4 March 1997

Commons Sitting of 4 March 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. KING'S COLLEGE LONDON BILL [Lords] (By Order) 15 words
      2. LEVER PARK BILL (By Order) 15 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. ENVIRONMENT
      1. Local Government Finance 685 words
      2. Royal Docks (Newham) 274 words
      3. Earth Summit II 768 words
      4. Local Authority Services 294 words
      5. Rented Housing 794 words
      6. Local Authority Housing 566 words
      7. Opencast Mining 355 words
      8. Local Government Finance 847 words
      9. Environmental Crime 230 words
      10. Standard Spending Assessment (Rural Areas) 314 words
      11. Local Government Finance (Warwickshire) 318 words
      12. Local Government Finance 471 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,930 words
      2. NEW MEMBER 15 words
  4. United Kingdom Membership of European Union (Research) 1,112 words
  5. UNITED KINGDOM MEMBERSHIP OF EUROPEAN UNION (RESEARCH) 50 words
  6. Local Government Finance (Scotland) 29,075 words, 1 division
  7. Housing (Scotland) 14,259 words, 1 division
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Welsh Development Agency Bill 7,124 words
    2. STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES 23 words
  9. PETITIONS
    1. Scottish Borders Council (Financial Settlement) 486 words
    2. Railway Safety 271 words
    3. Road Traffic (Nottingham) 3,978 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 4 March 1997

