8 June 1998

Commons Sitting of 8 June 1998

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. COMMITTEE OF SELECTION 23 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SOCIAL SECURITY 6 words
    2. Women's Website 381 words
    3. Occupational Pensions 211 words
    4. Family-friendly Working Arrangements 689 words
    5. Women's Interests 533 words
    6. Income Support (Lone Parents) 875 words
    7. Retirement Incomes 579 words
    8. Benefits (Scotland) 287 words
    9. Pensioner Poverty 1,571 words
    10. Pensions Review 813 words
    11. Women (Violence) 357 words
    12. Disability Living Allowance 785 words
    13. Child Care Disregard 424 words
    14. Pensioners' Incomes 460 words
    15. Family-friendly Working Arrangements 319 words
  4. Dounreay 3,678 words
  5. Millennium Compliance 6,086 words
  6. Eritrea 4,277 words
  7. Points of Order 436 words
  8. TEACHING AND HIGHER EDUCATION BILL [LORDS] PROGRAMME 365 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords] 10 words
  10. Clause 12
    1. DEDUCTION OF FEES FROM SALARIES, ETC. 5,508 words
  11. Clause 15
    1. PROHIBITIONS OR RESTRICTIONS ON EMPLOYMENT OF TEACHERS IMPOSED BY SECRETARY OF STATE 63 words
  12. Clause 19
    1. REQUIREMENT TO SERVE INDUCTION PERIOD 1,461 words
  13. Clause 20
    1. INSPECTION OF INSTITUTIONS TRAINING TEACHERS FOR SCHOOLS 1,092 words
  14. Schedule 2
    1. DISCIPLINARY POWERS OF COUNCIL 468 words
    2. Appeals against disciplinary orders 294 words
  15. New clause 5
    1. SUPPLY OF INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH STUDEN LOANS: SCOTLAND 16 words
      1. Supply of information in connection with student loans 4,479 words
    2. New clause 6
      1. TRANSFER OR DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONS RELATING TO STUDENT SUPPORT 566 words
    3. New clause 8
      1. SUPPLY OF INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH STUDENT LOANS 387 words
    4. Clause 22
      1. NEW ARRANGEMENTS FOR GIVING FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO STUDENTS 38,871 words, 2 divisions
    5. Clause 26
      1. INTERPRETATION OF CHAPTER I 26 words
    6. Clause 27
      1. GRANTS AND LOANS: SCOTLAND 40 words
        1. Delegation or transfer of functions relating to student support 936 words
      2. Clause 28
        1. IMPOSITION OF CONDITIONS AS TO FEES AT FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN SCOTLAND 57 words
      3. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 45 words
      4. CONTRACTING OUT 1,459 words, 1 division
      5. MARINE POLLUTIONM 1,311 words, 1 division
      6. DEFENCE 29 words
      7. NORTHERN IRELAND 43 words
      8. HOME AFFAIRS COMMITTEE 30 words
      9. Playing Fields (Planning Permission) 3,798 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 8 June 1998

