12 June 1997

Commons Sitting of 12 June 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TREASURY
      1. Windfall Tax 456 words
      2. Minimum Wage 835 words
      3. Bank of England 490 words
      4. Monetary Policy 1,126 words
      5. Private Finance Initiative 671 words
      6. Windfall Tax 1,491 words
      7. VAT (Domestic Fuel) 1,100 words
      8. City Regulation 360 words
      9. Departmental Expenditure 746 words
      10. Special Advisers 682 words
      11. Give As You Earn 293 words
      12. Financial Regulation 335 words
  4. UK Beef Exports 4,460 words
  5. Business of the House 4,087 words
  6. Points of Order 819 words
  7. BILLS PRESENTED
    1. LOCAL GOVERNMENT (CONTRACTS) 103 words
    2. PLANT VARIETIES 87 words
    3. WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE 51 words
    4. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 12,049 words
    5. Northern Ireland 6,423 words
    6. WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE 81 words
    7. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 66 words
    8. Revenue Support Grant (Somerset) 5,759 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 12 June 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Firearms 567 words
    2. Deportations 126 words
    3. Freemasonry 88 words
    4. Electoral Registration 127 words
    5. Juvenile Offenders 213 words
    6. Tote 65 words
    7. Police Forces (Chemical Agents) 254 words
    8. Police Training 271 words
    9. Alcoholic Drinks (Children) 124 words
    10. Police Officers 92 words
    11. Justice and Home Affairs Council 711 words
    12. Boards of Visitors Annual Report 96 words
    13. Animal Experimentation 73 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. ENVIRONMENT AND THE REGIONS
      1. BSE Incinerators 151 words
      2. Elderly Care 63 words
      3. Water Companies 96 words
      4. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 127 words
      5. Domestic Waste 257 words
      6. Non-domestic Rates 113 words
      7. Council Tax 146 words
      8. Development (Stevenage) 116 words
      9. Housing Corporation 88 words
      10. Capital Receipts 234 words
      11. Contaminated Land 791 words
      12. Gazumping 92 words
      13. HSE Prosecutions 656 words
    2. TRANSPORT
      1. Rail Regulations 448 words
      2. Cycling 209 words
    3. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      1. Credit Card Fraud 65 words
      2. Departmental Documents 203 words
      3. Lloyd's 489 words
      4. VAT (Fuel) 112 words
      5. Unfair Dismissal 77 words
      6. One Day Sales 102 words
      7. Anglia Television 74 words
      8. Parental Leave 134 words
      9. Beer Measures 58 words
    4. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
      1. Human Rights 124 words
      2. Palestine and Sierra Leone 109 words
    5. HEALTH
      1. Rural Community Hospitals 205 words
      2. Wythenshawe Hospital 419 words
      3. Neonatal Injury 495 words
      4. Carers 204 words
      5. Breast Implant Registry 66 words
      6. Insulin Pen 51 words
    6. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Interception of Communications Act 1985 158 words
      2. Intelligence Services Act 1994 139 words
    7. DEFENCE
      1. Service Personnel (Electoral Registration) 109 words
      2. NATO Enlargement 344 words
      3. Asbestos-related Diseases 325 words
    8. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      1. Crown Prosecution Service (Welsh Language) 245 words
      2. Prosecution Arrangements 353 words
    9. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      1. Beef 140 words
      2. Organophosphates 124 words
      3. Farmers (Forms) 67 words
      4. Abattoirs 245 words
      5. Live Animal Transport 121 words
      6. Meat Hygiene Service 109 words
      7. Animal Health (Prosecutions) 611 words
      8. Over 30 Months Scheme 148 words
      9. Beef Stocks Transfer Scheme 90 words
      10. Calf Processing Aid Scheme 141 words
      11. BSE 1,006 words
      12. Bio-aerosol Production 250 words
    10. SOCIAL SECURITY
      1. Housing Benefit 77 words
      2. Minimum Wage 93 words
      3. Pension Scheme Surpluses 221 words
      4. Fuel (Direct Deductions Scheme) 69 words
      5. Compensation Recovery Scheme 81 words
    11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      1. Somalia 145 words
      2. Immigration 121 words
      3. Sudan 106 words
      4. Libya 103 words
      5. Sierra Leone 246 words
      6. Burma 47 words
      7. EU (Freedom, Security and Justice) 346 words
    12. NATIONAL HERITAGE
      1. Contact Sports 176 words
      2. National Lottery 88 words
      3. Football (Racism) 73 words
      4. Departmental Documents 98 words
    13. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
      1. Parental Responsibility Orders 226 words
      2. Monmouth and Chepstow Magistrates Courts 134 words
      3. Court Injunctions 80 words
      4. Personal Injury Claims 187 words
      5. Civil Justice Review (Press Conference) 326 words
      6. Radioactive Waste Disposal (Document) 849 words
    14. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
      1. Education Expenditure 195 words
      2. Unemployment 171 words
    15. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. European Legislation 318 words
      2. Defibrillators 54 words
    16. WALES
      1. BSE 147 words
      2. Health Service 710 words
      3. Council Houses 121 words
      4. Casualty Units 88 words
      5. Assisted Places Scheme 200 words
      6. Nursery Education 175 words
      7. Class Sizes 119 words
    17. SCOTLAND
      1. Carers 75 words
      2. Registers (Access Charges) 324 words
      3. Minimum Wage 98 words
      4. Urban Aid Programme 92 words
      5. Federation Councils on Alcohol 563 words
      6. Deportation 102 words
      7. Environment Protection Agency (VAT) 45 words
      8. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus 195 words
    18. NORTHERN IRELAND
      1. Health Board Headquarters (Armagh) 48 words
      2. Acute Hospitals 134 words
      3. Departmental Running Costs 92 words
      4. Police Authority 174 words
    19. TREASURY
      1. Monetary Policy 174 words
      2. Cyclical Social Security 144 words
      3. Unemployment Figures 166 words
      4. Manufacturing Investment 54 words
      5. Local Tax Offices 74 words
      6. Economic and Monetary Union 74 words
      7. Bank of England 65 words
      8. Unemployment 183 words
      9. Inflation 55 words
      10. Windfall Tax 194 words
      11. Private Finance Initiative 63 words
      12. Capital Receipts 59 words
      13. Exchange Rate 69 words
      14. Public Expenditure 40 words
      15. VAT (Fuel) 41 words
      16. Youth Unemployment 61 words
      17. Interest Rates 93 words
      18. Customs and Excise (Freemasons) 194 words
      19. Customs and Excise (Northern Ireland) 160 words
      20. Financial Services Industry 52 words
      21. Single Currency 58 words
      22. Capital Gains and Inheritance Taxes 163 words
      23. Minimum Wage 80 words
      24. Public Borrowing 60 words
      25. Private Health Insurance 47 words
      26. Pension Funds 179 words
      27. Banking Supervision 57 words
      28. Mortgage Lenders 90 words
      29. Profit-related Pay 57 words
      30. Mortgage Interest Tax Relief 101 words
      31. Duty Free Shopping 50 words
      32. Tax Returns 109 words
      33. Illegal Imports 201 words
      34. Jobseeker's Allowance 424 words

