That this House deplores the recent attempt brought before the courts in Scotland to overturn a woman's right to decide for herself whether she wants to become a mother; and, in order to avoid the risk to a woman's health caused by the delay and the distress which such actions bring, calls for clarification to reaffirm the legal position which allows for termination in well defined circumstances.

That this House deplores the recent attempt brought before the courts in Scotland to overturn a woman's right to decide for herself whether she wants to become a mother; and, in order to avoid the risk to a woman's health caused by the delay and the distress which such actions...

That this House notes the recent report published by the Department of the Environment entitled, Review of the Potential Effects of Climate Change in the UK, which concludes that there is mounting evidence that global climate is changing as a result of human activity; calls upon the Government to inquire as to what further measures should be taken both in the transport sector and in the industrial sector both up to the year 2000 and in the following 25 years in order to reduce their impacts upon climate change; and further calls on the Government to ensure that all Departments of State and Select Committees of this House collaborate, setting up joint initiatives where necessary and cross departmental co-operation to agree measures and their implementation to reduce road traffic and energy wastage and to promote energy efficiency in all sectors in order to reduce global warming and its impact on climate changes.

That this House notes the recent report published by the Department of the Environment entitled, Review of the Potential Effects of Climate Change in the UK, which concludes that there is mounting evidence that global climate is changing as a result of human activity; calls upon the Government to inquire...

That this House recognises that many homeworkers are failing to secure protection in law to which they are at present entitled, but on which they frequently miss out because of loopholes in legislation; further recognises that the Treasury is losing hundreds of millions of pounds of national insurance contributions arising from the same loopholes; and calls on Government to allow progress on the Employment (Homeworkers) Bill.

That this House recognises that many homeworkers are failing to secure protection in law to which they are at present entitled, but on which they frequently miss out because of loopholes in legislation; further recognises that the Treasury is losing hundreds of millions of pounds of national insurance contributions arising...

That this House is concerned that increases in road traffic will cause more atmospheric pollution and emission of more greenhouse gases, as well as being damaging to communities and the countryside; notes the similar concerns expressed in the recent reports by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and the House's own Transport Committee; and welcomes the introduction of the Road Traffic Reduction Bill in the last session of Parliament by a cross-party group of honourable Members, which would have required local authorities to draw up local traffic reduction plans in order to reduce traffic in their areas in ways that they consider appropriate to their circumstances, and which would have required the Secretary of State to draw up and implement a national road traffic reduction plan which would require the stabilisation of total traffic miles at 1990 levels by 2000, a reduction of total traffic miles by five per cent by 2005 and a reduction of 10 per cent by 2010.

That this House is concerned that increases in road traffic will cause more atmospheric pollution and emission of more greenhouse gases, as well as being damaging to communities and the countryside; notes the similar concerns expressed in the recent reports by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and the House's...

That this House welcomes the launch of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's latest advertising campaign against the devastating effects of domestic violence against children; notes that those involved in domestic violence rarely realise the emotional impact on children; and congratulates the NSPCC for its hard-hitting advert, based on widespread evidence that the unborn child is sensitive to pain and sound, highlighting the plight of the unborn child distressed and disturbed by domestic violence.

That this House welcomes the launch of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's latest advertising campaign against the devastating effects of domestic violence against children; notes that those involved in domestic violence rarely realise the emotional impact on children; and congratulates the NSPCC for its hard-hitting...

That this House is worried by the blatant anti-feminism of its own authorities and the lobby, who have consistently and wrongly refused to grant a single press pass to any women's periodicals when minority magazines and newspapers aimed at politically obsessed middle aged males appear to get more journalists admitted than the scale of their coverage of Parliament could possibly warrant; notes that Cosmopolitan has a readership of 2.6 million with a median age of 29 years; and calls upon the House authorities and the lobby to review their position and grant lobby status to the Political Editor of Cosmopolitan, as a magazine which seeks to illuminate rather than trivialise.

That this House is worried by the blatant anti-feminism of its own authorities and the lobby, who have consistently and wrongly refused to grant a single press pass to any women's periodicals when minority magazines and newspapers aimed at politically obsessed middle aged males appear to get more journalists admitted...

That this House understands concern and non-violent protest about the inhumane treatment of sentient creatures, including the export of veal calves; notes that consistent scientific research since that of I. D. Hogg in 1941 clearly shows that the human fetus reacts to painful stimuli from five to six weeks gestation when touched around the mouth and that this extends to an almost complete range of cutaneous responses at 12 weeks; notes that the perception of pain is principally within those parts of the thalamus which develop between nine and 12 weeks gestation; further notes that the cortex which develops after the thalamus influences pain perception by reducing its intensity; thus notes that in these early stages of development the fetus could be subjected to an intensity of pain greater than that experienced by born humans; recalls that Professor Sir William Liley, renowned internationally as the father of fetal medicine, comparing attitudes towards animals and the human fetus, recorded his unhappiness that we withhold from the human fetus a charitable consideration we extend to animals; and calls for changes to the Abortion Act to give protection to the human fetus who has less legal protection than laboratory animals and less charitable consideration from the 'politically correct' than they extend to livestock.

