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 the Home Department |
| *1 |
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): If he will make a statement on the cost of police pensions.
|
|
|
(
98756
) |
| *2 |
Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): What discussions he has had with his counterparts in other EU countries regarding the asylum system.
|
|
|
(
98757
) |
| *3 |
Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): What estimate he has made of how many people will be seeking asylum in the UK in September 2003.
|
|
|
(
98759
) |
| *4 |
Andy Burnham (Leigh): What representations his Department has received on the consultation on compulsory identity cards.
|
|
|
(
98760
) |
| *5 |
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): When he expects to bring into force section 4 of the Asylum, Immigration and Nationality Act 2002; and if he will make a statement.
|
|
|
(
98761
) |
| *6 |
Ross Cranston (Dudley North): If he will make a statement on the work of his Department's Active Community Unit.
|
|
|
(
98762
) |
| *7 |
Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): What target he has set for the removal of failed asylum seekers.
|
|
|
(
98763
) |
| *8 |
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): If he will make a statement on the powers of the police to move on people who illegally occupy land and open spaces.
|
|
|
(
98764
) |
| *9 |
Bob Russell (Colchester): How many Polish citizens are due to be deported prior to the planned date for Poland's accession to membership of the European Union.
|
|
|
(
98765
) |
| *10 |
Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): What steps he is taking to tackle anti-social behaviour.
|
|
|
(
98766
) |
| *11 |
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): What plans he has to reduce the number of people with mental illness in prison.
|
|
|
(
98767
) |
| *12 |
John Robertson (Glasgow, Anniesland): If he will make a statement on police procedure for investigating unsolved murders in cases where the original conviction has been overturned.
|
|
|
(
98768
) |
| *13 |
Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): Whether the Government plans to renegotiate the UK's treaty obligations with regard to asylum seekers.
|
|
|
(
98769
) |
| *14 |
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): If he will make a statement on progress made in the introduction of UK-provided freight search technology in ports in (a) Northern France and (b) Belgium.
|
|
|
(
98770
) |
| *15 |
Angela Watkinson (Upminster): What assessment he has made of the deterrent effect of custodial sentences for household burglary.
|
|
|
(
98772
) |
| *16 |
Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): What plans he has to reduce the paperwork of police officers.
|
|
|
(
98773
) |
| *17 |
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): If he will make a statement on policing in North Yorkshire.
|
|
|
(
98774
) |
| *18 |
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): If he will make a statement on the future of police forensic services.
|
|
|
(
98775
) |
| *19 |
Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): If he will make a statement on recent measures to combat street crime.
|
|
|
(
98776
) |
| *20 |
Mr John MacDougall (Central Fife): What extra resources he has committed to the fight against terrorism; and if he will make a statement.
|
|
|
(
98776
) |
| *21 |
Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan): What representations he has received about the proposed closure of Barry Probation Office; and if he will make a statement.
|
|
|
(
98778
) |
| *22 |
Mr David Heath (Somerton & Frome): What the average increase in council tax precept for police authorities in England and Wales for 2003-04 is, expressed as a percentage of 2002-03 levels.
|
|
|
(
98779
) |
| *23 |
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): What proportion of offenders convicted in 2002 between the ages of 16 and 18 left school with no qualifications.
|
|
|
(
98780
) |
| At 3.30 p.m. | Urgent Questions (if any)
Ministerial Statements (if any) |
Main Business |
| + 1 | INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) BILL: Second Reading.
[Until 10.00 p.m.]
|
| Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Tim Yeo
Mr Crispin Blunt
Mr Henry Bellingham
Mr Andrew Robathan
David Maclean
|
| That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Industrial Development (Financial Assistance) Bill because it amends section 8(5) of the Industrial Development Act 1982 in a way that diminishes accountability to Parliament on the levels of future financial assistance to industry.
|
| Debate may continue until 10.00 p.m.
|
| + 2 | INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) BILL [MONEY]: Queen's recommendation signified.
