25 May 1994

Commons Sitting of 25 May 1994

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SCOTLAND
      1. Greater Glasgow Health Board 573 words
      2. Scottish Homes 449 words
      3. Lockerbie 575 words
      4. Day Care, Tayside 609 words
      5. Drug Abuse 669 words
      6. Community Care 447 words
      7. Government Spending 736 words
      8. Forestry 769 words
      9. Local Government Reorganisation 391 words
      10. Ravenscraig 670 words
      11. Dutch Elm Disease 386 words
      12. Investment 431 words
      13. Hospital Waiting Times 753 words
      14. Trunk Roads 365 words
      15. Population Statistics 379 words
  4. Business of the House 3,768 words
  5. Hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam 252 words
  6. BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR FRIDAY 24 JUNE 17 words
  7. WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE
    1. HEALTH CARE 42 words
    2. Vehicle Identification 1,282 words
      1. VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION 44 words
    3. Adjournment (Spring) 25,595 words, 1 division
    4. Council Tax (Sheffield) 11,022 words
    5. Service Women (Pregnancy) 4,194 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 25 May 1994

  1. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Consultants 59 words
    2. Mobile Telephones 98 words
    3. Gazumping 85 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Special Protection Areas 292 words
    2. Clay Target Shooting 225 words
    3. Hazardous Waste 225 words
    4. Rented Housing 149 words
    5. Upper Limb Disorders 34 words
    6. Tenancy Agreements 120 words
    7. Liverpool Housing Action Trust 45 words
    8. Nuclear Waste 172 words
    9. Green Ministers 96 words
    10. DNA Bank 43 words
    11. Natural Gas Vehicles 100 words
    12. Written Answers 61 words
    13. Planning Inspectorate Agency 286 words
    14. Coal Privatisation 349 words
    15. Sulphur Emissions 621 words
    16. Capital Receipts 78 words
    17. Local Government Finance 522 words
    18. Local and Regional Government 350 words
  3. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Baroness Thatcher (Visits) 54 words
  4. TRANSPORT
    1. Porous Asphalt 573 words
    2. Shipping 135 words
    3. M62 Relief Road 281 words
    4. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 77 words
    5. RAF Northolt 65 words
    6. West Coast Main Line 122 words
    7. Transport and Environmental Strategy 188 words
    8. Naval Exercises (English Channel) 72 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Hypnosis 108 words
    2. Alcohol-related Crime 154 words
    3. Wheel Clamping 55 words
    4. Immigration Detainees 93 words
    5. Greyhounds 167 words
    6. Special Police Protection 45 words
    7. Upper Limb Disorders 91 words
    8. Police Officer Activities (Report) 62 words
    9. Immigration 67 words
    10. Prison Staff Ratios 184 words
    11. Animal Experimentation 92 words
    12. Specialist Operations 85 words
    13. Obscene Publications 203 words
    14. Overseas Domestic Workers 264 words
    15. Sheehy Report 57 words
    16. Yemen (Somali Nationals) 91 words
  6. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Parliamentary Counsel 137 words
  7. EMPLOYMENT
    1. European Social Fund 171 words
    2. Diploma Directive 64 words
    3. Upper Limb Disorders 34 words
    4. Personnel Data Processing 285 words
    5. Young Workers Directive 48 words
    6. Training and Enterprise Councils 138 words
    7. Employee Involvement 87 words
    8. Employment Benefits 117 words
    9. EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM—MAY 1994 255 words
  8. EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS IN PACIFIC RIM COUNTRIES
    1. SINGAPORE 106 words
    2. TAIWAN 85 words
    3. HONG KONG 140 words
    4. SOUTH KOREA 91 words
  9. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Consultants 65 words
    2. Serious Fraud Office 56 words
    3. Portable Telephones 154 words
  10. EDUCATION
    1. Teacher Training Agency 166 words
    2. Student Statistics 263 words
    3. Teachers (Early Retirement) 76 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. National Environmental Technology Centre 89 words
    2. Upper Limb Disorders 63 words
    3. Company Investigations 136 words
    4. Future Large Aircraft 78 words
    5. Plugs and Sockets 61 words
    6. East-West Business Forum 111 words
    7. Deregulation 772 words
    8. Teaching Company Scheme 566 words
    9. Coal Industry Privatisation 78 words
  12. WALES
    1. Private Members' Bills 71 words
    2. Multiple Sclerosis 118 words
    3. Gwerin y Coed 51 words
    4. Care and Repair Wales 105 words
    5. Land Authority for Wales 111 words
    6. Planning Inspectorate Agency 291 words
  13. TREASURY
    1. Upper Limb Disorders 32 words
    2. Alcohol (Illegal Resale) 527 words
    3. Civil Servants 93 words
    4. Taxation 253 words
  14. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Abattoirs 436 words
    2. Fish Landings 128 words
    3. Sheep Dips 107 words
    4. Spanish Fishing Vessels 73 words
    5. Nuts (Allergies) 143 words
  15. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Local Authority Museums 322 words
    2. British Road Transport Museums 176 words
    3. Indemnity Undertakings 192 words
    4. Royal Palaces 295 words
    5. Museums 132 words
    6. Upper Limb Disorders 57 words
  16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Iraq 156 words
    2. Korea 267 words
    3. EU Foreign Affairs Council 644 words
    4. DECLARATION BY THE EUROPEAN UNION ON RWANDA 283 words
    5. Kanwar Singh Dhami 86 words
    6. Punjab 73 words
    7. South Africa 148 words
    8. Mr. Edward Roberts 74 words
    9. Nigeria 81 words
    10. Malawi 158 words
  17. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Child Support Agency 1,528 words
    2. Cold Weather Payments 68 words
    3. Upper Limb Disorders 63 words
    4. Pensioners Benefits 44 words
    5. Maxwell Pension Fund 145 words
    6. Invalidity Benefits 289 words
  18. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Health and Social Services 261 words
    2. Mobile Telephones 48 words
    3. Cairnshill Primary School 282 words
    4. Meat Industry 426 words
    5. Carryduff, Castlereagh 446 words
    6. Non-departmental Bodies 288 words
    7. Toll Roads 66 words
    8. Training Schemes 189 words
    9. Housing Policy Advisory Group 580 words
    10. Self-employment 40 words
    11. Company Sizes 54 words
    12. IRA Interviews 48 words
    13. Upper Limb Disorders 61 words
    14. Birth Control and Abortion 180 words
    15. Running Cost Limits 90 words
    16. Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 159 words
  19. SCOTLAND
    1. Local Government Finance 95 words
    2. Full Employment Programme 61 words
    3. Trades Union Congress 60 words
    4. Geriatric Beds 84 words
    5. Ambulance Service 329 words
    6. Quangos 122 words
    7. Local Government Reorganisation 402 words
    8. Training 120 words
    9. Environmental Protection Agency 59 words
    10. Sport and Recreation 88 words
    11. Forestry Commission 69 words
    12. Health Service 58 words
    13. Manufacturing 73 words
    14. Sports Funding 67 words
    15. Long-term Health Care 95 words
    16. Economy 50 words
    17. Local Services 61 words
    18. Trauma Centres 58 words
    19. Hospital Trusts 47 words
    20. Mobile Telephones 92 words
    21. Accident and Emergency Services 62 words
    22. Fishing, Aberfeldy 89 words
    23. Upper Limb Disorders 42 words
    24. Housing Improvement 265 words
    25. Sheltered Accommodation 65 words
    26. Acquired Rights Directive 90 words
    27. Gamma Ray Survey 155 words
    28. Chapelcross Nuclear Site 114 words
    29. Ferry Services 90 words
    30. Parliamentary Counsel 114 words
  20. HEALTH
    1. Medical Research 55 words
    2. Open Government 233 words
    3. Accident and Emergency Services 104 words
    4. Doctors (Out-of-hours Work) 38 words
    5. Upper Limb Disorders 33 words
    6. Hospital Consultants 57 words
    7. Powered Wheelchairs 100 words
    8. NHS Trusts 156 words
    9. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority 384 words
    10. Child Care Services, Lambeth 111 words
    11. Deregulated Drugs (Advertising) 66 words
    12. Cancer 604 words
    13. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis 48 words
    14. Consultants (Pension Rights) 27 words
    15. Press Office 98 words
    16. City Deprivation Scores 34 words
    17. Paediatric Beds 52 words
    18. GP Fundholders 49 words
    19. District Health Authorities, Nottinghamshire 234 words
    20. Consultant Episodes 37 words
    21. Cars (Expenditure) 37 words
    22. Birmingham Hospitals 50 words
    23. London Hospitals 104 words
    24. Research 238 words
    25. Long-term Care 101 words
  21. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Aid Distribution 273 words
    2. Investment Personnel 206 words
    3. Paul Goodall 306 words
  22. DEFENCE
    1. Royal Windsor Horse Show 54 words
    2. Botswana 133 words
    3. Arms Imports 94 words
    4. Upper Limb Disorders 50 words
    5. Dartmouth Naval College 246 words
    6. International Military Services Ltd. 57 words
    7. Civil Servants 156 words
    8. Aircraft 156 words
    9. Low Flying 68 words
    10. Royal Arsenal, Woolwich 132 words
    11. D-day 178 words
    12. Air-to-air Missile Programme 186 words
    13. Hawk Jets, Indonesia 84 words

