1 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 1 July 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. KING'S COLLEGE LONDON BILL [Lords] (By Order) 15 words
      2. LEVER PARK BILL (By Order) 15 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
      1. Climate Change 755 words
      2. Regional Development Agencies 448 words
      3. Water Leakage 742 words
      4. Earth Summit 2 1,076 words
      5. Revenue Support Grant 344 words
      6. Environment Agency 418 words
      7. Town Centre Initiatives 323 words
      8. Council Tax 336 words
      9. Air Quality 243 words
      10. Inland Waterways 250 words
      11. Road Congestion (Southend-on-Sea) 219 words
      12. Park-and-ride Schemes 527 words
      13. Railway Industry (Claims Handling) 259 words
      14. Trunk Roads Programme (East Sussex) 303 words
      15. Pilotage Limits (Thames Estuary) 404 words
      16. Birmingham Airport 437 words
      17. Public Transport (Rural Areas) 493 words
      18. Bus Deregulation 409 words
      19. Coach Safety 338 words
      20. London Underground 307 words
  4. Points of Order 704 words
  5. BILLS PRESENTED
    1. PUBLIC HOUSE (NAMES) 47 words
    2. REPRESENTATION OF GIBRALTAR AT WESTMINSTER AND IN THE EUROPEAN UNION 102 words
    3. REPRESENTATION OF DEPENDENCIES AT WESTMINSTER 115 words
  6. School Absenteeism 1,360 words
    1. SCHOOL ABSENTEEISM 72 words
  7. International Development 50,120 words
  8. Trawlermen (Compensation) 4,652 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 1 July 1997

