Commons Sitting of 6 April 1998 Series 6 Vol. 310

Commons Sitting of 6 April 1998 Series 6 Vol. 310

    c1
  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c1
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
      4. cc1-15
    1. DEFENCE 6 words
        2. cc1-3
      1. British Forces (Germany) 633 words
        2. cc3-4
      2. Malaysia 307 words
        3. cc4-5
      3. Aircraft Carriers 629 words
        4. cc5-7
      4. Strategic Defence Review 1,018 words
        5. cc7-8
      5. Gulf War Syndrome 710 words
        6. cc8-9
      6. Smart Procurement Initiative 239 words
        7. cc9-10
      7. RAF Menwith Hill 274 words
        8. cc10-1
      8. Defence Diversification 606 words
        9. cc11-3
      9. Gulf Presence 1,184 words
        10. cc13-4
      10. Royal Air Force (Commemorations) 473 words
        11. cc14-5
      11. Territorial Army 459 words
      cc15-20
    2. HOUSE OF COMMONS 7 words
        3. cc15-6
      1. Working Hours 585 words
        2. c17
      2. Conduct in the Chamber 363 words
        3. cc17-8
      3. Oral Questions 352 words
        4. cc18-20
      4. Divisions 317 words
    c21
  4. Points of Order 307 words
    5. cc22-131
  5. Opposition Day 3 words
      6. cc22-81
    1. Trade Union Recognition 31,215 words, 1 division
      2. cc82-131
    2. Manufacturing Industry 25,751 words, 1 division
      3. c131
    3. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 15 words
      4. c131
    4. COMMISSION WHITE PAPER ON RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY AND ENERGY FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME 222 words
      5. c131
    5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 31 words
  6. PETITION
      7. c132
    1. Green Belt (Surrey) 96 words
      2. cc133-8
    2. Electronic Government 2,919 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 6 April 1998 Series 6 Vol. 310

  1. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
      2. c1W
    1. Hospitality 88 words
      2. c1W
    2. Bicycles (Transport on Trains) 106 words
      3. cc1-2W
    3. Headquarters Staff 132 words
      4. c2W
    4. Connex South Central 112 words
      5. cc2-4W
    5. Jubilee Line 1,124 words
      6. cc4-5W
    6. Millennium Dome 534 words
      7. cc5-6W
    7. Rented Housing 315 words
      8. cc6-7W
    8. London Underground 704 words
      9. cc7-8W
    9. Roadworks 320 words
      10. c8W
    10. Charity Shops 65 words
      11. c8W
    11. Rural Pubs 54 words
      12. c8W
    12. Countryside Commission 182 words
      13. cc8-9W
    13. Railway Stations (Disabled Access) 85 words
      14. c9W
    14. John Pointon and Sons 88 words
      15. cc9-10W
    15. Landfill 376 words
      16. c10W
    16. Genetically Modified Organisms 115 words
      17. c10W
    17. Rail Freight 116 words
      18. c10W
    18. Aggregates 57 words
      19. cc10-1W
    19. Local Government (Ethical Framework) 179 words
      20. c11W
    20. Canbury Gardens, Kingston 202 words
      21. cc11-2W
    21. Private Finance Initiative 152 words
      22. c12W
    22. Sites Of Special Scientific Interest 55 words
      23. c12W
    23. Housing (Coventry) 147 words
      24. cc12-3W
    24. High Explosives 152 words
      25. c13W
    25. Acidifying Pollutants 121 words
      26. c13W
    26. Drinking Water Quality 194 words
      27. c13W
    27. Health And Safety 111 words
      28. cc13-4W
    28. Fly Posting 260 words
      29. cc14-5W
    29. Highways Agency 507 words
      30. cc15-6W
    30. Incompetent Builders 345 words
      31. c16W
    31. Private Landlords (Accreditation) 106 words
      32. c16W
    32. Coastguard 214 words
      33. cc16-7W
    33. Building Regulations (BAA) 118 words
  2. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
      3. c17W
    1. Developing Countries (Education) 261 words
      2. cc17-8W
    2. Tobacco 70 words
      3. c18W
    3. Bhutan 155 words
      4. c18W
    4. Colombia 107 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
      4. c18W
    1. Ethnic Minorities 72 words
      2. cc18-9W
    2. Motor Insurance 119 words
      3. cc19-21W
