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Order of Business Monday 15th December 1997

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Notes:
* Indicates a question for oral answer.
[R] indicates that the Member has declared a relevant interest.
Questions for oral answer not reached receive a written answer.
Supplementary questions will also be asked. Other Ministers may also answer.

+ Indicates Government business.
Timings are indicative only.
++ These are ordinary written questions of which no previous notice has been given. For other questions for written answer today see the 'Order Book'.


At 2.30 p.m.Prayers
At 2.35 p.m. 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Social Security
*1 Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):    How many lone parents she estimates will be in receipt of income support in each of the next three financial years.
(19057)
*2 Mr Don Touhig (Islwyn):    If she will make a statement on the Government's policy on raising the living standards of pensioners.
(19058)
*3 Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):    What representations she has received on her proposals to assist lone parents to move from welfare into work.
(19059)
*4 Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth):    What assessment she has made of the reasons why pensioners do not claim income support.
(19060)
*5 Fiona Mactaggart (Slough):    If she will visit Slough to examine local welfare to work initiatives.
(19061)
*6 Mr John M. Taylor (Solihull):    If she will make it her policy that lone parents who participate in the New Deal for Lone Parents Scheme will be paid the minimum wage under the scheme.
(19062)
*7 Norman Baker (Lewes):    What assessment she has made of the effect on the poorest 10 per cent. of the population of the withdrawal of lone parent benefit.
(19063)
*8 Caroline Flint (Don Valley):    What plans she has for considering women's issues during the United Kingdom presidency of the European Union.
(19064)
*9 Mr Donald Gorrie (Edinburgh West):    How much money will be saved by the proposed restriction of council tax benefit for those living in properties of higher values in (a) England and Wales and (b) Scotland.
(19065)
*10 Mr Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East and Mexborough):    If she will make a statement on the availability of value for money pensions to those on low incomes.
(19066)
*11 Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):    What estimate she has made of the increase in her Department's spending plans due to the rise in inflation.
(19067)
*12 Ms Claire Ward (Watford):    What is the Government's policy on welfare reform for pensioners.
(19068)
*13 Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North):    How she plans to ensure that Government departments take full account of women's interests.
(19069)
*14 Mr Andrew Rowe (Faversham and Mid Kent):    What representations she has received on the impact of the current rate of inflation on the recipients of means-tested benefits.
(19070)
*15 Mr Bob Blizzard (Waveney):    What progress has been made to improve the operation of the Child Support Agency.
(19071)
*16 Ms Ruth Kelly (Bolton West):    What factors underlay her decision to give priority to (i) childcare, (ii) violence against women and (iii) family-friendly working in allocating departmental resources.
(19072)
*17 Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath):    If she will make a statement on her proposals to help lone parents.
(19073)
*18 Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):    What is her estimate of the extra cost of tying the pension increase for the coming year to earnings rather than prices.
(19074)
*19 Steve Webb (Northavon):    If she will make a statement on the relationship between family credit and the proposed working family tax credit.
(19075)
*20 Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton):    How many cases involving the Child Support Agency have been referred to the Independent Case Examiner; and if she will make a statement.
(19076)
*21 Mr David Rendel (Newbury):    When her departmental spending projections will be amended to take account of the Government's measures to increase take-up of benefits.
(19077)
*22 Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry):    What steps she is taking to publicise the level of rebates available for those opting out of SERPS under recent pension tax changes.
(19078)
*23 Mr Stephen Day (Cheadle):    If she will make a statement on the impact of the proposed reduction in council tax benefit.
(19079)
*24 Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter):    What representations she has received on the application of standard interest rates on those with mortgages and claiming benefits.
(19080)
*25 Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):    What assessment she has made of the impact on the social security budgets for means-tested benefits of the current rate of inflation.
(19081)
*26 Mr Stephen Timms (East Ham):    What plans she has to modernise the distribution mechanisms within the benefits system.
(19082)
*27 Mr David Amess (Southend West):    What recent representations she has received on the level of the basic state pension.
(19083)
*28 Mr John Heppell (Nottingham East):    What estimate she has made of the number of pensioners who are entitled to receive income support but do not claim it.
(19085)
*29 Ann Keen (Brentford and Isleworth):    What plans she has to open up a new dialogue with women.
(19086)
*30 Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):    What contact she has had with women's organisations in Northern Ireland.
(19087)
*31 Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington):    What policy proposals she has for reducing housing benefit payments in the case of inflated rent levels.
(19088)
*32 Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall):    What proportion of people of working age currently receiving disability benefits she plans to assist to move from welfare to work.
(19089)
*33 Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):    What representations she has received from women's groups on the child care provisions announced in the pre-Budget statement.
(19090)
*34 Mr David Hanson (Delyn):    What proposals she has to enable men and women to share pension rights on divorce.
(19091)
*35 Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire):    What representations she has received on her proposals in respect of lone parent benefits.
(19092)
*36 Mr Eric Clarke (Midlothian):    If he will make a statement on the Government's policy on welfare reform for disability benefits.
(19093)
*37 Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold):    If she will make a statement on the provision of state benefits for disabled people.
(19094)
*38 Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West):    What plans she has to use women's juries to consult on policy priority.
(19095)

