Commons Sitting of 8 February 1999 Series 6 Vol. 325

    c1
  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c1
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
      4. cc1-20
    1. SOCIAL SECURITY 6 words
        2. cc1-4
      1. Pensions Green Paper 1,349 words
        2. cc4-5
      2. Benefit Vouchers 519 words
        3. cc5-7
      3. Benefit Fraud 956 words
        4. cc7-8
      4. Child Support Agency 391 words
        5. cc8-10
      5. Minimum Income Guarantee 964 words
        6. cc10-2
      6. Lone Parents 810 words
        7. cc12-3
      7. Single Gateway 389 words
        8. cc13-5
      8. Departmental Budget 1,104 words
        9. c15
      9. Habitual Residence Test 321 words
        10. cc15-6
      10. Consultation Papers 567 words
        11. cc16-8
      11. Savings (Retirement) 604 words
        12. cc18-9
      12. Welfare Reforms 636 words
        13. cc19-20
      13. Benefit Integrity Project 327 words
        14. c20
      14. Personal Advisers 235 words
    cc21-33
  4. Carers 6,980 words
    5. c34
  5. Point of Order 429 words
    1. BILL PRESENTED
        2. c34
      1. ACCESS TO ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION BILL 82 words
  6. Orders of the Day
      7. cc35-82
    1. Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, Etc.) Bill [Lords] 26,038 words, 1 division
      2. c83
    2. SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS, ETC.) BILL [LORDS] [MONEY] 95 words
      3. c83
    3. SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS, ETC.) BILL [LORDS] [WAYS AND MEANS] 67 words
      4. c83
    4. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 17 words
        5. c83
      1. NORTHERN IRELAND 24 words
      c83
    5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 150 words
      6. cc84-8
    6. Food Standards 2,138 words
      7. cc88-100
    7. Residential Care (Birmingham) 6,549 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 8 February 1999 Series 6 Vol. 325

  1. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
      2. cc1-2W
    1. Road Schemes 369 words
      2. c2W
    2. Night Flights (Heathrow) 320 words
      3. c2W
    3. Vehicle Registration Documents 85 words
      4. cc2-3W
    4. Council Properties (Wandsworth) 91 words
      5. c3W
    5. Environmentally Friendly Vehicles 172 words
      6. cc3-4W
    6. Nuclear Fuel 246 words
      7. c4W
    7. Peat Extraction 167 words
      8. cc4-5W
    8. Temporary Airside Passes 392 words
      9. c5W
    9. New Deal (Communities) 87 words
      10. c5W
    10. M6 Congestion 126 words
      11. cc5-6W
    11. Outer London Orbital Rail Link 92 words
      12. c6W
    12. Endangered Species 105 words
      13. c6W
    13. Train Services (Seating) 50 words
      14. c6W
    14. Jubilee Line Extension 105 words
      15. cc6-7W
    15. Railtrack (Property Assets) 113 words
      16. c7W
    16. Millennium Dome (Transport) 411 words
      17. cc7-8W
    17. Beacon Council Scheme 75 words
      18. c8W
    18. Motorway Noise 79 words
      19. c8W
    19. Bull Bars 107 words
      20. c8W
    20. Climate Change Programme 50 words
      21. c8W
    21. Rural Railways 120 words
      22. cc8-9W
    22. Vehicle Emissions 101 words
      23. cc9-10W
    23. Young Homeless 546 words
      24. c10W
    24. Packaging Waste 234 words
      25. cc10-1W
    25. School Playing Fields 156 words
      26. c11W
    26. Listed Buildings 308 words
      27. cc11-2W
    27. Ministerial Engagements 38 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      3. c12W
    1. Devolved Powers 93 words
      2. c12W
    2. Oral Questions 103 words
      3. cc12-3W
    3. Portcullis House 269 words
  3. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
      4. cc13-4W
    1. Millennium Compliance 730 words
  4. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
      5. c14W
    1. Legal Aid Fund 72 words
  5. DEFENCE
      6. cc14-6W
