28 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 28 July 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. DEATH OF A MEMBER 53 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SOCIAL SECURITY
      1. New Deal for Lone Parents 750 words
      2. Claimants (Improved Services) 1,018 words
      3. Pensions 874 words
      4. New Deal for Lone Parents 402 words
      5. Reduced Earnings Allowance 449 words
      6. New Deal for Lone Parents 376 words
      7. Income Support 648 words
      8. Minster for Women 566 words
      9. Pensions 743 words
      10. Incapacity Benefit 468 words
      11. Fraud Hotline 456 words
      12. Long-term Unemployed 298 words
      13. Social Security Tribunals 263 words
      14. New Deal for Lone Parents 368 words
      15. Benefit Entitlement (Young People) 376 words
      16. Pensions 275 words
      17. Mortgage Interest Payments 171 words
      18. Child Support Agency 244 words
      19. Income Support 234 words
  5. Points of Order 1,183 words
  6. Finance Bill (Allocation of Time) 289 words
  7. Orders of the Day
    1. Finance Bill 41 words
      1. New clause 4
        1. LOW CANCER-RISK PART-RENEWABLE BLENDED DIESEL 141 words
      2. SCHEDULE 2B
        1. LOW CANCER-RISK PART-RENEWABLE BLENDED DIESEL 10,751 words
      3. Clause 7
        1. RATE OF DUTY ON SPIRITS 10,346 words, 2 divisions
      4. Clause 15
        1. MORTGAGE INTEREST PAYMENTS 11,007 words, 1 division
      5. Clause 17
        1. WITHDRAWAL OF RELIEF ON MEDICAL INSURANCE PREMIUMS 13,208 words
      6. Clause 49
        1. STAMP DUTY ON CONVEYANCE OR TRANSFER ON SALE 5,582 words, 1 division
      7. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 17 words
        1. INSURANCE PREMIUM TAX 34 words
      8. ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER) 35 words
      9. ACCOMMODATION AND WORKS 46 words
      10. ADMINISTRATION 41 words
      11. CATERING 44 words
      12. INFORMATION 46 words
      13. NORTHERN IRELAND AFFAIRS 59 words
      14. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 17 words
        1. TRANSPORT AND WORKS 28 words
      15. BROADCASTING 45 words
  8. Genetic Patenting 4,671 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 28 July 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Operation Quantum 148 words
    2. Prison Service 45 words
    3. Metrication Directives 84 words
    4. Stalking 190 words
    5. Exotic Pets 211 words
    6. Fatuma Njoki Ali Juma 132 words
    7. Immigration 46 words
    8. European Convention on Human Rights 73 words
    9. Security Service 47 words
    10. Illegal Drugs 67 words
    11. Wrongful Convictions 182 words
    12. Police Committees and Groups 233 words
    13. Young Offenders (Mental Health) 557 words
    14. Official Secrets Act 1989 320 words
  2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Government Property Lawyers 56 words
  3. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Television 323 words
    2. Art, Dance and Music (Lottery Funding) 95 words
    3. Quangos 121 words
    4. Museums and Galleries 794 words
  4. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Legal Aid (Fees) 312 words
    2. Legal Aid (Medical Negligence) 161 words
    3. Frederick West 115 words
  5. TREASURY
    1. Monetary Policy Committee 157 words
    2. International Development 54 words
    3. Fuel 302 words
    4. Cross-border Shopping 344 words
    5. Offshore Trusts 62 words
    6. Comprehensive Spending Review 62 words
    7. NHS Expenditure 113 words
    8. Public Expenditure 292 words
    9. Policy Reviews 697 words
    10. Unemployment 149 words
  6. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Public Appointments 295 words
  7. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Department for International Development 73 words
    2. Phenylbutazone 135 words
    3. Live Animal Exports 150 words
    4. Plant Passports 113 words
    5. Milk Quota 78 words
    6. Cattle Slaughter Scheme 473 words
    7. Dietary Supplements 383 words
    8. Genetically Modified Food 119 words
    9. Scientific Committee for Food 60 words
    10. Common Agricultural Policy 207 words
    11. Bovine Tuberculosis 34 words
    12. Food Sample Testing 64 words
    13. BSE Carcases 448 words
    14. Departmental Relocation 280 words
    15. Live Animal Exports 82 words
    16. Rams' Horns 140 words
    17. Land Use 47 words
    18. Farm Incomes 54 words
    19. Countryside Stewardship Scheme 90 words
  8. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Ministerial Visits 76 words
    2. Ministerial Duties 44 words
    3. British Council Speech 39 words
    4. Millennium Experience 127 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Defence Exports 1,758 words
    2. Baltic Action Plan 161 words
    3. NATO Enlargement 232 words
    4. Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty 123 words
    5. Regional or Minority Language Charter 70 words
    6. Strategic Defence Review 58 words
    7. Bermuda 77 words
    8. Copyright 142 words
    9. Slovenia 103 words
  10. SCOTLAND
    1. Departmental Staff 151 words
    2. Referendum 77 words
    3. Further Education 40 words
    4. Juveniles 354 words
    5. Retail Petrol Industry 70 words
    6. Legal Aid (Fees) 115 words
    7. Millennium Funding 86 words
  11. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Roads Review 892 words
    2. Freight Train Derailment, Bexley 119 words
    3. Speed Limits 69 words
    4. Heathrow Airport (Terminal 5) 194 words
    5. Vehicle Emissions 350 words
    6. Lorry Drivers (Eyesight) 87 words
    7. Road Haulage Industry 288 words
    8. Fishing Vessels (Safety) 137 words
