9 January 1996

Commons Sitting of 9 January 1996

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. NEW WRIT 12 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. DEFENCE
      1. British-USA Co-operation 454 words
      2. Mr. David Hart 579 words
      3. Army Recruitment Costs 824 words
      4. Trident 691 words
      5. Trained Personnel 402 words
      6. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 568 words
      7. Nuclear Proliferation 302 words
      8. Married Quarters 585 words
      9. Bosnia 563 words
      10. Food Procurement 334 words
      11. RAF Manston 238 words
      12. Recruitment 246 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,168 words
      2. Lockerbie 476 words
      3. Engagements 596 words
  5. Holloway Prison 3,411 words
  6. Points of Order 507 words
  7. House of Commons (Reform) 1,325 words
  8. HOUSE OF COMMONS (REFORM) 56 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill 47,907 words, 2 divisions
    2. NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL [MONEY>] 61 words
    3. LICENSING (AMENDMENT) (SCOTLAND) BILL 32 words
    4. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 3,694 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 9 January 1996

  1. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Civil Aviation Regulations 30 words
    2. Mobile Telephones 128 words
    3. Energy Saving 259 words
    4. Combined Heat and Power 55 words
    5. Executive Agencies 90 words
    6. Regional Government 93 words
    7. Shire Counties Review 64 words
    8. Car Boot Sales 116 words
    9. Staff Levels, London Boroughs 451 words
    10. Energy Savings Trust 166 words
    11. Local Services (Funding) 737 words
    12. Local Authority Debt 249 words
    13. EC Habitats Directive 724 words
    14. Burnley and Pendle Transport 157 words
    15. Glass Recycling 183 words
    16. London Governance 68 words
    17. Ministerial Travel and Accommodation Costs 174 words
    18. Departmental Running Costs 116 words
    19. Internet 123 words
  2. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Renewable Electricity Generation 255 words
    2. British Energy (Overseas Buyers) 47 words
    3. Industrial Death and Retirement Fund 56 words
    4. KONVER Funding 73 words
    5. Consultants 3,966 words
    6. Cable Television Contractors 348 words
    7. Internet 329 words
    8. Small Firms 400 words
    9. Disposable Lighters 321 words
    10. Former Soviet Union (Nuclear Installations) 137 words
    11. Electrical Goods 68 words
    12. Dounreay (Radioactive Hotspots) 201 words
    13. Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage 78 words
    14. Single Regeneration Scheme 169 words
  3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Executive Agencies 100 words
  4. TRANSPORT
    1. Rail Privatisation 2,996 words
    2. Newbury Bypass 97 words
    3. Vehicles Inspectorate 1,244 words
    4. Ormskirk Bypass 50 words
    5. Microwave Landing System 92 words
    6. Metropolitan Railway Grant 100 words
    7. Robin Hood Line 123 words
    8. Rainwerth Bypass 146 words
    9. Capital Expenditure (Nottinghamshire) 137 words
    10. Rail Fares 115 words
    11. Road and Rail Freight 331 words
    12. Buses 87 words
    13. Buses and Coaches 244 words
    14. Rail Freight 96 words
    15. Public Transport (Grants) 100 words
    16. Road Repairs (Winchelsea) 165 words
    17. Noise Insulation 549 words
    18. Travel Planning 93 words
    19. Midland Main Line 169 words
    20. Mobile Telephones 579 words
    21. Green Commuter Plan (Nottingham) 82 words
    22. Bus Lanes 121 words
    23. "Transport, the Way Ahead" 69 words
    24. Buses and Minibuses (Fitness of Drivers) 91 words
    25. PPG 13: Transport 115 words
    26. Public Service Vehicle Operators' Licences 397 words
    27. Duty-free Goods 85 words
    28. Transport Public Inquiries 78 words
    29. Road Network 28 words
    30. Rescue Vehicles (Airports) 82 words
    31. Road Safety Sectors (Local Authorities) 150 words
    32. Internet 247 words
    33. M25 121 words
    34. Flight Duty Limitations 61 words
    35. Policy Planning Guidance Notes 70 words
    36. Railtrack (Investment) 212 words
    37. Transport Research Budget 114 words
    38. Cones Hotline 167 words
    39. Road Protests (Monitoring) 116 words
    40. Stena Line Ferries 37 words
    41. Fishing Vessels (Ownership) 98 words
    42. Shipping (Domestic Crews) 169 words
    43. Advertising 255 words
    44. Skye Bridge 125 words
  5. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Internet 212 words
    2. Council of Europe (Russian Membership) 60 words
    3. Commonwealth of Independent States (Nuclear Installations) 184 words
    4. NATO Secretary General 52 words
    5. Entry Clearance 488 words
    6. Government Hospitality Fund (Wine) 213 words
    7. Turkey 406 words
    8. United Nations Compensation Fund 588 words
    9. Landmines 131 words
    10. Mobile Telephones 137 words
    11. Departmental Staff (Members' Letters) 110 words
    12. Asylum Seekers 405 words
  6. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTME
    1. Probate Sub-registries 284 words
    2. Executive Agencies 120 words
  7. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Internet 63 words
  8. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. National Lottery 318 words
    2. Channel 5 158 words
    3. Advertising 66 words
    4. Houses in Multiple Occupation 166 words
    5. Internet 175 words
    6. Ministerial Travel and Accommodation Costs 173 words
    7. Statue of Miner, Kent 97 words
