25 February 1997

Commons Sitting of 25 February 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. KING'S COLLEGE LONDON BILL [Lords] (By Order) 15 words
    2. LEVER PARK BILL (By Order) 15 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SOCIAL SECURITY
      1. Benefits System (Discrimination) 1,175 words
      2. Pensioner Incomes 452 words
      3. State Pension 584 words
      4. Habitual Residence Test 417 words
      5. Income Support (Pensioners) 876 words
      6. Asylum Seekers (Benefits) 491 words
      7. Child Support Agency 730 words
      8. Child Care 503 words
      9. Discrimination (Disabled Persons) 586 words
      10. Child Benefit Register 339 words
      11. Parent Plus Scheme 291 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,981 words
  5. London Underground 8,710 words
  6. BILL PRESENTED
    1. GREAT APES (PROHIBITION OF EXPERIMENTS) 81 words
    2. POLICE AND FIREMEN'S PENSIONS BILL 33 words
    3. Local Government (Conduct of Officers) 1,628 words
    4. LOCAL GOVERNMENT (CONDUCT OF OFFICERS) 86 words
    5. Orders of the Day
      1. Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Bill [Lords] 13,680 words
      2. SOCIAL SECURITY (RECOVERY OF BENEFITS) BILL [LORDS] [MONEY] 103 words
      3. Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Bill [Lords] 43 words
      4. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL [LORDS] [MONEY] 84 words
        1. Clause 278
          1. CITATION, COMMENCEMENT AND EXTENT 103 words
      5. Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Bill [Lords] 95 words
      6. PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) (SCOTLAND) BILL [LORDS] [MONEY] 347 words
    6. Clause 83
      1. SHORT TITLE, COMMENCEMENT AND EXTENT 47 words
    7. PLANNING (HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES) (SCOTLAND) BILL [LORDS] 38 words
    8. PLANNING (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL [LORDS] 38 words
    9. National Heritage Bill [Lords] 7 words
      1. Clause 1
        1. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE NATIONAL HERITAGE MEMORIAL FUND 7,739 words, 1 division
    10. Civil Procedure Bill [Lords] 998 words
    11. Sex Offenders Bill 7 words
      1. New clause 2
        1. REGISTER OF SEX OFFENDERS 8,682 words
      2. New clause 3
        1. USE OF INFORMATION ON THE REGISTER OF SEX OFFENDERS 1,255 words, 1 division
      3. Clause 2
        1. EFFECT OF NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 1,349 words
      4. Clause 4
        1. YOUNG SEX OFFENDERS 2,267 words
      5. Clause 8
        1. EXTENSION OF JURISDICTION: SCOTLAND 19 words
      6. Schedule 1
        1. SEXUAL OFFENCES TO WHICH PART I APPLIES 2,041 words
      7. Schedule 2
        1. SEXUAL OFFENCES TO WHICH SECTION 7 APPLIES 2,053 words
      8. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 15 words
        1. FUTURE NOISE POLICY 51 words
    12. PETITIONS
      1. Child Protection 260 words
      2. Lever Park Bill 116 words
      3. Empty Homes 3,527 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 25 February 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Scottish Grand Committee 87 words
    2. Young Offenders 94 words
    3. Interception of Communications 165 words
    4. Environmental Audit (Departmental Buildings) 160 words
    5. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 136 words
    6. African National Congress (Office Bombing) 101 words
    7. Closed Circuit Television 179 words
    8. Deaths in Custody 172 words
    9. Electoral Fraud Prevention 215 words
    10. Arrests and Charges 124 words
    11. Sexual Violence 660 words
    12. Paedophiles and Sex Offenders 140 words
    13. Jersey 128 words
    14. Roisin McAliskey 194 words
    15. Recharging Procedures 278 words
    16. Police Informants 83 words
  2. TREASURY
    1. Income Support 363 words
    2. Government Borrowing (Scotland) 60 words
    3. Minimum Age Requirements 38 words
    4. Pension Plans 126 words
    5. Distraint 138 words
    6. Income Tax (European Union) 210 words
    7. Environmental Audit (Departmental Buildings) 172 words
    8. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 98 words
    9. Unemployment Statistics 75 words
    10. Profit-related Pay Schemes 166 words
    11. Employment Statistics 201 words
    12. Mortgage Interest Relief 145 words
    13. Fraud 211 words
    14. Privatisation (Administration Costs) 250 words
    15. Departmental Invoices 141 words
    16. Single Premium Investment Insurance Bonds 115 words
    17. Young People 345 words
    18. Income and Expenditure 289 words
    19. Unemployment-related Benefit 193 words
  3. TRANSPORT
    1. Air Traffic Control 83 words
    2. M25 (Widening) 223 words
    3. Bus Working Group 289 words
    4. Rail Franchises 519 words
  4. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Deferred Maintenance 113 words
  5. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. National Lottery Distributing Bodies 309 words
    2. Executive Agencies 76 words
    3. Equipment and Furniture 121 words
    4. Millennium Exhibition 88 words
  6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Hong Kong 439 words
    2. Roisin McAliskey 81 words
