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Good Citizenship Awards In Liverpool – July 2011
Good Citizenship Awards In Liverpool Earlier in the week young people from across the Merseyside Borough of Knowsley received their Good Citizenship Awards at a ceremony sponsored by Arriva at Aintree Racecourse. On Friday, July 8th young people from Wirral and Sefton...
Memorabilia…article for "Total Politics"
Memorabilia: article for Total Politics David Alton My three items of political memorabilia are linked to Liverpool. The portrait is of William Roscoe, elected to the Commons in 1807 as a Liverpool Member – serving for just three months. During that Session William...
Bird-And-Bat Box: Bootle Children's Enterprising Initative: [email protected]
[email protected] Children from Bootle's Savio Salesian College recently presented me with a Bat-or-Bird Box which they had made. Others have gone to Downing Street and the Palace - and one is on its way to William and Kate in advance of their wedding. The...
India and the Dalits
2.18 pm: March 5th 2010 Second Reading Debate on Bill to create an Anti-Slavery Day. Lord Alton of Liverpool: My Lords, it is with great pleasure that I add my voice to those supporting the terms of my noble and learned friend’s Bill to inaugurate an...
The Big Society Versus The Big State and The Condition of England Question
Debate on The Big Society Versus The Big State, Wednesday June 17th 2010. 6.42 pm Lord Alton of Liverpool: My Lords, the quality of the introductory remarks made by the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Leicester and of the ensuing debate demonstrate why this was...
Beijing Speech – Cultual Diversity and Human Rights – October 2010
Cultural Diversity and Human Rights Paper for the Beijing 2010 Conference on Human Rights. Professor Lord Alton of Liverpool (David Alton) When China’s previous distinguished Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Madam Fu Ying, returned to Beijing earlier this year, she...
Values Education – speech given in Nanpi, China, October 2010
Speech on Values Education in Nanpi, China, October 2010. 价值教育在英国 Prof. Lord Alton 尊敬的刘宝成教授、杨恒达教授，尊敬的在座各位来宾，我非常荣幸能在今天，与我的同事Andrew Johnson先生，来到这里，在此，我也要向邀请我们出席今天仪式的Stephan Rothlin博士致以我最崇高的敬意。 教育学家们常常引用中国古代经典著作《管子•权修》中的一句名言“一年之计，莫如树谷；十年之计，莫如树木；终身之计，莫如树人。”一直以来，我深受其鼓舞和激励。...
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...
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...
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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Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3440): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by the Minister of...
UK Gov. responds to my question about the Hong Kong Watch report, “Tuition Fees for BNO Visa Holders: The Case for Home Fee Status”, and the impact of the cost of international fees on the ability of young British National (Overseas) (BNO) visa holders to attend university; and whether they will follow the Scottish Government in introducing home fees status for BNO visa holders after three years of residency in the UK. But says nothing which wasn’t already known.
Baroness Barran, the Department for Education, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3505): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Hong Kong Watch report, Tuition...
Parliamentary Replies on female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Gambia and what capacity assistance the UK is providing to Burundi in support of efforts to ensure justice and accountability for past atrocities, including support for the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission and efforts to strengthen the rule of law.
Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3307): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the issue of female...