Wednesday, 4 May 1988
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Order for Second Reading read.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the consequences of his policy of non-recognition of Bophuthatswana for those who live within its...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the current state of Anglo-Kuwaiti relations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what instructions were sent to the British embassy in Guatemala in connection with the return of the Guatemalan exiles on Monday...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what issues are expected to arise at the forthcoming Hanover summit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next intends to meet the Foreign Ministers of the European Community, the United States of America and other countries...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next plans to meet the Secretary of State of the United States of America to discuss middle east problems.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent ministerial contact there has been with the Ethiopian Government.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations Her Majesty's Government have made to the Republic of South Africa with regard to the case of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he has given consideration to applying economic sanctions against Israel; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with the Government of the United States of America concerning the Nicaraguan Government's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress is being made on human rights at the CSCE.
Mr. John M. Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what advice he is giving to British citizens intending to visit Ethiopia in the light of the information...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what are the implications for Her Majesty's Government's policy towards relations with Afghanistan after the Afghanistan...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what measures his Department intends to take in the near future to increase the awareness among the general public of the...
Mr. Harry Greenway, supported by Mr. Robert G. Hughes and Mr. Tony Banks, presented a Bill to control the sale or disposal by local authorities of any land consecrated or used for burials and to...
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide that where two consultants employed within the National Health Service declare that a patient's life will be in grave danger or...
Mr. Denis Howell accordingly presented a Bill to provide that where two consultants employed within the National Health Service declare that a patient's life will be in grave danger or seriously...
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will be aware that there is today a meeting of the Anglo-Irish conference and that the agenda is such that the discussions and decisions taken will affect...
Order for Second Reading read.
Queen's Recommendation having been signified—
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Durant.]
Ordered, That, at this day's sitting, the Lords Amendments to the Immigration Bill and the Lords Amendments to the Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Bill may be proceeded with, though...
Lords amendments considered
Lords amendment: No. 1, after clause 3, insert new clause: . At the beginning of subsection (3) of section 8 of the principal Act (exemption from immigration control for members of diplomatic...
Lords amendment: No. 2, in page 3, line 37, at end insert but a person shall not be prosecuted under that provision more than once in respect of the same limited leave.
Lords amendments considered
Lords amendment: No. 1, in page 3, line 47, at end insert— (4A) Subsection (6) of section 12 of the 1973 Act (right of statutory water company to reasonable return) shall apply in relation...
Lords amendment: No. 2 in page 5, line 34, at end insert "and with any bodies representing the interests of those persons".
Motion made, and Question put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 101(5) (Standing Committees on Statutory Instruments, &c.).
That the draft Weights and Measures (Knitting Yarns) Order 1988, which was laid before this House on 12th April, be approved.—[Mr. Lennox-Boyd.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That Standing Order No. 133 (No debate on presentation of petition) be left out and the following be inserted:
133 (1)—Every petition presented under Standing Order No. 132 (Presentation of petitions) not containing matter in breach of the privileges of this House, and which according to the rules...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Lennox-Boyd.]
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