13 November 1997

Commons Sitting of 13 November 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. STANDING ORDERS (PRIVATE BUSINESS) 324 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT 6 words
      1. Voluntary Work 256 words
      2. Higher Education Funding 1,490 words
      3. Training and Enterprise Councils 277 words
      4. Higher Education (Enrolment) 345 words
      5. Unemployment (Rural Areas) 388 words
      6. New Deal 1,844 words
      7. Higher Education (Scottish Universities) 378 words
      8. Secondary Schools (Hertfordshire) 435 words
      9. Special Needs 651 words
      10. Lifelong Learning (Coalfields) 247 words
      11. Church Schools 267 words
      12. New Deal 402 words
      13. Universities (Financial Support) 314 words
      14. New Deal 416 words
      15. Degree Courses 207 words
  5. Business of the House 5,509 words
  6. BILL PRESENTED
    1. RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION 67 words
  7. Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund 6,137 words
    1. HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS' FUND 47 words
  8. Modernisation of the House 38,979 words
    1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 60 words
  9. Big Brothers and Big Sisters 3,278 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 November 1997

  1. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Director-General of Water Services 138 words
    2. Household Evictions 165 words
    3. Town and Country Planning 132 words
    4. A449 179 words
    5. Right-to-roam Legislation 140 words
    6. Climate Change 558 words
    7. Cycling 198 words
    8. Pedestrian Fatalities 102 words
    9. Orange Badge Scheme 39 words
    10. Mercury 178 words
    11. Regions White Paper 43 words
    12. Household Growth 160 words
    13. Zoos 514 words
    14. Highway Code 93 words
    15. New Housing 73 words
  2. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. E-mail 75 words
  3. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Environmental Audit Committee 132 words
  4. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Millennium Dome 275 words
  5. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. National Railway Museum 108 words
    2. Opera and Ballet (London) 118 words
  6. DEFENCE
    1. Army Storage 283 words
    2. Pay and Pensions 301 words
    3. Contingency and Operational Procurement Exhibition 161 words
    4. Military Exhibitions 224 words
    5. Discrimination 270 words
    6. Organophosphates 192 words
    7. Offset Exhibition 65 words
    8. Defence Exports (Ethical Code) 76 words
    9. Information Warfare 76 words
    10. Non-lethal Weapons 59 words
    11. Eurofighter 100 words
    12. US Defence Trade Report 59 words
  7. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Special Advisers 677 words
    2. Monitor Consultancy 80 words
    3. Fair Trade (Coffee and Tea) 110 words
    4. Anglo-French Summit 71 words
  8. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Live Animal Exports 229 words
    2. Fair Trade (Coffee and Tea) 83 words
    3. Rothamsted Experimental Station 111 words
    4. Farmland Birds 99 words
    5. Cattle Slaughter Scheme 143 words
  9. WALES
    1. Military Exports 183 words
    2. US Defence Trade Report 49 words
    3. Cycling 138 words
  10. TREASURY
    1. Health Service Expenditure 112 words
    2. Income Tax 129 words
    3. Cash Limits 286 words
    4. Computers (Century Date Change) 506 words
    5. Departmental Savings 113 words
    6. National Health Service 105 words
    7. Departmental Spending Totals 140 words
    8. Inheritance Tax 65 words
    9. Casinos 419 words
    10. Unemployment 373 words
    11. Fair Trade (Coffee and Tea) 78 words
    12. VAT (Energy-saving Materials) 34 words
    13. Exchange Rates 117 words
    14. Economic and Monetary Union 156 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Trent Engine 333 words
    2. Computers (Century Date Change) 165 words
    3. US Defence Trade Report 79 words
    4. Tax Advice 578 words
    5. Investment (Multilateral Agreement) 97 words
    6. Animal Testing (Product Labelling) 216 words
    7. Defence Exports 120 words
    8. Nuclear Safety (Former Soviet Union) 173 words
    9. China 493 words
    10. Yemen 423 words
  12. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Disability Living Allowance 517 words
    2. Lone Parents 416 words
    3. Mortgage Interest Payments 208 words
    4. Pensions 68 words
    5. War Pensions 144 words
    6. Earnings Disregards 235 words
    7. Fair Trade (Coffee and Tea) 81 words
  13. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Tax Advice 272 words
    2. Nuclear Weapons 146 words
    3. Greenhouse Gas Emissions 161 words
  14. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Belarus 101 words
    2. Southern Sudan 77 words
  15. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Gender Awareness Training (Judiciary) 136 words
    2. Fair Trade (Coffee and Tea) 80 words
  16. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prison Service 79 words
    2. Lottery Draws 439 words
    3. Winson Green Prison 131 words
    4. Official Hospitality 240 words
    5. Publicity and Advertising 598 words
    6. Overseas Travel 394 words
    7. Parenting Classes 424 words
    8. Race Relations 121 words
    9. Immigration Detainees 711 words
    10. Correspondence 115 words
    11. Huntingdon Life Sciences Laboratory 116 words
    12. Polling Stations (Disabled Access) 144 words
    13. Group 4 130 words
    14. Greenhouse Gas Emissions 163 words
    15. Emergency Communications Working Party 128 words
    16. EU Conventions 331 words
    17. Private Finance Initiative 515 words
    18. Telephones 387 words
    19. Prisons (Health Care) 237 words
    20. Asylum Seekers 756 words
  17. SCOTLAND
    1. Health Services 177 words
    2. Remand Prisoners 113 words
    3. Equal Opportunities 103 words
    4. Sleep Laboratory 65 words
    5. Monitor Consultancy 67 words
    6. Fair Trade (Coffee and Tea) 79 words
    7. Community Councils 334 words
    8. Greenhouse Gas Emissions 157 words
    9. Overseas Travel 141 words
    10. Farmed Salmon 391 words
    11. Paracetamol 114 words
    12. Multiple Sclerosis 71 words
  18. HEALTH
    1. Leg Amputation 109 words
    2. Social Service 99 words
    3. Myodil 147 words
    4. Press Releases (Internet) 217 words
    5. Cannabis 139 words
    6. Meningitis (Southampton) 157 words
    7. Renal Services (Lancashire and Cumbria) 75 words
    8. Accident and Emergency Services 231 words
    9. Advocacy Services (Children) 133 words
    10. NHS Purchasing 42 words
    11. Cystic Fibrosis 165 words
    12. Chiropody and Podiatry 652 words
    13. Lariam 213 words
    14. Organ Donation 107 words
    15. Thalidomide 189 words
    16. Antioxidants 245 words
    17. Xenotransplantation 88 words
    18. Gene Therapy and Artificial Organs 94 words
    19. Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals NHS Trust 147 words
  19. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Tuition Fees 82 words
    2. Examination Assessors 109 words
    3. Out-of-School Learning and Homework Centers 105 words
    4. Further and Higher Education (Enrolment) 148 words
    5. Class Sizes 68 words
    6. Nursery Education 64 words
    7. Environmental Education 67 words
    8. Grant-maintained Schools 88 words
    9. New Deal 123 words
    10. Literacy 100 words
    11. School Applications 65 words
    12. "Excellence in Schools" 107 words
    13. National Grid for Learning 60 words
    14. Early Years Education 105 words
    15. School Governors 144 words
    16. Tennis 91 words
    17. Higher Education Funding 199 words
    18. Schools Funding 1,130 words
    19. Dance and Drama 251 words
    20. Church Schools 63 words
    21. Performing Arts Students (Grants) 90 words
    22. National Curriculum Tests 66 words

