15 July 1993

Commons Sitting of 15 July 1993

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. CROYDON TRAMLINK BILL [Lords] (By Order) 18 words
      2. EAST COAST MAIN LINE (SAFETY) BILL (By Order)
        1. WOODGRANGE PARK CEMETERY BILL [Lords] (By Order)
          1. LONDON LOCAL AUTHORITIES BILL [Lords] (By Order) 15 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. NATIONAL FINANCE
      1. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 1,267 words
      2. European Courts 328 words
      3. Growth Rate 1,119 words
      4. Bank of England 403 words
      5. Tax and National Insurance 530 words
      6. Corporation Tax 502 words
      7. VAT on Fuel 555 words
      8. Growth Rate 1,192 words
      9. Manufacturing Investment 750 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 803 words
      2. Portsmouth 240 words
      3. Engagements 1,137 words
  4. Open Government 6,561 words
  5. Business of the House 5,629 words
  6. Points of Order 187 words
  7. Summer Adjournment Debate 162 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Welsh Language Bill [Lords] 12 words
      1. New clause 1
        1. OFFICIAL STATUS OF THE WELSH LANGUAGE (No. I) 11,683 words, 1 division
      2. New clause 3
        1. PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER FOR ADMINISTRATION (WELSH LANGUAGE) 2,928 words
      3. New clause 5
        1. RIGHT TO HAVE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS WHOLLY THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF WELSH 6,276 words
      4. New clause 7
        1. DISCRIMINATION (SECTION I(B) OF THE RACE RELATIONS ACT 1976. 6,064 words, 1 division
      5. New clause 10
        1. RIGHT TO WELSH MEDIUM EDUCATION 7,134 words
      6. New Clause 11
        1. OBJECTIVE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE BOARD 2,663 words
      7. Clause 5
        1. DUTY OF NOTIFIED PUBLIC BODIES TO PREPARE SCHEMES 1,576 words
      8. Clause 10
        1. APPROVAL OF GUIDELINES 30 words
      9. Clause 13
        1. CONSULTATION ON PREPARATION OF SCHEMES 45 words
      10. Clause 26
        1. MEANING OF "PUBLIC BODY" 74 words
      11. Clause 35
        1. REPEALS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS 70 words
      12. Schedule 2
        1. REPEALS 3,863 words, 1 division
  9. Appropriation (Northern Ireland) 11,295 words
    1. PROCEDURE 23 words
  10. PETITIONS
    1. Post Office Services 653 words
  11. Defence Industries (Chelmsford) 4,146 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 15 July 1993