Lords Sitting of 12 June 1997

  1. Preamble 29 words
  2. Lord Evans of Parkside 39 words
  3. Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract 35 words
  4. The Lord Chancellor: Leave of Absence 52 words
  5. EU Anti-Fraud Proposals 680 words
  6. EU Social Chapter 1,425 words
  7. Plastic Baton Rounds: Use in Northern Ireland 1,303 words
  8. EMU: Stability Pact 711 words
  9. Business 105 words
  10. Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit Limited 59 words
  11. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) 66 words
  12. Science and Technology: Select Committee 176 words
  13. Railway Strategy: ECC Report 20,008 words
  14. UK Beef Exports 3,253 words
  15. Social Security (Social Fund and Claims and Payments) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 5,759 words
  16. Hong Kong 12,754 words
  17. Lloyds TSB Bill [H.L.] 13 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 12 June 1997

  1. Tamil Nadu 135 words
  2. EU Development Council, 5 June 188 words
  3. Iraq: Aid Distribution 323 words
  4. The European Union: Members' Aspirations 86 words
  5. National Advisory Council for the Boards of Visitors: Annual Report 108 words
  6. Special Immigration Appeals Commission 78 words
  7. Justice and Home Affairs Council, 26–27 May 713 words
  8. Pregnant Women: Employment Protection 57 words
  9. Armenia: Double Taxation Convention Negotiations 51 words
  10. Bread and Flour Regulations 1995 175 words
  11. BSE: Latest Case 120 words
  12. Pesticides: Effects on Birds 333 words
  13. Organic Farming: Support Payments 120 words
  14. Performance Tables for 11 Year-Olds: Publication 155 words
  15. Cabinet Committees: Membership 68 words
  16. Interception of Communications: Commissioner's Report 151 words
  17. Intelligence Services: Commissioner's Report 132 words