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Commons Hansard for 17 December 1998 (Volume 322)

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Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.

House Of Commons (item number 1) (id 781f4494-6195-4d55-aafd-09586d3ad770)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 191b9812-34be-4bdf-b970-e2fa07428635)
Iraq (item number 4) (id b62ea3d6-b5a6-428a-a789-a56143477eeb)
Royal Assent (item number 5) (id 0e16c86b-eba5-4cb1-bcaf-cdf9d0dcc89f)
Iraq (item number 6) (id 9d6f1060-67df-49cb-b9a8-fe54a5405a35)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 1b2b5022-7f03-4b93-b0e5-30075b4ef928)

Environment, Transport And The Regions

"A New Deal For Transport" (item number 1) (id ffa6636c-d150-46b7-a192-b560090d8174)
Ministerial Visits (item number 1) (id 932343db-bef1-45e0-9dfc-44485ba9b6cf)
Landing Fees (Airports) (item number 1) (id 14ba8148-ad8e-4bd4-ac01-a3b8b9c5b91f)
Aircraft (Near Misses) (item number 1) (id 07883b3c-7bc9-45a7-8324-bd321ab7bf59)
747 Aeroplanes (item number 1) (id 9cea90cc-00fe-44ca-8dcb-ab81928c5dd4)
Social Housing (item number 1) (id b67e9685-5a4a-4aa7-8b89-f792f618f484)
Buenos Aires Conference (item number 1) (id ea9523ba-da20-4424-8650-7e6cc3f69d9d)
Munitions (Sea Disposal) (item number 1) (id bbdd6a88-ccef-49ee-9bd8-6acbcaf48393)
Housing Act 1985 (item number 1) (id 978450db-cded-4c9f-bf41-6971c15a3f60)
Private Rented Accommodation (item number 1) (id 5b07b634-c862-464b-badd-2aef806ef82b)
Eurostar (item number 1) (id e03b0f8f-086f-48e1-9015-139a076f7aa8)
Countryside Access (item number 1) (id 68591dc4-5127-4493-8d0f-15f3035fb6f2)
M6 (Roadworks) (item number 1) (id b97b235d-3e66-4a22-ada7-51a81dec5199)
Overhead Power Lines (item number 1) (id 0f324750-a5db-4458-963c-338cdbd642b7)
Pensions (item number 1) (id fdeb8336-91c2-44e5-a931-c53426b71901)
Genetically Modified Crops (item number 1) (id 90a12df1-512f-414a-8c04-afd46b8544cf)
British Rail Publications (item number 1) (id a3c2386a-dd8f-470d-bb35-b10b4299fe2a)
Packaging Waste (item number 1) (id dead6896-4eb5-44c9-8e30-1d06ba207d6b)
Driving Licences (item number 1) (id e80e6c7c-2714-4111-9661-4fa8116eef32)
Health And Safety Laboratory (item number 1) (id 7ca9c2f2-6382-41a4-8697-8e183bb78aa1)
Short-Haired Bumblebee (item number 1) (id ee808f7f-2f26-4c5c-9857-e71ecd35dd75)
A1 (item number 1) (id ec17e897-7361-484a-926c-fed855e34571)
Northern Development Area (item number 1) (id e105421f-2afb-4fa4-90c4-c14b0016cd7f)
Town Planning Laws (item number 1) (id 242888c7-4541-4998-a62f-a67d895e200f)
Steel And Aluminium (item number 1) (id 56b92faf-f415-4b06-b126-089649f88bbf)
Carbon Dioxide (item number 1) (id e1b3aef0-948f-45a0-9f70-9228e726d910)
Homelessness (Emergency Shelters) (item number 1) (id 4422862a-e1c0-4d1e-af4c-d23e9d714e3c)
Personal Social Services (Worcestershire) (item number 1) (id 297cdcd7-34f4-41f0-a798-70f58411c527)
Concessionary Fares Scheme (item number 1) (id 973e0cd8-8d85-450c-83e6-f066e6f83121)
Train Operating Companies (Punctuality) (item number 1) (id 484773a5-ded6-454a-b622-33a1b2cca39a)
Sssis (item number 1) (id 2fb1196d-237d-4a6e-ad65-e3fe63bb531a)
Wind Farms (item number 1) (id 4823d4c4-c52f-4f68-8389-46cd9a0dc997)
Regional Development And Rural Policy (item number 1) (id 27c8d235-547e-4273-9e9f-926f0743eef4)
Local Government Finance (item number 1) (id 426d823e-2a6d-46d1-addf-65378df5ce27)
Rent Increases (item number 1) (id 523d0cc3-1217-4559-91b6-c78d3e67358d)
Best Value (item number 1) (id c56c2114-e00c-4127-befc-6d9f39279dca)
Mv Derbyshire (item number 1) (id 591703c2-ef19-4c14-b7bf-f2437a9d28cf)
Disabled People (Parking Badges) (item number 1) (id 6da292df-70a7-4afe-81b7-2188648e31f2)

