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
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.
Lords Temporal
Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999, and remaining law life peers.
| Peer | Year[fn 1] | Party | Type | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Aberdare | 2006 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Adams of Craigielea | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Paisley North from 1990 to 2005 | |
| Lord Addington | 1986 | Liberal Democrats | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Adebowale | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs | |
| Lord Adonis | 2005 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former Secretary of State for Transport, previously a Labour Peer 2005–15, Non-affiliated since his appointment to lead the National Infrastructure Commission in 2015 | |
| Baroness Afshar | 2007 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Commissioner of the UK Drug Policy Commission | |
| Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party | |
| Lord Ahmed | 1998 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Expelled from the Labour Party following conviction for dangerous driving | |
| Lord Alderdice | 1996 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly and former leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland | |
| Lord Allan of Hallam | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former chair of the Information Select Committee in the House of Commons | |
| Lord Allen of Kensington | 2013 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of Executive Board of the Labour Party | |
| Lord Alli | 1998 | Labour | Life peer | First openly gay peer in parliament | |
| Lord Alliance | 2004 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Chairman of N Brown Group | |
| Baroness Altmann | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Pensions expert and campaigner | |
| Lord Alton of Liverpool | 1997 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former MP for Liverpool Mossley Hill from 1983 to 1997 | |
| Lord Anderson of Swansea | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Swansea East from 1974 to 2005 | |
| Baroness Andrews | 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 | 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and former Government Chief Whip in the Lords | |
| Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Wanstead & Woodford 1987-1997 and for North East Hampshire 1997-2015. | |
| Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare | 1992 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Conservative whip withdrawn following conviction for perjury in 2000 | |
| Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for North West Durham from 1987 to 2010 | |
| Lord Armstrong of Ilminster | 1988 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service | |
| Earl of Arran | 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 Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon | 2001 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former leader of the Liberal Democrats and United Nations High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| Lord Ashton of Hyde | 2011 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Viscount Astor | 1973 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Astor of Hever | 1986 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Earl Attlee | 1992 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Government whip | |
| Lord Bach | 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 | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Home Secretary, former Secretary of State for Education and Science and former of the Environment | |
| Baroness Bakewell | 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Writer and broadcaster | |
| Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville | 2013 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Councillor of South Somerset District Council | |
| Earl Baldwin of Bewdley | 1977 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Balfe | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Member of the European Parliament for London from 1979 to 2004 | |
| Lord Bamford | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of JCB | |
| Baroness Barker | 1999 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Liberal Democrats spokesperson on health matters | |
| Lord Barker of Battle | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Bexhill & Battle 2001-2015 | |
| Lord Bassam of Brighton | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Labour Chief Whip in the Lords. Former leader of Brighton Council | |
| Lord Bates | 2008 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Langbaurgh from 1992 to 1997 | |
| Lord Beecham | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former chairman of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee | |
| Lord Beith | 2015 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1973 to 2015 | |
| Lord Bell | 1998 | Conservative | Life peer | Advertising and public relations executive who advised Margaret Thatcher for her three successful general election campaigns | |
| Baroness Benjamin | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Actress, author and television presenter | |
| Lord Berkeley | 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Gueterbock | |
| Lord Berkeley of Knighton | 2013 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Composer and music broadcaster | |
| Baroness Berridge | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Executive Director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship | |
| Baroness Bertin | 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Deputy Press Officer for David Cameron | |
| Lord Best | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | President of the Local Government Association | |
| Lord Bew | 2007 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Professor of Irish Politics at Queen's University Belfast | |
| Lord Bhattacharyya | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Founder of the Warwick Manufacturing Group | |
| Lord Bichard | 2010 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former permanent secretary for the Department for Education (and later the Department for Education and Employment) | |
| Lord Bilimoria | 2006 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Founder and chairman of Cobra Beer | |
| Baroness Billingham | 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Former Member of the European Parliament for Northamptonshire and Blaby from 1994 to 1999 | |
| Lord Bird | 2015 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Social entrepreneur and founder of The Big Issue | |
| Lord Birt | 2000 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Director-General of the BBC | |
| Lord Black of Brentwood | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group | |
| Baroness Blackstone | 1987 | Labour | Life peer | Former Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts | |
| Lord Blackwell | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit under the government of John Major from 1995 to 1997 | |
| Lord Blair of Boughton | 2010 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police | |
| Lord Blencartha | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former opposition chief whip | |
| Baroness Blood | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | First woman in Northern Ireland to be given a life peerage | |
| Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrish | 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Blunkett | 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Sheffield Brightside 1987-2015. Cabinet minister 1997-2004 & 2005. Former Home Secretary. | |
| Lord Boateng | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and British High Commissioner to South Africa | |
| Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury | 2004 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Lead Liberal Democrats spokesperson on Culture, Media and Sport in the House of Lords | |
| Baroness Boothroyd | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Speaker of the House of Commons | |
| Lord Borwick | 2013 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Boswell of Aynho | 2010 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees | |
| Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone | 2005 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Secretary of State for Health and former Secretary of State for National Heritage | |
| Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 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 | 2015 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former Member of the European Parliament for South East England | |
| Lord Bowness | 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Former leader of Croydon London Borough Council | |
| Lord Boyce | 2003 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Chief of the Defence Staff | |
| Lord Brabazon of Tara | 1976 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Bradley | 2006 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Manchester Withington from 1987 to 2005 | |
| Lord Bradshaw | 1999 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Liberal Democrats spokesperson on transport in the House of Lords | |
| Baroness Brady of Knightsbridge | 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Vice-chairman of West Ham United FC and senior non-executive director of the Syco and Arcadia brands | |
| Lord Bragg | 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Broadcaster and author | |
| Lord Brennan | 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Chair of the APPG on Legal and Constitutional Affairs | |
| Viscount Bridgeman | 1983 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Bridges of Headley | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office | |
| Baroness Brinton | 2011 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Executive Director of the Association of Universities in the East of England | |
| Lord Broers | 2014 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Former Vice-Chancellor University of Cambridge | |
| Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 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 | 1987 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Brookman | 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation from 1993 to 1999 | |
| Lord Brougham and Vaux | 1968 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Brown of Cambridge | 2015 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Vice-Chancellor of Aston University | |
| Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood | 2004 | Crossbencher | Law life peer | Justice of the Supreme Court (2009–2012), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2004–2009) | |
| Lord Browne of Belmont | 2006 | Democratic Unionist | Life peer | Former Member of the Legislative Assembly for Belfast East from 2007 to 2011 | |
| Lord Browne of Madingley | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former chief executive of BP from 1995 to 2007 | |
| Baroness Browning | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Tiverton and Honiton from 1997 to 2010 | |
| Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 2015 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former MP for Gordon from 1983 to 2015, President of the Scottish Liberal Democrats | |
| Lord Burnett | 2006 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former MP for Torridge and West Devon from 1997 to 2005 | |
| Lord Burns | 1998 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former chief economic advisor and permanent secretary at the treasury | |
| Baroness Burt of Solihull | 2015 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former MP for Solihull from 2005 to 2015 | |
| Baroness Buscombe | 1998 | Conservative | Life peer | Chair of the Press Complaints Commission | |
| Lord Butler of Brockwell | 1998 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service | |
| Baroness Butler-Sloss | 2006 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Lady Justice of Appeal and former president of the Family Division of the High Court | |
| Baroness Byford | 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Conservative spokesperson on Food, Farming and Rural Affairs from 1997 to 2007 in the House of Lords | |
| Lord Caine | 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Earl of Caithness | 1969 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Chief of Clan Sinclair | |
| Lord Callanan | 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Conservative MEP for North East of England | |
| Lord Cameron of Dillington | 2004 | Crossbencher | Life peer | President of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists, former chair of the Countryside Agency | |
| Baroness Campbell of Loughborough | 2008 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Chairman of UK Sport | |
| Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 2015 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Leader of the Liberal Democrats 2006–07, MP for North East Fife 1987–2015 | |
