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Treasury

To comment on his policy in respect of the United Kingdom's public debt. (Failed OPQ).

Asked by

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 March 1997

Reference

18539; 292 c318W

House

House of Commons

Waste Prevention Bill. As amended in Standing Committee D.

Member

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Type

Presentation bills

Notes

Received 13.03.97

Date

12 March 1997

Reference

Bill 135 1996/97

House

House of Commons

BILLS RELATING TO THE CONSTITUTION

That this House believes that the committee stage of any public bill of a constitutional nature should be taken on the Floor of the House, thereby reflecting established precedent as set out in the First Report from the Select Committee on Procedure of Session 1945-46 (HC9-1) and as has always...

Primary sponsor

Lord King of Bridgwater (Conservative)

Type

Early day motions

Date

6 March 1997

Reference

621

House

House of Commons

Electronic government: Question after statement on strategy for electronic delivery of central government services

Question after statement on strategy for electronic delivery of central government services.

Member

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

3 March 1997

Reference

291 c629

House

House of Commons

Waste Prevention Bill.

Member

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Type

Presentation bills

Notes

Received 27.02.97

Date

18 February 1997

Reference

Bill 108 1996/97

House

House of Commons

Waste Prevention Bill, 1R: Waste Prevention Bill

Waste Prevention Bill. Presentation and first reading.

Member

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

18 February 1997

Reference

290 c744

House

House of Commons

1R:Waste Prevention Bill 1996/97

Waste Prevention Bill. Presentation and first reading. (Bill 108 1996/97). To be read second time on 28 February.

Lead member

Gary Waller

Type

Legislative formal proceedings

Date

18 February 1997

Reference

290 c744

House

House of Commons

Dept of Transport

Supplementary on carriage of bicycles on train routes to Yorkshire Dales.

Asked by

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Transport

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

10 February 1997

Reference

290 c2-3

House

House of Commons

Finance Bill, Com: Finance Bill

Finance Bill. Committee stage second day.

Member

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

23 January 1997

Reference

288 c1114

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

Statement on when he intends to amend the Policyholders Protection Act 1975. - Including ref to 264 c419W, and fact that the Bill is due to receive its Second Reading on Friday 24 January.

Asked by

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

For answer on

22 January 1997

Answered on

22 January 1997

Mr. Waller: To ask the President of the Board of Trade when he intends to amend the Policyholders Protection Act 1975; and if he will make a statement. [12542] Mr. Nelson: My right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade announced his intention to amend the Policyholders Protection Act 1975 on 23 October 1995, Official Report, column 417, as soon as Parliamentary time permitted. My hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth, West (Mr. Butterfill) has now introduced a Bill which implements all but one of the Government's proposals to amend this Act. The Bill is due to receive its Second Reading on Friday 24 January. The Government fully support the Bill. The main objectives of the Bill are to amend the geographic coverage of the 1975 Act by excluding insurance risks outside the European Economic Area from the compensation scheme; to modernise its provisions in relation to the failure of non-life insurance companies; and to change some administrative procedures designed to speed up settlement of claims against insolvent insurance companies. The Bill also includes a proposal explicitly to extend the Act's compensation scheme to insurance policies issued by branches of United Kingdom companies in the Channel islands and Isle of Man covering risks in those territories. Hitherto, there has been some legal doubt about whether this business was covered. The Bill proposed by my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth, West does not include the Government's proposal to limit partnership benefits to those provided to incorporated bodies in the Policyholders Protection Act 1975. The Government intend to review this proposal.

Legislation

Policyholders Protection Act 1975

Date

22 January 1997

Reference

12542; 288 c639-40W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

What changes he proposes to the service which the Radiocommunications Agency provides to investigate interference to domestic television and radio reception. - Including figures.

Asked by

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 January 1997

Reference

12543; 288 c639W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

If he will announce the results of the recent study of the United Kingdom Space Industry. - Including figures.

Asked by

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 January 1997

Reference

12541; 288 c639W

House

House of Commons

EARTH SUMMIT TWO

That this House notes the importance of the Special Session of the United Nations to be held in June 1997, known as Earth Summit Two, which will review progress made in the area of sustainability since the Earth Summit in 1992, including efforts to restrain carbon dioxide emissions and to...

Primary sponsor

Cynog Dafis (Plaid Cymru)

Type

Early day motions

Date

20 January 1997

Reference

414; 414A1

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

Statement on the results of the bids for trade fair and overseas seminar support for 1997-98. - Includes fact that I am pleased to announce that, under the trade fairs support scheme, about 260 groups of firms will be offered support totalling £17 million for exhibitions world-wide in 1997-98. In...

