List of members of the House of Lords

This is a list of members of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Current sitting members[]

Current composition of the House of Lords Group Sitting members Conservative Party   258 Crossbench   191 Labour Party   168 Liberal Democrats   84 Democratic Unionist Party   5 Green Party   2 Ulster Unionist Party   2 Plaid Cymru   1 Non-affiliated   39 Independents   3 Lord Speaker   1 Lords Spiritual   26 Total number of sitting members: 780

Lords Spiritual[]

26 bishops of the Church of England sit in the House of Lords: the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York, the Bishops of London, of Durham and of Winchester, and the next 21 most senior diocesan bishops (with the exception of the Bishop in Europe and the Bishop of Sodor and Man). Under the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015, female bishops take precedence over men until May 2025 to become new Lords Spiritual for the 21 seats allocated by seniority.

Bishopric	Name	Summoned to Lords	Diocesan bishop since	Notes
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury	Justin Welby	2011	2011	Previously Lord Bishop of Durham (2011−2013)
Lord Archbishop of York	Stephen Cottrell	2014	2010	Previously Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (2014−2020)
Lord Bishop of London	Sarah Mullally	2018	2018
Lord Bishop of Durham	Paul Butler	2014	2010
Lord Bishop of Winchester	Tim Dakin	2012	2012
Lord Bishop of Birmingham	David Urquhart	2010	2006
Lord Bishop of Blackburn	Julian Henderson	2019	2013
Lord Bishop of Bristol	Vivienne Faull	2018	2018	Joined Lords per Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015
Lord Bishop of Carlisle	James Newcome	2013	2009
Lord Bishop of Chelmsford	Guli Francis-Dehqani	2021	2021	Joined Lords per Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015
Lord Bishop of Chichester	Martin Warner	2018	2012
Lord Bishop of Coventry	Christopher Cocksworth	2013	2008
Lord Bishop of Derby	Libby Lane	2019	2019	Joined Lords per Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015
Lord Bishop of Ely	Stephen Conway	2014	2010
Lord Bishop of Exeter	Robert Atwell	2021	2014
Lord Bishop of Gloucester	Rachel Treweek	2015	2015	Joined Lords per Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015
Lord Bishop of Guildford	Andrew Watson	2021	2014
Lord Bishop of Leeds	Nick Baines	2014	2011
Lord Bishop of Lincoln	Christopher Lowson	2017	2011
Lord Bishop of Liverpool	Paul Bayes	2021	2014
Lord Bishop of Manchester	David Walker	2020	2013
Lord Bishop of Oxford	Steven Croft	2013	2009	Previously Lord Bishop of Sheffield (2013−2016)
Lord Bishop of Peterborough	Donald Allister	2014	2010
Lord Bishop of St Albans	Alan Smith	2013	2009
Lord Bishop of Southwark	Christopher Chessun	2014	2011
Lord Bishop of Worcester	John Inge	2012	2008

Lords Temporal[]

Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 and remaining law life peers.

