27 November 1997

Commons Sitting of 27 November 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. MESSAGES FROM THE QUEEN
      1. DOUBLE TAXATION RELIEF 81 words
      2. SUMMER TIME ORDER 44 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TREASURY 7 words
      1. Inward Investment 1,102 words
      2. Public Expenditure 433 words
      3. State Pensions 576 words
      4. Inflation 394 words
      5. Economic and Monetary Union 1,235 words
      6. Inflation 838 words
      7. Charities 537 words
      8. Barnett Formula 641 words
      9. European Single Currency 373 words
      10. Economic Growth (North-East) 371 words
      11. National Minimum Wage 703 words
      12. EU Tax Co-ordination 241 words
      13. Local Authority Expenditure 380 words
      14. Corporation Tax 364 words
      15. Euro (UK Retailers) 437 words
      16. ROYAL ASSENT 43 words
  4. Youth Crime 8,133 words
  5. Computers (Century Date Change) 6,814 words
  6. Business of the House 5,928 words
  7. Orders of the Day
    1. European Communities (Amendment) Bill 9 words
    2. Clause 1
      1. MEANING OF "THE TREATIES" AND "THE COMMUNITY TREATIES" 31,898 words
      2. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 29 words
      3. FOOD LAW 70 words
      4. HARMFUL TAX COMPETITION 68 words
      5. NORTHERN IRELAND 42 words
      6. STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES COMMITTEE 30 words
      7. SOCIAL SECURITY COMMITTEE 166 words
    3. PETITION
      1. Hunting 152 words
      2. Wharfedale General Hospital 2,768 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 27 November 1997

  1. DEFENCE
    1. Military Personnel 111 words
    2. Genetically Modified Organisms 326 words
    3. Foxes (MOD Estate) 45 words
    4. Buildings and Installations (Servicing) 77 words
    5. University Air Squadrons 95 words
    6. Fox Hunting 82 words
    7. Remembrance Sunday (Union Flag) 85 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. President of the Board of Trade 48 words
    2. Ministerial Interests 77 words
    3. Mr. Rupert Murdoch 40 words
    4. Political Donations 49 words
    5. Diabetics 144 words
    6. Ministerial Visits 89 words
    7. Government Information Service 294 words
    8. European Council 20 words
    9. Iraq 88 words
  3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Emergency Provisions 342 words
    2. Sexual Offences 304 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prisoners (Home Leave) 84 words
    2. European Parliamentary Elections 320 words
    3. East European Students 175 words
    4. Amsterdam Treaty (Asylum Seekers) 143 words
    5. Tagging 182 words
    6. Prison Sentences 116 words
    7. Integrated Transport System 76 words
    8. Prisons (Food) 111 words
    9. 1982 ANC Offices Bombing 151 words
    10. Fire Safety 407 words
    11. Religious Discrimination 85 words
    12. Telephone Tapping 181 words
    13. Unsupervised Children 267 words
    14. Animal Experiments 387 words
    15. Juvenile Justice 135 words
    16. New Prisons 199 words
    17. World Cup 361 words
    18. Charities 193 words
  5. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Euro (Dependent Territories) 65 words
    2. Spain 84 words
    3. Turkey 99 words
    4. General Pinochet 99 words
    5. EU General Affairs Council 1,004 words
    6. European Council (Amsterdam) 76 words
    7. Social Chapter 57 words
  6. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Publicity and Advertising 168 words
    2. Road Accidents 353 words
    3. Telecommunications Masts 597 words
    4. Waste-derived Compost 296 words
    5. Fire Safety 140 words
    6. Unoccupied Homes 283 words
    7. Council Tax (Home Annexes) 115 words
    8. EU Environment Council 179 words
    9. Local Authority Elections 85 words
    10. Smoke Alarms 134 words
    11. Local Authorities (Housing Strategy) 332 words
    12. Local Authority Duties 148 words
    13. Regional Airports 321 words
    14. Air Services (Malaysia) 61 words
    15. Fly Tipping 57 words
    16. Lewes-Uckfield Railway Line 103 words
    17. Building Regulations 51 words
    18. Water Quality 252 words
    19. Drink Drive Casualties 69 words
  7. SCOTLAND
    1. Official Hospitality 237 words
    2. Nursery Education 295 words
    3. Football 185 words
    4. Attendance Allowance 86 words
    5. Dounreay Nuclear Plant 75 words
  8. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Royal Ulster Constabulary 1,930 words
    2. Police Authority 160 words
    3. Robert Hamill 102 words
    4. Hoax Bomb Alert, Markethill 72 words
    5. Southern Area Health and Social Services Board 100 words
    6. Telecommunications Masts 173 words
    7. Royal Victoria and City Hospital 108 words
    8. Ambulances 300 words
    9. Health Expenditure 118 words
    10. >Jubilee Maternity Hospital 81 words
    11. Regional Cancer Centres 66 words
    12. Belvoir Park Hospital 62 words
    13. Judicial Procedures 141 words
  9. WALES
    1. Nursery Education 198 words
    2. Coal Industry 60 words
    3. Anti-social Neighbours 377 words
    4. Beef Industry 96 words
    5. CELTEC 305 words
    6. Regional Selective Assistance 30 words
    7. Cardiff Bay Development Corporation 72 words
  10. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Food Safety 76 words
    2. Safe Food 57 words
    3. Milk Development Council 83 words
    4. Aeron Valley Creameries 47 words
    5. Dietary Supplements 390 words
    6. Unpasteurised Milk 311 words
    7. Israeli Goods 101 words
  11. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Tuition Fees 353 words
    2. Student Fees 61 words
  12. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Transnational Corporations (Code of Conduct) 124 words
    2. Aid Programmes (Audit) 53 words
  13. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Laser Pens 131 words
    2. Export Credits 102 words
    3. Export Licences 155 words
    4. Ministerial Responsibilities 667 words
    5. Formula One Racing 123 words
    6. Amsterdam Treaty 49 words
    7. Late Payments Green Paper 83 words
  14. HEALTH
    1. Dental Amalgam 96 words
    2. Sussex Ambulance Service 187 words
    3. Kidderminster Hospital 165 words
    4. Community Pharmacists 106 words
    5. Health Action Zones 116 words
    6. Computers (Century Date Change) 117 words
    7. Drug Addiction 237 words
    8. Mental Health Services 346 words
    9. Winter Funding Initiative 78 words
    10. Pig Organs 326 words
    11. NHS Vacancies 363 words
    12. NHS Staff 145 words
    13. Psychiatric Beds 279 words
    14. Nurses 122 words
    15. GP Fundholders 670 words
    16. Bed Occupancy Rates 107 words
    17. Cancelled Hospital Operations 91 words
    18. Domiciliary Care 48 words
    19. Paedophile Treatment Centres 113 words
  15. TREASURY
    1. Public Expenditure 50 words
    2. Financial Services (Regulation) 71 words
    3. Economic and Monetary Union 715 words
    4. Interest Rates 414 words
    5. Welfare to Work 186 words
    6. Financial Services Authority 88 words
    7. Inflation 132 words
    8. Charities 62 words
    9. Dividend Tax Credits 158 words
    10. Fiscal Policy 161 words
    11. International Trading (Internet) 81 words
    12. Insurance Industry 57 words
    13. Departmental Payments 686 words
    14. Tax Law Rewrite Project 141 words
    15. Cattle Slaughter Scheme 62 words
  16. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Cold Weather Payments 73 words
    2. Lone Parents 515 words
    3. Industrial Disablement Benefit 240 words
    4. Disability Living Allowance 199 words
    5. Benefit Fraud 76 words

