20 Most Recent Stories From Evan Harris's recent appearances (TheyWorkForYou)

Mon 1st Sep 2008:

Sixth Form Education: Collective Worship | Children, Schools and Families | Written Answers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what information his Department has provided to sixth-formers about their right to opt in and out of collective worship.

Tue 22nd Jul 2008:

Doctors: Ethics | Health | Written Answers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on whether NHS doctors should be permitted to refrain from providing medical care to patients on the basis of the personal religious or...

Mon 14th Jul 2008:

Cord Blood | Health | Written Answers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what plans he has to change the arrangements for supply of cord blood units to the NHS; and if he will make a statement; (2) whether he plans to...

House of Lords Reform | Oral Answers to Questions - Home Department | Commons debates.

Even the Government accept in the White Paper that there is no place for bishops in a 100 per cent. elected House, so in their view there is no fundamental constitutional principle in having...

Tue 8th Jul 2008:

Clause 4 - Conditions for making order | Orders of the Day - Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill | Commons debates.

I think that it is, because we have to draw the line on threats somewhere. Public policy perhaps should not distinguish between something that is listed in the Bill and something that is not. For...

Clause 4 - Conditions for making order | Orders of the Day - Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill | Commons debates.

I am not an expert in this area, and I am warned by my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (David Howarth) that tort law has a lot to say on it. However, I would have thought that if something...

Clause 4 - Conditions for making order | Orders of the Day - Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill | Commons debates.

As a result of that, I was able to fulfil another engagement and leave it to him to put the case, as I know he did. On this group of amendments, the hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) made the...

Clause 4 - Conditions for making order | Orders of the Day - Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill | Commons debates.

I am pleased to have the opportunity to address the Committee. I had an amendment in the previous group, but given that it was subsumed entirely in amendments pre-tabled through a feat of...

Clause 4 - Conditions for making order | Orders of the Day - Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill | Commons debates.

I do not think that that is the best argument. As the hon. Gentleman knows, in a case such as the Attorney-General of New Zealand had in mind, there would be some risk to persons for the damage...

Clause 4 - Conditions for making order | Orders of the Day - Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill | Commons debates.

The hon. and learned Gentleman has hit the question. My reading of the provision in other statute is that the test is objective. The fear is not deemed reasonable because a witness is nervous;...

Clause 4 - Conditions for making order | Orders of the Day - Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill | Commons debates.

The hon. and learned Gentleman's amendment No. 22 proposes inserting the words "assess the reasonableness of any fear alleged on the part of the witness or another person" in clause 4(6). Is that...

Clause 4 - Conditions for making order | Orders of the Day - Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill | Commons debates.

The right hon. and learned Gentleman will be supported in his argument that the paragraph should be narrower, rather than deleted, by what happened in the Joint Committee on Human Rights this...

Clause 4 - Conditions for making order | Orders of the Day - Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill | Commons debates.

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Mon 7th Jul 2008:

Science Budget | Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | Commons debates.

It is important that the Minister should deal with peer review, and I am grateful to him for doing so. He said in his response that the Committee ought to be careful in what we say when we...

Science Budget | Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | Commons debates.

There was an article in The Guardian on 20 May that recaps the debates. It set out: "When Daresbury lost the Diamond facility to Harwell, Lord Sainsbury, the science minister at the time, gave...

Science Budget | Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | Commons debates.

The Library briefing for the debate includes some press cuttings. One article, headed "Everyone loves a man in a white coat", reads: "A new book argues that scientists are motivated by sex and...

Science Budget | Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | Commons debates.

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government's argument that this decision is part of the comprehensive spending review negotiations is different in this case? It is not like allocations to the...

Tue 17th Jun 2008:

HIV | Health | Written Answers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in England diagnosed with HIV are ineligible for treatment.

Thu 22nd May 2008:

Business of the House | Commons debates.

Does the Leader of the House agree that the House of Commons was at its best on Monday and Tuesday, in terms of debate, when it debated controversial issues in the Human Fertilisation and...

Tue 20th May 2008:

New Clause 1 - Amendment of the law relating to abortion | Orders of the Day | Commons debates.

What the hon. Lady described on her blog as an injection of vitamin K, rather than potassium, which was curious, is exactly the way of ensuring that the baby comes out normally, through expulsion...

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