    3. Firearms 1,054 words
      4. c21W
    4. Domestic Violence (West Midlands) 102 words
      5. c21W
    5. Anthrax 87 words
      6. cc21-4W
    6. Young Offenders 1,643 words
      7. cc24-5W
    7. Drug Dealers 93 words
      8. c25W
    8. Security Service 314 words
      9. cc25-6W
    9. Drug-related Crime (Gwynedd) 67 words
      10. c26W
    10. Animal Research 168 words
      11. c26W
    11. Lewes Prison 63 words
      12. c26W
    12. Canbury Gardens, Kingston 125 words
      13. cc26-7W
    13. Mark Darren Day 138 words
      14. c27W
    14. Runaway Children 151 words
      15. cc27-8W
    15. Slot Machines 383 words
      16. c28W
    16. UN Committee Against Torture 96 words
      17. cc28-31W
    17. Home Affairs Research and Statistics Directorate 1,188 words
      18. cc31-2W
    18. Immigration 314 words
  4. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
      5. c33W
    1. Leisure Centres 118 words
      2. c33W
    2. Commonwealth Games 107 words
      3. c33W
    3. Sportsmark Scheme 89 words
      4. cc33-4W
    4. Ministerial Visits 132 words
      5. c34W
    5. Tourism 91 words
      6. c34W
    6. Millennium Commission (Staffordshire) 61 words
  5. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
      6. c34W
    1. Solvent Abuse 57 words
  6. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      7. c34W
    1. Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill 71 words
      2. cc34-5W
    2. Statements 60 words
      3. c35W
    3. Private Members' Legislation 90 words
      4. c35W
    4. Select Committee Reports 71 words
      5. c35W
    5. Allowances (Chamber Attendance) 58 words
  7. TREASURY
      8. cc35-6W
    1. Tax Credits 211 words
      2. cc36-7W
    2. Taxation 499 words
      3. cc37-8W
    3. Pensioners 726 words
      4. c38W
    4. Environmental Sustainability 62 words
      5. cc38-41W
    5. "Financial Statement and Budget Report" 1,102 words
      6. c41W
    6. Family Credit (Owner-occupiers) 132 words
      7. c41W
    7. Museums (Free Admission) 95 words
      8. c41W
    8. Resuscitation Dummies 72 words
      9. c41W
    9. Casinos 53 words
      10. c42W
    10. EU Contributions 333 words
      11. c42W
    11. Air Quality (Budget Measures) 66 words
      12. cc42-4W
    12. Population Statistics 1,304 words
      13. c45W
    13. Breast Cancer 303 words
  8. DEFENCE
      9. c45W
    1. RAF Stations 50 words
      2. cc45-6W
    2. Ethnic Recruitment Initiatives 89 words
      3. c46W
    3. Training Areas 82 words
      4. c46W
    4. Gulf Presence 48 words
      5. cc46-7W
    5. Territorial Army 622 words
      6. c47W
    6. Royal Air Force (Germany) 45 words
      7. cc47-9W
    7. Gulf War Veterans 498 words
      8. c49W
    8. Women 197 words
      9. c49W
    9. Medical Services (Gulf) 86 words
      10. cc49-50W
    10. Ministry of Defence Police 128 words
      11. c50W
    11. NATO Russia Founding Act 110 words
      12. c50W
    12. Smart Procurement Initiative 43 words
      13. c50W
    13. Chatham Dockyard Workers 92 words
      14. c50W
    14. Air Training Corps 78 words
      15. cc50-1W
    15. Social Class 104 words
      16. c51W
    16. Susan Hunter 181 words
      17. c51W
    17. Royal Naval College, Greenwich 84 words
      18. c51W
    18. Shoeburyness Training Unit 66 words
      19. cc51-2W
    19. Eurofighter 39 words
      20. c52W
    20. Strategic Lift Capabilities 66 words
      21. c52W
    21. Defence Evaluation and Research Agency 271 words
      22. cc52-3W
    22. United Kingdom Hydrographic Office 338 words
      23. c53W
    23. Britannia 106 words
      24. cc53-4W
    24. Ex-service Men 346 words
      25. c54W
    25. IT Staff 114 words
      26. c54W
    26. Millennium Compliance 83 words
      27. cc54-5W
    27. Service Men (Criminal Offences) 60 words
      28. c55W
    28. Infantry 58 words
      29. c55W
    29. Irish Sea (Ships Logs) 105 words
      30. cc55-6W
    30. Departmental Libraries 349 words
      31. c56W
    31. Upholder Class Submarines 265 words
      32. cc56-7W
    32. Middle East 238 words
      33. cc57-8W
    33. Overseas Training Areas 104 words
