21 January 1997

Commons Sitting of 21 January 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. KING'S COLLEGE LONDON BILL [Lords] 15 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. HEALTH
      1. Capitation Funding (Nottingham Health Authority) 404 words
      2. National Health Service Funding 1,213 words
      3. Mental Health Services 947 words
      4. Hospital Closures 466 words
      5. Redbridge and Waltham Forest Health Authority 643 words
      6. Renal Services (Greater Manchester and Cheshire) 523 words
      7. GP Fundholding 262 words
      8. Health Service Savings 478 words
      9. Private Finance Initiative 709 words
      10. NHS Pay Awards 382 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,362 words
    3. BILL PRESENTED
      1. REGULATION OF DIET INDUSTRY 86 words
  5. United Kingdom Membership of the European Union (Referendum) 2,247 words
    1. UNITED KINGDOM MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (REFERENDUM) 50 words
  6. Opposition Day 3 words
    1. National Health Service 53,744 words, 2 divisions
  7. BSE 12,139 words
  8. SCOTTISH GRAND COMMITTEE 48 words
  9. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 15 words
    1. DRAFT BUDGET FOR 1997 133 words
  10. Pinderfields Hospital 3,606 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 January 1997

  1. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Land Registration Act 1925 58 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Child Sex Offenders 86 words
    2. Domestic Burglaries 148 words
    3. Surveillance Operations 86 words
    4. Lethal Toxicity Tests 116 words
    5. Criminal Conviction Certificates 202 words
    6. Damages and Ex Gratia Payments 63 words
    7. Office of the Data Protection Registrar 98 words
    8. Police Bill 85 words
    9. Cheltenham Festival 53 words
    10. Child Care Facilities 53 words
    11. Taylor Inquiry 176 words
    12. Fire Authorities 115 words
    13. Dronabinol 89 words
    14. Casinos 84 words
    15. Cautions (Costs) 62 words
    16. CS Gas Trials 90 words
    17. Sandwich Panels (Fire Safety) 114 words
    18. Indonesia (Police Training) 128 words
    19. Behaviourally Disturbed Young People 147 words
  3. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Housing (Northamptonshire) 1,770 words
    2. Council Housing 368 words
    3. Bed-and-breakfast Accommodation 91 words
    4. Revenue Support Grant (Sunderland) 107 words
    5. Environmental Protection Act 1990 83 words
    6. Granny Annexes (Council Tax) 416 words
    7. Child Care Facilities 58 words
    8. Household Estimates (Tyne and Wear) 380 words
    9. Abandoned Mines 519 words
    10. Isocyanate Compounds 182 words
    11. Satellites 300 words
  4. SCOTLAND
    1. Housing Associations 161 words
    2. Irvine Housing Association 81 words
    3. Science Centre 76 words
    4. Prior Options Review 141 words
    5. East Ayrshire Community Hospital 107 words
    6. Education (Fees and Awards) (Scotland) Regulations 133 words
  5. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Nelson 417 words
    2. Greenwich Exhibition 157 words
    3. National Lottery (Northamptonshire) 970 words
    4. Personalised Number Plates (Executive Agencies) 1,040 words
    5. Tourism 383 words
    6. Heritage Lottery Awards 96 words
    7. Consultants 213 words
  6. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Behaviourally Disturbed Young People 124 words
    2. Discontinued Cases 212 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. EU Parliamentary Building 339 words
    2. Angola 85 words
    3. Arms Trafficking 585 words
  8. TREASURY
    1. Bowel Cancer 828 words
    2. Landfill Tax 54 words
    3. Bathability Services 69 words
    4. Inland Revenue Office, Salisbury 55 words
    5. Insurance Premium Tax (Holiday Insurance) 459 words
    6. Work Force (Barrow) 221 words
    7. Non-departmental Public Bodies (Expenditure) 119 words
    8. Value Added Tax 237 words
  9. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Child Care Facilities 42 words
    2. Teachers (Early Retirement) 324 words
    3. Student Loans 84 words
    4. Career Development Loans 72 words
    5. Education and the Community (MORI Research) 541 words
    6. Ault Literacy and Numeracy 120 words
    7. Medical School (Southern England) 92 words
    8. Training and Enterprise Councils 297 words
    9. Cass Sizes (Primary Schools) 675 words
    10. National Funding Formula 53 words
    11. Education (Fees and Awards) Regulations 172 words
  10. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Public Appointments 56 words
    2. Chief Medical Officer 60 words
    3. Personalised Number Plates (Executive Agencies) 48 words
    4. Wash Shrimp Fishery 174 words
    5. Vitamin B6 322 words
    6. Beef Producers 223 words
    7. Newcastle Disease 73 words
  11. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Child Welfare 85 words
  12. DEFENCE
    1. Gulf War Syndrome 254 words
    2. Gulf War (Vaccinations) 86 words
    3. Service Personnel (Hong Kong) 409 words
    4. Personalised Number Plates (Executive Agencies) 33 words
    5. Gibraltar 137 words
    6. Service Accommodation 106 words
    7. Mutual Defence Agreement 163 words
    8. Service Redundancies 337 words
    9. Armed Service Personnel 270 words
    10. Territorial Army 181 words
