19 November 1996

Commons Sitting of 19 November 1996

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. KING'S COLLEGE LONDON BILL [Lords] 226 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. ENVIRONMENT
      1. Urban Land (Development) 393 words
      2. Town Centre Managers 415 words
      3. Global Warming 668 words
      4. Energy Efficiency 622 words
      5. Capital Challenge 262 words
      6. Business Rates 693 words
      7. Sparsity Allowance 394 words
      8. Standard Spending Assessment 566 words
      9. Energy Conservation 415 words
      10. Water Companies 409 words
      11. Local Government Finance 584 words
      12. Capital Challenge 331 words
      13. Rents-to-mortgages Scheme 127 words
      14. Opencast Mining 283 words
      15. Public Services (Rotherham) 177 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,124 words
  5. Channel Tunnel (Fire) 2,938 words
  6. Trade Unions 7,422 words
  7. Points of Order 371 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 54 words
      1. Clause 2
        1. SLAUGHTERING INSTRUMENTS 400 words
      2. Clause 3
        1. FIREARMS USED FOR HUMANE KILLING OF ANIMALS 333 words
      3. Clause 4
        1. RACES AT ATHLETIC MEETINGS 338 words
      4. Clause 5
        1. TROPHIES OF WAR 5,153 words
      5. New clause 3
        1. SHOT PISTOLS 922 words
      6. New clause 5
        1. EXEMPTION FOR COLLECTORS 4,000 words
      7. New clause 6
        1. EXEMPTION FOR DEALERS 1,535 words
    2. Ceredigion and Mid-Wales Hospital Trust 5,325 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 19 November 1996

