Profile

Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 23 August 2024

Previously MP for South Thanet until 30 May 2024 — Dissolved for election

Entered the House of Commons on 8 May 2015 — General election

Also represented South Thanet

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @cmackinlay
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Lord Mackinlay of Richborough campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

• HM Treasury
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Department of Health
• Treasury
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Tobacco: Excise Duties
• Taxation: Child Benefit
• Drugs: Misuse
• Churches: Bellringing
• Fracking

Currently held offices

• Member, Restoration and Renewal Programme Board Committee (since 21 Jan 2025)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Members Estimate Audit Committee (20 Mar 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Administration Estimate Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (20 Mar 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Finance Committee (Commons) (24 Jan 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 25 Oct 2022)
• Member, European Scrutiny Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (21 Jan 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (31 Oct 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, European Scrutiny Committee (15 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee ( 8 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Financial Guidance and Claims Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Financial Guidance and Claims Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Pension Schemes Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Local Audit (Public Access to Documents) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Awards for Valour (Protection) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Upcoming Business – Lords: Grand Committee 1 May 2025

  Ensuring amputees receive appropriate prosthetics at an appropriate time – Lord Mackinlay of Richborough. Short debate

• Artificial Intelligence: Emissions - Question 23 Apr 2025

  My Lords, the House will note my directorship of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. For the diminishing number of people who still believe that diminishing Britain’s 0.8% of global CO2 still further is an undertaking worth having, I bring good news: the amount of CO2 to be released from UK data centres will be close to zero because, with energy prices in the UK some three times higher...

• Written Answers — Home Office: Immigration Controls 15 Apr 2025

  To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to implement an entry/exit border control system to aid the identification and removal of individuals who have overstayed across all visa types.

More of Lord Mackinlay of Richborough’s recent appearances

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