13 January 1997

Commons Sitting of 13 January 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRANSPORT
      1. Sea Empress 596 words
      2. Cyclists 663 words
      3. South Thamesside Development Route 246 words
      4. A38 409 words
      5. Heathrow-Plymouth Flights 592 words
      6. Humberside International Airport 464 words
      7. Rail Freight 546 words
      8. London Underground 609 words
      9. Northern Line 736 words
      10. North London Line 580 words
      11. Thames Gateway 691 words
    2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. Catering Staff 300 words
      2. Disabled Employees 308 words
      3. Visitors' Facilities 411 words
    3. TRANSPORT
      1. Heathrow Airport 344 words
      2. Heathrow-London Rail Link 207 words
      3. London Underground 348 words
    4. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
      1. EU Legislation 369 words
      2. Divisions 386 words
  4. Madam Speaker's Statement 345 words
  5. Points of Order 1,972 words
  6. Orders of the Day
    1. Crime (Sentences) Bill 7 words
      1. New clause 1
        1. EXTENDED PERIODS OF SUPERVISION FOR VIOLENT OFFENDERS SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS OR MORE 12,498 words, 1 division
      2. New clause 2
        1. REQUIREMENT UPON THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO ESTABLISH COURT PSYCHIATRIC ASSESSMENT SCHEMES 14,376 words, 1 division
      3. New clause 3
        1. REQUIREMENT UPON THE COURT OF APPEAL TO ISSUE SENTENCING GUIDELINES 16,705 words, 1 division
      4. New clause 7
        1. TESTING AND TREATMENT ORDER 5,585 words
    2. SCOTTISH LEGAL SERVICES OMBUDSMAN AND COMMISSIONER FOR LOCAL ADMINISTRATION IN SCOTLAND BILL 41 words
    3. ADJOURNMENT 14 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 January 1997

  1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Ministerial Leave 70 words
    2. Consultants 164 words
  2. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Public Appointments 229 words
    2. Listed Buildings 240 words
    3. Ministerial Leave 78 words
    4. Legislation 260 words
    5. Television Licences 209 words
    6. Museums and Galleries 273 words
    7. Consultants 107 words
    8. Staff 349 words
    9. National Lottery 878 words
    10. Millennium Projects, Wales 179 words
  3. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Statutory Instruments 58 words
    2. Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland 299 words
    3. Consultants 388 words
    4. Legal Services 109 words
    5. Green Form Scheme 141 words
    6. Ernest Saunders 109 words
    7. Transaction Criteria 142 words
    8. Franchising Advisory Committee 117 words
    9. Emergency Legal Aid 153 words
    10. Magistrates Courts Committees 78 words
    11. Probate Districts 302 words
  4. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Ministerial Leave 234 words
    2. Consultants 427 words
    3. Ministerial Resignations 1,343 words
    4. Business Appointment Rules 145 words
    5. Government Policy Reviews 242 words
  5. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Consultants 94 words
  6. TREASURY
    1. Local Government Finance 136 words
    2. Computers 106 words
    3. Economic and Monetary Union 147 words
    4. Nuclear Power Stations (Decommissioning) 160 words
    5. Taxation Statistics 110 words
    6. Staff 106 words
    7. Ministerial Leave 73 words
    8. Insurance Premium Tax 384 words
    9. Gross Domestic Product 228 words
    10. Taxation 300 words
    11. Public Bodies (Christmas Cards) 53 words
    12. Oil and Gas Revenues 89 words
    13. Monetary Union 117 words
    14. Abortion 406 words
    15. Revenue and Expenditure Balance (Scotland) 515 words
    16. Prednisolone 401 words
    17. Information Technology (Euro) 110 words
