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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2014
A Bill to require provision of women’s refuges in certain areas; to set out requirements of local councils relating to women’s refuges; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 July 2009
A Bill to place upon the individual a greater responsibility for the consequences for him of his own actions and of any failure on his part to use common sense; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 December 2007
A Bill to make provision for the recording and publication of specific expenses incurred by certain public servants; to promote transparency in the use if public funds; and for connected purposes
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 December 2004
That this House welcomes the historic legal victory achieved by Uncaged Campaigns, allowing publication, in the public interest, of documents and a report describing Imutran/Novartis primate xenotransplantation research programme at Huntingdon Life Sciences; notes that the evidence contained within these documents, together with the fact of Uncaged Campaigns' victory, raises profound questions about severe animal suffering and the adequacy of the Home Office's enforcement of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 and associated regulations; and calls upon the Government to establish an independent inquiry to investigate fully the conduct of the Home Office, Imutran and Huntingdon Life Sciences in relation to this programme of research.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 December 2000
That this House is concerned at the trade in shark fins for shark-fin soup; notes that many sharks are literally butchered alive and their bodies thrown over-board as waste; notes that a conservative estimate suggests that about 100 million sharks per year are killed as 'bycatch' or in targeted fisheries and that in the last year the retail price of a single large Whale Shark dorsal fin has increased by 50 per cent. in China, with some being worth ú15,000; believes that this form of fishing is not only cruel but also unsustainable; and urges the Government to push for greater protection for sharks at international level.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2000
That this House is concerned by the latest report and graphic film evidence published by Animal Aid on the treatment of animals at some livestock markets; notes that despite the Government's 1998 Strategy requiring better enforcement at markets, animals at some markets around the country are still arriving emaciated, diseased and injured, being held in thoroughly unsuitable facilities where the casual use of sticks and electric goads persists and where they are denied water; deplores the stress and suffering this causes; and urges the Government to provide adequate financial resources for the proper enforcement of its Strategy, including attendance by the state Veterinary Service at 25 per cent. of all market days to facilitate the drawing up of a league table of markets, with those markets which are unable to meet a standard consistent with the current welfare requirements being required to upgrade or close.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2000
That this House thanks the staff of the Library for their assistance and courtesy in their dealings with honourable Members and their staff; acknowledges that the facilities of the Library allow honourable Members access to invaluable information; and further acknowledges that the e-library in Portcullis House is an excellent addition to the facilities provided by the Library to honourable Members and their staff.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2000
That this House believes that telephone faults should be remedied by the company as soon as possible; notes that tens of houses in Polegate including those where residents are dependent on lifeline services, have been without telephone connections for almost four weeks; further notes that BT have given firm assurances of reconnection dates to the honourable Member for Lewes on four separate occasions within the last fortnight none of which were met and that by 29th November phones remained dead; condemns BT for their hopeless inefficiency in this matter; and calls for an immediate reconnection of phones and for BT to issue an apology to the residents of Polegate.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 November 2000
leave out from 'staff;' to end and add ' and calls for greater resources to be made available to the Library to enable it to build upon its standards of excellence and thus provide honourable Members with the information that is such an effective tool of accountability.'.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2000
That this House condemns the decision of the BBC's Board of Governors to move BBC1's Nine O'clock News to 10 pm one year ahead of schedule and without public consultation; believes that this decision and the decision to move Panorama to a late Sunday evening slot represent a further marginalisation of news and current affairs on BBC1; and calls on the BBC's Board of Governors to reinstate the Nine O'clock News on BBC1 with immediate effect.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2000
That this House notes the findings of the recent Competition Commission inquiry that some major supermarkets 'distorted competition in the supply of groceries' with the effect of helping to kill competition from smaller shops; welcomes the conclusion that this 'operates against the public interest', but deplores the perverse decision that no action should be taken in this regard; and therefore calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to ask the Director General of Fair Trading to advise on steps to be taken to protect the owners of small businesses from unfair competition aimed at destroying their livelihoods.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2000
That this House extends its deep sympathy to the people of Lewes in the wake of the recent severe flooding to hit the town; notes that 400 homes had to be evacuated and that many businesses and farmers have been severely hit; expresses its profound thanks to, and admiration for, the superb work done by the emergency services, Lewes District Council, the RNLI, the Red Cross and others; and calls on the Government to treat sympathetically requests for assistance to help put Lewes back on its feet.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 July 2000
That this House notes that despite original estimates of ú165 million, the cost to the taxpayer of building and equipping Portcullis House is now likely to exceed ú235 million, equivalent to a cost of more than one million pounds per honourable Member based there; further notes that the building's bronze cladding alone has cost ú30 million and the hiring of 12 fig trees for five years has cost ú150,000; and calls on the National Audit Office to carry out a full investigation into this expenditure.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 July 2000
