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the Earl of Courtown: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the Lord Chancellor or the Attorney-General made any appeal to lawyers at a function at the Atlantic Bar and Grill on 7 February to contribute funds to the Labour Party.
Baroness Scotland of Asthal: ...territory with a unique and sensitive ecosystem. Our commitment to the maintenance of British sovereignty over South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and to ensuring their security remains as firm as ever.
Lord Alton of Liverpool: asked Her Majesty's Government: Why they did not inform the House of Lords on 22 January that lawyers acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health intended to tell the High Court on 26 January that they would need five months to prepare scientific evidence in defence of the regulations on human embryos arising out of the Donaldson Committee Report.
Lord Swinfen: ..." and in light of the Government's National Health Service Plan reference to "introducing effective and appropriate screening programmes for women and children by 2004", when they will provide a firm commitment to, and timetable for, national roll-out of the universal neo-natal hearing screening.
Lord Williams of Mostyn: ...John Gower QC and Sir Anthony Hammond KCB QC was delivered to me on 5 December 2000. I have lodged a copy of the report in the Library, and copies of the report are available on request to the Solicitor for HM Customs and Excise. The report concludes that the Customs and Excise Solicitor's Office should retain its prosecution function but that in exercising this function, including the...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they consider that the number of barristers and solicitors in independent practice in England and Wales is excessive; and if so, why.
Lord Whitty: In our contribution to international preparations for the World Summit for Sustainable Development (Rio+10) in 2002, we are firmly committed to improving the nature of developed countries' impacts on developing countries to promote sustainable development in the whole. Examples of this approach include pursuing trade policy beneficial to developing countries as set out in last December's...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal: ..., including India and Pakistan, will be invited to attend the meeting, to be held in the United Kingdom in May 2001. In view of our policy we were consulted by BNFL on the IAEA proposal. We firmly support the work of the IAEA and the safe decommissioning of nuclear reactors and judge that the meeting will not in any way assist the development of weapons of mass destruction. We will...
Lord MacKenzie of Culkein: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the Cabinet Office Statement of Practice for Staff Transfers where council employees transfer to private firms or consortia applies throughout the United Kingdom.
Lord MacKenzie of Culkein: asked Her Majesty's Government: In relation to the transfer of council employees to private firms or consortia, whether a money purchase pension scheme is broadly comparable to a defined benefit or final salary pension scheme.[HL1298[ Question number missing in Hansard, possibly truncated question.
Lord Irvine of Lairg: ...a new executive agency of my department. Also from 1 April 2001, the Public Trust Office's Court Funds Office will transfer to the Court Service and its trust work to the Office of the Official Solicitor. The Public Trust Office will cease to exist. The Public Guardianship Office will discharge the Court of Protection's decisions on behalf of people with mental incapacity. In creating the...
Lord Bassam of Brighton: ...of the Security Service, the Home Office will retain responsibility for the day-to-day management of NTAC beyond when it acquires an initial operating capability. Once the operation of NTAC is firmly established, that decision will be reviewed. NTAC will handle material obtained under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and be subject to review by the Interception of...
Lord Williams of Mostyn: Last year I set up a working group, chaired by David Nissen, CB, the Solicitor to the Department of Trade & Industry, to conduct a review of the arrangements for instructing advocates to prosecute cases on behalf of the Government. Following that review and consultation within government and the legal profession, new arrangements come into force today that will govern the instruction of...
Lord Marlesford: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the present level of litter on the A12 trunk road between the M11 and the A14 is acceptable and to what firm the Highways Agency has given the contract for collection of litter from this stretch of road.
Lord Bassam of Brighton: Her Majesty's Government confirm that they received on 21 March 2001 a response from lawyers acting on behalf of the Government of Nigeria to the queries raised by them in September 2000. These are now being considered by Counsel acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, who will advise the Secretary of State in due course. Her Majesty's Government remain anxious to assist the Government...
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean: The Manual of Military Law, Part III (MML Pt III) was first published in 1958. MML Pt III is an academic legal text, a reference document for lawyers and a detailed, if dated, commentary on the rules of war. In practice, the incorporation of legal requirement in rules of engagement, courses on international law at all levels at appropriate times and cards setting out main war crimes issued to...
Lord Harrison: ...: What has been the impact of the Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998; and whether they will adopt the new elements in the European Union Late Payment Directive which enables such firms to charge recovery costs and other incidentals on top of lost interest from those firms and institutions which pay late.
Lord Bassam of Brighton: ...2001 will give a temporary exemption from the prohibition until the end of January 2002 to: voluntary bodies which, by 30 April 2001, have provided the Legal Services Commission with written confirmation of their firm intention to apply for the Community Legal Service Quality Mark (i.e. have committed themselves to apply for the Quality Mark); and employers and prospective employers of...
Lord Sainsbury of Turville: .... The Government recognise that for some employers the national minimum wage presents a challenge. We will be working through the Small Business Service and the trade associations to ensure that firms in this sector are able to make the necessary adjustments to manage the changes arising from minimum wage increase due in October.
Lord Macdonald of Tradeston: Revised proposals from both Virgin/Stagecoach and GNER were received by the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) on 17 April. Once the SRA has considered these, it will decide whether to proceed with a request to the Secretary of State for a direction to authorise early replacement of the Inter City East Coast franchise. Any such request will be given appropriate and timely consideration.