16 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 16 July 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Rural Policies 11,256 words
  4. Coal Areas (Housing) 12,061 words
  5. Manchester Airport (Second Runway) 4,356 words
  6. Measles Vaccines 4,054 words
  7. New Age Travellers (Harborough) 5,440 words
  8. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES
      1. Devolution 2,858 words
      2. Regional Air Network 172 words
      3. Devolution 609 words
      4. Proportional Representation 180 words
      5. Devolution 499 words
      6. Health Targets 190 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 732 words
      2. Lockerbie 268 words
      3. Engagements 3,675 words
  9. GP Fundholding 3,930 words
  10. Foreign Income Dividends 472 words
  11. BILL PRESENTED
    1. ELECTIONS (VISUALLY IMPAIRED VOTERS) 70 words
  12. Animal Health (Amendment) 1,117 words
  13. ANIMAL HEALTH (AMENDMENT) 45 words
  14. Orders of the Day
    1. Finance Bill 18 words
      1. Clause 17
        1. WITHDRAWAL OF RELIEF ON MEDICAL INSURANCE PREMIUMS 22,779 words, 1 division
      2. Clause 19
        1. PENSION FUNDS NO LONGER ENTITLED TO PAYMENT OF TAX CREDITS 23,162 words, 2 divisions
      3. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 17 words
        1. PUBLIC HEALTH 55 words
        2. MONOPOLIES AND MERGERS 44 words
        3. NORTHERN IRELAND 22 words
        4. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 61 words
        5. FOREIGN AFFAIRS 55 words
        6. HOME AFFAIRS 51 words
        7. TREASURY 53 words
    2. Prisons (Drug and Alcohol Abuse) 3,911 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 16 July 1997

