18 February 1997

Commons Sitting of 18 February 1997

  1. Preamble 6 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. KING'S COLLEGE LONDON BILL [Lords] (By Order) 15 words
      2. LEVER PARK BILL (By Order) 15 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. HEALTH
      1. Smoking 1,024 words
      2. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 826 words
      3. Breast Cancer 727 words
      4. Mental Health Services 734 words
      5. Cancelled Operations (Northern and Yorkshire) 1,440 words
      6. Postponed Operations (Wolverhampton) 278 words
      7. Organophosphates 445 words
      8. Frail Elderly People 421 words
      9. St. Bartholomew's Hospital 316 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,098 words
    3. BILL PRESENTED
      1. WASTE PREVENTION 83 words
  4. Victims of Crime 782 words
    1. VICTIMS OF CRIME 110 words
  5. Orders of the Day
    1. Firearms (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time) 29 words
      1. Lords Amendments 469 words
      2. Stages subsequent to first Consideration of Lords Amendments 237 words
      3. Supplemental 8,529 words
  6. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 3 words
    1. Clause 6
      1. HAVING SMALL-CALIBRE PISTOL OUTSIDE PREMISES OF LICENSED PISTOL CLUB 15,179 words, 1 division
    2. New clause 10,873 words, 1 division
    3. New Clause 9 words
      1. COMPENSATION FOR CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS 2,025 words, 1 division
    4. Clause 20
      1. EXEMPTIONS FROM SECTION 1 OF THE 1968 ACT FOR OFFICERS ETC. OF LICENSED PISTOL CLUBS 2,970 words
    5. New clause 2,237 words
    6. Clause 34
      1. POWER OF SEARCH WITH WARRANT 130 words
    7. Clause 36
      1. APPROVED RIFLE CLUBS 91 words
    8. New clause 1,399 words
    9. TRANSFER OF CROFTING ESTATES (SCOTLAND) BILL [LORDS] 40 words
    10. TRANSFER OF CROFTING ESTATES (SCOTLAND) BILL [LORDS] [MONEY] 139 words
  7. Young People (Alcohol) 5,000 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 18 February 1997

