14 October 1991

Commons Sitting of 14 October 1991

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. DEATHS OF MEMBERS 73 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRANSPORT
      1. Commuters (London) 733 words
      2. Manchester Airport 431 words
      3. Manchester Relief Road 311 words
      4. Railway Policy 1,224 words
      5. Rail Safety 756 words
      6. London Transport 509 words
      7. Fare Refunds 686 words
      8. A38 194 words
      9. London Airports 270 words
      10. Traffic Calming Measures 256 words
      11. Docklands Light Railway 222 words
    2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      1. Financial Fraud 517 words
      2. Juvenile Crime 604 words
      3. Sentencing 314 words
      4. Immigration 280 words
    3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      1. Know-how fund 399 words
      2. Population Assistance 582 words
      3. Third World Aid 635 words
  4. Business of the House 1,510 words
  5. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 8,411 words
  6. Yugoslavia 3,828 words
  7. Coal Industry 539 words
  8. Hurn Airport 149 words
  9. Defence
    1. FIRST DAY 39,902 words
  10. PETITIONS
    1. Army Regiments 1,731 words
    2. Shops Act 1950 3,570 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 14 October 1991

  1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Weapons Protocols 42 words
    2. Serious Fraud Office 73 words
    3. Immigration 52 words
    4. Bank of Credit and Commerce International 72 words
    5. "Statutes in Force" 79 words
    6. Legal Aid 113 words
  2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Rain Forests 108 words
    2. International Disasters 84 words
    3. Third World Aid 218 words
    4. Good Government 145 words
    5. Southern Africa 105 words
    6. Tropical Forests 583 words
    7. Central African Republic 102 words
    8. Multilateral Development Banks 105 words
  3. ENERGY
    1. Home Energy Efficiency Scheme 305 words
    2. Trawsfynydd Power Station 168 words
    3. Wind Power 86 words
    4. Nuclear Power Stations 91 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Citizens Charter 366 words
    2. Global Warming 85 words
    3. EC Heads of Government Meeting 53 words
    4. Learning Difficulties 99 words
    5. Citizens Advice Bureaux 128 words
    6. Animals Charter 84 words
  5. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Eco-labelling 127 words
    2. Citizens Charter 78 words
    3. Barnburgh Hall 170 words
    4. Home and Water Safety 29 words
    5. Environmental Health Departments 59 words
    6. Waste Statistics 73 words
    7. Councillors 48 words
    8. Home and Water Safety 54 words
    9. Office of Water Services 70 words
    10. Water Pollution, Egham 182 words
    11. Landfill Sites (Leicester) 155 words
    12. Refuse Collection 94 words
    13. Community Charge 175 words
    14. House Renovation Grants 127 words
    15. London City Airport 57 words
    16. City Challenge (Wales) 69 words
    17. Private Planning Agents 144 words
    18. National Rivers Authority 90 words
    19. Wildlife Trade 322 words
    20. Local Government 58 words
    21. Local Government Finance 57 words
  6. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. New Car Sales 101 words
    2. Give-as-you-Earn 117 words
    3. Car Taxation 88 words
    4. EC Economic and Finance Council 656 words
  7. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Violent Offenders 94 words
    2. War Crimes 58 words
    3. Political Asylum 50 words
    4. Heathrow Terminal 4 311 words
    5. Detainees 2,693 words
    6. Independent Television Levy 59 words
    7. Port Medical Officers 63 words
    8. Deportation 98 words
    9. Temporary Admissions (Abscondings) 153 words
    10. Immigration 326 words
    11. Winchester Prison 156 words
    12. Special Constables 90 words
    13. Telephone Tapping 89 words
    14. Forensic Science Tests 85 words
    15. Police Officers (Firearms) 196 words
    16. Prisoners (Suicide Attempts) 669 words
    17. City Riots 174 words
    18. Cardiff Gaol 287 words
    19. Cornwall and Devon Police 155 words
    20. Remand Prisoners (Police Cells) 211 words
    21. Sunday Trading 46 words
    22. Young Offenders (Secure Accommodation) 91 words
    23. Cephalopods 90 words
    24. Bail Hostels 572 words
    25. Bail (Further Offences) 87 words
    26. Police Cells 278 words
    27. Football Grounds (Arrests) 67 words
    28. Immigration Rules (Concessions) 87 words
    29. Police National Computer 152 words
    30. Prison Escapes 50 words
  8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Pub Tenants 141 words
    2. Southern Water 85 words
    3. Television Signals 165 words
    4. Procter and Gamble 43 words
    5. Environmental Advertising 153 words
    6. Disposable Nappies 85 words
    7. Hungary 81 words
    8. Cigarette Products (Labelling) 73 words
    9. Czechoslovakia 505 words
    10. Poland 81 words
    11. ECGD 139 words
    12. Manufacturing Output 48 words
  9. WALES
    1. Doctors and Dentists (Pay) 85 words
    2. National Health Service 362 words
    3. BTEC Courses 287 words
    4. Opted-out Schools 98 words
    5. Local Government Finance 96 words
    6. Mentally Ill Patients 64 words
    7. Prescribing Budgets 217 words
    8. South Glamorgan Health Authority 59 words
    9. Care in the Community 180 words
