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Vol. 773 Thursday No. 10 9 June 2016 PARLIAMENTARYDEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDEROFBUSINESS Retirement of a Member: Lord Hurd of Westwell Announcement.................................................................................................................815 Leave of Absence ...............................................................................................................815 Questions Government Websites: Titles ..........................................................................................815 Learning Disabilities: Transforming Care ......................................................................817 National Clinical Director of Adult Neurology .............................................................820 Migrants.........................................................................................................................823 Automatic Electoral Registration (School Students) Bill [HL]...........................................825 Assisted Dying Bill [HL] ....................................................................................................825 Access to Palliative Care Bill [HL].....................................................................................825 Carers (Leave Entitlement) Bill [HL] .................................................................................826 Age of Criminal Responsibility Bill [HL] ..........................................................................826 First Readings Business of the House Motion on Standing Orders .............................................................................................826 Business of the House Timing of Debates ..........................................................................................................827 Economy and Finance Motion to Take Note.......................................................................................................827 Syria: Air Drops Statement........................................................................................................................855 Government and Parliament Motion to Take Note.......................................................................................................859 Obesity: Low-fat Diet Question for Short Debate...............................................................................................903 European Union Referendum (Voter Registration) Regulations 2016 Motion to Approve ..........................................................................................................915 Female Genital Mutilation Question for Short Debate..............................................................................................924 Lords wishing to be supplied with these Daily Reports should give notice to this effect to the Printed Paper Office. 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This issue of the Official Report is also available on the Internet at https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2016-06-09 The first time a Member speaks to a new piece of parliamentary business, the following abbreviations are used to show their party affiliation: Abbreviation Party/Group CB Cross Bench Con Conservative DUP Democratic Unionist Party GP Green Party Ind Lab Independent Labour Ind LD Independent Liberal Democrat Ind SD Independent Social Democrat Ind UU Independent Ulster Unionist Lab Labour LD Liberal Democrat LD Ind Liberal Democrat Independent Non-afl Non-affiliated PC Plaid Cymru UKIP UK Independence Party UUP Ulster Unionist Party No party affiliation is given for Members serving the House in a formal capacity, the Lords spiritual, Members on leave of absence or Members who are otherwise disqualified from sitting in the House. © Parliamentary Copyright House of Lords 2016, this publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 815 Retirement of a Member [9 JUNE 2016] Government Websites: Titles 816 House of Lords field in “addresses”in order that the nation can continue to recognise the great public service that these people Thursday 9 June 2016 have given. 11 am Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen: My Lords, I agree with my noble friend. Indeed, they have given great Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Derby. public service. Departments can agree requirements with the Government Digital Service to include a field Retirement of a Member: Lord Hurd of for honours. This is a matter for individual departments, which are responsible for determining the level of Westwell information required in online forms. At present, there Announcement is nothing to stop someone putting their honours in the field after their surname, although this is not 11.06 am explicitly referred to in the explanations on the forms. Guidance to departments at present suggests a free-text The Lord Speaker (Baroness D’Souza): My Lords, I field and not a drop-down list, as this would be too should like to notify the House of the retirement, with exhaustive to create. effect from today, of the noble Lord, Lord Hurd of Westwell, pursuant to Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014. On behalf of the House, I should Lord Tyler (LD): My Lords, some months before like to thank the noble Lord for his much-valued the last general election, I completed a questionnaire— service to the House. perhaps designed by the noble Lord, Lord Hayward— from the Conservative Party.I completed it very correctly, but as a result I kept receiving missives directed to Leave of Absence “Mr Lord Other”. Not a problem—but what I think might be a problem, on which the noble Baroness 11.06 am might like to comment, is how much it has cost already to undertake to respond to this extraordinary The Lord Speaker (Baroness D’Souza): May I also Question. I was going to say “ridiculous Question”, take the opportunity to inform the House that I will be but perhaps that is going too far. How much is the attending the national service of thanksgiving to celebrate exercise that she has now described going to cost? It the 90th birthday of Her Majesty the Queen at St Paul’s seems to me really rather reactionary. Cathedral tomorrow when the House will be sitting? Accordingly, I trust that the House will grant me leave of absence. Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen: I thank the noble Lord for that question. I do not think that it will cost anything. This is available at the moment; it is just that Government Websites: Titles each department can choose what it wants to do. It is Question not up to the Minister for the Cabinet Office to tell departments how to design their websites. There is no 11.06 am specific field for this, but, as I said, you can already put it in the space for surnames; you can add your Asked by Lord Hayward honorifics to that space. To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will take steps to allow people to include honours in Lord Wright of Richmond (CB): Remembering from titles when completing forms on government websites. a past existence the occasional experience of addressing envelopes to Lord Mountbatten of Burma, should Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (Con): My Lords, departments perhaps be advised to limit the number this is a matter for individual departments, which are of awards that they give to each person? responsible for determining the level of information required for their online forms. However, my right Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen: I can certainly take honourable friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office that back to the department. has asked officials in the Government Digital Service to look into the feasibility of the proposal. I will write to my noble friend with the outcome of the review on Lord Elton (Con): My Lords, can my noble friend completion. give me guidance? When I write to people similarly loaded with decorations, at what point in the catalogue does one simply put “et cetera”? Lord Hayward (Con): I thank my noble friend for that very helpful Answer. Given that in two days’ time the Queen will announce the birthday honours, granting Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen: I thank my noble recognition to many people who have dedicated their friend for that question. I do not think that one should lives to society at large and the community, or showed ever put “et cetera”. One should just keep on adding gallantry in the face of the enemy, it seems unfortunate them, because no one honour is better than the other, that up to now—I note my noble friend’s Answer— so it is right that one should put every single honour, government departments have not provided an appropriate one after the other. 817 Government Websites: Titles [LORDS] Learning Disabilities 818 Lord Geddes (Con): I am sure that I am not the only Lord Prior of Brampton: My Lords, progress since Member of your Lordships’ House who has had trouble the horrendous events at Winterbourne View some with websites, be they government or not, regarding five years ago has not been as fast as we would like. both titles and honours. Will my noble friend encourage Under the Building the Right Support programme, all departments to form a joined-up Government in NHS England is putting in an extra £30 million, which this respect? will be