23 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 23 July 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Investment (OECD Multilateral Agreement) 10,819 words
  4. Fishing Policy 12,575 words
  5. Adoptive Parents 4,089 words
  6. Sanitaryware (Flushing Standards) 3,652 words
  7. Top Withens, Haworth 2,333 words
  8. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
      1. Caribbean Banana Producers 838 words
      2. World Development Report 300 words
      3. UK-US Aid Relations 536 words
      4. Aid Distribution 1,197 words
      5. Child Labour 574 words
      6. Development Education 357 words
      7. Promotion of Democracy 530 words
      8. Trade Barriers 288 words
      9. United Nations 345 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 4,345 words
      2. North-east Wales (Visit) 215 words
  9. Higher Education 7,300 words
  10. Points of Order 1,934 words
  11. Access to the Countryside 2,534 words
    1. ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE 64 words
    2. Convergence Programmes (European Union) 4,282 words
  12. Orders of the Day
    1. Ministerial and other Salaries Bill 6,709 words
    2. MINISTERIAL AND OTHER SALARIES BILL [MONEY] 72 words
    3. Ministerial and other Salaries Bill 25 words
    4. Lockerbie 16,570 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 23 July 1997

  1. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Drugs Co-ordinator 46 words
    2. Ethnic Minorities 180 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Members' Staff (Pensions) 94 words
  3. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Departmental Documents 163 words
    2. Property Advisers to the Civil Estate 140 words
    3. Regulations 361 words
  4. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Ethnic Minorities 328 words
    2. Civil Servants 777 words
  5. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Cold Weather Payments 72 words
    2. War Pensions 179 words
    3. Housing Benefit 904 words
  6. TREASURY
    1. Fraud 116 words
    2. National Lottery 84 words
    3. Sickle Cell Anaemia 125 words
    4. Debt Payment 111 words
    5. Unemployment 303 words
    6. Channel Island Trusts 63 words
    7. Tax Avoidance Schemes 98 words
    8. Computers (Century Date Change) 105 words
    9. Disposable Incomes 233 words
    10. Gross Domestic Product 351 words
    11. Unemployment (Bolton) 330 words
    12. Economic and Monetary Union 297 words
    13. Civil Servants (Pay and Conditions) 792 words
    14. Pensioners (Fuel Costs) 129 words
    15. International Development White Paper 89 words
    16. Financial Regulation 184 words
    17. Stock Exchange 397 words
  7. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Training and Enterprise Councils 252 words
    2. Learning Accounts 43 words
    3. Work Experience 57 words
    4. Animal Experimentation 141 words
    5. Asthma 89 words
  8. HEALTH
    1. NHS (Fundholding Practices) Amendment Regulations 56 words
    2. False Memory Syndrome 59 words
    3. Births (Chorley and South Ribble) 227 words
    4. Medical Devices Agency 73 words
    5. Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work 253 words
    6. Incontinence 375 words
    7. Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccination 250 words
    8. Students 103 words
    9. Hearing Checks 129 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Employment Advertisements 56 words
    2. Bletchley Park Spy 155 words
    3. Contentin Peninsula 82 words
    4. Construction Sites (Germany) 113 words
    5. International Financial Stability 96 words
    6. UN Trusteeship Council 63 words
    7. Dependencies 61 words
    8. Illicit Weapons Transfers 155 words
    9. Indonesia 368 words
    10. Bosnia 94 words
    11. Government Communications Headquarters 75 words
    12. Kalahari Bushmen 133 words
    13. Hungary 170 words
  10. DEFENCE
    1. Defence Evaluation and Research Agency 391 words
    2. Equipment 97 words
    3. Eurofighter 57 words
    4. Royal Yacht 62 words
    5. Sea Harrier Replacements 124 words
    6. Policy Reviews 91 words
  11. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Commercial Lobbyists 182 words
    2. Members' Interests 309 words
    3. National Lottery 285 words
    4. Debt Payment 115 words
    5. Bicycle Parking Spaces 50 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Parliamentary Constituencies (Data) 119 words
    2. Local Government Reorganisation 144 words
    3. Erskine Bridge 142 words
    4. Press Releases 147 words
    5. Employment Advertisements 71 words
    6. Public Defender Service 69 words
    7. Rural Local Authorities (Fuel Costs) 152 words
    8. Travel to London 48 words
    9. Children (Scotland) Act 1995 74 words
    10. Rented Housing 1,847 words
    11. EU Afforestation Budget 224 words
    12. Juveniles 1,974 words
    13. Rights of the Child Convention 217 words
    14. Urban Regeneration Schemes 86 words
  13. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Local Government Finance 318 words
    2. Climate Change 76 words
    3. Wind Farms 104 words
    4. Housing Waiting Lists 229 words
    5. Hostels (Planning Applications) 113 words
    6. Council House Sales 136 words
    7. Right to Buy 159 words
    8. Nuclear Discharges 142 words
    9. Planning Process 274 words
    10. Rate Support Grant 117 words
    11. EU Landfill Directive 236 words
    12. Consultation Documents 139 words
    13. English Partnerships 147 words
    14. Air Services 218 words
    15. Birmingham Airport 85 words
    16. Birmingham Northern Relief Road 60 words
    17. Oil Exploration 106 words
  14. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Street Children 101 words
    2. Women's Education 82 words
    3. Strategic Defence Review 71 words
    4. Global Free Trade 62 words
    5. Indebted Poor Countries Initiative 95 words
    6. Cambodia 61 words
    7. Bosnia 70 words
    8. UK Dependent Territories 64 words
    9. Commonwealth Initiatives 87 words
    10. China (Population Control) 122 words
    11. UNESCO Membership 59 words
    12. Land Mines 129 words
    13. West Bank and Gaza Strip 82 words
    14. Civil Service Development 89 words
    15. Know-how Fund 81 words
    16. Policy Changes 75 words
    17. Developing Countries (Investment) 135 words
    18. White Paper 84 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Botanic Gardens, Belfast and Armagh County Museum 157 words
    2. Deprived Schools 109 words
    3. Welfare-to-work Scheme 192 words
    4. Juveniles 1,397 words
  16. WALES
    1. Taff-Ely Site of Special Scientific Interest 83 words
    2. Housing 317 words
    3. Community Hospitals 111 words
    4. Acute and Community Trusts 79 words
    5. GP Fundholders 106 words
    6. Welsh Assembly 120 words
  17. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Electoral Populations 61 words
    2. Special Advisers 73 words
    3. Intelligence and Security Committee 83 words
    4. Royal Family 29 words
    5. NATO 93 words
    6. Engagements 46 words
  18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Ethnic Minorities 47 words
    2. Common Agricultural Policy 165 words
    3. Live Animal Transport 81 words
    4. Veterinary Medicines Directorate 136 words
    5. BSE 247 words
    6. Food Standards Agency 84 words
    7. Vitamin Supplements 178 words
    8. Agriculture Council 496 words
  19. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Probation Service 548 words
    2. Immigration 301 words
    3. Ethnic Minorities 271 words
    4. Immigration (Same-sex Partnerships) 40 words
    5. Tote Direct 209 words
    6. Racehorses 236 words
    7. Police (Ethnic Origin) 40 words
    8. Prisoners' Families (Travel Costs) 145 words
    9. Drivers (Drug Tests) 79 words
    10. Passports 138 words
    11. Police (Sponsorship) 115 words
    12. Inquests 94 words
    13. Sex Offenders 120 words
    14. Postal Votes 230 words
    15. Juveniles 5,507 words
    16. Identity Cards 48 words
  20. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Assisted International Travel Scheme 345 words
    2. Observatories 459 words
    3. Departmental Budgets 352 words
    4. Exchange Rates 41 words
    5. Engineering 203 words
    6. Travel Trade 210 words
    7. Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs 59 words
    8. Consumer Issues 154 words
    9. Working Time Directive 392 words
    10. Minister for Trade and Competitiveness in Europe 1,540 words
    11. Official Travel (Costs) 74 words
    12. Trade Missions 59 words
    13. Bank of Credit and Commerce International 146 words
    14. Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council 199 words
    15. Advisory Bodies 1,184 words
    16. Model Trade Association Pamphlet 60 words
    17. Working Hours 66 words
    18. Accountancy Firms 47 words
    19. Biotechnology 274 words
    20. British Nuclear Fuels 154 words
    21. Nuclear Power (Documents) 208 words
    22. Information Exchanges 134 words
    23. Policy Reviews 185 words
    24. Hawk Aircraft 167 words
    25. Insolvency 366 words
    26. Research Councils 205 words
    27. Insurance Industry 192 words
    28. Procurement Policy 225 words
    29. Trade Policies 148 words
    30. Ministerial Visits 396 words

