Results 1-20 of 49 for hunting speaker:Lord Morris of Manchester

Written Answers — House of Lords: Gulf War Veterans (29 Sep 2008)

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answers by Baroness Taylor of Bolton on 12 December 2007 (WA 54—55) and Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 4 June (WA 58) about the handling of the case of Gulf War veteran the late Mr T E Walker, what further information they have on the inquest into his death and its outcome.

NHS: Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme (25 Jun 2008)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, addressing the House on 7 June last year, my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath—then a health Minister, aware of its importance to Macmillan Cancer Support—agreed to ask the Healthcare Commission if it could monitor benefit information given to patients through its annual health check. Can my noble friend Lady Thornton tell us what reply was received from the commission?

Written Answers — House of Lords: Health: Podiatry (25 Jun 2007)

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 8 May (WA 247), whether they have assessed the extent to which the move of funding for podiatric care for diabetics from the secondary to the primary sector will impact adversely on the success (acknowledged in the National Health Service publication, Diabetic Foot Guide) of the hospital-based...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Health: Prostate Cancer (4 Jun 2007)

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 9 May (WA 267) on screening for prostate cancer, what figures they have for each primary care trust on the numbers of identified cases of aggressive cancers; and whether these figures show any variation in the incidence of such cases by ethnic group.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Health: Voluntary and Community Sector Partnership Team (28 Feb 2007)

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the reply by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 17 January (WA 159) about the Department of Health's voluntary and community sector partnership team, what further representations they have now received from the National International Forum; and what reply they will be sending.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Gulf War 1990-91: Vaccines (23 Jan 2007)

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 20 January 2003 on the guidance given to doctors on the product licence summary that the anthrax vaccine licensed by the Secretary of State for Health should be used alone, whether this was observed when vaccinating troops deployed to the 1990-91 Gulf War; and what action was taken to try to ensure...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Disabled People: Employment (12 Dec 2006)

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the replies by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 11 November (HL Deb, cols 592—5), what percentage of staff currently employed in each government department are registered as disabled people; and what the comparable figures were for each of the last five years.

Debate on the Address (21 Nov 2006)

Lord Morris of Manchester: ...of it should go unheard and unseen by Ministers as they strive to turn precept into practice in implementing their legislative programme. Indeed, what bliss there would be if my noble friend Lord Hunt and I swapped briefs. His winding-up speech today would be widely acclaimed, while as an old ministerial hand I would know exactly how to deal with his brief. The DRC's findings make...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Benefits (6 Jul 2006)

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 20 June (WA 68), what would be the estimated annual cost of increasing the current family premium and dependent children's allowances by amounts that would raise income support and jobseeker's allowance to the same level as 60 per cent of the 2005-06 median equivalised weekly household income...

Incapacity Benefit Bill (11 May 2006)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend. Will he please convey to our noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath my appreciation of his admirable work in this important policy area? Meanwhile, is it not disturbing that the odds remain so heavily stacked against people striving to end their dependency and become taxpayers, and disabled youngsters whose parents fear seeing them go from school to...

Office for Disability Issues (6 Feb 2006)

Lord Morris of Manchester: My Lords, I, too, am grateful to my noble friend Lord Hunt and to my noble friend Lord Ashley. Given its high importance to independent living for severely disabled people, how quickly can we expect action on the unmet need for adjustments to the common parts of let residential premises to which the review group drew attention?

Food Labelling (5 May 2004)

Lord Morris of Manchester: ...said it was a low-fat product. In fact, it was almost all fat and, when told the truth, 80 per cent said that such claims should be unlawful. The trilogy as a whole won praise from my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, then a health Minister. He praised also the extent to which the Co-operative movement's precepts were matched by performance, as exemplified by its clear and...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Anthrax (15 Mar 2004)

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answers by the Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 20 January 2003 (WA 79), the Lord Bach on 9 October 2003 (WA 67) and 8 January 2004 (WA 54) and the Lord Warner on 8 January 2004 (WA 59), whether the Secretary of State for Health, as the licence holder, and the manufacturer of the anthrax vaccine are satisfied that the vaccine was not used for...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Gulf War 1990–91: Vaccines (1 Dec 2003)

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Bach on 9 October (WA 67), whether the Department of Health will revise the Written Answer given by the Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 20 January (WA 79) with regard to the administration of anthrax vaccine in conjunction with other vaccines.

Gulf War Illnesses (15 Jul 2003)

Lord Morris of Manchester: ...this year Beverley Green, who served in the Gulf as a Captain in the Queen Alexandra Royal Army Nursing Corps, raised with me her concern about a Parliamentary reply from my noble friend Lord Hunt, then a Health Minister, on 20th January 2003. I had asked the Government if they could state whether the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research at Porton Down is content that combining the...

Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill (17 Mar 2003)

Lord Morris of Manchester: ...prevent them being treated as "commodities". But that is how many of them—wrongly and avoidably denied the dignity of living in their own homes—feel they are being treated now. As my noble friend Lord Hunt frankly stated on 17th February: "Poor-quality practice in many health services and in local government has led to a disastrous position for older people. They are stuck...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Health Professions Council (10 Feb 2003)

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether, in the light of the undertakings given by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath in regard to Professional Advisory Committees on 13 December 2001 (HL Deb, col. 1526), they consider that ad hoc time-and-task-limited professional liaison groups, as proposed by the Health Professions Council, match the spirit of those undertakings.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Anthrax Vaccine (4 Feb 2003)

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 20 January (WA 79), whether the anthrax vaccine used for troops deployed to the Gulf was licensed in 1990–91; whether the guidelines for its use referred to by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath were in place in 1990–91; if they were in place, why they were not followed; whether any other vaccines...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Haemophiliacs: vCJD Implicated Products (22 Jan 2003)

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 19 December 2002 (WA156), whether any patient living in England or Northern Ireland could be affected by the case of the blood donor in Scotland found recently to have vCJD and from whom plasma had been used to manufacture haemophilia treatment by the National Health Service; whether any patient...

Food Labelling (8 Jan 2003)

Lord Morris of Manchester: ...disabilities they inflict on children—an issue of deep concern to me. That the Government share that concern is made clear by the welcome presence here this evening of my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. I know that he and the Government also share my concern about the daunting difficulties—and indeed dangers—that more than 2 million visually impaired people face in...