20 February 1997

Commons Sitting of 20 February 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. HOME DEPARTMENT
      1. European Union Police Force 988 words
      2. West Midlands Fire and Civil Defence Authority 269 words
      3. DNA Database 403 words
      4. Asylum Seekers 876 words
      5. Youth Workers Agency 886 words
      6. Alison Halford 247 words
      7. Police Forces (Wales) 455 words
      8. Metropolitan Police 1,109 words
      9. Asylum Applicants 469 words
      10. Drug Abuse (Prisons) 210 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,204 words
      2. Sanctions (Libya) 521 words
      3. Engagements 326 words
      4. Electoral Registration 245 words
  4. Business of the House 5,068 words
    1. BILL PRESENTED
      1. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (AMENDMENT) 98 words
  5. The Constitution 50,696 words
    1. CONSOLIDATION BILLS [Money] 75 words
  6. Local Government Services (Leicester) 2,992 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 20 February 1997

  1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 138 words
    2. Environmental Audit (Departmental Buildings) 138 words
    3. Mink Farms 91 words
    4. Hens 492 words
    5. Sheep 406 words
    6. Broiler Chickens 198 words
    7. Carcases (Labelling) 85 words
    8. Animal Slaughter 62 words
    9. Badgers 133 words
    10. European Commission Inspection Report 54 words
    11. Rabies 71 words
    12. Livestock Transport Adviser 55 words
    13. Quarantine 291 words
    14. Challenge for Agriculture Programme 488 words
    15. Cattle Cull 61 words
  2. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Minimum Age Requirements 390 words
    2. Environmental Audit (Departmental Buildings) 155 words
    3. Incapacity Benefit 246 words
    4. Jobfinder's Grant 259 words
    5. Student Loans 101 words
    6. Education Vouchers 28 words
    7. Free School Meals 65 words
    8. Training and Enterprise Councils 67 words
    9. Consultants 199 words
    10. Employment Service 542 words
    11. European Social Fund 139 words
  3. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Brent Spar 241 words
    2. Energy Conservation 922 words
    3. Migratory Song Birds 144 words
    4. Water and Sewerage Companies 64 words
    5. Tranquil Areas 144 words
    6. Pollution (North Sea) 164 words
    7. Student Accommodation 145 words
    8. Sheffield Development Corporation 237 words
    9. Environmental Performance Checklist 60 words
    10. English House Condition Survey 61 words
    11. Scottish Grand Committee 88 words
    12. North of England Assembly 35 words
    13. Social Housing 101 words
    14. Consultants 38 words
    15. Homelessness 132 words
    16. English Nature 289 words
    17. Water Conservation and Supply 643 words
    18. Urban Development Corporations 77 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Millennium Club 109 words
    2. Engagements 68 words
    3. Consultants 63 words
  5. SCOTLAND
    1. Scottish Homes 129 words
    2. Housing 228 words
    3. Mixed-sex Wards 147 words
    4. Care and Repair Projects 214 words
    5. Consultants 150 words
    6. Mr. Alan Lewis 85 words
    7. Messrs Kynoch Of Keith 113 words
    8. Illingworth Morris and Crombie Mills 193 words
    9. Council House Waiting Lists 57 words
    10. Road Construction 379 words
    11. Departmental Salaries 122 words
    12. Pupils 765 words
  6. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. United Nations Industrial Development Organisation 161 words
    2. St. Helena 122 words
  7. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Comparative Statistics 73 words
    2. Car Parking Spaces 94 words
    3. Consultants 212 words
  8. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Minimum Age Requirements 128 words
    2. Housing 283 words
    3. Asylum Seekers 144 words
    4. Private Employment Agencies 542 words
    5. Whitemoor Prison (Escape) 150 words
    6. Consultants 89 words
  9. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Equipment and Furniture 101 words
  10. WALES
    1. BSE 113 words
    2. EU Funding 115 words
    3. Private Employment Agencies 208 words
    4. Environmental Audit (Departmental Buildings) 166 words
    5. Hazardous Materials (Departmental of Buildings) 212 words
    6. NHS Trusts (Pay Rises) 98 words
    7. Nurses 235 words
    8. Consultants 228 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Private Employment Agencies 455 words
    2. Former Yugoslavia 94 words
    3. Scottish Grand Committee 142 words
    4. Turkey 87 words
    5. Consultants 57 words
  12. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Minimum Age Requirements 79 words
    2. Environmental Audit (Departmental Buildings) 152 words
    3. Torbay Cinema 192 words
    4. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 112 words
    5. British Library 74 words
    6. Scottish Grand Committee 88 words
    7. Consultants 142 words
    8. Television Licence (Pensioners) 193 words
  13. TREASURY
    1. Finance Bill 65 words
    2. ECOFIN 205 words
    3. Single European Currency 96 words
    4. Correspondence 298 words
    5. Millennium Club 62 words
  14. HEALTH
    1. Tropical Diseases 793 words
    2. Private Finance Initiative 457 words
    3. Disability Services 86 words
    4. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 147 words
    5. Environmental Audit (Departmental Buildings) 137 words
    6. Penile Implants 42 words
    7. Breast Implants 65 words
    8. Health Service Staff Contracts 51 words
    9. Out-of-hours Patients (Transport) 122 words
    10. Glaucoma 44 words
    11. Nurses and Midwives (Training) 78 words
    12. Consultants 60 words
  15. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 131 words
    2. Environmental Audit (Departmental Buildings) 175 words
  16. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Mustard Gas Experiments 589 words
    2. Back-to-work Bonus 344 words
    3. Child Support Agency 657 words
    4. Medical Appeal Tribunals (Posthumous Claims) 91 words
    5. Invalid Care Allowance 71 words
    6. Medical Services Centres (Targets) 1,175 words
    7. Benefits Agency Medical Services 138 words
    8. Disability Living Allowance 72 words
    9. Benefits Agency Report 75 words
    10. Jobseeker's Allowance 310 words
    11. Consultants 113 words
    12. Personal Pensions 216 words
    13. Housing Benefit 217 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Tornado GR1 Aircraft 53 words
    2. Regimental Museums 170 words
    3. WE-177 Bomb 64 words
    4. Environmental Information Regulations 186 words
    5. Army (Readiness to Change) 448 words
    6. Gulf War Syndrome 64 words
    7. BSE 35 words
    8. Nimrod Accident (Canada) 48 words
    9. Efficiency Savings 141 words
    10. Lost or Stolen Articles 253 words
    11. Royal Flight 642 words
    12. Beef 233 words
    13. Consultants 199 words
    14. Junior Leaders Scheme 287 words
    15. Efficiency Savings 194 words
    16. Personnel Administration and Pay Organisations 460 words
    17. Bett Review 521 words
    18. Low Flying 399 words
  18. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Scottish Grand Committee 126 words
    2. Regional Selective Assistance 118 words
    3. Loan Guarantee Scheme 166 words
    4. Limited Liability Partnership Legislation 408 words
    5. Export Controls 197 words
    6. Consultants 129 words
    7. Water Cannons (Export Licences) 163 words
    8. Mid Kent Water 251 words
    9. Mergers 199 words
    10. Millennium Club 70 words
    11. Mr. Alan Lewis 447 words
    12. Commonwealth of Independent States 172 words
    13. Airbus 75 words
  19. TRANSPORT
    1. British Rail Subsidiaries 230 words
    2. M6/M61 Junction Signs 70 words
    3. Rail Services 406 words
    4. Isle of Sheppey (Bridge) 582 words
    5. Private Employment Agencies 133 words
    6. London Transport Finance 447 words
    7. Railtrack 205 words
    8. South West Trains 135 words
    9. London Underground (Disabled People) 156 words
    10. Metrolink 126 words
    11. Driving Standards Agency 110 words
    12. Consultants 54 words
    13. British Rail Property Board 111 words
    14. Royal Train 105 words
  20. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prisoners' Behaviour (Diet) 64 words
    2. Young Offender Institution (Colchester) 47 words
    3. Closed Circuit Television 210 words
    4. Crime Statistics 70 words
    5. Prisoners (Handcuffing) 118 words
    6. Warwickshire Fire and Civil Defence Authority 68 words
    7. Drug Trafficking and Dealing 81 words
    8. Asylum Seekers 61 words
    9. Mobile Phones (Police Investigation) 48 words
    10. Religious Cults 45 words
    11. Prosecutions 81 words
    12. Security Breaches (Prisons) 61 words
    13. Drugs Seizures 193 words
    14. Holocaust Denial 45 words
    15. Prison Inspectorate Reports 412 words
    16. Prisoners (Unlocked Periods) 183 words
    17. Prisoners (Employment) 507 words
    18. Minimum Age Requirements 1,321 words
    19. Prisoners (Education) 547 words
    20. Private Employment Agencies 688 words
    21. Open Prisons (Foreign Prisoners) 153 words
    22. Drug Misuse 154 words
    23. Prisons (Lancashire) 170 words
    24. Crime Prevention (Lancashire) 229 words
    25. Prison Medical Service 184 words
    26. Secure Accommodation (Kirklees) 80 words
    27. Mr. Oscar Okoye (Death) 170 words
    28. Stalking 94 words
    29. Special Secure Units 1,348 words
    30. Whitemoor Prison (Escape) 195 words
    31. Failed Prosecutions (Cleveland) 75 words
    32. Consultants 77 words
    33. Prisons (Education and Work Opportunities) 114 words
    34. Anti-terrorist Legislation 185 words
    35. Prison Service Funding 267 words

