House of Lords Business

Lord Adonis to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they possessed any intelligence about a threat to Jamal Khashoggi before his murder in October.  HL11067

Lord Adonis to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to establish an inquiry into reports that the security services possessed intelligence concerning the threat to Jamal Khashoggi before his murder in October.  HL11068

Lord Adonis to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will make available to the Intelligence and Security Committee classified information that they may possess relating to any threats to Jamal Khashoggi before his murder in October.  HL11069

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of (1) the number of children believed to be illiterate in Pakistan, (2) the number of children not in formal education, and (3) the proportion of children from religious minorities in Pakistan who are illiterate or not in formal education compared with the population as a whole.  HL11070

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of the case of a Christian school boy in Pakistan who was excluded from class and beaten for being accused of tainting the school’s water by touching the tap; and whether they will establish whether UK aid is used to support schools such as this.  HL11071

Lord Baker of Dorking to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have received any information from O2 as to when they will improve the mobile telephony in the village of Iford in East Sussex.  HL11072

Lord Birt to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the (1) competitiveness, and (2) fair trading practices of the home printer and printer cartridge market.  HL11073

Lord Birt to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will require firms offering international money transfer services to show the difference between the exchange rate they are offering and the interbank rate after Brexit.  HL11074

Lord Bradshaw to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 24 October (HL10536), whether they plan to reduce the time by which local authorities should achieve compliance with NOX emissions targets.  HL11075

Lord Bradshaw to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made an assessment of the shortlisted submission made by Moxon Architects with Mott MacDonald to the RIBA aesthetic overhead line structures competition on the cost of railway electrification.  HL11076

Lord Bradshaw to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 24 October (HL10536), what proportion of NO2 exceedance in NOX targets is attributed to buses as opposed to other traffic.  HL11077

Lord Bradshaw to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 24 October (HL10536), what plans they have to deal with increasing levels of pollution and disrupted public transport caused by congestion.  HL11078

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe to ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS Foundation Trusts promote private healthcare to NHS patients.  HL11079

Baroness Deech to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union on 25 July that gene-edited crops should be subject to the same EU regulations as conventional genetically modified organisms on (1) the UK plant biotechnology sector, and (2) the availability of Horizon 2020 funding for plant tech… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Deech to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to relevant authorities to encourage them to review the level of allowances for (1) Members of the European Parliament, and (2) judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union.  HL11081

Baroness Deech to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to relevant authorities to encourage them to reform the requirements for disclosure of expenditure of allowances by (1) Members of the European Parliament, and (2) judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union.  HL11082

Baroness Deech to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications of the ruling of the General Court of the European Court of Justice in September which confirmed the European Parliament’s decision to refuse to grant access to documents relating to MEPs’ subsistence allowances, travel expenses and parliamentary assistance allowances.  HL11083

Lord Freyberg to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 29 October (HL10764), whether they will publish Bradford NHS Trust’s Data Protection Impact Assessment in respect of the collaboration between the Bradford NHS Trust and GE Healthcare Providers.  HL11084

Lord Freyberg to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 29 October (HL10764), whether the collaboration between Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and GE Healthcare Providers is the first deal of this type between an NHS trust and GE Healthcare Providers.  HL11085

Lord Freyberg to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ashton of Hyde on 29 October (HL10726), whether they will now answer the question originally put, namely, what independent body is responsible for advising on the Criteria for exceptions to marginal cost pricing, previously administered by The National Archives, to provide assurance to th… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Harris of Richmond to ask Her Majesty's Government, following the findings of the North Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel into the behaviour of the North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, whether they intend to review that Panel's power to hold the Police and Crime Commissioner to account.  HL11087

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Callanan on 27 September (HL10205), what meetings ministers from all departments have held with consumer representatives in relation to the UK’s departure from the EU.  HL11088

