30 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 30 July 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Adjournment (Summer) 22,068 words
  4. Sprinkler Systems (Superstores) 3,424 words
  5. Beef Industry 4,789 words
  6. Ambulance Services (Powys) 4,028 words
  7. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
      1. Freedom of Information 1,123 words
      2. Civil Service (Recruitment) 464 words
      3. Electronic Information 265 words
      4. Charters 330 words
      5. Freedom of Information 610 words
      6. Food Standards Agency 622 words
      7. Focus Groups 460 words
      8. Freedom of Information 432 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,573 words
      2. Lichfield, Burntwood and District 346 words
      3. Engagements 2,967 words
  8. Criminal Justice 9,122 words
  9. Points of Order 561 words
  10. Companies (Political Funds) 1,094 words
    1. COMPANIES (POLITICAL FUNDS) 91 words
    2. Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill [Money] (No. 2) 3,291 words
  11. Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Supplemental Allocation of Time) 21 words
    1. Lords Amendments 351 words
    2. Stages subsequent to first Consideration of Lords Amendments 220 words
    3. Reasons Committee 58 words
    4. Extra time, & c. 5,177 words
  12. Orders of the Day
    1. Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill 3 words
      1. Clause 1
        1. REFERENDUM IN SCOTLAND 23,821 words, 3 divisions
  13. PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE 97 words
  14. MODERNISATION OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 142 words
  15. Closed Circuit Television 4,862 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 30 July 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Sentences 385 words
    2. Licensing Laws 77 words
    3. Animal Experiments 913 words
    4. Homosexuality 227 words
    5. Members of the European Parliament 61 words
    6. Amsterdam Treaty 93 words
    7. National Lottery (Horserace Betting Levy) 158 words
    8. Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 697 words
    9. Criminal Justice System 355 words
    10. Hong Kong Governor 57 words
    11. Data Protection 51 words
    12. Dublin Convention 316 words
    13. Service Authorities 796 words
    14. Private Security Industry 172 words
    15. Departmental Payroll 168 words
    16. Computer-related Expenditure 59 words
    17. Victim Support 248 words
    18. Closed Circuit Television 172 words
    19. Crime Statistics 1,111 words
    20. Alcohol-related Crime 186 words
    21. Neighbourhood Watch 122 words
    22. Police (Wales) 308 words
  2. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Asian Initiative 57 words
    2. Yemen 88 words
    3. Sex Discrimination 67 words
  3. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Unemployed Graduates 163 words
    2. Higher Education 146 words
    3. Student Debt 153 words
    4. Students Loans 162 words
    5. Student Fees 340 words
    6. Ethnic Minorities 503 words
    7. Student Grants 136 words
    8. Dance and Drama Students 130 words
    9. School Standards 222 words
    10. Employment Service 240 words
    11. Teachers' Pay 136 words
    12. Class Sizes (Selby) 280 words
    13. Airborne Stand-off Radar Programme 166 words
    14. Bullying 189 words
    15. Encouragement of Enterprise 102 words
    16. Training and Enterprise Councils 92 words
    17. Office for Standards in Education 553 words
  4. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Drug Abuse 307 words
  5. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Engagements 38 words
    2. Intelligence and Security Committee 94 words
  6. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Parliamentary Groups and Committees 182 words
  7. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Nolan Committee Records 206 words
  8. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Millennium Experience 204 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. European Identity Card 54 words
    2. UK-US Space Project 63 words
    3. Gibraltar 122 words
    4. British Citizens Working Overseas 178 words
    5. Korean Peninsula 626 words
    6. Bosnia 91 words
    7. Regional or Minority Languages Charter 52 words
    8. BBC World Service 83 words
    9. Indonesia 95 words
    10. China 58 words
    11. Hong Kong 80 words
    12. Overseas Posts (Business Men) 289 words
    13. European Union 1,560 words
  10. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Departmental Payroll 142 words
    2. Sport (Redbridge) 80 words
    3. Computer-related Expenditure 116 words
    4. Sport 105 words
    5. Film Industry 378 words
    6. Arts Expenditure 177 words
    7. Arts Councils 322 words
  11. SCOTLAND
    1. Welfare to Work 84 words
    2. Holyroodhouse Palace 1,117 words
    3. Learning Support Teachers 185 words
    4. Pharmacists (Drug Offences) 120 words
    5. Departmental Payroll 199 words
    6. Internet 124 words
    7. EU Languages Charter 97 words
    8. Civil Servants 333 words
    9. Forestry 2,790 words
    10. Disabled People (Housing) 111 words
    11. A1 296 words
    12. Drug Addiction 516 words
    13. Needle Exchange Services 54 words
    14. Lockerbie 48 words
    15. Crime and Punishment Act 369 words
    16. Fisheries Research Services 233 words
    17. Scottish Tourist Board 145 words
    18. Referendum Publicity Costs 122 words
  12. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Charter Unit 63 words
    2. Freedom of Information 389 words
    3. Charters 42 words
    4. Public Services (Elderly People) 95 words
    5. Public Services 186 words