    11. Military Provost Guard Service 428 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Targeting Social Need Policy 108 words
    2. Further Education Colleges 77 words
    3. School Rolls 101 words
    4. Motor Cyclist Fatalities 737 words
    5. Northern Ireland Water 68 words
    6. Public Bodies 76 words
    7. Central Appointments Unit Central Register 61 words
    8. Libraries Budget 186 words
    9. Air Freight 99 words
    10. Marches and Parades 79 words
    11. Fluoridation 72 words
    12. Gallaher Ltd. 60 words
    13. Personalised Number Plates (Executive Agencies) 34 words
  14. TRANSPORT
    1. Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995 129 words
    2. Rail Services (West Coast Line) 379 words
    3. Motor Cyclists 878 words
    4. Land Compensation Act 1973 98 words
  15. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. United Nations Industrial Development Organisation 305 words
    2. Angola 247 words
    3. Bangladesh 132 words
  16. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Accord Information Technology System 57 words
    2. Income Support 194 words
    3. Housing Benefit 344 words
    4. Family Credit 339 words
    5. Child Support Agency 2,224 words
    6. Cold Weather Payments 160 words
  17. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Fireworks 81 words
    2. Carpet Sales (Measurement) 81 words
    3. Out-of-town Supermarkets 116 words
    4. Telecommunications 89 words
    5. EU Funding 161 words
    6. Inward Investment 118 words
  18. WALES
    1. Grants to Businesses 490 words
    2. Meningitis 453 words
    3. North Wales Cancer Treatment Centre 90 words
    4. North Wales Ambulance Service 87 words
    5. GP Fundholders 45 words
  19. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
    1. Cergy (Full Incumbents) 53 words
    2. Suffragan Bishops 843 words
    3. Bishops (Expenses) 310 words
  20. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Bletchley Park 42 words
    2. Sellafield 58 words
    3. Engagements 60 words
    4. Nuclear Tests 183 words
    5. Ministerial Visits 64 words
  21. HEALTH
    1. Performance Targets (Ambulance Services) 88 words
    2. Mental Health Services 51 words
    3. Mental Health 156 words
    4. GPs' Lists 60 words
    5. Community Care Services 47 words
    6. Long-term Care 26 words
    7. Animal Experiments 143 words
    8. NHS Funding 58 words
    9. Dental Services 562 words
    10. Xenotransplantation 108 words
    11. Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority 65 words
    12. Medicinal Drugs 79 words
    13. Complaints (NHS Dentists) 130 words
    14. Prescription Charges 47 words
    15. Hepatitis B 53 words
    16. Evidence-based Medicine 109 words
    17. Fundholders (Northamptonshire) 100 words
    18. Emergency Call Services 59 words
    19. Haemophiliacs 72 words
    20. West Middlesex University Hospital 57 words
    21. Paramedics 298 words
    22. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy 445 words
    23. Osteopaths Act 1993 338 words
    24. Beta Interferon 62 words
    25. School Milk 90 words
    26. Behaviourally Disturbed Young People 172 words
    27. Child Care Facilities 40 words
    28. Speech Therapy Services (East London) 79 words
    29. Prescribed Cannabis 37 words
    30. GP Prescription List 177 words
    31. Nutrition 86 words
    32. Agency Nurses 51 words
    33. Multiple Sclerosis 41 words
    34. Asthma 74 words
    35. Public Health Laboratory Service 85 words
    36. Dioxin Emissions 144 words
    37. Food Poisoning 153 words
    38. Edgware General Hospital 170 words
    39. Life Expectancy 51 words
    40. GP-prescribed Drugs 94 words
    41. Suicides 115 words
    42. Ambulance Trusts (Stall) 308 words

Lords Sitting of 21 January 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. War Disablement Pensions: Deafness 1,395 words
  3. Prisons: Suicides 993 words
  4. Hospitals: Additional Finance 1,093 words
  5. Waste Management: Certificates 609 words
  6. Police Bill [H.L.]: Procedure 1,239 words
  7. Procedure of the House: Select Committee Report 615 words
  8. ANNEX
    1. COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS 2,403 words
    2. Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 89 words
    3. Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 30 words
    4. Planning (Hazardous Substances) (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 30 words
    5. Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 30 words
    6. British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill [H.L.] 2 words
    7. Welfare of Broiler Chickens Bill [H.L.] 118 words
    8. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 35,751 words, 3 divisions
    9. Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Bill [H.L.] 8,115 words, 1 division
    10. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 12,736 words, 1 division
    11. Police Bill [H.L.] 4,033 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 21 January 1997

  1. Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996. 85 words
  2. Hot and Cold Water Taps: Safety 163 words
  3. Scottish Prison Service: Penal Lexicon 236 words
  4. Great Lakes Region: Committee Report 611 words
  5. Geneva Conventions: Protocols 1 and 2 110 words
  6. Former Yugoslavia: Aidx 144 words
  7. Sexual Offences against Minors 2,472 words