18 June 1997

Commons Sitting of 18 June 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Welsh Development Agency 13,133 words
  4. Bosnia 9,766 words
  5. European Union Enlargement 4,166 words
  6. Asbestos Imports 3,784 words
  7. Oxfordshire Health Authority 3,853 words
  8. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALE
      1. Mental Health Services (North Gwent) 281 words
      2. Minimum Wage (Clothing Industry) 457 words
      3. Welsh Assembly 613 words
      4. Devolution 314 words
      5. Public Spending 1,075 words
      6. Inward Investment 473 words
      7. Welsh Development Agency 305 words
      8. Post-16 Education 373 words
      9. Educational Opportunities 397 words
      10. NHS Trusts (Running Costs) 328 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Ministerial Visit (North Wiltshire) 173 words
      2. Engagements 3,152 words
      3. Sanctions (Libya) 589 words
      4. Engagements 516 words
  9. European Council (Amsterdam) 9,572 words
  10. Common Fisheries Policy 7,292 words
  11. BILLS PRESENTED
    1. WILD MAMMALS (HUNTING WITH DOGS) 91 words
    2. MENTAL HEALTH (AMENDMENT) 91 words
    3. REFERENDUM (ENGLISH PARLIAMENT) 77 words
    4. PRIVATE HIRE VEHICLES (LONDON) 94 words
    5. ROAD TRAFFIC REDUCTION (UNITED KINGDOM TARGETS) 78 words
    6. ENERGY EFFICIENCY 76 words
    7. EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN 97 words
    8. COLD WEATHER PAYMENTS (WIND CHILL FACTOR) 88 words
    9. EMPLOYMENT (AGE DISCRIMINATION IN ADVERTISEMENTS) 82 words
    10. PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE 97 words
    11. BREEDING AND SALE OF DOGS 109 words
    12. DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION 91 words
    13. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (PROTECTION OF TITLE) 80 words
    14. COMMUNITY CARE (RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION) 116 words
    15. LOCAL AUTHORITY TENDERS 88 words
    16. WASTE PREVENTION 69 words
    17. PESTICIDES 91 words
    18. ENERGY CONSERVATION (HOUSING) 67 words
    19. FIREWORKS 76 words
    20. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (BEER AND CIDER) 88 words
  12. Orders of the Day
    1. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 12 words
      1. Clause 1
        1. PROHIBITION OF SMALL-CALIBRE PISTOLS 5,040 words, 1 division
      2. Clause 2
        1. CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS AND REPEALS 16,229 words, 3 divisions
      3. New clause 3
        1. EXEMPTION FOR NATIONAL COMPETITION SHOOTERS 24,315 words, 2 divisions
    2. Breast Cancer (Devon) 3,708 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 18 June 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Hillsborough Disaster 61 words
    2. Fire Services 177 words
    3. Fire Risks 51 words
    4. Au Pairs 80 words
    5. Prison Service Budget 79 words
    6. Closed Circuit Television 118 words
    7. Prisoners 289 words
    8. Parkhurst Prison 122 words
    9. Prison Categories 69 words
    10. Football (Arrests) 212 words
    11. Public Houses 47 words
  2. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Next Steps Agencies 1,827 words
    2. Performance-related Pay 131 words
  3. HEALTH
    1. NHS Spending (Managers' Salaries) 123 words
    2. Obesity 205 words
    3. Fluoridisation 25 words
    4. Asthma 150 words
    5. Food Additives 193 words
  4. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Jubilee 2000 168 words
    2. Minimum Wage 99 words
    3. Kenya 101 words
    4. Women (Rights and Status) 159 words
    5. Indonesia 86 words
  5. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Sustainable Development 151 words
    2. OECD Multilateral Agreement on Investment 189 words
    3. Council Tax (Oxfordshire) 64 words
    4. Fly Tipping 210 words
    5. City Challenge 410 words
    6. Water Treatment 144 words