| Baroness Campbell of Surbiton | 2007 | Crossbencher | 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 | 2001 | Labour | Life peer | MP for Workington 1979–2001 | |
| Lord Carey of Clifton | 2002 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| Lord Carlile of Berriew | 1999 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Deputy High Court Judge, Former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, president of the Howard League for Penal Reform, | |
| Lord Carrington | 1941 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Secretary General of NATO, former Secretaries of State for Defence, Foreign Affairs and Energy, former First Lord of the Admiralty; hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Carington of Upton | |
| Lord Carrington of Fulham | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Fulham from 1987 to 1997 | |
| Lord Carswell | 2004 | Crossbencher | Law life peer | Former Law Lord and former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland | |
| Lord Carter of Barnes | 2008 | Labour | 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 | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of the NHS Pathology review panel | |
| Lord Cashman | 2014 | Labour | Life peer | Former MEP for West Midlands, former actor | |
| Earl Cathcart | 1999; 2007 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Chief of the Name and Arms of Clan Cathcart | |
| Lord Cavendish of Furness | 1990 | Conservative | Life peer | Former High Sheriff of Cumbria and a member of the Cumbria County Council, current Chairman of the Holker Estate Group and President of South Cumbria Rivers Trust | |
| Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice | 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Chadlington | 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Former chairman, former chief executive and currently executive director of Huntsworth; former director of Halifax | |
| Baroness Chakrabarti | 2016 | Labour | Life peer | Former director of Liberty | |
| Baroness Chalker of Wallasey | 1992 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Minister of State for Overseas Development | |
| Viscount Chandos | 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Lyttelton of Aldershot | |
| Lord Chidgey | 2005 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former MP for Eastleigh from 1994 to 2005 | |
| Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen | 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Co-chairman of the Conservative candidates committee | |
| Lord Christopher | 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former chairman of the Tyre Industry Economic Development Council, former vice-president of the Building Societies Association, former General Secretary of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation | |
| Earl of Clancarty | 1995; 2010 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | Sits as Viscount Clancarty in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland | |
| Lord Clark of Windermere | 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Former Chair of the Forestry Commission | |
| Lord Clarke of Hampstead | 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former chairman of the Labour Party, former Deputy General Secretary of the Union of Communication Workers | |
| Lord Clement-Jones | 1998 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former head of legal services and legal director in LWT and Grand Metropolitan respectively and former group secretary of Kingfisher plc, chairman of Environmental Context Ltd | |
| Lord Clinton-Davis | 1990 | Labour | Life peer | Former European Commissioner for environment, consumer protection and transport | |
| Baroness Cohen of Pimlico | 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Author and former governor of the BBC | |
| Lord Collins of Highbury | 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Former Assistant General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and former General Secretary of the Labour Party | |
| Lord Collins of Mapesbury | 2009 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2009), Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009–2011) | |
| Viscount Colville of Culross | 2011 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Colwyn | 1967 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Royal Society of Medicine, former president of the Huntingdon'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 Condon | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police | |
| Lord Cooper of Windrush | 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Vice-chairman of West Ham United FC and senior non-executive director of the Syco and Arcadia brands | |
| Lord Cope of Berkeley | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Paymaster General | |
| Earl of Cork and Orrery | 2016 | Crossbencher | 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 | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former chairman of the Northern Ireland Select Committee | |
| Baroness Corston | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party | |
| Lord Cotter | 2006 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former MP for Weston-super-Mare from 1997 to 2005 | |
| Earl of Courtown | 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 | 2007 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former chief executive of the Portman Group | |
| Baroness Couttie | 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | Leader of Westminster City Council | |
| Baroness Cox | 1983 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Founder and CEO of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust | |
| Lord Craig of Radley | 1991 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Chief of the Defence Staff | |
| Viscount Craigavon | 1974 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Crathorne | 1977 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Former director of (variously) Blakeney Hotels Ltd, Woodhouse Securities Ltd, Hand Picked Hotels, Cliveden Ltd. | |
| Baroness Crawley | 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former Chair of the Women's National Commission | |
| Lord Crickhowell | 1987 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Secretary of State for Wales | |
| Lord Crisp | 2006 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former chief executive of the NHS | |
| Lord Cromwell | 1982; 2014 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Cullen of Whitekirk | 2003 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Lord Justice General and former Lord President of the Court of Session, both senior positions in the Scottish judiciary | |
| Baroness Cumberlege | 1990 | Conservative | Life peer | Vice President of the Royal Colleges of Nursing and Midwives | |
| Lord Cunningham of Felling | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
| Lord Currie of Marylebone | 1996 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Chairman of Ofcom | |
| Lord Curry of Kirkharle | 2011 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Current Chair of NFU Mutual | |
| Baroness D'Souza | 2004 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former Lord Speaker, formerly Convenor of the Crossbench peers | |
| Lord Dannatt | 2011 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Chief of the General Staff of the British Army | |
| Lord Darling of Roulanish | 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Chancellor of the Exchequer 2007–2010 | |
| Lord Darzi of Denham | 2007 | Labour | Life peer | Professor of Surgery at Imperial College London | |
| Lord Davidson of Glen Clova | 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 | |
| Lord Davies of Abersoch | 2009 | Non-affiliated | 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 Corsair Private Equity partners | |
| Lord Davies of Coity | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former General Secretary of USDAW | |
| Lord Davies of Oldham | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Government Deputy Chief Whip 2003–2010 and Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard | |
| Lord Davies of Stamford | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former Minister of State for Defence Equipment and Support, former diplomat | |
| Lord De Mauley | 2005 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde | 1993 | Labour | Life peer | Former General Secretary of SOGAT, former chair of the Housing Corporation and former vice-chair of University College London Hospitals NHS Trust | |
| Lord Dear | 2006 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary and former chief constable of West Midlands police | |
| Lord Deben | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Secretary of State for the Environment 1993–97, former Chairman of environment consultancy company Sancroft International and of Veolia Water | |
| Baroness Deech | 2005 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Gresham Professor of Law at Gresham College | |
| Lord Deighton | 2012 | Conservative | Life peer | Chief Executive, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games | |
| Lord Denham | 1949 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Desai | 1991 | Labour | Life peer | Professor Emeritus of Economics at the London School of Economics | |
| Lord Dholakia | 1997 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Chair of Nacro | |
| Lord Dixon-Smith | 1993 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Chairman of Essex County Council | |
| Lord Dobbs | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Author | |
| Baroness Donaghy | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former chair of ACAS, | |
| Lord Donoughue | 1985 | Labour | Life peer | Visiting Professor of Government at the London School of Economics | |
| Baroness Doocey | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Chair of the London Assembly and has run DD Enterprises Management Consultancy | |
| Baroness Drake | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former President of the Trades Union Congress and commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission | |
| Lord Drayson | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Co-founder and former chief executive of PowderJect Pharmaceuticals | |
| Lord Dubs | 1994 | Labour | Life peer | Former director of the Refugee Council, former chair of Liberty and former chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission | |
| Earl of Dundee | 1983 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Dunlop | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Current Under-Secretary of State for Scotland | |
| Lord Dykes | 2004 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former MP for Harrow East from 1970 to 1997 | |
| Lord Eames | 1995 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh | |
| Baroness Eaton | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of the Local Government Association | |
| Lord Eatwell | 1992 | Labour | Life peer | Former Professor of Financial Policy at Judge Business School | |
| Viscount Eccles | 1999; 2005 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Eccles of Moulton | 1990 | Conservative | Life peer | As the wife of Viscount Eccles, she is also entitled to the style "Viscountess Eccles" | |
| Lord Elder | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party | |
| Lord Elis-Thomas | 1992 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former Presiding officer of the National Assembly for Wales, former leader of Plaid Cymru | |
| Lord Elton | 1973 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Elystan-Morgan | 1981 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former circuit judge | |
| Lord Empey | 2011 | Ulster Unionist | Life peer | Former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party | |
| Earl of Erroll | 1978 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Evans of Bowes Park | 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 | 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of several publishing companies | |
| Lord Evans of Weardale | 2014 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Director of the Security Service | |
| Lord Fairfax of Cameron | 1977; 2015 |
Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former Lord Chancellor | |
| Baroness Falkender | 1974 | Labour | Life peer | Former Political Secretary to Harold Wilson | |
| Viscount Falkland | 1984 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 2004 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Chief executive of Student Partnerships Worldwide | |
| Baroness Fall | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff | |
| Lord Farmer | 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Founding partner of RK Mine Finance group, trustee of the Kingham Hill Trust and Conservative Party co-treasurer | |
| Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 1994 | Labour | Life peer | Former member of the Council of Europe and a councillor in local government | |
| Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Communications advisor to the Leader of the Labour Party in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections | |
