| No. 13 |
MONDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 1996 |
323 |
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ORDER PAPER |
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* Indicates a Question for Oral Answer
Questions marked thus [R] indicate that a relevant registered interest has been declared
QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs relating to Overseas Development will begin not later than 3.20 p.m.
Questions to the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission will begin not later than 3.10 p.m.
Questions to the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, will start not later than 3.10 p.m.
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Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what study he has made of the impact upon United Kingdom competitiveness of entry into a single currency; and if he will make a statement. |
| 1296 |
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Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, on what Government committees he currently sits. |
| 1298 |
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Mr Anthony Steen (South Hams): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many statistical forms and surveys will be abolished as a result of the Government's deregulation initiative. |
| [R]1299 |
| *4 |
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the progress of the Skills Audit. |
| 1300 |
| *5 |
Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what proportion of public budgets are currently administered by non-departmental public bodies. |
| 1301 |
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Mr Harry Greenway (Ealing North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many staff are currently employed in his office and at what cost; and if he will make a statement. |
| 1303 |
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Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans he has to increase the representation of small businesses on the Deregulation Task Force. |
| 1304 |
| *8 |
Mr Tony Banks (Newham North West): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what actions he is taking to promote greater openness in central government. |
| 1305 |
| *9 |
Mr Simon Hughes (Southwark and Bermondsey): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what responsibility he has for the co-ordination and presentation of Government policy on standards in public life. |
| 1307 |
| *10 |
Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will list the occasions on which he has met Mr Ian Greer to discuss the presentation of Government policy. |
| 1308 |
| *11 |
Mr Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the effects of the Government's deregulation policies on safety at work. |
| 1310 |
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Mr John Wilkinson (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will list the EU directives and regulations implemented in parliamentary session 1995--96 which have contributed to a diminution of the regulatory burdens of small businesses in Britain. |
| 1311 |
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Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what discussions he has had with other Ministers regarding deregulation. |
| 1312 |
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Mr Jon Owen Jones (Cardiff Central): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what representations he has received relating to Government policy on the late payment of debts. |
| 1313 |
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Mr Brian David Jenkins (South East Staffordshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what has been the change since 1992 in the proportion of public budgets administered by non-departmental public bodies. |
| 1314 |
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Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on non-departmental public bodies. |
| 1315 |
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Mr John Evans (St Helens North): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people are currently employed in the Civil Service. |
| 1317 |
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Mr Nick Ainger (Pembroke): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the presentation of Government policy with particular reference to the impact of late payment of debt on British companies' competitiveness. |
| 1318 |
| *19 |
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what new initiatives he plans to take to increase the openness of central government. |
| 1319 |
| *20 |
Mr William O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will make a statement on the responses received to the consultation paper published by his Department on Propriety and Accountability issues in Public Bodies. |
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Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on his role in coordinating Government policies. |
| 1324 |
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Mr George Foulkes (Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people are currently employed in the Civil Service. |
| 1325 |
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs relating to Overseas Development will begin not later than 3.20 p.m.
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Mr Nick Ainger (Pembroke): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department has given to Pakistan in the last two financial years. |
| 1326 |
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Mr William O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance Her Majesty's Government has provided to encourage employers in developing countries which export food and goods to the United Kingdom to pay wages at levels which would help to eradicate poverty; and if he will make a statement. |
| 1328 |
| *25 |
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans the Government has to send emergency aid to Zaire. |
| 1330 |
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Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to raise the proportion of Britain's gross domestic product allocated to overseas aid. |
| 1331 |
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Mr Jim Callaghan (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what actions he is planning to take in response to the current humanitarian crisis in eastern Zaire; and if he will make a statement. |
| 1332 |
| *28 |
Mr Brian David Jenkins (South East Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with development non governmental organisations regarding the forthcoming World Food Summit; and if he will make a statement. |
| 1333 |
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Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent proposals he has made to eliminate child labour in developing countries. |
| 1334 |
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Mr Hugh Bayley (York): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, who will represent the United Kingdom at The World Food Summit in Rome. |
| 1335 |
Questions to the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission will begin not later than 3.10 p.m.
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Mr John Marshall (Hendon South): To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, how many accountants are employed by the National Audit Office. |
| 1336 |
Questions to the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, will start not later than 3.10 p.m.
