10 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 10 July 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TREASURY
      1. Welfare-to-work Strategy 870 words
      2. Water Utilities 495 words
      3. Economic Cycle 1,248 words
      4. VAT (Tourism) 372 words
      5. Departmental Spending Plans 702 words
      6. Public-private Partnership 583 words
      7. VAT (Domestic Fuel) 461 words
      8. Exchange Rate 511 words
      9. Windfall Tax 513 words
      10. Fiscal Policy (Pensioners) 549 words
      11. Welfare-to-work Strategy 430 words
      12. Sterling 503 words
      13. Business Costs 383 words
      14. Business Research and Development 603 words
      15. Government Assets Register 211 words
  4. Bosnia (War Criminals) 3,112 words
  5. Business of the House 5,727 words
  6. Points of Order 429 words
  7. BILL PRESENTED
    1. EDUCATION (STUDENT LOANS) 60 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Finance Bill 44,432 words, 1 division
    2. SELECT COMMITTEES RELATED TO GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS 53 words
  9. PETITION
    1. Ben Needham 175 words
    2. Debt Recovery 2,568 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 10 July 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Elections (Communication Costs) 77 words
    2. Immigration 113 words
    3. Correspondence 235 words
    4. Police Act 1997 93 words
    5. Perjury 80 words
    6. Theft Cases 161 words
    7. Drinking (Public Places) 63 words
    8. Probation Officers 237 words
    9. Hunting with Hounds 57 words
    10. Obscenity Working Group 199 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Opposition Benefits (Cost) 163 words
    2. Workings of the House Review 94 words
    3. Parental Leave 79 words
  3. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Armistice (80th Anniversary) 82 words
    2. Hairdressing Costs 89 words
    3. Budget Leaks 90 words
    4. China 192 words
    5. Indian Subcontinent (Visits) 126 words
    6. 10 Downing Street (Energy Efficiency) 136 words
    7. Millennium Celebrations 140 words
    8. Ministerial Committee on the Environment 72 words
  4. DEFENCE
    1. Defence Medical Training Organisation 377 words
    2. Medical Supplies Agency 230 words
    3. Defence Dental Agency 264 words
    4. Defence Secondary Care Agency 249 words
    5. Regimental Museums 594 words
    6. Strategic Defence Review 108 words
    7. Departmental Property 93 words
    8. Open Government Review 58 words
    9. Britannia 44 words
    10. Regiment Manning Levels 196 words
    11. Prisoners of War (Pay) 55 words
    12. Defence Test and Research Organisation 89 words
    13. Maritime Patrol Aircraft 121 words
    14. Defence Sales 85 words
    15. Computers (Century Date Change) 230 words
    16. Gulf War Syndrome 125 words
    17. Equipment Exhibition (Farnborough) 119 words
  5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Crown Prosecution Service 53 words
  6. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Legal Aid 178 words
    2. Consumer Protection 110 words
    3. Gwent Magistrates' Courts 139 words
    4. Gwent Justices 210 words
    5. Crown Courts 459 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Immigration (Computer Problems) 161 words
    2. Mr. Eamon Peter Helly 130 words
    3. Sri Lanka 181 words
    4. Anglo-Chinese Relations 38 words
    5. Mr. David Mathieson 34 words
  8. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Strategic Defence Review 72 words
    2. Montserrat 140 words
  9. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Sporting Events (Televising) 175 words
    2. BBC 124 words
    3. Tourism 92 words
  10. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Departmental Advisers 180 words
    2. Regional Development Agencies 118 words
    3. Non-domestic Rates 72 words
    4. Valuation Tribunals 46 words
    5. Air Quality Management 58 words
    6. Council Tax (Mobile Homes) 79 words
    7. Compulsory Competitive Tendering 117 words
    8. Regional Development Offices, Cambridge 85 words
    9. Homelessness 256 words
    10. Power Boats 160 words
  11. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Staff Relocation, Cambridge 89 words
    2. BSE (Organophosphates) 148 words
    3. Beef Imports 185 words
    4. BSE (Compensation Payments) 208 words
    5. Beef 283 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Supportive Flatmate Scheme 112 words
    2. Hospital Building Programme 107 words
    3. Computers (Century Date Change) 227 words
    4. Skye Bridge 165 words
    5. A1 102 words
    6. Lockerbie 111 words
    7. Traveller Sites 91 words
    8. Court Service 595 words
  13. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Millennium Exhibition 42 words
  14. WALES
    1. Teachers 87 words
    2. Welfare to Work Taskforce 105 words
    3. Unskilled Manual Workers 78 words
    4. Skilled Workers (Deeside) 87 words
    5. Job Creation 49 words
    6. Nursery Education 72 words
    7. Unemployment 257 words
    8. School Leavers (Literacy) 152 words
    9. Training (Deeside) 69 words
    10. Renovation Grants 467 words
    11. Public Bodies 65 words
    12. Computers (Century Date Change) 120 words
    13. Residential Care 155 words
    14. Cardiff Bay 146 words
    15. Bute Avenue PFI Scheme 103 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Electors Lists 178 words
    2. Postal Voting Papers 130 words
    3. Electricity Interconnector 78 words
    4. Water Cannon 30 words
    5. Old Documents 186 words
  16. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Training 855 words
    2. Restart Interviews 197 words
    3. Jobseeker's Allowance 545 words
    4. Student Loans 77 words
    5. New Deal 424 words
    6. Ministerial Visits (Schools) 280 words
    7. Employment Service 432 words
    8. Training and Enterprise Councils (Special Needs) 111 words
    9. University Research 311 words
    10. Pupil-teacher Ratios 1,965 words
    11. Pupils (Staying-on Rates) 1,513 words
    12. GCSE Scores 1,626 words
    13. Old Documents 69 words
    14. Lifelong Learning 95 words
    15. Computers (Century Date Change) 153 words
    16. Job Clubs 174 words
    17. Engineering 307 words
    18. Further Education Funding (Worcestershire) 64 words
    19. Full Employment 136 words
    20. Primary Class Sizes 252 words
    21. Nursery Education 274 words
  17. HEALTH
    1. Private Finance Initiative 316 words
    2. Work Load Planning 171 words
    3. Clinical Support Services 84 words
    4. Medical Procedures 51 words
    5. Primary Act Pilot Initiative 156 words
    6. NHS Services 83 words
    7. Departmental Annual Report 131 words
    8. NHS Expenditure Review 67 words
    9. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 152 words
    10. NHS Efficiency Task Force 139 words
    11. Fertility Treatment 43 words
    12. Dental Services 48 words
    13. Long-term Care 88 words
    14. Capital Investment 124 words
    15. Prescription Fraud 44 words
    16. Health Authority Membership 62 words
    17. Postal and Proxy Forms (Charges) 83 words
    18. Health Services (Warrington) 118 words
    19. Community Health Councils 82 words
    20. Biotechnological Inventions 203 words
    21. Community Care (Transitional Grant) 172 words
    22. Social Services (Charges) 175 words
    23. Capital Prioritisation Advisory Group 269 words
    24. PFI Hospital Projects 522 words
    25. Donepezil 57 words
    26. Elderly Patients 274 words
    27. Alzheimer's Disease 85 words
  18. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Community Care 51 words
    2. Jobseeker's Allowance 1,188 words
    3. Income Support 198 words
    4. Back-to-work Bonus 357 words
    5. Benefit Integrity Project 335 words
    6. Benefits Fraud Hotline 470 words
    7. Disability Living Allowance 265 words
  19. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Nuclear Power 115 words
    2. Nuclear Material 392 words
    3. Working Hours 91 words
    4. Engineering (Women) 223 words
    5. Low Pay Commission 376 words
    6. National Minimum Wage 33 words
    7. Post Office 127 words
    8. Consumer Issues (Questionnaire) 223 words
    9. PPARC 407 words
    10. European Space Agency 180 words
    11. Observatories 279 words
    12. Astronomy Technology Centre 69 words
    13. CERN 177 words
    14. Nautical Almanac Office 58 words
    15. Trade Associations 62 words
    16. Nuclear Power Stations (Closure) 63 words
    17. Living Genetic Material (Patents) 102 words
    18. Biotechnological Inventions 163 words
    19. Radioactive Waste Storage 127 words
    20. Minister for Trade and Competitiveness in Europe 1,009 words
    21. Ministerial Responsibilities 146 words
    22. Arms Sales (Saudi Arabia) 205 words
  20. TREASURY
    1. Windfall Tax 376 words
    2. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 124 words
    3. Interest Rates 182 words
    4. Investment 48 words
    5. Inland Revenue Offices 68 words
    6. Welfare-to-work Strategy 104 words
    7. Pension Misselling 74 words
    8. Single Currency 107 words
    9. Privatised Utilities (Investment) 48 words
    10. Jobs Summit, Luxembourg 110 words
    11. Small Businesses 79 words
    12. Mission Statement 42 words
    13. Public Finances 132 words
    14. Private Finance Initiative 82 words
    15. Bank Regulation 75 words
    16. Student Loan Debt Sale 305 words
    17. VAT (Domestic Fuel) 59 words
    18. HIPC Initiative 187 words
    19. Computers (Century Date Change) 174 words
    20. Contractors' Commissions 125 words
    21. Personal Equity Plans 109 words
    22. Inflation 97 words
    23. Savings 48 words
    24. Commemorative Coins 233 words
    25. Valuation Office, Warrington 546 words
    26. Freedom of Information 46 words
    27. Securities and Investments Board 241 words
    28. Advanced Corporation Tax 124 words
    29. Construction Industry 143 words
    30. Old Documents 108 words
    31. Capital Receipts Initiative 142 words