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Category A Prisoners 98 words
    2. Correspondence 232 words
    3. Immigration 325 words
    4. Remand Prisoners 110 words
    5. Child Offenders 781 words
    6. Fellowship Charitable Foundation 70 words
    7. Manchester Prison 147 words
    8. Firearms 48 words
  2. LORD CHANCELLORS DEPARTMENT
    1. Divorce 500 words
    2. Radioactive Materials (Transport) 78 words
    3. Unstaffed Rail Stations 38 words
  3. TRANSPORT
    1. Passenger Transport Authorities 93 words
    2. Airline Passengers (Telecommunications) 128 words
    3. Driver's Licence History (Sentencing) 49 words
    4. Urban Public Transport 59 words
    5. Network SouthEast 95 words
  4. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Special Waste 557 words
    2. Council Tax 101 words
    3. Radioactive Waste 193 words
    4. Radioactive Waste 197 words
    5. Toxic Waste (Taiwan) 51 words
    6. Community Charge Arrears 261 words
    7. Housing Associations 608 words
    8. Local Government Finance 198 words
    9. Disabled Facilities Grants 199 words
    10. Council Rents 261 words
    11. Dioxin, Derbyshire 216 words
    12. Fruit and Vegetables 128 words
  5. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Broadcasting 127 words
    2. North West Council for Sport and Recreation 126 words
  6. EDUCATION
    1. Student Loans 77 words
    2. University Students 744 words
    3. Grant-maintained Schools 5,381 words
    4. Teachers' Pay 75 words
  7. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis 42 words
    2. Quangos 85 words
    3. School Meals 189 words
  8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. British Military Hospital, Nepal 179 words
    2. Yugoslavia 147 words
    3. International Finance Corporation 65 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. CSCE 123 words
    2. Chittagong Hill Tract Refugees 108 words
    3. English Language Teaching 103 words
    4. South American Nationals (Graduate Training) 247 words
  10. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Wages 562 words
    2. Wages 1,721 words
    3. Unemployment 74 words
    4. Sickness Benefit 1,090 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Fast Breeder Reactor 175 words
    2. Coal Industry 150 words
    3. Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant 312 words
    4. Unemployment 136 words
    5. Inntrepreneur Estates Ltd 263 words
    6. Grand Metropolitan Estates Ltd. 169 words
    7. Insolvency Service Executive Agency 272 words
    8. Small Businesses 680 words
    9. MINIS Returns 41 words
    10. Environmental Schemes 90 words
    11. Postal Charges 125 words
  12. HEALTH
    1. Speech Therapy 133 words
    2. Women's Unit 259 words
    3. Nursery Places 180 words
    4. Folic Acid 146 words
    5. Passive Smoking 218 words
    6. Doctors (Appeals) 160 words
    7. Parent-held Records 43 words
    8. GP Fund Holders 53 words
    9. Home Helps 951 words
    10. Contraception 151 words
    11. Hospitals (Complaints) 226 words
    12. Community Health Councils 584 words
    13. Midwives 222 words
    14. Midwives 537 words
    15. London Hospitals 50 words
    16. Paediatric Services 62 words
    17. Splenectomy 51 words
    18. Inner London Services 166 words
    19. School Nurses 119 words
    20. Broadgreen Accident and Emergency Unit 193 words
    21. Job Descriptions 46 words
    22. St. Bartholomew's 108 words
    23. Contact Lenses 137 words
    24. Psychiatric Patients 253 words
    25. Prescription Charges 90 words
    26. Medicines Commission 133 words
    27. Food Safety 218 words
    28. Nutritional Therapists 96 words
    29. Child Residential Care 77 words
    30. Adoption 33 words
    31. Fellowship Charitable Foundation 154 words
    32. Dentistry 287 words
    33. Contraceptives 30 words
    34. Prescription Charges 89 words
    35. Drugs Projects 100 words
    36. Steroids 56 words
  13. DEFENCE
    1. Skyship 600 88 words
    2. Service Training 83 words
    3. Redundant Trainers 159 words
    4. Yugoslavia 112 words
    5. Burma 88 words
    6. Red Arrows 67 words
    7. Airborne Warning and Communication System 153 words
    8. Chemical and Biological Weapons 403 words
    9. Depleted Uranium Shells 89 words
    10. Defence Statistics 113 words
    11. Expenditure 94 words
    12. Guard service 140 words
    13. Bangladesh 136 words
  14. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Referendums 143 words
    2. Tokyo Communique 162 words
    3. Ministerial Responsibilities 111 words
    4. Yugoslavia 202 words
  15. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Disability 154 words
    2. Incomes 62 words
    3. Pensioners Living Abroad 275 words
    4. Expenditure 362 words
    5. Legal Aid 57 words
    6. Invalidity Benefit 280 words
    7. National Insurance 192 words
    8. Pensions 280 words
  16. SCOTLAND
    1. NHS Trusts 58 words
    2. Caledonian MacBrayne 181 words
    3. Fisheries Protection Agency 42 words
    4. House Condition Survey 64 words
    5. Police 187 words
    6. Public Bodies 408 words
    7. Parliamentary Boundary Commission 140 words
  17. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Taxation 136 words
    2. Redundant Workers (Counselling) 51 words
    3. Balance of Payments 103 words
    4. Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant 71 words
    5. Unemployment 69 words
    6. Value Added Tax 80 words
    7. Pools Betting Duty 167 words
    8. Bank of England 59 words
    9. Business Expansion Scheme 88 words
    10. Bank of England 95 words
    11. Nationalised Industries 58 words
    12. Income Tax 82 words
    13. Health Expenditure 53 words
    14. Stamp Duty 61 words
    15. Public Spending 34 words
    16. Manufacturing Productivity 51 words
    17. Consumer Price Inflation 60 words
    18. Share Option Schemes 76 words
    19. Public Sector Pay 200 words
    20. Duty Free Goods 52 words
    21. Gulf War 151 words
    22. Inland Revenue 141 words
    23. Government Staff 87 words
  18. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. General Medical Practices 461 words
    2. Midwives 379 words
    3. Imported Animals 277 words
    4. EC Funds 104 words
    5. Prisoners 332 words
    6. Sheep 184 words
    7. Public Expenditure 329 words
    8. Rural Planning Review 179 words
  19. WALES
    1. Hazardous Waste 1,660 words
    2. Valuation Tribunals 242 words
    3. Midwives 113 words
    4. Alzheimer's Disease 47 words
    5. Sickness Absence 222 words
    6. Voluntary Work 266 words
    7. Patients 196 words
    8. Welsh Development Agency 78 words
    9. Supply Teachers 180 words
    10. Welsh Language 253 words
    11. Environmental Contamination 74 words
    12. Land Authorities 134 words
    13. Mental Illness 376 words
    14. Health Education 423 words
    15. Welsh Office Highways Department 89 words
    16. Arts Services 372 words
    17. Housing Revenue Accounts 195 words
    18. Home Helps 157 words
    19. Bus Routes 50 words
    20. Higher Education 272 words
    21. Market Testing 98 words
    22. Powys TEC 107 words

