Thursday, 21 July 1988
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Order for consideration read.
Orders for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Reading read.
Orders for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Reading read.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps have been taken to encourage co-operation between local authorities and neighbourhood watch schemes over the siting of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to be able to announce the outcome of his review of the Guildford and Woolwich bombing cases.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to bring the Licensing Act 1988 into effect and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he anticipates there will be an increase in the number of uniformed police on the beat in Sussex.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the change in the number of prisoners held in police cells since his statement of 30 March, Official Report, column 1083.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in the light of calls for membership cards for football supporters, he will re-examine the introduction of national identity cards to aid...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a further statement concerning his policy towards the provision of concessionary television licences to pensioners.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the chief constable of Devon and Cornwall on the use of special constables at weekends to police towns and...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will issue guidance to the fire services to provide a minimum response time by fire tenders for accidents on major trunk roads.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received concerning the report on Risley remand centre following his answer to the hon. Member for Warrington,...
To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 21 July.
Will the Leader of the House tell us the business for the next week?
I have a short statement to make about arrangements for the debate on the motion for the Adjournment which will follow the passing of the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill on Thursday 28...
With permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I should like to make a statement about the Government's future funding of the research programme being carried out by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy...
With permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a statement about Short Brothers plc. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland informed the House on 29 June that we...
Mr. Tony Benn, supported by Mr. Eric S. Heller, Mr. Jeremy Corbyn, Mr. Ken Livingstone, Mr. Bernie Grant, Mrs. Alice Mahon, Mr. Bob Clay, Mr. Eddie Loyden, Mr. Ronnie Campbell, Mr. Harry Barnes,...
Ordered,That European Community Document No. 4171/88 on pharmaceutical directives be referred to a Standing Committee on European Community Documents.—[Mr. Maclean.]
[3RD ALLOTTED DAY] considered
[Relevant document: Third Report from the Social Services Committee ( House of Commons Paper No. 547 of Session 1987–88) on Resourcing the National Health Service: Prospects for 1988–89.]
[Relevant document: First Report from the Employment Committee ( House of Commons Paper No. 526 of Session 1987–88) on the Department of Employment's Estimates 1988–89.]
Resolved,That a supplementary sum, not exceeding, £538,303,000, 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 a supplementary sum, not exceeding £281,927,000, 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 a further sum, not exceeding £57,388,304,000·00, be granted to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund to complete or defray the charges for Defence and Civil Services...
Mr. Norman Lamont accordingly presented a Bill to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the set-Nice of the year ending on 31 March 1989 to appropriate the supplies granted in this Session...
I beg to move, That the draft British Shipbuilders Borrowing Powers (Increase of Limit) Order 1988, which was laid before this House on 13th May, be approved. The order concerns British...
Resolved,That the draft Set-Aside Regulations 1988, which were laid before this House on 1st July 1988, be approved.—[Mr. Kenneth Carlisle.]
I beg to move, That the Church of England (Pensions) Measure, passed by the General Synod of the Church of England, be presented to Her Majesty for her Royal Assent in the form in which the said...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Peter Lloyd.]
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