Commons Sitting of 17 July 1997 Series 6 Vol. 298

    c507
  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c507
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
        2. cc507-8
      1. Food Standards Agency 531 words
        2. c508
      2. Genetically Engineered Crops 161 words
        3. cc508-10
      3. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances 567 words
        4. cc510-1
      4. Meat Hygiene Service 531 words
        5. cc511-2
      5. Common Fisheries Policy 660 words
        6. cc512-3
      6. Quarantine 445 words
        7. cc513-4
      7. Common Agricultural Policy 770 words
        8. cc514-5
      8. Fishing 301 words
        9. cc515-7
      9. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 742 words
        10. c517
      10. Organic Farming 252 words
        11. cc517-8
      11. Beef Exports 367 words
        12. cc518-20
      12. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 858 words
    2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
        3. c520
      1. Serious Fraud Office 207 words
        2. cc520-1
      2. Amsterdam Treaty 270 words
        3. cc521-3
      3. Crown Prosecution Service 1,068 words
        4. cc523-4
      4. Lenient Sentences 571 words
    cc525-35
  4. Business of the House 5,238 words
  5. Orders of the Day
      6. c536
    1. CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL 52 words
      2. cc537-84
    2. Council Tax 25,136 words, 1 division
      3. c584
    3. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 30 words
      4. c584
    4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT AND CO-OPERATION 49 words
      5. c584
    5. CONTRACTING OUT 28 words
      6. cc585-92
    6. Thanet Regeneration 4,543 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 17 July 1997 Series 6 Vol. 298

  1. SOCIAL SECURITY
      2. cc239-41W
    1. Pensions Review 1,029 words
      2. c241W
    2. Chief Adjudication Officer 209 words
      3. cc241-2W
    3. Social Fund 174 words
      4. c242W
    4. Windfall Tax 99 words
      5. c242W
    5. Immunisation (Disability Compensation) 31 words
      6. c242W
    6. Income Support 47 words
      7. c242W
    7. Child Support Agency 119 words
      8. c242W
    8. Disability Living Allowances (Parkinson's Disease) 79 words
  2. TREASURY
      3. c243W
    1. Self-employed Building Contractors 146 words
      2. c243W
    2. Endowment Mortgages 94 words
      3. c243W
    3. Pocket Budget 61 words
      4. c243W
    4. Consumer Expenditure 38 words
      5. cc243-4W
    5. Departmental Bud gets 190 words
      6. c244W
    6. Members' Pension Fund 71 words
      7. c244W
    7. Stationery 70 words
      8. cc244-5W
    8. Economic and Monetary Union 269 words
      9. cc245-50W
    9. End-year Flexibility 2,130 words
  3. WALES
      4. c250W
    1. Welsh Assembly 123 words
      2. c250W
    2. Press Releases 121 words
      3. cc250-1W
    3. Welsh Development Agency 189 words
      4. c251W
    4. CADW 218 words
  4. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      5. cc251-2W
    1. Schengen Acquis 85 words
      2. c252W
    2. Members' Interests 177 words
      3. c252W
    3. Commercial Lobbyists 180 words
      4. cc252-3W
    4. Amsterdam Treaty 57 words
      5. c253W
    5. Press Releases 113 words
      6. c253W
    6. Islamabad Embassy 159 words
  5. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
      6. c253W
    1. Press Releases 141 words
  6. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      7. cc254-5W
    1. Oil and Gas Developments 482 words
      2. c255W
    2. Coal Board Property Sales 119 words
      3. c255W
    3. Information Technology 151 words
      4. cc255-6W
    4. Musical Instrument Industry 98 words
      5. c256W
    5. Nuclear Power Stations 146 words
      6. c256W
    6. Debt Payments 120 words
      7. c256W
    7. Director General of Fair Trading 64 words
      8. cc256-7W
    8. Small Businesses 138 words
      9. c257W
    9. Advice from Business 168 words
      10. c257W
    10. Arms Export Licences 104 words
  7. PRIME MINISTER
