Lord Bird

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the finding in the Youth Violence Commission’s Interim Report, published in July, that current approaches to reducing knife crime are ineffective and the focus should be to tackle the root ...

To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to support the long-term prosperity of independent bookshops.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to deliver a properly funded and sustainable future for libraries.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure continued access to (1) free automated teller machines, and (2) bank branches, particularly in rural communities.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to meet their timetable for implementing the breathing space debt scheme as announced by the Economic Secretary to HM Treasury in October 2017.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many working people in the UK they estimate do not have bank accounts; and what steps they are taking to assist such people; and what particular measures they are taking relating to those of this total who are homeless ...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, or intend to make, of the report by the Institute for Public Policy Research, Beyond ECO: the future of fuel poverty support, published on 3 July, and its conclusion that they are set to miss...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, or intend to make, of the report of the Resolution Foundation, Living Standards Audit 2018, published on 24 July, and its conclusion that the proportion of children in poverty has risen by 21...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to end the poverty premium.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effect of a ban on the use of credit cards for all forms of gambling, especially in regard to online gambling; and whether they have received any representations about such a ban.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how they are working to promote social enterprise.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that funding for preventative health measures is targeted to areas where the majority of avoidable deaths occur.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that NHS resources are targeted towards preventative health and social care.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many local housing authorities have made use of the powers contained in the Housing Act 2004 relating to Empty Dwelling Management Orders in each of the last ten years.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Harrison Centre for Social Mobility's Social Mobility Pledge initiative.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how they are seeking to prevent and reduce the effects of the poverty premium.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, or intend to make, of the effects of delayed benefit payments on the creditworthiness of benefit recipients who fall into arrears as a result of such delays.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what priority they place on the redevelopment of empty homes over new builds.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans, if any, they have to adopt an all-of-government approach to preventing the root causes of poverty.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking, or planning to take, to address the concentration of empty homes in low-value housing markets, with specific regard to the housing markets in (1) northern England, and (2) coastal communities.