The Lord Kirkham CVO
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Kirkham's full title is The Lord Kirkham CVO. His name is Graham Kirkham, 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.
Political donations made
Total donated (all years on record)
£116,810
10 donations across 2 distinct recipients
Matched donor names:
Lord na Kirkham · Lord na Kirkham · Lord Graham Kirkham · Lord Graham Kirkham · Lord na Kirkham · Lord Graham Kirkham · Lord na Kirkham · Lord Graham Kirkham · Lord na Kirkham · Lord na Kirkham
| Date | Recipient | Type | EC Ref | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-04-01 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Calder Valley | Cash | C0010348 | £10,000 |
| 2004-10-05 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Calder Valley | Cash | C0008201 | £5,000 |
| 2002-06-15 | Conservative and Unionist Party · South Yorkshire | Cash | C0003282 | £5,000 |
| 2002-05-01 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Cash | C0003321 | £10,000 |
| 2001-09-06 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Cash | C0001948 | £50,000 |
| 2001-06-12 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Non Cash | NC0027457 | £14,490 |
| 2001-05-16 | Liberal Democrats · closed 31/12/2018 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | Cash | C0001186 | £5,000 |
| 2001-04-03 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Windsor | Cash | C0001135 | £5,000 |
| 2001-03-22 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Non Cash | NC0027221 | £7,902 |
| 2001-03-01 | Conservative and Unionist Party · Central Party | Non Cash | NC0027220 | £4,418 |
Showing the 10 most recent donations on record.
Source: Electoral Commission donations register
(search.electoralcommission.org.uk).
Match confidence: unique-surname.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
25 Content(15.4%)
1 Not-Content(0.6%)
136 didn't vote(84.0%)
2026-04-13
Not-Content
69–332
Not-Content
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
2026-05-18
King’s Speech
My Lords, I approach this debate in the positive spirit of one who wholeheartedly believes in the greatness of this nation. Indeed, global recognition that this is a stellar place to spend your life is vividly illustrated by the demand to live here. Wher
2025-10-16
Music and Dance Schools: Affordable Access
My Lords, the Government’s clear manifesto commitment was that
“the arts and music will no longer be the preserve of a privileged few”.
Nothing is more crucial to the fulfilment of this pledge than ensuring continued access to our world-class speci
2025-09-03
Prostate Cancer
My Lords, I am able to speak today only because of a chance discussion 18 years ago during a general health check-up in the USA. This led to a positive prostate cancer test back here in the UK, which gave me the opportunity to radically improve my health
2025-06-24
Music Education: State Schools
I declare an interest as deputy patron of Outward Bound and former chair of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Those charities both focus on engaging children in challenging outdoor activities, but music has exactly the same potential to build resilience, se
2024-12-05
Retail Crime: Effects
My Lords, I begin by declaring an interest as a retailer. I started work at 16 as a shop assistant, in 1969 founded the business that would become DFS furniture, and more recently served for a time as director of the retailer Iceland Foods.
