To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will devise a strategy to deal with the possibility of communication satellite damage and its potential effects on the British economy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will devise a strategy to deal with the possibility of communication satellite damage and its potential effects on the British economy.

Northern Ireland Bill. Lords committee stage fourth day. Schedules 2 - 15 agreed to, schedules 2 - 4, 7 - 10 and 12 - 15 as amended. Bill reported with amendments.

Northern Ireland Bill. Lords committee stage fourth day. Schedules 2 - 15 agreed to, schedules 2 - 4, 7 - 10 and 12 - 15 as amended. Bill reported with amendments.

Whether they recognise any definitions of the terms 'airspace', 'outer space', 'deep space' and 'interstellar space'; whether they will detail such definitions; and whether these are the same definitions as used by the United States Govt. [HL 3311].

Whether they recognise any definitions of the terms 'airspace', 'outer space', 'deep space' and 'interstellar space'; whether they will detail such definitions; and whether these are the same definitions as used by the United States Govt. [HL 3311].

Whether they consider, in the light of the increasing uses being made for political, social, economic and military purposes of space, it may now be desirable to set up an internationally agreed framework to develop and enforce international law in space.

Whether they consider, in the light of the increasing uses being made for political, social, economic and military purposes of space, it may now be desirable to set up an internationally agreed framework to develop and enforce international law in space.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his predecessor's letter of 27th May, what was the result of the review by the Manned Space Programme Board and the International Relations Committee of ESA of the policy and financial implications of changes to the International Space...

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his predecessor's letter of 27th May, what was the result of the review by the Manned Space Programme Board and the International Relations Committee of ESA of the policy and financial implications of changes to the International Space...

Whether they consider the siting of weapons in space should be a subject of preventive diplomacy by the United Nations or by any other party; and why successive British Governments have voted against or abstained from resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly on "preventing an arms race in outer...

Whether they consider the siting of weapons in space should be a subject of preventive diplomacy by the United Nations or by any other party; and why successive British Governments have voted against or abstained from resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly on "preventing an arms race in outer...

Whether they have given any undertakings to the United States not to object to its current research and development programmes for the siting of weapons in space as announced in the Quadrennial Defense Review and other official documents of the United States Administration. - No such undertakings have been given.

Whether they have given any undertakings to the United States not to object to its current research and development programmes for the siting of weapons in space as announced in the Quadrennial Defense Review and other official documents of the United States Administration. - No such undertakings have been given.

If the Science Minister will visit the Seventeenth Session of the Space School currently being held at Brunel University.

If the Science Minister will visit the Seventeenth Session of the Space School currently being held at Brunel University.

What role the United Kingdom will play in the proposed ESA Mars Express mission; and what assessment she has made of the contribution of United Kingdom scientists to Mars science.

What role the United Kingdom will play in the proposed ESA Mars Express mission; and what assessment she has made of the contribution of United Kingdom scientists to Mars science.