Sitting of 27 November 1996

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Commons Sitting of 27 November 1996 Series 6 Vol. 286

c249
1. Preamble 7 words
c249
2. PRAYERS 5 words
cc249-70
3. Education 11,795 words
cc271-92
4. Benefits Agency Offices (Wales) 11,806 words
cc293-300
5. Traffic Law (Keepership) 4,430 words
cc301-8
6. King George's Hospital, Redbridge 4,247 words
cc309-16
7. A2 (North-west Kent) 3,988 words
c316
8. PRIVATE BUSINESS 28 words
9. Oral Answers to Questions
1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
cc317-8
1. European Union 482 words
cc318-20
2. Zaire 1,470 words
c321
3. Tunisia 268 words
cc321-2
4. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 383 words
cc322-3
5. Pakistan 395 words
cc323-5
6. Intergovernmental Conference 938 words
cc325-6
7. Sri Lanka 506 words
cc326-8
8. Cyprus 1,140 words
cc328-9
9. East Timor 452 words
cc329-30
10. Arms Sales 398 words
c330
11. Iraq 223 words
cc330-1
12. Zaire 214 words
c331
13. European Parliament 313 words
cc331-2
14. European Union 230 words
cc332-3
15. China 871 words
c334
16. Japan 379 words
cc334-6
17. Intergovernmental Conference 551 words
cc337-61
10. Local Government Finance 12,993 words
cc362-3
11. Points of Order 516 words
12. BILLS PRESENTED
c363
1. ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE 64 words
c363
2. DOGS (ELECTRIC SHOCK COLLARS) 76 words
13. Orders of the Day
c364
1. WAYS AND MEANS 10 words
c364
2. AMENDMENT OF THE LAW 135 words
cc364-436
3. Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation 39,734 words
cc437-44
14. Health Services (South London) 4,293 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 27 November 1996 Series 6 Vol. 286

1. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
c229W
1. Legal Aid 251 words
2. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Litter 91 words
c230W
2. Police (CS Spray) 119 words
cc230-1W
3. West Midlands Serious Crimes Squad 142 words
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4. Irish Prisoners (Transfers) 522 words
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5. Ethnic Minorities 56 words
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6. Police Service 353 words
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7. Police Complaints Authority 90 words
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8. Police Authorities (Funding) 1,094 words
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9. Forensic Laboratories (Contamination) 90 words
3. DEFENCE
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1. Environmental Auditing 110 words
c236W
2. Computers 69 words
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3. Airfields (Yorkshire) 61 words
c236W
4. Helicopter Flying School 70 words
c236W
5. Hawk Aircraft (Training) 94 words
cc236-7W
6. Sea Cadets 71 words
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7. Air Training Corps 447 words
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8. Army Cadet Force 63 words
c238W
9. Bosnia 125 words
4. NATIONAL HERITAGE
c238W
1. Magna Steel Project 51 words
cc238-9W
2. Computers 49 words
c239W
3. Women 258 words
c239W
4. Amsterdam Wreck 138 words
cc239-40W
5. Trafalgar Square 118 words
c240W
6. Resource Accounting 161 words
cc240-1W
7. Employment Contracts 487 words
5. ENVIRONMENT
c241W
1. Private Lettings Agencies 183 words
cc241-2W
2. Camberwell Jobcentre 111 words
c242W
3. Planning Appeals 75 words
c242W
4. Household Drains (Repairs) 110 words
c242W
5. Green Ministers 52 words
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6. Local Government Finance 1,016 words
6. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
c245W
1. Computers 163 words
cc245-6W
2. Unemployment-related Benefit Claims 339 words
c246W
3. Teachers' Pensions 306 words
cc246-8W
4. Parental Choice 711 words
cc248-9W
5. Former Incapacity Benefit Claimants 552 words
c249W
6. Transsexuals 84 words
c250W
7. School Budgets (Deficits) 94 words
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8. Ministerial Meetings 206 words
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9. Undergraduate Students (Financial Support) 132 words
7. WALES
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1. Disabled People 216 words
c251W
2. Nurses (Clwyd) 89 words
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3. Women 150 words
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4. Day Care 157 words
c252W
5. Administrative Health Staff 112 words
cc252-3W
6. Home Helps 46 words
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7. Social Workers 109 words
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8. Poultry Meat Hygiene 168 words
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9. Hospital Beds (Clwyd) 145 words
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10. Learning Disabilities 160 words
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11. Poverty 151 words
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12. Homelessness 273 words
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13. Health Data 174 words
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14. Carers 86 words
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15. General Practitioner Fundholding 62 words
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16. Assisted Places Scheme 138 words
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17. Flintshire (Financial Assistance) 112 words
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18. Police 570 words
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19. Incomes and Mortality 98 words
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20. Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma 166 words
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21. Local Government Finance 134 words
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22. Community Alarm Schemes 221 words
8. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Public Interest Certificates 41 words
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2. George Finbar Ross 55 words
9. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
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1. Computers 50 words
10. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Resurfacing Work (Bangor) 170 words
c260W
2. Investment (Belfast, West) 114 words
c261W
3. Unemployment 252 words
c261W
4. Women 122 words
cc261-2W
5. Arts Council 396 words
c263W
6. George Finbar Ross 76 words
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7. Students (Housing) 109 words
cc263-4W
8. Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma 215 words
11. TRANSPORT
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1. FV Canadian Park 160 words
cc264-6W
2. Channel Tunnel 1,213 words
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3. Driver Sleepiness 294 words
c267W
4. Bypasses 104 words
c267W
5. Cycling Safety 72 words
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6. Great Eastern Rail Franchises (Performance Bond) 32 words
cc268-9W
7. Road Construction Schemes 415 words
cc269-70W
8. London Regional Transport (Directors) 201 words
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9. Coach and Bus Drivers 83 words
c270W
10. Driving Legislation 30 words
cc270-1W
11. Rail Investment 360 words
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12. Private Finance Initiative 271 words
cc271-2W
13. National Bus Company Pension Trustees Ltd. 634 words
cc273-6W
14. Rail Privatisation 1,229 words
12. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Investors in People 136 words
13. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Digital Television 335 words
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2. Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme 87 words
c277W
3. Research Establishments 99 words
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4. Arms Exports 127 words
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5. Balance of Payments 49 words
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6. Aerospace Research and Development 72 words
14. SCOTLAND
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1. Computers 57 words
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2. Business Rates 156 words
c279W
3. Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill 105 words
c279W
4. Judicial Process 325 words
c280W
5. Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma 121 words
c280W
6. Terrorist Prisoners 275 words
cc280-1W
7. Firearms 118 words
cc281-2W
8. Al Dualling 460 words
15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. BSE 218 words
c282W
2. Computers 151 words
cc282-3W
3. North Sea Cod 113 words
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4. Cattle Cull 713 words
c285W
5. Live Animal Exports 117 words
c285W
6. Quarantine 404 words
c286W
7. Calf Herds (Banned Antibiotics) 166 words
c286W
8. Arable Area Payments 307 words
16. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
c287W
1. South Africa 158 words
17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
c287W
1. Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi 124 words
cc287-8W
2. International Criminal Court 121 words
c288W
3. Intergovernmental Conference 191 words
c288W
4. Zambia 67 words
c288W
5. Australia 93 words
c289W
6. Cuba 42 words
c289W
7. China 61 words
c289W
8. East Timor 54 words
c289W
9. Middle East Peace Process 89 words
c289W
10. Ukraine 105 words
c290W
11. West Bank (Israeli Settlements) 86 words
c290W
12. Burma 178 words
c290W
13. India 95 words
cc290-2W
14. Arms Exports 599 words
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15. Churches (China) 99 words
c292W
16. Bishop Zeng Jingmu 97 words
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17. Churches (Egypt) 69 words
cc292-3W
18. Human Rights (Iran) 178 words
c293W
19. Indigenous People (Rights) 297 words
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20. Human Rights Policy Department 135 words
c294W
21. Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 64 words
c294W
22. Iraq 130 words
cc294-5W
23. Hong Kong 127 words
cc295-6W
24. EU Economic and Social Committee 181 words
18. HEALTH
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1. Computers 156 words
c297W
2. CAMS Ltd. 191 words
cc297-8W
3. Personal Social Services 217 words
c298W
4. Special Transitional Grant 56 words
c298W
5. Mixed and Same-sex Wards 151 words
cc298-9W
6. Social Services Departments 93 words
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7. Community Care 67 words
c299W
8. Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma 109 words
c299W
9. RHAs (Management Spending) 56 words
c299W
10. Waiting Lists 99 words
c300W
11. Blood Donations (Mandatory Testing) 113 words
c300W
12. Cottage Hospitals 36 words
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13. NHS Drugs Bill 243 words
19. TREASURY
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1. Euro 212 words
c301W
2. Information and Publicity (Staff) 35 words
c301W
3. Public Relations 60 words
cc301-2W
4. Monetary Union 130 words
c302W
5. National Lottery and Pools (Taxation) 121 words
cc302-3W
6. Employment (Young People) 669 words
cc303-4W
7. Abortions 499 words
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8. Unemployment-related Benefit Claims 175 words
c305W
9. Rwanda Inquiry 147 words
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10. Arms Sales (Prosecutions) 205 words
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11. Yorkshire Electricity 48 words
cc305-6W
12. Taxation Offices (Stoke-on-Trent) 203 words
cc306-7W
13. VAT Overpayments 347 words
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14. Ministry of Defence Property Sales 84 words
c307W
15. Personal Investment Schemes (Tax Relief) 310 words
cc307-8W
16. Private Finance Panel 95 words
c308W
17. Gold Reserves (Hong Kong) 136 words
20. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
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1. Computers 189 words
c309W
2. Official Report (Internet) 76 words
cc309-11W
3. Employment Contracts 1,190 words
21. SOCIAL SECURITY
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1. Child Support Agency 115 words
cc312-3W
2. Disablement Benefit 592 words
c313W
3. Freephone Services (Wales) 76 words
cc313-4W
4. Benefits Agency Offices (Wales) 199 words
c314W
5. Benefits Agency Emergency Services 248 words
cc314-5W
6. Visiting Officers (Wales) 155 words
cc315-6W
7. Benefit Fraud 297 words
c316W
8. Income Support (Pensioners) 143 words
c316W
9. Benefits 184 words
cc316-7W
10. EU Benefit Levels 101 words
cc317-8W
11. Social Security Appeals 99 words

