23 June 1997

Commons Sitting of 23 June 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. NATIONAL HERITAGE
      1. Tourism Industry 1,384 words
      2. Film Industry 358 words
      3. Tourism Industry 440 words
      4. Film Industry 371 words
      5. National Museums 713 words
      6. Film Industry 779 words
      7. Industrial Heritage 456 words
      8. National Lottery 1,127 words
    2. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
      1. Judges 148 words
      2. Courts 776 words
      3. Victim Support 500 words
      4. Legal System (Accessibility) 515 words
      5. Bereavement Payments 356 words
    3. BILLS PRESENTED
      1. PUBLIC RECORDS (AMENDMENT) 62 words
      2. POLICE 61 words
  4. Orders of the Day
    1. Local Government (Contracts) Bill 13,277 words
    2. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 17 words
    3. INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 50 words
    4. DEFENCE 29 words
    5. Building Societies 3,892 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 23 June 1997

  1. TREASURY
    1. Gross Domestic Product 54 words
    2. Public Expenditure 66 words
    3. Tax Bands 437 words
    4. Computers (Millennium Date Change) 78 words
    5. Capital Gains 30 words
    6. Private Finance Initiative 496 words
  2. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Arms Exports 48 words
    2. COPEX Exhibition, Farnborough 75 words
    3. Defence Equipment Exhibition, Farnborough 172 words
    4. BBC World Service 51 words
    5. Departmental Wages 133 words
    6. Disability Discrimination (European Union) 145 words
    7. Polygraphs 41 words
    8. Kenya 46 words
    9. Nuclear Arms 143 words
    10. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat 71 words
    11. Rockall 67 words
    12. NATO Expansion 141 words
    13. Qualified Majority Voting 338 words
  3. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. BSE-infected Material (Disposal) 47 words
    2. Abattoirs (Licences) 77 words
    3. BSE 332 words
    4. Swine Fever 138 words
    5. Sellafield 98 words
    6. Beef Imports 391 words
    7. Hunt Kennels 440 words
    8. Genetically Modified Food 115 words
    9. Departmental Wages 157 words
    10. Beef Farmers 101 words
    11. Cod Liver Oil (Toxin Levels) 77 words
    12. Rabies 102 words
  4. DEFENCE
    1. Army (Buy-outs) 132 words
    2. Polygraph 38 words
    3. Pay and Personnel Agency 302 words
    4. Prince Consort Library, Aldershot 71 words
    5. US Nuclear Bases 138 words
    6. Training Land 317 words
    7. Diversification Agency 53 words
    8. Expenditure 140 words
    9. European Fighter Aircraft 97 words
    10. Trident 456 words
    11. Beef 112 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. WPC Yvonne Fletcher 79 words
    2. Immigration (Detention Policy) 85 words
    3. Minimum Wage 188 words
    4. Land Development (Wandsworth) 89 words
    5. Sexual Offences 71 words
    6. Confiscation of Alcohol (Young Persons) Act 1997 55 words
    7. Deaths (Proscribed Drugs) 291 words
    8. Treason and Piracy (Maximum Sentences) 49 words
    9. Fire Safety 142 words
    10. Sport (Crowd Control) 195 words
    11. Representation of the People Act 1983 40 words
    12. Coroners 34 words
    13. Fines (Motorists) 102 words
    14. Entry Visas 105 words
  6. SCOTLAND
    1. Private Finance Initiative (Health Service) 471 words
    2. Illegal Weapons 772 words
    3. Low Pay 101 words
    4. Radioactive Discharges 71 words
    5. Environment Protection Agency 491 words
    6. Forestry 382 words
    7. Transport Policy 587 words
    8. Home Energy Efficiency Grants 153 words
  7. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Cabinet Committees 42 words
  8. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Government Car Service 186 words
    2. Compliance Cost Assessments 117 words
  9. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Departmental Advisers 54 words
  10. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Tourism Industry 339 words
    2. National Lottery 632 words
    3. Film Industry 238 words
    4. Regional Orchestras 93 words
    5. Public Library Services 112 words
    6. Millennium Exhibition 105 words
    7. Arts (Public Access) 104 words
    8. Land (National Heritage Memorial Fund) 81 words
    9. Royal Naval College, Greenwich 73 words
    10. Guest Houses and Hotels 92 words
    11. Broadcasting 304 words
    12. School Sport 92 words
    13. National Academy for Sport 59 words
    14. Seaside Resorts 106 words
    15. Football 104 words
    16. Television Licences 102 words
    17. Tourism (Social Chapter) 57 words
  11. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Water Charges 188 words
    2. Technetium 99 Contamination (West Cumbrian Coast) 152 words
    3. Housing (Improvements) 98 words
    4. Playing Fields 130 words
    5. Green Ministers 234 words
    6. English Partnerships 143 words
    7. Natterjack Toad 53 words
    8. Leasehold Land 98 words
    9. Local Government Finance 255 words
    10. Departmental Land 212 words
    11. Airports 542 words
    12. Red Routes (London) 131 words
    13. Footpaths and Bridleways 194 words
    14. Radioactive Materials (Transportation) 145 words
    15. South West Trains (Bicycles) 62 words
    16. Pilotage (Thames River) 97 words
    17. Railways (Ticket Machines) 101 words
    18. Ports 123 words
  12. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Earth Summit 2 29 words
    2. Polygraphs 40 words
    3. Food Poisoning 121 words
    4. Ministerial Residences 38 words
    5. Devolution (Referendums) 53 words
  13. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Uranium Fuel 153 words
    2. Low Pay 91 words
    3. Retail Petrol Industry 202 words
    4. Oil Exploration Licences 91 words
    5. Renewable Energy 61 words
    6. Wind Power 79 words
    7. Dounreay (Contamination) 150 words
    8. Patenting of Animals 95 words
    9. Solar Power 604 words
    10. Transco (Price Controls) 60 words
    11. Airlines (Alliance) 87 words
    12. Travel Industry 62 words
    13. Beer Companies (Merger) 87 words
    14. Electrical Goods 141 words
    15. Electricity Industry (Competition) 155 words
    16. Recommended Retail Price Scheme 109 words
    17. Pembroke Power Station (Orimulsion) 86 words
    18. ISDN Telephone Lines 135 words
    19. Nuclear Material 428 words
    20. Nuclear Industry (US Representations) 160 words
    21. Dixons 88 words
    22. Gas Industry (Competition) 133 words
  14. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Adult Education (Funding) 126 words
    2. Welfare-to-work Programme 144 words
    3. Drugs 377 words
    4. Early Excellence Centres 60 words
    5. Assisted Places 117 words
    6. Class Sizes 235 words
    7. Passive Smoking 88 words
    8. Teacher Education 41 words
    9. White Paper 38 words
    10. Specialist Schools 118 words
    11. State Schools 143 words
  15. HEALTH
    1. Brachial Plexus Injuries 59 words
    2. Smoking 52 words
    3. Dental Services (Wiltshire) 73 words
    4. Private Medical Insurance (Tax Relief) 73 words
    5. Funding Formula 79 words
    6. Accident and Emergency Departments 203 words
    7. Northwick Park and St. Mark's Hospital Trust 114 words
    8. Drugs and Medicines Spending 195 words
  16. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Legal Profession (Recruitment) 96 words
    2. Civil Aid Certificates 80 words
    3. Crown Courts 53 words
    4. Magistracy 80 words
    5. Monmouth and Chepstow Magistrates Courts 50 words
    6. Magistrates Courts Committees 143 words
    7. Marriage Support 200 words
    8. Magistrates 563 words
    9. Court Costs 122 words
    10. Judicial Training 191 words
    11. Legal Aid 104 words
    12. Justices Clerks 156 words
    13. Chief Stipendiary Magistrates 104 words
    14. Judicial Appointments 42 words
  17. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Integrated Schools 172 words
    2. Bed Blocking 212 words
    3. Hunt Kennels 78 words
    4. Disability Living Allowance 350 words
    5. Housing Benefit 116 words
    6. Child Support Agency 310 words
    7. Homelessness 91 words
    8. Right to Buy 116 words
    9. Rateable Values 1,197 words
    10. Motor Sports Events 340 words
    11. Business Rates 49 words
    12. Electricity Prices 693 words
    13. Retail Petrol Industry 59 words
  18. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. State Retirement Pensions (Overseas Residents) 133 words
    2. Poverty 177 words
    3. Incomes 387 words
    4. Housing Benefit (Winchester) 187 words
    5. Widowers (Child Care) 82 words
    6. Incapacity Benefit 265 words
    7. Child Support Agency 61 words
    8. Minimum Wage 134 words
    9. Benefits (Immigrants) 77 words
    10. Carers (Earnings Limited) 200 words
    11. Lone Parents 153 words
    12. Pensions 54 words
    13. Benefits (Take-up) 80 words
    14. Means-tested Benefits 359 words
    15. Benefits Statistics 195 words
    16. Adapt Programme 127 words
    17. Green Paper 64 words

