7 May 1991

Commons Sitting of 7 May 1991

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. EMPLOYMENT
      1. School-Industry Compacts 290 words
      2. Catering Industry 299 words
      3. Tourism 589 words
      4. Picketing 216 words
      5. Social Charter 762 words
      6. Older Workers 813 words
      7. Manufacturing Industry 305 words
      8. Oil Well Fires 424 words
      9. Manufacturing Industry (Redundancies) 598 words
      10. Tourism (Northumberland) 448 words
      11. Special Needs Training 784 words
      12. Trade Union Certification Officer 265 words
      13. Women Part-time Employees 212 words
      14. Training Credits 160 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,361 words
  4. Official Report 542 words
  5. Bangladesh (Cyclone Disaster) 1,195 words
  6. Points of Order 1,823 words
  7. NORTHERN IRELAND COMMITTEE 38 words
  8. Statutory Instruments, &c. 72 words
  9. Sunday Trading (Video Shops) Bill 2,520 words, 1 division
  10. Orders of the Day
    1. Consolidated Fund (No. 3) Bill 57 words
    2. Finance Bill 62 words
      1. Clause 22
        1. RATE OF CORPORATION TAX FOR 1990 24,851 words, 1 division
      2. Clause 77
        1. NON-RESIDENT SETTLEMENTS WHERE SETTLOR HAS AN INTEREST 5,202 words
    3. Schedule 14
      1. SETTLEMENTS: SETTLORS 3,081 words
    4. Clause 23
      1. CHARGE AND RATE OF CORPORATION TAX FOR 1991 2,195 words
    5. Clause 24
      1. SMALL COMPANIES 1,565 words
  11. Maintenance Enforcement Bill [Loads] 7 words
    1. Clause 2
      1. ORDERS FOR PERIODICAL PAYMENT IN MAGISTRATES' COURTS: MEANS OF PAYMENT 363 words
    2. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 18 words
      1. CIVIL SERVICE 23 words
      2. DATA PROTECTION 22 words
      3. ADJOURNMENT 17 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 7 May 1991

