Thursday, 24 May 2007
My Lords, I have to notify the House, in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967, that the Queen has signified her Royal Assent to the following Act: Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What progress they have made in implementing their policy of end-to-end offender management.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will make representations to the Government of Burma with regard to continuing offensives and threats of further offensives against the Karen people...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their response to the election of Zimbabwe to the chair of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have raised with the Government of Pakistan the disappearance of certain United Kingdom citizens in Pakistan.
My Lords, with permission, a Statement on waste strategy will be repeated by my noble friend the Deputy Leader immediately after the first debate.
My Lords, I informed the House on 20 March of Mr Paul Hayter's intention to retire from the office of Clerk of the Parliaments, with effect from Saturday 3 November. I told the House on that...
My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. Moved, That the debate on the Motion in the name of Lord Howe of Aberavon set down for today shall be limited to three...
rose to call attention to the conduct of the machinery of government and to the role of an independent Civil Service and judiciary; and to move for Papers. My Lords, I confess that I cannot...
My Lords, with permission, I shall repeat a Statement made earlier today in the other place by the Secretary of State regarding waste strategy. The Statement is as follows: "With permission, I...
rose to call attention to the state of the countryside and to the provision of public services in rural areas; and to move for Papers. My Lords, now that the Minister has stopped talking rubbish,...
rose to move, That this House takes note of the report of the European Union Committee on Mobile Phone Charges in the EU: Curbing the Excesses (17th report, HL Paper 79).
Debates in the House of Lords are an opportunity for Peers from all parties (and crossbench peers, and Bishops) to scrutinise government legislation and raise important local, national or topical issues.
And sometimes to shout at each other.
