20 January 1997

Commons Sitting of 20 January 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. DEATH OF A MEMBER 55 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES
      1. Public Expenditure 1,277 words
      2. Ministerial Visits 521 words
      3. Welsh Language 294 words
      4. Inward Investment 1,496 words
      5. Ministerial Visits 276 words
      6. Assisted Places Scheme 711 words
      7. Welsh Assembly 987 words
      8. Labour Statistics 475 words
      9. School Financial Procedures 206 words
    2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      1. Crown Prosecution Service 1,140 words
      2. Deregulation 377 words
      3. Public Interest Immunity Certificates 439 words
      4. Crown Prosecution Service 227 words
  4. Orders of the Day
    1. Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill 7 words
      1. New clause 2
        1. INFORMATION CONCERNING JURORS 408 words
      2. New clause 3
        1. PRECOGNITIONS 852 words
      3. New clause 4
        1. SUSPENSION OF CERTAIN SENTENCES PENDING DETERMINATION OF APPEAL 554 words
      4. New clause 5
        1. POWERS OF THE COURT ON REMAND OR COMMITTAL OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS 634 words
      5. New clause 6
        1. INCREASED RIGHTS OF APPEAL OF PROSECUTOR 883 words
      6. New clause 11
        1. EVIDENCE OF VULNERABLE PERSONS: SPECIAL PROVISIONS 14,826 words, 1 division
      7. New clause 8
        1. RELEASE LICENCES 5,840 words, 1 division
      8. New clause 9
        1. WOMEN OFFENDERS 15,424 words, 1 division
      9. Clause 1
        1. IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE ON FURTHER CONVICTION FOR CERTAIN OFFENCES 6,177 words, 2 divisions
      10. Clause 2
        1. MINIMUM SENTENCE FOR THIRD CONVICTION OF CERTAIN OFFENCES RELATING TO DRUG TRAFFICKING 823 words
      11. Clause 3
        1. IMPOSITION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE ORDERS ON CONVICTION OF QUALIFYING OFFENCE 145 words
      12. Clause 4
        1. RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY ORDERS 8,411 words
    2. ENVIRONMENT 28 words
    3. TREASURY 28 words
    4. ADJOURNMENT 13 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 20 January 1997