Agriculture, Fisheries And Food

Antibiotic Growth Promoters (item number 1) (id 885f36d7-0921-42f6-a54a-41d1fe7f881f)
Flood Defences (item number 1) (id bb183cdf-c3b1-4cfc-a694-7e94f35cbbd2)
Pig Industry (item number 1) (id 44988727-4f83-486e-9c25-7d3b287f129e)
Milk (Derbyshire) (item number 1) (id e394a2ae-c919-45a7-92a6-f6579e4881bc)
Battery Hens (item number 1) (id fe4da20f-ce64-4aa6-922d-9f11f3374319)
Food Standards Agency (item number 1) (id c11beb2d-92ac-4b65-b4ac-234735354e5e)
Farmers (Competitiveness) (item number 1) (id 03f31287-dee0-4440-84cd-c4d575f77d6a)
Farm Incomes (item number 1) (id 61ec1948-d0c8-4da4-b76a-80ddcf5d22be)
Farming (Profitability) (item number 1) (id d8d9039e-f84b-43d8-8c06-9b6f81951a70)
Beef On The Bone (item number 1) (id f2aeb11c-49d0-4e1d-9fa7-ba1011e5b2ba)
Bovine Tuberculosis (item number 1) (id 16ec0b35-7613-4df3-a94a-5ba2a71fbe9a)
Meat And Bonemeal (item number 1) (id 6601b506-302c-4f51-910f-11c287426be5)
Common Agricultural Policy (item number 1) (id 600d5054-b059-4e05-9dd3-1579fe67711c)
Turkeys (item number 1) (id 33ef5bd3-490b-4235-86da-e831b91b95c9)
Agriculture Council (item number 1) (id cb2571f0-87a5-431c-af9b-04c02a4ff9af)
Over-30-Months Scheme (item number 1) (id baeeeae9-90fa-4415-897a-6c27c9e1a1fe)
Wto Agriculture Agreement (item number 1) (id 186d663d-c44c-4bfa-9898-5c3e0930335d)
Beef Ban (item number 1) (id c89f7c4d-29d4-4411-b76f-5c3d2693c414)
Fisheries (item number 1) (id 17d7e471-661b-4d5b-a08c-2504e3424b46)
Supermarkets (item number 1) (id 15593361-da47-4075-bd47-d168fe3f11b6)
Poultry (item number 1) (id 88c115a8-d5d4-4145-a759-2be89c24268f)