      8. c258W
    1. Amsterdam Treaty 59 words
      2. c258W
    2. Computers (50th Anniversary) 112 words
      3. c258W
    3. Ethnic Minorities 28 words
      4. cc258-9W
    4. Lockerbie 221 words
  8. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
      9. c259W
    1. Departmental Budgets 191 words
      2. c259W
    2. Stationery 79 words
      3. cc259-60W
    3. Television Licences 101 words
      4. c260W
    4. National Lottery 36 words
      5. c260W
    5. Tourism 73 words
      6. c260W
    6. Press Releases 183 words
  9. HOME DEPARTMENT
      10. cc260-1W
    1. Huntingdon Life Sciences 135 words
      2. c261W
    2. Animal Experiments 226 words
      3. c261W
    3. Perjury 83 words
      4. cc261-2W
    4. Foxhunting 54 words
      5. c262W
    5. Press Releases 152 words
      6. c262W
    6. Homosexuals 205 words
      7. cc262-3W
    7. International Crimes 118 words
      8. c263W
    8. Asylum Seekers 431 words
  10. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      11. c264W
    1. Crime Victims and Witnesses 96 words
      2. c264W
    2. Serious Fraud Office 74 words
      3. c264W
    3. Crown Prosecution Service 53 words
      4. c264W
    4. Lenient Sentences 45 words
  11. SCOTLAND
      12. cc264-6W
    1. NHS Operations (Cancellations) 1,051 words
      2. c266W
    2. Local Authority Pension Funds 149 words
      3. cc266-7W
    3. Scottish Parliament 216 words
      4. cc267-8W
    4. Members' Interests 272 words
      5. c268W
    5. Commercial Lobbyists 173 words
      6. c268W
    6. Multi-storey Flats (Glasgow) 101 words
      7. c268W
    7. Less-favoured Areas 40 words
      8. cc268-9W
    8. Beaufort's Dyke 88 words
      9. c269W
    9. Skye Bridge 252 words
  12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      13. c269W
    1. Food Safety 80 words
      2. c269W
    2. Farm Animal Welfare 68 words
      3. cc269-70W
    3. Beef Farmers 70 words
      4. c270W
    4. Open Government 56 words
      5. c270W
    5. Food Imports 102 words
      6. c270W
    6. Cereal Growers (Green Pound) 91 words
      7. cc270-1W
    7. Diet 114 words
      8. c271W
    8. Agri-environment schemes 153 words
      9. c271W
    9. Sheepmeat and Goatmeat Imports 137 words
      10. cc271-2W
    10. Common Agricultural Policy 207 words
      11. c272W
    11. Milk Quotas 83 words
      12. c272W
    12. Beef Export Ban 78 words
      13. cc272-3W
    13. Fish Breeding 377 words
      14. c273W
    14. Beef (Consumer Confidence) 104 words
      15. cc273-4W
    15. Press Releases 244 words
      16. c274W
    16. Food (Chemical Contamination) 72 words
      17. c274W
    17. Cattle Slaughter Scheme 184 words
      18. cc274-5W
    18. Old Documents 83 words
      19. cc275-6W
    19. Rodent Control 490 words
      20. c276W
    20. National Parks 56 words
      21. c276W
    21. Departmental Budgets 181 words
      22. cc276-7W
    22. BSE 363 words
      23. c277W
    23. Tuberculosis 72 words
      24. cc277-8W
    24. Broiler Chickens 199 words
      25. c278W
    25. Hunting Ban (Disposal of Stock) 104 words
  13. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
      14. c278W
    1. Contaminated Land 66 words
      2. cc278-9W
    2. Voluntary Sports Clubs 83 words
      3. c279W
    3. Water Companies 136 words
      4. cc279-81W
    4. Construction Industry 557 words
      5. c281W
    5. Sewerage Pipes 266 words
      6. cc281-2W
    6. Environmental Task Force (Horticulture Training) 76 words
      7. c282W
    7. Planning Applications 143 words
      8. c282W
    8. Home Buyers 137 words
      9. cc282-3W
    9. Climate Change 211 words
      10. c283W
    10. Rat Infestation 197 words
      11. c283W
    11. "Household Growth" 116 words
      12. cc283-4W
    12. Hedgerows 162 words
      13. c284W
    13. Environmental Information Appeals Tribunal 54 words
      14. c284W
    14. Animal Furs 161 words
      15. cc284-5W
    15. Housing 611 words
      16. cc285-6W
    16. Hostels 227 words
      17. cc286-7W
    17. Council Tax 56 words
      18. c287W
    18. Press Releases 201 words