That this House sends its best wishes for the commemorative event planned for Saturday 5th August 2000, at Chailey, East Sussex, that will acknowledge with deepest thanks the efforts of the Polish airmen who flew from that wartime airfield; and pays tribute to the Poles who during the Second World War played such a valuable role in defending the skies over Britain and who, later in the war, played such a gallant role in the liberation of mainland Europe.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 July 2000
That this House condemns plans by the Government of Japan to expand its programme of so-called scientific whaling to include Bryde's and sperm whales in addition to minke whales; regrets that Japan has ignored requests from the International Whaling Commission to stop its whaling; notes that the IWC has said that it does not need the data obtained from Japan's scientific whaling; is further deeply concerned that Japan is killing whales in the Southern Ocean despite the decision in 1994 to declare this area a whale sanctuary; and respectfully calls on the Government of Japan to withdraw this proposal and to stop its whaling activities.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 June 2000
at end add 'and by introducing mandatory non-reclaimable car parking charges for honourable Members within the Parliamentary Estate.'.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 June 2000
That this House believes that a prerequisite for any bidder for the Connex South Central service must be inclusion in their bid of firm proposals to reopen the Lewes-Uckfield railway line early in the new franchise period.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 May 2000
That this House, in the light of the declaration made on 3rd May by the Metropolitan Police that its officers behaved unlawfully during the Chinese state visit in October 1999 by removing Tibetan flags from demonstrators; and calls upon the Home Secretary to order an independent inquiry into how that unlawful behaviour came about, and why the Metropolitan Police's own internal review failed to identify such behaviour as unlawful.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 March 2000
after 'country', insert 'including Newick'.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 March 2000
That this House condemns the outdoor ritual slaughter at the Eid-el-Kabir festival in France of thousands of sheep, many of them exports from the United Kingdom; notes that the sheep are not stunned before slaughter but have their throats cut while they are fully conscious and are then left to bleed to death; is dismayed that many of those doing the killing are untrained and thus perform the slaughter ineptly which leads to some sheep taking several minutes to die; notes that outdoor ritual slaughter is prohibited by both European Union and French law, which require ritual slaughter to be carried out in an abattoir; further notes that the European Commission and the French Government have regularly failed to enforce the law; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to prohibit the export of sheep for slaughter at future Eid-el-Kabir festivals and to press the European Commission and the French Government to enforce the law which prohibits outdoor ritual slaughter.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 March 2000
That this House congratulates the Mid-Sussex Times and the West Sussex Gazette on their strong and effective campaign against the Crow Report and welcomes the fact that its recommendations have now been ditched; but believes that the housing allocation for the South East is still of an order that presents a major threat to increasingly scarce countryside in Sussex and places an unsustainable burden on the local infrastructure.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 February 2000
That this House deplores the decision of Barclays Bank to close its Newick branch, and to do so without any consultation; notes that this branch serves not only Newick village but many other communities nearby, including Chailey, and that closure will cause considerable inconvenience to many local people; regrets that Barclays has given only until 7th April for customers to make alternative arrangements; and calls on Barclays to postpone closure to a period of three months and use that time to reassess the economics of the branch and investigate the possibility of Newick Post Office taking over some of the bank's functions, in the event of closure proceeding.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 February 2000
That this House notes with distaste that Labour Whips were on Friday morning 4th February trawling the Library to find Labour honourable Members to speak at length in the debate on the Carers and Disabled Children Bill; deplores the fact that Labour Whips were determined not to allow any time for debate on the Bill introduced by the honourable Members for Dover and Cynon Valley; and regards this behaviour as fundamentally undemocratic and significantly at variance with the commitment to animal welfare espoused in the Labour Party's election manifesto.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 February 2000
That this House, mindful that human rights in China and Tibet have continued to deteriorate and aware that the bilateral dialogue on human rights has failed to prevent this deterioration, supports the resolution adopted by the European Parliament on 20th January and the recommendations of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of 10th December 1998; and calls on the Government and its European Union partners, with the United States, to co-sponsor a resolution on China at the forthcoming 56th Commission for Human Rights.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 January 2000
after 'genes' to insert 'and those of other living entities'.'
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 January 2000
That this House welcomes the proposals put forward by Connex as part of their application for a franchise extension; is very pleased to note that this includes a commitment to secure the reopening of the Lewes-Uckfield railway line; wishes to see this achieved at the earliest possible opportunity; and believes any other franchise applications for the present Connex South-Central area need to match or better these proposals and include the same commitment to reopen the Lewes-Uckfield line.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 January 2000
That this House believes that, in support of the thrust of the Government's White Paper on Transport, car parking charges for honourable Members and staff should be introduced throughout the parliamentary estate, that charges paid should not be reclaimable by honourable Members, that revenue raised should be used to provide public transport passes for honourable Members and staff and that the Government should implement these proposals without delay.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 January 2000
That this House notes that the pesticide Lindane is banned in Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand and a range of other countries but is still widely and legally used in Britain, that Lindane is used as a pesticide on farms in Britain, that products containing Lindane are approved for sale for domestic use, including ant killer and moth killer and that Lindane is classified by the World Health Organisation as a possible human carcinogen; and calls on the Government to follow the example of several other countries and ban the use of Lindane in this country.