31 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 31 July 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      1. Utilities Standing Charges 218 words
      2. Computers (Century Date Change) 570 words
      3. Minister for Trade and Competitiveness in Europe 1,085 words
      4. Scientific Advice 884 words
      5. Higher Education 427 words
      6. Science, Engineering and Technology (Women) 382 words
      7. Beer Measures 256 words
      8. Motor Vehicles (Recycling) 247 words
      9. Small Businesses (Interest on Debt) 657 words
      10. Small Businesses (Information Technology) 343 words
      11. Regional Aid 1,213 words
      12. Libya (Trade Missions) 366 words
      13. Lloyd's of London 311 words
      14. Bus Services (Scotland) 271 words
      15. Electricity Markets (Liberalisation) 324 words
      16. Research and Technology Organisations (Tax Status) 349 words
      17. Mains Gas (Doorstep Selling) 217 words
  4. Madam Speaker's Statement 118 words
  5. Points of Order 900 words
  6. Caledonian MacBrayne 595 words
  7. Scottish Devolution 7,499 words
  8. Royal Assent 58 words
  9. Scottish Devolution 44,791 words
  10. PROCEDURE 52 words
  11. PETITION
    1. Tolls 171 words
    2. Engineering Industry 4,208 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 31 July 1997

  1. Wales
    1. Education Expenditure 546 words
    2. Welsh Assembly 997 words
    3. Roads Programme 169 words
    4. Family Planning Services 307 words
    5. St. David's Day 64 words
    6. Business Start-up Scheme 107 words
    7. Aberfan 129 words
    8. Local Government Finance 227 words
    9. Council Tax (Second Homes) 71 words
    10. Small Firms 79 words
  2. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Legal Aid 225 words
    2. Departmental Payroll 308 words
    3. Solicitors(Complaints) 80 words
    4. Waste Minimisation 252 words
  3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Crown Prosecution Service 203 words
  4. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Ministerial Visits 70 words
    2. Millennium Dome 105 words
    3. Ministerial Advisers 95 words
  5. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Computers (Century Date Change) 76 words
    2. Sick Leave 2,514 words
    3. Next Steps Agencies 160 words
    4. Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme 75 words
    5. Civil Servants (Alleged Wrongdoing) 212 words
  6. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Cattle Cull 341 words
    2. Beaufort's Dyke 118 words
    3. Food Standards Agency 138 words
    4. Arable Area Payments Scheme 321 words
    5. Waste Minimisation 260 words
    6. Pigs (Gas Stunning) 176 words
    7. Office Refurbishment 108 words
    8. Vegetable Oils 203 words
    9. Cattle Traceability 165 words
    10. State Veterinary Service 234 words
    11. Computers (Century Date Change) 131 words
    12. Fishing 131 words
    13. Camphill Devon Community Ltd. 81 words
    14. Performing Animals 81 words
    15. Rams' Horns 146 words
    16. Fisheries (Rockall) 261 words
    17. Vitamin Supplements 437 words
  7. TREASURY
    1. Foreign Income Dividends 107 words
    2. Windfall Tax 31 words
    3. Indirect and Corporate Taxation 101 words
    4. Privatised Industries 179 words
    5. Nationalised Industries 500 words
    6. BSE 119 words
    7. EU Budget 333 words
    8. Generalised System of Preferences 313 words
    9. Welsh Assembly 85 words
    10. European Central Bank 54 words
    11. Budget (Environmental Impact) 52 words
    12. Tobacco Duty 76 words
    13. Financial Services (Distance Selling) 53 words
    14. Travel-to-work Areas 134 words
    15. Investors Compensation Scheme 164 words
    16. Computers (Century Date Change) 63 words
    17. Financial Services Regulation 180 words
    18. Financial Services Regulators 56 words
    19. Treasury Supplement 116 words
    20. Personal Pensions 40 words
    21. National Audit Office 63 words
    22. Public Expenditure 56 words
    23. Departmental Spending Limits 45 words
    24. National Lottery 94 words
    25. Low Pay 208 words
    26. Construction Workers 109 words
    27. Tax Law Rewrite Project 128 words
    28. Office Refurbishment 196 words
    29. Securities and Investments Board 307 words
    30. VAT (Fuel) 152 words
    31. Income Tax 164 words
    32. Disposable Incomes 187 words
    33. Public Sector Pay 63 words
    34. Income Tax (Covenants) 70 words
    35. EU Budget 191 words
    36. EU Funds (Fraud) 69 words
    37. Personal Equity Plans 352 words
    38. Pensioners (Fuel Costs) 140 words
    39. Duty-Free Shopping 108 words
    40. North Sea Oil and Gas 404 words
    41. Small Businesses 425 words
    42. Waste Minimisation 187 words
    43. Tax and Benefits System 167 words
    44. Auctioneers 212 words
    45. Investors Compensation Scheme 75 words
    46. Economic and Monetary Union 171 words
    47. Government Expenditure 58 words
    48. Personal Pensions 155 words
    49. Offshore Trusts 175 words
    50. Warrington Valuation Office 97 words
    51. Welfare to Work 119 words
    52. New Deal (Young People) 97 words
    53. Diesel 84 words
  8. DEFENCE
    1. Ships Support Agency 462 words
    2. Defence Intelligence and Security Center 251 words
    3. Military Survey Defence Agency 178 words
    4. Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre 264 words
    5. Defence Clothing and Textiles Agency 198 words
    6. Defence Animal Centre 168 words
    7. RAF Maintenance Group Defence Agency 201 words
    8. Defence Analytical Services Agency 108 words
