6 November 1997

Commons Sitting of 6 November 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD 4 words
      1. Common Agricultural Policy 1,327 words
      2. Meat Hygiene Service 387 words
      3. Food Safety 658 words
      4. Battery Hens 424 words
      5. Common Fisheries Policy 702 words
      6. Cattle Breeders 518 words
      7. Diet and Nutrition 501 words
      8. Radioactive Material (Dumping At Sea) 354 words
      9. Beef 1,216 words
    2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL 4 words
      1. Race Hatred 508 words
      2. Lenient Sentences 296 words
      3. Crown Prosecution Service 1,227 words
  4. Business of the House 5,993 words
  5. Orders of the Day
    1. Supreme Court (Offices) Bill [Lords] 1,608 words
    2. ROYAL ASSENT 17,281 words, 1 division
      1. SIR ALAN HASELHURST in the Chair 20 words
    3. Clause 1
      1. QUALIFICATION FOR, AND TENURE OF, OFFICE 6,904 words
  6. Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Bill [Lords] 6,326 words
  7. NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS (PROHIBITION AND INSPECTIONS) BILL [Lords] [Money] 65 words
  8. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 17 words
  9. PUBLIC HEALTH 40 words
  10. NORTHERN IRELAND GRAND COMMITTEE 55 words
  11. London Fire Service 6,956 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 6 November 1997

