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 Science, Innovation and TechnologyDepartment for Transport

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 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 Cheltenham Borough Council (Markets) BillCommons Cheltenham Borough Council (Markets) Bill Committee (Lords)Lords Childhood Vaccinations CommitteeLords 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 Courts and Tribunals BillCommons Courts and Tribunals Bill: Programming Sub CommitteeCommons

Recent Questions

86 questions on record

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of withdrawing funding for Orbex on the UK's satellite launch capabilities and employment in the aerospace sector.

Answered

To: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology • 19 May 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government what funding options they considered when evaluating whether to withdraw funding for Orbex.

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To: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology • 19 May 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government for what reason they withdrew funding to Orbex to develop a UK-based satellite delivery system.

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To: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology • 19 May 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the UK Space Agency's brief to support the UK space industry will change after it has been absorbed into the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

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To: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology • 25 Mar 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they commissioned an audit of Orbex; if so, whether they will publish the results of that audit; and whether the Government provided support to Orbex to enable its Prime rocket to be launched from spaceports in the

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To: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology • 25 Mar 2026

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