House of Lords Business

Baroness Altmann to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that immunocompromised people for whom vaccination is not suitable are protected against COVID-19.  HL5824

Baroness Altmann to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the finding from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) that "Evusheld is not recommended for vulnerable adults who are at high risk of severe COVID-19 because there is not enough evidence of its effectiveness against current variants and those likely to be circulating in the next 6 months", what co… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Altmann to ask His Majesty's Government, further to (1) the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 20 February (HL5171), and (2) the conclusion from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) that "Evusheld is not recommended for vulnerable adults who are at high risk of severe COVID-19 because there is not enough evidence of its effectiveness against current… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty's Government how many Daesh members have been referred by the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da'esh/ISIL for prosecutions in the UK; and how many of these people were allegedly involved in the Kocho massacre.  HL5827

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty's Government, further to a Daesh member being convicted of genocide by the German Federal Court of Justice, what plans they have to recognise the Daesh atrocities as genocide.  HL5828

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty's Government how many members of the Yazidi community from Iraq have been resettled in the UK since 2014.  HL5829

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty's Government why the UK Resettlement Scheme is not accepting new submissions from the United Nations Refugee Agency.  HL5830

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty's Government what assistance they are providing to the Yazidi community in Iraq; and how many people are benefiting from it.  HL5831

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Resolution 2475 of 23 January, what plans they have to address the issue of Daesh foreign fighters and their families returning from Syria and other countries to the member states of the Council of Europe.  HL5832

Baroness Blower to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 20 February (HL5424), why they do not collate statistical data on the proportion of children’s education spent with unregistered providers.  HL5833

Baroness Blower to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 20 February (HL5425), why they do not collate statistical data on the proportion of children with (1) special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), or (2) an Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP), receiving their education from unregistered providers.  HL5834

Baroness Blower to ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the potential (1) costs, and (2) savings, that could be achieved for the public by bringing the delivery of prison education into the public sector.  HL5835

Baroness Blower to ask His Majesty's Government when the annual report The UK's future nuclear deterrent: the 2022 update to Parliament will be published; and what is the reason for the delay in its publication.  HL5836

The Lord Bishop of Gloucester to ask His Majesty's Government how many restricted status prisoners were held in the female estate in each of the last 10 years.  HL5837

Lord Hylton to ask His Majesty's Government how many people were prosecuted for paying for sexual services in each year since the relevant legislation came into force; and how many convictions were obtained.  HL5838

Lord Hylton to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage and develop safe and stable ways for people to leave prostitution and sex work and to find alternative work.  HL5839

Lord Jackson of Peterborough to ask His Majesty's Government what recent evidential basis they have used when adopting a policy of not interviewing potential asylum seekers from (1) Afghanistan, (2) Eritrea, (3) Syria, (4) Yemen, and (5) Libya, in order to reduce the backlog of applications.  HL5840

The Lord Bishop of Leicester to ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of eligible households on prepayment meters in (1) Leicester, and (2) Leicestershire, have redeemed their Energy Bills Support Scheme vouchers.  HL5841

The Lord Bishop of Leicester to ask His Majesty's Government whether they are evaluating the impacts of the various household support schemes delivered by county councils and unitary authorities.  HL5842

The Earl of Leicester to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to protect the health of trees in the UK against the disease ash dieback.  HL5843

The Earl of Leicester to ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of ash trees that were felled in England in each year between 2012 and 2022.  HL5844

The Earl of Leicester to ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the percentage of ash trees that are surviving chalara ash dieback disease.  HL5845

The Earl of Leicester to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of local authorities which implement a policy of repeat tree inspections looking out for unsafe trees and tree diseases such as ash dieback.  HL5846

The Earl of Leicester to ask His Majesty's Government how many times a local authority has been brought to court in each year between 2018 and 2022 for cases involving injury due to fallen trees.  HL5847

The Marquess of Lothian to ask His Majesty's Government whether they have raised concerns with the Taliban over new restrictions on basic freedoms for women and girls in Afghanistan; and what steps they are taking to protect women and girls in Afghanistan and to prevent a further deterioration in their rights.  HL5848

The Marquess of Lothian to ask His Majesty's Government how long they expect the current food shortages in England, particularly of fruit and vegetables, to last; and what steps they are taking to help farmers and growers so that England is able to become more self-sufficient in terms of food production.  HL5849

