Members of the House of Lords (Peers) are allowed to table up to 7 Oral Questions – for short debate in the main chamber – per parliamentary session. In this session Jenny has tabled the following Oral Questions :
- September 2019 – Nuclear Power Stations
- July 2019 – Carbon Budgets
- May 2019 – Heathrow Airport
- April 2019 – Protestors’ Rights
————————— same session continued but question budget renewed owing to run on
- March 2019 – The use of children as covert human intelligence sources (CHIS)
- February 2019 – Carbon emissions and Farming
- January 2019 – Air Pollution
- December 2018 – Agricultural subsidies and buffer zones
- October 2018 – Roundup – pesticide safety
- September 2018 – Children: Covert human intelligence sources
- July 2018 – House of Lords Reform
————————— previous session
- March 2018 – Police: Undercover officers
- February 2018 – Recycling – Chinese import ban
- January 2018 – Independent environmental enforcement agency
- December 2017 – Domestic Energy Storage
- November 2017 – Use of pesticides – working with the Pesticides Campaign
- October 2017 – the policing of fracking protests – following a visit to Preston New Rd
- June 2017 – Fire safety – following the Grenfell Tower fire
All peers are entitled to contribute to all debates (sometimes this requires getting on the speaker’s list in advance) but the House would quickly tire of someone who insisted on speaking on every topic or every day. There is no chairperson, the House can veto speakers or call for a particular person to take the next turn. The custom is for the political groupings to take turns: Conservative, Crossbench, Labour, Lib Dem , Green
The Scottish National Party choose not to accept peerages and are therefore not represented.
