Commons Sitting of 13 December 1994 Series 6 Vol. 251

Commons Sitting of 13 December 1994 Series 6 Vol. 251

    c753
  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c753
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      4. c753
    1. BRITISH WATERWAYS BILL [Lords] 9 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. EDUCATION
        2. cc753-4
      1. Parental Consultation 661 words
        2. cc754-6
      2. School Inspections 698 words
        3. cc756-7
      3. Higher Education 498 words
        4. cc757-8
      4. Special Needs 341 words
        5. cc758-9
      5. Student Loans 876 words
        6. cc759-60
      6. Grant-maintained Schools 531 words
        7. cc760-1
      7. School Building Programme 358 words
        8. cc761-2
      8. General National Vocational Qualifications 200 words
        9. cc762-3
      9. Lancashire Schools 454 words
        10. cc763-4
      10. Primary Schools 452 words
        11. cc764-5
      11. School League Tables 538 words
        12. cc765-6
      12. School Meals 368 words
        13. c766
      13. Derbyshire Education Committee 336 words
        14. cc766-7
      14. Pupil Numbers 161 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
        3. cc767-8
      1. Engagements 718 words
        2. cc768-9
      2. Gibraltar 263 words
        3. cc769-72
      3. Engagements 1,092 words
    cc773-86
  5. Pergau Dam 7,015 words
    6. cc787-9
  6. Offices (Intrusion) 1,239 words
    7. c789
  7. Cleveland County Council 324 words
    8. cc790-893
  8. Ways and Means 48,469 words, 1 division
      9. c790
    1. 1. VALUE ADDED TAX (FUEL AND POWER) 206 words
      2. cc790-3
    2. SCHEDULE A1 1,371 words
      3. c879
    3. 1. VALUE ADDED TAX (FUEL AND POWER) 208 words
      4. cc879-81
    4. SCHEDULE A1 1,084 words
      5. cc881-6
    5. 2. SPIRITS (RATE) 2,448 words, 1 division
      6. cc886-90
    6. 3. BEER (RATE) 2,410 words, 1 division
      7. c890
    7. 4. CIDER (RATE) 62 words
      8. c890
    8. 5. WINE AND MADE-WINE (RATES) (No. 2) 77 words
      9. c890
    9. 6. TOBACCO PRODUCTS (RATES) (No. 2) 69 words
      10. cc890-3
    10. 7. HYDROCARBON OIL (RATES) (No. 2) 1,485 words, 1 division
      11. c893
    11. SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES 37 words
      12. c893
    12. PRIVILEGES 13 words
    cc894-902
  9. Child Witnesses 4,627 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 December 1994 Series 6 Vol. 251

  1. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
      2. c543W
    1. Public Bodies 172 words
      2. c543W
    2. Special Advisers 45 words
      3. cc543-4W
    3. Magistrates Court Service 418 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      3. c544W
    1. Special Advisers 40 words
  3. TRANSPORT
      4. cc544-5W
    1. Thames Transport 135 words
      2. c545W
    2. Special Advisers 40 words
      3. c545W
    3. Payment of Bills 36 words
      4. c545W
    4. Buses (Wheelchair Accessibility) 252 words
      5. cc545-6W
    5. Research 163 words
      6. cc546-7W
    6. Gospel Oak to Barking Line 482 words
      7. c547W
    7. Buses 79 words
      8. c547W
    8. Bridges 199 words
      9. cc547-8W
    9. Railway Regulator 182 words
      10. c548W
    10. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency 156 words
      11. c548W
    11. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 142 words
      12. cc548-9W
    12. Air Traffic Control 195 words
      13. c549W
    13. Passenger Transport Grant 103 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
      5. c549W
    1. Inward Investment, Chester 50 words
      2. cc549-50W
    2. Ministers 156 words
      3. c550W
    3. Honours System 55 words
