That this House deplores the delays in providing for both haemophiliac and non-haemophiliac patients infected with HIV through National Health Service treatment; believes that no medical accident victim should be subject to uncertainty and legal pressures which compound their suffering; nor should their financial welfare depend on the death-bed repentance of a government before a general election; and calls for the establishment of a centrally funded no-fault medical accident payment scheme.

That this House deplores the delays in providing for both haemophiliac and non-haemophiliac patients infected with HIV through National Health Service treatment; believes that no medical accident victim should be subject to uncertainty and legal pressures which compound their suffering; nor should their financial welfare depend on the death-bed repentance...

That this House congratulates The Guardian newspaper and Mr Patrick Wintour in particular in exposing the connection between the Daily Mail and the Conservative Party Central Office and detailing the occasions when the Mail has printed lies, distortions and inventions about Labour's policies; further congratulates Mr Wintour on pointing out how the BBC's review of the papers and the producers of BBC2 Newsnight programme followed the Daily Mail line like a flock of sheep; and expresses its contempt for those journalists and broadcasters who know this Goebbels type news management is taking place but do not have the courage or integrity to resist it.

That this House congratulates The Guardian newspaper and Mr Patrick Wintour in particular in exposing the connection between the Daily Mail and the Conservative Party Central Office and detailing the occasions when the Mail has printed lies, distortions and inventions about Labour's policies; further congratulates Mr Wintour on pointing out...

That this House views with concern the privatisation of the Wolds and Blakenhurst prisons and agrees with the Right honourable Member for Witney that there is not a case for auctioning, or privatising or handing over the business of keeping prisoners safe to anyone other than government servants.

That this House views with concern the privatisation of the Wolds and Blakenhurst prisons and agrees with the Right honourable Member for Witney that there is not a case for auctioning, or privatising or handing over the business of keeping prisoners safe to anyone other than government servants.

That this House notes that Mr John Smillie, the General Manager of the Refreshment Department retires at the end of 1991 after 24 years of service to this House; thanks him for his loyalty and unfailing kindness to honourable Members of this House; and wishes him well in any venture he undertakes in the future.

That this House notes that Mr John Smillie, the General Manager of the Refreshment Department retires at the end of 1991 after 24 years of service to this House; thanks him for his loyalty and unfailing kindness to honourable Members of this House; and wishes him well in any venture...

That this House views with alarm the hardship faced by thousands of pub licencees and the damage being done to the interests of consumers and to the industry as a whole; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to review the 1989 Beer Orders as a matter of the utmost urgency.

That this House views with alarm the hardship faced by thousands of pub licencees and the damage being done to the interests of consumers and to the industry as a whole; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to review the 1989 Beer Orders as a matter of the utmost urgency.

That this House is dismayed that a person can work for 37 years and pay full national insurance contributions, be made redundant due to a pit closure, then in two subsequent years obtain full national insurance credits, topped up only with four voluntary contributions, suffer a heart attack and then be refused consideration for invalidity benefit on the grounds that he does not have sufficient contributions or credits to his name; notes that this has happened to Mr Tindall of 69 Staniforth Avenue, Highwood Park, Eckington, Derbyshire, because he went on a fortnight's holiday in 1988 after being badly advised at an unemployment benefit office, thus cutting across three weeks during which he could otherwise have signed on for work and that he also started work in the final week of the 1988-89 tax year and thereby lost a further credit; notes that Mr Tindall made voluntary payments to cover these four 'missing' weeks but that these contributions can only be used for pension purposes and not for invalidity benefit considerations; further notes that Mr Tindall cannot qualify for income support due to his wife's modest earnings; believes that a great injustice has been done due to the inflexibility of current Government rules; and calls for the necessary changes in the regulations forthwith.

That this House is dismayed that a person can work for 37 years and pay full national insurance contributions, be made redundant due to a pit closure, then in two subsequent years obtain full national insurance credits, topped up only with four voluntary contributions, suffer a heart attack and then...

That this House welcomes the book To Encourage the Others by David A. Yallop, calling for an independent public inquiry into the hanging of Derek Bentley in 1952; requests the Home Secretary to set up the inquiry as a matter of urgency; hopes that such a request will lead to a posthumous pardon; and feels that this will end a grave miscarriage of justice which leaves a permanent blot on the British judicial system - the hanging of an innocent man.

That this House welcomes the book To Encourage the Others by David A. Yallop, calling for an independent public inquiry into the hanging of Derek Bentley in 1952; requests the Home Secretary to set up the inquiry as a matter of urgency; hopes that such a request will lead to...

That this House views with alarm the disruption now occurring in the licensed trade; deplores the fact that many tenant licensees with long experience of serving the public are being forced either to accept long leases at extortionate rents and with full repairing liabilities or to leave the trade with little hope of finding new employment; notes that beer prices have been substantially increased while the market share held by the four biggest brewery companies has risen to almost 70 per cent., thus negating the aim of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to provide more consumer choice; and therefore calls on the Government (a) to instruct the Director General of Fair Trading to review the position immediately, (b) to introduce a minimum level of compensation for displaced tenants above that provided in the Landlord and Tenant Act and (c) to introduce a form of independent arbitration for the assessment of fair rents.