Lords Sitting of 27 November 1996 Series 5 Vol. 576

c257
1. Preamble 22 words
c257
2. Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean 36 words
c257
3. Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth 35 words
c257
4. Message from the Queen 55 words
cc257-60
5. United Kingdom Legal Time Standard 1,153 words
c260
6. Vehicle Tracing Procedures 312 words
cc261-3
7. Cuba: Trading Relations 1,282 words
cc263-7
8. "Sea Empress" Inquiry 1,380 words
c267
9. Scottish Borders Council (Jim Clark Memorial Rally) Order Confirmation Bill 33 words
c267
10. Western Isles Council (Berneray Causeway) Order Confirmation Bill 31 words
c267
11. Business of the House: Debates this Day 95 words
cc267-72
12. Financial Assistance to Opposition Parties 2,687 words
cc273-5
13. Travel Expenses: Lords' Spouses 1,412 words
cc275-313
14. Young People 20,514 words
cc314-45
15. Voluntary Work 16,613 words
cc345-70
16. Community Care 12,525 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 27 November 1996 Series 5 Vol. 576

c13WA
1. Local Government and VAT 86 words
c13WA
2. Equal Pay 76 words
c13WA
3. Water Abstraction Criteria 84 words
c14WA
4. Violent and Sexual Offences 58 words
c14WA
5. Drug Trafficking Offences 95 words
c14WA
6. Bosnia: UK Military Contribution 109 words
c14WA
7. Gulf War 38 words
c15WA
8. Students: Financial Support 125 words
c16WA
9. Anti-personnel Landmines 105 words