22 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 22 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. HEALTH
      1. General Practitioner Service 467 words
      2. Patient Care 711 words
      3. Dental Services 648 words
      4. Compulsory Competitive Tendering 532 words
      5. Tobacco 693 words
      6. Private Finance Initiative 557 words
      7. Treatments 583 words
      8. Health Service Funding 688 words
      9. Waiting Times 729 words
      10. Health Promotion 727 words
      11. Public Health Strategies 462 words
      12. "The Health of the Nation" 289 words
      13. Stillbirth and Mortality Rates 414 words
      14. Residential Care (Abuse) 506 words
  5. Welsh Assembly 11,383 words
  6. Points of Order 540 words
  7. Water Charges (Amendment) 844 words
    1. WATER CHARGES (AMENDMENT) 76 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Social Security Bill 43,289 words, 1 division
    2. SOCIAL SECURITY BILL [MONEY] 121 words
    3. SOCIAL SECURITY BILL [WAYS AND MEANS] 84 words
    4. EUROPEAN LEGISLATION 23 words
  9. Rural Hospitals (Devon) 3,679 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 22 July 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Policy Reviews 219 words
    2. Referendums 122 words
    3. Abbas Radiom Case 103 words
    4. Dogs (Experimentation) 241 words
    5. Violent Offences 183 words
    6. Private Sector Housing (Neighbours) 138 words
    7. Employment Advertisements 128 words
    8. Road Rage 86 words
    9. Immigrants (Employment Restrictions) 137 words
    10. Immigration (Former Yugoslavia) 77 words
    11. Special Constables 602 words
    12. Police National Computer 73 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Employment Advertisements 89 words
    2. Ethnic Minorities 90 words
    3. Telephone Number 59 words
  3. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Housing 93 words
    2. Energy Efficiency 233 words
    3. Air Quality (Brent Cross) 443 words
    4. Asbestos 124 words
    5. Green Ministers 239 words
    6. Ethnic Minorities 65 words
    7. Mobile Homes and Caravan Parks 152 words
    8. Policy Reviews 111 words
    9. Housing Development, Poulton Le Fylde 46 words
    10. Chemical Hazards 191 words
    11. Definitive Maps and Statements 333 words
    12. Aircraft Safety 219 words
    13. Shadow Tolling 181 words
    14. Coach Safety 423 words
    15. Thamesmead Rail Link 75 words
    16. Seahorse and Exodus Incident 99 words
    17. A1 388 words
    18. Older Drivers 854 words
    19. Road Signs 344 words
    20. Clean Engine Technology 146 words
    21. Port of London Authority 71 words
    22. Epping-Ongar Line 79 words
    23. Railtrack 54 words
    24. Roads Review 138 words
  4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Bank of Credit and Commerce International 879 words
    2. European Structural Funds 89 words
    3. Monopolies and Mergers Commission (Property Inquiry) 157 words
    4. Private Health Insurance 99 words
    5. Food Safety 157 words
    6. National Physical Laboratory 89 words
    7. Coal Imports 218 words
    8. Southampton University 104 words
    9. Consumer Credit Licensing 151 words
    10. Advisory Committee on Arbitration Law 337 words
    11. Overseas Projects Board 108 words
    12. Travel Industry 84 words
    13. Internet 161 words
    14. EU Internal Market 265 words
    15. Debt Payment 170 words
    16. Consumer Issues 107 words
    17. Nuclear Fusion 237 words
    18. Sustainably Produced Timber 124 words
    19. Press Releases 281 words
    20. International Development 65 words
    21. Electro-shock Batons 58 words
    22. Petrol Pumps 116 words
    23. Rights of Trade Union Members 69 words
    24. Aid and Trade 101 words
  5. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Ethnic Minorities 113 words
    2. Civil Servants 142 words
    3. Welfare to Work 83 words
    4. National Lottery 339 words
    5. Works of Art 458 words
  6. TREASURY
    1. Public Utilities 56 words
    2. Strategic Defence Review 120 words
    3. Income Tax 110 words
    4. Mortgage Interest Tax Relief 85 words
    5. Business Investment 98 words
    6. Windfall tax 51 words
    7. Construction Industry 120 words
    8. Offshore Trusts 327 words
    9. Sustainably Produced Timber 98 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Ethnic Minorities 172 words
    2. Civil Servants 163 words
    3. Australia 138 words
    4. Police and Judicial Co-operation 95 words
    5. Amsterdam Treaty 209 words
    6. European Documents (Access) 107 words
    7. Sri Lanka 80 words
    8. Pakistan (Bear Baiting) 79 words
    9. Strategic Defence Review 124 words
    10. Policy Reviews 106 words
  8. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Procurement Policies 125 words
    2. policy Review 134 words
  9. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Office Refurbishment 242 words
  10. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Policy Reviews 236 words
    2. Sir Christopher Hatton School, Wellingborough 53 words
    3. National Disability Council 80 words
    4. Chefs (Work Permits) 169 words
    5. Work Permits 37 words
    6. Ethnic Minorities 111 words
    7. Youth Service 74 words
    8. Student Governors 78 words
    9. GCSE Performance Tables 156 words
    10. Excluded Pupils 54 words
    11. Early Years Development Plans 107 words
    12. Schools (Capital Funding) 85 words
    13. Employment Advertisements 105 words
    14. New Deal 207 words
    15. Welfare to Work 75 words
