8 February 1996

Commons Sitting of 8 February 1996

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. CITY OF WESTMINSTER BILL [Lords] 265 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TREASURY
      1. Budget Deficit 1,470 words
      2. Takeovers (Special Dividends) 321 words
      3. Budget Statement (Leeds) 633 words
      4. Landfill Tax 388 words
      5. Incomes 892 words
      6. Economic Growth 1,025 words
      7. VAT (Tourism) 405 words
      8. Fuel Tax 365 words
      9. Economic Growth 681 words
      10. Social Chapter 342 words
      11. VAT (Charity Sales) 280 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,237 words
      2. Campbell Soups 292 words
      3. Engagements 579 words
  4. Business of the House 6,501 words
  5. Point of Order 278 words
  6. Local Government Finance (Wales) 23,794 words, 1 division
    1. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 30 words
      1. NORTHERN IRELAND 20 words
      2. CONTRACTING OUT 26 words
      3. AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS 19 words
      4. LOCAL GOVERNMENT 31 words
  7. Audit (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 7 words
    1. Clause 5
      1. PUBLICATION AT DIRECTION OF EITHER COMMISSION 7,404 words
  8. Edgware General Hospital 5,319 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 8 February 1996

  1. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Immigration 153 words
  2. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Fire Safety 84 words
    2. EU Legislation 82 words
    3. Private Sector Schemes 73 words
  3. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Departmental Publications 103 words
    2. Hong Kong 213 words
    3. EU Legislation 122 words
    4. Newly Independent Countries 123 words
  4. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Compulsory Competitive Tendering (Luton) 210 words
    2. Local Authority Investments 112 words
  5. SCOTLAND
    1. Non-departmental Public Bodies 890 words
    2. GP Fundholding 62 words
    3. Asthma 472 words
    4. Mortgage Arrears 27 words
    5. Murray Green 547 words
    6. School Boards 594 words
    7. Hip and Femoral Fractures 130 words
    8. Osteoporosis 229 words
    9. Bone Densitometers 27 words
    10. Mortgage Repossessions 89 words
    11. Labour Statistics 191 words
    12. Water Authorities 300 words
  6. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Pay Review Bodies 738 words
    2. Crime Statistics 84 words
    3. Nuclear Test Veterans 262 words
    4. Professor al-Masari 54 words
  7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Executive Pay 54 words
    2. British Geological Survey 97 words
    3. Industrial Tribunals 96 words
    4. Written Questions 70 words
    5. Directors' Pensions 102 words
    6. Grant Aid (South-west) 328 words
  8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. British Geological Survey 306 words
  9. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Child Support Agency 134 words
    2. Cold Weather Payments 337 words
    3. Disability Living Allowance 190 words
  10. TRANSPORT
    1. EU Legislation 113 words
    2. Car Phones 300 words
    3. Road Safety 125 words
    4. Rail Privatisation 328 words
    5. Spare Computer Capacity 81 words
    6. Coach Safety (Children) 274 words
  11. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Delegated Legislation 82 words
    2. Immigration (Indian Sub-continent) 140 words
    3. Internet 85 words
    4. Telephone Tapping 204 words
    5. Reported Crime Statistics 616 words
    6. Probation Service 519 words
    7. Police Cautions (Burglary) 61 words
    8. Licensing Laws 84 words
    9. Registered Drug Users (Blackpool and Fylde) 90 words
    10. Asylum 919 words
    11. Mohammed Riaz and Quayyum Raja 60 words
    12. EU Legislation 118 words
    13. Policing of Football Matches 180 words
    14. Asylum and Immigration Bill 89 words
    15. Immigration 469 words
    16. Bedford Prison 139 words
    17. Asylum Seekers 401 words
    18. Illegal Working 130 words
    19. Association of Circus Proprietors 54 words
    20. Immigration Officers 147 words
    21. Human Rights Reports 164 words
    22. Karamjit Singh Chahal 46 words
    23. Illegal Working 88 words
    24. Prisoners (Restraints) 65 words
    25. Prosecutions (Durham) 1,049 words
  12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Fishing Vessels 48 words
    2. Genetic Modification 173 words
    3. Local Veterinary Inspectors 79 words
  13. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Student Loans Company 161 words
    2. Nursery School Inspections 89 words
    3. Nursery Vouchers Scheme 423 words
    4. Reception Classes 43 words
    5. Under-fives Education 222 words
    6. Training and Enterprise Councils 78 words
  14. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Housing Bill 69 words
    2. Movilla Cemetery 171 words
    3. Strangford Ferry 280 words
    4. Film Posters 179 words
    5. Midwives 268 words
    6. Conservation Schemes 82 words
    7. Cookstown Bypass 62 words
    8. Omagh Bypass 61 words
    9. Volunteer Drivers 594 words
    10. Junior Sports Club Scheme 38 words
    11. Departmental Expenditure 182 words
  15. WALES
    1. Local Government Finance 4,517 words
    2. Community Care 72 words
    3. Osteoporosis 200 words
    4. School Transport 35 words
    5. Elderly People's Homes 110 words
    6. Baglan Hospital 74 words
    7. Sheep (Radioactivity) 150 words
    8. Junior Doctors 75 words
    9. Spare Computer Capacity 52 words
    10. Health Service Materials Management 104 words
    11. NHS EstateCare 116 words
  16. HEALTH
    1. NHS Trusts (Statistics) 48 words
    2. NHS Pension Scheme 108 words
    3. Adoption Home Studies 33 words
    4. Fundholding Savings (Ownership of Assets) 90 words
    5. Oral Cancer 461 words
    6. City and East London Health Authority 67 words
    7. Accident and Emergency Units (Doctors) 62 words
    8. Newham Healthcare NHS Trust 49 words
    9. Job Advertisements 60 words
    10. NHS Charges 340 words
    11. Safety of Medicines 85 words
    12. Oral Contraceptives 851 words
    13. Medicines Commission 429 words
    14. Clinical Trials 157 words
    15. Medicines Act 131 words
    16. Medicines Control Agency 52 words
    17. Committee on Safety of Medicines 358 words
    18. EU Legislation 75 words
    19. Renal Services 199 words
    20. NHS Finance 168 words
    21. NHS Trusts (Return on Capital) 179 words
    22. NHS Trusts (Legal Costs) 234 words
  17. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. British Library 67 words
    2. Built Heritage 39 words
    3. Job Advertisements 54 words
    4. Departmental Publications 127 words
    5. Spare Computer Capacity 51 words
    6. Teletext 86 words
  18. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Prosecutions (Police Officers) 163 words
  19. DEFENCE
    1. Porton Down Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment 2,261 words
    2. Low Flying 397 words
    3. Job Advertisements 190 words
    4. F16 Aircraft 147 words
    5. Services Sound and Vision Corporation (Cyprus) 148 words
    6. Royal Flight 151 words
    7. Defence Medical Training Organisation 109 words
    8. Equerries 60 words
    9. Royal Yacht 408 words
    10. Unexploded Bombs 40 words
    11. HMS Intrepid 65 words
    12. HMS Fearless 201 words
    13. NATO Air Command and Control 85 words
  20. TREASURY
    1. Single Currency 40 words
    2. Taxation 51 words
    3. VAT (Sanitary Products) 21 words
    4. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 34 words
    5. Inflation 55 words
    6. Incomes 84 words
    7. Budget 44 words
    8. Taxation (Multinational Companies) 154 words
    9. Company Taxation 119 words
    10. Investments 35 words
    11. Living Standards 78 words
    12. Bank of England 72 words
    13. Sanctions (Libya) 70 words
    14. Regional Statistics 123 words
    15. Earnings Statistics 172 words
    16. Economic and Monetary Union 499 words

