8 July 1997

Commons Sitting of 8 July 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. KING'S COLLEGE LONDON BILL [Lords] (By Order) 15 words
      2. LEVER PARK BILL (By Order) 15 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      1. Hong Kong 921 words
      2. Commonwealth 1,123 words
      3. Burma (Human Rights) 477 words
      4. Middle East Peace Process 1,145 words
      5. Export Trade 426 words
      6. Nicaragua (Human Rights) 392 words
      7. Amsterdam Agreement 475 words
      8. Arms Sales 884 words
      9. Kashmir 449 words
      10. Korea 521 words
      11. Zimbabwe 366 words
      12. Indonesia (Human Rights) 678 words
      13. Year of the Commonwealth 379 words
  4. Points of Order 276 words
  5. Film Classification Accountability and Openness 1,468 words
    1. FILM CLASSIFICATION ACCOUNTABILITY AND OPENNESS 85 words
  6. Orders of the Day
    1. Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill 7 words
      1. New clause 1
        1. DUTY OF SECRETARY OF STATE TO HAVE REGARD TO ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS 2,754 words, 1 division
      2. New clause 2
        1. LOCAL AUTHORITY DEBT REDUCTION STRATEGIES 9,681 words, 1 division
      3. New clause 4
        1. LOCAL AUTHORITY INVESTMENTS IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES 4,464 words
      4. New clause 6
        1. HOUSING NEED CRITERIA TO BE THE SAME IN ENGLAND AND WALES 2,469 words
      5. Clause 2
        1. POWER IN PLACE OF DUTY TO SPECIFY AMORTISATION PERIOD 6,831 words, 1 division
    2. Local Government (Contracts) Bill 7 words
      1. Clause 1
        1. FUNCTIONS TO INCLUDE POWER TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT 1,975 words
      2. Clause 3
        1. THE CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 722 words
      3. Clause 5
        1. SPECIAL PROVISION FOR JUDICIAL. REVIEWS AND AUDIT REVIEWS 5,002 words
    3. SELECT COMMITTEES RELATED TO GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS 188 words
    4. SELECT COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 67 words
  7. Low Flying (Northumberland) 4,521 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 8 July 1997

