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 Trade and Industry |
| *1 |
Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): What action her Department is taking to support British firms in bids for reconstruction projects in Iraq.
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(
211107
) |
| *2 |
Angela Watkinson (Upminster): What plans she has to reform the news industry supply chain.
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(
211108
) |
| *3 |
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): What the total budget available to support businesses exhibiting overseas was in each year since 1997.
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(
211109
) |
| *4 |
Mr David Rendel (Newbury): What plans she has to review fair trading regulations with respect to the cinema industry.
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(
211112
) |
| *5 |
Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): How many regulations affecting business her Department introduced in the last year.
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(
211113
) |
| *6 |
Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): If she will make a statement on the future of the UK nuclear power industry.
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(
211114
) |
| *7 |
Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford & Southend East): What estimate she has made of the balance of trade in the current financial year; and what estimate she has made of the balance of trade with the EU in the current financial year.
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(
211117
) |
| *8 |
Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): If she will make a statement on progress in determining the position of former surface workers in relation to the miners' compensation scheme.
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211118
) |
| *9 |
Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): What estimate her Department has made of the number of company insolvencies in 2004.
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(
211120
) |
| *10 |
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): If she will make a statement on the work of the national contact point in respect of allegations made by the UN panel of experts with regard to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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(
211121
) |
| *11 |
Sir Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): What steps she plans to take to increase the level of monitoring of the importation of cashmere knitted garments from China.
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(
211122
) |
| *12 |
Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): What assessment she has made of the standard of postal services in inner London.
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211123
) |
| *13 |
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): What assessment she has made of the UK's future energy generation capability.
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211124
) |
| *14 |
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): What research she has commissioned on pregnant women's experience of employment and employers' attitudes towards them during pregnancy.
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211125
) |
| *15 |
Mr Michael Moore (Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale): If she will make a statement on the future of European Union structural funds.
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(
211126
) |
| Oral Questions to the Minister for Women |
| *16 |
Angela Watkinson (Upminster): If she will make a statement on pay rates for women employed in social care.
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(
211129
) |
| *17 |
David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): What recent assessment she has made of the rates of pay for men and women doing the same job.
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(
211130
) |
| *18 |
Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow Govan): What steps are being taken to encourage submission of evidence and views to the Women and Work Commission.
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(
211131
) |
| *19 |
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): What assessment she has made of progress towards equal pay for equal work for women.
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(
211132
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| *20 |
Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): What steps she is taking to encourage women's representation in politics.
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211133
) |
| *21 |
Mr David Rendel (Newbury): What discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions regarding maternity allowance.
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211134
) |
| At 12.30 p.m. | Urgent Questions (if any)
Ministerial Statements (if any) |
Main Business |
| + 1 | RAILWAYS BILL: As amended in the Standing Committee, to be considered. (Queen's and Prince of Wales's Consent to be signified on Third Reading.)
[Until 6.00 p.m.]
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| For Amendments, see separate Paper.
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| Third Reading will also be taken.
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| Proceedings on Consideration shall, so far as not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 5.00 p.m. and proceedings on Third Reading shall, so far as not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 6.00 p.m. (Order of 6th December 2004).
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| + 2 | CHILD TRUST FUNDS
[No debate]
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| Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
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| That the draft Child Trust Funds (Amendment) Regulations 2005, which were laid before this House on 21st December, be approved.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
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| At the end of the sitting:
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| 3 | ADJOURNMENT
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| Proposed subject: Childhood anaemia (Mr Bob Laxton).
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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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COMMITTEES |
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| 1 | Standing Committee F | 9.00 a.m. | Room 8 (private) |
| (Programming Sub-Committee) (Drugs Bill). |
| 2 | Standing Committee A | 9.25 a.m. | Room 12 (public) |
| Further to consider the Road Safety Bill. |
| 3 | Standing Committee B | 9.10 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 10 (public) |
| Further to consider the Identity Card Bill. |
| 4 | Standing Committee E | 9.25 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 9 (public) |
| Further to consider the Consumer Credit Bill. |
| 5 | Standing Committee F | 9.10 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 8 (public) |
| To consider the Drugs Bill. |
| 6 | Standing Committee G | 9.25 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 11 (public) |
| Further to consider the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill. |
|
| 7 | Health | 10.00 a.m.
