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Baroness Tonge

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Bill· Private Members' Bill (Starting in the House of Lords)Bill 1792open

Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill [HL]

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 May 2016

A Bill to raise the minimum age of consent to marriage or civil partnership to eighteen; create an offence of causing a person under the age of eighteen to enter into a marriage or civil partnership; and for connected purposes.

Bill· Private Members' Bill (Starting in the House of Lords)Bill 1629open

International Development (Population Dynamics) Bill [HL]

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 June 2015

A Bill to require the Secretary of State to consider, before providing development assistance, its likely impact on population dynamics

Bill· Private Members' Bill (Starting in the House of Lords)Bill 1404open

Abortion Act 1967 (Amendment) Bill [HL]

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 June 2014

A Bill to amend the Abortion Act 1967 to make provision for the termination of pregnancy following certification by one registered medical practitioner.

Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 122open

TUITION FEES

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2000

That this House is shocked that the average graduate debt is ú5,286 and notes that with the impact of the introduction of tuition fees beginning to be felt this seems likely to rise to over ú10,000; further notes that the abolition of tuition fees and the reintroduction of grants in Scotland has significantly eased student poverty in Scotland; and therefore calls on Her Majesty's Government to follow the example of the Scottish Executive and scrap tuition fees.

Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 67open

BLUE PETER MILLENNIUM APPEAL

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2000

That this House supports the Blue Peter Millennium Appeal which aims to turn postage stamps into basic health aid for the Quechua Indians living in the Peruvian Andes; notes that honourable Members receive three to four bags of post per day; and calls on honourable Members to save and send as many stamps as possible to Blue Peter, so that they reach their target of 100,000 envelopes filled with 200 used postage stamps.

Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 943open

SOUTH AFRICA AND THE 2006 WORLD CUP

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 July 2000

That this House regrets the failure of Britain's bid to host the 2006 World Cup; further regrets that South Africa could not benefit from that loss; notes that the World Cup could have provided an increase of $2.44 billion to South Africa's GDP; further notes that this week's World Aids Conference in Durban has found South Africa to have 4.2 million people infected with HIV/AIDS, the highest rate in Africa; is dismayed that this money could have been used to curb the HIV/AIDS emergency; recognises that hosting the World Cup would have had social benefits within South Africa and brought attention to people across the world of the possibilities Africa has to offer; and therefore calls on the international sporting community to ensure that Africa does not miss out again on hosting a major international sporting event.

Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 872open

CHINA WESTERN POVERTY REDUCTION PROJECT

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 June 2000

That this House is deeply concerned that the World Bank intends to support the Qinghai component of the China Western Poverty Reduction Project without releasing the findings of the Independent Inspection Panel's report; notes that this project will resettle 58,000 Chinese farmers to a Tibetan and Mongolian autonomous county of Qinghai province, threatening the region's cultural, social and economic rights; calls on the World Bank to release its report; and further calls on the United Kingdom Government to instruct its Executive Director to vote against this project.

Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 835open

DIAMOND TRADE

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 June 2000

That this House is appalled at the destabilising effect the illicit diamond trade is causing across two-thirds of Africa; welcomes the UK Government's calls for a UN embargo on diamonds from Sierra Leone, but is concerned that further action must be taken in Liberia, the Ivory Coast and Guinea; calls on the Government to support an international, independently verifiable certification system; further calls on the Government to press the EU, UN and G8 to take action on the diamond trading centres of Antwerp, Tel Aviv, Bombay and Dubai for their failure to curtail the trade in conflict diamonds; recognises that a boycott of diamonds would cause significant loss of trade for legitimate African exporters such as Botswana, Namibia and South Africa; and therefore calls on de Beers and all other diamond traders urgently to end the trade in conflict diamonds by supporting a system of independently verifiable certificates of origin and legislation on trade in rough diamonds thus ensuring that those who choose to buy diamonds can be certain they are not unwittingly funding brutal civil wars.

Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 622open

CHLAMYDIA

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 April 2000

That this House is alarmed that Chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually-transmitted infection, affecting as many as 1 in 14 young people; notes that if left untreated it can cause long-term problems in women, such as pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility, and can also cause fertility and arthritic problems for men; is concerned that 70 per cent. of women and 50 per cent. of men who have Chlamydia do not have any symptoms, but is aware that once detected it can be easily cured with antibiotics; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to develop a national programme to improve public awareness and increase detection of this treatable infection.

Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 393open

CONTROL OF 'DATE-RAPE' DRUG GAMMA HYDROXY BUTYRATE (GHB)

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 February 2000

That this House is appalled that there is currently no control over the potentially lethal rape drug gamma hydroxy butyrate; is concerned that estimates show that 30 per cent. of drug rapes are committed using GHB; notes that over 1,000 women have reported drug rape in the United Kingdom; recognises that this figure is undoubtedly higher as the crime of rape is frequently not reported by victims; believes that current monitoring of GHB under the Medicines Control Agency does not prevent rapists from buying the drug over the counter; welcomes the steps taken by the Government last year to outlaw the use of the tranquilliser Rohypnol; and calls on the Government to enforce similar controls on GHB under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 355open

CHILD SOLDIERS

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 February 2000

That this House welcomes the drafting of an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on child soldiers which establishes 18 as the new minimum age for direct participation in hostilities; and calls on the United Kingdom Government to sign and ratify this new international standard as soon as it is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 274open

MORNING-AFTER PILL

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 January 2000

leave out from 'notes' to end and add 'that emergency contraception is not a method of abortion and is a safe and effective method of preventing unwanted pregnancy; further notes that experts on contraception have argued that it can be provided safely and appropriately by pharmacists without a prescription; believes that pharmacists are highly trained and already manage the safe supply to the public of many medical products; recognises the success of the current trial involving 16 pharmacists in the Manchester, Salford and Trafford Health Authority in providing emergency contraception and that 50 more pharmacists have asked to be involved in the scheme; and calls on the Government to expand this programme to a national level.'.