| Lord Faulks | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Recorder | |
| Lord Fearn | 2001 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former MP for Southport from 1987 to 1992 and 1997 to 2001 | |
| Baroness Featherstone | 2015 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former MP for Hornsey and Wood Green from 2005 to 2015 | |
| Lord Feldman | 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Director of The Young Entrepreneurs Fund | |
| Lord Feldman of Elstree | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Chief executive and former managing director of Jayroma (London) Ltd, former chairman of the Conservative Party | |
| Lord Fellowes | 1999 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Chair of the Prison Reform Trust and former Private Secretary to the Queen | |
| Lord Fellowes of West Stafford | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, chairman of the RNIB appeal for Talking Books and vice-president of the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust | |
| Lord Filkin | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former parliamentary under-secretary of state in various government departments | |
| Lord Fink | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | CEO and chairman of the Man Group, the largest listed hedge fund company in the world | |
| Lord Finkelstein | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Current Executive Editor of The Times | |
| Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Professor of Palliative Medicine at the Cardiff University School of Medicine and former president of the Royal Society of Medicine | |
| Baroness Finn | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former special adviser at the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills | |
| Baroness Flather | 1990 | Crossbencher | Life peer | First Asian woman to receive a peerage | |
| Lord Flight | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Arundel and South Downs from 1997 to 2005 | |
| Baroness Fookes | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Chair of the RSPCA and former deputy speaker of the House of Commons | |
| Baroness Ford | 2006 | Non-affiliated | 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 the Epilepsy Action | |
| Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 1999 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Secretary of State for Scotland | |
| Lord Foster of Bath | 2015 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former MP for Bath from 1992 to 2015 | |
| Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former opposition chief whip in the Commons | |
| Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Member of the Scottish Parliament, former chairman of Hearts Football club and President of the Caribbean Britain Business Council | |
| Lord Fowler | 2001 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Lord Speaker, former chairman of the House of Lords Communications Select Committee | |
| Lord Fox | 2014 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | PR director at GKN engineering and former Liberal Democrat chief executive | |
| Lord Framlingham | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former deputy Speaker in the House of Commons | |
| Lord Fraser of Corriegarth | 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Freeman | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
| Lord Freud | 2009 | Conservative | Life peer | Former vice-chairman of investing banking at UBS AG | |
| Lord Freyberg | 1994 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Fritchie | 2005 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Honorary Professor of Creative Leadership at the University of York and six other Universities | |
| Lord Gadhia | 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Gale | 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 | 2007 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Vice President of the Institute of Export | |
| Lord Gardiner of Kimble | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Deputy chief executive of the Countryside Alliance | |
| Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 1981 | Conservative | Life peer | Australian-born dentist | |
| Lord Garel-Jones | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former whip in the House of Commons and Minister for Europe | |
| Lord Geddes | 1975 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord German | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former deputy First Minister of Wales | |
| Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen | 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Former President of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents | |
| Lord Giddens | 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 | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party | |
| Earl of Glasgow | 1984; 2005 | Liberal Democrats | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Glasman | 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Senior lecturer in political theory at London Metropolitan University | |
| Lord Glenarthur | 1977 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Glendonbrook | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Owner of BMI | |
| Lord Glentoran | 1995 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Goddard of Stockport | 2014 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former leader of Stockport Council | |
| Lord Gold | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Lawyer | |
| Baroness Goldie | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party in the Scottish Parliament from 2005 until 2011 | |
| Baroness Golding | 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Radiographer and former Member of Parliament | |
| Lord Goldsmith | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former Attorney General | |
| Lord Goodlad | 2005 | Conservative | Life peer | Former chairman of the Constitution Committee | |
| Lord Gordon of Strathblane | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former political editor of STV, former managing director of Radio Clyde, former chief executive and chair of Scottish Radio Holdings, currently chair of Johnston Press plc, Radio Audience Research and AIM Trust Plc | |
| Viscount Goschen | 1988 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Goudie | 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 UN Gift | |
| Baroness Gould of Potternewton | 1993 | Labour | Life peer | Former pharmacist, former director of organisation for the Labour Party and former executive member of the Women's National Commission | |
| Lord Grabiner | 1999 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Head of Chambers at One Essex Court and deputy High Court Judge | |
| Lord Grade of Yarmouth | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors | |
| Lord Graham of Edmonton | 1983 | Labour | Life peer | Former National Secretary and President of the congress of the Co-operative Party and President of the Institute of Meat | |
| Lord Grantchester | 1995; 2003 | Labour | Hereditary peer | Former director of Littlewoods and former chairman of the Dairy Farmers of Britain, | |
| Lord Greaves | 2000 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former member of Lancashire County Council for 25 years | |
| Lord Green of Deddington | 2014 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former British Ambassador | |
| Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc | |
| Baroness Greenfield | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University and former director of the Royal Institution | |
| Baroness Greengross | 2000 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former director-general of Age Concern England | |
| Lord Greenway | 1975 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | Former chairman of The World Ship Trust | |
| Baroness Grender | 2013 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former Head of Communications for the Liberal Democrats | |
| Baroness Grey-Thompson | 2010 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former paralympic athlete | |
| Lord Griffiths of Burry Port | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former President of the Methodist Congress | |
| Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach | 1991 | Conservative | Life peer | Vice-president of the Nature in Art trust and vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International | |
| Lord Grocott | 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Former presenter and producer at Central Television and former MP | |
| Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Chief of the Defence Staff | |
| Lord Hague of Richmond | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP and former Leader of the House of Commons | |
| Viscount Hailsham | 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 | 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Neath from 1991 to 2015 | |
| Lord Hall of Birkenhead | 2010 | Crossbencher | 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 | |
| Lord Hameed | 2007 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Chairman of Alpha Hospital Group, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the London International Hospital, former Executive Director & 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 | 2005 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP and former chairman of the 1922 Committee | |
| Baroness Hamwee | 1991 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Vice president of Parity and | |
| Baroness Hanham | 1999 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of St. Mary's Hospital NHS Trust and Westminster Primary Care Trust, parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Communities and Local Government | |
| Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former senior diplomat | |
| Lord Hanningfield | 1998 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former leader of Essex County Council and former chair of the Council of Local Education Authorities and former leader of the Association of County Councils, co-founder of local government think-tank Localis | |
| Viscount Hanworth | 1996; 2011 | Labour | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Harding of Winscombe | 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Chief executive of TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC | |
| Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 2006 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Gresham Professor of Divinity, former Church of England Bishop of Oxford; Chair of the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority Ethics and Law Committee and former chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cell Research | |
| Lord Harris of Haringey | 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 | 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of Carpetright Plc | |
| Baroness Harris of Richmond | 1999 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Chair of the Industry and Parliament Trust, President of the National Association of Chaplains to the Police and former chair of North Yorkshire County Council and Police Authority | |
| Lord Harrison | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former MEP | |
| Lord Hart of Chilton | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former planning solicitor with Herbert Smith | |
| Lord Haskel | 1993 | Labour | Life peer | President of the Environment Industries Commission, and former international president of The Textile Institute | |
| Lord Haskins | 1998 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former chairman of Northern Foods, former chairman of the Better Regulation Task Force and Chairman of the Council of the Open University | |
| Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick | 2005 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Vice-president of Catch22, ambassador of Make Justice Work | |
| Lord Haughey | 2013 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Haworth | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and former Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Affairs | |
| Lord Hay of Ballyore | 2014 | Democratic Unionist | Life peer | Former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly | |
| Baroness Hayman | 1996 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Lord Speaker (2006–11) and former chair of Cancer Research UK, former chair of the Human Tissue Authority and former chair of Whittington Hospital NHS Trust | |
| Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 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 | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Helic | 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Government special adviser on preventing sexual violence in conflict zones | |
| Baroness Henig | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Chair of the Security Industry Authority | |
| Lord Henley | 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 | 2010 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London | |
| Lord Heseltine | 2001 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Deputy Prime Minister, former Secretary of State for Defence, the Environment and former President of the Board of Trade | |
