26 February 1997

Commons Sitting of 26 February 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. NATO 11,146 words
    2. Care of the Elderly (Scotland) 10,956 words
    3. Ice fall (Aircraft) 3,457 words
    4. Hedgerow Protection 4,112 words
    5. Pensions (Mr. Reg Vincent) 3,921 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
      1. Job Insecurity 1,313 words
      2. Assisted Places Scheme 536 words
      3. Grant-maintained Schools (Cheshire) 391 words
      4. Local Education Authority Administration Costs 830 words
      5. School Discipline 816 words
      6. Grant-maintained Schools (Bournemouth) 306 words
      7. Class Sizes 799 words
      8. Marriage and Christian Values 556 words
      9. Unemployment (Cumbria) 468 words
      10. Temporary Employment 795 words
      11. Employment (European Union) 1,032 words
      12. Nursery Vouchers 601 words
      13. Selective Secondary Schools (Kent) 293 words
  4. Business of the House 144 words
  5. BILL PRESENTED
    1. DARTFORD-THURROCK CROSSING (AMENDMENT) 49 words
  6. National Lottery (Regionalisation) 1,358 words
  7. NATIONAL LOTTERY (REGIONALISATION) 71 words
  8. Points of Order 881 words
  9. European Communities (Economic Information) 13,013 words
  10. Contract (Scotland) Bill 424 words
  11. Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman and Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland Bill 7 words
    1. Clause 1
      1. FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF OMBUDSMAN 4,867 words
  12. Flood Prevention and Land Drainage (Scotland) Bill 7 words
    1. New clause 1
      1. EMERGENCY POWER OF ENTRY 3,982 words
    2. Clause 3
      1. DUTY OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO PUBLISH REPORTS 5,146 words, 1 division
      2. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 30 words
      3. PROFESSIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO MEDICINE 25 words
      4. LEGAL AID AND ADVICE (SCOTLAND) 48 words
      5. DEREGULATION 17 words
      6. BETTING LICENSING 23 words
    3. Drug Abuse Resistance Education (Nottinghamshire) 7,123 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 26 February 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prisoners (Rehabilitation) 519 words
    2. Prison Ship 328 words
    3. Leyhill Prison (Escape) 127 words
    4. Military Corrective Training Centre 74 words
    5. Prisoners (Ethnic Background) 198 words
    6. Prisons (Drugs Testing) 53 words
    7. Roisin McAliskey 49 words
    8. Metropolitan Police 91 words
    9. Special Secure Units 124 words
    10. Strip Searches 775 words
    11. Immigration Detainees 117 words
    12. Magistrates Courts (Psychiatric Reports) 61 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 145 words
    2. British Agrochemicals Association Ltd. 184 words
    3. Energy-Efficient Housing 145 words
    4. Environmental Protection and Water 92 words
    5. Executive Agencies 99 words
    6. Local Government Finance 496 words
    7. Fire Safety 140 words
    8. Local Authorities (Legal Costs) 59 words
    9. Abondoned Mines (Water Pollution) 281 words
    10. British Waterways Board 90 words
    11. Noise Pollution 284 words
    12. Groundwater Levels 154 words
    13. Home Energy Efficiency Scheme 125 words
  3. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Government Contracts 45 words
    2. Prince's Trust 92 words
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. New Parliamentary Building 67 words
  5. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Parliamentary Answers 125 words
    2. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 87 words
    3. UK Students (Foreign Residence Restrictions) 71 words
    4. Albania 50 words
    5. Internal Market Advisory Committee 462 words
  6. SCOTLAND
    1. Easterhouse Police Office 78 words
    2. Executive Agencies 790 words
    3. Mortality Rates 881 words
    4. Cold-related Illnesses 754 words
    5. Ambulance Service Training Courses 464 words
    6. M74 67 words
    7. Braer Oil Spill 82 words
    8. Electoral Register 56 words
    9. Law Reform Projects 223 words
    10. Leasehold Casualties 84 words
    11. Homelessness 955 words
    12. Offshore Installations 145 words
    13. Human Growth Hormone 189 words
  7. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Rape and Sexual Violence (Prosecutions) 316 words
    2. Parliamentary Answers 156 words
    3. Equipment and Furniture 192 words
  8. TREASURY
    1. Short-term Financial Assets 170 words
    2. Money Supply and Inflation 89 words
    3. Privatisation (Advertising) 258 words
    4. Deaths (Respiratory Illness) 277 words
    5. Full-time Permanent Jobs 287 words
    6. Gastroschisis 453 words
  9. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Civil Disturbances (Deaths) 78 words
    2. Hazardous Materials (Departmental Buildings) 287 words
    3. Parliamentary Answers 122 words
    4. Area Plans 174 words
    5. Mortality Rates 1,287 words
    6. Prospect Downs Development 92 words
    7. Departmental Expenditure 118 words
    8. Nature Reserves (Contracting Out) 373 words
    9. Electoral Register 53 words
    10. Magheramorne Landfill Project 248 words
  10. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Swan Hunter (Privatisation) 169 words
    2. Low Pay 142 words
    3. Overspill Surveillance Flights 130 words
    4. Balance of Trade (European Union) 1,503 words
    5. Reinsurance Companies 891 words
  11. DEFENCE
    1. Range Facilities 159 words
    2. Research Councils 118 words
    3. Gulf War-related IIlness 670 words
    4. Pilots (Flying Hours) 308 words
    5. Joint Service Command and Staff College 92 words
    6. Cadets 38 words
    7. Submarine Reactor Cores 540 words
    8. Departmental Contracts 511 words
    9. Ion Exchange Resin 155 words
    10. Territorial Army Centre, Cardiff 174 words
  12. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Grant-maintained Schools 34 words
    2. Jobseeker's Allowance 569 words
    3. Schools Funding (East Sussex) 67 words
    4. Class Sizes 81 words
    5. Grammar Schools 122 words
    6. School Repairs 48 words
    7. Employment Policy 62 words
    8. Dyslexia 76 words
    9. School Transport 39 words
    10. Capital Borrowing Allocation (Birmingham) 61 words
    11. School Discipline 49 words
    12. School Performance (Harrow) 109 words
    13. Premature Retirement (Education) 64 words
    14. Grammar School Leavers (Unemployment) 45 words
    15. Assisted Places Scheme 66 words
    16. Jobseeker's Allowance 65 words
    17. Lone Mothers 52 words
    18. Unemployment 39 words
    19. Permanent Jobs 69 words
    20. Parliamentary Answers 122 words
    21. Education (Humberside) 148 words
    22. Computer Software Courses 44 words
    23. Pupil Exclusions 135 words
    24. Teachers (Staffordshire) 47 words
    25. Equipment and Furniture 190 words
    26. Early Retirement (Teachers) 131 words
    27. Jobmatch Scheme 310 words
    28. Hearing-impaired Children (London) 147 words
    29. Nursery Vouchers 156 words
    30. Foreign Language Teaching 233 words
  13. HEALTH
    1. Oral Contraceptives (Safety) 110 words
    2. Lariam 205 words
    3. Residential Care (Coventry) 93 words
    4. Vacant Consultant Posts 99 words
    5. NHS Audits 191 words
    6. Equipment and Furniture 143 words
    7. NHS Waiting Lists (Patients off Sick) 44 words
    8. NHS Hospitals 45 words
    9. Blood Pressure Control Products 59 words
    10. Strokes 89 words
  14. TRANSPORT
    1. Parliamentary Answers 119 words
    2. Greenwich Exhibition Site 97 words
    3. Coaches and Minibuses (Seat Belts) 391 words
    4. Road Network (Dual Carriageways) 268 words
    5. North London Railway Line 112 words
  15. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Correspondence 43 words
    2. National Lottery Grants 702 words
    3. Departmental Contracts 103 words
    4. University and College Sport 110 words
    5. British Academy of Sport 78 words
  16. WALES
    1. Minimum Age Requirements 35 words
    2. "Government Expenditure and Revenue, Wales, 1994–95" 244 words
    3. Powered Wheelchairs 67 words
    4. Disability Living Allowance 91 words
    5. Community Hospitals 85 words
    6. Inward Investment (South-west Wales) 157 words
    7. Ysbyty Glan Clwyd Cancer Facility 115 words
    8. Parliamentary Answers 117 words
    9. Executive Agencies 52 words
    10. Bryn Y Neuadd Hospital (Advocacy Schemes) 127 words
    11. Health Expenditure 131 words
    12. Equipment and Furniture 152 words
    13. River Dee Estuary 72 words
    14. Power Station Vapour Plumes (Deeside) 46 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Cash Limits 81 words
  18. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Policy Initiatives 560 words
    2. Incapacity Benefit 67 words
    3. Benefits (Effects of Study Rule) 111 words
    4. Minimum Age Requirements 463 words
    5. Housing and Council Tax Benefits 87 words
    6. Free School Meals 113 words
    7. Income Support 1,532 words
    8. Pensioner Incomes 769 words
    9. Divorcees' Pension Rights 71 words
    10. Social Fund 127 words

