Lord Alton of Liverpool
The Lord Alton of Liverpool
Crossbench
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 11 June 1997
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“Hillsborough Law”
23/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, Andrew Devine was my constituent. He died in 2021, the 97th victim of Hillsborough, 32 years after his chest was crushed and he was deprived...
Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025
21/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I hope to be able to persuade the noble Lord, Lord Robertson, who knows that I have enormous respect for him, that the safeguards are not go...
Great British Energy: Nuclear Development
21/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, given the announcement at the weekend that £200 million is going to be spent through Great British Energy to purchase solar panels from Chin...
Official Development Assistance
20/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, given that conflict is one of the reasons why development is always impeded, has the Minister had a chance to look at the correspondence las...
Syria: Druze Community
16/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, the Minister will have seen the recent reports of the murder of 25 believers who were assembled in a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus. She ...
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
09/07/2025 • Lords
I am grateful to the Minister. He will recall the example I gave of a two year-old boy in Sudan wanting to be reunited with his grandmother. It took 1...
I agree with the general thrust of the argument the noble Lord, Lord Harper, is putting to the Committee. He talked about getting the balance right, a...
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Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
07/07/2025 • Lords
Before the noble Lord sits down, he will remember that I asked him some questions about the national referral mechanism. I do not expect an answer now...
My Lords, I too am a signatory to Amendment 49. It is a great pleasure to support both amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady May. In pare...
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Artificial Intelligence: News Media
06/07/2025 • Lords
Will the Minister undertake to view the opening session of the new inquiry by the Joint Committee on Human Rights, held last Wednesday, into human rig...
School Libraries
29/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, with one in four children leaving primary school without the appropriate levels of literacy does the Minister agree that the most important ...
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
25/06/2025 • Lords
I had asked the Minister about compliance with Article 31.
We will come to those arguments on mens rea. They are in later amendments. Perhaps the noble Lord would not want to jump ahead, because the groups of ...
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