Commons Sitting of 17 December 1998 Series 6 Vol. 322

    c1079
  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c1079
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
      4. cc1079-92
    1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD 4 words
        2. cc1079-80
      1. Farm-fresh Turkeys 469 words
        2. cc1080-1
      2. Genetically Modified Foods 777 words
        3. cc1081-3
      3. Meat Hygiene 642 words
        4. cc1083-5
      4. Rural Economy 790 words
        5. cc1085-7
      5. Beef on the Bone 1,245 words
        6. cc1087-9
      6. Food Safety 1,144 words
        7. cc1089-90
      7. Common Agricultural Policy 354 words
        8. cc1090-1
      8. Food Marketing 388 words
        9. cc1091-2
      9. Beef Export Ban 594 words
      cc1092-6
    2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL 4 words
        3. cc1092-4
      1. Sentencing 863 words
        2. cc1094-5
      2. Human Rights Act 540 words
        3. cc1095-6
      3. Rights of Audience 298 words
        4. c1096
      4. Crown Prosecution Service 313 words
    cc1097-111
  4. Iraq 8,197 words
    5. c1111
  5. ROYAL ASSENT 33 words
    6. cc1112-93
  6. Iraq 44,726 words
  7. PETITION
      8. c1194
    1. Hemel Hempstead General Hospital 157 words
      2. cc1195-202
    2. Tourism, Leisure and Sport 4,424 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 17 December 1998 Series 6 Vol. 322

  1. HEALTH
      2. c617W
    1. Care History (Children) 118 words
      2. cc617-8W
    2. Investing in Dentistry 332 words
      3. cc618-9W
    3. Ministerial Visits 699 words
      4. c619W
    4. GP Lists 85 words
      5. c619W
    5. NHS Complaints Procedures 81 words
      6. cc619-20W
    6. Electrical Wheelchairs 107 words
      7. c620W
    7. Correspondence 50 words
      8. c620W
    8. Mr. Barry Horne 70 words
      9. c620W
    9. Healthy Living Centres 99 words
      10. cc620-1W
    10. Dental Services 131 words
      11. c621W
    11. Prostate Cancer 79 words
      12. c621W
    12. Cancer Treatments 185 words
      13. cc621-2W
    13. Nursing Homes 143 words
      14. c622W
    14. Antibiotics Report 72 words
      15. c622W
    15. Farming Stress and Suicide 92 words
      16. c622W
    16. Medway NHS Trust 127 words
      17. cc622-3W
    17. Social Services (Wandsworth) 118 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
      3. c623W
    1. "A New Deal for Transport" 307 words
      2. c623W
    2. Ministerial Visits 82 words
      3. cc623-4W
    3. Landing Fees (Airports) 137 words
      4. c624W
    4. Aircraft (Near Misses) 170 words
      5. cc624-5W
    5. 747 Aeroplanes 124 words
      6. c625W
    6. Social Housing 312 words
      7. c625W
    7. Buenos Aires Conference 223 words
      8. cc625-6W
    8. Munitions (Sea Disposal) 340 words
      9. cc626-7W
    9. Housing Act 1985 174 words
      10. c627W
    10. Private Rented Accommodation 142 words
      11. c627W
    11. Eurostar 88 words
      12. c627W
    12. Countryside Access 68 words
      13. cc627-8W
    13. M6 (Roadworks) 255 words
      14. c628W
    14. Overhead Power Lines 95 words
      15. cc628-9W
    15. Pensions 217 words
      16. c629W
    16. Genetically Modified Crops 300 words
      17. cc629-30W
    17. British Rail Publications 347 words
      18. cc630-1W
    18. Packaging Waste 42 words
      19. c631W
    19. Driving Licences 194 words
      20. c631W
    20. Health and Safety Laboratory 388 words
      21. cc631-2W
    21. Short-haired Bumblebee 153 words
      22. cc632-3W
    22. A1 576 words
      23. c633W
    23. Northern Development Area 126 words
      24. c633W
    24. Town Planning Laws 106 words