  1. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Statutory Instruments 378 words
    2. Select Committee on European Legislation 125 words
  2. TREASURY
    1. Dividend Tax Credits 166 words
    2. Tax Loopholes 415 words
    3. Private Finance Initiative 47 words
    4. Tax Changes 447 words
    5. VAT (Fuel) 123 words
    6. Pensioners (Fuel Costs) 184 words
    7. Earnings (Blackpool) 201 words
    8. Infant Mortality 192 words
    9. Civil Service Pay 163 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Domestic Violence 661 words
    2. Public Interest Immunity Certificates 143 words
    3. Prison and Probation Services 354 words
    4. Alcopops 55 words
    5. Animal Experiments 1,009 words
    6. Youth Crime 163 words
    7. Intrusive Surveillance 110 words
    8. Fire Safety 116 words
    9. Yugoslavia (Displaced Persons) 779 words
    10. Judicial Reviews 133 words
    11. Murder and Manslaughter 1,312 words
    12. Perjury 232 words
    13. Wrongful Convictions 287 words
  4. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Next Steps Agencies 171 words
  5. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Soil Erosion (Sheep) 104 words
    2. Piglets (Tail Docking) 95 words
    3. Genetically Modified Food 188 words
    4. Beef (Intervention Stores) 51 words
    5. Environmentally Sensitive Areas Report 78 words
  6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Immigration 233 words
    2. Land Mines 140 words
    3. Russia 106 words
    4. Venezuela (British Nationals) 278 words
    5. Amsterdam Treaty 435 words
    6. Indonesia 67 words
  7. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Live Performances 64 words
    2. Recreation and Leisure Facilities 637 words
    3. Broadcasting 234 words
    4. Film 185 words
    5. Hotel Rating 343 words
  8. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Indonesia 668 words
    2. Cambodia 316 words
    3. Departmental Budgets 215 words
    4. Commercial Lobbyists 186 words
    5. Know How Consultancies 135 words
    6. Development Assistance 144 words
    7. Kenya 238 words
    8. Organic Produce 639 words
  9. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Travel-to-work Costs 122 words
    2. Pension Age 745 words
    3. Income Support and Jobseeker's Allowance 98 words
    4. Earnings Disregards 333 words
    5. Housing Benefit 600 words
    6. Benefits Agency 1,304 words
    7. Housing Costs 139 words
    8. Jobseeker's Allowance 87 words
  10. WALES
    1. Children (Adult Wards) 72 words
    2. Green Pound 63 words
    3. Welsh Assembly 506 words
    4. Sustainable Development Strategy 63 words
    5. Health Authorities (Finance) 534 words
    6. Industrial Investments 65 words
    7. Pensioners 23 words
    8. Dental Services 69 words
    9. Transport 83 words
    10. Referendum 99 words
    11. Welfare-to-work Programme 63 words
    12. Family Farms 78 words
    13. Departmental Budgets 215 words
    14. EU Regional Development Fund 181 words
    15. Health Trusts 302 words
    16. Brecon Community Hospital 35 words
  11. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Engineering 171 words
    2. Training and Enterprise Councils 36 words
    3. Constituency Cases 360 words
    4. Universities (Overseas Earnings) 76 words
    5. National Disability Council 46 words
    6. Disability Discrimination 61 words
    7. Blind and Partially Sighted People 72 words
  12. HEALTH
    1. Hospital Building 96 words
    2. NHS Expenditure 96 words
    3. Prescription Fraud 97 words
    4. Road Traffic Accidents 80 words
    5. Private Finance Initiative 377 words
    6. Head Lice 795 words
    7. Obesity 351 words
    8. Junior Doctors 133 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Traffic (Bangor) 223 words
    2. Child Support Agency 426 words
    3. Irish Garda (Firearms) 70 words
    4. Sir David Fell 150 words
    5. Anglo-Irish Secretariat 61 words
    6. Government Purchasing Agency 144 words
    7. Petrol Bombs 203 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Compulsory Competitive Tendering 177 words
    2. Private Finance Initiative 86 words
    3. School Leavers (Illiteracy) 94 words
    4. Lockerbie 98 words
    5. Departmental Expenditure 776 words
    6. Occupational Therapists 428 words
    7. Nurses 834 words
  15. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Rail Services (Cycles) 216 words
    2. Sea Empress Incident 204 words
    3. Lavatory Cisterns 138 words
    4. Organophosphates 294 words
    5. Rural Business Use 259 words
    6. Genetically Modified Organisms 144 words
    7. EU Object 2 Funding 149 words
  16. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Regional Assistance and Investment 70 words
    2. Minister for Trade and Competiveness in Europe 209 words
    3. Post Office 130 words
    4. Low Pay Commission 54 words
    5. Territorial Employment Pacts 244 words
    6. Human Genome Project 171 words
    7. Sector Challenge 171 words
    8. Aid and Trade Provision Projects 90 words
    9. Trade Fairs 243 words
    10. UK Exports Database 163 words
    11. Small Firms 83 words
    12. Disability Discrimination Act 1995 159 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Northern Ireland 495 words
    2. Portsmouth Naval Base 157 words
    3. Territorial Army 215 words
    4. Judicial Reviews 275 words
    5. Joint Service Command and Staff College 251 words
    6. Mission Statement 45 words
    7. National Service 42 words
    8. Strategic Defence Review 154 words
    9. Department for International Development 95 words
    10. RAF 14 MU 109 words
    11. Defence Budget (Germany) 90 words
    12. Ethnic Minorities 67 words
    13. Homosexuality 145 words
    14. Joint Rapid Deployment Force 171 words
    15. Millennium Celebrations 102 words
    16. Ex-Service Affairs Ministry 110 words
    17. Radioactive Materials (Transportation) 80 words
    18. Chemical Weapons 99 words

Lords Sitting of 16 July 1997

  1. Preamble 32 words
  2. The Windfall Tax and Unemployment 1,337 words
  3. Northern Irelandn: Inward Investment 1,232 words
  4. Mineworkers' Pension Scheme 854 words
  5. Pathology and Radiology Services 991 words
  6. Business 46 words
  7. Schools and Preparation for Adult Life 4,549 words
  8. GP Fundholding 2,804 words
  9. Schools and Preparation for Adult Life 14,382 words
  10. The Probation Service 14,093 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 16 July 1997

  1. Gibraltar 93 words
  2. Tunisia 25 words
  3. Department for International Development: Funding 94 words
  4. Landmines 74 words
  5. Water Services 785 words
  6. "Sea Empress": Report 218 words
  7. Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland 55 words
  8. Relief of Distress 253 words
  9. Asylum Seekers: Local Authority Obligations 295 words
  10. Fire Safety Regulations 128 words
  11. Intrusive Surveillance: Code of Practice 114 words
  12. Refugees from Former Yugoslavia 568 words
  13. Prison and Probation Services: Joint Working 366 words
  14. Alcopops 64 words
  15. Child Support Agency 177 words
  16. Child Support Scheme 142 words