  1. WALES
    1. Glamorgan 134 words
  2. TREASURY
    1. London Transport Funding 56 words
    2. London Underground (Privatisation Receipts) 49 words
    3. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species 510 words
    4. Air Passenger Duty 308 words
    5. Illegal Firearms (Imports) 198 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Departmental Contracts 309 words
    2. Alcohol Sales (Young People) 239 words
    3. Identity Cards 130 words
    4. Philip Saunders 102 words
    5. CS Gas 51 words
    6. Casino Operations (Croydon) 55 words
    7. Victim Support 236 words
    8. Rabies 114 words
    9. Children (Crime) 374 words
    10. Closed Circuit Television 77 words
    11. Data Protection 42 words
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. British Beers 78 words
    2. Parliamentary Questions 288 words
  5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Aid Projects 190 words
    2. EU Social Summit 132 words
    3. Family Planning 140 words
    4. Food Crops (Aid) 551 words
    5. International Development Association 305 words
  6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. State Visit (President of Israel) 70 words
  7. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Sir Nicholas Lloyd 52 words
    2. Engagements 60 words
    3. Gulf War Syndrome 54 words
  8. TRANSPORT
    1. Policy Initiatives 64 words
    2. Air Traffic Control (North Sea) 83 words
    3. Traffic Calming 254 words
    4. Epping to Ongar Train Service 125 words
    5. Rural Residents (Buses) 73 words
    6. Vehicle Licence Fraud 249 words
    7. London Underground 903 words
    8. Air Traffic Control (Scotland) 48 words
    9. London Transport Museum 50 words
    10. London Buses (Subsidy) 115 words
    11. Taxi Licences (North Lincolnshire) 101 words
    12. Rail Tickets 174 words
    13. Channel Tunnel Fire 77 words
    14. London and Continental Railways 77 words
    15. Research Site, Crowthorne 131 words
    16. Train Track Fences 162 words
    17. En Route Centre (Swanwick) 167 words
  9. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Executive Agencies 161 words
    2. General Schools Budget 212 words
    3. Post-16 Pupils 597 words
    4. Assisted Places Scheme 413 words
    5. First Aid (Schools) 123 words
    6. Teacher Training 490 words
    7. Enborne Lodge School, Newbury 186 words
    8. Education Reform Act 1988 143 words
    9. Schools (Cheshire) 114 words
    10. Training and Enterprise Councils 96 words
    11. Long-term Unemployment 240 words
    12. Home-school Agreements 115 words
    13. Age Discrimination 66 words
    14. Science, Technology and Mathematics Council 139 words
  10. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Fuel Poverty 169 words
    2. Executive Agencies 116 words
    3. Appeal Tribunals 200 words
    4. Benefits Agency 132 words
    5. Departmental Contracts 71 words
    6. Pensioners 194 words
    7. Social Fund 329 words
    8. Income Support 134 words
    9. Jobseeker's Allowance 71 words
    10. Pensions (Winter Supplement) 145 words
    11. Young Benefit Claimants (Crewe and Nantwich) 42 words
    12. Disability Appeal Tribunals 445 words
  11. HEALTH
    1. EU Anti-smoking Campaign 79 words
    2. Fibromyalgia 210 words
    3. Human Growth Hormone 66 words
    4. Dental Laboratories 328 words
    5. Vitamin B6 203 words
    6. Dental Services 149 words
    7. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 169 words
    8. Community Care (Suffolk) 169 words
    9. Prescriptions 54 words
    10. Rabies 70 words
    11. NHS Trusts (Funding) 179 words
    12. Waiting Lists (Cheshire) 159 words
    13. Blood Products (Recalls) 144 words
  12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. BSE 361 words
    2. Cod (North Sea) 120 words
    3. Cloning 84 words
    4. Bullfinches 442 words
    5. Swine Fever 45 words
    6. Rabies 61 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Housing Executive 257 words
    2. Housing Executive 190 words
    3. Water Service Staff 1,906 words
    4. Housing Council 24 words
    5. Housing 174 words
    6. Major Road Works Programme 267 words
    7. Housing Benefit and Rate Rebate 161 words
    8. Private Finance Initiative 150 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Voluntary Sector Projects 188 words
    2. Research Grants 79 words
    3. Farmed Salmon 139 words
    4. Further Education 339 words
    5. Pupils (Standard Grades) 172 words
  15. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Brewing Industry 223 words
    2. Oil (Control and Jurisdiction) 132 words
    3. Structural Funds Programmes 486 words
    4. Films (Copyright) 172 words
  16. DEFENCE
    1. Pipeline Inspection Notification 143 words
    2. Ion Exchange Resin 389 words
    3. Radium Experiments (Alverstoke) 41 words
    4. Air Traffic Control 108 words
    5. Gulf War (Organophosphate Pesticides) 101 words
    6. RAF Greenham Common (Radioactive Contamination) 164 words
    7. British Military Personnel (Rwanda) 96 words
    8. Nuclear Weapons 203 words
    9. European Directives 211 words
    10. HMS Monmouth (Lynx Helicopter) 178 words
    11. New Building (Abbey Wood, Bristol) 150 words
    12. Common Security and Defence Policy 79 words
    13. German Military Forces 114 words
    14. Radioactive Waste 129 words
    15. Parliamentary Answers 124 words
    16. Deaths 1,137 words
    17. UN Service Medal (Korea) 197 words
    18. Royal Naval College, Greenwich 204 words
  17. ENVIRONMENT
    1. City Challenge 84 words
    2. Recycling Facility (Warndon) 92 words
    3. Local Government Finance 95 words
    4. Global Warming 74 words
    5. Litter 63 words
    6. Earth Summit 90 words
    7. Rents-to-mortgages Schemes 49 words
    8. Opencast Mining 55 words
    9. Council Tax (Essex) 60 words
    10. Local Authority Housing 203 words
    11. Air Pollution 143 words
    12. Council House Sales 43 words
    13. Parliamentary Answers 249 words
    14. Household Waste-derived Compost 175 words
    15. Local Government Legislation 260 words
    16. Rivers (Water Abstraction) 149 words
    17. Waltham Forest 170 words
    18. Landfill Applications 118 words
    19. Local Authority Employees 157 words
    20. Nitrogen Oxide Emissions 99 words
    21. Timber 104 words
    22. Single Regeneration Budget (Lancashire) 106 words
    23. First Aid Staff (Schools) 124 words
    24. Noise Pollution 121 words
    25. Housing (Disabled People) 395 words
    26. Water Companies 51 words
    27. Refuse Collection (Barnet) 151 words
    28. Hedgerows 65 words

Lords Sitting of 4 March 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Nuclear Test Veterans 1,137 words
  3. EU Directives and Regulations 1,218 words
  4. EU Common Foreign and Security Policy 1,107 words
  5. Salisbury Bypass Proposal 1,045 words
  6. Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill 35,209 words, 1 division
  7. Public Entertainments Licences (Drug Misuse) Bill 10,532 words
  8. Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill 22,312 words, 1 division
  9. Girobank plc (Transfer) Bill [H.L.] 32 words

Grand Committee Report of 4 March 1997

  1. Official Report of the Grand Committee on the Local Government and Rating Bill 23,481 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 4 March 1997

  1. Animal Carcase Incinerators 120 words
  2. Hedgerows: Draft Regulations 63 words
  3. Child Crime: Prevention 377 words
  4. Data Protection Directive: Responses 41 words
  5. International Development Association: Funding 310 words
  6. Nuclear Reprocessing 259 words