Monday, 3 July 1989
The House met at hall-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the chair]
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will review the area covered by the boundaries of his Department's office in Flint.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if, in the light of the Social Security Advisory Committee's report, "Benefits for Disabled People: A Strategy for Change" he has any plans to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement on the extent of poverty in the United Kingdom.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement on the progress of his Department's publicity campaign to increase take-up of social security fund grants and loans.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what representations he has received about the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys' surveys on disability; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many families on low incomes have experienced an increase in their incomes in real terms as a result of the introduction of family credit;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what steps he is taking to ensure that delays at social security offices do not lead to housing benefit claims being held up with consequent...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what changes he has made as a result of monitoring the social security reforms introduced in April last year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how much he expects to collect in national insurance contributions during the current year; what the expected figure will be next year; what the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many more families are in receipt of family credit than received family income supplement; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Attorney-General why, pursuant to his answer of 12 June Official Report, column 549, he does not accept the premise that it is important to our system of government that Ministers do...
To ask the Attorney-General what action for interference with the course of justice he has taken against the Today newspaper for its front-page story on 11 May headed, "Maggie IRA Bomb Squad...
To ask the Attonery-General what measures are in hand to assist county courts in meeting the additional caseload of personal injury cases transferred to their jurisdiction; and if he will make a...
To ask the Attorney-General what qualities the Lord Chancellor looks for in prospective judges; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Attorney-General if he will make a statement on the recent correspondence between the Treasury solicitors and immigration adjudicators concerning the application of the immigration...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans he has to increase development grants to Peru.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proportion of the gross national product is accounted for in non-commercial aid to developing countries in (a) 1975, (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what studies his Department has sponsored of the role of the free market in fostering economic development in the Third world.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to increase aid to the Andean group of countries.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans he has to celebrate the Overseas Development Administration's silver jubilee.
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Was it in order for the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) to imply in a recent question that there was corruption in the appointment of judges? Far from...
I beg to move, That the Order of the House [6th February] he supplemented as follows:
Lords amendments considered.
Lords amendment: No. 1, in page 2, line 34, after "committees" insert, consisting of persons who are not members of the Authority,
Lords amendment: No. 3, in page 4, line 10, leave out subsections (2) and (3) and insert— (3) The Secretary of State shall, by order made before the transfer date, nominate a company in...
Lords amendment: No. 4, in page 5, line 20, leave out subsection (1).
Lords amendment: No. 10, in page 6, line 33, leave out "or 71" and insert , 71 or (duty to move pipes etc, in certain cases)
I have to notify the House, in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967, that the Queen has signified Her Royal Assent to the following Acts: Police Officers (Central Service) Act 1989.Hearing...
Lords amendments again considered.
Lords amendment: No. 44, in page 20, line 39, leave out "subsection (5)" and insert "subsections (2) and (5)".
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Alan Howarth.]
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