19 February 1997

Commons Sitting of 19 February 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Further Education 11,206 words
  4. Revenue Support Grant (Suffolk) 11,794 words
  5. Incapacity Benefit 4,009 words
  6. Social Services (East Sussex) 4,530 words
  7. Farm and Countryside Enhancement (Northern Ireland) 2,941 words
  8. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      1. Sanctions (Libya) 286 words
      2. Manufacturing Investment 673 words
      3. Regional Support 243 words
      4. Science Base 654 words
      5. High-technology Sector 486 words
      6. Manufacturing Production 793 words
      7. European Airbus 601 words
      8. Exports 1,042 words
      9. Firework Safety 428 words
      10. Publicly Owned Utilities (Investment) 598 words
      11. Public Sector Research Establishments 347 words
      12. Social Chapter 1,278 words
      13. Manufacturing 239 words
      14. Post Office 511 words
      15. Ministerial Visits (Hong Kong) 200 words
      16. Manufacturing Output 160 words
      17. Balance of Payments 239 words
      18. Social Chapter 309 words
      19. Regional Development 194 words
  9. Points of Order 733 words
    1. BILL PRESENTED
      1. RIGHT TO WORK 116 words
  10. School Intruders (Criminal Offence) 1,302 words
    1. SCHOOL INTRUDERS (CRIMINAL OFFENCE) 179 words
  11. Social Security 49,876 words
    1. MERCHANT SHIPPING AND MARITIME SECURITY BILL 33 words
    2. DATA PROTECTION 38 words
    3. LIAISON COMMITTEE 21 words
  12. NHS Prescriptions (Nutritional Supplements) 3,456 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 19 February 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prison Births 176 words
    2. Criminal Record Checks 813 words
    3. Road Running 557 words
    4. Police (Lancashire) 116 words
    5. Police (London) 3,685 words
    6. Devon and Cornwall Constabulary 104 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Written Questions 1,160 words
    2. Strangers' Cafeteria 117 words
  3. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Teachers (Early Retirement) 2,231 words
    2. Private Employment Agencies 102 words
    3. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 95 words
    4. Teachers (Devon Education Authority) 81 words
    5. Home Teaching 46 words
    6. Scottish Grand Committee 88 words
    7. Skills Shortages 104 words
    8. Teachers' Pension Fund 172 words
    9. "Work and the Family" 74 words
    10. Bradfield House School 295 words
    11. Teachers (Criminal Record Checks) 38 words
    12. School Governors (Criminal Record Checks) 93 words
  4. TRANSPORT
    1. Rail Services 97 words
    2. Road Traffic Reduction Measures 244 words
    3. Driving Instruction 210 words
    4. Road Contracts 730 words
    5. Road Lighting 146 words
    6. London Transport Finance 752 words
    7. Air Traffic Control Centre (Swanwick) 590 words
  5. TREASURY
    1. Income Tax (Scotland) 143 words
    2. Commercial Property Rents (Taxation) 238 words
    3. European Union Finance 1,733 words
    4. Pensions Mis-selling 125 words
    5. British Agrochemicals Association 52 words
    6. Blind Person's Allowance 67 words
    7. Treasury Model 77 words
    8. Financial Services Act Licences 68 words
    9. General Government Borrowing Requirement 162 words
  6. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. United Nations Industrial Development Organisation 210 words
    2. Micro-finance 249 words
    3. Albania 372 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Albania 373 words
    2. Environmental Audit (Departmental Buildings) 292 words
    3. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 135 words
    4. Banaban People 152 words
  8. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Departmental Expenditure 252 words
    2. Packaging Waste Regulations 101 words
    3. Local Government Finance 321 words
    4. Business Improvement Districts 72 words
    5. Glenn and John Howells 75 words
    6. Credit Liabilities 58 words
    7. Planning Policy Guidance (Countryside) 481 words
    8. Thames Barrage Scheme 87 words
  9. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Crystal Palace National Sports Centre 142 words
    2. Sports Council Chairmen 184 words
    3. Television Broadcasting 145 words
    4. "Success Through Partnership: A Strategy for Tourism" 71 words
    5. Public Libraries Review 450 words
    6. UK Sports Council 177 words
  10. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Civil Service Magazine 52 words
    2. Minimum Age Requirements 35 words
    3. Engagements 29 words
    4. Special Educational Needs Tribunals 107 words
    5. Consultants 69 words
    6. Bletchley Park 317 words
  11. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Benefit Fraud 231 words
    2. Child Support 74 words
    3. Severe Disablement Allowance 57 words
    4. Housing Benefit 64 words
    5. Benefits Agency Medical Services 231 words
  12. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Computer Systems (Millennium) 80 words
    2. Firms (South-east) 43 words
    3. Business Links (Norfolk) 73 words
    4. Business Support (Rural Areas) 49 words
    5. Telecommunication Services (Suppliers) 73 words
    6. Deregulation 174 words
    7. Social Chapter 111 words
    8. Research and Development (Aerospace) 76 words
    9. Petrol Pricing 74 words
    10. Bilateral Trade 121 words
    11. European Directives (Social Chapter) 36 words
    12. Inward Investment 271 words
    13. Trade Deficit 80 words
    14. Post Office 76 words
    15. Business Links (Sheffield) 77 words
    16. Public Sector Research Establishments 77 words
    17. Departmental Policies (Bournemouth) 95 words
    18. Business Links, Taunton 122 words
    19. Gross Domestic Product 74 words
    20. Private Employment Agencies 69 words
    21. Engineering Skills and Training 333 words
    22. University Research (Funding) 132 words
    23. Civil Aviation (Research) 307 words
    24. Albania 141 words
    25. Industry Acts Payments (Corby) 173 words
    26. Waste Recycling 652 words
    27. Waste Disposal at Sea 195 words
    28. Telecommunications 492 words
    29. Exports (Manufactured Goods) 100 words
    30. Export Credits Guarantee Department (Debt) 99 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Public Sector Pension Schemes 138 words
    2. Civil Service 246 words
    3. Agri-environment Schemes 138 words
    4. Rural White Paper 187 words
    5. Department of Health and Social Security Services (Maladministration) 247 words
    6. Driver and Vehicle Testing Agency 673 words
  14. WALES
    1. Mentally Ill People 84 words
    2. Hospital Beds 566 words
    3. Beef Export Ban 118 words
    4. Electoral Register 123 words
    5. Mink Fur Farms 28 words
    6. Scottish Grand Committee 68 words
    7. Agri-environment Schemes 62 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. NHS Salaries and Wages 139 words
    2. Basking Sharks 98 words
    3. LAW Mining 125 words
    4. Scottish Prison Service 1,598 words
    5. Electoral Register 44 words
    6. Private Employment Agencies 324 words
    7. Royal Yacht 94 words
    8. Homeless People 51 words
    9. Mink Fur Farms 30 words
    10. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 121 words
    11. Agri-environment Schemes 212 words
    12. Pesca Funding 363 words
    13. Consultants 247 words
  16. HEALTH
    1. Lariam 162 words
    2. NHS Trusts (Lease Cars) 159 words
    3. NHS Medical Services 99 words
    4. Hospitals (Lancashire) 53 words
    5. Abortion 233 words
    6. Dentists 278 words
    7. Hospitals (North-west) 112 words
    8. Private Employment Agencies 296 words
    9. Scottish Grand Committee 88 words
    10. National Health Service (Primary Care) Bill 459 words
    11. Multiple Sclerosis 97 words
    12. Cancer Research 109 words
    13. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 428 words
    14. Diprosone 67 words
    15. Travel Vaccines 87 words
    16. General Practitioners (Computers) 248 words
    17. Criminal Record Checks 167 words
    18. Meningitis 488 words
  17. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Franchising Advisory Group 195 words
    2. Queen's Counsel (Selection) 46 words
    3. Chancel Repairs 280 words
    4. Tithes 74 words
    5. Bradfield House School, Devon 86 words
    6. Legal Aid 116 words
  18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Agriculture Council 388 words
    2. BSE 740 words
    3. ADAS (Sale) 171 words
    4. Agri-environment Schemes 269 words
    5. Tobacco 328 words
    6. Cattle Cull 72 words
    7. BSE (Chickens) 254 words
    8. Spongiform Encephalopathy 771 words
    9. British Agrochemicals Association Ltd. 251 words
    10. Pesticides and Fertilisers 596 words
    11. Organophosphates (Animal Health) 86 words
  19. DEFENCE
    1. Gulf War Syndrome 56 words
    2. Departmental Expenditure (Wales) 125 words
    3. Low Flying 244 words
    4. Naval Movements (Ayrshire) 535 words
    5. Private Employment Agencies 6,689 words
    6. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 135 words

