Lord Alton of Liverpool

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the circumstances surrounding the arrest of more than one hundred political activists and human rights lawyers in China on 11 July.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they have, and what representations they have made, about the arrest in China of human rights lawyers, including Li Fangping, and Christian lawyers, including Li Heping and Zhang Kai.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the research, recently published in Nature, into using stem cells to rid organs of mutant mitochondria without recourse to three-parent IVF; and whether it is their policy that human embryo...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Bates on 14 July, what issues will be on the agenda during the inter-departmental ministerial meeting to discuss the refugee crisis; and whether they plan to consider the creation of protecte...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Bates on 14 July, when the inter-departmental ministerial meeting to discuss the refugee crisis will take place.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prescriptions for antidepressants have been issued in each of the past thirty years; what was the annual cost to the National Health Service of those prescriptions; and what guidance is given to doctors and patient...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to take action similar to that taken by the government of Belgium in escorting over 200 Syrian Christians and Yazidis from Aleppo to Belgium.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what budgetary provision the Information Commissioner’s Office has made regarding its data protection activities for the next financial year.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Ministry of Justice have given to ensuring that action is taken against all those who have not complied with their registration obligations; what weight the p...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the financial incentive or disincentive for the Information Commissioner’s Office to maximise the registration fee income it receives and recoup any registration fee income that has not bee...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps have been taken and what steps they plan to take to increase the number of registrations with the Information Commissioner’s Office; what estimate they have made of the consequential annual increase in income, an...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the number of data controllers who ought to have registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office but have not done so; and what steps have been and will be taken by (1) the Informatio...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many data controllers were registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office on the most recent date for which figures are available; what income was generated from those organisations' registration fees; and what i...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps, including review, audit or other assessment, have been taken by (1) the Ministry of Justice, (2) the Information Commissioner's Office, and (3) any external auditors and advisers, to ensure that every data contr...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much the Information Commissioner's Office will be entitled to spend on data protection activities in the next financial year; and how that figure will be affected if the Information Commissioner's Office registration f...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in each of the last six years for which figures are available, how much income was received by the Information Commissioner's Office in respect of its data protection activities; how much of that was spent on such activiti...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the false information given by government officials to the children of Chinese men compulsorily repatriated in 1946 that their fathers had been killed at sea or abandoned them, and the cons...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they hold about the circumstances in which Chinese fathers who had been recruited to serve in British Merchant Navy Atlantic convoys were, in 1946, compulsorily repatriated, leaving their children; and whet...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the petition initiated by the children of Chinese sailors deported from Liverpool after World War Two.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, following the decision by the panel of the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) that the clinical benefits of pemetrexed as a maintenance treatment in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lun...