Results 1-20 of 162 for speaker:Baroness Brinton

Health: Cancer — Question (20 May 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, the Minister has kindly explained the tracking of the causes of death. What advice is given to doctors about recording dementia, which is often excluded when somebody has died of cancer? In the case of my late father, it was possible to get it added, but I suspect it may also be one of the reasons why dementia is underrecorded in this country.

Schools: Bullying — Question (16 May 2013)

Baroness Brinton: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what funding is available to enable self-excluded severely bullied children to return to education.

Schools: Bullying — Question (16 May 2013)

Baroness Brinton: I thank the Minister for his response. Given that the National Centre for Social Research report in 2011 estimated that 16,500 young people aged 11 to 15 are absent from state schools where bullying is the main reason, does the Minister agree that specialist education and psychological support interventions, such as the very successful Red Balloon Learner Centres, are the best way of helping...

Childcare Ratios — Statement (9 May 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, given that the cost of childcare has exceeded inflation substantially over the past 10 years since the current ratios were introduced, and given that the Government are considering tax refunds and support for parents, are they looking at any other mechanisms to make childcare more affordable?

Human Trafficking — Question (25 April 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, the 54 pages of advice that the UK Border Agency provides to its staff on identifying and working with suspected victims of trafficking are admirable, but how many front-line staff have been trained face to face in the identification of potential victims?

Growth and Infrastructure Bill — Commons Amendments (24 April 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, I was going to leave the issue of tax loopholes until the end of my contribution, but given the preceding debate I remind the House that at an earlier stage I reminded the House of the business expansion schemes that were set up by the then Government in the late 1980s and early 1990s and targeted at new small high-tech companies that were looking for investors and considerable tax...

Growth and Infrastructure Bill — Commons Reasons (22 April 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, I want to start by thanking the Government for the concession on jobseeker's allowance candidates and the fact that they will be not penalised, but I have to also agree with other colleagues on both sides of the House who have admitted that this is really the rectification of a mistake rather than a major concession. However, it is essential. It is critical because before it, any of...

Growth and Infrastructure Bill — Commons Reasons (22 April 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, I believe that is well above my pay grade.

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill — Third Reading (20 March 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Howarth of Newport, for these two amendments, which are very helpful in trying to balance and find a bridge between the two very distinct sides of the argument that we have seen during the various stages of this Bill-and, in particular, the problems already outlined about whether arrangements for orphan works will work. I am grateful, too, to my noble...

Growth and Infrastructure Bill: Report (3rd Day) (20 March 2013)

Baroness Brinton: The guidance notes that we saw were quite explicit that the prospective employee shareholder applicant should be treated exactly the same as any other applicant, with the one exception of their financial resources being such that they could not pay the tax bill right at the start. If that is the case, the argument made by the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, myself and others is that, first, that...

Growth and Infrastructure Bill: Report (3rd Day) (20 March 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, for so eloquently outlining the case against the proposals in Clause 27 and I was happy to add my name to the amendment, which your Lordships' House has discussed at considerable length in earlier stages of the Bill's passage. I remain bemused with the basic philosophy behind the clause. We are told that the scheme is aimed at small...

Growth and Infrastructure Bill: Report (3rd Day) (20 March 2013)

Baroness Brinton: Does the Minister accept that the flexibility for employees to negotiate the terms of any restrictions in shares will itself be restricted if a number of employees are being offered shares, because the capacity within the company to vary terms will be extremely difficult? In practice, the employee will have no flexibility at all to negotiate.

HIV/AIDS: Commonwealth Countries — Question for Short Debate (13 March 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, I start with an apology. I am afraid that the speed of the previous business meant that I arrived just after the beginning of the speech by my noble friend Lord Black of Brentwood. I realise that was a discourtesy to the House and I hope noble Lords will allow me to continue. I also thank my noble friend Lord Black for instigating this debate, which is very important. We have...

Crime: Stalking — Question (12 March 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, does the Minister agree that there is a serious concern about those stalkers who have continually breached restraining orders-that is, no-contact orders-but have time and time again not received custodial sentences? Many have breached restraining orders on many occasions, but the police and courts have not taken this into account in the suffering of the victims who continue to be...

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (4th Day) (Continued) (11 March 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, I, too, oppose these two amendments and support the points that the noble Lord, Lord Howarth of Newport, has made, to which I briefly add two further points. The rights holders of apparently orphan works very rarely come forward at a later date. This makes court action unlikely in most cases, particularly where use of the works was manifestly for the purposes of teaching or...

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (4th Day) (11 March 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, I shall speak against Amendment 84AA and the other amendments in the group. I refer back to the point made by my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones about the scope and size of the problem of unpublished works and grey literature. A study by the British Library found that 43% of potentially in-copyright works published between 1870 and 2010 were orphan works. The figure for unpublished...

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (4th Day) (11 March 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, I want to add my support to the comments that have been made so far this afternoon, but perhaps from a different sectoral perspective. There are certainly a number of concerns about how this clause will affect designers and manufacturers. In particular, universities and colleges want to draw attention to the fact that it will substantially affect teaching, research and design. The...

International Women's Day — Motion to Take Note (7 March 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, I declare my interest as a trustee of Christian Blind Mission. Antoinette Androis, a young woman living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, suffered the devastating loss of a child a few years ago. Forced out of her home for over six years, pregnant Antoinette was left to give birth on a few banana leaves out in the bush. Shortly after cutting the umbilical cord with a machete,...

Violence against Women and Girls — Question (7 March 2013)

Baroness Brinton: My Lords, the Minister has just said that all schools must have due regard to guidance on sex and relationship education. Does this include independent schools, such as the Hales Exclusive Brethren schools, that fail to teach any sex and relationship education because they believe that it is completely inappropriate until the age of 20?