Commons Sitting of 17 November 1998 Series 6 Vol. 319

    c731
  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c731
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      4. c731
    1. CITY OF WESTMINSTER BILL [Lords] 358 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
      5. cc732-48
    1. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS 6 words
        2. cc732-3
      1. Right to Buy 783 words
        2. cc733-4
      2. Lake District 435 words
        3. cc734-7
      3. Local Government Finance 1,264 words
        4. c737
      4. Incinerators 335 words
        5. cc737-8
      5. Travellers 436 words
        6. cc738-9
      6. Children's Parliament 213 words
        7. cc739-40
      7. Freeholders 603 words
        8. cc740-1
      8. Green Belt 237 words
        9. cc741-3
      9. Air Pollution (Fuel Duties) 1,002 words
        10. cc743-4
      10. A303 433 words
        11. cc744-5
      11. Northern Line 498 words
        12. cc745-7
      12. Strategic Roads Review 922 words
        13. cc747-8
      13. Freight 576 words
    cc749-71
  5. Territorial Army 12,491 words
    6. cc772-6
  6. Stakeholder Pension 2,121 words, 1 division
      7. c776
    1. STAKEHOLDER PENSION 76 words
    c777
  7. European Parliamentary Elections Bill 179 words
    8. c777
  8. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 24 words
    9. cc778-807
  9. Scrutiny of European Business 16,600 words
    10. cc808-24
  10. Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards 9,164 words
    11. cc825-41
  11. Prisoners (Northern Ireland) 9,182 words
    12. c842
  12. COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS 21 words
  13. PETITION
      14. c842
    1. East Kent Health Authority 150 words
    cc843-52
  14. Clothing and Textile Industry 4,675 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 17 November 1998 Series 6 Vol. 319

  1. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
      2. c445W
    1. Sandford Rectory 59 words
  2. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
      3. c445W
    1. Law Lords 45 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
      4. c445W
    1. Parole 173 words
      2. cc445-6W
    2. Medway Secure Training Centre 141 words
      3. cc446-7W
    3. Millennium Compliance 497 words
      4. cc447-8W
    4. Asylum Seekers 548 words
      5. c448W
    5. Integrated Emergency Management 80 words
      6. cc448-9W
    6. Dr. Robert Gross 165 words
      7. c449W
    7. Offenders (Service Provision) 292 words
      8. c449W
    8. Probation Service (Paedophiles) 102 words
      9. cc449-50W
    9. Firearms Compensation 342 words
  4. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
      5. cc450-1W
    1. Junior Football Clubs (Injury Insurance) 188 words
      2. c451W
    2. Coalfield Communities 243 words
      3. cc451-2W
    3. Sport (Injury Insurance) 163 words
  5. CABINET OFFICE
      6. c452W
    1. Sickness Absence 140 words
      2. c452W
    2. Better Regulation Task Force 203 words
      3. cc452-3W
    3. Relocation 146 words
  6. DEFENCE
      7. c453W
    1. Gulf War 274 words
      2. cc453-4W
    2. Territorial Army 127 words
      3. c454W
    3. Training Review 105 words
      4. cc454-6W
    4. Gulf War Illness 531 words
      5. c456W
    5. Service Children's Education 213 words
      6. c456W
    6. Officer Training Corps (Queen's University) 83 words
      7. c456W
    7. Major Eric Joyce 92 words
      8. cc456-7W
    8. Cruise Missiles 49 words
      9. c457W
    9. Field Park Squadron 55 words
      10. c457W
    10. Hurricane Mitch 93 words
  7. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
      8. cc457-8W
    1. Millennium Compliance 627 words
  8. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      9. cc458-9W
    1. Passes 86 words
  9. NORTHERN IRELAND
      10. c459W
    1. Terrorist Offences 197 words
      2. cc459-60W
    2. Omagh Bombing 159 words
      3. c460W
    3. Regional and Minority Languages 117 words
      4. cc460-1W
    4. Child Care 634 words
      5. cc461-2W
    5. Millennium Compliance 566 words
