The Re-Export Controls Bill completed all its House of Lords stages yesterday, January 12th, and has been sent, unamended to the House of Commons. 12 Jan 2011 : Column 1405: Lord Alton of Liverpool: Re-Export Controls Bill [HL] Bill Main Page Copy of the Bill Third...
Why I Oppose the Coalition Government's Proposals On Higher Education
Higher Education (Basic Amount) (England) Regulations 2010 Copy of the SI 10th Report from the JCSI 14th Report from the Merits Committee Motion to Approve 14 Dec 2010 : Column 553 Lord Alton of Liverpool: On the question of personal debt, did the noble Lord see the...
David Cameron and The Big Society
A rather imposing coalition has committed itself to derailing David Cameron’s flagship policy: the Big Society. Public sector unions, many local authorities and some Lib Dem Ministers have joined with figures from the Right of his own Party and leaders of some...
Public Whip – Alton Voting Record Link
David Alton - Voting Record Voting record for David Alton - Link available below: The Public Whip
Gladstone Lecture – Audio
Gladstone Lecture - David Alton To commemorate the bicentenary of William Ewart Gladstone's birth in Liverpool David Alton gave a commemorative lecture in Liverpool's St.George's Hall to celebrate the life of the man who became Prime Minister four times. The audio...
Attacks and Discrimination against Egypt's Copts and the Ancient Churches of the Middle East
Today's Attacks on Egypt's Copts by David Alton on Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 10:45pm On December 30th in Baghdad at least two Christians were killed and nine wounded in a string of six attacks on Christian homes. The areas targeted were predominantly Christian...
Frank Field's Important Report on Child Poverty
The importance of a child's early years: Frank Field's Important Report by David Alton on Friday, February 4, 2011 at 4:00pm A rabbi once said "God was too busy – so He invented mothers" - perhaps I could be permitted to add that He also invented fathers – and that...
The Suffering of Chen Guangcheng
Chen Guangchen's suffering by David Alton on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 4:10pm Chen Guangchen is the blind self taught lawyer and human rights activist who was jailed in China after exposing the systematic use of coercive, forced abortion and sterilisation to...
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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Rwanda Act – Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UK. Joint Committee on Human Rights 15th May 2024.
In the Joint Committee on Human Rights I pressed Minister Michael Tomlinson MP to accept that the Rwanda Act will not tackle the root causes of the mass displacement of more than 114 million people - and treatment of vulnerable human beings should not be treated like...
Meeting In Parliament To Commemorate The 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre
Meeting In Parliament To Commemorate The 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre Lord Alton will chair a meeting in the UK Parliament to commemorate the 1989, Beijing's Tiananmen Square Massacre. Tiananmen became the focus of large-scale protests - protests which were crushed...
House Magazine – Wake Up Call On CCP Subversion of Democracy: By aligning our response with that of our allies and by implementing robust measures, we should send a clear message to Beijing: that our internal affairs and democratic rights are off-limits to CCP interference.
For all the wrong reasons, China has been in the news again. On the back of a hack and theft of MOD data, accompanied by espionage and cyber-attacks, MI5 briefed Vice Chancellors last week that university research programmes are at risk from malign and hostile...