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.
Private Business |
| Note: Private business is not debated at this time, and may not be proceeded with if opposed.
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Consideration of Bill, as amended
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London Local Authorities Bill [Lords]. (By Order.)
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| Mr John McDonnell
Mr Andrew Mackinlay
Mr Jeremy Corbyn
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| On Consideration of the London Local Authorities Bill [Lords], as amended, to move, That the Bill be considered upon this day six months.
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[Amendments to be proposed by the Promoters.]
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| [Copies of the proposed Amendments may be obtained by Members from the Vote Office or inspected in the Private Bill Office.]
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Second Reading
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Mersey Tunnels Bill. (By Order.)
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| Mr Ben Chapman
Mrs Louise Ellman
Mr Frank Field
Mr Robert N. Wareing
Mr John McDonnell
Mr Alan Simpson
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| On Second Reading of the Mersey Tunnels Bill, to move, That the Bill be read a second time upon this day six months.
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| Oral Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer |
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Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of regional conferences held to promote his new employee share ownership scheme.
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121370
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Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): If he will exempt horticulture from the climate change levy.
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121371
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Mr Bill Rammell (Harlow): What representations he has received on the Government's plans, announced in his Budget, to invest additional resources in public services in the coming year.
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121372
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| *4 |
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): What recent representations he has received on energy taxation.
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121373
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Mr Phil Sawford (Kettering): What assessment he has made of the impact of the fall in unemployment and rise in employment during the last 12 months on the national economy.
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121374
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Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): How much the abolition of the married couples' allowance will cost the average couple of working age in this financial year.
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121376
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| *7 |
Mr Damian Green (Ashford): What recent representations he has received from businesses on the climate change levy.
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121377
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| *8 |
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): If he will make a statement on the impact of his Department's policies on the levels of employment and unemployment in the South East.
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121378
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| *9 |
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): What representations he has received on the impact of his policies on the competitiveness of manufacturing industry; and if he will make a statement.
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121379
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| *10 |
Mr Desmond Browne (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): What his policy is on the management of the national debt.
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121380
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| *11 |
Mr Derek Twigg (Halton): If he will make a statement on the introduction of the new tax credit for companies investing in research and development.
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121381
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| *12 |
Mr Phil Hope (Corby): If he will make a statement on his policy on charity taxation.
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121382
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| *13 |
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): If he will make a statement on the cost of the National Changeover plan.
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121384
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| *14 |
Mr David Amess (Southend West): If he will make a statement on the effects of raising the national insurance upper earnings limit.
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121385
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| *15 |
Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): What representations he has received on his measures to help companies with research and development.
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121386
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| *16 |
Mr Alan W. Williams (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): If he will make a statement on the impact of the value of sterling against the euro on UK manufacturing.
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121387
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| *17 |
Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): If he will make a statement on the future occupancy of Somerset House by the Inland Revenue.
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121388
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| *18 |
Steve Webb (Northavon): How many women were paying reduced rate national insurance contributions in (a) 1988 and (b) 1990.
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121389
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| *19 |
Mr Eric Forth (Bromley and Chislehurst): What assessment he has made of the effect of the tax changes since May 1997 on the competitiveness of British industry.
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121390
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| *20 |
Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): What recent representations he has received recently concerning the taxation of international currency speculation.
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121391
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| *21 |
Mr Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): When he next plans to meet the Governor of the Bank of England to discuss the value of the nation's foreign currency and precious metal reserves.
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121392
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| *22 |
Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey): How he intends to use the (a) Budget surplus of 2000-01, (b) income from mobile phone licence sales and (c) Exchequer reserves.
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121393
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Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): What representations he has received proposing the division of monies raised from the sale of the third generation mobile phone licences between the devolved administrations and central government; and if he will make a statement.
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121394
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| *24 |
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge and Chryston): If he will make a statement on the proposals in his Budget to increase giving to charity in Britian.
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121395
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| *25 |
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): If he will make a statement on progress with the National Changeover plan.
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121396
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| *26 |
Mrs Anne Campbell (Cambridge): If he will make a statement on his plans for a tax reduction for small businesses investing in computers or e-commerce developments.
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121397
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| *27 |
Mr Nick St. Aubyn (Guildford): What has been the cost of expenditure on advertising on behalf of his department since 1997.
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121398
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| *28 |
Mr Piara S. Khabra (Ealing, Southall): If he will make a statement on the impact of his Department's policies on the levels of employment and unemployment in London.
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121399
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| *29 |
Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): What representations he has received from the steel industry about the value of sterling.
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121400
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| *30 |
Mr Richard Page (South West Hertfordshire): If he will make a statement on the level of funding for the New Deal.
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121401
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| *31 |
Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): What responses he has received from business to his plans to introduce tax reliefs for large companies that invest in growing firms to generate new jobs.
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121402
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| *32 |
Mr Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port and Neston): What steps he is taking to increase the financial benefits of work for disabled people and their families.
