10 June 1997

Commons Sitting of 10 June 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. PRIVATE BILLS (PROCEDURE) 1,040 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      1. Government Communications Headquarters, Cheltenham 659 words
      2. Human Rights 603 words
      3. China 969 words
      4. Middle East Peace Process 850 words
      5. BBC World Service 582 words
      6. Hong Kong 597 words
      7. Social Chapter 487 words
      8. Kashmir 467 words
      9. Europe (Government Policy) 990 words
      10. United States 450 words
      11. Falkland Islands 225 words
      12. Export Trade 672 words
      13. Religious Freedom 310 words
      14. European Parliament 345 words
      15. Hong Kong 260 words
      16. Commonwealth Summit 272 words
  4. Point of Order 70 words
  5. Orders of the Day
    1. Education (Schools) Bill 12 words
      1. Clause 2
        1. TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR EXISTING ASSISTED PUPILS 23,898 words, 2 divisions
      2. Clause 3
        1. REGULATIONS FOR PURPOSES OF TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 5,450 words, 1 division
      3. New clause 2
        1. POWER OF LOCAL AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE TO ASSIST PUPILS 24,936 words, 1 division
        2. A494 (Improvements) 4,103 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 10 June 1997

  1. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Minimum Wage 95 words
    2. Assisted Places Scheme 352 words
    3. Class Sizes 1,056 words
    4. Single Parents 95 words
    5. National Curriculum 78 words
    6. Job Clubs 317 words
    7. Travellers (Education) 170 words
    8. School-age Children 124 words
    9. Non-teaching Head Teachers 38 words
    10. Ethnic Minorities (Education) 61 words
    11. Pupil-teacher Ratio 53 words
    12. Disabled People (Civil Rights) 63 words
    13. Further Education 81 words
    14. Political and Special Advisers 208 words
  2. DEFENCE
    1. Chemical and Biological Weapons 567 words
    2. Minimum Wage 96 words
    3. British Army of the Rhine 158 words
    4. Defence Expenditure 329 words
    5. RAF Wroughton 160 words
    6. Plastic Baton Rounds 193 words
    7. Test Ban Treaty 158 words
  3. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Developing Countries (Debts) 391 words
    2. Costa Rica 380 words
    3. Jammu and Kashmir 80 words
    4. Sierra Leone 57 words
    5. UN Poverty Conference 111 words
  4. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. National Lottery 118 words
  5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Defendants (Prosecution Costs) 232 words
  6. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Magistrates and Justices of the Peace 1,168 words
  7. SCOTLAND
    1. Maternity Unit (Glasgow) 62 words
    2. Scottish Screen 265 words
    3. Compulsory Competitive Tendering 48 words
    4. HIV/AIDS 236 words
    5. Scottish Homes 78 words
    6. Manning Appeals 114 words
  8. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Special Advisers 128 words
    2. European Affairs Committees 91 words
    3. Constitutional Bills 76 words
  9. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Minimum Wage 98 words
    2. London Fire and Civil Defence Authority 96 words
    3. Animal Experimentation 860 words
    4. CS Gas Spray 231 words
    5. European Convention on Human Rights 116 words
    6. Deportation 1,069 words
    7. Immigration Detainees 138 words
    8. WPC Yvonne Fletcher 79 words
    9. Shooting Incident (St. James's Square) 55 words
    10. First-time Offenders 130 words
    11. Asylum Seekers 205 words
    12. Illegal Immigrants 36 words
    13. Immigration Advisers 49 words
    14. Pucklechurch Prison 62 words
    15. Metropolitan Police (Civil Staff) 100 words
  10. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Official Residences 52 words
    2. Political and Special Advisers 347 words
    3. Eurofighter 60 words
    4. Mr. Jonathan Powell 163 words
    5. Minister without Portfolio 63 words
    6. Earth Summit 297 words
    7. Council of Europe and Western European Union 54 words
  11. TREASURY
    1. Beer 117 words
    2. Public Utilities 36 words
    3. Railtrack 37 words
    4. Unemployment 62 words
    5. EU Budget Contribution 73 words
    6. EU Convergence Criteria 105 words
    7. Earnings 297 words
    8. Private Housing Stock 238 words
    9. Base Rates 37 words
    10. Building Societies 59 words
    11. Political and Special Advisers 165 words
    12. Non-domestic Rating System 79 words
  12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. European Union 69 words
    2. St. Helena 43 words
    3. Council of Ministers 144 words
    4. Kashmir 173 words
    5. Export Trade 69 words
    6. UN Security Council 67 words
    7. Social Chapter 159 words
    8. Human Rights 56 words
    9. Cyprus 156 words
    10. Defence Exports 66 words
    11. Congo 55 words
    12. Gibraltar 52 words
    13. EU (Applicant Nations) 82 words
    14. Chemical Weapons 133 words
    15. Quota Hoppers 83 words
    16. Minimum Wage 95 words
    17. Geneva Conventions 73 words
    18. Libya 78 words
  13. WALES
    1. Unemployment 63 words
    2. Welsh Development Agency 59 words
    3. Minimum Wage 97 words
    4. Regional Policy 41 words
    5. Communications Masts 103 words
    6. Health Service Appointments 48 words
    7. Euro-freight Terminal 55 words
    8. Ovarian Cancer 203 words
    9. Dental Services 69 words
  14. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. ENVIRONMENT AND THE REGIONS
      1. Vehicles on Byways 102 words
      2. Single Regeneration Budget 118 words
      3. Minimum Wage 164 words
      4. English House Condition Survey 261 words
      5. VAT on Domestic Fuel 190 words
      6. Care of the Elderly (Essex) 103 words
      7. Challenge Funds 97 words
      8. Capital Receipts 57 words
      9. Out-of-town Development Schemes 42 words
      10. Planning Applications 475 words
      11. Water Companies 111 words
      12. Herbal Medicines 161 words
      13. Endangered Species 117 words
      14. Nuclear Waste 192 words
      15. Red Lion Hotel, Somerton 92 words
    2. TRANSPORT
      1. M6 (Noise Reduction) 183 words
      2. Plutonium Waste 201 words
      3. Road Safety 163 words
      4. Car Clocking 202 words
      5. Delegated Driving Examiners 135 words
      6. A40 213 words
      7. Tachographs 365 words
      8. Channel Tunnel 369 words
      9. Rail Driver Fatigue 111 words
      10. Rail Journey Statistics 61 words
      11. Trunk Roads Programme 32 words
      12. Minimum Wage 104 words
      13. Aviation Standards 280 words
    3. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      1. Nuclear Waste 191 words
      2. Plutonium 187 words
      3. BNFL 254 words
      4. Part-time Employees 131 words
      5. Funeral Services 90 words
      6. Rail Privatisation 104 words
      7. Renewable Energy 395 words
      8. EU Regional Aid 276 words
      9. Atlantic Frontier 231 words
      10. Clean Coal Technology 362 words
      11. Coal Subsidies 232 words
      12. Non-fossil Fuel Obligation 74 words
      13. Commercial Debt 84 words
      14. Nuclear Fuel 174 words
    4. HEALTH
      1. Minimum Wage 94 words
      2. Eye Tests (Changes) 108 words
      3. Paramedics (Voluntary Work) 61 words
      4. High Dependency Beds 157 words
      5. Water Fluoridation 74 words
      6. Mobile Phones and Electric Blankets (Health Risks) 153 words
      7. Medical Drug Donations 337 words
      8. Dental Services 105 words
      9. Cannabis 85 words
      10. HIV/AIDS 179 words
      11. Health Authority Deficit 97 words
      12. Private Finance Initiative 41 words
      13. NHS Trusts (Appointments) 374 words
      14. Aluminium (Health Risks) 59 words
      15. Smoking 374 words
      16. Alzheimer's Disease 48 words
      17. National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 58 words
      18. Emergency Readmissions 266 words
      19. Carers 154 words
      20. Private Finance Initiative 520 words
    5. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      1. Minimum Wage 97 words
      2. BSE 284 words
      3. Ruminant Feed 57 words
      4. Lacto-vegetarians and Vegans 108 words
    6. SOCIAL SECURITY
      1. State Retirement Pensions (Overseas Residents) 114 words
      2. Jobseeker's Allowance 111 words
      3. Departmental Computer Systems 103 words
      4. Departmental Publications 249 words
      5. State Pension 92 words
      6. Old Age Pension 68 words
      7. Second-tier Pension 156 words
      8. Housing Benefit (Single People) 77 words
      9. Benefits Agency 172 words
    7. NORTHERN IRELAND
      1. Departmental Publications 114 words
      2. Sewers 131 words
      3. Secret Societies 212 words
      4. SPARD Scheme 63 words
      5. Abbatoir (Saintfield) 321 words
      6. Housing Development (Newtownards) 282 words
      7. Pedestrian Crossing (Newtownards) 329 words
      8. Housing Executive 157 words
      9. Royal Ulster Constabulary Anniversary 106 words
      10. Minimum Wage 161 words
      11. United States (Discussions) 120 words
      12. Occupational Therapy 131 words

