15 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 15 July 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. KING'S COLLEGE LONDON BILL [Lords] (By Order) 15 words
    2. LEVER PARK BILL (By Order) 15 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SCOTLAND
      1. Local Authority Pay Settlements 420 words
      2. Scottish Parliament 644 words
      3. Fishing Industry 746 words
      4. Referendum 395 words
      5. Scottish Parliament 926 words
      6. White Paper 1,382 words
      7. Environmentally Sensitive Areas 188 words
      8. Health Service (Women and Children) 281 words
      9. Public Transport 497 words
      10. Block Grant 163 words
      11. Health Boards and Trusts 260 words
      12. Dental Health 157 words
    2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. House of Commons Disqualification Act 403 words
      2. Modernisation 372 words
      3. Order Paper 364 words
      4. Messages Between the Houses 560 words
      5. Scottish Grand Committee 526 words
      6. Committee on Standards and Privileges 140 words
  5. Points of Order 961 words
  6. BILL PRESENTED
    1. WIDENING OF THE M25 MOTORWAY 65 words
  7. Television Licence Payments (Age Exemption) 864 words
    1. TELEVISION LICENCE PAYMENTS (AGE EXEMPTION) 271 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Finance Bill 15 words
      1. Clause 1
        1. CHARGE TO WINDFALL TAX 27,104 words, 1 division
      2. Clause 15
        1. MORTGAGE INTEREST PAYMENTS 25,342 words, 2 divisions
  9. Royal Assent 48 words
  10. ESTIMATES 30 words
  11. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1997–98 92 words
  12. CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL 60 words
  13. SELECT COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 29 words
  14. EUROPEAN LEGISLATION 61 words
  15. Insolvency 3,872 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 15 July 1997

