Mercher, 21 Chwefror 1996
The House met at half-past Nine o'clock
[MADAM SPEAKER in the Chair]
[Relevant documents: The Fifth Report of the Transport Committee of Session 1994–95 on Cross Channel Safety, (House of Commons Paper No. 352) and the Government reply thereto published as...
I am pleased to have secured this Adjournment debate and I should say at the outset that I have deliberately used the word "review" in the sense given in the Oxford English dictionary, which...
The purpose of the debate is to draw to the attention of the Minister for Small Business, Industry and Energy, and of Parliament, the closure of the Tanfield Lea zinc carbon battery-making...
It is a pleasure from time to time to enter the Chamber to participate in a debate that is not acrimonious. Sometimes the House is at its best when there is general agreement, and the protection...
I am very pleased to have this opportunity to introduce a brief debate on the case of Mr. Sodagar Hussain, who, as a visitor, married in this country in 1985. He was advised to observe the law,...
. Mr. William O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when she last met the chairmen of the training and enterprise councils to discuss the Government's objectives on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what consultations she has had with other Government Departments about co-ordination on employment issues since the abolition of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans she has to review the inspection arrangements for private schools. [14678]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what action she is taking to raise standards in primary schools. [14679]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what representations she has received regarding top-up tuition fees for higher education in the 1997–98 academic year. [14680]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if drugs education is taught as a part of the national curriculum. [14681]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will make a statement on her priorities in respect of her employment policies. [14682]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many Barnet schools were recently commended by the chief inspector of schools. [14683]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what measures she is taking to improve standards of reading and arithmetic in primary schools. [14684]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of 16-year-olds stay in full-time education; and what was the figure 10 years ago. [14685]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what steps she is taking to assist primary schools with the recruitment of specialist staff to assist with the delivery of the national...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the percentage change in planned capital and recurrent funding for higher education between 1995–96 and 1996–97. [14687]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when she next expects to meet her EU counterpart to discuss working conditions. [14688]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans she has to make it easier for schools and their governing bodies to dismiss bad teachers. [14689]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what are the aims of her campaign to improve the use of the English language. [14690]
On a point of order, Madam Speaker. You kindly called me in Question Times in which 15 questions were answered, but just three related to employment matters. Of the total number of questions...
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for consultation of the people by referendum before the implementation of any constitutional change approved by Parliament. My...
Mr. Bill Walker accordingly presented a Bill to provide for consultation of the people by referendum before the implementation of any constitutional change approved by Parliament: And the same...
Not amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
'.—(1) It shall be an offence for a person who is not a qualified person within the meaning of this section to undertake for reward (whether by himself or through his servants or agents, or...
':—(1) Orders made under section 8 or section 9 of this Act shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be laid before Parliament in draft and shall be subject to approval by...
'.—(l) Nothing in this Act shall apply to a person who has made a claim for asylum where a registered medical practitioner (within the meaning of the Medical Act 1983) has issued a...
12A. Nothing in this Act shall apply to a person who has made a claim for asylum where a registered medical practitioner (within the meaning of the Medical Act 1983) has issued a certificate, in...
1A. Nothing in this Act shall apply to a person who has made a claim for asylum where a registered medical practitioner (within the meaning of the Medical Act 1983) has issued a certificate, in a...
'.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section— (a) in section 15 of the 1971 Act (appeals in respect of deportation orders), subsection (3) shall be omitted; and(b) in...
Amendments made: No. 27, in page 1, line 8, at end insert—
Pakistan".'.
Romania".'.
I beg to move amendment No. 36, in page 2, line 23, leave out from 'from' to end of line 32 and insert 'the United Kingdom if—(a) the Secretary of State has certified that, in his opinion,...
Amendments made: No. 38, in page 2, line 43, leave out subsection (1) and insert—
Amendment made: No. 42, in page 3, line 31, leave out 'deception' and insert means which include deception by him'.—[Dr. Liam Fox.]
Amendment proposed: No. 14, in page 3, line 39, leave out 'an asylum claimant' and insert 'intending to make a claim for asylum which is without foundation'.—[Mr. Henderson.]
I beg to move amendment No. 51, in page 5, line 11, leave out 'subsection' and insert 'subsections (2A) and'.
Mr. Cynog Dabs: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Bearing in mind the grave and rapidly shifting situation at Milford Haven and the accumulating evidence that there has been a failure to...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Knapman.]
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