Llun, 15 Ebrill 1991
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
I regret to have to inform the House of the death of Sir John Stradling Thomas, Knight, Member for Monmouth, and I desire, on behalf of the House, to express our sense of the loss we have...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the annual spending on family credit; and what was the spending on family income supplement in 1979.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the most recent figure for the increase in spending on benefits for long-term sick and disabled people since 1979.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what percentage of pensioners retiring (a) in 1979 and (b) in 1987 had incomes from savings; and what was the real average level of savings on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement about the impact of recent technological developments upon the disabled.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what measures the Government are implementing to improve their level of service to social security claimants.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement on the level of savings in costs and time brought about by computerisation within his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what progress he has made in setting up the Child Support Agency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many disabled people will benefit from the introduction of (a) the disability living allowance and (b) the disability working allowance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how the Child Support Agency will assist lone parents.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many letters he has received about the uprating of child benefit in recent years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how much has been spent in London social security offices on facilities for clients during the latest period for which figures are available.
To ask the Minister for the Arts what visits he has made to arts venues in London outside the west end and other nationally funded centres.
To ask the Minister for the Arts if he will earmark additional revenues for funding the arts in London.
To ask the Minister for the Arts what proposals he has for ensuring the future of the London City Ballet.
To ask the Minister for the Civil Service how many women are now in post in the civil service at under-secretary level and above; and how many there were 10 years ago?
To ask the Minister for the Civil Service what advice has been given by the occupational health service to civil servants required to visit the Gulf region in the course of their official duties.
To ask the Minister for the Civil Service what arrangements are made for counselling drug and alcohol misusers in the civil service.
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement about the relief of suffering in Iraq. We are faced with suffering and fear on a huge scale—inside Iraq, on both sides of the border...
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I realise that, by comparison with the subject that we have just been discussing, this is a very small point. When the Minister for the Arts was answering...
Ordered, That the draft Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 be referred to a Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c.That the Local Authorities (Members' Allowances)...
Ordered, That the Court of Auditors' Special Report No. 2/90, relating to management and control of export refunds, and European Community Documents Nos. 4549/91, relating to the development and...
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
"The Secretary of State shall make arrangements to ensure that ECGD's services to developing countries are effected in coordination with the services offered by all other government departments...
'( )-(1)—The Secretary of States may make arrangements for insuring any person providing insurance with a view to facilitating, directly or indirectly, supplies by persons carrying on...
I beg to move amendment No. 3, in page 1, line 21 at end insert— '(3A) The Secretary of State shall ensure that arrangements made under this section are in general no worse in terms of both...
Amendment proposed: No. 16, in page 3, line 1, leave out subsection (2).—[Mr. Sainsbury.]
I beg to move amendment No. 17, in page 4, line 30, leave out from 'at' to end of line 33 and insert 'intervals determined from time to time by the Secretary of State with the consent of the...
I beg to move amendment No. 18, in page 4, line 43, at beginning insert 'The Secretary of State shall prepare an annual report on the discharge of his functions under sections Ito 5 of this Act....
I beg to move amendment No. 4, in page 5, line 28, at end insert— '(4A) A scheme under this section shall contain no provision which may force any person to cease to be employed in the...
I beg to move amendment No. 8, in page 5, line 39, after '1981', insert 'and the EC Directive 77/187 (The Acquired Rights Directive)'. The amendment contains a reference to European Community...
I beg to move amendment No. 20, in page 6, line 42, leave out from beginning to 'and' in line 43 and insert 'or any person acting on behalf of the Crown has a legal interest in them'. This is one...
I beg to move amendment No. 30, in page 7, line 10, leave out from beginning to 'under' in line 11 and insert 'Any transferee shall be obliged to consent to make, if so requested by the Secretary...
I beg to move amendment No. 15, in page 8, line 16, at end add— `(7) This Act shall not come into force or replace the old law unless and until it is rendered necessary by directives agreed...
I beg to move, That the Testing in Primary Schools (Scotland) Regulations 1990 (S.I., 1990, No. 2104) dated 24th October 1990, a copy of which was laid before this House on 25th October, in the...
Order for Second Reading read.
Ordered, That, at tomorrow's sitting, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 (Exempted business) and No. 15 (Prayers against Statutory Instruments, &c. (negative...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Boswell.]
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