🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord the Leader of the House for bringing this Statement to your Lordships' House. As noble Lords would expect, we on these Benches welcome the proposal that, if there is a partly appointed House, a smaller number of Church of England Bishops will remain as full Members, allowing for the smaller number of Peers in general. We stand ready and welcome the...
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the evidence for their assessment that asylum seekers returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo will be safe.
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My Lords, I declare an interest as patron of the Southampton and Winchester Visitors Group and welcome the Minister to her new responsibilities. This is the third time I have asked this question. Each time I have had the same ostrich-like unsatisfactory answer from two different Governments and three different Ministers. It is a real puzzle to me that the noble Baroness can give me these...
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the International Crisis Group's recent Report Congo: No Stability in Kivu despite Rapprochement with Rwanda..
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My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply, but I ask for a greater level of realism from him and from the Government. The report to which he refers-he may have been toiling with its French, but it is now translated-makes it clear that the ICG believes that that rapprochement has got nowhere. As he says, the level of violence continues, the minerals are still in the wrong hands, and a...
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I declare an interest as a previous Bishop of Stafford with responsibility for the city of Stoke-on-Trent. Does the Minister recognise that the museum is not only one of the finest ceramic collections in the world-begun by the great, farsighted and humane Josiah himself-but a repository and a monument to the craftsmanship and the labour of Potteries people over two-and-a-half centuries and...
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My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Chidgey, on getting this debate and on his perseverance over Questions, oral and written, on this region of Africa. It is a privilege to follow those who have spoken. The debate is timely not only because the DRC is celebrating 50 years of independence-celebrating, noting, whatever word may seem appropriate-but because there will be...
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Does the noble Lord agree that he and I are talking at cross purposes about two quite different situations? I was speaking, as I should have thought was clear, and on what I thought was the matter being attended to, of organisations, either church organisations or of religious ethos, which find themselves contracted to undertake service on behalf of the Government and receive payment for...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they have taken, other than by way of the ASE Consulting Project—Review of XNP Services, to study how the Export Control and Non-Proliferation Directorate can continue to deliver high quality, cost effective services to Ministers and to industry.
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asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of the possibility that those states which look to the United Kingdom to provide a lead in arms export control might replicate the full or part-privatisation of the Export Control and Non-Proliferation Directorate's services.
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asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of the impact that the full or part-privatisation of the Export Control and Non-Proliferation Directorate's services would have on the export licence denial notification systems of the European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports and the Wassenaar arrangement.
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asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether, in the light of views expressed in the ASE Consulting Project—Review of XNP Services, the Export Control and Non-Proliferation Directorate after its recent headcount reduction provides the necessary minimum level of service.
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asked Her Majesty's Government: What financial assistance they are providing towards next year's elections in (a) Iraq; and (b) the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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