Tuesday, 6 March 1984
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 Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph Fraser, M.B.E., Member for Stafford, and I desire, on behalf of the House, to express our sense of the loss we...
Read the Third time, and passed.
Order for Second Reading read.
Mr. Jim Callaghan: asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the estimated impact on the unit of resources for the universities of the Government's policies for public...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many state boarding schools there are in Norfolk.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what changes have been made in his Department's capital allocation criteria to capital allocations for the replacement of pre-1903 primary...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what additional grant he is making to adult and continuing education for the academic years 1984–85 to 1986–87.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will estimate the number of pupils in primary and secondary education whose mother tongue is not English.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many students in the borough of Sunderland stay on to the sixth form as a percentage of the school population compared with the national...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he expects to receive a further report from the University Grants Committee on the effects of grant reductions for the period 1981 to 1984.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations he has received in the last month concerning future expenditure plans for the universities; and what reply he has sent.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science which local authorities are providing conversion courses for women and girls in science and engineering which will allow them to follow...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what discussion he has had with local education authorities about resources for further education colleges following the White Paper,...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has finalised any decisions regarding the future of the Inner London education authority; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the operation of the appeals system as outlined in the Education Act 1980.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he will next be meeting the vice-chancellor of the Open University to discuss the university's involvement in the provision of...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will introduce proposals for incentives to encourage young people to stay in full-time education.
asked the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 6 March.
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker——
During Question Time, my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton, North (Mr. Cook) raised with the Table a personal difficulty that had arisen, because he had, unfortunately, lost his voice. He...
The following Member made the Affirmation required by law:
I beg to move. That leave be given to bring in a Bill to establish a general right of access to official information for members of the public subject to certain exemptions; to establish the...
Mr. David Steel accordingly presented a Bill to establish a general right of access to official information for members of the public subject to certain exemptions; to establish the machinery for...
We now move to the public expenditure debate. I must announce to the House that I have selected the amendment in the name of the Leader of the Opposition.
Ordered,That the Order of the House [15th February] relating to Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [Lords] (Committal) be amended in line 6 by leaving out '28' and inserting '40'.—[Mr....
Ordered,That Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson be discharged from the Select Committee on Members' Interests and Mr. Paddy Ashdown and Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson be added to the Committee.—[Mr....
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Donald Thompson.]
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