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.
| Afterwards | Private Notice Questions (if any)
Ministerial Statements (if any) |
Preliminary Business |
| Notices of Presentation of Bills
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| + 1 | HUNTING [No debate]
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| Mr Secretary Straw
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| Bill to make provision about hunting wild mammals with dogs.
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| Formal first reading: no debate or decision.
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| + 2 | VEHICLES (CRIME) [No debate]
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| Mr Secretary Straw
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| Bill to regulate motor salvage operators and registration plate suppliers; to make further provision for preventing or detecting vehicle crime; to enable the Lord Chancellor to make payments in respect of certain costs relating to magistrates' courts which are attributable to vehicle crime; and for connected purposes.
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| Formal first reading: no debate or decision.
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| Notice of Motion
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| + 3 | WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE [No debate]
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| Margaret Beckett
Mr Secretary Murphy
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| That the matter of the Government's Legislative Programme as outlined in the Queen's Speech and the Chancellor's Pre-Budget statement as they relate to Wales be referred to the Welsh Grand Committee for its consideration.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 107).
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Main Business |
| + 4 | WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE [No debate]
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| Margaret Beckett
Mr Secretary Murphy
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| That the Welsh Grand Committee shall meet on Monday 11th December at half past ten o'clock and between four o'clock and six o'clock at Westminster to consider the matter of the Government's Legislative Programme as outlined in the Queen's Speech and the Chancellor's Pre-Budget statement as they relate to Wales, under Standing Order No. 107 (Welsh Grand Committee (matters relating exclusively to Wales)).
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 108).
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| + 5 | QUEEN'S SPEECH (MOTION FOR AN ADDRESS): Adjourned Debate on Question [6th December]. [Until 7.00 p.m.]
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| Motion made, and Question proposed, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows:
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| We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament— (Sir John Morris).
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| Proposed subjects for debate: Health and Social Security.
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| Debate may continue until 7.00 p.m.
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| At the end of the sitting:
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| 6 | ADJOURNMENT
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| Proposed subject: Care for younger disabled people: the case of Mr Barrie Such (Mr Peter Luff).
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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 20th November 2000). |
COMMITTEE MEETINGS |
SELECT COMMITTEES |
| 1 | Health | 10.00 a.m.
10.30 a.m. | Room 8 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Public Health. |
| Witnesses: Local Government Association, and NHS Confederation; Kirklees Metropolitan Council, County Durham Health Authority, West Surrey Health Authority and Manchester Health Authority. |
| 2 | Standards and Privileges | 10.00 a.m. | Room 13 (private) |
| 3 | Home Affairs | 10.30 a.m. | Room P, Portcullis
House (private) |
| 4 | Trade and Industry | 11.30 a.m. | Room 7 (private) |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.] |
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Written Questions tabled on Wednesday 6th December for answer today++
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| 1 |
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge and Chryston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to implement the provisions of the Children (Leaving Care) Bill.
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(
141300
) |
| 2 |
Alice Mahon (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the annual report of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
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(
141301
) |
| 3 |
Dr George Turner (North West Norfolk): To ask the Prime Minister, what additional projects are planned for the Performance and Innovation Unit; and if he will make a statement.
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(
141302
) |
| 4 |
Mr Christopher Leslie (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what goods, subject to strategic export controls, have recently been approved for export to Iraq.
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(
141390
) |
| 5 |
Ms Rosie Winterton (Doncaster Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he plans to make an announcement about the distribution to local authorities of housing capital resources for 2001-2002.
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(
141391
) |
| 6 |
Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the pig industry restructuring scheme will open for applications; and if he will make a statement.
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(
141512
) |
| 7 |
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he inends to issue statutory guidance to local authorities on community strategies.
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|
(
141513
) |
| 8 |
Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth): To ask the Solicitor General, when the Attorney General's guidelines on the Acceptance of Pleas by the prosecution in criminal proceedings will be published.
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|
(
141514
) |
| 9 |
Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how he intends to carry forward the recommendations of the Dog Identification Group on the permanent identification of dogs.
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|
(
141619
) |
| 10 |
Mr Fraser Kemp (Houghton and Washington East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what progress has been made in response to the transport recommendations of the DRTF report `From Exclusion to Inclusion'.
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|
(
141620
) |
| 11 |
Mr Lawrie Quinn (Scarborough and Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what amendment has been made to the exemption order for the fleet of new Class 460 trains introduced into service by Gatwick Express in respect of any of the provisions of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998; and if he will make a statement.
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|
(
141621
) |
| 12 |
Mr Paul Clark (Gillingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what increase in road traffic there has been since the Hatfield train derailment.
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|
(
141622
) |
| 13 |
Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what progress there has been on the review of maternity pay and parental leave.
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|
(
141937
) |
| 14 |
Mr Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans he has to improve the value of investment in Measurement Research to the economy.
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|
(
141938
) |
| 15 |
Barbara Follett (Stevenage): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement about recent developments in the preparation of secondary legislation under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
|
|
(
142033
) |
Standing Committee Notices |
| The Welsh Grand Committee on will meet on Monday 11th December at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. to consider the matter of the Government's Legislative Programme and the Chancellor's Pre-Budget statement as they relate to Wales.
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| European Standing Committee A will meet on Monday 11th December at 4.30 p.m. to consider the Unnumbered Explanatory Memorandum dated 28th November 2000, submitted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on the total allowable catches and quotas for 2001.
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Adjournment Debates Westminster Hall
| Adjournment Debates in Westminster Hall will resume on Thursday 14th December. Applications for Tuesday 19th and Wednesday 20th December should reach the Speaker's Office by 10 p.m. (or the rising of the House if earlier) on Tuesday 12th December.
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