Tuesday, 1 February 2000
asked Her Majesty's Government: How many suicides by prisoners there have been in British prisons and penal institutions in each of the last three calendar years.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What has been the reduction since May 1997 in the number of young people who are neither in employment nor in training or education; and whether they expect that...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether progress is satisfactory towards implementing the programme for the European Union Objective One area of Wales.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What plans they have for the completion of the Victoria History of the Counties of England, and for increasing its accessibility to the public.
My Lords, I beg to introduce a Bill to amend the law of Scotland in relation to the effect of the presentation of cheques for payment. I beg to move that this Bill be now read a first time....
2nd February
My Lords, I beg to move that the House do now again resolve itself into Committee on this Bill. Moved, That the House do now again resolve itself into Committee.--(Lord Whitty.)
rose to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their response to the report of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe on human rights in Kosovo. My Lords, the occasion of this...
House again in Committee. Clause 23 [Power of Secretary of State to require referendum]:
Returned from the Commons agreed to with amendments; the amendments considered and agreed to. House adjourned at ten minutes before midnight.
Debates in the House of Lords are an opportunity for Peers from all parties (and crossbench peers, and Bishops) to scrutinise government legislation and raise important local, national or topical issues.
And sometimes to shout at each other.