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 Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): If she will make a statement on her policies to promote tourism to England.
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(
43142
) |
| *2 |
John Robertson (Glasgow, Anniesland): What action she is taking to ensure equality of access to digital television.
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(
43143
) |
| *3 |
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): What the intended use is of the former King Edward VII Convalescent Home for Officers, Osborne.
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(
43144
) |
| *4 |
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): When the Government plans to bring forward legislation on gambling.
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(
43145
) |
| *5 |
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): If she will make a statement on the progress being made to ensure a fairer distribution of Lottery funds following the introduction of the Fair Shares policy.
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(
43146
) |
| *6 |
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): What representations she has received from the existing regulators with regard to the shadow Ofcom.
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(
43147
) |
| *7 |
Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford & Southend East): What the total sum of unclaimed Lottery prizes was at the most recent date for which figures are available; and what is the largest single unclaimed amount.
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(
43148
) |
| *8 |
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): If she will make a statement on the requirements of broadcasting legislation that television drama based on recent historical events should be treated with due impartiality.
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(
43149
) |
| *9 |
Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire): How much the National Lottery has raised to date; and how much has been spent in Bedfordshire.
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(
43150
) |
| *10 |
Mike Gapes (Ilford South): If she will make a statement on her Department's support for the British music industry.
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(
43151
) |
| *11 |
Mr Mike Hall (Weaver Vale): What meetings she has held with officials at Buckingham Palace regarding the celebrations for the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
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(
43152
) |
| *12 |
Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): What plans her Department has for BBC finances.
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(
43153
) |
| *13 |
Tony Cunningham (Workington): What support the Department is giving to Cumbria for celebrations during the International Year of the Mountains.
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(
43154
) |
| *14 |
Mrs Anne Campbell (Cambridge): What action she plans to take in respect of museums in Cambridge following the Museums and Galleries Task Force.
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(
43155
) |
| *15 |
Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): Whether it is the policy of the Government that there should be a national sports stadium.
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(
43156
) |
| *16 |
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): If she will make a statement on Government support for local sports clubs.
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(
43157
) |
| *17 |
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): What work her Department will carry out to support the Government's public health objective of promoting healthy living in 2002-03.
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(
43158
) |
| *18 |
Andy Burnham (Leigh): If she will make a statement on support for grassroots rugby league from the National Lottery.
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(
43159
) |
| *19 |
Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): If she will make a statement on the distribution of New Opportunities Fund National Lottery money, with specific reference to demographic area.
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(
43160
) |
| *20 |
Mr Jonathan R. Shaw (Chatham & Aylesford): What assessment she has made of the progress being made by the arts education pilot projects under the Creative Partnership Scheme.
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(
43161
) |
| *21 |
Jim Dobbin (Heywood & Middleton): If she will make a statement on the contribution of volunteers to sports coaching, with special reference to schools.
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(
43162
) |
| *22 |
Hugh Bayley (City of York): What representations the Government has made to the Football Association and other football bodies about the sale of club grounds without making alternative provision for training and games.
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(
43163
) |
| *23 |
Paul Clark (Gillingham): Whether she has met the English Tourist Council to discuss the acceptance of euro notes and coins.
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(
43165
) |
| *24 |
Paul Flynn (Newport West): If she will visit the Film School at Newport, Gwent.
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(
43166
) |
| *25 |
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): If she will introduce an advertising campaign to encourage people to take up exercise and sport and to make the most of local council sporting facilities.
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(
43167
) |
| *26 |
Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): What steps the Government is taking to support regional theatres in Lancashire and the North West.
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(
43168
) |
| *27 |
Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): What estimate she has made of the total value of National Lottery ticket sales to date.
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(
43169
) |
| *28 |
Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): If she will make a statement on future funding for the portable antiquities scheme.
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(
43170
) |
| Oral Questions to the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission and the Right honourable Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission |
| *29 |
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Right honourable Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent discussions the Electoral Commission has had with the Government on the reduction of the minimum age for voting.
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(
43172
) |
| *30 |
Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, what recent discussions the Church Commissioners have had to bring the Church of England within the jurisdiction of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.
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(
43173
) |
| *31 |
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, what advice the Commissioners are giving dioceses concerning expenditure on the celebration of Her Majesty the Queen's Golden Jubilee; and if he will make a statement.
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(
43174
) |
| *32 |
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church Commissioners are taking to encourage individual PCCs to undertake maintenance of church buildings.
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(
43175
) |
| *33 |
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, how many accidents involving hunting with dogs on church lands have been notified to them since 1995.
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(
43176
) |
| *34 |
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Right honourable Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what consideration the Electoral Commission has given to the use of incentives to encourage voter participation in elections.
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(
43177
) |
| *35 |
Mike Gapes (Ilford South): To ask the Right honourable Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, when he next plans to meet the Chairman of the Electoral Commission to discuss electoral abuses during the 1997 General Election.
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(
43178
) |
| *36 |
Martin Linton (Battersea): To ask the Right honourable Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether it has asked the Electoral Commission to report on the desirability of an upper limit on donations from private individual to political parties.
