8 December 1992

Commons Sitting of 8 December 1992

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. HEALTH
      1. Royal Free NHS Trust 656 words
      2. Community Care 959 words
      3. Hip Replacement Operations 415 words
      4. NHS Staff (Pay) 592 words
      5. "The Health of the Nation" 844 words
      6. Fund-holding Practices 906 words
      7. Elderly Population 514 words
      8. Provider Units (Targets) 471 words
      9. Fund-holding Practices 541 words
      10. North East Thames Region 318 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,028 words
      2. Single Currency 200 words
      3. Engagements 125 words
  4. Points of Order 1,314 words
    1. SCOTTISH GRAND COMMITTEE 46 words
  5. Plain Language 1,546 words
    1. PLAIN LANGUAGE 44 words
  6. Opposition Day 3 words
    1. Unemployment 52,451 words, 1 division
      1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 18 words
        1. ESTATE AGENTS 37 words
    2. Mink Keeping 13,941 words, 1 division
    3. PETITIONS
      1. Disabled Persons 173 words
      2. Water Services, Scotland 156 words
      3. Bypass (East Cleveland) 163 words
    4. Traffic (Residential Areas) 3,382 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 8 December 1992

  1. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Market Testing 116 words
  2. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Civil Servants 78 words
    2. National Lottery 122 words
    3. Longford Hall 118 words
    4. St. Anne's Hotel, Buxton 107 words
    5. Royal Palaces 150 words
    6. Theatres Restoration Fund 141 words
    7. Windsor Castle 59 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Dangerous Dogs 510 words
    2. Betting 95 words
    3. Drugs 361 words
    4. Immigration 105 words
    5. Civil Servants 162 words
    6. Terrorism 71 words
    7. Young Offenders 300 words
    8. Underground Emergency Facilities 176 words
    9. Prison Education Service 464 words
    10. Animal Experiments 546 words
    11. Motor Cycle Noise 60 words
    12. New Prison 86 words
    13. Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill 67 words
    14. Terrorist Attacks 86 words
    15. Racial Violence 88 words
    16. Young Offenders (Self-harm) 178 words
    17. Directive 89/816/EURATOM 76 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Morbidity and Mortality Levels 99 words
    2. Tanzania 87 words
    3. Gabon 98 words
    4. Malawi 83 words
    5. Bosnia 56 words
    6. World Bank 96 words
  5. EDUCATION
    1. Post-16 Education 445 words
    2. Expenditure 253 words
    3. School Transport 83 words
    4. School Catering 95 words
    5. Popular Schools 203 words
    6. Higher Education 380 words
    7. Examination Results, Liverpool 27 words
    8. Further Education 1,447 words
    9. Health Education 124 words
    10. Rudolf Steiner Schools 132 words
    11. Unemployed Students 139 words
  6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. European Union 55 words
    2. Mohammed Afzal 95 words
    3. Iraq 187 words
    4. Sudan 87 words
    5. Macedonia 82 words
    6. Albania 108 words
    7. Western Sahara 94 words
    8. Angola 108 words
    9. International Atomic Energy Agency 85 words
    10. Japan 98 words
    11. Zangger Committee 189 words
  7. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Chancellor's Legal Expenses 259 words
    2. VAT 172 words
    3. Earth Summit 131 words
    4. Housing (Capital Receipts) 113 words
    5. Public Sector Deficit 359 words
  8. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Cold Weather Credits 42 words
    2. World Summit for Children 56 words
  9. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Tenants Charter 101 words
    2. Waste Management 303 words
    3. Housing Associations (Empty Properties) 86 words
    4. Flue Gas Desulphurisation 174 words
    5. Rough Sleeping 70 words
    6. Household Heating 93 words
    7. Ozone Depletion 107 words
    8. Thorne and Hatfield Moors 202 words
    9. Derelict Land Grant 1,865 words
    10. Empty Government Properties 200 words
    11. Methyl Bromide 426 words
    12. Non-domestic Rates 118 words
    13. Earth Summit 87 words
    14. Council House Sales 750 words
  10. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Fraud 211 words
    2. Order Books 226 words
    3. Disability Living Allowance 267 words
    4. Mortgage Interest Allowance 131 words
    5. Invalidity Benefit 385 words
    6. Pensions 68 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Coal Industry 1,694 words
    2. Exports and Imports (Information) 164 words
    3. International Atomic Energy Agency 106 words
    4. Marine Protection 143 words
    5. Export Credit Guarantees 106 words
    6. East Sussex 78 words
    7. Plutonium 140 words
    8. Export Companies (Wales) 48 words
    9. Non-fossil Fuel Obligation 50 words
    10. Motor Cycles 49 words
    11. Nuclear Review 97 words
    12. Energy Council 390 words
    13. European Economic Area 346 words
    14. Department of Energy Staff 130 words
    15. Energy Supplies 246 words
    16. Deep-mining Equipment 172 words
    17. Export Credits Guarantee Department 133 words
