23 January 1997

Commons Sitting of 23 January 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. HOME DEPARTMENT
      1. Electoral Registration 663 words
      2. Reoffending 683 words
      3. Cannabis 627 words
      4. Members of Parliament 631 words
      5. Metropolitan Police 476 words
      6. Clear-up Rates 850 words
      7. Woodhill Prison 358 words
      8. Recorded Crime 741 words
      9. Drug Abuse (Prisons) 482 words
      10. Violent Crime 354 words
      11. Police Duties 381 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,089 words
  4. Business of the House 6,954 words
  5. BILL PRESENTED
    1. POLICE AND FIREMEN'S PENSIONS 70 words
    2. Orders of the Day
      1. Finance Bill 24 words
    3. Clause 40
      1. GROUPS CONTAINING BODIES OF DIFFERENT DESCRIPTIONS 4,043 words
    4. Schedule 7
      1. SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR CERTAIN DISTRIBUTIONS 15,120 words, 1 division
      2. Local Government and Rating Bill 57 words
    5. New clause 1
      1. PARISH COUNCILS: ADDITIONAL POWERS 4,272 words
    6. New clause 2
      1. EXEMPTING SHOWHOUSES FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATING 1,830 words
    7. New clause 5
      1. EXEMPTION FOR SPORT AND RECREATION CLUBS 2,088 words
    8. Schedule 1
      1. RELIEF FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATES FOR GENERAL STORES ETC. IN RURAL SETTLEMENTS: ENGLAND AND WALES 2,650 words, 1 division
    9. Clause 27
      1. GRANTS FOR BUS SERVICES 248 words
    10. Schedule 3
      1. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS 625 words
      2. Chesterfield Tribunal Suite 11,047 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 23 January 1997

