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Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Refugee Convention
Lord Empey
Ulster Unionist Party, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to propose a review of the provisions of the 1951 Refugee Convention.

Asked 3 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Lord Collins of Highbury (Labour, Life peer)
HL8027
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agricultural Products: UK Trade with EU
Lord Frost
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government whether their proposed sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU will eliminate customs procedures for the export of SPS goods to the EU.

Asked 3 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour, Life peer)
HL8036
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agricultural Products: UK Trade with EU
Lord Frost
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they anticipate that their proposed sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU will remove the recently instituted French requirement for an 'enveloppe logistique obligatoire' with respect to SPS goods e...

Asked 3 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour, Life peer)
HL8037
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Hares: Animal Welfare
Baroness Redfern
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what measures they are considering to protect hares and their young during the breeding season; and what assessment they have made of the introduction of a close season for the killing of hares.

Asked 3 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour, Life peer)
HL8061
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Land Use
Lord Cromwell
Crossbench, Excepted Hereditary

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of biodiversity in lowland areas; the impact of previous environmental incentives on that biodiversity; and the extent to which lowland areas are vulnerable to intensification of agriculture i...

Asked 4 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour, Life peer)
HL8095
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Wheat: Prices
Lord Roborough
Conservative, Excepted Hereditary

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact that the US–UK Economic Prosperity Deal will have on the wheat prices achieved by farmers. [I]...

Asked 4 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour, Life peer)
HL8127
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Reservoirs: Lincolnshire
Lord Jackson of Peterborough
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to expedite planning permission for, and the construction of, (1) the Fens Reservoir, and (2) the Lincolnshire Reservoir.

Asked 4 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour, Life peer)
HL8114
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Ash Dieback Disease
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
Green Party, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps, if any, they are taking to ensure that valuable, potentially tolerant, or disease-resistant trees, such as ash trees that have survived chalara ash dieback, are not unnecessarily felled.

Asked 9 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour, Life peer)
HL8231
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food: Genetically Modified Organisms and Hormones
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to put labelling provisions in place for genetically modified and hormone produced foods imported under the US–UK Economic Prosperity Deal.

Asked 4 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour, Life peer)
HL8124
Answered
Lords
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will include (1) creating alternative diagnostic pathways for people with signs and symptoms of cancer, and (2) expanding direct patient access to diagnostics, as part of the national cancer plan.

Asked 2 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Baroness Merron (Labour, Life peer)
HL7984
Answered
Lords
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Food: Advertising

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Baroness Merron on 22 May (HLWS662), what discussions were held between the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport regarding the decision to...

Asked 2 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Baroness Merron (Labour, Life peer)
HL7982
Answered
Lords
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Food: Advertising

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Baroness Merron on 22 May (HLWS662), what are the reasons why brand advertising is not included in the scope of TV and online advertising restrictions for less healthy food or drink.

Asked 2 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Baroness Merron (Labour, Life peer)
HL7981
Answered
Lords
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Food: Advertising

To ask His Majesty's Government what are the reasons why "legal clarification" on brand advertising was deemed necessary in the Written Statement by Baroness Merron on 22 May (HLWS662) and not in the Written Statement by Baroness Merron on 22 April (HLWS5...

Asked 2 June 2025
Answered 12 June 2025
By Baroness Merron (Labour, Life peer)
HL7980
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
International Organisations: Membership
Baroness Hoey
Non-affiliated, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government how much was paid for membership to (1) the United Nations, (2) the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and (3) the Council of Europe, in each of the past two years; and what percentage of those organisati...

Asked 3 June 2025
Answered 11 June 2025
By Lord Collins of Highbury (Labour, Life peer)
HL8050
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Leah Sharibu
Lord Dodds of Duncairn
Democratic Unionist Party, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what recent discussions they have had with the government of Nigeria concerning Leah Sharibu, who was abducted in 2018; and what steps they are taking to support efforts for her release.

Asked 4 June 2025
Answered 11 June 2025
By Lord Collins of Highbury (Labour, Life peer)
HL8097
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Business and Trade
Drugs: Import Duties
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what protections, if any, they have secured for the UK pharmaceutical industry in relation to the imposition of tariffs by the United States of America.

Asked 12 May 2025
Answered 11 June 2025
By Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Labour, Life peer)
HL7370
Answered
Lords
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Autism and Learning Disability
Lord Scriven
Liberal Democrat, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish the Learning from lives and deaths – people with a learning disability and autistic people (LeDeR) annual report that has been handed over to NHS England.

Asked 4 June 2025
Answered 11 June 2025
By Baroness Merron (Labour, Life peer)
HL8130
Answered
Lords
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Primary Care
Lord Whitty
Labour, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what terms of reference apply to the activities of practitioner-patient consultative groups; and what guidance they give to such groups.

Asked 4 June 2025
Answered 11 June 2025
By Baroness Merron (Labour, Life peer)
HL8136
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Libya: Politics and Government
Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
Conservative, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to support the government of Libya's transition to democracy, including by assisting with the encouragement of national elections and providing advice on curbing the power of armed groups.

Asked 2 June 2025
Answered 11 June 2025
By Lord Collins of Highbury (Labour, Life peer)
HL7935
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Syria: Sanctions
Lord Roberts of Llandudno
Liberal Democrat, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to remove the remaining sanctions in relation to Syria, in the light of US plans to do so.

Asked 2 June 2025
Answered 11 June 2025
By Lord Collins of Highbury (Labour, Life peer)
HL7989
Answered
Lords
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