Lords Sitting of 10 July 1997

  1. Preamble 29 words
  2. Reproductive Health 1,117 words
  3. Romania 1,164 words
  4. The Economy 1,159 words
  5. Private Pension Funds: Abolition of Tax Credits 922 words
  6. Business 110 words
  7. Magistrates' Courts (Procedure) Bill [H.L.] 81 words
  8. Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Bill [H.L.] 79 words
  9. Education (Schools) Bill 9,153 words
  10. Bosnia: Indicted War Criminals 3,346 words
  11. Education (Schools) Bill 5,055 words
  12. REPORT ON EFFECT OF ABOLITION OF ASSISTED PLACES SCHEMES 16,993 words
  13. Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Amendment Regulations 1997 1,874 words
  14. Legal Advice and Assistance (Scope) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 2,023 words
  15. Education (Schools) Bill 952 words
  16. POWER OF LOCAL AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE TO ASSIST PUPILS 6,903 words
  17. Parliamentary Privilege 54 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 10 July 1997

  1. Peers: Desk Allocation 70 words
  2. Anglers' Charter 83 words
  3. Employment Levels 146 words
  4. Windfall Tax: Impact 91 words
  5. Industrial Assurance Acts Deregulation Order 76 words
  6. UK Forest Standard 138 words
  7. Poverty Eradication 121 words
  8. Department for International Development 73 words
  9. Scarman Trust and Charter 88 137 words
  10. Scarman Trust: Charitable Status 41 words
  11. Colney Hospital Scheme 257 words
  12. Prostate Cancer: Screening 271 words
  13. Health of the Nation: Targets 105 words
  14. Regional Service Centres: Performance Data 560 words