Order of Business for 6 July 1999

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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.

At 2.30 p.m. Prayers

Afterwards

Private Business

    Note: Private business is not debated at this time and may not be proceeded with if opposed.
Consideration of Bill, as Amended
City of London (Ward Elections) Bill. (By Order)
Mr John McDonnell
Mr Jeremy Corbyn
Mr Harry Cohen
Mr Andrew Mackinlay
Mr Alan Simpson

    On Consideration of the City of London (Ward Elections) Bill, as amended, to move, That the Bill be considered upon this day six months.

[For Amendments, see Notice Paper relating to Private Business.]

Afterwards

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

*1 Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North and Fleetwood):    What improvements he proposes to make to the quality and provision of mental health services.

(88237)

*2 Mr Michael Fabricant (Lichfield):    If he will make a statement on waiting times from GP referral to in-patient admission in the South Staffordshire Health Authority area.

(88238)

*3 Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):    What progress has been made in reducing waiting times in accident and emergency wards in London hospitals in the last two years.

(88239)

*4 Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):    What steps he plans to take to encourage commissioners of HIV services to agree longer-term contracts with the voluntary sector.

(88240)

*5 Mr Keith Darvill (Upminster):    What the planned level of capital investment in the National Health Service is over the next three years.

(88241)

*6 Helen Jackson (Sheffield, Hillsborough):    If he will make a statement on the number of dental patients treated under the National Health Service each month.

(88242)

*7 Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):    What progress he has made in implementing the action plan agreed at the Cancer Summit meeting in May.

(88243)

*8 Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes):    If he will make a statement on the level of teenage conception and pregnancy in the South Humber Health Authority area.

(88244)

*9 Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West):    What investment his Department is making in services to combat bowel cancer.

(88245)

*10 Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry):    What steps he is taking to achieve greater geographic evenness of clinical treatment in the health service.

(88246)

*11 Jane Griffiths (Reading East):    What measures he is taking to encourage men to examine themselves to assist early diagnosis of testicular cancer; and if he will make a statement.

(88248)

*12 Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire):    What measures are taken by his Department and its agencies to ensure that public forms and documents are easy to read and accessible.

(88249)

*13 Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands):    What initiatives his Department is pursuing to increase the availability of NHS dentistry.

(88250)

*14 Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South):    What plans he has to review the funding arrangements for GPs; and if he will make a statement.

(88251)

*15 Miss Melanie Johnson (Welwyn Hatfield):    What plans he has to introduce new regulations covering private healthcare.

(88252)

*16 Mr Shaun Woodward (Witney):    What assessment he has made of the impact of the closure of Burford Hospital on the treatment of Alzheimer's disease in West Oxfordshire.

(88253)

*17 Mr Stephen McCabe (Birmingham, Hall Green):    What plans he has to improve the professional qualifications of the social care workforce.

(88254)

*18 Mr Eric Martlew (Carlisle):    When the new district general hospital in Carlisle will be completed.

(88255)

*19 Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):    If he will make a statement on the extent of the choice of types of artificial limb available to NHS patients.

(88256)

*20 Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington):    If he will make a statement on the financial position of the Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority.

(88257)

*21 Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):    What improvements he proposes to make to the quality and provision of mental health services.

(88258)

*22 Mr Bill Rammell (Harlow):    If he will make a statement on the increase in gross expenditure in England on personal social services in the last year.

(88259)

*23 Ms Dari Taylor (Stockton South):    What assessment his Department has made of current levels of health inequalities in England.

(88260)

*24 Mrs Virginia Bottomley (South West Surrey):    What change there has been in the level of the NHS Modernisation Fund in the past year; and how much of the outgoings has been spent on waiting lists, capital investment, education, staff training, primary care and mental health.

(88261)

*25 Mr Colin Burgon (Elmet):    What period of consultation he proposes on the draft Tobacco (Prohibition of Advertising and Promotion) Regulations.

(88263)

*26 Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):    What plans he has for introducing a national cancer action team for the NHS.

(88264)

*27 Mr Jonathan R. Shaw (Chatham and Aylesford):    What steps he is taking to encourage nurses to return to the NHS.

(88265)

*28 Mrs Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton):    If he will make a statement about his plans to increase the number of medical doctors in training.

(88266)

*29 Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West and Abingdon):    What steps the Government is taking to explain its policies to the medical profession.