Key

Indicates peer who returned to the House

Peer	Date joined	Party		Type	Notes
Lord Aberdare	20 July 2009		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Adams of Craigielea	28 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Paisley North from 1990 to 2005
Lord Addington	17 June 1986		Liberal Democrat	Hereditary peer
Lord Adebowale	30 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
Lord Adonis	16 May 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Transport
Baroness Afshar	11 December 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Commissioner of the UK Drug Policy Commission
Lord Agnew of Oulton	19 October 2017		Conservative	Life peer	Former education executive
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon	13 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former vice-chairman of the Conservative Party
Lord Alderdice	8 October 1996		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly and former leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Lord Allan of Hallam	22 July 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP and chair of the Information Select Committee in the House of Commons
Lord Allen of Kensington	2 October 2013		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of executive board of the Labour Party
Lord Alli	18 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	First openly gay peer in parliament
Lord Alliance	1 July 2004		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chairman of N Brown Group
Baroness Altmann	19 May 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Pensions expert and campaigner
Lord Alton of Liverpool	12 June 1997		Crossbench	Life peer	Former MP for Liverpool Mossley Hill from 1983 to 1997
Lord Altrincham	23 June 2021		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Amos	24 September 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, former Secretary of State for International Development, former British High Commissioner to Australia, and former Leader of the House of Lords
Lord Anderson of Ipswich	10 July 2018		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation
Lord Anderson of Swansea	28 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Swansea East from 1974 to 2005
Baroness Andrews	9 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Former parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Children, Schools and Families; chair of English Heritage
Baroness Anelay of St Johns	14 October 1996		Conservative	Life peer	Former Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and former Government Chief Whip in the Lords
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom	1 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Wanstead & Woodford from 1987 to 1997 and for North East Hampshire from 1997 to 2015.
Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare	27 July 1992		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MP; Conservative whip withdrawn following conviction for perjury in 2000
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top	18 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for North West Durham from 1987 to 2010
Earl of Arran	25 April 1983		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Sits as Baron Sudley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Lord Ashton of Hyde	25 July 2011		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Viscount Astor	4 July 1973		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Astor of Hever	11 February 1986		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Earl Attlee	2 March 1992		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Former Government whip
Lord Austin of Dudley	2 September 2020		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MP for Dudley North from 2005 to 2019
Lord Bach	27 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former parliamentary under-secretary of state in several departments and former Minister of State for Defence Procurement
Lord Baker of Dorking	16 June 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, Home Secretary, Secretary of State for Education and Science and of the Environment
Baroness Bakewell	21 January 2011		Labour	Life peer	Writer and broadcaster
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville	9 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Councillor on South Somerset District Council
Lord Balfe	19 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Former Member of the European Parliament for London from 1979 to 2004
Lord Bamford	3 October 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of JCB
Baroness Barker	31 July 1999		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Liberal Democrats spokesperson on Health
Baroness Barran	21 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer	Former hedgefund manager
Lord Barwell	7 October 2019		Conservative	Life peer	Former Downing Street Chief of Staff and former MP for Croydon Central from 2010 to 2017
Lord Bassam of Brighton	3 November 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former Labour Chief Whip in the Lords. Former leader of Brighton Council
Lord Beith	19 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1973 to 2015
Lord Bellingham	5 November 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for North West Norfolk from 1983 to 1997 and from 2001 to 2019
Baroness Benjamin	26 June 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Actress, author and television presenter
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle	7 October 2019		Green	Life peer	Former Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
Lord Benyon	26 January 2021		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Newbury from 2005 to 2019
Lord Berkeley	18 April 2000[a]		Labour	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Gueterbock
Lord Berkeley of Knighton	26 March 2013		Crossbench	Life peer	Composer and music broadcaster
Baroness Berridge	18 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former executive director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship
Baroness Bertin	2 September 2016		Conservative	Life peer	Former deputy press officer for David Cameron
Lord Best	4 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	President of the Local Government Association
Lord Bethell	19 July 2018		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Bew	26 March 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Irish Politics at Queen's University Belfast
Lord Bhatia	5 June 2001		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Businessman
Lord Bichard	24 March 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Former permanent secretary for the Department for Education (and later the Department for Education and Employment)
Lord Bilimoria	16 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Founder and chairman of Cobra Beer
Baroness Billingham	2 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Former Member of the European Parliament for Northamptonshire and Blaby from 1994 to 1999
Lord Bird	30 October 2015		Crossbench	Life peer	Social entrepreneur and founder of The Big Issue
Lord Birt	11 February 2000		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director-general of the BBC
Lord Black of Brentwood	9 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group
Baroness Black of Strome	26 April 2021		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor and forensic anthropologist
Baroness Blackstone	18 March 1987		Labour Independent	Life peer	Former Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts
Lord Blackwell	2 October 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit under the government of John Major from 1995 to 1997
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford	1 February 2019		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Oxford West and Abingdon from 2010 to 2017
Lord Blair of Boughton	20 July 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
Baroness Blake of Leeds	1 February 2021		Labour	Life peer	Former Leader of Leeds City Council
Lord Blencathra	28 February 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and opposition chief whip
Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist	5 September 2016		Conservative	Life peer	Former political organiser
Baroness Blower	15 October 2019		Labour	Life peer	Former General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers
Lord Blunkett	28 September 2015		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Sheffield Brightside 1987–2015. Cabinet minister 1997-2004 & 2005. Former Home Secretary.
Lord Boateng	27 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury and British High Commissioner to South Africa
Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury	23 June 2004		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Lead Liberal Democrats spokesperson on Culture, Media and Sport in the House of Lords
Baroness Boothroyd	15 January 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Former MP and Speaker of the House of Commons
Lord Borwick	26 July 2013		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Boswell of Aynho	8 July 2010		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MP; Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees
Lord Botham	10 September 2020		Crossbench	Life peer	Former professional cricketer
Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone	24 June 2005		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for Health and Secretary of State for National Heritage
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth	9 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Former leader of the Welsh Conservative Party and member of the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 to 2011
Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted	23 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former member of the European Parliament for South East England
Lord Bowness	17 January 1996		Crossbench	Life peer	Former leader of Croydon London Borough Council
Lord Boyce	16 June 2003		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Baroness Boycott	9 July 2018		Crossbench	Life peer	Journalist
Lord Brabazon of Tara	24 September 1976		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Former Chairman of Committees
Lord Bradley	12 June 2006		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Manchester Withington from 1987 to 2005
Lord Bradshaw	22 July 1999		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Liberal Democrats spokesperson on transport in the House of Lords
Baroness Brady	22 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Vice-chairman of West Ham United FC and senior non-executive director of the Syco and Arcadia brands
Lord Bragg	4 August 1998		Labour	Life peer	Broadcaster and author
Lord Brennan	2 May 2000		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Chair of the APPG on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Viscount Bridgeman	20 January 1983		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Bridges of Headley	28 May 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office
Baroness Brinton	4 February 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Executive Director of the Association of Universities in the East of England
Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe	23 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation and former joint-general secretary of the Public Services Tax and Commerce Union
Viscount Brookeborough	10 September 1987		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Brougham and Vaux	24 January 1968		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Brown of Cambridge	30 October 2015		Crossbench	Life peer	Vice-Chancellor of Aston University
Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood	13 January 2004		Crossbench	Law life peer	Justice of the Supreme Court (2009–2012), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2004–2009)
Lord Browne of Belmont	12 June 2006		Democratic Unionist	Life peer	Former Member of the Legislative Assembly for Belfast East from 2007 to 2011
Lord Browne of Ladyton	22 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP and Secretary of State for Defence
Lord Browne of Madingley	28 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chief executive of BP from 1995 to 2007
Baroness Browning	9 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Tiverton and Honiton from 1997 to 2010
Lord Brownlow of Shurlock Row	9 October 2019		Conservative	Life peer	Businessman
Lord Bruce of Bennachie	19 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Gordon from 1983 to 2015, president of the Scottish Liberal Democrats
Baroness Bryan of Partick	20 June 2018		Labour	Life peer	Writer and political campaigner
Baroness Bull	11 July 2018		Crossbench	Life peer	Former ballet dancer and writer
Lord Burnett	31 May 2006		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Torridge and West Devon from 1997 to 2005
Lord Burns	20 July 1998		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chief economic advisor and permanent secretary at the treasury
Baroness Burt of Solihull	9 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Solihull from 2005 to 2015
Baroness Buscombe	23 July 1998		Conservative	Life peer	Chair of the Press Complaints Commission
Lord Butler of Brockwell	12 February 1998		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Baroness Butler-Sloss	13 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Lady Justice of Appeal and former president of the Family Division of the High Court
Lord Caine	2 September 2016		Conservative	Life peer	Former political aide
Earl of Caithness	2 December 1969		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Chief of Clan Sinclair
Lord Callanan	24 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Former Conservative MEP for North East of England
Lord Cameron of Dillington	29 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	President of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists, former chair of the Countryside Agency
Baroness Campbell of Loughborough	10 November 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Chairman of UK Sport
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem	13 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of the Liberal Democrats 2006–07, former MP for North East Fife 1987–2015
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton	30 March 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, former chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence and former commissioner of the Disability Rights Commission
Lord Campbell-Savours	4 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Workington 1979–2001
Lord Carey of Clifton	1 November 2002[b]		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Archbishop of Canterbury
Lord Carlile of Berriew	27 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Deputy High Court judge, former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, president of the Howard League for Penal Reform and former MP
Lord Carrington	4 December 2018		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Carrington of Fulham	11 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Fulham from 1987 to 1997
Lord Carter of Barnes	15 October 2008		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former chief executive of Ofcom, group chief executive at Brunswick Group LLP and former Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting
Lord Carter of Coles	8 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of the NHS Pathology review panel
Lord Carter of Haslemere	30 October 2019		Crossbench	Life peer	Lawyer
Baroness Casey of Blackstock	30 October 2020		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Victims' Commissioner
Lord Cashman	23 September 2014		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MEP for West Midlands, former actor
Earl Cathcart	9 March 2007[c]		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Chief of the Name and Arms of Clan Cathcart
Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice	6 September 2016		Crossbench	Life peer	Journalist, academic and former Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit
Lord Chadlington	16 October 1996		Conservative	Life peer	Former chairman, former chief executive and currently executive director of Huntsworth; former director of Halifax
Baroness Chakrabarti	6 September 2016		Labour	Life peer	Former director of Liberty
Baroness Chalker of Wallasey	24 April 1992		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and Minister of State for Overseas Development
Viscount Chandos	19 April 2000[d]		Labour	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Lyttelton of Aldershot
Baroness Chapman of Darlington	1 February 2021		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Darlington from 2010 to 2019
Lord Chartres	7 November 2017[e]		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Bishop of London
Lord Chidgey	17 June 2005		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Eastleigh from 1994 to 2005
Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen	16 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Co-chairman of the Conservative candidates committee
Lord Choudrey	9 October 2019		Conservative	Life peer	Businessman and philanthropist
Earl of Clancarty	28 June 2010[f]		Crossbench	Hereditary peer	Sits as Viscount Clancarty in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Baroness Clark of Calton	21 June 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Former MP and judge of the Inner House of the Court of Session in the Supreme Courts of Scotland
Lord Clark of Windermere	2 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Former MP and chair of the Forestry Commission
Lord Clarke of Nottingham	4 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, Lord Chancellor, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary
Lord Clement-Jones	17 July 1998		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former head of legal services and legal director of London Weekend Television and Grand Metropolitan respectively and former group secretary of Kingfisher plc, chairman of Environmental Context Ltd
Lord Coaker	3 February 2021		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Gedling from 1997 to 2019
Baroness Cohen of Pimlico	3 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Author and former governor of the BBC
Lord Colgrain	27 March 2017		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Collins of Highbury	20 January 2011		Labour	Life peer	Former assistant general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and former general secretary of the Labour Party
Viscount Colville of Culross	25 July 2011		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Colwyn	2 January 1967		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Royal Society of Medicine, former president of the Huntington's Disease Association, the Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry, the Arterial Health Foundation, of the Metropolitan branch of the British Dental Association and practising dentist for forty years
