Commons Sitting of 3 May 1974 Series 5 Vol. 872

    c1459
  1. Preamble 6 words
    2. c1459
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    3. c1459
  3. NEW WRIT 23 words
  4. BILL PRESENTED
      5. c1459
    1. HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL 178 words
  5. ORDERS OF THE DAY
      6. cc1460-542
    1. LOCAL REVENUE BILL 31,785 words
      2. cc1542-8
    2. REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS BILL 2,026 words
      3. cc1548-9
    3. EDUCATION (MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN) (SCOTLAND) BILL 344 words
      4. cc1549-50
    4. CARRIAGE OF PASSENGERS BY ROAD BILL 269 words, 1 division
      5. c1550
    5. COMPANIES BILL 107 words
      6. c1551
    6. MINES (WORKING FACILITIES AND SUPPORT (AMENDMENT) BILL 57 words
      7. c1551
    7. CONTROL OF ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS BILL [Lords] 19 words
      8. cc1551-2
    8. TRANSPLANT OF HUMAN ORGANS BILL 75 words
      9. c1552
    9. CHANNEL TUNNEL BILL 27 words
      10. cc1552-4
    10. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT 169 words
      11. c1554
    11. NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES 24 words
      12. c1554
    12. ADJOURNMENT 16 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 3 May 1974 Series 5 Vol. 872

  1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      2. c553W
    1. Food Storage (EEC Regulations) 55 words
      cc553-4W
    2. Horticulture (Fuel Costs) 342 words
      c554W
    3. Horticultural Produce (EEC Countries) 71 words
      cc554-5W
    4. Beef Imports 345 words
      c555W
    5. Pig Production 82 words
      cc555-6W
    6. Livestock (Slaughterings) 60 words
      c556W
    7. Beef 85 words
      c556W
    8. Inshore Fisheries 55 words
  2. CIVIL SERVICE
      3. c556W
    1. Policy Advisers 79 words
  3. DEFENCE
      4. cc556-7W
    1. Hydrography 134 words
      c557W
    2. Edinburgh Military Tattoo 42 words
      c557W
    3. Military Police 34 words
  4. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      5. cc557-8W
    1. Handicapped Children 166 words
      cc558-9W
    2. Youth Service 208 words
      c559W
    3. Ugandan Asians (Teaching Applications) 68 words
      c559W
    4. Pocklington School 54 words
      c559W
    5. School Leaving Age 62 words
      c559W
    6. Community Centres 44 words
      cc559-60W
    7. Student Grants 38 words
      c560W
    8. Church of England Primary School (Mildenhall) 118 words
      c560W
    9. Vandalism 48 words
      c560W
    10. School Attendance 105 words
  5. ENERGY
      6. c561W
    1. Coal Industry (Hived-off Units) 56 words
      c561W
    2. Electricity Charges 146 words
  6. ENVIRONMENT
      7. cc561-2W
    1. Local Authorities (Grants) 111 words
      c562W
    2. Building Societies 63 words
      c562W
    3. Water Rates (London and Merseyside) 155 words
      cc562-3W
    4. Improvement Grants 136 words
      c563W
    5. Rating Appeals (Islington) 46 words
      cc563-4W
    6. Commission for Local Administration 142 words
      c564W
    7. Planning Control (Dobry Report) 207 words
      c564W
    8. Al, West Yorkshire (Accidents) 73 words
      cc564-5W
    9. Licensed Premises (Rents) 100 words
  7. EMPLOYMENT
      8. c565W
    1. Political Subscriptions (Trade Unions) 60 words
      cc565-6W
    2. Jobcentres (Birmingham) 422 words
      cc566-7W
    3. Industrial Disputes 566 words
      cc567-8W
    4. Brickyards 174 words
      cc568-9W
    5. Unfair Dismissal Complaints 113 words
      c569W
    6. Dyfed 105 words
      c569W
    7. Ceredigion 115 words
      cc569-70W
    8. Pay Awards (Ministerial Consent) 186 words
      cc570-2W
    9. Merseyside 1,281 words
  8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      9. c572W
    1. Vietnam 178 words
      cc572-3W
    2. General Said Shazli 72 words
  9. HOME DEPARTMENT
      10. c573W
    1. Illegal Immigrants 120 words
      cc573-4W
    2. Foreign Husbands 90 words
      c574W
    3. Police (Special Branch) 210 words
      cc574-5W
    4. Children and Young Persons 157 words
      c575W
    5. Burglaries 42 words
      c575W
    6. Fairgrounds (Safety) 66 words
      cc575-6W
    7. Police and Crime (London) 138 words
