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Order of Business Thursday 2nd April 1998

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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. 
NOTICE OF MOTION FOR AN UNOPPOSED RETURN
[No debate]
Secretary Marjorie Mowlam
    Narey Inquiry: Address for a Return of a Report of an inquiry into the escape of a prisoner from HM Prison Maze on 10th December 1997 and the shooting of a prisoner on 27th December 1997.
No debate or decision

At 2.35 p.m. 
Oral Questions to the President of the Board of Trade
*1 Mr John Home Robertson (East Lothian):    If she will make a statement on the availability and price of ultra low- sulphur diesel at urban and rural retail sites.
(35973)
*2 Mr Ian Bruce (South Dorset):    How much revenue will be raised from the telecommunications industry as a result of the Wireless Telegraphy Act; and when she plans to bring the legislation into effect.
(35974)
*3 Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak):    When she last met the Chairman of the Low Pay Commission.
(35975)
*4 Kali Mountford (Colne Valley):    If she will make a statement on her Department's policy towards encouraging research and development in British companies.
(35976)
*5 Jacqui Smith (Redditch):    If she will make a statement on the impact of the Chancellor's Budget measures on the competitiveness of British companies.
(35977)
*6 Mr Tony Baldry (Banbury):    What assessment she has made of the impact of the value of sterling on the competitiveness of United Kingdom exports.
(35978)
*7 Mr Keith Darvill (Upminster):    What measures her Department has taken to encourage small and medium sized companies to expand their export business.
(35979)
*8 Mr David Drew (Stroud):    If she will make a statement on progress towards implementing a national minimum wage.
(35980)
*9 Mr John Gunnell (Morley and Rothwell):    If she will make a statement on the role of her Department in promoting innovation in British industry.
(35981)
*10 Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow):    If she will make a statement on the level of current United Kingdom trade with Iran.
(35982)
*11 Barbara Follett (Stevenage):    What steps her Department is taking to promote co-operation between employers and employees in the workplace.
(35983)
*12 Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):    If she will make a statement on her Department's policy towards encouraging research and development in British companies.
(35984)
*13 Audrey Wise (Preston):    What steps she is taking to ensure that publicity is given to the dangers to pre-school children of burns and scalds in the kitchen.
(35985)
*14 Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):    What discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in respect of the impact of the current level of interest rates on British industry.
(35986)
*15 Mr Ken Purchase (Wolverhampton North East):    If she will make a statement on her Department's policy towards encouraging innovation in British companies.
(35987)
*16 Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley and Golders Green):    What plans she has to consult consumer groups about reforms to consumer credit legislation.
(35988)
*17 Mr Geraint Davies (Croydon Central):    If she will make a statement on the priority her Department attaches to promoting competitiveness in Europe during the British presidency of the European Union.
(35989)
*18 Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford and Southend East):    What assessment she has made of the impact on United Kingdom industry of the changes in European Union structural funds being proposed by the Commission.
(35991)
*19 Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet):    If she will make a statement about her Department's priorities for the reform of EU structural funds.
(35992)
*20 Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):    What assessment she has made of the effect of the current value of the pound on manufacturing exporters in the East Midlands.
(35993)
*21 Mr Stephen Timms (East Ham):    What steps she proposes to promote United Kingdom multimedia expertise in export markets.
(35994)
*22 David Taylor (North West Leicestershire):    What further action is being taken to tackle pyramid selling.
(35995)
*23 Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East):    What steps she is taking to address the difficulties experienced by companies suffering from skilled labour shortages in the engineering sector.
(35996)
*24 Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley):    What assurances she has sought from Indonesia that it will not default on ECGD payments.
(35997)
*25 Mr David Amess (Southend West):    What recent representations she has received on the prospects for British exports.
(35998)
*26 Mr John McWilliam (Blaydon):    What action her Department is taking to support the programmes of the European Space Agency.
(35999)
*27 Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands):    When she last met the Chairman of the Low Pay Commission to discuss the minimum wage.
(36000)
*28 Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire):    What representations she has received recently concerning trade union recognition rights; and if she will make a statement.
(36001)
*29 Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley):    When she last met the Chairman of the Low Pay Commission to discuss progress on the implementation of the national minimum wage.
(36002)
*30 Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough):    What measures her Department has taken to encourage small and medium-sized companies to expand their export business.
(36003)
*31 Mr Roger Casale (Wimbledon):    What plans she has to tighten regulations to combat business fraud.
(36004)
*32 Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton):    What progress has been made toward the formulation of the national minimum wage.
(36005)
*33 Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth):    If she will make a statement about the progress of her Department's Competitiveness UK Initiative.
(36006)
*34 Mr Stephen McCabe (Birmingham, Hall Green):    If she will make a statement on the reform of EU structural funds.
(36008)
*35 Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham):    What recent representations she has received from the British steel industry.
(36009)
*36 Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe):    If she will make a statement on her Department's policy on the proposed reform of EU regional aid.
(36010)
*37 Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley):    In how many cases the Director General of Fair Trading has taken action against companies for breaches of the unfair contract terms regulations, in each of the last three years.
(36011)
*38 Dr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde):    How many abandonment programmes have been approved under the terms of Part 1 of the Petroleum Act 1987, in each of the last eight years.
(36012)

