23 January 1996

Commons Sitting of 23 January 1996

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SOCIAL SECURITY
      1. Fraud 566 words
      2. Income Support 447 words
      3. Fraud 913 words
      4. Incapacity Benefit 853 words
      5. Family Credit 328 words
      6. Habitual Residence Rules 338 words
      7. Child Support Agency 845 words
      8. Guaranteed Minimum Pension 458 words
      9. Asylum Seekers 616 words
      10. Child Support Agency 298 words
      11. Child Support Agency 175 words
      12. Asylum Seekers 227 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,668 words
      2. Ministerial Visits 159 words
      3. Engagements 295 words
  4. Child Support (Appeal) 1,354 words
    1. CHILD SUPPORT (APPEAL) 64 words
  5. Orders of the Day
    1. Finance Bill 53 words
      1. Clause 36
        1. CHARGE TO TAX 24,088 words, 1 division
      2. Clause 105
        1. REQUIREMENTS TO BE SATISFIED BY APPROVED SCHEMES 21,049 words, 1 division
      3. Schedule 15
        1. SHARE OPTION SCHEMES APPROVED BEFORE PASSING OF THIS ACT 43 words
    2. Asylum Seekers 14,059 words, 1 division
    3. Mr. Amarjit Singh 3,719 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 23 January 1996

