House of Lords Business

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of GPs now seeking and unable to obtain employment.  HL4372

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle to ask His Majesty's Government which profession has primary responsibility for providing initial point of contact care for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, and whether physician associates are the appropriate profession for this work.  HL4373

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle to ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish their Social Care regulatory reform programme and what new protected professional medical titles they are considering introducing.  HL4374

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle to ask His Majesty's Government when soil monitoring data from Natural Capital Ecosystem Assessment programme will become available.  HL4375

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk posed by avian flu, given its spread through the US cattle herd and reports that many infected cattle are asymptomatic; what monitoring is being carried out on UK cattle and other farm animals, wild mammals, and the humans that come into contact with them; and what additiona… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Berkeley to ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to regulating the sale of electric bike converter kits rated at over 250 watts, given that a vehicle with this rating would no longer be classed as an electric bike, but rather a moped or motorcycle.  HL4377

Lord Birt to ask His Majesty's Government how many signal failures there were on the rail system in the last year for which data are available; and how the rate of failure in the UK compares with rail systems in other leading countries.  HL4378

Lord Birt to ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of annual vehicle theft in the UK is accomplished by offenders cloning the signal from the vehicle owner’s remote locking device.  HL4379

Lord Blencathra to ask His Majesty's Government for each of the past five years, how much money has been spent by Network Rail on footpaths and roads next to railway lines for use by rail staff and workers, and how many miles have been completed.  HL4380

Lord Blencathra to ask His Majesty's Government what plans if any they have to provide level access on to trains by (1) lowering the track bed, (2) raising platforms, or (3) purchasing trains with a lower central section between the wheel bogies; and if not, why none of these options is acceptable.  HL4381

Lord Blencathra to ask His Majesty's Government what is the amount, to the nearest one million tons, of (1) steel railway lines, (2) sacks of rubble, and (3) concrete sleepers and other concrete items, which are unused and lying on or beside railway lines or in sidings; what estimate they have made of the number of railway items littering railway property; and what plans Network R… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Blencathra to ask His Majesty's Government how many disabled people have been injured by electric bikes being used or left on the pavement, in each of the past five years for which figures are available.  HL4383

Lord Blencathra to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any correlation between (1) Avanti trains being awarded a performance bonus, and (2) subsequent train cancellations by Avanti.  HL4384

Lord Blunkett to ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to distribute the next allocation from the Dormant Asset Scheme, and how much this allocation will be.  HL4385

The Earl of Clancarty to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 12 February (HL Deb col 10) that HMRC expected processing times for A1 forms to return to normal by April, what are the "normal" target processing times.  HL4386

Baroness Cox to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Benyon on 14 March (HL2885), what percentage of aid provided to Nigeria between 2015 and 2024 has been allocated to central states.  HL4387

Baroness Cox to ask His Majesty's Government whether the ‘Strengthening Peace and Resilience in Nigeria’ programme will include the Middle Belt in its remit; and if so, which towns and villages it will include.  HL4388

Baroness Cox to ask His Majesty's Government who are the intended beneficiaries of the ‘Strengthening Peace and Resilience in Nigeria’ programme.  HL4389

Baroness Cox to ask His Majesty's Government who (1) has been, or (2) will be, consulted in central Nigeria regarding the ‘Strengthening Peace and Resilience in Nigeria’ programme.  HL4390

Baroness Cox to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Benyon on 12 February (HL1985), what percentage of the UK’s 2023-24 humanitarian aid package to Sudan will support internally displaced persons facing extreme hunger in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile regions of Sudan.  HL4391

Lord Goodman of Wycombe to ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to help potential claimants to obtain access to justice in cases of wrongful dismissal.  HL4392

Lord Goodman of Wycombe to ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to help potential claimants to obtain access for justice in cases of unfair dismissal.  HL4393

Lord Goodman of Wycombe to ask His Majesty's Government how many claims for wrongful dismissal were successful at employment tribunals for each of the past five years.  HL4394

Lord Goodman of Wycombe to ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of claims for wrongful dismissal were successful at employment tribunals for each of the past five years.  HL4395

Lord Goodman of Wycombe to ask His Majesty's Government how many claims for unfair dismissal were successful at employment tribunals for each of the past ten years.  HL4396

Lord Goodman of Wycombe to ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of claims for unfair dismissal were successful at employment tribunals for each of the past ten years.  HL4397

Baroness Goudie to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to undertake a review into levels of childhood obesity and the role that the promotion of meals, snacks and drinks in early years settings can play in combatting this trend.  HL4398

Baroness Goudie to ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in enforcing mandatory gender pay gap reporting.  HL4399

Baroness Goudie to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to introduce a policy that, where police officers have been dismissed for gross misconduct, consideration will be given as to whether their police pension should be forfeited.  HL4400

Lord Hannan of Kingsclere to ask His Majesty's Government what impediments remain in the way their ambition to eliminate tariffs on fresh produce imported from Morocco.  HL4401

