19 June 1997

Commons Sitting of 19 June 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      1. Animal Welfare 460 words
      2. Set-aside Land 299 words
      3. Common Agricultural Policy 854 words
      4. Meat Products (Labelling) 424 words
      5. Organic Farming 565 words
      6. Poultry 179 words
      7. Beef Ban 749 words
      8. Beef Sector 933 words
      9. CAP (Fruit and Vegetables) 211 words
      10. Live Animal Transport 356 words
      11. Agri-monetary Revaluation 254 words
      12. Common Agricultural Policy 477 words
      13. Farmers (Less-favoured Areas) 222 words
    2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      1. Crown Prosecution Service 652 words
      2. Mr. Asil Nadir 655 words
      3. Accountability 367 words
      4. Serious Fraud Office 234 words
  4. Business of the House 5,139 words
  5. Points of Order 379 words
  6. Common Agricultural Policy 25,320 words, 1 division
  7. SCOTTISH GRAND COMMITTEE 55 words
  8. Transport (Waveney) 4,320 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 19 June 1997

  1. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Security Clearance 435 words
    2. Asylum Seekers 173 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Immigration Detention Centres 179 words
    2. Road Accidents 53 words
    3. Illegal Entrants 77 words
    4. Alcopops 76 words
    5. Prisoners (Education) 135 words
    6. Public Houses 121 words
    7. Psychologists (Prisons) 244 words
    8. Hare Coursing 55 words
    9. Closed Circuit Television 68 words
    10. Special Advisers 94 words
    11. Prison Service (Private Sector Involvement) 801 words
  3. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Cricket Test Matches 127 words
    2. Minimum Wage 65 words
  4. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Child Deaths 83 words
  5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Minimum Wage 88 words
    2. Small Businesses 113 words
    3. Newsagents 57 words
    4. Astra Holdings 76 words
  6. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Government Car Service 245 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Burma 145 words
    2. Sierra Leone 555 words
  8. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Early Years Development Plans 83 words
    2. Engineering (Students) 132 words
    3. University for Industry 138 words
    4. Welfare to Work 114 words
    5. Further Education 232 words
    6. Schools Capital Spending (Kent) 74 words
    7. Admission and Transfer Ages 921 words
    8. Departmental Wages 117 words
    9. Assisted Places 44 words
    10. Teacher Training 299 words
    11. Building Projects 199 words
    12. Ethnic Minority Funding 126 words
    13. Special Advisers 99 words
  9. DEFENCE
    1. Training 370 words
    2. US-UK Classification Guide 98 words
    3. MOD Police (Colchester Garrison) 63 words
    4. Defence Exhibition, Farnborough 474 words
    5. Trident 71 words
    6. Departmental Wages 195 words
    7. MOD Homes (Colchester) 164 words
    8. Married Quarters 57 words
    9. Accommodation Units (Uxbridge) 72 words
    10. Plastic Baton Rounds 765 words
    11. Special Advisers 91 words
    12. Building Projects 69 words
    13. Strategic Defence Review 87 words
    14. Market Testing 221 words
    15. Meteorological Office 193 words
  10. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Crown Prosecution Service 137 words
    2. Racial Hatred 56 words
    3. Cigarettes (Sales to Children) 259 words
  11. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Departmental Documents 533 words
    2. Legal Services Ombudsman 43 words
  12. TREASURY
    1. Devolution 72 words
    2. Public Expenditure Surveys 55 words
    3. Public Borrowing 46 words
    4. UK Trade 87 words
    5. Bank of England (Monetary Policy) 72 words
    6. Departmental Correspondence 69 words
    7. Public Expenditure 56 words
    8. Budget 61 words
    9. Drugs 52 words
    10. Fuel Duty 52 words
    11. Oil Taxation 30 words
    12. Scottish Environment Protection Agency 71 words
    13. Knight Williams & Co. Ltd. 121 words
    14. Inland Revenue Officers 55 words
    15. BP Shares 28 words
    16. Tax Levy 69 words
    17. General Government Expenditure 63 words
    18. PSBR 66 words
    19. Tourism 98 words
    20. Interest Rates 73 words
    21. Budget Projections 47 words
  13. WALES
    1. Welsh Assembly 41 words
    2. Non-departmental Public Bodies 538 words
    3. Speech Therapy 89 words
  14. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Drugs Research Unit 508 words
    2. Plastic Baton Rounds 937 words
  15. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Dartford River Crossing 138 words
    2. Departmental Publications 95 words
    3. National Air Traffic Services Computer System 137 words
    4. Train Operating Companies (Punctuality) 56 words
    5. Bus Route Tenders (London) 55 words
    6. Car Clocking 117 words
    7. Salisbury Bypass 122 words
    8. Roads Programme 631 words
    9. English Partnerships 236 words
    10. Wild Animals and Plants (Illegal Trade) 290 words
    11. Environmental Protection Legislation 92 words
    12. Water Charges 87 words
    13. Environment Agency 374 words
    14. Scotland 52 words
    15. Wyre Borough Council 175 words
    16. Housing 69 words
    17. Capital Receipts Initiative 272 words
    18. Garden Extensions 198 words
  16. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Housing Benefit 133 words
    2. Conferences (Disabled Access) 153 words
    3. Child Support Agency 185 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Cattle Slaughter Scheme 254 words
    2. Fruit Farming Industry 69 words
    3. Fisheries Management 62 words
    4. Slaughterhouse Hygiene 67 words
    5. Cattle Traceability 50 words
    6. Quota-hopping 53 words
    7. Food Standards Agency 64 words
    8. Scrapie 88 words
    9. Imported Beef 108 words
    10. Beef Ban 60 words
    11. BSE 161 words
    12. Woodlands 70 words
    13. Quarantine Regulations 62 words
    14. Health and the Environment 194 words
    15. Badger Setts 103 words
    16. Live Animal Exports 146 words
    17. Genetically Engineered Soya 158 words
    18. Special Advisers 95 words
  18. HEALTH
    1. General Practitioners 53 words
    2. Prescription Charges 69 words
    3. Doctors and Nurses 379 words
    4. Hepatitis C 119 words
    5. Malaria 230 words
    6. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 65 words
    7. NHS Staff Contracts 28 words
    8. Ethnic Monitoring 116 words
    9. Wythenshaw Hospital 285 words
    10. Minimum Wage 137 words
    11. Corticosteroids 66 words
    12. Racial Discrimination 162 words
    13. Gyms and Health Centres 117 words
    14. NHS Prescriptions 85 words
    15. Ophthalmic Service 68 words
    16. Electricity Transmission Lines 263 words
    17. Prescription Fraud 49 words
    18. Private Finance Initiative 94 words
    19. HIV/AIDS 466 words
    20. Dental Services 213 words
    21. Proposed NHS Trusts Merger 49 words
    22. Norfolk and Norwich Hospital 189 words
    23. Accident and Emergency Facilities 212 words
    24. Special Advisers 95 words
    25. Hospital Access 166 words
  19. SCOTLAND
    1. Diabetics 81 words
    2. Council of Ministers 103 words
    3. Control of Pollution Act 1974 203 words
    4. Cattle (Computerised Traceability) 119 words
    5. Special Advisers 97 words