      25. cc633-4W
    25. Steel and Aluminium 91 words
      26. c634W
    26. Carbon Dioxide 104 words
      27. cc634-5W
    27. Homelessness (Emergency Shelters) 526 words
      28. c635W
    28. Personal Social Services (Worcestershire) 114 words
      29. cc635-6W
    29. Concessionary Fares Scheme 159 words
      30. c636W
    30. Train Operating Companies (Punctuality) 132 words
      31. cc636-7W
    31. SSSIs 76 words
      32. c637W
    32. Wind Farms 143 words
      33. c637W
    33. Regional Development and Rural Policy 181 words
      34. cc637-8W
    34. Local Government Finance 450 words
      35. cc638-9W
    35. Rent Increases 450 words
      36. cc639-40W
    36. Best Value 490 words
      37. cc640-1W
    37. MV Derbyshire 235 words
      38. c641W
    38. Disabled People (Parking Badges) 246 words
  3. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
      4. c641W
    1. Ministerial Visits 29 words
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      5. c642W
    1. Recycling 80 words
  5. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
      6. c642W
    1. Good Town Planning 133 words
      2. c642W
    2. Trading Markets 46 words
      3. c642W
    3. TACIS Projects 72 words
  6. CABINET OFFICE
      7. c643W
    1. Departmental Staff 86 words
      2. c643W
    2. Civil Servants (Sickness) 155 words
      3. c643W
    3. Civil Servants (Industrial Tribunal) 46 words
      4. cc643-4W
    4. Official Cars 343 words
      5. cc644-5W
    5. Biotechnology 461 words
  7. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      8. c645W
    1. Prosecutions (Assent) 73 words
      2. c645W
    2. Fraud 110 words
      3. cc645-6W
    3. Crown Prosecution Service (East Sussex) 49 words
  8. PRIME MINISTER
      9. c646W
    1. Council of Europe 379 words
      2. cc646-8W
    2. G7 Presidency 852 words
      3. cc648-9W
    3. European Commission 111 words
      4. c649W
    4. Fox Hunting 111 words
      5. c649W
    5. Correspondence 60 words
  9. NORTHERN IRELAND
      10. c649W
    1. Sure Start 114 words
      2. cc649-50W
    2. Partnership Areas 322 words
      3. c650W
    3. Military Strategy 96 words
      4. cc650-1W
    4. Hospitals (Capital Expenditure) 257 words
  10. DEFENCE
      11. c651W
    1. Nerve Gas Attacks (Japan) 229 words
      2. cc651-2W
    2. Porton Down 159 words
      3. c652W
    3. Iraq 61 words
      4. c652W
    4. Defence Evaluation and Research Agency 110 words
      5. cc652-3W
    5. Information Technology 246 words
      6. c653W
    6. Nuclear-powered Submarines 78 words
      7. c653W
    7. Chile 271 words
      8. cc653-4W
    8. General Pinochet 57 words
      9. cc654-5W
    9. Scottish Infantry Battalions 657 words
      10. c655W
    10. Gulf War Veterans 171 words
      11. cc655-6W
    11. Landmines 204 words
      12. c656W
    12. Armed Forces Recruitment (Scotland) 59 words
      13. c656W
    13. Polo Ponies 153 words
      14. cc656-7W
    14. REME (Chorley) 282 words
      15. c657W
    15. Ministerial Visits 98 words
      16. c657W
    16. CR Gas 167 words
  11. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      12. c658W
    1. Antibiotic Growth Promoters 79 words
      2. c658W
    2. Flood Defences 219 words
      3. cc658-9W
    3. Pig Industry 146 words
      4. c659W
    4. Milk (Derbyshire) 95 words
      5. c659W
    5. Battery Hens 58 words
      6. cc659-60W
    6. Food Standards Agency 298 words
      7. c660W
    7. Farmers (Competitiveness) 92 words
      8. c660W
    8. Farm Incomes 157 words
      9. c660W
    9. Farming (Profitability) 65 words
      10. cc660-1W
    10. Beef on the Bone 142 words
      11. c661W