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


Main Business
1   OPPOSITION DAY [4th allotted day--second part]    [Until 7.00 p.m.]
   INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRADE
 Mr Paddy Ashdown
Mr A. J. Beith
Mr Menzies Campbell
Dr Jenny Tonge
Mr Mike Hancock
Mr Paul Tyler
 
        That this House, mindful of the conclusions of the Scott Report, commends Her Majesty's Government for its efforts to obtain agreement for a European Union Code of Conduct on the arms trade; and urges Her Majesty's Government to ensure that any such code sets high common standards governing arms exports for all Member States, and, in particular, to insist that export guidelines are transparent, unambiguous and pay due regard to human rights.
        The selection of the matter to be debated this day has been made by the Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party (Standing Order No. 14(2)).
Debate may continue until 7.00 p.m.
+  2   CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (INTERMEDIATE DIETS) (SCOTLAND) BILL: Second Reading.    [Until 10.00 p.m.]
Remaining stages may also be taken.
Debate may continue until 10.00 p.m.
At the end of the sitting:
3   ADJOURNMENT
 
        Proposed subject: Second crossing of the Swale (Derek Wyatt).
        Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).

COMMITTEE MEETINGS
STANDING COMMITTEE
1   Standing Committee F 10.30 a.m.
4.30 p.m.
Room 12 (public)
(public)
        Further to consider the Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords].
SELECT COMMITTEES
2   Education and Employment: Employment Sub-Committee 10.30 a.m.
10.45 a.m.
Room 15 (private)
(public)
        Subject: Part-time Working.
        Witnesses: Equal Opportunities Commission.
3   Treasury 10.30 a.m.
10.45 a.m.
Room 8 (private)
(public)
        Subject: Preparations for Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union.
        Witness: The Governor of the Bank of England.
4   Agriculture 11.00 a.m. Room 20 (private)
5   Culture, Media and Sport 11.00 a.m. Room 16 (private)
6   Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs: Transport Sub-Committee 2.00 p.m. Confex Centre,
Stormont Hotel, Belfast
(public)
        Subject: Regional Air Services.
        Witnesses: Belfast International Airport and Belfast City Airport; Belfast City Council, the General Consumer Council for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry (at 2.45 p.m.).
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]

Written Questions tabled on Wednesday 1st April for answer today++
1  
  
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if recipients of working family tax credit will receive the same entitlement to passported benefits as do recipients of family credit.
(37851)
2  
  
Mr Jim Murphy (Eastwood):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans she has for reforming the firearms legislation in Northern Ireland for the control of handguns.
(37889)
3  
  
Mr Christopher Leslie (Shipley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what performance targets she has set the Department's agencies for 1998-99; and if she will make a statement.
(37890)
4  
  
Mrs Ann Cryer (Keighley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans she has to improve the recovery of overpaid benefit.
(37891)
5  
  
Mr Gareth Thomas (Clwyd West):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to promote organic farming; and if he will make a statement.
(37892)
6  
  
Ms Ruth Kelly (Bolton West):    To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will make a statement on the progress that has been made towards achieving equality of opportunity in the Civil Service.
(37893)
7  
  
Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on changes in the membership of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate Complaints Audit Committee.
(37894)
8  
  
Mr Frank Roy (Motherwell and Wishaw):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when he expects to receive the report of the Review into Eye Transplantation and Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; and if he will make a statement.
(37895)
9  
  
Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the alleged breach of the Prime Minister's security reported in the Sunday Times on 29th March.
(37896)
10  
  
Ms Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement about National Savings.
(37937)
11  
  
Mr Stephen Timms (East Ham):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects the 1998 departmental reports to be published.
(37938)
12  
  
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough):    To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, when he plans to implement Part II of the Family Law Act 1996; and if he will make a statement.
(37939)
13  
  
Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his oral Answer of 1st April, if he will make a statement on the responsibility of his Press Secretary for party political activities.
(37989)
14  
  
Mr Bernie Grant (Tottenham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to introduce ethnic monitoring in the reserve forces.
(38100)
15  
  
Mr Bill Michie (Sheffield, Heeley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make statement on the Multi-Role Armoured Vehicle Programme.
(38101)
16  
  
Mr Stephen Twigg (Enfield, Southgate):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what are the key targets for the Chief Executive of the Army Technical Support Agency for 1998-99.
(38102)

Standing Committee Notices
    Standing Committee F will meet on Tuesday 7th April at 10.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. to consider further the Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords].
    The Scottish Grand Committee will meet on Tuesday 7th April at 10.30 a.m. to consider the matter of Health in Scotland.
    The First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation will meet on Tuesday 7th April at 10.30 a.m. to consider the draft Institute of Legal Executives Regulations 1998.
    The Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation will meet on Tuesday 7th April at 4.30 p.m. to consider the Special Grant Report (No. 34): Metropolitan Railway Passenger Services Grant for 1998-99 (HC 656) and the Special Grant Report (Scotland): Grant in aid of expenditure on rail services in the Strathclyde Passenger Transport area (HC 660).
    The Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation will meet on Tuesday 7th April at 4.30 p.m. to consider the Value Added Tax (Supply of Services) (Amendment) Order 1998 (S.I., 1998, No.762).
    The Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation will meet on Wednesday 8th April at 4.30 p.m. to consider the draft Hovercraft (Convention of Liability for Maritime Claims) (Amendment) Order 1998, the draft Merchant Shipping (Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims) (Amendment) Order 1998 and the draft Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) (Amendment) Order 1998.

 
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