asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the objective of keeping United Kingdom troops in Sierra Leone, and when that objective will be achieved.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the distinction between the current training grant paid to Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) students and a training salary.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have any plans to amend the law so that decisions about fluoridation of water rest with them rather than local authorities or the water industry.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the current levels of expenditure on government advertising represent value for money for the taxpayer.

My Lords, with the leave of the House, between the two short debates this afternoon my noble friend Lord McIntosh will repeat as a Statement an Answer to a Private Notice Question in another...

My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. Moved, That the debates on the Motions in the names of the Baroness Noakes and the Lord Howell of Guildford set down for...

rose to call attention to the state of morale in the National Health Service; and to move for Papers. My Lords, the state of morale in the NHS is of great concern. The NHS is a great institution...

My Lords, with the leave of the House I shall now repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer given by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to a Private...

rose to call attention to developments in relations between the United Kingdom and the United States; and to move for Papers. My Lords, I hope that your Lordships will regard it as timely and...

rose to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their policy regarding the employment of persons other than police officers to escort abnormal loads on motorways. My Lords, my Unstarred Question...

Returned from the Commons agreed to with a privilege amendment; the amendment considered and agreed to. House adjourned at eleven minutes before ten o'clock.