    11. Bovine Tuberculosis 44 words
      12. c661W
    12. Meat and Bonemeal 43 words
      13. c661W
    13. Common Agricultural Policy 66 words
      14. c661W
    14. Turkeys 102 words
      15. cc661-2W
    15. Agriculture Council 414 words
      16. cc662-3W
    16. Over-30-months Scheme 135 words
      17. c663W
    17. WTO Agriculture Agreement 214 words
      18. c663W
    18. Beef Ban 197 words
      19. cc663-5W
    19. Fisheries 510 words
      20. c665W
    20. Supermarkets 87 words
      21. c665W
    21. Poultry 148 words
  12. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
      13. cc665-6W
    1. Students 162 words
      2. c666W
    2. New Deal (Women) 196 words
      3. c666W
    3. Prisoners (University for Industry) 98 words
      4. c666W
    4. Education Development Plans 60 words
      5. cc666-7W
    5. Class Sizes 102 words
      6. c667W
    6. New Deal (Shrewsbury and Atcham) 132 words
      7. c667W
    7. Further Education 136 words
      8. cc667-8W
    8. Lone Parents 565 words
      9. cc668-70W
    9. Child Care 779 words
      10. c670W
    10. Teachers' Remuneration 98 words
      11. c670W
    11. Teachers (Performance-related Pay) 147 words
      12. cc670-1W
    12. Grant-maintained Schools 169 words
      13. cc671-2W
    13. New Deal (Unsubsidised Jobs) 488 words
      14. cc672-3W
    14. New Deal Gateway 369 words
      15. c673W
    15. Departmental Expenditure 332 words
      16. cc673-4W
    16. Secondary School Pupils 93 words
      17. cc674-5W
    17. Education Expenditure 725 words
      18. c675W
    18. Numeracy Hour 74 words
      19. cc675-6W
    19. Key Stage 2 National Curriculum Tests 313 words
      20. cc676-7W
    20. Competitive Bidding 106 words
      21. c677W
    21. GCSEs 159 words
      22. c677W
    22. Free Milk 74 words
      23. cc677-8W
    23. Physical Education 411 words
      24. cc678-9W
    24. Unemployment 161 words
      25. c679W
    25. Post-16 Provision 60 words
      26. c679W
    26. International Labour Conference 53 words
      27. c679W
    27. New Deal 125 words
      28. c679W
    28. Special Educational Needs 46 words
      29. cc679-80W
    29. New Deal (Public Sector) 85 words
      30. c680W
    30. Tuition Fees 122 words
  13. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
      14. cc680-1W
    1. School Sport 319 words
      2. cc681-2W
    2. Publications 576 words
      3. c682W
    3. Ministerial Visits 63 words
      4. c682W
    4. Departmental Staff 72 words
      5. c682W
    5. English Sports Council 70 words
      6. c682W
    6. St. Kilda 66 words
  14. SCOTLAND
      15. cc683-4W
    1. Departmental Groups 540 words
      2. cc684-5W
    2. Rehabilitation Beds (Availability) 831 words
      3. cc685-6W
    3. Local Government Finance 111 words
      4. c686W
    4. Tay River Protection Order 276 words
      5. c686W
    5. BBC News 105 words
      6. cc686-8W
    6. Heroin 617 words
      7. c688W
    7. Homeless People (Emergency Shelters) 291 words
      8. cc688-9W
    8. A83 85 words
      9. c689W
    9. Domestic Abuse Advertising Campaign 105 words
  15. WALES
      16. c689W
    1. S4C Board 177 words
      2. cc689-90W
    2. National Assembly 137 words
      3. c690W
    3. Ministerial School Visits (Monmouth) 35 words
      4. c690W
    4. Barnett Formula 136 words
      5. c690W
    5. Departmental Expenditure 63 words
      6. cc690-1W
    6. Education Expenditure (Flintshire) 93 words
      7. c691W
    7. Special Educational Needs 121 words
      8. c691W
    8. State Aid 191 words
      9. c691W
    9. Assisted Areas 42 words
      10. cc691-2W
    10. Busway (Shotton Steelworks to Chester) 116 words
