Mr Andrew Dismore

Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Amendment) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 March 2010

A Bill to amend the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985; and for connected purposes.

Video Recordings (Exemption from Classification) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 January 2010

A Bill to extend the criteria under which music and sports video works and documentaries lose their exemption from classification.

Torture (Damages) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 January 2010

A Bill to make provision for actions for damages for torture; and for connected purposes.

Sheltered Accommodation (Residents) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 January 2010

A Bill to make provision for residents in sheltered accommodation to challenge certain local authority budget decisions which affect them; to ensure that funding provided by central government to local authorities for sheltered accommodation warden services is not allocated to other services; and for connected purposes.

Land Use (Gardens Protection Etc.) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 January 2010

A Bill to make provision for the protection of gardens and urban green spaces; and for connected purposes.

Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition of Sale) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 January 2010

A Bill to prohibit the sale in the United Kingdom of timber and wood products that were obtained or produced illegally in their country of origin; and for connected purposes.

Human Rights Act 1998 (Meaning of Public Authority) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 January 2010

A Bill to clarify the meaning of 'public authority' in section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Employers' Liability Insurance Bureau Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 January 2010

A Bill to make provision for the creation of an employers' liability insurance bureau comprising an electronic database and a fund of last resort; to make provision about employers' liability insurance; and for connected purposes.

Damages (Asbestos-Related Conditions) (No. 2) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 January 2010

A Bill to provide that certain asbestos-related conditions are actionable personal injuries; and for connected purposes

British Museum Act 1963 (Amendment) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 January 2010

A Bill to amend the British Museum Act 1963 to permit the transfer of artefacts in the British Museum; to confer powers on the Secretary of State to require the transfer of artefacts in specified circumstances; and for connected purposes.

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 January 2010

A Bill to introduce a national day to learn about and remember the Armenian genocide.

Home Repossession (Protection) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 February 2009

A Bill to amend the Law of Property Act 1925 to require a mortgagee to obtain the court’s permission before exercising the power of sale, where the mortgaged land consists of or includes a dwelling-house; to make certain powers available to the court in actions by mortgagees for possession of a dwelling-house; and for connected purposes.

Torture (Damages) (No. 2) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 January 2009

A Bill to make provision for actions for damages for torture; and for connected purposes

Pharmaceutical Labelling (Warning Of Cognitive Function Impairment) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 January 2009

A Bill to make provision for a warning symbol to be prominently displayed on the packaging of pharmaceuticals which act on the brain and central nervous system so as to impair dangerously the consumer’s ability to carry out certainactivities; and for connected purposes.

Land Use (Gardens Protection Etc) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 January 2009

A Bill to make provision for the protection of gardens and urban green spaces; and for connected purposes

Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition Of Sale) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 January 2009

A Bill to prohibit the sale in the United Kingdom of timber and wood products that were obtained or produced illegally in their country of origin; and for connected purposes

Human Rights Act 1998 (Meaning Of Public Authority) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 January 2009

A Bill to clarify the meaning of ‘public authority’ in section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects)

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 January 2009

A Bill to provide for the transfer from public museum and gallery collections of arts, artefacts and other objects stolen between 1933 and 1945 by or on behalf of the Nazi regime, its members and sympathisers; to provide for the return of such artefacts and objects to the lawful owners, their heirs and successors; and for connected purposes.

Employers’ Liability Insurance Bureau Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 January 2009

A Bill to make provision for the creation of an employers’ liability insurance bureau comprising an electronic database and a fund of last resort; to make provision about employers’ liability insurance; and for connected purposes

Damages (Asbestos-Related Conditions) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 January 2009

A Bill to provide that certain asbestos-related conditions are actionable personal injuries; and for connected purposes

Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 January 2009

A Bill to make provision for and in connection with the removal of general restrictions as to nationality which apply to persons employed or holding office in any civil capacity under the Crown; and for connected purposes

British Museum Act 1963 (Amendment) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 January 2009

A Bill to amend the British Museum Act 1963 to permit the transfer of artefacts in the British Museum; to confer powers on the Secretary of State to require the transfer of artefacts in specified circumstances; and for connected purposes

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 January 2009

A Bill to introduce a national day to learn about and remember the Armenian genocide

Torture (Damages) Bill [HL]

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 February 2008

A Bill to make provision for actions for damages for torture; and for connected purposes.

Human Rights Act 1998 (Meaning of Public Function) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 December 2007

A Bill to clarify the meaning of 'public function' in section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998

Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2007

Human Rights Act 1998 (Meaning of Public Authority) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2007

Clarify the meaning of “public authority” in section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 December 2006

Make provision for and in connection with the removal of general restrictions as to nationality which apply to persons employed or holding office in any civil capacity under the Crown; and for connected purposes.

ELECTIONS FOR TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2003

That this House congratulates the opposition parties led by Mehmet Ali Talat, Mustafa Akinci, Izzet Izcan and Ali Erel on their success in the elections for the Parliament of the unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus; notes that despite the widespread intimidation, bribery, rigging of the electoral register and a bias of state broadcasting by its illegal Denktash regime, the two main opposition parties still secured 50 per cent. of the seats and a majority of the popular vote in favour of their policies for a settlement based on the Annan plan and EU entry as a united island; expects that this will maintain their vital unity round their common election protocol; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to do all it can to support their efforts towards a solution to enable Cyprus to join the EU in May 2004 as a reunited island after 30 years of illegal Turkish occupation.