  1. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Personalised Number Plates 202 words
  2. TREASURY
    1. Labour Statistics 360 words
    2. VAT 63 words
    3. Construction Industry 129 words
    4. Exchange and Trading Systems and Credit Unions 114 words
    5. Personalised Number Plates 32 words
  3. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
    1. Land 153 words
  4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Child Care Facilities 41 words
    2. EC Gas Directive 81 words
    3. Small and Medium Enterprises 94 words
    4. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology 274 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prison Inmates (Prosecutions) 48 words
    2. Prisoners (Custody Costs) 316 words
    3. Non-custodial Sentences (Costs) 212 words
    4. Bail Support Schemes (Costs) 60 words
    5. Fire Service College 88 words
    6. Asylum Seekers 124 words
    7. Year Against Racism 575 words
    8. Data Protection (Registration Fees) 156 words
    9. Probation Service 814 words
    10. Baboons 186 words
    11. Personalised Number Plates 35 words
  6. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Health and Safety (Co-Steel) 157 words
    2. Health and Safety 83 words
    3. Derelict Land Grant (Corby) 80 words
    4. Landlords (Gas Appliance Safety) 170 words
    5. Telecommunications Masts 186 words
    6. Ancient Hedgerows 171 words
    7. Radioactive Waste (Disposal) 54 words
    8. Stockton City Challenge 75 words
    9. Christ the King School 98 words
    10. Building Research Establishment 958 words
    11. Knowsley Heights (Fire) 94 words
    12. Lightweight Polymer-cored Sandwich Panels 93 words
    13. Pollutants 198 words
    14. Stainless Steel (Swimming Pools) 122 words
    15. Water Industry 223 words
    16. Large Building Design (Bomb Attacks) 183 words
    17. British Standards Institution 133 words
    18. Capital Challenge 470 words
    19. Earth Summit 222 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Indonesia 379 words
    2. British Citizens (Death Sentence) 310 words
    3. United Nations 263 words
    4. Bosnia 77 words
    5. Venezuela (Prisoners) 110 words
    6. Personalised Number Plates 36 words
    7. Asylum Seekers 100 words
  8. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Domestic Air Travel 68 words
  9. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Ministerial Visit (Indian Sub-continent) 100 words
  10. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Millennium Exhibition 845 words
    2. Historic Buildings (Advice Charges) 297 words
  11. DEFENCE
    1. Malathion 91 words
    2. Post-viral Fatigue Syndrome 55 words
    3. Gulf War Syndrome 251 words
    4. Diazinon 141 words
    5. Ballistic Missiles 52 words
    6. Naval Helicopters (Training) 69 words
    7. Duke of York (Helicopter Flight) 224 words
    8. Child Care Facilities 70 words
    9. Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston 85 words
    10. Nuclear Co-operation 56 words
    11. Defence Police (Highlands and Islands) 135 words
    12. Sunken Ships 86 words
    13. Naval Vessels (Assistance) 114 words
  12. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. European Union Aid 238 words
    2. Consortium for Street Children 133 words
    3. Indonesia 190 words
  13. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Pardes House and Beis Yaakov School 63 words
    2. Science Studies 178 words
    3. Back-to-work Measures 453 words
    4. Grant-maintained Schools 2,005 words
    5. Labour Statistics 297 words
    6. Surplus School Places 689 words
    7. Education Spending 209 words
    8. Teacher Statistics 77 words
    9. Hyperactivity 151 words
    10. Teacher Training 182 words
    11. Non-teaching Staff 326 words
    12. Local Authority Education Expenditure 2,853 words
    13. Class Sizes 2,224 words
    14. Westwood St. Thomas School 50 words
    15. Public Examination Boards 99 words
    16. Small Firms Training Loan Scheme 167 words
    17. School Day 110 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Arrestments 160 words
    2. NHS Property Sales 1,255 words
    3. Caledonian MacBrayne 60 words
    4. Lockerbie 231 words
    5. Historic Buildings (Advice Charges) 1,047 words
    6. Newcastle Disease 116 words
    7. Frozen Pipes Warnings 164 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Live Animal Transport 107 words
    2. Cattle Cull 591 words
    3. Vitamin B6 389 words
  16. TRANSPORT
    1. Sleep-related Road Accidents 435 words
    2. Railway Station Car Parks 214 words
    3. Channel Tunnel (Safety) 108 words
    4. Bus Emissions 264 words
    5. Vessels and Passengers (Requests for Assistance) 217 words
    6. Rail Privatisation 288 words
    7. Marine Accident Reports 133 words
    8. MV Canberra (Inquiry) 90 words
    9. Aircraft Safety 209 words
    10. Jubilee Line Extension 73 words
    11. Parliamentary Questions 65 words
    12. Coastguard Services 186 words
    13. M11 Link Road 44 words
    14. Driver Eyesight Standards 244 words
    15. Personalised Number Plates 36 words
    16. Marine Pollution Incidents 134 words
    17. Radar Equipment (Milford Haven) 70 words
    18. Overloaded Aircraft 79 words
    19. Child Care Facilities 63 words
    20. Driver Accident Rates 342 words
    21. Heavy Goods Vehicles 239 words
  17. HEALTH
    1. Dental Services 442 words
    2. Pay Parity 118 words
    3. Anti-malarial Tablets 163 words
    4. Private Finance Initiative 58 words
    5. Acute Beds 59 words
    6. Queen Elizabeth Hospital 66 words
    7. Damages and Ex Gratia Payments 67 words
    8. NHS Trusts (Joint Responsibilities) 36 words
    9. Personalised Number Plates 33 words
    10. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 110 words
    11. Photo-refractive Keratectomy 86 words
    12. Refugee Children 48 words
    13. Drug Wastage 131 words
    14. Mental Health 1,811 words
    15. Secure Accommodation (Young People) 75 words
    16. Children's Health 229 words
    17. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 266 words
    18. Regional Health Authorities (Management Expenditure) 171 words
    19. Expenditure Statistics 149 words
  18. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Serious Fraud Office 42 words
    2. Court of Appeal (Judgments) 95 words
    3. Rights of Audience 72 words
    4. Crown Prosecution Service 32 words
  19. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Veterinary Laboratory, Omagh 88 words
  20. WALES
    1. Road Improvements 84 words
    2. GP Fundholders 107 words
    3. NHS Expenditure 48 words
    4. Local Government Finance 48 words
    5. Nursery Vouchers 70 words
    6. Roads Programme 43 words
    7. Assisted Places Scheme 23 words
    8. Economic Prospects 85 words
    9. Income Statistics (Carmarthenshire) 60 words
    10. Burgner Report 99 words
    11. Meningitis (Cardiff University) 61 words
    12. Further Education Funding 90 words
    13. Youth Unemployment 59 words
    14. Private Finance Initiative 43 words
    15. Local Government Services 94 words
    16. Tai Cymru 55 words
    17. Inward Investment 89 words
    18. A465 Construction 48 words
    19. Health Authority Savings Targets 96 words
    20. Health Service Car Leasing Schemes 153 words
    21. North Wales Cancer Treatment Centre 67 words
    22. Sea Fisheries Committees 325 words
  21. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Staff 108 words
    2. Disability Living Allowance 60 words
    3. Benefit Fraud Hotline 70 words
    4. Invalid Care Allowance 172 words
    5. National Insurance 70 words
    6. Centenarians 150 words
    7. Benefits Agency Medical Services 97 words
    8. Cold Weather Payments 260 words
    9. Benefits Agency (Property Sales) 580 words
    10. Income Support (Mortgage Interest) 224 words
    11. War Pensions 322 words