    3. Government Hospitality Fund and Lancaster House 178 words
  7. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Departmental Policies (Bournemouth) 324 words
    2. GCSE Grades 166 words
    3. Further Education Funding 131 words
    4. Skills Shortages 140 words
  8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Developing Countries (Aid) 187 words
    2. Aid Contributions 187 words
  9. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Pollution 562 words
    2. UN Environment Programme 284 words
    3. Drinking Water 508 words
    4. Organophosphates 94 words
    5. Home Energy Efficiency Scheme 140 words
    6. Building Regulations (Charges) 219 words
    7. Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive 328 words
  10. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Government Policy (Lichfield) 110 words
    2. Albania 46 words
    3. Engagements 43 words
    4. Cardiff European Council 26 words
  11. SCOTLAND
    1. Police Officers 33 words
    2. Recorded Offences 147 words
    3. Conviction Rates 78 words
    4. Legal Aid 158 words
    5. Mortgage Repossession Orders 2,323 words
    6. Capital Receipts 1,144 words
    7. Publicity 988 words
  12. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Private Employment Agencies 382 words
    2. Equipment and Furniture 197 words
    3. Legislation 153 words
  13. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Northern Ireland Grand Committee 50 words
    2. Travel Expenses 442 words
  14. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Privatisation (Utilities) 976 words
    2. Executive Agencies 86 words
    3. Companies House 501 words
    4. Metrication Regulations (Prosecutions) 80 words
    5. Assistance to Business (West Midlands) 1,948 words
    6. Equipment and Furniture 213 words
    7. Medical Research 152 words
    8. Workplace Bullying 159 words
    9. Publicity 1,206 words
    10. Mr. Y. Habanako 97 words
  15. HEALTH
    1. Executive Agencies 42 words
    2. Lariam 114 words
    3. Residential Homes (Coventry) 132 words
    4. Dissolved NHS Trusts (Financial Arrangements) 112 words
    5. Meningitis 879 words
    6. Human Growth Hormone Treatment 251 words
    7. Nurses 87 words
  16. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Punishment Attacks 362 words
    2. Housing Executive Waiting List 58 words
    3. Executive Agencies 70 words
    4. Nature Reserves, Historic Buildings and Country Parks 258 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Gulf War Syndrome 176 words
    2. Defence Medical Services Organisation 958 words
  18. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Crown Prosecution Service (Charges) 147 words
    2. Nuclear-powered Submarines 502 words
  19. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Certified Herds Scheme 158 words
    2. Illegal Animal Imports 62 words
    3. BSE 1,594 words
    4. Parliamentary Questions 128 words
    5. Quarantine 112 words
    6. Food Safety 168 words
    7. Warfarin-based Rodenticides 161 words
    8. Renderers (Compensation) 168 words
    9. Antibiotic-resistant Micro-organisms 784 words
  20. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Benefits (Parents) 48 words
    2. Child Support Agency 483 words
    3. Income Support 534 words
    4. Lone Parents (Employment Schemes) 162 words
    5. Child Benefit 105 words
    6. Housing Benefit 75 words
    7. Pensioner Incomes 163 words
    8. Personal Pension Charges 47 words
    9. Incapacity Benefit 93 words
    10. National Insurance 58 words
    11. State Retirement Pension 302 words
    12. Pensions and Benefits (Earnings Link) 247 words
    13. Benefits Agency Medical Service 1,884 words
    14. Disability Payments 377 words
    15. Parliamentary Questions 68 words
    16. State Earnings-related Pensions Scheme 211 words
    17. Disability Benefit Unit 378 words

Lords Sitting of 25 February 1997

  1. Preamble 23 words
  2. UK Bathing Water: Quality 1,088 words
  3. Organic Farming 1,109 words
  4. Scottish Select Committees 1,241 words
  5. Asylum Seekers: Local Authority Support 901 words
  6. Business 41 words
  7. Local Government and Rating Bill 88 words
  8. Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning Bill 3,367 words
  9. London Underground 7,669 words
  10. Education Bill 24,694 words, 3 divisions
  11. West London Hospitals: Specialties 8,831 words
  12. Education Bill 24,722 words
  13. Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 6 words
  14. Planning (Hazardous Substances) (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 6 words
  15. National Heritage Bill [H.L.] 16 words
  16. Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 16 words
  17. Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 23 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 25 February 1997

  1. Government Hospitality Fund and Lancaster House Review 173 words
  2. Message Handling Review 106 words
  3. Information Office 209 words
  4. BSE: Certified Herds Scheme 163 words
  5. Immigration and Nationality Directorate: Typists 107 words
  6. Vehicle Crime 202 words
  7. Sex Offenders 52 words
  8. EC Working Time Directive: Implementation 81 words
  9. Civil Aerospace Projects: Launch Aid 664 words