    10. Intermediate Treatment Fund 100 words
    11. Mental Illness 245 words
    12. Council Estates 63 words
    13. Health Common Services Authority 31 words
  10. SCOTLAND
    1. Dogs 147 words
    2. Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 350 words
    3. Grant-maintained Schools 78 words
    4. Mental Handicap Hospitals 45 words
    5. Local Government Finance 776 words
    6. Prison Bunk Beds 80 words
    7. Fish Farms 60 words
    8. Scottish Association for Mental Health 61 words
  11. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Education and Library Boards 125 words
    2. Local Government Finance 201 words
    3. Abortions 109 words
    4. Newtownards Link Roads 64 words
    5. Maryfield (Works) 92 words
    6. Book Keeping 42 words
    7. Vehicle Testing 199 words
    8. Housing Executive 82 words
    9. Postgraduate Awards 190 words
    10. Blair Mayner Road, Newtownards 93 words
    11. HIV 83 words
    12. Merryland Industrial Estate, Castlereagh 61 words
  12. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Attendance Allowance 209 words
    2. Burleys Way Office, Leicester 73 words
    3. Archway Tower Office 84 words
    4. Overseas British Pensioners 113 words
    5. Local Government Finance 58 words
    6. Unemployment Benefit 148 words
    7. Residential Care 116 words
    8. Retirement Pension 88 words
    9. Income Support 163 words
    10. Benefits 87 words
    11. Benefits Agency 112 words
    12. Council Tax 135 words
    13. Pensioners' Incomes 93 words
    14. Mortgage Interest Payments 344 words
  13. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. NATO 61 words
    2. Naval Forces 125 words
    3. Arms Conversion 97 words
    4. Cyprus 97 words
    5. GCHQ 72 words
    6. Israel 45 words
    7. Hong Kong 128 words
    8. Guadalajara Conference 103 words
    9. Sri Lanka 85 words
    10. Antarctica 75 words
    11. Grenada (Death Penalty) 88 words
    12. Brazil 85 words
    13. Immigration 270 words
    14. Soviet Exit Visas 136 words
    15. Gibraltar 54 words
    16. EC Foreign Ministers 140 words
    17. United Nations 74 words
    18. Anglo-Italian Security Agreement 177 words
    19. Baltic States 158 words
    20. Parliamentary Groups 67 words
  14. DEFENCE
    1. Guards Regiments 538 words
    2. Army Training 150 words
    3. Military Bands 100 words
    4. Military Explosives (Transport) 197 words
    5. RAF Tornado (Ditching) 58 words
    6. Northern Ireland Regiments 48 words
    7. HMS Renown 32 words
    8. Defence Depots (Rail Links) 106 words
    9. "Options for Change" 78 words
    10. Civilian Employees 53 words
    11. Nuclear-powered Warships Safety Committee 41 words
    12. Nuclear Fleet, Murmansk 89 words
  15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Grant-maintained Schools 281 words
    2. City Technology Colleges 192 words
    3. Education Psychology 190 words
    4. Performance Criteria 205 words
    5. English Schools 153 words
    6. Probationer Teachers 483 words
    7. Education Choice 70 words
    8. Post-graduate Awards 210 words
    9. Telford CTC 78 words
    10. School Meals 215 words
    11. Schools Budgets 3,338 words
  16. HEALTH
    1. West Midlands RHA 226 words
    2. Operation Costs 146 words
    3. Health Authorities (Purchasing Plans) 718 words
    4. Waiting Lists 1,525 words
    5. Operation Purchases 105 words
    6. Cigarette Packets (Warnings) 210 words
    7. Health Authorities 80 words
    8. Sudden Infant Deaths 202 words
    9. Operations (European Patients) 50 words
    10. AIDS 309 words
    11. General Practitioners 243 words
    12. Occupational Therapy 87 words
    13. Diabetics 134 words
    14. North East Thames RHA 120 words
    15. Hospital Social Workers 74 words
    16. Islington and Bloomsbury Hospitals 602 words
    17. NHS (Administrative Posts) 138 words
    18. Ambulances 1,744 words
    19. Intermediate Treatment Fund 310 words
    20. Smoking 515 words
    21. Form Elll 86 words
    22. Operating Theatres 68 words
    23. Tobacco Advertising 128 words
    24. Heroin-based Drugs 64 words
    25. Tranquillisers 149 words
    26. Children Act 1989 111 words
    27. Community Health Councils 112 words
    28. World Health Organisation 69 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Environmental Hazards 121 words
    2. Salmonella 352 words
    3. Zoonoses Orders 83 words
    4. Leatherjackets 111 words
    5. Bird Damage 157 words
    6. North-east Salmon Fishery 87 words
    7. Food Safety 77 words
    8. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 47 words
    9. Pesticides 84 words
    10. Chemical Pesticides 104 words
    11. Wind Power 106 words
    12. Ex-situ Gametic Conservation 116 words
    13. Live Animals (Transport) 104 words
  18. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Road Transport Industry Training Board 200 words
    2. Training 1,746 words
    3. Horizon Programme 91 words
    4. Labour Statistics 301 words
    5. Earnings 215 words
    6. Brick-making Industry 117 words
    7. Health and Safety Executive 1,423 words
  19. TRANSPORT
    1. Roads (Essex) 39 words
    2. M40 50 words
    3. Vehicle Insurance 89 words
    4. London Buses 137 words
    5. Pedestrian Association 25 words
    6. Roads and Railway Expenditure 56 words
    7. North Kent Line 61 words
    8. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 220 words