  9. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      10. c58W
    1. Millennium Compliance 105 words
      2. cc58-9W
    2. Media Ownership 235 words
      3. c59W
    3. Green Transport 131 words
      4. cc59-61W
    4. Export Licences 729 words
      5. c61W
    5. Utility Markets 121 words
      6. c61W
    6. Multilateral Agreement on Investment 130 words
      7. cc61-2W
    7. Carpet Industry 126 words
      8. cc62-3W
    8. Victims of Nazism 497 words
      9. c63W
    9. Exchange Rates 54 words
      10. cc63-4W
    10. Post Office 321 words
      11. c64W
    11. Overseas Visits 163 words
      12. c64W
    12. British National Space Centre 150 words
      13. cc64-5W
    13. Export Credit Guarantees 271 words
      14. cc65-6W
    14. Research Councils 475 words
      15. cc66-7W
    15. Radioactive Waste 329 words
      16. c67W
    16. Electrical Goods 254 words
      17. cc67-8W
    17. Coal Miners Pension Funds 188 words
  10. PRIME MINISTER
      11. c68W
    1. Hospitality 55 words
      2. c68W
    2. Media Ownership 53 words
      3. cc68-9W
    3. Quangos 477 words
      4. c69W
    4. Ministerial Responsibilities 127 words
      5. cc69-70W
    5. Green Procurement 209 words
      6. c70W
    6. Nuclear Energy 135 words
      7. cc70-1W
    7. Briefings 120 words
      8. c71W
    8. Mr. Rupert Murdoch 161 words
      9. c71W
    9. First Home Buyers 97 words
      10. c71W
    10. Welsh and Scottish Secretaries of State 60 words
      11. c71W
    11. Oral Questions 64 words
      12. cc71-2W
    12. Foreign Policy 93 words
      13. c72W
    13. Ministerial Visits 84 words
      14. c72W
    14. Millennium Compliance 99 words
      15. c72W
    15. Foreign Heads of State 93 words
      16. cc72-3W
    16. Strategic Communications Unit 44 words
      17. c73W
    17. Newspaper Proprietors 58 words
      18. c73W
    18. Contacts With Foreign Leaders 64 words
  11. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
      12. c73W
    1. Freedom of Information 58 words
      2. cc73-4W
    2. Absenteeism 276 words
  12. NORTHERN IRELAND
      13. c74W
    1. Paramilitary Violence 189 words
      2. cc74-5W
    2. Confidence-building Measures 201 words
      3. c75W
    3. Driving Instructors 274 words
      4. cc75-6W
    4. Devolution 106 words
      5. c76W
    5. Bloody Sunday 56 words
      6. c76W
    6. Maze Prison 35 words
      7. c76W
    7. Mr. John Stokes 54 words
      8. cc76-7W
    8. Public Record Office 390 words
      9. c77W
    9. Land Registers 169 words
  13. MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO
      14. cc77-8W
    1. Millennium Dome (Air Conditioning) 109 words
      2. c78W
    2. Millennium Dome Construction Workers (Health) 248 words
      3. c78W
    3. Millennium Dome (Wind Resistance) 96 words
      4. cc78-9W
    4. Millennium Dome (Covering) 132 words
  14. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      15. c79W
    1. Public Opinion Research 229 words
      2. cc79-80W
    2. Animal Growth Promoters 152 words
      3. cc80-1W
    3. Common Agricultural Policy 389 words
      4. c81W
    4. Beef on the Bone 148 words
      5. c81W
    5. Vitamin B6 107 words
      6. c81W
    6. BSE 89 words
      7. cc81-2W
    7. New Technologies 85 words
      8. c82W
    8. Livestock Subsidies 76 words
      9. c82W
    9. Genetically Modified Organisms 304 words
      10. c83W
    10. Common Fisheries Policy 45 words
      11. c83W
    11. Correspondence (Quarantine) 144 words
      12. c83W
    12. Supermarkets (Surplus Food) 72 words
      13. c83W
    13. Farm Bankruptcies 72 words
      14. cc83-4W
    14. Pig Farming 124 words
      15. c84W
    15. Organophosphates 105 words
      16. cc84-5W
    16. Pesticides 331 words
      17. c85W
    17. Farmers Markets 40 words
      18. c85W
    18. Food Standards Agency 89 words
      19. c85W
    19. Flood and Coastal Defences 62 words
      20. cc85-6W
    20. Food (Veterinary Residues) 521 words
  15. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      16. cc86-7W
    1. Departmental Pay 124 words
      2. c87W
    2. Israel 125 words
      3. c87W
