| No. 50 |
MONDAY 27TH JANUARY 1997 |
1509 |
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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 3.05 p.m.
Questions to the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission will begin not later than 3.20 p.m.
Questions to the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, will start not later than 3.25 p.m.
| *1 |
Mr John Wilkinson (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans he has to visit the European Commission in Brussels during the current Parliament to discuss deregulation in business. |
| 11110 |
| *2 |
Mr Ian Bruce (Dorset South): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the progress of his Department's initiatives to use information technology within Government departments and to disseminate information to the general public. |
| 11111 |
| *3 |
Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on his role in the co-ordination and presentation of Government policy in respect of the replacement for the Royal Yacht. |
| 11112 |
| *4 |
Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes (Wimbledon): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what consultations he has had recently as Chair of the Local Government Cabinet Committee in respect of the role of local government. |
| 11114 |
| *5 |
Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he last met the Prime Minister to discuss the co-ordination and presentation of Government policy. |
| 11115 |
| *6 |
Sir Teddy Taylor (Southend East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will review the co-ordination of Government departments in respect of the provision of information on Government policy on the European Union. |
| 11116 |
| *7 |
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many meetings he has had with his Cabinet colleages and civil servants since October to discuss the presentation of Government policy. |
| 11117 |
| *8 |
Mr Hugh Dykes (Harrow East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on his Department's role in co-ordinating Her Majesty's Government's economic and social policies. |
| 11119 |
| *9 |
Mr Nick Raynsford (Greenwich): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the progress of the Millennium Exhibition project at Greenwich. |
| 11120 |
| *10 |
Mr John Hutton (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the role of civil servants in the co-ordination and presentation of Government policy. |
| 11122 |
| *11 |
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what new initiatives he intends to take with regard to the presentation of government policy. |
| 11123 |
| *12 |
Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many times the Cabinet Committee on the Co-ordination and Presentation of Government Policy meets each week. |
| 11124 |
| *13 |
Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he last met Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer to discuss the co-ordination and presentation of Government policies relating to VAT. |
| 11125 |
| *14 |
Mr Peter Thurnham (Bolton North East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what recent representations he has received on the appointment of new magistrates in Bolton and their working conditions. |
| 11126 |
| *15 |
Mr John Gunnell (Morley and Leeds South): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many political advisers are attached to his Office; and what services they carry out in relation to identifying supporters of Government policy. |
| 11127 |
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Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what recent representations he has received concerning the impartiality of civil servants. |
| 11128 |
| *17 |
Mr Simon Hughes (Southwark and Bermondsey): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many people are employed in his Department to assist with the co-ordination of Government policy. |
| 11130 |
| *18 |
Mr Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the role played by civil servants in the co-ordination and presentation of Government policy. |
| 11131 |
| *19 |
Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what are his main targets for deregulation during the lifetime of the Parliament. |
| 11133 |
| *20 |
Mr David Jamieson (Plymouth, Devonport): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement regarding the recommendation he has received from the Deregulation Task Force regarding safety of young people. |
| 11134 |
| *21 |
Mr Rhodri Morgan (Cardiff West): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a progress report on the provision of appropriate (a) public and (b) private funding of the Millennium Exhibition. |
| 11135 |
| *22 |
Mr Anthony Steen (South Hams): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what further deregulatory measures he plans during the next three months, in respect of UK legislation and EU regulations. |
| 11136 |
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs relating to Overseas Development will begin not later than 3.05 p.m.
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Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much assistance was given to Cyprus in 1996. |
| 11138 |
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Mr Nigel Spearing (Newham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what further assessment he has made of the effects of conditions attached to aid from (a) the World Bank and (b) other sources, on the causes of the civil war in Rwanda. |
| 11139 |
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Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent measures he has taken to help countries counter desertification. |
| 11140 |
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Mr Win Griffiths (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what additional assistance has been provided in the last year to help Tanzania cope with the influx of refugees from Rwanda and Burundi. |
| 11141 |
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Mr Stephen Timms (Newham North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much of his Department's bilateral and multilateral budget was allocated to the Great Lakes area of Africa in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. |
| 11142 |
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Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received since the Budget regarding the level of aid projected for 1997-98. |
| 11143 |
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Mr Harry Greenway (Ealing North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department is giving to (a) school and (b) higher education schemes for Angola; and if he will make a statement. |
| 11144 |
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Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cirencester and Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what contribution the Government is making towards population and reproductive health projects for the refugees in Rwanda and Burundi. |
| 11145 |
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Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what further measures his Department proposes to assist the development of those central European countries who are applicants for EU membership. |
| 11146 |
| *32 |
Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what consultations he has had recently in the Medical Research Council about anti-malarial injections. |
| 11147 |
Questions to the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission will begin not later than 3.20 p.m.
| *33 |
Mr Anthony Steen (South Hams): To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, how many staff without professional qualification are employed by the National Audit Office. |
| 11148 |
Questions to the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, will start not later than 3.25 p.m.
