21 March 1996

Commons Sitting of 21 March 1996

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. BODMIN MOOR COMMONS BILL [Lords] 15 words
        1. ROYAL ASSENT 39 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. NORTHERN IRELAND
      1. Peace Process 1,521 words
      2. Housing Rents 339 words
      3. Mourne and Banbridge Hospitals 652 words
      4. Ulster Culture and Landscape 755 words
      5. Schools (Standard Assessment Tests) 509 words
      6. Tourism 465 words
      7. Council Tax 272 words
      8. Patrick Kelly 475 words
      9. International Fund for Ireland 332 words
      10. Job Creation 531 words
      11. Peace Process 367 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,471 words
  4. Elective Process (Northern Ireland) 6,320 words
  5. Business of the House 1,852 words
  6. TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT 1921 44 words
  7. Intergovernmental Conference 48,617 words
  8. National Lottery (West Suffolk) 4,165 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 March 1996

  1. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. House of Commons Notepaper 83 words
    2. Public Bodies 181 words
  2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Public Interest Immunity Certificate 43 words
  3. SCOTLAND
    1. Cairngorm Plateau 136 words
    2. Poverty 44 words
    3. Cervical Smear Tests 165 words
    4. Fire Service 94 words
    5. Departmental Contractors and Suppliers 160 words
    6. Parliamentary Questions 47 words
    7. Further Education Colleges 228 words
    8. Public Bodies 320 words
    9. Dunblane (Shootings) 232 words
  4. TRANSPORT
    1. Rail Privatisation 292 words
    2. Royal Train 76 words
    3. Doncaster, Selby and York Rail Service 58 words
  5. TREASURY
    1. Executive Action 42 words
    2. Contracts 170 words
    3. Parliamentary Questions 181 words
    4. Economic and Monetary Union 97 words
    5. Housing Associations 38 words
    6. Public Bodies 49 words
    7. Office for National Statistics 147 words
  6. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Cable Television (Northern Ireland) 160 words
    2. Ministerial Visit (South Africa) 730 words
    3. Parliamentary Questions 47 words
    4. Trade Delegations 116 words
    5. AST Group, Aylesbury 55 words
    6. Electrical Goods Supply Industry 172 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Departmental Staff (Working Hours) 64 words
    2. Public Bodies 50 words
    3. European Commission Publications 364 words
  8. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute 86 words
    2. Capital Spending 145 words
    3. A-level Examinations 108 words
    4. Public Bodies 346 words
    5. Schools (Access Audit) 1,164 words
  9. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Telecommunications Masts and Wind Turbines 614 words
    2. Tree Felling 203 words
    3. Mining and Quarrying Waste 85 words
    4. Parliamentary Questions 47 words
    5. Rough Sleepers 249 words
    6. South Oxfordshire (Computing Services) 240 words
    7. Rateable Values 82 words
    8. Water Bills 63 words
    9. Severn Trent Water (Salaries) 228 words
    10. Leicester City Council (Home Improvements) 394 words
    11. Departmental Staff (Salaries) 160 words
    12. Leicester City Council (Housing Grant) 308 words
    13. Public Bodies 161 words
    14. Bradford Metropolitan Council 304 words
    15. Duty of Care (Code of Practice) 276 words
    16. Single Regeneration Budget 50 words
    17. North Lincolnshire District Council 164 words
  10. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Car Travel Expenses 163 words
    2. Divisions 42 words
    3. Members' Salaries and Pensions 87 words
    4. Children's Act Exhibition 66 words
    5. Reflections of Life Exhibition 65 words
    6. House of Commons Notepaper 74 words
  11. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Engagements 68 words
    2. Ministerial Committee on the Co-ordination and Presentation of Government Policy 91 words
    3. Departmental Contractors and Suppliers 91 words
  12. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Benefits Agency 487 words
    2. Child Support Agency 163 words
    3. Benefit Payment Card 347 words
    4. War Pensions 134 words
    5. National Disability Council 36 words
    6. Departmental Staff (Working Homes) 63 words
    7. War Pensions Agency Helpline 527 words
    8. Public Bodies 126 words
    9. Motability Scheme 221 words
  13. DEFENCE
    1. Boarding School Allowances 98 words
    2. Works of Art 235 words
    3. Royal Navy Vessel Procurement 140 words
    4. Foxhounds 110 words
    5. Upholder Class Submarines (Disposal) 146 words
    6. United States Bases 172 words
    7. RAF Brawdy 32 words
    8. Menwith Hill Station 648 words
    9. Redundancy Costs 169 words
    10. Merchant Vessels 79 words
    11. USAF Lakenheath 97 words
    12. Recruitment Costs 130 words
    13. Reservists 92 words
    14. Munitions Dumping 179 words
    15. Boi de Mai Residence 163 words
    16. Empty Quarters 727 words
  14. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Public Houses (Opening Hours) 49 words
    2. Buckley Hall Prison 1,201 words
    3. Fine Defaulters 259 words
    4. Fire Service 69 words
    5. Replica Weapons 118 words
    6. Firearms Certificates 333 words
    7. Gun Clubs 121 words
    8. Firearms-related Crime 90 words
  15. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Public Bodies 84 words
  16. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. National Lottery 669 words
    2. Departmental Staff (Working Hours) 106 words
    3. Sports Grounds (Taylor Report) 183 words
    4. Princess of Wales (Accommodation) 143 words
    5. Prince of Wales (Accommodation) 142 words
    6. Government Art Collection 1,603 words
    7. Millennium Exhibition 259 words
    8. Public Bodies 55 words
  17. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Mitchell Commission 99 words
    2. Children Order 87 words
    3. Peace Process 114 words
    4. International Fund for Ireland 85 words
    5. Rathlin Island 118 words
    6. Illegally Held Weapons 77 words
    7. Social Security Fraud 70 words
    8. Security Situation 118 words
    9. Drug Dealing 121 words
    10. Economic Prospects 68 words
    11. Dairy Industry 119 words
    12. Departmental Expenditure 217 words
    13. Computers 295 words
    14. Anti-social Neighbours 77 words
    15. Law Commission Act 1965 75 words
    16. Housing Benefit 68 words
    17. North Down and Ards Community Trust 79 words
    18. Orders in Council (Debate) 112 words
    19. Rathgael Centre 331 words
    20. Farm-reared Deer (Hunting) 223 words
    21. Public Bodies 88 words
  18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Live Animal Exports 691 words
    2. Fur Farms 101 words
    3. Sheep Cloning Experiments 188 words
    4. Selective Breeding 70 words
    5. Departmental Contractors and Suppliers 154 words
    6. Ostriches 501 words
    7. Pet Dogs and Cats (Illegal Imports) 135 words
    8. Live Animal Transport 204 words
    9. Quarantine 273 words
  19. HEALTH
    1. Factor 8 98 words
    2. Oral Contraceptives 380 words
    3. Safety of Medicines 315 words
    4. Amphetamines 48 words
    5. Osteoporosis 166 words
    6. Clinical Waste 385 words
    7. NHS Magazine 106 words
    8. NHS Trusts (External Financing Limits) 112 words
    9. Social Work Records 101 words
    10. Surplus and Underused Properties 94 words
    11. Asthma 162 words
    12. Departmental Staff (Working Hours) 61 words
    13. Nursing and Residential Homes 115 words
    14. NHS Executive (Redundancy Costs) 123 words
    15. Fraud 61 words
    16. Physical Activity Task Force 72 words
    17. Darlington Memorial Hospital 53 words
    18. Public Bodies 426 words
    19. NHS Trusts 204 words
    20. Play Schemes 53 words
  20. WALES
    1. Executive Action 233 words
    2. Ministerial Visits (Nursery Schools) 121 words
    3. Parliamentary Questions 47 words
    4. Welsh Office Staff 86 words
    5. National Health Service 254 words
    6. Pembrokeshire Islands Conservation Area 385 words
    7. Powys Healthcare NHS Trust 304 words
    8. General Practitioners 95 words
    9. Performing Arts 247 words
    10. Cardiff Bay Barrage 329 words
    11. South-East Wales Ambulance Trust 63 words
    12. IMAX Theatre Project 130 words
    13. Departmental Running Costs 94 words
    14. East Glamorgan NHS Trust 68 words
    15. NHS Trusts 62 words
    16. Public Bodies 55 words
    17. Emergency Medical Admissions 156 words

