Tuesday, 26 February 1991
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
As amended, considered; to be read the Third time.
Order for Second Reading read.
ordered,That the Committee on the Heathrow Express Railway Bill [Lords] have leave to visit and inspect the sites of the proposed works and areas affected by the proposed works, provided that no...
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what measures he will introduce to improve employment training.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information he has on the number of job losses in the period 1 June 1990 to 1 February 1991 in (a) the Yorkshire and Humberside region and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many training and enterprise councils are now operational.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement about the progress of the training credit pilots.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the number of people registered at the Bermondsey unemployment benefit office for each month from January 1990 until February 1991,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he has any plans to replace the training undertaken at the Perivale skillcentre; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total number of young people undergoing training on Government programmes in (a) 1978 and (b) 1990.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement about trends in unemployment in Barnet since 1983.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he has made any recent comparison of facilities available and the percentage of people trained in the United Kingdom and in Germany and France.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest figures for unemployment in the United Kingdom and what were the figures for June 1979.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of working days lost because of industrial disputes in the six months to (a) December 1978 and (b) December 1990.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many mill and company closures and redundancies have been notified to his Department in each of the last six months by the textile and clothing...
To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Tuesday 26 February.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the report that Iraqi troops have been ordered to withdraw from Kuwait.
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to establish a Department of Veterans' Affairs with responsibility for resettlement of veterans, care and rehabilitation of disabled...
Mr. George Howarth accordingly presented a Bill to establish a Department of Veterans' Affairs with responsibility for resettlement of veterans, care and rehabilitation of disabled veterans,...
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
'.—(1) Section 75 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (vehicles not to be sold in unroadworthy condition or altered so as to be unroadworthy) shall be amended as follows.
'.After section 13 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 there shall be inserted—
'. In section 84 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (speed limits on roads other than restricted roads), for subsection (1) there shall be substituted— (1) An order made under this...
'(1) The Metropolitan Police may apply to the Secretary of State to make regulations to designate a trunk road or a designated road as a principal route.
'In subsection 6 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 there shall be inserted after subsection (2) the following subsections:— "(2A) The Secretary of State may make provisions, by regulations which...
'After section 95 of the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984 there shall be inserted—
aforethought, that in the long run it is cheaper not to pay for insurance. Clearly that is worrying. They may get away with it for quite a long time and, as things stand, they may save money.
'Before section 35 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 there shall be inserted— "Prohibition of motor vehicles on byways
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I beg to move amendment No. 31, in page 3, line 33, leave out from beginning to end of line 37 and insert '(a) anything lawfully placed on or near a road by a highway authority;(b) a traffic sign...
I beg to move amendment No. 73, in page 14, line 14, after 'corporate', insert ', or in Scotland a partnership or an unincorporated association,'.
Amendment made: No. 32, in page 23, line 40 at end add
I beg to move amendment No. 75, in page 30, line 13 after 'Where', insert 'in England and Wales'.
Amendment made: No. 33, in page 36, line 5, after "convicted', insert 'by or before any court".—[Lord James Douglas-Hamilton.]
Amendments made: No. 88, in page 36, line 30, at end insert 'and its counterpart'.
I beg to move amendment No. 54, in page 36, line 40, at end insert— '(2) A highway authority may, in consultation with the Secretary of State for Transport for time to time require...
I beg to move amendment No. 12, in page 38, line 9, leave out 'traffic' and insert 'people and goods'. Clause 41 sets out the overriding objective for priority routes, or red routes as they are...
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I beg to move, amendment No. 41, in page 40, line 41, at end add— '(c) the needs of frontagers for road access and short term parking: It is in order to remind the House of the context of...
I beg to move amendment No. 17, in page 41, line 18, leave out 'on the priority routes to which their plan relates'.
Amendments made: No. 19, in page 43, line 4, leave out ' on the priority routes to which their plan relates'.
Amendments made: No. 21, in page 44, line 14, leave out 'on the priority routes to which their plan relates'.
Amendments made: No. 46, in page 49, line 30, after second 'to' insert 'those authorities'.
Amendments made: No. 49, in page 54, line 41, leave out 'made' and insert 'received by them'.
I beg to move amendment No. 42, in page 55, line 46, leave out 'this part' and insert 'sections 54–65'. We now move from the controversial subject of red routes to the equally—if not...
Amendment made: No. 23, in page 58, line 15, leave out subsection (8).—[Mr. Chope.]
Amendment made: In page 60, line 31, at end insert—
I beg to move Amendment No. 15, in page 66, line 10, column 4, leave out '3' and insert '4'. The effect of the amendment is to increase the penalty for driving after making a false declaration...
Amendments made: No. 92, in page 70, line 39, at end insert— '. In section 9 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (experimental traffic orders) in subsection (1)(b) for the words "and...
Amendment made: No. 25, in page 87, line 1 leave out 'made' and insert 'received by them'.—[Lord James Douglas-Hamilton.]
Amendments made: No. 26, in page 90, line 18 at end insert 'in consequence of extraordinary circumstances'.—[Mr. Chope.]
Amendments made: No. 38, in page 93, line 41, column 3, at end insert— 'Section 75(a)(iii). In section 75(6), paragraph (c) and the word "or" immediately preceding it. Section 75(8).'.
[Relevant documents: European Community Documents Nos. 8127/90 on conclusion of the Fourth ACP-EEC Lomé Convention, 4590/90 on transitional measures between the Third and Fourth Lomé...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Goodlad.]
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