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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 March 2014
A Bill to require the Secretary of State to ensure that each Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has at least one board member who is a co-operative or social enterprise business specialist, and that LEP plans make specific reference to development of co-operatives and social enterprises; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 December 2006
Require the provision of palliative care for persons suffering from a terminal illness; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House notes that when introducing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill at Second Reading, the then Secretary of State for Health, the right honourable Member for Rushcliffe, assured the House that 'all honourable Members would like to prohibit certain activities, which include cloning and other science fiction possibilities. There can be little doubt that infringing such prohibitions should attract severe penalties provided by the Bill' (2nd April 1990, Official Report, column 920); notes in that debate the statement by the late Right honourable Sir Bernard Braine, honourable Member for Castle Point that 'apart from cloning, genetic engineering and producing animal hybrids, the scientist will be able to do what he likes under the Bill' (column 934); notes that nowhere throughout the debates was any differentiation made between cloning by cell nuclear transfer and other techniques, or between therapeutic and reproductive cloning; notes nonetheless the claims made by the Under Secretary of State that those matters were fully debated in 1990; invites the Government to cite those sections of the debates on the Bill covering such matters; further calls on the Government to cite that section of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act which makes cloning legal by any technique including cell nuclear transfer and for whatever purpose; and calls for the withdrawal of the draft Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulation 2000, until such evidence has been provided and Right honourable and honourable Members have had adequate opportunity to consider these issues of profound ethical importance.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 July 2000
That this House acknowledges the leading role played by this Government and the previous Government in promoting initiatives to reduce multilateral and bilateral debt; notes the enthusiastic support of millions of people around the world for the Jubilee goal of lifting the burden of unpayable debt from the poorest countries; supports policies that link debt reduction to poverty reduction; acknowledges the considerable progress made at the 1999 Cologne G7 Summit and recognises that the hopes of millions of the world's poorest people rest on further progress being made at the forthcoming G7 Summit in Okinawa; calls for a clear and enthusiastic endorsement by the G7 of the aspiration for a debt-free start to the New Millennium for the world's poorest countries; and urges the Chancellor of the Exchequer to build on Britain's leadership in this task by seeking agreement for a clear timetable for the fulfilment of the commitments undertaken at Cologne for the full financing of the World Bank's Millennium Trust Fund, all G7 countries to follow the lead of the UK, Italy, Germany and the US and extend 100 per cent. cancellation of bilateral debt to post-cut off debts, a commitment to ensure that the resources made available through debt reduction are used for the reduction of poverty and in particular the achievement of the 2015 International Development Targets, and consideration to be given to a full write-off of debts owed by the heavily indebted poor countries to the World Bank and the IMF should the international development targets be at risk.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 March 2000
That this House urges Barclays Bank to put its decision to close the Norden Branch of Barclays Bank and other branches throughout the country on hold until the co-operative experiment between the Post Office and Barclays Bank in Cornwall has been given time to provide simple retail banking services in village areas using the Post Office as agent.