The Earl of Caithness

Conservative

MP for Excepted Hereditary

Parliamentary Office

contactholmember@parliament.uk 020 7219 5353

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

Top Focus Areas

Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentCabinet OfficeDepartment of Health and Social CareMinistry of Justice

Parliamentary Career

Positions Held

Minister of State (Transport) (Railways and Roads)

Department for Transport

Apr 1992 - Jan 1994

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

Department for Transport

Sept 1985 - Sept 1986

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

43 questions on record

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to work with the European Union on faster access to biocontrol; and over what timescale.

Answered

To: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs • 11 Dec 2025

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they plan to take to increase ring-fenced funding for translational research on biologicals and biopesticides to generate robust evidence on their efficacy.

Answered

To: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs • 12 Nov 2025

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they plan to take to introduce a distinct regulatory pathway for the approval and use of biological control agents and biopesticides in crop protection to accelerate their uptake in place of harmful broad-spectru

Answered

To: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs • 12 Nov 2025

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will take steps to ensure that Natural England accepts requests to meet members of Parliament.

Answered

To: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs • 2 Jul 2025

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will take steps to ensure that correspondence from a member of Parliament to a chief executive officer of a non-departmental public body is answered by the chief executive officer.

Answered

To: Cabinet Office • 3 Jul 2025

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