11 November 1997

Commons Sitting of 11 November 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. HEALTH 6 words
      1. National Health Service (Funding) 977 words
      2. Solihull Hospital 167 words
      3. National Health Service (Funding) 626 words
      4. Child Care 286 words
      5. NHS Pay 762 words
      6. NHS Waiting Lists 849 words
      7. Smoking 470 words
      8. "The Health of the Nation" 395 words
      9. Healthy Living Centres 351 words
      10. Prescription Charges 475 words
      11. Scottish Devolution 72 words
      12. NHS Staff (Attacks) 537 words
      13. Tobacco Advertising 483 words
      14. Cosmetic Surgery 231 words
      15. National Blood Transfusion Service 585 words
      16. General Practitioner Fundholding 218 words
  4. Points of Order 962 words
  5. Regulation of Wet Bikes 1,038 words
    1. REGULATION OF WET BIKES 44 words
  6. Orders of the Day
    1. Bank of England Bill 53,698 words, 1 division
    2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 43 words
  7. Local Government (Contracts) Bill 3 words
    1. Clause 1
      1. FUNCTIONS TO INCLUDE POWER TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT. 189 words
    2. Clause 2
      1. CERTIFIED CONTRACTS ASSUMED TO BE INTRA VIRES. 423 words
    3. Clause 3
      1. THE CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 151 words
    4. Clause 4
      1. CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: SUPPLEMENTARY 736 words
    5. Clause 5
      1. SPECIAL PROVISION FOR JUDICIAL REVIEWS AND AUDIT REVIEWS 472 words
    6. Clause 7
      1. ABSENCE OF RELEVANT DISCHARGE TERMS 241 words
      2. New clause 424 words
      3. Clause 9
        1. POWER TO TREAT EXPENDITURE AS NOT BEING CAPITAL EXPENDITURE 316 words
        2. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 16 words
        3. FIFTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (RTD) 62 words
    7. Transport Links (Dover) 3,726 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 11 November 1997