  1. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Radio Channels 326 words
  2. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Drugs Tsar 131 words
  3. TREASURY
    1. VAT (Historic Buildings) 45 words
    2. Tax Advice 67 words
    3. Tax Harmonisation 154 words
    4. Public Sector Pay 116 words
    5. Economic and Monetary Union 58 words
    6. Tax and Benefits System (Review) 52 words
    7. Budget 99 words
    8. Comprehensive Spending Review 42 words
    9. Tuition Fees 75 words
    10. Opencast Operations (Taxation) 90 words
    11. Duty-free Sales 68 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Market Sensitive Information 67 words
    2. Seal Killing (Russia) 129 words
    3. Mr. Bill Gates 114 words
    4. President Yeltsin 107 words
    5. Millennium Projects 43 words
    6. Public Appointments 19 words
    7. Lockerbie 52 words
    8. Australian Prime Minister (Visit) 54 words
    9. Indebted Countries 87 words
    10. Royal Yacht 161 words
    11. Departmental Regulation 297 words
  5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Victims and Witnesses 62 words
    2. Extradition 46 words
    3. Court of Appeal 68 words
  6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Embassies 95 words
    2. European Treaties 184 words
    3. GCHQ 326 words
    4. Delegated Legislation 65 words
    5. Sri Lanka 153 words
    6. Montserrat 91 words
    7. Antarctic 81 words
    8. Indonesia 47 words
  7. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Court of Appeal 108 words
    2. Living Wills 126 words
    3. Court Cases (Processing Times) 183 words
  8. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Haulage Companies 138 words
    2. Housing Needs 202 words
    3. Climate Change 81 words
    4. Rail Companies 172 words
    5. Blood Alcohol Limits 92 words
    6. Municipal Public Transport 80 words
    7. Dry Stone Walls 252 words
    8. Rural England White Paper 95 words
    9. Sewage 309 words
    10. Car of Tomorrow Project 132 words
    11. Leasehold Valuation Tribunal 132 words
    12. County Structure Plans 169 words
    13. Lighting Systems 148 words
    14. Bridge Strengthening 66 words
    15. Rural Economy 162 words
    16. Public Appointments 112 words
    17. Delegated Legislation 67 words
    18. Contaminated Land 70 words
    19. Planning 682 words
    20. Driving Licences 85 words
    21. Road Schemes 965 words
    22. Rural Transport 195 words
    23. Air Safety 131 words
    24. Local Authority Capital Receipts 140 words
    25. National Parks and Marine Reserves 150 words
    26. Channel Tunnel 98 words
    27. Footpaths and Byways 218 words
    28. Local Government Finance 105 words
    29. BSE 327 words
    30. Passenger Railway Services 133 words
    31. Genetically Modified Maize 137 words
    32. Franchising Director 85 words
    33. Coastguard 218 words
    34. Rail Regulation 97 words
  9. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Fire Service 59 words
    2. Surveillance Systems 109 words
    3. Animals (Scientific Procedures) 1,780 words
    4. Racial Harassment 96 words
    5. Strip Search Review 52 words
    6. Learning Difficulties 372 words
  10. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Environmental Audit Committee 49 words
  11. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Exclusion Orders 69 words
    2. Preparatory Schools 181 words
    3. Late Payments 116 words
    4. Correspondence 78 words
    5. Tax Advice 176 words
    6. Royal Ulster Constabulary 78 words
    7. Border Crossings 1,079 words
    8. North Belfast (26 September Disturbances) 101 words
    9. Security 113 words
    10. Holding Centres 326 words
    11. Vehicle Checkpoints 414 words
  12. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Bus Companies 122 words
    2. British Nuclear Fuels plc 113 words
    3. Ministerial Financial Interests 138 words
    4. Business Links 193 words
    5. Late Payments 97 words
    6. Plutonium 152 words
    7. Bangladesh 93 words
    8. THORP Nuclear Plant 86 words
    9. Independent Research and Technology Institutions 74 words
    10. Mersey Dock and Harbour Company 99 words
    11. Computers (Century Date Change) 168 words
    12. Trading Standards 139 words
    13. Small Business 105 words
    14. Energy Council 180 words
  13. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Child Support Agency 306 words
    2. Lone Parents 321 words
    3. Housing Benefit 60 words
    4. Mortgages 77 words
    5. Disability Living Allowance 328 words
    6. War Pensions 257 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Goods and Services (Payments) 389 words
    2. Private Finance Initiative 177 words
    3. Prisoner Transfers 625 words
    4. Political Prisoners 49 words
    5. Delegated Legislation 61 words
    6. Prison Service Recruitment 123 words
  15. WALES
    1. Public Transport 137 words
    2. Farming 329 words
    3. Delegated Legislation 81 words
  16. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Student Loans 344 words
    2. Employment Zones 88 words
    3. New Deal 127 words
    4. Office for Standards in Education 111 words
    5. Students (Fees) 104 words
    6. Adult Education 111 words
    7. Recruitment (Non-EU Residents) 158 words
    8. Special Educational Needs 77 words
    9. Foreign Students 74 words
    10. Teachers (Redundancy) 58 words
    11. University Applications 53 words
    12. Retired Teachers 110 words
    13. Higher Education 42 words
    14. Trade Union Membership 197 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Executive Agencies 2,527 words
    2. Development Sites 107 words
    3. CS Gas 143 words
    4. Contingency Operational and Procurement Exhibition 121 words
    5. Delegated Legislation 63 words
    6. Porton Down 165 words
    7. Tax Advice 181 words
    8. Mine Information and Training Centre 81 words
    9. Harrier Accident (Wittering) 119 words
    10. RAF Signals Engineering Establishment 216 words
    11. Defence Codification Agency 244 words
    12. Surveillance Towers 229 words
    13. Civilian Complaints 815 words
    14. Military Forces, Northern Ireland 1,623 words
    15. Hunting 1,704 words
  18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Genetically Modified Potatoes 42 words
    2. Agenda 2000 176 words
    3. Meat Hygiene 65 words
    4. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances 38 words
    5. Dioxin 96 words
    6. Spongiform Encephalopathies 81 words
    7. Cattle Breeding 59 words
    8. Common Agricultural Policy 226 words
    9. English Wine Industry 54 words
    10. Rural Needs 99 words
    11. Fish Conservation 42 words
    12. Farm Animal Welfare 139 words
    13. Beef 1,666 words
    14. BSE 5,978 words
    15. Food Labelling 85 words
    16. Countryside Stewardship Scheme 43 words
    17. Live Animal Exports 90 words
    18. Animal Welfare 152 words
    19. Delegated Legislation 64 words
    20. Sea Defence (Waveney) 103 words
    21. Tax Advice 257 words
    22. Over-30-months Scheme 43 words
    23. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 97 words
  19. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Admiralty House 667 words
    2. Civil Service Pensions 135 words
  20. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION
    1. National Audit Office (Staff) 60 words
  21. CABINET OFFICE
    1. Millennium Dome 397 words
  22. HEALTH
    1. Erb's Palsy 170 words
    2. Deregulation 61 words
    3. Private Finance Initiative 91 words
    4. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 330 words
    5. Incontinence 123 words
    6. Community Care 89 words
    7. Health Trusts (Assets) 170 words
    8. NHS Patients 148 words
    9. Waiting Lists 49 words
    10. National Blood Service 128 words
    11. Air Pollution 124 words
    12. Emergency Services 121 words
    13. Prescription Charges 107 words
    14. Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Trust 58 words
    15. NHS Appointments 97 words
    16. Health Authority Contracts 109 words
    17. Solihull Hospital 83 words
    18. Paint (Calcium Hydroxide) 253 words
    19. Tissue Research 91 words
    20. Psychologists 97 words

Lords Sitting of 6 November 1997

  1. Preamble 21 words
  2. Baroness Scotland of Asthal 35 words
  3. Lord Freeman 38 words
  4. English Schools: British History Teaching 1,046 words
  5. Developing Countries: UK Aid 1,185 words
  6. Share Fishing 974 words
  7. Meningitis: Student Awareness Programme 413 words
  8. Royal Assent 41 words
  9. Defence Policy 44,710 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 6 November 1997

  1. Court of Appeal (Civil Division): Review 101 words
  2. Mr. Reginald Buckland: Court Documents 311 words
  3. Asylum Seekers: Detention Costs 105 words
  4. Polaris Submarines: Chevaline Warheads 185 words
  5. Gulf War: Iraqi SCUD Missiles 51 words
  6. US Defence Doctrine: Studies 85 words
  7. Nuclear Weapons: Policy 121 words
  8. Late Payment of Debt 194 words
  9. Multilateral Agreement on Investment: Negotiations 175 words
  10. Hammersmith Bridge: Closure 134 words
  11. Mental Health: Services 992 words