14 July 1993

Commons Sitting of 14 July 1993

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. HIGHLAND REGIONAL COUNCIL (WESTER BRIDGE) ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 49 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      1. Baghdad (US Attack) 1,416 words
      2. G7 Summit (Tokyo) 803 words
      3. Hong Kong 582 words
      4. European Community (Enlargement) 639 words
      5. Democratic Elections 718 words
      6. Bosnia 993 words
      7. Departmental Personnel 868 words
      8. Sierra Leone 180 words
      9. Bosnia 801 words
      10. Kenya (Press Harassment) 322 words
      11. Israel (EC Application) 404 words
      12. Middle East 495 words
  5. Points of Order 1,921 words
  6. Women into Parliament 1,448 words
  7. WOMEN INTO PARLIAMENT 57 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. OPPOSITION DAY 3 words
    2. Local Government and Water (Scotland) 28,035 words, 1 division
    3. Debt, Trade and Development 24,492 words, 1 division
    4. BRITISH NATIONALITY 47 words
  9. PETITIONS
    1. New Town, Cambridgeshire 386 words
    2. Wellfield Hospital 171 words
    3. Bypass, Ambleside 320 words
    4. Sub-post Offices 293 words
    5. VAT on Fuel 187 words
    6. Hip Replacement Operations 3,969 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 14 July 1993