Lord Cooper of Windrush	17 September 2014		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Vice-chairman of West Ham United FC and senior non-executive director of the Syco and Arcadia brands
Earl of Cork and Orrery	19 July 2016		Crossbench	Hereditary peer	Sits as Baron Boyle of Marston, in the Peerage of Great Britain; his senior titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Lord Cormack	18 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and chairman of the Northern Ireland Select Committee
Baroness Corston	29 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP and Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party
Lord Cotter	30 May 2006		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Weston-super-Mare from 1997 to 2005
Earl of Courtown	24 July 1979		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Sits as Baron Saltersford, in the Peerage of Great Britain; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Baroness Coussins	23 March 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chief executive of the Portman Group
Baroness Couttie	5 September 2016		Conservative	Life peer	Former Leader of Westminster City Council
Baroness Cox	24 January 1983		Crossbench	Life peer	Founder and CEO of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust
Lord Craig of Radley	30 July 1991		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Viscount Craigavon	26 July 1974		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Crathorne	25 May 1977		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Former director of (variously) , , Hand Picked Hotels, .
Baroness Crawley	24 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former chair of the Women's National Commission
Lord Crisp	28 April 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chief executive of the NHS
Lord Cromwell	10 April 2014[g]		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Cruddas	27 January 2021		Conservative	Life peer	Banker, businessman and former Conservative Party Co-Treasurer
Baroness Cumberlege	18 May 1990		Conservative	Life peer	Vice President of the
Lord Cunningham of Felling	27 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lord Currie of Marylebone	1 October 1996		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chairman of Ofcom
Lord Curry of Kirkharle	13 October 2011		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chair of NFU Mutual
Baroness D'Souza	1 July 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Lord Speaker, formerly Convenor of the Crossbench peers
Lord Dannatt	19 January 2011		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the General Staff of the British Army
Lord Darroch of Kew	11 November 2019		Crossbench	Life peer	Former British Ambassador to the United States
Lord Darzi of Denham	12 July 2007		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Professor of Surgery at Imperial College London
Lord Davidson of Glen Clova	22 March 2006		Labour	Life peer	Former Advocate General for Scotland, author of Judicial Review in Scotland, and the International Commission of Jurists' chef de mission for Egypt in 1998
Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links	16 July 2021		Conservative	Life peer	Former Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party
Lord Davies of Brixton	18 September 2020		Labour	Life peer	Former trade unionist, actuary and member of the Greater London Council
Lord Davies of Gower	10 October 2019		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Gower from 2015 to 2017
Lord Davies of Oldham	3 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former MP, Government Deputy Chief Whip (2003–2010) and Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
Lord Davies of Stamford	7 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP, Minister of State for Defence Equipment and Support and diplomat
Lord Dear	15 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Former HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary and former chief constable of West Midlands police
Lord Deben	21 June 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and Secretary of State for the Environment 1993–97; former chairman of environment consultancy company Sancroft International and of Veolia Water
Baroness Deech	5 October 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Gresham Professor of Law at Gresham College
Lord Deighton	1 November 2012		Conservative	Life peer	Chief Executive, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Lord Desai	5 June 1991		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Professor Emeritus of Economics at the London School of Economics
Earl of Devon	12 July 2018		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Dholakia	24 October 1997		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chair of Nacro
Lord Dixon-Smith	11 October 1993		Conservative	Life peer	Former chairman of Essex County Council
Lord Dobbs	18 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Author
Lord Dodds of Duncairn	18 September 2020		Democratic Unionist	Life peer	Former MP for Belfast North from 2001 to 2019
Baroness Donaghy	26 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former chair of ACAS
Lord Donoughue	21 May 1985		Labour	Life peer	Visiting Professor of Government at the London School of Economics
Baroness Doocey	21 December 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chair of the London Assembly and has run DD Enterprises Management Consultancy
Baroness Drake	20 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former president of the Trades Union Congress and commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission
Lord Drayson	1 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Co-founder and former chief executive of PowderJect Pharmaceuticals
Lord Dubs	27 September 1994		Labour	Life peer	Former MP, director of the Refugee Council, chair of Liberty and chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission
Lord Duncan of Springbank	14 July 2017		Conservative	Life peer	Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and former MEP for Scotland
Earl of Dundee	28 October 1983		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Dunlop	26 May 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
Lord Dykes	21 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Former MP for Harrow East from 1970 to 1997
Lord Eames	25 August 1995		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh
Baroness Eaton	21 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of the Local Government Association
Lord Eatwell	14 July 1992		Labour	Life peer	Former professor of financial policy at Judge Business School
Viscount Eccles	24 March 2005[h]		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Eccles of Moulton	10 May 1990		Conservative	Life peer	As the wife of Viscount Eccles, she is also entitled to the style "Viscountess Eccles"
Lord Elder	19 July 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party
Lord Elis-Thomas	18 September 1992		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MP, presiding officer of the National Assembly for Wales and leader of Plaid Cymru
Lord Empey	15 January 2011		Ulster Unionist	Life peer	Former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
Earl of Erroll	30 June 1978		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Etherton	23 December 2020		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Master of the Rolls (2016–2021) and Chancellor of the High Court (2013–2016)
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park	12 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal, former director of the New Schools Network and deputy director at Policy Exchange
Lord Evans of Watford	28 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of several publishing companies
Lord Evans of Weardale	3 December 2014		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director of the Security Service
Lord Fairfax of Cameron	26 November 2015[i]		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Fairhead	19 October 2017		Conservative	Life peer	Former chairman of the BBC Trust
Lord Falconer of Thoroton	14 May 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former Lord Chancellor
Viscount Falkland	27 April 1984		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Falkner of Margravine	2 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Chief executive of Student Partnerships Worldwide
Baroness Fall	22 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff
Lord Farmer	5 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Founding partner of RK Mine Finance group, trustee of the Kingham Hill Trust and Conservative Party co-treasurer
Lord Faulkner of Worcester	14 July 1999		Labour	Life peer	Communications advisor to the Leader of the Labour Party in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections
Lord Faulks	21 July 2010		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Recorder
Baroness Featherstone	20 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Hornsey and Wood Green from 2005 to 2015
Lord Fellowes	12 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Chair of the Prison Reform Trust and former Private Secretary to the Queen
Lord Fellowes of West Stafford	12 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, chairman of the RNIB appeal for Talking Books and vice-president of the
Lord Field of Birkenhead	11 September 2020		Crossbench	Life peer	Former MP for Birkenhead from 1979 to 2019
Lord Filkin	29 July 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former parliamentary under-secretary of state in various government departments
Lord Fink	18 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	CEO and chairman of the Man Group, the largest listed hedge fund company in the world
Lord Finkelstein	11 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Current Executive Editor of The Times
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff	28 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Palliative Medicine at the Cardiff University School of Medicine and former president of the Royal Society of Medicine
Baroness Finn	14 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former special adviser at the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Baroness Flather	11 June 1990		Crossbench	Life peer	First Asian woman to receive a peerage
Baroness Fleet	15 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Chair of Arts Council London and former newspaper editor and political advisor
Lord Flight	13 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Arundel and South Downs from 1997 to 2005
Baroness Fookes	30 September 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, chair of the RSPCA and deputy speaker of the House of Commons
Baroness Ford	5 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Chair of the London 2012 Olympic Park Legacy Company, former chief executive of Good Practice Limited, managing director (Social Infrastructure and Development) of Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, chairman of Irvine Bay Urban Regeneration Company and president of Epilepsy Action
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean	14 July 1999		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and Secretary of State for Scotland
Lord Foster of Bath	7 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Bath from 1992 to 2015
Baroness Foster of Oxton	29 January 2021		Conservative	Life peer	Former MEP for North West England from 1999 to 2004 and from 2009 to 2019
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock	16 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP from 1979 to 2005 and MSP from 2007 to 2011, former chairman of Hearts Football club and president of the Caribbean Council
Lord Fowler	3 July 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Lord Speaker, former Chairman of the House of Lords Communications Select Committee and former MP
Lord Fox	11 September 2014		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	PR director at GKN engineering and former Liberal Democrat chief executive
Baroness Fox of Buckley	14 September 2020		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MEP for North West England from 2019 to 2020
Lord Framlingham	14 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and Deputy Speaker in the House of Commons
Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie	26 January 2021		Conservative	Life peer	Chief Executive of Cerebral Palsy Scotland
Lord Freyberg	7 March 1994		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Fritchie	31 May 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Honorary Professor of Creative Leadership at the University of York and six other Universities
Lord Frost	12 August 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Designated National Security Adviser and former British ambassador to Denmark
Baroness Fullbrook	7 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for South Ribble from 2010 to 2015
Lord Gadhia	31 August 2016		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Investment banker and Conservative Party donor
Baroness Gale	4 August 1999		Labour	Life peer	President of National Association of Old Age Pensioners, Wales and president of Treherbert and District British Legion
Baroness Garden of Frognal	15 October 2007		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Vice President of the
Lord Gardiner of Kimble	23 June 2010		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Senior Deputy Speaker and deputy chief executive of the Countryside Alliance
Baroness Gardner of Parkes	19 June 1981		Conservative	Life peer	Australian-born dentist
Lord Garnier	22 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Harborough from 1992 to 2017
Lord Geddes	20 March 1975		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Geidt	3 November 2017		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Private Secretary to the Queen
Lord German	24 June 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former Deputy First Minister of Wales
Lord Giddens	16 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics of sociology and social theory with fifteen honorary degrees from other universities, author of The Politics of Climate Change
Lord Gilbert of Panteg	30 September 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party
Earl of Glasgow	17 January 2005[j]		Liberal Democrat	Hereditary peer
Lord Glasman	4 February 2011		Labour	Life peer	Senior lecturer in political theory at London Metropolitan University
Lord Glenarthur	21 June 1977		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Glendonbrook	1 February 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Owner of BMI
Lord Goddard of Stockport	15 September 2014		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of Stockport Council
Lord Godson	25 January 2021		Conservative	Life peer	Chair of Policy Exchange and former political aide, political candidate, author and journalist
Lord Gold	1 February 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Lawyer
Baroness Goldie	3 October 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party in the Scottish Parliament from 2005 until 2011
Baroness Golding	13 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Radiographer and former MP
Lord Goldsmith	29 July 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former Attorney General
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park	7 January 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Richmond Park, Minister of State for Environment and International Development
Lord Goodlad	19 July 2005		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and chairman of the Constitution Committee
Viscount Goschen	15 July 1988		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Goudie	21 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former European director of public affairs for the World Wide Fund for Nature, chair of the Women Leaders’ Council to Fight Human Trafficking at
Lord Grabiner	26 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Head of Chambers at One Essex Court and deputy High Court Judge
Lord Grade of Yarmouth	25 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former chairman of the BBC Board of Governors
Lord Grantchester	31 October 2003[k]		Labour	Hereditary peer	Former director of Littlewoods and former chairman of the Dairy Farmers of Britain,
Lord Green of Deddington	28 November 2014		Crossbench	Life peer	Former British ambassador
Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint	16 November 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Former group chairman of HSBC
Baroness Greenfield	18 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University and former director of the Royal Institution
Baroness Greengross	10 February 2000		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director-general of Age Concern England
Lord Greenhalgh	16 April 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Minister of State for Building Safety and Fire Former Deputy Mayor of London for Policing and Crime, medical company executive and political candidate
Lord Greenway	8 October 1975		Crossbench	Hereditary peer	Former chairman of
Baroness Grender	4 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former head of communications for the Liberal Democrats
Baroness Grey-Thompson	23 March 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Former paralympic athlete
Lord Griffiths of Burry Port	30 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former President of the Methodist Conference
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach	5 February 1991		Conservative	Life peer	Vice-president of the Nature in Art trust and vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International
Lord Grimstone of Boscobel	8 April 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Minister of State for Investment and former bank executive and civil servant
Lord Grocott	2 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Former presenter and producer at Central Television and former MP
Lord Hacking	19 November 2021[l]		Labour	Hereditary peer
Viscount Hailsham	12 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham from 1979 to 2010; hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe.
Lord Hain	22 October 2015		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Neath from 1991 to 2015
Baroness Hale of Richmond	12 January 2004		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former President of the Supreme Court (2017–2020), Deputy President of the Supreme Court (2013–2017), Justice of the Supreme Court (2009–2020) and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2004–2009)
Lord Hall of Birkenhead	19 March 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Chief executive of the Royal Opera House, former director of news at the BBC, chairman of Creative & Cultural Skills and former chair of the Royal Television Society
Baroness Hallett	11 October 2019		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Lady Justice of Appeal
