3 February 1997

Commons Sitting of 3 February 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. NEW WRIT 17 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. NATIONAL HERITAGE
      1. National Lottery (Historical Items) 309 words
      2. National Lottery (Pitches) 401 words
      3. Airport Tax 261 words
      4. National Lottery (Canals) 399 words
      5. Arts Access (Young People) 1,077 words
      6. Tourism (Social Chapter) 834 words
      7. Millennium Exhibition 1,418 words
      8. National Lottery (Charities) 390 words
      9. Tourism (Social Chapter) 896 words
      10. Football Safety 231 words
    2. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
      1. County Court Fees 488 words
      2. Judges' Statements 480 words
      3. Magistrates Court, Bolton 261 words
      4. County Courts 379 words
      5. Property Law Report 235 words
      6. Legal Aid 564 words
  5. Point of Order 220 words
  6. Local Government Finance 52,453 words, 1 division
  7. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 81 words
  8. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT 21 words
  9. West Middlesex University Hospital 4,308 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 3 February 1997

  1. SCOTLAND
    1. Hospital Waiting Times 949 words
    2. Business Rates 1,013 words
    3. EU Finances 355 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Asbestos 39 words
    2. Algrade Trust 134 words
    3. Lyme Disease 529 words
    4. Reserved Capital Receipts 133 words
    5. Departmental Publicity 169 words
    6. Local Authority Assets 93 words
    7. Lord Lieutenants 75 words
    8. Sellafield 44 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Risley Prison 76 words
    2. Geoffrey Thomas 155 words
    3. Whitemoor Prison (Escape) 760 words
    4. Secure Units 453 words
    5. Asylum Seekers 46 words
    6. Prisoner Danny McNamee (Inquiries) 197 words
    7. Departmental Publications 75 words
    8. Roisin McAliskey 350 words
    9. Immigration (Detention and Deportation) 1,627 words
    10. Sustainable Development 135 words
    11. UK Citizenship (Hong Kong) 135 words
    12. Data Protection 160 words
    13. Young Offenders 1,066 words
    14. Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 72 words
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Child Care 33 words
    2. Security Passes (Contractors) 58 words
    3. New Parliamentary Building 331 words
  5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Global Environment Facility 135 words
  6. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Sustainable Development 122 words
    2. Hawksworth Hall School 131 words
    3. College Funding 133 words
    4. GCSE Grades 716 words
    5. Education Wastage Rates 68 words
    6. School Performance (Southend) 480 words
    7. Technology Colleges 273 words
    8. Nursery Vouchers 229 words
    9. Training and Enterprise Councils 632 words
    10. Further Education 226 words
    11. Teachers (Early Retirement) 59 words
    12. Training (North Yorkshire) 134 words
  7. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Ministerial Statements 252 words
    2. Senior Business Panel 224 words
  8. HEALTH
    1. Intensive Care 68 words
    2. Departmental Publicity 157 words
    3. Health Authority Funding 142 words
    4. NHS Patients (Private Hospitals) 60 words
    5. Intensive Care Units 151 words
    6. Medical Staff (West Yorkshire) 532 words
    7. Private Finance Initiative 61 words
    8. Dental Services 172 words
  9. TREASURY
    1. Census (Languages) 187 words
    2. EU Education Expenditure 299 words
    3. Lone Parents 2,876 words
    4. Capital Stock 304 words
    5. Gross Domestic Product 92 words
    6. Unemployment (York) 204 words
    7. Company Cars 461 words
    8. Domestic Rail Fares (Tax Relief) 121 words
    9. Offshore Accounts 105 words
    10. Labour Statistics (Ealing) 102 words
  10. DEFENCE
    1. Defence Procurement Contracts 237 words
    2. Royal Yacht 132 words
    3. Army Personnel (Northern Ireland) 58 words
    4. Trident 123 words
    5. Eurofighter 158 words
    6. Army Recruitment 147 words
    7. Food Supply Contract 777 words
    8. Naval Helicopters (School Visits) 157 words
    9. Electronic Warfare Capability 183 words
  11. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Defence Projects 47 words
  12. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Arts (Business Sponsorship) 110 words
    2. National Lottery (Historic Buildings) 49 words
    3. English Heritage 82 words
    4. National Lottery 307 words
    5. Playing Fields 108 words
    6. Churches and Synagogues 209 words
    7. Arts Council of England 99 words
    8. Heritage Sites 121 words
    9. Millennium Exhibition 100 words
    10. Radio Station, Doncaster 136 words
    11. Football Clubs 66 words
    12. Film Industry 141 words
    13. Sport 129 words
    14. Provincial Touring Companies 81 words
    15. Cash Limits 257 words
  13. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Departmental Publicity 761 words
    2. Benefit Information 234 words
    3. Sustainable Development 1,594 words
    4. Cold Weather Payments 465 words
    5. Invalidity and Incapacity Benefit 158 words
    6. Benefits Fraud Hotline 65 words
  14. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Paramilitary Assaults 307 words
    2. Punishment Beatings 198 words
    3. Social Fund 295 words
    4. Contracts (Andersen Group) 84 words
    5. Thornton Report 176 words
    6. Racially Motivated Incidents 37 words
    7. Minority Communities 340 words
    8. Examination Results 88 words
    9. Nature Reserves 93 words
  15. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Legal Aid 199 words
    2. Public Defender Services 69 words
    3. Magistrates Courts Committees 121 words
    4. Sheriffs 89 words
    5. Court Buildings, Normanton 65 words
  16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. European Political Movements (Funding) 145 words
    2. China 189 words
    3. Crete 147 words
    4. EU Council of Ministers 170 words
    5. Albania 112 words
    6. European Court of Human Rights 47 words
    7. Mr. Ghazanfer Ali 164 words
    8. Crowd Control Equipment 108 words
  17. TRANSPORT
    1. Cap Afrique 116 words
    2. Prestwick Airport 210 words
    3. Departmental Publicity 401 words
  18. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Computers (Millennium) 89 words
    2. Boeing Airline Merger 67 words
    3. Offshore Installations (Decommissioning) 669 words
    4. EU Funds (Applications) 135 words
    5. Combined Heat and Power 260 words
    6. Coal Imports 291 words
    7. Coal Production 115 words
    8. Trade and Investment (European Union) 338 words
    9. Inward Investment 241 words
  19. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. BSE 112 words
    2. Rabies 54 words
    3. Farm Animals (Breeding) 130 words
    4. Cattle Carcases 333 words
    5. Genetically Modified Organisms 392 words
    6. Marine Contracts 219 words
    7. Suckler Cow Premiums 85 words
  20. WALES
    1. Newcastle Disease 54 words
    2. Illegal Drugs 74 words
    3. Small Firms 227 words
    4. Local Government Finance 79 words
    5. Planning Appeals 112 words
    6. Community Care (Abuse) 47 words
    7. Departmental Expenditure 168 words
    8. Nursery Vouchers 368 words
    9. Suckler Cow Premium 86 words
    10. Assisted Places Scheme 228 words
    11. Teachers (Early Retirement) 196 words
    12. Education Funding 217 words
    13. Rhuddlan Bypass 36 words
    14. Dental Services 170 words
    15. Beef Industry 259 words
    16. Working Time Directive 80 words
  21. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Ministerial Committees 66 words