    8. Departmental Running Costs 185 words
    9. National Millennium Commission 115 words
    10. Scratchcards 88 words
    11. Small and Medium Enterprises 288 words
    12. Goods and Services 60 words
    13. Small Firms 112 words
    14. Private Finance Initiative 249 words
    15. Departmental Staff (Members' Letters) 100 words
    16. BBC Charter 149 words
  9. HEALTH
    1. St. Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight 77 words
    2. Capital Allocations 308 words
    3. Child Psychotherapy 396 words
    4. Drug Misuse 67 words
    5. Emergency Provision (London) 71 words
    6. Children (Research) 90 words
    7. Energy Saving 135 words
    8. NHS Supplies Authority 123 words
    9. Mobile Telephones 102 words
    10. Special Hospitals Service Authority 304 words
    11. Ambulance Service, Greater Manchester 70 words
    12. Private Finance Initiative 136 words
    13. Environmental Control Equipment 114 words
    14. Cemfuel (Health Effects) 53 words
    15. Trent Healthline 118 words
    16. Pharmacies and Dispensaries 173 words
    17. Meningitis 181 words
    18. Hospital Admissions 81 words
    19. Day Care Services (Children) 183 words
    20. Medical Devices 182 words
    21. NHS Staff 1,361 words
    22. Supervision Registers (Records) 49 words
    23. Homoeopathic Medicines 127 words
    24. Residential Care for the Elderly 82 words
    25. Public Opinion Surveys 290 words
    26. Alcohol 90 words
  10. TREASURY
    1. Expenditure 760 words
    2. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 333 words
    3. Bank of England (Meetings) 63 words
    4. Tax Receipts 612 words
    5. Wages 238 words
    6. Taxation (Reliefs and Allowances) 141 words
    7. Gross Domestic Product 263 words
    8. nternet 241 words
    9. Local Government Finance 69 words
    10. Mobile Telephones 86 words
    11. Executive Agencies 94 words
    12. Private Finance Initiative 183 words
    13. Living Standards 82 words
    14. Value Added Tax 123 words
    15. Family Expenditure Surveys 145 words
    16. Employees 631 words
    17. Economically Inactive People 294 words
    18. Single Currency 204 words
    19. Personal Equity Plans 112 words
    20. Interest Rates 196 words
    21. Disposable Incomes 134 words
    22. Income Tax (Over-65s) 114 words
    23. Labour Statistics (Wirral) 93 words
    24. Deregulation 269 words
    25. Inland Revenue 122 words
    26. Privatisation Proceeds 129 words
    27. National Insurance 186 words
  11. DEFENCE
    1. NATO 42 words
    2. Nuclear Proliferation 44 words
    3. Intergovernmental Conference 60 words
    4. Spending Reductions 74 words
    5. Financial Waste 71 words
    6. Bosnia 197 words
    7. Personnel (Middle East) 69 words
    8. Racial Harassment 82 words
    9. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 74 words
    10. Nuclear Weapons 55 words
    11. Procurement 157 words
    12. Beaufort's Dyke 80 words
    13. Corporal Lee Clegg 78 words
    14. Mid-air Collisions 64 words
    15. Royal Yacht 73 words
    16. Gulf War 204 words
    17. Gulf War Syndrome 446 words
    18. Contractors 250 words
    19. Redundant Equipment 178 words
    20. Army Technical Support Agency 1,619 words
    21. Training 193 words
    22. Low Flying 68 words
    23. Mutual Defence Agreement 48 words
    24. Driffield Airfield 108 words
    25. Stolen and Lost Property 207 words
    26. White Vehicle Contracts 328 words
    27. Internet 251 words
    28. NORTHERN IRELAND
    29. Penalty Parking Notices 130 words
    30. Department of Education Northern Ireland 44 words
    31. George Finbar Ross 90 words
    32. International Investments Ltd. (Gibraltar) 51 words
    33. Badger Setts, Carnmoney Hill 67 words
    34. Advertising 195 words
    35. Firearms 203 words
    36. Executive Agencies 117 words
    37. Internet 132 words
    38. Community Care and Income Support 73 words
    39. Coinage 90 words
    40. Young People (Religion) 143 words
    41. Greenpark Hospital Trust 88 words
    42. WALES
    43. Ministerial Travel and Accommodation Costs 139 words
    44. Departmental Running Costs 276 words
    45. Severe Head Injuries 66 words
    46. Slow Learners 99 words
    47. Electronic Mail 89 words
    48. School Milk 174 words
    49. Internet 167 words
    50. Teaching Hospitals (Overheads) 148 words
    51. Archive Services 38 words
    52. Roads 56 words
    53. Cardiff Bay Barrage 224 words
    54. Housing 127 words
    55. Mobile Telephones 75 words
    56. Cervical Cancer Screening 49 words
    57. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    58. Upper Waiting Hall Exhibition 135 words
    59. State Opening (Photographer) 59 words
    60. PRIME MINISTER
    61. Engagements 86 words
    62. Royal Household 74 words
    63. Monetary Union 619 words
    64. Mobile Telephones 76 words
    65. The Euro (Information) 790 words
    66. Nuclear Materials (Exports) 71 words
    67. Princess of Wales 37 words
    68. Civil Servants 86 words
    69. Scott Inquiry 53 words
    70. Fouad Makhzoumi 44 words
    71. Exchange Rate Mechanism 334 words
    72. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    73. Executive Agencies 122 words
    74. Departmental Running Costs 387 words
    75. Fox Hunting 138 words
    76. Public Opinion Surveys 123 words
    77. Set-aside Land 53 words
    78. Efficiency Gains 79 words
    79. Mobile Telephones 52 words
    80. Photocopiers 192 words
    81. Open Government Code 614 words
    82. Internet 273 words
    83. Ministerial Travel and Accommodation Costs 147 words
    84. Government Bills and Papers 127 words