Mercher, 12 Mehefin 1991
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if the local government review will include possible structures for London.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has any plans to meet the chief executive of Nirex to discuss the strategy for disposal of nuclear waste.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans are being made to enable council tenants to convert rents to mortgages.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when a system of green labelling approved by the Government will be operating in the United Kingdom.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress is being made on consultation with local authorities concerning reorganisation.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what recent consultations he has had with the chairman of the Nature Conservancy Council concerning the designation of the Severn estuary...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will detail the amount spent on the estate action programme in 1990–91 and the budget for 1991–92.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he will announce his proposed total standard spending for local authorities for 1992–93; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Robert G. Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the progress of his initiative for dealing with people sleeping rough in London.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he last met Serplan—the South-East Regional Planning Committee—to discuss county structure plans; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many school-age children are in bed-and-breakfast accommodation.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the statutory provisions covering the terms under which an employee of one local authority may serve as a councillor on another;...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has any plans to introduce legislation to reform the law relating to leasehold property; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what responses he has had from the south-west on his consultation on the proposed future structure and functions of local government.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has received any representations seeking recreation of the GLC.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if the review of local authorities' members' allowances will be included in the Government's review of local government; and if he will make a...
Members successful in the ballot were: Mr. Ron LeightonMr. Martin M. Brandon-BravoMr. John D. Taylor
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Will you confirm that it is the right of all Back-Bench Members to express their point of view in the Chamber or outside it, and that any attempt to stop Members...
Motion made, and Question put .forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 98 ( Welsh Grand Committee),
I beg to move, That leave he given to bring in a Bill to prohibit the export of calves where, after such export, they are to be kept in conditions which would be unlawful in Great...
Mr. Chris Mullin accordingly presented a Bill to prohibit the export of calves where, after such export, they are to be kept in conditions which would be unlawful in Great Britain: And the same...
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not customary for a representative of the Department for which ten-minute Bills are being proposed to be present throughout its hearing? I can recall this...
Considered in Committee. [Progress, 11 June]
I beg to move amendment No. 23, in page 2, line 34, leave out 'a' and insert 'an individual'.
I beg to move amendment No. 9, in page 5, leave out line 6. I wish to speak briefly to the amendment, for limited technical reasons. This will be a Scottish equivalent of the earlier debate...
I beg to move amendment No. 11, in page 6, line 41, leave out from 'instrument' to 'House' in line 42 and insert 'which shall not come into effect unless a draft of the instrument has been laid...
'The Secretary of State shall not designate an English or Welsh authority as a result of this Act without publishing a list of services that it is expected the relevant authority will need to...
Ordered,That, during the proceedings on the Matter of the Welsh economy, the Welsh Grand Committee have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it shall meet; and that, notwithstanding the...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Neil Hamilton.]
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