26 June 1997

Commons Sitting of 26 June 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
      1. Class Sizes 861 words
      2. Unskilled Manual Workers 1,043 words
      3. Teaching Methods 796 words
      4. Youth Unemployment (Wolverhampton) 294 words
      5. Jobseeker's Allowance 525 words
      6. Youth Unemployment 1,193 words
      7. Training Investment 389 words
      8. Non-vocational Education 493 words
      9. Child Care 562 words
      10. Reading 408 words
      11. Training 373 words
      12. Technology College Status 323 words
      13. Job Security 343 words
      14. Spending Priorities 257 words
  4. Voting (Madam Speaker's Statement) 126 words
  5. Business of the House 5,054 words
  6. Points of Order 1,361 words
  7. BILL PRESENTED
    1. MINISTERIAL AND OTHER SALARIES 63 words
  8. Appropriation (Northern Ireland) 20,294 words
  9. Public Order (Northern Ireland) 12,076 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 26 June 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Driving Offences 133 words
    2. Immigration 204 words
    3. Perjury 313 words
    4. Surrey Police Force 74 words
    5. Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority 117 words
    6. Pornography 246 words
    7. Bookmakers Committee 180 words
    8. Fire Safety (HMOs) 4,061 words
    9. Fire Services Act 1947 82 words
    10. Paul Malone 204 words
    11. Fines (Motorists) 262 words
    12. Test Purchasing (Decriminalisation) 530 words
    13. Wildlife and Countryside Act (Offences) 1,291 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. EU Legislation 114 words
  3. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Privy Council (Membership) 64 words
  4. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Perjury 77 words
  5. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Signals Intelligence Staff 157 words
    2. British Council and World Service 69 words
    3. Departmental Advisers 157 words
  6. TREASURY
    1. Taxpayers 102 words
    2. Capital Gains Tax 67 words
    3. Income Tax 195 words
    4. Corporation Tax 142 words
    5. Mail Order 111 words
    6. Tax Policy 53 words
    7. Companies (Self-assessment) 60 words
    8. Value Added Tax 185 words
    9. Tax Co-ordination 67 words
    10. Securities and Investments Board (Annual Report) 66 words
    11. Income Tax (Pensioners) 283 words
    12. Labour Force Survey 231 words
    13. Labour Statistics 202 words
  7. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Water Charges 74 words
    2. House Building 169 words
    3. Paper and Sewage Sludge 248 words
    4. Social Housing 135 words
    5. Green Belt 72 words
    6. Electricity Pylons 110 words
    7. Bird Habitat (Pennine Moors) 131 words
    8. National Parks 84 words
    9. Area Cost Adjustment 105 words
    10. Energy Efficiency 160 words
    11. Students (Council Tax) 85 words
    12. Homelessness Legislation 185 words
    13. EU Environment Council 522 words
    14. New Building Projects 181 words
    15. Test Purchasing (Under-age Children) 67 words
    16. Air Carriers 162 words
    17. Heathrow and Gatwick Airports 71 words
    18. Road Accidents (Fire Engines) 413 words
    19. M40 (Road Improvements) 126 words
  8. SCOTLAND
    1. Drugs 1,172 words
    2. Speed Limits (Schools) 153 words
    3. Residential and Nursing Care 47 words
    4. Arts Policy 40 words
    5. Water Industry 267 words
  9. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Millennium Celebrations 521 words
    2. Museums 230 words
    3. Works of Art 143 words
    4. Alcohol (Television Advertising) 141 words
  10. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Queen's Counsel 118 words
  11. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Debt (Poor Countries) 143 words
  12. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Policy Reviews 590 words
    2. Cabinet Office (Cash Limits) 138 words
    3. Interdepartmental Co-ordination 58 words
    4. Amsterdam Summit 245 words
    5. Kenya 52 words
    6. Roisin McAliskey 146 words
    7. Ministerial Answers 81 words
    8. Task Forces and New Groups 309 words
    9. Minister without Portfolio 196 words
    10. Government Information Service 76 words
    11. Lockerbie 74 words
    12. Ministers and Special Advisers 66 words
    13. Party Political Activities (Funding) 82 words
  13. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Low Pay 76 words
    2. Mine Subsidence 58 words
    3. Post Office (External Financing Limit) 89 words
    4. Computers (Millennium Compliance) 292 words
    5. Key Escrow 48 words
    6. Internet 307 words
    7. Arms (Manufacture and Sales) 115 words
    8. Nirex 71 words
    9. Research 84 words
    10. Gas Appliances 115 words
    11. Seeboard 240 words
  14. HEALTH
    1. Human Cloning 137 words
    2. Corticosteroids 143 words
    3. Rothbury Community Hospital 193 words
    4. Dental Services 247 words
    5. Urban Food Growing Projects 199 words
    6. Yellow Card System 56 words
    7. Smoking 361 words
    8. Erb's Palsy and Brachial Plexus Injuries 105 words
    9. Internet 217 words
    10. Special Advisers 121 words
    11. Wharfedale General Hospital 100 words
    12. Infertility 207 words
    13. Obesity 310 words
    14. GP Fundholding 140 words
    15. Strategic Planning 47 words
    16. NHS Trust Mergers 46 words
    17. Repetitive Strain Injury 147 words
    18. New Building Projects 180 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Health and Social Services Staff 146 words
    2. Drugs 285 words
    3. Internet 178 words
    4. Human Rights 79 words
  16. WALES
    1. Council House Repairs 60 words
    2. Speech Therapy 291 words
    3. Smoke Detectors 356 words
    4. Internet 130 words
    5. Agri-environment Programme 47 words
    6. Conservation (Cardigan Bay) 104 words
    7. Popular Schools Initiative 58 words
    8. University Hospital of Wales 92 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. HMS Dreadnought 141 words
    2. Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme 76 words
    3. Atomic Weapons Establishment 117 words
    4. Eurofighters 113 words
  18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. EU Agriculture Council 408 words
    2. Pig Exports 105 words
    3. Exotic Animals 90 words
    4. Pesticides 362 words
    5. RSPCA Freedom Foods 57 words
    6. Farm Animals (Cruelty) 157 words
    7. Food Labelling 131 words
    8. New York Dressed Poultry 122 words
    9. Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 82 words
    10. Over 30 months Scheme 83 words
    11. Quarantine Kennels 469 words
    12. Multi-Annual Guidance Programme 236 words
  19. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Reading and Writing 58 words
    2. Welfare-to-work Task Force 382 words
    3. Higher Education (Access) 73 words
    4. Key Stage 2 45 words
    5. School Standards 74 words
    6. Early-years Development Plans 88 words
    7. Nursery Voucher Scheme 145 words
    8. Disability Discrimination Act 87 words
    9. University of Industry 79 words
    10. Cooking Skills 80 words
    11. Long-term Unemployment 99 words
    12. Child Care 373 words
    13. International Labour Organisation Conference 98 words
    14. Literacy Summer Schools 50 words
    15. Student Debts 58 words
    16. New Deal 36 words
    17. Nursery Education 121 words
    18. Jobfinder's Grants 124 words
    19. Public Utilities 69 words
    20. Construction Industry 227 words
  20. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Poverty 162 words
    2. Child Care 177 words
    3. Local Exchange Trading Systems 119 words
    4. Social Fund (Appeals) 172 words
    5. Child Support Agency 410 words
    6. Family Credit 486 words
    7. Benefits Agency Medical Services 505 words
    8. Special Advisers 174 words
    9. Widowers' Benefits 50 words

