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Questions for Written Answer for 28 February 2018
Tabled on 27 February 2018 and due for answer by 13 March 2018.
Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the use of a European Arrest Warrant by Turkey to arrest Salih Muslim. HL5899
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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of proposals from Ribble Valley Council to reopen the railway line from Clitheroe to Hellifield for passenger trains. HL5900
Answered
Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to provide northbound access to the M6 motorway at Junction 31A. HL5901
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Lord Berkeley to ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether, following several recent closures of Abingdon Street to through-traffic for vehicles, he has any plans to initiate discussions with the Mayor of London, Transport for London, Westminster City Council and other stakeholders to propose its permanent closure to vehicle traffic. HL5902
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Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 22 February (HL5517), whether they are able to provide any examples, from the current centrally maintained list of non-departmental central government bodies, of other non-departmental central government bodies that have operated on the basis of expected status rather tha… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Henley on 20 February 2018 (HL5469) and to the statement by the Minister for Trade on 29 March 2007 (Col 137WS), whether the Minister for Trade was informed of the intentions of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) regarding its classification when making that statement; if not,… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Baroness Helic to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 20 February (HL5414), in which countries the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative projects listed included the gathering of evidence to support future prosecutions. HL5905
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Baroness Helic to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 20 February (HL5408), what assurances, if any, the Foreign Secretary received from the government of Burma that allegations of sexual violence perpetrated against Rohingya people would be investigated. HL5906
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Baroness Helic to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 20 February (HL5408), what assistance, if any, the Foreign Secretary offered to the government of Burma to pursue investigations of the allegations of sexual violence perpetrated by the Burmese military against Rohingya women and girls. HL5907
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Lord Hogan-Howe to ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to the outcome of the review into the use of guns by police officers in the UK, initiated by the then Prime Minister David Cameron on 20 December 2015. HL5908
Answered
Lord Hoyle to ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether he intends to review whether Peers should declare their membership of the Freemasons and other similar organisations with secret ceremonies. HL5909
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Lord Hylton to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 26 February (HL5626), how many (1) British personnel, and (2) non-British persons employed by HM Government and British agencies, including interpreters, are now working in Greece for the purposes set out in that Answer; and how many of those personnel are regularly prese… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb to ask Her Majesty's Government, what assessment they have made of (1) the safety of feeding food waste containing meat unsuitable for human consumption from all stages of the supply chain to omnivorous animals, and (2) the contribution that lifting restrictions on feeding such food waste to omnivores could make to food security when the UK leaves the… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Lord Porter of Spalding to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 31 January (HL5313), whether the funding that was set aside to implement the cap on care costs and other adult social care reforms will be released to local government immediately following publication of the Social Care Green Paper; and when an announcement on changes t… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Baroness Quin to ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of proposals to restrict access to prescription-based vitamin D maintenance, whether they will undertake a study into how such proposals might affect at-risk groups, as set out in NICE Guidelines 56-2, and in particular those in the at-risk groups on low or fixed incomes. HL5913
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Lord Roberts of Llandudno to ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that all patients with type 1 diabetes in England have access to flash glucose monitors. HL5914
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Lord Roberts of Llandudno to ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that all Clinical Commissioning Groups are adequately funded to supply flash glucose monitors to all patients with type 1 diabetes. HL5915
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Lord Roberts of Llandudno to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of why flash glucose monitors are available to patients in some parts of England and not in others. HL5916
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Lord Roberts of Llandudno to ask Her Majesty's Government how many of the 20,000 refugees that the UK pledged to receive from Syria by 2020 have arrived. HL5917
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Lord Roberts of Llandudno to ask Her Majesty's Government what additional steps they have taken in the last six months to respond to the escalating violence in Syria. HL5918
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Lord Storey to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to cap the amount that universities charge for students attending degree ceremonies. HL5919
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Lord Storey to ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to support students from low income families who would like family members to attend a degree awarding ceremony but cannot afford the guest charges. HL5920
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Lord Storey to ask Her Majesty's Government what health and safety requirements must be met by motor cycle delivery drivers. HL5921
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Lord Storey to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 18 September 2017 (HL1445), whether all government departments and executive agencies with 250 or more employees have now published information about gender pay gaps between male and female employees. HL5922
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Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel regarding the increased restrictions on travel to and from Gaza. HL5923
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Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations, if any, they have made to the government of Israel regarding the fines issued by Jerusalem municipality to properties owned by the United Nations and by churches on the grounds that they are not entitled to exemptions from property tax. HL5924
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Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel regarding that government's reported practice of charging Palestinians for the costs incurred in the demolition of Palestinian homes, whilst denying those Palestinians any compensation. HL5925
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Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel regarding that government's reported practice of charging Palestinians the cost of repairing military vehicles that were damaged whilst being used in attacks on those Palestinians, whilst denying those Palestinians any compensation. HL5926
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Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel regarding the decline in the approval rate of applications for travel to and from Gaza for medical purposes. HL5927
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Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they supplied spare parts for Land Rover vehicles to the Israeli Defence Force during 2017; and if so, what parts they supplied. HL5928
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