Lords Sitting of 25 May 1994

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Breast-feeding: Promotion Overseas 989 words
  3. House of Lords Procedure: Statements 1,211 words
  4. Northern Ireland 1,032 words
  5. Driving Tests 439 words
  6. Drug Trafficking Bill [H.L.] 68 words
  7. The European Union: Inter-Governmental Relationships 38,446 words
  8. Antarctic Bill 8,490 words
  9. Value Added Tax Bill [H.L.] 24 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 25 May 1994

  1. MALAWI: ELECTIONS 153 words
  2. INVESTMENT PERSONNEL TRAINING SCHEME 199 words
  3. TURKEY: ALLEGED DEPORTATION OF REFUGEES 175 words
  4. SRI LANKA: SCHOOLBOYS' DISAPPEARANCE 132 words
  5. LANDMINES: INHUMANE WEAPONS CONVENTION 64 words
  6. ASBESTOS-RELATED DISEASES: COMPENSATION 85 words
  7. VACCINATION EFFECTS 53 words
  8. GATT AGREEMENT: EFFECT ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 112 words
  9. GATT AGREEMENT AND UK DECISION-MAKING 140 words
  10. FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICE: APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR GENERAL 39 words
  11. EXTRADITION APPLICATIONS TO USA 112 words
  12. EXTRADITION APPLICATIONS BY USA 138 words
  13. PRISONERS: ASSAULTS AND OTHER OFFENCES 369 words
  14. PRISONERS: ASSAULTS ON PRISON STAFF 455 words
  15. PRISONERS: ARMED ASSAULTS ON PRISON STAFF 136 words
  16. PRISONERS: DEATHS 206 words
  17. PRISONERS: ESCAPE FROM GROUP 4 ESCORTS 88 words
  18. COURT ESCORT AND CUSTODY SERVICE—HUMBERSIDE AND THE EAST MIDLANDS 101 words
  19. ENVIRONMENT AGENCY 57 words
  20. COAL PRIVATISATION AND THE GDO 354 words
  21. SULPHUR EMISSIONS 610 words