25 June 1997

Commons Sitting of 25 June 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Conduct of Elections 10,664 words
  4. Pre-school Education 11,078 words
  5. RAF Burtonwood 4,188 words
  6. Scottish Environment Protection Agency 3,365 words
  7. Nirth Yorkshire Ambulance Trust 4,641 words
  8. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. LEVER PARK BILL 15 words
  9. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
      1. Group Enterprises 414 words
      2. World Bank 427 words
      3. Tibet 556 words
      4. Bilateral Aid 578 words
      5. Land Mines 904 words
      6. Fair Trade Products 409 words
      7. Employee Share Ownership 196 words
      8. Development Projects (Private Sector) 717 words
      9. UNESCO 321 words
      10. Development Issues (Public Information) 220 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,781 words
      2. Ministerial Visits 327 words
      3. Engagements 1,177 words
  10. Northern Ireland 7,563 words
  11. BILL PRESENTED
    1. INTERNET (DISSEMINATION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY) 52 words
  12. Opposition Day 3 words
    1. London Underground 23,896 words, 1 division
    2. NHS Services (Charging) 27,709 words, 2 divisions
    3. STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES 50 words
    4. PETITION
      1. Vivisection 177 words
    5. Gulf War Syndrome 4,593 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 25 June 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Crime Prevention 100 words
    2. Prisoners (Conditions) 177 words
    3. Internet 145 words
    4. Patrick Nichols 117 words
    5. Treason and Piracy (Maximum Penalties) 142 words
    6. Immigration Offences 968 words
    7. Entry Clearance 142 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Departmental Staff 115 words
    2. Environmental Task Force 49 words
    3. Areas of Outstanding National Beauty 62 words
    4. Water Charges 382 words
    5. Telecommunications Masts 102 words
    6. House Building 116 words
    7. Organophosphates 187 words
    8. Mine Water 138 words
    9. Local Authority Changes 82 words
    10. Council Tax 71 words
    11. Organic Production 133 words
    12. Rat Control 303 words
    13. Water Abstraction 121 words
    14. Cash Limits 346 words
    15. Bus Regulation 233 words
    16. EU Transport Council 518 words
    17. Dial-a-Ride Schemes 146 words
    18. M20 173 words
    19. Noise Barriers 79 words
    20. Diesel Fuel (Pollution) 126 words
    21. Radioactive Materials (Transportation) 92 words
    22. Motorway Lighting 765 words
    23. Fuel Duty 69 words
    24. Port of Tyne 69 words
    25. River Cruise Licences 167 words
    26. War Pensioners 126 words
  3. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Chartered Accountants 55 words
  4. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Crown Prosecution Service 67 words
  5. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Minister without Portfolio 35 words
  6. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Post Office 92 words
    2. Departmental Salaries 84 words
  7. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Women in Sport 186 words
    2. Millennium Events 133 words
    3. Playing Fields 245 words
    4. Tourist Accommodation (Bed Space) 126 words
    5. Sign Language 129 words
    6. Kick Boxing 132 words
    7. Tobacco Companies (Sponsorship) 103 words
    8. Tourism Industry 67 words
  8. TREASURY
    1. National Savings Accommodation Review 64 words
    2. European Single Currency 580 words
    3. Unemployment Benefit (Portsmouth) 394 words
    4. Unemployment 809 words
    5. Labour Statistics 356 words
    6. Debt Relief 134 words
    7. Windfall Tax 56 words
    8. Expenditure Control 225 words
    9. Child Cash Allowance 81 words
  9. HEALTH
    1. St. Bartholomew's Hospital 99 words
    2. Hospitals (Capital Charges) 83 words
    3. Devonshire Royal Hospital, Buxton 131 words
    4. Vaccines 734 words
    5. NHS Trusts (Colchester) 156 words
    6. Medicines (Costs) 307 words
    7. Medicines Act (Disclosure of Data) 84 words
    8. Alcohol Consumption 270 words
    9. Resource Allocations 56 words
    10. Eye Tests 123 words
    11. Children in Care 124 words
    12. EU Citizens (Residence Test) 73 words
    13. Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease 173 words
  10. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Fishing Quota 49 words
    2. Genetically Modified Food 155 words
    3. Internet 83 words
    4. Regional Panels 100 words
    5. Horticulture 141 words
    6. Antibiotics (Livestock Production) 170 words
    7. Forestry Commission Land 61 words
    8. Countryside Stewardship Scheme 171 words
    9. Genetically Modified Organisms 287 words
    10. Scrapie 323 words
    11. Quarantine 213 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Qualified Majority Voting 417 words
    2. Kenya (Elections) 83 words
    3. Albania 118 words
    4. Nuclear Weapons 129 words
  12. DEFENCE
    1. Strategic Defence Review 121 words
    2. Departmental Advisers 165 words
    3. Nuclear Weapons 174 words
    4. Chemical Weapons 603 words
    5. Ex-service Affairs Unit 71 words
    6. NATO 93 words
    7. Internet 143 words
  13. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Public Limited Liability Companies 47 words
    2. Coal Authority 53 words
    3. Auditors (Regulation) 63 words
    4. Small Company Audits 73 words
    5. Companies Acts 50 words
    6. Genetically Engineered Food 79 words
  14. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Welfare to work 221 words
    2. Assisted Places 237 words
    3. Internet 174 words
    4. Teachers 57 words
    5. Grant-maintained Schools 431 words
    6. Performance League Tables 159 words
    7. Partnership Agreements 133 words
    8. Pre-school Centres 91 words
    9. Cash Limits 228 words
  15. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Aid (Cost-effectiveness) 55 words
    2. Yemen 74 words
    3. UNESCO 163 words
    4. Aid (Targeting) 106 words
    5. Sustainable Development 80 words
    6. Third World Debt 69 words
    7. Poverty and Hardship 73 words
    8. United Nations Industrial Development Organisation 46 words
    9. Human Rights 76 words
    10. Multilateral Aid Programmes 97 words
    11. Bilateral Aid 110 words
    12. Kashmir 86 words
    13. Land Mines 52 words
    14. World Population Growth 95 words
    15. Africa 102 words
    16. Aid Budget 177 words
    17. Departmental Advisers 125 words
    18. Afghanistan 166 words
    19. Earth Summit 2 84 words
    20. Bosnia 64 words
    21. Twinning 82 words
    22. Foreign Students 83 words
  16. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Dundonald Training Centre 196 words
    2. Health and Social Services Staff 281 words
    3. Fair Employment Commission 88 words
    4. Planning 287 words
  17. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Benefit Fraud 973 words
    2. Pensions Review 88 words
    3. Asylum Seekers 114 words
    4. Platform for Action 108 words
    5. Pensioners (Benefits) 234 words
    6. Mortgage Interest Payments 105 words
    7. Young People 386 words
    8. Low Pay 202 words
    9. Child Support Agency 816 words
    10. Disability Living Allowance (Children) 115 words
  18. WALES
    1. Minimum Wage 154 words
    2. Devolution 41 words
    3. Belmont Special School 50 words
    4. State Schools 110 words
    5. Sarn-y-Bryn Caled Road Junction 97 words
    6. Public Bodies 1,013 words

