UK House of Lords

Current and historical members (peers) of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Current and historical members of the House of Lords, sourced from the official UK Parliament Members API. It includes life peers, bishops (Lords Spiritual) and any remaining members entitled to sit, as well as current members who are on leave of absence. Hereditary peers were removed by the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2025.

Bishops (Lords Spiritual) are recorded by the source only by their see (e.g. "The Lord Bishop of Lincoln"), never by personal name. Each occupant of a see is a distinct entity, so two holders of the same bishopric at different times will share an identical, office-based name.

Data overview 

Entities:
Total2,251
Searchable1,112
Targets1,111
Entity types:
People1,111
Positions1
Countries:
United Kingdom1,112
Publisher:UK Parliament · United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom. It comprises the Sovereign, the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:members.parliament.uk
Source data:members-api.parliament.uk · JSON
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: monthly
Last processed:
2026-07-10 01:01:02 · v. 20260710010102-htk
Last change:

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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities1.02 MB
names.txtTarget names text file72.99 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format716.85 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON1.5 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV231.72 KB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
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Recent additions 

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Courtown, E.PersonUnited Kingdom
Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-HamdonPersonUnited Kingdom
Lord Brittan of SpennithornePersonUnited Kingdom
Lord KelvedonPersonUnited Kingdom
Lord May of OxfordPersonUnited Kingdom · United States
Robert Sheldon, Baron SheldonPersonUnited Kingdom
Baroness Rendell of BaberghPersonUnited Kingdom
Lord AltrinchamPersonUnited Kingdom
Lord Renton of Mount HarryPersonUnited Kingdom
Lord MawhinneyPersonUnited Kingdom
Lord Janner of BraunstonePersonUnited Kingdom
Toby YoungPersonUnited Kingdom
Lord AshcombePersonUnited Kingdom
Brian Hutton, Baron HuttonPersonUnited Kingdom
Lord Gordon of StrathblanePersonUnited Kingdom
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