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Information between 7th September 2026 - 27th October 2026

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Division Votes
7 Sep 2026 - Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Lord Harper voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 163 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 247 Noes - 165
15 Sep 2026 - Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Lord Harper voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 96 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 258 Noes - 109
14 Oct 2026 - ACAS Code of Practice on Time Off for Trade Union Duties and Activities - View Vote Context Lord Harper voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 52 Conservative Aye votes vs 1 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 56 Noes - 82
20 Oct 2026 - Armed Forces Bill - View Vote Context Lord Harper voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 57 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 67 Noes - 168
20 Oct 2026 - Armed Forces Bill - View Vote Context Lord Harper voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 151 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 243 Noes - 168
20 Oct 2026 - Armed Forces Bill - View Vote Context Lord Harper voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 153 Conservative Aye votes vs 1 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 259 Noes - 173
26 Oct 2026 - Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill - View Vote Context Lord Harper voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 126 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 194 Noes - 155
26 Oct 2026 - Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill - View Vote Context Lord Harper voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 128 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 202 Noes - 155

Speeches
Lord Harper speeches from: Procedural Flexibility: Scrutiny of AI and Emerging Technology Lord Harper contributed 1 speech (74 words) Thursday 22nd October 2026 - Lords Chamber
Lord Harper speeches from: G20 Summit 2027: Objectives Lord Harper contributed 1 speech (105 words) Thursday 17th September 2026 - Lords Chamber Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Lord Harper speeches from: Railways Bill Lord Harper contributed 7 speeches (3,920 words) Committee stage Wednesday 16th September 2026 - Grand Committee Department for Transport
Lord Harper speeches from: Hospitality Industry: VAT Lord Harper contributed 2 speeches (115 words) Monday 14th September 2026 - Lords Chamber HM Treasury
Lord Harper speeches from: Railways Bill Lord Harper contributed 8 speeches (3,174 words) Committee stage Thursday 10th September 2026 - Grand Committee Department for Transport
Lord Harper speeches from: Railways Bill Lord Harper contributed 10 speeches (4,669 words) Committee stage Tuesday 8th September 2026 - Grand Committee Department for Transport
Lord Harper speeches from: Local Government Reorganisation Lord Harper contributed 2 speeches (172 words) Monday 7th September 2026 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Lord Harper mentioned