      6. c462W
    6. Northern Ireland Bill 73 words
  10. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
      11. c463W
    1. Montserrat 138 words
      2. cc463-4W
    2. Millennium Compliance 531 words
      3. c464W
    3. Multilateral Agreement on Investment 208 words
  11. SCOTLAND
      12. cc464-5W
    1. Local Government 236 words
      2. c465W
    2. Youth Clubs 125 words
      3. c465W
    3. Youth Employment 99 words
      4. cc465-6W
    4. Intellectual Property 356 words
      5. cc466-7W
    5. Millennium Compliance 603 words
      6. cc467-9W
    6. Financial Management 521 words
      7. c469W
    7. Aspirin Poisoning 288 words
      8. cc469-70W
    8. Paracetamol Poisoning 73 words
      9. cc470-3W
    9. Sheriff Courts 2,168 words
  12. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
      13. c473W
    1. Coalfields Task Force 73 words
      2. c473W
    2. Leylandii 62 words
      3. cc473-4W
    3. Council Tax 244 words
      4. c474W
    4. Capital Receipts 250 words
      5. cc474-5W
    5. Business Taxes 64 words
      6. c475W
    6. Local Government Reform 109 words
      7. c475W
    7. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 78 words
      8. c475W
    8. Local Government Finance 71 words
      9. c475W
    9. Opencast Coal Mining 61 words
      10. cc475-6W
    10. Children's Parliament 111 words
      11. c476W
    11. Housing Revenue Account 70 words
      12. c476W
    12. Capital Allocation System 112 words
      13. c476W
    13. Standard Spending Assessments (London) 71 words
      14. cc476-7W
    14. Countryside Access 105 words
      15. c477W
    15. Sellafield 99 words
      16. c477W
    16. Regional Bodies (South-East) 93 words
      17. c477W
    17. Affordable Housing 161 words
      18. cc477-8W
    18. Ports Policy 82 words
      19. c478W
    19. Manchester Airport Eastern Link Road 96 words
      20. c478W
    20. Cycling 87 words
      21. c478W
    21. Integrated Transport Strategy 63 words
      22. cc478-9W
    22. Railtrack 133 words
      23. c479W
    23. Rail Industry 78 words
      24. c479W
    24. Strategic Rail Authority 87 words
      25. c479W
    25. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 73 words
      26. c479W
    26. North-West Trains 114 words
      27. cc479-80W
    27. Cleaner Vehicles 126 words
      28. c480W
    28. Regional Airports 204 words
      29. cc480-1W
    29. Connex South Central 432 words
      30. cc481-2W
    30. Road Freight Hauliers 218 words
      31. c482W
    31. Leisure Craft 201 words
      32. c482W
    32. Community Transport Schemes 108 words
      33. c482W
    33. Vehicles (Safety Checks) 66 words
      34. cc482-3W
    34. Rural Areas (Parliamentary Representation) 97 words
      35. c483W
    35. Compensation Claims 69 words
      36. c483W
    36. Supermarket Developments 81 words
      37. c483W
    37. M65 (Blackburn) 170 words
      38. cc483-4W
    38. Jubilee Line 129 words
      39. c484W
    39. Drinking and Driving 73 words
      40. c484W
    40. Childhood Cancers 149 words
      41. cc484-5W
    41. Visual Display Units 261 words
      42. cc485-6W
    42. Railway Property Maintenance 552 words
      43. c486W
    43. Coastguards 70 words
      44. cc486-7W
    44. Heathrow Airport 254 words
      45. c487W
    45. Teesside Development Corporation 82 words
      46. cc487-8W
    46. Radioactive Gases (Cap La Hague) 246 words
      47. c488W
    47. Local Government Debt 114 words
      48. cc488-9W
    48. Millennium Compliance 563 words
      49. cc489-90W
    49. Airline Safety 213 words
      50. c490W
    50. Pigeon Proofing 110 words
      51. c490W
    51. Multiple Occupation 56 words
      52. c490W
    52. Roads (Noise Abatement) 96 words
      53. cc490-1W
    53. Parish Council Audits 167 words
      54. cc491-2W
    54. Genetically Modified Crops 601 words
      55. c492W
    55. New Forest (Car Parking) 59 words
      56. c492W
    56. Traffic Congestion (Southend) 82 words
      57. cc492-3W
    57. Night Flights 491 words
      58. cc493-4W
    58. Multilateral Agreement on Investment 147 words
