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.
| Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport |
| *1 |
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): What recent meetings she has had with English Heritage about giving children free access to their sites.
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(
26164
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| *2 |
Mr Jim Marshall (Leicester South): What steps the Government is taking to support regional theatre in Leicester.
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(
26165
) |
| *3 |
Helen Jones (Warrington North): If she will make a statement on the assistance the Government is giving to the preparations for Manchester's hosting of the Commonwealth Games.
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(
26166
) |
| *4 |
Mr Jimmy Hood (Clydesdale): What plans she has to promote tourism at industrial heritage sites with World Heritage status.
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(
26167
) |
| *5 |
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): If she will make a statement on Government support for athletics in the United Kingdom.
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(
26168
) |
| *6 |
Mr Chris Pond (Gravesham): What discussions she has had with the organisers of Cow Parade 2002.
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(
26169
) |
| *7 |
Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): What plans the Government has to change the statutory framework for the BBC relating to the provision of digital services.
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(
26170
) |
| *8 |
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): If she will make a statement on the recent work of the Independent Television Commission.
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(
26171
) |
| *9 |
Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): What plans she has to take steps to give children free access to heritage sites.
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(
26173
) |
| *10 |
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): If she will make a statement on the impact of the events of 11th September on tourism.
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(
26174
) |
| *11 |
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): If she will make a statement on the Gaming Review.
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(
26175
) |
| *12 |
Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West): What plans she has to visit festivals taking place in Bristol this year.
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(
26176
) |
| *13 |
Mr Colin Pickthall (West Lancashire): What measures she is taking to reduce gambling.
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(
26177
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| *14 |
Brian White (North East Milton Keynes): What plans she has to reform licensing laws.
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(
26179
) |
| *15 |
Patrick Mercer (Newark): If she will make a statement on the effect of the foot and mouth crisis on tourism.
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(
26181
) |
| *16 |
Mr David Rendel (Newbury): What representations she has received with respect to Meridian Television's proposal to shut its Newbury studio.
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(
26183
) |
| *17 |
Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands): If she will make a statement on the future of regional theatres.
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(
26184
) |
| *18 |
Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth): What plans she has to visit the International Film School at University College of Wales, Newport.
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(
26185
) |
| *19 |
Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): What consideration has been given to extending the school sports co-ordinators scheme beyond its target of 2003-04; and if she will make a statement.
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(
26186
) |
| *20 |
Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): If she will increase financial support for tourism in England.
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(
26187
) |
| *21 |
Mr Wayne David (Caerphilly): What plans she has to bring forward licensing reform legislation.
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(
26188
) |
| *22 |
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): On what basis she selected the members of the Cultural Commission for the East of England.
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(
26189
) |
| *23 |
Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham & Morden): What plans she has to bring forward licensing reform legislation.
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(
26190
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| *24 |
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): What encouragement she has given to women's participation in sport.
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26191
) |
| *25 |
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): What proposals she has to increase Library use among low income and socially excluded groups.
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(
26192
) |
| *26 |
Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): What meetings she has had with the English Tourist Council regarding the granting of World Heritage status to the Dorset and East Devon coast.
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(
26193
) |
| *27 |
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): What plans she has to meet representatives of the Football Association to discuss crowd control.
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(
26194
) |
| *28 |
Jane Griffiths (Reading East): If she has met the English Tourist Council to discuss the acceptance of euro notes and coins.
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(
26195
) |
| *29 |
Mr David Lepper (Brighton, Pavilion): What plans she has to increase support to regional theatres and arts venues in Brighton.
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(
26196
) |
| *30 |
Mr Bob Laxton (Derby North): Whether she has met the English Tourist Council to discuss the granting of World Heritage status to Derwent Valley Mills.
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(
26197
) |
| *31 |
Mr Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): How many people visited national museums in December.
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(
26198
) |
| Oral Questions to the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners and to the Right honourable Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission |
| *32 |
Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, if he will make a statement on the Commission's plans for internet voting.
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(
26154
) |
| *33 |
Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what review the Commission plans to carry out of the operation of postal voting in general elections.
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(
26155
) |
| *34 |
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, what recent representations he has received on the reduction of VAT on church repairs through a grants equivalent.
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(
26156
) |
| *35 |
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what assessment the Committee has made of the Electoral Commission's plans to encourage greater participation in the democratic process.
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(
26157
) |
| *36 |
Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, what representations the Church Commissioners have made to the Church of England Children's Society in respect of its decision to cease its activities in Wales.
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(
26158
) |
| *37 |
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, how much was paid by the Church Commissioners for clergy pensions in the last financial year; and what the estimate is for the current financial year.
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(
26159
) |
| *38 |
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, what financial provision is made for improving the personal safety of the clergy on working duty.
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(
26160
) |
| *39 |
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will make a statement on clergy pay and pensions.
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(
26162
) |
| *40 |
Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the anticipated cost would be of conducting a referendum on entry into the euro.
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26163
) |
| At 3.30 p.m. | Private Notice Questions (if any)
Ministerial Statements (if any) |
Main Business |
| + 1 | JUSTICE (NORTHERN IRELAND) BILL: Second Reading. [Until 10.00 p.m.]
|
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith
David Maclean
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Crispin Blunt
|
| That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill because it infringes the principle that justice flows from the Crown throughout the realm; because it introduces aspects to the judicial system which depart from the principle that Northern Ireland is fully a part of the United Kingdom for judicial as well as other purposes; and because it represents a further stage in the policy of unilateral and unbalanced concession to republicanism in Northern Ireland.
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| Debate may continue until 10.00 p.m.