      4. c550W
    4. Engagements 61 words
      5. c550W
    5. Nagorno-Karabakh 225 words
      6. cc550-1W
    6. Ecclesiastical Appointments 102 words
      7. c551W
    7. Special Advisers 37 words
  5. ENVIRONMENT
      6. c551W
    1. Private Sector Rented Accommodation 85 words
      2. c551W
    2. Domestic Waste Disposal 89 words
      3. c551W
    3. Energy Efficiency 62 words
      4. cc551-4W
    4. Single Regeneration Budget 1,401 words
      5. c554W
    5. English Nature (Grants) 76 words
      6. cc554-5W
    6. VAT (Fuel) 304 words
      7. cc555-6W
    7. Parliamentary Questions 420 words
      8. c556W
    8. Rio Conference 77 words
      9. cc556-7W
    9. National Parks 230 words
      10. c557W
    10. Housing 83 words
      11. c557W
    11. Hampshire 83 words
      12. c557W
    12. Housing Association Rents 70 words
      13. cc557-8W
    13. Local Government Finance 135 words
      14. c558W
    14. National Non-domestic Rate 44 words
      15. c558W
    15. Local Authorities (Pensioners) 90 words
      16. cc558-9W
    16. Fire Safety 277 words
      17. c559W
    17. Rented Housing 76 words
      18. cc559-60W
    18. Non-domestic Rating 334 words
      19. cc560-2W
    19. Compulsory Competitive Tendering Personnel Services 1,418 words
      20. cc562-3W
    20. Nickel and Vanadium Emissions 680 words
      21. cc563-4W
    21. Sites of Community Interest 222 words
      22. c564W
    22. Special Advisers 40 words
      23. c564W
    23. Radioactive Waste Disposal 60 words
  6. HOME DEPARTMENT
      7. c565W
    1. Fire Advisory Panel 82 words
      2. c565W
    2. Morgan Report 71 words
      3. c565W
    3. Dyfed Powys Police 205 words
      4. cc565-6W
    4. Armley Prison (Young Offenders) 241 words
      5. c566W
    5. British Citizen Children 168 words
      6. c566W
    6. Secure Remands (Juveniles) 77 words
      7. cc566-7W
    7. Police Funding Formula 182 words
      8. c567W
    8. Immigration Rules 331 words
      9. cc567-8W
    9. Merseyside Police 86 words
      10. c568W
    10. Police Authorities, Wales 188 words
      11. cc568-9W
    11. Asylum Seekers 431 words
      12. c569W
    12. War Crimes Act 1991 131 words
      13. cc569-70W
    13. Entry Visas 175 words
      14. c570W
    14. Energy Expenditure 88 words
      15. cc570-1W
    15. Disclosure of Evidence 113 words
  7. DEFENCE
      8. c571W
    1. Drug Testing 351 words
      2. cc571-2W
    2. Quangos 350 words
      3. c572W
    3. United Nations Peacekeeping 89 words
      4. cc572-3W
    4. Consultants 141 words
      5. c573W
    5. Animal Testing 136 words
      6. c573W
    6. Exercise Iron Tempest 58 words
      7. c573W
    7. Nuclear Weapons 67 words
      8. c573W
    8. Official Service Residences 107 words
      9. cc573-4W
    9. Redundancies 119 words
      10. c574W
    10. Research 246 words
      11. c574W
    11. Special Advisers 56 words
      12. cc574-6W
    12. Military Equipment 790 words
      13. c576W
    13. Departmental Telephone Bills 53 words
  8. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      9. c576W
    1. Special Advisers 45 words
  9. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
      10. cc576-7W
    1. Special Advisers 42 words
      2. c577W
    2. Consultants 163 words
      3. c577W
    3. Research Council 92 words
  10. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      11. c577W
    1. Casual Staff 83 words
      2. cc577-8W
    2. Manufacturing Output 67 words
      3. c578W
    3. Companies House 91 words
      4. c578W
    4. Tile Manufacturing 135 words
      5. c578W
    5. Insolvency Service 148 words
      6. cc578-9W
    6. Fire Safety 81 words
      7. c579W
    7. British Coal Enterprise 89 words
