9 December 1992

Commons Sitting of 9 December 1992

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. RIVER HUMBER (UPPER BURCOM COOLING WORKS) BILL [LORDS] 12 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. ENVIRONMENT
      1. Urban Programme 658 words
      2. Rough Sleepers (Central London) 581 words
      3. Contaminated Land 658 words
      4. Subsidiarity 831 words
      5. Peak Park Planning Board (Elections) 436 words
      6. Caravan Sites Act 1968 679 words
      7. Rent-a-room Scheme 364 words
      8. Basel Convention 576 words
      9. Local Authority Staff (Pay) 584 words
      10. Social Housing 1,072 words
      11. National Parks (Privatisation) 613 words
      12. Council Tax 499 words
      13. Housing Corporation 483 words
      14. Council Tax 283 words
      15. Macclesfield 249 words
      16. Toxic Waste 165 words
  4. Prince and Princess of Wales 1,456 words
  5. Points of Order 841 words
    1. BILL PRESENTED
      1. TRADE BOYCOTTS 97 words
  6. Racial Violence 1,330 words
    1. RACIAL VIOLENCE 53 words
  7. Fishing Industry 50,192 words, 1 division
  8. Business of the House 41 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill 3 words
      1. Clause 1
        1. LICENSING OF FISHING BOATS 15,929 words, 2 divisions
      2. After Clause 5 9 words
        1. Parliamentary disqualification 32 words
        2. "The Sea Fish Licence Tribunal". 242 words
    2. Prisoners (Access by Journalists) 3,372 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 9 December 1992

