The Rt Hon. the Lord Howell of Guildford
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Howell of Guildford's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Howell of Guildford. His name is David Arthur Russell Howell, 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
87 Content(53.7%)
2 Not-Content(1.2%)
73 didn't vote(45.1%)
2026-04-13
Not-Content
69–332
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Content
193–143
Content
2026-03-05
Content
198–139
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2026-03-05
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208–142
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2026-03-05
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214–142
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2026-01-12
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201–169
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2026-01-05
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131–127
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2026-01-05
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168–178
Not-Content
2026-01-05
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210–131
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132–124
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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
2026-06-16
Russian Shadow Fleet
One of the problems is that we do not know where these hundreds of ghost ships are at any one time or where they are going. There is a need to identify that. We should have a better system of international port links, possibly working with the Commonweal
2026-06-16
Defence Investment Plan
My Lords, might not the Government find it a bit easier to deal with their problems explaining defence spending if they distinguished much more clearly between the overall defence of the nation—where the budget spreads across many departments and takes a
2026-06-08
Russian Attacks on Civilian Infrastructure
My Lords, given the completely new structure and formation of the modern battlefield and the way war is being conducted, which is changing very quickly indeed, does the Minister or her colleague, the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, who was answering questions e
2026-06-08
Lebanon: Israel Defense Forces Operations
My Lords, is it not an idea to offer some rather candid advice to our Israeli friends about the inner nature of Lebanon and the vast distinction between the Hezbollah structure—which is like a poisonous spider, poisoning every aspect of Lebanese affairs,
2026-06-04
Military in the Gulf
My Lords, does the Minister agree that the real need in this area is for a far more effective maritime tracking system than we have today, for legal and illegal shipping, and for underwater and surface shipping? Armed in this way, something such as the
2026-06-01
Middle East: Economic Response
My Lords, the Minister will remember—at least I think he will remember—that, after 1945, the best brains of Britain, America and some other countries got together to rebuild the entire financial stability and structure of international institutions on th
2026-05-21
King’s Speech
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Northover. I believe long ago we were in the same Government, but I cannot quite recall which Government it was. We have had some very fine speeches both today and throughout the six days we h
2026-05-19
Defence, Security and Resilience Bank
My Lords, is the idea behind this plan to meet vital public expenditure needs without upsetting the bond markets too much? Can the Minister just explain a little more how it will work?
2026-04-28
Middle East: Economic Update
My Lords, as the Minister says, no one quite knows yet the impact, particularly on the oil and gas sector. I declare an interest as a co-author of the original 1979 plan for sharing oil reserves in the event of a crisis. The crisis then was, of course, f
My Lords, I thank my colleague, my noble friend Lady McIntosh, for securing this debate, the authorities for providing room for it, and I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Nagaraju, on his maiden speech, which seemed full of common sense and aimed at the
2026-04-15
Zimbabwe: Constitution
My Lords, the Minister probably knows that Zimbabwe is rather keen to rejoin the Commonwealth. Could it be explained to President Mnangagwa that the chances of doing so will be much improved if he stands down after two terms, since the Commonwealth on th
2026-04-13
Strait of Hormuz: Mine Clearance
I think I have heard the Minister remind us from the Dispatch Box that the pipelines bypassing the Strait of Hormuz are working and carrying, apparently, 7 million or 8 million barrels a day—I had thought it was 4 million barrels a day. Will he and his c
2026-03-25
Fuel Supplies: War in Iran
My Lords, I am not sure that any of the figures we have heard in the last few minutes are correct or substantial. In fact, there is a huge amount around the world of spare oil capacity and oil production potential which can be and is being brought into p
My Lords, as the defence production need for entirely new kinds of warfare steps up, as it is now doing, are the Government satisfied that the needs of our strategy, which are rapidly growing, are closely enough aligned with the plans of British industry
2026-03-09
Energy Markets
My Lords, having been a Minister through six energy crises rather similar to this one, I cannot resist a bit of sympathy with Ministers having to go through it all again and explain the difficulties over which we have very little control.