Lords Sitting of 26 June 1997

  1. Preamble 28 words
  2. Council Tax: Carers' Discount 931 words
  3. Osteoporosis 1,101 words
  4. National Minimum Wage 1,158 words
  5. Health Services in London 1,197 words
  6. Fossil Fuel Levy Bill [H.L.] 63 words
  7. National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [H.L.] 3,742 words
  8. Contracting Out (Functions in relation to the provision of Guardians Ad Litem and Reporting Officers Panels) Order 1997 1,856 words
  9. Army, Air Force and Naval Discipline Acts (Continuation) Order 1997 4,673 words
  10. Coordinated Universal Time Bill [H.L.] 2,750 words
  11. Road Transport Emission Levels: Science and Technology Committee Report 18,638 words
  12. Asbestos 4,695 words
  13. Southampton International Boat Show Bill 16 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 26 June 1997

  1. Mali: Conflict Prevention Work by UN 126 words
  2. Mr. Richard Holbrooke: Cyprus Negotiations 52 words
  3. Bosnia 104 words
  4. Greece and Turkey: Naval Exercises with Israel 65 words
  5. NATO 161 words
  6. Millennium Exhibition 156 words
  7. Electromagnetic Fields and Health: Research 150 words
  8. Curfews 181 words
  9. Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, Section 2: Implementation 97 words
  10. Speed Camera Operating Costs 105 words
  11. Young Offenders: Motivation 228 words
  12. Bookmakers' Committee 190 words
  13. Household Division: Soldiers from Ethnic Minorities 180 words
  14. Prisoners of War: Review of Pay Deductions 67 words
  15. Holy Loch 101 words
  16. Armed Forces Education Allowances 92 words
  17. "Sea Base" Floating Runway 190 words
  18. Environment Council 524 words
  19. Homelessness: Response to Consultation 173 words
  20. Northern Ireland Electricity Charges: Subvention 218 words
  21. Northern Ireland Beef 77 words