Lords Sitting of 27 November 1997

  1. Preamble 28 words
  2. Prison Overcrowding 1,256 words
  3. European Central Bank: President 1,070 words
  4. Prisons: Education Expenditure 905 words
  5. The Coal Industry 986 words
  6. Royal Assent 43 words
  7. Business 124 words
  8. Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill 12 words
  9. Human Rights Bill [H.L.] 16,112 words, 1 division
  10. Youth Justice: White Paper 5,466 words
  11. Millennium Compliance 3,554 words
  12. Human Rights Bill [H.L.] 15,390 words
  13. Lloyds TSB Bill [H.L.] 8 words
  14. Plant Varieties Bill 9 words
  15. Special Immigration Appeals Commission Bill [H.L.] 30 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 27 November 1997

  1. Sierra Leone 138 words
  2. Republic of Congo: Angolan Intervention 144 words
  3. Israeli Bombing of Iraqi Civil Nuclear Facility, 1981 63 words
  4. Iraq: Security Council Resolutions 134 words
  5. UNSCOM Teams Operating in Iraq 164 words
  6. Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East 122 words
  7. Weapons of Mass Destruction, Israel 145 words
  8. R v Gloucestershire County Council ex parte Barry 160 words
  9. Scotland: Openness in Local Government 265 words
  10. Scotland: Local Government 89 words
  11. Government Information Service 295 words
  12. Royal Naval Division Memorial, Greenwich 175 words
  13. Drink Drive Controls 61 words
  14. Waste-derived Compost 296 words
  15. Water Quality 238 words
  16. Access to Work Scheme 335 words
  17. Coercive Population Policies 92 words
  18. Forced Abortions: US Policy 99 words
  19. Sudan 133 words
  20. Hull Resettlement Project: General Manager 210 words
  21. Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure: Dr. Davies' Report 160 words
  22. Male Homosexuality 332 words
  23. Unaccompanied Minors Detained at Campsfield House 276 words
  24. Polish Citizens: Entry to UK 185 words
  25. Religious Discrimination 83 words
  26. Fire Safety Legislation: Consultation 395 words