    3. European Programmes 137 words
      4. cc87-8W
    4. Common Foreign and Security Policy 436 words
      5. c88W
    5. China (Prisoner) 55 words
      6. cc88-9W
    6. Human Rights (Persecution of Christians) 69 words
      7. c89W
    7. European Commission 257 words
      8. c89W
    8. Ethical Foreign Policy 84 words
      9. cc89-90W
    9. EU Trade (Southern Africa) 234 words
      10. c90W
    10. Primary Purpose Rule 101 words
      11. cc90-1W
    11. Bhutanese Refugees 118 words
      12. c91W
    12. Entry Clearance Officers 120 words
      13. c91W
    13. Royal Ulster Constabulary 132 words
  16. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
      17. cc91-2W
    1. Millennium Compliance 170 words
      2. c92W
    2. IT Skills (Disabled People) 115 words
      3. c92W
    3. Early Years Education 118 words
      4. cc92-3W
    4. New Deal 192 words
  17. WALES
      18. cc93-7W
    1. Gwent Tertiary College 1,888 words
      2. cc97-101W
    2. Rural Schools 1,408 words
      3. c101W
    3. Waste Management 381 words
      4. cc101-2W
    4. Children in Care 185 words
      5. c102W
    5. Rented Housing 87 words
      6. c102W
    6. Sporting School of Excellence 87 words
      7. cc102-3W
    7. National Flag of Wales 149 words
      8. c103W
    8. Farmers 143 words
      9. cc103-4W
    9. Roads 229 words
      10. c104W
    10. Second Homes 87 words
      11. c104W
    11. Treatment Costs 87 words
      12. c104W
    12. Osteoporosis 94 words
      13. cc104-5W
    13. Parc Ty Gwyn, Llanrwst 515 words
  18. SCOTLAND
      19. c106W
    1. Air Services 65 words
      2. cc106-7W
    2. Osteoporosis 454 words
      3. c107W
    3. Treatment Costs (Accidents and Injuries) 85 words
      4. c107W
    4. Salmon Farming 94 words
      5. cc107-8W
    5. Rural Schools 129 words
      6. c108W
    6. Integrated Administration and Control System 193 words
      7. cc108-9W
    7. Toxic Waste 929 words
      8. c110W
    8. Cairngorm Funicular Railway 100 words
      9. cc110-3W
    9. Accident and Emergency Departments 1,247 words
      10. c113W
    10. Drug Users 259 words
      11. cc113-4W
    11. Hospital Waiting Lists 700 words
      12. c114W
    12. Agency Nurses 45 words
      13. cc114-5W
    13. Nurses 597 words
  19. HEALTH
      20. cc115-6W
    1. Registration and Inspection Units 437 words
      2. c117W
    2. Sjögren's Syndrome 217 words
      3. c117W
    3. Vitamin B6 136 words
      4. c117W
    4. Fluoridation 55 words
      5. c118W
    5. Anonymous Donor Insemination 68 words
      6. c118W
    6. Maternity Units and Accident and Emergency Units 99 words
      7. cc118-22W
    7. Asylum Seekers 1,535 words
      8. cc122-3W
    8. Osteoporosis 498 words
      9. c123W
    9. Xenotransplantation 101 words
      10. c124W
    10. Prescription Drugs 111 words
      11. c124W
    11. Respite Care 218 words
      12. c124W
    12. Accident Treatment Costs 93 words
      13. cc124-5W
    13. Lead in Water 122 words
      14. c125W
    14. Chorley and South Ribble NHS Trust 72 words
      15. c125W
    15. Cervical Screening 123 words
      16. cc125-6W
    16. Special Hospitals 216 words
      17. c126W
    17. Hospital Waiting Lists 82 words
      18. c126W
    18. Prescription Charges 146 words
      19. cc126-7W
    19. Access Committee for England 195 words
      20. c127W
    20. Information Technology 103 words
      21. c127W
    21. Millennium Compliance 169 words
  20. SOCIAL SECURITY
      21. cc127-8W
    1. Benefit Overpayments 89 words
      2. c128W
    2. Child Care 157 words
      3. cc128-9W
    3. Food Science Research Contracts 402 words
      4. cc129-33W
    4. Child Support Agency 1,915 words
      5. c133W
    5. Benefit Payment Cards 187 words
      6. c133W
    6. Benefit Integrity Project 66 words
      7. cc133-4W
    7. Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board 284 words
      8. c134W
    8. Asylum Seekers 214 words
      9. cc134-5W
    9. Executive Agencies 269 words
      10. c135W
    10. Housing Benefit 252 words
      11. c136W
    11. Income Support 133 words
      12. cc136-7W
    12. Jobseeker's Allowance 298 words
