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...
Why Human Cloning Is Wrong : Text of A Statement Made By Lord Alton of Liverpool to the House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cells on Monday 19th of November, 2001:
Text of A Statement Made By Lord Alton of Liverpool to the House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cells on Monday 19th of November, 2001: Lord Chairman, May I first of all take this opportunity of thanking the Committee members for allowing my...
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...
Declaring a Year of Jubilee – 2004 Advocate International Convocation Washington DC
Advocates International Convocation October 29th 2004. Washington DC Extracts from an Address by Lord Alton of Liverpool There is a story about an argument that ensues between three men who all believe that theirs is the oldest profession. There is a doctor, a lawyer...
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...
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...
Cyber-Security and UK Democracy. Lord Alton tells Parliament that U.K. must reduce dependency on the Chinese CCP and develop greater resilience in British manufacturing.
Following a statement made in the House of Commons by the Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Alton told Parliament that U.K. must urgently reduce its dependency on the Chinese CCP regime and develop greater resilience in British manufacturing, and also name the CCP for the...