Education And Employment

Students (item number 1) (id 71b87b2e-71a9-4bc2-8db7-4ff70c2d1dce)
New Deal (Women) (item number 1) (id a76483b5-c564-45a8-b24b-1539c72e984d)
Prisoners (University For Industry) (item number 1) (id 4a6290ae-5f68-4e99-8a3d-c3a41cdc2cc9)
Education Development Plans (item number 1) (id 221b61e1-bbc5-435f-b7a4-3a303545bdd3)
Class Sizes (item number 1) (id 3e3a54a4-cf65-4cf9-8ec2-5060c34be72e)
New Deal (Shrewsbury And Atcham) (item number 1) (id 1308a5a8-0c68-4802-9a8d-1b1a8ab76f3b)
Further Education (item number 1) (id ceb76b60-5147-4e56-b860-8f86706bbd76)
Lone Parents (item number 1) (id ec638731-49f6-4e8c-a63b-9fddf71778d4)
Child Care (item number 1) (id 6a48df09-c605-4df7-8d7a-6138283a8182)
Teachers' Remuneration (item number 1) (id edbf4100-dc72-4095-880c-cf2944af2a93)
Teachers (Performance-Related Pay) (item number 1) (id 614de267-3646-455d-bcae-6a7922762744)
Grant-Maintained Schools (item number 1) (id d9d2f5d1-c423-4185-b80b-44808725abe8)
New Deal (Unsubsidised Jobs) (item number 1) (id 23d06f16-33ce-4828-a7a4-838b2b48ff39)
New Deal Gateway (item number 1) (id 22b71bf8-5866-4f7a-876b-9ba94a8a319a)
Departmental Expenditure (item number 1) (id 17ca4da2-b544-46a6-8b05-f25f60f14874)
Secondary School Pupils (item number 1) (id 6c042167-c099-455b-b875-e38b8f6b2c37)
Education Expenditure (item number 1) (id a030993a-9469-4807-bd26-0504e7832ef6)
Numeracy Hour (item number 1) (id 68308859-6d3b-42bf-977e-ebf9d86334f9)
Key Stage 2 National Curriculum Tests (item number 1) (id 1c184be6-960d-40a6-800b-eb4b2a455a30)
Competitive Bidding (item number 1) (id 154808dd-64dd-4a29-93e4-92f3c4922657)
Gcses (item number 1) (id 6e93b3dd-a517-4f3c-8a36-b38c47e584e8)
Free Milk (item number 1) (id e706d461-7c92-4607-8451-4b71acebf122)
Physical Education (item number 1) (id 4d7894fe-940e-4a26-a83f-b4d17d0b6085)
Unemployment (item number 1) (id ef9aab46-0e6b-413c-b5ec-89df32b54898)
Post-16 Provision (item number 1) (id 1abc1a04-3f61-46b6-b6cb-643fd1afd758)
International Labour Conference (item number 1) (id 3edbc8f7-a0a1-4800-a50d-3b6bbe78bfc8)
New Deal (item number 1) (id c30f3950-0da9-4bc3-ba4e-f7e22557be70)
Special Educational Needs (item number 1) (id bc18284f-4936-43c4-9161-2ef773cac54e)
New Deal (Public Sector) (item number 1) (id 25ae7d86-e64c-46b1-92ac-405b45915c29)
Tuition Fees (item number 1) (id dafbab39-4637-4640-881e-d93edbfff80b)

Trade And Industry

Electronic Book Formats (item number 1) (id 62d8fb4b-6e00-4a04-bc6d-5a47e9867b49)
Industrial Tribunal Claims (item number 1) (id b0f640eb-61d7-405f-b0cd-9b7605224134)
Ministerial Visits (item number 1) (id 9511c343-5efb-4df6-8d51-f238723f7594)
Internet (Paedophiles) (item number 1) (id 3c0e5e9d-49da-44ba-b4e6-4b2914aa58de)
Employee Savings Club (item number 1) (id 54447f99-a21d-49ac-847f-558369cd7d07)
Redundancy Payments (item number 1) (id 9728c0a1-9f01-43fb-be3e-197e07ab933b)
Wind Farms (item number 1) (id e4b4d32e-0e7e-493f-8b73-b8c25e02c5c7)
Minister For Science (item number 1) (id e3ecc12b-0507-4ddf-84ec-d521387643ab)
Post Office (item number 1) (id 7e526309-130b-43e5-a6f9-84f767ef3be5)
Tanzania (Medical Supplies) (item number 1) (id 2e5f9181-59e4-466e-8d2e-d326029f1a7f)
Scotland Act 1998 (Schedule 5) (item number 1) (id 52d96a8b-8da1-4457-b729-d05bb9a8cf24)
Green Technology (item number 1) (id 7887f962-ccee-49dd-9375-58176002a4a0)
Millennium Dome (Sports) (item number 1) (id 9637d311-5022-47cc-9798-40bb6eed0e86)
Receiverships (item number 1) (id 8d6a24b5-3184-4fda-8586-69f52faa0b8f)
Post-Devolution Expenditure (item number 1) (id 0738e13b-68a9-43fe-a29b-16d0bdb839d6)
Freephone (item number 1) (id f3888cbb-2460-4592-b6c9-296bb676d369)
Internet (item number 1) (id 7651ee3f-a56d-4a29-90fe-a4e8ad433128)
Nuclear Fuels (item number 1) (id 43cf1232-9ebb-4c8c-bd51-869e7e25f758)
Defence Exports (item number 1) (id 584a779f-d978-4231-84ed-0e1814023118)
Medical And Pharmaceutical Equipment (item number 1) (id cbc70ad9-594d-4dd8-af7e-bf3f600bb171)
Radioactive Waste, Germany (item number 1) (id bdf95a3d-1477-41fe-8f98-6cbb9a41a9e2)
Export Licences (item number 1) (id 84d09013-ddf7-4c06-b03d-57af8f697946)
Electronic Commerce (item number 1) (id ffd41e80-9843-4d17-8736-0cc3732219d9)

