25 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 25 July 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Welsh Assembly 40,528 words
  4. SELECT COMMITTEES RELATED TO GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS 90 words
  5. SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE 34 words
  6. LIAISON 76 words
  7. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS 57 words
  8. Pensions (Mis-selling) 2,955 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 25 July 1997

  1. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Ethnic Minorities 258 words
    2. World Poverty 134 words
    3. Aid (Economic Reform) 112 words
    4. Aid and Trade (Review) 56 words
    5. Know-how Fund 90 words
    6. Civil Servants 139 words
    7. Aid Target Date 114 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Data Protection 56 words
    2. Prison Service 367 words
    3. Full Sutton Prison 185 words
    4. Prisoners 323 words
    5. Mandatory Minimum Sentences 156 words
    6. Release of Information (Criminal Prosecutions) 78 words
    7. Metropolitan Police Files 120 words
    8. Road Crimes 88 words
    9. Animal Experiments 350 words
    10. Quangos 138 words
  3. SCOTLAND
    1. Scottish Record Office 160 words
    2. Children's Centres 107 words
    3. David Elder Infirmary, Govan 63 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Data Protection 148 words
    2. Policy Unit 27 words
    3. Ethnic Minorities 47 words
  5. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Public Defender Service 92 words
    2. Bar (Code of Conduct) 94 words
    3. Barristers and Solicitors 68 words
    4. Personal Injury 338 words
    5. Legal Database 265 words
  6. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Training and Enterprise Councils 634 words
    2. Quangos 165 words
    3. Workskill 244 words
  7. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Ministerial Chauffeurs 324 words
    2. "Government Direct" Green Paper 81 words
    3. Freedom of Information 608 words
  8. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Republic of Ireland 130 words
    2. Driver and Vehicle Testing Agency 53 words
    3. Training and Employment Agency 197 words
    4. Policy Reviews 201 words
  9. WALES
    1. Assisted Areas 88 words
    2. School Closures 310 words
    3. Welsh Assembly 97 words
    4. Further Education 386 words
    5. Quangos 70 words
    6. Junior Doctors 91 words
  10. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. War Pensioners 167 words
    2. Quangos 100 words
    3. Housing Benefit 257 words
    4. Child Benefit 723 words
    5. National Insurance Contributions 437 words
    6. State Pensions 1,900 words
  11. DEFENCE
    1. Nuclear Weapons Safety Committee 179 words
    2. Aircraft Crashes 138 words
    3. Nuclear Weapons (US Aircraft) 95 words
    4. Land Mines 70 words
    5. Mission Statement 93 words
    6. RAF Strike Command 80 words
    7. Biological and Chemical Weapons 116 words
  12. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Local Government (Sanctions) 227 words
    2. Mesothelioma 73 words
    3. Sellafield 317 words
    4. Quangos 110 words
    5. Crime Prevention 59 words
    6. Painshill Copse Gipsy Site 95 words
    7. New Homes 86 words
    8. Ethnic Minorities 89 words
    9. Lorry Weights 53 words
    10. Driving Hours 172 words
    11. Roads (A303 Improvements) 74 words
    12. Vehicle Year Identifier 37 words
    13. Rail Freight 95 words
    14. Unleaded Petrol 351 words
    15. Seat Belts 98 words
    16. UK-Taipei Flights 67 words
    17. Air Services 223 words
    18. Portsmouth Port 143 words
    19. A3 289 words
    20. Street Works (Householders' Liability) 183 words
    21. Marine Environment 87 words
  13. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Millennium Exhibition 175 words
    2. Parliamentary Questions 84 words
  14. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Broiler Chickens 245 words
    2. Beaufort's Dyke 103 words
    3. Live Animal Exports 147 words
    4. Meat Hygiene Service 157 words
    5. Melatonin 64 words
    6. Cattle Carcases 155 words
    7. Quangos 143 words
    8. Silage Wrap 49 words
    9. Avoparcin 450 words
    10. Minimum Wage 86 words
    11. Cattle Cull 127 words
  15. HEALTH
    1. Ministerial Responsibilities 117 words
    2. Public Health Initiatives 70 words
    3. Psychiatric Care 122 words
    4. Solvent Abuse 77 words
    5. Quangos 176 words
    6. Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcal Infection 138 words
    7. Mesothelioma 67 words
    8. Cancer 263 words
    9. Vitamin B6 364 words
  16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Visitor Visas (Iraqi Citizens) 141 words
    2. Correspondence 176 words
    3. British Aerospace 76 words
    4. Sudan 173 words
    5. General Affairs Council 824 words
  17. TREASURY
    1. Accounting Systems 252 words
    2. District Valuation Offices 323 words
    3. Interest Rates 61 words
    4. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 197 words
    5. Referendums 88 words
    6. Insulation Programme 132 words
    7. Private Schools (Tax Relief) 51 words
    8. Pensioners (Fuel Costs) 68 words
    9. Fuel 224 words
    10. Central Gilts Settlement System 85 words
    11. Local Government Finance 81 words
    12. Special Advisers 94 words
  18. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Low Pay Commission 221 words
    2. Hawk Aircraft 69 words
    3. Minister for Trade and Competitiveness in Europe 699 words
    4. Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs 109 words
    5. Engineering Industry 302 words
    6. Wind Energy 95 words
    7. Astronomy 60 words
    8. Trade Missions 233 words
    9. Space School 75 words
    10. Travel Industry 54 words

Lords Sitting of 25 July 1997

  1. Preamble 25 words
  2. Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Bill [H.L.] 18,816 words
  3. Allocation of Housing (Reasonable and Additional Preference) Regulations 1997 1,192 words
  4. Transport and Works (Guided Transport Modes) (Amendment) Order 1997 1,017 words
  5. Hailsham Cattle Market Bill [H.L.] 16,116 words
  6. Law Officers Bill [H.L.] 14 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 25 July 1997

  1. Northern Ireland Peace Policies 137 words
  2. Conservation Areas: Demolition Consent 66 words
  3. >"Family": Definition 42 words
  4. Freedom of Information Legislation 62 words
  5. Cabinet Responsibility and Policy Announcements 70 words
  6. Prescription Charge Comparisons 217 words
  7. Electronic Smog 143 words
  8. Anti-Smoking Summit 284 words
  9. Cattle Tracing: Computerised System Development 45 words
  10. BSE: Report 248 words
  11. Agriculture Council, 22–23 July 619 words
  12. Veterinary Medicines Directorate: Annual Report and Accounts 136 words
  13. Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee: Members' Interests 827 words
  14. Hong Kong Government: Expatriate Officials 104 words
  15. Hong Kong Police: Expatriate Officers 109 words
  16. EU Structural and Cohesion Funds Allocations 400 words