6 November 1996

Commons Sitting of 6 November 1996

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Land Ownership (Scotland) 12,804 words
  4. World Poverty 12,202 words
  5. Fire Services (Lancashire) 3,764 words
  6. Paper (Ecolabelling) 3,947 words
  7. Higher Education (Scotland) 4,304 words
  8. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL
      1. EDINBURGH MERCHANT COMPANY ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 6 words
  9. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      1. Firework Injuries 561 words
      2. Business Link 756 words
      3. Business Support (Cornwall) 371 words
      4. European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation 625 words
      5. Electricity Regulator 636 words
      6. Manufactured Goods 773 words
      7. Regional Policy 532 words
      8. Manufactured Goods 246 words
      9. Royal Mail 387 words
      10. Research Establishments 514 words
      11. Visible Trade 350 words
      12. Inward Investment 573 words
      13. National Prosperity 277 words
      14. Ferry Services (Merger) 442 words
      15. Currency Exchange Charges 265 words
      16. Fireworks 130 words
      17. Trade Surplus 244 words
      18. Industrial Support 266 words
      19. Business Links 399 words
      20. Inward Investment 488 words
  10. Points of Order 1,049 words
  11. Orders of the Day
    1. Local Government and Rating Bill 51,067 words
    2. LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RATING BILL [MONEY] 86 words
    3. LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RATING BILL [WAYS AND MEANS] 56 words
    4. DELEGATED LEGISLATION
      1. SPECIAL GRANT REPORT 47 words
      2. INVESTMENT COMPANIES 53 words
    5. SCOTTISH GRAND COMMITTEE 134 words
    6. PETITION
      1. Arbroath Infirmary 173 words
    7. Care of the Elderly (Hillingdon) 3,430 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 6 November 1996