That this House understands concern and non-violent protest about the inhumane treatment of sentient creatures, including the export of veal calves; notes that consistent scientific research since that of I. D. Hogg in 1941 clearly shows that the human fetus reacts to painful stimuli from five to six weeks gestation...

That this House calls on Westminster Conservative councillors to explain why schemes in an environmental project called Quality of Life were, according to internal Tory documents, to be targeted as far as possible into eight marginal wards in Westminster; notes that this targeting was part of the so-called Building Stable Communities strategy whose aim was to gerrymander the 1990 local elections; further notes that the councillor in charge of the Quality of Life project was Miles Young, currently the Leader of Westminster Council; calls on him to explain why in 1987 he put forward proposals that were subsequently implemented for the unlawful targeting of environmental and enforcement spending in the marginal wards, his role in the eviction of homeless young people from the Ambrosden Hostel in his marginal ward of Victoria and its subsequent sale to developers at ??2 million below its market value as part of the gerrymandering strategy and his role in co-ordinating unlawful party political publicity expenditure by the council through the so-called BSC Communications Strategy; and also calls on Robert Davis, the current Chair of the Planning Committee in Westminster, to explain why he wrote a paper in 1987 advocating that planning enforcement resources should, in line with BSC strategy, be concentrated in target marginal wards to ensure that the right type of homes are provided bringing with it the right sort of voters.

That this House calls on Westminster Conservative councillors to explain why schemes in an environmental project called Quality of Life were, according to internal Tory documents, to be targeted as far as possible into eight marginal wards in Westminster; notes that this targeting was part of the so-called Building Stable...

That this House condemns the appalling practice in China of condemning baby girls to their deaths by placing them in so-called 'orphanages' such as the one in Nanning, Guanxi Province, Southern China, where they are left to die purely because they are of the female sex; notes that the Chinese Government has a 'policy' of one couple per child, and that in many rural areas newborn baby girls are often not registered with the authorities, and that the 1990 census revealed that 500,000 to 600,000 girls had simply disappeared; views with grave apprehension the fact that five million British subjects will be handed over to the Chinese authorities in 1997; and urges Her Majesty's Government to undertake appropriate measures to ensure that this barbaric practice is not extended to the people of Hong Kong.

That this House condemns the appalling practice in China of condemning baby girls to their deaths by placing them in so-called 'orphanages' such as the one in Nanning, Guanxi Province, Southern China, where they are left to die purely because they are of the female sex; notes that the Chinese...

That this House congratulates the Friends of the National Health Service in Basildon and Thurrock for their steadfast campaign to defend the local health service, and in particular Billericay Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit; and calls upon the Government to ensure such centres of excellence and international renown are retained within their present localities and are properly resourced to enable them to treat all patients and not just urgent and emergency cases as is the current situation in the Billericay Unit.

That this House congratulates the Friends of the National Health Service in Basildon and Thurrock for their steadfast campaign to defend the local health service, and in particular Billericay Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit; and calls upon the Government to ensure such centres of excellence and international renown are retained...

That this House calls on the Government to drop its opposition to the proposed EC energy-carbon tax, a more effective form of energy tax than VAT on domestic fuel, which is to be considered at the Luxembourg Energy and Environment Ministers Council on 23rd April and which, together with other appropriate measures such as efficiency standards for appliances and vehicles and increased research and development on renewables, would significantly reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.

That this House calls on the Government to drop its opposition to the proposed EC energy-carbon tax, a more effective form of energy tax than VAT on domestic fuel, which is to be considered at the Luxembourg Energy and Environment Ministers Council on 23rd April and which, together with other...

That this House congratulates Eamonn Martin of Basildon Athletics on his magnificent victory for Great Britain in the London Marathon; and salutes all the competitors who took part.

That this House congratulates Eamonn Martin of Basildon Athletics on his magnificent victory for Great Britain in the London Marathon; and salutes all the competitors who took part.

That this House calls for the resignation of Derek Richard Marsh, Director of Operations and Marketing at Companies House, from his position as non-executive director of Bovis Homes Ltd., following his recent payment of a fine to Companies House of several hundred pounds as a director of a company involved in the late filing of company accounts; asks why the record of his fine, although paid, has been expunged from the computerised records of Companies House; draws the attention of the President of the Board of Trade to the inevitable conflict of interest created by a very senior manager of Companies House being permitted to sit on the board of a private company that Companies House has in turn to regulate and penalise for non-compliance; and calls for him to set up an inquiry into the practice of senior civil servants in regulatory agencies sitting as non-executive directors of limited companies.

That this House calls for the resignation of Derek Richard Marsh, Director of Operations and Marketing at Companies House, from his position as non-executive director of Bovis Homes Ltd., following his recent payment of a fine to Companies House of several hundred pounds as a director of a company involved...

That this House condemns Government plans to add a further 10 categories of medicines to the limited list, thereby preventing them from being prescribed under the NHS; is appalled that the categories include contraceptive pills and drugs to combat skin disorders; notes the removal of these drugs is adding to a two-tier health service providing a wider range of drugs for those who can afford to pay; and believes that the removal of some contraceptive pills will lead to a lack of choice for women.