Lord Hameed	27 March 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Chairman of Alpha Hospital Group, chairman and chief executive officer of the London International Hospital, former executive director and chief executive officer of the Cromwell Hospital, president of The Little Foundation and chairman of The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths
Lord Hamilton of Epsom	17 June 2005		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and former chairman of the 1922 Committee
Lord Hammond of Runnymede	30 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Baroness Hamwee	6 June 1991		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Vice president of Parity and
Lord Hannan of Kingsclere	25 January 2021		Conservative	Life peer	Former MEP for South East England from 1999 to 2020
Lord Hannay of Chiswick	19 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Former senior diplomat
Viscount Hanworth	30 March 2011[m]		Labour	Hereditary peer
Baroness Harding of Winscombe	15 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Chief executive of TalkTalk Group
Lord Harlech	21 July 2021		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Harries of Pentregarth	30 June 2006[n]		Crossbench	Life peer	Gresham Professor of Divinity, former Bishop of Oxford; chair of the Ethics and Law Committee and former chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cell Research
Lord Harris of Haringey	5 August 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former chair of the Association of London Government, former leader of Haringey Borough Council, former chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, member of the London Assembly and chair of Freedom
Lord Harris of Peckham	11 January 1996		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of Carpetright
Baroness Harris of Richmond	6 August 1999		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chair of the Industry and Parliament Trust, president of the and former chair of North Yorkshire County Council and Police Authority
Lord Haselhurst	22 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and Chairman of Ways and Means (Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons)
Lord Haskel	4 October 1993		Labour	Life peer	President of the , and former international president of The Textile Institute
Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick	12 October 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Vice-president of Catch22, ambassador of Make Justice Work
Lord Haughey	18 September 2013		Labour	Life peer	Businessman and philanthropist
Lord Haworth	28 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former deputy leader of the Labour Party and former
Lord Hay of Ballyore	16 December 2014		Democratic Unionist	Life peer	Former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Baroness Hayman	2 January 1996		Crossbench	Life peer	Former MP, Lord Speaker (2006–11), chair of Cancer Research UK, chair of the Human Tissue Authority and chair of Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Baroness Hayman of Ullock	9 September 2020		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Workington from 2015 to 2019
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town	22 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Fabian Society 1976–1982. Chief Executive of the European Parliamentary Labour Party 1990–1996. Chair of the Labour Party 2007–2008.
Lord Hayward	28 September 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Psephologist, Former MP for Kingswood and former business and charity executive
Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill	19 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former political aide
Baroness Helic	18 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Government special adviser on preventing sexual violence in conflict zones
Lord Hendy	15 October 2019		Labour	Life peer	Barrister
Baroness Henig	8 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Chair of the Security Industry Authority
Lord Henley	28 February 1978		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Sits as Baron Northington, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield	8 November 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London
Lord Herbert of South Downs	1 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Arundel and South Downs from 2005 to 2019
Lord Heseltine	12 July 2001		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MP, Deputy Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Defence, Environment and President of the Board of Trade
Lord Hill of Oareford	27 May 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former European Commissioner for Financial Stability Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, former Leader of the House of Lords, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools
Baroness Hodgson of Abinger	16 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Conservative politician
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts	7 June 2000		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP
Baroness Hoey	14 September 2020		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MP for Vauxhall from 1989 to 2019
Lord Hoffmann	21 February 1995		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former Law Lord and Professor of Law at Queen Mary College, University of London
Lord Hogan-Howe	7 November 2017		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Baroness Hogg	3 February 1995		Crossbench	Life peer	As the wife of Viscount Hailsham, she is also entitled to the style "Viscountess Hailsham"
Lord Hollick	20 June 1991		Labour	Life peer	Business executive and former banker, businessman and print-media executive
Baroness Hollins	15 November 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of the psychiatry of learning disability at St George's, University of London, former president of the
Lord Holmes of Richmond	13 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Former swimmer, Paralympian, journalist and solicitor
Earl of Home	24 September 1996		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Hooper	10 June 1985		Conservative	Life peer	President of Waste Watch, president of the , and president of
Lord Hope of Craighead	28 February 1995		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and former Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Horam	4 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Houghton of Richmond	20 November 2017		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Howard of Lympne	13 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, Home Secretary, Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition
Lord Howard of Rising	4 June 2004		Conservative	Life peer	Director of Fortress Holdings
Lord Howarth of Newport	15 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Stratford-Upon-Avon 1983-1997 and for Newport East 1997–2005.
Earl Howe	30 October 1984		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Deputy Leader of the House and Minister of State for Defence
Lord Howell of Guildford	6 June 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, Secretaries of State for Energy and Transport
Lord Hoyle	14 May 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Nelson & Colne (1974–79), Warrington (1981-83) and Warrington North (1983–97).
Baroness Hughes of Stretford	15 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former head of the Department of Social Policy at the University of Manchester and former Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families and former MP
Baroness Humphreys	18 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former AM for North Wales and President of the Welsh Liberal Democrats
Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green	16 October 2019		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief Executive of Stonewall
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath	20 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	President of the Royal Society for Public Health and former chief executive of the NHS Confederation, and former director of its two predecessor organisations
Lord Hunt of Wirral	20 October 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP; Partner at the law firm Beachcroft LLP
Lord Hussain	20 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Deputy Group Leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Luton Borough Council
Baroness Hussein-Ece	25 June 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former non-executive director of Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust, and former equality and human rights commissioner
Lord Hutton of Furness	27 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Secretary of State for Defence
Lord Hylton	6 June 1968		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Inglewood	23 November 1989		Non-affiliated	Hereditary peer
Lord James of Blackheath	9 June 2006		Conservative	Life peer	Corporate trouble-shooter and former agent for MI5
Baroness Janke	24 September 2014		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of Bristol City Council
Lord Janvrin	10 October 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Permanent Lord-in-waiting; former Private Secretary to the Queen
Lord Jay of Ewelme	18 September 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Former permanent secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and head of the Diplomatic Service
Baroness Jay of Paddington	29 July 1992		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of the House of Lords Constitution Committee
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington	26 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	PR consultant, and active in promoting women in Parliament
Lord Johnson of Marylebone	12 October 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Orpington from 2010 to 2019
Baroness Jolly	24 December 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chair of Executive Committee of Liberal Democrats in Devon and Cornwall
Lord Jones	6 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for East Flintshire 1970-1983 and for Alyn & Deeside 1983-2001
Lord Jones of Cheltenham	20 June 2005		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former computer programmer and systems analyst at International Computers Limited and former MP
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb	20 September 2013		Green	Life peer	Green Party politician and former 2nd Statutory Deputy Mayor of London and Member of the London Assembly
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch	5 June 2006		Labour	Life peer	Director of Policy and Public Affairs at UNISON and former chair of the Labour Party
Lord Jopling	5 June 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Jordan	5 June 2000		Labour	Life peer	Former president of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, former general secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, former governor of both the BBC and the London School of Economics
Lord Judge	1 October 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales 2008-13
Lord Kakkar	22 March 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Surgical Sciences at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University
Lord Kalms	1 June 2004		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Life president and former chairman of Dixons Retail and former chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies
Lord Kamall	28 January 2021		Conservative	Life peer	Professor of Politics and International Relations at St Mary's University and former MEP for London from 2005 to 2019
Lord Keen of Elie	8 June 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Lawyer, Conservative Party politician and former Advocate General for Scotland and Chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party
Baroness Kennedy of Cradley	19 September 2013		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Political aide, politician and former Deputy General Secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Kennedy of Southwark	21 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Labour Party official, politician and Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords
Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws	27 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	Criminal and human rights lawyer, chair of JUSTICE
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard	30 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Permanent Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and head of the Diplomatic Service
Lord Kerslake	17 March 2015		Crossbench	Life peer	Former permanent secretary to the Department of Communities and Local Government and Head of the Home Civil Service
Lord Kestenbaum	24 January 2011		Labour	Life peer	Chief Executive of National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
Lord Khan of Burnley	4 February 2021		Labour	Life peer	Former MEP for North West England from 2017 to 2019
Baroness Kidron	25 June 2012		Crossbench	Life peer	Film director
Lord Kilclooney	17 July 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Former MP and deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party; the only active politician to have served in all levels of government in Northern Ireland, from local council, the Parliament of Northern Ireland, Westminster, Europe, all previous failed Assemblies and Conventions and the current incarnation of the Assembly
Lord King of Bridgwater	9 July 2001		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, Environment Secretary, Transport Secretary, Employment Secretary, Northern Ireland Secretary and chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee
Lord King of Lothbury	19 July 2013		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Governor of the Bank of England
Baroness Kingsmill	1 June 2006		Labour	Life peer	Former deputy chair of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and of the Competition Commission
Lord Kinnock	28 January 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP, Leader of the Labour Party 1983–92, European Commissioner for Transport and Administrative Reform and Vice-President of the European Commission
Earl of Kinnoull	6 February 2015		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Kirkham	23 July 1999		Conservative	Life peer	Executive Chairman of DFS Furniture Company Ltd
Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate	7 October 2016		Conservative	Life peer	Former MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber from 1999 to 2016 and MP for Leeds North East from 1987 to 1997
Lord Knight of Weymouth	23 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for South Dorset 2001-2010
Baroness Kramer	22 December 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former vice-president of Citibank, director and co-founder of , former MP and Minister of State for Transport (2013–15)
Lord Krebs	28 March 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, former chair of the Food Standards Agency, member of the committee on climate change and chair of adaptation sub-committee, chair of the Royal Society Science Policy Advisory Group
Lord Laming	27 July 1998		Crossbench	Life peer	Psychiatric social worker and chairman of the and the Baby P inquiry
Lord Lamont of Lerwick	24 July 1998		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton	16 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Milton Keynes North from 2010 to 2019 and for North East Milton Keynes from 2005 to 2010
Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho	25 March 2013		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Lang of Monkton	29 September 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and President of the Board of Trade, current chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments and future chairman of the board of directors of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc
Lord Lansley	5 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and Leader of the House of Commons
Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon	6 September 2013		Labour	Life peer
Lord Layard	3 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
Lord Lea of Crondall	20 July 1999		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former assistant general secretary of the Trades Union Congress
Lord Lebedev	19 November 2020		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Lee of Trafford	26 May 2006		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP
Earl of Leicester	23 June 2021		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Leigh of Hurley	16 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Leitch	7 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of Bupa, Scottish Widows and , former chairman and chief executive of Zurich's British operations
Lord Lennie	22 September 2014		Labour	Life peer	Former deputy secretary general of the Labour Party
Lord Levene of Portsoken	22 July 1997		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chairman of Lloyd's of London and former vice chairman of Deutsche Bank
Lord Levy	23 September 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former special envoy to the Middle East, President of JFS, President of Sense & Sense International, President of Jewish Care
Lord Lexden	23 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former consultant and editor in chief of the Conservative Research Department and former lecturer in modern history
Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke	7 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP, British High Commissioner to Australia and Secretary of State for Scotland
Lord Liddle	19 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of the International Think Tank Policy Network and former chairman of the and former managing director of Ltd, a consultancy company
Lord Lilley	18 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for Social Security, for Trade and Industry, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party
Earl of Lindsay	21 December 1989		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Lingfield	17 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of the League of Mercy Foundation, former director-general of St. John Ambulance and advocate of free schools
Lord Lipsey	30 July 1999		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Lister of Burtersett	31 January 2011		Labour	Life peer	Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University
Lord Lisvane	11 December 2014		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Clerk of the House of Commons
Earl of Liverpool	23 October 1969		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Livingston of Parkhead	12 July 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Former Minister for Trade and Investment
Lord Londesborough	23 June 2021[o]		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Loomba	12 January 2011		Crossbench	Life peer	Executive chairman of the Rinku Group and pioneer of widow's rights
