Lord Alton of Liverpool

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Mr George Freeman, on 14 January (HC220047), to what extent toxic materials that are not licensed by the Medi...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Mr George Freeman, on 14 January (HC220047), what are the necessary steps that would be required for medicina...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Mr George Freeman, on 14 January (HC220047), what are the necessary steps that would be required for laborator...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health, Jane Ellison, on 11 September 2014 (HC Deb, cols 664–5W), what is the minimum number of fresh eggs required for the nuclear DN...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the government of Turkey about proposals to convert many secular schools into Imam Hatip schools and the forced enrolment of pupils into Imam Hatip schools in 2014.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of comments by United Nations Special Rapporteur Marzuki Darusman that the human rights situation in North Korea can only improve if the Kim family is removed and a new leadership is installed...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports that the government of North Korea uses forced and uncompensated labour, including school children, in the construction of tourist sites visited by United Kingdom tourists; and whet...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their current understanding of the Warnock Committee’s recommendations on the level of respect to be afforded to human embryos; whether they continue to adhere to those original principles; and how they and the Huma...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Earl Howe on 8 January 2013 (WA 24–6), 24 February 2014 (WA 174–5) and 5 February 2015 (HL4367), whether the total number of embryos allowed to perish as stated as 1,717,375 between 1991 a...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 applies spending limits to stand-alone blogs such as the Huffington Post but not blogs produced by newspapers.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much they plan to spend on providing English language training courses for the Burmese Army.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 23 December 2014 (HL3669), what grant applications were made to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence over the last ten years for mesothelioma research, includi...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the recent BBC Future of News report and its suggestion that the BBC is looking to develop a World Service for North Korea.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government why they decided not to lay the draft Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015 as separate Regulations for the two distinct procedures permitted by them; whether different outcomes are ex...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what actions they took to establish that the draft Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015 are compliant and compatible with European Union law and other European conventions; and what a...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 4 February (HL4327), to what extent the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority contributed towards the content of the Draft Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondr...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the criteria employed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in determining which equipment, products or reagents require CE marking in order to be used in either research or clinical practice by all l...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what other techniques for mitochondrial donation, other than those being considered in the draft Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015, are being considered by them and by the Chief Me...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 23 January (HL4065), what grant applications were made to the Medical Research Council over the last 10 years for mesothelioma research, including in each case the...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the number of refugees in the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan who have been identified by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as being in need of resettlement.