  11. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Prime Minister's Questions 20 words
  12. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Ministerial Accountability 109 words
    2. Policy Reviews 266 words
  13. WALES
    1. Further Education Report 127 words
    2. Welsh Assembly 188 words
    3. Small Businesses 194 words
    4. Regional Policy 155 words
    5. North Wales Health Authority 97 words
    6. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 65 words
    7. Assisted Areas 86 words
    8. Policy Reviews 79 words
  14. DEFENCE
    1. Naval Aircraft Repair Organisation 178 words
    2. European Fighter Aircraft 54 words
    3. Atomic Weapons Establishment 224 words
    4. Service Personnel (Exposure to Radioactivity) 186 words
    5. Organophosphates 157 words
    6. HMY Britannia 62 words
    7. Invincible Class Carriers 68 words
    8. Departmental Contractors 86 words
    9. Research and Development 74 words
    10. Courts Martial 159 words
    11. Under-18 Service Personnel 370 words
    12. Army Foundation College 148 words
    13. West Indies Guard Ship 44 words
    14. Defence Review 89 words
    15. Reservist Aircrew 93 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. Hunting 70 words
    2. Civil Servants 318 words
    3. Ethnic Minorities 52 words
    4. Children (Scotland) Act 1995 82 words
    5. Capital Receipts Initiative 143 words
    6. Scottish Arts Council Inquiry 170 words
    7. Policy Reviews 549 words
    8. Scottish Community Education Council 706 words
    9. Infertility Treatment 476 words
    10. Pupil Exclusions 160 words
    11. Debt Payment 112 words
    12. HIV-AIDS 3,458 words
    13. Sustainably Produced Timber 106 words
  16. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Public Order Offences (Londonderry) 69 words
    2. Killyleagh Community Hall 189 words
    3. Absent Voting Papers 473 words
    4. Orange March, Garvaghy Road 64 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Members' Interests 278 words
    2. Commercial Lobbyists 181 words
    3. Live Animal Transport 293 words
    4. Broiler Chickens 97 words
    5. Hunting (Forestry Commission Land) 141 words
    6. Ethnic Minorities 57 words
    7. Jules Hurry 52 words
    8. Sheep Exports 176 words
    9. Employment Advertisements 48 words
    10. Bovine Tuberculosis 77 words
    11. Flax 181 words
    12. Honey 119 words
    13. Cattle Cull 157 words
    14. Truro Regional Service Centre Office 56 words
    15. BSE 252 words
    16. Fish Stocks 103 words
    17. Cod Quotas 121 words
    18. Beef Exports 138 words
    19. Hormones 98 words
  18. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Law Agent's Letter 46 words
    2. House of Commons (Radio Broadcasts) 93 words
    3. Offshore Trusts 65 words
    4. Honours 288 words
    5. Lockerbie 101 words
    6. Political Appointments 316 words
  19. HEALTH
    1. Child Care 107 words
    2. Health Inequalities 385 words
    3. Abortion 52 words
    4. NHS Appointments 88 words
    5. Public Health Strategies 416 words
    6. Private Medical Insurance 91 words
    7. Management and Office Costs 91 words
    8. Health Service Review 79 words
    9. Accident and Emergency Facilities (Solihull) 81 words
    10. NHS Trusts 74 words
    11. Operations 69 words
    12. Waiting Lists 142 words
    13. Nutrition 157 words
    14. Primary Care Commissioning 63 words
    15. Insulin Pens 52 words
    16. Health Service Funding 107 words
    17. Efficiency Savings (Lichfield) 72 words
    18. NHS Sale and Lease Arrangements 69 words
    19. Private Finance Initiative (Hospital Projects) 91 words
    20. Immunisation Campaigns 405 words
    21. Care Homes (Wiltshire) 1,855 words
    22. Missed Appointments 106 words
    23. Aricept 131 words
    24. Asthma 354 words
    25. Hospital Waste 126 words
    26. Civil Servants 171 words
    27. Ethnic Minorities 73 words
    28. Accident and Emergency Departments (North Thames Region) 181 words
    29. Hospital Admissions (North Thames Region) 189 words
    30. School Nurses (North Thames Region) 95 words
    31. Alzheimer's Disease 55 words
    32. Nye Bevan Anniversary 65 words
    33. Employment Advertisements 63 words
    34. Dentists' Pay 92 words
    35. Recovered Memory Therapy 48 words
    36. Prescription Fraud 145 words
    37. Medicines Control Agency 41 words
    38. NHS Pensions Agency 67 words
    39. Palliative Care 341 words
    40. Oral Contraceptives 91 words
    41. Foster Care 242 words
    42. Embryos 233 words
    43. Licensed Drugs 80 words
    44. Policy Reviews 206 words
    45. Health Promotion in Schools 51 words
    46. Cross-departmental Co-operation 117 words
  20. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Mortgage Benefit 107 words
    2. Pensions Review 72 words
    3. Asthma 176 words
    4. Policy Reviews 187 words
    5. Child Support 714 words
    6. Executive Agencies 53 words
    7. Family Credit 164 words
    8. Pension Review Cases 126 words

Lords Sitting of 22 July 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Lord Levene of Portsoken 35 words
  3. Lord Inge 36 words
  4. Sea Fisheries: Quota Hopping 1,158 words
  5. Cocaine: Export of Precursor Chemicals 629 words
  6. Armed Forces: HIV Screening Policy 817 words
  7. Gulf War Syndrome: Research 1,162 words
  8. Business 45 words
  9. Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill 63 words
  10. Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill 7,250 words, 1 division