Lords Sitting of 8 February 1996

  1. Preamble 41 words
  2. Council Tax> 1,329 words
  3. Serious Fraud Office 505 words
  4. Merchant Navy: Officer Training 1,557 words
  5. Educational Standards: Ofsted Report 1,128 words
  6. Defamation Bill [H.L.] 68 words
  7. Damages Bill [H.L.] 63 words
  8. Edinburgh Assay Office Order Confirmation Bill 6 words
  9. Broadcasting Bill [H.L.] 21,783 words
  10. Deregulation (Fair Trading Act 1973) (Amendment) (Merger Reference Time Limits) Order 1995 1,552 words
  11. Deregulation (Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976) (Amendment) (Time Limits) Order 1995 48 words
  12. Deregulation (Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976) (Amendment) (Variation of Exempt Agreements) Order 1995 49 words
  13. Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 16 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 8 February 1996

  1. World Conference on Women, Beijing: Countries Entering Reservations 184 words
  2. Cyprus 64 words
  3. MED-TV: Alleged Jamming of Broadcasts 87 words
  4. MED-TV: British Satellite News 65 words
  5. Landmines 113 words
  6. Emtryl 197 words
  7. Sheep Scab Control: Research 120 words
  8. Statutory Redundancy Payments from Insurance Fund 243 words
  9. Mother and Baby Units in Prisons 415 words
  10. Drug Testing in Prisons 1,666 words