    18. Brazilian Mahogany 93 words
    19. Single Market 198 words
    20. Bronchitis and Emphysema 71 words
  12. LORD CHANCELLORS DEPARTMENT
    1. Northern Ireland Legal System 160 words
  13. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Questions 80 words
    2. Crown Immunity 42 words
    3. Philippines Delegation 89 words
    4. Ministerial Statements 246 words
  14. TRANSPORT
    1. Red Star Parcels 208 words
    2. Blackburn-Burnley Railway Line 83 words
    3. British Rail 336 words
    4. Wyre Piddle Bypass 338 words
    5. EC Rail Networks 54 words
    6. Speed Limit, Rutland 95 words
    7. Railways White Paper 54 words
    8. Motor Cycles 59 words
    9. Nuclear Material (Transport) 491 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Scotch Street, Armagh 90 words
    2. Bomb Damage 233 words
    3. Public Expenditure 464 words
    4. EC Funding 1,505 words
    5. New Opportunities for Women 416 words
  16. WALES
    1. Students 176 words
    2. Drug Addiction (Pregnancy) 43 words
    3. Small Businesses 415 words
    4. Inward Investment 86 words
    5. Drug Abuse 70 words
    6. European Community Grants 250 words
    7. Welsh Museum School Service 46 words
    8. Radiation 134 words
    9. Adult Training 58 words
    10. Education White Paper 55 words
    11. Local Government Reform 34 words
    12. Hearing Impairment 77 words
    13. NHS Trusts 314 words
    14. Training Providers 81 words
    15. Students (Accommodation) 83 words
    16. Land Liming 105 words
    17. Broadleaf Trees 87 words
    18. River Acidification 48 words
    19. Health Authorities 152 words
    20. Hospital Beds 159 words
    21. Examination Results 77 words
    22. Tourism 284 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Civil Servants 219 words
    2. Weir Group plc 182 words
    3. Royal Ordnance, Radway Green 136 words
    4. Channel Islands (War Records) 102 words
    5. Bosnia-Herzegovina 131 words
    6. Boards of Inquiry 183 words
  18. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Deaths (Building Sites) 296 words
    2. Health and Safety Executive 597 words
    3. Radiological Emergencies 414 words
    4. Labour Statistics 280 words
    5. Training 283 words
    6. Disabled Trainees 70 words
    7. Wages Councils 471 words
    8. New Opportunities for Women Initiative 313 words
    9. Social Affairs Council 408 words
  19. SCOTLAND
    1. Health Spending 69 words
    2. Ozone Depletion 370 words
    3. Civil Servants 68 words
    4. Schools (Disciplinary Proceedings) 59 words
    5. Prisons 502 words
    6. Skye Bridge 287 words
    7. Lockerbie 52 words
    8. Defence Initiative 185 words
  20. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Scrapie 80 words
    2. Canthaxanthin 69 words
    3. Orchards 475 words
    4. Civil Servants 111 words
    5. Environmentally Sensitive Areas 107 words
    6. Fish 808 words
    7. Slaughterhouses 799 words
    8. Sheep Dips 163 words
  21. HEALTH
    1. Local Community Hospitals 100 words
    2. Smoking 49 words
    3. Waiting Lists 202 words
    4. NHS Trusts 146 words
    5. Addiction and Alcoholism 75 words
    6. "The Health of the Nation" 76 words
    7. Fund-holding Practices 134 words
    8. Prescription Charges 60 words
    9. Elderly Population 56 words
    10. London's Health Services 135 words
    11. Dentistry 285 words
    12. Patient Statistics 187 words
    13. Osteopathy 96 words
    14. Natural Medicines 216 words
    15. Unlicensed Medicines 71 words
    16. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 69 words
    17. Regional Health Authorities 686 words
    18. Low Birth Weight 235 words
    19. Audit Commission 97 words
    20. NHS Chairmen 53 words
    21. NHS Pay 60 words
    22. Medical Complaints 95 words
    23. Hib Vaccine 842 words
    24. Wellbury House 138 words
    25. Ashworth Special Hospital 464 words
    26. Cancelled Operations 69 words
    27. Hospital Consultations 66 words
    28. Codex Alimentarius Commission 170 words
    29. NHS Supplies Authority 643 words
    30. Nurses and Midwives 259 words
    31. Limited List Prescribing 345 words
    32. Community Care 372 words
    33. Nutrition Task Force 181 words
    34. NHS Surgery Costs 176 words
    35. NHS Expenditure 3,602 words

Lords Sitting of 8 December 1992

  1. Preamble 26 words
  2. Otterburn: Military Training Area 1,619 words
  3. Trade Marks Law: EC Directive 991 words
  4. Macedonia: Recognition Prospects 840 words
  5. Disability Living Allowance 571 words
  6. Business 77 words
  7. Charities Bill 73 words
  8. Agriculture Bill [H.L.] 38,815 words
  9. Social Security Bill 12 words
  10. Child Support Fees Regulations 1992 4,251 words
  11. Estate Agents (Specified Offences) (No. 2) (Amendment) Order 1992 1,148 words
  12. Gas (Exempt Supplies) Bill [H.L.] 211 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 8 December 1992

  1. ALLEGED WAR CRIMINALS: INVESTIGATION COSTS 93 words
  2. SERVICE BOARD OF INQUIRY REPORTS 181 words
  3. EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA: SWISS REFERENDUM RESULT 343 words
  4. WINE: TESTING FOR IMPURITIES 74 words