  1. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Non-governmental Organisations 59 words
  2. ENERGY
    1. Renewable Energy Programmes 513 words
    2. Nuclear Reactors (Decommissioning) 197 words
    3. Windfarm Developments 126 words
    4. Electricity Privatisation 122 words
    5. Initial Nuclear Feasibility Study 77 words
    6. National Grid Company 65 words
    7. Power Failures 142 words
    8. Oil Fires (Kuwait) 507 words
  3. TRANSPORT
    1. Rail Freight 155 words
    2. Train Accidents 222 words
  4. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. CSCE 168 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Vagrants 131 words
    2. Data Protection 135 words
    3. Prisons (Heating) 75 words
    4. Police Cells 178 words
    5. Firearms Offences 72 words
    6. Pucklechurch Remand Centre 56 words
    7. Prisons (Baby Food) 245 words
    8. Strip Searches 158 words
    9. Press and Public Relations 89 words
    10. Motoring Offences 71 words
    11. Squatters 59 words
    12. Thamesmead Estate 152 words
    13. Forensic Science Services 110 words
    14. Drug Trafficking 198 words
  6. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Capital Gains Tax 1,050 words
    2. Press and Public Relations 709 words
    3. Pensions 29 words
    4. European Coal and Steel Community 193 words
  7. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Sheep Scab 285 words
    2. Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy 39 words
    3. Brown Hare Syndrome 115 words
    4. Rhizomania 176 words
    5. Wool 138 words
    6. EC Surplus Food 135 words
    7. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 432 words
    8. Baby Food 102 words
    9. Irrigation 252 words
    10. Aluminium 90 words
    11. Pesticides 138 words
    12. Advertising 132 words
    13. Official Meetings 275 words
  8. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Engagements 55 words
    2. World Bank (Forest Policy) 29 words
    3. Oil Fires (Kuwait) 71 words
  9. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Data Protection Registrar 353 words
    2. Schools (Debt Charges) 614 words
    3. Educational Psychological Service 54 words
    4. Quangos 525 words
    5. Natural Environment Research Council 94 words
    6. Global Climate Model 64 words
    7. Ocean Studies 452 words
    8. East Birmingham Task Force 76 words
    9. Teachers' Pensions 177 words
  10. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Water Supply Failure 81 words
    2. Phosphate Waste 76 words
    3. Palace of Westminster 101 words
    4. Drinking Water 80 words
    5. Rights of Way 63 words
    6. Press and Public Relations 439 words
    7. Golf Courses 162 words
    8. Construction Products Directive 59 words
    9. Development Corporation Officers 64 words
    10. Local Government Finance 241 words
    11. Public Sector Land 336 words
    12. Aggregates 523 words
    13. Interest Rate Swaps 159 words
    14. Merseyside (Ministerial Visit) 260 words
    15. London Docklands 74 words
  11. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Food Aid (Africa) 238 words
    2. Kurdish Refugees 52 words
    3. Press and Public Relations 92 words
    4. Ethiopia 239 words
    5. Vietnam 105 words
    6. African Countries 271 words
    7. Brazil 124 words
    8. Glendon Hospital, Montserrat 93 words
    9. Iraqi Refugees 108 words
  12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. European Political Union 171 words
    2. Khmer Rouge 105 words
    3. Iran 71 words
    4. East Germany 82 words
    5. British Consulate, Patras 133 words
    6. United Nations Children's Rights Convention 88 words
    7. Kurdish Refugees 247 words
  13. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. South Africa (Sanctions) 182 words
    2. Chancery Group 81 words
    3. Bankruptcy Protection 53 words
    4. Receives (Charges) 50 words
    5. Bankruptcy Court 377 words
    6. Press and Public Relations 163 words
    7. Insolvency 59 words
    8. Waste Paper Imports 77 words
    9. Business Statistics 366 words
    10. EC Regional Funds 63 words
    11. Bankruptcies 391 words
    12. COCOM Talks 113 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Local Government Finance 1,002 words
    2. Local Tax Exemplification 170 words
    3. Community Charge 594 words
    4. Capital Valuation (Domestic Properties) 32 words
    5. Community Charge Reduction Scheme 77 words
    6. Departmental Expenditure 167 words
    7. Strathclyde Fire Service 429 words
    8. Press and Public Relations 261 words
    9. Crime, Strathclyde 474 words
    10. Health Service 61 words
    11. Ravenscraig and Clydesdale Steelworks 86 words
    12. War Crimes 240 words
    13. Planning Procedures 83 words
    14. Management Consultants (Fees) 120 words
  15. HEALTH
    1. Breast Care Nurses 35 words
    2. Health Systems (Employment) 339 words
    3. Chainsaw Accidents 41 words
    4. Prescription Charges 73 words
    5. Hospital Trusts 74 words
    6. Louth County Hospital 55 words
    7. Sign Language Interpreters 44 words
    8. Walsall NHS Trust 76 words
    9. Disaster Counselling 86 words
    10. Air Pollution 267 words
    11. Pregnancy Services 68 words
    12. Eye Hospitals 140 words
    13. Births 149 words
    14. Female Circumcision 68 words
    15. Manchester Hospital Trusts 68 words
    16. Health Care, London 87 words
    17. Regional Health Authorities (Expenditure) 129 words
  16. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Doncaster Office 124 words
    2. Pensioners, Plaistow 184 words
  17. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Language Studies 178 words
    2. Northern Ireland Electricity 89 words
    3. Limavady-Aghinaloo Road 35 words
    4. Fair Employment 894 words
    5. Strip Searches 136 words
    6. Births 159 words
    7. Press and Public Relations Staff 279 words
    8. Wool 94 words
  18. WALES
    1. Press and Public Relations 67 words
    2. Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Houses 185 words
    3. Craft Industry 286 words
    4. Births 274 words
    5. Fast Glamorgan District General Hospital 270 words
    6. Cardiac Patients 83 words
    7. Asthma 229 words
    8. Neath and Port Talbot Hospital 45 words
    9. Conwy Tunnel 89 words
    10. Pregnancy Services 47 words
    11. Archaeological Remains 177 words
    12. Public Bodies 91 words
    13. Welsh Language 885 words
    14. Veterinary Investigation Centre, Bangor 57 words
    15. Farm Costs 615 words
    16. Farm Incomes 767 words
    17. Farm Investment 263 words
    18. Forestry 66 words
    19. Unfit Dwellings 676 words
    20. Abattoirs 25 words
    21. Experimental Husbandry Farm, Pwllpeiran 1,159 words
    22. Farm Diversification 99 words
    23. Homelessness 82 words
    24. Education Spending 291 words
    25. WDA Industrial Units 105 words
    26. Housing Investment Programme 500 words
    27. Right to Buy 290 words
    28. Urban Motorways 71 words
    29. Official Visits 277 words
    30. Mumbles (Development) 217 words
  19. DEFENCE
    1. Atomic Weapons Establishment (Cardiff) 171 words
    2. Gulf War 53 words
    3. Premature Voluntary Release 133 words
    4. Army Helicopters 38 words
    5. Schools (Efficiency Exercise) 42 words
    6. Grenadier Guards 194 words
    7. Armed Forces (Crown Proceedings) Act 88 words
    8. Chieftain Tank 97 words
    9. Service Men (Compensation) 148 words
    10. Live Ammunition (Training) 360 words
  20. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Tourism 93 words
    2. Strikes 62 words
    3. Manual Workers 71 words
    4. Labour Statistics 168 words
    5. Low Wages 41 words
    6. Trade Unions (Sequestration) 68 words
    7. Training and Enterprise Councils 50 words
    8. Textiles and Clothing 51 words
    9. Retraining (Cumbria) 86 words
    10. Industrial Tribunals 61 words
    11. Community Employment 80 words
    12. Restart Courses 65 words
    13. Jobs 38 words
    14. Employment Training 457 words
    15. Training Investment 46 words

