Lord Risby

Conservative

MP for Life peer

Parliamentary Office

contactholmember@parliament.uk 020 7219 3000

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

Top Focus Areas

Department for Business and TradeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyDepartment for TransportCabinet Office

Parliamentary Career

Constituencies

West Suffolk

Elected 3 times

May 1997 - May 2010

Bury St Edmunds

Elected 1 time

Apr 1992 - May 1997

Registered Interests

No registered interests found.

Recent Votes

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Committee Memberships

Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) BillCommons Administration CommitteeCommons Administration Estimate Audit and Risk Assurance CommitteeCommons Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords)Lords Autism Act 2009 CommitteeLords Backbench Business CommitteeCommons Bishop's Stortford Cemetery BillCommons Built Environment CommitteeLords Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]Commons Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]: Programming sub-committeeCommons Business and Trade CommitteeCommons Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export ControlsCommons City of London (Markets) BillCommons Committee of PrivilegesCommons Committee of SelectionCommons Committee of Selection (Lords)Lords Committee on StandardsCommons Committees on Arms Export ControlsCommons Commons Reference Group on Representation and InclusionCommons Communications and Digital CommitteeLords Conduct CommitteeLords Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)Joint Constitution CommitteeLords Controlled Drugs (Procedure for Specification) BillCommons Court of RefereesCommons Courts (Remote Hearings) BillCommons Culture, Media and Sport CommitteeCommons Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and DisinformationCommons Defence CommitteeCommons Defence Sub-CommitteeCommons

Recent Questions

79 questions on record

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to promote and encourage private investment in Ukrainian agri-processing through UK Export Finance and British International Investment.

Answered

To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office • 15 Dec 2025

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to unlock opportunities from the free trade and digital agreements with Ukraine.

Answered

To: Department for Business and Trade • 15 Dec 2025

To ask His Majesty's Government (1) how the UK-Ukraine Digital Trade Agreement is being utilised to support the adoption of precision-farming, digital agriculture and the deployment of remote-sensing technologies in Ukraine, and (2) what support is being

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To: Department for Business and Trade • 15 Dec 2025

To ask His Majesty's Government how the UK's international sanctions regime has impacted foreign direct investment in the UK over the past three years, and what analysis they have undertaken to assess this impact.

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To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office • 19 Nov 2025

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address key barriers to foreign direct investment, such as high energy prices and land acquisition costs.

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To: Department for Business and Trade • 27 Nov 2025

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