    6. Better Government Programme 103 words
    7. Public Appointments 125 words
    8. Deregulation 88 words
    9. Food Safety 118 words
    10. Quangos 158 words
    11. Next Steps Agencies 55 words
    12. Ethnic Minorities 209 words
    13. Central Office of Information 90 words
    14. Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency 109 words
    15. Civil Service College 108 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Parades and Marches 232 words
    2. Internet 159 words
    3. Expenditure 1,124 words
    4. Plastic Baton Rounds 80 words
    5. Public Appointments 296 words
    6. Industrial Research and Technology Unit 98 words
    7. Prison Service 195 words
  14. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Food Standards Agency 671 words
    2. Veterinary Field Service 107 words
    3. Radioactive Waste 680 words
    4. Cattle Cull 387 words
    5. Intervention Board 317 words
    6. Vitamin B6 169 words
    7. Departmental Payroll 259 words
    8. Gyrodactylus Salaris Parasite 318 words
    9. Intervention Beef 620 words
    10. Arable Area Payments 287 words
    11. Brewing Industry 76 words
  15. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Export Licences 619 words
    2. Renewable Energy 127 words
    3. Business Links 217 words
    4. British Citizens Working Abroad 229 words
    5. Trade Associations 296 words
    6. International Airport, Gaza 74 words
    7. Computer-related Expenditure 297 words
    8. Employers' Liability Insurance 129 words
    9. Energy Taxation 44 words
  16. WALES
    1. Waste Minimisation 331 words
    2. Arable Area Payments 140 words
    3. Public Health Initiative 416 words
    4. Education Revenue Accounts 535 words
    5. Contaminated Land 65 words
    6. Gwent Tertiary College 109 words
    7. EAGGF 812 words
  17. TREASURY
    1. Long-term Care Insurance 278 words
    2. Office for National Statistics 116 words
    3. Ministry of Defence Budget 80 words
    4. EMU Information Campaign 64 words
    5. Oil Seed Rape Fuel 50 words
    6. Personal Equity Plans 66 words
    7. Income Tax 55 words
    8. General Government Expenditure 102 words
    9. Economic and Monetary Union 192 words
    10. Minister for Trade and Competitiveness in Europe 77 words
    11. Private Medical Insurance 77 words
    12. Value Added Tax (Businesses) 149 words
    13. Nationalised Industries 453 words
    14. Public Sector Debt 71 words
    15. Business Taxes 229 words
    16. Computers (Century Data Change) 97 words
    17. Building Societies 118 words
    18. Contingency Reserve 490 words
    19. Computer-related Expenditure 129 words
    20. Inflation 126 words
    21. Road Haulage Industry 71 words
    22. Air Passenger Duty 132 words
    23. Earnings 117 words
    24. Shareholders 68 words
    25. VAT (Auctions) 116 words
    26. Excise Duty (Beer) 224 words
    27. Carbon Tax (Aviation Fuel) 35 words
    28. GDP Growth 204 words
    29. Abortions 149 words
  18. DEFENCE
    1. Hunting 733 words
    2. Defence Companies 177 words
    3. Strategic Defence Review 48 words
    4. Equipment Exhibition 105 words
    5. Duke of York's Royal Military School 185 words
    6. Service Children's Education 199 words
    7. Naval Manning Agency 208 words
    8. Queen Victoria School 278 words
    9. Naval Recruiting and Training Agency 228 words
    10. Disposal Sales Agency 220 words
    11. Regimental Museums 179 words
    12. Army Personnel 346 words
    13. Mark 2 Chinook 144 words
    14. Injured Service Personnel 161 words
    15. Service Colleges 86 words
  19. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Press Releases 273 words
    2. Invalid Care Allowance 176 words
    3. Employee Relocation Allowances 342 words
    4. Office Refurbishment 48 words
    5. Pensions Review 148 words
    6. Benefits Agency (Leeds Offices) 613 words
    7. Benefits Fraud Hotline 340 words
    8. Pensions 458 words
    9. Lone Parents 341 words
    10. Departmental Payroll 547 words
    11. Mortgage Interest Claimants 946 words
    12. Social Security Benefits 135 words
    13. Cervical Spondylosis 106 words
    14. Widow's Benefits 54 words
    15. Sponsored Immigrants 91 words
    16. Employment Advertisements 83 words
    17. Disability Living Allowance 63 words
    18. Local Exchange Trading Systems 469 words
    19. Civil Servants 269 words
    20. Ethnic Minorities 174 words
    21. Income Support 318 words
    22. Child Support Agency 701 words
    23. Benefit Claimant Inquiries 266 words
    24. Pensions and Overseas Benefits Directorate 300 words
    25. Incapacity Benefit 154 words
  20. HEALTH
    1. Private Sector NHS Expenditure 66 words
    2. Insulin Pen Needles 352 words
    3. Bad Debt 46 words
    4. Medical Negligence 163 words
    5. Surplus Property 90 words
    6. Health Visitors and District Nurses 131 words
    7. Loughborough General Hospital 106 words
    8. Heart Bypass Surgery 1,075 words
    9. Heart Disease 134 words
    10. Oral Contraceptives 417 words
    11. Care Definitions 74 words
    12. Cervical Smear Tests 194 words
    13. Departmental Payroll 118 words
    14. Health Authorities (Local Accountability) 105 words
    15. Essential Small Pharmacy Scheme 199 words
    16. Community Nurses (Transport Allowance) 71 words
    17. Health Service Expenditure 2,176 words
    18. Melatonin 138 words
    19. Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1997 79 words
    20. Independent Advisory Panel 94 words
    21. NHS Efficiency Task Force 155 words
    22. Ministerial Absences 77 words
    23. NHS Planning 68 words
    24. NHS Land and Buildings 407 words
    25. Private Finance Initiative 246 words
    26. Clinical Services 226 words