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 Health |
| *1 |
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on the future of primary care trusts.
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(
20905
) |
| *2 |
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions she has had with devolved governments on the measures required to reassure the public in the event of an outbreak of avian influenza.
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(
20906
) |
| *3 |
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on the financial position of the NHS.
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|
(
20907
) |
| *4 |
Mr Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham, Perry Barr): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps her Department is taking to prevent the emergence of a two-tier workforce in health services following the increased involvement of the private sector in healthcare.
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(
20908
) |
| *5 |
Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she expects the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to complete its assessment of Velcade.
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(
20909
) |
| *6 |
Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on the future of the Better Healthcare Closer to Home project in South West London.
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(
20910
) |
| *7 |
Mr Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action her Department is taking to transfer resources from administration to frontline patient care.
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|
(
20911
) |
| *8 |
David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on the use of the private sector by the NHS.
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|
|
(
20912
) |
| *9 |
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will issue revised guidance on the performance of abortions following publication of the Chief Medical Officer's report on the British Pregnancy Advisory Service.
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(
20914
) |
| *10 |
Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made to ensure that insulin pump therapy is available to diabetics in accordance with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance No. 57.
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(
20915
) |
| *11 |
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on the financial situation of York and Selby Primary Care Trust.
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(
20916
) |
| *12 |
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when she next expects to meet chairmen and chief executives of acute hospital trusts in Norfolk to discuss funding.
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|
(
20917
) |
| *13 |
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the Government spent on general ophthalmic services in England in 2004; and how much she estimates will be spent in 2005.
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|
(
20918
) |
| *14 |
Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will take steps to ban smoking in all enclosed public places and workplaces.
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|
(
20919
) |
| *15 |
Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will take steps to ensure IVF treatment is available in North Hampshire in line with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines.
|
|
|
(
20920
) |
| *16 |
Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made with the provision of recombinant clotting products for people with haemophilia.
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|
(
20921
) |
| *17 |
Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds there were in the NHS in England in (a) 1997-98 and (b) 2004-05.
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(
20922
) |
| *18 |
Anne Snelgrove (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will take steps to ensure that (a) food labelling includes details of gluten content and (b) chefs and cooks dealing with food are made aware of the requirements of a gluten free diet.
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|
(
20923
) |
| *19 |
Chris Mole (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps her Department is taking to improve access to emergency care in the community.
|
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|
(
20924
) |
| *20 |
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on the financial position of NHS trusts in Gloucestershire.
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|
|
(
20925
) |
| *21 |
Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on the replacement of the Chief Executive of the East Sussex Hospitals Trust.
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(
20926
) |
| *22 |
Jonathan Shaw (Chatham & Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps she is taking to prepare for a potential pandemic of avian influenza.
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(
20927
) |
| *23 |
Martin Linton (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the change has been in the funding of St George's Hospital, Tooting since 1997.
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(
20928
) |
| *24 |
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if she will make a statement on plans to improve the Mersey Regional Ambulance Service.
|
|
|
(
20929
) |
| At 3.30 p.m. | Urgent Questions (if any)
Ministerial Statements (if any) |
Preliminary Business |
| Ten minute Rule Motion
|
| 1 | LICENSING ACT 2003 (AMENDMENT)
[Up to 20 minutes]
|
| |
| That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Licensing Act 2003 in relation to touring circuses; and for connected purposes.
|
| The Member moving and a Member opposing this Motion may each speak for up to ten minutes (Standing Order No. 23).
|
|
Main Business |
| + 2 | ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION BILL: Second Reading.
[Until 10.00 p.m.]
|
| Mr Michael Howard
Mr Oliver Heald
Mr Dominic Grieve
Mr Jonathan Djanogly
Mrs Eleanor Laing
David Maclean
|
| That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Electoral Administration Bill because it fails to introduce necessary and sufficient measures to restore public confidence and integrity in the electoral system, owing to the absence from the Bill of the tried and tested Northern Ireland system of individual registration; because it lowers the threshold for lost Parliamentary deposits, which will assist extremists like the British National Party in spreading racist propaganda; because it perpetuates the flawed system of all-postal voting and fails to provide for the proper Parliamentary scrutiny of election pilot schemes; and because it exposes the Government's continuing preoccupation with electoral modernisation that has undermined the UK's reputation for free and fair elections.
|
| The First Joint Report from the Constitutional Affairs and the ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committees, Session 2004-05, HC 243-I and 243-II, on Electoral Registration, and the Government's response thereto, Cm 6647, are relevant.
|
| Debate may continue until 10.00 p.m.
|
| + 3 | ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION BILL (PROGRAMME)
[No debate]
|
| Ms Harriet Harman
Mr Geoffrey Hoon
|
| That the following provisions shall apply to the Electoral Administration Bill:
|
| Committal
|
| 1. The following shall be committed to a Committee of the whole House—
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| (b) any new Clauses or new Schedules relating to Part 2 or Part 3 of the Bill;
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| (c) any new Clauses or new Schedules relating to the procedure to be followed at an election on the death of a candidate;
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| (d) any new Clauses or new Schedules relating to candidates standing in more than one constituency at an election.
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| 2. The remainder of the Bill shall be committed to a Standing Committee.
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| Proceedings in Committee
|
| 3. Proceedings in Committee of the whole House shall be completed in one day.