      c576W
    8. Foreign-born Women 73 words
      c576W
    9. James Humphreys 135 words
      cc576-7W
    10. Licensing Laws 74 words
      c577W
    11. Non-payment of Fines 513 words
      cc577-8W
    12. Departmental Correspondence 102 words
  10. INDUSTRY
      11. c578W
    1. Motor Industry 57 words
  11. NATIONAL FINANCE
      12. c579W
    1. Widows' Pensions (Taxation) 159 words
      c579W
    2. Commercial Banks (Shareholders' Funds) 69 words
      cc579-80W
    3. Income Tax 87 words
      c580W
    4. Valuation Officers (Goole) 144 words
      cc580-1W
    5. Children's Incomes 55 words
      c581W
    6. Incomes and Prices 183 words
      c581W
    7. Trade Union Provident Funds 79 words
      cc581-2W
    8. British Petroleum Company 39 words
      c582W
    9. Housing Perquisites 110 words
      c582W
    10. Building Societies 110 words
  12. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
      13. cc582-3W
    1. Price Commission (Chairman) 42 words
      c583W
    2. Polypropylene and Polystyrene 85 words
      c583W
    3. Beer Pumps (Licensed Premises) 87 words
      cc583-4W
    4. Cheese 139 words
      c584W
    5. Butter 63 words
  13. SCOTLAND
      14. cc584-5W
    1. Rents 361 words
  14. SOCIAL SERVICES
      15. cc585-6W
    1. Henderson Hospital 244 words
      c586W
    2. Pensions (Increases) 114 words
      c586W
    3. Supplementary Benefit Recipients (Scotland) 61 words
      cc586-7W
    4. Disabled Persons (Sharp Report) 50 words
      c587W
    5. Hospital Building Maintenance 77 words
      c587W
    6. Handicapped Persons (Birmingham) 85 words
      c587W
    7. Supplementary Benefits (Duration) 68 words
      cc587-8W
    8. Pension Schemes 98 words
      c588W
    9. Disabled Drivers 70 words
      c588W
    10. Disabled Passengers 117 words
      cc588-9W
    11. Locomotor Disability 89 words
      c589W
    12. Acro-Osteolysis 41 words
      c589W
    13. Radiographers 123 words
      cc589-90W
    14. Goodyear Tyres Dispute (Benefits) 46 words
      c590W
    15. National Health Service Staff (Motor Cars) 244 words
      cc590-1W
    16. Hospitals (Radiotherapy Departments) 79 words
      c591W
    17. Ministerial Correspondence 77 words
  15. TRADE
      16. cc591-2W
    1. Welsh Agricultural Export Council 201 words
      c592W
    2. Trade Balances (Aided Countries) 157 words
      c592W
    3. Beaverbrook Newspapers (Former Employees) 60 words
  16. WALES
      17. cc592-3W
    1. Llanrwst Bypass 151 words
      c593W
    2. Water Charges 133 words
      c593W
    3. Rhayadr (Bypass) 42 words
      cc593-4W
    4. Barmouth-Ruabon Railway 69 words
      c594W
    5. Hospital Visits (Transport) 82 words
      c594W
    6. Land Preservation 72 words
      cc594-5W
    7. Hospital Travel Costs 165 words
      c595W
    8. Homelessness 52 words
      cc595-6W
    9. Improvement Grants 37 words
      c596W
    10. WILLS 109 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 3 May 1974 Series 5 Vol. 872

  1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      2. c235W
    1. Agricultural Workers (Pay) 68 words
      c235W
    2. Farm Price Reviews 132 words
      cc235-6W
    3. International Commodity Agreements 115 words
      c236W
    4. Lamb and Mutton (Import Duties) 79 words
      c236W
    5. Milk Fund 63 words
      cc236-7W
    6. European Economic Community 42 words
      c237W
    7. Capital Gains Tax and Estate Duty 81 words
      c237W
    8. Tied Cottages 45 words
      c237W
    9. Fishing Industry (Milford) 66 words
      cc237-8W
    10. Foodstuffs (Denaturing) 149 words
      c238W
    11. Animal Exports 141 words
      c238W
    12. Calf Subsidy 77 words
      cc238-9W
    13. Agricultural Tenancies 43 words
      c239W
    14. Allotments 74 words
      c239W
    15. Lobsters and Crabs 52 words
      c239W
    16. Dutch Elm Disease 86 words
      cc239-43W
    17. Beef 1,392 words
      cc243-5W
    18. Water Charges 313 words
      c245W
    19. Pig Production 209 words
      cc245-6W
    20. Cattle Slaughtering 76 words
      c246W
    21. Hill Farms 133 words
      c246W
    22. Land Sales 41 words
      c246W
    23. River Crane, Isleworth 47 words
      cc246-7W
    24. Wart Disease 77 words
      c247W
