Former Conservative MP for Beverley and Holderness
Order. I am beginning to think that the hon. Gentleman is wandering wider than the reports under discussion. It is a long time since I have heard the words "international development" or "science and technology" linked together.
Order. I simply wanted to say, lest somebody follows suit, that under our rules it is not permissible to refer to strangers.
Order. Would you resume your seat once again, Dr. Turner? I am sorry to interrupt you a second time, but you are turning away from your microphone, and I regret to say that your words of wisdom are not being picked up, so you have to look at the microphone.
Nor me.
Order. Minister, you can tell us all these things at the end, but I think that I would like to get on with the Bill. We are at amendment No. 116, so can we get on?
Before I put the Question, I am allowed to say one or two words on behalf myself and my co-Chairman. We have both immensely enjoyed chairing this Committee. I have learned, as I am sure he has, the most enormous amount from listening to what all of you have had to say. I have always felt that the best of the House of Commons is what one hears in Committees such as this. There is an awful lot...
Frankly, I think that there would have been a riot if you had not made that offer, Mr. Lammy.
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 79, in schedule 4, page 55, line 42, leave out 'is not yet becoming mentally incapable' and insert 'continues to have mental capacity'. No. 80, in schedule 4, page 56, line 29, leave out 'is for the time being mentally incapable' and insert 'for the time being lacks mental capacity'. No. 81, in schedule 4, page...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what impact changes in the local government formula grant will have on public services delivered by the East Riding of Yorkshire council.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what assessment he has made of rural deprivation in the local government formula grant review.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what account he has taken of the extra cost of providing services in rural areas in the local government formula grant review.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what research has been undertaken by his Department into the impact of dispersal and settlement patterns on the cost of providing services in rural areas as part of the local government formula grant review.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when a subtantive reply will be given to Mr. M. Egdell's letter of 17 April 2002, concerning asylum seekers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when a substantive reply will be given to Mrs. D. F. Hay's letter of 26 January, concerning the state of the NHS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when a substantive reply will be given to Mrs. S. J. Havis's letter of 19 March, concerning child abuse deaths.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when a substantive reply will be given to Eric and Kathleen Rodham's letter of 5 February, concerning an embargo on military exports to India, Pakistan and Israel, acknowledged on 11 February.