    9. La Hague Nuclear Reprocessing Plant 404 words
    10. Rape Seed Oil 355 words
    11. Proposed Shopping Centre, London 225 words
    12. Genetically Modified Organisms 398 words
    13. Planning Applications 191 words
    14. Charity Shops 180 words
    15. British Waterways Board 81 words
    16. Radon 168 words
    17. Local Authority Pension Funds 363 words
    18. Single Regeneration Budget Challenge Fund 61 words
    19. Greater London Authority 61 words
    20. Homelessness 496 words
    21. Water Quality 108 words
    22. Right-to-buy Scheme 66 words
    23. Repossessions 144 words
    24. Negative Equity 90 words
    25. Green Belt 82 words
    26. Housing (Voluntary Transfer Scheme) 97 words
    27. Dangerous Animals 222 words
    28. Plastic Silage Wrap 187 words
    29. EU Environmental Proposals 149 words
    30. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 140 words
    31. Household Growth Management 107 words
    32. Methyl Bromide 208 words
  12. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Minister without Portfolio 67 words
  13. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Regional Development Agencies 94 words
    2. New Deal 351 words
    3. Schools (Medication) 143 words
    4. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 358 words
    5. Mature Students 117 words
    6. Student Fees 206 words
    7. Young People in Care 304 words
    8. Assisted Places Scheme 61 words
    9. Jobcentres 300 words
    10. Education Spending 125 words
    11. Nursery Vouchers 45 words
    12. Minimum Wage 62 words
  14. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Aid and Trade 118 words
    2. Indonesia 121 words
    3. Sustainable Development 252 words
    4. Investment (Multilateral Agreement) 126 words
    5. Poland 90 words
  15. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Iraq 103 words
    2. Encryption 57 words
    3. Devon and Cornwall TEC 132 words
    4. Advisory Bodies 192 words
    5. Sustainable Development 76 words
    6. International Development 135 words
    7. Retail Petrol Industry 65 words
    8. Gas Liberalisation 47 words
    9. Overseas Investment 227 words
    10. Minister for Trade and Competitiveness in Europe 295 words
    11. Communauté Européene Mark 133 words
    12. Commercial Debts (Interest) 679 words
    13. Quangos 166 words
    14. EU Enlargement 385 words
    15. Business Links 187 words
    16. Lone Parents 78 words
    17. Industrial Tribunals 238 words
    18. High-pressure Marketing 244 words
    19. Animal Imports 121 words
    20. Electro-shock Weapons 417 words
  16. WALES
    1. Health and Environmental Education 129 words
    2. Welsh Assembly 1,947 words
    3. Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder 264 words
    4. Mental Illness 257 words
    5. Public and NHS Bodies 75 words
    6. Smoking 144 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Future Large Aircraft 61 words
    2. Company Payments 422 words
    3. Multipurpose Major Combatant Vessel 66 words
    4. Defence Sales 156 words
    5. Ethnic Minorities 86 words
    6. RAF Upper Heyford 133 words
    7. Northern Ireland 215 words
    8. Honours and Awards (Review) 122 words
    9. Strategic Defence Review 121 words
    10. Atomic Weapons Establishment, Llanishen 98 words
    11. Farnborough Aerodrome 230 words
    12. Boscombe Down Airfield 76 words
    13. UN Implementation Force 118 words
    14. Strategic Nuclear Settlement 114 words
    15. Nuclear Submarines 140 words
    16. Quangos 117 words
    17. Copyright 86 words
    18. Invincible Class Carriers 56 words
    19. Courts Martial 157 words
  18. HEALTH
    1. Psychiatric Care (Children) 115 words
    2. Health Policy 404 words
    3. Residential and Nursing Homes 217 words
    4. Efficiency Index Targets 93 words
    5. In Vitro Fertilisation 139 words
    6. Hospital Consultant Vacancies 438 words
    7. Mental Health Services 180 words
    8. Homeopathy 149 words
    9. Property Sales 168 words
    10. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 2,366 words
    11. Illegal Drugs 752 words
    12. Corticosteroid Inhalers 119 words
    13. Dental Services 205 words
    14. Liver and Heart Transplants 192 words
    15. Health Spending 683 words
    16. Skin Cancer 293 words
    17. Drugs (Genetic Defects) 116 words
    18. Breast Cancer (Screening) 127 words
    19. Young People (Independent Living) 140 words
    20. Accident and Emergency Facilities (Solihull) 102 words
    21. NHS Building and Modernisation Schemes 85 words
    22. Nurses' Incomes 297 words
  19. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Press Releases 160 words
    2. Northern Ireland Railways 141 words
    3. Charities 154 words
    4. Rights of the Child Convention 311 words
    5. Plastic Baton Rounds 115 words
    6. Sir David Fell 83 words
  20. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Bereavement Benefits 85 words
    2. Pensions 472 words
    3. Child Support Agency 289 words
    4. Mortgage Interest Payments 35 words
    5. Lone Parents 847 words
    6. Claimants (Improved Services) 124 words
    7. Long-term Sick and Disabled People 59 words
    8. Fraud 931 words
    9. Benefits Agency (Wales) 53 words
    10. Sickness Benefits 94 words
    11. Welfare to Work 138 words
    12. Compensation Recovery Scheme 160 words
    13. Jobseeker's Allowance 180 words
    14. Unclaimed Benefits 119 words
    15. Pensioners 490 words
    16. Child Care Costs 183 words
    17. Home Responsibility Payments 84 words
    18. Low-Income Households 370 words
    19. Care and Mobility Assistance 262 words
    20. Expenditure Plans 59 words
    21. Private Pension Funds