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Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many (a) Finnish, (b) Spanish and (c) Portuguese vessels he estimates will fish North Sea stocks after 31st December 2002; how many vessels (i) from the UK and (ii) in total fish these stocks at present; and if he will...

Asked by

John Bercow (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 November 2000

Reference

356 c680-1W;356 c681W; 137899

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, which countries are excluded from North Sea fishing grounds until 31st December 2002 through accession treaties; how many vessels will subsequently have right of access; and if he will make a statement on the consequences for UK vessel access.

Asked by

John Bercow (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 November 2000

Reference

355 c622-3W; 135553

House

House of Commons

Common European security and defence policy

Common European security and defence policy: a progress report. House of Commons Library Research Paper 00/84.

Type

Commons Briefing papers

Date

31 October 2000

Reference

RP00-84

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 20th July, Official Report, column 269W, if he will give the same information on stays by unaccompanied spouses of Ministers at the Lisbon Embassy as for the Residence; and if he will make a...

Asked by

Patrick Nicholls (Conservative)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 July 2000

Reference

354 c1081W; 133935

House

House of Commons

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list those spouses of ministers who within the last year have stayed as guests at the British (a) Embassy and (b) Residence in Lisbon when not accompanied by their minister spouses; and if he will give...

Asked by

Patrick Nicholls (Conservative)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 July 2000

Reference

354 c269W; 131260

House

House of Commons

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Answered by

Keith Vaz (Labour)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

18 July 2000

Reference

354 c204-5

House

House of Commons

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Answered by

Keith Vaz (Labour)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

18 July 2000

Reference

354 c204-5

House

House of Commons

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Answered by

Keith Vaz (Labour)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

18 July 2000

Reference

354 c205

House

House of Commons

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Supplementary on bilateral relations between the UK and Portugal and progress in the investigation into the escape of the murderer of Isabelle Peake, from France to Portugal and his subsequent suicide.

Asked by

William Cash (Conservative)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

18 July 2000

Reference

354 c205

House

House of Commons

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

1st supplementary on whether the British-led agreement on EU economic reform at Lisbon is leading to new jobs and growth in the EC.

Asked by

Debra Shipley (Labour)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

18 July 2000

Reference

354 c204-5

House

House of Commons

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, What recent assessment he has made of bilateral relations between the UK and Portugal; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Debra Shipley (Labour)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Oral questions - Lead

Status

Answered

Date

18 July 2000

Reference

354 c204-5; 129543

House

House of Commons

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reason, in Annex 1 of the Feira Presidency conclusions, DSACEUR rather than SACEUR will be consulted on the headline goal; and if he will make a statement on the proposed involvement of the United States Government.

Asked by

John Bercow (Conservative)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 July 2000

Reference

353 c478-9W;353 c476-7W; 129919

House

House of Commons

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will deposit the paper referred to in section II. A. 1 of the first annex of the Feira Presidency conclusions in the Library. - Yes. (Dep No 00/1367).

Asked by

John Bercow (Conservative)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 July 2000

Reference

353 c478W;353 c476W; 129811

House

House of Commons

Scotland of Asthal, Baroness

To what aspects of defence policy Baroness Scotland of Asthal was referring when she said "There is a clear view that treaty amendment is not necessary", 14 June, 613 c1638; how this statement fits with paragraph 36 of the Government's White Paper IGC: Reform for Enlargement; and what is the...

Asked by

Lord Pearson of Rannoch (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 July 2000

Reference

614 c158WA; HL 2940

House

House of Lords

Deposited Paper Dep 00/985

Presidency conclusions: Santa Maria da Feira European Council: 19 and 20 June 2000. European Council. 2000. (Also issued as Agence Europe Document No 2195, 22 June 2000]

Deposited by

European Council

Type

Deposited papers

Date

22 June 2000

Reference

Dep 00/985

House

House of Commons

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the examples he provided, in response to the request from the Right honourable Member for Horsham on 15 June 2000, 351 c1208, of improvements in legislation made to assist small businesses as a result of...