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121403
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| *33 |
Dr George Turner (North West Norfolk): If he will make a statement on the impact of his Department's policies on the levels of employment in the Eastern Region since May 1997.
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121404
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| *34 |
Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): If he will make a statement about the current value of the Bank of England reserves.
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121405
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| *35 |
Mr Tony Colman (Putney): What representations he has received from business on his decision to cut capital gains tax for long-term investments.
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121406
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| *36 |
Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): If he will make a statement on the future of the save as you earn scheme following the start of the new all-employee shareholding scheme on 6th April.
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121407
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Dr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): What has been the cost of the give as you earn scheme in each year since its implementation.
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121408
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| *38 |
Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove): What representations he has received on the cost of the National Changeover Plan.
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121409
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| At 12.30 p.m. | Private Notice Questions (if any)
Ministerial Statements (if any) |
Preliminary Business |
| Notices of Presentation of Bills
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| 1 | POLICE [No debate]
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| Mr Andrew Mackinlay
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| Bill to make provision to regulate the use of the term `police' and related terms; to amend the law relating to the powers of certain constables; and for connected purposes.
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| Formal first reading: no debate or decision.
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| 2 | PARDON FOR SOLDIERS OF THE GREAT WAR [No debate]
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| Mr Andrew Mackinlay [R]
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| Bill to provide for the granting of pardons to soldiers of the British Empire Forces executed during the Great War of 1914 to 1919 following conviction for offences of cowardice, desertion or attempted desertion, disobedience, quitting post, violence, sleeping at post, throwing away arms or striking a superior officer; and for connected purposes.
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| Formal first reading: no debate or decision.
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Main Business |
| + 3 | CARE STANDARDS BILL [LORDS]: Second Reading. [Until 7.00 p.m.]
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| Mr William Hague
Dr Liam Fox
Mr Philip Hammond
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Patrick McLoughlin
Mr James Arbuthnot
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| That this House, whilst supporting the principles of improved quality of delivery of social care, and in particular greater protection to the most vulnerable, declines to give a Second Reading to the Care Standards Bill [Lords] because its approach is unnecessarily bureaucratic and intrusive, it fails to extend proper regulatory protection to all patients in acute hospitals, it makes insufficient progress towards improving adoption procedures, it will impose substantial additional cost burdens on social care providers at a time when the quality of care provision is being eroded by inadequate funding, without putting in place mechanisms to balance the obligations of higher quality with a guarantee of proper levels of payment, and it depends excessively on regulations which renders proper scrutiny of the Bill impossible.
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| Debate may continue until 7.00 p.m.
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| + 4 | CARE STANDARDS BILL [LORDS] [MONEY]: Queen's Recommendation signified. [No debate]
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| Mr Stephen Timms
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| That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Care Standards Bill [Lords], it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of—
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| (a) any expenditure incurred by a Minister of the Crown under the Act; and
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| (b) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other enactment.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 52(1)(a)).
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| + 5 | BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE [No debate after 7.00 p.m.]
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| Margaret Beckett
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| That, at the sitting on 23rd May, the Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of the proceedings on the Motions in the name of Margaret Beckett relating to insurance for Members and payment of legal expenses to the honourable Member for Mid-Worcestershire not later than one and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings on the first such Motion, and such Questions shall include the Questions on any amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 7.00 p.m.
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| + 6 | SCOTTISH GRAND COMMITTEE [No debate after 7.00 p.m.]
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| Mr Secretary Reid
Margaret Beckett
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| That the Scottish Grand Committee shall meet at Westminster on Monday 12th June at half-past Four o'clock to consider a substantive Motion for the adjournment of the Committee, the proceedings to be interrupted at Seven o'clock.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 7.00 p.m.
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| At the end of the sitting:
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| 7 | ADJOURNMENT
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| Proposed subject: Hard-flooring firms and the operation of the Construction Industry Training Board Levy (Mr Martin Linton).
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| Debate may continue until 7.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9 and Order of 25th October).
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COMMITTEE MEETINGS |
STANDING COMMITTEES |
| 1 | Standing Committee A | 9.00 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 12 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the Local Government Bill [Lords]. |
| 2 | Standing Committee B | 10.00 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 9 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill. |
| 3 | Standing Committee F | 9.00 a.m.
