13 March 1997

Commons Sitting of 13 March 1997

  1. PRAYERS 5 words
  2. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TREASURY
      1. Airport Taxes 279 words
      2. Privatisation Proceeds 671 words
      3. Taxation 1,107 words
      4. Income Tax Rates 601 words
      5. Economic Growth 469 words
      6. Finance Bill 355 words
      7. Interest Rates 449 words
      8. Private Finance Initiative 449 words
      9. European Single Currency 631 words
      10. Share Dividends (Income Tax) 186 words
      11. Public Borrowing 314 words
      12. European Single Currency 761 words
      13. Income Tax 271 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 255 words
      2. Ministerial Visit (Kent) 187 words
      3. Engagements 1,165 words
      4. Sanctions (Libya) 298 words
      5. Engagements 283 words
  3. Business of the House 4,813 words
  4. Points of Order 970 words
  5. BILL PRESENTED
    1. PENSIONER TRUSTEES 51 words
    2. Pensions 47,526 words
    3. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 73 words
    4. St. Cross Hospital, Rugby 3,627 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 March 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Roisin McAliskey 486 words
    2. Tote 62 words
    3. Prison Staff (Drugs) 256 words
    4. Prison Visits (Recording) 125 words
    5. Staff Assaults (Ranby Prison) 143 words
    6. Wheel Clamping 59 words
    7. Child Abuse 72 words
    8. Remand Prisoners (Voting Rights) 301 words
    9. Casino Deregulation 686 words
    10. Asylum Seekers 253 words
    11. Sexual Orientation (Police Database) 162 words
    12. Prisoners (London) 201 words
    13. Burglaries 100 words
    14. Youth Crime 121 words
    15. Violent Crime 874 words
    16. Closed Circuit Television 161 words
  2. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Sporting Ambassadors 54 words
    2. Private Finance Initiative 305 words
  3. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Industrial Tribunals 151 words
    2. Small Firms Loans Guarantee Scheme 180 words
    3. Roslin Institute 73 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Overseas Police Officers (Scholarships) 65 words
    2. Namibia 54 words
    3. Sudan 132 words
  5. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Radioactive Waste (Vitrification) 184 words
    2. Electricity Turbines (Fisheries) 213 words
    3. Local Authority Delegations 321 words
    4. British Waterways 184 words
    5. Blight 287 words
    6. Listed Buildings (Green Belt) 247 words
    7. Local Authority Services 266 words
  6. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Pay Review Bodies 205 words
  7. TRANSPORT
    1. Marine Oil Pollution (Contingency Plans) 332 words
    2. M45 (Litter) 222 words
    3. M25 (Works) 242 words
    4. Traffic Congestion 138 words
    5. Coastguard Service 216 words
  8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. European Commission Committees 117 words
    2. Intergovernmental Conference 47 words
  9. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Departmental Web Site 134 words
    2. Customer Charters 241 words
    3. Nursery Vouchers (Wandsworth) 95 words
    4. Deaf and Visually Impaired Children (Teachers) 300 words
    5. Private Finance Initiative (Bolton) 151 words
    6. Enborne Lodge School 132 words
    7. Teachers' Pay 824 words
    8. Learning Credits 637 words
  10. WALES
    1. Local Government Finance 494 words
    2. Youth Unemployment 61 words
    3. NHS Trusts 306 words
    4. Nursery Education (Conwy) 201 words
    5. Community Hospitals 122 words
    6. Suicides and Fatal Accidents 184 words
    7. Local Management of Schools (Conwy) 47 words
  11. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Department of Agriculture (Personnel Documents) 177 words
    2. Sectarian Harassment 128 words
    3. Civil Service Graduates 200 words
    4. Northern Ireland Forum 176 words
    5. Respite Care 189 words
    6. Training Centres 217 words
    7. Acute Hospital Reorganisation Project 127 words
    8. Clifton Special Care School 120 words
    9. Housing Executive Dwellings 54 words
    10. Noxious Smell (Newtownards) 284 words
    11. Visual Handicap 62 words
    12. Organic Farming 105 words
    13. Non-NHS Health Care Providers 242 words
    14. Schools (North Down) 428 words
    15. Secure Training Schools (Girls) 105 words
    16. Driving-related Offences 171 words
    17. Amnesty International 85 words
    18. Sexual Offences (Protected Material) Bill 207 words
    19. New Schools 336 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Extra-corporeal Membrane Oxygenation 72 words
    2. Military Complaints Procedures 143 words
    3. Street Names 51 words
    4. Suicides and Fatal Accidents 134 words
    5. Consultants 211 words
    6. Dental Treatment (Complaints) 282 words
    7. Mr. W. J. Duff 892 words