That this House views with alarm the disruption now occurring in the licensed trade; deplores the fact that many tenant licensees with long experience of serving the public are being forced either to accept long leases at extortionate rents and with full repairing liabilities or to leave the trade with...

That this House unreservedly condemns those who perpetrated the wicked, callous and cowardly act of violence which killed Rajiv Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party and former Prime Minister of India; considers that the Indian people have lost a figure of great importance in the life of their nation, and that the community of nations including Britain have lost a valued friend; reaffirms its faith in Indian democracy; and believes that these acts of terrorism will not be permitted to undermine or subvert the world's largest democracy.

That this House unreservedly condemns those who perpetrated the wicked, callous and cowardly act of violence which killed Rajiv Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party and former Prime Minister of India; considers that the Indian people have lost a figure of great importance in the life of their nation,...

That this House expresses deep concern and sympathy at the death of Jeff Jones, a Rhondda miner, at the Wem Tarw licensed coal mine at Pencoed, Mid Glamorgan, and asks the Secretary of State for Energy to hold an immediate inquiry into the safety standards at this and other licensed coal mines and to publish quarterly statistics on safety inspections in those mines.

That this House expresses deep concern and sympathy at the death of Jeff Jones, a Rhondda miner, at the Wem Tarw licensed coal mine at Pencoed, Mid Glamorgan, and asks the Secretary of State for Energy to hold an immediate inquiry into the safety standards at this and other licensed...

That this House notes that Robert Tressell died in poverty in Liverpool Royal Infirmary 80 years ago, recognises that his book, 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists', which he wrote as a resident of Mugsborough, is a working-class classic; believes that it has helped countless activists in the struggle against injustice; and calls on all public libraries to stock the new complete edition so that young workers can learn from his experiences as a Socialist.

That this House notes that Robert Tressell died in poverty in Liverpool Royal Infirmary 80 years ago, recognises that his book, 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists', which he wrote as a resident of Mugsborough, is a working-class classic; believes that it has helped countless activists in the struggle against injustice; and...

That this House, appalled by the cyclone disaster in the Bay of Bengal, expresses its deepest sympathy with the people of Bangladesh at their grievous loss of lives and possessions; notes with sympathy Prime Minister Begum Zia's call for international aid; and urges Her Majesty's Government to make an immediate, effective and generous response.

That this House, appalled by the cyclone disaster in the Bay of Bengal, expresses its deepest sympathy with the people of Bangladesh at their grievous loss of lives and possessions; notes with sympathy Prime Minister Begum Zia's call for international aid; and urges Her Majesty's Government to make an immediate,...

That this House notes with concern the findings of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology that the very seed core of British science is at risk; further deplores the hasty financial cuts inflicted on research councils, including the ??28 million cut forced on the Science and Engineering Research Council, which will result in the closure of the Daresbury Laboratory in Warrington; calls on the Government to reverse the disastrous trend in the funding of British scientific research and to make funds available to Daresbury, which is regarded as a centre of excellence by leading scientists throughout the world; and further calls on the Government to ensure that proper resources are given to the funding of vital scientific research being carried out in the United Kingdom.

That this House notes with concern the findings of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology that the very seed core of British science is at risk; further deplores the hasty financial cuts inflicted on research councils, including the ??28 million cut forced on the Science and...

That this House notes the difficult and dangerous position faced by the Kurdish community in the present internal conflict in Iraq; expresses the hope that any final settlement will recognise the rights of the Kurdish people; believes that the people of Iraq will cooperate to build a democratic and pluralist society in Iraq; notes the desire to achieve a Kurdish entity within a democratic and federated Iraq; recognises that any Middle East peace conference that fails to address the grievances of the Kurds, and the other peoples of Iraq, will not achieve the security and stability in the region which is in the interests of all; expresses the hope that those concerned about the future of Iraq will join in commemorating the third anniversary of the chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja which left over 5,000 dead; and takes note of the meeting in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons from 2 to 5 p.m. on Thursday 14 March 1991.

That this House notes the difficult and dangerous position faced by the Kurdish community in the present internal conflict in Iraq; expresses the hope that any final settlement will recognise the rights of the Kurdish people; believes that the people of Iraq will cooperate to build a democratic and pluralist...

That this House welcomes the statement made by the Prime Minister on 4th December 1990 in the House that he would examine the case of Mr John Hall of Belgrove, Leicester, a nuclear test veteran who is dying of leukaemia, an illness he contracted while working on Christmas Island, notes that the Prime Minister has subsequently refused to take any action in this matter; acknowledges that John Hall's case is a test case for other veterans; and calls on the Prime Minister, without further delay, in the interests of compassion, humanity and justice to provide John Hall and the other nuclear test veterans with the compensation that the House and the country believe that they so richly deserve.

