30 June 1997

Commons Sitting of 30 June 1997

Commons Sitting of 30 June 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SOCIAL SECURITY
      1. Pensions 517 words
      2. Lone Parents 908 words
      3. Jobseeker's Allowance 589 words
      4. State Pension 599 words
      5. Benefit Services 808 words
      6. Benefits Agency Change Programme 637 words
      7. Income-related Benefits 352 words
      8. Pensioners (Income Support) 581 words
      9. Retirement Pensions 553 words
      10. Housing Benefit 505 words
      11. Young People 336 words
      12. Asylum Seekers 217 words
      13. Lone Parents (Hackney) 730 words
      14. Chilean Pension Scheme 635 words
      15. Benefit Services 192 words
  4. Montserrat 2,529 words
  5. Hillsborough Disaster 5,541 words
  6. Points of Order 838 words
  7. Scottish Grand Committee 7,003 words
  8. Northern Ireland 12,121 words
  9. Satellite Television 2,096 words
  10. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 17 words
    1. CONTRACTING OUT 36 words
  11. Marconi Communications 5,627 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 30 June 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Child Protection 47 words
    2. Child Pornography 147 words
    3. Primary Purpose Rules 89 words
    4. Victim Support 268 words
    5. Plastic Baton Rounds 124 words
    6. Patrick Nicholls 75 words
    7. Community Safety 101 words
    8. Sex Offenders 53 words
    9. Anti-social Behaviour 96 words
    10. Traffic Police 128 words
    11. Convicted Child Sex Offenders 138 words
    12. Immigration (Detainees) 526 words
    13. Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 1,304 words
    14. Asylum Seekers 1,833 words
    15. Singh Shingara Case 75 words
    16. Privately Managed Prisons 159 words
    17. Asylum and Immigration Act 76 words
    18. Nuclear Materials 140 words
    19. Crime Prevention 167 words
  2. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Training and Enterprise Councils 934 words
    2. Further Education Colleges 555 words
    3. Departmental Advisers 218 words
    4. Pupils, Gloucestershire 55 words
    5. Class Sizes 220 words
    6. Further Education (Funding) 317 words
    7. Further Education (Strategic Planning) 81 words
    8. School Playing Fields 138 words
    9. Funding 93 words
    10. Nursery Vouchers 54 words
    11. Higher Education Statistics 169 words
    12. Unemployment 127 words
  3. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Utilities (Regulation) 415 words
    2. Collective Redundancies 51 words
    3. Standing Committee on Standardisation 109 words
    4. Genetic Material (Health Prognoses) 220 words
    5. Minimum Wage 150 words
    6. International Trade Fairs 51 words
    7. Reviews 148 words
    8. Petrol Prices 75 words
    9. Business Link Wirral 104 words
    10. National Minimum Wage 146 words
    11. Working Time Directive 37 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Residential Care Homes 171 words
    2. Thirty-Year Rule 58 words
    3. Child Pornography and Paedophile Activity 105 words
    4. Strategic Defence Review 54 words
    5. Political Appointees 111 words
    6. Office Accommodation 350 words
    7. Conservative Leadership Elections 50 words
  5. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Crown Court Trials 186 words
  6. HEALTH
    1. GP Fundholding 371 words
    2. Dental Services 109 words
    3. Caesarian Section Births 102 words
    4. Free Prescriptions 151 words
    5. Long-term Care 100 words
    6. Financial Deficit (Northern Region) 69 words
    7. Patient Visit Charges 114 words
    8. E. Coli 343 words
    9. Dementia 76 words
    10. Drug Abuse Treatment 184 words
    11. Volatile Substance Abuse 110 words
  7. TREASURY
    1. Departmental Files 59 words
    2. Premium Bonds 179 words
    3. Local Authority Capital Receipts 200 words
    4. Earnings (Torbay) 219 words
    5. Strategic Defence Review 74 words
  8. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Theatres (Funding) 781 words
    2. National Lottery 313 words
    3. Football 487 words
    4. Lottery Grants (Torbay) 401 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Departmental Advisers 81 words
    2. Strategic Defence Review 73 words
    3. Lockerbie 71 words
    4. Amsterdam European Council 100 words
    5. WPC Yvonne Fletcher 87 words
    6. Gibraltar 168 words
  10. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Katse Dam, Lesotho 66 words
    2. Sierra Leone 93 words
    3. Ghana 87 words
    4. Tropical Deforestation 80 words
  11. WALES
    1. Welsh Office Overseas Trade Services 105 words
    2. Health Bodies (Funding) 81 words
    3. Departmental Advisers 118 words
    4. Farmers 183 words
    5. Beef 258 words
    6. Unemployment 190 words
  12. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Drugs 1,030 words
    2. Special Advisers 126 words
    3. Smoking 69 words
    4. Plastic Raton Rounds 215 words
  13. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Crown Immunity 110 words
  14. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Housing Conditions 747 words
    2. Special Advisers 179 words
    3. Planning Policy Guidance 99 words
    4. Recycled Paper 211 words
    5. Local Government Planning 67 words
    6. Climate Change Convention, Kyoto 131 words
    7. Cadmium Disposal 65 words
    8. Algal Blooms 172 words
    9. Mahogany 172 words
    10. Housing Benefit (War Pensioners) 57 words
    11. Compulsory Competitive Tendering 120 words
    12. Housing (London) 1,588 words
    13. Home Energy Efficiency Scheme 130 words
    14. Bus Route Tenders (London) 127 words
    15. Roads Programme Review 34 words
    16. Cycling 145 words
    17. Channel Tunnel (Safety) 636 words
    18. Train Services (Safety) 216 words
    19. School Buses 107 words
    20. Ozone Layer (Concorde) 110 words
    21. Heathrow Airport (Terminal 5) 70 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. East of Scotland Water 177 words
    2. Interception of Communications 131 words
    3. Plastic Baton Rounds 33 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Animal Breeding (Ethics) 216 words
    2. Food Poisoning 69 words
    3. Fish Stocks 81 words
    4. Farmers 156 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Organophosphates 408 words
    2. Beef 234 words
    3. Lockerbie 382 words
    4. Combined Cadet Forces 196 words
    5. Plastic Baton Guns 294 words
    6. Expenditure 71 words
    7. Atomic Weapons Establishment 218 words
    8. Equipment Exhibition, Farnborough 96 words
  18. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Child Support Agency 329 words
    2. Pensions 153 words
    3. Poverty 67 words
    4. Benefit Claimants 69 words
    5. Benefit Entitlement 105 words
    6. Jobseeker's Allowance 57 words
    7. Benefit Fraud 174 words
    8. Housing Benefit 223 words
    9. Lone Parents 72 words
    10. Young People 52 words
    11. Child Benefit 90 words
    12. Disability Living Allowance 262 words
    13. Benefits Claimants (Medical Examination) 120 words
    14. Appeals 96 words
    15. Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority 117 words
    16. In-house Bids 172 words

