+ indicates Government business.
Timings are indicative only.
| Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development |
| *1 |
Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): What aid is being given to (a) the Ilois people and (b) the Chagos Islanders.
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178961
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| *2 |
Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): What encouragement his Department gives to debt for nature swaps.
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178962
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| *3 |
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough): If he will make a statement on access to energy for the world's poorest people.
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178963
) |
| *4 |
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): If he will make a statement on the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe.
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178964
) |
| *5 |
Tony Baldry (Banbury): What proportion of his Department's budget he expects to be spent in Africa through budget support in the next financial year.
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178965
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| *6 |
Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): If he will make a statement on British aid to Somalia.
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178966
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| *7 |
Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): What aid his Department is giving to refugees and internally displaced persons in Serbia and Montenegro.
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178967
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| *8 |
Mr Colin Pickthall (West Lancashire): What assessment he has made of current development priorities for Montserrat.
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178968
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| *9 |
Mr John Lyons (Strathkelvin & Bearsden): How his Department is contributing to relief aid in Sudan.
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178969
) |
| *10 |
Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): When he expects to publish his Department's strategy for HIV/AIDS.
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178970
) |
| *11 |
Julia Drown (South Swindon): What recent discussions he has had on increasing the UK's overseas development assistance to 0.7 per cent. of gross national income by 2008.
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178971
) |
| *12 |
Kali Mountford (Colne Valley): If he will make a statement on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in West Africa.
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178972
) |
| *13 |
Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): If he will make an official visit to the British Virgin Islands to discuss the impact of EU directives.
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178973
) |
| *14 |
Mr John Wilkinson (Ruislip - Northwood): What UK development aid has been allocated to (a) Ecuador, (b) Peru and (c) Bolivia for financial year 2004-05.
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178974
) |
| *15 |
Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): What progress has been made towards achieving universal primary education in South Asia.
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178975
) |
Preliminary Business |
| Notice of Presentation of Bill
|
| 1 | DIRECTORS' AND EMPLOYEES' PENSIONS (PROVISION OF
INFORMATION)
[No debate]
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| |
| Bill to require companies to provide information about payments in respect of directors' and employees' pensions.
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| Formal first reading: no debate or decision.
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| Ten minute rule Motion
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| 2 | MARINE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
[Up to 20 minutes]
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| That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to nature conservation and the protection of wildlife in respect of the marine environment; to provide enforcement powers for marine wildlife conservation to competent marine authorities; and for connected purposes.
|
| The Sixth Report of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee of Session 2003-04, on Marine Environment, HC
76, is relevant.
|
| The Member moving and a Member opposing this Motion may each speak for up to ten minutes (Standing Order No. 23).
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|
COMMITTEES |
|
| 1 | European Standing Committee A | 2.00 p.m. | Room 10 (public) |
| To consider EU Document No. 15409/03 relating to the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH). |
| 2 | First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation | 2.30 p.m. | Room 12 (public) |
| To consider the Architects (Professional Conduct Committee) Amendment Order 2004 (S.I., 2004, No. 655). |
|
| 3 | Education and Skills | 9.15 a.m.
9.30 a.m. | The Wilson Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Public Expenditure. |
| Witnesses: David Normington CB, Permanent Secretary, and Stephen Kershaw, Director, School Workforce Unit, Department for Education and Skills. |
| 4 | Modernisation of the House of Commons | 9.30 a.m. | Room 18 (private) |
| 5 | Work and Pensions | 9.30 a.m.
9.45 a.m. | Toynbee Hall, Tower Hamlets (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Service Delivery to Minority Ethnic Customers. |
| Witnesses: Local Government Association; Greenwich Welfare Rights Service, Hounslow Welfare Benefits and Money Advice Unit, London Borough of Newham Social Regeneration Unit (at approximately 10.45 a.m.). |
| 6 | Catering | 10.00 a.m. | Room 7 (private) |
| 7 | European Scrutiny | 10.20 a.m.
10.30 a.m. | Room 19 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Competition policy in the draft EU treaty. |
| Witness: Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. |
| 8 | Procedure | 2.00 p.m. | Room 17 (private) |
| 9 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 2.15 p.m.
2.30 p.m. | The Wilson Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: The Departmental Annual Report 2004. |
| Witness: Sir Brian Bender, Permanent Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. |
| 10 | Administration | 2.30 p.m. | Room 18 (private) |
| 11 | Defence | 2.30 p.m.
3.00 p.m. | Room 15 (private) |
| Subject: Duty of Care. |
| Witnesses: Institution of Occupational Safety and Health; Centre for Hazard and Risk Management, Loughborough University (at approximately 4.30 p.m.). |
| 12 | Transport | 2.30 p.m.
2.45 p.m. | The Grimond Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: European Community Competence and Transport. |
| Witnesses: Strategic Rail Authority and Network Rail; Association of Train Operating Companies (at approximately 3.30 p.m.); English Welsh and Scottish Railway (at approximately 4.15 p.m.). |
| 13 | Welsh Affairs | 3.00 p.m. | Room 19 (private) |
| 14 | Environmental Audit | 3.30 p.m.
3.50 p.m. | Room 20 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Housing: Building a Sustainable Future? |
| Witnesses: Friends of the Earth; WWF (at approximately 4.25 p.m.); Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) (at approximately 5.00 p.m.). |
| 15 | Public Accounts | 3.30 p.m. | Room 6 (public) |
| Subject: Tackling cancer in England: saving more lives. |
| Witnesses: Sir Nigel Crisp KCB, Permanent Secretary/NHS Chief Executive, and Professor Mike Richards CBE, National Cancer Director, Department of Health. |
| 16 | Selection | 4.45 p.m. | Room 13 (private) |
| 17 | Liaison | 5.30 p.m. | The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House (private) |
PRIVATE BILL COMMITTEE |
| 18 | Unopposed BillsMedway Council Bill | 2.30 p.m. | Room 9 (public) |
JOINT COMMITTEES |
| 19 | Draft Charities Bill | 9.00 a.m.
9.05 a.m. | Room 5 (private)
(public) |
| Witnesses: Centre for Volunteering, Association of Charitable Foundations, Governance Works; Charity Law Association (at approximately 10.25 a.m.) |
| 20 | Human Rights | 4.15 p.m.
4.45 p.m. | The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Counter-Terrorism Powers Review. |
| Witnesses: (i) Rt Hon Lord Carlile of Berriew QC (ii) Rt Hon Lord Newton of Braintree and Rt Hon Baroness Hayman. |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.] |