  1. TREASURY
    1. Treasury Building (Development) 184 words
    2. Data Collection (Postcodes) 66 words
    3. Personal Savings 47 words
    4. Investment Income 215 words
    5. British Agrochemicals Association 50 words
    6. Personal Pensions (Tax Relief) 188 words
    7. Financial Advice (Complaints) 176 words
    8. Income Tax 284 words
    9. Rail Privatisation 64 words
    10. Savings 83 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Wild Boar 82 words
    2. Radioactive Waste 135 words
    3. Packaging Waste 278 words
    4. Local Authority Receipts 60 words
    5. Minimum Age Requirements 106 words
    6. Outstanding Charges (Northamptonshire) 243 words
    7. Council Tax 386 words
    8. Willenhall Shopping Precinct 59 words
    9. Household Growth 392 words
    10. Show Houses (Taxation) 101 words
    11. Building Research Establishment 587 words
    12. Environment Agency (Prosecutions) 111 words
    13. Beef Waste 235 words
    14. Waste Disposal at Sea 607 words
  3. WALES
    1. Local Government Finance 972 words
    2. Teachers (Redundancy) 76 words
    3. Health Authorities (Allocation of Resources) 369 words
  4. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Primary Schools (Hillingdon) 88 words
    2. Further Education 79 words
    3. School Computers 109 words
    4. School Inspections 797 words
    5. Special Needs 192 words
    6. Nursery Vouchers 1,097 words
    7. Grant-maintained Status Applications 605 words
    8. Jobseeker's Allowance 697 words
    9. Training and Enterprise Councils 111 words
    10. Unemployment 144 words
  5. DEFENCE
    1. Publicity Material (Languages) 67 words
    2. Departmental Policies (Bournemouth) 147 words
    3. Suicides (Armed Services) 163 words
    4. Environmental Audit (Departmental Buildings) 61 words
    5. Royal Yacht 98 words
    6. Sensorineural Hearing Loss 110 words
    7. Eskmeals and Shoeburyness Ranges 1,453 words
    8. Army Manning 381 words
    9. Publicity 573 words
  6. SCOTLAND
    1. Hospital Beds 1,019 words
    2. Timber Products 55 words
    3. Sinclair Gardens, Bishopbriggs 77 words
    4. BSE (Cattle Cull) 265 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Kashmir 164 words
    2. Israel 370 words
    3. South Africa 200 words
    4. China 200 words
  8. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Engagements 60 words
    2. Residential Properties 26 words
    3. Manpower Information Service 123 words
  9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Belize 78 words
    2. Regional Political Conference (Great Lakes Region) 261 words
    3. Rwanda 143 words
  10. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. The Buying Agency 147 words
    2. Ministerial Travel Costs 66 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Privatised Utilities (Information) 166 words
    2. Brent Spar 53 words
    3. Trade Fair Support Scheme 257 words
    4. Coal 146 words
    5. Domestic Utility Prices 153 words
    6. Energy Research Budget 101 words
    7. Private Employment Agencies 303 words
    8. Electricity Cables 39 words
    9. Mink Pelts 38 words
    10. Employment Protection 60 words
    11. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 102 words
    12. Environmental Audit (Departmental Buildings) 166 words
    13. Airbus 62 words
    14. Nuclear Contamination 188 words
    15. Nuclear Waste Transport 115 words
    16. Digital Broadcasting 259 words
    17. Engineering Policy Unit 278 words
    18. Chemical Weapons Advisory Committee 97 words
  12. TRANSPORT
    1. Departmental Policies (Bournemouth) 113 words
    2. Rail Privatisation 1,016 words
    3. Rail Services (Punctuality and Reliability) 2,571 words
    4. Freight Facilities Grants 119 words
    5. Trans-Pennine Road 54 words
    6. Road Lighting 110 words
    7. Environmental Audit (Departmental Buildings) 80 words
    8. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 64 words
    9. Road Traffic (Reduction) Bill 560 words
    10. Marine Pollution (Sea Empress Incident) 624 words
    11. Trunk Roads (Land Use Planning) 344 words
    12. Buses (Wheelchair Access) 372 words
    13. Scottish Grand Committee 88 words
    14. Bedford-Bletchley-Bicester Railway Line 198 words
    15. North London Railway Line 108 words
    16. Nuclear Waste Transport 74 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Vaccine Damage (Compensation) 84 words
    2. Queen's University (Student Intake) 60 words
    3. Livestock (Notifiable Diseases) 260 words
    4. Union Flag 388 words
    5. Integrated Schools 519 words
    6. Civil Service 299 words
    7. Planning Applications 391 words
    8. Cattle Slaughter Scheme 262 words
  14. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Social Security Appeals 375 words
    2. Incomes 303 words
    3. Benefit Upratings 803 words
    4. Benefit Fraud 105 words
    5. Earnings Top-up 121 words
    6. Earnings Disregards 60 words
    7. Student Loans 45 words
    8. Child Support Agency 585 words
    9. Benefits (Expenditure) 45 words
    10. Income Support 71 words
    11. Income Support (Child Maintenance) 295 words
    12. War Pensions 575 words
    13. Personal Pensions 111 words
    14. Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema 337 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Farm Tenancies 66 words
    2. BSE 653 words
    3. Rabies 167 words
    4. Waste Disposal at Sea 49 words
    5. Newcastle Disease 87 words
    6. Sheep Annual Premium 71 words
  16. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prison Escort Services 796 words
    2. Criminal Records 122 words
    3. Prison Medical Service 369 words
    4. Prison Deaths 183 words
    5. Surveillance Equipment 267 words
    6. Belmarsh Prison 142 words
    7. Learmont Inquiry 130 words
    8. Remand Prisoners 525 words
    9. Closed Circuit Television 302 words
    10. Court Adjournments 201 words
    11. Prison Population 556 words
    12. Fire Service (Lancashire) 72 words
    13. Police Computer Systems 122 words
    14. Mandatory Drug Tests 237 words
    15. Court Cases (Bail) 146 words
    16. A30-A303 Roadworks 109 words
    17. Police (Information Technology) 151 words
    18. Serious Criminal Offences 115 words
    19. Prisoners (Report and Health) 230 words
    20. Crime Prevention (Lancashire) 57 words
    21. Police Numbers (West Yorkshire) 73 words
    22. Prevention of Terrorism Legislation 100 words
    23. Data Protection 94 words
    24. Crime Statistics 409 words
    25. Asylum Seekers 172 words
    26. Prison Service Annual Report 125 words
    27. Prison Service Capacity 1,053 words
    28. Prison Service Funding 309 words
    29. Absconding Prisoners 301 words
    30. Prison Service (Early Retirement) 126 words
    31. Prisons (Staffing Levels) 206 words
    32. Prison Officer Kettleborough (Injuries) 197 words
    33. Crime Clear-up Rates 69 words
    34. Policing (London) 2,129 words
  17. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Travel and Accommodation Expenses 232 words
    2. Written Questions 62 words
  18. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Equal Opportunities 74 words
  19. HEALTH
    1. Private Beds 36 words
    2. Projected Deficits (Cornwall) 51 words
    3. Worcester District General Hospital 60 words
    4. New Hospitals 43 words
    5. New Hospitals and Hospital Extensions 127 words
    6. Health Service Administrators 134 words
    7. Hospital and Community Services (Normanton) 58 words
    8. Cancelled Operations 35 words
    9. Social Respite for Carers 164 words
    10. Health Service Managers 62 words
    11. Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee 42 words
    12. Electro-convulsive Therapy 97 words
    13. Public Appointments 76 words
    14. Cancelled Operations 81 words
    15. Heart Attack Deaths 77 words
    16. Health Service Internal Market 64 words
    17. Prescribable Products 55 words
    18. Dental Services 49 words
    19. NHS Staff Salaries 22 words
    20. NHS Supplies 252 words
    21. Smoking and Conception Terminations 55 words
    22. Junior Doctors 142 words
    23. Arachnoiditis 35 words
    24. Prescription Drugs 115 words
    25. Asylum Seekers 107 words
    26. GP Fundholders 47 words
    27. Dentures 107 words
    28. Hospital Wards 110 words
    29. Alzheimer's Disease 126 words
    30. Bradford Hospitals Trust (Accidents to Patients) 48 words
    31. NHS Funding (Yorkshire) 799 words
    32. Nurses 434 words
    33. Anaesthetics (Organophosphate Exposure) 220 words

