Thursday, 1 March 2001
asked Her Majesty's Government: Why methane gas derived from landfill sites counts as part of the renewables obligation for electricity producers while methane gas from abandoned mines does not.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they have taken to strengthen resources directed to law enforcement in the road haulage industry as part of a package concurrent with the introduction...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they consider that their continuing failure to publish the documents disclosed for the purpose of the Factortame litigation and referred to in the English...
asked Her Majesty's Government: From which date the recently announced repayment of student loans by the Government on behalf of teachers of shortage subjects will come into operation.
Read a third time. Clause 1 [Education in mainstream schools of children with special educational needs]:
Brought from the Commons; read a first time, and to be printed.
Report received. Clause 1 [The Security Industry Authority]:
The Examiner's certificate that the further Standing Orders had been complied with ordered to lie on the Table and Bill committed to an Unopposed Bill Committee. House adjourned at nine o'clock.
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.