    25. Foodstuffs (Destruction) 92 words
  2. NATIONAL FINANCE
      3. c247W
    1. Surtax Surcharge 41 words
      cc247-8W
    2. Farming 202 words
      c248W
    3. Estate Duty (Gifts Inter Vivos) 81 words
      c248W
    4. Small Businesses 73 words
      cc248-9W
    5. Value Added Tax 135 words
      c249W
    6. Pensions (Taxation) 120 words
      cc249-50W
    7. Works of Art 225 words
      cc250-1W
    8. Tax Yield (Agriculture) 253 words
      c251W
    9. Company Directors (Loss of Office) 48 words
      cc251-2W
    10. Overseas Borrowings 356 words
      c252W
    11. Rates 140 words
      cc252-3W
    12. Land Transactions 83 words
      c253W
    13. Taxation 51 words
      cc253-4W
    14. Industrial Output and Investment 477 words
      c254W
    15. Coinage 42 words
      cc254-5W
    16. Earned and Unearned Income 48 words
      c255W
    17. Lump Labour 82 words
      c255W
    18. Interest Rates 125 words
      cc255-6W
    19. Income Tax 268 words
      c256W
    20. Charities 53 words
      cc256-7W
    21. Stamp Duty 372 words
      cc257-8W
    22. Oil Producing Countries (Investments) 296 words
      c258W
    23. Oil 48 words
      cc258-9W
    24. Smuggling (Northern Ireland) 52 words
      c259W
    25. Capital Gains Tax 102 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
      4. c259W
    1. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary 55 words
      c259W
    2. London Elections (Handicapped Persons) 63 words
      cc259-60W
    3. Prisoners (Solitary Confinement) 298 words
      cc260-1W
    4. Right of Abode (Hardship Definition) 120 words
      c261W
    5. Cinematograph and Indecent Displays Bill 23 words
      c261W
    6. Fire Precautions 100 words
      c261W
    7. Bledlow Bridge (Explosion) 91 words
      cc261-2W
    8. Holloway (Girl Prisoners) 75 words
      c262W
    9. Taxi Trade 217 words
      cc262-3W
    10. Alimony 86 words
      c263W
    11. West Midlands Police 109 words
      cc263-4W
    12. Commonwealth Citizens 119 words
      c264W
    13. Aliens 96 words
      cc264-5W
    14. Alien Husbands (British Residence) 219 words
      c265W
    15. London Elections (Lewisham) 86 words
      c265W
    16. Animal Welfare 53 words
      c265W
    17. Illegal Immigration 57 words
      cc265-6W
    18. Criminal Trials (Rules of Evidence) 52 words
      c266W
    19. Posts and Telecommunications 94 words
      cc266-7W
    20. Urban Aid Programme (Cheshire) 190 words
      c267W
    21. Broadcasting 185 words
  4. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
      5. cc267-8W
    1. Food Subsidies 78 words
      c268W
    2. Tyre Pressure Gauges 115 words
      cc268-70W
    3. Cross-Channel Car Ferry Services 706 words
      c270W
    4. Bread 103 words
      cc270-1W
    5. Dried Milk 146 words
  5. EMPLOYMENT
      6. c271W
    1. Engineering Unions 91 words
      c271W
    2. Redundancy Payments 58 words
      cc271-2W
    3. Employers' Associations 61 words
      c272W
    4. Mr. J. B. Grande (Work Permit) 73 words
      c272W
    5. Prices (Milk and Beer) 139 words
      cc272-3W
    6. Unfair Dismissal Compensation 590 words
      cc273-4W
    7. South Wales 126 words
      cc274-5W
    8. Earning 78 words
      c275W
    9. Scotland 198 words
      c275W
    10. Building Industry (Cheshire) 125 words
  6. SOCIAL SERVICES
      7. c276W
    1. Mental Illness 101 words
      c276W
    2. Contraception and Abortion (Publicity) 32 words
      c276W
    3. Pregnancy Testing 91 words
      cc276-8W
    4. Abortion 495 words
      cc278-9W
    5. Hospital Beds (Birmingham) 600 words
      cc279-80W
    6. Pensioners (Capital) 52 words
      cc280-1W
    7. Retirement Pensioners 102 words
      c281W
    8. Retirement Pension (Married Women) 75 words
      c281W
    9. Victoria Memorial General Hospital, Manchester 67 words
      cc281-2W
    10. Manchester (Hospitals and Health Centres) 253 words
      c282W
    11. Speech Therapists 49 words
      c282W
    12. Medical Students 58 words
      cc282-3W
    13. Benefits (Mining Industry) 98 words
      c283W
    14. Whooping Cough Vaccination 81 words
      c283W
    15. Charing Cross Hospital (Former Premises) 108 words
      cc283-4W
    16. Homeopathy 155 words
