The following items are fromChildren & Parliament, spring/summer 1999.Children & Parliament is an abstracting service based on Hansard and produced by the National Children’s Bureau. It covers all parliamentary business affecting children and is available on subscription via the internet (http://candp.ncb.org.uk). The Children & Parliament web site provides direct links to full textHansard, government department sites, the sites of the Office for National Statistics, Ofsted, and other relevant organisations. For further details contact Lisa Payne, Editor,Children & Parliament, National Children’s Bureau, 8 Wakley Street, London EC1V 7QE, UK (tel: +44 (0) 171 843 6000; fax: +44 (0) 278 9512). (The Hansardreference is given in parentheses.)

• Thirty-six MPs had signed a motion calling on the government to promote more public education on the dangers to children of parental smoking and to support general practitioners in their attempts to reduce smoking by parents.

(23 Mar 1999, Col 182–183, 198)

• New nutritional standards for school meals should be published in the autumn of 1999. A joint Department of Health/Department for Education and Employment National Diet and Nutritional Survey of 4–18 year olds has been performed and the results should be reported towards the end of 1999.

(31 Mar 1999, Col 737–738, 828)

• The Home Office and the Department for International Development are working with countries in Asia, particularly Nepal and Thailand, to develop measures to protect …