HOUSE OF LORDS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Tuesday 17th October 2006
The House met at half-past two o’clock.
PRAYERS were read by the Lord Bishop of Newcastle.
Papers
1. Command Papers—The following papers, having been presented to the House by command of Her Majesty, were ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Employment—Opportunity for all: Eighth Annual Report; (6915)
2. Health—Government Response to the Report of the House of Commons Health Committee on NHS Charges; (6922)
3. Foreign Affairs—Government Response to the Seventh Report of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on East Asia. (6944)
2. Negative Instruments—The following instruments were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2006, laid under the Food Safety Act 1990; (2687)
2. (i) Avian Influenza (Vaccination) (England) Regulations 2006— (2703)
(ii) Curd Cheese (Restriction on Placing on the Market) (England) Regulations 2006— (2787)
laid under the European Communities Act 1972;
3. Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) (England) (No. 2) Order 2006, laid under the Clean Air Act 1993; (2704)
4. (i) Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2006— (2788)
(ii) Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Fast Track Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2006— (2789)
laid under the British Nationality Act 1981.
Select Committee Report
3. Merits of Statutory Instruments—The following Report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed:
45th Report, on the following negative instrument:
England Rural Development Programme (Closure of Project-Based Schemes) Regulations 2006. (HL Paper 252)
Public Business
4. Education and Inspections Bill—The report was received; amendments were moved and (by leave of the House) withdrawn; an amendment was disagreed to (see division list); further consideration on report was adjourned after amendment 9.
5. Defence Industrial Strategy—The Lord Truscott asked Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made on implementing the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Industrial Strategy; after debate, the question was answered by the Lord Drayson.
The House was adjourned at seven minutes past ten o’clock till tomorrow, a quarter before ten o’clock for judicial business,three o’clock for public business.
PAUL HAYTER
Clerk of the Parliaments | 