(88267)

*30 Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden):    What arrangements are being made to independently audit the relevance and accuracy of NHS waiting list figures.

(88268)

*31 Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe):    How many first out-patient appointments were seen by the NHS in the year to the end of March; and what the figure was in each of the two previous years.

(88269)

*32 Mr Nigel Beard (Bexleyheath and Crayford):    When the Government will publish its strategy on NHS dentistry.

(88270)

*33 Mr Michael Jack (Fylde):    What increase in revenue provision he is planning for Lancashire Health Authority for 2000-01.

(88271)

*34 Maria Eagle (Liverpool, Garston):    What steps he has taken to ensure that NHS trusts in Liverpool are able to meet the challenge of providing emergency cover over the millennium period.

(88272)

*35 Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North):    What action he is taking to ensure the effective regulation of private healthcare.

(88273)

*36 Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow):    If he will make a statement on his Department's policy on the retention of samples of smallpox-related material.

(88274)

*37 Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):    How many casualty modernisation schemes are planned this year.

(88275)

*38 Mr John Grogan (Selby):    If he will make a statement about the provision of acute and accident and emergency hospital services by Wakefield Health Authority.

(88276)

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

Preliminary Business

Ten minute rule Motion

PROPERTY LETTING AGENTS (CLIENT MONEY SEGREGATION) [Up to 20 minutes]

Mr Howard Flight

That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the segregation of client monies collected by letting agents, to be held in designated client money accounts.

The Member moving and a Member opposing this Motion may each speak for up to ten minutes (Standing Order No. 23).

Main Business
+ 2	FINANCE BILL: Not amended in the Committee, and as amended in the Standing Committee, to be further considered. *[Until any hour]*
*For Amendments, see separate Paper.*
*Third Reading may also be taken.*
*Debate may continue until any hour (Standing Order No. 15(1)(a)).*

At the end of the sitting:

ADJOURNMENT

Proposed subject:

Her Majesty's Government's policy in respect of religious minorities in the Middle East

Mr James Clappison

Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).

