11 June 1998

Commons Sitting of 11 June 1998

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. LLOYDS TSB BILL [LORDS](By Order) 15 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT 6 words
      1. Ethnic Minorities 258 words
      2. Independent-Maintained School Partnerships 333 words
      3. Class Sizes (Leicestershire) 911 words
      4. Schools (Bury) 291 words
      5. School Exclusions 436 words
      6. Universities (Access) 713 words
      7. Teacher Shortages 791 words
      8. Ethnic Minorities 571 words
      9. Student Loans 428 words
      10. Standard Spending Assessment (Worcestershire) 267 words
      11. New Deal 873 words
      12. School Transport 704 words
      13. New Deal (North-east Lincolnshire) 483 words
      14. University Students 548 words
      15. EU Tobacco Advertising Directive 359 words
      16. Postgraduate Researchers 218 words
  4. Economic and Fiscal Strategy 11,312 words
  5. Business of the House 5,405 words
  6. Cardiff European Council 7,943 words
  7. ROYAL ASSENT 53 words
  8. Cardiff European Council 24,092 words
  9. NORTHERN IRELAND (SENTENCES) BILL (PROGRAMME) 15 words
  10. Committee of the whole House 183 words
  11. Report and Third Reading 55 words
  12. Conclusion of proceedings 206 words
  13. Miscellaneous 273 words
  14. Professor David Lowery 3,083 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 11 June 1998

  1. Freedom of Information
  2. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Public Bodies (Boundaries) 103 words
    2. Road Fuel Gases 280 words
    3. Hedgerows 258 words
    4. East Midlands Regional Development Agency 119 words
    5. Access to the Open Countryside in England and Wales" 117 words
    6. Blight 154 words
    7. Nuclear Materials (Transportation) 177 words
    8. Local Authorities (Pilot Schemes) 514 words
    9. Workplace Injuries 294 words
    10. Greater London Authority 53 words
    11. Air Safety 124 words
    12. Airport Noise 196 words
    13. Derbyshire County Council 201 words
    14. South Downs 108 words
    15. London Road Network 222 words
    16. National Air Traffic Services 364 words
    17. Local Authority Airports 121 words
  3. DEFENCE
    1. Foreign Nationals (Security Clearance) 75 words
    2. TRACER Programme 48 words
    3. HMS Ocean 163 words
    4. Arms Tactical Training Centre 63 words
    5. Heavy Lift Aircraft 98 words
    6. Low Flying (Brecon Beacons) 99 words
    7. Apache Helicopter 101 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prisoners (Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme) 405 words
    2. Probation Service 995 words
    3. Asylum Seekers 351 words
    4. Extradition 411 words
    5. Animal Research 403 words
    6. Metropolitan Police Review 315 words
    7. psom Police Station 93 words
    8. Animal Rights Activists 95 words
    9. Immigration Service 66 words
    10. Police Service Budget 61 words
    11. Port Arrivals 127 words
    12. Embarkation Controls 227 words
    13. Human Rights 98 words
    14. Non-custodial Sentences (Electronic Monitoring) 71 words
  5. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. South Africa 71 words
    2. Iwokrama International Rainforest Centre 164 words
    3. Annual Policy Forum 216 words
  6. TREASURY
    1. Tax Avoidance 58 words
    2. Public Houses (Uniform Business Rate) 346 words
    3. Self-assessment 197 words
    4. Disabled Person's Tax Credit 83 words
    5. Child Benefit 136 words
    6. Pensions (Tax Relief) 188 words
    7. Departmental Running Costs 76 words
    8. Savings Income (Channel Islands) 47 words
    9. Golden Rule 46 words
    10. Foreign Earnings Deduction 195 words
    11. Tax Evasion 76 words
    12. Sierra Leone 345 words
    13. Information 60 words
    14. Taxable Pay Tables 101 words
    15. Training (Tax Relief) 102 words
    16. Partnership Initiative 86 words
    17. Borrowing Targets 515 words
  7. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Legal Aid (Northern Ireland) 185 words
    2. Child Abduction 150 words
    3. Human Rights 133 words
  8. SCOTLAND
    1. Road Accidents 168 words
    2. Breast Cancer 203 words
    3. Holyrood Parliament Building 140 words
    4. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      1. EU Fisheries Council 632 words
      2. Organic Farming 69 words
      3. Animal Welfare 137 words
      4. Flood Defence 203 words
      5. Fish Quotas 704 words
      6. Wild Boar 130 words
      7. Milk Development Council 57 words
    5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      1. Damien Thorne 115 words
    6. NORTHERN IRELAND
      1. Paramilitary Violence 252 words
      2. Veterinary Students 154 words
      3. Guardsmen Fisher and Wright 60 words
      4. Correspondence 80 words
    7. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Special Advisers 176 words
      2. Sierra Leone 133 words
      3. Government Buildings 125 words
      4. Intelligence Services 187 words
      5. Duty Free 138 words
      6. Lockerbie 55 words
      7. Telephone Tapping 107 words
    8. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
      1. UK Sports Institute 1,048 words
      2. National Lottery 234 words
      3. Minimum Wage 162 words
    9. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. Regional Affairs Committee 350 words
    10. WALES
      1. M 4 315 words
      2. BSE 79 words
      3. Cataract Operations 113 words
      4. Prostate Cancer 95 words
      5. Knacker Trade 60 words
      6. Directors of Education 54 words
      7. Mental Health 61 words
      8. Electro-convulsive Therapy (Bro Tap 181 words
      9. Health Trust Mergers 305 words
      10. Employment 101 words
      11. Gross Domestic Product 61 words
      12. Rural Areas (Social Exclusion) 54 words
      13. Students 540 words
      14. Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors 117 words
      15. Rural Transport 287 words
      16. Class Sizes 126 words
    11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      1. Arms Exports 129 words
      2. Panchen Lama 118 words
      3. China 93 words
      4. Club of Three 98 words
      5. World Cup Tickets 70 words
      6. General Affairs Council 876 words
      7. Legg Inquiry 58 words
      8. Nuclear Reprocessing 232 words
    12. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      1. Millennium Compliance 211 words
      2. Cloning 93 words
      3. Ecology Institutes (Merlewood and Windermere) 131 words
      4. Music (Internet) 72 words
      5. Institute of Chartered Accountants 204 words
      6. Sierra Leone 1,093 words
      7. Social Chapter 60 words
      8. Unfair Dismissal 80 words
      9. Shipbuilders 59 words
    13. HEALTH
      1. Health and Social Services (Co-operation) 165 words
      2. Health Targets 99 words
      3. Smoking 141 words
      4. Surplus NHS Property 160 words
      5. Children (Employment Byelaw) 46 words
      6. Viagra 95 words
      7. Podiatric Services 86 words
      8. Prescribing 674 words
      9. Direct Payments 158 words
      10. Hospital Readmissions 120 words
      11. Local Authorities (Pilot Schemes) 550 words
      12. Hospital Ventilation Systems 88 words
      13. Organ Transplants 216 words
      14. Health Authority and Trust Boards 395 words
      15. Hospital Services (London) 177 words
      16. NHS Ambulances 46 words
      17. Paediatric Cardiac Services (Bristol) 59 words
    14. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
      1. Access-to-work Scheme 48 words
      2. Sixth-form Colleges 103 words
      3. Drug Misuse 126 words
      4. Higher Education (Access) 93 words
      5. New Deal 241 words
      6. Further Education (East Sussex) 163 words
      7. School Exclusions and Truancy 182 words
      8. Education Action Zones 147 words
      9. After-school Clubs 79 words
      10. Independent Schools 84 words
      11. Literacy 169 words
      12. Education Authority Funding 49 words
      13. Schoolchildren (Farm Visits) 129 words
      14. Pre-school Groups 52 words
      15. New Deal (Young People) 158 words
      16. University Applications 82 words
      17. Accountancy Students 127 words
      18. Training and Enterprise Councils 282 words
      19. School Inspections 56 words
      20. Special Educational Needs 367 words
      21. Further Education Funding 49 words
      22. Wheelchair Users (Welfare to Work) 184 words
      23. Schools (Cumbria) 271 words
      24. Graduates 104 words
      25. Further Education 794 words
      26. School Leavers 364 words
      27. Teachers' Pay 92 words
      28. Veterinary Medicine 312 words
      29. Aggregated Schools Budget (Hereford and Worcester) 145 words
      30. Delegated Schools Budget 1,109 words
      31. Social Exclusion 243 words
      32. Disabled People 466 words
      33. Nursery Education (Worcester) 324 words
    15. SOCIAL SECURITY
      1. Industrial Injury Benefit (Bladder Disease) 344 words
      2. Local Authorities (Pilot Schemes) 350 words
      3. Paternity Pay 145 words
      4. Sick and Disabled People 84 words
      5. Laryngectomy Patients 143 words
      6. Reviews 69 words