  13. PRIME MINISTER
      14. c494W
    1. St. Helena 130 words
      2. c494W
    2. "Europe in Ten Points" 118 words
      3. cc494-5W
    3. Millennium 200 words
      4. c495W
    4. Iraq 232 words
      5. cc495-6W
    5. Child Care 310 words
      6. c496W
    6. Savers 107 words
      7. c496W
    7. Select Committee Reports 81 words
      8. c496W
    8. Working Time Directive 70 words
      9. cc496-7W
    9. Charities (Ex-Service Men) 356 words
      10. cc497-8W
    10. Joint Statement (Liberal Democrats) 262 words
  14. SOCIAL SECURITY
      15. cc498-9W
    1. National Insurance Fund 390 words
      2. cc499-500W
    2. National Insurance Recording Computer 578 words
      3. cc500-1W
    3. Benefits (Entitlement Rules) 675 words
      4. cc501-3W
    4. Millennium Compliance 747 words
      5. c503W
    5. SERPS 250 words
      6. cc503-4W
    6. Working Families Tax Credit 141 words
      7. c504W
    7. Private Pensions 68 words
      8. cc504-5W
    8. Child Maintenance 461 words
      9. cc505-6W
    9. Invalidity Benefit 578 words
      10. c506W
    10. Pensions 271 words
      11. cc506-8W
    11. National Insurance Contributions 779 words
      12. c508W
    12. Photosensitivity 150 words
      13. c508W
    13. Long-term Care 63 words
      14. cc508-9W
    14. Mobility Allowance 142 words
      15. c509W
    15. Child Benefit 263 words
      16. cc509-24W
    16. Benefit Uprating 7,243 words
      17. cc524-5W
    17. Widowed Mothers 474 words
      18. c525W
    18. Benefit Integrity Project 113 words
      19. c525W
    19. Residential Living Allowance 108 words
      20. c525W
    20. Benefits (Parliamentary Scrutiny) 21 words
      21. cc525-6W
    21. Benefits (Expenditure) 117 words
      22. c526W
    22. Disability Living Allowance (Children) 79 words
      23. c526W
    23. Expenditure 86 words
      24. cc526-8W
    24. Mr. M. E. Hatcher 475 words
      25. c528W
    25. Pension Schemes (Annuities) 96 words
  15. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      16. c529W
    1. Millennium Compliance 258 words
      2. cc529-30W
    2. Miners' Widows (Compensation) 311 words
      3. cc530-1W
    3. Multilateral Agreement on Investment 337 words
      4. c531W
    4. Change Bureaux 78 words
      5. c531W
    5. Turkey 32 words
      6. c531W
    6. Supermarkets 113 words
      7. c531W
    7. Interest Rates 132 words
      8. cc531-2W
    8. Regional Selective Assistance 55 words
      9. c532W
    9. Robert Maxwell Companies 139 words
      10. c532W
    10. Royal Observatory 167 words
      11. cc532-3W
    11. Railtrack 111 words
      12. c533W
    12. Compensation Claims 103 words
  16. WALES
      17. c533W
    1. Farming Subsidies 156 words
      2. cc533-4W
    2. Wrexham to Bidston Rail Link 76 words
      3. c534W
    3. Rail Freight 120 words
      4. c534W
    4. Local Authority Housing 71 words
      5. cc534-5W
    5. Schools (Delegated Funding) 442 words
      6. c535W
    6. European Development Funds 136 words
      7. c535W
    7. Teachers (Funding) 44 words
      8. cc535-6W
    8. Economic Inactivity 353 words
      9. cc536-7W
    9. Long-term Illness 433 words
      10. c537W
    10. Flooding 104 words
      11. c537W
    11. Education Funding 92 words
      12. c537W
    12. Pwllheli Planning Appeal 136 words
      13. cc537-8W
    13. Midwives (Salary) 137 words
      14. c538W
    14. Water Budget Payment Units 180 words
      15. cc538-9W
    15. Millennium Compliance 545 words
  17. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
      18. cc539-40W
    1. New Deal 418 words
      2. cc540-1W
    2. Lip Reading Classes 217 words
      3. c541W
    3. Class Sizes 61 words
      4. c541W
    4. Head Teachers (Secondment) 50 words
      5. c541W
    5. Rural Schools 174 words
      6. cc541-2W
    6. Access to Work 136 words
      7. c542W
    7. Education Action Zones 86 words
      8. c542W
    8. Welfare to Work 180 words
      9. c542W
    9. Special Educational Needs 116 words
      10. cc542-3W
    10. Education Funding (Bids) 84 words
      11. cc543-4W
    11. National Grid for Learning 552 words
