21 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 21 July 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
      1. Millennium Projects 633 words
      2. Works of Art 581 words
      3. Millennium Projects 511 words
      4. Industrial Heritage (Museums) 723 words
      5. British Academy of Sport 649 words
      6. Film Industry 523 words
      7. Cable Television Companies 391 words
      8. Media Ownership 776 words
      9. National Lottery 569 words
      10. Digital Television 441 words
      11. Football 280 words
    2. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
      1. Public Defenders 232 words
      2. Woolf Report 302 words
      3. Legal Aid 856 words
      4. European Convention on Human Rights 276 words
      5. Legal Aid 197 words
      6. Magistrates Courts 199 words
  4. National Lottery 6,738 words
  5. Points of Order 1,785 words
  6. Orders of the Day
    1. Education (Student Loans) Bill 12,709 words, 1 division
    2. EDUCATION (STUDENT LOANS) BILL [MONEY] 90 words
  7. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 30 words
    1. HOUSING 23 words
    2. NORTHERN IRELAND 27 words
  8. HEALTH 29 words
  9. Higher Education Institutions 4,157 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 July 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Young Offenders 151 words
    2. European Convention on Human Rights 175 words
    3. Coroners' Decisions 74 words
    4. Debt Payment 118 words
    5. Alcohol 75 words
    6. Firearms 645 words
    7. Ethnic Minorities 120 words
    8. Civil Servants 359 words
    9. Asylum Seekers 71 words
    10. Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 54 words
    11. Fox Deaths 93 words
    12. Stationery 99 words
    13. Rape 249 words
    14. Hunting with Hounds 101 words
  2. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Devolution Referendums 129 words
    2. Civil Service Report 135 words
    3. Ethnic Minorities 207 words
    4. Civil Servants 353 words
  3. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Millennium Exhibition 224 words
  4. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Class Sizes 88 words
    2. Jobcentres 54 words
    3. Welfare to Work 345 words
    4. School Exclusions 131 words
    5. University for Industry 141 words
    6. Education Standard Spending Assessment 54 words
    7. University Entrants 628 words
    8. Benefits (Postal Claimants) 275 words
    9. Mandatory Maintenance Grants 60 words
  5. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Turkey 79 words
    2. Law of the Sea Convention 200 words
  6. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Lockerbie 118 words
    2. Horse Racing 41 words
    3. Political Advisers 49 words
  7. DEFENCE
    1. Civil Servants 355 words
    2. Navy Surface Vessels 224 words
    3. Defence Export Services Organisation 38 words
    4. Rapid Reaction Corps 108 words
    5. Ethnic Minorities 122 words
    6. Vacant Dwellings 218 words
    7. Reserve Forces 191 words
    8. Employment Advertisements 163 words
    9. Land Mines 152 words
    10. Bosnia (Road Traffic Accidents) 139 words
  8. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Court Delays 108 words
    2. Magistrates Courts 240 words
    3. Private Finance Initiative (Magistrates Courts) 116 words
    4. Consumer Protection 87 words
    5. Civil Procedure Rules Committee 416 words
    6. Family Law Act 1996 529 words
    7. Medical Negligence 126 words
    8. Divorce Settlements, Scotland 109 words
  9. HEALTH
    1. Primary Care Legislation 213 words
    2. GP Fundholding 55 words
    3. Benzodiazepines 197 words
    4. Family Planning 83 words
    5. Public Health Initiatives 453 words
    6. Microbiological Research 517 words
    7. Multiple Births 521 words
    8. Chief Medical Officer (Stockport) 105 words
    9. Eyesight Tests 1,178 words
    10. Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals NHS Trust 275 words
    11. Alcohol Abuse 84 words
    12. Private Finance Initiative 103 words
    13. Insulin Pen Needles 58 words
    14. HIV-AIDS 485 words
    15. Hospital Trust Mergers (West Sussex) 33 words
    16. Asthma 414 words
    17. Male Fertility 300 words
    18. Respite Care 89 words
  10. SCOTLAND
    1. Procurators Fiscal 777 words
    2. Homosexuals (Age of Consent) 163 words
  11. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Vehicle Excise Duty (Disabled Drivers) 128 words
    2. Radioactive Materials (Transportation) 686 words
    3. Channel Tunnel (Safety) 93 words
    4. Minister for Roads 37 words
    5. Thames Gateway 328 words
    6. East London River Crossing 96 words
    7. Coach Safety 108 words
    8. A564 Derby (Footbridge) 64 words
    9. Trains (Disabled Persons) 209 words
    10. Port of London Authority 169 words
    11. Railtrack 77 words
    12. Urban Trees 230 words
    13. Construction Industry 665 words
    14. Environmental Task Force 159 words
    15. Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Gas Levy) 118 words
    16. Stationery 88 words
    17. Solar Energy 61 words
    18. Environmental Impact Assessments 65 words
    19. Green Ministers 58 words
    20. Aggregates 288 words
    21. Housing 167 words
    22. Climatic Conditions 67 words
    23. Ethnic Minorities 88 words
    24. Unmodernised Private Properties 173 words
    25. Compulsory Competitive Tendering 197 words
    26. Green Belt 111 words
    27. Hostel Conversions 75 words
    28. Advance Corporation Tax Credits 170 words
    29. Dependent Relatives (Accommodation) 288 words
    30. Planning Decisions 93 words
    31. Planning Policy Guidance 77 words
    32. Care Homes 133 words
    33. Area Cost Adjustment 110 words
    34. Unauthorised Campers 307 words
    35. Correspondence 40 words
    36. Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 49 words
    37. Local Authority Pension Funds 93 words
    38. Navigation Safety 373 words
    39. Civil Servants 260 words
  12. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. North Yorkshire and Humberside Arts Board 126 words
    2. Sports Facilities 299 words
    3. National Lottery 123 words
    4. Tourism Grants 35 words
    5. Film Industry 123 words
    6. Millennium Projects 231 words
    7. BBC News 81 words
    8. Sand Yachting 101 words
    9. Architectural Heritage 90 words
    10. Ballroom Dancing 66 words
    11. Football 74 words
    12. Arts Access 102 words
    13. House of Commons (Radio Broadcasts) 154 words
    14. Works of Art (Export Licences) 489 words
  13. TREASURY
    1. Strip Searches 119 words
    2. MIRAS 35 words
    3. VAT (Energy-efficient Materials) 105 words
    4. Representations (Sir David Simon) 80 words
    5. Ethnic Minorities 106 words
    6. Employment Advertisements 136 words
    7. Construction Industry 152 words
    8. Written Parliamentary Questions 161 words
    9. Ivory 676 words
    10. Oil Revenue 232 words
    11. Multiple Births 117 words
    12. Tax Measures 54 words
    13. Budget (Leaks) 125 words
    14. Foreign Income Dividends 192 words
    15. Medical Insurance (Tax Relief) 145 words
  14. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Bank of Credit and Commerce International 360 words
    2. Newsagents 91 words
    3. British Overseas Trade Board 145 words
    4. Utilities Regulation 56 words
    5. Members' Interests 307 words
    6. Commercial Lobbyists 174 words
    7. Indonesia 1,451 words
    8. Armoured Vehicle Exports 316 words
    9. Nitor Group of Companies 134 words
    10. Export Licences 79 words
    11. Johore Jungle Warfare School 120 words
    12. Minister for Trade and Competitiveness in Europe 418 words
    13. Ethnic Minorities 617 words
    14. Acquired Rights Directive 60 words
    15. Space Programme 670 words
    16. Global Free Trade 63 words
    17. Cot Mattresses 90 words
    18. Coal Authority 35 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Live Animal Exports 463 words
    2. Green Pound 60 words
    3. Tuberculosis 54 words
    4. BSE Research (Primates) 706 words
    5. Cattle Cull 160 words
    6. BSE 64 words
    7. Intervention Stocks 409 words
    8. Certified Herds Scheme 173 words
    9. Cormorant Cull 79 words
    10. Sheep Dips 123 words
    11. South-west Regional Service Centre 1,357 words
    12. Departmental Reorganisation 94 words
    13. Food Chemical Surveys 259 words
  16. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Obesity 90 words
    2. Drumcree March 260 words
  17. WALES
    1. Members' Interests 121 words
    2. Welsh Language Teaching 99 words
    3. Multiple Births 174 words
    4. Multiple Births 223 words
    5. School Pupils (Exclusion) 55 words
    6. Quangos 316 words
    7. Lead Water Pipes 172 words
  18. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Incapacity Benefit 228 words
    2. Reduced Earnings Allowance 169 words
    3. National Insurance 145 words
    4. Asbestos-related Conditions 168 words
    5. Retirement Pensions 445 words
    6. Cyclical Social Security 471 words
    7. Housing Benefit 228 words
    8. Computers (Century Date Change) 347 words
    9. Council Tax Benefit 66 words
    10. Family Credit 196 words
    11. Members' Interests 275 words
    12. Commercial Lobbyists 182 words
    13. Uxbridge Benefits Agency 967 words
    14. Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme 86 words
    15. Welfare to Work 250 words
    16. Disability Living Allowance 104 words