Lords Sitting of 26 February 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Lord Bagri 34 words
  3. Lord Lloyd-Webber 31 words
  4. Sight Tests: Charges 984 words
  5. Nuclear Arms Reduction 1,173 words
  6. "Sea Empress" Inquiry: Report 1,570 words
  7. Learner Drivers: Identification 450 words
  8. Business of the House: Debate this Day 51 words
  9. Business of the House: Debates, 6th March 120 words
  10. London Government 35,042 words
  11. Sex Offenders Bill 14 words
  12. Film Production 7,585 words
  13. Civil Procedure Bill [H.L.] 24 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 26 February 1997

  1. Sudanese Refugees in Uganda 119 words
  2. Pension Rights on Divorce 70 words
  3. The Arts: Tax Treatment of Corporate Donations 91 words
  4. Longer Term Road Schemes, Scotland and Northern Ireland 280 words
  5. Retention of Case Papers 503 words
  6. Evidence Acquired by Intrusive Surveillance 122 words
  7. Firearms Dealers: Compensation 444 words
  8. Paedophilia 110 words
  9. Equal Opportunities Commission 330 words
  10. Dr. Jawad Hashim: Payments to Counsel 134 words
  11. Gulf War: Use of Organophosphate Pesticides 443 words
  12. Armed Forces: Honorary Consultants and Doctors 250 words
  13. Joint Strike Fighter: MoD Officials' Employment 88 words
  14. Defence Medical Services Organisation 772 words