24 April 1995

Commons Sitting of 24 April 1995

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES
      1. Hospitals (Emergency Admissions) 211 words
      2. Industrial Development 1,058 words
      3. Welsh Development Agency 578 words
      4. Hospital Beds 495 words
      5. Nurses' Pay Award 432 words
      6. Patient Care 294 words
      7. Local Government Reform 476 words
      8. Rare Cattle Breeds (Export) 196 words
      9. Local Government Finance 355 words
      10. Dental Services 316 words
      11. Farmers (Suicide) 349 words
      12. Unemployment 344 words
      13. Bridle-paths 251 words
      14. Nursery Education 233 words
      15. Feral Mink 210 words
      16. Water Charges 232 words
    2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      1. Legal Aid 530 words
      2. Crown Prosecution Service 384 words
      3. War Crimes 484 words
    3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      1. Mine Clearance 579 words
      2. Bilateral Aid 723 words
      3. Burundi and Tanzania 447 words
  4. Points of Order 594 words
  5. Statutory Instruments, &c. 31 words
  6. SOCIAL SECURITY 27 words
  7. HOUSING (SCOTLAND) 30 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Pensions Bill [Lords] 54,655 words, 1 division
  9. PENSIONS BILL [LORDS] [MONEY] 103 words
  10. PENSIONS BILL [LORDS] [WAYS AND MEANS] 140 words
  11. Church of England (General Synod) (Measures) 6,556 words
  12. Chemical Weapons 4,179 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 24 April 1995

