Results 1-20 of 2,100 for speaker:Lord Corbett of Castle Vale
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Health: Haemophilia (20 Oct 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: To ask Her Majesty's Government when they intend to hold a debate on the Department of Health's response to the report of the Independent Public Inquiry, headed by Lord Archer of Sandwell, into the 1,937 deaths of haemophilia patients caused by contaminated NHS blood and blood products.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Prisoners: Parole (21 Jul 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prisoners in England and Wales are overdue parole hearings. To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the shortest and longest delays for prisoners eligible for parole whose hearings are overdue.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Olympic Games 2012: Temporary Venues (15 Jul 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will disclose to individual members of the House of Lords, or place in the Library of the House, the unedited KPMG and CLM reports and other associated papers used to decide temporary and other venues for the 2012 Olympic Games, together with details of associated construction and costings and legacy benefits.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Olympic Games 2012: Temporary Venues (14 Jul 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will request the Audit Commission to investigate all decisions made and evidence submitted by the Olympic Delivery Authority to the Olympic Board and London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and all the decisions made by LOCOG at its board meeting held on 19 March regarding temporary venues and other relevant matters.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Olympic Games 2012: Temporary Venues (14 Jul 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will consider an investigation by a cross-party group of Peers into all evidence, and principally the integrity of the selection process, submitted by the Olympic Delivery Authority to the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games for the determination of temporary venues, including financial and contractual considerations the...
- Museums, Libraries and Archives Council — Question (8 Jul 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, can my noble friend confirm that the main reason why this move to the city of Birmingham was made is that it has one of the finest museums and art galleries in the country, and also because it has more canals than Venice, which do not smell as bad?
- Building Britain's Future — Statement (29 Jun 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, will my noble friend confirm that history teaches us that the worst thing that any Government can do at times of peril for families, for children, for young people, for jobs and for homes, is to throw up their hands and say, "there is nothing we can do"? I remind my noble friend that when I was a constituency MP, I asked a postman once how many giros he delivered through the doors...
- Olympic Games 2012: Shooting — Question (25 Jun 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, I was at that meeting with Members of this House and the other place. It was far from conclusive. Will the Minister urgently invite LOCOG to look again at the presentation shown by British Shooting on 16 February—it was seemingly dismissed as inaccurate information—that demonstrated that the Olympic shooting events can still be staged at Bisley, within existing...
- Afghanistan: Improvised Explosive Devices — Question (24 Jun 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, against the background that seven out of every 10 British and coalition troops killed in Iraq are killed by Iranian-made roadside explosive devices, with Iran training the people to deliver them and smuggling them across 58 routes into Iraq, of which the MoD has details, can the noble Baroness give an estimate of how many of those devices are now beginning to be used in Afghanistan?
- Olympic Games 2012 — Debate (18 Jun 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Coe, for staging this debate. He may recall that, when we won the bid for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, I dropped him a note saying something along the lines of, "It's great to know that you can still come in first". I congratulate him on the progress that is being made by the organising committee on time—ahead in some cases—and, one...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Health: Contaminated Blood Products (15 Jun 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will respond to the recommendation of the Independent Inquiry on NHS Supplied Contaminated Blood and Blood Products that the Government should review the conditions under which the widow of a patient infected by blood products now becomes eligible for financial assistance.
- Creative Industries — Debate (4 Jun 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Bragg and congratulate him on the masterly way in which he introduced the debate. However, I gently chide him for overlooking the astonishing contribution of the members of the Lunar Society in Birmingham—among them James Watt, Matthew Boulton, and Michael Faraday, to name but a few—who saw the problems facing people at the end of the 1700s...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Visas (3 Jun 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: To ask Her Majesty's Government when a list of authorised exchange schemes will be published to assist employers to obtain visas for foreign students to undertake short-term work placements in the United Kingdom.
- Olympic Games 2012 — Question (2 Jun 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, has my noble friend seen LOCOG's claim that one of the reasons why Bisley was not chosen as the appropriate—and cheaper—venue for the Olympic and Paralympic shooting events is that it could not identify a longer-term use for it? Will he ask the ODA and LOCOG for the minutes of the meeting with the British Army and British Shooting on 16 February this year which show...
- Turkey — Question (20 May 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, will the Minister confirm that since the election of Mr Christofias as the President of the Republic of Cyprus and Mr Mehmet Talat as the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, Turkey is playing a much more positive role in trying to assist that settlement process, not only because of the pressures around the application to join the European Union but because it is now recognised...
- Immigration: Sangatte — Question (18 May 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, how many people over the past year or two have the French found to be illegally present in France and deported to their country of origin? Do the French still tolerate this class of people they call people without papers—personnes sans papiers? They are left there, wandering around like lost souls. That does not seem to comply with the undertakings they have given about the...
- Wilton Park — Question (12 May 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, as a former member of the council of Wilton Park, may I attest to the great value of that setting both to the people of this country and especially to those from developing countries? To put it crudely, there are very few places on this planet where people can safely go and think out aloud in trying to find solutions to immensely important problems.
- Health: Contaminated Blood Products — Debate (23 Apr 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, it is with great sadness that I thank and congratulate my noble friend Lord Morris of Manchester on staging this debate. There is a huge monument of shame to successive Governments, who for more than 20 years have found ways of avoiding what are clearly their responsibilities to the victims who were infected with dirty blood and to their carers, often spouses, who are left behind...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Olympic Games 2012 (2 Apr 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will place in the Library of the House the further report commissioned by the Olympic Delivery Authority and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games for presentation to the Olympics Minister to assist in the Olympic shooting venue choice of (a) Bisley, (b) Barking, (c) Woolwich, and (d) any reserve site; and whether they will include...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Olympic Games 2012: Temporary Venues (2 Apr 2009)
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Davies of Oldham on 15 December 2008 (WA 17), whether they will place in the Library of the House the final copy of the KPMG report on possible temporary venues for the 2012 Olympic Games, without deleted or blacked out paragraphs.