At 3.30 p.m.Private Notice Questions (if any)
Ministerial Statements (if any)


Main Business
+  1   POLICE (NORTHERN IRELAND) BILL:    Second Reading.    [Until 10.00 p.m.]
Debate may continue until 10.00 p.m.
+  2   POLICE (NORTHERN IRELAND) BILL [MONEY]:    Queen's Recommendation signified.    [No debate]
 Dawn Primarolo
        That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Police (Northern Ireland) Bill, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of--
          (a) any expenses of the Secretary of State under that Act; and
          (b) any increase attributable to that Act in the sums payable out of such money under any other statutory provision.
To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 52(1)(a)).
+  3   ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)    [No debate]
 Mrs Ann Taylor
        That this House, at its rising on Monday 22nd December, do adjourn till Monday 12th January.
To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 25).
+  4   ANIMALS    [No debate]
 Dr John Cunningham
        That the Mink Keeping Order 1997, dated 17th November 1997, a copy of which was laid before this House on 19th November, be approved.
To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
+  5   NORTHERN IRELAND    [No debate]
 Secretary Marjorie Mowlam
        That the draft Museums and Galleries (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, which was laid before this House on 25th November, be approved.
To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
+  6   LEGAL AID AND ADVICE (SCOTLAND)    [No debate]
 Mr Secretary Dewar
        That the draft Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Regulations 1997, which were laid before this House on 27th November, be approved.
To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
+  7   LEGAL AID AND ADVICE (SCOTLAND)    [No debate]
 Mr Secretary Dewar
        That the draft Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Prescribed Proceedings) Regulations 1997, which were laid before this House on 27th November, be approved.
To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
+  8   FIREARMS    [No debate]
 Mr Secretary Straw
        That the draft Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997 Compensation Scheme, which was laid before this House on 27th November,be approved.
To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
At the end of the sitting:
9   ADJOURNMENT
 
        Proposed subject: Illegal imports of beer (Mr Bob Blizzard).
        Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).

COMMITTEE MEETINGS
SELECT COMMITTEES
1   Health 2.30 p.m Room 8 (private)
2   Information 4.30 p.m. Room 13 (private)
3   Public Accounts 4.30 p.m. Room 16 (private)
        Subject: Contingent Liabilities in the Dependent Territories.
        Witnesses: Sir John Kerr, KCMG, Permanent Under-Secretary of State and Mr Peter Westmacott, LVO, Director Americas, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Mr John Kerby, Director, Eastern Europe and Western Hemisphere, Department for International Development; Mr Lee Beaumont, Head of Airport Security, Security Branch, Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
4   Treasury 5.30 p.m. Room 6 (private)
5   Modernisation of the House of Commons 6.00 p.m. Room 21 (private)
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]

 
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