    1. REME 961 words
      2. cc16-7W
    2. Territorial Army 364 words
      3. cc17-8W
    3. Compensation Claims 413 words
      4. cc18-9W
    4. Patrols (Northern Ireland) 352 words
      5. cc19-20W
    5. Ministry of Defence Police 193 words
      6. c20W
    6. Armed Forces Pension Scheme 96 words
      7. c20W
    7. ASTOR Programme 134 words
      8. c20W
    8. RN Naval Base Clyde 63 words
      9. cc20-1W
    9. RN Base Faslane 42 words
      10. c21W
    10. Future Engineer Tank 131 words
      11. c21W
    11. RAF Dishforth 45 words
      12. c21W
    12. Tornado 48 words
      13. c21W
    13. Canberra Aircraft 46 words
      14. cc21-2W
    14. European Parliamentary Constituencies 40 words
      15. c22W
    15. Departmental Property 72 words
      16. c22W
    16. London Irish Rifles Company 115 words
      17. c22W
    17. RAF Manston (Military Equipment) 86 words
  6. TREASURY
      7. cc22-3W
    1. Nicaragua 172 words
      2. c23W
    2. Electronic Warfare 168 words
      3. c23W
    3. Defence Pensions Expenditure 92 words
      4. cc23-4W
    4. International Bodies (UK Contributions) 145 words
      5. c24W
    5. Comprehensive Spending Review 72 words
      6. cc24-5W
    6. Local Government Expenditure 165 words
      7. c25W
    7. Child Benefit 274 words
      8. c25W
    8. Customs and Excise 124 words
      9. cc25-6W
    9. Scottish Consolidated Fund 304 words
      10. c26W
    10. Departmental Expenditure 97 words
      11. cc26-8W
    11. Smuggling (Tobacco and Alcohol) 797 words
      12. cc28-9W
    12. ECOFIN 284 words
      13. c29W
    13. Barnett Formula 32 words
      14. c29W
    14. Financial Services Bill 87 words
      15. c29W
    15. Counterfeit Euro Notes 83 words
      16. c29W
    16. Brazilian Parrots 89 words
      17. cc29-30W
    17. Pensions Mis-selling 31 words
      18. c30W
    18. Financial Services Industry 199 words
      19. c30W
    19. Child Care Vouchers 95 words
      20. cc30-1W
    20. New Deal (Young People) 255 words
      21. c31W
    21. Ministerial Travel 144 words
      22. c31W
    22. Windfall Tax (Agricultural Land) 46 words
      23. cc31-2W
    23. Government Expenditure 101 words
  7. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
      8. c32W
    1. Colombia 137 words
      2. cc32-3W
    2. Technical Assistance Programmes 287 words
      3. c33W
    3. Know How Fund 65 words
      4. c33W
    4. Overseas Aid 84 words
      5. cc33-4W
    5. Aid Debt 165 words
      6. c34W
    6. Departmental Expenditure 136 words
      7. c34W
    7. Human Rights 61 words
      8. cc34-5W
    8. Street Children 108 words
  8. PRIME MINISTER
      9. c35W
    1. Business Costs (EU Directive) 210 words
      2. c35W
    2. "This Morning" (Interview) 84 words
      3. cc35-6W
    3. Homelessness 178 words
      4. cc36-7W
    4. Carers 669 words
      5. cc37-8W
    5. Social Exclusion Unit 172 words
      6. c38W
    6. Professor Lawrence Freedman 39 words
      7. c38W
    7. Gibraltar 91 words
  9. NORTHERN IRELAND
      10. c38W
    1. Portadown 54 words
      2. cc38-9W
    2. Autism 509 words
      3. cc39-40W
    3. Paramilitary Violence 214 words
      4. cc40-3W
    4. Prisoners (Early Release) 560 words
      5. c43W
    5. Wild Animal Imports 79 words
  10. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      11. c43W
    1. Sports Organisations (Media Takeovers) 179 words
      2. cc43-4W
    2. Mirror Group Flotation 98 words
      3. c44W
    3. Hollis Industries Plc 95 words
      4. c44W
    4. Gas Generation 129 words
      5. c44W
    5. Former Ministers 133 words
      6. cc44-5W
    6. Export Licences 352 words
      7. cc45-6W
    7. Minister for Small Firms, Trade and Industry 155 words
      8. c46W
    8. Ministerial Office Attendance 39 words
      9. c46W
    9. Commercial Lobbyists 72 words
      10. c46W
    10. Electro-shock Batons 164 words
      11. cc46-7W
