My Lords, before business begins, may I take the opportunity to inform the House that I shall be undertaking a ministerial visit to Edinburgh on Monday, 3rd November? Accordingly, I trust that...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they intend to take to change selective secondary schools to comprehensive schools.

asked Her Majesty's Government: In light of the report of the Better Regulation Task Force on Better Regulation, what is their response to the chairman's statement that "the National Health...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will continue to support the common position adopted by the Council of Ministers of the European Union imposing a travel ban on named Zimbabwean...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they are taking steps to promote an early end to the current series of postal strikes in London.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What plans they have to introduce a legal presumption for parents to have continuing contact with their child following a divorce or separation.

My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education and Skills. The Statement is as...

Report received.

rose to ask Her Majesty's Government what evidence links breast cancer with abortion; and what measures they are taking to alert women to any risks involved. My Lords, as your Lordships will be...

Consideration of amendments on Report resumed. Clause 21 [Conditional cautions]:

Bill returned from the Commons agreed to with amendments and with a privilege amendment; it was ordered that the Commons amendments be printed. House adjourned at two minutes past ten o'clock.