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Order of Business Wednesday 17th May 2000
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+ 2 | ROYAL PARKS (TRADING) BILL: Not amended in the Standing Committee, to be considered. [Until any hour] |
For Amendments, see separate Paper.
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Third Reading may also be taken.
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At 7.00 p.m.
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OPPOSED PRIVATE BUSINESS [Until 10.00 p.m.] | |
KENT COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [LORDS]: Second Reading. (By Order.)
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Mr Derek Wyatt Ms Fiona Jones Mr Andrew Mackinlay Mr Lindsay Hoyle Mr Dennis Skinner Mr Ronnie Campbell
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MEDWAY COUNCIL BILL [LORDS]: Second Reading. (By Order.)
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Mr Derek Wyatt Ms Fiona Jones Mr Andrew Mackinlay Mr Lindsay Hoyle Mr Dennis Skinner Mr Ronnie Campbell
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Set down by the Chairman of Ways and Means under Standing Order No. 20.
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Debate may continue until 10.00 p.m.
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At 10.00 p.m.
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+ | BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE [No debate] |
The Prime Minister
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To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 15).
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At the end of the sitting:
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3 | ADJOURNMENT |
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COMMITTEE MEETINGS | |||
STANDING COMMITTEE | |||
1 | First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation | 4.30 p.m. | Room 12 (public) |
To consider the draft Greater London Authority (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2000. | |||
SELECT COMMITTEES | |||
2 | Agriculture | 9.30 a.m. 10.00 a.m. | Room 20 (private) (public) |
Subject: Regional Service Centres. | |||
Witnesses: Tenant Farmers Association; Country Landowners Association. | |||
3 | Education and Employment: Education Sub-Committee | 9.30 a.m. | Room 18 (private) |
4 | Defence | 10.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m. | Room 15 (private) (public) |
Subject: The Lessons of Kosovo. | |||
Witnesses: Sir John Goulden and Admiral Paul Haddacks, UK Representatives to NATO; General Sir Rupert Smith, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. | |||
5 | Social Security | 10.00 a.m. 10.45 a.m. | Room 19 (private) (public) |
Subject: Housing Benefit. | |||
Witnesses: British Property Federation, and National Federation of Residential Landlords; London Housing Unit, National Rent Deposit Forum, and Centre for Housing Policy (at 11.45 a.m.). | |||
6 | Treasury | 10.30 a.m. 10.45 a.m. | Room 8 (private) (public) |
Subject: London Stock Exchange. | |||
Witnesses: Mr Don Cruickshank, Chairman designate, Mr Gavin Casey, Chief Executive, Mr Martin Wheatley, Director of Business Development, and Mr Jonathan Howell, Director of Finance and Operations, London Stock Exchange. | |||
7 | Culture, Media and Sport | 11.00 a.m. | Room 7 (private) |
8 | Home Affairs | 10.30 a.m. | Room 13 (private) |
9 | Education and Employment: Employment Sub-Committee | 3.45 p.m. 4.00 p.m. | Room 21 (private) (public) |
Subject: New Deal. | |||
Witnesses: The Rt. Hon. Tessa Jowell, MP, Minister for Employment, Welfare to Work and Equal Opportunities. | |||
10 | Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs: Transport Sub-Committee | 3.45 p.m. 4.00 p.m. | Room 5 (private) (public) |
Subject: Departmental Annual Report 2000 and Expenditure Plans 2000-01 and 2001-02. | |||
Witnesses: The Rt. Hon. Lord Macdonald of Tradeston, Minister for Transport, and officials, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. | |||
11 | Northern Ireland Affairs | 3.45 p.m. 4.15 p.m. | Room 6 (private) (public) |
Subject: Northern Ireland Railways. | |||
Witnesses: Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company. | |||
12 | Science and Technology | 3.45 p.m. 4.15 p.m. | Room 15 (private) (public) |
Subject: Cancer ResearchA Fresh Look. | |||
Witnesses: Professor Karol Sikora, Pharmacia Italia and Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Sir Richard Peto, ICRF Cancer and Clinical Trials Unit, University of Oxford, and Professor Bruce Ponder CRC, Professor of Clinical Oncology, University of Cambridge. | |||
13 | European Scrutiny | 4.00 p.m. | Room 19 (private) |
14 | Public Administration | 4.15 p.m. 4.30 p.m. | Room 18 (private) (public) |
Subject: The Government Information and Communications Service. | |||
Witnesses: The Government Information and Communications Service. | |||
15 | Selection | 4.15 p.m. | Room 13 (private) |
16 | Accommodation and Works | 4.30 p.m. | Room 7 (private) |
17 | Public Accounts | 4.30 p.m. | Room 16 (public) |
Subject: Hip Replacements: Getting It Right First Time. | |||
Witnesses: Sir Alan Langlands, Chief Executive, NHS Executive, Dr David Jeffreys, Chief Executive, Medical Devices Agency, and Mr Hugh Phillips, President, British Orthopaedic Association. | |||
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.] |
Written Questions tabled on Tuesday 16th May for answer today++ | ||
1 | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he intends to establish the General Social Care Council; and if he will make a statement. | |
( 122766 ) | ||
2 | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what arrangements are being made for the quinquennial review of the Forest Enterprise Executive Agency. | |
( 122800 ) | ||
3 | Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Prime Minister, what arrangements have been made to appoint a Commissioner under section 8 of the Interception of Communications Act following the expiration of Lord Nolan of Brasted's appointment on 10th April; and if he will make a statement. | |
( 122801 ) | ||
4 | Mr Frank Roy (Motherwell and Wishaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement about the present hostilities between Ethiopia and Eritrea. | |
( 122922 ) | ||
5 | Mr Ian Pearson (Dudley South): To ask the President of the Council, when the Government plans to publish its response to the Liaison Committee's First Report, Shifting the Balance: Select Committees and the Executive, HC 300. | |
( 122923 ) | ||
6 | Mr Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he has set the financial target for the Post Office for 2000-01; and if he will make a statement. | |
( 122924 ) | ||
7 | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what action the Government is taking to address the issue of seed purity. | |
( 122925 ) | ||
8 | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the weight limit on payments for cattle entering the over-30-months scheme will be removed; and if he will make a statement. | |
( 122926 ) | ||
9 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, when he will introduce the Criminal Defence Service. | |
( 122927 ) | ||
10 | Mr Peter Temple-Morris (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he plans to publish further information on the design of the NATS public-private partnership. | |
( 122974 ) | ||
11 | Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on consultation on the Communications White Paper. | |
( 123002 ) | ||
12 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on consultation on the Communications White Paper. | |
( 123003 ) | ||
13 | Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the long term location of the Joint Nuclear-Biological and Chemical Regiment currently based at RAF Honington. | |
( 123004 ) | ||
14 | Mr Colin Burgon (Elmet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what decisions he has come to following the Government's consultation on the proposed CHP Quality Assurance programme, in relation to the exemption of Good-Quality CHP from the Climate Change Levy; and if he will make a statement. | |
( 123005 ) |
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