Results 1-11 of 11 for hunting speaker:Lord Avebury

Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill (5 Mar 2008)

Lord Avebury: ...and one conviction respectively. For the three years 2003 to 2005, there were 15 prosecutions and seven convictions, but those figures must be interpreted with caution, as the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, emphasises in a footnote to the figures. Apart from transcription errors in extracting data from the large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces, the statistics...

House of Lords (Amendment) Bill [HL] (22 Feb 2008)

Lord Avebury: My Lords, the noble Lord may have a very good memory, but others may think that there is some doubt about this, in particular, the noble Lord, Lord Hunt. In Committee on my noble friend's Bill, he said: "There can be argument about whether an amendment that in time reduces that 10 per cent is actually a departure".—[ Official Report, 17/1/08; col. 1521.] That is a departure from the...

House of Lords (Amendment) Bill [HL] (22 Feb 2008)

Lord Avebury: ..., but he was forced to abandon it after 21 sitting days on the Floor of another place, as I well remember, having taken a small part in those debates of 39 years ago, as the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, will be aware. It would be rash to assume, therefore, that whatever formulae emerge from the cross-party talks will be slavishly copied into manifestos and enacted by whichever party wins the...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (27 Nov 2007)

Lord Avebury: ...of insulation of existing dwellings. We are going to reduce the carbon footprint of public sector buildings, including the Palace of Westminster—as mentioned by the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Chesterton—which uses the energy equivalent of 6,500 private dwellings. The European Union's adoption of an upper limit of 130 grams of CO2 per kilometre for all cars sold after 2012,...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Travellers: Housing Benefit (9 Oct 2006)

Lord Avebury: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answers by the Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 18 May (WA 68) and 3 July (WA 24-25), whether, having received the report in question in draft in December 2005, they will publish it before the House rises for the Summer Recess; and whether they will place a copy on the Department for Work and Pensions' website.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Travellers: Housing Benefit (3 Jul 2006)

Lord Avebury: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 18 May (WA 68), on what date they received the draft report of the research to inform a review of the mechanisms of how housing benefit is administered to Travellers claiming at county council, district and unitary council sites, and private sites; whether they propose to alter the draft before...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Travellers: Housing Benefit (18 May 2006)

Lord Avebury: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 3 November 2005 (WA 45–6), whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of the research they commissioned to inform the review of the calculation of housing benefit payable to Travellers on county council, district, and unitary council sites, and on private sites; and when they...

Racial and Religious Hatred Bill (24 Jan 2006)

Lord Avebury: ...way this matter has been handled. As the noble Baroness is aware, I have not been privy to the discussions that have taken place between the Home Secretary, my noble friend and the noble Lord, Lord Hunt. Over many years I was involved in trying to secure legislation on similar lines to those we are now discussing. In their wisdom, noble Lords sent a Bill that I introduced to a Select...

Racial and Religious Hatred Bill (8 Nov 2005)

Lord Avebury: ...the offences in paragraphs (b) and (c). The noble Lord, Lord Renton, the noble Viscount, Lord Bledisloe, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Oxford, in an intervention and the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, in winding up all mentioned these two common law offences which have fallen into disuse for centuries. I referred to the Law Commission's report of 1985 and I remind your Lordships that it...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Statins (7 Nov 2002)

Lord Avebury: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 26 February (WA 227), whether they have now considered whether further guidance is necessary on prescribing statins; and, if so, whether they have asked the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to formulate that advice.

Haslar Prison (14 Mar 2001)

Lord Avebury: ...reasonable complaints about the procedures and respond to them. The chair wrote to the commissioning authority to complain that the 78 questions she was supposed to answer appeared to be a witch-hunt against the board. The CA replied to the letter without addressing the point. The irrelevance of the questions to the original terms of reference was also drawn to the attention of the board...