Lords Sitting of 25 June 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Lord Renton of Mount Harry 38 words
  3. Lord Hurd of Westwell 40 words
  4. Lord Mayhew of Twysden 38 words
  5. Sheep Dips: Safe Disposal 941 words
  6. Lockerbie Air Disaster 612 words
  7. Railtrack: Profits 997 words
  8. Habitual Residence Test 1,250 words
  9. Business 81 words
  10. Northern Ireland 7,028 words
  11. Electoral Reform 23,320 words
  12. Plant Varieties Bill 22 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 25 June 1997

  1. Diplomats: Serious Offences 167 words
  2. Bosnia: US Train and Equip Programme 88 words
  3. EU Committee of the Regions 91 words
  4. Turkey and Indonesia: British Defence Equipment 186 words
  5. British Information Services New York: E-Mail 161 words
  6. Treaty on European Union: Human Rights 256 words
  7. Social Security Claimants: Effects of Disentitlement 203 words
  8. Suicides: Inquest Verdict 47 words
  9. British Library: Deposit of Publications Lord 197 words
  10. MPs: Resettlement Grants 120 words
  11. Ministers: Severance Payments 147 words
  12. Baltic States: Trade Concessions 138 words
  13. Inflation 67 words
  14. Long-term Growth Rate Forecast 118 words
  15. Commercial Debt: Late Payment Penalty Scheme 79 words
  16. The Army: Regimental System 79 words
  17. MoD Surplus Property 158 words
  18. OP Pesticides: Liver Malfunction 158 words
  19. Gulf Veterans: Medical Diagnostic Data 186 words
  20. National Curriculum: Assessment Results 103 words
  21. Schools: Standards 139 words
  22. N.I. Planning Applications: Decision Times 325 words
  23. London Transport Fares: Annual Increases 221 words
  24. Gas Safety in Let Accommodation 135 words
  25. Water Charges Review 391 words
  26. Transport Council, Luxembourg 17–18 June 529 words
  27. Buses: Review 233 words
  28. Local Authorities: Intervention Powers 206 words
  29. National Car Free Day: Travel Awareness 157 words
  30. Properties for Disabled People 212 words
  31. Health Authorities and Trusts: Board Appointments 85 words
  32. Poliomyelitis Cases 246 words
  33. NHS: Costs and Expenditure 1,221 words