5 November 1997

Commons Sitting of 5 November 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Road Safety 10,881 words
  4. Agriculture (Wales) 11,816 words
  5. River Thames (Transport Safety) 4,210 words
  6. A5 Trunk Road 4,263 words
  7. Legal Aid 4,931 words
  8. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES 6 words
      1. Job Creation 688 words
      2. Education 489 words
      3. Welsh Assembly 1,603 words
      4. Special Advisers 286 words
      5. House Building 257 words
      6. Beef Crisis 358 words
      7. Higher Education 280 words
      8. Local Government Finance 192 words
      9. NHS Trusts 264 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 4,468 words
  9. International Development 9,368 words
  10. Points of Order 385 words
  11. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 17 words
    1. SOCIAL SECURITY 25 words
  12. War Widows and Pensioners (Equal Treatment) 1,054 words
    1. WAR WIDOWS AND PENSIONERS (EQUAL TREATMENT) 52 words
  13. Orders of the Day
    1. Magistrates' Courts (Procedure) Bill [Lords] 3,173 words
    2. Fossil Fuel Levy Bill [Lords] 12,223 words
    3. Ministerial and Other Salaries Bill 366 words
    4. NHS (Freedom of Speech) 5,650 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 5 November 1997

  1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Cash and Running Costs Limits 141 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. British Railways Board 46 words
    2. Transport Council 492 words
    3. Tax Advice 159 words
    4. Roads (Downland Design, Build, Finance and Operate Scheme) 146 words
    5. Ordnance Survey 102 words
    6. Cash and Running Costs Limits 1,153 words
    7. Local Government Finance 57 words
    8. Rent Officer Service 302 words
    9. Waste Dumping at Sea 155 words
  3. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. British Passports 145 words
    2. Belarus 173 words
    3. Commonwealth Summit (Bananas and Sugar) 182 words
    4. European Treaties 257 words
    5. Immigration Correspondence 123 words
    6. Cash and Running Costs Limits 301 words
    7. Human Rights 83 words
    8. Burma 92 words
    9. Australia 52 words
    10. Antarctic 157 words
  4. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Girocheques (Reissues) 993 words
    2. Southern Health and Social Services Council 159 words
    3. Paramilitary Beatings 93 words
    4. Forest Service 511 words
  5. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Dispute Resolution 74 words
    2. Health Authority Budgets 192 words
    3. EU Regulations 170 words
    4. Living Wills 113 words
    5. Magistrates Courts Committees (West Yorkshire) 105 words
  6. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Tourism 103 words
    2. Cash and Running Costs Limits 178 words
  7. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Cash and Running Costs Limits 253 words
  8. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Asylum Seekers 229 words
    2. Cash and Running Costs Limits 263 words
    3. Derbyshire Police Authority 216 words
    4. Mr. Jonathan Aitken 106 words
    5. Delegated Legislation 57 words
    6. Police Forces (Staff) 167 words
    7. Police Act 1997 59 words
    8. Immigration 70 words
    9. Sex Offenders 144 words
    10. Fire Safety 375 words
    11. Tax Advice 241 words
    12. Remand (Juveniles) 718 words
    13. Raves 329 words
    14. David Shayler 313 words
  9. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Cash and Running Costs Limits 168 words
    2. Delegated Legislation 81 words
  10. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Beef Refreshment Department 68 words
    2. Parliamentary Groups 129 words
  11. HEALTH
    1. Pharmaceutical Industry 119 words
    2. Child Labour 70 words
    3. NHS Charges Certificates (Stockton) 124 words
    4. Cash Limits 476 words
    5. Tax Advice 217 words
    6. Computers (Century Date Change) 121 words
    7. Cold-related Illnesses 227 words
    8. Deaths 257 words
  12. TREASURY
    1. European Single Currency 134 words
    2. Government Debt 54 words
    3. Government Bonds 300 words
    4. Special Advisers 123 words
    5. Economic and Monetary Union 267 words
    6. Gilts Futures 39 words
    7. Registry of Friendly Societies 131 words
