14 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 14 July 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral answers to Questions
    1. DEFENCE
      1. Gulf War Veterans 1,686 words
      2. Armed Forces (Recruitment) 740 words
      3. Horseshoe Barracks 264 words
      4. Trident 410 words
      5. NATO Enlargement 1,175 words
      6. Strategic Defence Review 694 words
      7. Rents (Married Quarters) 287 words
      8. Defence Procurement Budget 671 words
      9. Joint Projects (French Armed Forces) 405 words
      10. Anti-personnel Land Mines 418 words
    2. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
      1. Clergy Stipends and Pensions 460 words
      2. Investment Income 365 words
      3. Ethical Investments 541 words
      4. Pensions 265 words
  4. "Yesterday in Parliament" 707 words
  5. Finance Bill (Allocation of Time) 29,894 words, 1 division
  6. Orders of the Day
    1. National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [Lords] 27,131 words
  7. Clause 1
    1. POWERS OF NHS TRUSTS TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENTS 19,388 words, 2 divisions
  8. New clause 1
    1. COMMENCEMENT 3,561 words
  9. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 30 words
    1. LEGAL AID AND ADVICE 24 words
    2. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 118 words
    3. INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND DEVELOPMENT 26 words
  10. AGRICULTURE 51 words
  11. DEFENCE 50 words
  12. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT 67 words
  13. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS 73 words
  14. HEALTH 48 words
  15. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 52 words
  16. NATIONAL HERITAGE 51 words
  17. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 52 words
  18. SCOTTISH AFFAIRS 51 words
  19. SOCIAL SECURITY 51 words
  20. TRADE AND INDUSTRY 51 words
  21. WELSH AFFAIRS 51 words
  22. Housing Benefit 4,070 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 14 July 1997