| Baroness Heyhoe-Flint | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | President of the Lady Taverners, former captain of the woman's cricket team, cricket journalist and broadcaster, director of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. | |
| Lord Higgins | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Hill of Oareford | 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 Hilton of Eggardon | 1991 | Labour | Life peer | Former Commander of the Metropolitan Police | |
| Baroness Hodgson of Abinger | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 2000 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Hoffmann | 1995 | Crossbencher | Law life peer | Former Law Lord and Professor of Law at Queen Mary College, University of London | |
| Baroness Hogg | 1995 | Crossbencher | Life peer | As the wife of Viscount Hailsham, she is also entitled to the style "Viscountess Hailsham" | |
| Lord Hollick | 1991 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Hollins | 2010 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Professor of the psychiatry of learning disability at St George's, University of London, former president of the Royal Society of Psychiatrists | |
| Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 1990 | Labour | Life peer | Former lecturer in modern history, reader and Dean at the University of East Anglia | |
| Lord Holmes of Richmond | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Earl of Home | 1996 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Hooper | 1985 | Conservative | Life peer | President of Waste Watch, President of the European Foundation For Heritage Skills, and president of Good Guy's Cancer Appeal | |
| Lord Hope of Craighead | 1995 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and former Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
| Lord Horam | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Howard of Lympne | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Home Secretary and former Leader of the Opposition | |
| Lord Howard of Rising | 2004 | Conservative | Life peer | Director of Fortress Holdings | |
| Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Chair of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, former chief executive of ChildLine and vice-chair of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation | |
| Lord Howarth of Newport | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Stratford-Upon-Avon 1983-1997 and for Newport East 1997-2005. | |
| Earl Howe | 1984 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission | |
| Lord Howell of Guildford | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Secretaries of State for Energy and Transport | |
| Baroness Howells of St Davids | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Howie of Troon | 1978 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Hoyle | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Nelson & Colne 1974-1979 and for Warrington 1981-1983 and then Warrington North 1983-1997. | |
| Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 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 | |
| Lord Hughes of Woodside | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Vice-president of the British Humanist Association | |
| Baroness Humphreys | 2013 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Hunt of Chesterton | 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Former director-general and chief executive of the Meteorological Office, professor of climate modelling at University College London | |
| Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 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 | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Partner at the law firm Beachcroft LLP | |
| Lord Hussain | 2011 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Deputy Group Leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Luton Borough Council | |
| Baroness Hussein-Ede | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | 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 | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and former Secretary of State for Defence | |
| Lord Hylton | 1968 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Imbert | 1999 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police | |
| Lord Inglewood | 1989 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Irvine of Lairg | 1987 | Labour | Law life peer | Former Lord Chancellor | |
| Lord James of Blackheath | 2006 | Conservative | Life peer | Corporate trouble-shooter and former agent for MI5 | |
| Baroness Janke | 2014 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former leader of Bristol City Council | |
| Lord Janvrin | 2007 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Permanent Lord-in-Waiting; former Private Secretary to the Queen | |
| Lord Jay of Ewelme | 2006 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Permanent Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service | |
| Baroness Jay of Paddington | 1992 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of the House of Lords Constitution Committee | |
| Baroness Jenkin of Kennington | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | PR consultant, and active in promoting women in Parliament | |
| Baroness Jolly | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Chair of Executive Committee of Liberal Democrats in Devon and Cornwall | |
| Lord Jones | 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for East Flintshire 1970-1983 and for Alyn & Deeside 1983-2001 | |
| Lord Jones of Birmingham | 2007 | Labour | Life peer | Former director-general of the Confederation of British Industry | |
| Lord Jones of Cheltenham | 2005 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former computer programmer and systems analyst at International Computers Limited and former MP | |
| Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb | 2013 | Green | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 2006 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Director of Policy and Public Affairs at UNISON and former Chair of the Labour Party | |
| Lord Jopling | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Jordan | 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 | |
| Baroness Jowell | 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Dulwich and West Norwood from 1992-2015 | |
| Lord Judd | 1991 | Labour | Life peer | Former director of Oxfam | |
| Lord Judge | 2008 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales 2008-13 | |
| Lord Kakkar | 2010 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Professor of Surgical Sciences at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University | |
| Lord Kalms | 2004 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Life president and former chairman of DSG International plc and former chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies | |
| Lord Keen of Elie | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Kennedy of Cradley | 2013 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Criminal and human rights lawyer, Chair of JUSTICE | |
| Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 2004 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Permanent Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service | |
| Lord Kerslake | 2015 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Permanent Secetary to the Department of Communities and Local Government and Head of the Home Civil Service | |
| Lord Kestenbaum | 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Chief Executive of National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts | |
| Baroness Kidron | 2012 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Film director | |
| Lord Kilclooney | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former 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 | 2001 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Environment Secretary, former Transport Secretary, former Employment Secretary, former Northern Ireland Secretary and former chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee | |
| Lord King of Lothbury | 2013 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Governor of the Bank of England | |
| Baroness Kingsmill | 2006 | Labour | Life peer | Former deputy chair of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and of the Competition Commission | |
| Lord Kinnock | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Leader of the Labour Party 1983–92, former European Commissioner for Transport and Administrative Reform and Vice-President of the European Commission | |
| Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead | 2009 | Labour | Life peer | Former Minister of State for Europe and for Africa and the United Nations | |
| Earl of Kinnoull | 2015 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Kirkham | 1999 | Conservative | Life peer | Executive Chairman of DFS Furniture Company Ltd | |
| Lord Kirkhill | 1975 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate | 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 Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 2005 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former MP | |
| Lord Knight of Weymouth | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | MP for South Dorset 2001-2010 | |
| Baroness Kramer | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former Vice-President of Citibank, Director and co-founder of International Capital Partners, former MP. Minister of State for Transport 2013- | |
| Lord Krebs | 2007 | Crossbencher | 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 Laird | 1999 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former Chairman of the Ulster-Scots Agency | |
| Lord Laming | 1998 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Psychiatric social worker and chairman of the Harold Shipman inquiry and the Baby P inquiry | |
| Lord Lamont of Lerwick | 1998 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
| Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho | 2013 | Crossbencher | Life peer | ||
| Lord Lang of Monkton | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former 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 | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Leader of the House of Commons | |
| Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon | 2013 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Lawson of Blaby | 1992 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
| Lord Layard | 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics | |
| Lord Lea of Crondall | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress | |
| Lord Lee of Trafford | 2006 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Leigh of Hurley | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Leitch | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of Bupa, Scottish Widows and Intrinsic Financial Services, former Chairman and Chief Executive of Zurich's British operations | |
| Lord Lennie | 2014 | Labour | Life peer | Former deputy secretary general of the Labour Party | |
| Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 1993 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Levene of Portsoken | 1997 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Chairman of Lloyd's of London and former vice chairman of Deutsche Bank | |
| Lord Levy | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | President of Jews' Free School, former Special Envoy to the Middle East; arrested but not charged in relation to the Cash for Honours affair | |
| Lord Lexden | 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 | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former British High Commissioner to Australia and former Secretary of State for Scotland | |
| Lord Liddle | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of the International Think Tank Policy Network and former chairman of the Public Policy Centre and former managing director of Prima Europe Ltd, a consultancy company | |
| Earl of Lindsay | 1989 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Lingfield | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of the League of Mercy, former Director-General of St. John Ambulance and advocate of free schools | |
| Lord Lipsey | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University | |
| Earl of Listowel | 1998 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | Sits as Baron Hare in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland | |
| Lord Lisvane | 2014 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Clerk of the House of Commons | |
| Lord Livermore | 2015 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Earl of Liverpool | 1969 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Livingston of Parkhead | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | Minister for Trade and Investment | |
| Lord Lloyd-Webber | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Composer of musical theatre | |
| Lord Loomba | 2011 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Executive chairman of the Rinku Group and pioneer of widow's rights | |