      19. cc287-8W
    19. Roads Programme (Leicester) 267 words
      20. c288W
    20. Red Routes 98 words
      21. c288W
    21. Network Cards 83 words
  14. HEALTH
      15. cc288-9W
    1. Closures 233 words
      2. cc289-93W
    2. NHS Expenditure 1,194 words
      3. c293W
    3. NHS Pay 96 words
      4. c293W
    4. Commercial Lobbyists 178 words
      5. cc293-4W
    5. Benzodiazepines 321 words
      6. c294W
    6. Day and Domiciliary Care 92 words
      7. cc294-5W
    7. Long-term Care (Elderly People) 95 words
      8. c295W
    8. Erb's Palsy 60 words
      9. c295W
    9. Tamworth Primary Care Project 122 words
      10. c295W
    10. Rat Infestation 86 words
      11. cc295-6W
    11. Private Finance Initiative 196 words
      12. c296W
    12. Waiting Times 117 words
      13. cc296-7W
    13. General Practitioners 336 words
      14. c297W
    14. Health Action Zones 67 words
      15. c297W
    15. Health Provision (Variation) 52 words
      16. cc297-8W
    16. Energy Efficiency 157 words
      17. c298W
    17. Foreign Doctors 113 words
      18. c298W
    18. Hospital Discharge Procedures 60 words
      19. c298W
    19. Medicines Control Agency 65 words
      20. cc298-9W
    20. Medicine Commission 127 words
      21. c299W
    21. Hepatitis C 144 words
      22. c299W
    22. Drugs 175 words
      23. cc299-300W
    23. Press Releases 270 words
      24. c300W
    24. Secondary Care Services (East Kent) 67 words
      25. c300W
    25. Mercury Fillings 120 words
      26. cc300-1W
    26. Departmental Budgets 160 words
  15. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
      16. cc301-2W
    1. Schools (Capital Investment) 329 words
      2. c302W
    2. Assisted Places Scheme 48 words
      3. c302W
    3. LEAs (Inspections) 107 words
      4. c302W
    4. Lifelong Learning 46 words
      5. cc302-3W
    5. New Deal 212 words
      6. c303W
    6. Members' Interests 312 words
      7. cc303-4W
    7. Commercial Lobbyists 180 words
      8. c304W
    8. Playing Fields 213 words
      9. cc304-5W
    9. Employment Service 229 words
      10. c305W
    10. Physical Education Teachers 64 words
      11. cc305-8W
    11. Education Funding 1,123 words
      12. c308W
    12. Schools (Windfall Tax) 95 words
      13. cc308-9W
    13. Income Support 380 words
      14. c309W
    14. School Performance Tables 210 words
      15. c309W
    15. Further Education (Mentally Ill People) 146 words
      16. cc309-10W
    16. Excluded Pupils 55 words
      17. c310W
    17. Departmental Publications 217 words
      18. c310W
    18. School Premises Regulations 94 words
      19. cc310-1W
    19. Workskill Pilot Schemes 108 words
      20. c311W
    20. Low Pay 171 words
      21. c311W
    21. Teachers (Early Retirement) 159 words
      22. cc311-2W
    22. Foundation Schools 136 words
      23. c312W
    23. Private Schools 143 words
      24. cc312-3W
    24. Project Work 486 words
      25. c313W
    25. Higher Education 208 words
      26. cc313-4W
    26. Press Releases 263 words
      27. cc314-5W
    27. Access Funds 167 words
      28. c315W
    28. Education (Student Loans) Act 1990 65 words
  16. NORTHERN IRELAND
      17. c315W
    1. Members' Interests 308 words
      2. cc315-6W
    2. Commercial Lobbyists 175 words
      3. c316W
    3. Voluntary Sports Clubs 136 words
      4. c316W
    4. Judicial Reviews 122 words
      5. cc316-7W
    5. Sean Quinn Glass Factory 114 words
      6. c317W
    6. Ordnance Survey 158 words
      7. c317W
    7. Tradeable Services Projects 88 words
      8. cc317-8W
    8. Child Support Agency 319 words
      9. cc318-9W
    9. Health and Social Services Estates Agency 553 words
  17. DEFENCE
      18. cc319-20W
    1. Members' Interests 276 words
      2. c320W
    2. Procurement Executive 82 words
      3. c320W
    3. Administrative Costs 136 words
      4. cc320-1W
    4. Operational Effectiveness 66 words
      5. c321W
    5. Casual Employees 86 words
      6. c321W
    6. Commercial Lobbyists 177 words
      7. cc321-2W
    7. Offset Obligations 335 words
      8. c322W