Marquess of Lothian	22 November 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Kerr of Monteviot; former MP
Lord Low of Dalston	13 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Chairman of the Royal National Institute for the Blind, Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Leeds
Lord Lucas	21 February 1992		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Ludford	30 September 1997		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	MEP for London 1999-2014
Lord Lupton	6 October 2015		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Bank executive and former Co-Treasurer of the Conservative Party
Earl of Lytton	16 May 2011[p]		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord de Mauley	15 March 2005		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord McAvoy	22 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP and deputy chief whip in the House of Commons
Lord McColl of Dulwich	25 July 1989		Conservative	Life peer	Professor Emeritus of Surgery at Guy's Hospital, associated with King's College London
Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale	28 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former First Minister of Scotland
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown	19 June 2018		Democratic Unionist	Life peer	Former MP for South Antrim (2000–01, 2005–15) and for Mid Ulster (1983–97)
Baroness McDonagh	24 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Macdonald of River Glaven	12 July 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Director of Public Prosecutions
Lord McDonald of Salford	27 January 2021		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and British ambassador to Germany and to Israel
Lord McFall of Alcluith	17 June 2010		Lord Speaker	Life peer	Former Senior Deputy Speaker, former chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Committee and former MP
Baroness McGregor-Smith	16 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord McInnes of Kilwinning	1 September 2016		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall	3 August 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former associate producer at the Royal Shakespeare Company, former executive director of the Royal National Theatre
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering	6 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Vale of York from 1997 to 2010 and for Thirsk and Malton from 2010 to 2015
Lord Mackay of Clashfern	6 July 1979		Conservative	Life peer	Formerly Lord Chancellor and Law Lord, Lord Advocate, a former judge of the Court of Session and editor-in-chief of Halsbury's Laws of England
Lord MacKenzie of Culkein	4 August 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former nurse and president of the Trades Union Congress
Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate	17 July 1998		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former chief superintendent in the Durham Constabulary, former president of the Police Superintendents' Association
Lord McLoughlin	8 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for Transport and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lord McNally	20 December 1995		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP, Minister of State for Justice and leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
Lord McNicol of West Kilbride	21 June 2018		Labour	Life peer	Former General Secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court	4 October 2016		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury
Lord Mair	29 October 2015		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Cambridge
Baroness Mallalieu	19 June 1991		Labour	Life peer	President of the Countryside Alliance
Lord Mance	3 October 2005		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former Deputy President (2017–2018) and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009–2018) and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2005–2009)
Lord Mancroft	23 February 1988		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Former chair of the Addict Recovery Foundation, former chair of the Drug and Alcohol Foundation
Lord Mandelson	13 October 2008		Labour	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Northern Ireland and European Commissioner for Trade
Lord Mann	28 October 2019		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MP for Bassetlaw from 2001 to 2019
Baroness Manningham-Buller	2 June 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director of the Security Service
Baroness Manzoor	6 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames	11 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Commercial and family law QC with specialist interest in human rights and constitutional reform
Lord Marland	8 June 2006		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of and of Hunter Boot Ltd
Lord Marlesford	7 June 1991		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Masham of Ilton	12 February 1970		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chair of Phoenix House; Longest-serving life peer
Baroness Massey of Darwen	26 July 1999		Labour	Life peer	Chair of the National Treatment Agency for substance misuse
Lord Maude of Horsham	26 May 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Mawson	29 March 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Founder board member of Poplar HARCA (housing association) and author of The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work
Lord Maxton	17 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former MP
Baroness Meacher	16 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chairman of the Security Industry Authority, former chair of the Police Complaints Authority and two NHS trusts, and a social worker
Lord Mendelsohn	5 September 2013		Labour	Life peer
Lord Mendoza	16 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Merron	28 January 2021		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Lincoln from 1997 to 2010
Baroness Meyer	19 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer	6 October 1998		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former Leader South Somerset District Council, Somerset County Councillor, environmental campaigner
Lord Mitchell	10 May 2000		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Mobarik	19 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Former MEP for Scotland from 2017 to 2020
Baroness Mone	30 September 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Businesswoman, founder Ultimo
Lord Monks	26 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of both the Trades Union Congress and the European Trade Union Confederation
Duke of Montrose	26 May 1995		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Moonie	22 June 2005		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former clinical pharmacologist and community medicine specialist, and former MP for Kirkcaldy (1987–2005).
Lord Moore of Etchingham	17 September 2020		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Sunday Telegraph
Lord Morgan	12 June 2000		Labour	Life peer	Professor of History at Brunel University
Baroness Morgan of Cotes	6 January 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Loughborough from 2010 to 2019, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin	11 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director or chief executive of various voluntary sector organisations such as Shelter, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, and
Baroness Morgan of Huyton	20 June 2001		Labour	Life peer
Lord Morris of Aberavon	3 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Former MP, Attorney General for England and Wales and for Northern Ireland
Baroness Morris of Bolton	9 June 2004		Conservative	Life peer	President of the
Baroness Morris of Yardley	14 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Birmingham Yardley 1992–2005. Former Secretary State for Education
Baroness Morrissey	3 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Morrow	7 June 2006		Democratic Unionist	Life peer	Former Minister for Social Development in Northern Ireland
Lord Morse	26 March 2021		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Comptroller and Auditor General
Lord Mountevans	8 July 2015		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Moylan	9 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Moynihan	30 April 1997		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Former MP
Baroness Murphy	17 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Former professor of psychiatry of old age at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals United Medical School
Lord Murphy of Torfaen	20 October 2015		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Torfaen from 1987 to 2015
Lord Myners	16 October 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chairman of the Guardian Media Group and former chairman of the Low Pay Commission
Lord Naseby	28 October 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Nash	21 January 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Neuberger	15 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Philanthropist, author, social reformer, rabbi, former chair of Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust, former chairman of the King's Fund
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury	11 January 2007		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former President of the Supreme Court (2012–2017), Master of the Rolls (2009–2012) and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2007–2009)
Baroness Neville-Jones	15 October 2007		Conservative	Life peer	Former Minister of State for Security, former diplomat and former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee
Baroness Neville-Rolfe	10 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Newby	25 September 1997		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chair of Sport at The Prince's Trust
Baroness Newlove	14 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Community reform campaigner
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne	3 November 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Executive Chairman of the and of the , former MP for Torridge and West Devon from 1987 to 1997
Baroness Noakes	7 June 2000		Conservative	Life peer	Former partner at KPMG
Lord Northbrook	23 September 1991		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Northover	1 May 2000		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Norton of Louth	1 August 1998		Conservative	Life peer	Professor of Government at the University of Hull
Baroness Nye	19 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former director of government relations, former diary secretary to the then–prime minister Gordon Brown
Lord O'Donnell	10 January 2012		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Baroness O'Loan	11 September 2009		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's Human Rights Enquiry
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve	25 February 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, founding president of the British Philosophical Association, former chair of the Nuffield Foundation and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and former president of the British Academy
Lord O'Neill of Gatley	28 May 2015		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Oates	5 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Offord of Garvel	13 October 2021		Conservative	Life peer	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
Baroness Osamor	26 November 2018		Labour	Life peer
Lord Owen	30 June 1992		Ind. Social Democrat	Life peer	Former MP, Foreign Secretary, co-chairman of the Conference on Yugoslavia, leader of the Social Democratic Party 1983–87, and the continuing Social Democratic Party 1988–90
Lord Oxburgh	27 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Geophysicist and geologist, former head of the department of earth sciences at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Geological Society of London
Earl of Oxford and Asquith	24 October 2014		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Paddick	12 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Palmer	2 October 1990		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Palmer of Childs Hill	17 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former councillor
Lord Pannick	3 November 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Leading human rights barrister, arguing over a hundred cases before the UK's highest court and the European Court of Justice and of Human Rights
Lord Parekh	10 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Centennial Professor in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, emeritus professor of political theory at the University of Hull, emeritus professor of political philosophy at the University of Westminster
Lord Parker of Minsmere	29 January 2021		Crossbench	Life peer	Lord Chamberlain and former Director General of MI5
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay	8 October 2019		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Parminter	15 July 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former head of public affairs at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and former chief executive of the Campaign to Protect Rural England
Lord Patel	1 March 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, former chairmen of the and of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges of the United Kingdom and former professor of Obstetrics at the University of Dundee
Lord Patel of Bradford	8 June 2006		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Professor at the University of Central Lancashire
Lord Patten	17 June 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and Secretary of State for Education
Lord Patten of Barnes	11 January 2005		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, Chairman of the BBC Trust, Secretary of State for the Environment, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong, European Commissioner for External Relations
Lord Paul	9 October 1996		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Resigned the Labour whip in October 2010
Lord Pearson of Rannoch	18 June 1990		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former leader of UK Independence Party
Earl Peel	15 May 1973		Crossbench	Hereditary peer	Former Lord Chamberlain
Lord Pendry	4 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Former MP; President of Oyston Steel Estates Ltd, president of the Football Foundation Ltd
Baroness Penn	10 October 2019		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers	12 January 1999		Crossbench	Law life peer	President of the Supreme Court (2009–2012), Senior Law Lord (2008—2009), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2005–2008), Master of the Rolls (2000–2005), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1999–2000)
Lord Pickles	18 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Chairman of the Conservative Party
Baroness Pidding	8 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Pinnock	23 September 2014		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of Kirklees Council
Baroness Pitkeathley	6 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former chief executive of Carers UK and a founding member of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations
Lord Plant of Highfield	24 July 1992		Labour	Life peer	Professor of Jurisprudence and Philosophy at King's College London and former Professor of European Political Thought at the University of Southampton
Lord Polak	2 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede	19 April 2000[q]		Labour	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton
Lord Popat	10 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Founder and chairman of hospitality and health care firm Ltd
Lord Porter of Spalding	15 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Powell of Bayswater	15 February 2000		Crossbench	Life peer	Former diplomat
Baroness Prashar	15 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission and president of the Royal Commonwealth Society
Lord Prescott	7 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP and Deputy Prime Minister
Lord Price	29 February 2016		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Primarolo	26 October 2015		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Bristol South from 1987 to 2015
Lord Prior of Brampton	29 May 2015		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MP
Baroness Prosser	11 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Deputy Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and former president of the Trades Union Congress
Lord Purvis of Tweed	13 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Baroness Quin	30 May 2006		Labour	Life peer	Chair of the Franco-British Council (British Section); former MP and Minister of State for Europe
Lord Radice	16 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Author, chairman of the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe; former MP and chairman of Policy Network
Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale	11 October 1996		Labour	Life peer	Former diplomat and former case officer in the Secret Intelligence Service
Lord Ramsbotham	17 May 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Former general and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons
Lord Rana	16 June 2004		Conservative	Life peer	President of
Lord Randall of Uxbridge	25 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Uxbridge and Uxbridge and South Ruislip from 1997 to 2015
Baroness Randerson	27 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Culture, Sport and the Welsh Language, Acting Deputy First Minister and former Cardiff Council Opposition Leader
Lord Ranger	11 October 2019		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Ravensdale	3 April 2019		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Rawlings	5 October 1994		Conservative	Life peer	President of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and former chairman of King's College London Council
Lord Razzall	22 October 1997		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Reay	28 January 2019		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Rebuck	18 September 2014		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of Penguin Random House UK publishers
Lord Redesdale	18 April 2000[r]		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Mitford
Baroness Redfern	7 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Rees of Ludlow	6 September 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and Astronomer Royal, president of the Royal Society
Lord Reid of Cardowan	16 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP, Secretaries of State for Scotland, Health, Defence and Home Secretary
Lord Rennard	21 July 1999		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Ribeiro	20 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former consultant general surgeon; member of the Health Policy Research Advisory Board of the American College of Surgeons
