+ indicates Government business.
Timings are indicative only.
| Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
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Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): What steps she is taking to restrict turkey meat imports from Brazil which (a) are mis-described and (b) fail to comply with EU vaccine rules.
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113298
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| *2 |
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): If she will make a statement on the mid-term CAP review and its implications for British farmers.
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113299
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| *3 |
John Robertson (Glasgow, Anniesland): What progress has been made on meeting the National Air Quality Strategy targets.
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113300
) |
| *4 |
Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): If she will make a statement on the outcomes of the 11th meeting of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development.
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113301
) |
| *5 |
Mr Martin Salter (Reading West): How much public money has been spent by her Department over the last seven years on research into predation of inland fisheries by cormorants; and what conclusions have been reached.
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113303
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| *6 |
Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): If she will take steps to encourage the inclusion of animal welfare considerations in bilateral agreements on food imports.
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113304
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| *7 |
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): How many small to medium sized abattoirs there are in England.
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113305
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| *8 |
Tom Cox (Tooting): What the value was of food exported from the UK to member states of the European Union in the last year for which figures are available.
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113306
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| *9 |
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): What measures she will take to relieve regulatory burdens on farmers.
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113308
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| *10 |
Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): If she will make a statement on her Department's strategy for promoting recycling.
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113309
) |
| *11 |
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): What plans she has to change the law to make it easier for water companies to provide mains sewerage to rural villages.
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113310
) |
| *12 |
Mr Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central): If she will make a statement on the Packaging Waste Regulation and wood products.
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113311
) |
| *13 |
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): If she will make a statement on the Government's aims at the next Fisheries Council meeting.
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113312
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Mr Win Griffiths (Bridgend): What plans she has to visit Cardiff to discuss agricultural issues of mutual interest with the First Secretary and other relevant Secretaries of the Welsh Assembly Government.
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113313
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| *15 |
Bob Spink (Castle Point): What discussions she has had with the Environment Agency on smells affecting communities.
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113314
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| *16 |
Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): What action she will take to protect the Darwin Mounds.
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113315
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| *17 |
Mr David Drew (Stroud): If she will make a statement on the consultation process for GM crops.
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113316
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| *18 |
Mr Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North & Leith): What assessment she has made of progress in reforming the Common Agricultural Policy.
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113317
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| *19 |
Bob Russell (Colchester): If she will visit Colchester to inspect sites put forward by Essex County Council for waste incinerators.
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113318
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| *20 |
Helen Jackson (Sheffield, Hillsborough): If she will make a statement on the prospects for farming businesses in upland areas.
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113319
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| *21 |
Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): What proportion of carbon dioxide emissions was attributable to the steel industry in each of the last three years.
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113321
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| *22 |
Mr John Wilkinson (Ruislip - Northwood): What recent representations she has received regarding the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy.
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113322
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Main Business |
| 1 | OPPOSITION DAY (6th allotted day—first part)
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| | SCHOOL FUNDING
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| Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Damian Green
Mr Tim Boswell
Mr Graham Brady
Mrs Eleanor Laing
Mr Charles Hendry
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| That this House condemns the Government's handling of the school funding crisis; regrets that the jobs of teachers, teaching assistants and other support staff have been put at risk; further regrets that these teacher redundancies, together with other cut backs imposed by the funding crisis, will have a negative impact on the education of school children; notes that Labour councils have been as badly affected as Conservative councils by the funding crisis; condemns the Government for seeking to blame local authorities for this crisis; further notes the statements of head teachers and governors across England who no longer trust the Government's ability to administer school funding; recognises the impact of the funding crisis on the Government's teacher workload agreement; believes that the Government's flawed reforms of school funding are to blame for the crisis; and calls on the Government to simplify the school funding system, giving more money direct to schools and giving head teachers more control over how to spend that money.