Asked by

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

For answer on

17 January 1997

Answered on

17 January 1997

Mr. Waller: To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement on the results of the bids for trade fair and overseas seminar support for 1997-89. [12007] Mr. Nelson: I am pleased to announce that, under the trade fairs support scheme, about 260 groups of firms will be offered support totalling £17 million for exhibitions world-wide in 1997-98. This will be a major fillip, especially to small and medium firms which otherwise would not exhibit their products to potential customers in this way. In addition, this year, for the first time, similar export promotion activities will be eligible for the Sector Challenge competition, the results of which will be announced in March. I am pleased to report that a number of such applications have been invited to prepare full bids under the challenge. Of the 260 exhibitions being announced now, nearly half will be in Europe, about one fifth in the Asia Pacific and another fifth in the Americas. The full programme will be published in my Department's overseas promotions guide later this week. Copies will be sent to business links and trade associations and copies will be placed in the Libraries of the House. Against a background of considerable demand for this support and in order to maintain a substantial programme while containing public expenditure, I have decided to reduce the rate of grant on the approved cost of renting space and constructing stands at trade fairs from 50 per cent. to 45 per cent. I have also decided not to revalue the price levels on which construction grants are based. These changes will apply to all events for which my Department announces support from today. Offers of grant and firm announcements of support already made will continue to attract grant at current rates. I am not yet in a position to take decisions on supporting some events which would involve new expenditure in 1998-99. Inclusion of the trade fairs programme in the sector challenge should bring significant benefits to exporters by allowing new and more flexible approaches to exhibiting. I will be reviewing the way that we support trade fairs after the first sector challenge but my intention is to make all support for the trade fairs after this round available through the sector challenge. Consequently, the existing understanding to support automatically a core programme of events will continue only up to 31 March 1999. In the meantime, with the aim of making the current scheme more customer-friendly, I have decided to streamline its administration. My Department will be reducing the number of forms, simplifying those forms still needed and asking intermediaries to be more accountable to their customers and less to my Department. This will apply routinely to the events for which I am announcing support from today and, where practicable, to offers already made. In addition, under the related overseas seminar scheme, my Department plans to support 31 events in 1997-98. Details of these too will be included in the overseas promotion guide.

Date

17 January 1997

Reference

12007; 288 c392-3W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

Statement pursuant to the Government observations on the Fifth Report of the Trade and Industry Committee on Business Links, HC 301 1995/96 on what steps the Government has taken to reduce bureaucracy and relate funding to outputs; and what targets he intends to set for each Business Link.

Asked by

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

For answer on

17 January 1997

Answered on

17 January 1997

Mr. Waller: To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to the Government observations on the fifth report of the Trade and Industry Committee on business links--House of Commons 301 of Session 1995-96--what steps the Government have taken to reduce bureaucracy and relate funding to outputs; and what targets he intends to set for each business link. [12030] Mr. Page: From 1997-98, each business link will have a single budget for the core services that it is required to provide and my Department will make its contribution to the cost of business link services against proposals set out in the relevant training and enterprise council business plan for meeting the needs of the area. Funding will no longer depend in a mechanistic way on the precise levels of activity on each service, but each business link partnership will need to meet targets related to (a) the fees paid to the business link by assisted businesses, (b) the number of businesses with at least one employee using business link services and (c) the number of businesses that have an established fee-based relationship with the business link. The numerical targets for each business link will depend on local circumstances such as how long the business link has been operating. These targets reflect the fact that business links are commercial organisations operating in the private sector, although with a public purpose. If they are to be credible in providing business advice to their client customers, it is particularly important that they also operate commercially. Charging helps the assisted business to appreciate the value of the services provided and helps business links to generate additional funds so that the business link can increase the volume, quality and range of services it offers. In order to ensure that all business links make progress in this area, I have decided to set a minimum level for fee income from assisted businesses. Consequently, by their fifth year of operations--or by 1998-99 for business links that will reach their fifth year in 1997-98--business links should be earning at least 25 per cent. of their income from the assistance they provide to businesses. In earlier years, they will be expected to be making clear and defined progress towards this target. This approach gives business links considerable freedom in deciding how to charge their customers, while ensuring a broad minimum overall level of income from assisted businesses across all business link areas.

Date

17 January 1997

Reference

12030; 288 c393W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

Statement when the Arbitration Act 1996 will come into force. - Includes fact that made an order to bring the main provisions of the Arbitration Act 1996 into force on 31 January 1997. The new Act will apply to all arbitration proceedings which are commenced on or after 31 January,...

