House of Lords Business

Earl Attlee to ask His Majesty's Government how many businesses, or their obvious subsidiaries, have been granted a Special Order under section 44 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to move an abnormal load, or loads, at a gross weight exceeding 150 tonnes in the most recent 12-month period for which the figures are available.  HL3570

Earl Attlee to ask His Majesty's Government how many businesses, or their obvious subsidiaries, have been granted a VR1 Authorisation under an order made under section 44 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to move an exceptionally wide load in the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available.  HL3571

Earl Attlee to ask His Majesty's Government how many businesses, or their obvious subsidiaries, have been granted a Special Order made under section 44 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to move an exceptionally wide load in excess of 6.1 metres wide in the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available.  HL3572

Lord Birt to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the scale of damage to public footpaths and bridleways caused by four-wheel drive vehicles and scrambler bikes.  HL3573

The Earl of Clancarty to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take to combat the theft of stone from historic sites.  HL3574

The Earl of Clancarty to ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to improve crime reporting in relation to national heritage, including through the development of a heritage crime marker to highlight protected sites and other cultural property in police call handling.  HL3575

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town to ask His Majesty's Government why NHS England has decided to allow the prescription of gender affirming hormones as a routine commissioning treatment option for young people from around their 16th birthday after only a literature review and without consulting medical and other specialists, or taking note other countries’ experience of such hormone… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town to ask His Majesty's Government how many complaints to Border Force are not answered within the service standard of 20 days.  HL3577

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town to ask His Majesty's Government why no reason is given to inward travellers for being held for 6 hours; why they are offered no food or drink during such detention; and why no apology is offered when nothing untoward has been found in their travel to the UK.  HL3578

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town to ask His Majesty's Government what procedures Border Force has in place to learn lessons from incidents of unnecessary detention or of the loss of paper-work such that a complaint takes 11 months to process.  HL3579

Baroness Helic to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports by UN experts on 19 February of “credible allegations of egregious human rights violations” against Palestinian women and girls in Gaza and the West Bank by Israel Defence Forces; and whether they have offered practical support for investigating these alleged crimes, and for caring for survivo… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Hoey to ask His Majesty's Government which department will answer questions on matters relating to the Windsor Framework (Implementation) Regulations 2024.  HL3581

Lord Holmes of Richmond to ask His Majesty's Government what is the educational attainment gap for blind and visually impaired students at (1) Key Stage 2, (2) GCSE, and (3) A Level; by what date, if any, they aim to eradicate that gap; and what additional research have they undertaken, or do they intend to undertake, to support work in this area.  HL3582

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Markham on 27 February 2023 (HL5458) and 14 March 2023 (HL5916), whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of the YAML, R and Python code exportable from NHS England's Federated Data Platform for (1) the Ambulance Dataset Dashboard, and (2) the COVID Monitoring Reportin… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made on the funding of biomedical research into myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) since the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health and Social Care stated on 24 January 2019 that “there have not been good enough research proposals in the ME space, partly because of the stigma … and partly… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government how much research funding the National Institute for Health and Care Research and the Medical Research Council have invested in biomedical studies of the causes and treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and non-biomedical studies of ME since 2019.  HL3585

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which the 2021 NICE guidance for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has been implemented (1) in general, and (2) in relation to the training health and social care professionals on how to employ the new recommendations, (a) establishing a UK-wide networ… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the role of insourcing as a solution to eliminating waiting list backlogs for elective procedures.  HL3587

Lord Lee of Trafford to ask His Majesty's Government whether they were invited to participate in the recently announced Franco-German Main Ground Combat System which is intended to jointly provide a successor tank to the Leopard and Leclerc.  HL3588

Baroness Lister of Burtersett to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks of Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 18 March (HL Deb col 82), what is their assessment of the implications for calculating entitlement to contributory working age benefits and pensions of abolishing national insurance contributions.  HL3589

Lord Mott to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports (1) that the car park of UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza sank in 2014 as a result of subterranean terror infrastructure, and (2) that UNRWA did not investigate this sinking.  HL3590

Lord Mott to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that UNRWA did not remove the terror infrastructure beneath Zaitun Preparatory A Boys School in Gaza it discovered in 2021.  HL3591

Lord Patten to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, have they made of the cultural and economic welfare of the permanent residents of the Scilly Isles.  HL3592

Lord Patten to ask His Majesty's Government which specific counties are included within the term "the west country of England" when they refer to this region.  HL3593

Lord Patten to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, have they made of the number of illegal migrants who have reached the UK from or via Tunisia in each of the last 3 years.  HL3594

Lord Pickles to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to build consensus among international partners on halting the supply of arms to all parties funding, sheltering or supporting proscribed terrorist groups, including Hamas.  HL3595

Lord Pickles to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications for the UK’s foreign policy of Israel’s claims to have discovered a Hamas intelligence command centre and terror tunnels beneath UNWRA’s Gaza headquarters.  HL3596

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to adopt a new immunisation programme and ensure that there is high uptake of this programme.  HL3597

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government how they plan to assess the wider productivity and economic benefits of any new immunisation programmes for infant respiratory syncytial virus.  HL3598

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government how they plan to assess the impact of new immunisation programmes for infant respiratory syncytial virus on (1) hospitalisations, and (2) health inequality.  HL3599

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s severity modifier on the prescribing of cancer medicines.  HL3600

Lord Shinkwin to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recent reports that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was an UNRWA teacher.  HL3601

Lord Shinkwin to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the reported sale of equipment imported by UNRWA to (1) Hamas, and (2) Palestinian Islamic Jihad.  HL3602

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government, following the release of data showing that the number of children living in absolute poverty has risen by the highest rate in 30 years, what steps they are taking to address the increase in child poverty rates.  HL3603

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the factors contributing to the recent decline in consumer prices inflation.  HL3604

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recent trends in consumer spending; and what assessment they have made of the impact of this on (1) the retail sector, and (2) the wider economy.  HL3605

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest to ask His Majesty's Government whether they classify platforms hosting large language models as hosting providers or as publishers and content creators in their own right, and what assessment they have made of the impact of this classification on the regulation and accountability of such platforms.  HL3606

Lord Weir of Ballyholme to ask His Majesty's Government what additional support they are providing to enable local authorities and childcare providers to meet demand arising from their commitment to provide free childcare hours.  HL3607

Lord Weir of Ballyholme to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the percentage of eligible families who will be able to take advantage of free childcare care hours committed by April.  HL3608

Lord Weir of Ballyholme to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the percentage of areas where there is a shortage of childcare facilities and providers to provide their commitment of free childcare hours.  HL3609

Lord Weir of Ballyholme to ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of (1) primary, and (2) secondary, schools currently provide breakfast clubs.  HL3610

Lord Weir of Ballyholme to ask His Majesty's Government how much funding they provided to UNRWA in each of the past five years.  HL3611

Lord Young of Cookham to ask His Majesty's Government, following statistics published on 21 March showing that the percentage of young carers who missed at least ten per cent of school is almost twice as high as that for pupils without caring responsibilities, what steps they are taking to improve the (1) identification of, and (2) support for, young carers in schools.  HL3612