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Written Answers — Education: Free Schools (25 April 2013)

Elizabeth Truss: The first free schools opened in September 2011. The list attached contains: (a) names, locations of open free schools and (d) whether they belong to an educational group. (c) The numbers of pupils provided are the number of full time equivalents the schools recorded as being on roll at the autumn census on 4 October 2012. Further information on the school census can be found on the...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Copyright Research Expert Advisory Group (4 March 2013)

Jo Swinson: The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) established four Research Expert Advisory Groups (EAGs), including a group focused on copyright, to provide commentary and peer review on all aspects of its research programme. Each EAG is made up of representatives from industry, academia and the user community who have expertise in developing and commenting on research methodologies and data. Members...

Written Answers — Defence: Medals (25 February 2013)

Mark Francois: The recipients of the Polar medal are kept in the Polar Medal Roll, which is updated annually. Copies are held by: The Deputy Ceremonial Officer, Ceremonial Branch, Cabinet Office; The Polar Regions Unit, Overseas Territories Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; The National Hydrographer; The Keeper of Public Records; and The Assistant Secretary Central Chancery of the Orders of...

Public Bill Committee: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Examination of Witnesses (14 February 2013)

Derek McAuley: In terms of Scripture, the Unitarian approach is that we came out of, and are based within, the Christian tradition. Many Unitarian services look  like a traditional Christian service with hymns, a sermon, prayers and reflection. We draw on the traditions of not just Christianity; we draw on humanist tradition, the creative work of artists and musicians, and science. We...

[Sir Roger Gale in the Chair] — Tax (Developing Countries) (17 January 2013)

Richard Burden: Thank you for calling me to speak, Sir Roger. As always, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, and I will address another knight to say that it is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Gordon (Sir Malcolm Bruce), who is the Chair of our Committee. The report that we are debating now is, as all our reports have been so far, the product of a cross-party consensus. There...

HIV (Developing Countries) — [Hugh Bayley in the Chair] (19 December 2012)

Pamela Nash: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bayley. I congratulate the hon. Member for Mid Derbyshire (Pauline Latham) on securing this debate and on making a thoughtful opening speech that covered a number of topics that I, too, want to explore. I should also like to congratulate UK organisations, and the agencies that they support overseas, on their fight to combat the HIV/AIDS...

Israel: Arab Citizens — Motion to Take Note (13 December 2012) See 1 other result from this debate

Lord Janner of Braunstone: My Lords, it would be very good if mutual faiths could bring us together and ensure that we have as much peace as possible between people of different religions in different parts of the world. One problem is that this does not always happen, as is the case in the Middle East. Sadly, inequality and discrimination happen throughout the world. Even sometimes here in Britain we, as citizens,...

Religion in the United Kingdom — Question for Short Debate (22 November 2012)

Lord Griffiths: My Lords, I confess what pleasure it gives me to stand in a House as diverse as this, which can command speakers of this quality from across such a wide range. I, like others, must congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Singh, on bringing this debate to the Floor of the House. He, like me, has done his apprenticeship on "Thought for the Day". I did it for 17 years. He had 10 minutes, and even the...

Backbench Business: Tax Avoidance and Evasion (13 September 2012)

Catherine McKinnell: I commend my right hon. Friend the Member for Oldham West and Royton (Mr Meacher) for securing this debate on a matter that we all agree has rightly risen to a high place on the political agenda. There is much that we can agree on today, and I think we all agree that Parliament is at its best when we agree on matters and stand together to improve them. We have heard well considered and...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Committee Business: Archaeological Artefacts (2 July 2012)

Alex Attwood: I welcome that clarification. I will move on. What did the Historic Monuments Council recommend earlier this year? Really, these are minimum interventions; they do not capture the full scale of what we should be doing. It said that there should be a comprehensive inventory and a baseline survey. What is happening — not what might happen — is that DOE and NIEA are piggybacking on...

