18 November 1996

Commons Sitting of 18 November 1996

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. NATIONAL HERITAGE
      1. Southern Arts 222 words
      2. Millennium Projects 1,462 words
      3. Arts Sponsorship 371 words
      4. Millennium Celebration 872 words
      5. Sport in Schools 192 words
      6. Tourism 861 words
      7. Screen Violence 639 words
      8. National Lottery (Derbyshire) 398 words
      9. Channel 4 428 words
      10. Tourism 538 words
      11. Midweek Lottery Draw 193 words
    2. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
      1. Legal Aid 451 words
      2. Woolf Report 484 words
      3. Weymouth Land Registry 284 words
      4. Departmental Accountability 448 words
      5. Departmental Agencies 434 words
      6. Law Centres 229 words
      7. Legal Aid 263 words
  4. Points of Order 1,098 words
  5. Firearms (Amendment) Bill [Money] 6,380 words
  6. Firearms (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time) 20 words
  7. COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE 350 words
  8. STANDING COMMITTEE 77 words
  9. REPORT 36 words
  10. THIRD READING 40 words
  11. BUSINESS COMMITTEE 161 words
  12. PROCEDURE IN STANDING COMMITTEE 142 words
  13. REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS IN COMMITTEE 37 words
  14. DILATORY MOTIONS 46 words
  15. EXTRA TIME 71 words
  16. PRIVATE BUSINESS 99 words
  17. PROCEDURE AT TIME FOR CONCLUSION OF PROCEEDINGS 447 words
  18. SUPPLEMENTAL ORDERS 149 words
  19. SAVING 80 words
  20. RECOMMITTAL 76 words
  21. INTERPRETATION 9,237 words
  22. COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE 347 words
  23. STANDING COMMITTEE 77 words
  24. REPORT 36 words
  25. THIRD READING 40 words
  26. BUSINESS COMMITTEE 161 words
  27. PROCEDURE IN STANDING COMMITTEE 142 words
  28. REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS IN COMMITTEE 37 words
  29. DILATORY MOTIONS 46 words
  30. EXTRA TIME 74 words
  31. PRIVATE BUSINESS 99 words
  32. PROCEDURE AT TIME FOR CONCLUSION OF PROCEEDINGS 447 words
  33. SUPPLEMENTAL ORDERS 149 words
  34. SAVING 79 words
  35. RECOMMITTAL 76 words
  36. INTERPRETATION 107 words
  37. Orders of the Day
    1. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 51 words
  38. Clause 1
    1. EXTENSION S.5 OF THE FIREARMS ACT 1968 TO PROHIBIT CERTAIN SMALL FIREARMS 40,329 words, 1 division
  39. PETITION
    1. University Funding 297 words
  40. Fransware Nursing Home 3,615 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 18 November 1996