Lord Richards of Herstmonceux	24 February 2014		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Ricketts	17 October 2016		Crossbench	Life peer	Former UK Ambassador to France, former National Security Adviser and former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Lord Risby	24 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party, responsible for business links in the City of London and former MP
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick	16 October 2019		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for South Down from 2010 to 2017
Lord Robathan	13 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for South Leicestershire from 2010 to 2015 and for Blaby from 1992 to 2010
Lord Roberts of Llandudno	15 June 2004		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former president of the Welsh Liberal Democrats
Lord Robertson of Port Ellen	24 August 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former MP, NATO Secretary General and Secretary of State for Defence
Baroness Rock	15 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank	12 February 1992		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for Transport, director-general of the Royal Institute of British Architects and chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority; member of the Gang of Four that founded the Social Democratic Party
Lord Rogan	16 July 1999		Ulster Unionist	Life peer	Former president of the Ulster Unionist Party
Lord Rooker	16 June 2001		Labour	Life peer	Former MP and Chairman of the Food Standards Agency
Lord Rose of Monewden	17 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Former chief executive and chairman of Marks & Spencer
Lord Rosser	14 June 2004		Labour	Life peer
Earl of Rosslyn	17 December 1979		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Rotherwick	30 July 1996		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Rowe-Beddoe	15 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Deputy Chair of the UK Statistics Authority
Lord Rowlands	28 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former MP
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon	25 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former Leader of the House of Lords
Lord Russell of Liverpool	11 December 2014[s]		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Saatchi	4 October 1996		Conservative	Life peer	Co-founder and executive director of Saatchi and Saatchi and M&C Saatchi
Lord St John of Bletso	8 June 1978		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Sanderson of Welton	8 October 2019		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Sandhurst	23 June 2021		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Earl of Sandwich	26 April 1995		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Sarfraz	8 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Sassoon	29 May 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Commercial Secretary to the Treasury and former president of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering
Baroness Sater	20 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Saville of Newdigate	28 July 1997		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former Law Lord and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Sawyer	4 August 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Labour Party
Baroness Scott of Bybrook	8 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Scott of Needham Market	11 May 2000		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former president of the Liberal Democrats
Lord Scriven	19 September 2014		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of Sheffield City Council
Baroness Seccombe	14 February 1991		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Sedwill	11 September 2020		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Cabinet Secretary
Lord Selkirk of Douglas	29 September 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Sentamu	27 April 2021[t]		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Archbishop of York
Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia	21 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Solicitor
Baroness Shafik	30 September 2020		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
Lord Sharkey	20 December 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chairman of the Liberal Democrat 2010 general election campaign
Lord Sharpe of Epsom	15 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Sheehan	2 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Sheikh	6 June 2006		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman and executive of Camberford Law
Baroness Shephard of Northwold	21 June 2005		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for Education and Employment and Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury	12 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Sherlock	17 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former chief executive of the Refugee Council, former chief executive of the National Council for One Parent Families and former director of the education charity
Baroness Shields	16 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Former digital adviser to David Cameron, former CEO of Tech City UK
Lord Shinkwin	14 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Shipley	14 July 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Earl of Shrewsbury	16 February 1981		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Lord High Steward of Ireland
Lord Sikka	10 September 2020		Labour	Life peer	Professor of accounting
Lord Singh of Wimbledon	12 October 2011		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Skidelsky	15 July 1991		Crossbench	Life peer	Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick
Baroness Smith of Basildon	7 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Shadow Leader of the House of Lords. Former and MP for Basildon 1997–2010.
Lord Smith of Finsbury	22 June 2005		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and chair of the Advertising Standards Authority
Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill	17 February 1995		Labour	Life peer	President of Scottish Opera and chairman of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Lord Smith of Hindhead	29 September 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Chief Executive of the Association of Conservative Clubs
Lord Smith of Kelvin	29 May 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Chairman of Weir Group and Scottish and Southern Energy former governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation
Baroness Smith of Newnham	12 September 2014		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Senior lecturer in international relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Cambridge University
Lord Snape	9 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former MP; implicated in the Cash for Influence scandal
Lord Soley	29 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party and former MP
Duke of Somerset	12 December 2014[u]		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Spencer of Alresford	17 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Founder of NEX Group
Earl of Stair	29 May 2008[v]		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Viscount Stansgate	15 July 2021		Labour	Hereditary peer
Baroness Stedman-Scott	12 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Chief Executive of
Lord Stephen	2 February 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP, Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Deputy First Minister of Scotland
Lord Sterling of Plaistow	17 January 1991		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of Motability, former executive chairman of P&O
Baroness Stern	13 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director of NACRO, former secretary general of Penal Reform International and author of books on prison reform
Lord Stern of Brentford	10 December 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, author of the Stern Report
Lord Stevens of Birmingham	5 July 2021		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief Executive of NHS England
Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington	6 April 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
Lord Stevens of Ludgate	27 March 1987		Conservative Ind.	Life peer
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara	13 July 2010		Labour	Life peer
Lord Stewart of Dirleton	6 November 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Advocate General for Scotland
Lord Stirrup	28 January 2011		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Stone of Blackheath	29 October 1997		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former joint-managing director of Marks and Spencer, chairman of Sindicatum Climate Change Foundation
Lord Stoneham of Droxford	17 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Liberal Democrats HQ Operations Director
Lord Storey	2 February 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Councillor and former leader of Liverpool City Council
Baroness Stowell of Beeston	10 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Whip, BBC Head of Corporate Affairs, and civil servant
Lord Strasburger	10 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Strathclyde	18 March 1986		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Former leader of the House of Lords
Baroness Stroud	1 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston	7 September 2020		Crossbench	Life peer	Former MP for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1997 to 2017
Lord Stunell	26 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Hazel Grove from 1997 to 2015
Lord Sugar	20 July 2009		Crossbench	Life peer	TV personality and businessman
Baroness Sugg	30 August 2016		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Suri	11 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Businessman and formerly the general secretary of the Board of British Sikhs
Baroness Suttie	17 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Swinfen	13 May 1977		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean	7 October 1996		Labour	Life peer
Lord Taverne	5 February 1996		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Lincoln 1962-74
Baroness Taylor of Bolton	13 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Bolton West 1974–1983; MP for Dewsbury 1987–2005; Cabinet minister 1997–2001
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor	16 July 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Taylor of Holbeach	31 May 2006		Conservative	Life peer	Government Chief Whip in the Lords
Lord Taylor of Warwick	2 October 1996		Non-affiliated	Life peer
Lord Tebbit	6 July 1992		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP 1970–92; former cabinet minister and Chairman of the Conservative Party 1985–87
Lord Teverson	1 June 2006		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd	4 October 2013		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2013–2017)
Lord Thomas of Gresford	30 September 1996		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Deputy High Court Judge
Baroness Thomas of Winchester	26 May 2006		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Baroness Thornhill	21 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Baroness Thornton	23 July 1998		Labour	Life peer
Lord Thurlow	6 February 2015		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Viscount Thurso	20 April 2016[w]		Liberal Democrat	Hereditary peer	Former MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross from 2001 to 2015
Lord Tomlinson	21 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Meriden 1974–1979. Former MEP for Birmingham West 1984–1999.
Lord Tope	4 October 1994		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP and Councillor
Lord Touhig	28 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Islwyn 1995-2010
Lord Trees	3 July 2012		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Trefgarne	29 June 1962		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Longest-serving member of the House of Lords
Viscount Trenchard	17 May 2004[x]		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Trevethin and Oaksey	22 October 2015		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Triesman	9 January 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Trimble	2 June 2006		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP, First Minister of Northern Ireland and Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
Lord True	23 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit
Lord Truscott	10 June 2004		Non-affiliated	Life peer
Lord Tugendhat	15 October 1993		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Tunnicliffe	2 June 2004		Labour	Life peer
Lord Turnberg	4 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Former Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester
Lord Turnbull	11 October 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Lord Turner of Ecchinswell	7 September 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Chair of the Climate Change Committee and former chair of the Financial Services Authority
Baroness Tyler of Enfield	28 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chief executive of Relate
Lord Tyrie	12 June 2018		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MP for Chichester from 1997 to 2017
Baroness Uddin	18 July 1998		Non-affiliated	Life peer
Lord Udny-Lister	6 November 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Prime Minister's Chief Strategic Advisor
Viscount Ullswater	28 March 2003[y]		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Vaizey of Didcot	1 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Wantage from 2005 to 2019
Baroness Valentine	10 October 2005		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Vaux of Harrowden	11 August 2017		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Vere of Norbiton	30 August 2016		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Verjee	17 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Baroness Verma	2 June 2006		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Vinson	7 February 1985		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Wakeham	24 April 1992		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Waldegrave of North Hill	28 July 1999		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Walker of Aldringham	19 December 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Wallace of Saltaire	19 December 1995		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Emeritus professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, former director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs
Lord Wallace of Tankerness	17 October 2007		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MP, Advocate General for Scotland and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Baroness Walmsley	15 May 2000		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Walney	4 September 2020		Crossbench	Life peer	Former MP for Barrow and Furness from 2010 to 2019
Lord Warner	29 July 1998		Crossbench	Life peer
Baroness Warsi	11 October 2007		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe	10 July 1999		Labour	Life peer
Lord Wasserman	11 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Internationally recognised expert on management of police forces
Baroness Watkins of Tavistock	2 November 2015		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Watson of Invergowrie	6 November 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former MP and MSP
Lord Watson of Richmond	23 July 1999		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Watts	23 October 2015		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for St Helens North from 1997 to 2015
Viscount Waverley	29 June 1990		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Wei	28 May 2010		Conservative	Life peer
Duke of Wellington	17 September 2015		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord West of Spithead	9 July 2007		Labour	Life peer	Former admiral
Lord Wharton of Yarm	2 September 2020		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Stockton South from 2010 to 2017
Baroness Wheatcroft	22 December 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Journalist and editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal Europe and former editor of the Sunday Telegraph
Baroness Wheeler	20 June 2010		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Whitaker	5 August 1999		Labour	Life peer
Lord Whitby	10 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Whitty	21 October 1996		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Wigley	19 January 2011		Plaid Cymru	Life peer	Former MP and Leader of Plaid Cymru
Baroness Wilcox of Newport	14 October 2019		Labour	Life peer
Lord Willetts	16 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Havant from 1992 to 2015
Baroness Williams of Trafford	20 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Willis of Knaresborough	18 June 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Willoughby de Broke	9 July 1986		Non-affiliated	Hereditary peer
Lord Wills	10 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Swindon North, 1997-2010
Lord Wilson of Dinton	18 November 2002		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Lord Winston	18 December 1995		Labour	Life peer	Professor of Science and Society and emeritus professor of fertility studies at Imperial College London
Baroness Wolf of Dulwich	2 December 2014		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College London
Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise	18 June 2010		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Wolfson of Tredegar	30 December 2020		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Wood of Anfield	15 January 2011		Labour	Life peer	Lecturer in politics at the University of Oxford and co-founder of Nexus think-tank
Lord Woodley	2 November 2020		Labour	Life peer
Lord Woolf	1 October 1992		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former Law Lord and chairman of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, visiting professor of law at University College London
Lord Woolley of Woodford	14 October 2019		Crossbench	Life peer
Baroness Worthington	31 January 2011		Crossbench	Life peer	Career focusing on promoting environmental and social change
Lord Wrigglesworth	5 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP
Baroness Wyld	22 June 2017		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Young of Cookham	29 September 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Young of Graffham	10 October 1984		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Young of Hornsey	22 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Young of Norwood Green	25 June 2004		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Young of Old Scone	4 November 1997		Labour	Life peer
Viscount Younger of Leckie	28 June 2010		Conservative	Hereditary peer