    9. Defence Bills Agency 179 words
    10. Wessex Helicopter Replacement 111 words
    11. Future Large Aircraft 191 words
    12. Gordon Foxley 207 words
    13. Ethnic Minorities 132 words
    14. Hawk Aircraft (Indonesia) 63 words
    15. Services Museums 116 words
    16. Departmental Payroll 517 words
    17. HMS Tiger 131 words
    18. Waste Minimisation 83 words
    19. Nuclear Weapons 731 words
    20. Meteorological Experiments 96 words
    21. 10 Squadron (Cargo) 96 words
    22. Office Refurbishment 57 words
    23. Air Force Bases (Germany) 109 words
    24. RAF Menwith Hill 84 words
    25. Military Assistance 51 words
    26. WE-177 Bomb 71 words
    27. AWE Aldermaston Newsletter 79 words
    28. Defence Employment 258 words
    29. British Prisoners of War (Salary Payments) 209 words
    30. Land Mines 113 words
    31. Officers 112 words
    32. Computers (Century Date Change) 128 words
    33. Document AIR 2/16918 74 words
    34. Chemical Weapons 83 words
    35. Abbeywood 171 words
    36. Gulf War Syndrome 289 words
    37. Hadleigh 137 words
    38. Nuclear Warheads 53 words
    39. Hawk Jet Sales 57 words
    40. American Submarines 63 words
  9. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Departmental Payroll 122 words
  10. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Environmental Audit Committee 140 words
    2. Scottish Business 1,289 words
    3. Public Accounts Commission 81 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Waste Minimisation 347 words
    2. Rockall 172 words
    3. Straddling Stocks 208 words
    4. Defence Exports 363 words
    5. Sikander Mahmood 79 words
    6. Indonesia 113 words
    7. East Timor 128 words
    8. Computers (Century Date Change) 102 words
    9. Congo 96 words
    10. Burma 92 words
    11. Karabakh Conflict 54 words
    12. Cambodia 133 words
    13. Correspondence 61 words
    14. British Embassy, Berlin 157 words
    15. European Council 597 words
    16. Entry Clearance 71 words
    17. North Atlantic Assembly 118 words
    18. Departmental Payroll 154 words
    19. Kenya 169 words
    20. Defence Equipment (Export Licences) 85 words
  12. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Policy Unit 63 words
    2. "Questions of Procedure for Ministers" 351 words
    3. Arms Sales 187 words
    4. Sovereign (Documents) 69 words
    5. Departmental Payroll 84 words
    6. Open Government 52 words
    7. Palestine 227 words
    8. Scottish Parliament 478 words
    9. Amsterdam Summit 81 words
    10. Policy Reviews 52 words
    11. Age Discrimination 217 words
    12. Minister without Portfolio 212 words
    13. Council of Europe 390 words
    14. Written Questions 51 words
  13. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Higher Education 964 words
    2. School Inspections 315 words
    3. Welfare to Work 139 words
    4. New Deal 115 words
    5. Oxbridge Entrants 58 words
    6. Business (Government Assistance Schemes) 245 words
    7. Class Sizes (Bolton) 152 words
    8. Education-related Projects 82 words
    9. Computers (Century Date Change) 66 words
    10. Autistic Children 84 words
    11. Disability Discrimination Act 1995 348 words
    12. Class Sizes 73 words
    13. University Students 280 words
    14. Tuition Fees 397 words
    15. Educational Qualifications 93 words
    16. Bursaries and Awards 205 words
    17. Waste Minimisation 338 words
    18. Departmental Payroll 79 words
    19. Consultation Exercises 298 words
    20. Windfall Tax 141 words
    21. Office Refurbishment 74 words
    22. Tithe Farm Lower School 84 words
  14. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Waste Minimisation 238 words
    2. Office Refurbishment 104 words
    3. North Korea 53 words
    4. Aid and Trade 420 words
    5. Debt Relief Assistance 120 words
    6. Sustainable Development 103 words
  15. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Waste Minimisation 206 words
    2. Newstead Abbey 105 words
    3. Museums and Galleries Commission 76 words
    4. Office Refurbishment 87 words
    5. Sports Broadcasting 84 words
    6. Tourism (Dramatic Arts) 272 words
    7. Museums and Galleries (Lottery Funding) 234 words
    8. Millennium Commission Grants 76 words
    9. Lottery Awards 930 words
    10. Computers (Century Date Change) 80 words
    11. English Sports Council 238 words
    12. Television Broadcasters 352 words
    13. National Lottery 206 words
    14. Millennium Commission 243 words
    15. Millennium Celebrations 433 words
    16. Sport (Spectators) 92 words
  16. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Prisoner Transfers 62 words
    2. Postal and Proxy Votes 734 words
    3. Plastic Baton Rounds 253 words
    4. IRA Punishment Beatings 326 words
    5. Departmental Payroll 227 words
    6. Absent Voting Papers 606 words
    7. Electors 310 words
    8. Electoral Reform Committee 107 words
    9. Arable Area Payments 131 words
    10. European Parliament Elections 106 words
    11. Disability Living Allowance 294 words
    12. Education (Schools) Bill 39 words
    13. Parades 170 words
    14. Violent Crime 219 words
    15. Stolen Vehicles 86 words
    16. Stormont Talks (Bodyguards) 52 words
    17. Bus Operators (Fuel Costs) 98 words
    18. Computers (Century Date Change) 121 words
    19. Employment Advertisements 42 words
    20. Computer-related Expenditure 115 words
    21. Waste Minimisation 74 words
    22. Telecommunications Towers 110 words
    23. Organic Farming 140 words
    24. Social Security 285 words