17 November 1997

Commons Sitting of 17 November 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SOCIAL SECURITY 6 words
      1. Disabled People 1,081 words
      2. Old-age Pension 725 words
      3. Housing Benefit 359 words
      4. Lone Parents 990 words
      5. Pension Provision Group 1,007 words
      6. Lone Parents 457 words
      7. Benefits Advice 1,109 words
      8. Social Security Harmonisation 289 words
      9. Child Support Agency 555 words
      10. Pensions 360 words
      11. Appeals 497 words
      12. Means-tested Benefits 119 words
      13. Pension Sharing 252 words
      14. Child Support Agency 500 words
  4. Points of Order 684 words
  5. Opposition Day 3 words
    1. Public Services 30,014 words, 1 division
    2. Standards and Privileges 21,834 words
  6. ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT COMMITTEE 18 words
  7. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE 34 words
  8. Merchant Fleet 3,876 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 17 November 1997

  1. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Workplace Injuries 245 words
    2. Bridge Strengthening 181 words
    3. M6 68 words
    4. Official Hospitality 200 words
    5. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 56 words
    6. Telecommunications Developments 453 words
    7. Medium-density Fibreboard 324 words
    8. London Government 116 words
    9. Sewerage Maps and Records 138 words
    10. Social Housing 128 words
    11. Waste 141 words
    12. Environmental Information Regulations 304 words
    13. Virgin Resources 214 words
    14. Tree Damage 227 words
    15. Genetically Modified Organisms 536 words
    16. Releases to the Environment 50 words
    17. Right to Buy 157 words
    18. Local Government Commission for England 235 words
    19. Coastguard 267 words
    20. Official Hospitality 47 words
  2. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Diplomats (Private Education) 123 words
    2. Yangtse Dam 42 words
    3. Chagos Archipelago (Mineral Rights) 80 words
    4. Camilla Carr and Jon James 121 words
    5. Ngawang Sangdrol 78 words
    6. Human Rights (India) 95 words
  3. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Film Industry 294 words
    2. Tobacco Advertising 127 words
    3. Overseas Travel 248 words
    4. Creative Industries Task Force 137 words
    5. Official Hospitality 208 words
    6. Publicity and Advertising 160 words
    7. Broadcasting 262 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Civil Service 91 words
    2. Tobacco Sponsorship 308 words
    3. Civil Contingencies Committee 191 words
    4. Political Party Funding 141 words
    5. Yemen 97 words
    6. Environment Agency 39 words
    7. Telephone Tapping 74 words
  5. TREASURY
    1. Investors Compensation Scheme 59 words
    2. Economic and Monetary Union 180 words
    3. Public Expenditure 52 words
    4. Low Pay 650 words
  6. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Genetically Modified Foods 427 words
    2. Animal Feed 99 words
    3. EU Presidency (Priorities) 73 words
    4. Unpasteurised Milk 173 words
    5. Fish Stocks 103 words
    6. Food Standards Agency 27 words
    7. Organic Farming 72 words
    8. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance 40 words
    9. Departmental Relocation 54 words
    10. Quarantine 102 words
  7. WALES
    1. Military, Security and Police Equipment Sales 546 words
    2. National Health Service 159 words
    3. Schools Budget 302 words
    4. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances 152 words
  8. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Health and Social Services 180 words
    2. Greenhouse Gas Emissions 157 words
    3. Chiropody and Podiatry 626 words
    4. Irish Language 445 words
  9. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. "Excellence in Schools" 393 words
    2. Arts Education Task Force 86 words
    3. Higher Education 521 words
    4. Music Teaching 196 words
    5. European Dimension 139 words
    6. Positive Discrimination 281 words
    7. Teachers' Pay 367 words
    8. Welfare to Work 79 words
    9. Oxford and Cambridge Universities 78 words
    10. Universities 262 words
    11. University Degrees 129 words
    12. Standards in Public Life 174 words
  10. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Tagging Orders (Norfolk) 53 words
    2. Probation Officers 74 words
    3. Prisons 77 words
    4. Border Controls 220 words
    5. Asylum Seekers 143 words
    6. Sex Offenders 165 words
    7. E-Mail 178 words
    8. Prisons (Healthcare Managers) 134 words
    9. Telephone Tapping 990 words
    10. Prisons (HIV-AIDS) 205 words
    11. MI5 242 words
    12. Prisons (Pharmacists) 77 words
    13. Firearms Surrender (Compensation) 489 words
    14. Exports Initiative 446 words
    15. EU Conventions 1,159 words
    16. IRA Prisoners (Transfers) 87 words
    17. Prisoner Tariffs 62 words
    18. Fair Trade (Coffee and Tea) 109 words
    19. Telephone Preference Scheme 251 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Economic and Monetary Union 64 words
    2. Fireworks 216 words
    3. Coal 128 words
    4. Loan Guarantee Scheme 63 words
    5. Property Sales (Coal Mining Searches) 257 words
    6. Inward Investment 650 words
    7. Car Boot Sales 61 words
    8. Action 2000 312 words
    9. Telescopes 164 words
    10. Textphones 125 words
    11. Energy Efficiency 108 words
    12. Travel Trade Monopoly Inquiry 86 words
    13. European Legislation 263 words
    14. Post Office (Scottish Powercards) 54 words
    15. Working Time Directive 38 words
    16. Manufacturing 99 words
    17. Industrial Underperformance 91 words
    18. New Taxes (Advice) 73 words
    19. Coal Industry 51 words
    20. Euro 86 words
    21. Sports Sponsorship 36 words
    22. Know-how Fund 262 words
  12. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Conditional Fees 204 words
    2. E-mail 177 words
    3. EU Conventions 148 words
  13. HEALTH
    1. Per Capita Spending 45 words
    2. Speech Therapists 305 words
    3. Home Care Service 60 words
    4. NHS Trusts (Non-executive Appointments) 192 words
    5. NHS Budget 43 words
    6. Climate Change 54 words
    7. Independent Review Panels 302 words
    8. Nursing and Residential Homes 280 words
    9. Prescribing 186 words
    10. Community Pharmacists 556 words
    11. Biotechnological Inventions 177 words
    12. NHS Spending (South-West) 364 words
    13. Domiciliary Services 93 words
  14. DEFENCE
    1. Future Large Aircraft 180 words
    2. Hercules C130J Aircraft 121 words
    3. Christmas Island 542 words
    4. Auxiliary Oiler Contract 98 words
    5. Atomic Weapons Establishment 218 words
    6. Bosnia (Entertainment of Armed Forces) 118 words
    7. Colchester Garrison 203 words
    8. Hunting 47 words
    9. Courts Martial 570 words
    10. Military Exhibitions 48 words
    11. Arms Exports 100 words
    12. Major Eric Joyce 47 words
    13. Chinook Helicopters 116 words
    14. Greenhouse Gas Emissions 155 words
    15. RAF Wittering (Accident) 87 words
    16. Private Education 100 words
    17. Vanguard Nuclear Submarines 38 words
    18. Defence Budget 98 words
    19. Strategic Defence Review 78 words
    20. Nuclear Weapons 95 words
    21. Widows' Pensions 55 words
    22. Gulf War 114 words
    23. RAF Menwith Hill 78 words
    24. Pattern Room 39 words
    25. Challenger 2 106 words
    26. Agent Orange 53 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. University Students 487 words
    2. Chiropody and Podiatry 702 words
    3. Business Rates 169 words
    4. Prisoner Transfers 503 words
    5. Unpasteurised Milk 179 words
  16. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Millennium Dome 39 words
    2. Millennium Experience 292 words
  17. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Code of Practice on Access to Government Information 59 words
    2. Overseas Travel 239 words
  18. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Cold Weather Payments 250 words
    2. Social Security Review 93 words
    3. Fraud 264 words
    4. Welfare Reform 46 words
    5. Lone Parents 719 words
    6. Jobseeker's Allowance 194 words
    7. Benefits Advice 76 words
    8. Pension Sharing 87 words
    9. Poverty 133 words
    10. Local Benefits Offices 91 words
    11. Domestic Violence 140 words
    12. Pensions 279 words
    13. Pensioners 250 words
    14. Local Government Finance 92 words
    15. Pensions Review 225 words
    16. Consultation Papers 87 words
    17. Pension Sharing (Divorce) 125 words
    18. Benefits Agency Staff 31 words
    19. Child Support Agency 535 words

