House of Lords Business

Lord Adonis to ask Her Majesty's Government what policies are in place to avoid conflicts of interest between the role of the chair and deputy chair of Ofcom and their participation in the House of Lords.  HL7132

Lord Adonis to ask Her Majesty's Government whether the board of Ofcom has been notified of any conflicts of interest on the part of the chair and deputy chair of Ofcom; and if so, what are those conflicts of interest.  HL7133

Lord Adonis to ask Her Majesty's Government whether minutes of meetings of the Ofcom board record any declarations of conflicts of interest on the part of the chair and deputy chair; and if so, what are the dates of those meetings and the nature of the conflicts declared.  HL7134

Lord Adonis to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether there is any conflict of interest between the duties of the chair and deputy chair of Ofcom as impartial regulators of the BBC and their parliamentary duties including their voting record on Brexit.  HL7135

Lord Allen of Kensington to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the likely impact on the UK's ability to strike a free trade agreement with Mexico, of the recent free trade agreements that the EU has agreed with that country.  HL7136

Lord Allen of Kensington to ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in trade talks with Mexico; and at what level those talks are taking place.  HL7137

Lord Allen of Kensington to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the likely impact on the UK's ability to strike free trade agreements with Japan and Singapore, of the recent free trade agreements the EU has agreed with those countries.  HL7138

Lord Allen of Kensington to ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in trade talks with Japan and Singapore; and at what level those talks are taking place.  HL7139

Lord Allen of Kensington to ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to begin the process of recruitment for staff and members of the board of the Trade Remedies Authority, as provided for by the Trade Bill.  HL7140

Lord Allen of Kensington to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have reached an agreement with the EU to ensure that after leaving the EU the UK will continue to enjoy its current protections under the EU's protected designation of origin, protected geographical indication, and traditional specialities guaranteed schemes; and if so, what are the terms of that agreement.  HL7… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of Dafuris who remain incarcerated in Sudan's prisons despite the issuing of a release order; what information they have about the wellbeing of those prisoners; and what representations they have made to the government of Sudan regarding the continued detention of those prisoners.  HL7142

Lord Bassam of Brighton to ask Her Majesty's Government what impact assessments they conducted when the hostile environment policy for illegal immigrants was adopted.  HL7143

Lord Bassam of Brighton to ask Her Majesty's Government what was the membership of the Cabinet sub-Committee that discussed the hostile environment policy for illegal immigrants; and what conclusions that sub-Committee came to on the likely impact of that policy.  HL7144

Lord Bassam of Brighton to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of individuals and families who have been adversely affected by the hostile immigration environment strategy.  HL7145

Lord Berkeley to ask Her Majesty's Government how much has been paid by (1) HS2, and (2) the Department for Transport, in compensation and costs for land or businesses purchased, relocated or affected by HS2; what is their estimate of the total to be paid up to the time when the works are complete; and whether the latter figure is included in the Department for Transport’s cost es… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Birt to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Callanan on 19 April, what questions were put to the UK ambassador to France by UK nationals at the most recent British Citizens Outreach Meeting held at the British Embassy in Paris; what answers were given; and whether they plan to extend the scope of their communications to UK citizens living in th… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted to ask Her Majesty's Government what was the membership of the Board of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) for each of the years 2004 to 2018; and, in respect of each member, (1) what was their profession, (2) what other positions they held during their period of membership, including acting as Chief Executive Officer or board member of a listed b… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted to ask Her Majesty's Government what legal costs were incurred by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in each year from 2010–17; and which law firm was engaged by the FRC in each case.  HL7149

The Earl of Clancarty to ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Department for Education plans to provide a website that will allow schools to advertise staff vacancies for free.  HL7150