Lords Sitting of 18 February 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Unemployment 1,413 words
  3. UK Economy: Inward Investment 1,085 words
  4. A.30 Road Improvement: Obstruction 1,053 words
  5. The London Art Market 936 words
  6. Succession to the Crown Bill [H.L.] 61 words
  7. Crime (Sentences) Bill 35,986 words, 1 division
  8. Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning Bill 138 words
  9. Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 5,362 words
  10. Crime (Sentences) Bill 23,924 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 18 February 1997

  1. European Parliament: Members' Salaries 131 words
  2. Occupied Territories: Human Rights 94 words
  3. Occupied Territories: Illegal Settlements 117 words
  4. Occupied Territories: Demolition of Palestinian Houses 101 words
  5. Israel: Compensation for Expropriated Land 108 words
  6. Gaza: Students' Access to Tertiary Education 111 words
  7. NATO Enlargement 423 words
  8. Reza Barzegar Massoumi: Conviction 219 words
  9. Atrush Camp, Northern Iraq 114 words
  10. Turkey: Use of Torture 124 words
  11. Globe Theatre 221 words
  12. Art Trade: Self-regulation 124 words
  13. Lorry Weights: Proposed Increase 78 words
  14. Construction Contracts 143 words
  15. BSE and Organophosphates 415 words
  16. Organophosphorus Sheep Dips: VPC Review 660 words
  17. Tri-Service Defence Medical Training Organisation 56 words
  18. Army Foundation College 379 words
  19. Data Protection Legislation: Enforced Subject Access 91 words