  1. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Council Housing 151 words
    2. United Nations Environment Programme 190 words
    3. Water Quality 207 words
    4. Irish Sea (Research) 261 words
    5. Groundwater 115 words
    6. Local Government Finance 97 words
    7. Sellafield 688 words
    8. UN Commission on Sustainable Development 390 words
    9. Radionuclide Returns 148 words
    10. Millennium Exhibition 174 words
  2. TRANSPORT
    1. Northstar Pennine Ltd. 99 words
    2. New Car Assessment Programme 458 words
    3. Connex Rail Ltd. 46 words
    4. Rail Transport (Disabled People) 232 words
    5. Road Lighting 162 words
  3. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Child Care Facilities 55 words
    2. Statutory Instruments 597 words
    3. Child Care Facilities 95 words
  4. TREASURY
    1. Incomes (Nottinghamshire) 63 words
    2. Landfill Tax 283 words
    3. Economy (Yorkshire and Humberside) 70 words
  5. DEFENCE
    1. Insecticides (Falkland Islands) 114 words
    2. Nuclear Co-operation 295 words
    3. Trident 53 words
    4. Konver Scheme 108 words
    5. Trident Safety Facility, Devonport 203 words
    6. Stabilisation Force 93 words
    7. Britannia 708 words
    8. Royal Air Force 138 words
    9. Atomic Weapons Establishment 824 words
    10. Chemical Tests (West Indian Islands) 273 words
    11. Royal Naval Auxiliary Service 153 words
    12. Territorial Army 170 words
  6. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. National Vocational Qualifications 583 words
    2. Menorah Foundation 40 words
    3. Torah Temimah 72 words
    4. Education Funding (Kirklees) 371 words
    5. Teachers (Early Retirement) 195 words
    6. Class Sizes 155 words
    7. Special Needs Teachers 61 words
    8. College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies 103 words
  7. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. European Union Aid 150 words
    2. Indonesia 246 words
    3. World Bank (Environmental Impact Assessments) 95 words
    4. Tied Aid 171 words
    5. Food and Agriculture Organisation 92 words
    6. Montserrat 64 words
  8. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Television Licences (Caravan Sites) 227 words
    2. Child Care Facilities 39 words
    3. Digital Broadcasting (Highlands and Islands) 43 words
    4. Arts Funding (South-west) 178 words
    5. National Lottery 197 words
  9. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Organic Farming 86 words
    2. Storm Surges 102 words
    3. New Zealand Flatworm 124 words
  10. HEALTH
    1. Mefloquine 133 words
    2. Residential Care Costs 106 words
    3. Personal Social Services 289 words
    4. Drug Abuse (South Yorkshire) 263 words
    5. Smoking 165 words
    6. Life Expectancy 665 words
    7. Organophosphates 473 words
    8. Leukaemia 170 words
    9. Encryption 66 words
    10. Hospital Beds 91 words
    11. Hospitals 161 words
    12. Cancelled Operations 77 words
    13. Manchester Ambulance Service 81 words
    14. Dental Services 381 words
    15. British Association of Psychopharmacology 67 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Armoured Vehicles (Indonesia) 501 words
    2. Tactica Internal Security Vehicles 52 words
    3. Offshore Oil and Gas 282 words
    4. Global Ocean Observing System 56 words
    5. Intellectual Property 192 words
  12. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Archway Tower 345 words
  13. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. "Barbecue in Rostock" 127 words
  14. WALES
    1. Hospital Closures 62 words
    2. St. David's Medical Centre, Cardiff 85 words
    3. Local Pay Bargaining 116 words
    4. Hospital Beds 2,165 words
    5. Health Authority Budgets 75 words
    6. Hospitals (Dyfed-Powys) 197 words
    7. Health Authorities 229 words
    8. Parliamentary Questions 44 words
    9. Hospitals 569 words
  15. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Disability Appeal Tribunals 100 words
    2. Cancelled Operations 127 words
    3. Disability Living Allowance 217 words
    4. Social Security Appeals 249 words
    5. Benefits Agency Medical Services 174 words
    6. Cold Weather Payments 73 words
    7. Lone Parents 183 words
  16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Nuclear Co-operation 155 words
    2. Lake Kojsanovskoe 60 words
    3. Russia 487 words
    4. Burma 72 words
    5. Royal Family (Clothing Costs) 211 words
    6. General Affairs Council 976 words
    7. Milk Quotas 126 words
  17. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Power Station Emissions 91 words
    2. Executive Agencies (Letters) 248 words
    3. Police Complaints System 229 words
  18. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Border Controls 107 words
    2. Closed Circuit Television 87 words
    3. Reoffending (Young People) 136 words
    4. Category A Prisoners 75 words
    5. Crime Prevention 115 words
    6. Offensive Weapons 114 words
    7. Police Officers 142 words
    8. Devon and Cornwall Police (A30 Site) 84 words
    9. Fire Service (Essex) 87 words
    10. Remand Prisoners 68 words
    11. Visas (Voluntary and Religious Workers) 46 words
    12. Century Date Change (Computers) 103 words
    13. Freemasonry 133 words
    14. Youth Crime (Wolverhampton) 162 words
    15. Violent Crime (Inner Cities) 87 words
    16. Prison Overcrowding 586 words
    17. Stop and Search Powers 200 words
    18. Parliamentary Questions 49 words
    19. Dentists (Assault) 40 words
    20. Drugs 66 words
    21. Child Sex Offenders 53 words
    22. Television Licences (Fine Defaulters) 39 words
    23. Licensing Hours 229 words
    24. Strip Searches (Video Recording) 353 words
    25. Dunblane 163 words
    26. Woodhill Prison 365 words
    27. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 85 words
    28. Maximum Security Prisons 115 words
  19. SCOTLAND
    1. Electricity Interconnector 105 words
    2. Mental Handicap Services 324 words
    3. Food Safety 133 words
    4. Unemployment (Glasgow) 150 words
    5. Departmental Offices 771 words
    6. Marlin Lodge, Newton Mearns 111 words
    7. Employment (Glasgow) 153 words
    8. Glasgow Regeneration Alliance 101 words
    9. Mental Illness Specific Grant 71 words
    10. Irvine Development Corporation 292 words
    11. New Homes 350 words
    12. School Boards 127 words
    13. Sex Offenders 289 words
    14. Game Birds and Raptors 89 words
    15. A74 785 words
    16. Hospital Bids 1,150 words
    17. Hospitals and Hospital Trusts 470 words
    18. Staff 157 words
    19. Cancelled Operations 239 words
    20. Local Partnership Management Boards 53 words
    21. Skye Bridge 121 words

Lords Sitting of 23 January 1997

  1. Preamble 21 words
  2. Fishery Licences 1,203 words
  3. Hospitals: Single Sex Accommodation 1,243 words
  4. Road Safety: Minor Works 711 words
  5. The Economy: Rise in Consumer Demand 1,507 words
  6. Police (Insurance of Voluntary Assistants) Bill [H.L.] 72 words
  7. Charter Trustees Bill [H.L.] 63 words
  8. Home Energy Rating Surveys Bill [H.L.] 2 words
  9. National Health Service (Primary Care) Bill [H.L.] 27,318 words, 3 divisions
  10. Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Bill [H.L.] 13,105 words
  11. Broadcasting (Sign Language) Order 1996 2,449 words
  12. Overseas Domestic Workers (Protection) Bill [H.L.] 2,903 words
  13. RAF Upper Heyford 10,996 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 23 January 1997

  1. General Affairs Council, 20th January 996 words
  2. Shared Embassy Facilities and Services 193 words
  3. Sudan: Church Councils' Appeal 149 words
  4. Burma: Human Rights 186 words
  5. Arbil, Iraq: Destruction of Books and MSS 98 words
  6. Prisoners Returning from Abroad: Habitual Residence Test 100 words
  7. Petrol Stations: Sale of Alcohol 126 words
  8. Charity Lotteries 119 words
  9. Asylum Seekers Married to UK Citizens 134 words
  10. Asylum Seekers: Hunger Strikes 235 words
  11. Message Handling Review 56 words
  12. Agriculture Council, 20th and 21st January 196 words
  13. BSE 991 words