The Marquess of Lothian to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the threat to global health resulting from the Marburg virus disease, following the outbreak in Equatorial Guinea confirmed on 13 February.  HL5850

The Marquess of Lothian to ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have made to President Kais Saied of Tunisia concerning the continuing wave of arrests and detentions of prominent political opponents and other critics of his government, including Noureddine Bhiri.  HL5851

The Marquess of Lothian to ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel concerning the raid by the Israeli military in Nablus on 22 February to arrest three wanted militants, which reportedly resulted in the killing of 10 Palestinians and the injuring of over 100.  HL5852

The Marquess of Lothian to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address concerns surrounding the safety of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine; and whether they will provide air defence systems to Ukraine to help protect that country’s energy infrastructure.  HL5853

Baroness Randerson to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce regulations to enforce simpler payment methods for electric vehicle charging; and whether they intend to base this on a universal payment card similar to the system in the Netherlands.  HL5854

Baroness Randerson to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to mandate acceptance of payments using credit cards for electric vehicle charge points.  HL5855

Baroness Randerson to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to suspend the rollout of new sections of smart motorways until technical problems that have led to the recent suspensions of the Dynac system are fully solved; and what assessment they have made of the safety implications of the outages in this system and the remedial measures put in place on the affected mot… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Randerson to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for the Thames Freeport project to give preference to freight transport of spoil and building materials via the river between the three sites at Dagenham, Tilbury Dock and London Gateway; and what plans they have to ensure permanently improved waterway links from those sites.  HL5857

Baroness Randerson to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to amend the guidelines followed by the Environment Agency so that priority is given to proposals and planning applications that enable access to freight transported on waterways, rather than roads; and what account the Environment Agency takes of the emission reductions and health benefits of moving freight f… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Rennard to ask His Majesty's Government how many Ministers have had legal costs relating to inquiries by the House of Commons Privileges Committee funded by taxpayer money since 2010; and how much taxpayer money was used in each case.  HL5859

Lord Rennard to ask His Majesty's Government when the next review of the Public Duty Costs Allowance will take place; who will be consulted; what plans they have for recipients to be required to declare their claims upon the fund in a similar fashion to MPs; and whether the review will examine how the use of the allowance for public duties can be distinguished from costs incurred… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Rennard to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for taxpayer funded legal costs for former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in relation to his investigation by the House of Commons Privileges Committee to be set against any claims he should make from the Public Duty Costs Allowance.  HL5861

The Lord Bishop of St Albans to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve water quality in Hertfordshire.  HL5862

The Lord Bishop of St Albans to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address issues with the egg supply chain.  HL5863

The Lord Bishop of St Albans to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address issues of supply for fruit and vegetables.  HL5864

The Earl of Sandwich to ask His Majesty's Government what their timetable is for achieving the fourth Universal Periodic Review of human rights in the UK; and what consultations they have so far completed.  HL5865

Lord Storey to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Scott of Bybrook on 22 February (HL3776), what assessment they have made of the impact of not yet announcing when the Liverpool Strategic Futures Panel will meet.  HL5866

Lord Storey to ask His Majesty's Government whether they will list the 39 schools in England that have been closed in the last three years due to safety concerns, including a breakdown of whether the closure is temporary or permanent; and for those closures that are temporary, (1) how long each closure is expected to last, and (2) where students are being educated while their scho… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Strathcarron to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 8 February (HL4994), whether they are aware that the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s Blue Guide, published in November 2020, defines advertisements as “any activity which is intended to encourage prescription or supply by healthcare professionals and use of medi… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address fuel poverty.  HL5869

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to introduce measures to protect communities and ecosystems from land speculation associated with carbon offsetting.  HL5870

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with local authorities regarding plans to regulate short-term lets; and what was the outcome of those discussions.  HL5871

Lord Truscott to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the war in Ukraine on global warming.  HL5872

Viscount Waverley to ask His Majesty's Government whether they have identified any breaches of UK sanctions over the last 12 months; and if so, what was their response.  HL5873

Viscount Waverley to ask His Majesty's Government what processes they have in place to ensure that the economic sanctions related to the war in Ukraine are monitored and enforced.  HL5874

Lord West of Spithead to ask His Majesty's Government whether the UK has a strategic need to maintain a steel industry; and if not, how it can ensure industrial resilience.  HL5875

Lord Young of Cookham to ask His Majesty's Government when they will respond to their SEND review: right support, right place, right time consultation, which ran from 29 March 2022 to 22 July 2022.  HL5876