    11. Research Councils (Studentships) 427 words
      12. c47W
    12. Working Time Directive 72 words
      13. c47W
    13. Food Standards Agency 113 words
      14. cc47-8W
    14. Power Stations 319 words
      15. cc48-9W
    15. Protected Coal Market (Emissions) 126 words
      16. c49W
    16. Redundancy Payments 117 words
      17. c49W
    17. Multilateral Agreement on Investment 129 words
      18. c49W
    18. Civil Aircraft and Research Demonstration Budget 46 words
      19. cc49-50W
    19. Company Closures 72 words
      20. c50W
    20. Cassini Space Probe 72 words
      21. c50W
    21. Vibration White Finger 157 words
      22. cc50-1W
    22. Dounreay 178 words
      23. c51W
    23. Cashmere Export Industry 109 words
      24. c51W
    24. British Aerospace 56 words
      25. c51W
    25. Art Market 131 words
      26. cc51-2W
    26. Minister for Science 139 words
      27. c52W
    27. Lobby Companies (Ministerial Access) 68 words
  11. SCOTLAND
      12. cc52-3W
    1. Retail Petrol Supplies 580 words
      2. c53W
    2. Prisoners (Offences) 76 words
      3. cc53-5W
    3. Prisons (Drug Use) 452 words
      4. cc55-6W
    4. Police (Manpower) 664 words
      5. cc56-7W
    5. Prison Visitors (Drug-related Offences) 113 words
      6. c57W
    6. Prisoner Activities 235 words
      7. cc57-8W
    7. Police Stations 351 words
      8. c58W
    8. Speed Cameras 72 words
      9. cc58-9W
    9. Legal Aid 546 words
      10. cc59-60W
    10. Fixed Penalty Speeding Fines 99 words
      11. cc60-1W
    11. National Strategy for Carers 488 words
      12. cc61-2W
    12. Infectious Salmon Anaemia 358 words
      13. c62W
    13. Legal Services 69 words
  12. SOCIAL SECURITY
      13. c62W
    1. Child Support Agency 63 words
      2. c62W
    2. Personal Advisers 74 words
      3. cc62-3W
    3. Savings (Retirement) 113 words
      4. c63W
    4. Minimum Income Guarantee 104 words
      5. cc63-4W
    5. Family Credit 427 words
      6. c64W
    6. Housing Benefit 170 words
      7. cc64-5W
    7. Active Modern Service Programme 146 words
      8. c65W
    8. Pensions (Disabled People) 93 words
      9. c65W
    9. Poorest Pensioners 74 words
      10. c65W
    10. Lone Parents 221 words
      11. cc65-6W
    11. Pensions Green Paper 60 words
      12. cc66-7W
    12. State Pensions 602 words
      13. c67W
    13. Child-raising Costs 188 words
      14. cc67-8W
    14. Departmental Spending 90 words
      15. c68W
    15. Jobseeker's Allowance 149 words
      16. c68W
    16. Carers 104 words
      17. c68W
    17. Means-tested Benefits (Pensioners) 94 words
      18. cc68-9W
    18. Disability Living Allowance (Constituent's Appeal) 293 words
      19. cc69-70W
    19. Departmental Responsibilities 314 words
      20. c70W
    20. NIRS2 162 words
      21. cc70-1W
    21. Young Homeless 803 words
      22. cc71-2W
    22. Pensioners (Benefit Take-up) 94 words
      23. cc72-3W
    23. Pregnant Women 202 words
  13. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
      14. c73W
    1. BBC Funding Review Panel 49 words
      2. c73W
    2. Independent Radio Stations 222 words
      3. cc73-4W
    3. Millennium Dome (Catering) 434 words
      4. cc74-5W
    4. Millennium Experience (Catering) 216 words
      5. c75W
    5. Departmental Responsibilities 312 words
      6. cc75-6W
    6. Millennium Dome (Safety) 65 words
      7. c76W
    7. Millennium Dome (Trade Unions) 58 words
      8. c76W
    8. Millennium Dome (Sponsorship) 71 words
      9. c76W
    9. Millennium Dome (Access) 239 words
      10. cc76-7W
    10. Millennium Dome (Spirit Zone) 54 words
      11. c77W
    11. New Millennium Experience Company 257 words
      12. c77W
    12. Millennium Dome (Waste) 60 words
      13. cc77-8W
    13. Heritage Lottery Fund 316 words
      14. c78W
    14. Ministerial Flights 72 words
      15. c78W
    15. Holidays 137 words
  14. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      15. cc78-9W
