Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1188open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 November 2000
That this House notes the resignation of the Chief Inspector of Schools and his intention to pursue a career in journalism; and urges the Government to take immediate steps to prevent him from using any confidential or unpublished material, research data or evidence that is not already in the public domain, in the production of future articles, books, publications, speeches or for use with the broadcast media.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 802open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 June 2000
That this House recognises that any attempt to introduce top-up fees or to allow universities to charge differential tuition fees would discourage access by students from state schools and students from under-represented groups; and calls upon the Government to extend the provisions of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 to prohibit the introduction of differential tuition fees and to re-affirm its opposition to other forms of top-up fees.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 729open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 May 2000
That this House welcomes the publication of the Stewart Report; and notes its conclusions and recommendations; and urges the Government, in view of the widespread uncertainty and public concern over the rapid increase in the number of base stations and escalating sales of mobile phones to inspect all installations on or near school grounds to ensure that the beam of greatest intensity does not fall on any part of the school buildings or grounds without the agreement of the school and parents, to empower local authorities to ensure that the RF fields to which the public will be exposed can be kept to the lowest practical levels, to empower health authorities to limit the use of mobile phones within any hospital or health related site, to require that at the point of sale all mobile phones should carry a clear statement of their specific energy absorption rate and that comparative SAR values be made available to the consumer, to require industry to take immediate steps to discourage the non-essential use of mobile phones for children under the age of 16 years, to take into account, in the absence of peer-group validated research, anecdotal and non-peer group validated research to set up substantial new research programmes immediately under the aegis of a demonstrably independent panel with the cost of research jointly funded by the industry and the Government, to subject new research to a triennial review that is reported to Parliament or earlier if the circumstances demand and to produce information and send it to every household about mobile phone technology and related health aspects and to make these leaflets available at the point of sale of mobile phones.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 728open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 May 2000
That this House welcomes the publication of the Stewart Report; notes its conclusions and recommendations; and urges the Government, in view of the widespread uncertainty and public concern over the rapid increase in the number of base stations and escalating sales of mobile phones to take a precautionary approach to future development and adopt the ICNIRP guidelines for public exposure to RF radiation rather than those of the NRPB, to set up a register of occupationally exposed workers so that cancer risks and mortality be examined to determine any harmful effects, to act immediately to revoke permitted development rights for masts under 15 metres and require any future planning application for a mast to be subject to the normal planning process, to require any change to the structure or overall power radiated from an existing base station to be treated as if it were a new development, to require all operators to register each individual site with the local authority detailing the exact location, the frequency, modulation characteristics and power output, to require each local authority to maintain an up-to-date data base of all macrocell, microcell and picocell installations in their area, to set up a national data base of such installations, to require a regular and independent inspection of installations to ensure that exposure guidelines are not exceeded outside the marked exclusion zone around any base station and to establish a marked exclusion zone around each installation with appropriate hazard warning signs and protective barriers.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 628open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 April 2000
That this House expresses its deep concern at the Government's determination to use the provisions under section 2(5) of the Teachers' Pay and Conditions Act 1991, thereby denying teachers the opportunity of consultation on a significant and fundamental change, by introducing a requirement which will put all teachers in the invidious position of having to provide external assessors with information on collegues who have applied for the threshold assessment; believes that this requirement will create an atmosphere of suspicion in schools and destroy the professional teamwork and co-operation so essential to high quality teaching and learning; expresses its concern at the Government's unnecessary inclusion of a power enabling the Secretary of State to determine without consultation or reference the definition of the criteria for crossing the pay threshold; and calls on the Government to listen seriously to the concerns of teachers and of honourable Members of this House and to rethink its proposals accordingly.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 570open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 March 2000
That this House recognises the role of the Investors in People standard in helping businesses and organisations develop through the effective performance of their staff; congratulates the 15,000 organisations nationally which are recognised as Investors in People; and warmly congratulates the honourable Member for Carshalton and Wallington on becoming the first member of this House to receive the Investor in People accreditation for his constituency office.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 413open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 February 2000
leave out from 'students' to end of line 5.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 407open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 February 2000
That this House welcomes the increased opportunities for children to participate in leisure schemes during school holidays; is concerned that some children are needlessly prevented from participating in such schemes because of their medical conditions; believes that any appropriate first aid treatment approved for use in schools by the local authority should be extended for use by approved staff in charge of leisure schemes, particularly in the case of anaphylactic shock where administration of adrenalin auto-injectors should be readily available; and calls on the Government to issue clear guidance or statutory regulation to protect staff where insurance cover is necessary for the administration of adrenalin.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 318open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 January 2000
That this House congratulates the Scottish Executive on its proposals to abolish tuition fees for all Scottish full-time higher and further education students in Scotland from autumn 2000, a year earlier than the Cubie Committee recommended; notes that this is as a result of the Liberal Democrat insistence that tuition fees should be abolished; and urges the United Kingdom Government to abolish tuition fees for all United Kingdom full-time higher and further education students.