Sunday Trading (London Olympic and Paralympic Games) Bill [HL]: Second Reading (24 April 2012)

Baroness Berridge: My Lords, I am also most surprised that in just over a year in your Lordships' House this is the second time I find myself speaking on this issue-the first being on the Remembrance Sunday (Closure of Shops) Bill. However, it is also perhaps apt as in 1992 it was this issue, as was the case for my noble friend Lord Bates, that prompted my first political activity. I distinctly remember sitting...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Northern Ireland Assembly (16 April 2012)

Mike Nesbitt: I beg to move the following amendment: Leave out all after “waiting;” and insert “and calls on the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains to make clear what more can be done, and by whom, to bring the comfort of recovery to the remaining families.” I thank and acknowledge Mr Bradley and the SDLP for bringing this matter to the House; indeed,...

Middle East — Motion to Take Note (16 March 2012)

Baroness Deech: My Lords, it was with considerable optimism that we greeted the start of the so-called Arab spring a year ago, seeing in it a mirror of the events that freed eastern Europe from 1989 and confirmation for those who believed that democracy and liberty were indeed dormant in Arab countries, waiting only for the opportunity to express themselves. Your Lordships meet in a rather more sombre mood...

Health and Social Care Bill: Report (5th Day) (6 March 2012)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ..., it was about standards in nursing homes where there was some concern that an insensitive regulator would take action against a home that was actually respecting the wishes of a member of the Christian Science religion. We were able to reach a satisfactory solution. An appropriate amendment was put forward and I think the noble Earl, Lord Howe, was also part of what I like to think of as...

Christians in the Middle East — Motion to Take Note (9 December 2011)

Baroness Morris of Bolton: My Lords, with the democratic awakening of the Arab world and the attendant rise of Islamist groups, it is important not to forget the Christian minority at the heart of the Middle East. I, too, am most grateful to the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury for bringing this important debate to your Lordships' House and for his remarkable speech in opening it. The Arab spring...

[Mr David Crausby in the Chair] — Organ Donation (30 November 2011)

Kevin Brennan: This is political issue. It may not be a purely party political issue, but it is a political issue, because ultimately it is decided by politicians. If a similar proposal were introduced for other parts of the United Kingdom in this House, it would probably be whipped by the Government, who I imagine would take a political position on the issue. That may or may not be the case, but whether or...

Council of Europe (UK Chairmanship) (27 October 2011)

Michael Connarty: I think that is correct in what I have seen of the Council of Europe. It can make judgments, it can put down statements, people can support those statements, and they can be transmitted through the Committee of Ministers to the representatives of all the countries who send a representative to that Committee. One of the reasons I am quite a strong supporter of the European Union is that it can...

India — Question for Short Debate (18 October 2011)

Lord Loomba: My Lords, I, too, apologise for my late arrival. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Parekh, for initiating this important debate. As a British Indian, I am delighted to participate in the debate on UK-India relations today. India is the largest democracy in the world. It has a population of over 1.2 billion, which is 17.3 per cent of all the people living on this planet. It is more than the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Protection of Freedoms Bill (Programme) (No. 3) (10 October 2011)

Edward Leigh: I beg to move amendment (a), after “Proceedings” on the first day insert— ‘New Clauses relating to the Public Order Act 1986; and’. I have tabled this amendment to the programme motion because I simply cannot believe that the Government are trying to stifle debate on new clause 1 —the only new clause in the Bill to attract support from dozens of Members...

Multiculturalism: Interfaith Dialogue — Question for Short Debate (8 September 2011) See 1 other result from this debate

Lord Rees of Ludlow: My Lords, speakers in this debate have focused on the crucial need for dialogue among the different faith traditions but we are an increasingly secular nation. I speak as an unbeliever but one who has been nourished by the cultural, musical and liturgical traditions of the English Church in which I was brought up. Many Jews sustain their Friday ritual in their homes, even though they describe...