10 December 1996

Commons Sitting of 10 December 1996

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS 233 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SOCIAL SECURITY
      1. Jobseeker's Allowance 365 words
      2. Benefits Agency (Wales) 458 words
      3. State Pension 921 words
      4. Social Security Spending 1,051 words
      5. Incapacity Benefit 905 words
      6. Computer Systems 417 words
      7. Child Benefit 262 words
      8. Benefit Recipients (Newham) 536 words
      9. State Pension 502 words
      10. Single Mothers 324 words
      11. Benefit Applicants (Transport) 358 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,047 words
  5. Gulf War Illness 10,869 words
  6. Armoured Vehicles (Indonesia) 489 words
    1. BILL PRESENTED
      1. GOVERNMENT OF WALES 109 words
  7. Licensing (Reform) 1,894 words
    1. LICENSING (REFORM) 40 words
  8. ESTIMATES DAY 5 words
    1. VOTE ON ACCOUNT: 1997–98
      1. Class XVII, Vote 1
        1. Government Information 15,482 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill 3 words
      1. Clause 11
        1. FEES FOR PLANNING APPLICATIONS 1,606 words
      2. New clause 1,904 words
      3. Clause 18
        1. RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION ORDERS 424 words
      4. New clause 475 words
      5. Schedule 9
        1. DISAPPLICATION AND MODIFICATION OF MISCELLANEOUS CONTROLS 413 words
          1. London lorries: emergency permits 1,075 words
      6. Schedule 13
        1. PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS 662 words
    2. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1996–97 51 words
    3. ESTIMATES, 1997–98 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT) 105 words
    4. CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL 227 words
    5. Party Political Radio Broadcasts 3,824 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 10 December 1996

