6 March 1997

Commons Sitting of 6 March 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS 12 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      1. Cattle Cull 350 words
      2. Fishing 510 words
      3. Food Labelling 352 words
      4. Organic Products 578 words
      5. Common Agricultural Policy 526 words
      6. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 748 words
      7. Common Fisheries Policy 556 words
      8. Beef Ban 1,428 words
      9. Quota Hopping 444 words
      10. Beef Ban 520 words
      11. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 343 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,947 words
      2. Lockerbie 226 words
      3. Engagements 159 words
  4. Meat Hygiene Service (Report) 6,722 words
  5. Business of the House 5,051 words
  6. Point of Order 202 words
  7. Public Expenditure 42,476 words
  8. FINANCE BILL 41 words
  9. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 96 words
  10. CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL 51 words
  11. Avon Ring Road 3,281 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 6 March 1997

  1. SCOTLAND
    1. Parliamentary Answers 118 words
    2. Glenfeshie and Rothiemurchus Estates 79 words
    3. Animal and Poultry Research Establishments 172 words
    4. Local Authority Employees 57 words
    5. Homeless Households 300 words
    6. Payment of Bills 89 words
    7. Further Education 145 words
    8. Nutritional Standards 58 words
    9. Education, Health and Social Security Spending 205 words
    10. Scientists 358 words
  2. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Payment of Bills 82 words
  3. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Legal Aid (Human Growth Hormone Treatments) 93 words
    2. Legal Aid (Rochdale Court Closure) 83 words
    3. Payment of Bills 86 words
    4. Private Finance Initiative 472 words
  4. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Sport 268 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Whitemoor Prison 189 words
    2. Prison Security 330 words
    3. Television Licence Fine Defaulters 139 words
    4. Prison Establishments (Children) 704 words
    5. Prisoner Admittance (Costs) 108 words
    6. Prostitution 298 words
    7. Handguns 83 words
    8. Convicted Murderers 235 words
    9. Special Constabulary 122 words
    10. Bridgewater Three 98 words
    11. Prison Ship, Portland Harbour 62 words
    12. Private Finance Initiative 383 words
    13. Police Officers 54 words
    14. Charities (Criminal Record Checks) 61 words
    15. Payment of Bills 80 words
    16. Belmarsh Prison 41 words
    17. Fire Service College 420 words
  6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. UN Security Council Resolutions 161 words
    2. Gulf War 202 words
    3. Albania 178 words
    4. Payment of Bills 82 words
    5. Private Finance Initiative 139 words
  7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Chancery Bank 122 words
    2. Private Finance Initiative 109 words
    3. Undischarged Bankrupts 82 words
    4. Payment of Bills 91 words
    5. Birmingham (Ministerial Visit) 47 words
  8. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Medical Training 214 words
    2. National Curriculum (Drug Awareness) 71 words
    3. Drug Education 359 words
    4. Office for Standards in Education 64 words
    5. Private Finance Initiative 111 words
  9. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Lockerbie 59 words
    2. Engagements 68 words
    3. Organophosphates 175 words
    4. Governor-General Visits 54 words
  10. TREASURY
    1. Earth Summit II 83 words
    2. Pension Plans 194 words
  11. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Mr. David Kyle 145 words
    2. Ms Fiona King 110 words
    3. Payment of Bills 195 words
  12. DEFENCE
    1. Psychological Operations Units 76 words
    2. Military Provost Guard Service 204 words
    3. Gulf War Syndrome 122 words
    4. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus 185 words
    5. Private Finance Initiative 142 words
    6. Payment of Bills 98 words
    7. Joint Services Command and Staff College 393 words
    8. DERA (Support Services Division) 177 words
    9. NATO Strategic Concept 92 words
  13. TRANSPORT
    1. Salisbury Bypass 208 words
    2. Rail Employment 75 words
    3. Private Finance Initiative 111 words
    4. Railfreight Distribution 40 words
    5. Ferry Safety 44 words
    6. Payment of Bills 86 words
    7. Channel Tunnel 395 words
    8. Departmental Revenue Hypothecation 66 words
    9. British Railways Board 92 words
    10. Lorry Weights 303 words
    11. Light Dues 126 words
    12. Train Track Fences 211 words
