Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 25 Jun 2018
Legislation: Gendered Pronouns
"My Lords, while we are talking of nomenclature, is there anything the Government can do to discourage the growing and irritating replacement of the relative pronoun “which” by the demonstrative adjective “that”? How can we get back to using “which” when we mean it without having so many “thats” all …..."Lord Pearson of Rannoch - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 20th June 2018
Asked by:
Lord Pearson of Rannoch (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of suicides since 2000 of separated fathers compared to those of separated mothers.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply and I will place the response in the Library of both houses.
Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to The Lord Pearson of Rannoch, dated 15 June 2018.
Dear Lord Pearson,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking about the number of suicides since 2000 of separated fathers compared to those of separated mothers (HL8615).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes suicide rates for the UK, constituent countries, regions and local authorities in England and Wales in an annual bulletin[1].
The information we hold on deaths is limited to what is recorded on the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death by a doctor, provided to the registrar by the informant at the time of death registration, or recorded by a coroner following their inquest into the cause and circumstances of the death. We can provide the number of suicides per year by legal marital status, but we have no available information on whether the deceased was (a) separated at the time of death, that is, living apart from their partner; or (b) was a father or mother.
Table 1 attached provides the numbers and crude rates per 100,00 persons of deaths due to suicide, by sex, for each year between 2000 and 2016 in England and Wales. The rates are broken down by marital status recorded at death. A copy has been placed in the House of Lords Library.
Yours sincerely,
John Pullinger
[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2016registrations
Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 28 Mar 2018
Vote Leave Campaign
"My Lords, can the Electoral Commission take into account the £9 million spent by the Government on the pamphlet which went to every household in the land urging our people to vote to remain in the European Union? Surely that was in effect part of the referendum campaign, was it …..."Lord Pearson of Rannoch - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 13 Mar 2018
Child Sexual Exploitation: Grooming Gangs
"To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the national scale of the “grooming gang scandal”, including sexual exploitation of non-Muslim children by Muslim men, as emerged recently in Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford and elsewhere; and what steps they are taking to enable the prosecution of those in …..."Lord Pearson of Rannoch - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 13 Mar 2018
Child Sexual Exploitation: Grooming Gangs
"My Lords, I fear that reply is shamefully inadequate, because these girls are usually raped several times a day. If we accept the views of our lead police officer for child protection, of Rotherham’s MP and of the recent Jay and Quilliam reports, we are looking at millions of rapes …..."Lord Pearson of Rannoch - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 29 Mar 2017
Electoral Fraud
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 29 Mar 2017
Electoral Fraud
"My Lords, does the Minister agree that our first past the post system in local and national elections ensures that their results are democratically fraudulent?..."Lord Pearson of Rannoch - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Jan 2017
Electoral Fraud
"My Lords, did not the Pickles report find that election fraud had been particularly evident in our Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities, where cases have been ignored because of,
“over-sensitivities about ethnicity and religion”?
What can the Government do to stop that in future?..."Lord Pearson of Rannoch - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 16th December 2015
Asked by:
Lord Pearson of Rannoch (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bridges of Headley on 10 June (HL56), whether they will provide updated statistics for the tables entitled <i>Growth in the UK Muslim Population</i>, to show the most recent figures available.
Answered by Lord Bridges of Headley
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 30 Nov 2015
House of Commons: Ministers
"My Lords, does the Minister agree that the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, really has quite a nerve in asking this Question, because the most obvious abuse of influence over the House of Commons is the Liberal Democrats’ massive overrepresentation in this House, which they can use to defeat …..."Lord Pearson of Rannoch - View Speech
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