Monday, 18 November 1991
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he has any plans to increase the amount of earnings disregard before benefits for lone parents are affected.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many low-income pensioners are expected to gain from the measures he announced in his uprating statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what measures he has taken to improve the working of the cold weather payments scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what account was taken in the review of the arrangements for income support of homeless families of the need of children of homeless families in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will state the number of those employed in local Department of Social Security offices in (a) Strathclyde and (b) Greenock and Port Glasgow...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether he intends to introduce measures to reduce the time taken to determine appeals against the disallowance of social security benefits.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the total value of extra help, including measures in the 1991 uprating statement, which has been directed to less-well-off pensioners...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people are expected to benefit from the increased funding from residential care and nursing home income support limits announced in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the average income of a single pensioner and pensioner couple on income support; and what is the total weekly value of their income from...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many children will benefit from the October uprating of child benefit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what measures he is taking to ensure that disabled people receive benefits to which they are entitled.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether he will introduce changes to speed up the payment of attendance allowance; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what will be the total value to a two-child family of the three increases in child benefit which will have taken place in the year to April 1992.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received regarding the income of pensioners.
To ask the Attorney-General if there are any restrictions upon his ability to investigate a case of alleged deliberate injustice.
To ask the Attorney-General what proposals he has to reduce the time between individuals being arrested and their being prosecuted.
To ask the Attorney-General if he will make a statement on recent initiatives by the Serious Fraud Office in connection with City fraud.
Mr. Robert G. Hughes: To ask the Attorney-General what assessment he has made of the care with which public money is spent on legal aid and of the adequacy with which records are kept of its...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what effect the write-off of outstanding debt to third world countries will have on his plans for aid to Africa.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has received from voluntary agencies on aid policy over the last month.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has held, in the past month, with his European Community ministerial colleagues concerning aid to third...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on progress with British initiatives to assist the preservation of the tropical rain forest.
The following Questions stood upon the Paper:—
With permission, I wish to make a statement on the White Paper, "Competing for Quality", which is published today. The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality...
In the light of the answers to Questions 34 and 35, I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 20, to discuss a specific and important matter that should...
Order for Second Reading read.
Queen's Recommendation having been signified—
Motion made, and Question put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 101(5) (Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c.)
That the draft Magistrates' Courts (Remands in Custody) Order 1991, which was laid before this House on 12th July, in the last Session of Parliament, be approved.—[Mr. Kirkhope.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Kirkhope.]
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