Lords Sitting of 23 July 1997

  1. Preamble 15 words
  2. Prayers—Read by the Lord Bishop of Liverpool.
    1. Lord Cowdrey of Tonbridge 34 words
    2. Lord Russell-Johnston 30 words
    3. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 1,397 words
    4. Wimbledon Tennis Tournament: Wider Access 1,945 words
    5. Business 148 words
    6. Education (Schools) Bill 2,164 words
    7. Higher Education Inquiry: Report 6,833 words
    8. Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill 11,808 words
    9. Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Defined Activities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1997 1,549 words
    10. Central and Local Government 10,204 words
    11. Alliance & Leicester plc (Group Reorganisation) Bill [H.L.] (formerly Girobank plc (Transfer) Bill) 16 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 23 July 1997

  1. De-mining Operations: UK Support 79 words
  2. Mr. Sayed Al Khatib 92 words
  3. Iraq: Sanctions Violations 122 words
  4. ISDN Services: Pricing 122 words
  5. Scottish Parliament: Powers 79 words
  6. Noise Induced Hearing Loss and War Pensions: Review 184 words
  7. Greenwich Millennium Site: Pollution 262 words
  8. Greenwich Millennium Site 225 words
  9. London Transport Bus Route Contracts 257 words
  10. Medical Devices Agency: Annual Report and Accounts 71 words
  11. Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work 253 words
  12. Tax and the Budget 37 words
  13. Married and Unmarried Couples: Capital Gains Tax on Houses 166 words
  14. University Museums 156 words
  15. Wild Mammal Deaths 76 words
  16. Mr. Mohammed Raya 85 words