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10 Sep 2026, 1:20 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "The noble Lord Harper talked to amendments 35 and 36 " Speaker 4 - View Video - View Transcript
10 Sep 2026, 1:36 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "As my noble friend Lord Harper asks, why is that ministerial veto " Speaker 10 - View Video - View Transcript
8 Sep 2026, 8:44 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Beyond that, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Harper on drawing out " Speaker 7 - View Video - View Transcript
8 Sep 2026, 5:58 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "My Lords, may I begin with a craven apology to my noble friend Lord Harper " Speaker 10 - View Video - View Transcript
8 Sep 2026, 5:59 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "friend Lord Harper explained the danger to the public of going down that route. " Speaker 10 - View Video - View Transcript
8 Sep 2026, 5:33 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "there are some serious worries as Lord Harper set out, and particular, the example " Speaker 10 - View Video - View Transcript
8 Sep 2026, 5:35 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "the noble Lord Redwood and the noble Lord Harper. " Speaker 3 - View Video - View Transcript
8 Sep 2026, 7:06 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "And this sounds a little bit like Lord Harper was talking about when he " Speaker 5 - View Video - View Transcript
8 Sep 2026, 7:09 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "I'm not claiming that mine are better than others. I think the noble Lord, my noble friend Lord Harper, said " Speaker 15 - View Video - View Transcript
10 Sep 2026, 3:22 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "and the noble Lord Harper on the dangers of two greater specificity specificity " Speaker 11 - View Video - View Transcript
10 Sep 2026, 2:22 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "and the contribution from Lord Harper. " Speaker 5 - View Video - View Transcript
10 Sep 2026, 2:37 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "emergencies, as the noble Lord Harper says, the government has a lot of priorities to deliver across health care, " Speaker 7 - View Video - View Transcript
10 Sep 2026, 2:26 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "And here, perhaps I could address the comments made by my noble friend Lord Harper, " Speaker 6 - View Video - View Transcript
10 Sep 2026, 2:28 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "noble friend, Lord Harper, that ministers have to be accountable for public expenditure, and they have to make " Speaker 6 - View Video - View Transcript
10 Sep 2026, 2:51 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "need to be specified. I think my my noble friend Lord Harper, on a debate on an earlier day, " Speaker 1 - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2026, 4:53 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Steel. And I can tell the noble Lord Harper that in recent months, Network Rail has worked " Speaker 6 - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2026, 5:44 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Of course, as Lord Harper and my noble friend Lord Liddle referred to, " Speaker 4 - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2026, 5:49 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "As Lord Harper rightly said, sometimes there are trade offs around the cost of electrification. " Speaker 8 - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2026, 5:48 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "much of what Lord Liddle and Lord Harper said about actually writing too many duties into " Speaker 8 - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2026, 6:05 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "And it goes back to what the noble Lord, Lord Harper was saying. " Speaker 9 - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2026, 6:58 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Lord Harper has spoken, because there's no need for me to repeat what he has said. But there are others that haven't been " Speaker 8 - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2026, 8:26 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "my noble friend Lord Lansley, to which the noble Lord, Lord Harper, spoke. " Speaker 7 - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2026, 8:47 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "and my noble friends, Lord Grayling, Lord Harper and Lord Moylan. " Speaker 9 - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2026, 8:44 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "In passing to the noble Lord Harper that he. " Speaker 14 - View Video - View Transcript
14 Sep 2026, 3:52 p.m. - House of Lords " I have the deepest respect for >> I have the deepest respect for my noble friend Lord Harper, but three former Secretary of State for " Lord Young of Cookham (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
12 Oct 2026, 7:08 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "collaboration, I also agree with the noble Lord Harper that there are benefits for everyone in " Speaker 2 - View Video - View Transcript
12 Oct 2026, 5:09 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "the noble Lord Harper might prefer to forget that one of the issues in that was that the owning groups were not " Speaker 7 - View Video - View Transcript
12 Oct 2026, 5:07 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "name of the noble Lord Harper, the government passed the Employment Rights Act, " Speaker 7 - View Video - View Transcript
12 Oct 2026, 7:49 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Railway. The noble Lord Harper has just referred to the forest of Dean railway and these are all, of course, " Speaker 18 - View Video - View Transcript
12 Oct 2026, 4:06 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "And I know that issue, and I'm sure Lord Harper knows that issue as well, because we became Secretary of state, basically " Speaker 4 - View Video - View Transcript
12 Oct 2026, 3:47 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "friend, Lord Harper, when he was Secretary of State for transport. So there is a commonality of view in " Speaker 2 - View Video - View Transcript
12 Oct 2026, 4:39 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "316 in the name of my noble friend Lord Harper, to which I have added my name, addresses a " Speaker 2 - View Video - View Transcript
12 Oct 2026, 4:40 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "seven in the name of my noble friend Lord Harper is, I think, a very important " Speaker 2 - View Video - View Transcript
12 Oct 2026, 4:55 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "If it is to manage industrial relations sensibly and avoid what my noble friend Lord Harper " Speaker 4 - View Video - View Transcript
12 Oct 2026, 4:52 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "noble friend Lord Harper said in connection with amendments 316, which specifically " Speaker 4 - View Video - View Transcript
12 Oct 2026, 5 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "My Lords, Lord Moylan and Lord Harper have " Speaker 6 - View Video - View Transcript
12 Oct 2026, 5:04 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "It's how you do it that matters. And the noble Lord Harper is " Speaker 7 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 3:48 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "While my noble friend Lord Harper drew attention to the" Speaker 2 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 5:59 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "and in moving it, I'm conscious that I'm going to use what my noble friend Lord Harper has called the Parkinson crowbar, which is to inject something to do with the legacy of our" Speaker 2 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 6:07 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "and a few words have percolated through the noble Lord, Lord Harper. " Speaker 13 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 6:15 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Back at Lord Harper. " Speaker 13 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 7:13 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "And also in response to, I think, the next intervention by the noble Lord Harper, that on access charges for infrastructure, which is different from retail data, but it did get" Speaker 13 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 6:46 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "friend Lord Harper, as Secretary of State, started the ball rolling on reopening some routes, I mentioned the. " Speaker 6 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 7:04 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "I thought comprehensively by my noble friend Lord Harper, so I won't go back on that. " Speaker 6 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 7:12 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "On amendment 330 JB in response to an intervention by the noble Lord Harper that" Speaker 13 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 7:11 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "So, my Lords, I very much hope that my amendments, which the noble Lord, Lord Harper, spoke in favour, of which I'm very grateful," Speaker 6 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 7:31 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "particular amendment that the noble Viscount Stansgate, Lord Davis, my noble friend Lord Harper and Grayling and Baroness Pigeon and Baroness Lehman put" Speaker 10 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 8:07 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Lord Harper already debated, not moved. " Speaker 6 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 4:21 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "And so I think what we're looking for, and what Lord Harper rightly" Speaker 4 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 7:53 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "My noble friend Lord Harper explained just what the difficulties were of the government owning the Roscos. And just to underline the" Speaker 2 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 4:04 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Lord Harper. " Speaker 1 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 4:18 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Now my noble friend Lord Harper has articulated the concerns that many of us on this side have about this specific section of the bill. " Speaker 4 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 4:42 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Lord Harper said, while that sort of concern can never be totally dismissed from the minds of right thinking people, given the the way in which this government seeks" Speaker 2 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 4:50 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "But I do agree with the noble Lord Harper that if the" Speaker 5 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 5:11 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Lord Harper. " Speaker 6 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 5:11 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Lord Harper. " Speaker 6 - View Video - View Transcript
26 Oct 2026, 5:11 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Lord Harper. " Speaker 6 - View Video - View Transcript
19 Oct 2026, 8:37 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "The noble Lord Harper did refer to a question about whether this is" Speaker 9 - View Video - View Transcript
19 Oct 2026, 8:30 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "But my noble friend Lord Harper makes a very, very good point. " Speaker 18 - View Video - View Transcript
19 Oct 2026, 4:35 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "as I'd also like to reassure the noble Lord, Lord Harper, that I was not serious when I wanted him to support my amendment. " Speaker 3 - View Video - View Transcript
19 Oct 2026, 6:12 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "responsibility of that body for road users, as well as for public transport users, and therefore he had very much in mind the concerns. My noble friend Lord Harper," Speaker 13 - View Video - View Transcript
19 Oct 2026, 6:13 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "the noble Baroness, the Minister, and my noble friend Lord Harper, in their support for value. For money to be a part of the terms" Speaker 13 - View Video - View Transcript
19 Oct 2026, 5:55 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "And just to go back on the point that Lord Harper made is as we move forward with the bill," Speaker 17 - View Video - View Transcript
19 Oct 2026, 5:09 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "And that's not to say that the other concessionary schemes are not important, nor that they won't be continued. But the noble Lord Harper had it, which is that actually there is a" Speaker 2 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 5:04 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "I look forward to reading what the minister writes to my noble friend Lord Harper, who has asked a very" Speaker 2 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 6 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "to my noble friend Lord Young of Cookham and noble Lord Harper, and I think it in my mind the question that I want to put to the Minister in replying. " Speaker 12 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 6:07 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "And the noble Lord Harper and noble Lord Lansley also are raised that issue. " Speaker 2 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 6:15 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Just finally, I would say, in response to the noble Lord Harper, that the. " Speaker 7 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 6:18 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Lord, I don't want to try the patience of the committee with what my noble friend Lord Harper described earlier as my" Speaker 8 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 6:39 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "But as my noble friend Lord Harper, as Mr. " Speaker 9 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 6:42 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "that Lord Harper suggested that the list that was set out in clause 60 might, might somehow be be in some particular order. All" Speaker 7 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 5:53 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "The noble Lord, Lord Harper, explained that when he was in charge of policy" Speaker 4 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 5:53 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "It was my noble friend, Lord Harper," Speaker 4 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 5:55 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Lord Harper, has his noble Lord, my noble friend has his alternative view. " Speaker 4 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 7:56 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Could it even lead to the government? And these might be particular circumstances to talk to my to respond to my noble friend Lord Harper, could it even lead to open" Speaker 16 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 7:20 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "I wonder whether I could ask the noble Lord, Lord Harper, whether he has a view on" Speaker 8 - View Video - View Transcript
21 Oct 2026, 7:51 p.m. - Lords Grand Committee "Let me just finish quickly by saying to the noble Lord Harper that in fact he will note in clause 64, paragraph five," Speaker 14 - View Video - View Transcript