Note

Current non-sitting members[]

There are also peers who remain members of the House, but are currently ineligible to sit and vote.

Peers on leave of absence[]

Under section 23 of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords, peers may obtain a leave of absence for the remainder of a Parliament.^[1] The following peers are currently on a leave of absence.^[2]

Lord	Party		On leave since	Type	Notes
Baroness Ashton of Upholland		Non-affiliated	22 December 2020	Life peer	Former High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, First-Vice-President of the European Commission, European Commissioner for Trade, Leader of the House of Lords, and Lord President of the Council
Lord Barker of Battle		Conservative	27 February 2019	Life peer	Former MP for Bexhill and Battle from 2001 to 2015
Lord Bates		Conservative	11 October 2021	Life peer	Former MP for Langbaurgh from 1992 to 1997
Lord Black of Crossharbour		Non-affiliated	5 September 2017	Life peer
Marquess of Cholmondeley		Non-affiliated	3 July 2017	Hereditary peer	Lord Great Chamberlain
Lord Christopher		Labour	7 June 2021	Life peer	Former chairman of the , former vice-president of the Building Societies Association, former general secretary of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning		Labour	26 May 2021	Life peer	Former MP for North Ayrshire and Arran from 2005 to 2015
Lord Clarke of Hampstead		Labour	12 May 2021	Life peer	Former chairman of the Labour Party, former deputy general secretary of the Union of Communication Workers
Lord Coe		Conservative	8 November 2021	Life peer	Athlete and chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations and former MP
Lord Collins of Mapesbury		Crossbench	9 September 2021	Law life peer	Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2009), Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009–2011)
Lord Davies of Abersoch		Non-affiliated	14 May 2021	Life peer	Former minister of state for trade promotion and investment, former chairman of Standard Chartered Bank and Nordic Windpower, currently chairman of PineBridge Investments and partner at
Lord Feldman of Elstree		Conservative	22 June 2020	Life peer	Chief executive and former managing director of Jayroma (London) Ltd, former chairman of the Conservative Party
Lord Freud		Conservative	16 December 2021	Life peer	Former vice-chairman of investing banking at UBS AG
Lord Hague of Richmond		Conservative	31 January 2021	Life peer	Former MP and former Leader of the House of Commons
Lord Hanningfield		Non-affiliated	28 April 2021	Life peer	Former leader of Essex County Council and former chair of the and former leader of the Association of County Councils, co-founder of local government think-tank Localis
Lord Hardie		Crossbench	4 July 2016	Life peer
Lord Harrison		Labour	17 May 2021	Life peer	Former MEP
Baroness Howarth of Breckland		Crossbench	25 March 2021	Life peer	Chair of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, former chief executive of ChildLine and vice-chair of the
Lord Hughes of Woodside		Labour	4 November 2021	Life peer	Former MP; Vice-President of Humanists UK
Lord Irvine of Lairg		Labour	12 May 2021	Life peer	Former Lord Chancellor
Baroness King of Bow		Labour	12 May 2021	Life peer	Former MP for Bethnal Green and Bow from 1997 to 2005
Lord Lawson of Blaby		Conservative	8 June 2021	Life peer	Former MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Earl of Listowel		Crossbench	8 June 2021	Hereditary peer	Sat as Baron Hare in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Lord Livermore		Labour	31 July 2020	Life peer
Lord Llewellyn of Steep		Conservative	1 November 2016	Life peer	UK Ambassador to France and former Downing Street Chief of Staff
Lord Magan of Castletown		Conservative	10 September 2020	Life peer
Lord Malloch-Brown		Crossbench	9 June 2020	Life peer	Former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and briefly Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Baroness Morgan of Ely		Labour	12 May 2021	Life peer	Member of the Senedd, Honorary Distinguished Professor at Cardiff University and former MEP
Duke of Norfolk		Non-affiliated	17 May 2021	Hereditary peer	Earl Marshal
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay		Non-affiliated	24 February 2020	Life peer
Lord O'Shaughnessy		Conservative	17 December 2021	Life peer
Lord Palumbo of Southwark		Liberal Democrat	18 August 2021	Life peer
Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover		Conservative	19 July 2021	Life peer	President of J Sainsbury
Baroness Scotland of Asthal		Labour	23 March 2016	Life peer	Commonwealth Secretary-General, former Attorney General for England and Wales and former Advocate General for Northern Ireland
Lord Stevenson of Coddenham		Crossbench	11 May 2021	Life peer	Chairman of , former chairman of , Pearson and HBOS
Baroness Vadera[3]		Non-affiliated	8 December 2011	Life peer

Peers disqualified[]

Under section 137(3) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, holders of certain judicial offices who are peers are disqualified from sitting and voting in the House of Lords while in office.^[4] The following peers are currently subject to this provision.

Lord	Party		Disqualified since	Type	Notes
Lord Boyd of Duncansby		Non-affiliated	28 June 2012	Life peer	Judge, Outer House of the Court of Session in the Supreme Courts of Scotland
Lord Burnett of Maldon		Non-affiliated	30 October 2017	Life peer	Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Lord Reed of Allermuir		Crossbench	11 January 2020	Life peer	President of the Supreme Court

Peer suspended[]

The following peer is currently suspended from the House under section 12 of the Standing Orders, in implementation of section 1 of the House of Lords (Expulsion and Suspension) Act 2015.

Lord	Party		Suspended since	Type	Notes
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass		Independent Ulster Unionist	7 December 2020	Life peer	Suspended for "at least 18 months"; former MP[5]

Ceased to be members[]

In addition to the hereditary peers excluded under the House of Lords Act 1999 and retired Lords Spiritual, there are a number of peers who have permanently ceased to be members of the House.

