Tuesday, 3 April 2001
asked Her Majesty's Government: When the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) is expected to complete its appraisal of anti-TNF therapy drugs for rheumatoid arthritis.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What lessons they have learnt from the constitutional changes they have so far introduced.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What action they can take to provide humanitarian aid inside Afghanistan.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What research they are sponsoring to develop a vaccine for the "superbug" methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
rose to move, That the draft order laid before the House on 27th March be approved [12th Report from the Joint Committee].
Brought from the Commons; read a first time, and to be printed.
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 Williams of Mostyn.)
rose to ask Her Majesty's Government whether the progress being made by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in their appraisal of Beta interferons and glatiramer acetates is...
Returned from the Commons with the amendment to which the Lords have disagreed not insisted on.
Returned from the Commons agreed to. House adjourned at twenty-four minutes past eight o'clock.
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And sometimes to shout at each other.