asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the cost to hospital in-patients of making and receiving landline telephone calls.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they provide guidance and help for people of all ages in stressful situations who might become homeless and destitute.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they are concerned about the level of inequality in the distribution of wealth in the United Kingdom.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What immediate reconsideration they are giving to their policy on home information packs in the light of the 18th report from the Merits of Statutory Instruments...

My Lords, with the leave of the House, we will have two Statements later today. Shortly there will be a Statement on the Ministry of Justice from my noble and learned friend Lord Falconer and...

My Lords, today the Ministry of Justice comes into existence. Creating the new department is the right thing to do—the next step after a decade of constitutional and criminal justice reform...

My Lords, I understand that no amendments have been set down to this Bill and that no noble Lord has indicated a wish to move a manuscript amendment or to speak in Committee. Therefore, unless...

rose to move, That the first report from the Select Committee (HL Paper 74) be agreed to.

Read a third time. Clause 46 [Supplemental provisions]:

My Lords, with permission, I shall repeat a Statement made earlier today in the other place by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The Statement is as follows: "I do not think it is...

rose to move, That this House takes note of the report of the European Union Committee on Further Enlargement of the EU: Threat or Opportunity (53rd report, Session 2005-06, HL Paper 273). The...