1.30 p.m. | Room 11 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]. |
| 4 | Standing Committee H | 1.00 p.m. | Room 10 (public) |
| Further to consider the Finance Bill. |
| 5 | Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation | 9.55 a.m. | Room 10 (public) |
| To consider the draft Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000. |
SELECT COMMITTEES |
| 6 | Treasury Sub-Committee | 9.30 a.m. | Room 6 (private) |
| 7 | Culture, Media and Sport | 10.00 a.m. | Room 15 (public) |
| Subject: Cultural Property: Return and Illicit Trade. |
| Witnesses: Professor Jonathan Petropoulos, Research Director, Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US; Ms Anne Webber, Co-Chair, and Mr David Lewis, Co-Chair, Commission for Looted Art in Europe (at 10.45 a.m.); Councillor Elizabeth Cameron, Convener of Cultural and Leisure Services, Councillor John Lynch, Chair, Repatriation Working Group and Mr Mark O'Neill, Head of Museums and Galleries, Cultural and Leisure Services Department, Glasgow City Council (at 11.35 a.m.). |
| 8 | Health | 10.00 a.m.
10.30 a.m. | Room 8 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Provision of NHS Mental Health Services. |
| Witnesses: Mrs Sheila Foley, Chief Executive, Rampton Special Hospital, Dr Peter Snowden, Acting Medical Director, Special Services, Mental Health Services of Salford NHS Trust, Sir David Ramsbotham, Chief Inspector of Prisons, and Dr John Reed, Chief Medical Inspector, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, Dr Mike Boyle, Head, Mental Health Unit, Home Office and Liz Mayne, Director, Women in Secure Hospitals. |
| 9 | Trade and Industry | 10.30 a.m. | Room 17 (private) |
| 10 | International Development | 10.50 a.m.
11.00 a.m. | Room 16 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: After Seattle—the World Trade Organisation and Developing Countries. |
| Witnesses: The Rt. Hon. Alec Erwin MP, Minister for Trade and Industry, and Mr Tshediso Matona, Director, Bilateral Relations, Republic of South Africa. |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.] |
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Written Questions tabled on Wednesday 17th May for answer today++
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| 1 |
Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what London Transport has spent to date on consultancy costs for the London Underground Public-Private Partnership.
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123029
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| 2 |
Ms Ruth Kelly (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on the review of paragraph 320 (18) of the Immigration Rules.
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123030
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| 3 |
Ms Claire Ward (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will make a decision on Mr Mike Tyson's application for entry clearance.
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123031
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| 4 |
Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the results achieved by the Prison Service on each of its key performance indicators in 1999-2000; and if he will make a statement.
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(
123128
) |
| 5 |
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Canning Town): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what is his response to the recommendation in the Bowman Report on the Crown Office List that there should be a comprehensive review of the present structure, jurisdiction, procedures, remedies and routes of appeal of tribunals.
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(
123129
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| 6 |
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the (a) role of the 1 Field Laboratory Unit that operated a biological warfare agent detection facility during the 1990-91 Gulf conflict and (b) work of that unit in detecting biological warfare agents.
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123219
) |
| 7 |
Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what performance targets have been set for the Defence Aviation Repair Agency for 2000-01.
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(
123220
) |
| 8 |
Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what performance targets have been set for the Army Base Repair Organisation for 2000-01.
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(
123221
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| 9 |
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if members of the Reserve Forces who served in the Gulf are entitled to attributable pensions benefits.
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(
123222
) |
| 10 |
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the RAND Corporation report entitled, A Review of the Scientific Literature as it Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses, volume II: Pyridostigmine Bromide.
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123223
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| 11 |
Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what performance targets have been set for the Defence Communications Services Agency for 2000-01.
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123224
) |
| 12 |
Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what performance targets have been set for the Naval Bases and Supply Agency for 2000-01.
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(
123225
) |
| 13 |
Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to issue new commemorative coins in 2001.
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(
123247
) |
Standing Committee Notices |
| Standing Committee A will meet on Tuesday 23rd May at 10.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. and Thursday 25th May at 9.00 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. further to consider the Local Government Bill [Lords].
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| Standing Committee B will meet on Tuesday 23rd May at 10.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. and Thursday 25th May at 10.00 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. further to consider the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill.
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| Standing Committee D will meet on Tuesday 23rd May at 10.30 a.m. to consider the Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill.
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| Standing Committee E will meet on Tuesday 23rd May at 10.30 a.m. to consider the Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill.
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| Standing Committee F will meet on Tuesday 23rd May at 10.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. and Thursday 25th May at 9.00 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. further to consider the Learning and Skills Bill [Lords].
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| Standing Committee H will meet on Tuesday 23rd May at 10.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. and Thursday 25th May at 9.00 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. further to consider the Finance Bill (except Clauses 1, 12, 30, 31, 59, 102 and 113).
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| The First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation will meet on Tuesday 23rd May at 4.30 p.m. to consider the draft Scotland Act 1998 (Modifications of Functions) Order 2000 and the draft Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2000.
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| The Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation will meet on Monday 22nd May at 4.30 p.m. to consider the draft Code of Practice: Access to Workers during Recognition and Derecognition Ballots.
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| The Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation will meet on Wednesday 24th May at 4.30 p.m. to consider the Government's assessment as set out in the Financial Statement and Budget Report 2000-01 and the Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report 2000-01, for the purposes of Section 5 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993.
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