2 February 1993

Commons Sitting of 2 February 1993

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. ALLIED IRISH BANKS BILL 15 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. EDUCATION
      1. English 1,292 words
      2. Grant-maintained Schools 528 words
      3. Special Needs 900 words
      4. Graduates (Employment) 746 words
      5. Teacher Morale 605 words
      6. Grant-maintained Schools 696 words
      7. Teaching Practice 587 words
      8. Grant-maintained Schools 743 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,819 words
      2. London Transport 308 words
      3. Engagements 181 words
  4. DAF Trucks 4,181 words
  5. Points of Order 528 words
  6. BILL PRESENTED
    1. HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK (TOBACCO SMOKING) 93 words
  7. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c 18 words
    1. DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY 23 words
  8. Maritime Safety 1,137 words
    1. MARITIME SAFETY 51 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Railways Bill 57,170 words, 3 divisions
    2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 43 words
    3. Railways Bill [Money] 7,171 words
    4. Railways Bill (Ways and Means) 6,678 words
    5. Customs and Excise 3,739 words
    6. Value Added Tax 5,304 words
    7. PETITION
      1. Pit Closures 170 words
    8. Bosnia-Herzegovina 3,301 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 2 February 1993

  1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. EC Official Languages 33 words
    2. Philippines (Visas) 78 words
    3. Security Council (United Kingdom Seat) 164 words
    4. Mr. Sheikh Riaz Ahmad 140 words
    5. Yugoslav Republics (Embargoes) 88 words
    6. Council of Ministers 545 words
    7. EC Directives 90 words
    8. Environmental Claims 77 words
  2. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Departmental Administrative Work 168 words
  3. ENVIRONMENT
    1. KPMG Management Consultants 100 words
    2. Radioactive Discharges 198 words
    3. Footpaths 136 words
    4. Lambeth Council 85 words
    5. Sellafield 393 words
    6. Housing Associations 249 words
    7. Planning Appeals 105 words
    8. Rural Water and Sewerage Services 51 words
    9. Opencast Mining 159 words
    10. Housing Benefit Subsidy 123 words
    11. Residential Homes 334 words
    12. European Environment Agency 125 words
    13. Marine Pollution Control 118 words
    14. Urban Priority Areas 87 words
    15. Tyneside Clinical Waste Incinerator 147 words
    16. Architects (Registration) Acts 220 words
    17. International Development and Co- operation 169 words
    18. Water Charges 76 words
    19. Urban Programme 55 words
    20. Council Debts, Gloucestershire 241 words
    21. Local Government Review 157 words
    22. Local Government Finance 218 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Commonwealth Development Corporation 89 words
  5. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Autumn Statement 259 words
    2. Antiques 125 words
    3. Fuel (Tax Differentials) 317 words
    4. Departmenal Employees 77 words
    5. Premium Savings Bonds 76 words
    6. VAT 497 words
    7. Clearing Banks 206 words
    8. Importers and Exporters (Complaints) 108 words
    9. Bloodstock (VAT) 145 words
    10. International Co-operation and Development 187 words
    11. Income Distribution 51 words
  6. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Water Privatisation 316 words
    2. Trade 87 words
    3. Education Reforms 150 words
    4. Regional Development Fund 145 words
  7. WALES
    1. School Governors 29 words
    2. One-stop Shops 118 words
    3. Business and Technology Information 275 words
    4. Incineration Plants 107 words
    5. Home Improvement Grants 123 words
    6. Welsh Office Contracts 62 words
    7. Certificate of Education 762 words
    8. Disability (Schools) 47 words
    9. Advance Factory Building 1,468 words
    10. Help Helpline 84 words
    11. Health Service (Catering) 49 words
    12. Environmental Protection 55 words
    13. Offshore Emergencies 84 words
    14. Welsh Economy 86 words
  8. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Professional Boxing 114 words
    2. Tourist Bodies 113 words
    3. Public Swimming Pools 82 words
    4. National Lottery 152 words
  9. TRANSPORT
    1. InterCity 43 words
    2. Shipping 634 words
    3. Tyne and Wear Metro 26 words
    4. Radioactive Materials 480 words
    5. Oil Spills 273 words
    6. Radiation Emergencies 65 words
    7. MV Braer 75 words
    8. Birmingham Relief Road 98 words
    9. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency 132 words
    10. Rail Electrification 41 words
    11. Road Lighting 282 words
    12. M6 144 words
    13. Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment 118 words
    14. Rail Passengers (Compensation) 95 words
    15. Young Drivers 217 words
    16. Disabled Parking Places 155 words
    17. M1 182 words
    18. Liberian-registered Ships 119 words
    19. Company Cars 96 words
    20. Roads Programme 131 words
    21. British Rail (Redundancies) 90 words
    22. Plutonium 73 words
    23. Seat Belts 73 words
    24. Road Safety 432 words
  10. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Race Relations 83 words
    2. Persistent Juvenile Offenders 311 words
    3. Seat Belts (Prosecutions) 170 words
    4. Convicted Murderer (Television Broadcast) 57 words
    5. Prisoners (Cell Occupation) 182 words
    6. Prison Education 134 words
    7. Channing's Wood Prison (Education) 72 words
    8. Prison Cells (Capital Cost) 48 words