  1. HEALTH
    1. Pay Offers 216 words
    2. Centre for Epilepsy 88 words
    3. Executive Letters 50 words
    4. Rehabilitation Equipment 74 words
    5. Psychologists 122 words
    6. GP Fundholding 84 words
    7. Ministerial Meetings 242 words
    8. Appeals 118 words
    9. Private Facilities 104 words
    10. GP Appointments 101 words
    11. Healthcall 34 words
    12. Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital 85 words
    13. Patient Calls 33 words
    14. Extra-contractual Referrals 71 words
    15. Income Generation 68 words
    16. Nurses' Pay 125 words
    17. Patient Transfer (Kent to Southampton) 76 words
  2. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Public Appointments 218 words
  3. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Road-side Advertising 401 words
    2. Swinden Quarry 154 words
    3. Car Ban, Athens 66 words
    4. Government Office for London 28 words
    5. Subsidence 302 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Tanzania (Aid) 78 words
    2. South Africa 84 words
    3. Aid Targeting 82 words
    4. Kenya 51 words
    5. Bilateral Debt Commitments 75 words
    6. Liberia 111 words
    7. Nepal 119 words
    8. Afghan Refugees (Pakistan) 398 words
    9. Desertification Convention 67 words
    10. Tropical Rainforests 320 words
  5. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Rules and Regulations 106 words
    2. Competitive Tendering 87 words
    3. Incapacity Benefit 176 words
    4. Self-Employed Farmers 108 words
  6. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Annesley Bentinck Colliery 201 words
    2. Exploration Licences 251 words
    3. Crown Post Offices 358 words
    4. Raytheon 56 words
    5. Public Information Telephone Line 738 words
    6. Patent Office 200 words
    7. Scott Inquiry 46 words
    8. Electro-shock Equipment 228 words
    9. Executive Agencies 162 words
    10. Regional Selective Assistance 225 words
    11. Business Links 141 words
  7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Debates 77 words
    2. Parliamentary Questions 71 words
    3. Pension Fund 168 words
  8. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Drugs 197 words
    2. Overtime and Sickness 150 words
    3. Allowances 219 words
  9. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Asil Nadir 73 words
    2. Witnesses 81 words
    3. Government Departments 62 words
    4. Crown Prosecution Service 105 words
  10. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Lockerbie 116 words
    2. Nursery Places 155 words
    3. VE Day (Poland) 113 words
    4. Kashmir 118 words
    5. Mahogany 45 words
    6. Security Vetting 490 words
    7. Advisers 90 words
    8. Acceptance of Gifts 105 words
    9. Ministers (Car Hire) 68 words
    10. Allowances 223 words
    11. Correspondence 127 words
    12. Departmental Report 102 words
  11. SCOTLAND
    1. Drugs-related Crime, Strathclyde 181 words
    2. Scottish Homes 120 words
    3. Rules and Regulations 119 words
    4. Compliance Cost Assessments 116 words
    5. Ferguslie Park 2,145 words
  12. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Jobseeker's Allowance 348 words
    2. Parliamentary Questions 357 words
    3. Restart 324 words
    4. Departmental Report 153 words
    5. Executive Agencies 268 words
    6. Consultants 78 words
    7. South Thames Training and Enterprise Council 127 words
  13. EDUCATION
    1. Departmental Report 960 words
    2. Free School Meals 1,752 words
    3. Administration Costs 187 words
    4. Class Sizes 1,004 words
    5. Education Expenditure (Northamptonshire) 433 words
    6. University Students 138 words
    7. University Admission Procedures 62 words
    8. Pupil: Teacher Ratios 383 words
  14. TREASURY
    1. Medals and Decorations 438 words
    2. Taxation 56 words
    3. European Monetary Committee 130 words
    4. Earnings, Sutton and Cheam 150 words
    5. Inland Revenue Office, Leicester 256 words
    6. Crown Estate Commission 124 words
  15. WALES
    1. Inward Investment 89 words
    2. Casualty and Surgical Services 69 words
    3. Cardiff Bay Barrage 110 words
    4. Manufacturing Skills 93 words
    5. Deprivation Payments 297 words
    6. Swine Vesicular Disease 37 words
    7. Glaucoma 33 words
    8. Planning Policy Guidance 55 words
    9. General Development Order 72 words
    10. Dental Services 73 words
    11. Ambulance Trusts 261 words
    12. Local Government Reorganisation 98 words
    13. Religious Education 96 words
    14. Union Flag 32 words
    15. Rural White Paper 139 words
  16. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Draft Legislation 67 words
    2. Administrative Staff 83 words
    3. Conflicts of Interest 60 words
    4. Special Advisers 48 words
  17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Torture Equipment 174 words
    2. Departmental Annual Report 109 words
    3. Kashmir 167 words
    4. Liberia 104 words
    5. Expatriate Civil Servants (Hong Kong) 113 words
    6. Slovakia 113 words
    7. Human Rights (Iraq) 190 words
    8. Human Rights Violations 82 words
    9. Military Personnel Costs 121 words
    10. Executive Agencies 135 words
    11. Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty 90 words
    12. Transport Costs 90 words
    13. Immigration 277 words
    14. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat 179 words
  18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Meat Inspections 451 words
    2. Bovine Offal 185 words
    3. Sheep Exports 128 words
    4. Milk Marque 97 words
    5. Advisers 142 words
    6. Common Fisheries Policies 56 words
    7. Bovine Somatotropin 109 words
    8. Swine Vesicular Disease 38 words
    9. Organophosphorous Sheep Dips 269 words
    10. Common Agricultural Policy 101 words
    11. Artificial Insemination 69 words
  19. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Danny Aloysius Riley 535 words
    2. Executive Agencies 107 words
    3. Subsistence Allowance 328 words
    4. Sentencing Policy 139 words
    5. Overtime and Sickness 323 words
    6. Cameras, Shoreham 68 words
    7. Law and Order Pack 139 words
    8. Marchioness 158 words
  20. TRANSPORT
    1. Air Traffic Control 147 words
    2. Driving Test Centre, Rhyl 214 words
    3. Gospel Oak to Barking Line 490 words
    4. Second Severn Crossing 76 words
    5. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 144 words
    6. Road Programme 1,275 words
    7. Newbury Bypass 121 words
    8. Road Accident Fatalities 106 words
    9. Dangerous Goods Advisers 84 words
    10. Advisers 167 words
    11. Departmental Report 107 words
    12. Blood Alcohol Limit 84 words
    13. North Circular Road 276 words
    14. Motorcycle Accidents 278 words
    15. Driving Tests 497 words
    16. Road Building 53 words
  21. DEFENCE
    1. Armament Sales (Nigeria) 28 words
    2. Makhzoami Brothers 270 words
    3. Arms Sales 274 words
    4. Asturion Foundation 63 words
    5. Old Sarum Airfield 130 words
    6. Defence Evaluation and Research Agency 384 words
    7. Sea Dumping (Munitions) 512 words
    8. Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital 93 words
    9. Royal Arsenal, Woolwich 94 words
  22. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Allowances 1,399 words
    2. Job Losses 196 words
    3. Natural Gas Industry 66 words
    4. Footpath Resurfacing 59 words
    5. Arts Councils 98 words
    6. Magpies and Crows 368 words
    7. Green Economy Working Group 121 words
    8. European Aid Conference 179 words
    9. Homelessness 84 words
    10. Balmoral Avenue—Malone Road Junction 63 words
    11. Fisheries 84 words

Lords Sitting of 24 April 1995

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Gulf War: Health of Servicemen 1,378 words
  3. Ordnance Survey: Rural Mapping 1,409 words
  4. Nurses: Local Pay Guidance 1,303 words
  5. Business of the House: Finance Bill 1,026 words
  6. Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Bill 12 words
  7. Land Registers (Scotland) Bill 12 words
  8. National Health Service (Amendment) Bill 12 words
  9. Prisoners (Return to Custody) Bill 12 words
  10. Olympic Symbol etc. (Protection) Bill 2 words
  11. Health Authorities Bill 28,665 words, 2 divisions
  12. Crown Agents Bill [H.L.] 9,943 words
  13. Family Homes and Domestic Violence Bill [H.L.] 17 words

Grand Committee Report of 24 April 1995

  1. Official Report of the Committee on the Family Homes and Domestic Violence Bill [H.L.] 13,035 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 24 April 1995

  1. UK Defence Spending 48 words
  2. Environment Agency 104 words
  3. Mrs. M. Curtin: Circumstances of Death 203 words
  4. Government Departments: Stolen Equipment 5,262 words