2 November 1994

Commons Sitting of 2 November 1994

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      1. Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty 391 words
      2. European Union 737 words
      3. "Partnership for Peace" 838 words
      4. European Parliament 284 words
      5. Subsidiarity 593 words
      6. Inter-Parliamentary Union 729 words
      7. European Union 325 words
      8. Rwanda 635 words
      9. Indonesia 633 words
      10. Indo-British Partnership Initiative 237 words
      11. Middle East 371 words
      12. Kenyan Investors Conference 291 words
      13. Rwanda 441 words
      14. European Union 852 words
      15. Saudi Arabia 46 words
      16. Gaza Strip 508 words
      17. European Union 406 words
      18. Exports (Far East) 266 words
  4. points of order 563 words
  5. Disabled Persons (Consultation) 1,145 words
    1. DISABLED PERSONS (CONSULTATION) 60 words
  6. Privileges 20,168 words, 1 division
  7. Local Government 6,136 words
  8. Statutory Instruments, &c 33 words
    1. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 87 words
    2. INCOME TAX 113 words
    3. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 15 words
    4. TRANSPORT OF ANIMALS 83 words
    5. FISHERIES POLICY 96 words
  9. Mr. Robert Nortcliff 6,853 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 2 November 1994

  1. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Public Appointments 83 words
    2. Parliamentary Questions 73 words
    3. Quangos 99 words
    4. Clock Adjustment 52 words
  2. TRANSPORT
    1. London Rail Connections 449 words
    2. Scotch Whisky (Transportation) 210 words
    3. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 279 words
    4. Statistics 218 words
    5. European Passenger Services Ltd. 141 words
    6. Channel Tunnel 237 words
    7. M25 123 words
    8. Marine Safety Agency 99 words
    9. Stockport Bypass 115 words
    10. Railways 100 words
    11. London Underground Ltd. 95 words
    12. Highways Agency 112 words
    13. Plutonium Transport Review 133 words
    14. PowerGen Building, Shirley 164 words
    15. Birmingham Northern Relief Road 249 words
    16. Transatlantic Air Services 55 words
    17. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 336 words
  3. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Objective 3 Funding 303 words
    2. Job Interview Guarantee Scheme 401 words
  4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Insolvency Service 169 words
    2. Bus Services 764 words
    3. Cuba 126 words
    4. Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare 68 words
    5. Hydrocarbons 295 words
    6. Regional Challenge 214 words
    7. Oil and Gas Industry 71 words
    8. Hong Kong 143 words
    9. Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 315 words
    10. Contracting Out 171 words
    11. Ministerial Travel 142 words
  5. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Disability Allowance 641 words
    2. Job Seeker's Allowance 236 words
    3. Income Support 107 words
    4. Children in Hospital 134 words
    5. Child Support Agency 236 words
    6. Public Appointments 51 words
    7. Quangos 69 words
    8. National Insurance 338 words
    9. Benefits 368 words
  6. WALES
    1. Training and Enterprise Councils 108 words
    2. Drug Misuse 344 words
    3. Planning Inquiry, Oystermouth 60 words
    4. National Curriculum 125 words
    5. Health Authorities 458 words
    6. Welsh Language 83 words
    7. Public Appointments 163 words
  7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Foreign Legislatures 56 words
    2. Parliamentary Salaries (Europe) 35 words
    3. Privy Council Office 41 words
    4. Norman Shaw Buildings 109 words
    5. Clock Adjustment 37 words
    6. Administration Committee 61 words
    7. Palace of Westminster 90 words
  8. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Public Appointments 68 words
    2. Quangos 80 words
    3. Animal Transportation 173 words
    4. Pigs 307 words
    5. Oyster Farms 259 words
    6. Whitland and Longridge Creameries 59 words
    7. Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee 184 words
  9. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Toxic Waste 233 words
    2. Green Belt 158 words
    3. Pollution 70 words
    4. Stockton Shopping Centre 38 words
    5. Quangos 66 words
    6. Development Corporations 200 words
    7. Waste Disposal 501 words
    8. Public Appointments 243 words
    9. CFCs and Hydrofluorocarbons 429 words
    10. Nuclear Waste 293 words
    11. Water Disconnections 67 words
    12. Climate Change 150 words
    13. Government Offices 199 words
    14. Local Government 929 words
    15. Housing Corporation 139 words
    16. Cites 106 words
    17. Single Regeneration Budget 65 words
    18. International Station, Ebbsfleet 101 words
    19. Planning Application, Whitechapel Moor 314 words
    20. Move-to-buy Grant 175 words
    21. Nuclear Waste 298 words
    22. Waste Water 361 words
    23. Water Prices 56 words
    24. Bolton Council 45 words
    25. Vehicle Emissions 143 words
    26. Building Regulations 471 words
    27. Council Tax 122 words
    28. Zoos 640 words
  10. EDUCATION
    1. Ministerial Travel 123 words
    2. Ethnic Monitoring 110 words
    3. Cash Limits 302 words
    4. Nursery Education 82 words
    5. Travellers 184 words
