17 October 1994

Commons Sitting of 17 October 1994

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. DEATH OF A MEMBER 54 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES
      1. Railways 511 words
      2. General Practitioners 678 words
      3. Defence Jobs 555 words
      4. Young People (Employment) 961 words
      5. Cheese Industry 223 words
      6. International Eisteddfod 199 words
      7. Local Authority Boundaries 202 words
      8. Secondary Education 653 words
      9. Male Unemployment 309 words
      10. Dental Services 268 words
      11. Democracy 510 words
      12. Tourism 179 words
      13. Waiting Lists 354 words
    2. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
      1. Breast Cancer 348 words
      2. Civil Service Reform 409 words
      3. Civil Service Reform 412 words
      4. Research Councils 194 words
      5. Public Bodies 998 words
      6. Information Superhighways 231 words
      7. Public Service Standards 405 words
      8. Charters 369 words
  5. Train Crash (Kent) 2,486 words
  6. Kuwait 5,122 words
  7. Defence Estimates
    1. FIRST DAY 46,490 words
    2. Raytheon Jets, Clwyd 3,834 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 17 October 1994

  1. TREASURY
    1. Inflation 100 words
    2. EC Budget Council 946 words
    3. Prescription Charges 89 words
    4. Resource Accounting Proposals 110 words
    5. Civil Superannuation Vote 124 words
    6. Nuclear Materials 75 words
    7. Endowment Assurance 156 words
    8. Council of Mortgage Lenders 50 words
    9. Economic and Finance Council 327 words
    10. Defaulting Taxpayers 81 words
    11. Drugs 144 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. South Africa 107 words
    2. Coppicing 233 words
    3. Nuclear Weapons, Iraq 133 words
    4. Official Meetings 88 words
    5. Diesel Fuel 111 words
  3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Peru 173 words
    2. Zimbabwe 332 words
    3. Somalia 75 words
    4. Rwanda 74 words
    5. South Africa 38 words
  4. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Judges 344 words
    2. Justices of the Peace 239 words
    3. Legal Aid 79 words
    4. Small Claims Court 106 words
    5. Expert Medical Witnesses 92 words
  5. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Television Licences 106 words
    2. G-Tech 92 words
    3. Advisory Bodies 562 words
  6. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Access to Local Authority Housing 512 words
    2. Water Charges 264 words
    3. Public Rights of Way 86 words
    4. Water Disconnections 93 words
    5. Environmentally Adjusted Accounts 62 words
    6. Planning Policy 73 words
    7. National Environmental Agency 157 words
    8. Countryside Commission and English Nature (Merger) 71 words
    9. "Water - A Vital Resource" 87 words
    10. Right to Buy 156 words
    11. Water Pollution 110 words
    12. Waste Management 137 words
    13. Wetlands Preservation 144 words
    14. Eco-labelling 144 words
    15. Toxic Waste Dumping 284 words
    16. Wildlife Trade 89 words
    17. Heartlands Urban Development Corporation 142 words
    18. Housing Association Grant 302 words
    19. EU Directives 118 words
    20. Homelessness 59 words
    21. Construction Industry 260 words
    22. Transitional Relief 54 words
    23. Urban Improvement Programmes 152 words
    24. Newham Borough Council 243 words
    25. Council Mortgage Lenders 65 words
    26. Castle Vale Housing Action Trust 114 words
    27. Single Regeneration Budget 109 words
    28. Women's Refuges 348 words
    29. Energy Saving Trust 316 words
  7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Upper Waiting Hall Exhibitions 67 words
    2. Travel Office 97 words
    3. Ministerial Responsibilities 80 words
  8. EDUCATION
    1. Parents Charter 86 words
    2. Teachers' Salaries 100 words
    3. Grant-maintained Schools 184 words
    4. Education Authority Funding 4,512 words
    5. Research Budget 33 words
    6. Parliamentary Questions 66 words
    7. Living Earth Project 39 words
    8. Education Authority Funding 96 words
    9. Public Information 331 words
    10. National Governors Council 129 words
    11. Pupil Distribution 1,296 words
    12. Education Council 126 words
    13. Nurse Training 65 words
  9. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. University Research Funding 54 words
    2. Chemistry 69 words
    3. Public Service Reforms 112 words
    4. EU Research Council 133 words
    5. "Innovation and the Tax System" 116 words
    6. Public Appointments 207 words
    7. Parliamentary Questions 245 words
    8. Civil Service Sports Facilities 96 words
    9. CERN Large Hadron Collider 176 words
    10. Women in Science 48 words
    11. Civil Service Reform 364 words
    12. Private Sector Forum 99 words
    13. Permanent Secretaries' Handbook 20 words
    14. EU Science and Technology Assembly 364 words
    15. Nuclear Warheads 54 words
  10. DEFENCE
    1. RAF Stations 139 words
    2. Non-pilot Aircrew Training 64 words
    3. Naval Recruitment 105 words
    4. Creche Facilities 154 words
    5. Fishing Vessels 218 words
    6. Pregnant Service Women 183 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Economic and Commercial Information 146 words
    2. Visas 194 words
    3. Ministerial Visits 99 words
