Baroness Nicol: My Lords, I hardly dare admit it, but I, too, am a vice-president of the Council for National Parks. Can my noble friend offer any assurance that during the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, the many benefits that the national parks offer will be recognised and will be adequately resourced?
Baroness Nicol: My Lords, does the ICRC have a policy on the publication of its reports to governments, and if so, what is that policy?
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: What plans they have to change the way they handle project licence applications under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: Who has been selected as the preferred bidder for the final contract for Project Aquatrine to provide water and wastewater services to MoD sites in Scotland.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: What plans there are to amend the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: When it is expected there will be an announcement of new appointments to the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: What evaluation has been carried out of the Skill Force youth initiative.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: What their policy is on accepting applications from local authorities to hold electoral pilots at by-elections.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: What progress has been made in building on the ideas submitted as bids in the competition for European Capital of Culture 2008.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: What arrangements will be made for the provision of independent complaints advocacy services in September 2003.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: When they will publish their response to the Isaacs report.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: When they will publish the Medicines Commission and Medicines Act Advisory Bodies annual report for 2002.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: When they will publish the Medicines Control Agency annual report and accounts for 2002–03.
Baroness Nicol: My Lords, will the noble Lord give way? He is not in order unless he speaks to the amendment at this stage.
Baroness Nicol: My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Waddington, is out of order in making a second speech—indeed, a third speech—without asking the leave of the House. This is Report stage. If he has questions to ask the Minister, he must ask them after the Minister has finished. I have checked the Companion and that is the rule.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the membership of each Cabinet committee.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they are yet in a position to make a statement about the proposed unified administration of the courts.
Baroness Nicol: My Lords, I welcome the Statement and, in due course, the Bill. This long-running sore needs to be dealt with once and for all and here is an opportunity to do so. Can my noble friend enlarge on the exclusions from the ban? He mentioned ratting and rabbiting. Are there to be geographical exclusions? Or will they be nation-wide?
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: When they plan to lay before Parliament their report on the progress made in implementing the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and publish their report on the review of legislation prohibiting the disclosure of information.
Baroness Nicol: asked Her Majesty's Government: When they will publish the consultation paper on reforming the legislative framework for providing and maintaining public spaces.