    7. Climate Change Convention 92 words
    8. Transmitter Masts 187 words
    9. Air Quality (London) 229 words
    10. Hedgerows 66 words
    11. Cement Manufacture 380 words
    12. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 142 words
    13. Channel Tunnel Safety Authority 64 words
    14. Traffic and Pollution (London) 187 words
    15. Driving Licence Holders 250 words
    16. Nuclear Waste Transport 126 words
    17. Car Clocking 251 words
    18. Ministerial Visits 90 words
    19. Road Tax 149 words
  6. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Quangos 53 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Indonesia (Defence Exports) 91 words
    2. Visas 481 words
    3. Military, Police and Security Equipment Exports 183 words
    4. Iraq 100 words
    5. Minister Without Portfolio 54 words
    6. Algerian Elections 180 words
    7. Disability Discrimination (European Union) 116 words
    8. General Affairs Council 1,020 words
    9. Schengen Agreement 101 words
  8. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Sport (Tobacco Sponsorship) 244 words
    2. Darts 96 words
    3. Sporting Facilities 191 words
    4. Tourism 125 words
    5. National Lottery 201 words
    6. Sports Council 348 words
  9. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. National Marriage Week 66 words
    2. Files (Royal Household) 55 words
    3. Official Documents 391 words
  10. SCOTLAND
    1. Kintore Bypass 62 words
    2. Creagan Bridge 70 words
    3. European Union Funding 93 words
    4. Hopetoun House, Linlithgow 125 words
    5. School Leavers 124 words
    6. Local Taxation 65 words
    7. Housing (Energy Efficiency) 85 words
    8. Rough Sleepers Initiative 426 words
    9. Primary School Class Sizes 230 words
    10. Food Poisoning 912 words
    11. House Condition Survey 53 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Sub-post Offices 91 words
    2. Fireworks 92 words
    3. Energy Council 676 words
    4. Encryption Services 67 words
    5. ACAS Report 45 words
    6. Travel Industry 54 words
    7. Caviar and Shark Meat Imports 113 words
    8. Computer Systems 141 words
    9. Radioactive Discharges 134 words
    10. Indonesia (Exports) 92 words
  12. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Class Sizes (Colchester) 96 words
    2. Class Sizes (Bolton) 274 words
    3. School Exclusions 1,389 words
    4. Secondary Schools (Staffordshire) 328 words
    5. Teacher Training 496 words
    6. Post-16 Education 101 words
    7. School Leavers 694 words
    8. Dyslexia 264 words
    9. Education White Paper 118 words
    10. Quangos 103 words
    11. Secondary School Performance Tables 29 words
    12. Technology, Languages, Arts and Sports Colleges 1,394 words
    13. Sex Equality Branch 89 words
    14. Class Sizes (Buckinghamshire) 45 words
    15. School Attendance 102 words
    16. Surplus School Places 73 words
    17. Travellers' Children 109 words
    18. Nursery Education 71 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Identity Documents (Elections) 134 words
    2. Job Creation 487 words
    3. Inward Investment 604 words
    4. Beef Export Ban 197 words
    5. School Leavers 177 words
    6. Performance Targets 1,479 words
    7. Food Poisoning 202 words
  14. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. War Pensions Agency (Conference) 376 words
    2. Jobseeker's Allowance 253 words
    3. Child Support Agency 202 words
    4. Habitual Residence Test 58 words
    5. Mortgage Benefit 123 words
    6. Pensions 80 words
    7. Minister for Women 261 words
    8. Single Claimants 196 words
  15. DEFENCE
    1. Water Jets (Sheep's Eyes) 197 words
    2. Trident 150 words
    3. Caerwent Military Base 160 words
    4. COPEX Exhibition, Farnborough 181 words
    5. Portsmouth Naval Base 48 words