DFS is for
2024-07-23
King’s Speech
My Lords, I approach today’s debate from an unusual and perhaps even unique perspective: as a life Peer of working-class origins who has been sitting on the Conservative Benches since 23 July 1999, precisely 25 years ago today; an entrepreneur who has en
2022-07-07
Health Improvement and Food Production
Few subjects arouse stronger passions than the food that we consume. This should be no surprise given the well-attested evidence that we really are what we eat. In my home town of Doncaster—now, happily my home city—more than a decade ago, as some noble
2022-05-17
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, it is a great privilege to participate in this debate on the gracious Speech. As a working-class child growing up in the north of England, I never maximised my grammar school education and have devoted much of the last 35 years to levelling-up
We live in a world that is hungry for data, where every business, charity, NGO and government department is eager to gather more and more information about our health, habits, motivation, interests and desires. Whether we like it or not, every journey we
2021-12-10
Freedom of Speech
My Lords, I heartily thank the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury for today’s debate and for reminding us that free speech is fundamental to a just and generous society. Indeed, he said that it is the only means for a just and generous so
2021-11-18
Initial Teacher Training
Surely none of us can be in any doubt at all about the critical importance of teachers in society. We all know from our own experience, or that of our children and grandchildren, how a good teacher can spark interests, arouse enthusiasm and encourage eng
2021-05-17
Queen’s Speech
I add my welcome to the noble Lords, Lord Coaker and Lord Morse. There is much to be proud of in the United Kingdom when it comes to the environment. I am thinking here particularly of the global leadership we have shown in setting out our 2050 net-zero
My Lords, this is certainly the end of an era, and I welcome this opportunity to extend my most heartfelt sympathy and deepest condolences to Her Majesty the Queen, Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Andrew, Prince Edw
2020-06-11
Covid-19: Masks
My Lords, I grew up in a world where the only wearers of face masks were bank robbers, sexual deviants and the Lone Ranger, in a mining community where the underground workforce would have benefitted from wearing face masks, but did not, and paid the pri
2020-06-11
Covid-19: Recovery Strategies
My Lords, at a time of nationwide stress, sorrow and bereavement, it may seem crass to point out the upsides of Covid-19. But they are real enough; not least in the cleaner air and cleaner waters we have seen pictured across the world, from Venice to Bei
In the current public health emergency and critical economic situation, it would be so easy to regard museums, galleries and historic buildings as a luxury option. That is nonsense. Our national heritage is our biggest attraction to overseas visitors. It
2020-03-05
Educational Opportunities: Working Classes
I speak today from my vantage point as chairman of the trustees of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, deputy patron of Outward Bound, and also from my personal experience of social mobility, as the adopted son of a south Yorkshire coal miner, raised in what
2019-10-28
Vocational Education and Training
My Lords, perhaps I may remind the House of my registered interests as chairman of the trustees of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and deputy patron of the Outward Bound Trust. There can be no dispute about the crying need to strengthen vocational educati
2019-10-21
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, there is undoubtedly a great deal to welcome and to commend in the domestic agenda set out in Her Majesty’s most gracious Speech, although so far it has all been sadly overshadowed by the vexed question of Brexit. I am, above all, a unionist—no
2019-05-08
English Football
My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton, for initiating this debate. It is not surprising that she is concerned about recent events involving her beloved football club, Bolton Wanderers, because football clubs are at the v
2019-01-10
Free Schools: Educational Standards
My Lords, I find it so refreshing to hear input from real-life, personal experience rather than simply a Library brief or desktop research. I congratulate my noble friend, who is my good friend.
“Uncertainty” is a word we hear constantly these days, b
2018-07-18
Obesity
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, on a smashing maiden speech. The Duchess of Windsor famously observed, “You can never be too rich or too thin” and I have often reflected on both parts of that proposition. If we accept the Dalai
2018-05-10
Domestic Animals: Welfare
My Lords, I am delighted that the Government are committed to ensuring that Brexit will be good for animal welfare in the UK. Far from looking to loosen regulations in this important area, as we leave the EU we will ensure that we do even more to protect
2018-01-23
Museums and Galleries
Good news, my Lords: regardless of economic pressures, we have the best museums and galleries in the world. I say that not in a spirit of nostalgia; it is backed by hard facts. Mendoza tells us that the British Museum, National Gallery and Tate Modern ar
2017-12-08
Education and Society
My Lords, education is too good to be devoted entirely to the young, and the young are far too important to all our futures for education to be anything less than holistic. By holistic, I mean educating the whole person in every aspect: not just their b
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Register of Interests · 5 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, Richard Aitch Limited (dormant company; member of Black Diamond Investments LP)
registered 2016-07-27 · amended 2025-04-05
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Director, Bilder and Lord Enterprises Limited (restaurants)
registered 2013-10-23 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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House in Doncaster
registered 2010-04-30 · amended 2025-04-05
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Farmland including residential properties in South Yorkshire (managed by LGK Farms LLP)
registered 2010-04-16 · amended 2025-04-05
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The following in which I am a partner own retail property: Black Diamond Investments Limited Partnership; Chimera Investments Limited Partnership
registered 2010-04-16 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1999-07-23 → present
Conservative
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2002-11-25 → 2005-05-07
Administration and Works Committee (Lords)
2015-03-23 → 2016-01-14
Leader's Group on Governance
Contact
Parliamentary office
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020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)
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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)
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.