  1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Prisoners of War 117 words
    2. Nicaragua 123 words
    3. United Nations 89 words
    4. UNESCO 59 words
    5. Ghana 70 words
  2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Joint Funding Scheme 835 words
    2. Nicaragua 367 words
    3. Environmental Auditing 376 words
    4. Sri Lanka 35 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Immigration Rules 402 words
    2. Battersea Fire Station 86 words
    3. Violent Videos 212 words
    4. Fire Service 218 words
    5. Asylum Seekers 44 words
    6. Ethnic Minorities 58 words
    7. European Court of Justice 302 words
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Refurbishment Costs 327 words
    2. Paintings (Restoration) 92 words
    3. Parliamentary Questions 125 words
  5. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Repossessions (Northern Ireland) 179 words
    2. Legal Aid 278 words
  6. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Marchioness Incident 113 words
  7. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Potato Industry Development Council 172 words
    2. Surplus Food Scheme 136 words
    3. Woodlands 133 words
    4. EDS Ltd. 150 words
    5. Tree Planting 74 words
    6. Beef Consumption 141 words
    7. BSE 529 words
    8. Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research 334 words
    9. Butter 103 words
    10. Live Animal Exports 756 words
    11. EU Animal Welfare Inspections 77 words
    12. Cattle Certification 87 words
  8. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Working Time Directive 55 words
  9. TRANSPORT
    1. Donaldson Report 152 words
    2. Merchant Shipping (Waste Facilities) 62 words
    3. Aircraft Noise (London) 176 words
    4. Radioactive Waste 115 words
    5. MV Derbyshire 326 words
    6. Parking Meters (Enforcement) 162 words
    7. Railway Accident (Stafford) 255 words
    8. Stevenage Railway Station (Incident) 63 words
    9. Barking to Gospel Oak Line 193 words
    10. A1 (North London) 140 words
    11. Plymouth-Heathrow Flights 55 words
    12. Dartford River Crossing 151 words
    13. Rail Routing Guide 87 words
  10. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Engagements 63 words
  11. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Sustainable Development 82 words
    2. Rio Treaty 56 words
    3. Local Authority Housing 193 words
    4. Rough Sleepers Initiative 98 words
    5. Local Authority Spending 96 words
    6. Private Finance Initiative 62 words
    7. Village Shops and Post Offices 118 words
    8. Local Authority Capital Investment 48 words
    9. Thames Gateway Initiative 75 words
    10. London Government 24 words
    11. Environmental Targets 91 words
    12. Urban Land (Development) 56 words
    13. Gosport Borough Council 196 words
    14. Sewage Effluent (Hormones) 158 words
    15. Water Payments 178 words
    16. Disabled Facility Grants 54 words
    17. Council House Sales 70 words
    18. Outer-London Boroughs 101 words
    19. Sheffield City Council 98 words
    20. Special Advertisement Control 302 words
    21. Business Rates 116 words
  12. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Sports Council 131 words
  13. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Administration Costs 110 words
    2. Special Needs Pupils 93 words
    3. Home-school Contracts 74 words
    4. Small Businesses 159 words
    5. Investors in People 114 words
    6. Bradford City Technology College 231 words
    7. Education Expenditure 168 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Smallholdings 93 words
    2. Oil Rig Construction Sites 168 words
    3. House Completions 105 words
    4. Highlands and Islands Convention 45 words
    5. Deportation 199 words
    6. Arable Area Payments 325 words
  15. WALES
    1. Suicides 153 words
    2. Dyslexia 388 words
    3. Opencast Mining 49 words
    4. Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 28 words
    5. Environment Annual Report 106 words
    6. Roads 108 words
    7. Health Care Emergency Centres 60 words
    8. Public Bodies (Capital Expenditure) 167 words
    9. South and East Wales Ambulance NHS Trust 184 words
    10. Health Service Expenditure 79 words
    11. Secondees and Consultants 91 words
    12. Eurofreight Terminal Grant 79 words
    13. Community Health Councils 101 words
    14. Patients Charter 114 words
    15. Public Appointments 96 words
  16. TREASURY
    1. EDS Ltd. 363 words
    2. Married Person's Tax Allowance 76 words
    3. Parent Tax Allowance 185 words
    4. Exchange Rates 125 words
    5. Income Tax Cuts 180 words
    6. Outstanding Tax 223 words
    7. Inland Revenue Computers 524 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Gaul Trawler 133 words
    2. Unfilled Posts 242 words
    3. Continued Service Incentives 378 words
    4. Animal Experiments 86 words
    5. State Opening of Parliament 52 words
    6. Advanced Strike Technology 185 words
  18. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Health Services (Newry and Mourne) 246 words
    2. Public Order 116 words
    3. Terrorist Bombs (Compensation) 42 words
    4. Students 32 words
    5. Benefits Expenditure 176 words
    6. Disabled Access 31 words
    7. Small Firms 59 words
    8. Low Pay 67 words
    9. Housing Benefit 134 words
    10. Homelessness 134 words
    11. Child Support Agency 158 words
    12. Pension Schemes 345 words
    13. Low-income Households 114 words
    14. Disabled People (Employment) 212 words
    15. Family Credit 185 words
    16. Means-tested Benefits 275 words
    17. Uninhabited Housing 52 words
    18. Construction Industry 127 words
    19. Private Tenants 53 words
    20. Public Housing 441 words
    21. Negative Equity 40 words
    22. Benefit Fraud 451 words
    23. Prisoners (Compassionate Temporary Release Scheme) 247 words
  19. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Sawn Wood Imports 141 words
    2. EU Working Time Directive 56 words
    3. Royal Observatories 78 words
    4. Nanotechnology 103 words
    5. Environmental Auditing 226 words
    6. Small Businesses 147 words
    7. Loan Guarantee Scheme 123 words
    8. Medical Research 619 words
    9. Working Time Directive 60 words
    10. Defence-related Trade 211 words
    11. Research Centres 386 words
    12. Major General Prabowo 100 words
  20. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. National Insurance 1,187 words
    2. Elderly People (Income Support) 77 words
    3. Benefits Agency (Seaham and Peterlee) 204 words
    4. Invalid Care Allowance 200 words
    5. Child Support Agency 70 words
    6. Jobseeker's Allowance 394 words
    7. Appeals 712 words
    8. Unemployment Benefit Claimants 49 words
  21. HEALTH
    1. Medical Research Council 108 words
    2. Rikki Neave Case 287 words
    3. Accident and Emergency Departments 170 words
    4. Mentally Ill Patients (Deaths) 85 words
    5. Dental Services 136 words
    6. Tuberculosis 381 words
    7. Ambulance Service 79 words
    8. Superannuation (Nurses) 95 words
    9. Alcohol 134 words
    10. Medicines (Cost) 68 words
    11. Barnet General Hospital 46 words
    12. Asylum Seekers 76 words
    13. NHS Facilities (Repair and Maintenance Backlog) 424 words
    14. HIV and AIDS 955 words
    15. Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus 761 words
    16. Refugees 99 words
    17. Edgware General Hospital 242 words
    18. Kidney Patients 239 words
    19. Correspondence 43 words

Lords Sitting of 19 November 1996

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Lord Whitty 36 words
  3. Baroness Byford 43 words
  4. Airport Security Staff 733 words
  5. Whitehall Buildings 1,835 words
  6. Water Companies: Charging Methods 612 words
  7. ADAS: Privatisation 1,295 words
  8. Business 48 words
  9. National Health Service (Primary Care) Bill [H.L.] 95 words
  10. Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 73 words
  11. Dignity at Work Bill [H.L.] 60 words
  12. Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Bill [H.L.] 6,009 words
  13. Channel Tunnel: Fire 1,855 words
  14. Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Bill [H.L.] 3,926 words
  15. Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations 1996 6,216 words
  16. Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations Child Support (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1996 6,342 words
  17. Family Health Clubs 4,812 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 19 November 1996

  1. Crown Servants in Overseas Posts: Eligibility 197 words
  2. NATO Enlargement: Financial Criteria 85 words
  3. Turkey and NATO Enlargement 53 words
  4. NATO Enlargement: Cost Estimates 81 words
  5. EU/Seychelles Fisheries Agreement 111 words
  6. Potato Industry Development Council 181 words
  7. Surplus Food Scheme 130 words
  8. Indonesia 186 words
  9. Iran: CBI Conference 174 words
  10. "Access to Justice": Response to Lord Woolf' s Recommendations 197 words
  11. Creagan Bridge 69 words
  12. European Court of Justice: Role in EU Third Pillar Conventions 293 words
  13. Escaped Prisoners: Tabular Information 730 words