Baroness Nye: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Northover on 12 December (HL Deb, col 970), what is the breakdown of bilateral aid projects in India with regard to the sums committed to the care and control of tuberculosis.
Baroness Nye: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will publish details of their bilateral projects in South Africa with a particular focus on tuberculosis in the extractive industries.
Baroness Nye: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis care and control programmes.
Baroness Nye: My Lords, I join the noble Baroness in congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Verjee, on his most eloquent maiden speech. I look forward to his future contributions. I, too, am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Chidgey, for securing this important debate and for his efforts to keep the fund at the forefront of the development agenda. As the noble Lord said, the fund’s achievements have been...
Baroness Nye: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether funding has been provided by the Department for International Development to assist with rehabilitation through counselling and other services for former political prisoners in Burma.
Baroness Nye: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are aware of any restrictions being placed on British-funded international aid agencies and United Nations aid agencies and their workers operating in Arakan State, Burma.
Baroness Nye: My Lords, the last time the sex and relationship guidelines were updated was at the turn of the century, when the founders of Facebook were still in high school and Twitter was confined to the bird world. Will the Minister explain why the Government are so opposed to updating those guidelines to help teachers help children understand the internet world that they are growing up in now?
Baroness Nye: Since the Government gave sole responsibility to schools for careers advice we have seen eight in 10 schools dramatically cut the careers advice they provide, according to a survey by Careers England. Even the director of the CBI has questioned the laissez-faire approach of this Government, so will the Minister explain why the Government are against benchmarking careers guidance to national...
Baroness Nye: Is the Minister aware that the Burmese Government refuse to allow the UN access to military sites so that it can identify and discharge children present in the Burmese army border forces, border guard forces and other armed groups? Following on from the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Alton, in the issues that the noble Lord said were raised, there was no mention of any representations...
Baroness Nye: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the British Ambassador to Burma has raised issues concerning the recruitment of underage soldiers with representatives of the government of Burma and its military; and if so, how many times this issue has been raised, and what has been the response of the government of Burma to those concerns.
Baroness Nye: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are planning to provide technical assistance and training to the Burmese military on specific measures to professionalise and reform its recruitment practices, with a view to preventing child recruitment.
Baroness Nye: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are taking action to encourage the Burmese military to introduce and adopt measures which prevent the recruitment of underage soldiers, following the meeting of Hugo Swire MP, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with the Defence Minister of Burma in December 2012.
Baroness Nye: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are taking action to ensure that the United Nations Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict requires the government of Burma to implement effectively the action plan to prevent the recruitment and use of children by its armed forces, signed with the United Nations in June 2012, particularly in relation to the provision of...
Baroness Nye: My Lords, I declare an interest as a board member of the Burma Campaign UK and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for arranging this timely debate and for his tour de force on the situation in Burma now. As the recent McKinsey Global Institute report says, Burma is an unusual country in that it, “remains an underdeveloped agrarian economy in the heart of the world’s fastest growing...
Baroness Nye: After President Obama’s visit to Burma last year, the Burmese Government agreed to allow the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights to open an office. What representations have the British Government made on this matter to try to speed things along?
Baroness Nye: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the progress on meeting the benchmarks of (1) the ending of conflict in Burma, (2) improved humanitarian assistance, in particular in Kachin and along the eastern border, and (3) addressing the status and wellbeing of the Rohingyas, as set by the European Union Council conclusions on 26 April 2012; and whether they will vote in...
Baroness Nye: My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, for her introduction to this debate. I also congratulate her friend, Julie, who I think will give the Co-op a run for its money. As has been said, International Women's Day gives us an opportunity to reflect on progress made and to call for change. To reflect on progress made, it is perhaps best to begin here in Parliament and in...
Baroness Nye: My Lords, does the Minister agree that, after the success of women athletes at the Olympics last year, it is a disgrace that two-thirds of boards of sporting organisations do not meet UK Sport's minimum target of 25% female members and six, including British Cycling, do not have a woman on them at all? Given that public money is involved, do the Government have a strategy to deal with this?
Baroness Nye: To ask Her Majesty's Government when the review of personal, social and health education will be published.
Baroness Nye: To ask Her Majesty's Government when the Women's Business Council report will be published.