Lords Sitting of 19 February 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Baroness Emerton 40 words
  3. University Physics Departments 1,337 words
  4. Child Labour: UNICEF Report 1,161 words
  5. Local Authorities: Revenue Support Grant 893 words
  6. EU: Structural Policies 1,111 words
  7. Privatised Utilities 17,821 words
  8. Welfare of Children 18,078 words
  9. European Convergence Criteria: Deficit Assessment 7,905 words
  10. European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States and the State of Israel) Order 1997 1,342 words
  11. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 60 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 19 February 1997

  1. Microfinance 255 words
  2. Palestine: Human Rights 104 words
  3. Israel: Illegal Settlements 117 words
  4. Afghanistan: Assistance to Refugees 214 words
  5. Afghanistan: Human Rights 91 words
  6. Bahrain: Crown Prince's Visit 119 words
  7. ADAS: Sale 189 words
  8. Road Noise Reduction 298 words
  9. Airspace: Definition 72 words
  10. Goods Vehicles Operating Illegally 255 words
  11. Breast-milk Substitutes: Breaches of Marketing Code 92 words
  12. Ms Roisin McAliskey 143 words
  13. Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995: Qualifying Offences 217 words
  14. The Countryside: Revised Planning Guidance 488 words
  15. The Arts in the US: Support by Individuals 73 words