Lord Alton of Liverpool

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Earl Howe on 10 February (HL4443) and 9 March (HL5132), to what extent miscarriages and stillbirths are considered by the HFEA to be abnormalities; and when they will place in the Library ...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of (1) the number of newspapers closed in Sudan in the last five years, (2) the number of opposition leaders or human rights activists imprisoned or detained there, and (3) the provision made for op...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they consider that fair or free elections can be held in the Republic of Sudan next month while people there are displaced or affected by violence; if so, how; how they consider that conditions there compare with th...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the escalation of the conflict, including sexual violence targeted at women, in Darfur over the past 12 months; and what assessment they have made of the outcome of investigations into reports of...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what support they have given to Scott Campbell, the Director of the United Nations joint human rights office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who was recently expelled from that country for publishing a report docum...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Earl Howe on 24 November 2010 (WS 101–2) and the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 10 March (HL5228), what are the reasons provided by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government to what extent Council Directive 93/42 EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices and Directive 98/79 EEC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 October 1998 on in vitro diagnostic medical devices applies t...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Earl Howe on 24 February (HL Deb, col 1622) and the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 9 March (HL5132), for how many years the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has been advising th...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo about the imprisonment of the Congolese opposition leaders Vano Kiboko, Jean-Bertrand Ewanga and Diomi Ndongala; and what respons...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo about the reported imprisonment of members of the Congolese opposition (including parliamentarians), disappearance of human right...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in bringing Joseph Kony and the leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army to justice.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Sudanese people they assess to have been displaced or to have fled from Blue Nile or South Kordofan to Ethiopia or South Sudan.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 26 January (HL4228), why multiple letters submitted to the Mitochondria Review Policy Team at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) that are included as non-c...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health, Jane Ellison, on 25 February (HC224623) and the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 6 March (HL5131), how and why the Medicines and ...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 11 February (HL Deb, col 1243) and the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 5 March (HL5130), how the prior use in clinical practice within the United Kingdom of either medic...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 5 March (HL5130), how practising physicians should satisfy themselves that any unlicensed medicinal product or toxic substance that they consider appropriate for their patients...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proposals concerning persecution and atrocities against Christians in the Middle East they intend to lay before the United Nations Security Council at its meeting on 27 March.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many staff in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are specifically working in the area of freedom of religion or belief; how many working hours are committed to that task in an average week; and whether they have any pl...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the government of North Korea about the disappearance of the Canadian clergyman, the Reverend Hyeon Soo Lim, during a visit to that country.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 24 February (HL4892), whether they have identified any other speculative accounts in the media of the likely timetable for the first mitochondrial donation cycle, based on the ...