| Marquess of Lothian | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Kerr of Monteviot | |
| Lord Low of Dalston | 2006 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Chairman of the Royal National Institute for the Blind, Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Leeds | |
| Lord Lucas | 1992 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Luce | 2000 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Governor of Gibraltar and Lord Chamberlain | |
| Baroness Ludford | 1997 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | MEP for London 1999-2014 | |
| Lord Lupton | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Lyell | 1960 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Earl of Lytton | 1985; 2011 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord McAvoy | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former deputy chief whip in the House of Commons | |
| Lord McCluskey | 1976 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Solicitor-General for Scotland | |
| Lord McColl of Dulwich | 1989 | Conservative | Life peer | Professor Emeritus of Surgery at Guy's Hospital, associated with King's College London | |
| Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former First Minister of Scotland | |
| Baroness McDonagh | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former general secretary of the Labour Party | |
| Lord Macdonald of River Glaven | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former Director of Public Prosecutions | |
| Lord Macdonald of Tradeston | 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former chair of Scottish Media Group plc and former minister | |
| Lord McFall of Alcluith | 2010 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Senior Deputy Speaker, former chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Committee | |
| Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market | 2001 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Secretaries of State for Transport and Education and Science, chairman of the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee | |
| Baroness McGregor-Smith | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord McInnes of Kilwinning | 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former Associate Producer at the Royal Shakespeare Company, former Executive Director of the Royal National Theatre | |
| Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 1979 | Conservative | Law 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 Mackay of Drumadoon | 1995 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Judge of the Inner House of the Court of Session | |
| Lord MacKenzie of Culkein | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former nurse and President of the Trades Union Congress | |
| Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate | 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former Chief Superintendent in the Durham Constabulary, former President of the Police Superintendents' Association | |
| Lord McKenzie of Luton | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former Partner at accounting firm Price Waterhouse | |
| Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth | 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Chairman of Vodafone and former Chairman and former Chief Executive of Tesco | |
| Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 2001 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former leader of the Social Democratic Party and the Social and Liberal Democrats | |
| Lord McNally | 1995 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Minister of State for Justice and leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords | |
| Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court | 2016 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury | |
| Baroness Maddock | 1997 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Magan of Castletown | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Maginnis of Drumglass | 2001 | Independent Ulster Unionist | Life peer | Former Ulster Unionist MP and Peer. Resigned from the UUP on 28 August 2012[1] | |
| Lord Mair | 2015 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Cambridge | |
| Baroness Mallalieu | 1991 | Labour | Life peer | President of the Countryside Alliance | |
| Lord Malloch-Brown | 2007 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and briefly Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations | |
| Lord Mancroft | 1988 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Former heroin addict, chair of the Addict Recovery Foundation, chair of the Drug and Alcohol Foundation | |
| Lord Mandelson | 2008 | Labour | Life peer | Former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Northern Ireland and former European Commissioner for Trade | |
| Baroness Manningham-Buller | 2008 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Director of the Security Service | |
| Baroness Manzoor | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Countess of Mar | 1975 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | President of the Elderly Accommodation Counsel, former President of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists and former chairman of both Honest Food and the Environmental Medicine Foundation | |
| Earl of Mar and Kellie | 1993; 2000 |
Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Erskine of Alloa Tower | |
| Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames | 2011 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Commercial and family law QC with specialist interest in human rights and constitutional reform | |
| Lord Marland | 2006 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of Herriot Ltd and of Hunter Boot Ltd | |
| Lord Marlesford | 1991 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Martin of Springburn | 2009 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Speaker of the House of Commons | |
| Baroness Masham of Ilton | 1970 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Chair of Phoenix House | |
| Baroness Massey of Darwen | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Chair of the National Treatment Agency for substance misuse | |
| Lord Maude of Horsham | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Mawhinney | 2005 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of the Football League; former Secretary of State for Transport and former chairman of the Conservative Party | |
| Lord Mawson | 2007 | Crossbencher | Life peer | A founder and board member of Poplar HARCA (housing association) and author of The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work | |
| Lord Maxton | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord May of Oxford | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London, former president of the Royal Society | |
| Baroness Meacher | 2006 | Crossbencher | 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 | 2013 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 1998 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Mitchell | 2000 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Mobarik | 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Businesswoman, founder of the Scotland Pakistan Network | |
| Baroness Mone | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Businesswoman, founder Ultimo | |
| Lord Monks | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former General Secretary of both the Trades Union Congress and the European Trade Union Confederation | |
| Duke of Montrose | 1995 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Moonie | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former clinical pharmacologist and community medicine specialist and former MP for Kirkcaldy 1987-2005. | |
| Lord Moore of Lower Marsh | 1992 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Secretaries of State for Social Services and Transport | |
| Lord Morgan | 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Professor of History at Brunel University | |
| Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 2004 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former director or chief executive of various voluntary sector organisations such as Shelter, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Workplace Nursery Campaign and Childcare Umbrella | |
| Baroness Morgan of Ely | 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Honorary Distinguished Professor at Cardiff University and former MEP | |
| Baroness Morgan of Huyton | 2001 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Morris of Aberavon | 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Former Attorney General for England and Wales and for Northern Ireland | |
| Baroness Morris of Bolton | 2004 | Conservative | Life peer | President of the National Benevolent Institution | |
| Lord Morris of Handsworth | 2006 | Labour | Life peer | Former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union | |
| Baroness Morris of Yardley | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Birmingham Yardley 1992-2005. Former Secretary State for Education | |
| Lord Morrow | 2006 | Democratic Unionist | Life peer | Former Minister for Social Development in Northern Ireland | |
| Lord Mountevans | 2015 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Moynihan | 1997 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Murphy | 2004 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Professor of Psychiatry of Old Age at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals United Medical School | |
| Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Torfaen from 1987 to 2015 | |
| Lord Myners | 2008 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Chairman of the Guardian Media Group and former Chairman of the Low Pay Commission | |
| Lord Naseby | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Nash | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Neuberger | 2004 | Crossbencher | 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 | |
| Baroness Neville-Jones | 2007 | Conservative | Life peer | Minister of State for Security, former diplomat and former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee | |
| Baroness Neville-Rolfe | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Newby | 1997 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Chair of Sport at The Prince's Trust | |
| Baroness Newlove | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Community reform campaigner | |
| Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Executive Chairman of the AMAR International Charitable Foundation and of the Iraq Britain Business Council | |
| Baroness Noakes | 2000 | Conservative | Life peer | Former partner at KPMG | |
| Duke of Norfolk | 2003 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | Earl Marshal | |
| Lord Northbourne | 1982 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | Deputy chair of Toynbee Hall, chair of Betteshanger Farms Ltd, chair of the Parenting Support Forum and former chair of the Stepney Children's Fund | |
| Lord Northbrook | 1991 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Northover | 2000 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Norton of Louth | 1998 | Conservative | Life peer | Professor of Government at the University of Hull | |
| Baroness Nye | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former Director of Government Relations, former diary secretary to the then–prime minister Gordon Brown | |
| Baroness O'Cathain | 1991 | Conservative | Life peer | Former director of, amongst others, Midland Bank plc, Tesco plc, British Airways plc, BNP Paribas and Allders | |
| Lord O'Donnell | 2012 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service | |
| Baroness O'Loan | 2009 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's Human Rights Enquiry | |
| Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve | 1999 | Crossbencher | 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 Clackmannan | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire 1979-1983, Clackmannan 1983-1997 and Ochil 1997-2005 | |
| Lord O'Neill of Gatley | 2015 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | ||
| Lord O'Shaughnessy | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay | 2000 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | ||
| Lord Oates | 2015 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes | 1989 | Conservative | Life peer | Former social worker | |
| Lord Ouseley | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Chair and chief executive of the Commission for Racial Equality | |
| Lord Owen | 1992 | Independent Social Democrat | Life peer | Former Foreign Secretary, and former co-chairman of the Conference on Yugoslavia, and leader of the Social Democratic Party 1983–87, and the continuing Social Democratic Party 1988–90 | |
| Lord Oxburgh | 1999 | Crossbencher | 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 | 2014 | Liberal Democrats | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Paddick | 2013 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Palmer | 1990 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Palmer of Childs Hill | 2011 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former councillor | |
