Results 1-20 of 879 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Lord Morris of Manchester

Unemployment — Question (20 Oct 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, while the additional support to help the unemployed—more especially, jobless young people—is most welcome, would my noble friend agree that, in the present economic climate, it is more important than ever to recognise the added vulnerability of disabled young people in seeking to enter and remain in work, and that progress made over recent years in prioritising their...

Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill: Committee (9th Day) (Continued) (19 Oct 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, for her support for Amendment 278. I thank the Minister for her clear expression of support for and commitment to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. On the basis of the guidance that she is intending to offer to trust boards in the preparation of their plans and on other policy issues, I shall not move my amendment.

Armed Forces: Pensions — Question (14 Oct 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total cost in the last five years of the Ministry of Defence contesting war pensions tribunal awards which were later confirmed on appeal.

Armed Forces: Pensions — Question (14 Oct 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, I declare an interest as honorary parliamentary adviser to the Royal British Legion.

Armed Forces: Pensions — Question (14 Oct 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend, as ever, but is it not disquieting that, while haggling with Gulf War veterans and bereaved families over pensions still drags on, Parliament cannot yet be told even how much the MoD spent contesting the case of the late Terry Walker who, as my noble friend knows, had his war pension cut from 100 per cent to 40 per cent shortly before he died,...

Gulf War 1990-91: Nerve Agent Pre-treatment Tablets — Question (13 Oct 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, I too thank my noble friend. Is she aware that this decision is seen as one of landmark importance by the ex-service community? Recalling the admiration felt across the House yesterday for British troops killed and maimed in our service, what action is the MoD taking to identify other veterans and bereaved families who could benefit from the implications of the tribunal's decision?

Disabled People: Toilets — Question (7 Jul 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, what have Ministers done, and what will they be doing, to persuade commercial companies to adhere to the revised British Standard?

Disabled People: UN Convention — Question (2 Jul 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: To ask Her Majesty's Government what further action they have now taken regarding ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the parliamentary process for the ratification of the Optional Protocol.

Disabled People: UN Convention — Question (2 Jul 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend and to Jonathan Shaw and Anne McGuire for their unswerving commitment to ratification of both the convention and the Optional Protocol. Does my noble friend accept that implementing them will succeed in proportion to the involvement of disabled people and their organisations at every stage of the process? Can we be assured of adequate resourcing for...

Disabled People: Violence — Question (3 Jun 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, can my noble friend say what action Ministers are taking to end the cruelties inflicted on children by public authorities changing the diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder to save money, often involving them in preventable bullying due to totally inappropriate school placements?

Disabled People: UN Convention — Question (14 May 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to ratify the United Nations convention on the rights of disabled people.

Disabled People: UN Convention — Question (14 May 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question in my name on the Order Paper and declare an interest as chairman of the World Planning Group that first called for this convention.

Disabled People: UN Convention — Question (14 May 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, as ever, I am most grateful to my noble friend. Is he aware that while the constancy of his commitment to ratification is well understood—like that of Jonathan Shaw, as exemplified by the signing of the optional protocol following my last starred Question and his announcement yesterday of a ratification date—it is widely felt that some other departments could have done...

Health Bill [HL]: Report (1st Day) (Continued) (28 Apr 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, I think it was Aristotle—if not it ought to have been—who said that it is the essence of probability that some improbable things will happen. How could I possibly have suspected that my first duty now would be for me to thank the noble Earl, Lord Howe, for speaking so eloquently and with such attention to accuracy in responding to the noble Baroness, Lady Howarth? As he...

Health Bill [HL]: Report (1st Day) (Continued) (28 Apr 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, I want first to thank my noble friend Lady Thornton for doing so much to make it possible for this debate to take place at a time when my dear and inspirational friend, the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell of Surbiton, can be with us. As she said so movingly and so memorably in the debate on the Archer report last Thursday, the history of the contaminated blood disaster is one of...

Gulf War Illnesses — Question (27 Apr 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, my noble friend knows of my high regard and respect for him and will recall this House having been told that, before addressing the implications of the inquiry's findings for afflicted British veterans of the conflict, the MoD must await the outcome of the US Institute of Medicine's review of its report. Can I now confirm that MPs and Peers have since been informed by the RAC, at...

Health: Contaminated Blood Products — Debate (23 Apr 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, many unanswered questions remain, and clearly we must return soon to the urgency of the haemophilia community's plea for closure now on the basis of my noble and learned friend's landmark recommendations. Meanwhile, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, which I am sure we will find has nudged things forward considerably for the haemophilia community. I beg...

Health: Contaminated Blood Products — Debate (23 Apr 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, we are met to seek the Government's response to a report of landmark importance to a small and stricken community of congenitally disabled people for whom acquaintance with grief—recurrent and abject grief—is an inescapable fact of life. Already disabled by a rare, life-long blood disorder requiring continuous medical treatment, haemophilia patients have twice been...

Health: Thalidomide — Question (10 Mar 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, will my noble friend Lord Darzi say what effect the change in the law now on Crown immunity could have on any assessment today of the responsibility of the National Health Service in this medical disaster, as the prescriber of thalidomide?

Gulf War Illnesses — Question (10 Mar 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, I share the gratitude of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, to my noble friend, but whatever happened to the peer reviewing of the research-based decision taken by the United States Government several years ago to accept motor neurone disease as a Gulf War-related illness, while the widows of British veterans of the conflict who have died of the condition still await...