Lords Sitting of 30 June 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Russia-Estonia Relations 527 words
  3. Whisky: Excise Duty Evasion 759 words
  4. Prisons: Identification of Visitors 1,112 words
  5. Firearms Compensation Scheme 1,090 words
  6. Law Officers Bill [H.L.] 69 words
  7. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 25,676 words
  8. Stonehenge 12,006 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 30 June 1997

  1. SOE Records: Release 63 words
  2. Arms Exports: Payment to Exporters 58 words
  3. Arms Exports: Evasion of Controls 204 words
  4. Arms Exports to Turkey and Indonesia 48 words
  5. Child Benefit Centre: Telephone Contact 327 words
  6. Mixed Sex Wards 144 words
  7. Extradition Requests 337 words
  8. Referendums 101 words
  9. Police and Fire Service Pensions 62 words
  10. Buses: EU Directive Proposal 83 words
  11. Train Passenger Capacity: Monitoring 142 words
  12. Voluntary Bodies: Withdrawal of Funding 107 words
  13. Government Political Advisers: Costs 52 words
  14. Atomic Weapons Establishment Sites: Licensing 121 words
  15. Agriculture Council, 23–25 June 435 words
  16. Subsidence: Claims 195 words
  17. Trend Rate of Growth 135 words
  18. Economic Fluctuations: Figures 163 words
  19. Employment: Figures 135 words
  20. Industrial Base 108 words
  21. Sixth Form Colleges: Funding 78 words
  22. Youth Services: Provision 158 words
  23. Higher Education 111 words
  24. Communication Skills in Schools 55 words
  25. Education: Spending 161 words
  26. School Balances 959 words