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Mr Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what is his current assessment of the value of the Church's investments. |
| 1337 |
| *33 |
Mr Anthony Steen (South Hams): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment he has made of the impact of the losses made by the Church Commissioners on property investment between 1989 and 1992 on the salaries of the clergy. |
| [R]1338 |
| *34 |
Mr Harry Greenway (Ealing North): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what estimate he has made of the number of clergy who will leave the Church of England on the issue of the ordination of women priests; and what estimate he has made of the costs. |
| 1339 |
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Mr Tony Banks (Newham North West): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, how much compensation the commissioners expect to be paid to clergy leaving the Church due to the ordination of women priests. |
| 1340 |
ORDERS OF THE DAY AND NOTICES OF MOTIONS
Those marked thus * are Government Orders of the Day
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EDUCATION BILL: Second Reading. |
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Mr Tony Blair
Mr John Prescott
Mr David Blunkett
Mr Peter Kilfoyle
Mr Bryan Davies
Estelle Morris
That this House believes that the Education Bill is not an acceptable and effective measure unless it focuses on clauses related to the improvement of discipline, baseline assessment and targets in schools, the regulation of supply teachers, inspection of local education authorities, careers guidance and the merger of the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority and the National Council for Vocational Qualifications; adds clauses to reduce infant class sizes to a maximum of 30, to introduce a General Teaching Council to promote and regulate the teaching profession and to establish the means to ensure that every 11 year old without a special educational need reaches level 4 in national reading tests; and removes those divisive proposals which reduce parental choice, extend the taxpayers' subsidy of private schools and undermine the efficient planning of school places. |
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Mr Paddy Ashdown
Mr A. J. Beith
Mr Don Foster
Mr Alex Carlile
Mr David Rendel
Mr Archy Kirkwood
That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Education Bill which will increase a selective system where there is a more exclusive education for the few and an inferior education for the majority; promotes the failing, divisive, two-tier policy of grant maintained status; will require the expansion of the similarly divisive Assisted Places Scheme; fails to replace the bureaucratic nursery voucher scheme with measures to introduce high quality early years education for all three and four year olds whose parents want it; and fails to address the need for increased investment in education and the introduction of measures to raise achievement for all. |
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Mr Tony Blair
Mr John Prescott
Mr David Blunkett
Mr Peter Kilfoyle
Mr Bryan Davies
Estelle Morris
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| After Second Reading of the Education Bill, to move, That the Bill be committed to a Special Standing Committee. |
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EDUCATION BILL [MONEY]: Queen's Recommendation signified. |
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Mr Michael Jack
That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Education Bill, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of--
(a) any sums required by the Secretary of State for the payment of grants under the Act;
(b) any administrative expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in consequence of the Act; and
(c) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums so payable under any other Act.
To be decided forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 50A(1)(a).
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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION |
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Mr Andrew MacKay
That Mr Phil Gallie and Dr Ian Twinn be appointed to the Public Accounts Commission in place of Sir Peter Hordern and Sir Thomas Arnold, under the National Audit Act 1983.
The Speaker will put the Question necessary to dispose of proceedings on the above Motion not later than one and a half hours after their commencement, pursuant to Standing Order No. 14B(1).
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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS |
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Mr Andrew MacKay
That Ms Angela Eagle be discharged from the Committee of Public Accounts and Mr Gerry Sutcliffe be added to the Committee.
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EUROPEAN LEGISLATION |
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Mr Andrew MacKay
That Mr Kevin Hughes be discharged from the Select Committee on European Legislation and Mr John McAllion be added to the Committee.
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NORTHERN IRELAND AFFAIRS |
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Sir Fergus Montgomery, on behalf of the Committee of Selection
That Mr Thomas McAvoy be discharged from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee and Dr Norman A. Godman be added to the Committee.
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TREASURY |
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Sir Fergus Montgomery, on behalf of the Committee of Selection
That Mr Clive Betts be discharged from the Treasury Committee and Mr Ian Pearson be added to the Committee.
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| On the Motion for the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9 Maria Fyfe proposes to raise the subject of health boards and inappropriate treatment by dentists in Scotland. |
| COMMITTEES |
| SELECT COMMITTEES |
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Information |
4.30 p.m. |
Room 13 (private) |
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Public Accounts |
4.30 p.m. |
Room 8 (public) |
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Subject: The work of the Directors General of Telecommunications, Gas Supply, Water Services and Electricity Supply
Witnesses: Professor Stephen C. Littechild, Director General of Electricity Supply, Office of Electricity Regulation (OFFER); Mr C. Peter Carter, Depty Director General, OFFER; Mr Anthony J. Boorman, Director, Supply Competition, OFFER; Ms Clare Spottiswoode, Director General, Office of Gas Supply (OFGAS) (at 5.30 p.m.) |
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Standards and Privileges |
4.30 p.m. |
Room 15 (private) |
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5.00 p.m. |
(public) |
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Subject: Matter of privilege referred on 16th October
Witnesses: Rt hon Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith, MP; Mr David Willetts, MP |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]
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