The House of Lords, on two occasions has defeated Government proposals to take up to 25% of damages received by victims of mesothelioma as "success fee" payments to lawyers.This week, in the House of Commons, the Government agreed not to implement the proposals until...
Baroness Caroline Cox and HART report on conditions in South Kordofan following a visit to South Sudan
Bombs and Rain will kill thousands in Sudan and South Sudan unless the international community intervenesApril 16, 2012 PRESS RELEASE A humanitarian catastrophe is inflicted by Khartoum Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) returned yesterday from visiting people...
Celebrate Easter Conference 2012
www.celebrateconference.org Eastertide or Paschal Time is the period of celebration which spans the fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost. The Church has traditionally treated this period as one single joyful feast – and in recent years a group of English...
Easter 2012: What Easter Means To Me
This link takes you to the power point presentation which accompanies a talk give at the Celebrate Conference, 2012: What Easter Means To Me
The Pain of The Suffering Church – Celebrate Conference April 2012
This link to a power point presentation accompanies this text: Celebrate 2012 Pain of the Suffering Church The Pain Of The Suffering Church Celebrate 2012: David Alton. Last month, Pope Benedict was in Revolution Square in Cuba – a country where the Church has been...
Professor David Hilmers on You Tube – speaking at St.Anselm's Birkenhead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW26il5f45A
Mr.Mohamed Nasheed – deposed President of the Maldives honoured in Liverpool
On April 2nd 2012 Mohamed Nasheed, the deposed President of the Maldives, was awarded an honorary fellowship by his university, Liverpool John Moores University. The citation was read by Prof.Lord Alton of Liverpool and the Vice Chancellor, Professor Nigel Weatherill,...
April 15th 1912, the sinking of Titanic – its link to a church in Liverpool and to two remarkable women
At 11.40pm on April 15th, one hundred years ago RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg 375 miles south of Newfoundland as she sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Built in Belfast by Harland and Wolff she was operated by White Star Line. Titanic’s...
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 a debate on April 25th on how UK aid is used to support minorities in Pakistan, Government responds to my Question on why Ahmadi Muslims were not included on the single electoral list with all other voters in the recent elections in that country
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3227): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool.:To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord...
As senior officials in Hong Kong remain unsanctioned by the UK, Ministers say they have “urged the authorities” and HSBC Trustees to release savings of escapees; that “Article 23 of Hong Kong’s Basic Law, enacted on 23 March is likely incompatible with international human rights law and will have a negative impact on the people of Hong Kong in the exercise of their rights and freedoms”; and have “noted the allegation that some evidence to be used to prosecute Jimmy Lai had been obtained through the torture of Andy Li.”
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3229): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will take steps to impose...
Reply to Question in Parliament about whether the UK Government will allow British National (Overseas) visa holders to voluntarily pay up to 15 years’ worth of Class 3 national insurance contributions towards a state pension, in cases where such visa holders have been denied access to their Mandatory Provident Fund pension savings by HSBC
Baroness Vere of Norbiton, Treasury, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3506): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will allow British National (Overseas) visa holders to voluntarily...