Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean: ... 4 1 4.04 Air and space accidents 25 17 1.49 Other vehicle accidents 0 2 0.00 Accidental poisoning 9 12 0.76 Accidental falls 8 6 1.35 Accidents due to fire/flames 0 1 0.00 Accidents due to natural environmental factors 2 2 1.01 Accidents due to submersion/suffocation/foreign bodies 15 6 2.53 Other accidents 31 26 1.21 ...
Lord Bassam of Brighton: ...April 2001. The LCD's PSA target is to deal with appeals to an adjudicator in an average of four months. The Immigration Appellate Authority is on course to meet this target for 2000-01. Reduce fire-related deaths in the home by 20% by 31 March 2003, from an average starting point of 380 a year. Deaths reduced to 315 this year compared to target of 303 by 2003. Reduce the number of...
Lord Bassam of Brighton: ...officer to require certain persons to complete and produce to the officer, if required to do so, a landing or disembarkation card. The persons in question are those who disembark or embark at a sea or airport in Great Britain or Northern Ireland from or, as the case may be, on a ship or aircraft travelling between Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the...
Lord Hardy of Wath: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will take steps to secure effective international agreement to prevent or minimise the risk of oil spillage at sea.
Baroness Blackstone: ...873 Cambridgeshire £2,640 £200 £2,850 East of England 874 Peterborough £2,860 £230 £3,090 East of England 881 Essex £2,830 £200 £3,030 East of England 882 Southend-on-Sea £2,920 £220 £3,140 East of England 883 Thurrock £2,990 £210 £3,200 East of England 919 Hertfordshire £2,860 £180 £3,050 East of England 926 Norfolk £2,750...
Lord Sainsbury of Turville: ...with the requirement of the Data Protection Act 1998 that data subjects are made aware of who is processing personal data about them and for what purposes. Businesses may face liability for civil lawsuits if they do not act in accordance with the regulations, and action by the Information Commissioner (formerly the Data Protection Commissioner) in the case of any breach of the Data...
Lord Bassam of Brighton: ...of greater than 6 foot pounds are classed as being of a type declared by the Secretary of State to be specially dangerous, and this moves them into the same classification as conventional cartridge firing weapons. This means that high powered air rifles come under the control of Section 1 of the Firearms Act 1968 (as amended) and must be kept on a police-issued firearm certificate or...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton: ... Incidents (Explosions & Defusings) 2 25 93 243 100 135 Note: 1. Includes all deaths due to the security situation. 2. The following types of incidents are included under shootings: Shots fired by terrorists Shots fired by the security forces Paramilitary-style attacks involving shootings Shots heard (and later confirmed) Other violent incidents where shots are fired (e.g. armed...
Lord Macdonald of Tradeston: The emergency services (fire and ambulance) and Railtrack are currently holding monthly exercises to familiarise personnel with the Severn Tunnel. There is also a Severn Tunnel Contingency Planning Group which is a multi-agency group facilitated by Railtrack. Its last exercise was a communications exercise on 12- 13 August last year. This involved the British Transport Police, the Avon &...
Lord Rawlinson of Ewell: asked Her Majesty's Government: On how many occasions during the calendar year 2000 (i) the Attorney-General and (ii) the Solicitor-General: (a) visited Northern Ireland and met the Director of Public Prosecutions Northern Ireland; and (b) attended meetings of the Bar Council, apart from the Annual General Meeting of the Bar.
Lord Rawlinson of Ewell: asked Her Majesty's Government: On how many occasions during the calendar year 2000 (i) the Attorney-General and (ii) the Solicitor-General: (a) appeared in court to prosecute in criminal proceedings in England and Wales; (b) appeared in court representing the Crown or a Department of State in civil proceedings in England and Wales; (c) attended a Committee of either House of Parliament,...
Lord Bach: ...Barnard Castle closed Durham Bishop Auckland Durham Chester le Street Durham Consett Durham Darlington Durham Durham Durham Newton Aycliffe Durham Peterlee Durham Seaham closed Durham 9 7 Dyfed Aberystwyth Dyfed Ammanford Dyfed Cardigan Dyfed Carmarthen Dyfed Haverfordwest Dyfed Lampeter Dyfed Llandovery Dyfed...
Lord Williams of Mostyn: ...approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimates for Class V, Vote 4 (The Crown Prosecution Service), Class V, Vote 5 (Serious Fraud Office) and Class V, Vote 6 (HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor) the Attorney-General's departments' Departmental Expenditure Limit for 2000-01 will be increased by £8,823,000 from £369,547,000 to £378,370,000. The Crown Prosecution Service's...
Lord Bassam of Brighton: My right honourable friend the Prime Minister announced on 24 January that he had asked former Treasury Solicitor Sir Anthony Hammond QC to review the full circumstances surrounding approaches to the Home Office in connection with the possibility of an application for naturalisation by Mr S P Hinduja in 1998. Sir Anthony started his review on Thursday 25 January. After an initial reading of...
Lord Judd: asked Her Majesty's Government: What arrangements they are making to ensure that whenever depleted uranium is used in firing tests or training, the health and wellbeing of adjacent civilian communities are protected.
Baroness Scotland of Asthal: ...inconsistencies in the text and between language versions and provided legal clarification of the decisions taken. The text was then finalised from a technical and linguistic point of view by the lawyer-linguists of the Council in conjunction with lawyers from the member states. For the Treaty of Nice to enter into force it must be signed and ratified by all the member states. Therefore if...
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean: ...of the UK, depleted uranium munitions are used by the Royal Navy and the Army. Royal Navy units are required to submit a signalled report to Flag Officer Surface Flotilla on completion of all firings, noting what ammunition and in what quantity and where fired. The ship will also note its latitude and longitude in the ship's log. In the case of land-based depleted uranium munitions, test...
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 Symons of Vernham Dean: ...of RMT 2000 would be both appropriate and practicable. In 2001 the Royal Navy will host the first regional event in Portsmouth. It will build on the very successful International Festival of the Sea format, held previously in Bristol in 1996 and Portsmouth in 1998. This year's International Festival of the Sea will feature significant contributions from all three services under the title...
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.
