23 January 1991

Commons Sitting of 23 January 1991

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      1. Telecommunications 604 words
      2. Imports 530 words
      3. Manufacturing Industry 1,278 words
      4. Trade (Germany) 571 words
      5. Manufacturing Output 295 words
      6. GATT 1,012 words
      7. Lloyd's 507 words
      8. Postal Services 545 words
      9. Property Descriptions 730 words
      10. Manufacturing Output 516 words
      11. Company Profitability 440 words
      12. Aerospace Products 510 words
      13. Telecommunications 362 words
      14. Accounting and Auditing Practices 501 words
      15. Shipbuilding 212 words
  4. Israel (Missile Attack) 2,921 words
  5. BILLS PRESENTED
    1. COAL MINING SUBSIDENCE 114 words
    2. BUILDING CONVERSION AND ENERGY CONSERVATION 71 words
  6. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS &c. 25 words
  7. Points of Order 578 words
  8. Water Requirements (Planning) 915 words
    1. WATER REQUIREMENTS (PLANNING) 76 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Community Charges (Substitute Setting) Bill 7 words
      1. New Clause 1
        1. SUBSTITUTED AMOUNTS: COLLECTION FUND 16,903 words, 1 division
      2. New Clause 2
        1. CERTIFICATION OF STATUTORY DUTIES 13,255 words, 1 division
  10. Housing Support Grant (Scotland) 23,990 words, 1 division
  11. Representation of the People [Money] 820 words
  12. The Press (Conduct) 4,600 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 23 January 1991

  1. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
    1. London House 62 words
  2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Public Record Office 217 words
  3. TRANSPORT
    1. Shipping Accidents 386 words
    2. Oil Tankers 315 words
    3. Rail Electrification 151 words
    4. Speedlink 113 words
    5. Energy Efficiency 141 words
    6. Red Routes 111 words
  4. WALES
    1. Slaughterhouses 55 words
    2. Green Belts 100 words
    3. Council for the Protection of Rural Wales 78 words
    4. Labour Statistics 99 words
    5. Pembrokeshire Health Authority 403 words
    6. Election Returning Officers 168 words
    7. Set-aside Scheme 41 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Immigration 72 words
    2. Prison Visits 389 words
    3. Wormwood Scrubs 55 words
    4. Prisoners' Letters 114 words
    5. Warwickshire Police 46 words
    6. Prisoner Statistics 141 words
    7. Fire Service, Warwickshire 97 words
    8. Missing Persons 207 words
    9. Home Security 108 words
    10. Iraqi Nationals 198 words
    11. Adoption 71 words
  6. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Council Housing 151 words
    2. Local Government Finance 129 words
      1. LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE 515 words
    3. Care in the Community 255 words
    4. Warwickshire County Council 74 words
    5. Property Services Agency 127 words
    6. Housing, London 305 words
    7. Water Pollution 66 words
    8. Private Water Supplies 231 words
    9. Reserve Forces 157 words
    10. British Waterways Board 314 words
    11. Minerals Act 1981 96 words
    12. Inner Cities 419 words
  7. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Unemployed People (Education) 492 words
    2. Schools Expenditure 103 words
    3. Loan Sanctions 88 words
    4. In-service Training 92 words
    5. Teachers (Early Retirement) 395 words
    6. Higher Education 58 words
    7. Grant-maintained Schools 1,761 words
    8. School Leavers 182 words
  8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Forestry Conservation 260 words
  9. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Job Interview Guarantee Scheme 237 words
    2. Energy Efficiency 263 words
    3. Training 226 words
    4. Restart 130 words
    5. Bed-and-Breakfast Accommodation 91 words
    6. Factory Inspectors, Stockport 1,041 words
    7. Earnings 2,244 words
    8. Disabled Workers 106 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Syria 202 words
    2. Hong Kong 217 words
    3. Ammunition, Belgium 184 words
    4. The Gulf 88 words
  11. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Bregenz House, Bangor 67 words
    2. Fair Employment 64 words
    3. Hospitals 252 words
    4. Skilled Workers 217 words
  12. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Loans 78 words
    2. Tobacco Tax 480 words
    3. Day Nurseries 50 words
    4. Trade Balance 79 words
    5. Manufactured Goods (Exports) 128 words
    6. Departmental Relocation 341 words
    7. Local Government Finance 233 words
    8. Government Telecommunications Unit 286 words
    9. Mentally Handicapped People 122 words
  13. HEALTH
    1. Theft 158 words
    2. Waiting Lists 234 words
    3. Nurses (Prescribing Rights) 47 words
    4. NHS Laundries 79 words
    5. Hospital Meals 75 words
    6. Disability 75 words
    7. Land Sales (Trent) 55 words
    8. Incontinence 53 words
  14. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Computers 54 words
  15. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Orders in Council 35 words
    2. Privy Council 138 words
  16. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Glass 66 words
    2. Post Office 215 words
    3. GATT 100 words
    4. Multi-fibre Arrangement 87 words
    5. Regional Policy 62 words
    6. Brewing 90 words
    7. Manufacturing Industry 75 words
    8. Iraq 72 words
    9. Political Donations (Company Law) 59 words
    10. Office Equipment 90 words
    11. Solvent-based Products 81 words
    12. Company Sizes 60 words
    13. Accounting and Auditing 59 words
    14. Biotechnology Products 47 words
    15. Business Investment 93 words
    16. Soviet Union (Aid) 89 words
    17. Information Technology 378 words
    18. Mineral Stockpile 49 words
  17. SCOTLAND
    1. Local Government Finance 908 words
    2. Slaughterhouses 54 words
    3. Labour Statistics 145 words
    4. Fixed Capital Formation 485 words
    5. Manufacturing Plants 95 words
    6. Scottish Development Agency 84 words
    7. Skye (Crossing) 210 words
    8. Nurses (Grading) 88 words
    9. Poinding 40 words
    10. Criminal Justice Legislation 146 words
    11. Timber 243 words
    12. Hospices, Renfrew 67 words
    13. Redundancies 43 words
    14. Sports Facilities 47 words
    15. British Sign Language 39 words
    16. Scottish Civil Service 1,829 words
    17. Overseas Representation 86 words
    18. Development Agencies 167 words
    19. Education 202 words
    20. Local Government Expenditure 244 words
    21. Non-domestic Rates 1,299 words
    22. GP Budgets 199 words
    23. Carstairs Hospital 291 words
  18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Sewage Sludge Dumping 103 words
    2. Sheep Dipping 70 words
    3. Carlisle Office 187 words
    4. Food From Britain 76 words
    5. Salmonella 229 words
    6. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 87 words
    7. Milk Quotas 134 words
    8. Sandwiches 96 words
    9. Fishing Vessels 51 words
    10. Skimmed Milk Powder 120 words
    11. Eggs 262 words
    12. Milk 273 words
    13. Dairy Inspections 102 words
    14. Salmon 51 words
    15. Southern Sea Fisheries 74 words
    16. Agriculture Council 316 words
    17. Fish Landings 159 words
  19. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Savings 164 words
    2. Tax Withdrawal Rates 221 words
    3. Independent Living Fund 102 words
    4. Telephonic Liaison Service 97 words
    5. Income Statistics 104 words
    6. Industrial Injury Benefit 195 words
    7. Community Care Grants 67 words
    8. Resettlement 461 words
    9. Social Fund 633 words
    10. Income-related Benefits 39 words
    11. Benefit Applications 104 words
    12. Child Support 461 words
    13. Dependants 138 words
    14. Deductions from Benefit 409 words
  20. DEFENCE
    1. Near Miss, Perranporth 96 words
    2. Air Misses 174 words
    3. Borders Tactical Training Area 66 words
    4. Low Flying 787 words
    5. Territorial Army 103 words
    6. TA and Cadets 358 words
    7. Recruits 191 words
    8. Technology Exports 70 words
    9. End-user Certificates 63 words
    10. Computers (Security) 98 words
    11. Greenham Common 28 words
    12. Crown Proceedings Act 1949 69 words
    13. Gulf and Falklands Forces 92 words
    14. British Nuclear Test Veterans AB0 111 words
    15. Journalists (Gulf) 87 words

