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What proportion of the countrys significant economic and social activity is currently being measured by the Office for National Statistics or its successor body; and in what terms it is being measured; and whether the countrys currently measured economic activity includes non-marketed, but marketable, activity (such as household, political, voluntary,...

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Lord Kennet (Labour)
Answering body
Office for National Statistics
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 November 1999
Reference
606 c223-4WA; HL 4586
House
House of Lords

Whether the Multi-Modal Transport Study for the South West includes a study of the implications which the proposed dualling of the A303 through the Stonehenge World Heritage Site will have for further dualling of the A303 (for instance in the Blackdown Hills); whether the currently proposed Stonehenge section is itself...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 November 1999
Reference
606 c233WA; HL 4554
House
House of Lords

What assessments and what public consultations underpin English Heritage's decision that a large commercially operated visitors centre is appropriate for the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. [HL 4457]. - Includes figures.

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 November 1999
Reference
HL 4457; 606 c158WA
House
House of Lords

Whether a comprehensive assessment of the number, behaviour and needs of visitors to Stonehenge is still not available more than a year into the development of the master plan; and how if at all, a Visitors' Centre can be contracted, built and managed without it. [HL 4442].

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
4 November 1999
Reference
HL 4442; 606 c104WA
House
House of Lords

Whether there are plans for a European Union or European security and defence identity-wide official think-tank to underpin the Common Foreign and Defence Policy with appropriate research; and, if so, what would be its scope and remit. [HL 4156].

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 October 1999
Reference
HL 4156; 605 c107WA
House
House of Lords

Whether they have considered the implications for the World Trade Organisation of the 13 July speech of Mr Dan Glickman, United States Secretary of Agriculture, in which he disclosed inadequacies in the current United States system for regulating biotechnologically modified crops and animals; and whether they will encourage the World...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 October 1999
Reference
HL 3877; 605 c100-1WA
House
House of Lords

Whether they have taken any action in response to the maintenance by the United States of the smallpox virus and its decision in 1997 to devote $322 million to make new vaccines for the military; and whether they have studied the implications for world health of other countries, such as...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
27 July 1999
Reference
HL 3380; 604 c178WA
House
House of Lords

What research has been done in the United Kingdom and by whom, and where, into the health and happiness of people born through medically-assisted procreation and into their awareness of their origins; and what conclusions for public policy they draw from research into the health and happiness of people born...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 July 1999
Reference
HL 3520; 604 c16WA
House
House of Lords

Further to the Written Answer by Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean on 16 June 1999 (24WA), whether they will reconsider their decision not to assist the Vietnamese Govt in obtaining scientifically sound data on the use of Agent Orange, given that any compensation secured by the Vietnamese Govt could help...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 July 1999
Reference
HL 3381; 604 c4WA
House
House of Lords

Whether their New Wave Power Research Programme will include research into the possible effects of wave energy exploitation on any adjacent biota. [HL 2641].

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 June 1999
Reference
602 c63WA; HL 2641
House
House of Lords

What steps they are taking to help the Vietnamese Government obtain scientifically sound data concerning the effect of Monsanto's Agent Orange on Vietnamese citizens equivalent to the data provided for United States veterans who are being compensated for injury linked to Agent Orange in Vietnam. [HL 2815].

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 June 1999
Reference
602 c23-4WA; HL 2815
House
House of Lords

Whether the taxpayer is funding the regulation of genetically modified food and the research underpinning that regulation; if so, on what grounds; and whether this represents a subsidy of genetically modified food on the market in the United Kingdom. [HL 2164].

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
4 May 1999
Reference
HL 2164; 600 c84WA
House
House of Lords

Whether they are looking into the situation revealed in the Answer by the Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mr Rooker, on 30 July 1998 (HC Deb c523) concerning work done in the United Kingdom on behalf of overseas clients on pesticides; and whether the biological and...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 January 1999
Reference
HL 436; 596 c141WA
House
House of Lords

Whether the Written Answer by the Lord Donoughue on 8 December 1998 (595 c84WA) concerning World Trade Organisations (WTO) regulations, to the effect that "measures necessary for the protection of human, animal or plant life or health" may be taken "provided that these are based on scientific principles and are...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 January 1999
Reference
HL 440; 596 c142WA
House
House of Lords

Whether English Heritage has commissioned, or otherwise obtained an academic study of the heritage value of Stonehenge; if so, from whom; whether (a) Ministers and (b) the three Stonehenge Working Parties have seen it; and whether it will be available for parliamentary and public examination before the public inquiries which...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
14 January 1999
Reference
HL 253; 596 c79WA
House
House of Lords

Whether the ethical implications of cloning human tissue by injecting human DNA into the egg cells of cows are being examined in the United Kingdom; and, if so, by whom. [HL 9]

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
3 December 1998
Reference
HL 9; 595 c52WA
House
House of Lords

What international instruments or other justiciable texts, if any, preclude the cloning of human beings; and, if none, what steps are being considered to establish one. [HL 10].

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
3 December 1998
Reference
HL 10; 595 c52-3WA
House
House of Lords

What publicly appointed bodies in the United Kingdom are currently examining issues of bioethics; how they have been appointed, when and by whom; by whom they are funded and serviced; and to whom they report. [HL 8].

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 December 1998
Reference
595 c24-5WA; HL 8
House
House of Lords

Why NATO is engaged with environmental issues in Europe and Central Asia; with privatisation in Eastern Europe; and with financial fraud and crime (other than smuggling and the breach of United Nations embargoes); and whether NATO is funding research into biotechnology or bioethics by the Challenges of Modern Science programme...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 November 1998
Reference
594 c150WA
House
House of Lords

Whether they have given any undertaking to the United States not publicly to object to their current research and development programmes for the weaponisation of space as announced in the Quadrennial Defense Review, in the United States Defence budget and in other official documents of the United States Administration, and...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 July 1998
Reference
HL 2562; 592 c63WA
House
House of Lords