Lord Clement-Jones to ask Her Majesty's Government how many false declarations of prescription exemption have been challenged by the NHS Business Services Authority over the last eight years; how many were subsequently found to have been the result of a simple mistake; what were the costs involved in following up allegedly false declarations; and what were the total fines collecte… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Farmer to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cost-effectiveness of a voluntary national programme to prescribe and manage medication, including anti-androgens and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, for sex offenders who require assistance in managing their sex drives.  HL7152

Lord Farmer to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the proportion of sex offenders who would benefit from medication to manage their sex drives; and what assessment they have made of the likely contribution to public safety of introducing a voluntary national programme to prescribe and manage such medication.  HL7153

Lord Farmer to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the proportion of sex offenders serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection whose suitability for parole would be enhanced by voluntarily undertaking a programme of medication to manage their sex drives.  HL7154

Lord Farmer to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which evidence of the efficacy and cost effectiveness of polygraph testing of sex offenders is strong enough to support the roll out of a national programme to monitor sex offenders’ compliance with licence conditions and supervision designed to control or minimise the risk that such offend… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Foster of Bath to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the financial analysis by the Campaign to Cut Tourism VAT which, using HM Treasury’s model, shows that following a reduction of VAT on accommodation and attractions from 20 per cent to 5 per cent a first-year loss of £461 million would be eliminated by year two, and over ten years £4.6 billion wo… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Harris of Haringey to ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of the Department for Transport's data is hosted (1) in the UK, and (2) overseas.  HL7157

Lord Harris of Haringey to ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of the Department for Work and Pensions' data is hosted (1) in the UK, and (2) overseas.  HL7158

Lord Harris of Haringey to ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of the Department of Health and Social Care's data is hosted (1) in the UK, and (2) overseas.  HL7159

Lord Harris of Haringey to ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's data is hosted (1) in the UK, and (2) overseas.  HL7160

Lord Harris of Haringey to ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of HM Treasury's data is hosted (1) in the UK, and (2) overseas.  HL7161

Lord Harris of Haringey to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 19 April (HL6898), why it is not possible to give even an approximate timetable for the review into the legal position of police firearms officers and an indication of whether that review will be published.  HL7162

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask Her Majesty's Government whether any data subjects will lose any abilities in respect of the sharing of personal data held by public bodies due to changes coming into force on 25 May under the General Data Protection Regulation.  HL7163

Lord Hylton to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to seek to persuade the governments of Egypt, Israel, Palestine, North Korea and South Sudan, and other non-signatories, to ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention.  HL7164

Lord Hylton to ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to help prevent UNWRA running out of funds later this year.  HL7165

Lord Hylton to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have proposals for improving banking arrangements between the UK and Iran, in order to overcome trading difficulties.  HL7166

Lord Judd to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to ensure that (1) National Parks, (2) Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and (3) other such protected areas, are excluded as potential sites for the disposal of nuclear waste; and if so, how.  HL7167

Lord Judd to ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to ensure that all local authorities that would be adversely affected by the construction or operation of a nuclear waste facility, including a facility for radioactive gases, are fully involved in any consent process; and whether local authorities will have powers of veto over such construction in their areas.  HL7168

Lord Judd to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the soundness of the fabric and installations currently containing nuclear waste in (1) the short-term, (2) the mid-term, and (3) the long-term; and, in the light of that assessment, what assessment they have made of the urgency of constructing new facilities.  HL7169

Lord Judd to ask Her Majesty's Government what are their plans for (1) Ennerdale, and (2) the Ennerdale granite, in their future nuclear waste disposal policy.  HL7170

Lord Laming to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which the organisation of the General Practitioner service continues to be suited to being the foundation of a comprehensive primary care health service.  HL7171

Lord Laming to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which increased demand on accident and emergency services is influenced by the lack of a comprehensive primary care health service.  HL7172

Lord McColl of Dulwich to ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been (1) arrested, (2) charged, and (3) convicted, under section 53A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in each calendar year since that provision came into force in 2010; and what penalty was imposed in cases of conviction.  HL7173