Parliamentary Debates
Railways Bill 99 speeches (27,226 words) Committee stage Wednesday 16th September 2026 - Grand Committee Department for Transport Mentions: 1: None I can tell the noble Lord, Lord Harper, that, in recent months, Network Rail has worked extraordinarily - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) I am probably going to compete with the noble Lords, Lord Moylan and Lord Harper, in the length of my - Link to Speech 3: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Harper, and my noble friend Lord Liddle referred to, there is always a risk that - Link to Speech 4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) This goes back to what the noble Lord, Lord Harper, was saying. - Link to Speech 5: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) They are not those to which my noble friend Lord Harper has spoken, because there is no need for me to - Link to Speech
Air Traffic Control Disruption 15 speeches (1,476 words) Monday 14th September 2026 - Lords Chamber Department for Transport Mentions: 1: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) the Bill in Committee and on Report, I took great succour from the statements of the noble Lord, Lord Harper - Link to Speech 2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I have the deepest respect for my noble friend Lord Harper, but three former Secretaries of - Link to Speech
Railways Bill 133 speeches (28,833 words) Committee stage Thursday 10th September 2026 - Grand Committee Department for Transport Mentions: 1: None The noble Lord, Lord Harper, spoke to Amendments 35 and 36 on fares, so I confirm that it is not the - Link to Speech 2: Lord Reay (Con - Life peer) As my noble friend Lord Harper asks, why is that ministerial veto necessary? - Link to Speech 3: Baroness Pidgeon (LD - Life peer) That is welcome, as was the contribution from the noble Lord, Lord Harper. - Link to Speech 4: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) Here, perhaps, I contest the comments made by my noble friend Lord Harper and will say something about - Link to Speech 5: Lord Bradshaw (LD - Life peer) I start by saying how much I disagree with the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Harper. - Link to Speech
Railways Bill 119 speeches (35,059 words) Committee stage Tuesday 8th September 2026 - Grand Committee Department for Transport Mentions: 1: Baroness Pidgeon (LD - Life peer) I say to the noble Lord, Lord Harper, that I think the service started to decline before the pandemic - Link to Speech 2: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) Before we conclude, and relevant to the point that my noble friend Lord Harper was making, I am sure - Link to Speech 3: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I thank noble Lords for these amendments and the noble Lords, Lord Redwood and Lord Harper, - Link to Speech 4: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) My noble friend Lord Harper explained the danger to the public of going down that route. - Link to Speech 5: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) Beyond that, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Harper on drawing out various points. - Link to Speech