That this House condemns Government plans to add a further 10 categories of medicines to the limited list, thereby preventing them from being prescribed under the NHS; is appalled that the categories include contraceptive pills and drugs to combat skin disorders; notes the removal of these drugs is adding to...

That this House deplores the ??250,000 grant made over five years by the Cardiff Business School to Professor Patrick Minford of the University of Liverpool to study the Welsh economy; considers that these resources would be far better spent in building up real expertise in regional economic forecasting, than in bailing out a failed monetarist who has lost his ??100,000 a year Economic and Social Research Council funding and whose main function in the 1980s was to give a cloak of academic respectability to Thatcherism as a system of monetarist political economy, which did such devastating damage to the Welsh economy in that decade; and finds totally ludicrous the Cardiff Business School's assertion that Professor Minford's research work in Cardiff 'should provide a major input into policy decisions relating to the Welsh economy', an area of policy-making in which Professor Minford is singularly unqualified and from which he should be kept at a safe distance.

That this House deplores the ??250,000 grant made over five years by the Cardiff Business School to Professor Patrick Minford of the University of Liverpool to study the Welsh economy; considers that these resources would be far better spent in building up real expertise in regional economic forecasting, than in...

That this House welcomes the fact that 1993 is the European Year of Older People and Solidarity Between Generations; notes that the United Kingdom has adopted four themes for the Year: combating ageism, health promotion and active leisure, volunteering, and removing barriers to social and enviromental integration; believes that the Year represents an important opportunity to highlight both the contribution that older people make to society and the difficulties that many face; and invites honourable and Right honourable members to play their full part in ensuring the success of the Year.

That this House welcomes the fact that 1993 is the European Year of Older People and Solidarity Between Generations; notes that the United Kingdom has adopted four themes for the Year: combating ageism, health promotion and active leisure, volunteering, and removing barriers to social and enviromental integration; believes that the...

That this House notes the United Nations Conference, known as the Earth Summit, to be held in June; urges the United Nations to promote the idea of free markets and free trade for all as the only way to raise the appallingly low standard of living in many countries; notes that economic impoverishment is brought on by ruinous socialist economic policies and communist-inspired 'wars of liberation'; recognises that the capitalist countries have the highest standard of living, the best records on pollution and the highest levels of environmental conservation; and urges the United Kingdom Government to continue its campaign to bring this message of hope to Third World countries.

That this House notes the United Nations Conference, known as the Earth Summit, to be held in June; urges the United Nations to promote the idea of free markets and free trade for all as the only way to raise the appallingly low standard of living in many countries; notes...

That this House is concerned that climate change through enhanced global warming is a growing threat caused by the emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases from human activities; acknowledges that, whilst the majority of the global population are struggling to meet basic human needs, it is unacceptable that total emissions of greenhouse gases are derived largely from unsustainable, luxury-based activities; believes that future generations should have rights to sustainable livelihoods which are free from the threat of human-induced climate disruption; endorses the view of Chaudry Nisar Ali Khan, Senior Minister in Pakistan, that climate change proposals at the Earth Summit which are not equitable will not work; condemns the United States Government for refusing to accept the principle of setting targets for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to use all effective methods of pressure upon the United States as well as other industrialised nations to ensure that a climate convention is signed at the Earth Summit next June which reflects the link between equity and survival.

That this House is concerned that climate change through enhanced global warming is a growing threat caused by the emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases from human activities; acknowledges that, whilst the majority of the global population are struggling to meet basic human needs, it is unacceptable that total emissions of...

That this House, while welcoming the Government's November 1991 announcement of an initiative to provide emergency accommodation for homeless people sleeping rough in London between December 1991 and March 1992, views with concern that the very limited initiative announced for the rest of the country is primarily for the 1992-1993 financial year and will not help those who end up sleeping rough this winter; notes that the numbers of people needing emergency housing provision outside London are greater than in the capital; calls upon the Government immediately to extend to the rest of the country the full scale of initiatives being undertaken in London and to make the necessary financial resources available to local authorities to co-ordinate the provision of these services.

That this House, while welcoming the Government's November 1991 announcement of an initiative to provide emergency accommodation for homeless people sleeping rough in London between December 1991 and March 1992, views with concern that the very limited initiative announced for the rest of the country is primarily for the 1992-1993...

That this House notes that the Bolshevik revolution took place 74 years ago, representing the aspirations of Russian workers and peasants; recognises that this important historical event was subsequently betrayed by the Stalinist bureaucracy who executed most of the revolution's original leadership; and, learning the lessons of the Soviet experience, supports oppressed people everywhere who are fighting back against class injustice - especially in Britain.

That this House notes that the Bolshevik revolution took place 74 years ago, representing the aspirations of Russian workers and peasants; recognises that this important historical event was subsequently betrayed by the Stalinist bureaucracy who executed most of the revolution's original leadership; and, learning the lessons of the Soviet experience,...