      11. c692W
    11. Ethnic Monitoring 102 words
      12. c692W
    12. Local Government Finance 99 words
  16. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      17. cc692-3W
    1. Fairness at Work 456 words
      2. c693W
    2. Parliamentary Questions 87 words
      3. cc693-4W
    3. Millennium Exhibition 277 words
      4. cc694-5W
    4. Research Awards 489 words
      5. c695W
    5. Redundancy Claims 171 words
      6. cc695-6W
    6. Heat and Power Plants 110 words
      7. c696W
    7. Export Missions 57 words
      8. c696W
    8. Science Spending 271 words
      9. cc696-7W
    9. Utilities (Competition) 103 words
      10. c697W
    10. Airlines 315 words
      11. cc697-8W
    11. Arms Exports (South Africa) 74 words
      12. c698W
    12. Export Finance Scheme 125 words
      13. cc698-9W
    13. Millennium Compliance 547 words
      14. cc699-700W
    14. Millennium Dome 455 words
      15. cc700-1W
    15. Nuclear Physics (Postgraduate Courses) 371 words
      16. c701W
    16. Nuclear Liability and Taxation Agreement 84 words
      17. cc701-2W
    17. Arms Exports 444 words
      18. c702W
    18. British Nuclear Fuels Ltd 67 words
  17. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      18. c703W
    1. Electronic Book Formats 65 words
      2. c703W
    2. Industrial Tribunal Claims 98 words
      3. c703W
    3. Ministerial Visits 73 words
      4. cc703-4W
    4. Internet (Paedophiles) 288 words
      5. c704W
    5. Employee Savings Club 125 words
      6. c704W
    6. Redundancy Payments 117 words
      7. cc704-5W
    7. Wind Farms 275 words
      8. c705W
    8. Minister for Science 153 words
      9. cc705-6W
    9. Post Office 371 words
      10. c706W
    10. Tanzania (Medical Supplies) 74 words
      11. cc706-7W
    11. Scotland Act 1998 (Schedule 5) 86 words
      12. cc707-8W
    12. Green Technology 466 words
      13. c708W
    13. Millennium Dome (Sports) 81 words
      14. c708W
    14. Receiverships 56 words
      15. c708W
    15. Post-devolution Expenditure 220 words
      16. cc708-9W
    16. Freephone 93 words
      17. c709W
    17. Internet 159 words
      18. c709W
    18. Nuclear Fuels 133 words
      19. cc709-10W
    19. Defence Exports 69 words
      20. c710W
    20. Medical and Pharmaceutical Equipment 89 words
      21. c710W
    21. Radioactive Waste, Germany 95 words
      22. c710W
    22. Export Licences 133 words
      23. cc710-1W
    23. Electronic Commerce 113 words
  18. SOCIAL SECURITY
      19. cc711-2W
    1. Contributions Agency 671 words
      2. c712W
    2. Disability Living Allowance 198 words
      3. cc712-3W
    3. Benefit Integrity Project 430 words
      4. cc713-4W
    4. National Insurance 528 words
      5. cc714-5W
    5. Contributions Agency (Computer) 128 words
      6. c715W
    6. Redundancy (Access to Benefits) 194 words
      7. cc715-6W
    7. Contributions Agency (Computer) 374 words
      8. cc716-7W
    8. Child Support Agency 242 words
      9. c717W
    9. Terminally Ill People (Special Benefit Rules) 185 words
      10. c717W
    10. Carers 103 words
      11. cc717-8W
    11. Council Tax Benefit 162 words
      12. c718W
    12. Children (Household Profile) 354 words
      13. cc718-9W
    13. Departmental Expenditure 266 words
      14. c719W
    14. Married Woman's Pension 278 words
      15. cc719-20W
    15. Pensions 301 words
      16. c720W
    16. Departmental Staff 57 words
  19. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      20. cc720-1W
    1. Relay Europe 143 words
      2. c721W
    2. Departmental Expenditure 123 words
      3. c721W
    3. Kuwaiti Missing Persons 160 words
      4. cc721-2W
