9 February 1994

Commons Sitting of 9 February 1994

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN
      1. INCOME TAX 81 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      1. Small Businesses 452 words
      2. Renewable Energy 322 words
      3. Gas 622 words
      4. Post Office 699 words
      5. Nuclear Review 463 words
      6. Textiles 1,107 words
      7. Coal Industry 1,284 words
      8. Aerospace Industry 874 words
      9. Small Business 492 words
      10. Trade Descriptions Act 1968 163 words
      11. Regulations 734 words
      12. Libya and Iraq (Sanctions) 406 words
      13. Mnufacturing Industry 750 words
      14. Defence Industries (Redundancies) 483 words
  4. Speaker's Statement 153 words
  5. Points of Order 549 words
  6. Public Inquiries (Improved Procedures) 1,188 words
    1. PUBLIC INQUIRIES (IMPROVED PROCEDURES) 182 words
  7. Orders of the Day
    1. Sunday Trading Bill 250 words
      1. Schedule 4
        1. RIGHTS OF SHOP WORKERS AS RESPECTS SUNDAY WORKING 7,537 words
        2. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES WHO OBJECT TO SUNDAY WORKING 21,348 words, 2 divisions
        3. 'Limitation on working hours on Sunday 83 words
        4. 'Minimum Hourly Rate of Pay 74 words
        5. 'Right to double-time payments 11,488 words
        6. 'Enforcement 2,056 words
        7. 'Right to double-time payments 2,754 words, 1 division
        8. Right to Additional Hours 2,627 words
      2. New clause 2
        1. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT OF SUNDAY-ONLY WORKERS 6,381 words, 1 division
      3. New clause 3
        1. NON-ABATEMENT OF STATUTORY PROVISIONS 755 words
    2. Statutory Sick Pay Bill (Allocation of Time) 19 words
      1. Lords Amendments 582 words
      2. Supplemental 949 words
    3. Statutory Sick Pay Bill 3 words
      1. After Clause 2 24 words
        1. Power to provide for recovery by employers of sums paid by way of statutory sick pay. 4,519 words
    4. Assessment of Deficits (European Community) 13,707 words, 1 division
    5. Nursing (Performance-related Pay) 3,541 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 9 February 1994

