House of Lords Business

Baroness Altmann to ask His Majesty's Government when they will respond to the Local Government Pension Scheme (England and Wales): Governance and reporting of climate change risks consultation, which closed on 24 November 2022, and for which the regulations were expected to be in force by April 2023.  HL7668

Baroness Altmann to ask His Majesty's Government what their latest estimate is of the take-up of Pension Credit in the past five years.  HL7669

Baroness Altmann to ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the impact of quantitative easing since 2009 on the distribution of wealth by (1) age, and (2) region, across the UK.  HL7670

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report of Dr Adrian Zenz, Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan, published in the Journal of Communist and Post-Communist Studies by University of California Press.  HL7671

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty's Government what conclusions they have drawn following the assertion in the report of Dr Adrian Zenz that "state-sponsored forced labor is characterized by pervasive state-induced and systemic dynamics of coercion that are deeply embedded within sociocultural contexts" in Xinjiang.  HL7672

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty's Government how they intend to respond to the findings of the report of Dr Adrian Zenz that "Xinjiang’s labor transfer program [...] is predominantly designed to achieve Beijing’s wider ethnopolitical goals in the region."  HL7673

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, in light of the findings of the report of Dr Adrian Zenz, to prevent companies sourcing Xinjiang cotton from supplying slave-made goods to UK consumers.  HL7674

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any attempts by Chinese officials to target family members of British parliamentarians who are currently subject to sanctions by the People's Republic of China.  HL7675

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle to ask His Majesty's Government (1) whether Natural England's Scientific Advisory Committee will publish their recently completed assessment report on the hen harrier brood meddling trial, (2) on what basis the decision was made by Natural England licensing services to extend the trial by two years rather than a longer or shorter period or not at a… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Berkeley to ask His Majesty's Government why their six-monthly report on HS2 to Parliament, due a year after that dated 16 March 2022, is delayed; and when they expect to publish the next edition.  HL7677

Lord Berkeley to ask His Majesty's Government how much surplus personal protective equipment they plan to dispose of through (1) reselling through the National Health Service, (2) incinerating, or (3) putting in landfill; how much of this has been achieved so far; and at what cost.  HL7678

Lord Birt to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of concerns expressed by (1) Dr Geoffrey Hinton, and (2) other employees of Google and Microsoft, reported in the New York Times on 7 April, about the risk AI technologies are being introduced before the risks can be fully assessed.  HL7679

Lord Black of Brentwood to ask His Majesty's Government whether NHS England has set key performance indicators for integrated care boards or NHS Trusts to improve detection of osteoporotic fractures; and, in considering whether or not to set such key performance indicators, whether NHS England takes account of the risk that bone fractures can cause of premature death and disabilit… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Black of Brentwood to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for appointing (1) a National Clinical Director, or (2) National Specialty Adviser, for osteoporosis within NHS England.  HL7681

Lord Black of Brentwood to ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to encourage NHS England to designate osteoporosis as a ‘long term condition’.  HL7682

Lord Blencathra to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 9 May (HL7361), what is their reason for cutting down the trees adjacent to the taxi rank at Euston Station; what works in particular necessitated cutting those trees; and at what future date those works are scheduled to take place.  HL7683

Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted to ask His Majesty's Government why the website of the UK Endorsement Board for accounting standards shows it has been supporting reduced disclosures applicable to Companies House-filed accounts, given that the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill is amending the Companies Act accounting exemptions so as to increase the disclosure of financ… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

The Lord Bishop of Derby to ask His Majesty's Government how many children are being held on remand in the most recent period for which data is available; and whether they are taking steps to reduce this.  HL7685

The Lord Bishop of Durham to ask His Majesty's Government how many children they predict will be subject to the duty to remove under Clause 2 of the Illegal Migration Bill in 2024.  HL7686

The Lord Bishop of Durham to ask His Majesty's Government whether people who meet the four conditions in Clause 2 of the Illegal Migration Bill who make a (1) protection, and (2) human rights, claim will undergo an asylum screening interview.  HL7687

The Lord Bishop of Durham to ask His Majesty's Government whether there have been any changes to asylum screening interviews since 7 March.  HL7688

The Lord Bishop of Durham to ask His Majesty's Government what they plan will happen to a person whose protection or human rights claim is deemed inadmissible under Clause 4(2) of the Illegal Migration Bill but who cannot be removed from the UK.  HL7689

The Lord Bishop of Durham to ask His Majesty's Government how many people they forecast will be detained under the powers contained in Clause 12 of the Illegal Migration Bill in (1) 2024, (2) 2025, and (3) 2026.  HL7690

The Lord Bishop of Durham to ask His Majesty's Government what role, if any, the detention gatekeeper will have in relation to decisions to detain people under Clause 12 of the Illegal Migration Bill.  HL7691

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of emissions from incinerators on the health of (1) the local population as a whole, and (2) babies and children in particular.  HL7692

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of burning of plastics on respiratory disease in areas surrounding incinerator plants.  HL7693

