Wednesday, 18 November 1987
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Orders for consideration, as amended, read.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a further statement on Soviet violations of human rights.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what subjects were discussed at his last meeting with representatives of the Government of the United States of America.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on his recent visit to Jordan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next expects to meet the United States Secretary of State to discuss European-American relations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he has any further plans to relieve Hong Kong of the burden of Vietnamese refugees.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he is satisfied with the present state of relations between the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the current situation regarding the future of Namibia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give details of representations received about South Africans under sentence of death in South Africa; and what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in what recent discussions he has been engaged with Governments of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether there have been any recent foreign policy initiatives by the Council of Ministers of the European Community.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next expects to pay an official visit to New Zealand.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he last met the French Foreign Minister; and what subjects were discussed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on United Kingdom relations with Argentina.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the current establishment of the British mission in Suva.
Mr. Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next intends to meet the Secretary-General of the United Nations to discuss the Gulf war.
(by private notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the decision to deport Mr. Larsen from the United Kingdom.
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement on a new training programme for unemployed people. Unemployment has now fallen for 16 months in succession by a total of nearly...
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I refer to the circumstances that prevailed after last Wednesday's business was lost. As you know, the Order Paper was published. Indeed, I have a copy of it in...
Members successful in the ballot were:Mr. William SheltonMr. Tony LloydMr. James Lamond
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Mr. Alan Meale accordingly presented a Bill to establish the rights of owners of houses, land, buildings and other constructions which have suffered damage due to subsidence resulting from the...
Relevant documents: European Community document No. 6476/87, second report from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the implementa-tion of the Commission's White Paper on...
I beg to move, That the draft Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987, which were laid before this House on 3rd November, be approved. The regulations represent a further key element in the new...
Order for Second Reading read.
Motion made, and Question put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 101(5) (Standing Committees on Statutory Instruments, &c.).
That the draft Welfare of Battery Hens Regulations 1987, which were laid before this House on 6th July, be approved.
That the draft Welfare of Calves Regulations 1987, which were laid before this House on 15th July, be approved.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Alan Howarth.]
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