My Lords, why is there an International Roma Day on 8 April? It was declared in 1990 to acknowledge the first major international meeting of Romany representatives who had founded the International Romani Union in April 1971. The different groups who make up the Roma peoples were finally motivated to...

My Lords, why is there an International Roma Day on 8 April? It was declared in 1990 to acknowledge the first major international meeting of Romany representatives who had founded the International Romani Union in April 1971. The different groups who make up the Roma peoples were finally motivated to...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, for securing this debate, and give my sincere apologies for arriving just after she had started her speech. I am sorry; I had been told that we were starting around 6 pm so I ran down the Corridors to get here.

I...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, for securing this debate, and give my sincere apologies for arriving just after she had started her speech. I am sorry; I had been told that we were starting around 6 pm so I ran down the Corridors to get here.

I...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Whitaker on initiating this debate. What a shame it is that so few noble Lords have seen fit to contribute to it. It is perhaps sad testimony to the marginal nature of Roma in our society and in Europe more generally that...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Whitaker on initiating this debate. What a shame it is that so few noble Lords have seen fit to contribute to it. It is perhaps sad testimony to the marginal nature of Roma in our society and in Europe more generally that...

I congratulate my noble friend Lady Whitaker on initiating this debate and my noble friend Lord Giddens for, as usual, describing pretty much exactly what should happen next. I also congratulate the right reverend Prelate, whose newness we are aware of and who will learn that debates in your Lordships’...

I congratulate my noble friend Lady Whitaker on initiating this debate and my noble friend Lord Giddens for, as usual, describing pretty much exactly what should happen next. I also congratulate the right reverend Prelate, whose newness we are aware of and who will learn that debates in your Lordships’...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, for proposing this debate to mark International Roma Day, which will happen on 8 April. I congratulate the noble Baroness on her longstanding support for the rights of Roma, including her vice-chairmanship of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gypsy Roma Travellers...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, for proposing this debate to mark International Roma Day, which will happen on 8 April. I congratulate the noble Baroness on her longstanding support for the rights of Roma, including her vice-chairmanship of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gypsy Roma Travellers...

Lords question for short debate on what plans they have to mark International Roma Day.

Lords question for short debate on what plans they have to mark International Roma Day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what discussions his Department has had with the Environment Agency on the import of concrete blocks containing partially treated leaded glass;

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what discussions his Department has had with the Environment Agency on the import of concrete blocks containing partially treated leaded glass;

(2) what recent discussions his Department has had with the Environment Agency on trans-frontier shipment approval for the export of leaded glass for treatment.

Dr Whitehead:

(2) what recent discussions his Department has had with the Environment Agency on trans-frontier shipment approval for the export of leaded glass for treatment.

Dr Whitehead:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library a copy of all internal briefings prepared for Ministers on the effects on human health of exposure to lead in the UK in the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library a copy of all internal briefings prepared for Ministers on the effects on human health of exposure to lead in the UK in the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to reduce the concentration of lead in drinking water to the safe levels defined by the World Health Organisation.

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to reduce the concentration of lead in drinking water to the safe levels defined by the World Health Organisation.

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