Bill Documents
Oct. 22 2026 HL Bill 25-VII Seventh marshalled list for Grand Committee Railways Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: LORD BERKELEY LORD HARPER 268A_ Clause 71, page 41, line 37, at end insert— “(2A) The Secretary of
Oct. 20 2026 HL Bill 25-VI Sixth marshalled list for Grand Committee Railways Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: LORD BERKELEY LORD HARPER 268_ Clause 71, page 41, line 31, leave out from “may” to end of line 37
Oct. 15 2026 HL Bill 25-V Fifth marshalled list for Grand Committee Railways Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: LORD BERKELEY LORD HARPER 268_ Clause 71, page 41, line 31, leave out from “may” to end of line 37
Oct. 08 2026 HL Bill 25-IV Fourth marshalled list for Grand Committee Railways Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: LORD HARPER 274_ Clause 72, page 42, line 29, at end insert— “(2A) Regulations under subsection (1)
Sep. 15 2026 Written evidence submitted by the Coalition for Asylum Rights and Justice (CARJ) (IAB16) Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026-27 Written evidence Found: As Lord Harper, a former Conservative Immigration Minister, has noted, the Government intends to create
Sep. 15 2026 Letter from Lord Hendy to Lord Moylan, Lord Harper and Lord Lansley regarding Great British Railway’s corporate structure, particularly regarding joint ventures and property development. Railways Bill 2024-26 Will write letters Found: Letter from Lord Hendy to Lord Moylan, Lord Harper and Lord Lansley regarding Great British Railway’s
Sep. 14 2026 HL Bill 25-III Third marshalled list for Grand Committee Railways Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: LORD HARPER 273_ Clause 72, page 42, line 29, at end insert— “(2A) The power under subsection (1) to
Sep. 08 2026 HL Bill 25-II Second marshalled list for Grand Committee Railways Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: LORD HARPER 273_ Clause 72, page 42, line 29, at end insert— “(2A) The power under subsection (1) to

Deposited Papers

Monday 21st September 2026 Department for Transport Source Page: Letter dated 15/09/2026 from Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill to Lord Moylan, Lord Harper and Lord Lansley regarding points raised during the Railways Bill Grand Committee stage (first day): Great British Railway’s corporate structure, particularly regarding joint ventures and property development. 2p. Document: Lord_Hendy_Letter_on_Subsidiaries_for_the_library.docx (webpage) Found: Letter dated 15/09/2026 from Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill to Lord Moylan, Lord Harper and Lord Lansley