The Lord Burns GCB
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Burns's full title is The Lord Burns GCB. His name is Terence Burns, 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
9 Content(5.6%)
18 Not-Content(11.1%)
135 didn't vote(83.3%)
2026-02-04
Not-Content
62–295
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
2026-06-08
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, this Bill is another example, I am afraid, of my past catching up with me. It is 27 years ago that I was asked to chair a Joint Select Committee of both Houses to scrutinise the draft Financial Services and Markets Bill that was introduced back
2026-05-14
King’s Speech
My Lords, most of us agree that economic growth is critical. I am very pleased to see that it is on the board, as it is one of the best topics that we are discussing in this response to the gracious Speech. Growth widens the choices that are available fo
2025-12-10
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I have listened closely to the Minister and I have had several conversations with the Front-Bench team. I remain very disappointed with the determination to go back towards the 1945 arrangements. I fear that, unless we can make further progress
2025-12-10
Employment Rights Bill
Leave out from “disagreed;” to end and insert “do disagree with the Commons in their Amendments 72J and 72K in lieu of Lords Amendments 72D to 72H; and do propose Amendments 72L to 72N and 72P to 72R in lieu of Commons Amendments 72J and 72K—
2025-12-10
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I will speak to Motion D1. In recent years, there has been an extraordinary and significant interest in what has become known as choice architecture. This was popularised by the book Nudge and by one of its authors, Richard Thaler, who received
2025-12-04
Autumn Budget 2025
My Lords, from my perspective, the Budget has been received about as well as could have been expected in the circumstances. It also seems to have satisfied the bond markets and the Government’s own Back-Benchers, which is no small feat. It has been clear
2025-11-17
Employment Rights Bill
I wish to test the opinion of the House.
2025-11-17
Employment Rights Bill
Leave out from “disagreed” to end and insert “do disagree with the Commons in their Amendment 72C in lieu of Lords Amendments 61 and 72; and do propose Amendments 72D to 72H in lieu—
2025-11-17
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I support Motion E1. As the Minister has set out, the Government wish to go back to an arrangement where all new members automatically pay the contribution to the union’s political fund unless they take the initiative of opting out.
My own v
2025-10-28
Employment Rights Bill
I thank the Minister for his response. I am disappointed but not entirely surprised. I can assure the Minister that I have no objection to how political funds are used. When the whole notion of political funds was established, it was clearly for the supp
2025-10-28
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, in July, this House agreed my amendment on trade union political funds with a large majority. The amendment would maintain a position where new members have to opt in to make a contribution to a union’s political fund. This was debated in the H
2025-10-28
Employment Rights Bill
Moved by
Leave out from “House” to end and insert “do insist on its Amendments 61 and 72.”
2025-09-03
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, this is a tidying-up amendment and I hope it will not delay the House too long. It is consequential on the House’s decision on Report to leave out Clause 59 on members’ contributions to trade union political funds. The amendment leaves out a no
2025-09-03
Employment Rights Bill
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to all who have contributed to the debate, particularly the noble Baroness, Lady Finn, and the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe of Epsom, who added their names to the amendment. I am also very grateful for the meetings I have had with the
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, my amendment proposes removing Clause 59 from the Bill. This would maintain the current arrangements whereby members joining the union since the passage of the Trade Union Act 2016 contribute to its political fund only if they give their active
2025-07-23
Employment Rights Bill
2025-07-15
Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for introducing these amendments and for setting out the reasons behind them. On Report in March, the noble Lord, Lord Birt, introduced a series of amendments. These were aimed at addressing what he regarded a
2025-07-09
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, I am very grateful to all those who have taken part in this debate, and indeed for the degree of support for the principle of constraints on appointments and the need for guard-rails. I appreciate the remarks of the Leader of the House, who I t
2025-07-09
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, I welcomed the statement from the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, at the beginning of Report and her proposal to establish a dedicated Select Committee to undertake future work once the Bill becomes law. She highlighted two specific proposals in th
2025-07-09
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
2025-06-12
Spending Review 2025
My Lords, I declare an interest as former chairman of the South East Wales Transport Commission and the North Wales Transport Commission. I want to make a few remarks with respect to those roles, rather than comment at this stage on the macroeconomic asp
2025-06-10
Employment Rights Bill
I thank the noble Baroness for those kind words. Unfortunately, it is the season of the year when I take various inhalers for hay fever and such like and the dust tends to gather in my throat when I am sitting for long periods, as I have been this aftern
2025-06-10
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, my Amendment 217 relates to Clause 59 and the requirement to contribute to a political fund, and I am grateful for the support of the noble Baronesses, Lady Finn, Lady Coffey and Lady Cash. As we know, by law, a trade union wishing to spend mon
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bridges, for his time as chair of the Economic Affairs Committee and for securing this debate. He played a crucial role in ensuring that the committee’s work was relevant, timely and newsworthy. We can see that in t
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Register of Interests · 12 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 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Flagstone Investment Management Limited (financial services)
registered 2023-04-25 · amended 2025-04-05
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Codat Limited (platform for business data)
registered 2021-03-29 · amended 2025-04-05
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Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (household products)
registered 2017-06-08 · amended 2025-04-05
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Unilever plc (nutrition, hygiene and personal care products)
registered 2016-12-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Sage Group plc (software)
registered 2016-12-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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GlaxoSmithKline plc (pharmaceuticals)
registered 2016-12-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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AstraZeneca plc (biopharmaceutical business)
registered 2016-12-09 · amended 2025-04-05
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Diageo plc (drinks)
registered 2012-07-02 · amended 2025-04-05
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National Grid plc (energy)
registered 2012-07-02 · amended 2025-04-05
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Banco Santander SA (banking)
registered 2010-04-28 · amended 2025-04-05
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Marks and Spencer plc (retail)
registered 2010-04-28 · amended 2025-04-05
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Royal Dutch Shell plc (oil and gas)
registered 2010-04-28 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1998-07-20 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1998-12-07 → 2001-05-11
Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England
2024-01-31 → present
Economic Affairs Committee
2016-05-25 → 2021-01-28
Economic Affairs Committee
2001-06-28 → 2003-11-20
Economic Affairs Committee
2016-01-28 → 2016-02-29
Trade Union Political Funds and Political Party Funding Committee
Chair
+£15,025/yr
2016-12-20 → present
Lord Speaker's committee on the size of the House
Chair
+£15,025/yr
2021-04-14 → 2024-01-31
Industry and Regulators Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
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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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Historic bills (all-time)
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year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
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