10.30 a.m. | The Wilson Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: New developments in HIV/Aids and sexual health policy. |
| Witnesses: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Family Planning Association, and Dr William Ford-Young; Terrence Higgins Trust, African HIV Policy Network and National AIDS Trust (at 11.30 a.m.); Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Health Protection Agency, Overseas Visitors Action Support Group, and English HIV and Sexual Health Commissioning Group (at 11.50 a.m.). |
| 8 | Public Administration | 2.15 p.m.
2.30 p.m. | The Grimond Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Choice, Voice and Public Services. |
| Witnesses: Stephen Twigg MP, Minister of State, Department for Education and Skills, and Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP, Minister of State, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.] |
Written Ministerial Statements to be made today |
| 1 | Parliamentary Under Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs: Mental Capacity Bill: Age of Candidacy. |
| 2 | Secretary of State for Defence: Publication of `Review of Modelling of the Demolitions at Khamisiyah in March 1991 and Implications for UK Personnel' paper. |
| 3 | Secretary of State for Defence: Iraq: Update. |
| 4 | Deputy Prime Minister: Reappointment of Chairman of English Partnerships. |
| 5 | Deputy Prime Minister: Local Government Finance Settlement 2005-06. |
| 6 | Deputy Prime Minister: Government Response to ODPM Select Committee Report on Gypsy and Traveller Sites. |
| 7 | Secretary of State for Health: Sixth Report of the Shipman Inquiry. |
| 8 | Secretary of State for Health: Chief Medical Officer's Review of Medical Regulation and Related Matters in light of the Shipman Inquiry's Fifth Report. |
| 9 | Secretary of State for the Home Department: Police Grant Report 2005-06 and the Amending Report 2003-04. |
| 10 | Secretary of State for the Home Department: Criminal Records Bureau Annual Report and Accounts 2003-04. |
| 11 | Secretary of State for the Home Department: Statistics on the police use of firearms in England and Wales for 2003-04. |
| 12 | Secretary of State for Trade and Industry: Alleged imports of domestic cat and dog fur. |
| 13 | Secretary of State for Transport: Railways Bill—Scotland. |
| 14 | Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Inspection report of the Benefit Fraud Inspectorate in respect of Southampton City Council. |
| 15 | Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Inspection report of the Benefit Fraud Inspectorate in respect of Chelmsford Borough Council. |
| 16 | Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Inspection report of the Benefit Fraud Inspectorate in respect of Wyre Borough Council. |
| 17 | Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Inspection report of the Benefit Fraud Inspectorate in respect of Renfrewshire Council. |
Standing Committee Notices |
| Standing Committee A will meet on Tuesday 1st and Thursday 3rd February at 9.25 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. further to consider the Road Safety Bill.
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| Standing Committee E will meet on Tuesday 1st and Thursday 3rd February at 9.25 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. further to consider the Consumer Credit Bill.
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| Standing Committee F will meet on Tuesday 1st and Thursday 3rd February at 9.10 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. further to consider the Drugs Bill.
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| Standing Committee G will meet on Tuesday 1st February at 9.25 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. further to consider the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill.
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| The First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation will meet on Tuesday 1st February at 2.30 p.m. to consider the draft Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Amendments to Schedule 2) Order 2005.
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| The Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation will meet on Thursday 3rd February at 9.55 a.m. to consider the draft Companies Act 1985 (Operating and Financial Review and Directors' Report etc.) Regulations 2005.
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| The Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation will meet on Thursday 3rd February at 2.30 p.m to consider the Fire and Rescue Services (National Framework) (England) Order 2004 (S.I., 2004, No. 3217).
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| The Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation will meet on Thursday 3rd February at 2.30 p.m. to consider the draft Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (Disapplication of Part IV for Northern Ireland Parties, etc.) Order 2005.
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