Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Members
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
Lord Butler of Brockwell
Lord Filkin
Lord Foster of Bath
Lord Grade of Yarmouth (Chair)
Lord Layard
Lord Mancroft (appointed 3 October 2019)
Baroness Meyer (resigned 3 October 2019)
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (appointed 29 October 2019 and resigned 18 February 2020)
Lord Smith of Hindhead
The Lord Bishop of St Albans
Baroness Thornhill
Lord Trevethin and Oaksey
Lord Watts
Baroness Wyld (resigned 26 September 2019)
Declarations of interest
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
Nephew, Employee, The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Lord Butler of Brockwell
No relevant interests declared
Lord Filkin
No relevant interests declared
Lord Foster of Bath
Vice-Chair, Gambling Related Harm APPG
Lord Grade of Yarmouth
Former Director, Charlton Athletic Football Club (resigned 2009)
Former Chair, Camelot Group (resigned 2004)
Former Chair, ITV plc (resigned 2009)
Director, Northern Lights Arena Company Limited (a start-up multi-function stadium developer with particular interest in ESPORTS)
Lord Layard
No relevant interests declared
Lord Mancroft
President, The Lotteries Council
Chairman, Masters of Foxhounds Association
Vice-Chair, Betting and Gaming APPG
Member, Joint Committee on the Draft Gambling Bill, Session 2003–04, report published April 2004
Held an external lottery managers certificate until 2003, through Inter Lotto (UK) Ltd
Promoted a number of society lotteries between 1989–2001
Baroness Meyer
Husband, Sir Christopher Meyer KCMG, Advisory Board Member, Pagefield, of which Camelot is a client
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
No relevant interests declared
Lord Smith of Hindhead
Chief Executive, The Association of Conservative Clubs Ltd
Chairman, National Conservative Draws Society
Chairman, Committee of Registered Clubs Associations, CORCA
Joint Chairman, Non-Profit Making Clubs APPG
Vice-Chair, Betting and Gaming APPG
The Lord Bishop of St Albans
Member, Gambling Related Harm APPG
Churches within diocese receive funds from The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Baroness Thornhill
No relevant interests declared
Lord Trevethin and Oaksey
Practising barrister (Queen’s Counsel), has previously acted for claimants in cases in which they have sought the return of money which they have lost through gambling, on the grounds that they were owed a duty of care or some similar duty arising out of the obligations imposed on gambling operators under the Gambling Act 2005. These cases have been concluded, and he is not currently retained in any case of this type.
Member, Betting and Gaming APPG
Sister, Racehorse trainer
Brother-in-law, Racehorse trainer
Interests in syndicates which own specific racehorses
Account holder with a number of bookmakers and gambling operators.
Lord Watts
No relevant interests declared
Baroness Wyld
Board member, Ofsted
A full list of Member’s interests can be found in the Register of Lords Interests: http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-interests/register-of-lords-interests/
Professor Rebecca Cassidy (Specialist Adviser) (resigned 6 December 2019)
External Examiner for the Thoroughbred Horseracing Industries MBA, University of Liverpool (remunerated)
Member, Steering Group of Beat the Odds (a charity seeking to establish an effective service for people with gambling problems in Cardiff)
Associate Editor, Addiction
In the past three years, Professor Cassidy has received travel expenses from government departments and from organisations which derive their funding from government departments (including through hypothecated taxes on gambling), including the University of Helsinki Centre for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance; the Alberta Gambling Research Institute; the New Zealand Ministry of Health; the New Zealand Problem Gambling Foundation and the Gambling and Addictions Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology. She has also paid to attend industry-sponsored events and attended free, industry-supported events in order to conduct anthropological fieldwork.
Dr Philip Newall (Specialist Adviser)
In the past three years Dr Newall has contributed to research projects funded by GambleAware, Gambling Research Australia, NSW Responsible Gambling Fund, and the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation.
In 2019, Dr Newall received travel and accommodation funding from the Spanish Federation of Rehabilitated Gamblers.
In 2020, Dr Newall received an open access fee grant from Gambling Research Exchange Ontario.