  7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. "Tackling Drugs Together" 82 words
    2. Sitting Hours 58 words
    3. Parliamentary Reforms 34 words
    4. Recesses 55 words
    5. Parliamentary Business 118 words
    6. Defamation Act 1996 35 words
    7. Points of Order 54 words
  8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Royal Family (Overseas Visits) 113 words
    2. North Korea 206 words
    3. Ministerial Visits (Accommodation) 1,100 words
    4. Ministerial Leave 112 words
    5. Former Prisoners of War 108 words
    6. Consultants 187 words
    7. International Agreements 118 words
    8. Intergovernmental Conference 146 words
    9. Indonesia 224 words
  9. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Police Cells 1,278 words
    2. Prison Accommodation 1,803 words
    3. Europol 48 words
    4. Ministerial Leave 77 words
    5. Interception of Communications 420 words
    6. Illegal Immigrants 71 words
    7. Prisons (Sanitation) 201 words
    8. Hand Grenades and Balaclavas 28 words
    9. Police Scientific Development Branch 270 words
    10. Intoxicating Substances 325 words
    11. Consultants 99 words
    12. Pepper Sprays 221 words
    13. Speaker's Conferences 92 words
    14. Refugees 556 words
    15. Metropolitan Police (Accommodation) Clearance Costs 293 words
    16. Game Licences 66 words
    17. Metropolitan Police 90 words
    18. Airports (Passenger Handling) 125 words
    19. Licensing (Special Hours Certificates) 689 words
    20. Remand Prisoners (Newspapers) 196 words
    21. Police Expenditure 1,819 words
    22. Representation of the People Acts 164 words
    23. Firearms 116 words
  10. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Public Appointments 708 words
    2. Punishment Shootings 177 words
    3. Council for Voluntary Action Report 153 words
    4. Disability 228 words
    5. Ministerial Leave 81 words
    6. Consultants 195 words
    7. Language Teaching 187 words
    8. Fluoridation 174 words
    9. EU Financing 182 words
    10. EU Social Fund 352 words
    11. EU Regional Development Fund 473 words
    12. European Community (UK Payments) 454 words
    13. European Initiatives 570 words
    14. Public Appointments 83 words
  11. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Teachers' Pensions 1,212 words
    2. National Advisory Council on Employment of People with Disabilities 212 words
    3. Exam Results 272 words
    4. Official Ministerial Visits 128 words
    5. Jobcentres 477 words
    6. Contract for Work Pilots 198 words
    7. Jobmatch Programme 125 words
    8. Literacy and Numeracy 57 words
    9. Education Standard Spending Assessment 505 words
    10. Nursery Vouchers 271 words
    11. Ministerial Leave 81 words
    12. Claimants (Interviews) 181 words
    13. National Vocational Qualifications 74 words
    14. Pre-school Pupils 1,479 words
    15. Connahs Quay High School 25 words
    16. Failing Schools 242 words
    17. National Curriculum (Exempt Schools) 54 words
    18. Consultants 175 words
    19. Challenge Fund Grants 121 words
    20. GCSE Scores 148 words
    21. On-the-job Training 121 words
    22. Schools (Parental Choice) 485 words
    23. School Expenditure 5,041 words
    24. Professors of General Practice 55 words
    25. "Going GM" Conference, Warrington 133 words
    26. Education Standard Spending Assessment (Buckinghamshire) 117 words
    27. Professors of Practice and Community Nursing 37 words
    28. Standing Committee of Employment Reports 75 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Mearnskirk Hospital 272 words
    2. Ministerial Leave 77 words
    3. Curriculum Projects 668 words
    4. Biological Hazards 430 words
    5. GP Fundholding Practices 328 words
    6. Maternity Unit (Glasgow) 49 words
    7. Highlands and Islands Convention 473 words