  1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Nuclear Weapons 337 words
    2. Albania 66 words
    3. East Timor 60 words
    4. BBC World Service 162 words
    5. United Nations Forces 616 words
    6. Disabled Employees 124 words
    7. World Decade for Cultural Development 41 words
    8. United Nations Observers 419 words
    9. Market-testing 175 words
    10. Azerbaijan 101 words
    11. Defence Exports 294 words
  2. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Market-testing 180 words
  3. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Market-testing 306 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Juvenile Remand Prisoners 114 words
    2. Market-testing 197 words
    3. President-elect Clinton 759 words
    4. Immigration 205 words
    5. Aggravated Vehicle Taking Act 1992 75 words
    6. Disabled Employees 78 words
    7. Drugs (Convictions) 264 words
    8. Political Asylum 75 words
    9. EC Immigration Ministers 75 words
    10. Convicted Teenagers 659 words
  5. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Iraq 41 words
    2. Ministerial Travel 38 words
    3. Ministerial Meetings 60 words
    4. Iraq and Iran 92 words
    5. Legal Expenses 87 words
  6. WALES
    1. South Glamorgan Health Authority 40 words
    2. Unemployment Statistics 98 words
    3. Local Government Reorganisation and Education 112 words
    4. Youth Training 97 words
    5. Young People (Shotton) 79 words
    6. Assisted Area Status 62 words
    7. Education (Choice and Diversity) 196 words
    8. Training 55 words
    9. Dolphins 120 words
    10. Railway Privatisation 51 words
    11. Disabled Trainees 173 words
    12. Tourism 337 words
    13. Residential and Nursing Homes 47 words
    14. Urban Programme 76 words
    15. Illegal Parking 62 words
    16. Hearing-impaired Children 111 words
    17. Market Testing 163 words
    18. Regional Enterprise Grants 116 words
  7. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Developing Countries 92 words
    2. Tibet 157 words
    3. Overseas Aid (Gross National Product) 76 words
    4. Somalia 353 words
    5. Bosnia-Herzegovina 141 words
  8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Pit Closures 287 words
    2. Personal Protective Equipment 298 words
    3. Package Holidays Directive 76 words
    4. 999 Service 146 words
    5. Parcelforce and Red Star Parcels 128 words
    6. Parcelforce 237 words
    7. Powergen 126 words
    8. Manufacturing Plant and Development 250 words
    9. Computer Games 65 words
    10. Disabled Employees 150 words
    11. Market Testing 190 words
    12. Microsoft Corporation 67 words
    13. Beer 85 words
    14. Post Office 99 words
  9. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Tourism 508 words
    2. Market Testing 268 words
    3. Television Licences 328 words
    4. National Lottery 110 words
    5. Windsor Castle 168 words
  10. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Income Support 120 words
    2. Child Support Agency 118 words
    3. Disability Living Allowance 67 words
    4. Christmas Bonus 62 words
    5. Occupational Diseases 236 words
    6. Market Testing 218 words
    7. Dependency Allowance 98 words
    8. Mrs. Jean Fox 63 words
  11. HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION
    1. Officers (Legal Expenses) 65 words
    2. Portrait Restoration 66 words
  12. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Fishing Industry 143 words
    2. Newry Bypass 85 words
    3. Gamblers Anonymous 160 words
    4. Market Testing 206 words
  13. HEALTH
    1. Complementary Medicine 324 words
    2. Community Care 157 words
    3. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 149 words
    4. Hospitals 103 words
    5. Care in the Community 83 words
    6. Pharmaceuticals (Cost) 157 words
    7. Regional Health Authorities 51 words
    8. Ambulance Services 211 words
    9. Limited List Prescribing 101 words
    10. Market Testing 166 words
    11. Asbestos 50 words
    12. NHS Trusts 97 words
    13. London Health Services 198 words
    14. GP Drug Budgets 99 words
    15. Running Costs 302 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Market-Testing 168 words
    2. Waivers of Disqualification 79 words
  15. EDUCATION
    1. Market Testing 197 words
    2. School Examination Results 114 words
    3. Administration Costs 179 words
    4. Disabled Employees 96 words
    5. Grant-maintained Schools 75 words
    6. Education Courses (London) 64 words
    7. Natural Medicines 110 words
    8. Grant-maintained Schools 170 words
  16. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Members' Pay 51 words
    2. Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration Select Committee 42 words
  17. TRANSPORT
    1. Supply Vessels (Foreign Crews) 83 words
    2. Motorways 121 words
    3. Market Testing 174 words
    4. Conservation 128 words
    5. Disabled People 148 words
    6. Bus Operators (Investigations) 52 words
    7. British Rail (Capital Spending) 95 words
    8. Mercantile Marine (Manpower) 103 words
    9. Ilkley Bypass 34 words
    10. Rail Services 309 words
    11. Greater Manchester Buses 129 words
    12. Disabled Employees 72 words
    13. Nuclear Material (Transport) 136 words
    14. Parking Offences 160 words
    15. Rail Franchises 82 words
    16. Motor Cars 46 words
    17. Motor Cycles 136 words
    18. Traffic Calming, Rutland 110 words
  18. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Value Added Tax 792 words
    2. Right to Buy 104 words
    3. EC Budget 213 words
  19. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Toxic Waste 52 words
    2. Council House Sales 110 words
    3. Council Tax 322 words
    4. Revenue Support Grant 71 words
    5. South West Water (Capital Investment) 87 words
    6. Ozone Depletion 141 words
    7. Local Government Structure 106 words
    8. Nuclear Power 64 words
    9. London Forum 40 words
    10. Water Quality 96 words
    11. Urban Areas (Regeneration) 152 words
    12. Caravan Sites Act 1968 53 words
    13. Council Rents 202 words
    14. Integrated Pollution Control 116 words
    15. Housing Associations 72 words
    16. Repossessed Homes 112 words
    17. Alerce Timber (Seizure) 120 words
    18. Local Authorities (Responsibilities) 95 words
    19. EC Environment Policy 140 words
    20. Flats Over Shops Initiative 174 words
    21. Local Authority Receipts 139 words
    22. Abandoned Mines 231 words
    23. Domestic Water Meters 84 words
    24. Cetaceans 99 words
    25. Right to Buy 487 words
    26. Disabled Employees 69 words
    27. County Archive Services 140 words
    28. Building and Construction 147 words
    29. Standard Spending Assessments 70 words
    30. Water 81 words
    31. Housing 145 words
    32. Budget Allocations 676 words
    33. Standard Spending Assessments 98 words
  20. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Market Testing 214 words
    2. Agri-environment Measures 184 words
    3. Potatoes 136 words
    4. GATT 73 words
    5. Scrapie 34 words
    6. Ewes 107 words
    7. Slaughterhouses 181 words
    8. Set-aside Land 144 words
  21. DEFENCE
    1. NATO Status of Forces Agreement 111 words
    2. Menwith Hill Station (Visit) 113 words
    3. Greenwich Hospital Trust 536 words
    4. Windsor Castle (Fire) 160 words
    5. Amalgamations 455 words
    6. Military Aid 78 words
    7. Liquid Radioactive Waste 244 words
    8. Nuclear Weapons 90 words
    9. Helicopter Noise 500 words
    10. Market Testing 358 words
    11. Aircraft 335 words
  22. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Health and Safety Executive 1,694 words
    2. Mr. A. J. Linehan 78 words
    3. Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service 706 words
    4. Training 66 words
    5. Pools Industry 67 words
    6. Vocational Training 286 words
    7. PA Consulting Group 118 words
    8. Hazard Ratings 129 words
    9. Employment Service 240 words
    10. Unemployment 288 words
    11. Job Clubs 871 words
    12. Market Testing 361 words

Lords Sitting of 9 December 1992

  1. Preamble 39 words
  2. Human Rights and Bilateral Aid 1,215 words
  3. Tobacco Advertising 1,695 words
  4. School Uniform 666 words
  5. Teachers: Subject Shortages 800 words
  6. Business 91 words
  7. Hong Kong and China 3,818 words
  8. The Prince and Princess of Wales 1,179 words
  9. Hong Kong and China 36,922 words
  10. Sudan 20,396 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 9 December 1992

  1. MUNICIPAL BUS COMPANIES: EMPLOYEE BUYOUTS 112 words
  2. FENNELL REPORT: IMPLEMENTATION 94 words
  3. LONDON BUSES LTD: PRIVATISATION 173 words
  4. INDIAN URANIUM PRODUCTION: UK POLICY 33 words
  5. PLUTONIUM SUPPLIER STATES: POLICY 172 words
  6. BOSNIA: VISIT REPORT 52 words
  7. ODA: AID BUDGET 274 words