Results 1-20 of 1,421 for in the 'Written Answers' speaker:Lord Avebury

Written Answers — House of Lords: Morocco: Overseas Students (4 Nov 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government what reply they have received from the Government of Morocco to their demands concerning the decision to withdraw permission from students who had been given visas to attend a Talk Together event in Oxford in August, which had received funding from the British Council.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Morocco: Fisheries Agreements (29 Oct 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government on what terms they consider the fisheries agreement between the United Kingdom and Morocco should be renewed.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Oil (21 Oct 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions the G8 had about the effect of the prediction of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) that global demand for OPEC oil will increase from 45.5 million barrels a day in 2010 to 106 million barrels a day in 2030 on the G8's decision to reduce global carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Immigration (19 Oct 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord West of Spithead on 6 July (WA 107) and having regard to Chapter 14 of Annex H of the Home Office Nationality Instructions, under what circumstances an adult holding British nationality can concurrently be a citizen of India.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Immigration (19 Oct 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government why the UK Border Agency Nationality Instructions refer to the case of Lee Thean Hock (Judicial Review No 25-64-2004 in the Malaysian High Court) as a precedent (Annex D to Chapter 12, paragraph 2.11.4), when paragraph 67 of the judgment of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal in the case of AL & Others (Malaysia British Overseas Citizens) Malaysia [2009]...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Immigration: Detainees (19 Oct 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many persons have been detained under the Immigration Acts 1971 and 1988 for over a year on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many of those were being held due to problems with the redocumentation process, because there was no viable route of return or because there was a policy of no compulsory returns to their countries of origin.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Alcohol (14 Oct 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will place copies in the Library of the House of the posters they produce warning of the dangers of alcohol abuse; and how they ensure that the posters are displayed in public buildings.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Chagos Islanders (12 Oct 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will place in the Library of the House copies of their 31 July observations, and exhibit 111 attached, on the admissibility and merits of Application no. 35622/04 Chagos Islanders v the United Kingdom at the European Court of Human Rights.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Uganda: Lord's Resistance Army (12 Oct 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will discuss with the governments of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and of Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo a military operation under Article 42 of the United Nations Charter to capture or eliminate terrorists in the Lord's Resistance Army.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Children: Custody (21 Jul 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their response to the Prison Reform Trust's finding that the number of children remanded in custody while awaiting trial has increased by 41 per cent in the last seven years; and what is their response to each of the 12 points in the action plan suggested by the trust to reduce the numbers.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Royal Society Enterprise Fund (21 Jul 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will allocate part of the £750 million strategic investment fund for supporting businesses announced in the Budget to the Royal Society Enterprise Fund.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Sri Lanka (21 Jul 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government what reports they have received about access to the internally displaced persons camps in northern Sri Lanka by international humanitarian agencies.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Asylum Seekers: Turkey (20 Jul 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the United Nations Human Rights Council has informed them of the number and countries of origin of asylum seekers detained in the Kirklareli camp in Turkey; and whether they and other states will encourage Turkey to accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Chagos Islanders (20 Jul 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will submit their observations on the admissibility and merits of Application no. 35622/04 Chagos Islanders v the United Kingdom at the European Court of Human Rights before the deadline of 17 July; and whether they are considering a friendly settlement, as suggested by the President of the Grand Chamber.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Enforced Disappearance (20 Jul 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Triesman on 20 February 2007 (WA 239—40), whether they have conducted their detailed analysis of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; whether they have made or will make any reservations to the Convention; and when they envisage they will ratify the Convention.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Houses of Parliament: Demonstrations (20 Jul 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Metropolitan Police on the speed of their response to complaints about noisy demonstrators outside the Palace of Westminster.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Serbia (20 Jul 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they or the European Union are making to the government of Serbia about their treatment of the Roma minority, including evicting them from Blok 67, Belgrade.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Visas (20 Jul 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government what advice the UK Border Agency's visa service gives to women in the later stages of pregnancy who wish to visit the United Kingdom for less than three months as private patients to give birth on whether to seek entry as a visitor or for private medical treatment.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Alcohol (16 Jul 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their response to motion 599 passed at the British Medical Association conference supporting the introduction of a minimum price for a unit of alcohol; and what calculation they have made of the impact on hospital admissions and the annual saving to the National Health Service of a minimum alcohol unit price of 50p.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Hong Kong (16 Jul 2009)

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead on 2 July (WA 88) and having regard to the statements by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs in their letter dated 27 January 2006 to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in response to a request from the FCO, whether there are any circumstances in which a person would not have become a British...