      12. c544W
    12. European Citizenship 69 words
      13. c544W
    13. Science Teachers 100 words
      14. cc544-5W
    14. Employment Service 73 words
  18. TREASURY
      19. cc545-6W
    1. Paracetamol and Aspirin Poisoning 440 words
      2. c546W
    2. Cancer (Survival Rates) 114 words
      3. c546W
    3. Cot Deaths 139 words
      4. cc546-7W
    4. Abortions 255 words
      5. c547W
    5. Landfill Tax 43 words
      6. cc547-8W
    6. Public Expenditure 391 words
      7. c548W
    7. International Monetary Fund 143 words
      8. cc548-9W
    8. Pensions Mis-selling 700 words
      9. c549W
    9. Petroleum Revenue Tax 121 words
      10. cc549-50W
    10. Excise Duties 272 words
      11. cc550-1W
    11. Economic and Monetary Union 380 words
      12. c551W
    12. Exchange Trading Schemes 138 words
      13. cc551-2W
    13. Monetary Policy Committee 227 words
      14. c552W
    14. Airports (Borrowing) 102 words
      15. cc552-3W
    15. Euro Preparations Unit 125 words
      16. c553W
    16. European Central Bank 93 words
      17. cc553-4W
    17. Millennium Compliance 497 words
      18. c554W
    18. Gross Domestic Product 71 words
      19. cc554-5W
    19. Age Allowances (Pensioners) 310 words
      20. c555W
    20. Financial Services Authority 34 words
      21. c555W
    21. Electronic Commerce 75 words
      22. cc555-6W
    22. United Kingdom Excessive Deficit 461 words
  19. HEALTH
      20. cc556-7W
    1. Aspirin and Paracetamol 386 words
      2. c557W
    2. Loughborough General Hospital 105 words
      3. cc557-8W
    3. Administrative Staff 83 words
      4. c558W
    4. Capitation Formula 116 words
      5. c558W
    5. Residential Homes 102 words
      6. cc558-9W
    6. Sensory Loss 161 words
      7. c559W
    7. Dentists (Retirement) 113 words
      8. c559W
    8. Ministerial Visit (West Byfleet) 97 words
      9. c559W
    9. Millennium Compliance 66 words
      10. cc559-60W
    10. Hospitals (Doncaster) 272 words
      11. c560W
    11. Ear, Nose and Throat Consultants 143 words
      12. cc560-1W
    12. NHS Trusts 209 words
      13. c561W
    13. Mid Essex Hospital Trust 238 words
      14. cc561-2W
    14. Value Added Tax 139 words
      15. c562W
    15. Nurse Training 77 words
      16. c562W
    16. Psychiatric Wards 80 words
      17. cc562-3W
    17. Influenza Vaccinations 189 words
      18. c563W
    18. Private Sector Surgery 65 words
      19. c563W
    19. Mixed Wards 140 words
      20. c563W
    20. Physical Activity (Children) 124 words
      21. cc563-4W
    21. Mental Health (Leeds) 222 words
      22. c564W
    22. New-variant CJD 101 words
      23. c564W
    23. Sussex Ambulance Service NHS Trust 100 words
      24. cc564-5W
    24. Primary Care Groups 209 words
      25. cc565-6W
    25. EC Health Council 317 words
      26. c566W
    26. Training Support Programme 83 words
      27. c566W
    27. Joint Procedures (NHS and Personal Social Services) 71 words
      28. c566W
    28. Continence Care 68 words
      29. c566W
    29. Betaferon 125 words
      30. cc566-7W
    30. Fireworks 392 words
  20. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      21. c567W
    1. Israel 55 words
      2. cc567-9W
    2. Child Care 480 words
      3. c569W
    3. Foreign Policy Centre 307 words
      4. cc569-70W
    4. Russia 137 words
      5. c570W
    5. Schengen Agreement 93 words
      6. c570W
    6. EU Youth Forum 130 words
      7. cc570-1W
    7. People's Europe '98 Conference 82 words
      8. c571W
    8. Visa Applications 146 words
      9. cc571-2W
    9. Millennium Compliance 573 words
      10. cc572-3W
    10. Iraq 320 words
      11. c573W
    11. Burma 178 words
      12. cc573-4W
    12. St. Helena 96 words
  21. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      22. c574W
    1. Seals 170 words
      2. c574W
    2. Mink 168 words
      3. cc574-5W
    3. Genetically Modified Food 97 words
      4. c575W
    4. European Fund for Fisheries Enforcement 347 words
      5. cc575-6W
    5. Sea Fisheries Committees 75 words
      6. cc576-8W