Home Department

Criminal Trials (item number 1) (id 0fa39b33-5cf4-4b6d-96a9-8b82de793bdf)
Terrorism Legislation (item number 1) (id 266f827a-19ad-4c9b-aa80-577177388e5d)
Immigration And Asylum (item number 1) (id 7f9558cd-9bc8-4c15-b063-8b783062f19b)
Mutual Legal Assistance (item number 1) (id 0e560810-6dd3-440b-8e52-88d1ea77d218)
Charity Commission (item number 1) (id 32d0f91b-9679-469c-a152-c6b94cb3506c)
Police Dog Training (item number 1) (id 31271ee8-0ee1-4798-8082-52dd9644d27e)
Prisoners (Education Programmes) (item number 1) (id 30a3d49a-53ff-40f4-97b5-09529f711143)
Prisons (Needle Exchanges) (item number 1) (id 5a56db0b-d040-4414-b1ac-3f9d12379715)
Police Service (item number 1) (id bc0861ab-872f-4352-905b-fbd856975a89)
Asylum Seekers (item number 1) (id 0e2b9cd9-8275-4ae9-8830-69b52039e7d1)
Prisons (Bullying) (item number 1) (id 6db02d43-0d44-4b09-872b-79e3d52cc59e)
Mr Barry Home (item number 1) (id f592dea3-99f4-4c45-8fca-c8118ab3aa4f)
Juries (item number 1) (id 8109879c-17a6-41a2-af7d-2fbc12a4692a)
General Pinochet (item number 1) (id 6ba4857a-e128-4e8c-9142-943072c4a0ba)
Crime (Staffordshire) (item number 1) (id 2c3cd686-32ca-4fd7-b02b-8522fdaae4f1)
Immigration Detainees (item number 1) (id 8401856d-66c0-4a5d-a42e-5afc0c346454)
Helicopter Flights (item number 1) (id 49d23943-cd30-4302-9a42-25c0882afce9)
Police Grant (item number 1) (id 5459b8f6-5b2e-458c-8ee1-b86ea1d04bb6)
Prisons (Drugs) (item number 1) (id 9c4cac37-6eb4-4c34-8190-109fcdc8183d)
Feltham Young Offenders Institution (item number 1) (id eb1a47a7-9b6d-41fc-a46f-f295266e33cd)
Police Manpower (item number 1) (id a1758e1e-fadd-4363-86e5-f981aeb1805f)
Young Offenders (Psychiatric Assistance) (item number 1) (id 9111a0e5-2765-4ec6-a283-e3f2b7f02603)
Prisoner Programmes (item number 1) (id 69a6309f-6b4c-4279-8423-f22bcdaf5e2d)
Police Budgets (Pensions) (item number 1) (id 7ea1295f-7855-492d-bfe4-60b3508c4e06)
Sexual Offences (item number 1) (id be9e02fb-6f76-4904-9408-02760af0c2a8)
Cs Sprays (item number 1) (id b60be5a5-79b5-4b64-99a8-f4248d4d608e)
Conspiracy Convictions (item number 1) (id b3fceb50-dadd-47d4-bc7e-144f526928b3)
Ministerial Visits (item number 1) (id 33ea5578-0d5a-44cd-b2a8-674a510b59ec)
Specified Organisation (item number 1) (id 206acadd-1408-455c-8d3f-a673063a3035)
Fire Service (Pensions) (item number 1) (id 8f1ded7d-3cb1-481b-b92b-fcbd2dd6853b)
Birmingham Northern Relief Road (Policing) (item number 1) (id 3ccd98fa-1f0c-46a3-81b0-dc15eb1b93c6)
Age Of Consent (item number 1) (id b9d08215-6388-4520-99b7-bba2d1c11197)
Illegal Immigrants (item number 1) (id a0637d1c-f34e-4849-b3fe-f469e1ea0b69)
Prisoners (Hunger Strikes) (item number 1) (id 69d5e719-8251-4ef4-9dd1-8d46336bed23)
Police (Deaf People) (item number 1) (id 0ad8a080-86b8-423c-87d7-fd8ea7035cfa)