[No debate]
|
| |
| That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Industrial Development (Financial Assistance) Bill, it is expedient to authorise any increase in sums paid out of money provided by Parliament attributable to provisions of the Act—
|
| (a) increasing the sum of £1,900 million specified in section 8(5) of the Industrial Development Act 1982 to £3,700 million, and
|
| (b) increasing the sum of £200 million so specified to £600 million.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 52(1)(a).
|
| + 3 | IMPROVING SAFETY AT SEA
[No debate]
|
| |
| That this House takes note of European Union Documents No. 15301/02, Commission Communication on improving safety at sea, and No. 5111/03, draft Regulation on the accelerated phasing in of double hull or equivalent design requirements for single hull oil tankers; and supports the Government's continuing commitment to working within the European Union and the International Maritime Organisation to that end.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 119(9)).
|
| + 4 | COMBATING CORRUPTION IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR
[No debate]
|
| |
| That this House takes note of European Union Document No. 12249/2/02, on Combating Corruption in the Private Sector; considers it to be an acceptable replacement for the Joint Action on Corruption in the Private Sector of 22 December 1998; and supports the Government's efforts to secure agreement to this Framework Decision.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 119(9)).
|
| + 5 | NORTHERN IRELAND
[No debate]
|
| |
| That the draft Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003, which was laid before this House on 20th January, be approved.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
|
| + 6 | LIBRARIES
[No debate]
|
| |
| That the draft Public Lending Right (Increase of Limit) Order 2003, which was laid before this House on 28th January, be approved.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
|
| + 7 | DELEGATED LEGISLATION
[No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
|
| |
| That the following Statutory Instruments be referred to Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation: the Education (Determination of Admission Arrangements) (Amendment) (England) Regulations (S.I., 2002, No. 2896), the Education (School Information) (England) Regulations (S.I., 2002, No. 2897), the Education (Variation of Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations (S.I., 2002, No. 2898), the Education (Admissions Appeals Arrangements) (England) Regulations (S.I., 2002, No. 2899), the Education (Admission Forums) (England) Regulations (S.I., 2002, No. 2900), the Education (Objection to Admission Arrangements) (Amendment) (England) Regulations (S.I., 2002, No. 2901), the Education (Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (Primary Schools) (England) Regulations (S.I., 2002, No. 2903), the Education (Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (Secondary Schools) (England) Regulations (S.I., 2002, No. 2904) and the Education (Modification of Provisions) (No. 2) (England) Regulations (S.I., 2002, No. 2953).
|
| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.
|
| At the end of the sitting
|
| 8 | ADJOURNMENT
|
| Proposed subject: Law and order in Hertfordshire (Mr James Clappison).
|
| Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).
|
COMMITTEES |
|
| 1 | Standing Committee E | 6.00 p.m. | Room 7 (private) |
| (Programming Sub-Committee) (Police (Northern Ireland) Bill). |
|
| 2 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis Sub-Committee | 4.00 p.m.
4.05 p.m. | The Grimond Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis. |
| Witnesses: Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB; Mr Elliot Morley MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. |
| 3 | Public Accounts | 4.00 p.m. | Room 15 (public) |
| Subject: Ensuring the effective discharge of older patients from NHS acute hospitals. |
| Witnesses: Sir Nigel Crisp KCB, Permanent Secretary, Department of Health and NHS Chief Executive, and Ms Denise Platt CBE, Chief Inspector, Social Services Inspectorate. |
JOINT COMMITTEE |
| 4 | Human Rights | 4.30 p.m. | Room 3A (private) |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.] |
Written Ministerial Statements to be made today |
| 1 | Deputy Prime Minister: Business Tenancies Regulatory Reform Order. |
| 2 | Deputy Prime Minister: Supporting People Budget Announcement. |
| 3 | Deputy Prime Minister: Your Region, Your Choice: Involving Stakeholders in the Work of Elected Regional Assemblies in England. |
| 4 | Deputy Prime Minister: Special Grant Report in Aid of the Revenues of the London Borough of Hackney in 2002-03. |
| 5 | Secretary of State for Trade and Industry: British Energy. |
| 6 | Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Announcement of appointment of UK Special Representative for Nepal. |
| 7 | Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Laying of the Explanatory Memorandum on the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. |
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