  1. TREASURY
    1. 1998 Budget 74 words
    2. Employer Pension Funds 196 words
    3. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 171 words
    4. Strategic Defence Review 61 words
    5. Windfall Tax 112 words
    6. Departmental Spending Controls 320 words
    7. Private Finance Initiative 64 words
    8. Comprehensive Spending Review 65 words
    9. Customs (Staff) 255 words
    10. National Lottery 94 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Water and Drainage Utilities (Information) 264 words
    2. VAT (Fuel) 188 words
    3. Household Waste Recycling 99 words
    4. Hedgerows 156 words
    5. Local Authority Pension Funds 236 words
    6. Cleaner Fuels 258 words
    7. UN Environment Programme 140 words
    8. Fossil Fuels 125 words
    9. Out-of-town Shopping Centres 50 words
    10. Bed and Breakfast Facilities 150 words
    11. Local Authority Rents 99 words
    12. Social Services Expenditure 79 words
    13. Compulsory Competitive Tendering 84 words
    14. Local Government Finance (Bolton) 109 words
    15. Planning Guidelines (MOD Land) 169 words
    16. Youth Workers 35 words
    17. Pollution 60 words
    18. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 257 words
    19. Wildlife and Countryside Act 53 words
    20. Departmental Budgets 253 words
    21. CITES Conference 926 words
    22. Travellers 316 words
    23. Local Authorities' Pension Schemes 113 words
    24. Credit Approvals 120 words
    25. Ministerial Speech 64 words
    26. Uniform Business Rate 55 words
    27. Rate Capping 202 words
    28. Radioactive Materials (Transportation) 564 words
    29. Shadow Tolls 81 words
    30. London Buses Ltd. 82 words
    31. London Regional Transport 70 words
    32. Colchester High Street 286 words
    33. Air Traffic Control 40 words
    34. Channel Tunnel 456 words
    35. Ports 203 words
    36. Genetically Modified Organisms 634 words
  3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Serious Fraud Office (Annual Report) 47 words
    2. Crown Prosecution Service (Annual Report) 51 words
  4. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Strategic Defence Review 314 words
    2. Nigeria 108 words
    3. NATO Enlargement (Slovenia) 85 words
    4. EU Presidency 148 words
    5. Interception of Communications 221 words
    6. Schengen Agreement 91 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Wrongful Convictions 517 words
    2. State of Emergency (Northern Ireland) 126 words
    3. Torture 165 words
    4. Exclusion Orders 89 words
    5. Deportation Orders 84 words
    6. Prisoners (Transfers) 1,277 words
    7. Special Secure Units 181 words
    8. Domestic Violence 209 words
    9. Animal Experiments 524 words
    10. Identity Cards 86 words
    11. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam 50 words
    12. Pigeon Feeding 96 words
    13. Policing (Party Conferences) 112 words
    14. Strip Searching 137 words
    15. Probation Officers 62 words
    16. Prison Officers 102 words
    17. Prisoners (Alcohol and Drugs) 744 words
    18. Prison Service 62 words
    19. Raphael Rowe 126 words
  6. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Ashford High School 52 words
    2. Primary School Pupils (Stoke-on-Trent) 120 words
    3. Primary Class Sizes 684 words
    4. Statemented Children 3,051 words
    5. New Deal 225 words
    6. Youth Service 101 words
    7. Departmental Publications 159 words
    8. "Excellence in Schools" 43 words
    9. Disability Rights Commission 83 words
  7. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Lockerbie 169 words
    2. National Heritage Department 181 words
    3. Pension Schemes (Corporate Dividends) 109 words
    4. Open Government 75 words
    5. Minister for Trade and Competitiveness in Europe 177 words
    6. Disabled People (Harassment) 149 words
    7. Parliamentary Questions 51 words
    8. Departmental Advisers 185 words
    9. Ministers (Transport Costs) 93 words
  8. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Gazumping 80 words
  9. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
    1. Bishops' Residences 131 words
    2. Hagg Wood (Public Access) 86 words
  10. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION
    1. National Audit Office (Staffing) 95 words
  11. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Members' Interests 306 words
    2. UNESCO 71 words
    3. World Trade Organisation 71 words
    4. UNIDO 58 words
    5. Nigeria 39 words
    6. Jordan 52 words
    7. Development Educational Council 40 words
    8. Transnational Companies (Code of Conduct) 85 words
    9. Aid 165 words
    10. Poverty 83 words
    11. Trade and Overseas Aid 86 words
  12. DEFENCE
    1. Eurofighter 143 words
    2. NATO Applicants 86 words
    3. British Forces (Bosnia) 47 words
    4. Anti-personnel Land Mines 79 words
    5. Peacekeeping Troops 89 words
    6. Strategic Defence Review 268 words
    7. Joint Services Command and Staff College 176 words
    8. Deceased Pilots (Fatal Accidents) 82 words
    9. Armed Forces (Retention) 183 words
    10. Service Women 49 words
    11. MOD Land 99 words
    12. Statement on the Defence Estimates 83 words
    13. Territorial Army (Funding) 63 words
    14. Aircraft Procurement (RAF) 33 words
    15. Submarines (Fishing Grounds) 136 words
    16. Trident 48 words
    17. NATO Enlargement 45 words
    18. Defence Medical Services 182 words
    19. Armed Forces (Training) 166 words
    20. Defence Exports (Indonesia) 59 words
    21. Foresight Action Programme 106 words
    22. 34 Field Hospital 422 words
    23. Defence Industry 52 words
    24. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 315 words
    25. Royal Naval College 75 words
    26. Humanitarian Projects 175 words
    27. Historic Buildings, Greenwich 256 words
    28. Interception of Communications 833 words
    29. Visiting Forces 393 words
    30. RAF Menwith Hill 58 words
    31. Nuclear Materials (Transportation) 69 words
    32. Plastic Baton Rounds 837 words
    33. Defence Sales 75 words
    34. Redundant Land 56 words
  13. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Area Museum Councils 87 words
    2. Tourist Facilities 55 words
    3. Birmingham Botanical Gardens 34 words
    4. Hotels 64 words
    5. Royal Yacht 57 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Departmental Publications 171 words
    2. A1 (Lorries) 82 words
  15. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Deregulation 96 words
  16. WALES
    1. Compulsory Competitive Tendering 56 words
    2. Dyfed Powys Health Authority 130 words
    3. Departmental Publications 139 words
  17. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Exclusion Orders 65 words
    2. Departmental Budgets 207 words
  18. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Minimum Wage 254 words
    2. Minister for Trade and Competitiveness in Europe 358 words
    3. Travel Trade 250 words
    4. Competitiveness 94 words
    5. Timeshare 180 words
    6. Business Support 154 words
    7. Royal Observatories 196 words
    8. Telecommunications 37 words
    9. Ministerial Visit (Japan) 119 words
    10. Free Trade 81 words
    11. Freedom of Information 53 words
    12. Nuclear Power 153 words
    13. Export Licences (Indonesia) 111 words
    14. Renewable Energy 211 words
    15. Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs 141 words
    16. Towards 2000 Trade Exhibition 80 words
    17. Ferry Line Merger 301 words
    18. Post Office 53 words
  19. HEALTH
    1. Emergency Admissions 577 words
    2. Medical Negligence 121 words
    3. Computers (Century Date Change) 166 words
    4. PFI Hospital Projects 86 words
    5. NHS Expenditure 768 words
    6. Waiting Lists 99 words
    7. Elderly Care Beds (North Staffordshire) 78 words
    8. Private Health Insurance 102 words
    9. Departmental Publications 303 words
    10. Joint Commissioning 186 words
    11. Mental Illness 80 words
    12. Obstetrical Brachial Palsy 626 words
    13. Funding 27 words
    14. Emergency Admissions 169 words
    15. Departmental Budgets 73 words
    16. Waiting Times 154 words
    17. Farmers' Suicides 117 words
  20. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Child Benefit Centre 143 words
    2. Pensions (Prisoners) 117 words
    3. Tax and Benefit Reviews 235 words
    4. Housing Benefit 165 words
    5. Housing and Council Tax Benefits 102 words
    6. Appeals 182 words
    7. Disability Living Allowance 143 words
    8. Policy Reviews 113 words
    9. Council Tax Benefit 122 words
    10. Income Support 87 words
    11. Departmental Budgets 297 words
    12. Advance Corporation Tax 96 words
    13. Residential Allowances 82 words
  21. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Radioactive Waste 250 words
    2. Agri-environment Schemes 366 words
    3. Horn Products 266 words
    4. Food Safety 328 words
    5. Banana Quotas 239 words
    6. Genetically Modified Soya Beans 117 words

Lords Sitting of 14 July 1997

  1. Preamble 26 words
  2. Equal Pay 1,277 words
  3. Customs and Excise: Gambling Duty 340 words
  4. Motor Car Emissions: Reduction 1,579 words
  5. Eurofighter Aircraft Programme 925 words
  6. Imperial College Bill 8 words
  7. Coordinated Universal Time Bill [H.L.] 11 words
  8. Structural and Cohesion Funds: ECC Report 21,036 words
  9. Court Fees 10,105 words
  10. The Caribbean 10,423 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 14 July 1997

  1. Defence Equipment Sale Guidelines 76 words
  2. Intelligence Services Act: Commissioner's Recommendation 77 words
  3. Women's National Commission 127 words
  4. NATO: Civil and Parliamentary Oversight 153 words
  5. OSCE States' Bilateral Military Relations 135 words
  6. Bomb Test Drop 84 words