COMMITTEE MEETINGS
STANDING COMMITTEES
1	Standing Committee A	10.30 a.m.	Room 10 (public)
	To consider the Financial Services and Markets Bill.
2	Standing Committee B	10.30 a.m. 4.30 p.m.	Room 11 (public) (public)
	Further to consider the Food Standards Bill.
3	Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation	4.30 p.m.	Room 9 (public)
	To consider the draft Stansted Airport Aircraft Movement Limit (Amendment) Order 1999.
SELECT COMMITTEES
4	Treasury	9.20 a.m. 9.30 a.m.	Room 6 (private) (public)
	Subject: Demutualisation.
	Witnesses: Mr Christopher Rodrigues, Group Chief Executive, Mr Kevin McGuinness, Group Secretary and Mr Chris Holland, Head of Corporate Affairs, Bradford and Bingley Building Society; Mr David Smith, Chairman (Chief Executive of Dunfermline Building Society), Mr David Anderson, Deputy Chairman (Chief Executive of Yorkshire Building Society), Dr Brian Davis (Chief Executive of Nationwide Building Society) and Mr Adrian Coles, Director General, The Building Societies Association (at 10.30 a.m.).
5	Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs: Environment Sub-Committee	9.45 a.m. 10.00 a.m.	Room 5 (private) (public)
	Subject: Town and Country Parks.
	Witnesses: English Heritage; Heritage Lottery Fund (at 10.40 a.m.); Milton Keynes Parks Trust (at 11.20 a.m.).
6	Environmental Audit	10.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m.	Room 19 (private) (public)
	Subject: Sustainable Development Strategy.
	Witness: Mr Derek Osborn, Chairman, Round Table.
7	Foreign Affairs	10.00 a.m.	Room 16 (private)
8	International Development	10.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m.	Room 21 (private) (public)
	Subject: The Future of Sanctions.
	Witnesses: Mr Marcello Casale, Branch Head, International Financial Regulation and Sanctions, Mr Jonathan Jones, Legal Advisor, HM Treasury, Mr Tony Gammon, Sanctions Unit, Bank of England and Mr Simon Goddard, National Criminal Intelligence Service; Mr Robert Fowler, Canadian Ambassador to the UN and Chair of the Angola Sanctions Committee (at 11.30 a.m.).
9	Public Administration	10.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m.	Room 8 (private) (public)
	Subject: Freedom of Information Draft Bill.
	Witnesses: Professor Patrick Birkinshaw, Director of the Law School, The University of Hull and Professor Robert Hazell, School of Public Policy, University College London; Mr David Bickford, former Legal Adviser to the Security Service (at 12 noon).
10	Trade and Industry	10.00 a.m.	Room 15 (public)
	Subject: Climate Change Levy.
	Witnesses: Mr John Battle MP, Minister for Energy and Industry, Department of Trade and Industry, and Mr Michael Meacher MP, Minister of State for the Environment, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions; Lord Marshall; Energy Intensive Users Group; Patricia Hewitt, MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury.
11	Home Affairs	10.15 a.m. 10.30 a.m.	Room 20 (private) (public)
	Subject: Home Office Annual Report.
	Witness: Mr David Omand, Permanent Under-Secretary, Home Office.
12	Education and Employment: Education Sub-Committee	1.00 p.m.	Whitley Park School, Reading (public)
	Subject: School Meals.
	Witnesses: Mr Jim Ingram, Head Teacher, Whitley Park Junior School, Ms Anne Tanner, Head Teacher, Whitley Park Infants School, Mr Jim Walker, Chief Executive and Ms Karen Dack, Nutritionist, Initial Catering Services.
13	Public Administration	2.15 p.m. 2.30 p.m.	Room 8 (private) (public)
	Subject: Freedom of Information Draft Bill.
	Witnesses: Mr Paul Whitehouse, Chief Constable, Sussex Police, Mr Michael Argent, Chief Constable, North Wales Police; Mr Timothy Walker, Deputy Chairman, and Mr Dick Kellaway, Head, National Investigation Service, HM Customs and Excise (at 3.30 p.m.); Mrs Sarah Tyacke, Chief Executive, Public Record Office (at 4.30 p.m.).
14	Procedure	4.00 p.m.	Room 16 (private)
15	Standards and Privileges	4.00 p.m.	Room 13 (private)
16	Trade and Industry	4.00 p.m.	Room 15 (public)
	Subject: Climate Change Levy.
	Witnesses: Energy Saving Trust; Association of Electricity Producers; British Retail Consortium; Confederation of British Industry; British Cement Association.
17	Foreign Affairs	4.30 p.m.	Room 21 (private)
18	Administration	5.00 p.m.	Room 17 (private)
19	Statutory Instruments	Immediately after the meeting of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments	Room 7 (private)
JOINT COMMITTEES
20	Draft Local Government (Organisation and Standards) Bill	4.00 p.m.	Room 3 (public)
	Subject: Draft Local Government (Organisation and Standards) Bill.
	Witnesses: Local Government Ombudsmen England and Wales; Access (Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors).
21	Statutory Instruments	4.15 p.m.	Room 7 (private)
PRIVATE BILL COMMITTEE
22	Unopposed Private Bill Committee	11.15 a.m.	Room 9 (public)
	Subject: Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (Amendment of Rules) etc Bill.
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]

Written Questions tabled on Monday 5th July for answer today++
1	Ms Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects the annual report of the Financial Services Authority to be published.
	(90168)
2	Mr Peter Brooke (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action his Department is taking to ensure that persons who have applied in time for renewal of exceptional leave to remain are not denied benefits due to delays in processing their applications.
	(90239)
3	Mr Tony McNulty (Harrow East): To ask the Trade and Industry, when he intends to publish the MMC Report on the Supply in Great Britain of Raw Cow's Milk.
	(90250)
4	Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, who the new Chief Scientific Adviser to his Department will be.
	(90251)
5	Ms Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he will make public the report into the London Underground penalty fares scheme; and if he will make a statement.
	(90252)
6	Laura Moffatt (Crawley): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans he has to review the contribution to K-FOR.
	(90303)
7	Mr Colin Burgon (Elmet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the ninth Annual Report of the Drinking Water Inspectorate will be published.
	(90304)