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Ibrahim Sey 292 words
    2. Correspondence 51 words
    3. Casinos 220 words
    4. Exports Initiative 302 words
    5. Burglar Alarms 91 words
    6. Data Protection 39 words
    7. Gaming Act 1968 58 words
    8. Metropolitan Police (Equal Opportunities) 335 words
    9. Post-release Support Services 235 words
    10. Equal Opportunities 241 words
  2. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Quangos 300 words
    2. Monitor Consultancy 110 words
  3. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Climate Change Conference 72 words
    2. Ethnic Monitoring 109 words
    3. Minister without Portfolio 91 words
  4. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Delegated Legislation 64 words
    2. Millennium Projects 139 words
    3. Sports Broadcasting 81 words
    4. Violent Films 118 words
    5. National Libraries Week 102 words
    6. Monitor Consultancy 72 words
    7. Tennis 211 words
    8. Sports Clubs 104 words
    9. British Academy for Sport 37 words
    10. Concessionary Television Licences 163 words
    11. Tobacco Sponsorship 211 words
    12. Television Licences (Hotels) 263 words
  5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Computers (Century Date Change) 134 words
    2. Competition Policy 679 words
    3. Banking Industry 176 words
    4. Patents 289 words
    5. Professional Qualifications 172 words
  6. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Overseas Travel 280 words
    2. Public Record Office 207 words
  7. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Kirkby Stephen Bypass 284 words
    2. Public Inquiry Reports 62 words
    3. Birmingham Northern Relief Road 211 words
    4. Local Authority Funding 238 words
    5. Channel Tunnel 270 words
    6. Housing (Wheelchair Access) 542 words
    7. London Underground 80 words
    8. Minister for London and Construction (Visits) 186 words
    9. Pavements 103 words
    10. Consultants 172 words
    11. Road Accidents 100 words
    12. Roads (Private Finance) 103 words
    13. Advance Corporation Tax 208 words
    14. Out-of-town Leisure Complexes 311 words
    15. Water Meters 149 words
    16. Health Action Zones 78 words
    17. Local Government Review 98 words
    18. Utility Trenching 114 words
    19. Regional Development Agency, West Midlands 93 words
    20. Uniform Business Rate 128 words
    21. Street Trees 120 words
    22. Manufactured Sucrose Polymers 69 words
    23. Green Belt 240 words
    24. A40 (Cheltenham) 110 words
    25. Housing Corporation 141 words
    26. Council Houses, Bromsgrove 166 words
    27. Nuclear Waste 108 words
    28. Housing Associations 63 words
    29. Drink-Driving 55 words
    30. Derelict Sites 217 words
    31. Rail Grants 194 words
    32. Home Energy Efficiency Scheme 223 words
    33. Landfill Sites 517 words
    34. Waste Disposal 292 words
    35. Recycling 1,799 words
    36. Telecommunications Masts 411 words
    37. Ancient Woodland 530 words
    38. Air Quality 113 words
  8. DEFENCE
    1. Military Training and Equipment 329 words
    2. Official Hospitality 195 words
    3. Overseas Travel 97 words
  9. SCOTLAND
    1. University Students 210 words
    2. Dounreay Nuclear Plant 174 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Visas 448 words
    2. Ethnic Minorities 271 words
    3. Middle East Peace Process 100 words
    4. Montserrat 406 words
    5. Dependent Territories 143 words
    6. Iraq 91 words
    7. Amsterdam Treaty 106 words
    8. European Courts 240 words
    9. European Court of Justice 207 words
    10. Correspondence 117 words
    11. Overseas Travel 936 words
  11. TREASURY
    1. European Council 163 words
    2. EC (Excessive Deficits) 82 words
    3. Government Statistics 114 words
    4. Windfall Tax 75 words
    5. Euro Symbol 52 words
    6. Local Authority Pension Schemes (Kent) 159 words
    7. Financial Regulation 48 words
    8. Single Currency 129 words
    9. Household Statistics 428 words
    10. Overseas Investment 297 words
    11. Paracetamol (Deaths) 1,024 words
    12. Tax Harmonisation 168 words
    13. Income Tax 112 words
    14. Tax Changes 305 words
    15. EU Budget 275 words
    16. Green Budget 77 words
    17. VAT (Energy Saving Materials) 54 words
    18. G7 Central Banks 586 words
    19. Tourism 256 words
  12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Farmers (Exchange Rate Fluctuations) 103 words
    2. Calves 76 words
    3. Live Animal Exports 107 words
    4. Sheep Annual Payment Scheme 231 words
    5. Public Expenditure 66 words
    6. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance 577 words
    7. Fisheries (Minimum Landing Sizes) 55 words
    8. Fisheries (Discards) 87 words
    9. Beef 246 words
  13. WALES
    1. Telecommunications 92 words
    2. Education 67 words
    3. Gwent Levels Wetland Reserve 114 words
    4. Offset Exhibition 100 words
    5. General Practitioners 90 words
    6. Military Exports 133 words
    7. NHS Funding 66 words
    8. Higher Education 82 words
    9. Social Services 205 words
    10. Roads 184 words
    11. Official Hospitality 188 words
    12. Overseas Travel 226 words
    13. Publicity and Advertising 302 words
  14. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Denominational Schools 178 words
    2. Staffordshire Training and Enterprise Council 247 words
    3. Student Loans 178 words
    4. GCSE Results (New Towns) 2,019 words
    5. Higher Education 96 words
    6. Welfare to Work (West Midlands) 463 words
    7. Social Affairs Council 224 words
    8. School (Exclusions) 70 words
    9. Modern Apprenticeships 86 words
    10. Careers Advice (Wolverhampton) 180 words
    11. Grant-maintained Schools (Brent) 74 words
    12. Child Care 103 words
    13. Hackney Borough Council 198 words
    14. Overseas Travel 91 words
    15. Official Hospitality 71 words
    16. Publicity and Advertising 222 words
  15. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Incapacity Benefit 240 words
    2. Mortgage Payments 141 words
    3. Advertising (Disability Discrimination Act 1995) 68 words
    4. Overseas Travel 297 words
  16. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Millennium Dome 574 words
  17. HEALTH
    1. NHS Trusts 328 words
    2. GP Commissioning Guidance 73 words
    3. NHS (East Surrey) 73 words
    4. Barnsley Hospital 81 words
    5. Dental Services 98 words
    6. NHS Bureaucracy 93 words
    7. Local Health Strategies 73 words
    8. NHS Surgeons 159 words
    9. Tobacco Advertising 46 words
    10. Waiting Lists 293 words
    11. Trust Mergers 93 words
    12. Smoking 71 words
    13. Bedblocking 329 words
    14. NHS Staff Safety 186 words
    15. Racism 84 words
    16. Welfare-to-work Scheme 83 words
    17. Cold-related Illnesses 1,871 words
    18. Blood Donation 211 words
    19. GP Fundholding 112 words
    20. Health Service Managers 36 words
    21. NHS Spending 399 words
    22. Private Finance Initiative 100 words
    23. Overseas Travel 274 words

Lords Sitting of 11 November 1997

  1. Preamble 24 words
  2. Lord Jacobs 33 words
  3. Lord Naseby 33 words
  4. Lord Newton of Braintree 43 words
  5. Foreign Language Tuition 1,171 words
  6. Devolution 1,158 words
  7. Legislation: Statements of Purpose 815 words
  8. Ex-Prisoners of War: Payment Claims 838 words
  9. Plant Varieties Bill 471 words
  10. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 32 words
  11. MOTIONS ON CONSIDERATION OF COMMONS REASONS FOR DISAGREEING TO CERTAIN LORDS AMENDMENTS 14 words
  12. LORDS AMENDMENT 220 words
  13. MOTION MOVED ON CONSIDERATION OF COMMONS REASON 8,426 words, 1 division
  14. LORDS AMENDMENT 2,752 words, 1 division
  15. Community Environmental Law: ECC Report 14,726 words
  16. Freedom of Access to Information on the Environment: ECC Report 70 words
  17. Lloyds TSB Bill [H.L.] 14 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 11 November 1997

  1. Mental Incapacity: Law Commission Report 63 words
  2. NATO and Russia 221 words
  3. Chewing Gum 36 words
  4. Manchester Airport: Airline Charges 119 words
  5. Single Vehicle Approval Specifications 172 words
  6. Single Vehicle Approval: Kit and Replica Cars 387 words
  7. Filwood Playing Fields, Bristol: Development 193 words
  8. National Air Quality Strategy 113 words
  9. Fenitrothion 362 words
  10. Gulf War: Scud Missiles 105 words
  11. Gulf War: Immunisation Programme 265 words
  12. Willesden Centre for Psychological Treatment 137 words
  13. AIDS: Antiviral Medication 224 words
  14. Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs 129 words
  15. University Funding 173 words
  16. Young Offender Institutions: Regimes 458 words