Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Lord Patten of Barnes took the oath, and signed an undertaking to abide by the Code of Conduct.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress they have made in addressing (1) the concerns of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, and (2) that Committee’s...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the National Stroke Strategy, which expired in March 2017, has not been updated or renewed.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proposals they have to improve working conditions for NHS staff.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the comments by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 29 June (HL Deb, col 660), how they intend to ensure that no former tenants of Grenfell Tower are...
A Bill to make provision for clinical commissioning groups to ensure that persons in their area have access to specialist and generalist palliative care and appropriate support services; and for...
A Bill to provide certain protections for persons who live together as a couple or have lived together as a couple as cohabitants; to make provision about the property of deceased persons who are...
A Bill to extend the franchise for parliamentary and other elections to all citizens over the age of 16 years. The Bill was introduced by Lord Whitty (on behalf of Lord Adonis), read a first time...
A Bill to lower the gestational time limit for abortion to 12 weeks. The Bill was introduced by Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, read a first time and ordered to be printed.
A Bill to make provision for Members of the House of Lords to vote in elections to the House of Commons. The Bill was introduced by Lord Naseby, read a first time and ordered to be printed.
The Bill was brought from the Commons, endorsed as a money Bill, and read a first time.
My Lords, with permission, I will now repeat in the form of a Statement an Answer to an Urgent Question given by my right honourable friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in another place...
My Lords, with the permission of the House, I would like to repeat a Statement made in the other place by the Housing Minister. The Statement is as follows: “With permission, Mr Speaker, I...
Moved by Baroness Buscombe That the Bill be now read a second time.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration in November.
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.