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Whether the United States National Security Agency construction activities at Menwith Hill, and elsewhere in the United Kingdom and in United Kingdom Dependent Territories (a) are always in full accordance with Local Plans; (b) have been subjected to fully informed local consultation; (c) are subject to Health and Safety Executive...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 November 1999
Reference
HL 4682; 606 c192WA
House
House of Lords

How they justify the view that the conclusions of the Code of Conduct Group on harmful tax competition will be on the one hand 'not legally binding', and on the other 'an international commitment which (the United Kingdom Govt) expects to honour and expects other people to honour' (HM Treasury...

Asked by
Earl of Northesk (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 November 1999
Reference
HL 4691; 606 c227WA
House
House of Lords

Statement on when he expects to respond (a) to the Law Commission's Report of March 1998 on liability for psychiatric illness and (b) to the Law Commission's report of December 1997 on aggravated and exemplary damages.

Asked by
Andrew Dismore (Labour)
Answering body
Lord Chancellor's Department
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 November 1999
Reference
97540; 337 c502-3W
House
House of Commons

When it is intended to make the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights part of the laws of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and to provide for effective legal remedies for claims of breach of those rights. [HL 4574].

Asked by
Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 November 1999
Reference
HL 4574; 606 c143WA
House
House of Lords

Whether they will support provisions in the proposed World Trade Organisation Agreement on Agriculture which give legal security so that trade law evolves in an environment characterised by predictable and stable levels of export earnings. [HL 4215].

Asked by
Lord Moynihan (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 November 1999
Reference
HL 4215; 606 c144WA
House
House of Lords

Whether (a) they have any plans to change their policy not to enshrine in statute law the judgment in Airedale NHS Trust v Bland (1993) in relation to the definition of assisted food and fluid as treatment and the removal of tubal feeding from Mr Tony Bland, or (b) they...

Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 November 1999
Reference
606 c122WA; HL 4467
House
House of Lords

What estimate they have made of the annual numbers of mentally incapable adults in (a) Scotland and (b) the rest of the United Kingdom whose death could be brought about by the removal of artificial nutrition and hydration if such removal were legally sanctioned (a) without recourse to the courts...

Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 November 1999
Reference
606 c122-3WA; HL 4468
House
House of Lords

Whether there are any differences between their policies in relation to the removal of assisted nutrition and hydration from (a) patients in persistent vegetative state; and (b) other mentally incapacitated patients; and whether they have any plans to propose changes to the law or practice in relation to such matters....

Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 November 1999
Reference
606 c121-2WA; HL 4466
House
House of Lords

Whether the present state of planning law and land use law in World Heritage Sites is adequate for the Govt to be able to fulfil their obligations under the World Heritage Convention; and if not, how they can improve it; and whether the laws of agricultural tenancy differ in World...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 November 1999
Reference
HL 4395; 606 c126WA
House
House of Lords

(a) What is the status of the document Explanatory Notes to the Employment Relations Act 1999 and of its explanations and comments on the Act; (b) whether the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) or the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) will be expected to comply with, or pay special attention...

Asked by
Lord Wedderburn of Charlton (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
4 November 1999
Reference
HL 4309; 606 c99-100WA
House
House of Lords

Whether the governments of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council whose Foreign Ministers participated in the joint statement of 23 September are bound by the statement's call for continued efforts to strengthen the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to preserve its integrity and validity, so that it remains...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
3 November 1999
Reference
HL 4377; 606 c87-8WA
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the differences between his policies in relation to the removal of assisted nutrition and hydration from (a) patients in persistent vegetative state and (b) other mentally-incapacitated patients; what plans he has for changes to the law or practice...

Asked by
Ann Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
2 November 1999
Reference
337 c103W; 96518
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce legislation defining assisted food and fluid as treatment which may be withdrawn from patients with mental incapacities other than persistent vegetative state; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by
Ann Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
2 November 1999
Reference
337 c104W; 96519
House
House of Commons

That this House congratulates the Scottish Executive on its proposals to repeal section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988; notes that section 28 has been the cause of a great deal of discrimination against homosexuals and has been especially harmful to youngsters who have been bullied and denied appropriate...

Primary sponsor
Maria Fyfe (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
1 November 1999
Reference
966; 966A1
House
House of Commons
Type
House of Commons papers
Notes
Received 02.11.99; Received 02.11.99
Date
1 November 1999
Reference
HC 807 1998/99
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he will call for a report from chief constables on the working of the law in relation to telephone harassment in the light of information which has been supplied to him. (Failed OPQ). - I have no plans to...

Asked by
Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 November 1999
Reference
95022; 337 c59W
House
House of Commons
Type
House of Commons papers
Notes
Received 02.11.99; Received 02.11.99
Date
1 November 1999
Reference
HC 806 1998/99
House
House of Commons

Statement on developments on the Tax Law Rewrite project. - Inc fact that Inland Revenue today published project's eight Exposure Draft (in Library as Dep 99/1717).

Asked by
Ivor Caplin (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 October 1999
Reference
336 c1034-5W;336 c1035-6W; 96953
House
House of Commons

Lords debate on unstarred question on whether they intend to extend to the rest of the United Kingdom legislation which applies in Northern Ireland against religious discrimination.

Lead member
Lord Ahmed
Answering member
Lord Bassam of Brighton
Department
Home Office
Type
Questions for short debate
Date
28 October 1999
Reference
606 c454-78
House
House of Lords
Type
Select Committee reports; House of Commons papers; Parliamentary committees
Committee
Health Committee
Date
28 October 1999
Reference
HC 549 1998/99
House
House of Commons