      8. c579W
    8. EC Legislation 69 words
      9. c579W
    9. Pearl Assurance Ltd 39 words
      10. cc579-80W
    10. Post Office 183 words
  11. NORTHERN IRELAND
      12. c580W
    1. Energy Expenditure 95 words
      2. c580W
    2. Labour Statistics 169 words
      3. cc580-1W
    3. Ophthalmology Out-patient Clinics 65 words
      4. c581W
    4. Hill Farming 75 words
      5. c581W
    5. Pigs 96 words
  12. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
      13. cc581-2W
    1. Colombia 221 words
      2. c582W
    2. Health Authority Finance 300 words
      3. cc582-3W
    3. Rwanda 217 words
      4. c583W
    4. European Aid 126 words
      5. c583W
    5. Aid Provision 67 words
      6. cc583-4W
    6. Trade Unions 176 words
      7. c584W
    7. Energy Efficiency Projects 98 words
      8. c584W
    8. Eritrea 73 words
  13. NATIONAL HERITAGE
      14. cc584-5W
    1. Royal Palaces 135 words
      2. c585W
    2. Millennium Fund 109 words
      3. c585W
    3. Export of Works of Art Review 46 words
      4. c585W
    4. Television Licence Fee 70 words
      5. c585W
    5. National Lottery 55 words
      6. c585W
    6. Special Advisers 47 words
      7. cc585-6W
    7. Energy Expenditure 121 words
  14. TREASURY
      15. cc586-7W
    1. Smuggling 366 words
      2. c587W
    2. Beer 134 words
      3. c587W
    3. Manufactures 283 words
      4. cc587-8W
    4. Imports 155 words
      5. c588W
    5. Exchange Rate 88 words
      6. c588W
    6. Inflation 106 words
      7. cc588-9W
    7. Inheritance Tax Exemptions 350 words
      8. cc589-90W
    8. Overseas Debt 112 words
      9. c590W
    9. Tax Relief 88 words
      10. c590W
    10. VAT (Public Transport) 202 words
      11. cc590-1W
    11. Steam Railways 228 words
      12. c591W
    12. Interest Rates 253 words
      13. cc591-2W
    13. VAT (Fuel) 52 words
      14. c592W
    14. Tax Yields 145 words
      15. c592W
    15. Imports and Exports 237 words
      16. cc592-3W
    16. Customs and Excise 220 words
      17. c593W
    17. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 65 words
      18. c593W
    18. Market Testing 92 words
      19. cc593-4W
    19. Consumer Spending and VAT 96 words
      20. c594W
    20. Thin Capitalisation 99 words
      21. c594W
    21. Occupation Pensions 78 words
  15. SCOTLAND
      16. c594W
    1. Health Boards and Hospital Trusts (Property) 44 words
      2. cc594-5W
    2. Scottish Heart Transplant Centre 110 words
      3. c595W
    3. Parliamentary Questions 77 words
      4. c595W
    4. Schools Finance 66 words
      5. cc595-6W
    5. Local Government Reorganisation 499 words
      6. cc596-7W
    6. Public Expenditure 426 words
      7. c597W
    7. Orthopaedic Consultants 54 words
      8. c597W
    8. Forestry Commission Land 80 words
      9. c597W
    9. Special Advisers 47 words
      10. cc597-8W
    10. Health (Revenue Allocations) 419 words
      11. cc598-9W
    11. Travelling People 270 words
      12. c599W
    12. Hospital Construction, Lanarkshire 60 words
      13. c599W
    13. Chapter 10.5 Scheme 190 words
      14. cc599-600W
    14. Deprivation 261 words
      15. c600W
    15. Astronomer Royal 48 words
      16. c600W
    16. Forth Bridge 199 words
  16. WALES
      17. cc600-1W
    1. Single-sex Wards 76 words
      2. c601W
    2. Dual-sex Wards 364 words
      3. cc601-2W
    3. Energy Expenditure 238 words
      4. c602W
    4. Cot Deaths 56 words
      5. c602W
    5. Oriel Bookshop 217 words
      6. cc602-3W
    6. NHS Trusts 63 words
      7. c603W
    7. Consultants 241 words
      8. cc603-4W
    8. Home Tuition 137 words
      9. c604W
    9. Pupil Exclusions 108 words
      10. c604W
