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Thursday, June 4, 1998 Published at 17:31 GMT 18:31 UK


UK Politics: Diary

June 11



COMMONS

Questions

Education and Employment.

Business

Debate on the prospects for the Cardiff European Council on a motion for the adjournment of the House.

Select Committees

Health: Welfare of Former British Child Migrants 10:30am BST (9:30 GMT).


LORDS

In view of the decision to hold the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, will the government ask the European Union to urge the Greek government to take effective action against the "November 17th" group? Lord Bethell.

What percentage of the contributions paid for national insurance, pensions, occupational pension schemes and personal pensions goes on administrative costs? Baroness Castle of Blackburn.

In how many cases has a patient failed to attend a hospital appointment in 1996-97 and in 1997-98? What proportion of total hospital appointments do these absences represent in each year? Lord Hardy of Wath.

Business

National Minimum Wage Bill - Committee.

Tamar Bridge Bill - Second Reading.

Police (Northern Ireland) Bill in Grand Committee (Provisional).


NON-PARLIAMENTARY

Nuclear Special meeting of G8 group of leading industrialised nations to discuss Pakistan/India nuclear tests.

BSE Inquiry will hear evidence from Alan Dickinson, Director of Neuropathegenesis Unit, Edinburgh from 1981-87. Mr Dickinson took early retirement due to his disgust at the lack of funding for research into diseases like BSE.

Party funding Last of the London hearings by the Neill Committee on political party funding.

Compensation British POWs and civillian internees meet Tony Blair at Downing Street to press their case for more compensation at the hands of the Japanese.



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