Lords Sitting of 17 November 1997

  1. Preamble 24 words
  2. Lord Stone of Blackheath 33 words
  3. Baroness Linklater of Butterstone 34 words
  4. Lord Simpson of Dunkeld 30 words
  5. Message from the Queen 77 words
  6. Russian Nuclear Submarines: Decommissioning 1,064 words
  7. NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council 1,004 words
  8. Lorne House: Funding 937 words
  9. Thorne and Hatfield Moors SSSI 1,095 words
  10. Business of the House 65 words
  11. British Nationality (St. Helena) Bill [H.L.] 11 words
  12. Competition Bill [H.L.] 30,298 words
  13. Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Oil and Chemical Pollution of Fish) Order 1997 2,597 words
  14. Competition Bill [H.L.] 11,683 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 17 November 1997

  1. Crown Servants: Foreign Honours 225 words
  2. Gulf War: Immunisation Programme 270 words
  3. Scotland: Preservation of War Memorials 172 words
  4. London and Continental Railways: Sale of Land 111 words
  5. Local Government Commission for England 223 words
  6. HM Coastguard 230 words
  7. Filwood/Hengrove Playing Fields, Bristol 158 words
  8. Public Entertainments Licences (Drug Misuse) Act 1997 72 words
  9. Prison Ship: Facilities 98 words
  10. Foreign Nationals in UK Prisons 153 words
  11. Mr. Reginald Buckland 145 words
  12. Firearm Certificate Variation: Appeals 269 words
  13. Abortion: International Comparisons 286 words
  14. Breast Cancer Screening: Quality Assurance 258 words
  15. Pet Quarantine Laws 84 words
  16. Animal By-Products Legislation Review 97 words
  17. Miners' Claims against British Coal 105 words