That this House expresses its concern that the Ministry of Defence is considering procurement of military ambulances from Steyer of Austria; notes the quality of ambulances built in the United Kingdom and the value of the automotive industry to the British economy; and therefore calls upon the Minister of Defence Procurement to listen to the concerns being expressed by the management and work forces of the Rover Group and Marshalls QBV of Cambridge in order to ensure that all relevant points have been taken into account when the decision is made.

That this House expresses its concern that the Ministry of Defence is considering procurement of military ambulances from Steyer of Austria; notes the quality of ambulances built in the United Kingdom and the value of the automotive industry to the British economy; and therefore calls upon the Minister of Defence...

That this House deplores the authoritarian insensitivity of HM Customs and Excise in trying to levy duty retrospectively on prawns imported from Iceland and the Faroe Islands on the basis of EURI certificates issued in the exporting country, which are naturally accepted by importers in this country who have no means of checking the actual origins since prawns carry no documentation of origin; considers it unreasonable to levy duty on all prawns imported for the period at issue as if none came from the exporting country and to do so without HM Customs producing any proof of origin or other means of identifying the national origin of the prawns at issue; considers this prawn issue would be ludicrous if it did not also threaten the existence of several small importers faced with heavy demands for retrospective duty; suggests that Customs should abandon its unreasonable and unjustified retrospective attempt to drive these firms into bankruptcy; and invites HM Customs to publish in the Official Report its evidence on the national origin of each consignment of prawns from these two countries in the period concerned, together with a full explanation of its incomprehensible behaviour.

That this House deplores the authoritarian insensitivity of HM Customs and Excise in trying to levy duty retrospectively on prawns imported from Iceland and the Faroe Islands on the basis of EURI certificates issued in the exporting country, which are naturally accepted by importers in this country who have no...

That this House expresses its continued grave concern at the over-exploitation of, as well as the environmental and social devastation and illegal activities associated with the trade in, Brazilian mahogany, botanical name Swietenia macrophylla, and the consequential threat to the long-term surviva l of the rain forest and the indigenous peoples in Brazil; notes the the United Kingdom is the world's second largest importer of Brazilian mahogany and is, therefore, a contributor to this problem; further notes that in 1994 the British Government supported the listing of Brazilian mahogany under Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, CITES, but that this proposal was not successful; and consequently calls upon Her Majesty's Government to support the listing for Brazilian mahogany in Annex C2 of the European Union CITES Regulation No. 3626/82 and to introduce a zero quota of imports from Brazil.

That this House expresses its continued grave concern at the over-exploitation of, as well as the environmental and social devastation and illegal activities associated with the trade in, Brazilian mahogany, botanical name Swietenia macrophylla, and the consequential threat to the long-term surviva l of the rain forest and the indigenous...