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The Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

Labour Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede's full title is The Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede. His name is Frederick Matthew Thomas Ponsonby, 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.

Party history

1991-06-10present
Labour current

Government posts

2024-07-092025-09-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
2024-07-092025-09-06
Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

Opposition posts

2021-05-182024-07-05
Shadow Spokesperson (Home Affairs)
2020-04-152024-07-05
Shadow Spokesperson (Justice)

Committee memberships

1998-12-081999-11-11
Science and Technology Committee
2001-06-282002-11-07
Constitution Committee
2019-03-062019-06-14
Draft Domestic Abuse Bill (Joint Committee)
2021-07-222021-11-18
Charities Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2023-03-092024-05-30
Ecclesiastical Committee
2024-01-242024-03-27
Arbitration Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2024-11-182025-02-03
Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2025-10-152026-04-22
Malvern Hills Bill [HL] Committee
2026-01-27present
Domestic Abuse Act 2021 Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 3 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Issues Affecting Men and Boys
Subject Group
Vice Chair 4 2024-07-16
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.

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)

2 bills 2 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025 Sponsored Royal Assent 2024-09-11
Arbitration Act 2025 Sponsored Royal Assent 2024-07-18
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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