31 January 1991

Commons Sitting of 31 January 1991

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. BRITISH RAILWAYS (No. 2) BILL (By Order) 46 words
    2. AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION BILL (By Order) 114 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. NATIONAL FINANCE
      1. Public Expenditure 806 words
      2. Income Tax 534 words
      3. Manufacturing Investment 563 words
      4. Child Benefit 524 words
      5. Savings 693 words
      6. Corporation Tax 794 words
      7. Interest Rates 902 words
      8. Manufacturing Productivity 572 words
      9. Income Tax 278 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,332 words
  5. The Gulf 10,295 words
  6. Business of the House 4,663 words
  7. Points of Order 785 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Bill 15,208 words
    2. MINISTERIAL AND OTHER PENSIONS AND SALARIES BILL [MONEY] 149 words
  9. Southampton Rapid Transit Bill [Lords] 24,077 words, 1 division
  10. Parliamentary Pensions 4,742 words
  11. NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL 60 words
  12. Mrs. K. Morris 3,806 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 31 January 1991

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Solvent Abuse 311 words
    2. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 102 words
    3. Iraqi Service Personnel 187 words
    4. Braille 44 words
    5. Refugees 75 words
    6. Prostitutes 61 words
    7. Iraqi Detainees 115 words
    8. Local Government Finance 99 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Local Government Finance 476 words
    2. Landfill Sites 77 words
    3. Maps 47 words
    4. Refuse-derived Fuel 189 words
    5. First-time Buyers 626 words
    6. Spending Assessments 50 words
    7. Pollution Control (Appeals) 1,024 words
    8. Waste Regulation (South Yorkshire) 155 words
    9. Titnore Lane Landfill Site 173 words
    10. Radioactive Waste 105 words
    11. Local Authority Housing 64 words
    12. Security 87 words
    13. Urban Development 124 words
    14. The Gulf 174 words
    15. Job Creation 148 words
    16. Regional Offices 315 words
  3. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Interest Rates 29 words
    2. Imports 216 words
    3. Income Tax 116 words
    4. Manufacturing Exports 62 words
    5. Taxation 168 words
    6. Public Expenditure 28 words
    7. Investment 67 words
    8. Manufacturing Output 59 words
    9. Savings 41 words
    10. Inflation 59 words
    11. Exports 58 words
    12. Child Poverty 57 words
    13. Tax-exempt Savings 36 words
    14. London Weighting 78 words
    15. New Coins 155 words
    16. "Next Steps" Agencies 68 words
    17. Gulf War 77 words
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Disabled Access 142 words
    2. Members' Accommodation 194 words
    3. Statues 82 words
  5. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Engagements 52 words
    2. The Gulf 280 words
    3. Gas Masks (Palestinians) 83 words
    4. Pay Review Bodies 1,006 words
  6. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Companies Inspectors 125 words
    2. Questions 98 words
    3. Environmental Sensor Technologies 149 words
    4. Iraq 352 words
    5. Walter Somers 129 words
  7. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Cambodia 158 words
    2. Refugee Relief 26 words
    3. International Organisations (Subscriptions) 103 words
    4. Foreign Investment Advisory Service 104 words
    5. Cuba 75 words
    6. Assistance Unit 26 words
    7. Know-how Funds 99 words
    8. Eastern Europe 57 words
  8. THE ARTS
    1. Items in Lieu of Tax 181 words
  9. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Electricity Privatisation 96 words
    2. Energy Efficiency 229 words
    3. Constituencies 221 words
    4. Cold Weather Payments 240 words
    5. Domestic Heating Fuel 96 words
    6. Government Appointees 743 words
  10. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Education, Bexley 79 words
    2. Capital Expenditure 445 words
    3. Refugees (Course Fees) 79 words
    4. Spelling 187 words
    5. Capital Authorisations (Devon) 721 words
    6. Iraqi Students 63 words
    7. School Visits 89 words
    8. Science and Engineering Research Council 81 words
    9. Science Budget 177 words
    10. Grant-maintained Schools 180 words
    11. Teachers' Pay 710 words
  11. ENERGY
    1. Sizewell B 297 words
    2. Atomic Safeguards 61 words
    3. THORP 144 words
    4. Sellafield 92 words
    5. Energy Efficiency 648 words
    6. Electricity Privatisation 50 words
