Mental Capacity – 2005 Speech

January 10th 2005 Speech by Lord Alton of Liverpool on the 2nd Reading of The Mental Capacity Bill.       My Lords, I support the principle of creating a statutory framework to protect those individuals who lack mental capacity. Those organisations that have been...

Charities, SRI, and Making Change – 2004

   When most charities were formed they had as a basic mandate the desire to bring about change – so shouldn’t they be using their leverage to challenge and to change? Yet, there is always a nervousness that by collaborating with commercial interests you can become...

Ruskin and the Money Making Mob

A Wake Up Call For Executives And Trustees - delivered in 2004   David Alton.     John Ruskin once wrote that “a nation cannot last as a money making mob.” Most of us would concur with that view and would want to see wealth used ethically and creatively.  The movement...

Finding Somewhere For the Birds To Sing.

    Finding Somewhere For the Birds To Sing.   David Alton       People take various routes into politics. Mine was the well trod path from local government into the House of Commons. I now sit as an independent in the Lords.     Throughout the...

darfur Report 2004

A JUBILEE REPORT   October 2004                     SUDAN Darfur: The Genocide Continues   Prepared by Lord Alton of Liverpool and Rebecca Tinsley               1.0 Introduction   1.1  Lord Alton and...

Congo Report 2004

  A JUBILEE REPORT   September 2004                                                              ...

Rwanda Report – 2004

  JUBILEE REPORT     October 2004                                                                       RWANDA The Killing Continues – The Legacy of the Rwandan Genocide 1.0 Purpose   1.1 Between Sept 26th to Oct 1st 2004, a Jubilee Action delegation...

Time Is Of The Essence

Who was ever heard to utter on their deathbed "I wish that I had spent more time at the office?" Most of us will ruefully reflect that insufficient time had been spent with our families and with the ones we love or in doing the things that we know give real worth or...

Lord David Alton

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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In advance of my oral question, scheduled to be asked in the House of Lords on April 17th,3 Parliamentary Replies on Putin’s War in Ukraine – bringing to justice those responsible for the Crime of Aggression and Reparations – including £2.5 billion from the sale of Chelsea FC.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3194): Question:To ask His Majesty's Government, following the decision of the General Assembly of the United Nations...

Forget Me Not – – The United Kingdom All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea stands in solidarity with the Government of Korea in remembering the South Korean abductees, detained, and prisoners of war in North Korean gulags. Letter from Minister Kim Jung HO, Unification Minister, Seoul.

Lord (David) Alton, Fiona Bruce MP, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP (chairs and former Chair of APPG on North Korea) Lord (Sonny) Leong - Vice Chair with Catherine West MP, APPG on North Korea Forget-Me-Not Please Remember Me The United Kingdom All-Party Parliamentary...