Iau, 25 Ebrill 1991
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Order for Third Reading read.
Orders for Second Reading read.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to update the Home Office response to the 1982 report of the Home Affairs Select Committee on miscarriages of justice in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individual estate security schemes have received Home Office grants in the last two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received about reform of the law on Sunday trading.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the chief constable of the West Midlands as to whether detective John Brand is still on duty.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the reduction in slopping out in the three prisons in the Isle of Wight.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will bring forward proposals for reform of the constitution and procedures of the courts for the trial of terrorist offences.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to reduce the level of juvenile and youth crime.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the progress of his review of the prison building programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is Her Majesty's Government's policy in respect of the retention of the mandatory life sentence for murder.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the chief constable of the West Midlands as to whether Superintendent Richard Bryant is still on duty.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to reduce the incidence of crimes involving the taking of or from motor vehicles.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on new crime prevention initiatives.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received about the implementation of the POLNET computer network; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Prime Minister if he will raise at the next meeting of the European Council the discussions of the Council of Agriculture Ministers on the level of agriculture spending in 1991.
To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 25 April.
To ask the Prime Minister what is Her Majesty's Government's policy towards receiving ecological refugees from Kuwait and surrounding countries into the United Kingdom.
Will the Leader of the House tell us the business for next week?
Mr. Secretary Newton, supported by Mr. Secretary Baker, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secretary Heseltine, Mr. Secretary Rifkind, Mr. Secretary Hunt, Mr. Secretary Lang, Mr. Nicholas Scott...
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
`(1) It shall be an offence for any person to store radioactive waste under the land without first informing SNH of their intention to do so.
`(l) It shall be an offence for any person to construct a private road without first informing SNH of their intention to do so.
'( ) Where it appears to the SNH expedient to do so for the purpose of conserving the natural heritage of Scotland it may make an application to the Secretary of State for a Habitat Management...
1. Before making an order, the Secretary of State shall consult with SNH and such persons as he may consider appropriate.
2. (1) Before making an order, the Secretary of State shall prepare'a draft of the order and give notice— (a) stating that he proposes to make the order and the general effect of it; and(b)...
3. If no representations or objections are duly made to the persons notified, or if any so made are withdrawn, the Secretary of State may make the order with or without modifications.
6. (1) As soon as practicable after an order is made, the Secretary of State shall give notice describing the general effect of the order as made and stating the date on which it took effect.
7. (1) If any owner, lessee or occupier of the land to which the order applies is aggrieved by an order which has taken effect and desires to question its validity on the ground that it is not...
`( 1 ) No landowner or any other person or group of persons shall take any action which prohibits or impedes or reduces reasonable public access to the countryside without first reporting such...
I beg to move amendment No. 9, in page 2, line 44, leave out `, and' and insert'; ( ) the interests of owners and occupiers of land, and'. Clause 3 identifies the wide range of interests that...
I beg to move amendment No. 10, in page 13, leave out lines 22 to 24 and insert 'and where applications are made both by a board and by an authority in respect of the same locality, the Secretary...
Amendments made: No 11, in page 19, line 45 after `4(2)', insert 'and (4) of this Act'.
Amendment made: No. 14, in page 24, line 35, after '21)', insert ', in subsection (7)(a)' —[Lord James Douglas-Hamilton.]
I beg to move amendment No. 15, in page 39, line 30, after 'circulating', insert `(i)'.
I beg to move amendment No. 3, in page 45, line 12, leave out 'quarter' and insert 'third'.
Amendment made: No. 23, in page 49, line 29, column 3, at end insert— 'In section 98, subsection (6).'.—[Lord James Douglas-Hamilton.]
I wish to present a petition to the House on behalf of the residents of Great Harwood. The petition expresses concern at the introduction of a traffic management scheme in the Park road and St....
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Neil Hamilton.]
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