Lords Sitting of 23 January 1991

  1. Preamble 23 words
  2. Lord Sterling of Plaistow 37 words
  3. Unemployment: Statistics 1,327 words
  4. Industry: Production and Investment 1,102 words
  5. Turtles and Terrapins: Imports 484 words
  6. Election Candidates: Party Expenditure 311 words
  7. Business 184 words
  8. GATT Negotiations 19,000 words
  9. Israel: Iraqi Missile Attack 706 words
  10. Health and Safety at Work 19,431 words
  11. Sri Lanka: Human Rights 11,465 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 23 January 1991

  1. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE: EFFICIENCY SCRUTINY 206 words
  2. FRAUD IN THE EC 125 words
  3. RECYCLED PAPER 53 words
  4. HEROIN AND COCAINE: SEIZURE DATA 182 words
  5. THE GULF: DECISIONS ON MILITARY OPERATIONS 65 words
  6. PRISON ESCAPES AND ABSCONDS 367 words
  7. PRISON OFFICERS ON ESCORT DUTY: ASSAULTS 165 words
  8. PRISONERS: ESCAPES WHILE UNDER ESCORT 92 words
  9. PRISON OFFICERS: ASSAULTS BY INMATES 344 words
  10. THE BALTIC STATES 182 words
  11. FRESH WATERS: QUALITY MONITORING REPORT 62 words
  12. PRIVATE WATER SUPPLIES: PROPOSED REGULATIONS 230 words
  13. LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESERVISTS' PENSIONS 157 words
  14. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT: WASTE DISPOSAL PROVISIONS 232 words