Lord Hannan of Kingsclere to ask His Majesty's Government whether they will seek an investment facilitation memorandum between the UK and Morocco at the forthcoming Association Council to support UK investment in Morocco ahead of the 2030 World Cup, similar to the agreement signed with Peru ahead of the 2019 Pan-American Games.  HL4402

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town to ask His Majesty's Government what discussions the UK–German Cultural Commission has had regarding youth mobility and school trips since its reinstatement in 2023.  HL4403

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town to ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to engage in dialogue through the UK–German Cultural Commission to facilitate youth mobility and school trips between the UK and Germany.  HL4404

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town to ask His Majesty's Government whether they will consider adopting a similar approach to visa and passport arrangements with Italy and Germany as they have with France.  HL4405

Baroness Hodgson of Abinger to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of land use and food security, and what steps they are taking to ensure that farmland is reserved for the production of food.  HL4406

Baroness Hodgson of Abinger to ask Her Majesty's Government how many acres of prime farmland have been used for solar farms, what assessment they have made of impact such practices, and what assessment they have made of the proportion of land used for solar farms in particular areas.  HL4407

Baroness Hodgson of Abinger to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that prime farmland is not downgraded to allow the construction of solar farms.  HL4408

Baroness Hodgson of Abinger to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project status is not used by the developers of solar farms as a way of bypassing local planning scrutiny and avoiding accountability to the local community.  HL4409

Baroness Hoey to ask His Majesty's Government, pursuant to regulation 13 of the Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme) Regulations 2023 on retail goods checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, how many checks were conducted in (1) February, (2) March, and (3) April.  HL4410

Lord Holmes of Richmond to ask His Majesty's Government whether DEFRA has the power to authorise individuals to release and catch non-native species, such as Asian hornets, for track and trace purposes.  HL4411

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers with children have been made homeless on achieving refugee status in the past 12 months.  HL4412

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers with at least one disabled child who have achieved refugee status have been made homeless on achieving that status in the past 12 months.  HL4413

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government how many refugee families which include teenage children of both sexes being forced to share a single hotel room.  HL4414

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the psychological impact on refugee families of (1) overcrowding, and (2) the placement of teenage children of both sexes in a single hotel room.  HL4415

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of changes to the probate system on the average length of time taken to complete probate.  HL4416

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of house sales collapsing as a result of delays to probate.  HL4417

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering to ask His Majesty's Government whether speed limits apply only to mechanically operated vehicles and not to cyclists; and if so, what plans they have to review this.  HL4418

The Lord Bishop of Newcastle to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of heritage assets and community spaces at risk of coastal erosion in the Northumberland region and what steps will they take to protect those at risk.  HL4419

The Lord Bishop of Newcastle to ask His Majesty's Government what funding, other than flood and coastal erosion risk management grant-in-aid, they make available to protect heritage assets and community spaces at risk from coastal erosion.  HL4420

The Lord Bishop of Newcastle to ask His Majesty's Government how heritage significance is taken into account when calculating the value of (1) a coastal erosion protection project, and (2) a grant received through grant-in-aid funding for such a project.  HL4421

Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to prevent individuals soliciting a sexually explicit non-consensual deepfake image from jurisdictions where there are no laws against creating and sharing such images and receiving the image in the UK.  HL4422

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proportion of cancer patients currently waiting more than 31 days for radiotherapy treatment.  HL4423

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of findings from the Royal College of Radiologists, published in May, showing a regional disparity in wait times for cancer treatment in 2023, with 11 per cent of patients in England waiting more than 31 days for treatment after the decision to treat had been confirmed, compared to 19 pe… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the 15 per cent shortfall in clinical oncologists, as estimated in the Royal College of Radiologists workforce census, does not impact the operational performance of radiotherapy services.  HL4425

Lord Sahota to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on the care system, care employers, and immigrant care workers of the loss of employers’ visa sponsorship licences; and what advice they give to care workers whose employers have lost their visa sponsorship licence and cannot, therefore, sponsor the renewal of their visa.  HL4426

The Lord Bishop of St Albans to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Resolution Foundation report Firm foundations: Understanding why employers use flexible contracts, published on 25 April; and what steps they will take to improve situations for zero-hours contract workers.  HL4427

The Lord Bishop of St Albans to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the World Health Organization report A focus on adolescent substance use in Europe, central Asia and Canada, published on 25 April, what plans they have to address the high levels of child alcohol consumption in England.  HL4428

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what measures they are implementing to support housing associations to build affordable homes, following reports that high private sector debt costs are affecting development plans.  HL4429

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government, following the recent cyber-attack targeting the personal details of UK military personnel, what steps they are taking, if any, to review their current data security protocols and cyber defence strategies.  HL4430

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take in response to the ruling of the High Court on 3 May regarding their carbon budget delivery plan.  HL4431

Lord West of Spithead to ask His Majesty's Government when HMS Somerset will carry out test firings of the new Naval Strike Missile.  HL4432

Lord West of Spithead to ask His Majesty's Government what is the operational status of HMS Somerset.  HL4433