  1. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Children (Northern Ireland) Order 61 words
    2. Ministerial Travel 96 words
    3. Electricity 248 words
    4. Electoral Register 228 words
    5. Co-operatives 90 words
    6. Proxy Votes 40 words
    7. Public Bodies 66 words
    8. Parliamentary Questions 67 words
  2. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Public Bodies 349 words
    2. Ministerial Travel 83 words
    3. Economic Convergence 220 words
    4. Economic Growth 269 words
    5. EC Funding 115 words
    6. Incomes 340 words
    7. Trustee Investments Act Review 177 words
    8. Child Support Agency 56 words
    9. Value Added Tax 155 words
    10. Parliamentary Questions 65 words
    11. Vehicle Excise Duty 275 words
    12. Fraud 211 words
  3. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Court Information 536 words
    2. Writs 102 words
    3. Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill 60 words
    4. Magistrates Courts 264 words
    5. Justices' Clerks 124 words
    6. Crown Courts (Racial Bias) 152 words
    7. Parliamentary Questions 66 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Hostels, West Midlands 993 words
    2. Bewsey Street Hostel, Cheshire 61 words
    3. Youth Custody 209 words
    4. Domestic Homicides 5,533 words
    5. Parole 48 words
    6. Firearms 59 words
    7. Public Bodies 642 words
    8. Anthony Robert Madden 340 words
    9. Deportees 181 words
    10. Parliamentary Questions 68 words
    11. Police Resources 69 words
    12. South Wales Police Authority 120 words
    13. Forensic Science Service 92 words
  5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Malaysia 76 words
  6. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Parliamentary Questions 147 words
  7. EDUCATION
    1. Universities (Staff and Students) 286 words
    2. Parliamentary Questions 66 words
    3. National Curriculum Council 124 words
  8. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Parliamentary Questions 58 words
  9. TRANSPORT
    1. Road Lighting 97 words
    2. Cycle Lanes 119 words
    3. Sustainable Development 65 words
    4. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 84 words
    5. Public Bodies 64 words
    6. Rail Travel 61 words
    7. Road Safety 499 words
    8. Departmental Headquarters 103 words
    9. Driver Safety Consultation Paper 690 words
    10. Parliamentary Questions 66 words
    11. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust 102 words
    12. Projects and Contracts 174 words
  10. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Public Bodies 350 words
    2. Tobacco 199 words
    3. Quarantine 114 words
    4. Scrapie 254 words
    5. Pig Producers 300 words
    6. Organophosphorous Sheep Dips 287 words
    7. Goosanders 517 words
    8. Milk Marketing Scheme 94 words
    9. Parliamentary Questions 58 words
    10. Less-favoured Areas 188 words
  11. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Car Parking (Orange Badge Holders) 149 words
    2. Data and Video Network 68 words
    3. Child Care 234 words
    4. Plain English Campaign 67 words
    5. Souvenir Kiosk 109 words
  12. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Market Testing 95 words
  13. WALES
    1. Public Appointments 214 words
    2. Hunting Hounds 53 words
    3. Executive Appeals 73 words
    4. Temporary Employment 100 words
    5. Council Rents 417 words
    6. Science and Engineering Graduates 40 words
    7. Housing 292 words
    8. Police Reforms 97 words
    9. Hospital Staff (Redundancies) 41 words
    10. Sheltered Accommodation 64 words
    11. Wind Power 64 words
    12. Welsh Language 202 words
    13. Parliamentary Questions 66 words
    14. National Health Service 79 words
    15. Quangos (Membership) 58 words
  14. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Indonesia 333 words
    2. Military Personnel (Scholarships) 90 words
    3. Appointments 87 words
    4. Statements (Translation) 83 words
    5. Nuclear Weapons 466 words
    6. Yugoslavia 269 words
    7. India (Human Rights) 67 words
    8. Canada (Environmental Protest) 45 words
    9. Statutory Sick Pay 49 words
    10. Dual-use Machine Tools 77 words
    11. Colombia 74 words
    12. India 96 words
    13. Land Mines (Export) 34 words
    14. Parliamentary Questions 70 words
    15. Government Communications Headquarters 56 words
    16. St. Helena 185 words
  15. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Fraud 102 words
    2. Unemployed Benefit 419 words
    3. Citizens Charter 109 words
    4. Customer Survey 111 words
    5. Jobcentres 647 words
    6. Earnings 91 words
    7. Disabled People 253 words
    8. Brixham Jobcentre 392 words
    9. Public Bodies 159 words
    10. Docks and Ports (Deaths) 181 words
    11. Community Action Scheme 499 words
    12. Correspondence 82 words
    13. Working Conditions 205 words
    14. Health and Safety 51 words
    15. Paper Shredders 61 words
  16. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Empty Housing 940 words
    2. Housing Co-operatives 164 words
    3. Housing 1,133 words
    4. Water Quality 141 words
    5. Landfill Sites 210 words
    6. "London: Making the Best Better" 105 words
    7. Benzene 131 words
    8. Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant 71 words
    9. North Yorkshire County Council 114 words
    10. New Towns 68 words
    11. Inner City Areas 131 words
    12. Sponsor Ministers 132 words
    13. Public Bodies 57 words
    14. Homelessness, Dewsbury 83 words
    15. Environmental Trusts 44 words
    16. Energy Efficiency 183 words
    17. Coastal Marine Environment 65 words
    18. Halons 180 words
    19. Parliamentary Questions 67 words
    20. Small Cetaceans 232 words
    21. Canadian Rain Forest 78 words
  17. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Post Office 514 words
    2. Electricity 103 words
    3. Space Launch Agreement 83 words
    4. Aerospace Industry 80 words
    5. Chinaware 106 words
    6. Gas 273 words
    7. Recycling 87 words
    8. West Midlands (Regeneration) 50 words
    9. Insolvency 173 words
    10. Defence Technology Transfer 45 words
    11. Electrical Equipment 100 words
    12. Nuclear Review 45 words
    13. South East (Growth) 67 words
    14. International Competitiveness 261 words
    15. Arms Trade 115 words
    16. Telecommunications for Disabled and Elderly People Committee 103 words
    17. Area Transport Users Committees 688 words
    18. Malaysia (Exports) 281 words
    19. Disqualification Unit 76 words
    20. Mr. Roger Levitt 34 words
    21. Competitiveness Unit 82 words
    22. Coal 834 words
    23. Clothing and Textiles 217 words
    24. Land Mines 64 words
    25. Scotch Whisky (Chile) 101 words
    26. Alcohol (Taxation) 159 words
    27. Power Transmission Lines 61 words
    28. Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant 60 words
    29. Nuclear Industry 218 words
    30. Oil Sales 254 words
    31. UN—Iran Joint Commission 333 words
    32. Motor Industry 157 words
    33. Manufacturing Assets (Foreign Companies) 44 words
    34. Indonesia 257 words
    35. Company Voluntary Arrangements 77 words
    36. Management Bids 67 words
    37. Insolvency Service 683 words
    38. Market Testing 87 words
    39. Overseas Project Board 422 words
    40. Statutory Sick Pay 55 words
  18. HEALTH
    1. Hormone Replacement Therapy 131 words
    2. Opticians 143 words
    3. Advisers 112 words
    4. Electric Power Lines 89 words
    5. Patients' Views 218 words
    6. Care Plans 38 words
    7. Mentally Ill People 310 words
    8. Waiting Times 118 words
    9. Executive Agencies 75 words
    10. Whooping Cough 264 words
    11. Orthodontic Treatment 102 words
    12. Benzene 54 words
    13. Leeds Healthcare 175 words
    14. Birth Statistics 36 words
    15. West Midlands Patient Transport Service 53 words
    16. Pharmaceutical Industry 85 words
    17. James Paget Hospital, Gorleston 120 words
    18. Parliamentary Questions 66 words
  19. SCOTLAND
    1. Mr. Douglas Mason 254 words
    2. Ministerial Travel 151 words
    3. Electricity Interconnector 122 words
    4. Children in Hospital 195 words
    5. Renfrew Health Care Trust 210 words
    6. Exports 111 words
    7. Executive Agencies 129 words
    8. Alzheimer's Disease 156 words
    9. Stoddard's Carpet Factory 76 words
    10. Fox Hunting 25 words
    11. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis 174 words
    12. CPC (United Kingdom) Ltd. 98 words
    13. Co-operative Movement 38 words
    14. Scottish Grand Committee 56 words
    15. OPEN Project, Paisley 259 words
    16. Sheltered Housing 195 words
    17. Ambulance Service 1,449 words
    18. Carpet Manufacturing 180 words
    19. Ministerial Responsibilities 60 words
    20. Councillors (Expenses) 58 words
    21. Coylton-Ballantrae Power Line 171 words
    22. Scottish Co-operative Development Company 177 words
    23. Co-operatives 77 words