11 June 1996

Commons Sitting of 11 June 1996

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. DEFENCE
      1. Procurement Projects 601 words
      2. Redundancies 343 words
      3. Industrial Participation 278 words
      4. Ships (Construction Programme) 584 words
      5. Officers' Children (Education) 654 words
      6. Sri Lanka (Training) 404 words
      7. Rapid Deployment Force 598 words
      8. Bosnia 1,061 words
      9. Former Yugoslavia 526 words
      10. Anti-ballistic Missile System 379 words
      11. Operation Purple Star 386 words
      12. Procurement Decisions 297 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,070 words
    3. BILL PRESENTED
      1. SEXUAL OFFENCES AGAINST CHILDREN (SUPERVISION OF OFFENDERS) 84 words
  4. Referendum 2,338 words, 1 division
  5. REFERENDUM 293 words
  6. Orders of the Day
    1. Opposition Day 3 words
      1. Standards in Education 27,251 words, 1 division
      2. Prior Options Review 23,846 words, 1 division
      3. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 18 words
      4. NORTHERN IRELAND 25 words
      5. INSIDER DEALING 23 words
      6. COMPANIES 22 words
      7. FINANCIAL SERVICES 43 words
      8. LOCAL GOVT FINANCE (SCOTLAND) 46 words
    2. PETITIONS
      1. Life Sentences 193 words
      2. Postcodes (Beddington) 217 words
      3. Homepower (Closure) 4,027 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 11 June 1996

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Probation Officers 368 words
    2. Prison Escapes 308 words
    3. Civil Defence Grant 144 words
    4. Rehabilitation of Offenders Legislation 161 words
    5. Doncaster Prison 910 words
    6. Ethnic Minority Employees 72 words
    7. Euro 96 72 words
    8. Buckley Hall Prison 563 words
    9. Re-convictions 2,109 words
  2. TREASURY
    1. Smuggling 204 words
    2. Departmental Software 102 words
    3. Value Added Tax 181 words
    4. Income Tax 54 words
  3. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Child Abduction 1,062 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. European Union (Non-co-operation) 363 words
    2. Health Risks (Tobacco and Beef) 61 words
    3. Engagements 60 words
    4. Lockerbie 117 words
    5. Mr. T. T. Tsui 53 words
    6. Uniformed Services (Compensation) 62 words
  5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Research Councils 184 words
    2. Recruitment 111 words
    3. Child Labour 131 words
    4. Motor Bikes 57 words
    5. Cars (Trade Balance) 138 words
    6. Industrial Tribunals 816 words
    7. "Tackling Cartels and the Abuse of Market Power" 98 words
  6. WALES
    1. Local Government Archives 55 words
    2. Recruitment 218 words
    3. Public Appointments 301 words
    4. Wheelchairs 77 words
    5. Ambulance Service 79 words
  7. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Street Children 378 words
    2. Prisoners of Conscience (Ghana) 195 words
  8. TRANSPORT
    1. Vehicle Emissions (Prosecutions) 99 words
    2. Oceanic Air Traffic Control System 96 words
    3. Fatal Accidents (Foreign Licensees) 129 words
    4. Ramsgate Harbour Approach Road 99 words
    5. Vehicle Testing Station (Purfleet) 307 words
    6. British Rail (Objectives) 56 words
    7. Light Dues 52 words
    8. Northolt Airport 97 words
  9. DEFENCE
    1. Colchester Military Training Centre 60 words
    2. Joint Rapid Deployment Force 156 words
    3. Tomahawk Cruise Missiles 101 words
    4. Polaris 56 words
    5. Former Yugoslavia 47 words
    6. Land Mines 44 words
    7. Procurement Projects 61 words
    8. RAF Aircraft Crashes 126 words
    9. Surface Ships 103 words
    10. Married Housing Stock 79 words
    11. Joint and Combined Exercises 142 words
    12. Propeller Factories 118 words
    13. School Cadet Forces 138 words
    14. Small Arms 368 words
    15. SHL Software 437 words
    16. Women (Promotion) 193 words
    17. BMARC 148 words
    18. Explosives (Lunan Bay) 264 words
    19. Radiation, Menwith 108 words
    20. Trident D5 Missiles 87 words
  10. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. National Lottery Funds 1,251 words
    2. European Union Flag 68 words
    3. National Lottery 534 words
    4. Millennium Exhibition 115 words
  11. SCOTLAND
    1. Cairngorm Funicular Railway 651 words
    2. Planning Applications 73 words
    3. Recruitment 216 words
    4. Lockerbie 205 words
    5. Legal Service (Tayside and Fife) 279 words
    6. NHS Trusts (Staff Compensation) 50 words
    7. Health Service (Lifting and Handling Regulations) 50 words
    8. New Car Assessment Programme 74 words
  12. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Benefit Claimants (Personal Details) 74 words
    2. Private Investigators 41 words
    3. Housing Benefit 265 words
    4. Reduced Earnings Allowance 55 words
    5. Family Credit 119 words
    6. Christmas Bonus 46 words
    7. Women (Promotion) 186 words
    8. National Insurance 203 words
    9. Rehabilitation of Ex-offenders 242 words
    10. Child Support Agency 93 words
  13. HEALTH
    1. Prescribing Research Unit, Leeds 58 words
    2. Nutrition 108 words
    3. Women (Promotion) 230 words
    4. Recruitment 67 words
    5. Skin Cancer 74 words
    6. Homelessness 172 words
    7. Private Patients 453 words
    8. Mental Illness 155 words
    9. Asthma 193 words
    10. Cystic Fibrosis 66 words
    11. Poverty 85 words
    12. Water Tower Mental Hospitals 98 words
    13. Breast Screening 169 words
    14. Residential Care 208 words
    15. AIDS Conference 54 words
    16. Safety of Medicines 59 words
  14. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Northern Ireland Forum 28 words
    2. Cattle Exports 52 words
    3. Parliamentary Questions 76 words
    4. Paramilitary Arsenals 59 words
    5. School Meals 89 words
  15. ENVIRONMENT
    1. European Union Flag 66 words
    2. Landfill Tax 311 words
    3. Disabled People (Water Supplies) 127 words
    4. Disabled People (Housing) 122 words
    5. Housing Associations 87 words
    6. Water Consumption 367 words
    7. Home Energy Efficiency Scheme 139 words
    8. Opencast Coal, Sharlston 77 words
    9. Menwith Hill Station 221 words
  16. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Recruitment 459 words
    2. Parliamentary Questions 79 words
    3. School Meals 32 words
    4. Student Loans Company 121 words
    5. Grant-maintained Schools 365 words
    6. Local Education Authorities (Delegation) 436 words
    7. School Funding 2,066 words
    8. National Curriculum 513 words
    9. Correspondence 69 words
    10. Civil Servants (Duties Abroad) 53 words
    11. School Places 849 words
    12. Schools (Selection) 2,596 words
    13. Live Wire Project 49 words
    14. Wakefield Training and Enterprise Council 452 words
    15. Schools (Skills Audit) 147 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 190 words
    2. Scottish Beef 212 words
    3. Farm Employees (Compensation) 45 words
    4. Cattle Culling 268 words
    5. Beef Exports 118 words
    6. Fisheries Council 547 words
    7. Bats 171 words
    8. Collection Centres 196 words
    9. Fishery Projects 426 words
    10. Live Animal Exports 119 words
  18. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Exports Ban 125 words
    2. Visitor Visas 291 words
    3. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 72 words
    4. Land Mines 46 words
    5. EU Council 1,059 words
    6. Burma 75 words
    7. Child Abduction 709 words

