Tuesday, 8 March 1988
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Lords amendments agreed to.
Read the Third time and passed, without amendment.
Order for Third Reading read.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services when he last met representatives of the contract cleaning industry.
Mr. Alton: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on the provision of children's and women's services by the National Health Service on Merseyside.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what was his Department's expenditure in each of the last three years on education and publicity aimed at reducing discrimination against...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what information he has on the proportion of gross domestic product expended in the United Kingdom on support for elderly people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what advice his Department intends to give to members of occupational pension schemes before 1 April.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he has any plans to replace the chairman of the South East Thames regional health authority.
Mr. Fearn: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make funds available to reduce the waiting list for eye treatment in the Southport-Formby area.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what plans he has to monitor the implementation of the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what assessment he has made of the feasibility and utility of comparing the value of basic state pensions between different European social...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the social services departments which provide a seven-days-a-week home care service.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what are his estimates of the additional number of social workers required for the implementation of the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what representations he has received from the organisation Hospital Alert over the last three months on the question of the National Health Service.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what action he proposes to take about the performance of Central Birmingham district health authority as disclosed by the CIPFA database's latest...
To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 8 March.
I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 20, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely,...
With the leave of the House, I will put together the six motions relating to statutory instruments.
Ordered, That, at this day's sitting, Standing Order No. 52 (Consideration of estimates) shall apply to the consideration of Estimates as if paragraph (2) of that Order were omitted.—Mr....
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for the holding of a referendum in Scotland to establish the level of demand for constitutional change. In seeking the leave of...
Mrs. Margaret Ewing accordingly presented a Bill to provide for the holding of a referendum in Scotland to establish the level of demand for constitutional change: And the same was read the First...
I wish to call attention to the parliamentary sketch in The Guardian of 2 March, and beg to move, That the matter of the complaint be referred to the Committee of Privileges. Members of...
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[Relevant document: First Report from the Agriculture Committee (House of Commons Paper No. 272-I of Session 1987–88) on Storm Damage of 16 October 1987]
[Relevant document: Second Report from the Energy Committee (House of Commons Paper No. 306 of Session 1987–88) on Spring Supplementary Estimate: Assistance to the Coal Industry.]
Resolved, That a supplementary sum, not exceeding £1,000, be granted to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund to defray the charges which will come in course of payment during the year...
Resolved, That a supplementary sum, not exceeding £162,277,000, be granted to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund to defray the charges which will come in course of payment during the...
Resolved, That during the year ending on 31st March 1988 an additional number not exceeding 8,000 all ranks be maintained for the Individual Reserves.
Resolved, That during the year ending on 31st March 1988 an additional number not exceeding 800 all ranks be maintained for the Royal Air Force Reserve.
Resolved, That during the year ending on 31st March 1989 a number not exceeding 69,100 all ranks be maintained for Naval Service.
Resolved, That during the year ending on 31st March 1989 a number not exceeding 179,450 all ranks be maintained for Army Service, a number not exceeding 5,000 for the Home Service Force, a...
Resolved, That during the year ending on 31st March 1989 a number not exceeding 96,700 all ranks be maintained for the Air Force Service, a number not exceeding 8,000 for the Royal Air Force...
Resolved, That a further supplementary sum, not exceeding £1,311,899,000, be granted to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund to defray charges for the Defence and Civil Services which...
Resolved, That a sum not exceeding £48,461,353·69, be granted to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund to make good excesses on certain grants for Defence and Civil Services for the...
Mr. Norman Lamont accordingly presented a Bill to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on 31 March 1987 and 1988: And the same was read the First...
I beg to move, That the draft General Assistance Grants (Abolition) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988, which was laid before this House on 1st March, be approved. The purpose of the draft order is to...
Ordered, That Mr. Jack Thompson be discharged from the Education, Science and Arts Committee and Hilary Armstrong be added to the Committee.—[Mr. Ray Powell, on behalf of the Committee of...
Ordered, That, at to-morrow's sitting, the Motion in the name of Mr. Neil Kinnock relating to Tribunals and Inquiries may be proceeded with, though opposed, for one and a half hours after it has...
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Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Lennox-Boyd.]
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