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Ethnic Minorities 300 words
    2. Television Licences 213 words
    3. Juvenile Criminal Justice System 168 words
    4. Passport Checks 54 words
    5. Gambling Legislation 168 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT
    1. EDS Ltd. 193 words
    2. Marine Environmental Pollution 97 words
    3. European Union (Labour Conditions) 260 words
    4. Planning Appeals 248 words
    5. Freedom of the Cities and Trust Councils Initiatives 39 words
    6. Health and Safety 98 words
    7. Opencast Mining 37 words
    8. Building Research Establishment 181 words
    9. Construction Skills Certification 65 words
    10. Hedgerows 109 words
  3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. EDS Ltd. 114 words
  4. TREASURY
    1. Deregulation 261 words
    2. Sterling 155 words
    3. Partnership and Closed Company Registrations 48 words
  5. PRIME MINISTER
    1. European Summit 106 words
    2. Iraq 62 words
    3. Tigris and Euphrates Valleys 133 words
  6. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Child Protection (Wars) 95 words
    2. Sudan 203 words
  7. DEFENCE
    1. Surplus Ammunition 386 words
    2. Military Hospital Closures 267 words
    3. Tornado Aircraft 253 words
    4. Aircraft Maintenance 87 words
    5. Tractors 129 words
    6. Bois de Mai Residence 93 words
    7. Prisoners of War 116 words
    8. Beef 75 words
    9. Menwith Hill Station 186 words
    10. Major General Prabowo 48 words
    11. Indonesian Special Forces 74 words
  8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique 76 words
    2. British Citizens 79 words
    3. Space Research 133 words
    4. Aerial Surveys 160 words
  9. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Environmental Auditing 217 words
    2. Parliamentary Bookshop 70 words
  10. SCOTLAND
    1. Woodlands (Projects) 253 words
    2. Suicides 197 words
    3. Cancer Screening (Compensation Claims) 157 words
    4. Ambulance Service (Argyll and Clyde) 206 words
    5. Arable Area Payments 43 words
    6. East Ayrshire Community Hospital 109 words
    7. NHS Trusts (Finance) 88 words
    8. Consultants 240 words
  11. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration 123 words
  12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. International Criminal Court 195 words
    2. Major General Prabowo 65 words
  13. HEALTH
    1. EDS 144 words
    2. Tattooing and Skin Piercing 83 words
    3. Adoption (Guatemala) 86 words
    4. Stroke Treatment 144 words
    5. Depression 356 words
    6. Ambulance Response Times 104 words
    7. Special Advisers 42 words
    8. Hip Replacement and Appointment Cost 56 words
    9. MRSA 94 words
    10. Children at Risk 118 words
    11. European Health Ministers (Meetings) 107 words
    12. Beef and Milk (Bacteria) 301 words
    13. Clinical Trials 384 words
    14. Vaccinations 100 words
    15. Hepatitis B 230 words
    16. Pensioners' Health Care Costs 115 words
    17. Statistical Information 102 words
    18. Health Service White Paper 212 words
  14. TRANSPORT
    1. Motorway Cleaning 311 words
    2. M6 (Lighting) 197 words
    3. Traffic Delays 105 words
    4. Road Maintenance 166 words
    5. Merchant Shipping (Deregulation) 289 words
    6. Nuclear Material (Sea Transport) 93 words
    7. Rail Routeing Guide 108 words
  15. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Project Work 694 words
    2. Young People's Services 71 words
    3. Independent Schools 57 words
    4. Teacher Education 204 words
    5. Adjudication Officers 604 words
    6. Pre-school Education 95 words
    7. Surplus Places 685 words
    8. Full-time Education 46 words
    9. Nursery Inspections 178 words
  16. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Tourism 87 words
    2. Midweek Lottery Draw 127 words
    3. Millennium Funds (Plymouth) 103 words
    4. Sport 186 words
    5. Dance and Drama Students 124 words
    6. South Bank Ferris Wheel 74 words
    7. Arts Sponsorship 119 words
    8. Volunteering 274 words
    9. Cornish Cultural Life 54 words
    10. Academy of Sport 100 words
    11. National Lottery 159 words
    12. Digital Terrestrial Television 144 words
    13. Independent Radio Operators 91 words
    14. Football Grounds 314 words
    15. Medical Scanners 35 words
    16. Regional Sports Centres of Excellence 46 words
    17. Film Industry 131 words
    18. Sports Sponsorship 164 words
    19. Football Trust 100 words
  17. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Legal Aid 324 words
    2. Administration of Justice 44 words
    3. Public Record Office 183 words
    4. Witness Intimidation 109 words
    5. Accident Claims 91 words
    6. Value for Money (Legal Profession) 139 words
    7. EDS Ltd. 591 words
  18. WALES
    1. Tuberculosis 72 words
    2. Higher Education 240 words
    3. Millennium Celebrations 52 words
    4. Woodlands Projects 130 words
    5. Smallholdings 68 words
    6. Learning Difficulties 246 words
    7. Direct Labour Organisations 154 words
    8. Arable Area Payments 281 words
    9. Fire Authorities (Finance) 689 words
    10. Nursery Vouchers 74 words
  19. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Access Funds 223 words
    2. "A Ray of Hope" 127 words
    3. Private Finance Initiative 58 words
    4. Smallholdings 155 words
    5. Students 105 words
    6. Bovine Products Regulations 61 words
    7. EDS Ltd. 183 words
    8. Arable Area Payments 45 words
    9. Health Services (Newry and Mourne) 2,269 words
    10. Daisy Hill Hospital 747 words
    11. Waiting Times 782 words
    12. BSE 108 words
    13. Fireworks 155 words
    14. Consultants 163 words
    15. Taxation 271 words
  20. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Mammalian Meat and Bonemeal 417 words
    2. Arable Area Payments 91 words
    3. Renderers and Abattoirs (Prosecutions) 104 words
    4. Public Interest Immunity 37 words
    5. Milk (Dioxins) 101 words
    6. Industrial Fishing 127 words
    7. Soya Beans 62 words
    8. Quarantine 52 words
  21. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Incapacity Benefit 755 words
    2. Bronchitis and Emphysema 52 words
    3. Private Pension Schemes 188 words
    4. Old Age Pensions (Budget) 162 words
    5. Income Support 254 words
    6. National Insurance 256 words
    7. Disability Living Allowance 323 words
    8. Appeals 63 words
    9. Reduced Earnings Allowance 236 words
    10. War Pensions 275 words
    11. Pensioners (Benefits) 130 words
    12. Pensioners Living Abroad 175 words
    13. Contributions Holidays 257 words
    14. Housing and Council Tax Benefit 114 words
    15. Departmental Expenditure 249 words
    16. Benefit Take-up Rates 52 words
    17. Benefits Agency (Seaham and Peterlee) 331 words
    18. Child Support Agency 403 words
    19. War Widows Pensions 127 words

Lords Sitting of 18 November 1996

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Firearms: Homicides 766 words
  3. Afghanistan: UN Conference 913 words
  4. Arbitration Act 1996: Commencement Date 492 words
  5. Digital Television Services: Regulations 2,263 words
  6. Relations between Central and Local Government: Select Committee Report 30,473 words
  7. Land Registration Bill [H.L.] 4,542 words
  8. Animal Quarantine Regulations 11,107 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 18 November 1996

  1. Prisons Ombudsman: Complaints Procedure 286 words
  2. Hong Kong: British Dependent Territories Citizenship 52 words
  3. Northern Iraq 317 words
  4. Children: Road Accident Deaths 115 words
  5. Bus Services: Figures 328 words
  6. Hong Kong Ethnic Minorities: Citizenship Rights 129 words
  7. European Commission for Democracy Through Law 183 words
  8. Draft Commonhold Bill 199 words
  9. Public Record Office 543 words
  10. EC Volatile Organic Compound Directive 306 words
  11. Gypsy Caravan Sites 1,340 words