    6. British Aerospace and Rolls-Royce 279 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Fishing Vessels 418 words
    2. Poultry Meat 132 words
    3. Sustainable Livestock Production 93 words
    4. Beef Production 258 words
    5. Milk 175 words
    6. Animal Cloning 58 words
    7. Organophosphates 126 words
  17. WALES
    1. Housing Repair Grants 91 words
    2. Community Hospitals and Ambulance Services 48 words
    3. Road Improvements (Anglesey) 53 words
    4. Welsh Assembly (Monmouthshire) 64 words
    5. Economic Priorities 42 words
    6. Devolution 85 words
    7. Single Currency 73 words
    8. Ministerial Visit 55 words
    9. Social Chapter 109 words
    10. GP Fundholding 122 words
    11. Intergovernmental Conference 47 words
    12. Ministerial Responsibilities 33 words
    13. Small Businesses 105 words
    14. Regional Policy 43 words
    15. Angling 79 words
    16. Beef Export Ban 111 words
    17. Inward Investment 71 words
    18. Education 36 words
    19. NDPBs 247 words
    20. Referendums 80 words
    21. School Leavers 317 words
    22. Jobseeker's Allowance 239 words
  18. TREASURY
    1. Interest Rates 845 words
    2. Foreign Exchange Reserves 70 words
    3. Halifax Bank (Disabled Savers) 70 words
    4. Bank of England Governor 69 words
    5. Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee 456 words
    6. EU Budget 151 words
    7. VAT (Sanitary Products) 81 words
    8. Exchange Rates 87 words
    9. Inflation 943 words
    10. Debt Management 271 words
    11. Economic Indicators 144 words
    12. Single Currency 296 words
    13. Regulation 82 words
    14. Gilt Market 93 words
    15. Securities and Investment Board 87 words
    16. Demand Management 43 words
    17. Public Finances 58 words
    18. "European Community Finances" 44 words
    19. National Debt 68 words
    20. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 55 words
    21. Inflation and Growth 91 words
    22. Ministerial Advice 65 words
    23. Building Society Assets 106 words
    24. Economic Model 52 words
    25. Special Advisers 72 words
    26. Knight Williams 65 words
    27. Economic Activity 57 words
    28. EC Budget 697 words
    29. Euro 72 words
    30. Unemployment (Greenock and Inverclyde) 961 words
    31. Low Pay 272 words
    32. Unemployment 227 words
    33. Earnings (Burnley) 171 words
    34. Balance of Payments 165 words
    35. Local Government Finance 60 words

Lords Sitting of 18 June 1997

  1. Preamble 23 words
  2. Lord Howell of Guildford 38 words
  3. Lord Baker of Dorking 41 words
  4. NATO Enlargement 1,373 words
  5. Cancer: Treatment and Research 1,433 words
  6. Scottish Parliament: Proposed Tax Powers 857 words
  7. British Fishermen and the EU 1,021 words
  8. Business 126 words
  9. Business of the House: Debate this Day 58 words
  10. Industry: Competitiveness 1,708 words
  11. European Council, Amsterdam 6,964 words
  12. Common Fisheries Policy 5,538 words
  13. Industry: Competitiveness 23,172 words
  14. Tourism 12,329 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 18 June 1997

  1. General Affairs Council, 2–3 June 1,030 words
  2. Ottawa: Deputy High Commissioner's House 89 words
  3. War Pensions Applications 153 words
  4. Assisted Places Scheme 79 words
  5. Primary School Class Numbers: Reduction Costs 136 words
  6. Devolution: Forestry Responsibilities 104 words
  7. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly: Costs of Litigation 80 words
  8. Isle of Man: Detention of Child Offenders 254 words
  9. UK Fishing Vessels: Compliance with the Law 414 words
  10. No. 11 Downing Street: Charitable Events 51 words
  11. Friends Provident Investment Advertisement 112 words
  12. Channel Tunnel Safety Authority: Annual Report 57 words
  13. Defence Diversification Agency 67 words
  14. NHS Waiting List Cuts 138 words
  15. Oaths of Allegiance 237 words