    1. Gibraltar 97 words
      2. c79W
    2. Indonesia 152 words
      3. c79W
    3. Arms Embargoes 106 words
      4. cc79-80W
    4. Burma 108 words
      5. c80W
    5. Arms Control 102 words
      6. c80W
    6. Georgia 89 words
      7. c80W
    7. Pakistan 60 words
      8. cc80-1W
    8. Angola 216 words
      9. c81W
    9. UN 661 Sanctions Committee 80 words
      10. c81W
    10. Arms Exports 147 words
      11. c81W
    11. Private Military Companies 41 words
      12. cc81-2W
    12. EU Funds 107 words
      13. cc82-3W
    13. Ministerial Visits (Central Europe) 350 words
      14. c83W
    14. Swathi Pankhania 102 words
      15. c83W
    15. Kyoto Protocol 151 words
      16. c83W
    16. Ministerial Travel 128 words
  15. HOME DEPARTMENT
      16. cc83-4W
    1. Public Safety Radio Communication Project 103 words
      2. cc84-7W
    2. Female Prisoners 1,504 words
      3. c87W
    3. Animals Act 1911 134 words
      4. c87W
    4. Prisons (Illegal Drugs) 242 words
      5. cc87-8W
    5. Racist Attacks (Greater Manchester) 274 words
      6. c88W
    6. Social Exclusion 83 words
      7. cc88-9W
    7. Trans-sexual Prisoners 194 words
      8. c89W
    8. Swathi Pankhania 55 words
      9. c89W
    9. Electronic Warfare 85 words
      10. c89W
    10. Asylum Seekers 155 words
      11. cc89-90W
    11. Police Firearms 450 words
      12. cc90-2W
    12. Deportations 720 words
      13. c92W
    13. Immigration 90 words
      14. c92W
    14. Circuses (Winter Quarters) 104 words
      15. cc92-3W
    15. Police (Millennium Celebrations) 274 words
      16. c93W
    16. Circus Animals 62 words
      17. c93W
    17. Home Detention Curfew Orders 131 words
      18. cc93-4W
    18. Provisional Police Grants 49 words
      19. c94W
    19. Holloway Prison 109 words
      20. c94W
    20. Drugs 181 words
      21. c94W
    21. Committee for Infrastructure Protection 79 words
      22. cc94-5W
    22. Prisons (Passive Drug Dogs) 88 words
      23. c95W
    23. Press Complaints Commission 73 words
  16. WALES
      17. c95W
    1. Hip Replacements 83 words
      2. c95W
    2. SSSIs (Damage) 71 words
      3. cc95-6W
    3. Sheepmeat 87 words
      4. c96W
    4. Cervical Smears 56 words
      5. c96W
    5. Beef Farming 230 words
      6. cc96-7W
    6. Dairy Producers 164 words
      7. c97W
    7. Meet the People Meetings 280 words
      8. cc97-8W
    8. Pendy Plastics 370 words
      9. cc98-9W
    9. Epilepsy 169 words
      10. c99W
    10. National Assembly 188 words
      11. c99W
    11. Education Expenditure 117 words
      12. cc99-100W
    12. Aquaculture 103 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      18. c100W
    1. Over 30 Months Scheme 108 words
      2. c100W
    2. Levy Scheme 194 words
      3. cc100-1W
    3. Badger Culling Scheme 162 words
      4. c101W
    4. Food Standards Agency 301 words
      5. cc101-2W
    5. Intervention Stocks 112 words
      6. c102W
    6. Beef (Compensation) 207 words
      7. cc102-3W
    7. Genetically Modified Organisms 201 words
      8. c103W
    8. Common Agricultural Policy 99 words
      9. c103W
    9. Farming (East Sussex) 234 words
  18. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
      19. cc103-6W
    1. Education Standard Spending Assessment 2,165 words
      2. cc106-7W
    2. Standards Fund 127 words
      3. c107W
    3. Foreign Students 91 words
      4. c107W
    4. Ofsted 43 words
      5. c107W
    5. Education Budgets (Administrative Costs) 215 words
      6. cc107-8W
    6. Grammar Schools (Kent) 67 words
      7. cc108-9W
    7. Pupils (Examinations) 944 words
      8. cc109-10W
    8. Higher Education 539 words
      9. cc110-1W
    9. Efficiency Gains 97 words
      10. c111W
    10. Nurses (Work Permits) 103 words
      11. c111W
    11. Remploy (North Staffordshire) 180 words
      12. c111W
    12. Early Education (Hampshire) 86 words
      13. cc111-2W