Lords Sitting of 15 July 1993

  1. Preamble 39 words
  2. Unemployment Figures 1,447 words
  3. Iraq: Infant Mortality 1,185 words
  4. Iraq and UN Weapons Inspection 243 words
  5. Community Care: Mentally Ill 1,499 words
  6. Business 101 words
  7. Summer Recess 203 words
  8. Pwllheli Harbour (Amendment) Bill 122 words
  9. Crofters (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 11 words
  10. Scottish Land Court Bill [H.L.] 11 words
  11. Railways Bill 19,917 words, 2 divisions
  12. Sexual Offences Bill 42 words
  13. British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Selection Scheme) (Amendment) Order 1993 17,311 words
  14. Hong Kong (British Nationality) (Amendment) Order 1993 35 words
  15. Hong Kong: British Citizenship 800 words, 1 division

Written Answers (Lords) of 15 July 1993

  1. MARKET TESTING: HIGH COURT RULING ON EC DIRECTIVE 147 words
  2. FIREARMS CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE: REPORT 43 words
  3. MR. FRANKIE TERENZIO: CORONER'S LETTER 77 words
  4. MANCHESTER PRISON (STRANGEWAYS): MANAGEMENT 142 words
  5. FUNKE, CREMIEUX AND MIAILHE v. FRANCE JUDGMENTS 80 words
  6. LAND USE AND TRANSPORT: POLICY 279 words
  7. ROAD PROGRAMME: EFFECTS 139 words
  8. ROAD DEVELOPMENT PLANS: REGIONAL GUIDANCE 123 words
  9. SINGLE MOTHERS: REPORT 79 words
  10. DTI TRANSCRIPTS: USE IN CRIMINAL TRIALS 268 words
  11. MINIS 1993 RETURNS 37 words
  12. WEST BANK AND GAZA: EXPORTS 114 words
  13. JERUSALEM: STATUS 115 words
  14. EC AID: EFFECTIVENESS 261 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND: HUMAN RIGHTS 61 words