Thursday, 21 March 2002
asked Her Majesty's Government: What progress they have made on policy for the Children's Fund.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Why they have reversed their previous policy of seeking to minimise the exclusion from school of disruptive pupils.
asked Her Majesty's Government: How much the National Health Service has paid out in early retirement costs and compensation payments for those forced to leave their jobs due to latex-related...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their reaction to the reported proposal to impose a charge of £1.25 for the use of cash machines in rural post offices; and whether this proposal was...
My Lords, after the Motion standing in the name of my noble friend Lady Ashton of Upholland, my noble friend Lady Symons of Vernham Dean will, with the leave of the House, repeat a Statement that...
My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. Moved, That it be an instruction to the Committee of the Whole House to whom the Education Bill has been committed that...
My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement on Zimbabwe which has been made by my right honourable friend the Foreign Secretary in another place. The Statement is as...
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.)
My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made by my right honourable friend the Minister of State for Rural Affairs in another place. The Statement is as follows: "Mr...
House again in Committee. Clause 9 [Funding of Local Health Boards]: [Amendments Nos. 78 to 83 not moved.] Clause 9 agreed to. Clause 22 [Health and well-being strategies in Wales]:
rose to move, That the draft order laid before the House on 28th February be approved [22nd Report from the Joint Committee].
rose to move, That the draft order laid before the House on 6th February be approved [19th Report from the Joint Committee].
My Lords, I beg to move. Moved, That the draft order laid before the House on 14th February be approved [20th Report from the Joint Committee].—(Lord McIntosh of Haringey.)
House again in Committee. Clause 11 [Duty of quality]:
Reported from the Unopposed Bill Committee with amendments. House adjourned at seventeen minutes before eleven o'clock.
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