Lords Sitting of 21 March 1996

  1. Preamble 29 words
  2. Royal Assent 39 words
  3. European Defence Policy 1,336 words
  4. Tobacco Advertising and Promotion 1,288 words
  5. Training for Work: Funding for Ex-offenders 1,108 words
  6. Cheltenham Festival: Risks to Racehorses 1,037 words
  7. Business 44 words
  8. Broadcasting the Judicial Business of the House: Select Committee Report 252 words
  9. Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921 70 words
  10. Northern Ireland: Elective Process 6,265 words
  11. Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill 13,772 words
  12. Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 25,088 words
  13. Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Prescribed Proceedings) Amendment Regulations 1996 92 words
  14. Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996 35 words
  15. Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 35 words
  16. Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 35 words
  17. City of Westminster Bill [H.L.] 281 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 21 March 1996

  1. Dunblane: Inquiry 242 words
  2. Nitrate in Vegetables: EC Legislation 187 words
  3. Agriculture Council, 18th-19th March 414 words
  4. Former Yugoslavia: UK Army Reservists 89 words
  5. Operation Granby: Chemical Warfare Agents 257 words
  6. Chemical Warfare Agents: Detection 31 words
  7. Recruitment and Assessment Services: Staff Transfers 105 words
  8. Former Yugoslavia: US Forces and NATO 131 words
  9. Bosniac-Croat Federation Armed Forces: Funding 125 words
  10. Arctic Organisations UK Participation 64 words
  11. Factortame: Judgment 245 words
  12. Subsidiarity 129 words
  13. European Court of Justice: Interpretations 151 words
  14. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and Chadrel Rinpoche 127 words
  15. Secure Accommodation: Expenditure 74 words
  16. US Military Intelligence 94 words
  17. Murder and Manslaughter Offences (Young People) 480 words
  18. Offences Committed by UK Nationals Overseas: Review 122 words
  19. Local Taxes: Debt Enforcement 94 words
  20. Environmental Protection: Duty of Care 384 words
  21. Schools: Wheelchair Access 1,081 words