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What progress is being made concerning the further development and adoption nationally of a car secondary safety rating system, to improve consumer information about the relative crashworthiness merits of new cars through technical inspection and impact testing methods.

Asked by
Stephen Day (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 December 1991
Reference
201 c406W;201 c404W
House
House of Commons

What arrangements exist to monitor the exhaust emission levels from diesel vehicles in general and London taxi-cabs in particular; and what further checks he proposes to control the exhaust emissions from diesel engines.

Asked by
Barry Sheerman (Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answering body
Department of Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 December 1991
Reference
201 c398W;201 c397W
House
House of Commons

What steps he proposes to investigate the claims for compensation made by the servicemen exposed to radiation during the Christmas Island tests.

Asked by
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 December 1991
Reference
201 c381W
House
House of Commons

If he will list, by year for the last four years, and for 1991 to-date, the countries with which his Department has carried out weapons exchanges for testing purposes, showing in his Answer (a) those that his Department have received from other countries and (b) those that his Department have...

Asked by
Martin Redmond (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 December 1991
Reference
201 c381W
House
House of Commons

What new medical evidence he has received regarding the connection between the atomic tests on Christmas Island and subsequent cancer and cancer-related disease.

Asked by
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 December 1991
Reference
201 c282W
House
House of Commons

If he will introduce new standards for the maintenance of air pressure gauges on garage forecourts.

Asked by
Douglas French (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of the Environment
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 December 1991
Reference
201 c173-4W
House
House of Commons

What are the differences between tests applied in the United Kingdom and in other EC countries with regard to frozen and fresh poultry presented for export.

Asked by
Andrew Welsh (Scottish National Party)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 December 1991
Reference
201 c189W
House
House of Commons

What information he has on the numbers of people over pensionable age who presented themselves for sight tests in each year since 1988. - This information is not collected centrally.

Asked by
Andrew Bowden (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 December 1991
Reference
201 c129W
House
House of Commons

If, when he next meets the Secretary General of NATO, he will discuss with him the implications of a moratorium on nuclear testing. (Failed OPQ)

Asked by
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 December 1991
Reference
201 c148W
House
House of Commons

What representations he has received concerning the continued imposition of a charge for NHS sight tests. - Inc figure.

Asked by
Andrew Bowden (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 December 1991
Reference
201 c129W
House
House of Commons

Whether he has any plans to reinstate free sight tests for (a) all age groups and (b) elderly people.

Asked by
Andrew Bowden (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 December 1991
Reference
201 c129W
House
House of Commons

If he will bring forward proposals to provide for legal sanctions to be invoked against a civilian pilot incapacitated by alcohol from flying safely and to define on whose responsibility such a person may be denied the right to take over the controls of an aircraft.

Asked by
Michael McNair-Wilson (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 December 1991
Reference
201 c47-8W;201 c47W
House
House of Commons

What has been the cost to the United Kingdom of radioactive decontamination and rehabilitation of the sites where the United Kingdom has tested nuclear weapons, or conducted weapons related tests, at (a) Christmas Island, (b) Monte Bello Island, (c) Maralinga, (d) Emu Field, (e) Potton Island and (f) Nevada nuclear...

Asked by
Paul Flynn (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 December 1991
Reference
201 c57-8W;201 c57W
House
House of Commons

If he will obtain for the Library at 10 Downing Street a copy of the book Radioactive Heaven and Earth, on the history and legacy of nuclear testing, published in August 1991 by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

Asked by
Paul Flynn (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 December 1991
Reference
200 c375-6W
House
House of Commons

What consideration he has given to the Nuclear Testing Moratorium Act (HR 3636) introduced to the United States Congress on 29th October by Representative R. Gephardt and Representative M. Kopetski in regard to the effect it would have on United Kingdom access to the Nevada nuclear test site for the...

Asked by
Bob Cryer (Labour)
Answering body
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 December 1991
Reference
200 c322W
House
House of Commons

Further to his oral replies to the honourable Member for Glasgow, Rutherglen, of 19th November, Official Report, column 136, if he will list all the relevant international treaties on nuclear testing; what are the reasons for the practice of refusing to confirm or deny that a British nuclear warhead test...

Asked by
Harry Barnes (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 December 1991
Reference
200 c347-8W
House
House of Commons
Deposited by
National Radiological Protection Board; Scottish Office
Type
Deposited papers
Date
9 December 1991
Reference
HINF 91/1381 [41381]
Deposited by
Prime Minister; Ministry of Defence
Type
Deposited papers
Date
3 December 1991
Reference
Dep 7585
House
House of Commons

What is his assessment of the contribution made by nuclear testing to global security.

Asked by
Gavin Strang (Labour)
Answering body
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
3 December 1991
Reference
200 c96W
House
House of Commons

If any further scientific assessments will be carried out in order to ascertain or improve the safety of British Trident warheads.

Asked by
Alex Salmond (Scottish National Party)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 November 1991
Reference
199 c684W;199 c678W
House
House of Commons