Lords Sitting of 11 June 1996

  1. Preamble 21 words
  2. The Lord Chancellor: Leave of Absence 56 words
  3. War Crimes: Investigations 1,265 words
  4. Gulf War Medical Information: Disclosure 874 words
  5. Housing Benefit 951 words
  6. Recruitment and Assessment Services 1,265 words
  7. Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Bill 81 words
  8. Party Wall etc. Bill [H.L.] 500 words
  9. European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (The Energy Charter Treaty) Order 1996 702 words
  10. Housing Bill 33,873 words, 1 division
  11. Damages Bill [H.L.] 4,823 words
  12. Housing Bill 25,872 words
  13. Arbitration Bill [H.L.]
  14. Community Care (Direct Payments) Bill [H.L.] 25 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 11 June 1996

  1. Hospitals: Building and Running Costs 160 words
  2. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: Investigation 225 words
  3. BSE: Confirmed Cases 239 words
  4. BSE and Warble Fly Treatment: Investigation 283 words
  5. Agriculture Council, 3rd-4th June 405 words
  6. Smarden Incident: Groundwater Testing 105 words
  7. Europe: Human Rights 111 words
  8. EC Human Rights Commission Report: Greece v UK 134 words
  9. Turkey: Trial of 98 Intellectuals 200 words
  10. Baring Sea: Radioactive Waste 175 words
  11. Chechnya: Detainees 42 words
  12. Council of Europe: Local Government Charter 72 words
  13. Water Reservoirs: Storage Capacity 356 words
  14. Heathrow Airport: Tunnels 59 words
  15. Heathrow Express Project 106 words
  16. Class 92 Locomotives: Track Work Funding 81 words
  17. Freight Facilities Grants: NAO Review 47 words