Oral Questions


Week beginning Monday 9 December 2024

Monday 9 December 2024

Lord Carrington to ask His Majesty’s Government whether they plan to allow maintained schools to set the number of days on which they are open during a school year, in the same way as for academy schools.  To be answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Department for Education)

Baroness Finn to ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that their legislative agenda does not undermine vocational training.  To be answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Department for Education)

Lord Fowler to ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to reduce the number of peers who are eligible to sit in the House of Lords.  To be answered by Baroness Smith of Basildon (Cabinet Office)

Lord Teverson to ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to respond to the Green Finance Institute’s report A Greenprint for Property Linked Finance in the UK, published in November, to accelerate private low-carbon investment into existing homes.  To be answered by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)


Tuesday 10 December 2024

Baroness Hughes of Stretford to ask His Majesty’s Government what progress they have made in developing a National Youth Strategy.  To be answered by Baroness Twycross (Department for Cullture, Media and Sport)

The Earl of Clancarty to ask His Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to facilitate touring in, and trading with, Europe for the arts and creative industries.  To be answered by Baroness Blake of Leeds (Department for Cullture, Media and Sport)

Lord Harris of Haringey to ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the number of guns manufactured by 3D printers circulating in the United Kingdom.  To be answered by Lord Hanson of Flint (Home Office)


Wednesday 11 December 2024

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty’s Government how many individuals have been prescribed anti-depressants by the NHS in England in the past 10 years, at what cost, and what assessment they have made of the risks and ramifications.  To be answered by Baroness Merron (Department of Health and Social Care)

Lord Addington to ask His Majesty’s Government how they will ensure state-funded schools are better able to identify those with special educational needs and better able to meet those needs.  To be answered by Braoness Smith of Malvern (Department for Education)

Lord Rooker to ask His Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Merron on 11 September (HL Deb col 1562), whether it remains their intention to lay regulations before Parliament to amend the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 in 2024.  To be answered by Baroness Merron (Department of Health and Social Care)


Thursday 12 December 2024

Lord Jamieson to ask His Majesty’s Government what tools they will provide to local authorities to support the delivery of mandatory house-building targets.  To be answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government)

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay to ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to help mark the 75th anniversary of Formula One in 2025.  To be answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom to ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to overturn the convictions of sub-postmasters or former Post Office employees convicted in relation to the Capture system.  To be answered by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Department for Business and Trade)


Week beginning Monday 9 December 2024