  1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Israel 147 words
    2. Amsterdam Treaty 135 words
    3. Gibraltar 73 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Budget 55 words
  3. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. "Mental Incapacity" 92 words
    2. Asylum Seekers 85 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Hendon Police Station 181 words
    2. Members' Interests 316 words
    3. Commercial Lobbyists 203 words
    4. Closed Circuit Television 184 words
    5. Emergency Services (Identity Cards) 60 words
    6. Raphael Rowe 102 words
    7. Smoke Detectors 96 words
    8. Victim Support (Review) 141 words
    9. Ticket Touts 66 words
    10. Immigration Rules 57 words
    11. Strip Searching 236 words
    12. Handguns (Compensation) 151 words
    13. Blind and Partially Sighted Voters 198 words
    14. Police Discipline 83 words
    15. Channel Tunnel 292 words
  5. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Iraq (Sanctions) 142 words
    2. Indonesia 110 words
  6. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Security Facilities Executive 135 words
  7. TREASURY
    1. Youth Unemployment 804 words
    2. Abortion 2,399 words
    3. Unemployment (Gloucestershire) 439 words
    4. Members' Interests 274 words
    5. Mission Statement (MOD) 44 words
    6. Bank of England 58 words
    7. Commercial Lobbyists 178 words
    8. Unemployment (Warrington) 229 words
    9. Life Expectancy 168 words
    10. Ecofin 384 words
    11. Unemployment 186 words
    12. General Government Consumption 125 words
    13. Earnings 778 words
    14. Social Chapter 162 words
  8. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Departmental Name Change 54 words
    2. Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds 83 words
    3. Football Stadia (Wheelchairs) 166 words
    4. Historic Ruins (Thefts) 269 words
    5. BBC (Archives) 200 words
    6. Lottery Funding 105 words
    7. Shooting Competitions 114 words
    8. Sports Councils 84 words
    9. Museums and Galleries (Charges) 105 words
    10. Arts Council Awards 225 words
    11. Millennium Commission 196 words
  9. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Secondary Schools (East Sussex) 52 words
    2. Grant-maintained Schools 78 words
    3. Child Care 129 words
    4. New Deal 483 words
    5. Pupils (Bus Safety) 165 words
    6. Departmental Budgets 235 words
    7. Dearing Review 65 words
    8. Students 2,669 words
    9. Student Governors 82 words
    10. Education Funding 195 words
    11. Disabilities 139 words
  10. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Water Companies 759 words
    2. City Diesel 130 words
    3. Members' Interests 259 words
    4. Voluntary Sports Clubs 83 words
    5. Single Regeneration Budget 142 words
    6. Commercial Lobbyists 183 words
    7. Earth Summit 64 words
    8. Judicial Reviews 60 words
    9. London Docklands Development Corporation 182 words
    10. Housing (Urban Sites) 84 words
    11. Policy Planning Guidance 85 words
    12. Contaminated Land 60 words
    13. Hedgerow Protection 98 words
    14. Safer Cities Programme 112 words
    15. Regional Development Agencies 113 words
    16. Incineration Plants 416 words
    17. Sprinklers 154 words
    18. M3 131 words
    19. Roads (PFI) 82 words
    20. Roads Programme 110 words
    21. Franchising Director 58 words
    22. British Railways Board 161 words
    23. Rail Safety (Educational Visits) 101 words
    24. Air Traffic Control Centre, Prestwick 81 words
    25. Shadow Tolling 185 words
    26. London Bus Services 73 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Export Licences 299 words
    2. Indonesia (Exports) 929 words
    3. Computers (Millennium Compliance) 183 words
    4. Phthalates 402 words
    5. Internet 201 words
    6. VAT (Fuel) 87 words
    7. Gas-fired Power Generation 55 words
    8. Bananas 156 words
    9. EU Low Voltage Directive 462 words
    10. Trade Fair Support 194 words
    11. International Nuclear Safety Convention 125 words
    12. Royal Greenwich Observatory 187 words
    13. Renewable Energy 64 words
    14. Life Patent Directive 219 words
    15. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 92 words
    16. Nuclear Power (Documents) 380 words
    17. BT (Special Share) 86 words
    18. Solar Power 163 words
  12. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Hospital Admissions (Waiting Costs) 56 words
    2. SERPS 376 words
  13. DEFENCE
    1. Pay Deductions 346 words
    2. Army Individual Training Organisation 73 words
    3. Executive Agencies 55 words
    4. Trident 64 words
    5. Plastic Baton Rounds 102 words
  14. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Housing Benefit Fraud 339 words
    2. Gearóid O'Dochartaigh 114 words
    3. Irish Language 119 words
    4. Plastic Baton Rounds 199 words
    5. Holding Centres 539 words
    6. Perinatal Mortality 54 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Channel Tunnel (Electrified Grids) 60 words
    2. Mink Farming 53 words
    3. Radioactive Waste 238 words
    4. Livestock Support Schemes 140 words
    5. Drift Nets 121 words
    6. Minestone Tipping (Northumberland) 64 words
    7. Cattle Transportation 227 words
    8. Beef (Illegal Exports) 279 words
  16. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Cabinet Committees 38 words
  17. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Cycle Allowance 56 words
    2. Visitor Facilities 152 words
    3. Constitutional Bills 44 words
    4. Palace of Westminster 469 words
    5. Privy Counsellors 71 words
    6. Staff Pensions 278 words
    7. Chamber (Structural Changes) 27 words
  18. SCOTLAND
    1. Enterprise Companies 73 words
    2. Local Government Finance 38 words
    3. A96 and A92 113 words
    4. National Health Service Expenditure 60 words
    5. Skye Bridge 47 words
    6. Alcopops 67 words
    7. Fishing Industry 83 words
    8. Acute Care 51 words
    9. Public Appointments 36 words
    10. Government of Scotland White Paper 51 words
    11. Small Towns Initiative 71 words
    12. Milk Quotas 55 words
    13. Agriculture 50 words
    14. Private Finance Initiative 82 words
    15. Scottish Assembly 79 words
    16. Prison Population 144 words
    17. Voluntary Sports Clubs 144 words
    18. Judicial Reviews 331 words
    19. Murder and Manslaughter (Convictions) 546 words
    20. Catholics (Education) 71 words
    21. Departmental Budgets 218 words
    22. Crime and Disorder Bill 87 words
  19. WALES
    1. Welsh Assembly 135 words
    2. Welsh Sport 112 words
    3. Obesity 90 words
    4. Youth Unemployment 87 words
    5. Poor Housing Conditions 169 words
    6. Sickness 102 words
    7. Relative Poverty 58 words
    8. Exports and Imports 78 words
    9. Taff-Ely SSSI 65 words
  20. HEALTH
    1. Black Report 125 words
    2. Health Status Indicators 168 words
    3. NHS Estates 56 words
    4. Dementia 301 words
    5. Long-stay Facilities 211 words
    6. NHS Finance 52 words
    7. Private Finance Initiative 102 words

Lords Sitting of 15 July 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Prisoners: Executive Release 1,369 words
  3. Debt Defaulters: Imprisonment 700 words
  4. Murder: Mandatory Life Sentence 1,446 words
  5. Poverty Elimination: UN Report 801 words
  6. Special Immigration Appeals Commission Bill [H.L.] 869 words
  7. Wireless Telegraphy Bill [H.L.] 3,363 words
  8. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 33,155 words
  9. Royal Assent 45 words
  10. Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 5,763 words
  11. National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill 17 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 15 July 1997

  1. Industrial Performance Measurement 128 words
  2. Mirror Group Newspapers plc: Inspectors' Report 62 words
  3. Mirror Group Newspapers plc: Inquiry 119 words
  4. Devolution Referendums 100 words
  5. RDS-TMC System Pilot: Evaluation 89 words
  6. Water Pollution: Consultation 96 words
  7. NATO Enlargement: Cost 67 words
  8. NATO: Expansion of Role 124 words
  9. University Museums: Funding 210 words
  10. Equal Opportunities Commission 124 words
  11. Clinical Medical Research 109 words
  12. Welfare to Work 182 words
  13. Privy Council Judicial Committee 82 words
  14. Security Service Act: Commissioner's Recommendation 62 words
  15. Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses 47 words
  16. Lockheed Martin and NATO Expansion 101 words
  17. NHS Estates Executive Agency 54 words