  12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Baltic States 217 words
    2. Cambodia 169 words
    3. Human Rights 269 words
    4. Boat People 54 words
    5. Hong Kong 43 words
    6. Scholarships (Eastern Europe) 90 words
    7. BBC World Service 249 words
    8. Departmental Staff 1,547 words
    9. Arabic Broadcasts 112 words
    10. Military Aid 59 words
    11. Aid (Eastern Europe) 97 words
    12. Prisoners of War (Iraq) 384 words
    13. Honorary Consuls 102 words
    14. Youth Exchange Centre 98 words
    15. Iraq 258 words
    16. Cycling Facilities 88 words
    17. The Gulf 83 words
  13. TRANSPORT
    1. Inflammable Cargoes 89 words
    2. Orange Badge Parking 186 words
    3. Trees, Pickburn 108 words
    4. Railways (Security) 50 words
    5. A2 Roadworks 218 words
    6. Speed Limits 155 words
    7. Red Routes 439 words
    8. Deaths, Edge Hill 208 words
  14. WALES
    1. Whitchurch Hospital 500 words
    2. Cholesterol Tests 46 words
    3. Departmental Personnel 787 words
    4. Speech Therapists 161 words
    5. Environmental Grants 92 words
    6. Stroke Victims 115 words
    7. Welsh National Opera 325 words
  15. HEALTH
    1. NHS Statistics 404 words
    2. Cancer Deaths 65 words
    3. Salmonella 284 words
    4. Gulf Casualties 105 words
    5. Hospital Beds 191 words
    6. Red-eared Terrapins 214 words
    7. Waltham Forest Health Service 102 words
    8. Disabled Persons 74 words
    9. Abortion 142 words
    10. Mental Hospitals 242 words
    11. Hearing Aids 82 words
    12. Elderly People 179 words
    13. Wakefield Health Authority 248 words
    14. Extra-contractual Referrals 63 words
    15. Vinegar 183 words
    16. Operating Theatre Sessions 120 words
  16. SCOTLAND
    1. Household Incomes 69 words
    2. M8 (Accidents) 184 words
    3. Sheep and Cattle 184 words
    4. Urban Programme 401 words
    5. Training Agency 190 words
    6. Local Enterprise Companies 592 words
    7. Highlands and Islands Enterprise 39 words
    8. Scottish Development Agency 117 words
    9. Edinburgh Ring Road 66 words
    10. Natural Heritage 120 words
    11. Baby Units 425 words
    12. Schools (Advertising) 101 words
    13. Nature Conservancy Council 86 words
    14. Fish Farming Advisory Committee 78 words
    15. Homelessness 665 words
    16. Sandeels 326 words
    17. Assisted Places Scheme 93 words
    18. Operations (Postponements) 102 words
  17. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Attendance Allowance 100 words
    2. Poor People 92 words
    3. National Insurance 124 words
    4. Poverty 51 words
    5. Backdated Claims 96 words
    6. Concessionary Fuel 146 words
    7. Severe Disability Premium 39 words
    8. Family Credit Office (Blackpool) 373 words
  18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Environmentally Sensitive Areas 82 words
    2. Statistics 97 words
    3. Set-aside Scheme 56 words
    4. Beef Imports 110 words
    5. Bananas 83 words
    6. Sheep and Cow Subsidies 138 words
  19. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Approved Training Organisations 125 words
    2. Tourism 282 words
    3. Employment Training 83 words
    4. Earnings 68 words
    5. Action for Jobs 52 words
    6. Work Permits 467 words
  20. DEFENCE
    1. Temperature Records 683 words
    2. Gulf Crisis 606 words
    3. Plutonium 62 words
    4. Nuclear Tests 108 words
    5. Atomic Weapons Establishment 112 words
    6. Iraq (Military Exports) 60 words
    7. Iraqi Detainees 69 words
    8. Aldershot Army Base 47 words
    9. Families for Defence 55 words
    10. Falkland Islands 60 words
    11. Iraq (Ministerial Visits) 36 words
    12. Training Courses 277 words

Lords Sitting of 31 January 1991

  1. Preamble 39 words
  2. Gulf War: Costs 1,279 words
  3. Local Government: European Charter 843 words
  4. Marina Berths: Control 968 words
  5. NHS: Hospital Waiting Lists 699 words
  6. Business 37 words
  7. Divorce: Law Commission Report 3,704 words
  8. The Gulf War 4,185 words
  9. Divorce: Law Commission Report 22,759 words
  10. Corporate Governance 7,596 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 31 January 1991

  1. DEFENDANTS ON BAIL: REOFFENDING RATE 102 words
  2. MR. MICHAEL THYNNE 138 words
  3. ACT OF SETTLEMENT 1700 43 words
  4. Mr. PHILIP OLDFIELD: SENTENCING REVIEW 109 words
  5. USSR: IMF AND WORLD BANK 60 words
  6. BALTIC STATES: UK SUPPORT 69 words
  7. GULF WAR: COSTS 108 words
  8. MOLDAVIA: USSR MILITARY CONSCRIPTION 115 words
  9. BLACK COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: OPERATIONS 136 words