    13. Childcare Unit 75 words
      14. c112W
    14. Teacher Assessment 153 words
      15. c112W
    15. Education SSA (Southampton) 96 words
      16. cc112-3W
    16. Grants (Devon) 206 words
      17. c113W
    17. Infant Class Size Plan 78 words
      18. c113W
    18. Nursery Places 206 words
      19. cc113-4W
    19. Grants and Awards 240 words
      20. c114W
    20. Education SSA (Leicestershire) 88 words
  19. HEALTH
      20. c114W
    1. Nursing Care (Funding) 85 words
      2. cc114-5W
    2. Expenditure (London) 84 words
      3. c115W
    3. ME 316 words
      4. cc115-6W
    4. Nurses (Pay) 371 words
      5. cc116-7W
    5. HIV-Aids 263 words
      6. cc117-8W
    6. Waiting Times 516 words
      7. c118W
    7. Prostheses Users 192 words
      8. cc118-20W
    8. Disablement Services 874 words
      9. cc120-1W
    9. NHS Trusts (Appointments) 44 words
      10. c121W
    10. NHS Hospital Beds 61 words
      11. c121W
    11. Doctors and Dentists (Pay) 174 words
      12. c121W
    12. Nurses (Working Hours) 97 words
      13. cc121-2W
    13. Viagra 70 words
      14. c122W
    14. Eastbourne District General Hospital 93 words
      15. cc122-4W
    15. Food Standards Agency 1,014 words

Lords Sitting of 8 February 1999 Series 5 Vol. 597

    c1
  1. Preamble 28 words
    2. cc1-4
  2. The Millennium Dome 1,340 words
    3. cc4-6
  3. NHS: Access to Services 935 words
    4. cc6-7
  4. Gibraltar: MoD Contract 349 words
    5. cc7-11
  5. Au Pairs: Status 1,841 words
    6. c11
  6. Business 37 words
    7. cc11-27
  7. Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [H.L.] 8,141 words
    8. cc27-39
  8. National Carers Strategy 6,306 words
    9. cc39-81
  9. Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [H.L.] 22,361 words
    10. cc81-2
  10. European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission) Order 1999 57 words
    11. c82
  11. European Communities (Immunities and Privileges of the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission) Order 1999 56 words
    12. c82
  12. Diplomatic Privileges (British Nationals) Order 1999 54 words
    13. cc82-96
  13. Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 6,955 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 8 February 1999 Series 5 Vol. 597

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  1. Prison Population: Projections 97 words
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  2. Digital Hearing Aids 101 words
    cc1-2WA
  3. Fluoridation of Water 370 words
    cc2-3WA
  4. Chemicals in Consumer Products: Safety 141 words
    c3WA
  5. Organophosphorus Chemicals in Consumer Products 104 words
    c3WA
  6. Procurement Policy 94 words
    cc3-4WA
  7. Hyde Park: North Carriage Drive Closure 322 words
    c4WA
  8. Peers' Attendance Record 159 words
    cc4-5WA
  9. House of Lords: Leaking Pipework 253 words
    cc5-6WA
  10. Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords 128 words
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  11. BBC World Service: Arabic Broadcasts to Iraq 75 words
    c6WA
  12. COPEX 1998 Exhibition 43 words
    cc6-7WA
  13. Firth of Forth: Proposed Special Protection Area 126 words
    c7WA
  14. National Insurance Contributions Forecast 64 words
    c7WA
  15. Cadet Force Membership and Homosexuality 74 words
    cc7-8WA
  16. Defence Medical Services: Consultant Retirements 121 words
    c8WA
  17. US Anti-Ballistic Missile Programmes 111 words
    c8WA
  18. Advertising Material Placed on Cars 106 words
    cc8-9WA
  19. Forth Bridge: Maintenance 115 words
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  20. Satellite Launching from Floating Platforms 97 words
    c9WA
  21. Climate Changes 129 words
    cc9-10WA
  22. Hedgerow Protection 268 words
    c10WA
  23. France: Shooting of Protected Bird Species 101 words
    cc10-2WA
  24. New Rail Services: Moderation of Competition Policy 288 words