    6. Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) 1,093 words
      7. cc578-80W
    7. Millennium Compliance 393 words
      8. c580W
    8. Rabbits and Rodents 78 words

Lords Sitting of 17 November 1998 Series 5 Vol. 594

    c1117
  1. Preamble 22 words
    2. c1117
  2. The Lord Chancellor: Leave of Absence 50 words
    3. cc1117-20
  3. Product Price Anomalies 1,337 words
    4. cc1120-2
  4. House of Lords Reform: Consultation 1,172 words
    5. cc1122-4
  5. National Minimum Wage 969 words
    6. cc1124-7
  6. Constitutional Reform and the Channel Islands 1,105 words
    7. c1127
  7. Business 38 words
    8. cc1127-8
  8. Alliance & Leicester plc (Group Reorganisation) Bill [H.L.] (formerly Girobank plc (Transfer) Bill [H.L.]) 244 words
    9. c1128
  9. London Local Authorities Bill [H.L.] 245 words
    10. c1128
  10. European Parliamentary Elections Bill 61 words
    11. cc1128-9
  11. LORDS AMENDMENTS 180 words
    12. c1129
  12. ORIGINAL COMMONS AMENDMENT IN LIEU TO WHICH THE LORDS HAVE DISAGREED 135 words
    13. cc1129-54
  13. FURTHER COMMONS AMENDMENT IN LIEU 14,061 words, 1 division
    14. cc1155-70
  14. The Territorial Army 8,546 words
    15. c1170
  15. Scotland Bill 34 words
    16. c1171
  16. MOTIONS MOVED ON CONSIDERATION OF COMMONS AMENDMENTS IN LIEU OF CERTAIN LORDS AMENDMENTS, COMMONS REASONS FOR DISAGREEING TO CERTAIN OTHER LORDS AMENDMENTS AND A COMMONS AMENDMENT TO ANOTHER LORDS AMENDMENT 15 words
    17. cc1171-5
  17. LORDS AMENDMENTS 2,581 words
    18. cc1175-80
  18. LORDS AMENDMENTS 2,625 words
    19. c1180
  19. LORDS AMENDMENT 45 words
    20. cc1181-97
  20. MOTION MOVED ON CONSIDERATION OF COMMONS REASON 9,163 words, 1 division
    21. c1198
  21. LORDS AMENDMENT 97 words
    22. c1198
  22. LORDS AMENDMENT 40 words
    23. cc1198-9
  23. LORDS AMENDMENT 462 words
    24. c1199
  24. LORDS AMENDMENT 40 words
    25. c1199
  25. LORDS AMENDMENT 108 words
    26. cc1199-264
  26. LORDS AMENDMENT 1,066 words
      27. cc1202-32
    1. Northern Ireland Bill 15,144 words
      2. cc1232-6
    2. Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 (Specified Organisations) (No. 2) Order 1998 2,066 words
      3. cc1236-40
    3. Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 1,911 words
      4. c1240
    4. Local Elections (Northern Ireland)(Amendment) Order 1998 33 words
      5. cc1240-62
    5. Marketing 11,495 words
      6. cc1262-4
    6. City of Westminster Bill [H.L.] 357 words
      7. c1264
    7. Regional Development Agencies Bill 9 words
      8. c1264
    8. European Parliamentary Elections Bill 41 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 17 November 1998 Series 5 Vol. 594

    c141WA
  1. Hereditary Peers 153 words
    c141WA
  2. Kurdish Community, London: Response to Letter 86 words
    cc141-2WA
  3. Parole Decision Making 159 words
    c142WA
  4. Central America: Debt Remission 161 words
    cc142-3WA
  5. Unemployment Statistics 577 words
    cc143-4WA
  6. Health Council, 12 November 421 words
    cc144-5WA
  7. Training Support Programme Budget 80 words
    cc145-6WA
  8. Airport Night Flight Restrictions 476 words
    c146WA
  9. New Towns Pension Fund 169 words
    cc146-7WA
  10. Street Furniture and Abnormal Loads 109 words
    c147WA
  11. Burma: Refugees 114 words
    cc147-8WA
  12. The British Council 228 words
    c148WA
  13. Closure of Diplomatic Posts 192 words
    cc148-9WA
  14. Sandline International: Ownership 109 words
    cc149-51WA
  15. NATO 829 words
    c151WA
  16. Caspian Oil Pipeline Routes 181 words
    c151WA
  17. UNITA: Embassy Contacts 65 words
    cc151-2WA
  18. Human Rights Covenants: Ratification Records 133 words
    cc152-3WA
  19. Intellectual Property, Scotland 737 words
    cc153-5WA
  20. Scotland: Analysis of Standard Grade Results 286 words
    c155WA
  21. Northern Ireland: Arrests under PACE 168 words
    cc155-6WA
  22. Northern Ireland: Prison Deaths 343 words
    cc156-7WA
  23. Northern Ireland: Analysis of A-Level Results 530 words
    cc157-8WA
  24. Northern Ireland: Analysis of GCSE Results 508 words
    c158WA
  25. Mr. Francis McDonnell 135 words