11 June 1997

Commons Sitting of 11 June 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. Bank of England 12,358 words
    2. Earth Summit 2 12,963 words
    3. Residential Care (Cornwall) 3,362 words
    4. Salisbury Bypass 4,505 words
    5. Whitley Park, Huddersfield 4,076 words
  3. Oral Answer to Questions
    1. NORTHERN IRELAND
      1. Local Government 511 words
      2. Fair Employment Legislation 966 words
      3. Peace Process 1,596 words
      4. Parades 1,385 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Ministerial Visit 293 words
      2. Engagements 4,027 words
  4. Spending Review 7,402 words
  5. Points of Order 646 words
  6. Orders of the Day
    1. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 51,763 words, 2 divisions
    2. FIREARMS (AMENDMENT) BILL [MONEY] 117 words
    3. Lockerbie and Libyan Sanctions 4,351 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 11 June 1997

  1. SCOTLAND
    1. Disabled People 49 words
    2. Scottish Homes 59 words
    3. Homelessness 145 words
    4. Poverty 165 words
    5. Islay (Air Services) 61 words
    6. Pennington Report 278 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Closed Circuit Television (Chelmsford) 98 words
    2. Departmental Documents 85 words
    3. Puppy Farms 43 words
    4. Asylum Seekers 544 words
    5. Immigration (Same Sex Partnerships) 65 words
    6. CS Gas 280 words
    7. Driving Without Insurance (Fines) 244 words
    8. Animal Experimentation 144 words
    9. James Hanratty 75 words
    10. Electoral Registration 89 words
    11. Entry Clearance Refusals (Appeals) 79 words
  3. TREASURY
    1. Departmental Documents 200 words
    2. Private Finance Initiative 268 words
    3. Building Societies 194 words
    4. Christian Aid: Change the Rules Campaign 96 words
    5. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 111 words
    6. Income Tax 754 words
    7. Mortgage Interest Tax Relief 100 words
    8. Finance Bill 96 words
    9. Customs and Excise (Northern Ireland) 177 words
    10. Capital Gains Tax 127 words
    11. Inheritance Tax 63 words
    12. Economic Policy 48 words
  4. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Departmental Documents 711 words
    2. Civil Legal Aid 88 words
    3. Legal Services Ombudsman 88 words
    4. Abbas Gokal 130 words
  5. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Minimum Wage 96 words
    2. Concessionary Television Licences 202 words
    3. Political and Special Advisers 196 words
  6. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Playing Fields 836 words
    2. Secondary Schools 1,472 words
    3. Private Finance Initiative 106 words
    4. Dyslexia 299 words
    5. Mature Students 811 words
    6. Grant-maintained Schools 95 words
    7. SSA Methodology 84 words
    8. Standard Assessment Tasks 81 words
    9. Assisted Places 52 words
    10. Class Sizes 157 words
    11. Departmental Documents 86 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Schengen Agreement 89 words
    2. Laos 92 words
    3. Leghold Traps 83 words
    4. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty 46 words
    5. Departmental Documents 274 words
    6. Nuclear Weapons Register 73 words
  8. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Jamaica, Trinidad and Belize 80 words
    2. Departmental Documents 197 words
    3. Laos 150 words
  9. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Economic and Monetary Union 73 words
    2. Trustees 155 words
    3. G7 Economic Summit, Denver 91 words
    4. Political Appointees 66 words
    5. Ministerial Responsibilities 84 words
  10. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Departmental Documents 200 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Regional Aid 86 words
    2. Radioactive Wastes 246 words
    3. MOX Fuel 48 words
    4. Electricity Standing Charges 66 words
    5. Overseas Aid 84 words
    6. British Steel 122 words
    7. Assisted Areas 62 words
    8. Aerospace Industry 473 words
    9. Life Forms Patents 64 words
    10. Royal Greenwich Observatory 71 words
  12. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. ENVIRONMENT AND THE REGIONS
      1. Single Regeneration Budget 138 words
      2. Challenge Funds 136 words
      3. HFC 134 156 words
      4. Water Companies 153 words
      5. Watercraft 191 words
      6. Plutonium Waste 123 words
      7. Endangered Species 174 words
      8. Bathing Water Quality 164 words
      9. Departmental Integration 133 words
      10. Building Regulations 106 words
      11. Social Housing (Disabled People) 95 words
      12. Departmental Documents 91 words
      13. Regional Development 255 words
    2. TRANSPORT
      1. Nuclear Fuel (Rail Transportation) 81 words
      2. Heavy Goods Vehicles 88 words
      3. Boeing 737 131 words
      4. Boeing 747 241 words
      5. Air Bags 156 words
      6. Driving Examiners 121 words
      7. London Underground (Wheelchair Users) 205 words
      8. Rail Regulation 70 words
      9. Al 393 words
    3. HEALTH
      1. Corticosteroids 49 words
      2. Dental Services 384 words
      3. Medical Insurance (Tax Relief) 51 words
      4. Surrogacy 342 words
      5. Mid Essex Hospital Trust 110 words
      6. Carers' Rights 314 words
      7. Departmental Documents 83 words
      8. Neuroleptic Drugs 77 words
      9. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus 157 words
      10. Farmed Fish (Invermectin) 312 words
    4. DEFENCE
      1. ASTOR Project 153 words
      2. Monkeys 308 words
      3. National Service 144 words
      4. Auxiliary Oiler Contract 144 words
      5. Flight Data Recorders 125 words
      6. Military Personnel (Attached Duties) 255 words
      7. Parachute Training Systems 218 words
      8. Tactica Armoured Vehicles 56 words
      9. Water Cannon 44 words
      10. Prisoners of War (Pay) 55 words
      11. Departmental Property 333 words
      12. Nuclear Weapons 335 words
      13. WE-177s 73 words
      14. Departmental Documents 200 words
    5. WALES
      1. Assisted Places Scheme 304 words
      2. Low Pay Commission 98 words
      3. Nursery Education 360 words
      4. Women Employees 106 words
      5. Investment 218 words
      6. Telecommunications 26 words
      7. Departmental Documents 198 words
      8. Environmentally Sensitive Areas 309 words
      9. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus 351 words
      10. Abergavenny Slaughterhouse 79 words
    6. SOCIAL SECURITY
      1. Disability Benefits 513 words
      2. Correspondence 340 words
      3. Child Maintenance 102 words
      4. Benefits Agency 182 words
      5. Departmental Documents 146 words
      6. NORTHERN IRELAND
        1. Education Standards 146 words
        2. Peace Campus Project (University of Ulster) 91 words
        3. Peace Process 314 words
        4. Youth Unemployment 111 words
        5. Constitutional Proposals 103 words
        6. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises 185 words
        7. Marches 103 words
        8. Parades 73 words
        9. Bloody Sunday 80 words
        10. Carers 137 words
        11. Education Funding 78 words
        12. Child Support Agency 154 words
        13. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus 39 words
        14. Royal Ulster Constabulary 111 words
      7. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
        1. BSE 590 words
        2. Bread and Flour Regulations 185 words
        3. Common Agriculture Policy 109 words
        4. Pesticides 558 words
        5. Food (Colourings) 269 words
        6. Animal Feed 81 words
        7. Beef 483 words
        8. Newcastle Disease 251 words
        9. Milk Quotas 114 words
        10. Food Safety 82 words
        11. Food Additives 98 words
        12. Processed Food 55 words
        13. Canine Spongiform Encephalopathies 73 words
        14. Quota Hopping 60 words
        15. Genetically Modified Organisms 73 words
        16. Tuberculosis 102 words
        17. Environmentally Sensitive Areas 634 words
        18. Countryside Stewardship Scheme 153 words
        19. Departmental Documents 87 words
        20. Pet Passports 60 words