CYPRUS (No. 2)

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 December 2001

That this House welcomes the restart of talks in January towards a comprehensive Cyprus settlement; hopes that they prove successful in taking the whole island into the European Union in 2004; regrets optimism following the meeting of leaders of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities on 4th December is not reflected in the treatment of the Turkish Cypriots within their own community; notes the case of Ms Nilgun Orhon, a teacher in Famagusta who was sacked because she wrote an article in Avrupa calling Turkey 'an occupying force in North Cyprus', leading to clashes between teachers and police; notes that teachers who took school students to the Children's Olympics in Greece last summer have been accused of leaving the country illegally; notes that Avrupa newspaper has closed, after bailiffs removed its computers and furniture on 13th December, its journalists were arrested in July 2000 as 'Greek spies' to appear in court in January 2002 and two fire bomb attacks were made on its print works, on 27 November 2000 and 24th May 2001; notes that Volcan, a local newspaper, issued a list of Turkish Cypriots accused of being traitors by UHH; and urges Her Majesty's Government to ensure that Turkish Cypriot voices are head, that Turkey understands that it is in the interests of Turkey, of the two communities on the island, that human rights, freedom of speech and of the press are encouraged and respected in occupied Northern Cyprus.

CYPRUS

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000

That this House fears that the situation in northern Cyprus is becoming more dangerous, at a time when a solution and accession to the European Union is being discussed; notes that at 2 a.m. on 27th November, the printing works where the newspaper Avrupa is printed, was attacked with Molotov cocktails; notes this follows the arrest last July of the editor Shener Levent, trials of Turkish Cypriot politicians who have had articles published arguing for disengagement of the Turkish army from Turkish Cypriot civilian life and for a federal solution to Cyprus in Europe, and demonstrations and strikes since July about the economic situation in the unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus; notes that on 20th November the civilian trials against Izzet Izcan and Ozker Ozgur of the Patriotic Unity Movement, which have been postponed repeatedly since May, were suspended but may be reactivated at any time; notes this follows attacks in the late 1980s on political party offices, and the murder of Kutlu Adaly, a journalist, in 1996; is concerned that events this year in the north of Cyprus, in response to demonstrations, conflict with European ideas of human rights, freedom of speech and democracy and believes that the people who live there feel that their voices and interests are not being heard in the international discussions taking place on the future of the island; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to make urgent representations to Turkey to institute a full independent investigation with international observers of these abuses of human rights and press freedom.

CYPRUS (No. 5)

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 November 2000

That this House fears that the situation in northern Cyprus is becoming more dangerous, at a time when a solution and accession to the European Union is being discussed; notes that at 2 a.m. on 27 November, the printing works where the newspaper Avrupa is printed, was attached with Molotov cocktails; notes this follows the arrest last July of the editor Shener Levent, trials of Turkish Cypriot politicians who have had articles published arguing for disengagement of the Turkish army from Turkish Cypriot civilian life and for a federal solution to Cyprus in Europe, and demonstrations and strikes since July about the economic situation in the unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus; notes that on 20 November the civilian trials against Izzet Izcan and Ozker Ozgur of the Patriotic Unity Movement, which have been postponed repeatedly since May, were suspended but may be reactivated at any time; notes this follows attacks in the late 1980s on political party offices, and the murder of Kutlu Adaly, a journalist, in 1996; is concerned that events this year in the north of Cyprus, in response to demonstrations conflict with European ideas of human rights, freedom of speech and democracy and believes that the people who live there feel that their voices and interests are not being heard in the international discussions taking place on the future of the island; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to make urgent representations to Turkey to institute a full independent investigation with international observers of these abuses of human rights and press freedom.

CYPRUS (No. 2)

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2000

That this House welcomes the United Nations-sponsored talks in Geneva on 24th July to 4th August, and in New York from 12th September to early October; welcomes the opportunity that Greek and Turkish Cypriots have taken to establish meetings between civil society groups on the island; is alarmed by reports of intervention by the Turkish military commander on the island in the April elections for the unrecognised regime in Northern Cyprus; condemns the arrests and legal action taken against Turkish opposition politicians and journalists, including Sener Levent, the Editor of the Avrupa (Europe) newspaper, accused of spying for Greek Cypriots, and Ozker Ozgur of the Patriotic Unity Movement and a former Deputy Prime Minister of the unrecognised North Cyprus regime who is charged with sedition and whose trial is to commence on 24th July; recognises the historic nature of the event on 18th July when 10,000 Turkish Cypriots gathered in North Nicosia to demand that Turkey gives us back our country; in support of Mr Levent; and urges all three guarantor powers to support those on the island working for a peaceful outcome, based on a bi-zonal, bi-communal solution in accordance with United Nations resolutions in the interests of both communities on the island.

LONDON MARATHON (No. 2)

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 April 2000

That this House offers its warmest congratulations to the organisers of the 2000 London Marathon; notes that the London Marathon is now widely regarded as the best international marathon attracting a world-class field of international athletes; notes that the London Marathon has become one of the largest mass participation sporting events in the world and one of the most popular spectator events in the sporting calendar; records its thanks to the field of more than 30,000 participants who hope to raise between ú15 million and ú20 million pounds for charity, making the London Marathon one of the largest charitable fund-raising events in the country; notes also that the trading surpluses of the London Marathon Ltd are distributed through the London Marathon Charitable Trust Ltd which has now contributed over ú7 million to community sports and recreational facilities in London; and looks forward to the 21st Anniversary London Marathon due to be run in 2001.