Thursday, 15 March 2001
asked Her Majesty's Government: How they are helping to support International Labour Organisation core labour standards in developing countries.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will study the progress made in the state of Illinois in reducing the incidence of teenage pregnancies, including Project Reality.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will refrain from taking part in further aerial bombardment of Iraq unless authorised by the United Nations.
asked Her Majesty's Government: How they propose to protect airline staff and the travelling public from the dangers of violent attacks resulting from alcohol abuse.
My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my right honourable friend the Minister for Agriculture. The Statement is as follows: "I want to...
Brought from the Commons; read a first time, and to be printed.
Read a third time. Clause 3 [Conduct prohibited without a licence]:
My Lords, I beg to move that the House do now resolve itself into Committee on this Bill. Moved, That the House do now resolve itself into Committee.--(Lord Hunt of Kings Heath.)
rose to ask Her Majesty's Government what action they propose to take to alleviate student poverty, and to address the anomalies arising between support systems in Scotland, Wales, Northern...
House again in Committee on Clause 1.
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