Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Christopher John, Lord Bishop of Coventry, was introduced and took the oath, supported by the Bishop of Exeter and the Bishop of Birmingham, and signed an undertaking to abide by the Code of Conduct.
The right reverend and right honourable Rowan Douglas Williams, lately Archbishop of Canterbury, having been created Baron Williams of Oystermouth, of Oystermouth in the City and County of...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what will be the costs to the consumer of the Thames Tideway Tunnel.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what procedures will be adopted in carrying out the NHS inquiry into the Liverpool Care Pathway announced on Monday 26 November 2012.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish a cross-departmental HIV Strategy for England, in line with the Political Declaration made at the United Nations General Assembly...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what the implications are for the future reconfiguration of NHS services in the light of the decision by the Office of Fair Trading to refer the proposed merger of...
Moved By Lord Hill of Oareford That Standing Order 40 (Arrangement of the order paper) be dispensed with on Thursday 17 January to allow the motion standing in the name of Baroness Hollis of...
Moved By Lord Hill of Oareford That Standing Order 46 (No two stages of a Bill to be taken on one day) be dispensed with on Wednesday 23 January to allow the remaining stages of the Electoral...
Moved By Lord Hill of Oareford That it is expedient that a joint committee of Lords and Commons be appointed to consider and report on the draft Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill presented to...
Bill passed.
Public Service Pensions Bil 10th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee
Relevant document: 10th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee Clause 5 : Pension Board Amendment 43 Moved by Lord Newby 43: Clause 5, page 3, line 39, leave out subsection (7)
My Lords, there appears to have been what is, to me, an extraordinary misunderstanding about an agreement in the usual channels about the process by which we would deal with business today. I had...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what opportunities for re-training for prisoners will be provided by the newly developed policies for work in prisons; and how such work programmes will be...
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