25 June 1998

Commons Sitting of 25 June 1998

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. LLOYDS TSB BILL [Lords] 15 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TREASURY 7 words
      1. Inflation Targets 1,393 words
      2. National Insurance 1,310 words
      3. Charities Taxation 717 words
      4. Debt Relief 418 words
      5. Comprehensive Spending Review 1,499 words
      6. Arms Sales 194 words
      7. Casinos 362 words
      8. Health Service Expenditure 825 words
      9. Millennium Compliance 243 words
      10. Working Families Tax Credit 396 words
      11. Value Added Tax 252 words
      12. Cross-border Shopping 546 words
      13. Taxation 321 words
  4. Energy Review 8,731 words
  5. Business of the House 4,896 words
  6. Points of Order 413 words
  7. Opposition Day
    1. 14TH ALLOTTED DAY
      1. Private Members' Bills (3 July) 4,772 words
    2. Social Welfare 18,733 words
    3. Forest of Dean 4,782 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 25 June 1998

  1. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Queen Elizabeth II Bridge 140 words
    2. Gender Impact Assessments 89 words
    3. Environment Agency (Penrith Office) 182 words
    4. Eurostar Sleeper Carriages 93 words
    5. London Underground (Muggings) 93 words
    6. Crop Irrigation 216 words
    7. Lake District National Park 335 words
    8. Fishing Vessel Losses 339 words
    9. Wetlands 74 words
    10. Asbestos 209 words
    11. Stagecoach 145 words
  2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Lockerbie 89 words
    2. Departmental Reviews 110 words
    3. Legal Aid 350 words
  3. DEFENCE
    1. Manning Levels 217 words
    2. Service Children's Education 397 words
    3. United Kingdom Hydrographic Office 171 words
    4. Agency Newsletters 473 words
    5. Chemical and Biological Weapons 200 words
    6. Mount McKinley Rescue 507 words
    7. Eurofighter 100 words
    8. AWE, Aldermaston 125 words
    9. Strategic Defence Review 90 words
  4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Small Businesses 67 words
    2. Berlin Airlift 98 words
    3. Gender Impact Assessments 85 words
    4. Minimum Wage 219 words
    5. Supermarkets (Anti-competitive Practices) 73 words
    6. Insider Dealing 82 words
    7. Aerospace Investment 167 words
    8. Business Franchising 182 words
    9. Smaller Quoted Companies 76 words
    10. Lord Archer 150 words
    11. Cigarette Exports 512 words
  5. SCOTLAND
    1. Pilot Schemes 313 words
    2. Farmers (Payments) 85 words
    3. Further Education 279 words
    4. Gaelic Broadcasting 102 words
  6. WALES
    1. Railways 101 words
    2. Sewers 206 words
    3. Farmers (Payments) 85 words
    4. Victim Support Groups 171 words
    5. A470 86 words
    6. Housing 394 words
    7. Cycling 220 words
    8. Farm Workers 319 words
    9. Penmaenbach Road Tunnel 180 words
    10. Rural Transport 124 words
    11. Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority 128 words
  7. HEALTH
    1. Health Trust Bills 59 words
    2. Health Spending 133 words
    3. Capital Spending 108 words
    4. Norfolk and Norwich Hospital 86 words
    5. Macmillan Nursing Services 218 words
    6. Child Safety Week 179 words
    7. Multiple Births 537 words
    8. Gluten-free Flour Prescriptions 178 words
    9. Breastfeeding Week 318 words
    10. Osteoporosis 445 words
    11. Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 145 words
    12. Health Service Spending (Lancashire) 228 words
    13. Child Protection 226 words
  8. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Private Sector Prisons 73 words
    2. Prisons (Communicable Diseases) 434 words
    3. Animal Experiments 708 words
    4. Mrs. Estelle Mills 73 words
    5. Public Interest Immunity (Document D909) 221 words
    6. Prisoners (Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme) 297 words
    7. CCTV Challenge Competition 64 words
    8. Emergency Planning 292 words
    9. Prison Inspections 110 words
    10. Asylum Seekers 67 words
    11. Gender Impact Assessments 157 words
    12. Metropolitan Police 93 words
    13. Lorne House Drugs Project 95 words
    14. Police (Medical Retirements) 1,060 words
    15. Child Pornography 199 words
    16. Life Sentences 135 words
    17. Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 116 words
    18. Association of Chief Police Officers 37 words
  9. PRIME MINISTER
    1. No. 10 Downing Street (Staff Costs) 137 words
    2. Sierra Leone 116 words
    3. Millennium Compliance 248 words
    4. Government Buildings 88 words
    5. Ministerial Visits 51 words
    6. Minimum Wage 130 words
    7. Ministerial Committee on Welfare Reform 101 words
    8. Dounreay 302 words
  10. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. India and Pakistan 97 words
    2. Jubilee 2000 242 words
  11. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Commonhold 103 words
    2. Rights of Audience 71 words
  12. MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO
    1. Millennium Experience 113 words
  13. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Listed Sporting Events 440 words
    2. Libraries 76 words
    3. Millennium Commission 93 words
    4. Tourism 442 words
  14. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. EU Legislation 90 words
    2. Police and Military Assistance (Human Rights) 143 words
    3. Zinoviev Letter 161 words
    4. Falkland Islands (Oil) 177 words
    5. Cyprus 157 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Organophosphates 544 words
    2. Poultry 138 words
    3. Hunt Kennels 126 words
    4. Food Safety Week 100 words
    5. Kew Gardens 121 words
    6. Potatoes 80 words
  16. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Terrorists 766 words
  17. TREASURY
    1. Public Debt 57 words
    2. Economic and Monetary Union 439 words
    3. Pensions 61 words
    4. Tax Harmonisation 51 words
    5. Offshore Oil and Gas 58 words
    6. Financial Incentives to Work 47 words
    7. Asian Financial Crisis 103 words
    8. Inflation 39 words
    9. Foreign Earnings Deduction 154 words
    10. Working Families Tax Credit 363 words
    11. Smuggling 92 words
    12. Income Tax 167 words
    13. Debt Relief 50 words
    14. Government Vehicles 89 words
    15. Taxation (Church of England) 82 words
    16. Interest Rates 61 words
    17. Tote 71 words
    18. Taxation (Tourism) 122 words
    19. Public Sector Investment 77 words
    20. Hospitality 66 words
    21. Saving 174 words
    22. Budget Surpluses 186 words
    23. Control Total 74 words
    24. VAT 106 words
    25. Minimum Wage 173 words
    26. Budget Underspend 142 words
    27. Government Expenditure 132 words
    28. Taxation 167 words
    29. Historic Buildings (VAT) 48 words
    30. Electoral Registration 243 words
    31. Drug-related Deaths 251 words
    32. Sierra Leone 274 words
    33. Asset Disposals 210 words
  18. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Pensioners (Worcester) 174 words
    2. Benefits (Minimum Wage) 387 words
    3. National Insurance Numbers 945 words
    4. Benefit Fraud 779 words
    5. Motability 243 words
    6. Benefits Agency (Complaints) 360 words
    7. Disability Living Allowance 316 words
    8. Benefits Agency Medical Service 330 words
    9. Child Support Agency 751 words
    10. Marginal Deduction Rates 281 words

