Wednesday, 4 June 2008
asked Her Majesty's Government: What action they are taking as a result of the first monitoring report of the independent monitoring board on the short-term holding facilities at Heathrow Airport.
asked Her Majesty's Government: How they define the term "boom and bust", as used by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget speech on 21 March 2007 (HC Deb, col. 816).
asked Her Majesty's Government: What consideration they have given to widening the remit of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether any British citizens have been held in United States prison ships since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Report received. Clause 2 [Addition to list of treaties]:
rose to move, that the draft order laid before the House on 22 April be approved.
Consideration of amendments on Report resumed on Clause 2.
Debates in the House of Lords are an opportunity for Peers from all parties (and crossbench peers, and Bishops) to scrutinise government legislation and raise important local, national or topical issues.
And sometimes to shout at each other.
