16 June 1997

Commons Sitting of 16 June 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. DEFENCE
      1. Staffordshire Regiment 560 words
      2. Trident Missile System 269 words
      3. Former Yugoslavia 952 words
      4. Land Mines 528 words
      5. Merchant Ships 710 words
      6. Defence Review 1,870 words
      7. Defence Diversification Agency 399 words
      8. Service Pensions 384 words
      9. Nuclear Test Veterans 602 words
      10. Defence Review 417 words
    2. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION
      1. Private Contractors 494 words
      2. Role of the Commission 238 words
    3. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
      1. Accounts (Surplus) 441 words
      2. Relationship with Parliament 501 words
  4. Questions to Ministers 246 words
  5. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 234 words
    1. Clause 1
      1. PROHIBITION OF SMALL-CALIBRE PISTOLS 25,090 words, 1 division
  6. Private Bills (Procedure) 11,764 words
  7. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 21 words
  8. Private Medical Insurance (Tax Relief) 3,030 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 16 June 1997

  1. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. EU Development Council 194 words
    2. Environmental Policy 63 words
    3. Sustainable Development 94 words
    4. Sexual Discrimination 70 words
    5. Development Policy 62 words
    6. Human Rights 73 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Closed Circuit TV 82 words
    2. Treason and Piracy 124 words
    3. Asylum Seekers 110 words
    4. Firearms 1,031 words
    5. Prison Service Union 122 words
    6. Life Sentence Prisoners 68 words
    7. Prisoners (Suicides) 121 words
    8. Prisoners' Families 115 words
    9. Ethnic Minorities 1,798 words
    10. EUROPOL 263 words
    11. Asylum Seekers (Haslar) 169 words
    12. Special Constabulary 151 words
    13. Public Safety Radio Communications 72 words
  3. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. NATO Membership 109 words
    2. Fisheries 245 words
    3. Russia and Ukraine 80 words
    4. Hong Kong (British Prisoners) 91 words
    5. Cyprus 84 words
    6. Seals 107 words
    7. Economic and Social Committee 48 words
    8. Taiwan 81 words
    9. EU Foreign Affairs Spokesperson 149 words
    10. Qualified Majority Voting 284 words
    11. EU Legislative Proposals 571 words
    12. Western European Union 146 words
    13. Draft Treaty of Amsterdam 150 words
    14. European Union 101 words
  4. HEALTH
    1. High Dependency Beds 76 words
    2. Private Finance Initiative 150 words
    3. Historic and Heritage Buildings 133 words
    4. Health Promotion Shops 139 words
    5. Water Fluoridation 71 words
    6. Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine 214 words
    7. General Practitioners (Complaints) 55 words
    8. Care of the Elderly 60 words
    9. GP Complaints 50 words
    10. Dementia 397 words
    11. Cervical Smears 118 words
    12. Clinical Negligence 83 words
    13. Cancer Treatment Centres 91 words
    14. NHS Staff (Criminal Prosecutions) 72 words
    15. Cancer Surgery 134 words
    16. Racism 170 words
    17. Cervical Cytology 141 words
    18. Executive Directors 110 words
    19. Line Management Relationships 90 words
    20. Hospital Land 174 words
    21. Private Finance Initiative 94 words
    22. NHS Waiting Lists 108 words
    23. Medical Negligence 133 words
    24. Children (Care) 419 words
    25. Radiotherapy 304 words
    26. Asthma 189 words
    27. Silicone Breast Implants 250 words
  5. PRIME MINISTER
    1. National Lottery 23 words
    2. Royal Commissions 367 words
    3. Political Appointments 60 words
    4. Security Service Commissioner's Report 116 words
    5. Civil Service Appointments 120 words
    6. General Elections 29 words
    7. Special Advisers 46 words
    8. Welsh Assembly (Ministerial Functions) 73 words
    9. Secretary of State for Wales 24 words
    10. Task Forces 561 words
  6. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Wigs 124 words
    2. Freemasonry 70 words
    3. Civil Court Procedures 110 words
    4. Payments to Witnesses 83 words
  7. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Sports Council 159 words
    2. National Lottery 62 words
    3. Concessionary Television Licences 199 words
    4. Lottery Funds 138 words
    5. Sport (Tobacco Sponsorship) 191 words
  8. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION
    1. National Audit Office 162 words
    2. Role of the Commission 95 words
  9. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
    1. St. Ethelburga's Church 136 words
    2. Pensions Measure 74 words
    3. Annual Report 258 words
    4. Church Income 75 words
  10. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. ENVIRONMENT AND THE REGIONS
      1. Environmental Standards 218 words
      2. Household Growth Projection 67 words
      3. Climate Change 122 words
      4. New Forest 76 words
      5. Drinking Water (Cryptosporidium) 121 words
      6. Diving Equipment (Costs) 77 words
      7. CITES (Elephants) 121 words
      8. Local Government Finance 67 words
      9. Earth Summit 2 108 words
      10. Out-of-town Development 89 words
      11. British Gas Sites (Decontamination) 89 words
      12. Development Corporations 156 words
      13. Allotments 104 words
      14. Nuclear Waste 190 words
      15. Mobile Homes (Council Tax) 106 words
      16. Homelessness 206 words
    2. TRANSPORT
      1. Bus Employees (Pension Fund) 54 words
      2. Derailment (Bexley) 76 words
      3. Rolling Stock (Safety) 89 words
      4. Rail Track Maintenance 131 words