    10. Hospital Tuition 103 words
      11. c604W
    11. Wrexham Maelor Hospital 139 words
      12. cc604-5W
    12. Dental Services 133 words
      13. c605W
    13. Special Advisers 40 words
      14. cc605-6W
    14. Health Service Staff 690 words
      15. c606W
    15. Tourism 72 words
  17. EDUCATION
      18. cc606-7W
    1. Performance Tables 162 words
      2. c607W
    2. Grant-maintained Schools 249 words
      3. c607W
    3. Self-defence Courses 49 words
      4. cc607-8W
    4. School League Tables 224 words
      5. c608W
    5. School Funding 53 words
      6. c608W
    6. Pupil Numbers, Liverpool 76 words
      7. c608W
    7. Discretionary Grants 39 words
      8. c608W
    8. Further Education, Rotherham 40 words
      9. cc608-9W
    9. Nursery Education 245 words
      10. c609W
    10. Technology Colleges 22 words
      11. c609W
    11. Expenditure Priorities 64 words
      12. cc609-10W
    12. City Technology Colleges 166 words
      13. c610W
    13. State Schools (Private Industry) 128 words
      14. c610W
    14. Language Training 134 words
      15. c610W
    15. Ethnic Minorities 88 words
      16. cc610-1W
    16. Capital Expenditure 34 words
      17. c611W
    17. Research 271 words
      18. c611W
    18. Public Bodies 77 words
      19. c611W
    19. Special Advisers 37 words
      20. cc611-2W
    20. Higher Education (Application Refusals) 131 words
      21. c612W
    21. Student Awards 98 words
      22. c612W
    22. Schools Expenditure 75 words
      23. c612W
    23. Older People (Learning) 103 words
  18. HEALTH
      19. c613W
    1. Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Trust 85 words
      2. c613W
    2. NHS Trusts 71 words
      3. c613W
    3. GP Fundholding 165 words
      4. cc613-4W
    4. Prescriptions 100 words
      5. c614W
    5. Burnley Health Care NHS Trust 92 words
      6. c614W
    6. NHS Patient Statistics 137 words
      7. c614W
    7. Life Expectancy 102 words
      8. cc614-5W
    8. "The Health of the Nation" 54 words
      9. c615W
    9. Non-executive Directors 209 words
      10. cc615-6W
    10. Long-term Care 240 words
      11. c616W
    11. Orthopaedic Posts 67 words
      12. c616W
    12. Multiple Births 130 words
      13. c616W
    13. NHS Staff Salary Costs 88 words
      14. cc616-7W
    14. Research 328 words
      15. c617W
    15. Special Advisers 40 words
      16. c617W
    16. Patients' Complaints 47 words
  19. EMPLOYMENT
      20. cc617-8W
    1. Career Development Loans 57 words
      2. c618W
    2. Labour Statistics 318 words
      3. cc618-9W
    3. Health and Safety Executive 106 words
      4. c619W
    4. Apprenticeships 106 words
      5. c619W
    5. Pay Differentials 128 words
      6. c619W
    6. Managerial Pay Awards 91 words
      7. cc619-20W
    7. Management and Work Force Co-operation 157 words
    8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
        9. c620W
      1. Cuba 55 words
        2. cc620-1W
      2. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation 258 words
        3. c621W
      3. Rwanda and Zaire 124 words
        4. c621W
      4. East Timor 128 words
        5. cc621-2W
      5. Nuclear Weapons 231 words
        6. c622W
      6. Disarmament Conference 66 words
        7. cc622-3W
      7. Non-proliferation Treaty 290 words
        8. c623W
      8. Nuclear Tests 253 words
        9. c623W
      9. Negative Security Assurance 96 words
        10. cc623-4W
      10. Casablanca Conference 114 words
        11. c624W
      11. Arms Trade 126 words
        12. c624W
      12. Western Sahara 143 words
        13. c624W
      13. Special Advisers 52 words
        14. cc624-5W
      14. Entry Clearance 87 words
