Friday, 23 July 1976
The House 'net at Eleven o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
With permission, I should like to make a statement, with which my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales wish to be associated, about the invalid vehicle service and...
Mr. Laurie Pavitt presented a Bill to require television authorities to provide facilities for the purpose of transmitting programmes relating to health education; and to establish advisory...
Motion made, and Question proposed,That, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 3(1)(b), the Motion relating to the Appropriation (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 may be...
11.38 a.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed.That the Junior Ministers' and Other Salaries Order 1976, a draft of which was laid before this House on 14th July, be approved.—[Mr. Foot.]
Ordered,That the Parliamentary and Other Pensions and Salaries Bill may be proceeded with at this day's Sitting, though opposed, until any hour.—[Mr. Thomas Cox]
The danger is that in taking this limit of £8,500 we have no idea what the definition of earnings should be. A noble Lord or an hon. Member may have various forms of unearned income, and we...
Not amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
'Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, salaries of Members of Parliament should immediately be increased by 6 per cent. from £5,750 per annum to £6,095 per annum, being the...
Amendments made: No. 1, in page 1, line 9, leave out 'subsection' and insert 'subsections'.
Motion made, and Question proposed,That the Appropriation (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, a draft of which was laid before this House on 22nd June, be approved.—[Mr. James A. Dunn.]
9.13 p.m.
9.36 p.m.
9.57 p.m.
ResolvedThat the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, a draft of which was laid before this House on 30th June be approved.—[Mr. Dunn.]
Motion made and Question proposed.That Standing Order No. 72A (Northern Ireland Committee) be amended as follows: Line 23, leave out 'on not more than four days in a Session'.—[Mr. Dunn.]
Ordered,That, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 73A (Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c.), the Standing Committee considering Commission Documents Nos....
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Thomas Cox.]
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