    9. Wolds Remand Centre 120 words
    10. Seat Belts (Regulations Enforcement) 60 words
    11. Anthony Charles Jeffs 51 words
    12. Police (Audit Commission Reports) 1,025 words
    13. Police (Education) 177 words
    14. Police National Computer 790 words
    15. Police (Sick Leave) 167 words
    16. Crime Statistics 699 words
    17. Police Numbers 1,165 words
    18. Police (Flexible Shifts) 119 words
    19. Safer Cities Projects 255 words
    20. Youth Crime 309 words
  11. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Badgers 69 words
    2. Common Agricultural Policy 114 words
    3. Sea Fish (Conservation) Bill 69 words
    4. Fishing Fleet 136 words
    5. Agriculture Returns 82 words
    6. Labour Statistics 463 words
    7. Set-aside 359 words
    8. European Court 71 words
    9. Fishing Days (Allocation) 190 words
    10. Conifer Plantations 67 words
  12. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Lone Parents 204 words
    2. State Pensions 119 words
  13. PRIME MINISTER
    1. India 62 words
    2. Democracy 57 words
    3. Lord Chancellor's Powers 55 words
    4. Transfer of Functions Orders 144 words
    5. Family Policy 77 words
    6. Moscow (Communications) 82 words
    7. Intergovernmental Conference 65 words
    8. Engagements 62 words
  14. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Financial Assistance 176 words
    2. Teaching Company Partnership Scheme 465 words
    3. News Distribution 79 words
    4. Denim Cloth 160 words
    5. Ship Building 68 words
    6. Methyl Bromide 50 words
    7. EC Regional and Social Funds 66 words
    8. State Aid for Industry 79 words
    9. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 285 words
    10. Assisted Areas 47 words
    11. Regional Selective Assistance 90 words
    12. Regional Development Fund 132 words
    13. Coal Industry 281 words
    14. Insolvency 103 words
    15. Warship Builders 73 words
    16. Export:Import Ratios 140 words
  15. EDUCATION
    1. English 246 words
    2. Nursery Education 56 words
    3. Education Funding 98 words
    4. Grant-maintained Schools 160 words
    5. NNC and Ofsted Reports 84 words
    6. Students Unions 49 words
    7. Newspapers (Essex) 55 words
    8. National Curriculum 80 words
    9. Youth Service 45 words
    10. Teacher Education and Training 153 words
    11. Voluntary Organisations 85 words
    12. Local Management of Schools 63 words
    13. Truancy 109 words
    14. Higher Education 117 words
    15. School Governors 630 words
    16. Grants (Gwynedd) 226 words
    17. Secondary Schools (Inspections) 45 words
    18. Special Needs 507 words
  16. HEALTH
    1. Smoking 105 words
    2. Limited List Drugs 76 words
    3. Psychiatric Patients (Deaths) 43 words
    4. GP Fund Holders 74 words
    5. Cancer Treatment 143 words
    6. Nurses 127 words
    7. Plastic Surgery 87 words
    8. Self-governing Trusts 114 words
    9. Accidents (Children) 264 words
    10. Home Safety 99 words
    11. Chlamydia 78 words
    12. Community Care 172 words
    13. Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle 123 words
    14. Maternal Deaths 109 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. High Energy Beam Weapons 220 words
    2. Porton Down 335 words
    3. Reservists (Annual Reporting) 95 words
    4. Search and Rescue 647 words
    5. Atomic Weapons Establishment (Accidents) 99 words
    6. Landing Platform Helicopter 101 words
    7. Crossley Engines, Manchester 138 words
    8. B Flight 202 113 words
    9. St Anne's Head and RAF Brawdy 76 words
    10. NATO Status of Forces Agreement 137 words
  18. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Jobcentres 401 words
    2. Trade Unions 82 words
    3. Labour Statistics 100 words
    4. Work Permits 181 words
    5. Employment Training 76 words
    6. Health and Safety Executive 47 words
    7. Unemployment Benefit Disqualification 722 words
  19. SCOTLAND
    1. Fife Health Board 86 words
    2. Sight Tests 252 words
    3. Littlewoods Pools 41 words
    4. Special Educational Needs 271 words
    5. Green Belts 67 words
    6. EC Committees 170 words
    7. Dounreay (Radioactive Leak) 109 words
    8. Competitive Tendering 152 words
    9. European Parliament 85 words
    10. Ambulance Service 286 words
    11. Super-quarries 311 words
    12. KS Properties Ltd. 256 words
    13. Dentistry 183 words
    14. Engineering Industry 80 words
    15. Nuclear Waste 114 words
    16. Enterprise Zones 288 words
    17. Renfrewshire Enterprise 92 words
    18. Small Businesses 193 words
    19. Textiles 355 words
    20. Whisky 171 words
    21. Local Government Finance 2,338 words
    22. Forestry Sales 317 words
    23. Court Procedures 148 words
    24. Hospitals 92 words
    25. MV Braer 163 words
    26. Health Service Expenditure 114 words
    27. Paisley Pattern 166 words
  20. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Reform 91 words

Lords Sitting of 2 February 1993

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. The Lord Bishop of Lincoln 34 words
  3. Bloodstock Industry: VAT 1,121 words
  4. Low and Non-Alcohol Beer: Prices 490 words
  5. Energy Efficiency: Government Departments 809 words
  6. Telecommunications Operators: EC Directive 1,394 words
  7. Business of the House: Debates, 3rd February 59 words
  8. Agriculture Bill [H.L.] 25,633 words, 3 divisions
  9. Welsh Language Bill [H.L.] 25,277 words
    1. Use of Welsh in communications with government departments or public bodies 3,679 words
    2. Annual report of the Board 12,933 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 2 February 1993

  1. HUMANITARIA