  1. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Magistrates (Doncaster) 342 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Newbury Bypass 85 words
    2. Sex Offenders 243 words
    3. School Bus Drivers 264 words
    4. Electro-shock Equipment 192 words
    5. Premium Telephone Numbers 267 words
    6. Police Vehicles (Accidents) 134 words
    7. Special Constables 600 words
    8. Standards in Public Life 88 words
    9. Immigration and Asylum Interviews 54 words
    10. Juvenile Offenders 227 words
    11. Dangerous Dogs Legislation 182 words
    12. Crime Control (International Co-operation) 162 words
    13. Closed Circuit Television 221 words
    14. National DNA Database 429 words
    15. Crime (Retail Premises) 456 words
    16. Party Conferences (Policing Costs) 104 words
    17. Rough Sleepers 102 words
    18. Mobile Phones 102 words
    19. Killings and Woundings (Toxteth) 52 words
    20. Private Finance Initiative 254 words
  3. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Committee on the Co-ordination and Presentation of Government Policy 45 words
    2. Ministerial Responsibilities 702 words
    3. Advertising 2,504 words
    4. Information Technology 101 words
    5. Private Finance Initiative 105 words
    6. Mobile Phones 101 words
  4. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Historic Monuments 189 words
  5. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Furniture Inventory 90 words
  6. TREASURY
    1. Official Hospitality 107 words
    2. Steam-powered Vehicles 127 words
    3. Regional Agents 93 words
    4. Part-time Employment 66 words
    5. Cash Machines 42 words
    6. Scott Inquiry 216 words
    7. Biodiesel 50 words
    8. Student Loans 43 words
    9. Eurotunnel 127 words
    10. Mobile phones 92 words
    11. Income Tax Relief 78 words
  7. DEFENCE
    1. Royal Squadron 197 words
    2. Mr. David Hart 234 words
    3. Consultancy Agreements 115 words
    4. Marine Services 64 words
    5. Service Women (Pregnancy) 575 words
    6. Equal Treatment Directive 21 words
    7. Industrial Tribunal Orders 56 words
    8. Ministerial Visits (Kuwait) 70 words
    9. Conventionally Armed Stand-off Missile 74 words
    10. Portland Naval Base 144 words
    11. Franco-German Armaments Agency 90 words
  8. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Asylum Seekers 116 words
    2. Opposition Policies 82 words
    3. Political Honours Scrutiny Committee 108 words
    4. 2001 Census 287 words
    5. Royal Yacht Britannia 75 words
    6. Engagements 43 words
  9. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Executive Agencies 634 words
    2. Telecommunications Services 82 words
    3. Labour Statistics 188 words
    4. Business and Innovation Centre 45 words
    5. Wylfa Power Station 338 words
    6. Oil and Gas Consumption 270 words
    7. ROM-Data Corporation 81 words
    8. Scott Inquiry 233 words
  10. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Scott Inquiry 33 words
  11. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. General Electric Company 395 words
    2. Aid Procurement 400 words
  12. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Labour Statistics (Manchester) 68 words
    2. Access to Work 881 words
    3. EU Universities (UK Students) 111 words
    4. University Facilities 127 words
    5. University Funding 110 words
    6. Careers Service (London) 462 words
    7. Business Links 64 words
    8. National Vocational Qualifications 737 words
    9. Mobile Phones 64 words
    10. Employment Service 253 words
  13. HEALTH
    1. Mortuaries 63 words
    2. Medical Negligence 117 words
    3. Methadone 51 words
    4. Meals on Wheels 68 words
    5. Acute Beds 94 words
    6. NHS Staff (Assaults) 49 words
    7. NHS Finance 72 words
    8. Consultants 64 words
    9. Suicide 123 words
    10. Patient Hotels 93 words
    11. Specialised Services 109 words
    12. Long-term Care 93 words
    13. Residential Care 553 words
    14. Intensive Care Beds (Yorkshire) 154 words
    15. Deaths (Winter Months) 312 words
    16. Asylum Seekers 132 words
    17. Mobile Phones 48 words
    18. Private Finance Initiative 849 words
    19. NHS Staff Salaries 144 words
    20. Under-age Working 97 words
  14. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Departmental Officials 107 words
    2. Tibet 161 words
    3. Pakistan (Murder) 74 words
    4. Gulf States (Human Rights) 61 words
    5. Scott Inquiry 180 words
    6. European Directives 179 words
    7. Official Gifts 71 words
    8. Heads of Mission (Official Uniform) 96 words
    9. Private Finance Initiative 168 words
    10. Gultasab Hussain 86 words
    11. Civil Personnel (Costs) 133 words
    12. China 168 words
    13. China and Iran (Entry Clearance) 92 words
    14. Saudi Arabia 185 words
    15. Mobile Phones 136 words
    16. World Service (Oman Transmitter) 112 words
    17. Sierra Leone 65 words
    18. Cameroon 47 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Executive Agencies 718 words
    2. Official Hospitality 712 words
    3. Intervention Beef 515 words
    4. Whales 94 words
    5. Set-aside Payments 102 words
    6. Egg Imports 142 words
  16. TRANSPORT
    1. National Rail Timetable 59 words
    2. Railways (Public Service Obligation Grant) 215 words
    3. Local Authority Transport Packages 124 words
    4. Traffic Signs (Environmental Impact) 296 words
    5. Mobile Phones 107 words
    6. National Rail Information System 163 words
    7. Rail Users' Consultative Committees 86 words
    8. Seat Belts 171 words
    9. Private Finance Initiative 267 words
    10. Kerbside Emission Tests 342 words
    11. Transport Blueprint 70 words
    12. Motorway Services 143 words
    13. Rail Privatisation, (Isle of Wight) 64 words
    14. Minibuses 107 words
    15. Technology Foresight Panel 193 words
    16. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 81 words
    17. Railway Freight 53 words
    18. Lorry Drivers (EC Sight Testing Regulations) 140 words
    19. Driving Licences 76 words
    20. Vehicle Excise Duty Evasion 51 words
    21. Light Rapid Transit Schemes 75 words
    22. Buses (North-west Region) 87 words
    23. Mersey Docks and. Harbour Company 204 words
    24. Railtrack (Station Sales) 58 words
    25. Porous Asphalt 142 words
    26. Coastguard Agency 67 words
    27. Driving Standards Agency 783 words
  17. SCOTLAND
    1. Bail Hostels 77 words
    2. National Museums and Galleries 181 words
    3. Health Boards (Competitive Tendering) 216 words
    4. Child Offenders 301 words
    5. Private Prisons 65 words
    6. Residential Mobile Homes 117 words
    7. Local Government Finance 449 words
    8. Crofter Building Grants and Loan Scheme 206 words
    9. Housing Finance 535 words
    10. Pregnant Women Prisoners 193 words
    11. Fishing (Norwegian Territorial Waters) 705 words
    12. Student Grants 689 words
    13. Mobile Phones 195 words
    14. Rural Scotland White Paper 111 words
    15. Forth Road Bridge 192 words
    16. NHS (Public Relations Officers) 137 words
    17. Monofilament Nets 720 words
    18. Porpoises 124 words
    19. Ambulance Service 123 words
  18. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Rail Privatisation 112 words
    2. Public Meeting Halls (Attacks) 140 words
  19. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Building Regulations 111 words
    2. Water and Sewerage 43 words
    3. Homelessness 101 words
    4. Housing Stock 80 words
    5. Conservation 547 words
    6. Wild Animal Imports 216 words
    7. Recycling Projects (Local Authorities) 222 words
    8. Sewerage and Water Service Bills 106 words
    9. Drought (Yorkshire) 64 words
    10. River Derwent Emergency Drought Order 81 words
    11. Minerals Planning Guidance 892 words
    12. Local Government Finance 314 words
    13. Rent Capping 64 words
    14. Housing Benefit (Council Tenants) 88 words
    15. Rent Increases 57 words
    16. Air Quality Assessments 147 words
    17. Asylum Seekers (Benefits) 159 words
    18. Mobile Phones 66 words
    19. Local Government Reorganisation 53 words
    20. Drought Orders 353 words
    21. Leaseholders (Estate Action) 181 words
    22. Hydrofluorocarbons 229 words
    23. NRA (Prosecutions) 74 words
  20. WALES
    1. Disabled Pupils 131 words
    2. Disability Discrimination Act 1995 163 words
    3. Community Health Councils 384 words
    4. Teachers (Retirement and Redundancy) 496 words
    5. Homelessness 60 words
    6. Cardiff Bay Opera House 96 words
    7. Cancer Registration 93 words
    8. Red Squirrels 172 words
    9. Wild Birds 150 words
    10. Mobile Phones 47 words
    11. Nurses (Training) 51 words
    12. Hospitals (Emergency Admissions) 197 words
  21. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Child Rearing Costs 74 words
    2. Seasonal Workers (Benefits) 61 words
    3. Housing Benefit 561 words
    4. Benefit Payment Card 40 words
    5. Benefit System Reform 150 words
    6. Fraud 52 words
    7. Child Support Agency 553 words
    8. Funded Pension Schemes 71 words
    9. Income Support 31 words
    10. State Pension 53 words
    11. Pensions (Rebate Contributions) 106 words
    12. Benefit Costs 75 words
    13. Cold Weather Payments 239 words
    14. Claimants (Peterlee and Seaham) 282 words
    15. Reduced Earnings Allowance 335 words
    16. Incapacity Benefit 140 words
    17. Pension Contributions 491 words
    18. Mental Illness 46 words
    19. Voluntary and Charitable Payments 57 words
    20. Child Support Appeal Tribunals 80 words
    21. Pensioners (Consumer Durables) 238 words
    22. War Pensions 92 words
    23. Pensioners (Income Support) 553 words
    24. National Insurance Fund Subsidy 170 words
    25. State Earnings-related Pension Scheme 254 words
    26. State Pension (Earnings Link) 61 words
    27. Habitual Residence Rule 122 words

Lords Sitting of 23 January 1996

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Drivers' Eyesight Tests 1,135 words