  11. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Clock Adjustment 44 words
    2. Children (Legal Guardianship) 33 words
    3. Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute 87 words
    4. Public Appointments 64 words
    5. Quangos 292 words
  12. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Public Appointments 710 words
    2. Freedom of Information 54 words
  13. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Badgers 44 words
    2. Asylum Seekers 374 words
    3. Police 633 words
    4. Drinking Ban, Yarm 79 words
    5. Prisons 180 words
    6. Dorset Police Authority 55 words
    7. Quangos 327 words
    8. Parliamentary Questions 74 words
    9. Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill 103 words
    10. Film Censorship 391 words
    11. Bail Hostels 76 words
    12. Wheel Clamping 75 words
    13. Bail 293 words
    14. Serious Offences 164 words
    15. Humberside Police Authority 79 words
    16. Fire Service, Humberside 127 words
    17. Holloway Prison 469 words
    18. Jamaican Visitors 150 words
    19. CND Demonstration 44 words
    20. Prison Service 186 words
    21. Special Branch 63 words
    22. Code of Practice on Financial Management 86 words
    23. Amusement Arcades 156 words
    24. Strangeways Prison 189 words
    25. Cannabis 53 words
    26. Prisoners, East Midlands 143 words
    27. Anabolic Steroids 239 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. NHS Trusts 63 words
    2. National Parks 194 words
    3. Fishing Industry 234 words
    4. Asthma 327 words
    5. Common Services Agency (Computers) 141 words
    6. Local Government 843 words
    7. Super-quarry, Lingarabay 151 words
    8. Historic Scotland Agency 112 words
    9. Tourist Boards 110 words
    10. Land Ownership and Use 204 words
    11. Rent-to-mortgage Scheme 240 words
    12. Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 183 words
    13. Children (Legislation) 130 words
    14. Health Care International 90 words
    15. Dentists 119 words
  15. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Liberia 94 words
    2. Conference on Women 166 words
    3. Scholarships 89 words
    4. International (Atomic Energy Agency) 62 words
    5. Bilateral Technical Co-operation 93 words
    6. Nepal (Dam) 1,346 words
  16. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Monopolies and Mergers 54 words
    2. Departmental Finances 252 words
    3. Satellite Broadcasting 61 words
    4. "Multimedia in the Home" 67 words
    5. British Broadcasting Corporation 119 words
    6. Cross-media Ownership 142 words
    7. Broadcasting and Media 186 words
    8. Public Appointments 82 words
    9. Freedom of Information 112 words
    10. Audio-visual Media 70 words
    11. Departmental Responsibilities 254 words
    12. Information Super-highways 65 words
    13. Parliamentary Questions 64 words
    14. Archaeological Services 118 words
    15. Clock Adjustment 34 words
    16. Film Industry 80 words
    17. Channel 5 117 words
    18. Public Appointments 120 words
  17. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Public Appointments 286 words
    2. "Questions of Procedure for Ministers" 64 words
    3. Mr. Ghazanfer Ali 58 words
    4. Engagements 34 words
  18. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Haiti 114 words
    2. Rwanda 60 words
    3. Palestine 48 words
    4. Russia 193 words
    5. Mozambique 99 words
    6. Eastern Europe 64 words
    7. South Africa 228 words
    8. Pakistan 41 words
    9. Kuwait 101 words
    10. European Union 239 words
    11. Former Soviet Union Countries 74 words
    12. UK Foreign Policy (Far East) 57 words
    13. Kashmir 125 words
    14. Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty 133 words
    15. Taiwan 92 words
    16. Middle East 203 words
    17. Hong Kong 98 words
    18. China 61 words
    19. Ganges and Bramaputra Rivers 61 words
    20. Angola 68 words
    21. Parliamentary Questions 59 words
    22. Bombing (Tel Aviv) 78 words
    23. North Korea 211 words
    24. School Fees 1,218 words
    25. Indonesia 136 words
    26. British Embassies 60 words
    27. International Atomic Energy Agency 96 words
    28. Secret Intelligence Service 71 words
    29. Mr. Ib Riis 81 words
    30. EU Directives 178 words
    31. European Defence 174 words
    32. Hospitality Fund 338 words
    33. Bananas 104 words
    34. Gibraltar 138 words
    35. Ministerial Travel 140 words
  19. TREASURY
    1. Pension Schemes 283 words
    2. Family Incomes 209 words
    3. Tax Statistics 1,970 words
    4. Pig-producing Industry 161 words
    5. Fraud 115 words
    6. Offshore Tax Havens 115 words
    7. Public Bodies 125 words
    8. European Expenditure 364 words
    9. EC Accounting Systems 211 words
    10. Mortgages 232 words
    11. Commemorative Coins 119 words
    12. NHS Trusts 234 words
    13. Parliamentary Questions 60 words
    14. Ministerial Travel 97 words
    15. Public Appointments 300 words
    16. Reception 47 words
  20. DEFENCE
    1. Quangos 155 words
    2. Eurocorps 41 words
    3. Western European Union 104 words
    4. Puma 191 words
    5. Hunt Licences 831 words
    6. Birds and Game 955 words
    7. Fox Hunting 43 words
    8. UN Convention on Inhumane Weapons 55 words
    9. RAF Support Management Group 72 words
    10. Market Testing 102 words
    11. RAF Runways 119 words