Tuesday, 20 March 2001
asked Her Majesty's Government: When they propose to accede to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on Means of Preventing the Illicit Traffic in Cultural Property, and to implement the other...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What plans they have to compensate British fishermen who can no longer make a living as a result of government action.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What has been the outcome of recent talks with the Commissioner for Transport for London on future responsibility for the London Underground.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their estimate of the cost savings to be made by relocating the Meteorological Office to Exeter.
My Lords, I beg to introduce a Bill to make new provision relating to admission to borough freedom. I beg to move that this Bill be now read a first time. Moved, That the Bill be now read a first...
My Lords, I beg to move the first Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. Moved, That Standing Order 40 (Arrangement of the Order Paper) be dispensed with today to allow the Motion...
My Lords, I beg to move the second Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. Moved, That, in the event of the Consolidated Fund (No.2) Bill being brought from the Commons, Standing Order 46...
Read a third time.
Brought from the Commons endorsed with the certificate of the Speaker that the Bill is a Money Bill, and read a first time.
My Lords, with the leave of the House, I should like to repeat the Statement made by my right honourable friend Mr Michael Meacher in another place earlier today. The Statement reads as follows:...
rose to move, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty praying that the regulations, laid before the House on 17th January, be annulled (S.I. 2001/85).
Report received. Clause 21 [Cancellation of registration by the Secretary of State]:
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 Hunt of Kings Heath.)
Returned from the Commons agreed to. House adjourned at twenty minutes after eleven o'clock.
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