    8. Foreign Military Personnel (Training) 116 words
      9. cc322-3W
    9. Press Releases 221 words
      10. c323W
    10. Harrier Jet Crash, Kirkcudbrightshire 73 words
      11. c323W
    11. Low Flying 110 words
      12. cc323-4W
    12. RAF Menwith Hill 138 words
      13. c324W
    13. Atomic Weapons Establishment 122 words
  18. CABINET OFFICE
      19. cc324-7W
    1. Millennium Experience 1,116 words
      2. c327W
    2. Mark McCormack 128 words
      3. c327W
    3. Jenny Page 76 words
  19. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
      20. cc327-8W
    1. Corruption 95 words
      2. cc328-9W
    2. Legal Aid (Transaction Audit) 617 words
      3. cc329-30W
    3. Members' Interests 307 words
      4. c330W
    4. Civil Justice and Legal Aid (Review) 78 words
      5. c330W
    5. Gazumping 91 words
      6. c330W
    6. Commercial Lobbyists 177 words
      7. cc330-1W
    7. Keighley Magistrates Court 53 words
      8. c331W
    8. Wills 63 words
      9. c331W
    9. Crown Prosecution Service 90 words
      10. c331W
    10. Court Fees 198 words
  20. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
      21. c332W
    1. Members' Interests 276 words
      2. c332W
    2. Commercial Lobbyists 175 words
      3. cc332-3W
    3. Freedom of Information 65 words
      4. cc333-4W
    4. Yorkshire 74 words
      5. c334W
    5. Press Releases 158 words

Lords Sitting of 17 July 1997 Series 5 Vol. 581

    c1075
  1. Preamble 29 words
    2. cc1075-7
  2. Prison Remands: Number 1,153 words
    3. cc1077-80
  3. Helms-Burton Act: UK Trade with Cuba 1,103 words
    4. cc1080-2
  4. Teacher Training Curricula 1,044 words
    5. cc1082-4
  5. Leghold Traps: EU Fur Import Ban 791 words
    6. cc1084-5
  6. Business 823 words
    7. cc1085-90
  7. Parliamentary Privilege: Joint Committee 2,351 words
    8. cc1090-102
  8. Education (Schools) Bill 6,436 words, 2 divisions
    9. cc1102-10
  9. European Convergence Criteria: Deficit Assessment 3,676 words
    10. c1110
  10. Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill 26 words
    11. cc1110-20
  11. Birmingham Hospitals 5,211 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 17 July 1997 Series 5 Vol. 581

    c119WA
  1. Law Commission Bills 121 words
    c119WA
  2. Judges' Duties 102 words
    c119WA
  3. Child Care Vouchers 83 words
    cc119-20WA
  4. NHS Waiting List Reduction 187 words
    c120WA
  5. Medicines Control Agency 63 words
    cc120-1WA
  6. Medicines Commission 128 words
    c121WA
  7. Illicit Beef Exports 94 words
    c121WA
  8. Gyrodactylus Salaris 108 words
    c121WA
  9. Agri-environment Schemes 77 words
    cc121-2WA
  10. Beef: Illegal Export Allegations 295 words
    cc122-3WA
  11. Licences to Shoot Piscivorous Birds 593 words
    cc123-4WA
  12. Aircraft Navigational Systems: Interference by Electronic Devices 166 words
    cc124-5WA
  13. Transport Safety and the Treaty of Rome 163 words
    c125WA
  14. Bus Franchises and Contracts Advertised in the European Journal 47 words
    c125WA
  15. Passenger Bus Service Operators: Qualifications 101 words
    c125WA
  16. Devolution White Paper 43 words
    cc125-6WA
  17. Glasgow: Empty Council Houses 76 words
    c126WA
  18. Devolution Referendum, Scotland 59 words
    c126WA
  19. Pay Television: Competition 73 words
    c126WA
  20. National Lottery 90 words
    cc126-7WA
  21. Road Accidents in Continental Europe: Settlement of Claims 162 words
    c127WA
  22. Nairobi Cathedral: Police Action 94 words
    cc127-8WA
  23. Indonesia: Human Rights 122 words
    cc128-30WA
  24. Pensions Review 1,057 words
    c130WA
  25. Proportional Voting 44 words
    c130WA
  26. Welsh Assembly Referendum 73 words
    cc130-1WA
  27. Isle of Man: Prison Conditions 90 words
    c131WA
  28. Isle of Man Prison Suicides: Inquiry Report 101 words
    cc131-2WA
  29. Isle of Man: Detention of Child Offenders 382 words
    c132WA
  30. Isle of Man: Age of Criminal Responsibility 141 words
    cc132-3WA
  31. Extensions to Stay in the UK: Applications 128 words
    cc133-4WA
  32. In-country Asylum Applications 452 words