Results 1-20 of 303 for speaker:Lord Acton

Banking Reform — Statement (3 Nov 2009)

Lord Acton: My Lords, I understood my noble friend to say that the Royal Bank of Scotland would divest itself of 300 branches. If I am correct, does a thread link those 300 branches and how many branches will the Royal Bank of Scotland be left with after those 300 have gone?

Health: Side Effects of Medication — Question (3 Nov 2009)

Lord Acton: My Lords, does my noble friend agree that "next year" is a rather long and elastic time? Could the review not be tightened up a bit?

Zimbabwe — Question (2 Nov 2009)

Lord Acton: My Lords, my noble friend said that the noble Baroness, Lady Kinnock, was going to South Africa. We wish her very well in her diplomatic efforts. What is the current position of South Africa on the Zimbabwean situation? I do not ask this just to monitor how good the noble Baroness, Lady Kinnock, is at diplomacy.

Agriculture: Sheep — Question (9 Jun 2009)

Lord Acton: My Lords, I was not clear from what my noble friend said—

Agriculture: Sheep — Question (9 Jun 2009)

Lord Acton: My Lords, I was not clear from what my noble friend said who is going to pay.

Houses of Parliament: Freedom of Passage — Question (2 Jun 2009)

Lord Acton: My Lords, I have become so old that I cannot hear every word that the noble Baroness, Lady Trumpington, says, which is most unfortunate. Are there any circumstances in which a Member of this House can be rightly impeded by the police from coming to this House?

Written Answers — House of Lords: Drugs: Clonazepam (20 Apr 2009)

Lord Acton: To ask Her Majesty's Government when the drug clonazepam was first licensed for treatment in the United Kingdom; and what assessment they have made of whether the drug has had adverse effects on patients.

Zimbabwe — Question (16 Mar 2009)

Lord Acton: My Lords, are the Government satisfied that the money they give Zimbabwe via United Nations agencies is allocated as it should be? Is there monitoring that is independent of the United Nations of the distribution of such international funds?

Written Answers — House of Lords: Criminal Justice: Women (16 Jul 2008)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Statement by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 24 June (WS 921—3) stating that "a cross-departmental Criminal Justice Women's Unit has been established with a senior civil servant appointed to head up the unit", (a) what grade is the senior civil servant, and (b) whether the appointment is full time.

Zimbabwe: Elections (23 Jun 2008)

Lord Acton: My Lords, I add my compliments to those offered by the noble Baroness, Lady Williams of Crosby, and my noble friend Lady Jay of Paddington, to my noble friend, who has proved such a great asset in regard to Zimbabwe since he came to this House and to government. He pointed out how crucial SADC is in the present situation. I have already described him as a great asset; I cannot do better than...

Health: Diabetes (23 Jun 2008)

Lord Acton: My Lords, like the noble Viscount, Lord Falkland, I declare an interest in that I have type 2 diabetes, as no doubt do many other noble Lords. Is my noble friend aware that I am terrified of blood and machines? However, when I started testing, I persevered, and like the noble Viscount I now find blood testing an invaluable guide. This morning, my test was high. I realised that I had eaten too...

Health: Diabetes (23 Jun 2008)

Lord Acton: Boiled, my Lords.

Zimbabwe (7 May 2008)

Lord Acton: My Lords, following my noble friend's comments on SADC observers, is it British policy to back as strongly as possible the diplomatic efforts of the more positive SADC countries?

Written Answers — House of Lords: Health: Diabetes (1 May 2008)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: What evidence is available to support the use of home testing of blood sugar for type 2 diabetes.

Health: Cousin Marriage (21 Apr 2008)

Lord Acton: My Lords, is my noble friend aware that my great-great-great-grandfather, Sir John Acton, the Bourbon Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, married his niece with the benefit of papal dispensation, and that their grandson was the first Lord Acton, who was a Liberal and not a Bourbon, and of whom the noble Lord, Lord McNally, thoroughly approves? From what has been discussed so...

Asylum and Immigration: Detainees (26 Mar 2008)

Lord Acton: My Lords, further to the question of the noble Earl, Lord Onslow, with whom I by no means always agree, surely a stage of illness from cancer comes when the Government would not send people back.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Deaths (20 Mar 2008)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their estimate of the number of people who died in the conflict in Iraq in February 2008.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Deaths (19 Mar 2008)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their estimate of how many people died in the conflict in Iraq in January 2008.

Identity Cards (3 Mar 2008)

Lord Acton: My Lords, is my noble friend aware that the noble Lord, Lord Waddington, spoke of the "depths of Iowa"? As an honorary citizen of Iowa, I am horrified at such an expression. Iowa has nothing but joys.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Refugees (28 Feb 2008)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: In January (a) how many Iraqi refugees they estimate each day returned from Syria to Iraq; and (b) how many Iraqi refugees they estimate each day left Iraq for Syria.