, but their profound impact goes be
2023-07-25
Land Use in England Committee Report
My Lords, I too pay tribute to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Carlisle for his valuable contributions to this House. I declare my interests as a tenant farmer and as chair of the Tenancy Working Group and the Rock Review. I pay particular tribu
2023-02-23
UK Food Shortages
My Lords, I declare my farming interests as set out in the register and that I was chair of the Tenancy Working Group. Recommendation 11 of the Rock Review is that
“Defra should define food security as a public good alongside other environmental objec
2023-01-25
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
My Lords, I declare my interests as a tenant farmer and as chairman of the Rock review into England’s agricultural tenancies.
The Government’s procedural amendments will increase parliamentary oversight of the design and future development of the anim
2023-01-10
Business: Greenwashing
My Lords, tenant farmers face acute risk of greenwashing, as landlords seek to take tenanted land back, to access public and private markets. The Rock review has already seen evidence of tenant farmers in England being served notices to quit for this pur
2022-09-10
Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
My Lords, we all share profound and deep sadness at the passing of the Her Majesty the Queen. We are indebted to her for her life of service, her dignity and her devotion to public duty. As we in this House treasure our personal memories, I remember my
2021-12-09
Future Farming Programme: Small Farms
My Lords, I declare my interests as a director of a tenant farm and a trustee of the Prince’s Countryside Fund, whose aim is to enable family farms to thrive. An increasing amount of future farm income will come from the various ELM schemes. However, are
2021-01-21
Rural Landlords and Land Letting: Reform
My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register as a director of Wrackleford Farms, a tenanted farming business. I thank all noble Lords taking part in this important debate today, and greatly look forward to their contributions. I also thank
2021-01-21
Rural Landlords and Land Letting: Reform
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to their discussions with the Tenancy Reform Industry Group, what plans they have to reform (1) legislation, and (2) taxation, related to rural landlords and the letting of land.
2020-09-17
Agriculture Bill
My Lords, I declare my interest as a director of Wrackleford Farms Ltd, a tenant farming enterprise. I shall speak to Amendments 81, 82, 83, 85 and 86, which stand in my name. I am grateful for the support of the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell of Hardingt
2020-09-15
Agriculture Bill
My Lords, I declare my interest as a director of Wrackleford Farms Ltd, a tenant farming enterprise. I shall speak to Amendment 42. The amendment, supported by the NFU, would ensure that farmers entitled to payments receive those payments within guarante
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Register of Interests · 8 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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Director, Wrackleford Farms Ltd
registered 2026-04-01
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Senior Independent Director, Chemring plc (specialist manufacturing and technology business)
registered 2026-04-01
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Chair and Non-executive Director, Costain plc (sustainable infrastructure solutions)
registered 2022-11-02 · amended 2025-04-05
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Senior Adviser, Newton Europe (business consultants)
registered 2020-06-24 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director, Keller Group plc (geotechnical solutions)
registered 2018-09-04 · amended 2025-04-05
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Director, Kate Rock Consultants (member's own business providing business support advice)
registered 2015-11-20 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Costain plc (sustainable infrastructure solutions)
registered 2025-06-30
Category 3: Land and property
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Apartment in Graubunden, Switzerland, owned jointly with spouse from which rental income is received
registered 2015-11-20 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2015-10-15 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2017-06-29 → 2018-03-13
Artificial Intelligence Committee
2018-05-17 → 2019-03-26
Rural Economy Committee
2019-10-03 → 2023-01-31
Science and Technology Committee
2025-01-30 → 2025-11-10
Autism Act 2009 Committee
Chair
+£18,305/yr
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 1 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 1 group(s) historically — those rotated off in later snapshots.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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