    8. Non-fossil Fuels 641 words
    9. Galleries (Access) 359 words
  13. TREASURY
    1. School Finance 276 words
    2. Suicides and Fatal Accidents 90 words
    3. Economic and Monetary Union 517 words
    4. Consumer Spending 42 words
    5. Government Statistics 59 words
    6. Public Debt 146 words
    7. Income Tax 176 words
    8. Productivity 112 words
    9. Windfall Gains 102 words
    10. Exchange Rates 45 words
    11. Economic Growth 83 words
    12. Education and Unemployment Benefit Expenditure 87 words
    13. European Community (Publicity) 64 words
    14. Value Added Tax 78 words
    15. Departmental Web Site 184 words
    16. London Underground (Finance) 148 words
    17. Long-term Care 94 words
    18. Labour Statistics 323 words
    19. Private Health Insurance 156 words
    20. Advance Corporation Tax 65 words
    21. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus 542 words
    22. Century Date Change (Computers) 67 words
    23. Gross Domestic Product 84 words
    24. Investment 48 words
    25. Privatisation 48 words
  14. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Incapacity Benefit 583 words
    2. Child Care Disregard 53 words
    3. Invalid Care Allowance 288 words
    4. Jobseeker's Allowance 221 words
    5. Disability Living Allowance 55 words
    6. Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit 79 words
    7. Parent Plus Scheme 145 words
    8. Information Technology Services Agency 56 words
    9. Benefits Backdating 353 words
    10. State Pensions 269 words
  15. DEFENCE
    1. Armed Services (Deaths) 1,401 words
    2. Customer Charters 327 words
    3. RAF Establishments (Yorkshire and Humberside) 444 words
    4. Training Teams (Namibia) 118 words
    5. Employment Statistics 257 words
    6. Ministry of Defence Police 282 words
    7. Military Survey Defence Agency 305 words
    8. Beef 226 words
    9. Military Museums 61 words
    10. Military Provost Guard Service 271 words
    11. Equipment Exhibition 282 words
    12. Royal Yacht 139 words
    13. Horizon Cruiser 96 words
    14. School Cadet Forces 223 words
    15. Defence Evaluation and Research Agency 81 words
  16. HEALTH
    1. NHS Administration Costs 550 words
    2. Greater London Health Budget 39 words
    3. Meals on Wheels 102 words
    4. NHS Pension Scheme (GP Staff) 102 words
    5. Adoption 33 words
    6. Dentists 81 words
    7. GP Patient Lists 82 words
    8. Customer Charters 192 words
    9. Private Finance Initiative 112 words
    10. Residential Care (Assets) 126 words
    11. NHS Numbers 203 words
    12. Hospital Buildings 31 words
    13. Health Information Helpline 83 words
    14. Psychiatric Beds 31 words
    15. General Managers 1,055 words
    16. Liver Disease 33 words
    17. Lariam 82 words
    18. Power Lines (Cancer) 126 words
    19. Children's Homes 75 words
    20. Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 189 words
    21. Non-ionising Radiation 252 words
    22. Electromagnetic Fields 322 words
    23. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus 512 words
    24. Hospital Building Schemes (Buckinghamshire) 47 words
    25. Fluoridation 57 words
    26. Ophthalmology Sessions 45 words
    27. NHS Policy Board 151 words
    28. Factor 8 82 words
    29. Depression (Prescribed Drugs) 230 words
    30. Health Service Financial Performance 79 words
    31. Health Service Senior Managers (Pay) 122 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Farm Woodlands 633 words
    2. Green Vegetables 123 words
    3. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 138 words
    4. Meat Inspectors 65 words
    5. Customer Charters 55 words
    6. MV Caroline 163 words
    7. Farm Animals (Breeding) 132 words
    8. Food and Agricultural Science Establishments 839 words
    9. Meat Hygiene Service 234 words
    10. Food Hygiene 77 words
    11. Quarantine 55 words
    12. Ewes (Export for Religious Slaughter) 85 words

Lords Sitting of 13 March 1997

  1. Tributes to the Late Earl of Listowel 1,888 words
  2. UNHCR: Funding 1,132 words
  3. Water Fluoridation 304 words
  4. Pilgrim Trust 542 words
  5. Fur Imports: EU Regulation 1,803 words
  6. Social Security Administration (Fraud) Bill 27,662 words, 2 divisions
  7. Finance Bill 26 words
  8. Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Bill 23 words
  9. Education (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 3,525 words
  10. British Gas plc (Rateable Values) Amendment) Order 1997 British Gas plc (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1997
    1. Non-Domestic Rating (Chargeable Amounts for Small Hereditaments) Amendment Regulations 1997 454 words
    2. Deregulation (Provision of School Action Plans) Order 1997 1,839 words
    3. British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill [H.L.] 4,162 words