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Lords HL3577
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Chapman of Darlington on 1 July (HL1363), what changes have resulted from the initiatives listed as milestones in the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Stra...
Tabled: 2026-09-15
Lord Roberts of Llandudno
Lord Roberts of Llandudno
LD
To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered 2026-10-15
The Government remains resolute in its commitment to preventing and responding to conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), supporting survivors and tackling impunity.Since July 2024, UK support has...
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Lords HL3576
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the outcomes from the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative since July 2024, and (2) how successful the Initiative has been in tackling conflict-related sexual viole...
Tabled: 2026-09-15
Lord Roberts of Llandudno
Lord Roberts of Llandudno
LD
To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered 2026-10-15
The Government remains resolute in its commitment to preventing and responding to conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), supporting survivors and tackling impunity.Since July 2024, UK support has...
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Lords HL3575
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support (1) national, and (2) international, investigators and prosecutors to (a) investigate, and (b) charge, conflict-related rape and other sexual violence as torture offenders where...
Tabled: 2026-09-15
Lord Roberts of Llandudno
Lord Roberts of Llandudno
LD
To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered 2026-10-15
The Government remains resolute in its commitment to preventing and responding to conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), supporting survivors and tackling impunity.Since July 2024, UK support has...
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Lords HL3314
To ask His Majesty's Government, following the publication of the Command Paper Protecting What Matters: Towards a more confident, cohesive, and resilient United Kingdom on 9 March, what individuals, groups, organisations, businesses or bodies wil...
Tabled: 2026-09-09
Lord Goodman of Wycombe
Lord Goodman of Wycombe
Con
To: Cabinet Office
Answered 2026-10-15
Following the publication of the Command Paper Protecting What Matters: Towards a more confident, cohesive, and resilient United Kingdom, the Government is committed to rolling out training across ...
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Lords HL3524
To ask His Majesty's Government what evaluation they have undertaken of the Test, Learn and Grow initiative; and whether they plan to publish any such evaluation and if so, when.
Tabled: 2026-09-15
Lord Blunkett
Lord Blunkett
Lab
To: Cabinet Office
Answered 2026-10-15
The Test Learn and Grow programme has commissioned an independent evaluation by the Government Outcomes Lab. This is due to be published in 2028, the final year of the programme.
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Lords HL2993
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take, if any, in response to Meta promoting posts on Facebook in the last fortnight from verified accounts of Russian embassies, including threats to harm the UK in response to its support for U...
Tabled: 2026-09-02
Lord Banner
Lord Banner
Con
To: Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Answered 2026-10-15
My Department has asked Meta to investigate these allegations. Under the Online Safety Act, regulated services must assess and mitigate the risk of illegal content and activity, including content r...
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Lords HL3863
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to establish a formal real-time information-sharing system involving the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs i...
Tabled: 2026-10-05
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
Lab
To: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Answered 2026-10-15
The UK is negotiating a Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement with the EU which will strengthen cooperation on biosecurity and public health. Access to relevant EU agencies, systems and databases wi...
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Lords HL3774
To ask His Majesty's Government, following their ad hoc analysis on State Pension uprating, published on 29 September, and in relation to their proposed changes to the state pension from 2030, whether they will publish the assumed figures used for...
Tabled: 2026-10-05
Baroness Coffey
Baroness Coffey
Con
To: Department for Work and Pensions
Answered 2026-10-15
The Department has published analysis of the move to using an adjusted triple lock to uprate the State Pension from April 2030. This analysis did not use single year assumptions for earnings or pri...
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Lords HL3781
To ask His Majesty's Government, in the light of the publication of the State Pension uprating analysis on 29 September and its conclusion that the new state pension will reach a record high relative to earnings over the coming three years, how th...
Tabled: 2026-10-05
Lord Davies of Brixton
Lord Davies of Brixton
Lab
To: Department for Work and Pensions
Answered 2026-10-14
Historical average earnings growth and the Consumer Prices Index used in the analysis are consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s economic assumptions published at the Spring Stateme...
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Lords HL3795
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of how many annual instances there are of wrong-way driving on motorways in England and Wales; and what proportion of those instances result in police intervention.
Tabled: 2026-10-05
Lord Hay of Ballyore
Lord Hay of Ballyore
DUP
To: Department for Transport
Answered 2026-10-14
Based on National Highways operational data, the number of incident reports from motorways in England recording reports of oncoming vehicles up to May 2026 were as below:PeriodNumber of incidentsBe...
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Lords HL3802
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential impact of uncertainty over future track access rights on rolling stock investment by open-access operators, including orders supporting employment at Hitachi’s Newton ...
Tabled: 2026-10-05
Lord Houchen of High Leven
Lord Houchen of High Leven
Con
To: Department for Transport
Answered 2026-10-14
The Government intends to preserve both the duration and the substantive Schedule 5 access rights contained in existing contracts through the transition to Great British Railways (GBR). The power a...
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Lords HL3801
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications for investor confidence in the United Kingdom of the powers under clause 71 of the Railways Bill to amend or terminate existing access agreements.
Tabled: 2026-10-05
Lord Houchen of High Leven
Lord Houchen of High Leven
Con
To: Department for Transport
Answered 2026-10-14
The Government intends to preserve both the duration and the substantive Schedule 5 access rights contained in existing contracts through the transition to Great British Railways (GBR). The power a...
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Lords HL3804
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to preserve the duration and substantive operating rights of existing open-access agreements during the transition to Great British Railways; and in what circumstances they envisage departing fro...
Tabled: 2026-10-05
Lord Houchen of High Leven
Lord Houchen of High Leven
Con
To: Department for Transport
Answered 2026-10-14
The Government intends to preserve both the duration and the substantive Schedule 5 access rights contained in existing contracts through the transition to Great British Railways (GBR). The power a...
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Lords HL3851
To ask The Senior Deputy Speaker what consideration the Procedure and Privileges Committee has given to whether the House procedures are sufficiently responsive to the speed at which artificial intelligence is developing; and whether the Procedure...
Tabled: 2026-10-05
Lord Nagaraju
Lord Nagaraju
Lab
To: The Senior Deputy Speaker
Answered 2026-10-14
Existing procedures already provide flexibility for Noble Lords to scrutinise fast-moving issues, including by means of topical oral questions, Private Notice Questions, and Questions for Written A...
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Lords HL3749
To ask His Majesty's Government how the UK’s rate of Capital Gains Tax compares with the average rate across all EU countries.
Tabled: 2026-10-05
Lord Birt
Lord Birt
XB
To: Treasury
Answered 2026-10-14
The main rates of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) in the UK are 18% for basic rate taxpayers and 24% for higher rate taxpayers.Information on CGT rates in other countries is publicly available from the rel...
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