Treasury

Public Services (item number 1) (id 28be9177-504a-45f8-a956-370493000f70)
National Savings (item number 1) (id 5cb1cbef-4e77-4fbc-a1eb-dff0c9f001d6)
Film Industry (Tax Relief) (item number 1) (id 030861d1-1da3-4f55-bb14-b656d95c3154)
International Debt (item number 1) (id c2a9c8af-6d97-44db-acfd-1d32d8de24c1)
Euro-Preparations Committee (item number 1) (id 67e934a3-677c-4fb3-9f23-182872306267)
Taxation (item number 1) (id 6dece58a-bbb9-4bc4-9095-4698d882056d)
Working Families Tax Credit (item number 1) (id 89ea7648-101d-46b7-a1e6-f5746072a056)
European Economy (item number 1) (id 23804085-135b-412f-ab2a-acb2a8f7806e)
Ecofin (Tax Harmonisation) (item number 1) (id 998e2c1c-ed85-4c02-9a0f-d9a72d63983e)
European Code Of Conduct Group (item number 1) (id 3327f5d2-faca-46ab-ad48-b5aa65b1d5dd)
Third-World Debt (item number 1) (id d1dbe77d-623b-46f4-8820-f10effc9c7dd)
Productivity Gap (item number 1) (id 7bfeaa35-1e7b-4be8-ac91-b312d6b89ce9)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id b7d97807-2cf6-4f84-beee-f7c7877f194b)
Tax Havens (item number 1) (id e3594f3d-fa4b-46ca-868f-4ff2e8d8baa4)
Charities (item number 1) (id 121e810d-d427-49d6-b9e7-a024511ac804)
Eu Withholding Tax (item number 1) (id f3fdf461-9c2b-4032-803b-ea4b318bbd5a)
Tax Records (item number 1) (id 26347483-24d3-400f-a275-67b768baa3c1)
Departmental Staff (Retirement) (item number 1) (id c5f49085-1933-4f1a-8684-22a2352b09ac)
Pensions (item number 1) (id 5ada2d7f-88e7-424c-888f-1ac38267f3d8)
Collective Investment Schemes (item number 1) (id dbac1689-c450-4acb-819c-3ed1f459e9a5)
Public Engagements (Ministers) (item number 1) (id 74971041-3bc8-4f47-8fee-ff07280cfc44)
Third World Debt (item number 1) (id 76697580-b463-469e-9548-6b0ed25b678d)
Euro Preparations Unit (item number 1) (id bb9d71e5-91a0-4182-8071-9c20e285a2e2)
Human Rights (item number 1) (id c814af21-fc5e-4a03-a13c-1cbee2352116)
New Cars (Eu) (item number 1) (id a69b2684-7037-4ec9-a175-624421834d06)
Eu Budget (item number 1) (id 3044a1ac-1403-4476-bc5a-4edf8d2a22bf)
Economic And Monetary Union (item number 1) (id 9d1dbda5-b5c7-4826-a0d9-cc89adb31a39)

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