| Lord Palumbo | 1991 | Conservative | Life peer | Property developer and Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain | |
| Lord Palumbo of Southwark | 2013 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Pannick | 2008 | Crossbencher | 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 | 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 | |
| Baroness Parminter | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | 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 | 1999 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, former chairmen of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges of Scotland 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 Blackburn | 2000 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Patel of Bradford | 2006 | Labour | Life peer | Professor at the University of Central Lancashire | |
| Lord Patten | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Secretary of State for Education | |
| Lord Patten of Barnes | 2005 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of the BBC Trust, former Secretary of State for the Environment, former Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong, former European Commissioner for External Relations | |
| Lord Paul | 1996 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Resigned the Labour whip in October 2010 | |
| Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 1990 | UK Independence | Life peer | Former leader of UK Independence Party | |
| Earl Peel | 1973 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Pendry | 2001 | Labour | Life peer | President of Oyston Steel Estates Ltd, President of the Football Foundation Ltd | |
| Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers | 1999 | Crossbencher | 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) | |
| Baroness Pidding | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Pinnock | 2014 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former leader of Kirklees Council | |
| Baroness Pitkeathley | 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 | 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 Plumb | 1987 | Conservative | Life peer | Former general-secretary of the National Farmers Union and former president of the European Parliament | |
| Lord Polak | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede | 1990; 2000 |
Labour | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton | |
| Lord Popat | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Founder and chairman of hospitality and health care firm TLC Group Ltd | |
| Lord Porter of Spalding | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Powell of Bayswater | 2000 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former diplomat | |
| Baroness Prashar | 1999 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission and president of the Royal Commonwealth Society | |
| Lord Prescott | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former Deputy Prime Minister | |
| Lord Price | 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Primarolo | 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Bristol South from 1987-2015 | |
| Lord Prior of Brampton | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Prosser | 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 | 2013 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Puttnam | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Film producer | |
| Baroness Quin | 2006 | Labour | Life peer | Chair of the Franco-British Council (British Section) and former Minister of State for Europe | |
| Lord Quirk | 1994 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Professor of English Language at the University of Durham and former Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London | |
| Lord Radice | 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Author, Chairman of the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe and former Chairman of Policy Network | |
| Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale | 1996 | Labour | Life peer | Former diplomat and former case officer in the Secret Intelligence Service | |
| Lord Ramsbotham | 2005 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former General and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons | |
| Lord Rana | 2004 | Crossbencher | Life peer | President of Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry | |
| Baroness Randerson | 2011 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Culture, Sport and the Welsh Language and former Cardiff Council Leader | |
| Baroness Rawlings | 1994 | Conservative | Life peer | President of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and former Chairman of King's College London Council | |
| Lord Razzall | 1997 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Rea | 1982 | Labour | Hereditary peer | Doctor | |
| Baroness Rebuck | 2014 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of Penguin Random House UK publishers | |
| Lord Redesdale | 1991; 2000 |
Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Mitford | |
| Baroness Redfern | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Rees of Ludlow | 2005 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and Astronomer Royal, president of the Royal Society | |
| Lord Reid of Cardowan | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former Secretaries of State for Scotland, Health, Defence and former Home Secretary | |
| Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn | 1991 | Conservative | Life peer | Emeritus Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton | |
| Lord Rennard | 1999 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Renwick of Clifton | 1997 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former diplomat, and former British Ambassadors to South Africa and to the United States | |
| Lord Ribeiro | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Consultant General Surgeon; member of the Health Policy Research Advisory Board of the American College of Surgeons | |
| Lord Richard | 1990 | Labour | Life peer | Former British Ambassador to the United Nations and former European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs and former Leader of the House of Lords | |
| Lord Richards of Herstmonceux | 2014 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Chief of the Defence Staff | |
| Baroness Richardson of Calow | 1998 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former President of the Methodist Conference | |
| Lord Ricketts | 2016 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former UK Ambassador to France, former National Security Adviser and former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
| Viscount Ridley | 2013 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Scientist, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences | |
| Lord Risby | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party responsible for business links in the City of London | |
| Lord Robathan | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for South Leicestershire from 2010 to 2015 and for Blaby from 1992 to 2010 | |
| Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 2004 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former President of the Welsh Liberal Democrats | |
| Lord Robertson of Port Ellen | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Former NATO Secretary General and Secretary of State for Defence | |
| Baroness Rock | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank | 1992 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former Secretary of State for Transport, former Director-General of the Royal Institute of British Architects, former Chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority; member of the Gang of Four that founded the Social Democratic Party | |
| Lord Rogan | 1999 | Ulster Unionist | Life peer | Former president of the Ulster Unionist Party | |
| Lord Rogers of Riverside | 1996 | Labour | Life peer | Modernist architect and winner of the RIBA Gold Medal, the Thomas Jefferson Medal, the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Minerva Medal and Pritzker Prize | |
| Lord Rooker | 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of the Food Standards Agency | |
| Lord Rose of Monewden | 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Former chief executive and chairman of Marks & Spencer | |
| Lord Rosser | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Earl of Rosslyn | 1979 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Rotherwick | 1996 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Rowe-Beddoe | 2006 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Deputy Chair of the UK Statistics Authority | |
| Lord Rowlands | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former Leader of the House of Lords | |
| Lord Russell of Liverpool | 1981; 2014 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Ryder of Wensum | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | Former vice-chairman of the BBC | |
| Lord Saatchi | 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Co-founder and executive director of Saatchi and Saatchi and M&C Saatchi | |
| Lord Sacks | 2009 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth | |
| Lord St John of Bletso | 1978 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Sanderson of Bowden | 1985 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Earl of Sandwich | 1995 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Sassoon | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Commercial Secretary to the Treasury and former President of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering | |
| Lord Saville of Newdigate | 1997 | Crossbencher | Law life peer | Former Law Lord and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
| Lord Sawyer | 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former General Secretary of the Labour Party | |
| Baroness Scott of Bybrook | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Scott of Foscote | 2000 | Crossbencher | Law life peer | Former Law Lord | |
| Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 2000 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former President of the Liberal Democrats | |
| Lord Scriven | 2014 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former leader of Sheffield City Council | |
| Baroness Seccombe | 1991 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Earl of Selborne | 1971 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Selkirk of Douglas | 1997 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Selsdon | 1963 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Solicitor | |
| Lord Sharkey | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Chairman of the Liberal Democrat 2010 General Election campaign | |
| Baroness Sharples | 1973 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Sheehan | 2015 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Sheikh | 2006 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman and executive of Camberford Law | |
| Baroness Shephard of Northwold | 2005 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Secretary of State for Education and Employment and former Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | |
| Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Sherlock | 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 UKCOSA | |
| Baroness Shields | 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Digital adviser to David Cameron, chairwoman of Tech City UK | |
| Lord Shinkwin | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Shipley | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford | 1981 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Lord High Steward of Ireland | |
| Lord Shutt of Greetland | 2000 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Viscount Simon | 1994 | Labour | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Singh of Wimbledon | 2011 | Crossbencher | Life peer | ||
| Lord Skelmersdale | 1974 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Skidelsky | 1991 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick | |
| Viscount Slim | 1971 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Smith of Basildon | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Shadow leader of the House of Lords. Former Minister of State for Third Sector. Former MP for Basildon 1997-2010. | |
| Lord Smith of Clifton | 1997 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Professor of Politics at Queen Mary College, honorary Professor of Politics of the University of Ulster and former visiting Professor of Politics at the Universities of York and Portsmouth | |
| Lord Smith of Finsbury | 2005 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and former chair of the Advertising Standards Authority | |
| Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill | 1995 | Labour | Life peer | President of Scottish Opera and chairman of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe | |
| Lord Smith of Hindhead | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Chief Executive of the Association of Conservative Clubs | |