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
*1	Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North and Fleetwood): What improvements he proposes to make to the quality and provision of mental health services.
	(88237)
*2	Mr Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): If he will make a statement on waiting times from GP referral to in-patient admission in the South Staffordshire Health Authority area.
	(88238)
*3	Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): What progress has been made in reducing waiting times in accident and emergency wards in London hospitals in the last two years.
	(88239)
*4	Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): What steps he plans to take to encourage commissioners of HIV services to agree longer-term contracts with the voluntary sector.
	(88240)
*5	Mr Keith Darvill (Upminster): What the planned level of capital investment in the National Health Service is over the next three years.
	(88241)
*6	Helen Jackson (Sheffield, Hillsborough): If he will make a statement on the number of dental patients treated under the National Health Service each month.
	(88242)
*7	Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): What progress he has made in implementing the action plan agreed at the Cancer Summit meeting in May.
	(88243)
*8	Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): If he will make a statement on the level of teenage conception and pregnancy in the South Humber Health Authority area.
	(88244)
*9	Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West): What investment his Department is making in services to combat bowel cancer.
	(88245)
*10	Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): What steps he is taking to achieve greater geographic evenness of clinical treatment in the health service.
	(88246)
*11	Jane Griffiths (Reading East): What measures he is taking to encourage men to examine themselves to assist early diagnosis of testicular cancer; and if he will make a statement.
	(88248)
*12	Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): What measures are taken by his Department and its agencies to ensure that public forms and documents are easy to read and accessible.
	(88249)
*13	Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands): What initiatives his Department is pursuing to increase the availability of NHS dentistry.
	(88250)
*14	Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): What plans he has to review the funding arrangements for GPs; and if he will make a statement.
	(88251)
*15	Miss Melanie Johnson (Welwyn Hatfield): What plans he has to introduce new regulations covering private healthcare.
	(88252)
*16	Mr Shaun Woodward (Witney): What assessment he has made of the impact of the closure of Burford Hospital on the treatment of Alzheimer's disease in West Oxfordshire.
	(88253)
*17	Mr Stephen McCabe (Birmingham, Hall Green): What plans he has to improve the professional qualifications of the social care workforce.
	(88254)
*18	Mr Eric Martlew (Carlisle): When the new district general hospital in Carlisle will be completed.
	(88255)
*19	Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): If he will make a statement on the extent of the choice of types of artificial limb available to NHS patients.
	(88256)
*20	Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): If he will make a statement on the financial position of the Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority.
	(88257)
*21	Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): What improvements he proposes to make to the quality and provision of mental health services.
	(88258)
*22	Mr Bill Rammell (Harlow): If he will make a statement on the increase in gross expenditure in England on personal social services in the last year.
	(88259)
*23	Ms Dari Taylor (Stockton South): What assessment his Department has made of current levels of health inequalities in England.
	(88260)
*24	Mrs Virginia Bottomley (South West Surrey): What change there has been in the level of the NHS Modernisation Fund in the past year; and how much of the outgoings has been spent on waiting lists, capital investment, education, staff training, primary care and mental health.
	(88261)
*25	Mr Colin Burgon (Elmet): What period of consultation he proposes on the draft Tobacco (Prohibition of Advertising and Promotion) Regulations.
	(88263)
*26	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): What plans he has for introducing a national cancer action team for the NHS.
	(88264)
*27	Mr Jonathan R. Shaw (Chatham and Aylesford): What steps he is taking to encourage nurses to return to the NHS.
	(88265)
*28	Mrs Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): If he will make a statement about his plans to increase the number of medical doctors in training.
	(88266)
*29	Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West and Abingdon): What steps the Government is taking to explain its policies to the medical profession.
	(88267)
*30	Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): What arrangements are being made to independently audit the relevance and accuracy of NHS waiting list figures.
	(88268)
*31	Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): How many first out-patient appointments were seen by the NHS in the year to the end of March; and what the figure was in each of the two previous years.
	(88269)
*32	Mr Nigel Beard (Bexleyheath and Crayford): When the Government will publish its strategy on NHS dentistry.
	(88270)
*33	Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): What increase in revenue provision he is planning for Lancashire Health Authority for 2000-01.
	(88271)
*34	Maria Eagle (Liverpool, Garston): What steps he has taken to ensure that NHS trusts in Liverpool are able to meet the challenge of providing emergency cover over the millennium period.
	(88272)
*35	Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): What action he is taking to ensure the effective regulation of private healthcare.
	(88273)
*36	Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): If he will make a statement on his Department's policy on the retention of samples of smallpox-related material.
	(88274)
*37	Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth): How many casualty modernisation schemes are planned this year.
	(88275)
*38	Mr John Grogan (Selby): If he will make a statement about the provision of acute and accident and emergency hospital services by Wakefield Health Authority.
	(88276)



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