  1. DEFENCE
    1. Nuclear Test Veterans 155 words
    2. Cyprus (Environmental Damage) 136 words
    3. Royal Yacht 43 words
    4. Army Recruiting Organisation 413 words
    5. Defence Analytical Services Agency 337 words
    6. Plastic Baton Rounds 244 words
    7. Defence Industry (Chelmsford) 190 words
    8. A1-Yamamah Contract 86 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Metropolitan Police 45 words
    2. European Court of Justice 1,110 words
    3. Schengen Agreement 87 words
    4. Extradition (Mr. Ronnie Biggs) 154 words
    5. Passport Agency (Northern Ireland) 87 words
    6. Mr. Jonathan Aitken 82 words
    7. Asylum Applications 130 words
    8. Police Act 1997 166 words
    9. Electoral Register 155 words
    10. Postal and Proxy Voting 844 words
    11. Polling Stations (Access) 162 words
    12. Protection of Badgers Act 1,256 words
    13. Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 107 words
  3. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Millennium Exhibition 87 words
    2. Millennium Celebrations 82 words
  4. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Public Record Office 400 words
  5. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Drugs Tsar 139 words
    2. Departmental Advisers 174 words
  6. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Planning Service 194 words
    2. Absent Voting 456 words
    3. Unemployment 681 words
    4. Plastic Baton Rounds 77 words
    5. Alcohol Smuggling (Sunday Markets) 42 words
  7. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Special Advisers 190 words
    2. Deregulation 474 words
    3. Freedom of Information 61 words
    4. Sovereign (Communications) 93 words
  8. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Rifle Range 69 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Social Chapter 110 words
    2. European Parliament, Strasbourg 166 words
    3. European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia 102 words
    4. Lomé Convention 136 words
    5. China 92 words
    6. Council of the European Union 763 words
  10. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Welsh Assembly 100 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Mis-selling of Pensions 335 words
    2. Toys (Imports) 135 words
    3. Defence Industry 97 words
    4. Accountancy Firms 131 words
    5. Resort Hotels 85 words
    6. Insolvency Regulators 117 words
    7. Helene Clothing Company Inquiry 39 words
    8. Fraud 143 words
    9. Telecommunications 127 words
    10. Regulations 51 words
    11. Ariane Mission 243 words
    12. CJD Litigation 66 words
    13. Industrial Pollution 134 words
  12. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Teacher Training Recruitment 146 words
    2. Unemployed Teachers 190 words
    3. Jobseeker's Allowance 216 words
    4. Head Teachers 101 words
    5. Primary Class Sizes 200 words
    6. School Performance Targets 110 words
    7. Assisted Places Scheme 119 words
    8. Wakefield Training and Enterprise Council 514 words
    9. Training and Enterprise Councils 282 words
    10. Research Assessment Exercise 85 words
    11. Museums 359 words
    12. Social Costs and Employment 51 words
  13. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Private Secretary 51 words
  14. TREASURY
    1. Stillbirths 296 words
    2. Inland Revenue Chairman 67 words
    3. Cross-border Shopping 234 words
    4. VAT (Fuel) 91 words
    5. Fuel (VAT) 99 words
    6. Stamp Duty 781 words
    7. Private Health Insurance 215 words
    8. Taxation and Duty 96 words
    9. Single Currency 184 words
    10. Demand Elasticity 55 words
    11. Mortgage Interest Relief 181 words
    12. VAT (Fuel) 121 words
    13. Inland Revenue Offices 640 words
    14. Tax Offices 200 words
    15. Drug Imports 51 words
    16. Industrial Investment 45 words
    17. Company Cars 42 words
    18. Tax Receipts 51 words
    19. Self-assessment 47 words
    20. VAT (Holidays) 42 words
    21. Company and Shareholder Taxation 36 words
    22. VAT 154 words
    23. Excise Duty 91 words
    24. Mergers 68 words
    25. Corporate Groups 61 words
    26. Political Appointees 75 words
    27. Customs and Excise 79 words
    28. Policy Making 97 words
    29. Discretionary Trusts 43 words
    30. National Audit Office 273 words
    31. Windfall Tax 57 words
    32. Travel Insurance 90 words
    33. Duty Free Shopping 69 words
    34. Cot Deaths 138 words
    35. Departmental Advisers 149 words
    36. Green Taxes 78 words
    37. Disabled People (Computer Equipment) 64 words
    38. Married Couples (Taxation) 148 words
    39. Holidaymakers (Purchases Abroad) 148 words
    40. Tobacco Taxes 111 words
    41. VAT (Plants) 58 words
    42. Firearms 64 words
    43. Fuel Duty (Rural Areas) 70 words
    44. Interest Rates 632 words
    45. Beer (Illegal Imports) 58 words
    46. Customs and Excise (Expenditure) 77 words
    47. Treasury Economic Brief 57 words
    48. Windfall Tax 63 words
    49. Jobseeker's Allowance 480 words
    50. Tax Returns 380 words
    51. Scottish Parliament 62 words
    52. Budget 66 words
    53. Tax Rates 109 words
  15. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Wet-bikes 89 words
    2. Strategic Authority for London 185 words
    3. Regional Development Agencies 47 words
    4. Social Housing 113 words
    5. Scottish Assembly 81 words
    6. Water Services 156 words
    7. Homelessness 66 words
    8. Construction Contracts (Adjudication) 53 words
    9. Council Tax 75 words
    10. Local Government Services 111 words
    11. National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas 63 words
    12. Local Government Finance 288 words
    13. Structure Plans 143 words
    14. Green Belt (West Midlands) 137 words
    15. Unitary Authorities 65 words
    16. Devolved Decision Making 67 words
    17. Internet 192 words
    18. Passive Smoking 148 words
    19. Contaminated Land 62 words
    20. Environmental Task Force 75 words
    21. Nuclear Discharges 98 words
    22. Housing Benefit 83 words
    23. Lake District Planning Board 227 words
    24. Small Cetaceans Agreement 133 words
    25. Vehicle Emissions Standards 52 words
    26. Birmingham Northern Relief Road 60 words
    27. Railway Industry (Investment) 69 words
    28. Trust Ports 69 words
    29. M62 Relief Road 43 words
    30. Public Transport (Bicycles) 133 words
    31. London Underground 126 words
    32. Airports (Investment) 70 words
    33. A1 (Morpeth) 46 words
    34. Road Traffic 50 words
    35. Traffic Flow (London) 71 words
    36. Heathrow and Gatwick Airports 111 words
    37. Cycling 55 words
    38. Roads Programme Review 130 words
    39. Channel Tunnel (Safety) 96 words
    40. Public Servants (Car Use) 147 words
    41. Rail Services (South West) 88 words
    42. Network Card 224 words
    43. Bus Route Tenders (London) 81 words
    44. Lightning Jets 174 words
    45. M25 296 words
    46. A23 79 words
    47. Vehicle Excise Duty 63 words
  16. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Child Support Agency 142 words
    2. Pensioners' Christmas Bonus 98 words
    3. Benefits (Payment) 301 words
    4. Housing Benefit (Rent Levels) 139 words
    5. Pensioners (VAT on Fuel) 74 words
  17. SCOTLAND
    1. Crofting 104 words
    2. Bullying 266 words
    3. Health Boards 159 words
    4. Water Authorities 78 words
    5. Private Finance Initiative 549 words
    6. Badgers 78 words
    7. Museums 59 words
  18. HEALTH
    1. Royal Bolton Hospital 154 words
    2. Surgical Work 185 words
    3. Waiting Lists 128 words
    4. Prescriptions 72 words
    5. Health Service Reviews 326 words
    6. Dental Services 102 words
    7. Cancer Treatment (CPT-II) 232 words
    8. Health Service Fraud 158 words
    9. Hepatitis C 173 words
    10. Private Finance Initiative 141 words
    11. Elmstead House, Hendon 47 words
    12. Health Service Professionals 131 words
    13. BSE 242 words
    14. Blood Centre, Liverpool 90 words
    15. Hospitals (London Review) 39 words
    16. Basildon and Thurrock Hospital Trust 685 words
    17. Cot Deaths 169 words
    18. NHS Trusts 158 words
    19. Euthanasia 119 words
    20. Social and Health Care 86 words
    21. Tobacco 296 words
  19. WALES
    1. Hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent 811 words
    2. Building Waste (Dumping) 77 words
    3. Wildlife Protection 1,621 words
  20. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Cattle Tags 54 words
    2. BSE 704 words
    3. Hunt Kennels 189 words
    4. Cumbria Fisheries 74 words
    5. Cattle (Payments) 87 words
    6. Cattle Cull (Compensation) 103 words
    7. Seed Companies 79 words
    8. Drift Nets 482 words
    9. Food Poisoning 91 words
    10. Arable Area Payments Scheme 28 words
    11. MAFF Service Centres 86 words
    12. Grant Applications (Truro) 48 words
    13. Beaufort's Dyke 230 words

Lords Sitting of 1 July 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Lord Kelvedon 39 words
  3. Public Health Laboratory Service 585 words
  4. Pension Sharing 1,614 words
  5. Bus Lanes: Effectiveness 1,134 words
  6. Funding Agency for Schools 618 words
  7. Imperial College Bill 13 words
  8. Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill 34,648 words
  9. Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan 8,390 words
  10. Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill 11,242 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 1 July 1997

  1. Public Record Office: Performance Targets 348 words
  2. Partnership in the Workplace 168 words
  3. Housing Benefit: Local Reference Rent 153 words
  4. Social Security Benefit Disentitlement 185 words