The Lord Bethell
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Bethell's full title is The Lord Bethell. His name is James Nicholas Bethell, and he was excluded from the House of Lords on 29 April 2026.
Allowance claims · 2026
Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
572
569 meetings ·
3 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
0 overseas trips
· 2019-10-01 → 2021-09-30
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 569
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-17 | — | To discuss Managed Quarantine Service | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-16 | — | To discuss NHS workforce from overseas | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-15 | — | To seek feedback on the MHRA's clinical trials legislative proposals | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-15 | — | To discuss life sciences and for industry to raise comments and concerns | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-14 | — | To discuss the Recovery, Resilience and Growth Programme, including the Spending Review and Phase 2 implementation planning | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-14 | — | To discuss the Life Sciences Vision and the BGMA's engagement with Government. | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-14 | — | Meeting to discuss WhatsApp message retention | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-13 | — | To discuss encouraging blood donations from black communities to help Sickle Cell patients and diversifying the stem cell donor register in the UK | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-13 | — | To discuss a groups report and recommendations concerning clinical trials | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-13 | — | To update on work HMG is doing to support the UK Diagnostics sector | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-13 | — | To discuss Clinical Research reform | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-13 | — | Meeting to discuss how tech supports health promotion | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-10 | — | To discuss medicines access and uptake policy in the UK | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-09 | — | To discuss Plasma Fractionation | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-09 | — | Meeting to discuss antibody testing with attendees from Thriva and Dundee University. | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-08 | — | To discuss General Practice Data for Research and Planning (GPDPR), research and clinical trials, and antivirals | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-08 | — | To discuss the Patient Access to Medicines Partnership and supporting the Life Sciences sector in the UK. | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-08 | — | To discuss industrys role in responding to the pandemic and key government announcements that will benefit the Life Sciences Sector | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-07 | — | Attended King's Fund online event on 'Innovation in medicines' | department-of-health-and-social-care |
| 2021-09-03 | — | BBI and Novo Holdings to discuss immunodiagnostic / lateral flow capability and Ministry of Defence test supply. | department-of-health-and-social-care |
Recent hospitality
| Date | Host | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-11 | — | Lunch | — |
| 2019-11-07 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2019-11-03 | — | Dinner | — |
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HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial
Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
52 Content(32.1%)
1 Not-Content(0.6%)
109 didn't vote(67.3%)
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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
2026-02-24
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My noble friend is looking very well on it. He mentioned that 4 billion cigarettes had been taken by the police in 2024. According to HMRC, the number is 24 million. I draw attention to that because there is a lot of loose use of numbers in the descripti
2026-02-24
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
Noble Lords have, perfectly reasonably, rebutted me on that. But my point is that the modern retail experience does not rely on retailers squinting to try to judge the difference between 21 and 22 year-olds. It is mandatory for almost everyone to produce
2026-02-24
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Stevens, who gave a pretty good summary of many of the arguments against this group of amendments. I join him in all that he said. My fundamental motive is twofold. First, I would like to see the
2026-02-24
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
If my noble friend is correct, I will absolutely and humbly correct myself. Maybe we could have a drink afterwards and compare notes on that.
On the question of freedom, I too am a passionate believer and fighter for freedom. However, the freedoms I c
2026-02-09
National Cancer Plan
My Lords, I echo the praise of other noble Lords for the report. Professor Peter Johnson has done an enormously worthwhile job, and there is so much richness and so many good things in the report.
I will put a spotlight on the unfortunate framing that
2026-02-03
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Addington, for a very moving speech there, but I will address his point directly.
This amendment does not object to a child having a basic phone for safety. My plucky 11 year-old son travels to and from
2026-01-21
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, it is such a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. She is absolutely right. We have a choice today on whether we will send an amendment to the Commons to put pressure on the Government to act or whether we are going to flunk this
2026-01-08
Vaccine Health Technology Assessment
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, has just given an utterly compelling speech on the subject of the debate today. I do not want to repeat the points she has made; they are completely convincing. Instead, I want to build on her arguments from my
2025-11-27
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I rise to speak in support of my noble friend Lord Polak and his Amendment 286A. As he lucidly put it, this amendment proposes to close several glaring loopholes in the offences outlined in Clause 79; otherwise, I fear it will fail to meet the
2025-11-27
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I am enormously grateful to the Minister for reassuring us that all chatbots are captured by the Online Safety Act; that is very good news indeed. Can he reassure us that Ofcom will confirm that in writing to the House? I appreciate that he is
2025-11-27
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I too support the amendments in this group, particularly those tabled by my noble friend Lord Nash on security software and by the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, on AI-generated child sexual abuse material. I declare my interest as a trustee of t
2025-11-11
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I remind the Committee of my previous declarations of interest: my wife is a non-executive director of both Tesco and Diageo; and I am an alumni member of the Lockeridge Cigar Smoking Society, to which the noble Lord, Lord Johnson, referred.
2025-10-27
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her concluding remarks, which were thoughtful, detailed and thorough. I congratulate the Government on pursuing these measures with the energy and determination that Rishi Sunak brought to it when he was Prime Minister.