Lords Sitting of 23 June 1997

  1. Preamble 28 words
  2. The Lord Chancellor: Leave of Absence 42 words
  3. Burma: Human Rights 1,170 words
  4. Closed Circuit Television Systems 916 words
  5. Bull Bars 954 words
  6. Operation Granby: Organophosphate Exposure 974 words
  7. Special Immigration Appeals Commission Bill [H.L.] 5,182 words
  8. NATO and the Russian Federation 9,864 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 23 June 1997

  1. Diplomatic Service Allowances 97 words
  2. Judicial Appointments 40 words
  3. City Technology Colleges 89 words
  4. Funding Agency for Schools 41 words
  5. Nursery Education: Certificates of Eligibility 101 words
  6. Education: Capital Spending on Buildings 214 words
  7. Schools: Allocation of Funds 69 words
  8. Sixteen Year-olds: Education Costs 71 words
  9. University for Industry 75 words
  10. Education and Skills Training 197 words
  11. Work Opportunities 202 words
  12. Bank of England: Monetary Policy Committee Meetings 81 words
  13. Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee Decisions, 6 June 82 words
  14. Lloyd's Former Members: Regulatory Requirements 299 words
  15. Probation Officers in Prisons 107 words
  16. "Refugees and Criminal Justice" 72 words
  17. Tobacco: Advice on Alternative Crops 45 words
  18. Poultry Production Controls 134 words
  19. Rodent Traps 76 words
  20. Wild Boar 146 words
  21. Chemical Effects on Human Health 120 words
  22. Motorail 40 words
  23. Channel Tunnel: EC Open Access Directive 49 words
  24. Rail Regulator 62 words
  25. Roadside Emission Testing: Penalty Charging 108 words
  26. "Highway Code": Advice on Roller Skates, etc. 68 words
  27. Driving Assessments and Information to Insurers 60 words
  28. Uninsured Drivers 82 words
  29. Drinking and Driving: Legal Limit 48 words
  30. Secure Car Parks: Planning Guidance 42 words
  31. DVLA: Accuracy of Vehicle Record 151 words
  32. ISOFIX Child Restraint System 94 words
  33. Speed Limit Repeater Signs 224 words
  34. Health Spending: G7 Countries 214 words