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| + 2 | JUSTICE (NORTHERN IRELAND) BILL (PROGRAMME) [No debate]
|
| Mr Robin Cook
Mr Secretary Reid
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| That the following provisions shall apply to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill:
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| Committal
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| (1) The Bill shall be committed to a Standing Committee.
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| Programming of proceedings
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| (2) All proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the Lords) shall be programmed.
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| Proceedings in Standing Committee
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| (3) Proceedings in the Standing Committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Thursday 14th February 2002.
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| (4) The Standing Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it meets.
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| Consideration and Third Reading
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| (5) Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at Nine o'clock on the day on which those proceedings are commenced or, if that day is a Thursday, at Six o'clock on that day.
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| (6) Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at Ten o'clock on the day on which proceedings on consideration are commenced or, if that day is a Thursday, at Seven o'clock on that day.
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| (7) Sessional Order B (programming committees) made on 28th June 2001 shall not apply to proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.
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| To be decided without debate (Order of 28th June 2001).
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| + 3 | JUSTICE (NORTHERN IRELAND) BILL [MONEY]: Queen's recommendation signified. [No debate]
|
| Mr Paul Boateng
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| That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill, 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 by virtue of the Act, and
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| (b) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable by virtue of any other Act out of money so provided.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 52(1)(a)).
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| + 4 | EMPLOYMENT BILL (PROGRAMME) (No. 2) [No debate]
|
| Mr Robin Cook
Ms Secretary Hewitt
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| That the Order of 27th November 2001 (Employment Bill (Programme)) be amended by the substitution in paragraph 3 (time for conclusion of proceedings in Standing Committee) of the words `at 11.25 a.m. on 24th January' for the words `on 22nd January'.
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| To be decided without debate (Order of 28th June 2001).
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| + 5 | DELEGATED LEGISLATION [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
|
| Mr Robin Cook
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| That the Immigration and Asylum Appeals (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 4014), a copy of which was laid before this House on 17th December 2001, be referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
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| + 6 | DELEGATED LEGISLATION [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
|
| Mr Robin Cook
|
| That the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 4043), a copy of which was laid before this House on 21st December 2001, be referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
|
| + 7 | SIXTH ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION PROGRAMME [No debate]
|
| Mr Michael Meacher
|
| That this House takes note of European Union Document No. 5771/01, a Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the Sixth Environmental Action Programme of the European Community: `Europe 2010: Our future, Our choice', and a Proposal for a draft Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the Community Environmental Action Programme 2001-2010; considers that co-ordinated action at a Community level is the most effective way of addressing the main environmental objectives of the programme; welcomes the strategic approach; agrees with the objectives, particularly the identification of the four priority areas; endorses the emphasis on climate change as an outstanding challenge of the next 10 years and beyond; supports the Government's efforts to ensure that policy is developed on the basis of full analysis of the issues with consideration of the full range of instruments; endorses the Government's position that the programme should be ambitious yet achievable, and that where analysis has not yet been completed detailed targets should be set out in thematic strategies to be developed later; and supports the Government's aim that the programme should give a clear steer on improved and consistent implementation and enforcement.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 119(9)).
|
| + 8 | BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
|
| Mr Robin Cook
|
| That, at the sitting on Wednesday 30th January, notwithstanding Standing Order No. 16 (Proceedings under an Act or on European Union documents), the Speaker shall—
|
| (i) put the Question on any Motion in the name of Mr Secretary Blunkett relating to the Police Grant Report (England and Wales) no later than Seven o'clock; and
| (ii) put the Question on any Motion in the name of Mr Secretary Byers relating to Local Government Finance (England) 2002-03 no later than Ten o'clock.
| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
|
| At the end of the sitting
|
| 9 | ADJOURNMENT
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| Proposed subject: Impact of ragwort on the countryside (Richard Younger-Ross).
|
| Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9.).
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|
COMMITTEES |
|
| 1 | First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation | 4.30 p.m. | Room 9 (public) |
| To consider the draft Police Emblems and Flags Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002. |
| 2 | Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation | 4.30 p.m. | Room 11 (public) |
| To consider the draft Financial Assistance for Industry (Increase of Limit) Order 2002. |
| 3 | Office of Communications Bill [Lords] Programming Sub-Committee (of Standing Committee E) | 6.00 p.m. | Room 13 (private) |
|
| 4 | Welsh Affairs | 11.45 a.m.
12.30 p.m. | Committee Room 3, National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Objective 1 European Funding for Wales. |
| Witnesses: Rt. Hon. Paul Murphy MP, Secretary of State for Wales, Rt. Hon. Rhodri Morgan AM, First Minister, National Assembly for Wales, and officials from HM Treasury, the Department for Trade and Industry and the National Assembly for Wales. |
| 5 | Information | 4.30 p.m. | The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House (private) |
| 6 | Public Accounts | 4.30 p.m. | Room 16 (public) |
| Subject: Modern Policy Making: Ensuring Policies Deliver Value for Money. |
| Witnesses: Mavis McDonald, CB, Permanent Secretary, Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet Office, Professor Ron Amann, Director General, Centre for Management and Policy Studies, Dr David Salisbury, CB, Principal Medical Officer, Communicable Disease Branch, Department of Health, and Mr Stephen Crowne, Acting Director, Standards and Effectiveness Unit, Department of Education and Skills. |
JOINT COMMITTEE |
| 7 | Human Rights | 4.30 p.m. | Room 3A (private) |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.] |
| |
|
| |
Written Questions tabled on Friday 18th January for answer today++
|
| 1 |
Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to begin consultation on proposals for regulations on the dedication of access land under section 16 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.
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|
(
29577
) |
| 2 |
Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on her plans to implement the European Directive on Fixed Term Work.
|
|
(
29578
) |
|