  13. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Home Energy Efficiency Scheme 1,830 words
    2. Hot Water Tank Insulation 170 words
    3. Health and Safety Laboratory 434 words
    4. Consultants 213 words
    5. Building Research Establishment 315 words
    6. Loft Insulation 169 words
    7. Draught-proofing 145 words
    8. National Non-domestic Rates 153 words
    9. Private Finance Initiative 192 words
    10. South Yorkshire Supertram 75 words
    11. Local Government Finance 391 words
    12. Coal Mines (Injuries) 70 words
  14. WALES
    1. Adult Education (Learning Disabilities) 212 words
    2. Consultants 119 words
    3. Skilled Workers 170 words
    4. Employment (Students) 82 words
    5. Training 214 words
    6. Roads 92 words
    7. GCSE Grades 138 words
    8. Assisted Places 336 words
    9. General National Vocational Qualifications 876 words
    10. Further Education 453 words
    11. Inward Investment 86 words
    12. Secondary Schools (Expenditure) 80 words
    13. Class Sizes 471 words
    14. Schools 68 words
  15. TRANSPORT
    1. London Underground 132 words
    2. London Transport 66 words
    3. River Transport 61 words
    4. Heathrow-London Rail Link 108 words
    5. Fenchurch Street Line 20 words
    6. Road Users (Medicinal Drugs) 100 words
    7. Motorway Noise 100 words
    8. Manchester Airport 104 words
    9. Infrastructure 90 words
    10. Rail Safety 78 words
    11. Passenger Rolling Stock 62 words
    12. Infrastructure Expenditure (London) 73 words
    13. Shipping Safety 90 words
    14. Ministerial Leave 74 words
    15. Second Tamar Bridge 141 words
    16. InterCity West Coast 92 words
    17. Manchester Metro 274 words
    18. Civil Aviation Authority 195 words
    19. Consultants 222 words
    20. London Transport Prestige Project 76 words
    21. Rail Services (Financial Support) 137 words
    22. Road Maintenance Costs 76 words
    23. South Yorkshire Supertram Project 470 words
    24. Boeing 747 Fuel Tanks 204 words
    25. Motorway Service Stations 131 words
    26. M1 (Lighting) 170 words
    27. Greater Manchester Rail Services 149 words
    28. A46–A47 Link Road Scheme 93 words
    29. Two-wheeled Motor Vehicles (Training) 241 words
    30. Rail Services (Government Financial Support) 122 words
    31. National Roads Programme 68 words
    32. M66 (Contract 3) 127 words
    33. White Hart Roundabout, Northolt 76 words
    34. Air Cargo 101 words
    35. Rail Privatisation (Pension Funds) 208 words
    36. Rail Privatisation 690 words
  16. DEFENCE
    1. Range Facilities 335 words
    2. Nerve Agents 294 words
    3. Franco-British Naval Agreement 86 words
    4. Auxiliary Oilers 48 words
    5. Organophosphate Pesticide Investigation Team 290 words
    6. Chapelcross and Calder Hall Reactors 99 words
    7. Gulf War Syndrome 207 words
    8. Staff 142 words
    9. Training Airspace 193 words
    10. Scheduled Exercises (Purple Series) 74 words
    11. Air Combat Manoeuvring Instrumentation 78 words
    12. AWACS Controllers 145 words
    13. Air Traffic Control 269 words
    14. Radiation Experiments 353 words
    15. Low Flying 44 words
    16. Tornado F3 94 words
    17. Air Force Training (Former Warsaw Pact) 58 words
    18. Ministerial Leave 77 words
    19. Vosper Thorneycroft (Official Appointment) 151 words
    20. Murdered Tour Guide (Cyprus) 75 words
    21. Battle of Trafalgar 80 words
    22. Consultants 134 words
    23. Expenditure 204 words
    24. Insecticides 134 words
    25. Vaccinations 87 words
    26. Polaris 270 words
    27. Vocational Qualifications 395 words
  17. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Staff 94 words
    2. Ministerial Leave 86 words
    3. Public Bodies 3,190 words
    4. Oil Platforms 95 words
    5. Arms Contracts (British Companies) 109 words
    6. Armoured Vehicles (Indonesia) 128 words