2025-10-27
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, my amendment is grouped with Amendment 199, in the names of the noble Baronesses, Lady Northover and Lady Walmsley, and Amendment 193, in the name of my noble friend Lord Young of Cookham. I repeat my declaration of interest that my wife is a n
2025-10-27
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2025-10-27
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, first, I declare that my wife is a non-executive director of Tesco. Secondly, I spent 10 years working at the Ministry of Sound in south London, where I came face to face with the illicit cigarette trade on a weekly basis. Christopher Upton was
2025-10-13
Alzheimer’s Disease
My Lords, having had the analysis of the results of incredibly extensive clinical trials on the use of GLP-1s to treat dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease, this is an incredibly exciting potential development. Will the Minister please share with t
2025-09-16
Economic Growth
I will always be grateful to the Minister for his historic observations about GDP per capita. But what is the current GDP per capita, and how is its growth developing over time? Will the Minister please acknowledge that efforts on these Benches on the pl
2025-09-12
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Stuart, who makes a very good point on public opinion. I am persuaded that one of the reasons why the Bill should pass is that the public broadly support it. But they support it only if it wo
2025-09-03
Prostate Cancer
My Lords, I give huge thanks to my noble friend Lord Mott for this important debate, and thanks also to the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for pointing out that we need better diagnostics with better specificity and sensitivity. We all aspire to a new generatio
2025-07-18
Strategic Defence Review 2025
My Lords, it is a great privilege to speak after the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate. His points on data are extremely well made, and I thoroughly endorse them.
I will restrict my points to the subject of health, because Britain’s defence absolutely re
2025-06-23
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
The Minister is quite right to point out that the Online Safety Act did not get much of a mention: maybe it is some kind of PTSD, because some of us did hard yards during that difficult passage. One of the most difficult things was the debate on age veri
2025-06-23
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I fear that what the noble Lord, Lord Knight, has suggested is indeed happening: private schools, grammar schools and schools in wealthy areas are doubling down on their success by pursuing smartphone bans. Schools in areas of deprivation, wher
2025-06-23
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, it is a great privilege to speak after the noble Baroness, Lady Morris. I think she spoke for many of us on the challenge of edtech: how our hopes that this would be a transformational technology have now changed emphatically, and how we now fi
2025-04-23
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister for bringing the Bill to this House so thoughtfully and clearly. I also declare my interest as a consultant to Oviva, an obesity treatment company, and my wife’s role as a non-executive director at Tesco and Diageo.
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Register of Interests · 9 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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Member, Advisory Board (advising on health), Mercer (insurance)
registered 2026-01-16
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Advisor, Human Digital Twin Ltd trading as Sanome
registered 2025-05-13
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Non-executive director, Regenerus Labs (diagnostics centre)
registered 2025-04-28
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Senior Counsel, Oviva UK Limited (suppliers of health tech and behavioural change)
registered 2025-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Member, Advisory Board, The Last Food Fight (health tech company)
registered 2025-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Advice on general business development to Conquer Technology Ltd (software) (interest ceased 31 December 2025)
registered 2025-01-21 · amended 2026-01-19
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
registered 2026-01-19
Category 3: Land and property
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Property in London W2 and W14 from which rental income is received
registered 2023-01-16 · amended 2026-01-19
Category 5: Overseas visits
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Visit to Los Angeles, 4-8 May 2025, "Global Conference 2025"; flights and accommodation costs paid by Milken Institute
registered 2025-05-12
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Party history
2018-07-19 → 2026-04-29
Conservative
Government posts
2020-03-09 → 2021-09-17
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
2019-07-29 → 2020-03-08
Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2019-04-10 → 2019-07-29
Communications and Digital Committee
2025-01-30 → 2026-04-29
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
Contact
No contact details recorded.
APPGs (2026) · 9 active officership(s) · 9 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Diagnostics
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Royal College of Pathologists · Royal College of Radiologists | 4 | 2025-06-08 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Healthcare Infrastructure
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Connect Communications | 9 | 2024-03-23 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Swimming
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Swim England | 4 | 2027-03-27 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Healthy Places
Subject Group
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Officer | Royal Society for Public Health | 4 | 2027-03-26 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Radiotherapy
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Radiotherapy UK | 4 | 2027-01-04 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Running
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | England Athletics | 4 | 2027-03-20 |
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Beyond Pills All-Party Parliamentary Group
Subject Group
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Officer | — | 4 | 2027-03-19 |
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Climbing, Hill Walking and Mountaineering All-Party Parliamentary Group
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | British Mountaineering Council | 4 | 2024-07-11 |
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Healthy Homes and Buildings All-Party Parliamentary Group
Subject Group
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Officer | Healthy Homes and Buildings Coalition (via Jade Advocacy Limited) | 4 | 2027-02-14 |
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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)
3 bills
0 as lead sponsor
3 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coronavirus Act 2020 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2020-03-19 | |
| Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2020-02-13 | |
| Rivers Authorities and Land Drainage Bill | Supported | Report stage | 2018-03-05 |
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year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.