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The Lord Moraes OBE

Labour Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Moraes's full title is The Lord Moraes OBE. His name is Claude Ajit Moraes, 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 4 Content(2.5%) 142 Not-Content(87.7%) 16 didn't vote(9.9%)
2026-04-27
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197129 Content
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2026-04-15
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2026-04-13
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2026-03-26
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2026-03-23
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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 10

2026-02-12 Better Prisons: Less Crime (Justice and Home Affairs Committee Report)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the excellent maiden speech of my noble friend Lady Bi. We are being joined in this House by a gifted lawyer from the private sector with a strong sense of public service—someone who is knowledgeable and passionate ab
2026-01-19 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I rise to introduce Amendment 77 in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Lister, who tabled a similar amendment in Committee. I apologise to the House for not being in Committee to speak to this amendment due to a period of illness last yea
2025-03-31 Chancel Repair (Church Commissioners’ Liability) Measure
My Lords, I understand that, under this procedure, there is no reply from the Government.
2025-03-28 Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee Report
I attempted to answer that specific point on the question of supply chains—without mentioning the solar panels, of course. The Government are committed, through a sustainable business approach, to ensuring that we do not buy products which are the produ
2025-03-28 Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee Report
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord McInnes, for the very constructive way in which he closed. I thank everyone who contributed to this debate. I am particularly grateful to my noble friend Lady O’Grady. To extend, perhaps, what the noble Lord, Lord K
2025-03-27 Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I remind all noble Lords to stick to the time of four minutes. Thank you.
2025-03-17 Ukraine: UK Policy
My Lords, before we start the QSD, I remind all noble Lords participating of the now four-minute time limit for contributions, other than for the noble Lord, Lord Skidelsky, and the Minister. I ask all colleagues to stick to this time and begin winding t
2025-03-14 Palestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I understand the sensitivities in this debate, but I ask remaining speakers to stick within the advisory speaking time of three minutes.
2025-03-14 Palestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill [HL]
I respectfully advise noble Lords that the speaking time for this debate is three minutes.
2025-01-30 Europe: Youth Mobility
My Lords, I am honoured to make my maiden speech today in this debate. It is somewhat daunting. The doorkeeper steadied me just now and said, “Every one of the noble Lords in the Chamber today has been in the same place”. I am not sure if that helped. I
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown verbatim from the search API; click any debate title for the full record.

Register of Interests · 1 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.

Nil

  • No registrable interests
    registered 2025-04-08
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly. Read the full Lords Code of Conduct for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.

Party history

2025-01-15present
Labour current

Government posts

2025-02-102025-07-22
Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2026-01-27present
Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
moraesc@parliament.uk
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

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

Showing 3 of 3 tabled 3 answered(100.0%) 2 departments
2026-03-05
Home Office
British Nationality: Children
Answered
2026-03-05
Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Scheme: British Nationality
Answered
2026-02-06
Home Office
Refugees: Homelessness
Answered
Source: UK Parliament Members API. The amber "interest" tag is set by Parliament's own system when the asking member has a register entry it deems related — typically a paid role or directorship in the sector being asked about. Click any "i" icon to see the full question and the department's answer.

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)

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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