  14. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Equipment and Furniture 154 words
    2. Nuclear Test Veterans 180 words
    3. Jobseeker's Allowance 53 words
    4. Cold Weather Payments 173 words
    5. Appeal Tribunals 116 words
    6. Pension Schemes 141 words
    7. War Pensions (Gulf War) 180 words
    8. Payment of Bills 89 words
    9. Private Finance Initiative 104 words
    10. State Pensions 329 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Anglo-Irish Secretariat 41 words
    2. Water Cannon 134 words
    3. Private Finance Initiative 457 words
    4. Payment of Bills 140 words
    5. Newcastle Disease 288 words
    6. Scientists 448 words
  16. WALES
    1. Winter Mortality Rates 78 words
    2. Local Government Finance 121 words
    3. Public Bodies (Freemasonry) 55 words
    4. Child Labour (Consultation Exercise) 176 words
    5. Private Finance Initiative 124 words
    6. Payment of Bills 87 words
    7. Primary Class Sizes 78 words
    8. Inward Investment 48 words
    9. Homeless Households 305 words
    10. Health Authority Funding 228 words
    11. Housing for Wales 164 words
  17. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Social Housing (Waltham Forest) 168 words
    2. Rock Characterisation Facility, Sellafield 59 words
    3. Environmental Trusts 227 words
    4. Employers' Insurance Policies 90 words
    5. Hedgerows 254 words
    6. Local Government Reorganisation 100 words
    7. Energy Efficiency Grants 163 words
    8. Private Finance Initiative 128 words
    9. Payment of Bills 101 words
    10. Water Pollution 115 words
    11. Cancer Studies 302 words
    12. Housing Corporation Loan Portfolio 214 words
    13. Three Valleys Water 400 words
    14. Homelessness 145 words
    15. Noise Maps 58 words
    16. Ringway Parliamentary Support Group 46 words
  18. HEALTH
    1. Nurses and Doctors 594 words
    2. High-cost Drugs 50 words
    3. Infant Formula Milk 112 words
    4. Sleep Disorders 65 words
    5. Behaviourally Disturbed Young People (Prescriptions) 70 words
    6. Bug Busting Programme 77 words
    7. NHS Employees' Pay 27 words
    8. Speech and Language Therapy 51 words
    9. NHS Trusts (Chief Executives) 53 words
    10. Ashworth Special Hospital 247 words
    11. Cryptosporidium 235 words
    12. Paracetamol and Methionine Compound 187 words
    13. Drug Overdoses 38 words
    14. Swine Fever 41 words
    15. Connective Tissue Disease 39 words
    16. Prostheses 133 words
    17. Alpha-l-Antitrypsin Deficiency Disease 48 words
    18. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus 505 words
    19. Private Finance Initiative 77 words
    20. Payment of Bills 94 words
    21. Capital Projects (Greater London) 756 words
  19. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Hill Farmers 226 words
    2. Fish Breeding Areas 53 words
    3. Food Imports 86 words
    4. Fish Quotas 49 words
    5. Small Food Producers (European Directives) 76 words
    6. Battery Hens 66 words
    7. Arable Area Payments Scheme 48 words
    8. British Food 79 words
    9. Hedgerows 104 words
    10. Chocolate Manufacturers 116 words
    11. Milk Marque 69 words
    12. British Beef Ban 113 words
    13. Fish Conservation 90 words
    14. Set-aside 102 words
    15. BSE 297 words
    16. Animal Welfare 170 words
    17. Infant Formula Milk 52 words
    18. Quarantine 54 words
    19. Swine Fever 186 words
    20. Private Finance Initiative 88 words
    21. Abbotsland Farm 56 words
    22. ADAS 71 words
    23. Running Costs 147 words
    24. Flock Mark 51 words
    25. Payment of Bills 86 words

Lords Sitting of 6 March 1997

  1. Preamble 21 words
  2. Children: Government Structures 1,227 words
  3. Sterling: Effects of Appreciation 1,182 words
  4. The City of London and the European Union 956 words
  5. The Employment Service 1,122 words
  6. Business 41 words
  7. Meat: Slaughterhouse Hygiene 5,747 words
  8. Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill 22,803 words, 1 division
  9. Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Arts Therapists Board) Order of Council 1997 1,540 words
  10. Jobseeker's Allowance Pilot Schemes 7,137 words
  11. Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill 23,164 words
  12. Southampton International Boat Show Bill 21 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 6 March 1997

  1. Extradition Statistics 137 words
  2. Fire Service College 425 words
  3. Museums and Galleries: Insurance 131 words
  4. The Sevso Hoard 162 words
  5. Hedgerow Loss 403 words
  6. Show Houses: Rates 99 words
  7. Light Dues: Reduction 145 words
  8. Lorry Weights 178 words
  9. Special Schools for Emotionally and Behaviourally Disturbed Children 327 words