Hillsborough – DPP Asked To Expedite Decision; Susan Hemming to take Final Decisions – Jury verdict of unlawful killing: The Hillsborough Independent Panel’s Investigation – and correspondence from 1989 with the Police Complaints Authority and Government Ministers. April 1989 intervention in the House of Commons. April 27th 2016 Statement in the House of Lords; April 29th letter to the Director of the Crown Prosecution Service

Hillsborough - Letter from the Director of Public Prosecutions, May 6th 2016: Susan Hemming to take final decisions: and reply: 060516 Letter to The Lord Alton of Liverpool   Dear Mr.Okogwu   I would be grateful if you would thank the Director for this...

Hillsborough: twenty three years of cover up

The Scandal of Hillsborough.   Twenty three years ago one of my saddest duties while I served as a Liverpool Member of Parliament was visiting families of those bereaved in the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster. Several constituents had died, including a child. One, a...

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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Replies to Questions about the targeting of Hazara community members by ISIS; whether the FCDO meet – Hazara representatives to discuss the continuing violence and persecution facing their community in Afghanistan; how they act on their admission that “minority groups such as the Hazara people face discrimination and attacks”; and why they wont publish their latest Joint Analysis of Conflict and Stability assessment on Afghanistan

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL4200): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of...

Question about development funding for Pakistan to help create a national trust fund to support the education of children from the families of bonded labour and whether the UK will assist the government of Pakistan in seizing assets of owners of brick kilns illegally using bonded labour and repurposing those assets for the education and welfare of families trapped in bonded labour.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL4261): Question by Lord Alton of LIverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Ahmad of...

Tiananmen Massacre Commemorated At Westminster — 35 years after Tank Man stood in defiance of the CCP’s Tanks and 35 years after the fall of the Communist’s European Berlin Wall. “There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom” -Liu Xiaobo

The Tiananmen Square Massacre Has Been Commemorated At Westminster -- 35 years after Tank Man stood in defiance of the CCP's Tanks and 35 years after the fall of the Communist's European Berlin Wall. "There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for...