Lord Maginnis of Drumglass to ask Her Majesty's Government what statutory reporting systems banks in the UK are subject to in respect of money stolen from customer accounts through hacking.  HL11089

Lord Maginnis of Drumglass to ask Her Majesty's Government whether banking laws and regulations apply consistently across all regions of the UK.  HL11090

Lord Maginnis of Drumglass to ask Her Majesty's Government how much money UK banks have reported as having been stolen from customer accounts through hacking in each of the last three financial years.  HL11091

Lord Maginnis of Drumglass to ask Her Majesty's Government how many hacking offences pertaining to customers’ bank accounts have been resolved in each of the past three financial years; in how many cases hackers were convicted; and what proportion they estimate the sum attributed to those offences resulting in conviction is of the total estimated to have been stolen through such h… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Myners to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to commission a review into the benefit of adopting the recommendations on government procurement made in The Efficiency Review by Sir Philip Green, published in 2010.  HL11093

Lord Ouseley to ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they are giving to the provision of additional resources to local authorities for specialist support for children with special educational needs and disabilities.  HL11094

Lord Ouseley to ask Her Majesty's Government whether the number of children entering local authority care is increasing; what assessment they have made of the causes of any such increase; and what steps they are taking to reduce that number.  HL11095

Lord Ouseley to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings in the advance pre-publication draft report by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Is Britain Fairer?, published on 25 October, that “in England, the long-term trend towards inclusion of children with SEND in mainstream schools has been reversed” and that this is “at odds w… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Storey to ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage more men to train and take up roles in early years education.  HL11097

Lord Storey to ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are putting in place to ensure sufficient supply of nursery places for families living in rural and coastal areas.  HL11098

Lord Storey to ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to introduce the early years apprenticeship standard.  HL11099

Lord Suri to ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to evaluate the credibility of evidence of the forced organ harvesting of practitioners of Falun Gong in China.  HL11100

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the claim by the Centre for Social Justice in its report, A Social Housing Strategy, published on 27 October, that the cost of housing benefit will treble to more than £70 billion a year by 2050.  HL11101

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the claim by the Centre of Social Justice in its report, A Social Housing Strategy, published on 27 October, that designated affordable new homes do not reduce the housing benefit bill.  HL11102

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the reported conclusion by the Advertising Standards Authority that energy companies will pass on the costs of smart meters to customers through higher bills.  HL11103

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the reported position of the Federation of Small Businesses for business rate relief to extend beyond retail to the hospitality and service sectors.  HL11104

Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel about the reported disparity of treatment between Palestinians accused of throwing stones and Israelis accused of the same action.  HL11105

Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel regarding the banning of Palestinian flags in East Jerusalem.  HL11106

Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what measures are in place to protect Palestinians living in the West Bank who wish to repair, improve or extend existing buildings from stop-work and demolition orders directed by the government of Israel.  HL11107

Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel regarding the proposal to confiscate land belonging to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.  HL11108

Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the obstacles to and restrictions on (1) student access to, and (2) the proper functioning of, Palestinian universities created by the government of Israel; and whether they intend to make representations to that government to mitigate such restrictions.  HL11109

Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the behaviour of Israeli forces towards Palestinian children travelling to and from school; and whether they intend to take steps to discourage any harassment of children by those forces.  HL11110

Lord Truscott to ask Her Majesty's Government why they were not represented at the Summit on the Syrian conflict on 27 October in Istanbul.  HL11111

Lord Truscott to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) investing in improving rail connectivity between northern cities, and (2) the economic benefits of such investment compared to those anticipated from HS2.  HL11112

Lord Truscott to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of recent earthquakes in Lancashire being caused by fracking.  HL11113

Baroness Walmsley to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made any medium to long-term horizon scanning assessment concerning medical research advances in transplantation of material of human origin in the UK and worldwide.  HL11114

Lord West of Spithead to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the most recent armed forces continuous attitude survey, and (2) any dissatisfaction within the Royal Marines revealed in that survey.  HL11115