Resigned[]

Under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, peers may permanently retire or otherwise resign their membership of the House.^[6] The following peers have exercised that right and are still living:^[7]

Lord	Party		Date	Type	Notes
Lord Grenfell[8]		Labour	1 October 2014	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sat by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Grenfell of Kilvey Previously retired under the Resolution of the House of 27 June 2011 on 31 March 2014
Lord Cobbold[8]		Crossbench	13 October 2014	Hereditary peer
Lady Saltoun of Abernethy[9]		Crossbench	12 December 2014	Hereditary peer
Lord Lloyd of Berwick		Crossbench	27 March 2015	Law life peer	Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Lord Nickson		Crossbench	27 March 2015	Life peer
Lord Ashcroft		Conservative	3 April 2015	Life peer
Lord Hope of Thornes		Crossbench	30 April 2015	Life peer	Formerly Archbishop of York
Lord Sharman		Liberal Democrat	30 April 2015	Life peer
Viscount Tenby		Crossbench	1 May 2015	Hereditary peer
Lord Phillips of Sudbury		Liberal Democrat	7 May 2015	Life peer
Lord Edmiston		Conservative	22 July 2015	Life peer
Baroness Wilkins		Labour	23 July 2015	Life peer
Lord Sewel		Non-affiliated	30 July 2015	Life peer	Former Chairman of Committees
Lord Simpson of Dunkeld		Labour	30 July 2015	Life peer
Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville		Conservative	18 September 2015	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for National Heritage and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Baroness Linklater of Butterstone		Liberal Democrat	12 February 2016	Life peer
Baroness Knight of Collingtree		Conservative	24 March 2016	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Cameron of Lochbroom		Crossbench	21 April 2016	Life peer	Former Lord Advocate
Lord Inge		Crossbench	25 April 2016	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Baroness Perry of Southwark		Conservative	26 May 2016	Life peer
Lord Hurd of Westwell		Conservative	9 June 2016	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Home Secretary
Baroness Sharp of Guildford		Liberal Democrat	31 July 2016	Life peer
Lord Scott of Foscote		Crossbench	21 December 2016	Law life peer	Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Lord Macdonald of Tradeston		Labour	27 April 2017	Life peer
Lord Hattersley		Labour	19 May 2017	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
Marquess of Salisbury		Conservative	8 June 2017	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sat by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil Formerly known as Viscount Cranborne; former MP and Leader of the House of Lords
Lord Simon of Highbury		Non-affiliated	9 June 2017	Life peer
Earl of Mar and Kellie		Liberal Democrat	30 June 2017	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sat by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Erskine of Alloa Tower
Lord Lloyd-Webber		Conservative	17 October 2017	Life peer	Composer and impresario of musical theatre
Baroness Paisley of St George's		Democratic Unionist	30 October 2017	Life peer
Lord Plumb		Conservative	3 November 2017	Life peer	Former MEP
Lord Tanlaw		Conservative	3 November 2017	Life peer
Baroness Sharples		Conservative	18 December 2017	Life peer
Lord Condon		Crossbench	21 December 2017	Life peer	Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth		Conservative	22 December 2017	Life peer
Lord Blyth of Rowington		Conservative	1 January 2018	Life peer
Lord Clinton-Davis		Labour	10 January 2018	Life peer	Former MP and European Commissioner
Lord Sanderson of Bowden		Conservative	29 March 2018	Life peer
Lord Renwick of Clifton		Crossbench	31 March 2018	Life peer	Former British ambassador to the United States and to South Africa
Lord Kirkhill		Labour	30 April 2018	Life peer
Lord Glentoran		Conservative	1 June 2018	Hereditary peer
Lord Fearn		Liberal Democrat	11 July 2018	Life peer	Former MP
Baroness Blood		Labour	4 September 2018	Life peer
Baroness Richardson of Calow		Crossbench	20 December 2018	Life peer
Lord Higgins		Conservative	1 January 2019	Life peer	Former MP
Baroness Howells of St Davids		Labour	10 January 2019	Life peer
Lord Mogg		Crossbench	14 January 2019	Life peer
Lord Cullen of Whitekirk		Crossbench	1 February 2019	Life peer	Former Lord President of the Court of Session
Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes		Conservative	25 February 2019	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Ouseley		Crossbench	24 May 2019	Life peer
Baroness Gould of Potternewton		Labour	22 July 2019	Life peer
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market		Conservative	26 July 2019	Life peer	Former MP, Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Education and Science and Leader of the House of Commons
Lord Palumbo		Conservative	2 September 2019	Life peer
Lord Carswell		Crossbench	29 October 2019	Law life peer	Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
Baroness Emerton		Crossbench	1 November 2019	Life peer
Earl of Crawford and Balcarres		Conservative	28 November 2019	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sat by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Balniel; former MP
Lord Vallance of Tummel		Liberal Democrat	13 January 2020	Life peer
Lord Steel of Aikwood		Non-affiliated	27 March 2020	Life peer	Former MP, Leader of the Liberal Party and Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
Lord Brookman		Labour	2 April 2020	Life peer
Countess of Mar		Crossbench	1 May 2020	Hereditary peer
Baroness Byford		Conservative	5 May 2020	Life peer
Lord Cope of Berkeley		Conservative	13 May 2020	Life peer	Former MP and Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords
Lord Woolmer of Leeds		Labour	26 May 2020	Life peer	Former MP
Baroness Howe of Idlicote		Crossbench	2 June 2020	Life peer
Lord Luce		Crossbench	29 June 2020	Life peer	Former MP, Lord Chamberlain and Governor of Gibraltar
Lord Morris of Handsworth		Labour	21 July 2020	Life peer
Baroness Hanham		Conservative	22 July 2020	Life peer
Lord Darling of Roulanish		Labour	28 July 2020	Life peer	Former MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lord Jones of Birmingham		Crossbench	31 August 2020	Life peer
Lord Williams of Oystermouth		Crossbench	31 August 2020	Life peer	Formerly Archbishop of Canterbury
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope		Liberal Democrat	2 September 2020	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony		Crossbench	14 September 2020	Life peer	Former Justice of the Supreme Court and Master of the Rolls
Lord Freeman		Conservative	1 October 2020	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Elton		Conservative	29 October 2020	Hereditary peer
Lord Ahmed		Non-affiliated	14 November 2020	Life peer
Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank		Crossbench	1 December 2020	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Haskins		Crossbench	1 December 2020	Life peer
Baroness Wilcox		Conservative	17 December 2020	Life peer
Lord Cavendish of Furness		Conservative	1 January 2021	Life peer
Lord Wilson of Tillyorn		Crossbench	12 February 2021	Life peer	Former Governor of Hong Kong
Baroness Tonge		Non-affiliated	19 February 2021	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe		Crossbench	17 March 2021	Law life peer	Former Justice of the Supreme Court
Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead		Labour	9 April 2021	Life peer	Former Minister of State for Europe and for Africa and the United Nations
Lord Ryder of Wensum		Conservative	12 April 2021	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Sainsbury of Turville		Labour	1 July 2021	Life peer
Lord Beecham		Labour	1 September 2021	Life peer
Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn		Conservative	15 September 2021	Life peer
Lord Puttnam		Labour	27 October 2021	Life peer
Lord Tyler		Liberal Democrat	28 October 2021	Life peer
Lord Hunt of Chesterton		Labour	30 October 2021	Life peer
Baroness Hilton of Eggardon		Labour	5 November 2021	Life peer
Lord Broers		Crossbench	17 December 2021	Life peer
Viscount Ridley		Conservative	17 December 2021	Hereditary peer

Removed for non-attendance[]

Under section 2 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, peers who fail to attend any sittings of the House during a whole parliamentary session cease to be members of the House at the start of the next session. The following peers have been subject to this provision since the Act came into force and are still living:^[10]

Lord	Party		Date	Type	Notes
Baroness Thomas of Walliswood		Liberal Democrat	18 May 2016	Life peer
Lord Selsdon		Conservative	11 May 2021	Hereditary peer

Resigned under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010[]

Under section 41 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, peers are automatically and compulsorily treated as domiciled in the United Kingdom for tax purposes. Section 42 allowed peers who did not wish to comply with the provision to choose within three months of the act coming into force to give notice with the same effect as to resign and retire from the House of Lords.^[11] The following peers opted to exercise that right and are still living:^[7]

Lord	Party		Date	Type	Notes
Lord Laidlaw		Conservative	15 April 2010	Life peer	Retains tax residency (domicile) in Monaco; also lives in South Africa and in the United Kingdom.
Baroness Dunn		Crossbench	30 June 2010	Life peer	Retains tax residency (domicile) in Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China).
Lord Foster of Thames Bank		Crossbench	6 July 2010	Life peer	Retains tax residency (domicile) in Switzerland.

Recently deceased[]

The following life peers and elected hereditary peers have died during last year:^[12]

Name	Party		Ceased to be member (if applicable)	Date of Death	Type
Lord Shaw of Northstead		Conservative	31 March 2015	8 January 2021	Life peer
Lord Fraser of Corriegarth		Conservative		6 February 2021	Life peer
Earl of Selborne		Non-affiliated	26 March 2020	12 February 2021	Hereditary peer
Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale		Non-affiliated	13 June 2017	10 March 2021	Life peer
Lord Greaves		Liberal Democrat		23 March 2021	Life peer
Baroness Williams of Crosby		Liberal Democrat	11 February 2016	12 April 2021	Life peer
Lord Judd		Labour		17 April 2021	Life peer
Baroness O'Cathain		Conservative		23 April 2021	Life peer
Lord Smith of Clifton		Liberal Democrat	31 January 2019	24 April 2021	Life peer
Lord Walpole		Crossbench	13 June 2017	8 May 2021	Hereditary peer
Lord Millett		Crossbench	4 May 2017	27 May 2021	Law life peer
Earl Baldwin of Bewdley		Crossbench	9 May 2018	16 June 2021	Hereditary peer
Lord Elystan-Morgan		Crossbench	12 February 2020	7 July 2021	Life peer
Lord Smith of Leigh		Labour		2 August 2021	Life peer
Viscount Simon		Labour		15 August 2021	Hereditary peer
Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden		Conservative	21 July 2016	5 November 2021	Life peer
Lord Denham		Conservative	26 April 2021	1 December 2021	Hereditary peer
Lord McKenzie of Luton		Labour		2 December 2021	Life peer
Lord Rogers of Riverside		Labour	11 May 2021	18 December 2021	Life peer

See also[]

• List of life peerages
• List of hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999
• List of hereditary peers in the House of Lords by virtue of a life peerage

References[]

External links[]

• United Kingdom Parliament Alphabetical List of Members of the House of Lords