23 July 1996

Commons Sitting of 23 July 1996

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. CITY OF WESTMINSTER BILL [Lords] (By Order) 8 words
      2. KING'S COLLEGE LONDON BILL [Lords] (By Order) 15 words
      3. BODMIN MOOR COMMONS BILL [Lords] 294 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SOCIAL SECURITY
      1. Computer Errors 598 words
      2. Asylum Seekers 639 words
      3. Personal Pensions 352 words
      4. Income Support 700 words
      5. Reduced Earnings Allowances 962 words
      6. Private Pensions 847 words
      7. Occupational Pensions 324 words
      8. Welfare Support 938 words
      9. Disability Living Allowance 308 words
      10. Back-to-work Bonus 282 words
      11. Lone Parents 200 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Lichfield 438 words
      2. Engagements 1,775 words
  4. BILL PRESENTED
    1. RIGHT TO WORK 115 words
    2. NORTHERN IRELAND GRAND COMMITTEE 59 words
  5. Points of Order 1,267 words
  6. Waste Prevention 1,089 words
  7. WASTE PREVENTION 71 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Opposition Day 3 words
      1. Welfare State 29,036 words, 1 division
      2. Voluntary Sector 23,674 words
      3. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 67 words
    2. Orders of the Day
      1. Broadcasting Bill [Lords] 11 words
      2. After Clause 66 18 words
      3. NOMINATION BY COMMISSION FOR PURPOSES OF SECTION 31(2) OF BROADCASTING ACT 1990 482 words
    3. Clause 116
      1. COMMENCEMENT AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS 118 words
    4. Schedule 2
      1. AMENDMENTS OF BRODCASTING ACT 1990 RELATING TO RESTRICTIONS ON HOLDING OF LICENCES 1,470 words
    5. Schedule 7
      1. OTHER AMENDMENTS OF BROADCASTING ACT 1990 193 words
    6. PETITION
      1. Rail Link (Ealing) 233 words
      2. Brazilian Mahogany 3,225 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 23 July 1996

