Former Tory leader Annabel Goldie is among three high-profile Scots to be given seats in the House of Lords.

She is joined in the overall list of 30 peers by Glasgow businessman and ex-Celtic director Sir William Haughey, who has given Labour more than £1 million since 2003.

Former Liberal Democrat MSP Jeremy Purvis will also join the Lords.

The total number of members of the Upper House - which has already been criticised for being too large - swells to 785, compared to 650 MPs in the Commons.

Today's appointments also mean that the Lords becomes larger than the European Parliament, which has 766 MEPs.

Miss Goldie, still a serving MSP, insists her primary role will be at Holyrood. She said: "I'm very honoured and regard this as a great privilege to be a member of the House of Lords. It is understood that my primary responsibility is to the Scottish Parliament, and I am continuing as an MSP."

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said: "I am delighted that she has been granted this honour and I know that she will serve with the intelligence, verve, duty, grace and wit she is known for. I fully expect her to make the sort of impact only Annabel can, and inject a new level of plain speaking and common sense into Lords' proceedings."

Sir William, a former director of Celtic Football Club, was knighted for services to business and philanthropy last year. He founded a refrigeration company in 1985 and established City Charitable Trust to bring together his charity work.

Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont said: "Willie Haughey's tireless charity work, his commitment to creating opportunities for young people and his devotion to the city of Glasgow mean this recognition is well deserved.

"I know he will continue to be a strong voice for the city and for the values he believes in when he takes on this new role."

Mr Purvis, who lost his Holyrood seat in the 2011 election, will also become policy and strategy adviser to Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie.

"This is a major responsibility and honour," said Mr Purvis. "I am very much looking forward to using it as a platform to support Willie Rennie's work in the Scottish Parliament and to advance the cause of a more progressive and liberal Scotland.

"I was an extremely proud elected Member of the Scottish Parliament and now, as a parliamentarian in the UK Parliament, I will continue to press the case for home rule government in Scotland and for this to be used to make Scotland a fairer, more prosperous and socially tolerant nation."

Mr Rennie said: "As one of the youngest people ever appointed to the House of Lords, he will also add a new dimension to our team for Scotland. I am also particularly pleased Jeremy has agreed to act as my policy and strategy adviser."

Details of their titles will be released over the coming weeks, Downing Street said.

Elsewhere, justice campaigner Doreen Lawrence was named on the list of 30 new members of the House of Lords, which also included JCB boss and Conservative donor Sir Anthony Bamford, senior police officer Brian Paddick and Ministry of Sound nightclub supremo James Palumbo.

The list of working peers includes 14 Conservatives, 10 Liberal Democrats and five Labour nominees, as well as one Green - London Assembly member and former deputy mayor Jenny Jones.

The appointments, nominated by party leaders and cleared by the independent House of Lords Appointments Commission, is certain to provoke comment because of the inclusion of political party donors including Sir Anthony, who has given around £100,000 personally to the Tories in the last few years, with more sums donated by his company.

In total the Bamford family has given around £2.5 million to the Conservative party since 2002. Sir Anthony was recently commissioned by the Government to prepare a report on UK manufacturing.

A Tory source described Sir Anthony as a "leading industrialist who has made a "massive contribution to British business".

The source pointed out that as business secretary, Labour's Lord Mandelson had taken the JCB boss on a trade mission.

The appointments mean that the Conservatives have now regained their position as the largest party in the House of Lords by a single seat, with 222 peers to Labour's 221 and the Liberal Democrats' 99.

New Conservative peers include financier Howard Leigh, who has given £37,682 to the party since 2011, as well as journalist Daniel Finkelstein, Paralympic swimmer Chris Holmes and ex-leader in the Welsh Assembly Nicholas Bourne.

The Labour list includes former party fund-raiser Jon Mendelsohn and the chairman of Global Radio Group Sir Charles Allen.