Lords Sitting of 19 June 1997

  1. Preamble 33 words
  2. AIDS Survivors: Treatments 1,483 words
  3. Antiquities: Illegal Traffic 892 words
  4. Digital TV: Regulation 1,030 words
  5. National Health Service: Policy 1,011 words
  6. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 14 words
  7. Imperial College Bill Southampton International Boat Show Bill 216 words
  8. Bodmin Moor Commons Bill [H.L.] King's College Bill [H.L.] 222 words
  9. National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [H.L.] 12,622 words
  10. The Innovation-Exploitation Barrier: Science and Technology Committee Report 14,879 words
  11. Planning Inquiries 10,162 words
  12. Bodmin Moor Commons Bill [H.L.] King's College London Bill [H.L.] 57 words
  13. Imperial College Bill 46 words
  14. Southampton International Boat Show Bill 60 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 19 June 1997

  1. Legal Services Ombudsman: Annual Report 41 words
  2. Security Vetting Appeals Panel 177 words
  3. Religious Education in School 81 words
  4. Theological Teaching 144 words
  5. Sixth-form Colleges 77 words
  6. School Transport 165 words
  7. Student Loans 117 words
  8. Jobseeker's Allowance 913 words
  9. Prison Management: Contracting Out 821 words
  10. Prisons: Clergy Visiting Hours 92 words
  11. Albania: US Bases 72 words
  12. Baltic States: UK Support for EU and NATO Membership 133 words
  13. US Bilateral Military and Security Agreements 76 words
  14. NATO/Russia Founding Act 106 words
  15. NATO/Ukraine Charter 120 words
  16. NATO Enlargement Costs 99 words
  17. NATO: Accession of New Members 78 words
  18. NATO: Members' Status 89 words
  19. NATO: Equipment Procurement by New Members 97 words
  20. Trade with Burma: Policy 138 words
  21. Year 2000 Date Change 286 words
  22. Prescription Fraud: Efficiency Scrutiny Report 47 words
  23. New Variant CJD Cases 99 words
  24. NHS Dentistry 244 words
  25. Fluoridation: Water Company Responsibilities 133 words
  26. Community Dental Services 174 words
  27. Crop Cultivation on ESAS 110 words
  28. Tobacco Subsidies: EC Records 66 words
  29. Emtryl 197 words
  30. Transport Policy, Scotland 579 words
  31. Magheramorne Quarry: Planning Application 61 words
  32. Dangerous Dogs: Northern Ireland Legislation 68 words
  33. Parades Commission 93 words
  34. Garden Extension: Permitted Development Proposal 208 words
  35. Salisbury Bypass 56 words
  36. Vehicle Doorlock Security 74 words
  37. Driving Test Retakes 83 words
  38. Roads Programme Review 978 words
  39. Planning Applications: Timescale 85 words
  40. London Underground: Contract Awards 400 words