House of Lords Business

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty's Government what is the total cost to date of the removal of Hikvision cameras from Whitehall departments; and what estimate they have made of the cost to local authorities of removing Hikvision cameras from local council buildings.  HL3549

Baroness Deech to ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with (1) Network Rail and (2) Oxfordshire County Council to ensure appropriate access from West Oxford to Oxford Station for disabled and elderly passengers, including travel by bus.  HL3550

Baroness Deech to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Scott of Bybrook on 21 March (HL3106), where the National Muslim War Memorial will be situated; and, if not in Westminster, for what reason.  HL3551

Baroness Deech to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Scott of Bybrook on 20 March (HL3102), what has been the nature of the consultation with representatives of subsequent genocides which will be included in the UK Holocaust Memorial Learning Centre; and what was the outcome of those consultations.  HL3552

Baroness Deech to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Scott of Bybrook on 20 March (HL3105), on what dates and in which locations or websites the consultations on a UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre took place; and whether there is a record of the responses.  HL3553

Lord Dodds of Duncairn to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effects of the disapplication in respect of Northern Ireland of provisions under sections 2 and 4 of the Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Act 2024.  HL3554

Baroness Helic to ask His Majesty's Government what specific action they have taken to mitigate risk factors, and prevent atrocity crimes, in response to the conclusion of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia in October 2023 that “eight of the Common Risk Factors for atrocity crimes are present in Ethiopia and that there is evidence to suggest that cert… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Helic to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of efforts since the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in November 2022 to achieve justice and accountability for conflict-related sexual violence in Tigray, and what support they are providing to those efforts.  HL3556

Baroness Helic to ask His Majesty's Government how many members of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Team of Experts have been deployed to Ethiopia since 2020; for what purposes; how long each deployment lasted; and what assessment they have made of the impact of its work.  HL3557

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to help small businesses deal with late payments.  HL3558

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley to ask His Majesty's Government what is the average time a business waits for the payment of an invoice from the Department for Transport.  HL3559

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley to ask His Majesty's Government what is the average time a business waits for the payment of an invoice from the Ministry of Defence.  HL3560

The Lord Bishop of Leicester to ask His Majesty's Government, in the light of the National Audit Office’s report Investigation into asylum accommodation, published on 20 March, which found that (1) using large sites to accommodate asylum seekers could cost £46 million more than using hotels, and (2) the Home Office rated their own plans as “high risk or undeliverable”, wh… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Lister of Burtersett to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Gender Apartheid Inquiry report Shattering Women's Rights, Shattering Lives: Parliamentary Ad-Hoc Inquiry Into The Situation Of Women And Girls In Afghanistan And Iran, published by the International Bar Association on 4 March, with particular reference to the fort… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Manzoor to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to ensure that patient records and personal data are only accessible to those who need to view them, and to ensure connections between software systems in health facilities include suitable control measures for this risk.  HL3563

Baroness Manzoor to ask His Majesty's Government how many incidents of patient records or personal data being accessed without due cause have been recorded in the most recent year for which figures are available.  HL3564

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government what information they have on countries currently implementing immunisation programmes for infant respiratory syncytial virus with regard to (1) acceptance and uptake, and (2) hospitalisations.  HL3565

Lord Scriven to ask His Majesty's Government whether Bahrain has paid for the flights or accommodation of any Minister visiting that country in the past four years; and if so, who the Ministers were, what were the reasons for their visits, and the cost of (1) the flights, and (2) the accommodation.  HL3566

The Lord Bishop of Southwark to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of figures released by the Office for National Statistics on 20 March showing an average increase in monthly rent paid by tenants in the UK of 9 per cent in the year ending in February, including an increase to 10.6 per cent in London to an average monthly rent of £2,035.  HL3567

Lord Stevens of Birmingham to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Markham on 21 March (HLWS366), whether NHS England and integrated care board aggregate NHS mental health expenditure would still be expected to increase as a share of their total expenditure in 2024–25 compared with 2023–24 if "non-recurrent" expenditure is not excluded from the ba… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Young of Cookham to ask His Majesty's Government whether they will publish the regulators referred to in A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation: government response (CP 1019).  HL3569