      5. South West Trains 183 words
      6. Radioactive Material (Transport) 324 words
      7. Speed Restrictions 85 words
      8. Heathrow Airport (Terminal 5) 116 words
      9. Birmingham Northern Relief Road 63 words
      10. Public Transport (Merseyside) 149 words
    3. TREASURY
      1. Single Currency 66 words
      2. G7 Economic Summit, Denver 83 words
      3. Private Finance Initiative 103 words
      4. Halifax Building Society 94 words
      5. Windfall Tax 491 words
      6. Share Trading 80 words
      7. Exchange Rate Policy 34 words
      8. Economic Growth 57 words
      9. Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee 55 words
      10. Privatisation 65 words
      11. Minimum Wage 100 words
      12. EC Finance Ministers 495 words
    4. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
      1. Unemployment 114 words
      2. Further Education Colleges 52 words
      3. Low Pay 110 words
      4. Universities (Top-up Fees) 76 words
      5. Nursery Vouchers 207 words
      6. Departmental Staff (Redundancy) 193 words
      7. Education Funding 67 words
      8. Assisted Places Scheme 179 words
      9. Nursery Education 67 words
      10. Ofsted Reports 66 words
    5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      1. Obscene Publications (Prosecutions) 228 words
    6. SCOTLAND
      1. Student Loans 116 words
      2. Land Laws and the Feudal System 123 words
      3. Unemployment 91 words
      4. Mature Students 434 words
      5. Ferry Services 262 words
      6. Schools (Internet) 174 words
      7. Loch Lomond National Park 167 words
      8. Television Masts 102 words
      9. Departmental Documents 275 words
      10. Public Service Task Force 71 words
      11. Breast Cancer 486 words
    7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      1. Clean Coal Initiative 225 words
      2. Plastic Baton Rounds 48 words
      3. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 154 words
      4. EU and Government Grants 177 words
      5. Sellafield 233 words
      6. Environmental Technology 80 words
      7. Energy Production 98 words
      8. Business Links 123 words
      9. Telecommunicationsy 357 words
      10. Energy Programme 223 words
    8. WALES
      1. Devolution Referendum 222 words
      2. Sarn-y-Bryn Caled Road Junction 121 words
      3. Assisted Places Scheme 144 words
      4. Pupil-teacher Ratios 1,804 words
    9. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      1. BSE 5,537 words
      2. Food Labelling 105 words
      3. Organophosphates 69 words
      4. Beef Farmers 79 words
      5. Smuggled Animals 397 words
      6. British Beef (Export Ban) 62 words
      7. Beef Imports 234 words
      8. Quarantine 390 words
    10. NORTHERN IRELAND
      1. Student Loans 291 words
      2. RUC Station, Coleraine 65 words
      3. Hunt Kennels 172 words
      4. Mature Students 242 words
      5. Departmental Publications 444 words
      6. MRSA 85 words
    11. DEFENCE
      1. Naval Gunnery Support Range 77 words
      2. Chinook Helicopter Accident 66 words
      3. Gulf War Veterans 321 words
      4. Defence Review 337 words
      5. Defence Industry 72 words
      6. Nuclear Weapons 142 words
      7. West Indies Guard Ship 94 words
      8. Former Yugoslavia 51 words
      9. European Fighter Aircraft 72 words
      10. NATO 182 words
      11. Future Large Aircraft 49 words
      12. Eurofighter 45 words
      13. Information Technology 152 words
      14. Land Release 90 words
      15. Search and Rescue Helicopters 88 words
      16. Trident 138 words
      17. Special Advisers 56 words
      18. Vacant MOD Homes 270 words
      19. Select Committee on Defence 94 words
      20. Arms Diversification Agency 44 words
      21. Defence Diversification Agency 45 words
      22. Trade Union Representation 136 words
      23. Helicopters 66 words
      24. Statement on Defence Estimates 80 words
      25. Rearming 74 words
      26. Ministerial Visits 131 words
      27. Married Quarters 146 words
      28. Defence Procurement Questions 60 words
      29. Working Week Directive 103 words
      30. Court Martial Cases Inquiry 73 words
      31. Departmental Spending 49 words
      32. Land Mines 413 words
      33. Armed Forces (Civilian Staff) 115 words
      34. Naval Deployments (NATO) 54 words
      35. British Army of the Rhine 110 words
      36. Service Personnel (Electoral Registration) 178 words
      37. Pension Schemes 93 words
      38. CS Mist Sprayer 56 words
      39. Foreign Military Personnel (Training) 283 words
      40. Medals and Campaign Stars 219 words
      41. Prisoners of War (Compensation) 59 words
      42. Scottish Regiments 214 words
      43. Contracting Out 368 words
    12. SOCIAL SECURITY
      1. Jobseeker's Allowance 52 words
      2. Benefits Agency 486 words
      3. Housing Benefit 46 words
      4. Pensioner Incomes 216 words
      5. Benefit Reviews 89 words
      6. Benefits Offices (Wales) 48 words
      7. Asylum Seekers 150 words
      8. Halliday Case 169 words

Lords Sitting of 16 June 1997

  1. Preamble 34 words
  2. Message from the Queen 55 words
  3. Parliamentary Procedure 1,025 words
  4. BSE and Other EU Countries 1,314 words
  5. Standards Task Force 754 words
  6. Business of the House: Debates, 19th June 195 words
  7. Law Officers Bill [H.L.] 9,335 words
  8. Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (Amendment)Order 1997 3,904 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 16 June 1997

  1. The Baltic States: Diplomatic Relations 107 words
  2. CSA Performance Report 508 words
  3. Income Support Deductions 173 words
  4. The Scarman Trust: Inquiry Re