Lords Sitting of 20 February 1997

  1. Preamble 34 words
  2. Legal Aid Expenditure 1,103 words
  3. Juvenile Prostitution 899 words
  4. The Merchant Fleet 1,384 words
  5. South West Trains Ltd. 1,177 words
  6. Architects Bill [H.L.] 104 words
  7. Lieutenancies Bill [H.L.] 29 words
  8. Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Bill [H.L.] 29 words
  9. United Nations Personnel Bill 67 words
  10. Sundays (Dancing and Licensing)Bill [H.L.] 12 words
  11. Geneva Conventions Bill [H.L.] 86 words
  12. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 74 words
  13. LORDS AMENDMENT 16,029 words, 2 divisions
  14. Crime (Sentences) Bill 23,437 words, 1 division
  15. Deregulation (Validity of Civil Preliminaries to Marriage) Order 1997 552 words
  16. Crime (Sentences) Bill 16,084 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 20 February 1997

  1. St. Helena: UK Aid 107 words
  2. NATO: Nuclear Guarantees 151 words
  3. NATO Enlargement: Equipment Requirements 99 words
  4. Iraq: "Atonement" Letter 105 words
  5. Overseas Aid: Arms Deals 75 words
  6. UN: International Criminal Tribunal 85 words
  7. Great Lakes Region 84 words
  8. Legislation Against Terrorism: Report 186 words
  9. Basking Shark: Protection 185 words
  10. English Nature: Review 295 words
  11. Sevso Hoard 201 words
  12. Gas Cookers: Unlawful Supply 104 words
  13. Agriculture Council, Brussels, 17 February 387 words
  14. EU Structural Funds: Support Areas 508 words
  15. Operation Warden 454 words
  16. Armed Forces: Personnel Strategy 521 words
  17. Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency 472 words
  18. Low-Flying Military Aircraft: Noise Study 398 words
  19. The Army: Operational Changes 454 words