27 November 1995

Commons Sitting of 27 November 1995

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRANSPORT
      1. Newbury Bypass 247 words
      2. West Coast Main Line 439 words
      3. Rail Privatisation 1,061 words
      4. Urban Congestion 804 words
      5. Marine Safety 403 words
      6. Pedestrian Crossings 514 words
      7. West Coast Main Line 366 words
      8. Transport (London) 410 words
      9. Railways 835 words
      10. Transport (London) 737 words
      11. A27 133 words
      12. Ministerial Transport, M6 452 words
      13. Airline Subsidies 204 words
    2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. Constituents' Facilities 598 words
      2. Staff Remuneration 314 words
      3. Disabled People 418 words
      4. Members' Facilities (Chamber) 302 words
    3. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
      1. Parliamentary Procedures 896 words
  4. National Blood Service 5,980 words
  5. Points of Order 1,190 words
  6. BILL PRESENTED
    1. HUMBER BRIDGE (DEBTS) 67 words
  7. Orders of the Day
    1. Education (Student Loans) Bill 32,608 words, 1 division
    2. EDUCATION (STUDENT LOANS) BILL [MONEY] 93 words
    3. Teachers Superannuation (Contracting Out) 13,876 words, 1 division
    4. EDUCATION 20 words
    5. ENVIRONMENT 27 words
    6. HOME AFFAIRS 20 words
    7. NATIONAL HERITAGE 21 words
    8. SOCIAL SECURITY 21 words
    9. TRADE AND INDUSTRY 34 words
    10. TRANSPORT 20 words
    11. TREASURY 20 words
    12. Higher Education 3,785 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 27 November 1995