Asked by

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

For answer on

17 January 1997

Answered on

17 January 1997

Mr. Waller: To ask the President of the Board of Trade when the Arbitration Act 1996 will come into force; and if he will make a statement. [12008] Mr. Lang: I am pleased to announce that, before the House rose for the Christmas recess, I made an order to bring the main provisions of the Arbitration Act 1996 into force on 31 January 1997. I have decided not to bring sections 85 to 87 of the Act, which make certain special provisions for domestic arbitration agreements, into force. A draft order to repeal these sections will be laid before both Houses as soon as is practicable. The new Act will apply to all arbitration proceedings which are commenced on or after 31 January, no matter when the agreement to arbitrate was made. The only exception is the provision at section 46(1)(b) of the Act, which enables the parties to agree that the dispute can be decided in accordance with provisions other than the law. This provision will apply only to new arbitration agreements made on or after 31 January 1997. The commencement order which brings the Act into force makes certain transitional arrangements to deal with situations where applications in respect of arbitral proceedings are made to the courts around the time the Act comes into force. Arrangements are being made to have new rules of court in place on 31 January to complement the new Act. At the same time, I have laid before both Houses an order under section 91 of the Act to set at £3,000 the amount below which a consumer arbitration agreement will be considered unfair. The order will apply to England and Wales and Scotland. Apart from its provisions on consumer arbitration agreements the Act does not apply to Scotland. A similar order is being made for Northern Ireland. The departmental advisory committee on arbitration law produced an excellent commentary on the Arbitration Bill in February of last year. A supplementary report is being prepared which will bring the commentary on the project up to date. My Department is in the process of preparing a brochure on the Act which is being written with the needs of small business and consumers specifically in mind.

Legislation

Arbitration Act 1996

Date

17 January 1997

Reference

12008; 288 c394-5W

House

House of Commons

Crime (Sentences) Bill, Rep and 3R: Crime (Sentences) Bill

Crime (Sentences) Bill. Report stage second day and third reading debate.

Member

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

15 January 1997

Reference

288 c392-3

House

House of Commons

SUDAN CHURCHES APPEAL FOR A REFERENDUM

That this House welcomes the joint appeal by the church councils of both parts of the Sudan entitiled 'Here We Stand United in Action for Peace' noting particularly their appeal for international help to oversee a cease-fire and a referendum; and encourages the Foreign Secretary to respond positively.

Primary sponsor

Martin Smyth (Ulster Unionist Party)

Type

Early day motions

Date

13 January 1997

Reference

378

House

House of Commons

World Trade Organisation, International Conference: Question after statement on World Trade Organisation Conference

Question after statement on World Trade Organisation Conference.

Member

Gary Waller (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

17 December 1996

Reference

287 c761

House

House of Commons

Information Select Committee

What has been the total cost to date of cabling the parliamentary estate for access to the PDVN; what is the estimated cost of completing the cabling; what estimate he has made of the impact on honourable Members' office cost allowances of honourable Members upgrading their computer systems to make...

Asked by

Ann Winterton (Conservative)

Answering body

Information Select Committee

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

For answer on

10 December 1996

Answered on

10 December 1996

Mrs. Ann Winterton: To ask the Chairman of the Information Committee what has been the total cost to date of cabling the parliamentary estate for access to the parliamentary data and video network; what is the estimated cost of completing the cabling; what estimate he has made of the impact on hon. Members' office cost allowances of hon. Members upgrading their computer systems to make use of the PDVN network; for what reasons the Director of Communications has refused to connect to the PDVN machines using Microsoft Windows 95; and if he will make a statement on problems encountered. [8342] Mr. Waller: The cabling for the parliamentary data and video network--PDVN--is being installed in conjunction with electrical rewiring, telephone cable renewal and associated asbestos removal, and it is not possible to give a meaningful figure for the cost of the PDVN cabling alone. The pace of change in information technology inevitably means that desktop equipment may have to be updated at intervals if hon. Members wish to have access to the full range of enhanced services available on the PDVN. Guidance on the most appropriate systems for connection to the PDVN, making effective use of resources available from the office costs allowance, is given by the Director of Communications on request. The Director of Communications encourages the continued use of Windows 3.11, while the reliability of network use of Windows 95 is being assessed, but recognises that increasing numbers of new machines purchased by hon. Members come with Windows 95 installed and will arrange for connection of Windows 95 machines to the PDVN. Connection of Windows 95 machines to the PDVN via modem is, however, currently not available, due to technical incompatibilities. Changes to the PDVN are currently being tested with a view to offering this service in the new year.

Date

10 December 1996

Reference

8342; 287 c95-6W

House

House of Commons

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