    4. Argentina 186 words
      5. c722W
    5. Russia 292 words
      6. cc722-3W
    6. General Pinochet 226 words
      7. c723W
    7. Chechnya 65 words
      8. c723W
    8. Kenya and Tanzania 146 words
      9. cc723-4W
    9. Schengen Agreement 248 words
  20. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
      21. c724W
    1. DNA Testing (Paternity Cases) 41 words
      2. cc724-5W
    2. Cabinet Office Expenditure 148 words
  21. HOME DEPARTMENT
      22. c725W
    1. Criminal Trials 244 words
      2. cc725-6W
    2. Terrorism Legislation 201 words
      3. c726W
    3. Immigration and Asylum 237 words
      4. cc726-7W
    4. Mutual Legal Assistance 221 words
      5. c727W
    5. Charity Commission 38 words
      6. cc727-8W
    6. Police Dog Training 315 words
      7. c728W
    7. Prisoners (Education Programmes) 180 words
      8. c728W
    8. Prisons (Needle Exchanges) 82 words
      9. cc728-30W
    9. Police Service 769 words
      10. cc730-2W
    10. Asylum Seekers 882 words
      11. cc732-3W
    11. Prisons (Bullying) 104 words
      12. cc733-4W
    12. Mr. Barry Home 350 words
      13. c734W
    13. Juries 144 words
      14. c734W
    14. General Pinochet 62 words
      15. c734W
    15. Crime (Staffordshire) 96 words
      16. c734W
    16. Immigration Detainees 56 words
      17. cc734-5W
    17. Helicopter Flights 51 words
      18. cc735-6W
    18. Police Grant 919 words
      19. cc736-7W
    19. Prisons (Drugs) 408 words
      20. cc737-8W
    20. Feltham Young Offenders Institution 190 words
      21. cc738-41W
    21. Police Manpower 1,544 words
      22. c741W
    22. Young Offenders (Psychiatric Assistance) 103 words
      23. cc741-2W
    23. Prisoner Programmes 191 words
      24. cc742-3W
    24. Police Budgets (Pensions) 1,171 words
      25. cc743-5W
    25. Sexual Offences 322 words
      26. c745W
    26. CS Sprays 169 words
      27. c745W
    27. Conspiracy Convictions 92 words
      28. cc745-6W
    28. Ministerial Visits 42 words
      29. c746W
    29. Specified Organisation 134 words
      30. c746W
    30. Fire Service (Pensions) 52 words
      31. c746W
    31. Birmingham Northern Relief Road (Policing) 118 words
      32. cc746-7W
    32. Age of Consent 191 words
      33. cc747-8W
    33. Illegal Immigrants 684 words
      34. cc748-9W
    34. Prisoners (Hunger Strikes) 246 words
      35. c749W
    35. Police (Deaf People) 280 words
  22. TREASURY
      23. c750W
    1. Public Services 48 words
      2. cc750-1W
    2. National Savings 572 words
      3. c751W
    3. Film Industry (Tax Relief) 90 words
      4. cc751-2W
    4. International Debt 218 words
      5. c752W
    5. Euro-Preparations Committee 60 words
      6. c752W
    6. Taxation 98 words
      7. cc752-3W
    7. Working Families Tax Credit 549 words
      8. c753W
    8. European Economy 76 words
      9. cc753-4W
    9. ECOFIN (Tax Harmonisation) 193 words
      10. c754W
    10. European Code of Conduct Group 314 words
      11. cc754-5W
    11. Third-world Debt 46 words
      12. c755W
    12. Productivity Gap 96 words
      13. c755W
    13. Correspondence 50 words
      14. c755W
    14. Tax Havens 88 words
      15. cc755-6W
    15. Charities 65 words
      16. c756W
    16. EU Withholding Tax 114 words
      17. c756W
    17. Tax Records 92 words
      18. c756W
    18. Departmental Staff (Retirement) 99 words
      19. c756W
    19. Pensions 54 words
      20. cc756-7W
    20. Collective Investment Schemes 62 words
      21. c757W
    21. Public Engagements (Ministers) 48 words
      22. c757W
    22. Third World Debt 450 words
      23. cc757-8W
    23. Euro Preparations Unit 54 words
      24. c758W