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| As Amendments to Mr Iain Duncan Smith's proposed Motion (School Funding):
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| The Prime Minister
Mr Secretary Prescott
Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
Mr Secretary Blunkett
Dr John Reid
Mr Secretary Clarke
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| Line 1, leave out from `House' to end and add `applauds the increased funding that the Government has made available to LEAs since 1997, which is up in real terms from £2,800 per pupil to £3,600 for 2003-04, with further planned increases to almost £3,800 by 2005-06; notes that the increase in funding for 2003-04, at £2.7 billion, more than covers the additional cost pressures from pay, pension and price increases; recognises that the new LEA funding formula constitutes a welcome move towards a fairer distribution between LEAs, but coupled with the changes to the Standards Fund has resulted in some turbulence in the system; endorses the action the Government has taken in response, namely to provide a further £11 million to London authorities and £28 million to authorities with the lowest overall increases; further notes that the performance pay grant for 2003-04 has been increased to meet all of schools' commitments arising from the grant provided in 2002-03, and to cover the costs of similar progress for teachers becoming eligible for performance pay in September; welcomes the decision by the great majority of LEAs to pass on in full the increase in schools funding to their schools budgets; supports the work the Government is doing with LEAs to understand the decisions they have taken in distributing their funding between central services and the individual budgets of schools; welcomes the further measures the Secretary of State is taking to provide LEAs and schools with flexibilities to avoid excessive instability within schools; and calls on the Government to consider what changes are needed for next year.'.
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| Mr Charles Kennedy
Mr Phil Willis
Mr David Rendel
Dr John Pugh
Paul Holmes
Mr Andrew Stunell
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| Line 5, leave out from `children' to end and add `and in particular the most vulnerable; notes that councils of all political persuasions have been badly affected by the funding crisis; further condemns the Government for not anticipating the funding crisis despite warnings from the Liberal Democrats and then seeking to blame local authorities for the crisis; notes the concerns of headteachers and governors across England who are struggling to maintain high standards in the face of the Government's inability adequately to resource their schools; recognises that the funding crisis puts under threat the teacher workload agreement jointly signed by the majority of teacher associations, employers and the Government; believes that the crisis is largely due to the failure of the Government adequately to reform the legacy of inequality inherited from previous Conservative administrations; and calls on the Government to resolve the immediate crisis by allowing schools to use devolved capital for revenue purposes, postpone for one year the changes to the employers' contribution to teachers' pensions and use departmental underspends from 2002-03 to fund the compression of the teachers' pay scale.'.
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| The selection of the matters to be debated this day has been made by the Leader of the Opposition (Standing Order No. 14(2)).
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| Proceedings may continue, notwithstanding Standing Order No. 14(2)(c)(i), for three hours or until Four o'clock, whichever is later and shall then lapse if not previously concluded (Order of 12th May).
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| + 2 | ADJOURNMENT
[Until 7.00 p.m.]
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| That this House do now adjourn.
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| Proposed subject for debate: Developing a national skills strategy.
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| Debate may continue until 7.00 p.m., if the 6.00 p.m. Business Motion is agreed to.
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| At 6.00 p.m.
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| + | BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE [No debate]
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| That, at this day's sitting, the Motion in the name of the Prime Minister may be proceeded with, though opposed, until Seven o'clock.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 15).
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| + 3 | STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES
[No debate after 6.00 p.m.]
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| That Mr Derek Foster be added to the Committee on Standards and Privileges.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 6.00 p.m.
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| At the end of the sitting
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| 4 | ADJOURNMENT
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| Proposed subject: Imprisonment of Mr George Atkinson in Dubai (Mr Desmond Swayne).
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| Debate may continue until 6.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9 and Order of 29th October 2002).
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| The Speaker shall not adjourn the House until he shall have notified the Royal Assent to any Act agreed upon by both Houses (Order of 8th May).
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COMMITTEES |
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| 1 | Standing Committee B | 8.55 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 10 (public)
(public) |
| To consider the Finance Bill. |
| 2 | Standing Committee D | 8.55 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 9 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the Licensing Bill [Lords]. |
| 3 | Standing Committee E | 8.55 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 14 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill. |
| 4 | Standing Committee F | 9.25 a.m. | Room 12 (public) |
| To consider the Equine Welfare (Ragwort Control) Bill. |
| 5 | Standing Committee G | 9.10 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 11 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the Anti-social Behaviour Bill. |
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| 6 | Environmental Audit: Education for Sustainable Development Sub-Committee | 9.30 a.m.
9.50 a.m. | Room 20 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Learning the Sustainability Lesson. |
| Witnesses: Learning and Skills Council (LSC), and Learning Skills Development Agency (LSDA). |
| 7 | Health | 10.00 a.m.
10.30 a.m. | Room 15 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Responsibilities of David Lammy MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health. |
| Witness: Mr David Lammy MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health. |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.] |