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Mr Michael Brown (Brigg and Cleethorpes): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, if he will estimate the costs of disestablishing the Church of England. |
| 11149 |
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Mr Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what new proposals he has to improve the transparency of church funds. |
| 11150 |
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Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what was the financial provision for the Church Commission on poverty in the last available year. |
| 11151 |
| *37 |
Mr Tony Banks (Newham North West): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what acreage of land owned by the Commissioners is covered by set-aside arrangements. |
| 11152 |
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Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cirencester and Tewkesbury): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Church Commissioners have made of the relationship between the contributions made by retired clergy during their working ministership and the level of pension they are now receiving. |
| 11153 |
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Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what representations the Commissioners have made to their bankers to practise ethical investments. |
| 11154 |
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Mr Harry Greenway (Ealing North): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, pursuant to his Answer of 9th December, Official Report, column 55, if he will make a statement on the progress of the Commissioners' review of advice to dioceses on security measures for parsonage homes and suffragan bishops' homes. |
| 11155 |
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Mr Bernard Jenkin (Colchester North): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what is the value of episcopal residences owned by the Church Commissioners; and what these figures represent as a proportion of the Commissioners' total assets. |
| 11156 |
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Mr William O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the Right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what action he has taken regarding the recommendations arising from the Archbishops Commission set up in 1994; and if he will make a statement. |
| 11157 |
AT TEN O'CLOCK
Notice of Motion
The Prime Minister
Business of the House:That, at this day's sitting, the Education Bill may be proceeded with, though opposed, until any hour.
To be moved after the interruption of business at Ten o'clock and to be decided forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 14.
ORDERS OF THE DAY AND NOTICES OF MOTIONS
Those marked thus * are Government Orders of the Day
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SEX OFFENDERS BILL: Second Reading. |
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EDUCATION BILL: As amended (in the Standing Committee), to be considered. |
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Mrs Secretary Shephard
That the Education Bill, as amended, be considered in the following order, namely, New Clauses 3 and 4, New Clauses 8 to 11, New Clauses 1 and 2, New Clauses 12 and 13, other New Clauses, amendments relating to Clause 1, Schedule 1, Clauses 2 to 12, Schedule 2, Clauses 13 to 24, Schedule 3, Clauses 25 to 28, Schedule 4, Clauses 29 and 30, Schedule 5, Clauses 31 to 36, Schedule 6, Clauses 37 to 42, Schedule 7, Clauses 43 to 57, Schedule 8, Clauses 58 to 71, Schedules 9 and 10, Clause 72, new Schedules. For Amendments, see separate Paper.
Remaining stages may also be taken. | | *3 |
FLOOD PREVENTION AND LAND DRAINAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL: Second Reading. |
| Mr Tony Newton
Mr Secretary Forsyth On the Order for the Second Reading of the Flood Prevention and Land Drainage (Scotland) Bill being read, to move, That the Bill be committed to a Scottish Standing Committee.
To be decided forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No.4E(5). |
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FLOOD PREVENTION AND LAND DRAINAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL [MONEY]: Queen's Recommendation signified. |
| Mr Michael Jack
That for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Flood Prevention and Land Drainage (Scotland) Bill, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other enactment.
To be decided forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No.50A(1)(a).
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Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew
That the draft Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, which was laid before this House on 4th December, be approved.
To be decided forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 101(6). |
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BROADCASTING |
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Mrs Secretary Bottomley
That the draft Broadcasting (Sign Language) Order 1996, which was laid before this House on 10th December, be approved.
To be decided forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 101(6). |
| On the Motion for the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9 Mr John Denham proposes to raise the subject of pre-cast reinforced concrete homes in Southampton. |
| COMMITTEES |
| SELECT COMMITTEES |
| 1 |
Public Accounts |
4.30 p.m. |
Room 15 (public) |
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Subject: Ministry of Defence: The Financial Management of the Military Operation in the Former Yugoslavia.
Witness: Mr Richard Mottram, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence. |
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Health |
4.30 p.m. |
Room 6 (private) |
| 3 |
Standards and Privileges |
7.00 p.m. |
Room 19 (private) |
| JOINT COMMITTEE |
| 4 |
Special Procedure Order |
11.00 a.m. |
Room 4 (public) |
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Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley (Oakwell Regeneration Area) Compulsory Purchase Order 1994. |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]
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