Lords Sitting of 3 February 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. War Crimes Trials 543 words
  3. Landmines: Manufacture and Export 1,508 words
  4. Bus Industry: Privatisation 1,395 words
  5. Rochester Prison: Hunger Strike 976 words
  6. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Compensation Order 1996
  7. Selective Cull (Enforcement of Community Compensation Conditions) Regulations 1996 12,776 words
  8. Potato Industry Development Council Order 1997 4,352 words
  9. Transfer of Crofting Estates (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 7,786 words
  10. Independent Qualified Conveyancers (Scotland) Regulations 1997 896 words
  11. Executry Practitioners (Scotland) Regulations 1997 42 words
  12. Dignity at Work Bill [H.L.] 4 words
  13. Sundays (Dancing and Licensing) Bill [H.L.] 9,014 words
  14. Police (Insurance of Voluntary Assistants) Bill 2,563 words
  15. Pharmacists (Fitness to Practise) Bill 4,257 words
  16. Local Government (Gaelic Names) (Scotland) Bill 3,343 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 3 February 1997

  1. Atrush Camp, Northern Iraq 122 words
  2. Hazrat Ali Mental Asylum 212 words
  3. Former Yugoslavia: Tracing of War Criminals 287 words
  4. Indonesia: Water Cannon 325 words
  5. ODA Grants to NGOs 2,316 words
  6. Mr. Vladimir Raigorodsky 109 words
  7. Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands: Right of Individual Petition 117 words
  8. UN Law of the Sea Convention 111 words
  9. Airspace: Definition 139 words
  10. NATO Enlargement: Military Equipment Purchases 109 words
  11. Former Yugoslavia: Arms Control 141 words
  12. NATO Enlargement and OSCE 386 words
  13. Ms Roisin McAliskey 103 words
  14. Police Firearm and Shotgun Licensing Records 119 words
  15. Prisoners: Passport Applications 179 words
  16. Singh and Hussain: Compliance with European Court of Human Rights Rulings 78 words
  17. Firearms Control Board: Costs 84 words
  18. Armed Forces Food Supply Contract 200 words
  19. Guide to Legislative Procedures 72 words
  20. MoD Contracts Bulletin 62 words
  21. United Arab Emirates: Defence Co-operation Accord 285 words
  22. "Bloody Sunday" 170 words
  23. Northern Ireland: Penalties for Fine Defaulters 110 words
  24. Merchant Navy Personnel: Training Programme Revision 230 words
  25. Freight Carriage by Sea 105 words
  26. Port of London: Pilotage Exemptions 99 words