Lords Sitting of 10 June 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Baroness Lloyd of Highbury 38 words
  3. Lord Biffen 40 words
  4. Telephone Switchboards: Blind Operators 330 words
  5. Nuclear Weapons 1,153 words
  6. Career Civil Servants and Political Appointees 1,108 words
  7. Disability Benefits: Effect of Judgment 1,388 words
  8. Law Officers Bill [H.L.] 81 words
  9. Liaison Committee 168 words
  10. Consumer Guarantees: ECC Report 14,669 words
  11. Drug Abuse, Scotland 8,031 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 10 June 1997

  1. Privacy Legislation: Proposals 65 words
  2. Dietary Supplements: EC Document 111 words
  3. Copyright Period 112 words
  4. NATO-Russia Meeting, Sintra, 29/30 May 377 words
  5. NHS: PFI 443 words
  6. Student Loans Scheme 109 words
  7. Plastic Baton Rounds 193 words
  8. Elephants and Tigers: Conservation 264 words
  9. Eurostar Sleeper Trains 223 words
  10. Water Summit Action Plan: Response Date 89 words
  11. Micheldever Station, Hants 117 words
  12. Salisbury Bypass Proposal 74 words
  13. Decriminalised Parking Enforcement 108 words
  14. European Union: Forthcoming Business 1,894 words