  1. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
    1. Public Trust Office 536 words
    2. Magistrates Court, Worcester 74 words
    3. Legal Aid 407 words
    4. Adult Protective Legislation 88 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
    1. Nuclear Deterrence 90 words
    2. Bicycle Lanes (Greater London) 89 words
    3. Nuclear Materials (Transportation) 218 words
    4. New Parishes 131 words
    5. Air Pollution 460 words
    6. Highways Maintenance (Cumbria) 110 words
    7. Disabled Facility Grants 158 words
    8. Prison Planning Inquiry, Morecambe 71 words
    9. Duty Free 66 words
    10. National Air Quality Strategy 117 words
    11. Genetically Modified Organisms 666 words
    12. Kent County Council 268 words
    13. Waste Strategy 203 words
    14. Derbyshire County Council 155 words
    15. Paper Pulp Disposal 248 words
  3. DEFENCE
    1. Territorial Army 58 words
    2. Aircraft 79 words
    3. C-17 Aircraft 91 words
    4. Future Large Aircraft 95 words
    5. Defence Exports 264 words
    6. Military Assistance Fund 99 words
    7. Ex-Service Men (Mental Welfare) 77 words
    8. Service Families Quarters (Kingston) 46 words
    9. Joint Command and Staff Training 143 words
    10. Equipment Exhibition 168 words
    11. Land Mines 207 words
    12. Aircraft Noise Measurement Trial (Tewkesbury) 97 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Rebuttal Officers 102 words
    2. Evacuees Reunion Association 87 words
    3. Sierra Leone 104 words
    4. Child Pornography 254 words
    5. Mr. Stephen Kock 36 words
  5. WALES
    1. European Structural Funds 187 words
    2. European Affairs Forum 69 words
  6. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
    1. Historic Properties 173 words
    2. Bradenstoke Priory Barn 156 words
  7. SCOTLAND
    1. Hunts 496 words
    2. Higher Education Students 241 words
    3. Derelict and Contaminated Land 153 words
    4. Secure Accommodation 233 words
    5. Housing Budget 465 words
    6. Chief Police Officers 130 words
    7. Firearms 182 words
    8. Free School Meals 247 words
    9. Insolvencies 167 words
    10. Education Funding (Argyll and Bute) 222 words
  8. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Lisnevin Disturbances (Children) 188 words
  9. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Non-custodial Sentences 163 words
    2. Ecstasy 330 words
    3. Nightclubs (Illegal Drugs) 211 words
    4. Drivers (Drugs) 123 words
    5. Forensic Science Service 105 words
    6. Greyhounds 320 words
    7. Public Safety Radio Communications Project 169 words
    8. Members of the European Parliament 127 words
    9. Emergency Services 240 words
    10. Police Staffing 204 words
    11. Asylum Seekers 238 words
    12. Firearms Compensation 398 words
    13. Closed Circuit Television 48 words
    14. Wymott and Garth Prisons 93 words
    15. Prisons (Illegal Substances) 81 words
  10. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Mobile Telephones 192 words
    2. Indonesia 91 words
  11. TREASURY
    1. Departmental Energy Use 414 words
    2. Economic and Monetary Union 431 words
    3. Population Statistics 444 words
    4. Jersey 610 words
    5. Thyroid Cancers 132 words
    6. Interest Rates 93 words
  12. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Sierra Leone 377 words
    2. European Development Assistance 602 words
    3. Cameroon 104 words
    4. Lomé Convention 238 words
    5. Stabex Projects 256 words
    6. Sudan 299 words
  13. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. New Deal (Thanet) 257 words
    2. Education and Social Affairs Council 364 words
  14. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Correspondence 71 words
    2. Abattoirs 429 words
    3. Suffolk Farmers (Subsidy) 76 words
    4. Knackers 94 words
    5. EU Support Payments 154 words
    6. Novel Foods 148 words
    7. Milk Prices 120 words
    8. Canadian Pedigree Friesians 99 words
    9. Brandy Butter 140 words
    10. Hemp 78 words
    11. Subsidies 115 words
    12. Food Destruction Costs 139 words
    13. Livestock Support 633 words
  15. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Sierra Leone 368 words
    2. Schools Information (European Union) 137 words
    3. Cyprus 86 words
    4. Colombia 309 words
    5. Human Rights 105 words
    6. Bulgaria 190 words
    7. Mercenaries 81 words
    8. Nigeria 81 words
    9. Algeria 71 words
    10. Sudan 492 words
    11. Afghanistan 128 words
    12. Cardiff Summit Table 671 words
  16. HEALTH
    1. Emergency Contraception 154 words
    2. Benzodiazapines 212 words
    3. Private Residential and Nursing Homes 329 words
    4. Cannabis 110 words
    5. Heroin 162 words
    6. Smoking 153 words
    7. Prescriptions 143 words
    8. Primary Care Groups 88 words
    9. Nurses and Doctors 174 words
    10. Bed Occupancy 91 words
    11. NHS Waiting Lists 149 words
  17. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. New Deal (Lone Parents) 59 words
    2. Pensions 362 words
    3. Pensioners (Income Support) 347 words
    4. Benefits Appeals 118 words
    5. Benefits (Marriage and Illegitimacy) 111 words
    6. Pension Schemes 145 words
    7. Disabled People 456 words
    8. Disability Living Allowance 912 words
    9. Benefit Advisers 151 words
    10. Children 199 words
    11. Long-term Sick and Disabled People 240 words
    12. Ministers for Women 407 words
    13. Benefits (Young People) 104 words
    14. Service Delivery 198 words
    15. Social Security Expenditure 365 words
    16. Family Income 134 words
    17. Incapacity Benefit 275 words
    18. Domestic Violence 113 words
    19. Pensioners (Scotland) 928 words
    20. Housing Benefit Fraud 75 words

Lords Sitting of 8 June 1998

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Multilateral Organisations: Parliamentary Scrutiny 1,128 words
  3. Association of Chief Police Officers 880 words
  4. Millennium Dome: Progress 1,210 words
  5. Bristol Royal Infirmary: GMC Inquiry 1,241 words
  6. Business 1,484 words
  7. School Standards and Framework Bill 12,832 words
  8. Dounreay Nuclear Reprocessing Plant 4,453 words
  9. Millennium Computer Compliance 5,756 words
  10. School Standards and Framework Bill 13,065 words
  11. Savings 7,264 words
  12. School Standards and Framework Bill 44,771 words
  13. Police (Northern Ireland) Bill 15 words

Grand Committee Report of 8 June 1998

  1. Official Report of the Grand Committee on the
    1. Police (Northern Ireland) Bill 4 words
      1. The Committee met at four of the clock. 15,677 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 8 June 1998

  1. The Third Way 52 words
  2. The Middle Way 48 words
  3. European Council and European Union: Forthcoming Business 1,432 words
  4. General Affairs Council, 25 May 632 words
  5. US Nuclear Doctrine 152 words
  6. Arms Sales to Taiwan 95 words
  7. Afghanistan Arms Embargo 107 words
  8. Indigenous Minority Languages 200 words
  9. New Joint Services College 143 words
  10. National Blood Authority 52 words
  11. Iraq Crisis: Broadcast Jamming 113 words
  12. Service Personnel: Hearing Test Procedures 103 words
  13. Landmine Elimination 210 words
  14. Scotland: Per Capita Spending 163 words
  15. Forth Road Bridge: Vehicle Numbers 258 words
  16. Council Tax Debt Collection Procedures 173 words
  17. Motorway Hard Shoulders: Sweeping 330 words
  18. Waste Management: Consultation Paper 192 words
  19. Creswicke Road Playing Fields, Bristol: Bus Depot 273 words
  20. Prison Service: Business Plan 342 words
  21. Justice and Home Affairs Council, 28–29 May 1,041 words