A flurry of Lords have amended the register of interests in the last two weeks.

This Tuesday saw

1] Lord Clement-Jones, treasurer of the Liberal Democrats (and partner at law firm DLA Piper) add US defence group Raytheon to his list.

His “parliamentary lobbying” now includes:

The member acts personally for TransMedics Inc, a medical technology manufacturer
The member acts personally for Eli Lilly and Company, the pharmaceutical manufacturer
The member acts personally for University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate
The member acts personally for Raytheon Company a defence and homeland security technology company (3 February 2009)

I called his mobile to ask whether Raytheon was perhaps a new client but the peer hasn’t replied yet.

UPDATE: Clement-Jones tells me that he has only just signed up Raytheon - which is already a client of DLA Piper in Washington.

2] It’s no secret that Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach has since 1991 been a vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, and he already lists the job as a non-parliamentary consultancy on the Lords’ register. (Griffiths is a former head of policy at No 10 under Margaret Thatcher).

On Tuesday he added “director, Goldman Sachs International” to the list as a remunerated directorship. I called his secretary to ask why he’d updated the entry and she asked me to put the questions in writing, etc etc.  Will let you know what he says.  

UPDATE

Goldman says Griffiths has been appointed as Chairman of the Audit, Compliance and Business Practices Committee and has joined the board of Goldman Sachs International.

February 5, 2009 5:58pm in UK politics | Comment