| Lord Smith of Kelvin | 2008 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Chairman of Weir Group and Scottish and Southern Energy former Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation | |
| Lord Smith of Leigh | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | Chairman of Local Government Leadership | |
| Baroness Smith of Newnham | 2014 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Senior lecturer in international relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Cambridge University | |
| Lord Snape | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP and implicated in the Cash for Influence scandal | |
| Lord Soley | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party and former MP | |
| Duke of Somerset | 1984; 2014 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Spicer | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP and former Chairman of the 1922 Committee | |
| Earl of Stair | 1996; 2008 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Stedman-Scott | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Chief Executive of Tomorrow's People Trust | |
| Lord Steel of Aikwood | 1997 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former leader of the Liberal Party and former MP and MSP | |
| Lord Stephen | 2011 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and former deputy first minister of Scotland | |
| Lord Sterling of Plaistow | 1991 | Conservative | Life peer | Chairman of Motability, former executive chairman of P&O | |
| Baroness Stern | 1999 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former director of NACRO, former Secretary General of Penal Reform International and author of many books on prison reform | |
| Lord Stern of Brentford | 2007 | Crossbencher | Life peer | IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, author of the Stern Report | |
| Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington | 2005 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police | |
| Lord Stevens of Ludgate | 1987 | UK Independence | Life peer | ||
| Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Stevenson of Coddenham | 1999 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Chairman of Manocap, former chairmen of Aerfi, Pearson and HBOS | |
| Lord Steyn | 1995 | Crossbencher | Law life peer | Former Law Lord | |
| Lord Stirrup | 2011 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Chief of the Defence Staff | |
| Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 1983 | Independent Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Swindon 1970-1983 | |
| Lord Stone of Blackheath | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former joint-managing director of Marks and Spencer, Chairman of Sindicatum Climate Change Foundation | |
| Lord Stoneham of Droxford | 2011 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Liberal Democrats HQ Operations Director | |
| Lord Storey | 2011 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Councillor and former leader of Liverpool City Council | |
| Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 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 | 2011 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Strathclyde | 1986 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Former Leader of the House of Lords | |
| Baroness Stroud | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Stunell | 2015 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Former MP for Hazel Grove from 1997-2015 | |
| Lord Sugar | 2009 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | TV personality and businessman | |
| Baroness Sugg | 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Suri | 2014 | Conservative | Life peer | Businessman and formerly the general secretary of the Board of British Sikhs | |
| Lord Sutherland of Houndwood | 2001 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion | |
| Baroness Suttie | 2013 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Swinfen | 1977 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 1996 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Tanlaw | 1971 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Taverne | 1996 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | MP for Lincoln 1962-1974 | |
| Baroness Taylor of Bolton | 2005 | Labour | Life peer | MP for Bolton West 1974-1983; MP for Dewsbury 1987-2005. Cabinet minister 1997-2001. | |
| Lord Taylor of Goss Moor | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 2006 | Conservative | Life peer | Government Chief Whip in the Lords | |
| Lord Taylor of Warwick | 1996 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | ||
| Lord Tebbit | 1992 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP 1970-1992; former cabinet minister. Chairman of the Conservative Party 1985-1987. | |
| Lord Temple-Morris | 2001 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Leominster 1974-2001 | |
| Lord Teverson | 2006 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Thomas of Gresford | 1996 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Deputy High Court Judge | |
| Lord Thomas of Swynnerton | 1981 | Crossbencher | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 2006 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Thornhill | 2015 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Thornton | 1998 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Thurlow | 2015 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Viscount Thurso | 1995; 2016 | Liberal Democrats | Hereditary peer | Former MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross from 2001 to 2015 | |
| Lord Tomlinson | 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Meriden 1974-1979. Former MEP for Birmingham West 1984-1999. | |
| Baroness Tonge | 2005 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | MP for Richmond Park 1997–2005, Liberal Democrat peer 2005–2012 | |
| Lord Tope | 1994 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Touhig | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | MP for Islwyn 1995-2010 | |
| Lord Trees | 2012 | Crossbencher | Life peer | ||
| Lord Trefgarne | 1962 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Viscount Trenchard | 1987; 2004 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Trevethin and Oaksey | 2015 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Triesman | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Former General Secretary of the Labour Party | |
| Lord Trimble | 2006 | Conservative | Life peer | Former First Minister of Northern Ireland. Former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party | |
| Lord True | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit | |
| Baroness Trumpington | 1980 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Truscott | 2004 | Independent Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Tugendhat | 1993 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Tunnicliffe | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Turnberg | 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Former Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester | |
| Lord Turnbull | 2005 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service | |
| Baroness Turner of Camden | 1985 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Turner of Ecchinswell | 2005 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Chair of the Climate Change Committee and former chair of the Financial Services Authority | |
| Lord Tyler | 2005 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Tyler of Enfield | 2011 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Chief executive of Relate | |
| Baroness Uddin | 1998 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | ||
| Viscount Ullswater | 1966; 2003 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Baroness Valentine | 2005 | Crossbencher | Life peer | ||
| Lord Vallance of Tummel | 2004 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Vere of Norbiton | 2016 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Verjee | 2013 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Verma | 2006 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Vinson | 1985 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Wakeham | 1992 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Waldegrave of North Hill | 1999 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Walker of Aldringham | 2006 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Chief of the Defence Staff | |
| Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe | 2002 | Crossbencher | Law life peer | Former Law Lord and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
| Baroness Wall of New Barnet | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | Trade unionist | |
| Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 1995 | Liberal Democrats | 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 | 2007 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | Her Majesty's Advocate General for Scotland and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords | |
| Baroness Walmsley | 2000 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Walpole | 1989 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Warner | 1998 | Crossbencher | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Warsi | 2007 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Wasserman | 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Internationally recognised expert on management of police forces | |
| Baroness Watkins of Tavistock | 2015 | Crossbencher | Life peer | ||
| Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Watson of Richmond | 1999 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Watts | 2015 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for St Helens North from 1997 to 2015 | |
| Viscount Waverley | 1990 | Crossbencher | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Wei | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Duke of Wellington | 2015 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord West of Spithead | 2007 | Labour | Life peer | Former Admiral | |
| Baroness Wheatcroft | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | Journalist and editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal Europe and former editor of the Sunday Telegraph | |
| Baroness Wheeler | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Whitaker | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Whitby | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Whitty | 1996 | Labour | Life peer | Former General Secretary of the Labour Party | |
| Lord Wigley | 2011 | Plaid Cymru | Life peer | Former leader of Plaid Cymru | |
| Baroness Wilcox | 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Willetts | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Havant from 1992 to 2015 | |
| Lord Williams of Baglan | 2010 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon | |
| Lord Williams of Elvel | 1985 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Lord Williams of Oystermouth | 2013 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| Baroness Williams of Trafford | 2013 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 2010 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Willoughby de Broke | 1986 | UK Independence | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Wills | 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Swindon North 1997-2010 | |
| Lord Wilson of Dinton | 2002 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service | |
| Lord Wilson of Tillyorn | 1992 | Crossbencher | Life peer | ||
| Lord Winston | 1995 | Labour | Life peer | Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London | |
| Baroness Wolf of Dulwich | 2014 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College London | |
| Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise | 2010 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale | 1991 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Wood of Anfield | 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Lecturer in politics at the University of Oxford and co-founder of Nexus think-tank | |
| Lord Woolf | 1992 | Crossbencher | Law life peer | Former Law Lord and chairman of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, visiting professor of law at University College London | |
| Lord Woolmer of Leeds | 1999 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Worthington | 2011 | Labour | Life peer | Career focusing on promoting environmental and social change | |
| Lord Wrigglesworth | 2013 | Liberal Democrats | Life peer | ||
| Lord Wright of Richmond | 1994 | Crossbencher | Life peer | Former Head of the Diplomatic Service | |
| Lord Young of Cookham | 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Lord Young of Graffham | 1984 | Conservative | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Young of Hornsey | 2004 | Crossbencher | Life peer | ||
| Lord Young of Norwood Green | 2004 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Young of Old Scone | 1997 | Labour | Life peer | ||
| Viscount Younger of Leckie | 2010 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | ||
- Note
- ↑ Two years are given in the case of hereditary peers who did not continue to sit after 1999, but were later elected to sit again in the House of Lords.