Liberal Democrats elevated to the peerage include Mr Paddick, who served as deputy assistant commissioner in the Metropolitan Police, the party's former communications director Olly Grender, Nick Clegg's ex-deputy chief of staff Alison Suttie and Ministry of Sound co-founder Mr Palumbo, whose only donation was auction prizes worth £7,000 to the Conservatives.

Mrs Lawrence's seat in the Upper House as a Labour baroness comes after a 20-year fight for justice for her son Stephen, who was stabbed to death at the age of 18 in a racist attack in south London.

Mrs Lawrence's tireless campaign for justice led to the Macpherson Inquiry, which found evidence of "institutional racism" in the Metropolitan Police. Two of his killers were finally convicted of murder in 2012.

She has already received an OBE and founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust to support young people from ethnic minority backgrounds to pursue their ambitions, is a member of the executive committee of human rights group Liberty and has been chosen to sit on Home Office and police panels.

Labour leader Ed Miliband said: "Over the past 20 years, Doreen Lawrence has had a profound impact on Britain and I am delighted that she will become a Labour member of the House of Lords.

"Since the horrific racist murder of her son, Doreen has shown incredible strength and courage as she sought, and continues to seek, justice for Stephen.

"She has changed attitudes to policing and racism in this country and I have no doubt that her strength and determination will be a huge asset to the House of Lords in the coming years."

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Ms Jones is the first Green peer appointed to the House of Lords, although the party did previously have a representative who had defected from another party. Her arrival doubles the parliamentary representation of the Greens, who also have one MP Caroline Lucas.

She is the only one of the new peers who can claim any sort of democratic mandate for her new place, having been elected in a ballot of Green Party members conducted under the single transferable vote.

A London Assembly member for 13 years, former member of the Metropolitan Police Authority and ex-chair of the National Green Party Executive, Ms Jones said it was "an honour and a privilege" to be chosen to represent her part in the second chamber, adding: "I am looking forward to a new battlefield for green ideas and policies."

Entrepreneur Rumi Verjee - the man who brought Domino's Pizzas to the UK - has given more than £800,000 to the Liberal Democrats since 2010 through his company Brompton Capital, but party sources that his nomination was due to his business and charity work.

After arriving in the UK from Uganda in the 1970s when his family's assets were seized, along with those of many other people of Asian origin, by dictator Idi Amin, Mr Verjee built up a business empire including Mayfair china store Thomas Goode and created the Rumi Foundation charity to support humanitarian work.

He said: "It is a great honour to be asked to join the House of Lords. I look forward to working with my new colleagues and continuing to pursue the issues that have been important to me throughout my career; entrepreneurship, diversity, international development and helping young people - giving everyone an equal chance in life."

Lib Dem party president Tim Farron said: "Rumi's quiet commitment to backing the underdog has been a hallmark of his long career in business and in his charity work. His success as a business leader and his clear passion for fairness and equal opportunity make him a perfect Liberal Democrat parliamentarian."

The party's deputy leader Simon Hughes - a regular visitor to the Ministry of Sound - welcomed Mr Palumbo's ennoblement, hailing him as "a greatly successful businessman who has made his Elephant and Castle-based company a global club and music brand, valued around the world".

Mr Hughes added: "James has been a valued advisor, friend and Liberal Democrat supporter over many years. He will bring great business and financial expertise to Parliament."

Peers are not paid a salary, but they are entitled to a £300 tax-free allowance for every day they attend a parliamentary sitting.

On the basis of 137 sitting days last year, the 30 new peers would have cost the taxpayer around £1.2 million, plus travel and other expenses.

The extra spending could leave David Cameron facing awkward questions after he repeatedly insisted that the cost of politics should not be allowed to rise.

The coalition's plans to cut the number of MPs from 650 to 600 have already been dropped, and the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is proposing they should receive a significant pay rise.

The additional peers will also reinforce concerns about overcrowding in the Upper House.