Wednesday, 4 March 1992
The House met at hall-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Order for consideration of Lords amendments read.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give details of the programme of aid and assistance for the former Soviet Union.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the prospects for increased democracy in Africa.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what initiatives Her Majesty's Government have proposed for reform of the United Nations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the most important international non-EC meetings which he expects to attend this year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the United States Government regarding that country's aid and trade embargo against...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the current middle east peace talks.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his latest view of the prospects for long-term peace (a) in Mogadishu and southern Somalia and (b) in northern Somalia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what are Her Majesty's Government's principal goals during the United Kingdom presidency of the EC.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what further assistance he is providing to help political and economic reform in Russia.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what developments there have been in relation to the attempts by Her Majesty's Government to secure the extradition of the two...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he intends to have discussions about the Cyprus problem with his European Community colleagues.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next intends to visit the former Soviet Union to discuss matters relating to technology transfer and aid for the republics.
With permission, I should like to make a statement on Lord Colville's report on the management of paramilitary prisoners in Belfast prison. Before dealing with the substance of his report, which...
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I apologise to you and the House for being late for Foreign Office questions. I assume that it was my lateness that caused you not to see me, rather than the...
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide that business debts should carry interest after a period of 28 days. The Bill is an attempt to crack down on...
Mr. Richard Alexander accordingly presented a Bill to provide that business debts should carry interest after a period of 28 days: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a...
I beg to move, That the Order of the House [12th November] be supplemented as follows:—
1. The proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments shall be completed at this day's sitting and, if not previously brought to a conclusion, shall be brought to a conclusion two hours after...
3. Mr Speaker shall put forthwith the Question on any Motion made by a Minister of the Crown for the consideration forthwith of any further Message from the Lords on the Bill.
6.—
1. The proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments shall be completed at this day's sitting and, if not previously brought to a conclusion, shall be brought to a conclusion two hours after...
3. Mr Speaker shall put forthwith the Question on any Motion made by a Minister of the Crown for the consideration forthwith of any further Message from the Lords on the Bill.4. The proceedings...
6.— (1) Mr. Speaker shall put forthwith the Question on any Motion made by a Minister of the Crown for the appointment and quorum of a Committee to draw up Reasons.(2) Such a Committee...
Lords amendments considered.
Lords amendment: No. 1, in page 2, line 22, leave out from ("which") to line 23 and insert— ("(a) is a composite hereditament for the purposes of Part III of the 1988 Act; and(b) would...
Lords amendment: No. 4, in page 5, line 10, at end insert— ("(3A) Subsection (3) above shall not apply as respects any day on which one or more of the persons there mentioned fall to be...
Lords amendment: No. 11, in page 15, line 8, after ("to") insert ("the whole or any part or').
Lords amendment: No. 18, in page 43, line 34, leave out from ("prescribed") to ("and") in line 35.
Lords amendment: No. 27. in page 59, line 10, after ("payments") insert ("or repayments").
Lords amendment: No. 29, in page 64, line 20, leave out ("that Schedule") and insert ("Schedule 7 to this Act")
(".—(l) Schedule 4 to the 1988 Act (community charges: enforcement) shall he amended as follows.(2) In paragraph 7 (distress), after sub-paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following...
13A.—(1) Regulations under this Schedule may include provision that, in any proceedings before a magistrates' court under any provision included by virtue of the preceding provisions of...
As amended, (in the Standing Committee), further considered.
I beg to move amendment No. 74, in page 39, line 3, at end insert— '(6) In subsection (5), for the words "large-scale map" there shall be substituted the words "map of a scale not less than...
Amendments made: No. 47, in page 29, line 29, leave out '40' and insert '24'.
Amendment made: No. 96, in page 30, line 31, after 'Act', insert except where the context otherwise requires'.—[Mr. McLoughlin.]
Amendments made: No. 49, in page 41. line 16, column 3, leave out '40' and insert '24'.
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
I beg to move, That the draft Social Security (Disability Living Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1992, which were laid before this House on 25th February, be approved. The House will recall...
I wish to present to the House a petition drawn up by the Ipswich branch of the organisation Life against the drug Mifegyne, also known as RU486. The petition bears the signatures of 194...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Patnick.]
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