    24. Human Rights 85 words
      25. c758W
    25. New Cars (EU) 46 words
      26. cc758-61W
    26. EU Budget 1,364 words
      27. cc761-2W
    27. Economic and Monetary Union 90 words

Lords Sitting of 17 December 1998 Series 5 Vol. 595

    c1451
  1. Preamble 29 words
    2. cc1451-4
  2. Housing 1,363 words
    3. cc1454-7
  3. Train Delays and Cancellations: Cost 1,342 words
    4. cc1457-9
  4. National Museums and Galleries: Free Admission 1,075 words
    5. cc1459-60
  5. Business 335 words
    6. c1460
  6. Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Bill [H.L.] 110 words
    7. c1460
  7. Consolidated Fund Bill 59 words
    8. cc1461-97
  8. Disability Rights Commission Bill [H.L.] 19,058 words
    9. cc1497-501
  9. Parole Board (Transfer of Functions) Order 1998 2,435 words
    10. cc1502-16
  10. Baglan Energy Park Project 7,671 words
    11. cc1516-20
  11. Business 1,968 words
    12. c1520
  12. Royal Assent 36 words
    13. c1520
  13. Business 286 words
    14. cc1521-52
  14. Iraq 16,440 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 17 December 1998 Series 5 Vol. 595

    c165WA
  1. Access to Justice Bill and Human Rights Act 1998 349 words
    cc165-6WA
  2. Channel Tunnel Rail Link: Compensation for Blight 109 words
    c166WA
  3. Airline Passengers: Violent and Disruptive Behaviour 214 words
    cc166-7WA
  4. A.12: Hoardings 152 words
    c167WA
  5. Development: Guidance to RDAs 179 words
    cc167-8WA
  6. MV "Derbyshire" 226 words
    cc168-9WA
  7. Rent Increases: Green Paper 443 words
    c169WA
  8. Operation Lifeline Sudan: Nuba Mountains 154 words
    cc169-70WA
  9. Sudan: Diversion of Food Aid 281 words
    cc170-1WA
  10. Council of Europe and WEU Assemblies: UK Delegation 337 words
    c171WA
  11. House of Lords: Hereditary Peers' Contribution 118 words
    cc171-3WA
  12. G7/8: UK Presidency 870 words
    cc173-4WA
  13. Human Genetics Advisory Commission Working Party 220 words
    c174WA
  14. Human Embryos: Cloning 274 words
    cc174-5WA
  15. General Pinochet 138 words
    cc175-6WA
  16. Agriculture Council, 14–15 December 433 words
    c176WA
  17. Dr. Bishop 107 words
    c176WA
  18. Brazil 72 words
    cc176-8WA
  19. Unidentified Flying Objects 403 words
    c178WA
  20. UN Charter: Article 53 285 words
    cc178-9WA
  21. UN Charter: Article 51 83 words
    c179WA
  22. Council of Europe: Fact-finding Mission to Turkey 102 words
    c179WA
  23. Democratic Republic of Congo 127 words
    cc179-80WA
  24. Turkey: Human Rights 239 words
    c180WA
  25. Assassinations 75 words
    cc180-1WA
  26. European Union: Economic and Financial Sanctions 104 words
    c181WA
  27. Sudan: IGAD Peace Process 85 words
    c181WA
  28. State Immunity Act 88 words
    c181WA
  29. General Pinochet: Extradition Proceedings 73 words
    cc181-2WA
  30. Argentina: Arms Exports 181 words
    cc182-3WA
  31. Northern Ireland: Community "Alternative" Groups 612 words
    cc183-4WA
  32. Northern Ireland: Electricity Generation 161 words
    c184WA
  33. Hearsay Evidence: Law Commission Report 130 words
    cc184-5WA
  34. Immigration and Asylum White Paper 75 words
    c185WA
  35. Counter-Terrorist Proposals 207 words
    cc185-6WA
  36. Prison Visitors: Training Courses 162 words
    c186WA
  37. Human Rights Convention: Compatibility of Bills 71 words
    cc186-7WA
  38. Domestic Violence: Counselling in Schools 216 words
    c187WA
  39. General Pinochet: Drafting of Warrants 61 words
    c187WA
  40. Human Rights Act 80 words
    c187WA
  41. Firearms (Amendment) Act 119 words
    cc187-8WA
  42. Human Rights Act 1998 130 words
    cc188-90WA
  43. Immigration Detainees 412 words