    8. Cash Limits and Running Costs 181 words
    9. Reserve 55 words
    10. Departmental Expenditure Ceilings 150 words
    11. Government Expenditure 92 words
    12. Legal Action (Public Funding) 38 words
    13. Two-pound Coin 80 words
  13. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Higher Education 503 words
    2. Assisted Places Scheme 83 words
    3. Jobseeker's Allowance 539 words
    4. Tax Advice 217 words
    5. Tuition Fees 236 words
    6. Cash and Running Costs Limits 727 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Cash and Running Costs Limits 1,457 words
    2. Health Authority Budgets 87 words
    3. Tax Advice 187 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance 92 words
    2. BSE 77 words
    3. Beef Export Ban 183 words
    4. Organic Conversion Grants 86 words
  16. WALES
    1. Welsh Assembly 362 words
    2. Referendum Campaign 97 words
    3. Agriculture 47 words
    4. Agri-environmental Scheme 59 words
    5. Tuition Fees 49 words
    6. Waiting Lists 82 words
    7. Roads Programme (Review) 87 words
    8. Nursery Education 48 words
    9. Economic Development (North Wales) 99 words
    10. NHS (Cynon and Merthyr Valleys) 98 words
    11. Cardiff Bay Barrage 96 words
    12. Inward Investment (Newport) 74 words
    13. Windfall Tax (Hydwr) 89 words
    14. Parliamentary Constituencies 26 words
    15. Local Government Finance 45 words
    16. Arms Trade 120 words
    17. Countryside Council for Wales 109 words
    18. University Students 73 words
    19. Countryside Council 123 words
    20. Cash Limits 515 words
    21. Tax Advice 141 words
  17. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Cash and Running Cost Limits 646 words
    2. Airfares 105 words
    3. Arms Sales 130 words
    4. Bananas 360 words
    5. Retail Newsagents 93 words
    6. Consumer Protection 76 words
    7. Fibreboard 52 words
    8. Photocopier Industry 118 words
    9. Ministerial Interests 68 words
    10. Computers (Century Date Change) 366 words
    11. European Information Technologies Research Project 198 words
    12. Coal Mining Industry 58 words
    13. Defence Sales 172 words
  18. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Supported Housing 315 words
    2. Tax Advice 176 words
    3. Inflation (Public Funding) 126 words
    4. Index-linked Pensions 110 words
    5. Correspondence 77 words
    6. War Pensions 122 words
    7. Goods and Services (Payments) 337 words
    8. Means-tested Benefits (Pensioners) 574 words
    9. Disability Living Allowance 430 words
  19. DEFENCE
    1. Low Flying 131 words
    2. Military Equipment 326 words
    3. WEU (Weapons Procurement) 32 words
    4. Tax Advice 65 words
    5. Cash and Running Costs Limits 271 words
    6. COPEX 56 words
    7. Western European Armaments Organisation 222 words
    8. Officer Training Corps 363 words
    9. Eurofighter 148 words
    10. Future Large Aircraft 309 words
    11. RAF Transport Fleet 77 words
    12. Hercules C130J Aircraft 114 words
    13. Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport 423 words

Lords Sitting of 5 November 1997

  1. Preamble 24 words
  2. Lord Hunt of Kings Heath 44 words
  3. Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws 36 words
  4. Lord Puttnam 43 words
  5. Afghanistan: Peace Efforts 928 words
  6. European Parliament Committee on Budgets 1,300 words
  7. Organophosphates 1,072 words
  8. Powerboats and Safety of Coastal Waters 974 words
  9. Business 65 words
  10. Business of the House: Debate this Day 49 words
  11. Environmental Protection and Enhancement 2,894 words
  12. "Eliminating World Poverty" 6,622 words
  13. Environmental Protection and Enhancement 27,593 words
  14. Montserrat 11,153 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 5 November 1997

  1. Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Cash Limits 302 words
  2. Sex Offenders:Community Protection Orders 140 words
  3. Juveniles: Secure Remand 725 words
  4. Animals: Use in Scientific Procedures 56 words
  5. Mr. Reginald Buckland 199 words
  6. Vitamin B6: Dosage 106 words
  7. Economic and Monetary Union 118 words
  8. Economically Significant Work 381 words
  9. Building Societies: Treasury Supervision 136 words
  10. Transport Council, 9 October 496 words