That this House welcomes the statement made by the Prime Minister on 4th December 1990 in the House that he would examine the case of Mr John Hall of Belgrove, Leicester, a nuclear test veteran who is dying of leukaemia, an illness he contracted while working on Christmas Island, notes...

That this House, disturbed by the greater hardship imposed on the poorest peoples of the world by the debt crisis and concerned both that Gulf crisis has added considerably to this hardship and that the recent positive proposals for government-to-government debt reduction put forward by the Right honourable Member for Huntingdon, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, have not been matched by corresponding moves from the commercial banks, believes that relieving debt should not be a burden weighing most heavily on the poor but a burden shared substantially and immediately by banks and multilateral lenders as well as creditor governments; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to lead a co-ordinated strategy for the reduction of commercial bank debt in parallel to the reductions proposed in the Trinidad Terms.

That this House, disturbed by the greater hardship imposed on the poorest peoples of the world by the debt crisis and concerned both that Gulf crisis has added considerably to this hardship and that the recent positive proposals for government-to-government debt reduction put forward by the Right honourable Member for...

That this House condemns the Government's disastrous management of the economy; calls for urgent Government action to deal with the deepening and damaging recession; notes that since 1979, 225,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost in Yorkshire and Humberside, in Calderdale job losses since the beginning of 1990 now total 2,746, an average of 211 a month and in Halifax last week three engineering firms announced the loss of 264 jobs; deplores the decade of neglect of the manufacturing base and the Government's disgraceful decision not to give grant aid to help regenerate Sowerby Bridge; further notes the Government cut of ??2.1 million from manufacturing investment in Yorkshire and Humberside; and calls upon the Government to implement an emergency programme immediately to save what is left of the manufacturing base by substantially cutting interest rates, developing a properly funded regional policy and investing in training and technology.

That this House condemns the Government's disastrous management of the economy; calls for urgent Government action to deal with the deepening and damaging recession; notes that since 1979, 225,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost in Yorkshire and Humberside, in Calderdale job losses since the beginning of 1990 now total 2,746,...

That this House notes with deep concern reports of the possible closure of Britain's experimental Nuclear Structure Facility at Daresbury, Warrington, with the loss of 150 jobs, because of a funding crisis at the Science and Engineering Research Council; agrees with the many leading universities who have protested against this move that the closure of the Nuclear Structure Facility would be a serious blow to British science, leaving much vital research work unfinished, terminating important collaborative research projects, damaging the reputation of British science abroad and leading to the premature termination of work on one of the world's most successful particle accelerators; supports the view of the former Prime Minister, the Right honourable Member for Finchley, who wrote last July that the Facility `. .. is at the frontiers of research in several fundamental areas' through `exciting projects' like the Anglo-French Eurogam programme, which is now threatened; calls upon the Science and Engineering Research Council not to take any irrevocable action until all available scientific and financial options have been fully examined; and asks the Secretary of State for Education and Science to intervene to save the Facility by providing extra funding as required.

That this House notes with deep concern reports of the possible closure of Britain's experimental Nuclear Structure Facility at Daresbury, Warrington, with the loss of 150 jobs, because of a funding crisis at the Science and Engineering Research Council; agrees with the many leading universities who have protested against this...

That this House welcomes the progress being made towards a Bill based on the Green Paper, Friendly Societies: A New Framework (Cm. 919) as outlined in the Economic Secretary's written answer of 19th December; further welcomes the positive response of the friendly societies movement to the Economic Secretary's Statement; believes that mutual self-help and thrift, the guiding principles of the friendly societies movement, are as important today as ever; and looks forward to the introduction early in the next session of Parliament of the Bill which will free societies from the current restrictive Victorian framework and set in place a modern, fair and durable regime that will enable them to flourish into the next century.

That this House welcomes the progress being made towards a Bill based on the Green Paper, Friendly Societies: A New Framework (Cm. 919) as outlined in the Economic Secretary's written answer of 19th December; further welcomes the positive response of the friendly societies movement to the Economic Secretary's Statement; believes...

That this House warmly congratulates His Grace, the Archbishop of Liverpool, Monsignor Derek Worlock, on his celebration this week of 25 years as a Bishop; thanks him for his immense contribution to the social and spiritual life of the nation; and recognises the significance of his achievement with the Rt. Reverend David Sheppard, Bishop of Liverpool, and Dr John Newton, Moderator of the Free Churches of Merseyside, in creating strong ecumenical bonds in a community previously divided by sectarianism.

That this House warmly congratulates His Grace, the Archbishop of Liverpool, Monsignor Derek Worlock, on his celebration this week of 25 years as a Bishop; thanks him for his immense contribution to the social and spiritual life of the nation; and recognises the significance of his achievement with the Rt....