Lords Sitting of 25 June 1998

  1. Preamble 29 words
  2. Strategic Defence Review 1,024 words
  3. Vehicle Excise Duty: Budget Proposal 357 words
  4. House of Lords Reform 1,848 words
  5. Israeli Settlements 1,079 words
  6. Business 42 words
  7. School Standards and Framework Bill 201 words
  8. European Parliamentary Elections Bill 14,379 words
  9. Energy Review 5,520 words
  10. Digital Images as Evidence: Science and Technology Committee Reports 8,060 words
  11. Quarrying 10,848 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 25 June 1998

  1. Rights of Audience in the Higher Courts 63 words
  2. Poorer Families: Tax Changes 654 words
  3. Financial Services Single Ombudsman Scheme 415 words
  4. Short-term Interest Rates 108 words
  5. EMU: Launch Preparations 234 words
  6. Dounreay: Costs 159 words
  7. Scientists and Technicians: Emigration 289 words
  8. Disaffected Children: Response to Report 61 words
  9. Private Sector Prisons: Review Reports 72 words
  10. Female Prisoners: Expenditure Per Capita 157 words
  11. Asylum Seekers: Deportations 251 words
  12. Prisons: Taxation of Visiting Ministers' Fees 363 words
  13. Prisons: Unlicensed Software 367 words
  14. Eviction Powers and Responsibilities 206 words
  15. Alcohol-related Crime 339 words
  16. Gibraltar: Fishing Incursions 151 words
  17. Japanese Prisoners of War 62 words
  18. Ethiopia/Eritrea Border Conflict 116 words
  19. United States Arrears of UN Dues 110 words
  20. HK33 Assault Rifle: Export to Turkey 200 words
  21. Armenian Genocide, 1915 95 words
  22. Bahrain 187 words
  23. Rwanda: Visit by EU Troika 165 words
  24. Eritrea/Ethiopia Conflict 163 words
  25. Guatemala 156 words
  26. Corporal Punishment in Boarding Schools 95 words
  27. Health Risks 144 words
  28. EU Nationals: Medical Treatment in Other Member States 242 words
  29. Human Embryos Created for Research Purposes 287 words
  30. Basildon: Local Government 111 words
  31. Filwood Playing Fields 85 words
  32. Unauthorised Camping 151 words
  33. English Partnerships 254 words
  34. Transport Council, 17–18 June 640 words
  35. Environment Council, 16–17 June 759 words
  36. Joint Environment and Transport Council, 17 June 239 words
  37. Housing: Improving Accessibility 135 words
  38. Fish Farms, Scotland 84 words