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Official portrait of The Rt Hon. the Lord Browne of Ladyton

The Rt Hon. the Lord Browne of Ladyton

Labour Life peer M
Lord Browne of Ladyton's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Browne of Ladyton. His name is Desmond Henry Browne, and he has retired from the House of Lords.

Pay & earnings · 2026

MP base salary £0 / £93,904 annual
0 days served — year-to-date · annual rate £93,904
Declared outside earnings £0
0 registered interests published in 2026
Total (salary + chair + declared) £0
Base salary: House of Commons Library SN02644 / IPSA. Earnings from Register of Interests (API), published during 2026.

Constituencies represented

2005-05-052010-05-06
Kilmarnock and Loudoun
1997-05-012005-05-05
Kilmarnock and Loudoun

Party history

1997-05-012026-02-23
Labour

Government posts

2007-06-282008-10-03
Secretary of State for Scotland
2006-05-052008-10-03
Secretary of State for Defence
2005-05-062006-05-05
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
2004-04-012005-05-06
Minister of State (Home Office) (Citizenship, Immigration and Nationality)
2003-06-132004-04-01
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Work)
2001-06-112003-06-13
Parliamentary Secretary (Northern Ireland Office)

Opposition posts

2011-10-172012-09-06
Shadow Spokesperson (Scotland)

Committee memberships

1997-07-281998-11-09
Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
1999-06-102000-03-03
Public Administration Committee
2001-01-172001-06-07
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2013-01-222013-02-13
Partnerships (Prosecution) (Scotland) Bill Special Public Bill Committee
2019-07-012021-01-28
Science and Technology Committee
2020-10-152021-11-24
Risk Assessment and Risk Planning Committee
2021-04-142023-01-31
Environment and Climate Change Committee
2022-01-192022-10-31
Fraud Act 2006 and Digital Fraud Committee
2023-01-312023-11-23
AI in Weapon Systems Committee
2024-09-052025-05-22
National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
2024-01-312024-05-30
National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
Chair additional salary only applies to specified select committees under Standing Order 122B. Regular members receive no additional pay.

Contact

No contact details recorded.

APPGs (2026) · 5 active officership(s) · 2 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Action on Conflict
Subject Group
Vice Chair 4 2024-11-21
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Eritrea
Country Group
Co-Chair 7 2024-05-08
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Security and Non-Proliferation
Subject Group
Vice Chair British American Security Information Council 8 2024-05-30
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Lead Ammunition
Subject Group
Co-Chair 4 2024-09-18
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tigray
Country, Area or Region Group
Officer 4 2026-09-13
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.

Commons votes · 2026

No Commons votes recorded for 2026.

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 MPs who backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading date.

Historic bills (all-time)

1 bills 1 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Lead Ammunition (Restriction) Bill [HL] Sponsored 1st reading 2022-01-13
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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