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Appendix 2: List of titles submitted

The proposals we received were published online on 17 November 2020. These are available at https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/3467/documents/33585/default. The titles of the proposals are listed below.

Remaining proposals submitted in March 2020:

  • Abortion in the UK (Baroness Tonge and Baroness Barker)
  • Children’s wellbeing (Bishop of Durham)
  • COVID-19 and prevention in public health (Baroness Greengross)
  • Disabled people and work (Baroness Thomas of Winchester and Baroness Campbell of Surbiton)
  • Genome editing (Lord Harries of Pentregarth)
  • Improving foreign language learning in the UK (Bishop of Leeds)
  • Land use framework in England–the case for it (Earl of Caithness)
  • Live facial recognition technology (Lord Clement-Jones)
  • National Identity Cards (Lord Campbell-Savours)
  • New home communal assets and rentcharges (Earl of Lytton)
  • Reversing Beeching–the case for reopening closed railway lines and stations (Lord Faulkner of Worcester and Lord Shutt of Greetland)
  • Social care (Bishop of Carlisle)
  • The problem of “marriages” that are not marriages (Baroness Cox)
  • The role and importance of horticulture to the economy, health and wellbeing, and climate change (Baroness Fookes)
  • UK’s role in expanding global media freedom (Lord Black of Brentwood)
  • These Islands (Lord Soley)
  • To investigate the “Crisis of replication” in science and ways of assuring the quality of scientific studies on which public policy is based (Lord Lilley)
  • The adequacy and resilience of the Government’s plans to deliver net zero carbon emissions by 2050 (Lord Browne of Ladyton)24
  • Wellbeing as the guide to policy (Lord O’Donnell and Lord Layard)

Proposals submitted in October 2020

  • Alcohol and society in the UK (Baroness Finlay of Llandaff)
  • Examination of the modalities of the UK staying in the EU (Lord Dykes)
  • International Role for the UK post-Brexit (Baroness D’Souza)
  • Live facial recognition technology (Lord Clement-Jones)
  • Development of an identity system (Lord Blunkett)
  • Devolution and Coronavirus (Lord Lipsey)
  • Ethical Trade Post-Brexit: How to Uphold the UK’s International Obligations (Lord Bishop of St Albans)
  • Future of the High Street (Lord Puttnam)25
  • Globalisation and Biosecurity–risks and benefits for animal, plant and environmental health (Lord Trees and Lord Blencathra)
  • COVID-19 and prevention in public health (Baroness Greengross)
  • Genocide determination conducive to triggering HMG’s duties under the UN
  • Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Lord Alton of Liverpool)–revised proposal
  • Protecting the wellbeing of future generations (Lord Bird)
  • Should there be more devolution in England? (Lord Dubs)
  • The world of work–COVID and beyond (Baroness Blower and Lord Hendy)
  • Youth unemployment (Lord Baker of Dorking)

24 Lord Browne of Ladyton’s proposal was withdrawn.

25 Lord’s Puttnam’s proposal was withdrawn.



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