  1. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Capital Receipts 85 words
    2. Local Government 86 words
    3. Legislative Repeals 125 words
    4. Local Authority Political Groups 29 words
    5. Power Cables 91 words
    6. Small and Medium Enterprises 200 words
    7. Single Regeneration Budget 178 words
    8. Housing Bill 62 words
    9. Planning Applications 134 words
    10. Dearne Valley Partnership 554 words
    11. Ostrich Farms 65 words
  2. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Royal Ordnance plc 60 words
    2. Research and Development 81 words
    3. Fundamental Expenditure Review 43 words
    4. European Free Trade Association 93 words
    5. EU National Parliaments 73 words
    6. UN Convention on Mercenaries 65 words
    7. Military Equipment Embargoes 127 words
    8. Foreign Affairs Council 646 words
    9. Small and Medium Enterprises 84 words
    10. Air Strikes, Srebrenica 74 words
    11. Guatemalan Police Officers 114 words
    12. Correspondence 74 words
    13. International Sanctions 110 words
  3. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Company Procedures 401 words
    2. Distance Selling Directive 291 words
    3. Research and Development 95 words
    4. European Centre for Industrial Relations 139 words
    5. Walker Wingsail Systems 179 words
    6. Retail Newsagents 86 words
    7. Small Firms 299 words
    8. Business Links 85 words
    9. Small and Medium Enterprises 247 words
    10. Patent Office Services 381 words
    11. Labour Statistics (Shipbuilding) 133 words
    12. Mr. Michael Johnson 109 words
    13. Irish Steel Ltd. 108 words
    14. Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema 782 words
    15. Asbestosis 60 words
  4. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Cable Broadcasting 157 words
    2. Satellite Broadcasting 60 words
    3. Culture Council 73 words
    4. Legislative Repeals 46 words
    5. BBC Charter and Agreement 174 words
    6. BBC 228 words
  5. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Energy Efficiency 217 words
    2. Degree Courses 92 words
    3. Severe Learning Difficulties 944 words
    4. Research and Development 98 words
    5. Capital Expenditure, Derbyshire 37 words
    6. Teleworkers 79 words
    7. Deregulation 146 words
    8. Nursery Vouchers 82 words
    9. Small and Medium Enterprises 40 words
    10. Small Firms 117 words
    11. Job Sharing 113 words
    12. Assisted Places Scheme 175 words
  6. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Public Interest Immunity Certificates 86 words
    2. Divorce Reform 43 words
    3. Energy Efficiency 98 words
    4. Small and Medium Enterprises 44 words
  7. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Small and Medium Enterprises 43 words
    2. Ministerial Transport, London 27 words
    3. Public Interest Immunity Certificates 172 words
    4. HMSO 113 words
    5. Executive Agencies 45 words
  8. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Remuneration 39 words
    2. Ministerial Statements 99 words
    3. EU Finances 83 words
    4. Arms Exports 91 words
    5. Human Rights (Turkey) 146 words
    6. Head of State 31 words
    7. Asylum and Immigration Bill 61 words
    8. Crown Estate 193 words
    9. Crown Jewels 87 words
    10. Princess of Wales 84 words
    11. Deregulation 157 words
    12. Small and Medium Enterprises 58 words
  9. TREASURY
    1. Best Practice Guidelines 58 words
    2. Deregulation 215 words
    3. Small and Medium Enterprises 53 words
    4. Part-time Work and Job Sharing 48 words
    5. Nigerian Military Regime 163 words
    6. Gardening Leave 401 words
    7. Taxation 753 words
    8. EU Budget 128 words
    9. Inheritance Tax 277 words
    10. Correspondence 48 words
    11. Fuel Duties 38 words
    12. Mortgage Dealers 77 words
    13. Labour Statistics 62 words
    14. Spirits Duty 232 words
    15. Earnings Rates 176 words
    16. Interest Rates 126 words
  10. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prisoner Statistics 167 words
    2. Small and Medium Enterprises 50 words
    3. Prisoner Repatriations 458 words
    4. Dartmoor Prison 545 words
    5. Drug Abuse (Prisons) 151 words
    6. EC Measures 71 words
    7. Immigration 290 words
    8. Frontier Controls 84 words
    9. Justice and Home Affairs Council 68 words
    10. Police Patrols 119 words
    11. Private Security Industry 102 words
    12. Vulnerable Prisoner Units 234 words
    13. Prison Costs 101 words
    14. Police Force Statistics 136 words
    15. Metropolitan Police 84 words
    16. Prison Reports 220 words
    17. Remand Prisoners 213 words
    18. Sentencing Policy 40 words
    19. Prison Population 200 words
    20. COPEX Exhibition 57 words
    21. Prison Education Service 339 words
    22. Doncaster Prison 520 words
    23. Blakehurst Prison 1,442 words
    24. Racially Motivated Crime 785 words
  11. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Executive Agencies 75 words
    2. Small and Medium Enterprises 39 words
    3. Local Government 74 words
    4. Public Interest Immunity Certificates 215 words
  12. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Lockerbie 57 words
    2. Members' Pay 59 words
    3. Trade Union Sponsorship 115 words
    4. Legislation (Scrutiny) 45 words
    5. Energy Efficiency 84 words
    6. Drugs Information 142 words
  13. WALES
    1. Air Pollution 269 words
    2. Emergency Hospital Beds 131 words
    3. Out-of-town Superstores 48 words
    4. Correspondence 52 words
    5. Legislative Repeals 52 words
    6. Small and Medium Enterprises 36 words
    7. Dry Stone Walls 159 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Hospital Closures 548 words
    2. District Nurses and Health Visitors 275 words
    3. Research and Development 150 words
    4. Procurators Fiscal 86 words
    5. Criminal Appeals 436 words
    6. Dry Stone Walls 246 words
    7. Departmental Contracts 200 words
    8. Ambulance Service 172 words
  15. DEFENCE
    1. Bosnia 427 words
    2. Indonesian Pilots (Training) 67 words
    3. Procurement Executive, Abbey Wood 1,413 words
    4. Drugs (Army Personnel) 582 words
    5. Hawk Aircraft (Indonesia) 129 words
    6. Small and Medium Enterprises 46 words
    7. Departmental Dwellings 98 words
    8. Flying Training 104 words
    9. Private Finance Initiative 142 words
    10. Low Flying 68 words
    11. Portland Naval Base 307 words
    12. Drugs Tests (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 114 words
    13. Expenditure Plans 114 words
    14. Surplus Vessels 92 words
  16. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Child Care Facilities 59 words
    2. Copyright 136 words
    3. Radio 5 Live 134 words
    4. Parliamentary Data and Video Network 206 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Ministerial Transport, London 54 words
    2. Public Interest Immunity Certificates 141 words
    3. Arable Area Payments Scheme 123 words
    4. Dry Stone Walls 111 words
    5. Fishing Vessels (Decommissioning) 110 words
    6. Departmental Targets 54 words
  18. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Civil Service (Casual Staff) 478 words
    2. Private Finance Initiative 217 words
    3. Energy Efficiency 68 words
    4. Public Interest Immunity Certificates 261 words
    5. Temazepam 100 words
    6. Stormont Buildings 122 words
    7. Trade Union Commissioner 171 words
    8. Higher Education 295 words
    9. Small and Medium Enterprises 45 words
    10. Springvale Campus Project 311 words
  19. TRANSPORT
    1. A5 158 words
    2. Plastic Bullets 110 words
    3. Rail Services, North-West England 88 words
    4. Heathrow 38 words
    5. Road Building Programme 54 words
    6. London Transport (Investment) 45 words
    7. Fenchurch Street Line 41 words
    8. Rail Services (Monitoring) 65 words
    9. Fatal Accidents 87 words
    10. Buses (Disabled Access) 105 words
    11. London-Tilbury-Southend Line 44 words
    12. Rail Privatisation 50 words
    13. East London Line 69 words
    14. M62 Relief Road 83 words
    15. Rail Passengers 41 words
    16. Research and Development 93 words
    17. Locomotives 303 words
    18. Rail Freight 52 words
    19. Taxis (Disabled Access) 107 words
    20. Skid Resistance 190 words
    21. Penzance-Bristol Line 83 words
    22. Road Accidents 266 words
    23. Road Building Programme 20 words
    24. Automatic Ticket Machines 45 words
    25. Lockerbie 33 words
    26. Small and Medium Enterprises 37 words
    27. Legislative Repeals 130 words
    28. International Maritime Organisation 24 words
    29. Bull Bars 85 words
    30. Trans-Europeans Networks 262 words
    31. Channel Tunnel Services 50 words
    32. A650 252 words
    33. Manchester Metro 180 words
    34. QEII 39 words
    35. Cycle Tracks 49 words
    36. Charter Trains 59 words
  20. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Child Support Agency 723 words
    2. Energy Efficiency 99 words
    3. Housing Benefit 172 words
    4. Public Interest Immunity Certificates 86 words
    5. Research and Development 94 words
    6. Benefit Savings 46 words
    7. Legislative Repeals 79 words
    8. Small and Medium Enterprises 88 words
    9. Part-time Work 248 words
    10. Incapacity Benefit 707 words
    11. Income Support 219 words
  21. HEALTH
    1. Nurse Resignations 127 words
    2. Ministerial Transport, London 48 words
    3. Mental Hospitals 39 words