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Written Answers — House of Lords: Rimonabant (18 Mar 2004)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: What plans they have to test the anti-obesity, anti-smoking pill (Rimonabant).

Zimbabwe: Assets Freeze and Travel Ban (16 Mar 2004)

Lord Acton: My Lords, are we continuing to put as much effort as possible into persuading South Africa, where the key lies, into pressurising the ZANU-PF regime?

Horse Passports ( 4 Mar 2004)

Lord Acton: My Lords, can my noble friend say how many horse passports are issued each year and how much VAT is raised?

Literacy (23 Feb 2004)

Lord Acton: My Lords, is my noble friend aware that there are 30,000 illiterate prisoners in England and Wales? The Shannon Trust has a successful scheme in which literate prisoners sponsor illiterate prisoners and teach them to read. Will the Government adopt that most imaginative idea and put it into practice throughout the prison system?

Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Population (23 Feb 2004)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their estimate of: (a) total population of Iraq; (b) Shia Arab population of Iraq; (c) Sunni Arab population of Iraq; and (d) Kurdish population of Iraq.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Population (23 Feb 2004)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their estimate of: (a) Sunni Arab, Shia Arab and Kurdish populations of Baghdad; and (b) Shia Arab, Sunni Arab and Kurdish populations of Basra.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Militias (23 Feb 2004)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: (a) whether they will list the militias in Iraq; (b) whether these are Shia Arab, Sunni Arab or Kurdish and to what political party or individual they owe allegiance; and (c) what are the estimated numbers in each militia.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Heathrow Airport: Travelators (12 Feb 2004)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Davies of Oldham on 2 February (WA 77), how much Heathrow Airport paid by way of rebates to airlines for failure of the travelators in Terminal 3 to meet the specified standard in any month between July and December 2003.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Local Councils ( 9 Feb 2004)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: What proportion of the local and provincial councils in Iraq are directly elected.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Cannabis ( 4 Feb 2004)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: What proportion of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is found in: (a) most cannabis; and (b) skunk cannabis; and What proportion used in the United Kingdom they believe to be skunk cannabis.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Cannabis ( 4 Feb 2004)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in cannabis can produce a psychotic reaction.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Afghanistan: Opium Poppy Production ( 2 Feb 2004)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: According to the United Nations poppy crop survey in Afghanistan, what was the level of opium poppy production in that country for each year from 2000–03.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Cannabis: Government Response to STC Report ( 2 Feb 2004)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to their response to the Report from the Science and Technology Committee—Cannabis (HL Paper 39, Session 1998–99) (9th Report, Session 1997–98), whether they will respond directly to paragraph 4.11 of the report.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Heathrow Airport: Travelators ( 2 Feb 2004)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Davies of Oldham on 27 June 2003 (WA 49–50), whether the travelators at Heathrow Airport fell below the required standard in 2003; and, if so, in how many months of 2003; and by how much they did not meet the required standard.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Mental Illness (29 Jan 2004)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many people (and what proportion of the population, broken down into age groups) they estimate: (a) suffer from schizophrenia; (b) are predisposed to schizophrenia; and (c) are predisposed to other mental illnesses.

Zimbabwe (28 Jan 2004)

Lord Acton: My Lords, I wonder whether the noble Earl will expand on that point. He said earlier that he thought that Joseph Msika and such people should have something terrible happen to them. Now, he wants them in a government of national unity. Is it both?

Zimbabwe (28 Jan 2004)

Lord Acton: My Lords, I too should like to send my best wishes to the noble Lord, Lord Blaker. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Astor of Hever, on introducing the debate with such an interesting speech. Taking up his point on cricket, I would adapt the old slogan, "Don't play games with apartheid" to a new slogan, "Don't play games with ZANU-PF". The thought of anti-apartheid makes me say how honoured...

Prisons: Mental Health Services (26 Jan 2004)

Lord Acton: My Lords, is my noble friend aware that, in her annual report, the Chief Inspector of Prisons drew attention to the high incidence of mental health disturbance among women prisoners? Will the Government pay particular attention to that and to the need to provide the necessary facilities for women prisoners?

Zimbabwe: British Food Aid (19 Jan 2004)

Lord Acton: My Lords, is my noble friend aware that the current appeal for vulnerable Zimbabweans by the UN World Food Programme has fallen short by 40 million dollars? Is she aware that, as a result, in this month the World Food Programme can feed a totally inadequate diet to only 3.2 million people and cannot feed a further 300,000 people at all? Britain has been very generous in this matter, but can...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Ascension Island: Wideawake Airfield (17 Nov 2003)

Lord Acton: asked Her Majesty's Government: What action they are taking to allow for the opening of Wideawake Airfield on Ascension Island to civilian charter traffic.

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