Lords Sitting of 20 January 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Public Interest Immunity 604 words
  3. EU Policies and Developing Countries 1,329 words
  4. EU Law: Budget Proposal 911 words
  5. Northumbrian Water: Fluoridation Decision 1,165 words
  6. Architects Bill [H.L.] 305 words
  7. Lieutenancies Bill [H.L.] 439 words
  8. Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Bill [H.L.] 144 words
  9. Dangerous Dogs (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 11 words
  10. Obscenity Bill [H.L.] 67 words
  11. Police Bill [H.L.] 31,737 words, 2 divisions
  12. Public Entertainments Licences (Drug Misuse) Bill 14 words
  13. United Nations Personnel Bill 12 words
  14. Pharmacists (Fitness to Practise) Bill 12 words
  15. Education (Special Educational Needs) Bill [H.L.] 3,285 words
  16. Dignity at Work Bill [H.L.] 2,675 words
  17. Police Bill [H.L.] 41,168 words, 1 division

Grand Committee Report of 20 January 1997

  1. Official Report of the Committee on the
    1. Transfer of Crofting Estates (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 14,608 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 20 January 1997

  1. UN Centre for Human Rights: Report 163 words
  2. Turkey: Human Rights Abuses 106 words
  3. Turkey: Death of Mr. Metin Goktepe 86 words
  4. Turkey: Demonstrations 107 words
  5. Foreign and Defence Policy Negotiations: Co-ordination 97 words
  6. Right of Individual Petition: Official Records 84 words
  7. Anti-Discrimination Legislation 471 words
  8. Gulf War Syndrome: Press Statement by the Countess of Mar 126 words
  9. National Lottery 142 words
  10. VAT Rate Changes 99 words
  11. Gulf War Veterans: Pension Claims 651 words
  12. Child Labour 110 words
  13. Chief Inspector of Prisons: Electronic Publication of Reports 66 words
  14. Asylum Seekers: Detentions 278 words
  15. Prison Service: Electronic Publication Licensing 37 words
  16. Prisoners' Allegations to Prisons Ombudsman 91 words
  17. Prostitutes Aged Under 18 301 words