Lords Sitting of 7 May 1991

  1. Preamble 23 words
  2. Wage Rates: Average Increases 643 words
  3. Adult Education 1,172 words
  4. Marine Nature Conservation 1,251 words
  5. Usk Barrage Proposal: Fish Pass 1,034 words
  6. Business 52 words
  7. Medical Qualifications (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 62 words
  8. Motor Vehicles (Safety Equipment for Children) Bill 65 words
  9. Local Government Finance (Publicity for Auditors' Reports) Bill 65 words
  10. Road Traffic Bill 41,781 words
  11. Consolidated Fund (No. 3) Bill 25 words
  12. Property Misdescriptions Bill 12 words
  13. Road Traffic (Temporary Restrictions) Bill 12 words
  14. Sunday Entertainments (Video Supply) Bill [H.L.] 7,885 words
  15. Llanelli Borough Council (Burry Port Harbour) Bill [H.L.] 16 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 7 May 1991

  1. EVERTHORPE REMAND CENTRE 156 words
  2. LIFE SENTENCES: MINISTERIAL DECISIONS 112 words
  3. SENTENCE REVIEWS FOR PAROLE 92 words
  4. PAROLE RECOMMENDATIONS: REJECTIONS 79 words
  5. DRUG TRAFFICKERS: CONFISCATION OF ASSETS 193 words
  6. DIPLOMATS: SERIOUS OFFENCES AND WITHDRAWALS 164 words
  7. DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS: PARKING FINES 1,168 words
  8. BST AND GLOBAL WARMING 88 words
  9. NUCLEAR MISSILES 294 words
  10. WEAPON STORAGE VAULTS AT US AIRBASES 84 words
  11. BARKESTONE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL 202 words
  12. CITY TECHNOLOGY COLLEGES: GRANT AID 109 words
  13. INTEREST RATE SWAPS 222 words
  14. HUMMING BIRDS: CONTROL OF IMPORTS 102 words
  15. MAY DAY BANK HOLIDAY 58 words