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Shotguns 127 words
    2. Young Offenders 94 words
    3. Gun Clubs 75 words
    4. General Election Campaign 133 words
    5. Involuntary Manslaughter 103 words
    6. Deregulation 171 words
    7. Asylum Seekers 106 words
    8. Merseyside Police Authority 103 words
    9. Speed Cameras 58 words
  2. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Modern Apprenticeship Scheme 49 words
    2. Teacher Education Allocations 154 words
    3. School Budgets 330 words
    4. Teachers Superannuation Scheme 229 words
    5. Remploy 257 words
    6. Jobseeker's Allowance 137 words
  3. DUCY OF LANCASTER
    1. Draft Legislation 132 words
    2. Crown Copyright 120 words
    3. Electronic Services 288 words
  4. WALES
    1. Environment Report 82 words
    2. School Security 64 words
    3. Tir Cymen 132 words
    4. Cattle Cull 65 words
    5. A5 77 words
    6. Elderly People 70 words
    7. A470 54 words
    8. Farmers' Incomes 142 words
    9. Local Management of Schools 57 words
    10. Welsh Language Speech Therapy 475 words
    11. Royal Shrewsbury Hospital 61 words
    12. Deregulation 44 words
    13. School Class Sizes 1,249 words
  5. DEFENCE
    1. Tornado Aircraft 305 words
    2. Holy Loch (Pollution) 229 words
    3. Organophosphate Dips 67 words
    4. Army Vehicle Depot 102 words
    5. Air Traffic Control 184 words
    6. Environment Manual 52 words
    7. Deregulation 89 words
    8. Bowman Programme 133 words
    9. Airborne Warning and Communication Aircraft 66 words
    10. Offset Purchasing Agreements 127 words
    11. Trained Soldiers 93 words
    12. Radioactive and Toxic Waste 51 words
    13. Apache Helicopter Order 89 words
    14. Helicopter Flying School 331 words
    15. Fixed Telecommunications System 329 words
    16. Meteorological Office 240 words
    17. Advances of Pay (House Purchase) 269 words
  6. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Unitary Authorities 384 words
    2. Charter of Local Self-Government 84 words
    3. Permaculture 208 words
    4. Financial Derivatives 99 words
    5. Timber 90 words
    6. Under-Secretary of State (Committees) 48 words
    7. Construction Contracts 399 words
    8. Opencast Mining 359 words
    9. Hereford and Worcester SSA 220 words
    10. Young Homeless 67 words
    11. Policy Initiatives 50 words
    12. Rural Development 70 words
    13. Nuclear Safety 306 words
    14. Darwin Initiative 179 words
    15. Local Elections 67 words
    16. Coalfield Areas (Regeneration) 371 words
    17. City Pride Initiative 426 words
    18. Contracted-out Services 110 words
    19. Business Rate Relief 48 words
    20. Council Tax (Students) 167 words
  7. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Improvement Works 93 words
    2. National Lottery (Sheffield) 60 words
    3. Computers (Century Date Change) 76 words
  8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Burma 122 words
    2. Peru 121 words
    3. Mr. Clive Russell 105 words
  9. TRANSPORT
    1. Tunnel and Bridge Tolls 34 words
    2. Speed Limits 516 words
    3. Commission of Irish Lights 70 words
    4. Unexploded Bombs 80 words
    5. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 79 words
    6. Road Accidents 134 words
    7. Bull Bars 184 words
    8. Deregulation 244 words
    9. Air Traffic Control 57 words
  10. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Parliamentary Questions 93 words
  11. TREASURY
    1. Government Expenditure and Revenues 117 words
    2. Transport Fuel Duty 74 words
    3. Financial Derivatives 120 words
    4. Betting Revenue 104 words
    5. Building Societies 1,105 words
    6. Child Care 158 words
    7. Female Staff 49 words
    8. Leasehold Properties 864 words
    9. Whisky 312 words
    10. Economic Criteria 75 words
    11. VAT 50 words
    12. Gold Reserves 76 words
    13. Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry 111 words
    14. Computers (Century Date Change) 56 words
    15. Aid Budget 97 words
    16. Public Pension Liabilities 338 words
    17. Fraud 112 words
  12. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Services (North Staffordshire) 252 words
    2. Advice Line 139 words
    3. Disability Advice and Assistance Service 214 words
    4. Benefits Agency (Emergency Services) 54 words
    5. Pensions 390 words
    6. Bronchitis and Emphysema 88 words
    7. Expatriate Pensioners 162 words
    8. Reduced Earnings Allowance 254 words
    9. Incapacity Benefit 1,898 words
    10. Benefits Agency Medical Services 490 words
    11. Benefits Agency (Ayr Office) 520 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Social Security Agency 240 words
    2. Paedophile Register 69 words
    3. GCSE Passes 157 words
    4. Public Appointments 1,275 words
    5. Tuberculosis 252 words
    6. Gun Clubs 307 words
    7. Firearms 600 words
    8. Low Impact Development 113 words
    9. Amenity Site, Millisle 192 words
    10. Day Care Services 163 words
    11. Disability Living Allowance 1,185 words
    12. Prisoners (Visitors) 287 words
    13. Partnership Database 60 words
  14. HEALTH
    1. Maternity Care 106 words
    2. Nurses 42 words
    3. Organophosphate Dips 152 words
    4. Rural GPs (Recruitment) 61 words
    5. NHS Trusts (VAT) 128 words
    6. Body Mass Index Data 457 words
    7. Walsgrave Hospitals NHS Trust 69 words
    8. NHS Pensions (Practice Nurses) 46 words
    9. Maintenance Work 82 words
    10. Spongiform Encephalopathies 116 words
    11. Medical Research Council 125 words
    12. Neurodegenerative Diseases 309 words
    13. Eye Tests 140 words
    14. Royal Shrewsbury Hospital 59 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. Construction Industry (Timber) 52 words
    2. Forestry 103 words
    3. Departmental Achievements 89 words
    4. Prison Officers (Early Retirement) 257 words
    5. Salmon Farming 183 words
    6. Nursery Vouchers 233 words
    7. Low Impact Development 76 words
    8. Deregulation 283 words
    9. Nurses 149 words
    10. Value Added Tax 57 words
    11. Rough Sleepers Initiative 76 words
    12. Primary Pupils 338 words
    13. Health Capital Expenditure 285 words
    14. Dounreay Nuclear Plant 98 words
    15. Landed Estates 79 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Organic Food 616 words
    2. Pesticides (Potatoes) 163 words
    3. Live Animal Exports 127 words
    4. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 1,337 words
    5. Permaculture 49 words
    6. Beef (Emergency Control) Order 1996 47 words
    7. Small Beef Producers 124 words
    8. Beef Consumption 298 words
    9. Bovines 120 words
    10. Gelatine 88 words
  17. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Business Support (South-West) 125 words
    2. Inward Investment 86 words
    3. Renewable Energy Schemes 91 words
    4. Water Industry 421 words
    5. Employment Regeneration 70 words
    6. Business Failures 77 words
    7. Ceramics Industry 109 words
    8. Aerospace Industry 117 words
    9. Nuclear Safety 42 words
    10. Far East 110 words
    11. Balance of Payments 62 words
    12. Petrol Prices 170 words
    13. Environmental Standards 106 words
    14. Brazilian Mahogany 262 words
    15. Social Chapter and Minimum Wage 74 words
    16. Business Links 107 words
    17. Business Forms and Surveys 72 words
    18. Coal Stocks 144 words
    19. Fireworks 95 words
    20. Computers (Century Date Change) 123 words
    21. Paper and Pulp 534 words
    22. Royal Observatories 120 words
    23. Import and Export Control Act 64 words
    24. Pure Science 86 words

Lords Sitting of 6 November 1996

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Lord Hussey of North Bradley 37 words
  3. Lord Chadlington 32 words
  4. British Coal and English Partnerships 1,484 words
  5. Drugs Misuse: Co-ordination of Response 1,242 words
  6. Gibraltar Airport Agreement 504 words
  7. Asylum Seekers: Benefits 1,075 words
  8. Welfare of Broiler Chickens [H.L.] 63 words
  9. Business of the House: Debate this Day 90 words
  10. The National Health Service 35,619 words
  11. City of Edinburgh Council Order Confirmation Bill 31 words
  12. Edinburgh Merchant Company Order Confirmation Bill 31 words
  13. Horserace Totalisator Board Bill [H.L.] 5,138 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 6 November 1996

  1. Eskisehir Prison, Turkey 57 words
  2. Hong Kong Ethnic Minorities: Citizenship Rights 97 words
  3. EC Human Rights Report: Greece v UK 101 words
  4. European Community Actions: Grounds for Individual Challenge 160 words
  5. Coalfield Closures: Regeneration of Affected Areas 371 words
  6. Northern Ireland: Criminal Justice (Children) Legislation 122 words
  7. Gulf War Illness Syndrome 161 words
  8. Married Quarters Estate: Sale 37 words
  9. Contempt of Court Act 1981: Interpretation 96 words
  10. Child Safety Seats 74 words
  11. Casinos: Gaming Board Inspectorate 73 words
  12. Bahraini Citizens: Asylum Applications 135 words
  13. Bail Applications by Asylum Seekers 60 words
  14. Asylum Applications: Determination Statistics 150 words
  15. Sports Council: Services to Angling 611 words