22 June 1998

Commons Sitting of 22 June 1998

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. DEFENCE 6 words
      1. Defence Diversification Agency 187 words
      2. Procurement 280 words
      3. Land Mines 878 words
      4. Territorial Army 1,181 words
      5. Abbey Wood, South Gloucestershire 343 words
      6. Beef 408 words
      7. Bosnia 1,259 words
      8. Aircraft Carriers 656 words
      9. RAF Northolt 439 words
      10. Cyprus 371 words
      11. Persian Gulf 648 words
    2. HOUSE OF COMMONS 7 words
      1. Modernisation Committee 655 words
      2. Dounreay 169 words
      3. Recesses 315 words
      4. Morning Sittings 173 words
  4. Factory Fire (Ballymoney) 1,276 words
  5. Official Report 910 words
  6. Points of Order 859 words
  7. WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE 46 words
  8. CRIME AND DISORDER BILL [LORDS] (PROGRAMME) 302 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords] 6 words
      1. New clause 10
        1. FOOTBALL BEHAVIOUR ORDER 25,526 words
      2. New clause 1
        1. REDUCTION IN AGE AT WHICH CERTAIN SEXUAL ACTS ARE LAWFUL 31,801 words, 2 divisions
        2. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 30 words
          1. HOMELESSNESS (SCOTLAND) 21 words
          2. HOMELESSNESS 20 words
          3. FOOD PROTECTION 33 words
          4. LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE 25 words
        3. WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE 88 words
        4. COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES 25 words
        5. ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE 29 words
        6. CATERING COMMITTEE 29 words
        7. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT COMMITTEE 32 words
        8. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL FFAIRS COMMITTEE 33 words
        9. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE 31 words
        10. TRADE AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEE 30 words
        11. WELSH AFFAIRS COMMITTEE 30 words
    2. Fishing and Cockle Industry (Essex) 3,278 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 22 June 1998

  1. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Community Legal Services 53 words
    2. Correspondence 105 words
    3. Fast-track Cases 59 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Japanese Prisoners of War 145 words
    2. Interception of Communications 36 words
    3. Election Pledges 46 words
    4. European Social Fund (Wales) 81 words
    5. Intelligence and Security Committee 111 words
    6. Social Exclusion Unit 43 words
    7. Honours System 96 words
    8. Animal Welfare 46 words
    9. Lockerbie 109 words
  3. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. National Lottery 74 words
    2. Wembley Stadium 141 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prisons (Family Rooms) 93 words
    2. Prisoner Escort Services 418 words
    3. Police Establishments 110 words
    4. Probation Services 123 words
    5. Closed Circuit Television 293 words
    6. Recidivism 145 words
    7. Criminal Appeals 116 words
    8. Postal and Proxy Voting 75 words
    9. Animal Experiments 406 words
    10. Lewes Prison 50 words
    11. Asylum Seekers 303 words
    12. Sex Offences 437 words
    13. Mark Darren Day 80 words
    14. Prostitution 836 words
    15. Protection from Harassment Act 125 words
  5. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. MV Derbyshire 138 words
    2. Cleaner Fuel 626 words
    3. Millennium Dome 181 words
    4. London Underground 138 words
    5. Economic Development and Regeneration 1,331 words
    6. Air Traffic Control 682 words
    7. RAF Northolt 105 words
    8. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 124 words
    9. Nuclear Materials (Transportation) 181 words
    10. Eurostar 80 words
    11. Trunk Roads 55 words
    12. Road Hauliers 38 words
    13. Transport Expenditure 316 words
    14. River Wye 288 words
    15. Low Flying 161 words
    16. London Regional Transport 287 words
    17. Bus Companies (Customer Service) 68 words
    18. Sapphire 120 words
    19. Houses in Multiple Occupation 383 words
  6. DEFENCE
    1. Defence Attaches 79 words
    2. Education and Training 82 words
    3. Royal Naval College 70 words
    4. Joint Organisations 86 words
    5. Strategic Defence Review 109 words
    6. RAF Finningley 95 words
    7. Inoculations 95 words
    8. Guardsmen Fisher and Wright 48 words
    9. Benefits 68 words
    10. Export Licences 82 words
    11. Territorial Army 50 words
    12. Royal Yeomanry 90 words
    13. Defence Diversification 78 words
    14. Chamber of Shipping 117 words
    15. Army Operational Commitments 67 words
    16. Commercial Exploitation Levy Receipts 82 words
    17. Defence Exports 428 words
    18. Major Eric Joyce 132 words
  7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Reviews 261 words
    2. British Employees (Overseas Working Conditions) 542 words
    3. Special Advisers 57 words
    4. EU Structural Funds 218 words
    5. Mid Kent Holdings 122 words
    6. Postal Services 285 words
  8. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Private Members' Time 95 words
    2. Members' Allowances (Office Technology) 92 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Defence Exhibitions 193 words
    2. EU Funds 159 words
    3. Foreign Policy Centre 105 words
    4. Special Advisers 77 words
    5. British Prisoners (Overseas Gaols) 888 words
    6. Dependent Territories 107 words
    7. Cambodia 200 words
    8. St. Helena 148 words
  10. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Mediation Network 197 words
    2. Parades Commission 165 words
    3. Police Firearms (US Purchases) 74 words
    4. Scheduled Offences 162 words
  11. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Agricultural Land 120 words
  12. WALES
    1. Food Poisoning 103 words
    2. Cycling 104 words
    3. Alltami Bypass 86 words
    4. Road Safety (Flintshire) 110 words
    5. A55 88 words
    6. Child Care Strategy 115 words
  13. HEALTH
    1. Theresa Braybrooke-Tucker 64 words
    2. Smoking 508 words
    3. Ambulance Service 59 words
    4. Child Mental Health Services 352 words
    5. Skin Cancer 519 words
    6. Social Services White Paper 54 words
    7. Community Health Councils 157 words
    8. NHS (Thefts) 96 words
    9. Chiropody and Podiatric Services 213 words
    10. Lee Bosley 72 words
    11. Complaints Procedures 262 words
    12. Suicide Prevention 71 words
    13. Birth Weights 262 words
  14. TREASURY
    1. Millennium Compliance 228 words
    2. Charity Taxation Review 37 words
    3. Small Businesses (VAT Arrears) 125 words
    4. Diesel Duties 230 words
    5. Working Families Tax Credit 177 words
    6. Income Tax 221 words
    7. Heavily Indebted Poor Countries 272 words
    8. Public Records 34 words
    9. Economic and Monetary Union 73 words
    10. Budgets (Environmental Assessments) 58 words
    11. Financial Supervision 81 words
    12. Indonesia 140 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. Further and Higher Education 408 words
    2. Primary Schools 763 words
    3. Autistic Children 171 words
    4. Teacher Training 309 words
    5. Cardonald College 96 words
    6. Voluntary Organisations 876 words
  16. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. State Pension 166 words
    2. Housing Benefit 542 words
    3. Vaccine Damage (Compensation) 137 words
    4. Special Advisers 195 words
    5. Attendance Allowance 77 words
    6. Benefit Expenditure 462 words
    7. Disallowed Benefits 246 words
  17. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Legal Aid 53 words
    2. Roger Levitt Case (Costs) 139 words
    3. Prosecution Counsel 117 words
  18. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. Scottish Universities (Students from Cumbria) 391 words
    2. School Inspections 72 words
    3. Further and Higher Education Statistics 261 words
    4. Special Educational Needs 304 words
    5. Disabled Access Symbols 109 words
    6. Remploy 410 words
    7. Education Action Zones 43 words
    8. Further Education (East Sussex) 63 words
  19. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Bees 527 words
    2. Seed Listings 1,785 words
    3. Biotechnology 297 words
    4. Meat Retailing 185 words
    5. Abattoirs 264 words
    6. Meat-cutting Plants 259 words
    7. Poultry 76 words
    8. BSE 210 words
    9. Bats (Rabies) 147 words
    10. Live Animal Exports 345 words
    11. Whales 133 words
    12. Coastal Fishing Limits 78 words
    13. Coastal Zone Management 53 words
    14. Spanish Distant Water Fleet 177 words
    15. Fishing Vessels 311 words
    16. Bakery Training (Russia) 89 words
    17. Organic Farming 114 words
  20. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Departmental Vehicles (Fuel Consumption) 332 words
    2. Freedom of Information 43 words