      13. cc137-8W
    13. Disability Appeal Tribunal 158 words

Lords Sitting of 6 April 1998 Series 5 Vol. 588

    c495
  1. Preamble 22 words
    2. cc495-7
  2. Appointments to NHS Boards 1,271 words
    3. cc498-500
  3. Science and Technology: Ministerial Responsibility 1,034 words
    4. cc500-2
  4. Zambia: Democracy 839 words
    5. cc502-4
  5. Electronic Commerce 1,021 words
    6. c504
  6. Criminal Procedure (Intermediate Diets) (Scotland) Bill 20 words
    7. c505
  7. Business of the House: Criminal Procedure (Intermediate Diets) (Scotland) Bill 386 words
    8. c505
  8. Business Improvement Districts Bill [H.L.] 13 words
    9. c505
  9. Electricity Generation Bill [H.L.] 11 words
    10. cc506-78
  10. Social Security Bill 38,135 words, 1 division
  11. Merchant Shipping (Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims) (Amendment) Order 1998
  12. Hovercraft (Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims (Amendment)) Order 1998
    13. cc579-83
  13. Hovercraft (Application of Enactments)(Amendment) Order 1998 2,314 words
    14. cc583-608
  14. Trade with the Former Soviet Union 13,078 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 6 April 1998 Series 5 Vol. 588

    c73WA
  1. China: UNFPA Programme 122 words
    c73WA
  2. BBC TV Licence Fee 185 words
    cc73-4WA
  3. Government Expenditure Per Capita 161 words
    c74WA
  4. Multilateral Agreement on Investment 115 words
    cc74-5WA
  5. Debris on the Highway Following Accidents 229 words
    c75WA
  6. SSSIs: Value Assessment 71 words
    c75WA
  7. Eider Ducks 45 words
    cc75-6WA
  8. Incompetent Builders 342 words
    cc76-7WA
  9. Highways Agency 505 words
    cc77-8WA
  10. Local Government: Ethical Framework 171 words
    c78WA
  11. Citizen Rights: Draft European Convention 276 words
    cc78-80WA
  12. British Forces: Deployment Overseas 741 words
    cc80-1WA
  13. Upholder Class Submarines 265 words
    cc81-2WA
  14. Force Levels in the Middle East 239 words
    c82WA
  15. Reserve Forces: Ethnic Monitoring 317 words
    cc82-3WA
  16. Turkish Chief of Staff: Visit to UK 91 words
    c83WA
  17. Defence: Collaboration with Other Countries 141 words
    cc83-4WA
  18. Scottish Schools: Testing and Standards 327 words
    cc84-5WA
  19. Scottish Office Expenditure 1978–79 328 words
    cc85-6WA
  20. Scottish Office Expenditure: 1978–79 to 1997–98 224 words
    c86WA
  21. Mussel Farming in Scotland 267 words
    cc86-7WA
  22. Eider Ducks in the West of Scotland 72 words
    c87WA
  23. ILO Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention 81 words
    c87WA
  24. Beef on the Bone 87 words
    cc87-9WA
  25. BSE: Chronology of Controls 544 words
    cc89-90WA
  26. Horses: Human Consumption 522 words
    cc90-1WA
  27. BSE: Report of 30 March 333 words
    cc91-2WA
  28. GSM Foods: Identification 191 words
    c92WA
  29. Mussel Farms: Predation by Eider Ducks 87 words
    cc92-3WA
  30. Vitamin B6 251 words
    cc93-4WA
  31. Beef Bones Regulations 1997 540 words
    c94WA
  32. Northern Ireland: Lifting of Beef Export Ban 99 words
    cc94-5WA
  33. Fisheries Council, 24 March 532 words
    cc95-6WA
  34. Livestock: Electronic Tagging 99 words
    c96WA
  35. NHS Trusts: Vacancies 78 words
    c96WA
  36. Department of Health: Ministerial Contact Meetings 89 words
    cc96-7WA
  37. Maternal Smoking: Child Deaths 167 words
    cc97-8WA
  38. The Prime Minister: Security Breach 246 words
    c98WA
  39. UN Committee against Torture: Report 97 words
    cc98-9WA
  40. Immigration Service: Guidance to Staff 297 words
    c99WA
  41. USA: Gun Culture 45 words
    c99WA
  42. Police Use of Soft Point Ammunition 160 words
    cc99-100WA
  43. Handguns: Compensation Payments to Date 231 words
    cc100-1WA
  44. Thailand: Assistance in Combating Child Abuse 302 words
    cc101-2WA
  45. Firearms: Compensation Scheme Claims 302 words
    c102WA
  46. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam 64 words
    cc102-9WA
  47. Wales: Analysis of National Curriculum Tests at Key Stage 3 3,633 words
    cc109-14WA
  48. Wales: Analysis of A-level Science Results 2,889 words