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| 4. Those proceedings shall be taken in the order shown in the first column of the following Table and shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the times specified in the second column of that Table.
|
Proceedings
| Time for conclusion of proceedings |
| Clauses 9 to 12, new Clauses relating to Part 2 of the Bill, new Schedules relating to Part 2 of the Bill. | Two and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings on the Bill. |
| Clauses 13 to 18, new Clauses relating to Part 3 of the Bill, new Schedules relating to Part 3 of the Bill. | Two and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings on Clause 13. |
| New Clauses and new Schedules relating to the procedure to be followed at an election on the death of a candidate or relating to candidates standing in more than one constituency at an election. | The moment of interruption or one hour after the commencement of proceedings on the first such new Clause, whichever is the later.
|
| 5. Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to the proceedings in Committee of the whole House.
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| Proceedings in Standing Committee
|
| 6. Proceedings in the Standing Committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Thursday 24th November.
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| 7. The Standing Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it meets.
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| Proceedings after Committee
|
| 8. When the provisions of the Bill considered respectively by the Committee of the whole House and by the Standing Committee have been reported to the House, the Bill shall be proceeded with as if it had been reported as a whole from the Standing Committee.
|
| Consideration and Third Reading
|
| 9. Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the day on which those proceedings are commenced.
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| 10. Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.
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| 11. Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.
|
| Programming of proceedings
|
| 12. Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the Lords) may be programmed.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 83A(6)).
|
| + 4 | ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION BILL [MONEY]: Queen's recommendation signified
[No debate]
|
| |
| That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Electoral Administration Bill, it is expedient to authorise—
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| (1) the payment out of money provided by Parliament of—
|
| (a) any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in consequence of the Act; and
|
| (b) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums which under any other Act are payable out of money so provided;
|
| (2) the payment out of the Consolidated Fund of any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable under any other Act out of that Fund.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 52(1)(a)).
|
| + 5 | CIVIL PARTNERSHIP
[No debate]
|
| |
| That the draft Civil Partnership (Miscellaneous and Consequential Provisions) Order 2005, which was laid before this House on 12th October, be approved.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
|
| + 6 | SOCIAL SECURITY
[No debate]
|
| |
| That the draft Social Security (Inherited SERPS) (Amendments relating to Civil Partnership) Regulations 2005, which were laid before this House on 12th October, be approved.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
|
| At the end of the sitting:
|
| 7 | ADJOURNMENT
|
| Proposed subject: Lottery funding for village halls (Matthew Taylor).
|
| Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m., or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).
|
COMMITTEES |
|
| 1 | Standing Committee A | 10.30 a.m.
4.00 p.m. | Room 11 (public)
(public) |
| To consider the National Lottery Bill. |
| 2 | Standing Committee B | 10.30 a.m.
4.00 p.m. | Room 12 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the Violent Crime Reduction Bill. |
| 3 | Standing Committee E | 10.30 a.m.
4.00 p.m. | Room 9 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill. |
|
| 4 | Defence | 10.00 a.m.
10.45 a.m. | Room 15 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Future Carrier and Joint Combat Aircraft Programmes. |
| Witnesses: Lord Drayson, Minister of Defence Procurement, and Sir Peter Spencer KCB, Chief of Defence Procurement, Ministry of Defence. |
| 5 | Welsh Affairs | 10.00 a.m.
10.30 a.m. | Room 8 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Government White Paper: Better Governance for Wales. |
| Witnesses: Rt Hon Lord Richard QC; Glyn Mathias, Commissioner for Wales, and Kay Jenkins, Head of Office, The Electoral Commission for Wales (at approximately 11.30 a.m.). |
| 6 | Culture, Media and Sport | 10.15 a.m.
10.30 a.m. | The Grimond Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subjects: (i) London 2012 Olympics: First Steps (ii) DCMS Annual Report for 2004-05. |
| Witnesses: (i) Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP, Secretary of State, Nicky Roche, Director of Sports Division, and Mr Paul Oldfield, Senior Policy Adviser, Olympic Games Unit, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (ii) Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP, Secretary of State, and Mr Nicholas Holgate, Chief Operating Officer, Department for Culture, Media and Sport. |
| 7 | Home Affairs | 10.15 a.m.
10.30 a.m. | The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: The Work of the Home Office. |
| Witnesses: Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP, Secretary of State, and Sir John Gieve KCB, Permanent Secretary, Home Office. |
| 8 | International Development | 10.15 a.m.
10.30 a.m. | Room 6 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Making poverty history? The promises of Gleneagles. |
| Witness: Make Poverty History Coalition. |
| 9 | Standards and Privileges | 10.30 a.m. | Room 13 (private) |
| 10 | Trade and Industry | 10.30 a.m.
11.00 a.m. | The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: The DTI's Departmental Annual Report. |
| Witnesses: Sir Brian Bender, Permanent Secretary, and officials, Department of Trade and Industry. |
| 11 | Procedure | 1.00 p.m. | Room 18 (private) |
| 12 | Administration | 2.30 p.m. | Room 16 (private) |
| 13 | Environmental Audit Sub-Committee | 2.30 p.m.
2.45 p.m. | The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Sustainable Timber Procurement. |
| Witnesses: Forestry Stewardship Council; Timbmet Group (at approximately 3.15 p.m.); Timber Trade Federation (at approximately 4.05 p.m.). |
| 14 | Scottish Affairs | 4.00 p.m. | Room 19 (private) |
| 15 | Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions | 4.15 p.m.
4.45 p.m. | Room 15 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: ODPM Annual Report and Accounts 2005. |
| Witnesses: Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Minister of Communities and Local Government, Phil Woolas MP, Minister for Local Government, Yvette Cooper MP, Minister for Housing and Planning, and Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, 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 | Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: UK Presidency of the EU: Outcome of the Extraordinary General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC), 18th October 2005. |
| 2 | Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: BBC World Service. |
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