Is not the s
2026-03-05
Small Businesses: VAT Threshold
Is the Minister aware that, according to official statistics, 99.18% of all British businesses are defined as “small”—those with 50 employees or fewer. It sometimes seems, in the answers we get, that the Government have not quite understood that.
My Lords, as a member of the committee that produced this report, I congratulate our former chairman, who has just spoken, for guiding us through an extremely complex and quite prolonged report on a wide variety of subjects. We think that it is about tra
My Lords, I am very glad that the title of the excellent report we are discussing refers to a “reset”. Indeed, there seems general agreement in all the documents, including the Government’s response, that it is a reset, which we can define very widely. I
My Lords, under the Washington declaration of 2023, we were promised by the then American Administration that all electric vehicles, military and civil, exported from this country, provided that they contained critical minerals or rare earths mined eithe
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2026-02-23
US Tariffs
My Lords, I know that history does not always repeat itself, but would it be a kindness at this stage to remind President Donald Trump that the American tariff protections of the 1930s by Smoot and Hawley played a major part in accelerating the onset of
2026-02-09
Royal Navy: Caribbean
My Lords, further to the Question from the noble Lord, Lord West, I am not fully familiar with the full remit of the Joint Interagency Task Force South, but is it working the Commonwealth maritime co-operation agencies in the Caribbean, whose arrangement
2026-02-02
China: Human Rights and UK National Security
My Lords, did the Minister notice the comments the other day by Mr Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, about the role of the middle powers in this digital age of connectivity, which, he argued, could—if we work together—be much more effective than it i
2026-01-22
Artificial Intelligence: UK Preparedness
My Lords, does the Minister agree that AI systems are proliferating rapidly and may compete rather than co-operate, and that this degree of self-correction is perhaps one of the areas that we should encourage to stand in the way of the undoubted spreadin
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Register of Interests · 3 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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Senior Adviser to International High-Speed Rail Association, Tokyo
registered 2025-07-07
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Member, UK Advisory Committee to the Kuwait Investment Office (the member's annual earnings for this work fall within the £20,001–30,000 band)
registered 2013-02-01 · amended 2026-05-15
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Adviser to Japan Central Railways Ltd (interest ceased 1 October 2025)
registered 2012-11-30 · amended 2026-05-15
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Party history
1966-03-31 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
2010-05-12 → 2012-09-06
Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) (International Energy Policy)
1981-09-14 → 1983-06-11
Secretary of State for Transport
1979-05-05 → 1981-09-13
Secretary of State for Energy
1974-01-08 → 1974-03-04
Minister of State (Department of Energy)
1972-11-05 → 1974-01-08
Minister of State (Northern Ireland Office)
1972-03-26 → 1972-11-05
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Northern Ireland Office)
1971-01-05 → 1972-03-26
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Employment)
1970-06-20 → 1971-01-05
Lord Commissioner (HM Treasury) (Whip)
1970-06-20 → 1972-03-26
Parliamentary Secretary (Civil Service Department)
Opposition posts
2005-06-08 → 2010-05-06
Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
2000-07-01 → 2010-05-06
Shadow Minister (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)
1977-07-01 → 1979-05-03
Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills)
Committee memberships
1987-01-01 → 1997-03-21
Foreign Affairs Committee
Chair
1986-02-26 → 1997-03-21
Foreign Affairs Committee
1987-06-17 → 1997-03-21
Liaison Committee (Commons)
1998-12-03 → 2000-11-30
European Union Committee
2005-06-15 → 2006-11-18
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2013-05-16 → 2014-03-11
Soft Power Committee
Chair
+£14,876/yr
2016-05-25 → 2019-07-01
International Relations and Defence Committee
Chair
+£15,025/yr
2019-10-29 → 2023-01-31
Constitution Committee
2023-01-31 → 2026-01-27
International Agreements Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
howelld@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 1 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 21 | 2023-05-12 |
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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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Act 2012 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2012-05-10 | |
| European Union Act 2011 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2010-11-11 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.