    9. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
        10. c625W
      1. Coarse Fishing 151 words
        2. c625W
      2. British Fishery Protection Service 156 words
        3. cc625-6W
      3. Slaughterhouses 145 words
        4. c626W
      4. Embassies 115 words
        5. c626W
      5. Special Advisers 48 words
        6. c626W
      6. Lindane 146 words
        7. cc626-7W
      7. Animal Transportation 419 words
        8. cc627-8W
      8. Private Finance Initiative 270 words
        9. c628W
      9. Bovine Somatotropin 128 words
        10. c628W
      10. Milk 153 words
        11. cc628-9W
      11. Rabies 71 words
    10. SOCIAL SECURITY
        11. c629W
      1. Benefits 446 words
        2. cc629-30W
      2. Retirement Pensions 183 words
        3. cc630-1W
      3. Funeral Expenses 625 words
        4. cc631-2W
      4. Income Support 408 words
        5. cc632-3W
      5. Cold Weather Payments 241 words
        6. c633W
      6. Children 309 words
        7. cc633-4W
      7. Mortgage Interest 336 words
        8. c634W
      8. Back-to-work Bonus 79 words
        9. c634W
      9. Agency Heads 90 words
        10. cc634-5W
      10. Income-related Benefits 172 words
      c635W
    11. Housing Benefit 142 words
      12. c635W
    12. Jobseeker's Allowance 132 words
      13. cc635-6W
    13. Child Support Agency 199 words
      14. c636W
    14. Fraud 135 words
      15. cc636-7W
    15. Incapacity Benefit 264 words
      16. c637W
    16. Special Advisers 56 words
      17. cc637-8W
    17. Public Appointments 597 words
      18. cc638-9W
    18. Means Testing (Limits) 421 words
      19. cc639-41W
    19. Benefit Uprating 480 words
      20. cc641-2W
    20. Single Pensioners 157 words

Lords Sitting of 13 December 1994 Series 5 Vol. 559

    c1193
  1. Preamble 28 words
    2. cc1193-5
  2. Myanmar: Relations 1,170 words
    3. cc1195-6
  3. Gibraltar: Building Societies 514 words
    4. cc1197-9
  4. Rockall: Oil/Gas Exploration Licensing 1,061 words
    5. cc1199-202
  5. European Union: Single Currency 1,776 words
    6. cc1203-5
  6. House of Lords' Offices: Select Committee Report 1,019 words
    7. c1205
  7. Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill [H.L.] 81 words
    8. cc1205-64
  8. Agricultural Tenancies Bill [H.L.] 31,383 words
    9. cc1265-9
  9. Milk Development Council Order 1994 2,437 words
    10. cc1269-71
  10. World Trade Organisation (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1994 931 words
    11. cc1271-3
  11. European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organisation) Order 1994 710 words
    12. cc1273-80
  12. Toxoplasmosis in Pregnancy 3,183 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 13 December 1994 Series 5 Vol. 559

    c113WA
  1. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BUILDING: COST 211 words
    c113WA
  2. NUCLEAR MILITARY EXERCISES 159 words
    cc113-4WA
  3. OVERSEAS AID ALLOCATION 289 words
    c114WA
  4. HALIFAX AND LEEDS BUILDING SOCIETIES: PROPOSED MERGER 101 words
    cc114-5WA
  5. EUROPEAN UNION MEMBERSHIP: VALUE TO UK 168 words
    c115WA
  6. EXPORTS: REASONS FOR GROWTH 54 words
    c115WA
  7. EQUAL TREATMENT DIRECTIVE 99 words
    cc115-6WA
  8. REVIEWING COMMITTEE ON EXPORT OF WORKS OF ART: 1993–94 REPORT 43 words
    c116WA
  9. POST OFFICE CHIEF EXECUTIVE: REMUNERATION 54 words
    c116WA
  10. RESEARCH COUNCIL FOURTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME 87 words
    c116WA
  11. MOT TESTING FACILITIES 32 words
    cc116-7WA
  12. ABNORMAL LOAD MOVEMENTS 149 words
    c117WA
  13. HEAVY RECOVERY VEHICLE NUMBERS 70 words
    cc117-8WA
  14. NHS FRAUD 98 words
    c118WA
  15. DERMATOLOGICAL SERVICES, SOUTH AND WEST LONDON 140 words