29 January 1996

Commons Sitting of 29 January 1996

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
      1. Deregulation 397 words
      2. Cabinet Committees 540 words
      3. Deregulation 439 words
      4. Government Policy 409 words
      5. EC Regulations (Competition) 241 words
      6. Water Companies (Charter Marks) 281 words
      7. Ministerial Responsibilities 982 words
      8. Civil Service Morale 520 words
      9. Government Policy 489 words
      10. Foreign Companies 209 words
    2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      1. Aid Budget 700 words
      2. Rwanda 466 words
      3. Central America 449 words
      4. Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 340 words
      5. China 651 words
      6. Sri Lanka 319 words
    3. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
      1. Investments 447 words
      2. Cyclists 262 words
  4. Points of Order 525 words
  5. Orders of the Day
    1. Housing Bill 55,764 words, 1 division
    2. HOUSING BILL [MONEY] 138 words
    3. COMPANIES 43 words
    4. SCOTTISH GRAND COMMITTEE 111 words
    5. Roundgrant Ltd. 3,879 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 29 January 1996

  1. TRANSPORT
    1. Aerial Advertising 288 words
    2. Royal Train 483 words
    3. Road Salting 298 words
    4. Trunk Road Programme 66 words
    5. British Rail Central Printing Unit 120 words
    6. Interlogic Control Engineering 85 words
    7. Air Quality Monitoring 101 words
  2. TREASURY
    1. Value Added Tax 90 words
    2. Private Finance Initiative 59 words
    3. Corporation Tax 129 words
    4. Higher Rate Tax 446 words
    5. Taxation 185 words
    6. Retired People (Earnings) 320 words
    7. Charities (Tax) 248 words
    8. Nuclear Industry 36 words
    9. British Energy 41 words
  3. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Deregulation 126 words
    2. Departmental Running Costs 82 words
    3. Ministerial Responsibilities 29 words
    4. Ministerial Office (Cost-benefit Analysis) 34 words
    5. Recruitment and Assessment Services Agency 56 words
    6. Departmental Objectives 40 words
    7. Quangos 101 words
    8. Public Safety 54 words
    9. Cabinet Committees 66 words
    10. Lockerbie 25 words
    11. Government Policy 128 words
    12. Crown Copyright 77 words
    13. F16 Aircraft 39 words
    14. Departmental Policy 34 words
  4. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
    1. Second Church Estates Commissioner 103 words
    2. Bishops' Palaces 224 words
    3. Pension Fund 215 words
  5. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Private Finance Initiative 129 words
    2. Advertising and Publicity 139 words
    3. No. 10 Downing Street (Chandelier) 38 words
  6. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Trafalgar Square (Northern Ireland Demonstration) 119 words
    2. Register of Conditionality Exempt Works of Art 105 words
  7. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Maintenance Orders 137 words
  8. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Strangeways Prison 203 words
    2. Prison Contracts 198 words
    3. Strip Searches 420 words
    4. Miss Elaine Connolly 66 words
    5. Community Officers 89 words
    6. Holloway Prison 293 words
    7. Homicide Convictions 205 words
    8. Positive about Disabled People Symbol 71 words
    9. Departmental Expenditure 586 words
    10. Frankland Prison 125 words
    11. Women Prisoners (Hospital Treatment) 400 words
  9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Aid Budget 228 words
    2. Nigeria 58 words
    3. Private Capital 61 words
    4. Former Yugoslavia 458 words
    5. UN Aid Target 173 words
    6. Nigerian Police Training 127 words
    7. Nepal 142 words
  10. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Minimum Wage 898 words
    2. Positive about Disabled People Symbol 706 words
    3. Companies Acts 51 words
    4. Departmental Staff (Energy Matters) 71 words
    5. Nuclear Industry (Privatisation) 905 words
    6. Competition Policy, Birmingham 54 words
    7. EU Funding 708 words
    8. Post Office 56 words
    9. Small Firms 45 words
    10. Departmental Payments 126 words
    11. Business Links 95 words
    12. British Gas 99 words
    13. Value Added Tax 105 words
    14. Scott Inquiry 183 words
    15. Departmental Expenditure 1,578 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Globe Europe Network 225 words
    2. Ceremonial Dress 219 words
    3. Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps 108 words
    4. War Crimes, Bosnia 55 words
    5. Military Personnel (Training) 112 words
    6. Kenya 78 words
    7. Zanzibar 70 words
    8. Absenteeism 87 words
  12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Chocolate Directive 220 words
    2. Monofilament Nets 299 words
    3. Absenteeism 193 words
    4. Spanish Fishing Vessels 127 words
    5. Fish Farming 110 words
    6. EU Funding 482 words
  13. HEALTH
    1. Rubella Vaccination 334 words
    2. Northern and Yorkshire Outpost 68 words
    3. Personal Information 385 words
    4. Yorkshire RHA 218 words
    5. HIV-associated Dementia 245 words
    6. Disability 86 words
    7. Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995 89 words
    8. Tobacco Sales (Minors) 113 words
    9. Community Hospital, Orsett 133 words
    10. Hospitals, Greater Manchester 68 words
    11. Sun Healthcare 37 words
    12. Fraud 161 words
    13. Private Sector Providers 69 words
    14. Special Transitional Grant 77 words
    15. Local Authority Contracts 28 words
    16. Residential and Nursing Care 54 words
    17. Pharmacies 145 words
  14. DEFENCE
    1. Departmental Expenditure 555 words
    2. Royal Yacht 531 words
    3. HMS Fearless and HMS Intrepid 103 words
    4. Small Arms Maintenance Contract 90 words
    5. European Security 95 words
