Results 1-20 of 82 for in the 'Written Answers' speaker:Lord Northbourne

Written Answers — House of Lords: Families: Single-parent Families (24 Feb 2009)

Lord Northbourne: To ask Her Majesty's Government why their policies on reducing child poverty do not include a policy to reduce the number of single-parent families through information, motivation and support for two-parent families.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Parents (24 Feb 2009)

Lord Northbourne: To ask Her Majesty's Government why the Department for Education and Skills' publication Making Sense of Citizenship makes no reference to the role and responsibilities of parents as citizens in our society, as discussed in the Children's Plan as "most important in raising, caring for, maintaining and educating future generations of citizens".

Written Answers — House of Lords: Parents: Birth Registration (26 Jun 2008)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: What definition of "parental responsibility" they intend to use in developing their policies in the White Paper, Joint birth registration: recording responsibility (Cm 7293) and in the proposed Bill on joint birth registration.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Parents: Duties and Responsibilities (26 Jun 2008)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: What are the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which, by law, a parent of a child has in relation to the child and the child's property, referred to in footnote 3 on page 5 of the White Paper, Joint birth registration: recording responsibility (Cm 7293); and where these duties and responsibilities are set out for parents and prospective parents.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Children: Parental Responsibility (29 Jan 2008)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will issue guidance on the interpretation of the phrase "parental responsibility" in Part I of the Children Act 1989.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Families: Parents (7 Jan 2008)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether there are any definitions in English law of the responsibilities of a parent other than that in the Children Act 1989; and, if so, in which statutes they are to be found.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Childcare (13 Nov 2007)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: In the light of the substantial grants recently announced for the development by local authorities of formal childcare, why they are not also making provision for encouraging and empowering grandparents and kin to provide informal but quality childcare; whether they have assessed the extent to which childcare within the extended family is the parents' first...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Childcare (13 Nov 2007)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the average grant of £35,000 per centre per year for each new children's centre over the next three years will be adequate to enable the setting up of 3,500 high quality children's centres; and, if not, where the necessary additional resources are going to come from to ensure that their targets for children's centres are met.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Children: Registration of Fathers (13 Nov 2007)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many and what proportion of unmarried fathers jointly with the mother registered their child's birth; or, if that figure is not available, how many and what proportion of children born to unmarried parents were registered by both parents jointly in the last period for which figures are available.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Olympic Games 2012: Lottery Funds (18 Jul 2007)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have held recent discussion with the voluntary sector on the potential impact of diverting National Lottery funds presently flowing to charities, community groups and social enterprises to support the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (22 Mar 2007)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority will provide a list of its publications at its offices in Piccadilly.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Children: Two-parent families (24 Jul 2006)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will instigate research into the reported statistical link between children who grow up in stable, two-parent families and favourable outcomes at school and in later life.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Firearms: Airguns (19 Apr 2006)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many offences involving airguns they anticipate will be prevented by the proposal within the Violent Crime Reduction Bill to restrict the sale of airguns to registered firearms dealers only; and How many offences involving airguns they anticipate will be prevented by the proposal within the Violent Crime Reduction Bill to raise the age limit to buy an...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Firearms: Training Shotguns (19 Apr 2006)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether exceptions will be made under the provisions in the Violent Crime Reduction Bill to ensure that training shotguns with snap caps can continue to be used in the instruction of young people in the responsible use of shotguns.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Child Murder (11 Jan 2006)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many children have been killed by (a) one of their parents or (b) a carer who is not a parent, in each of the past five years for which figures are available.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Child Abuse (9 Jan 2006)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: How they define serious child abuse; and how many children, in each of the last five years for which figures are available, have suffered serious child abuse at the hands of their parents.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Families (9 Jan 2006)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they plan to respond to the recommendations of the recently published report by the Commission on Families and the Wellbeing of Children entitled Families and the State—Two way support and responsibilities.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Violent Crime (20 Oct 2005)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: In respect of the most recent year for which figures are available, how many violent crimes committed by people under the age of 18 were committed by (a) males; (b) females; (c) males under the influence of (i) alcohol, or (ii) drugs; (d) males who had not achieved one or more GCSE passes; and (e) males who were unemployed, and not in full-time education, at...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Firefighters: Assaults (14 Jul 2005)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: On how many occasions in the past year for which figures are available a minor attacked firemen while they were putting out a fire in the course of their duties.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Children's Centres (18 Nov 2004)

Lord Northbourne: asked Her Majesty's Government: How much money has been allocated to funding (a) the construction of new children's centres; and (b) the running costs of new children's centres; and how many such centres will be built; and on what basis these funds are being allocated; and Whether, when the responsibility for funding children's centres passes to local government in 2005, they will provide...