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(
43179
) |
| *37 |
Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, if he will make a statement on the resources made available to the National Audit Office for its inquiries into the Individual Learning Account scheme.
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(
43180
) |
| *38 |
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, what estimate he has made of the increase in funding within diocesan resources required in 2002-03 to replace Church Commissioners' funding.
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(
43181
) |
| *39 |
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will make a statement on poverty amongst clergy members.
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(
43182
) |
| *40 |
Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will make a statement on clergy contracts of employment.
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(
43183
) |
| *41 |
Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will make a statement on the contribution made by the Church Commissioners to clergy stipends and pensions.
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(
43184
) |
| *42 |
David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, what recent submissions relating to the future of the final salary scheme for retired clergy have been made to the Commissioners; and if he will make a statement.
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(
43185
) |
| *43 |
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Right honourable Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what reviews the Commission has undertaken into allowing electors to vote at any polling station.
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(
43186
) |
| At 3.30 p.m. | Private Notice Questions (if any)
Ministerial Statements (if any) |
Main Business |
| + 1 | STATE PENSION CREDIT BILL [LORDS]: Second Reading. [Until 10.00 p.m.]
|
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Charles Kennedy
Mr David Willetts
Steve Webb
Mr Simon Thomas
The Reverend Martin Smyth
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| David Maclean
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| That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the State Pension Credit Bill [Lords] because it involves a further move towards the mass means-testing of the pensioner population; believes that it will greatly increase the complexity of the pension system both for today's pensioners and for future generations, will result in many pensioners missing out on their entitlements, and will serve to erode incentives to save; and believes that the additional expenditure would have been better directed towards the basic state pension, particularly for older pensioners.
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| The Minutes of Evidence taken before the Work and Pensions Committee on Wednesday 27th February relating to the Pension Credit, HC 638-i, are relevant.
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| Debate may continue until 10.00 p.m.
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| + 2 | STATE PENSION CREDIT BILL [LORDS] (PROGRAMME) [No debate]
|
| Mr Robin Cook
Mr Secretary Darling
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| That the following provisions shall apply to the State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]:
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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 other 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 Tuesday 30th April 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 | STATE PENSION CREDIT BILL [LORDS] [MONEY]: Queen's Recommendation signified. [No debate]
|
| Mr Paul Boateng
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| That for the purposes of any Act resulting from the State Pension Credit Bill [Lords], it is expedient to authorise—
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| (1) the payment out of money provided by Parliament of—
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| (a) any sums payable by way of state pension credit;
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| (b) any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State or other government department under or by virtue of the Act; and
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| (c) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other Act; and
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| (2) the payment into the Consolidated Fund of any increase attributable to the Act in the sums which under any other Act are payable into that Fund.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order 52(1)(a)).
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| + 4 | WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE [No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
|
| Robin Cook
Mr Secretary Murphy
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|
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| (1) the matter of the Budget Statement and its implications for Wales, being a matter relating exclusively to Wales, be referred to the Welsh Grand Committee for its consideration;
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| (2) the Committee shall meet on Wednesday 24th April at half-past Ten o'clock and between Four o'clock and Six o'clock at Westminster to take questions under Standing Order No. 103 (Welsh Grand Committee (questions for oral answer)), and to consider the Budget Statement and its implications for Wales, under Standing Order No. 107 (Welsh Grand Committee (matters relating exclusively to Wales)).
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
|
| At the end of the sitting
|
| 5 | ADJOURNMENT
|
| Proposed subject: Farming in Somerset (Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger).
|
| Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9.).
|
COMMITTEES |
|
| 1 | Science and Technology | 4.00 p.m.
4.15 p.m. | Room 15 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Science Education from 14 to 19. |
| Witnesses: Science Teachers, Technicians and Further Education Science Lecturers; Association of Colleges, and Association for Science Education (at 5.30 p.m.) |
| 2 | Information | 4.30 p.m. | The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House (private) |
| 3 | Public Accounts | 4.30 p.m. | Room 8 (public) |
| Subject: Opening the Post: Postcomm and postal services—the risks and opportunities. |
| Witnesses: Mr John Roberts CBE, Chief Executive, Marisa Cassoni, Group Finance Director, and Mr Stuart Sweetman, Group Managing Director, Strategy and Business Development, Consignia. |
| 4 | Health | 5.00 p.m. | Room 16 (private) |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.] |
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| |
Written Questions tabled on Friday 22nd March for answer today++
|
| 1 |
Ian Stewart (Eccles): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a further statement on measures for business in relation to the Pre-Budget Report in November 2001.
|
|
(
46549
) |
| 2 |
Barbara Follett (Stevenage): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what further developments there have been as a result of the Tax Law Rewrite Project.
|
|
(
46550
) |
| 3 |
Ian Stewart (Eccles): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the tax treatment of settlements between employers and employees to implement the House of Lords decision in the Preston case.
|
|
(
46642
) |
| 4 |
Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli, Pembrokeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the future organisational arrangments for Government debt and asset management.
|
|
(
46643
) |
| 5 |
Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli, Pembrokeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what the compliance statistics for working families' tax credit were in the nine months to 31st December 2001; and what the comparable statistics were in the previous year.
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|
(
46644
) |
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