    6. Married Quarters (Sales) 139 words
    7. Bosnia 165 words
    8. Low Flying 84 words
    9. Royal Irish Regiment Base (Fire) 112 words
    10. Operational Sea Training 75 words
    11. HMS Fearless 67 words
    12. Equerries 115 words
    13. Thomson Training and Simulation Ltd. 186 words
    14. HMS Gannet 163 words
    15. Third Parachute Regiment 47 words
    16. Type 23 Frigates 85 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Arms Surrender 63 words
    2. Motorway 273 words
    3. Benefits (Claimants) 394 words
    4. Population Statistics 67 words
    5. Rail Privatisation 147 words
    6. Action for Community Employment (ACE) 187 words
    7. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 44 words
    8. National Insurance 135 words
    9. Wild Animals 232 words
  16. SCOTLAND
    1. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 188 words
    2. Speech and Language Therapy 112 words
    3. Rural Child Care 363 words
    4. Water Charges 103 words
    5. NHS (Private Sector Consultants) 98 words
    6. Child Care 1,150 words
    7. Housing Stock 61 words
    8. Prison Visiting Committees 406 words
    9. Maintenance Orders 96 words
    10. Glasgow Business Table Speech 310 words
    11. Ministerial Discussions 71 words
    12. Heart Surgery 99 words
  17. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Classroom Assistants 74 words
    2. Waste Management and Recycling 91 words
    3. Undergraduate Degrees 70 words
    4. Pupil Numbers (Costs) 233 words
    5. Student Grants 70 words
    6. Disability Symbol 122 words
    7. Education Spending 2,149 words
    8. Teachers' Pay Award 1,390 words
    9. Departmental Expenditure 628 words
    10. Education, South London 199 words
    11. Employment Service (Safety of Staff) 446 words
    12. Jobseekers (Project Work Scheme) 267 words
    13. Equal Opportunities Commission 104 words
    14. EU Funding 1,738 words
    15. EU Funding 1,167 words
    16. Employment Service (Coventry) 953 words
    17. Grant-maintained Schools 297 words
    18. Training and Enterprise Councils 76 words
    19. Business Start-up Scheme 103 words
    20. European Social Fund 128 words
    21. Training Schemes 79 words
    22. School Budgets 752 words
  18. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Housing (Elderly People) 212 words
    2. Commission for Local Administration in England 98 words
    3. Rail Services 100 words
    4. Single Regeneration Budget 2,551 words
    5. Local Government Finance 291 words
    6. Asylum Seekers (Benefits) 305 words
    7. Council House Receipts 154 words
    8. Positive about Disabled People Symbol 278 words
    9. Tenanted Council House Transfers 508 words
    10. Charities (Funding) 42 words
    11. Local Government Staff (Redundancy Compensation) 588 words
    12. European Funding 187 words
    13. Rents-to-mortgages Scheme 58 words
    14. Mine Safety 127 words
    15. Rural Charter 59 words
    16. Rural Planning Guidance 57 words
    17. Planning (Rural Business Use) 74 words
    18. Business Rate Relief Scheme 58 words
  19. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Unemployment Benefit (Women) 62 words
    2. Social Fund 515 words
    3. Social Security 682 words
    4. Pensioners' Incomes 123 words
    5. Pensioners' Benefits 107 words
    6. Industrial Injuries 74 words
    7. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis 212 words
    8. Cold Weather Payments 186 words
    9. Incapacity Benefit 61 words
    10. Housing Benefits 127 words
    11. Benefit Fraud 160 words
    12. Welfare Provision 140 words
    13. Benefit Statistics 73 words
    14. Social Security (Persons From Abroad) Regulations 98 words
    15. State Pensions 965 words
    16. National Insurance 364 words
    17. EU Residents (Benefit Entitlement) 63 words
    18. Child Care 270 words
    19. Disabled People (Access) 534 words
    20. Widows' Pensions 194 words
    21. Asylum Seekers 299 words
  20. WALES
    1. NHS Trusts 285 words
    2. Hospital Patients 1,559 words
    3. Gross Domestic Product 169 words
    4. Waiting Times Information Bulletin 107 words
    5. Malnutrition 177 words
    6. Estate Care Group 51 words
    7. Exel Logistics 132 words
    8. Internet 46 words
    9. Euro-freight Terminal 144 words
    10. Hospital Beds 180 words
    11. Alzheimer's Disease 108 words
    12. Hypothermia 85 words
    13. General Practitioners 118 words
    14. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 166 words
    15. Trade Missions 146 words

Lords Sitting of 29 January 1996

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. The Lord Archbishop of York 23 words
  3. European Court of Human Rights 1,130 words
  4. International Development Association 308 words
  5. Coal Imports and Exports: Statistics 1,320 words
  6. HGV Drivers: Vision Tests 716 words
  7. Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations 1996 18,522 words
  8. Income Support (General)(Jobseeker's Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 31 words
  9. Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) Regulations 1996 32 words
  10. Housing Benefit, Supply of Information and Council Tax Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 1996 32 words
  11. Employer's Contributions Re-imbursement Regulations 1996 32 words
  12. Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Bill 12 words
  13. Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill 12 words
  14. Hong Kong (Overseas Public Servants) Bill 6,960 words
  15. Abnormal Loads On Motorways 10,525 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 29 January 1996

  1. Jerusalem: Access Restrictions 130 words
  2. Central Asia: UK Policy 226 words
  3. Caspian Sea: Exploitation of Oil Resources 529 words
  4. Oil Dispersant Policy: Review 300 words
  5. Mr. David Hart 39 words