  1. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Committee on Standards in Public Life 462 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Electoral System (European Parliament) 61 words
    2. Police Widows Pension Regulations 70 words
    3. Metropolitan Police 153 words
    4. Policing (British Field Sports Rally) 128 words
    5. Old Documents 122 words
    6. Computers (Century Date Change) 257 words
  3. WALES
    1. Surgery 141 words
    2. NHS Internal Market 181 words
    3. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance 93 words
    4. Beef 148 words
    5. Velindre Hospital 145 words
    6. Old Documents 48 words
    7. Educational Standards 261 words
  4. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Old Documents 81 words
    2. WaterAid 117 words
    3. Computers (Century Date Change) 184 words
    4. Aid and Trade 125 words
  5. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. National Lottery Grants 403 words
    2. Ryder Cup (Television) 115 words
    3. Concessionary Television Licences 197 words
    4. Sport Commentaries 111 words
    5. Office of the National Lottery 205 words
  6. TREASURY
    1. Advance Corporation Tax 27 words
    2. Budget (Leaks) 256 words
    3. Windfall Tax 161 words
    4. Job Creation 100 words
    5. Channel 4 35 words
    6. Euro 238 words
    7. Household Income 70 words
    8. EU Funds (Bank Deposits) 53 words
    9. Unemployment 1,522 words
    10. Low Pay 754 words
    11. Employment 375 words
    12. Labour Market Statistics 160 words
  7. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Domestic Violence 65 words
    2. Legal Aid 464 words
  8. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Beef Ban 145 words
    2. Specified Bovine Material 362 words
    3. Rabies 233 words
    4. BSE-contaminated Feed 214 words
    5. Biotechnological Inventions 150 words
    6. Delivery Targets 623 words
  9. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Computers (Century Date Change) 194 words
    2. Business Links 30 words
    3. Telecommunications Advisory Committees 141 words
    4. Multi-level Marketing 75 words
    5. Instruments of Torture 159 words
    6. Trade Union Subscriptions 108 words
    7. Post Office 152 words
    8. Supervision 138 words
    9. Resort Hotels 143 words
    10. Inward Investment 106 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. European Union 120 words
    2. Sri Lanka 53 words
    3. India and Pakistan 140 words
    4. Burma (Human Rights) 55 words
    5. Middle East Peace Process 88 words
    6. Hong Kong 458 words
    7. Exports 141 words
    8. Nuclear Deterrent 50 words
    9. Qualified Majority Voting 155 words
    10. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 69 words
    11. Immigration Rules 147 words
    12. Prisoners of War 80 words
    13. BBC World Service 78 words
    14. Entry Requirements (Children) 148 words
    15. Strategic Defence Review 208 words
    16. Computers (Century Date Change) 150 words
    17. China 109 words
    18. Indonesia 79 words
    19. Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 76 words
    20. Gibraltar 41 words
    21. Old Documents 123 words
    22. Law of the Sea Convention 55 words
  11. DEFENCE
    1. Eurofighter 45 words
    2. Defence Budget 65 words
    3. Strategic Defence Review 46 words
    4. Defence Sales 77 words
    5. Indonesia 94 words
    6. Roll-on/roll-off Ferries 64 words
    7. Regimental Complement 902 words
    8. Export Credit Guarantees 115 words
    9. Long-term Costings 167 words
    10. Old Documents 103 words
    11. Freedom of Information 55 words
    12. Shoeburyness Ranges 89 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Ayrshire and Arran Health Board 108 words
    2. Local Government Finance 582 words
    3. Beaufort's Dyke 440 words
    4. Old Documents 183 words
    5. Wildlife Protection 82 words
    6. BSE 349 words
  13. HEALTH
    1. Private Finance Initiative 199 words
    2. Top Quality Care 270 words
    3. London Implementation Group 261 words
    4. Financial Deficit (Northern Region) 64 words
    5. Back Pain (School Children) 169 words
    6. Waiting Lists 95 words
    7. NHS Priorities 91 words
    8. Compulsory Competitive Tendering 115 words
    9. Nurses and Midwives 49 words
    10. Service Improvements 123 words
    11. Research Projects 381 words
    12. Intensive Care 79 words
    13. Review Bodies 49 words
    14. Inflation 67 words
    15. Carers 135 words
    16. Funding (North Essex) 238 words
    17. Old Documents 103 words
  14. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Payable Tax Credits 93 words
    2. Teachers (Select Committee Report) 141 words
    3. Special Educational Needs 108 words
    4. Careers Education 81 words
    5. Employment Chapter 95 words
    6. School Inspections 117 words
    7. Primary Class Sizes 245 words
    8. Assisted Places (Taunton) 349 words
    9. National Curriculum (Engineering) 106 words
    10. Parenthood Lessons 131 words
  15. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Dial-a-ride Companies 394 words
    2. Rail Freight 210 words
    3. Roads Programme 277 words
    4. Private Hire Vehicles 95 words
    5. Railtrack 117 words
    6. Traffic Wardens 75 words
    7. Motorway Lighting 811 words
    8. Belmont Stables, Barnet 122 words
    9. Mink and Arctic Fox 64 words
    10. Housing 53 words
    11. Travellers 124 words
    12. Humane Trapping 109 words
    13. Ground Rents 156 words
    14. Biotechnological Inventions 101 words
    15. Abstraction Licences 97 words
    16. Water Companies 364 words
    17. Tax Credits 331 words
    18. Office of Water Services 85 words
    19. Local Government Officers (Political Activity) 64 words
    20. Old Documents 163 words
    21. Ordnance Survey 81 words
    22. CITES 1,027 words
    23. Local Government Act 1988 71 words
  16. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Child Support Agency 5,189 words
    2. Child Care Disregard 129 words
    3. Old Documents 95 words
    4. Benefit Integrity Project 182 words

Lords Sitting of 8 July 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Lord Alton of Liverpool 34 words
  3. Global Environment Facility: Funding 1,046 words
  4. Homes Owned by Central Government 1,186 words
  5. Millennium Celebrations 1,241 words
  6. Asylum Seekers: Support 909 words
  7. Wireless Telegraphy Bill [H.L.] 11,104 words
  8. Satellite Television Service Regulations 1997 1,773 words
  9. Appropriation (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 10,866 words
  10. European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Euro-Mediterranean Agreement Establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States and the Kingdom of Morocco) Order 1997
  11. European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Framework Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the Republic of Chile) Order 1997
  12. European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Inter-regional Framework Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the Southern Common Market and its Party States) Order 1997 4,533 words
  13. Scottish Seed Potato Development Council (Dissolution) Order 1997 1,841 words
  14. Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) Order 1997 1,215 words
  15. NATO 9,721 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 8 July 1997

  1. Questions for Written Answer 102 words
  2. Standards in Public Life: Third Report 462 words
  3. General Practitioner Visits 94 words
  4. Cancer Surgery 51 words
  5. Tobacco Advertising 120 words
  6. Tree Planting 74 words
  7. Gulf War Illness: Research 232 words
  8. Tactical Missile Defence Deployment by NATO Members 109 words
  9. Income Tax 62 words
  10. Government Borrowing 139 words
  11. Public Debt 127 words
  12. Living Standards 126 words
  13. Museums and Galleries: Admission Charges 634 words
  14. Culture Council, 30 June 155 words
  15. Northern Ireland: Juvenile Justice System 465 words
  16. Beef Exports 142 words
  17. Cetaceans and Fishing Nets: Research 98 words
  18. Fish Catch Landings in UK 110 words
  19. Fish Quota Species: UK Vessel Landings 366 words
  20. Common Fisheries Policy 225 words
  21. Fishing Policy Consultations 112 words
  22. Fishing Fleet Reductions 134 words
  23. Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Legislation 97 words