    4. Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty 197 words
    5. Cyprus 74 words
    6. Burma 102 words
    7. Nigeria 229 words
    8. Malawi 98 words
    9. Sudan 131 words
    10. Palestine 101 words
    11. Austria 325 words
    12. Slovakia 149 words
    13. Parliamentary Questions 42 words
    14. Nuclear Materials 244 words
    15. UN General Assembly 182 words
    16. Biological Weapons 219 words
    17. Taiwan 102 words
    18. European Parliament 402 words
    19. Economic and Social Council 87 words
    20. European Legislation 137 words
    21. India 69 words
    22. Mr. Tejinder Singh 71 words
    23. Henderson Island 100 words
    24. European Union (Citizens' Duties) 150 words
  12. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Council Tax Benefit 177 words
    2. Income Support 106 words
    3. Child Support Agency 275 words
    4. Parliamentary Questions 33 words
    5. Invalidity Benefit 60 words
    6. Income Support 70 words
    7. Housing Benefit 134 words
    8. Information Technology 181 words
    9. Refugees 316 words
  13. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Training 201 words
    2. Pensioners' Incomes 229 words
    3. European Union Retraining Funds 97 words
    4. Sex Equality Branch 63 words
    5. Time-limited Contracts 148 words
    6. Non-vocational Qualifications 315 words
    7. Training and Enterprise Councils 2,554 words
    8. Social Affairs Council 588 words
    9. Gas Fitters 206 words
    10. Small Businesses 397 words
    11. Subject Access Requests 123 words
    12. Nitric Acid 50 words
    13. Labour Statistics 46 words
    14. Ministerial Visits 91 words
  14. Race Relations Employment
    1. Advisory Service 112 words
    2. Trade Union Membership 434 words
    3. Structural Fund 58 words
    4. Penningtons and Pinnacle PR Companies 100 words
  15. WALES
    1. Sheep 101 words
    2. Traffic Congestion 53 words
    3. Unemployment 47 words
    4. Old Industrial Areas 60 words
    5. Incomes 93 words
    6. Coal Industry 57 words
    7. Government Efficiency 89 words
    8. Milk Quota 298 words
    9. Community Health Council 186 words
    10. Grant-maintained Schools 58 words
    11. Mid-Glamorgan Family Health Service Authority 32 words
    12. Trainee Teachers 560 words
    13. Welsh Health International 46 words
    14. Housing 92 words
    15. Training and Enterprise Councils 257 words
    16. Grant Thornton Inquiry 48 words
    17. M4 51 words
    18. Botanical Gardens 82 words
    19. Blood Transfusion Service 98 words
    20. Cardiff Royal Infirmary 107 words
    21. Patients 82 words
    22. Highways Directorate 50 words
    23. Incentive Prescribing 69 words
    24. Health Promotion 112 words
    25. Welsh Economic Council 93 words
    26. Ministerial Speeches 81 words
    27. Special Advisers 102 words
  16. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Parliamentary Questions 34 words
    2. Charities 52 words
    3. St. Helena 51 words
    4. Mother and Baby Units 56 words
    5. Videos 70 words
    6. Civil Defence 78 words
    7. Police Forces 105 words
    8. Nuclear Materials 722 words
    9. Mental Health 59 words
    10. Metropolitan Police 250 words
    11. PC Rhys Trigg 182 words
    12. Civil Defence 81 words
    13. Civil Defence 75 words
    14. "Today" 49 words
    15. Medical Research 128 words
    16. Ethnic Minorities 402 words
    17. Human Rights 206 words
  17. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Equine Population 92 words
    2. Health and Social Services Trusts 510 words
    3. Trainee Doctors 189 words
    4. Dystonia 236 words
    5. Making Belfast Work 63 words
    6. Sex Discrimination 95 words
    7. Electricity Interconnector 136 words
    8. Foyle Fisheries Commission 97 words
    9. Abattoirs 317 words
    10. Illegal Netting 106 words
  18. TRANSPORT
    1. Newcastle Bypass 94 words
    2. Livestock Imports 373 words
    3. Taxe Uniforme 77 words
    4. Street Vendors (Licences) 337 words
    5. Vehicle Emissions 523 words
    6. Nitric Acid 173 words
    7. Vehicle Tax and Insurance 95 words
    8. Road Surfaces 316 words
    9. Buses 373 words
    10. Transport Supplementary Grant 585 words
    11. Rail Electrification 253 words
    12. Motor Cars 196 words
    13. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 70 words
    14. M25 218 words
    15. Sustainable Development Strategy 202 words
    16. IRA Bomb 65 words
    17. Trunk Telephone Lines 136 words
    18. Birmingham Relief Road 119 words
    19. Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre 72 words
    20. Landscape Advisory Committee 24 words
    21. Bull Bars 247 words
    22. Parliamentary Questions 32 words
    23. Highways 180 words
    24. Public Information 243 words
    25. Coaches 91 words
    26. Freight Terminal 245 words
    27. Vehicle Inspectorate 61 words
    28. Tanker (Shetland) 89 words
    29. Ship Reporting 132 words
    30. Viaduct Replacement Contract 272 words
    31. Airports 221 words
    32. Special Advisers 125 words
    33. Road Surfaces 423 words
    34. Batheaston Bypass 444 words
    35. Agencies 236 words
    36. Productivity Increases 241 words
    37. Railtrack 179 words
    38. Cones Hotline 384 words
    39. Exhaust Emissions 117 words
    40. Staff Statistics 67 words
    41. Pregnant Wor