Lords Sitting of 13 November 1997

  1. Preamble 44 words
  2. Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty 942 words
  3. All Work Test 944 words
  4. Church Schools 1,133 words
  5. Party Political Donations 1,269 words
  6. Standing Orders (Private Business) 388 words
  7. Competition Bill [H.L.] 30,466 words
  8. Fishing Vessels (Decommissioning) Scheme 1997 6,011 words
  9. Competition Bill [H.L.] 14,837 words
  10. Public Processions etc. (Northern Ireland) Bill [H.L.] 16 words

Grand Committee Report of 13 November 1997

  1. Official Report of the Grand Committee on thePublic Processions etc. (Northern Ireland) Bill [H.L.] 16,413 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 13 November 1997

  1. Commonwealth Centre: Programme 113 words
  2. UN Arms Register 183 words
  3. General Affairs Council, Brussels, 10 November 821 words
  4. The Horse: EU Classification 143 words
  5. Climate Change Convention 133 words
  6. Mr. Mohammed Sarwar, MP 71 words
  7. Gulf War: BTx Anti-toxin 162 words
  8. Army Base Storage Estate: Study 280 words
  9. Armed Forces: Personnel Administration 296 words
  10. Lance Sergeant Haane Manahi 172 words
  11. Gulf War: Chemical Agent Detection 183 words
  12. Gulf Veterans and Ill-Health 522 words
  13. NATO Defence Procurement: Expenditure 196 words
  14. Per Capita Income and Energy Consumption in the EU 449 words
  15. Perinatal Mortality in the EU 263 words
  16. Invest in Britain, Welsh Development Agency and Locate in Scotland: Roles 129 words
  17. Extradition Arrangements 536 words
  18. Prison Service: Report and Accounts 75 words
  19. Rapid Draw Lotteries: Proposed Legislation 432 words
  20. British Zoo Licensing System 502 words
  21. "Highway Code": Draft Revision 83 words
  22. Hedgerows: Definition 189 words
  23. "Goodwin" Judgment 124 words
  24. European Court of Justice: Referrals 1,026 words