Lords Sitting of 22 June 1998

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Millennium Exhibition: Access by Public Transport 1,384 words
  3. Sex Discrimination at Private Events 908 words
  4. NATO Strategic Concept 1,182 words
  5. Millennium Dome: Award of Contracts 579 words
  6. Petition: Sex Discrimination Act 1975 85 words
  7. Business 99 words
  8. Registered Establishments (Scotland) Bill 67 words
  9. Police (Northern Ireland) Bill 9,848 words
  10. National Lottery Bill [H.L.] 32 words
  11. COMMONS AMENDMENTS 14 words
  12. COMMONS AMENDMENT 1,619 words
  13. COMMONS AMENDMENT 249 words
  14. COMMONS AMENDMENT 1,601 words
  15. COMMONS AMENDMENTS 163 words
  16. SCHEDULE 8 words
  17. PART I
    1. TRANSFERS ETC 817 words
  18. PART II
    1. CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMISSION 12 words
  19. SECTION 3A
    1. SCHEDULE 2A
      1. THE NATIONAL LOTTERY COMMISSION 1,632 words
  20. PART III
    1. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS 677 words
    2. COMMONS AMENDMENT 666 words
    3. COMMONS AMENDMENT 66 words
    4. COMMONS AMENDMENT 10 words
  21. PART I
    1. ENACTMENTS RELATING TO REPLACEMENT OF DIRECTOR GENERAL BY COMMISSION 163 words
  22. PART II
    1. OTHER ENACTMENTS"). 42 words
    2. National Minimum Wage Bill 20,453 words
    3. Witnesses in Criminal Trials 12,396 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 22 June 1998

  1. Fine Enforcement 118 words
  2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 378 words
  3. Association of Chief Police Officers 199 words
  4. Anglo-American Drug Alert Collaboration: EpiPen 259 words
  5. NHS Night Time Care 111 words
  6. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988: Retirement Benefits Schemes 223 words
  7. Working Families Tax Credit 122 words
  8. Tourism Promotion Costs: National Comparisons 105 words
  9. Radio Authority and Independent National Radio Companies 556 words
  10. Fast Track Civil Litigation: Consultation 57 words
  11. Northern Ireland Civil Service: Early Retirement Schemes 75 words
  12. Houses in Multiple Occupation 391 words
  13. Belfast's Airports: Standards 155 words
  14. Catamaran Ferries 128 words
  15. Heathrow: Landing Delays 119 words
  16. News International and UK Independent National Radio Companies 150 words