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the production of nitrogen oxides at waste incinerators in relation to (1) decreased lung function, (2) increases in respiratory symptoms, (3) asthma prevalence and incidence, (4) cancer incidence, (5) adverse birth outcomes, and (6) mortality.  HL7694

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to ensure that the report of the National Congenital Anomaly and Rare Disease Registration Service on congenital anomaly annual statistics breaks down data in relation to anomalies by local authority area.  HL7695

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what consideration has been given to broadening the general licence granted in relation to the Syria sanctions (1) beyond the current six-month timeframe, and (2) to cover all humanitarian assistance necessary, in order to address new and existing needs in Syria.  HL7696

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide funding and sustainable support to Ukraine to reform institutional care, including at the Ukraine Recovery Conference.  HL7697

Lord Hylton to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of aid from the UK, including through multi-lateral programmes, to Somalia, in particular in relation to (1) curbing piracy, (2) promoting civilian government, (3) disarming of militias, and (4) improving the economy; and to what extent they have collaborated with (a) the European External Act… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Hylton to ask His Majesty's Government how many inmates are released from prison each year.  HL7699

Lord Hylton to ask His Majesty's Government whether they will publish a breakdown of the current prison population by length of sentence.  HL7700

Baroness Merron to ask His Majesty's Government whether they will include rare cancers in the scope of their Major Conditions Strategy.  HL7701

Baroness Merron to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2022, whether NHS England still plans to assess and publish a report on levels of uptake of rare disease treatments, in addition to the highly specialised services annual report.  HL7702

Baroness Merron to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2023, whether they will publish an update on progress relating to the action to measure the time to diagnosis for both (1) genetic, and (2) non-genetic, rare conditions; how engagement will be carried out with the patient community once researchers are selected; and when this work wil… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Merron to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to hold integrated care boards to account on meeting the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on the uptake of treatments for people with rare diseases.  HL7704

Baroness Merron to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment (1) NHS England, and (2) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, have made of the likely number of products that will be eligible for entry into the Innovative Medicines Fund in (a) 2023–24, and (b) 2024–25.  HL7705

Lord Pearson of Rannoch to ask His Majesty's Government what provision they have made for those who are unable to make their P11D returns online; and, if they have made no such provision, whether they plan to do so.  HL7706

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on 22 February (HC Deb, col 286), when they expect NHS England to report on its review of NHS trusts’ radiopharmacy services; and whether that report will be made public.  HL7707

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the sustainability of the nuclear medicine workforce; and how this may be affected by the increase in availability of nuclear medicines to treat certain cancers.  HL7708

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government what steps NHS England is taking to ensure standardised approaches to developing molecular radiotherapy services across the country.  HL7709

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support young and emerging scientists, including those whose research is contributing to the treatment and eradication of malaria and other infectious diseases.  HL7710

Lord Rogan to ask His Majesty's Government how much funding they are expecting to contribute to the redevelopment of Casement Park; and when the building work is due to be completed.  HL7711

Lord Rogan to ask His Majesty's Government whether they will release the funding for football stadia in Northern Ireland on a sub-regional basis in advance of the re-establishment of a Northern Ireland Executive; and whether the amount of funding will be increased to reflect inflationary pressures since the funding was announced in 2011.  HL7712

The Lord Bishop of Southwark to ask His Majesty's Government how many prosecutions were undertaken of people smugglers in each of the last three years for which data are available.  HL7713

The Lord Bishop of Southwark to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by Amnesty International published on 2 May into the use of the Israeli military facial recognition system, Red Wolf, in mass surveillance and whether they support the call by Amnesty International for an end to mass and targeted surveillance in the Occupied Palestinian Territ… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what financial support they are providing to local authorities to improve road surfaces.  HL7715

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to assist the steel industry with increased trade and energy costs.  HL7716

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure the accessibility of energy efficiency support schemes.  HL7717

Lord West of Spithead to ask His Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the percentage of Russian oil as a proportion of all Indian oil imports (1) prior to the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, and (2) at present.  HL7718

Lord West of Spithead to ask His Majesty's Government how they can ascertain whether oil sold by India to the UK and other countries has not been refined from Russian oil, thereby circumventing sanctions.  HL7719

Baroness Wheeler to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that variation in access to specialised services does not increase due to the delegation of some of these services to the integrated care board level.  HL7720

Baroness Wheeler to ask His Majesty's Government how they will apply lessons that have been learned from the two integrated care boards in South London that have taken on full commissioning responsibility for specialised services to other integrated care boards ahead of full delegation from 2024–25.  HL7721

Baroness Wheeler to ask His Majesty's Government how many full-time equivalent NHS England staff were transferred from specialised commissioning to the Monkeypox response workstreams.  HL7722

Baroness Wheeler to ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish their timeline for the update of service specifications in specialised services HL7723

Baroness Wheeler to ask His Majesty's Government how (1) NHS England, and (2) integrated care boards, will hold trusts to account on performance in specialised services in line with latest service specifications.  HL7724