Lords Sitting of 21 July 1997

  1. Preamble 39 words
  2. Baltic States: Status 813 words
  3. BBC World Service 1,363 words
  4. Private Health Insurance 764 words
  5. AIDS Survivors: Treatments 1,041 words
  6. Business 43 words
  7. Wireless Telegraphy Bill [H.L.] 186 words
  8. Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill 16,382 words, 1 division
  9. National Lottery 6,640 words
  10. Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill 17,446 words, 1 division
  11. The Homeless: Health Care 11,985 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 21 July 1997

  1. Government Reviews 70 words
  2. Devolution Referendums: Guidance to Civil Servants 126 words
  3. Interest Rate Increase 86 words
  4. Government Expenditure per Capita 127 words
  5. Jobseeker's Allowance: Income-based Disentitlement 181 words
  6. State Pension: Reduced Rate Recipients 236 words
  7. Family Credit: Childcare Disregard 90 words
  8. Asylum Policy 143 words
  9. Scarman Trust 158 words
  10. Immigration, etc. Applications: Management 719 words
  11. Immigration and Nationality Directorate: New Caseworking System 178 words
  12. Conventional Arms Export Licensing Criteria 85 words
  13. Heathrow Express Check-in Facilities: Security 170 words
  14. London Bus Services 70 words
  15. Common Fisheries Policy: Consultation 71 words
  16. Forestry Commission Land Sales 44 words
  17. Woodland Acreages: Increase 45 words
  18. Woodland Planting Grants 50 words
  19. Woodland Grant Scheme: Planting Density 80 words
  20. Birch Varieties for Commercial Planting 151 words
  21. Armed Forces: Overseas Service 173 words
  22. Joint Services Command and Staff College 493 words
  23. Plutonium 40 words
  24. Meat Product Imports from EU: Controls 234 words
  25. Foodstuffs: Chemical Contamination 70 words
  26. Common Agricultural Policy 341 words