Asked by

Bill Rammell (Labour)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

19 June 2000

For answer on

21 June 2000

Answered on

21 June 2000

Mr. Rammell: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the examples he provided, in response to the request from the right hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Maude) on 15 June 2000, Official Report, column 1208, of improvements in legislation made to assist small businesses as a result of the Lisbon Special European Council. [127199] Mr. Vaz: The right hon. Member for Horsham challenged me at 6.50pm on 15 June, to identify three improvements that the Lisbon Special European Council had introduced for business. I responded immediately that I would supply a list of 25 examples before 10 o'clock. I provided a list of no fewer than 35 examples, as follows, and it was faxed to the right hon. Member's office by 9.45 pm. As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister told the House of Commons in his statement on 27 March 2000, Official Report, columns 21-23, Lisbon marked a sea change in European economic thinking. It pointed Europe in a new direction, towards a new approach based on enterprise, innovation and competition. A work programme is now in hand across the entire breadth of EU economic and social policy, to deliver the improvements that Lisbon called for. The list sets out examples of how much is being done, and the Feira European Council will mark a further step in the delivery of this agenda. Economic Benefits for Enterprise from Lisbon 1. Charter for small firms already agreed, to be confirmed at Feira. 2. Clear set of principles to ensure small enterprise promoted as main driver for innovation, employment and social integration. 3. Concrete follow-up action e.g. national bankruptcy laws to be assessed, new regulations screened to assess impact on small business. 4. Progress to be monitored annually. 5. Work on structural indicators in hand to promote economic reform in order to benefit enterprise and SMEs, to be endorsed at Nice. 6. Agreement on improvements to the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines, in line with the Lisbon conclusions, to be endorsed at Feira. 7. Adoption of EU legal framework for electronic commerce reached in April 2000. 8. E-Europe action plan agreed, to be endorsed at Feira. 9. Focus on cheaper internet access, accelerating e-commerce and bolstering ICT skills. 10. Generalised electronic access to main basic public services by 2003. 11. All schools to have access to the Internet by 2001. 12. Teachers skilled in use of Internet and multimedia resources by 2002. 13. European diploma for basic IT skills. 14. Fully integrated and liberalised telecommunications markets by the end of 2001. 15. Competition in local loop to reduce substantial costs of using the Internet for business and consumers alike. 16. Single market strategy agreed (May). 17. Faster liberalisation of energy and transport. New targets will be established next year following a report from the Commission. Bodes well for forthcoming Gas Directive. 18. State aids to be reduced further. 19. EU strategy to remove barriers to services in hand, to be agreed at Nice. 20. New EU integrated regulation and simplification initiative in hand, to be agreed by June 2001. 21. Resolution on European Research Area agreed in June 2000. Boost to links between firms and research centres. 22. Increased mobility of researchers. 23. Proposal for regulation on community wide patent (June), to be agreed by 2001. To make patent protection in the EU as simple, inexpensive and comprehensive in scope as the protection grated by key competitors. 24. Interim review of Employment Guidelines--to include recognition that policies like welfare to work and lifelong learning have a key part to play to fight social exclusion and to ensure that the benefits of the knowledge-based economy will be for all. 25. Europe-wide database on jobs and learning opportunities, based on a UK idea. 26. Schools and training centres to be turned into multipurpose local learning centres accessible to all. 27. European award for firms committed to developing staff potential--a European "Investors in People". 28. Lisbon agreed to raise employment rate from average of 61 per cent. today to as close as possible to 70 per cent. by 2010. 29. Target to halve by 2010 the numbers of 18 to 24 year olds with only lower-secondary level education without further education and training. 30. High Level Group on social protection which was called for by Lisbon is now established. Working to modernise the re-orient EU social policy, away from a narrow focus on employee rights towards: active welfare state, not passive dependency; new focus on employability and life long learning; ensuring that work pays and that welfare systems are sustainable. Agreement to increase investment in human resources. 31. Political agreement on directive to counter racial discrimination. To promote integrated European capital market. 32. EU action now in hand to lead to common international accounting standards. 33. Financial Services Action Plan in hand to be implemented in full by 2005. 34. EIB to make another billion euro available for venture capital for SMEs over the next three years. Tax policies, venture capital and EIB support for private research investments, R&D partnerships and hi-tech start-ups. 35. Work in hand on rapid adoption of new streamlined rules in the public procurement legislative package for June 2001. Procurement on line by 2003; procurement rules modernised and simplified by 2002. The system will be more accessible to SMEs.

Date

21 June 2000

Reference

127199; 352 c229-31W

House

House of Commons

Lords statement on the European Council meeting in Feira on 19 and 20 June

Lords statement on the European Council meeting in Feira on 19 and 20 June.

Lead member

Baroness Jay of Paddington

Department

Lord Privy Seal

Type

Ministerial statements

Date

21 June 2000

Reference

614 c266-80

House

House of Lords

Statement on European Council meeting in Feira on 19-20 June

Statement on European Council meeting in Feira on 19-20 June. (Inc ref to Council's conclusions in Library).

Lead member

Tony Blair

Department

Prime Minister

Type

Ministerial statements

Date

21 June 2000

Reference

352 c339-52

House

House of Commons

Lords debate on motion to take note of the eighth report of the European Union Committee on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Lords debate on motion to take note of the eighth report of the European Union Committee on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. (HL 67 1999/2000).

Lead member

Lord Hope of Craighead

Answering member

Lord Goodhart

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office; European Union Committee

Type

Debates on select committee reports

Date

16 June 2000

Reference

613 c1849-910

House

House of Lords

President of the Council;Leader of the House of Commons

Lead member

Baroness Beckett

Answering member

Lord Young of Cookham

Department

Leader of the House of Commons; President of the Council

Type

Business statements

Date

15 June 2000

Reference

351 c1105-7

House

House of Commons

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