The member is receiving royalties from publication of a book "Ancestral voices in Irish politics" published by OUP on 7 May 2024

Chair, Historical Advisory Panel for Centenary of Northern Ireland Commemoration

Chair of Review of intra-UK allocation of domestic farm support funding to the end of this parliament for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) (interest ceased 31 December 2019)

Chair, House of Lords Appointments Commission (interest ceased 7 May 2024)

External Examiner, Cambridge University (interest ceased 31 July 2018)

Visit to New York, 10-12 October 2017, to attend the 34th International Churchill Conference; travel and accommodation costs met by the International Churchill Society

Visiting Professor, King's College London

The member receives occasional hospitality from Policy Exchange when attending their events; such hospitality may cumulatively over the course of a calendar year exceed the registration threshold of £300

The member is receiving royalties from publication of a book "Churchill and Ireland" published by OUP on 24 March 2016

Visit to Israel, 9-11 May 2015, to judge a debating contest for schools at Tel Aviv University; flights and accommodation met by Ideas Matter who organised event

Executive Member, British-Irish Association

President, Airey Neave Trust

Chairman, Committee on Standards in Public Life (interest ceased 31 October 2018)

Chairman of the Executive, Anglo-Israel Association

Chairman, British-Irish Association

Member, Academic Advisory Panel of Policy Exchange (think-tank)

Emeritus Professor of Politics, Queen's University, Belfast