Lords Sitting of 11 June 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Lord Steel of Aikwood 41 words
  3. Lord Shore of Stepney 44 words
  4. "Britannia": Promotion of Exports 1,092 words
  5. Unemployment and the Minimum Wage 1,201 words
  6. Teenage Pregnancies 1,476 words
  7. Scotland: Migration Figures 767 words
  8. Business 102 words
  9. Education (Schools) Bill 12 words
  10. Hybrid Instruments: Select Committee 80 words
  11. Personal Bills: Select Committee 74 words
  12. Standing Orders (Private Bills): Select Committee 84 words
  13. The Dependent Territories 16,854 words
  14. Comprehensive Spending Review 4,763 words
  15. Armed Forces Pensions 16,120 words
  16. Co-ordinated Universal Time Bill [H.L.] 6,392 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 11 June 1997

  1. Zimbabwe: Proposed Legislation 98 words
  2. Nuclear Weapons: Elimination 81 words
  3. Iraqi Visa Applications 147 words
  4. International Criminal Court 61 words
  5. China: Human Rights 87 words
  6. Operation Cancellations: Statistics 59 words
  7. Surrogacy Law: Review 338 words
  8. Bracken Control 176 words
  9. Mandatory Life Sentence for Murder 32 words
  10. European Elections: Proportional Representation 220 words
  11. Education Standards: LEA Contribution 69 words
  12. Defence Review 108 words
  13. Rough Sleepers 367 words
  14. Regional Development Agencies 258 words
  15. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 137 words