Lords Sitting of 11 June 1998

  1. Preamble 21 words
  2. Athens Olympic Games: Counter-terrorism Measures 620 words
  3. Pensions: Administrative Costs 612 words
  4. NHS: Missed Hospital Appointments 1,541 words
  5. Manufacturing Industry: Interest Rate Increase 1,692 words
  6. Business 102 words
  7. Business of the House: Scotland Bill 3,645 words
  8. European Communities (Amendment) Bill 30 words
  9. COMMONS REASON 15 words
  10. LORDS AMENDMENT 9 words
  11. QUOTA-HOPPING 8,776 words
  12. Economic and Fiscal Strategy 10,226 words
  13. National Minimum Wage Bill 13,338 words
  14. Royal Assent 52 words
  15. Tamar Bridge Bill 3,464 words
  16. Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 4,780 words
  17. National Minimum Wage Bill 16,007 words
  18. POWER TO SUSPEND THE NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE IN THE EVENT OF LOCAL OR NATIONAL ECONOMIC EMERGENCIES 5,916 words
  19. Teaching and Higher Education Bill [H.L.] 33 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 11 June 1998

  1. Turkey and Greece and the EU 117 words
  2. Overseas Police Services: Provision of Training 114 words
  3. Gibraltar and Spain: Air and Maritime Links 64 words
  4. Gibraltar 58 words
  5. Montserrat 165 words
  6. Development Policy Forum 190 words
  7. Turkey: Police and Security Co-operation 280 words
  8. Women in Prison: Childbirth 134 words
  9. NACRO Report: Government Response 217 words
  10. Rough Sleeping in Westminster 82 words
  11. Privately Operated Ambulances 89 words
  12. Short-term Engine Shut-off: Pollutant Emission 266 words
  13. London: Strategic Road Network 218 words
  14. Compulsory Purchase and Blight 143 words
  15. Bristol: Free Exhaust Emission Tests 130 words
  16. Heysham-to-M.6 Link Road 92 words