Lord Porter of Spalding to ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to ensure that work to be progressed under the Social Care Green Paper, and parallel work on working age adults, feeds into the Fair Funding Review of councils’ relative needs and plans for 75 per cent business rates retention.  HL7174

Baroness Quin to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the possible increases in travel insurance for UK citizens if the UK were no longer to be part of the European Health Insurance Card scheme after Brexit.  HL7175

Baroness Randerson to ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to lay the new regulations relating to the Air Travel Organiser’s Licence scheme; and when those regulations need to be in force.  HL7176

Baroness Randerson to ask Her Majesty's Government what are the latest estimates from the Operational Delivery Networks, produced by NHS England, of the total number of people infected with Hepatitis C in England, broken down by disease state: (1) mild, (2) moderate, (3) cirrhotic, and (4) end stage.  HL7177

Baroness Randerson to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will publish the data recorded in the National Hepatitis C register referred to in the NHS press release of 29 January, which set out plans for England to be the first in the world to eliminate the disease.  HL7178

Baroness Randerson to ask Her Majesty's Government which international maritime legislation appears in the backlog referred to in the 20th Report of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee published on 1 March; and what is their estimate of when they expect to have cleared that backlog.  HL7179

Lord Scriven to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations, if any, they have made to the government of Bahrain regarding the treatment of human rights activist Nabeel Rajab in Jau Prison, including reports that he has recently been denied access to water for over 24 hours and been confined to his cell for 23 hours a day for a week.  HL7180

Lord Scriven to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the United States State Department’s Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2017 in respect of Bahrain, and of the concerns raised about unlawful killings and the torture of detainees and prisoners.  HL7181

Lord Scriven to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Bahrain regarding the use of citizenship revocation and statelessness as a punitive measure against political prisoners in Bahrain, in the light of reports that more than 600 Bahraini nationals have had their citizenship revoked since 2012.  HL7182

Lord Scriven to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Bahrain regarding the targeting of family members of Ali Ahmed Abdulla Moumen, killed by security forces in 2011.  HL7183

Lord Scriven to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Bahrain regarding the treatment of Hajer Mansoor Hassan; and what assessment they have made of whether she is being denied medication by prison authorities in Isa Town.  HL7184

Lord Scriven to ask Her Majesty's Government whether UK diplomats will attend the final appeal hearing of seven civilians, four of whom are currently on the death row, being tried in a Bahraini military court on 25 April.  HL7185

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they have taken to facilitate the provision of compensation for people who suffered due to the Windrush immigration issue.  HL7186

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effect that the loss of investment by the European Investment Fund will have on UK entrepreneurship and innovation.  HL7187

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask Her Majesty's Government how they will ensure that EU citizens looking for UK residency rights do not experience the same failures faced by Windrush immigrants.  HL7188

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have received assurances from each of the EU27 regarding the capability of those countries to cope with a potential influx of British expatriates looking for residence rights in the EU; and what steps they will take to ensure that British expatriates looking for residency in the EU27 experience a smooth transition… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Thornton to ask Her Majesty's Government whether, given that the Student Loans Company (SLC) has accepted responsibility for overpayments to healthcare students and that the SLC told students that they were not being overpaid, the SLC will write off overpayments to physiotherapy and other healthcare students.  HL7190

Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they are making to the government of Israel following reports of the deportation of Ibtisam Obeid, a Palestinian woman from Jerusalem who has lived there with her husband and children for the past sixteen years.  HL7191

Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their response to the threat by a senior Israeli minister that the Israeli authorities will assassinate Hamas leaders.  HL7192

Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they are making to the government of Egypt regarding the closing of the Rafah Crossing in both directions.  HL7193

Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they are making to the government of Israel regarding the threat of demolition by Israeli forces of the EU-funded school in the Bedouin community of Al Muntar.  HL7194

Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they are making to the government of Israel regarding access for Palestinian historians to Israeli archives.  HL7195

Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the lack of medical and surgical equipment in Gaza.  HL7196