  1. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Non-departmental Public Bodies 173 words
    2. Staff Contracts 594 words
  2. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Japan (Dolphins) 69 words
    2. Whitehall Building 91 words
    3. Nicaragua 72 words
    4. Public Appointments 41 words
  3. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Knighthoods 54 words
    2. Engagements 60 words
    3. Christmas Expenditure 129 words
  4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Human Genetics Advisory Commission 277 words
    2. Health and Safety 83 words
    3. Public Holidays 312 words
    4. Regional Selective Assistance 559 words
    5. Funeral Pre-payment Plans 151 words
    6. Car Production 134 words
    7. Cotton Fabric 552 words
  5. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Publicity 299 words
    2. Beaches 67 words
    3. Tooting Bec Psychiatric Hospital 74 words
    4. Asbestos 224 words
    5. Gipsy Sites 125 words
    6. Marine Pollution 166 words
    7. Health and Safety 104 words
    8. Environmental Information Appeals Tribunal 79 words
    9. Christmas Expenditure 167 words
    10. Local Government Finance 194 words
    11. Oil Pollution 39 words
    12. Genetically engineered Crops 201 words
    13. Public Appointments 82 words
  6. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Computers 294 words
  7. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Children Act Advisory Committee 309 words
    2. Public Appointments 81 words
    3. Magistrates Court Committees 273 words
  8. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Millennium Commission 426 words
    2. Millennium Celebrations 112 words
    3. V-chip 190 words
  9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. UNITA 427 words
    2. United Nations Industrial Development Organisation 71 words
    3. Zambia 83 words
  10. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Criminal Cases 133 words
  11. TRANSPORT
    1. Public Appointments 33 words
    2. Railtrack 80 words
    3. Bull Bars 31 words
    4. Smuggling 48 words
    5. A56 123 words
    6. Railway and Underground Accidents (Children) 257 words
    7. Road Signs 363 words
    8. Departmental Management Objectives 89 words
    9. Noise Barriers 102 words
    10. Shipping 78 words
    11. M27 72 words
  12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Computerised Cattle Registration 430 words
    2. Mr. D. P. McLaughlan 65 words
    3. BSE 60 words
    4. Publicity 335 words
    5. Mammalian Meat and Bonemeal (Transport) 102 words
    6. Sheep Dips (Pollution) 116 words
    7. Organophosphate Poisoning 84 words
    8. Cattle Cull 394 words
    9. BSE (Maternal Transmission) 92 words
    10. Vegetarian Cheese 94 words
    11. Departmental Expenditure 460 words
    12. French Fishermen 114 words
    13. Genetically-engineered Tomatoes 72 words
  13. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Teachers (Early Retirement) 49 words
    2. National Vocational Qualifications 161 words
    3. International Labour Organisation 316 words
    4. Personal Services Industry 884 words
    5. Schools (Sheffield) 194 words
    6. Local Education Authorities (Capital Expenditure) 90 words
    7. Pupil Exclusions 150 words
    8. Schools Renewal Challenge Fund 201 words
    9. Student Union Membership 202 words
    10. Small Firms Initiative 105 words
    11. Job Training 619 words
    12. Careers Libraries 99 words
    13. Employment Schemes (Geographical Mobility) 276 words
    14. Careers Officer Training 110 words
    15. Public Appointments 66 words
    16. Education Standards 266 words
    17. Special Educational Needs Tribunal 182 words
    18. Training and Enterprise Councils 99 words
    19. Employment Service Pens 787 words
  14. TREASURY
    1. Employment Statistics 501 words
    2. Private Landlords (Housing Benefit) 93 words
    3. "Financial Statement and Budget Report" 430 words
    4. Single Currency Stability Pact 71 words
    5. British Artists (Germany) 99 words
    6. Taxation 209 words
    7. Parliamentary Questions 374 words
    8. Private Finance Initiative 59 words
    9. Tourism (Wales) 40 words
    10. Petrol and Diesel 345 words
    11. Self-assessment 61 words
    12. Computers 92 words
    13. Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma 350 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Public Expenditure Allocations 458 words
    2. Quangos 119 words
    3. Public Bodies 44 words
    4. President Robinson (Visits) 55 words
    5. Judicial Review 106 words
    6. Seat Belts 118 words
    7. Agri-environmental Schemes 505 words
    8. Public Appointments 55 words
    9. Low Impact Development 210 words
  16. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Offenders 460 words
    2. Juvenile Detainees 443 words
    3. Court Cases (Departmental Costs) 138 words
    4. Public Appointments 88 words
    5. Police Funding 107 words
    6. Airgun Prosecutions 78 words
    7. Firearms Homicides 160 words
    8. Rwanda (Arms Sales) 292 words
    9. Criminal Records 548 words
    10. Police Paperwork 173 words
    11. "On the Record" 130 words
    12. Prosecutions 119 words
    13. Surrendered Guns 131 words
    14. Imprisonment Terms 114 words
    15. Firearms 297 words
    16. European Year Against Racism 126 words
    17. Asylum Seekers 353 words
    18. Racial Discrimination 67 words
    19. Released Prisoners (Accommodation) 352 words
    20. Detention Costs 62 words
    21. Anti-stalking Laws 91 words
    22. Television Licences 50 words
    23. Harassment 61 words
    24. Detainees 66 words
    25. Venezuelan Prisoners 138 words
    26. Criminal Injuries Compensation 210 words
    27. Offences (Northern Ireland) 165 words
    28. Prisons (Drugs) 688 words
    29. Replica and Imitation Firearms 212 words
    30. "Misspent Youth, Young People and Crime" 103 words
    31. Young Offenders Institutions 252 words
    32. Butane Gas Sales (Prosecutions) 63 words
    33. Drug Dealers 240 words
    34. Speed Cameras 339 words
  17. HEALTH
    1. Health Authority Funding 174 words
    2. Prostate Cancer 206 words
    3. Douglas Byelong 129 words
    4. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority 53 words
    5. Multiple Sclerosis 214 words
    6. Tuberculosis 236 words
    7. Antibiotics 91 words
    8. Public Appointments 71 words
    9. BSE and CJD 105 words
    10. Section 64 Grants 64 words
    11. Care Home Residents 221 words
  18. SCOTLAND
    1. Self-governing Schools 208 words
    2. Water Authorities 298 words
    3. Beaches 277 words
    4. Sugar Refinery Closure 143 words
    5. Legal Aid 102 words
    6. Housing (Falkirk) 186 words
  19. DEFENCE
    1. Air Training Corp 225 words
    2. Radiation Testing 371 words
    3. Mid-Air Collisions 81 words
    4. Radioactive Waste 179 words
    5. West Indies Guardship 99 words
    6. Ministry of Defence Police 63 words
    7. Volunteers (Compensation) 95 words
    8. Joint Strike Fighter 208 words
    9. Public Appointments 68 words
    10. Deveonport Dockyard 43 words
    11. Directorate General Ships 610 words
    12. Naval Bases and Supply Agency 533 words
  20. WALES
    1. Waiting Lists 107 words
    2. Beaches 58 words
    3. Parliamentary Questions 402 words
    4. Hospital Admissions 185 words
    5. NHS Trusts 2,020 words
    6. Health Service Staff 2,312 words
    7. Dental Services 55 words
    8. Asthma 187 words
    9. General Practitioners' Premises 114 words
    10. Tuberculosis 74 words
    11. Housing 192 words
    12. PFI Schemes 50 words
    13. Employment Initiatives 334 words
    14. Agri-environmental Schemes 288 words
    15. Public Appointments 63 words
    16. Blood Stocks 74 words
  21. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. State Pensions 504 words
    2. Benefit Payments (Non-UK Nationals) 136 words
    3. Income-related Benefits 97 words
    4. One-parent Families 95 words
    5. Incapacity Benefit 65 words
    6. Housing Benefit Fraud 212 words
    7. Child Support Agency 77 words
    8. Lone Parents 163 words
    9. Housing Benefit 262 words
    10. Reduced Earnings Allowances 149 words
    11. Asylum Seekers 66 words
    12. Regulations 410 words
    13. Benefit Claimants 261 words
    14. Mortgage Interest Payments 199 words
    15. Disability Living Allowance 345 words
    16. EU Payroll Costs 48 words
    17. Compensation Recovery Scheme 64 words
    18. Disability Discrimination Act 86 words
    19. CSA Chief Executive 222 words
    20. Changes 126 words
    21. Housebuilding Industry 486 words
    22. Public Appointments 85 words
    23. Child Support 601 words

Lords Sitting of 10 December 1996

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. The Lord Bishop of Ely 23 words
  3. Turkey: Human Rights 1,174 words
  4. Swiss Bank Deposits: Secrecy 958 words
  5. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 916 words
  6. Theatre Finances 1,050 words
  7. Business 39 words
  8. Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Bill [H.L.] 77 words
  9. Horserace Totalisator Board Bill [H.L.] 11 words
  10. Theft (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 11 words
  11. Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Bill [H.L.] 6,326 words
  12. Gulf War Illness 7,606 words
  13. Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Bill [H.L.] 24,959 words
  14. Port of Tyne Authority (Transfer of Undertaking) Order 1996 10,409 words, 1 division
  15. Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Bill [H.L.] 9,417 words
  16. HMY "Britannia" 10,237 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 10 December 1996