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
The following peers have been granted a leave of absence for the remainder of the session or the current parliament[2] under section 23 of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords.[3]
Peers temporarily 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.[12] The following peers are currently subject to this provision.
| Lord | Party | Type | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Boyd of Duncansby | Labour | Life peer | Judge of the Outer House of the Court of Session | |
| Baroness Clark of Calton | Labour | Life peer | Judge of the Inner House of the Court of Session | |
| Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony | Crossbencher | Life peer | Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
| Baroness Hale of Richmond | Crossbencher | Law life peer | Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
| Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore | Crossbencher | Law life peer | Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
| Lord Mance | Crossbencher | Law life peer | Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
| Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury | Crossbencher | Law life peer | President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
| Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd | Crossbencher | Life peer | Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales | |
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 | Type | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Bhatia[13] | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Suspended from 21 April 2016 until 21 December 2016 due to expenses misuse | |
Recently deceased
The following peers have died since December 2015:[14]
| Name | Party | Date of Death | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Janner of Braunstone | Labour | 19 December 2015 | Life peer | |
| Lord Ezra | Liberal Democrats | 22 December 2015 | Life peer | |
| Lord Weidenfeld | Crossbencher | 20 January 2016 | Life peer | |
| Lord Avebury | Liberal Democrats | 14 February 2016 | Hereditary peer | |
| Lord Brooks of Tremorfa | Labour | 4 March 2016 | Life peer | |
| Lord Briggs | Crossbencher | 15 March 2016 | Life peer | |
| Lord Walton of Detchant | Crossbencher | 21 April 2016 | Life peer | |
| Lord Peston | Labour | 23 April 2016 | Life peer | |
| Lord Leach of Fairford | Conservative | 12 June 2016 | Life peer | |
| Lord Evans of Temple Guiting | Labour | 6 July 2016 | Life peer | |
| Lord Goff of Chieveley | Crossbencher | 14 August 2016 | Law life peer | |
| Lord Rix | Crossbencher | 20 August 2016 | Life peer | |
| Lord Borrie | Labour | 30 September 2016 | Life peer | |
| Lord Taylor of Blackburn | Labour | 25 November 2016 | Life peer | |
Ceased to be members
As well as 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 resign their membership of the house.[15] The following peers have exercised that right since the Act came into force in August 2014 and are either still living or have died since December 2015:[16]
| Lord | Party | Date | Type | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Grenfell[17] | Labour | 1 October 2014 | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sat by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Grenfell of Kilvey | |
| Lord Cobbold[17] | Crossbencher | 13 October 2014 | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Chorley[18] | Crossbencher | 17 November 2014 | Hereditary peer | Died 21 February 2016 | |
| Lady Saltoun of Abernethy[19] | Crossbencher | 12 December 2014 | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Jenkin of Roding[20] | Conservative | 6 January 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Waddington[21] | Conservative | 26 March 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Nickson | Crossbencher | 27 March 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Lloyd of Berwick | Crossbencher | 27 March 2015 | Law life peer | ||
| Lord Joffe | Labour | 30 March 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Tombs | Crossbencher | 31 March 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Shaw of Northstead | Conservative | 31 March 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Ashcroft | Conservative | 3 April 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Evans of Parkside | Labour | 20 April 2015 | Life peer | Died 5 March 2016 | |
| Lord Sharman | Life peer | 30 April 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Hope of Thornes | Crossbencher | 30 April 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Viscount Tenby | Crossbencher | 1 May 2015 | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Phillips of Sudbury | Liberal Democrats | 7 May 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Sandberg | Liberal Democrats | 8 May 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Goodhart | Liberal Democrats | 15 May 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Sheldon | Labour | 18 May 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Roper | Liberal Democrats | 23 May 2015 | Life peer | Died 29 January 2016 | |
| Lord Prys-Davies | Labour | 23 May 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Warnock | Crossbencher | 1 June 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Mayhew of Twysden | Conservative | 1 June 2015 | Life peer | Died 25 June 2016 | |
| Lord Eden of Winton | Conservative | 11 June 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Edmiston | Conservative | 22 July 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Wilkins | Labour | 23 July 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Crossbencher | 23 July 2015 | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Simpson of Dunkeld | Labour | 30 July 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Sewel | Non-affiliated | 30 July 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Parkinson | Conservative | 14 September 2015 | Life peer | Died 22 January 2016 | |
| Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | Conservative | 18 September 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Chalfont | Crossbencher | 10 November 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Stewartby | Conservative | 12 November 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior | Conservative | 31 December 2015 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Dixon | Labour | 9 February 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Williams of Crosby | Liberal Democrats | 11 February 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Linklater of Butterstone | Liberal Democrats | 12 February 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Browne-Wilkinson | Crossbencher | 1 March 2016 | Law life peer | ||
| Lord Vincent of Coleshill | Crossbencher | 9 March 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Knight of Collingtree | Conservative | 24 March 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Barber of Tewkesbury | Crossbencher | 25 March 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Earl of Snowdon | Crossbencher | 31 March 2016 | Life peer | Hereditary peer who sat by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Armstrong-Jones | |
| Lord Renton of Mount Harry | Conservative | 14 April 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Cameron of Lochbroom | Crossbencher | 21 April 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Inge | Crossbencher | 25 April 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Perry of Southwark | Conservative | 26 May 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Hurd of Westwell | Conservative | 9 June 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden | Conservative | 21 July 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Sharp of Guildford | Liberal Democrats | 31 July 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Tordoff | Liberal Democrats | 13 October 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Wade of Chorlton | Conservative | 1 November 2016 | Life peer | ||
Additionally, the following peers elected to retire from the House of Lords in accordance with the Resolution of the House of 27 June 2011, under which peers were granted the option to signal their intention to voluntarily retire and have their service recognised in the House and marked informally outside the House.[22][23]
| Lord | Party | Date | Type | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Habgood | Crossbencher | 3 October 2011 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Hutchinson of Lullington | Liberal Democrats | 3 October 2011 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Bramall | Crossbencher | 25 April 2013 | Life 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 or have died since December 2015:[24]
| Lord | Party | Date | Type | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Bridges | Crossbencher | 18 May 2016 | Hereditary peer | ||
| Lord Neill of Bladen | Crossbencher | 18 May 2016 | Life peer | Died 28 May 2016 | |
| Lord Thomas of Macclesfield | Labour | 18 May 2016 | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Thomas of Walliswood | Liberal Democrats | 18 May 2016 | Life peer | ||
Permanently disqualified
Under section 41 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, peers must be 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 become permanently disqualified from being members of the House.[25] The following peers opted to exercise that right and are still living or have died since December 2015:
| Lord | Party | Date | Type | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Laidlaw | Conservative | 15 April 2010 | Life peer | ||
| Baroness Dunn | Crossbencher | 30 June 2010 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Bagri | Conservative | 6 July 2010 | Life peer | ||
| Lord Foster of Thames Bank | Crossbencher | 6 July 2010 | Life peer | ||
See also
- List of elected hereditary peers under the House of Lords Act 1999
- Peerage
- List of Lords Spiritual
- List of longest-serving current Members of the House of Lords
References
- ↑ "Maginnis quits Ulster Unionist Party". BBC News. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ↑ "House of Lords, Official Website - Members of the House of Lords granted leave of absence".
- ↑ "Standing Orders of the House of Lords".
- 1 2 House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Thursday 27 May 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ↑ House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Monday 25 June 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ↑ House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Thursday 21 March 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
- 1 2 3 House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Tuesday 25 May 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- 1 2 House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Monday 11 June 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
- ↑ House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Monday 15 July 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
- ↑ Minutes of Proceedings of Wednesday 23 June 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ↑ House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Thursday 8 December 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ↑ Constitutional Reform Act 2005, Section 137 (3) at legislation.gov.uk
- ↑ House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Thursday 21 April 2016
- ↑ "Deceased Lords". House of Lords Information Office. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
- ↑ House of Lords Reform Act 2014 s 1.
- ↑ http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/lords/retired-lords/ Retired Lords
- 1 2 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/141013-0001.htm Lords Hansard for 13 October 2014
- ↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/141117-0001.htm#1411179000426 Lords Hansard for 17 November 2014
- ↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/minutes/141028/ldordpap.htm#minproc House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Monday 27 October 2014
- ↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/150106-0001.htm Lords Hansard for 6 January 2015
- ↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/150326-0001.htm#15032625000647 Lords Hansard for 26 March 2015
- ↑ "Procedure Committee, 5th Report: Members Leaving the House".
- ↑ House of Lords Debates 27 June 2011 c. 1519–31.
- ↑ Non-attending Lords – UK Parliament
- ↑ Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 s 42.
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