Wednesday, 11 January 1989
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
PORT OF TYNE BILL [Lords]
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on international efforts to eradicate drug trafficking in central and Latin America.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he has any plans to seek to pay an official visit to Afghanistan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a further statement on progress towards a middle east peace settlement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he last met a representative of the Iranian Government; and what subjects were discussed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he intends to pay an official visit to Fiji.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the concluding document of the conference on security and co-operation in Europe review...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will make a statement on relations between the United Kingdom and India.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has any plan to meet the secretary-general of NATO to discuss North Atlantic foreign policy co-operation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he had with the Governor of Hong Kong on the plight of the Vietnamese refugees.
Mr. Robert G. Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects that President Gorbachev will next visit the United Kingdom.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with the Government of China on the subject of Tibet.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he has any plans to visit Nicaragua.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress has been made in the last six months towards negotiating a treaty on chemical weapons.
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on the merger policy in relation to water privatisation. On Second Reading of the Water Bill, I announced that, in conjunction...
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. M. Delors, who knows a thing or two about the European Community because he is, I think, President of the Commission, has said that within a short time 80 per...
Order for Second Reading read.
I beg to move, That the Rate Support Grant (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 1988, dated 28th November 1988, a copy of which was laid before this House on 30th November, be approved. I understand that it...
Motion made, and Question put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 101(5) (Standing Committees on Statutory Instruments, &c.).
That the draft Merchant Shipping (Safety at Work Regulations) (Non-UK Ships) Regulations 1988, which were laid before this House on 1st December, be approved.—[Mr. Lightbown.]
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Lightbown.]
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