  1. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Tranquillisers 239 words
    2. Multiple Claims 86 words
    3. Legal Aid 265 words
  2. TRANSPORT
    1. Relief Roads (Greater Manchester) 35 words
    2. Jubilee Line 90 words
    3. East London River Crossing 815 words
    4. Road Accidents 628 words
    5. M6 159 words
    6. Passenger Charter 96 words
    7. Seat Belts 47 words
    8. Road Safety 92 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Hoax Fire Calls 488 words
    2. Drug Seizures 87 words
    3. Crime Statistics 50 words
    4. Private Security Firms 49 words
    5. Directorate of Telecommunications 69 words
    6. Criminal Justice 129 words
    7. Asylum and Immigration Appeals 63 words
    8. Illegal Immigrants 90 words
    9. City of London (Road Closures) 66 words
    10. Immigration (Carriers' Liability) 195 words
    11. Animal Experiments 118 words
    12. Humana Charity 85 words
    13. John Matthews 114 words
    14. Overseas Visitors 930 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Iraq 160 words
    2. Aid (Africa) 209 words
    3. Yugoslavia 123 words
    4. Colombia 116 words
    5. Overseas Visits 780 words
  5. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Trade Facilitation Groups 130 words
    2. Departmental Bills 142 words
    3. Child Migrant Scheme 254 words
  6. PRIME MINISTER
    1. No. 10 Downing Street 376 words
    2. Foreign Heads of State (Visits) 75 words
  7. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Conservation Areas 80 words
    2. Arts Council 131 words
    3. North West Council for Sport and Recreation 349 words
    4. Mesopotamian Archaeological Objects 88 words
  8. EDUCATION
    1. Portuguese 107 words
    2. Special Schools 119 words
    3. Teacher Training 143 words
    4. Grant-maintained Schools 53 words
    5. Teacher Training 185 words
    6. Class Sizes 118 words
    7. Student Loans 63 words
  9. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Public Expenditure 228 words
    2. Departmental Budgets 441 words
    3. End-year Flexibility Schemes 1,377 words
    4. Income Tax 243 words
    5. Personal Taxation 359 words
    6. Discretionary Share Option Schemes 107 words
    7. Company Taxation 53 words
    8. Trading Losses 86 words
  10. SCOTLAND
    1. Surgical Treatment 286 words
    2. Anaesthetists 100 words
    3. Health Care International 238 words
    4. NHS Reform 287 words
    5. Not Proven Verdicts 68 words
  11. WALES
    1. County Council Elections 79 words
    2. Midwives 749 words
    3. Churches and Chapels 42 words
    4. Sickness Absence 55 words
    5. NHS Management 38 words
    6. Welsh Language 199 words
    7. Empty Properties 377 words
    8. Neurology 621 words
    9. Nottingham Clinic 73 words
    10. Emergency Admissions 56 words
  12. HEALTH
    1. District Nurses 173 words
    2. Primary Health Care Teams 178 words
    3. Smoking 351 words
    4. Crime Prevention Audit 55 words
    5. Mental Illness 423 words
    6. Child Surveillance 52 words
    7. Health Complaints 50 words
    8. Foster Care 85 words
    9. Fluoridation 155 words
    10. Unemployed People 133 words
    11. Opportunity 2000 130 words
    12. Children in Need 75 words
    13. Residential Homes 76 words
    14. Uranium Particulates 29 words
    15. Hepatitis A Vaccine 56 words
    16. Paediatric Services 95 words
    17. Child Guidance Clinics 30 words
    18. Adults at Risk 52 words
    19. Maternity Claim Forms 56 words
    20. Small Pharmacies 51 words
    21. General Practices 48 words
    22. Mr. Jeremiah Kearney 200 words
    23. Sight Tests 355 words
    24. Child Migrant Scheme 71 words
    25. Dementia 218 words
    26. Alzheimer's Disease 152 words
    27. Public Bodies 259 words
  13. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Consultation 48 words
    2. Government Car Service 71 words
    3. Energy Efficiency 59 words
    4. Planning Consent 83 words
    5. Acid Rain 133 words
    6. Urban Programme 60 words
    7. Waste Disposal 171 words
    8. Water 113 words
    9. Housing Association Rents 204 words
    10. Leasehold Reform 136 words
    11. Housing (Private Sector Funding) 234 words
    12. Housing Association Grant 201 words
    13. Standard Spending Assessments 562 words
    14. Local Authorities' Expenditure 89 words
    15. Financial Management Review 48 words
    16. Asylum (Housing) 249 words
    17. Temporary Development 163 words
    18. Water Disconnections 113 words
    19. Rainforests and Cocoa 83 words
  14. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Comfrey 110 words
    2. Imported Animals 188 words
    3. Veterinary Products 246 words
    4. Folic Acid 531 words
    5. Rare Farming Breeds 117 words
    6. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 173 words
    7. Sea Fish Conservation Act 87 words
  15. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Job Vacancies 209 words
    2. Media Employees 339 words
    3. Employer Liability Insurance 155 words
  16. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Disability 55 words
    2. Housing Benefit 116 words
    3. Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema 337 words
    4. Social Fund 302 words
    5. Severe Hardship Allowance 353 words
  17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. United States 68 words
    2. World Trade 117 words
    3. Bosnia-Herzegovina 73 words
    4. British Industry (Promotion) 100 words
    5. Middle East 139 words
    6. Azerbaijan 106 words
    7. Channel Islands (Wartime Internment) 149 words
    8. Gibraltar 73 words
    9. Angola 162 words
    10. Guatemala 79 words
    11. Diplomatic Overseas Estate 123 words
    12. Maastricht Treaty 66 words
    13. Export Promotion 64 words
    14. Malawi 116 words
    15. G7 Summit (Tokyo) 48 words
    16. Baltic States 74 words
    17. Iran 313 words
    18. Bosnia 82 words
    19. Subsidiarity 131 words
    20. Human Rights 44 words
    21. Social Charter 115 words
    22. Minority Languages 111 words
    23. St. Helena 64 words
    24. Burma 283 words
    25. Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe 171 words
    26. Tibet 99 words
    27. Yugoslavia 475 words
    28. Falkland Islands 64 words
    29. Austria 58 words
    30. South American Graduates 112 words
  18. DEFENCE
    1. Yugoslavia 274 words
    2. Princess Mary's Hospital, Cyprus 131 words
    3. Ammunition Stocks 91 words
    4. Skyguard Radar 212 words
    5. Air Misses 205 words
    6. Low Flying 130 words
    7. Attack Runs 52 words
    8. RAF Pilots 97 words
    9. Service Personnel (Watches) 54 words
    10. Royal Naval Reserve 155 words
    11. "Newsnight" Interview 35 words
    12. Arms Sales 75 words
    13. Sir Bedivere 39 words
    14. Disabled Employees 139 words
    15. Refitting Tenders 79 words
    16. Devonport Dockyard (Wages) 62 words
  19. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Nuclear Review 74 words
    2. New Technology 132 words
    3. Armed Services Trainers 81 words
    4. Coal 96 words
    5. Renewable Energy 111 words
    6. Power Plants 71 words
    7. Post Office 532 words
    8. South America 89 words
    9. Latin America 434 words
    10. Argentina 90 words
    11. Company Accounts 4,091 words
    12. National Engineering Laboratory 185 words
    13. Deregulation 113 words
    14. RECHAR 96 words
    15. Foreign Affairs Council 166 words
    16. Chlorofluorocarbons 171 words
  20. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Arts Council 60 words
    2. Prisoners (Appeals) 129 words
    3. General Medical Practices 59 words
    4. Special Waste 707 words
    5. Midwives 40 words
    6. RUC 47 words
    7. Community Services 509 words

Lords Sitting of 14 July 1993

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Treasury Panel of Independent Forecasters 1,322 words
  3. Gibraltar Migrant Workers: Costs 692 words
  4. NHS Trusts: Salary Levels 1,045 words
  5. Degree Courses: Funding and Length 651 words
  6. Business 100 words
  7. European Communities (Amendment) Bill 51,090 words, 1 division
  8. Finance (No. 2) Bill 20 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 14 July 1993

  1. NIGERIAN ELECTION: REPRESENTATIONS 154 words
  2. WORLD BANK: PUBLIC INFORMATION 55 words
  3. EC DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS: SPECIAL INITIATIVE FOR AFRICA 86 words
  4. EC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: SPECIAL REHABILITATION SUPPORT PROGRAMME 95 words
  5. EUROPEAN COURT JUDGMENTS AND UK LAW 155 words
  6. RIGHT TO SILENCE AND EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 68 words
  7. ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION APPEALS ACT 1993 59 words
  8. CRIMINAL JUSTICE CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL: SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES 117 words
  9. TELECOMMUNICATIONS DIRECTORATE: PRIVATISATION OBJECTIVES 69 words
  10. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT HAZARDS: COMPLAINTS TO HSE 65 words
  11. FOOD ADVISORY BODIES: REMIT 90 words