Human Rights Joint Committee: Impartiality

Lord Alton of Liverpool asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps are being or will be taken to ensure that human rights issues will not be subordinated to party political considerations by the proposed Joint Committee on Human Rights.[HL751] Baroness Jay of...

Human Rights: Outstanding Obligations and Commitments

Lord Alton of Liverpool asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will list:(a) their outstanding human rights obligations, such as judgments of the European Court of Human Rights which await implementation;  (b) their outstanding commitments to legislate on...

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For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.

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A new Opium War, on British streets: Government responds to illicit Chinese pharmaceutical and chemical companies producing and smuggling illegal drugs into the UK and the use of the internet to promote sales of opioids hundreds of times stronger than heroin, which are flooding western countries, and have been responsible over the past year for 100 British  deaths.

A new Opium War, on British streets: Government responds to illicit Chinese pharmaceutical and chemical companies producing and smuggling illegal drugs into the UK and the use of the internet to promote sales of opioids hundreds of times stronger than heroin, which...

New Opium War Targeting Democratic Countries – raised by Secretary Blinken with CCP leadership – and Minister says illicit labs in China have “been linked to more than 100 deaths in the UK during the last year, and we are taking action.”

Lord Sharpe of Epsom, the Home Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3921): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the production and distribution of illicit...