  1. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Youth Courts 269 words
    2. Public Record Office 318 words
  2. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. National Lottery 346 words
    2. Tourist Information Centres 168 words
    3. British Academy of Sport 84 words
    4. Executive Agencies 351 words
    5. Statistical Forms 39 words
    6. Works of Art 365 words
    7. Bay Radio Ltd. 95 words
    8. Government Art Collection 79 words
  3. TRANSPORT
    1. Railways (Complaints) 71 words
    2. Rail Near Miss Registration 93 words
    3. Rail (Investment Projects) 97 words
    4. Salaries 2,299 words
    5. Rail Public Service Obligation Grant 81 words
    6. Automatic Train Protection 402 words
    7. Rolling Stock Companies (Train Recorders) 58 words
    8. Rail Accident Investigation Reports 100 words
    9. Capital Settlements 78 words
    10. Rail Users Consultative Committees 91 words
    11. Seat Belts 123 words
    12. Child Pedestrians 209 words
    13. Bus and Coach Directive 57 words
    14. A66 258 words
    15. Noise Barriers 776 words
    16. Airports 172 words
    17. Supplementary Grant 104 words
    18. Rural Roads 212 words
    19. Birmingham Relief Road 60 words
    20. Road Accidents (Fatigue) 57 words
    21. Bridges 63 words
    22. Heavy Goods Vehicle Drivers 55 words
    23. MOT Certificates 101 words
    24. Publicity 211 words
    25. Working Time Directive 43 words
    26. Vehicle Relicensing (Post Offices) 162 words
    27. Motorway Accidents 124 words
    28. Public Service Vehicles 107 words
    29. Willerby 93 81 words
    30. European Vignette System 22 words
    31. Drivers (Amnesties) 43 words
    32. Lyme Bay 55 words
    33. Civil Aviation Authority 47 words
    34. Recruitment Information 377 words
    35. Traffic Areas (Restructuring) 44 words
    36. Highways Agency 52 words
    37. Croydon Tramlink 261 words
    38. School Buses 91 words
    39. Regulation of Railways Act 1871 101 words
    40. Small Businesses 308 words
    41. Merchant Navy 216 words
    42. New Roads 86 words
    43. A46/A47 Link Road 87 words
    44. Airside Facilities 111 words
    45. Light Goods Vehicles 81 words
    46. Airlines 53 words
    47. Trucks 65 words
    48. Heathrow and Gatwick Airports 43 words
    49. Tachographs 119 words
    50. Working Environment 67 words
    51. Transport and Tourism 89 words
    52. Smoke Hoods 78 words
    53. Air Transport Industry 52 words
    54. Airbags (Child Seats) 508 words
    55. Child Car Seats 77 words
    56. Flight Guarantees 123 words
    57. Airports 54 words
    58. Children (Road Deaths) 131 words
    59. Safety Evaluations 78 words
    60. MV Derbyshire 158 words
    61. Seat Belts (Coaches) 97 words
    62. Lap Straps (Coaches) 29 words
    63. Accident Investigations 83 words
    64. Drivers' Hours 98 words
    65. Runway Capacity 52 words
    66. Traffic Congestion 153 words
    67. Fishing Vessels 141 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Racially Motivated Crimes (London) 81 words
    2. Money Laundering 317 words
    3. Criminal Offences (Staffordshire) 303 words
    4. Detective Inspector Gladding 100 words
    5. Asylum Seekers 958 words
    6. Violence 113 words
    7. Ban Glasses (Injury) 71 words
    8. Immigration Rules 89 words
    9. Stalking 49 words
    10. Animal Experiments 114 words
    11. Police Numbers 1,424 words
    12. Metropolitan Police Budgets 111 words
    13. Theft Act 76 words
    14. Operation Bumblebee 109 words
    15. Buckley Hall Prison 138 words
    16. Young Offenders 310 words
    17. Alcohol Prohibition Orders 163 words
    18. Mohammed Riaz 211 words
    19. Betting and Gaming (Deregulation) 79 words
    20. Drugs 195 words
    21. Detention at Her Majesty's Pleasure 357 words
    22. Hong Kong 63 words
    23. Extra-territorial Jurisdiction 1,113 words
    24. Metropolitan Police (Information Technology) 83 words
    25. Firearms Amnesty 549 words
    26. Immigration Appeals 167 words
    27. Doli Incapax 105 words
    28. Metropolitan Police (Custody) 85 words
    29. Stop and Search 1,477 words
    30. Operation Eagle Eye 87 words
    31. Closed Circuit Television (Wales) 573 words
    32. Street Robbery 158 words
    33. Recidivism 2,171 words
    34. Victim Support Groups 821 words
    35. Tobacco Smuggling 178 words
  5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Foreign Aid 232 words
    2. Yemen (Disaster Relief) 166 words
  6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Law of the Sea Convention 150 words
    2. Bosnia (War Crimes) 144 words
    3. Sudan 119 words
    4. Banana-producing Countries 271 words
    5. Military Training Assistance Scheme 169 words
    6. MEPs (Allowances) 380 words
    7. European Youth Foundation 137 words
    8. Overseas Missions (Asylum Requests) 65 words
    9. Security and Intelligence Services (Industrial Tribunals) 185 words
    10. Gibraltar 49 words
    11. Entry Clearance Referrals 76 words
    12. Wassenaar Arrangement 417 words
  7. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Sheffield City Council 60 words
    2. Engagements 60 words
    3. Intelligence and Security Committee 120 words
  8. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. General Practice Professorships 55 words
    2. Sex Industry (Advertisements) 479 words
    3. "Jobsearch" 232 words
    4. Access to Work Scheme 206 words
    5. School Buildings 118 words
    6. Schools (Parental Choice) 86 words
    7. Licences 71 words
    8. Teachers (North Yorkshire) 233 words
    9. School Security 91 words
    10. National Vocational Qualifications 840 words
    11. Training and Enterprise Councils 76 words
  9. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Oman (University Construction) 156 words
    2. Insolvency (Reviewer of Complaints) 140 words
    3. Parliamentary Questions 77 words
    4. Audit Inspections 143 words
    5. Small Limited Companies 129 words
    6. Sealskin Order 85 words
    7. Footwear Industry 539 words
    8. Publicity 175 words
    9. China (Tableware Imports) 73 words
    10. Companies (Payments) 52 words
    11. Off-shore Oil 167 words
    12. Civil Space 120 words
    13. Companies House 356 words
    14. Patent Office 78 words
    15. Export Intelligence System 111 words
    16. Subsidence Adviser 57 words
    17. AEA Technology plc 196 words
    18. Stagecoach Holding plc 724 words
    19. Electric Shock Weapons 48 words
  10. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Public Interest Immunity Certificates 105 words
    2. Marchioness Incident 99 words
    3. Government Property Lawyers 254 words
  11. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Chessington Computer Centre 116 words
  12. DEFENCE
    1. Gulf War 258 words
    2. Private Finance Initiative 192 words
    3. Greenham Common Airbase Accident 367 words
    4. Forces Personnel (Commercial Organisations) 145 words
    5. Vessel Transfers 331 words
    6. Wimbledon Tennis Championship 144 words
    7. Trident 60 words
    8. Procurement Announcements 154 words
    9. HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark 54 words
    10. Air-launched Anti-armour Missile 105 words
    11. Defence Communication Services 165 words
    12. Defence Exports 753 words
  13. HEALTH
    1. Publicity 150 words
    2. Prescriptions 268 words
    3. Dental Services 52 words
    4. Cancer Commission Groups (Trent) 715 words
    5. Hepatitis C 57 words
    6. Tardive Dyskinesia 56 words
    7. Medical Records 91 words
    8. Factor 8 68 words
    9. Depression 65 words
    10. Wheelchairs 128 words
    11. NHS Pensions Agency 66 words
    12. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 207 words
    13. Private Finance Initiative 68 words
    14. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 94 words
    15. Latex Surgical Gloves 174 words
    16. Operations (Children) 149 words
    17. Prodigy System 353 words
    18. Patient Information Leaflets 221 words
    19. Acne (Treatment) 27 words
    20. Medicines (Cost-effectiveness) 103 words
    21. Excimer Laser Treatment 125 words
    22. Dysentery and Food Poisoning 135 words
    23. General Practitioners 180 words
    24. Nurses 39 words
    25. Prescriptions 40 words
    26. Diabetic Care 149 words
    27. Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme 756 words
    28. Nursing Staff Accommodation 100 words
    29. Wheelchairs 43 words
    30. General Practitioners 128 words
    31. Nurses (Pension Schemes) 52 words
    32. Human Embryos 108 words
    33. Operations (Waiting Times) 111 words
    34. Secondary Care 38 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. New Prisons 116 words
    2. Hospital Readmissions 2,283 words
    3. Cycling Accidents (Children) 140 words
    4. Medical Teaching and Research 73 words
    5. Cold Weather Payments 45 words
    6. Conveyancing 94 words
    7. Road Signs 55 words
    8. Highlands and Islands 378 words
    9. English Certificates or Money Provisions 252 words
    10. Information Technology 71 words
    11. Agency Printing Costs 248 words
    12. Licences 137 words
    13. Community Service Orders 119 words
    14. CSC Computing Contract 472 words
    15. Private Landed Estates 538 words
    16. Deregulation 75 words
    17. Electricity Interconnector 139 words
    18. School Language Assistants 56 words
    19. Drugs Offences</