      c284W
    17. Pneumoconiosis 54 words
      cc284-5W
    18. Telephones (Needy Persons) 175 words
      cc285-6W
    19. Emigrants 355 words
      c286W
    20. Tonsillectomy 74 words
      c286W
    21. Hospital Beds (Cost) 48 words
      c286W
    22. Retirement Pensions 153 words
      cc286-7W
    23. Coal Miners' (Benefit Payments) 108 words
      cc287-8W
    24. Personal Incomes 325 words
      c288W
    25. Wheelchairs 45 words
      c288W
    26. Pensioners (Notification of Benefits) 136 words
      cc288-9W
    27. Blood Donation 122 words
      c289W
    28. National Health Service Staff (Lump Sum Payments) 147 words
      c289W
    29. Homeless Persons 77 words
      cc289-90W
    30. Transport Services (Volunteers) 42 words
      c290W
    31. Contraceptives 84 words
      c290W
    32. Invalid Vehicles 90 words
      c290W
    33. Disability Pension Scheme 54 words
      cc290-1W
    34. TRIBUNALS (APPEALS) 51 words
      c291W
    35. DURHAM 24 words
      c291W
    36. CANTERBURY 25 words
      c291W
    37. SCOTLAND 55 words
      c291W
    38. MINISTER OF STATE, DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT 18 words
      cc291-2W
    39. PRIME MINISTER (VISITS) 56 words
      c292W
    40. PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS 41 words
      c292W
    41. CONSTITUENTS (CORRESPONDENCE) 86 words
      c292W
    42. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS 43 words
      cc292-3W
    43. CONCORDE 75 words
      c293W
    44. POLICY ADVISERS 118 words
      c293W
    45. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 76 words
      cc293-5W
    46. COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND WESTERN EUROPEAN UNION (DELEGATION) 364 words
  7. CIVIL SERVICE
      8. c295W
    1. London Allowance 62 words
  8. DEFENCE
      9. c295W
    1. Social Security Benefits 92 words
      cc295-6W
    2. Royal Marines 224 words
      c296W
    3. Marchington Army Camp 55 words
      c296W
    4. Ulster Defence Regiment 47 words
  9. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      10. c297W
    1. Museums 239 words
      c297W
    2. First-Aid Rooms 50 words
      cc297-8W
    3. Teacher Training 81 words
      c298W
    4. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 146 words
      cc298-9W
    5. Clinical Students 70 words
      cc299-300W
    6. Teachers 367 words
      c300W
    7. Local Authority Expenditure 57 words
      c300W
    8. School Leaving Age 73 words
      cc300-1W
    9. School Places (Cost) 98 words
      c301W
    10. Colleges of Education (Control) 75 words
      c301W
    11. Fire Precautions 83 words
      c301W
    12. London Weighting 120 words
      cc301-2W
    13. Animals (Research) 79 words
      c302W
    14. Rural School Transport 32 words
  10. ENERGY
      11. c302W
    1. Petrol (Concessionary Prices) 50 words
      c302W
    2. Coal Prices 82 words
      cc302-3W
    3. Electricity (Costs and Prices) 346 words
      cc303-5W
    4. Petrol Supplies 470 words
      c305W
    5. Mining Subsidence 46 words
      cc305-6W
    6. North Sea Oil and Gas 207 words
      c306W
    7. Gas Prices 271 words
  11. ENVIRONMENT
      12. c307W
    1. Runcorn Spur Road 83 words
      c307W
    2. Channel Tunnel 175 words
      cc307-8W
    3. Motor Vehicles (Safety) 178 words
      cc308-9W
    4. Tyres 217 words
      c309W
    5. Improvement Grants 84 words
      c309W
    6. Rents (Holiday Homes) 137 words
      cc309-10W
    7. Rents (Departmental Tenants) 85 words
      c310W
    8. Compulsory Purchase (Rented Homes) 128 words
      c310W
    9. Rent Officers and Tribunals 107 words
      cc310-1W
    10. Medway Towns (Map) 82 words
      c311W
    11. House Building (Isle of Ely) 153 words
      cc311-2W
    12. Rent Rebates and Allowances 128 words
      c312W
    13. Hartlip Hill (Speed Limit Signs) 86 words
      c312W
    14. Road Transport Services 84 words
      c312W
    15. Rent Freeze 70 words
      cc312-3W
    16. Local Government Expenditure 271 words
      cc313-4W
    17. Tied Cottages 94 words
      c314W
    18. Plutonium (Transport) 266 words
      cc314-5W
    19. Maplin 114 words
      c315W
    20. Motorway Costs 141 words
      cc315-6W
    21. Domestic Properties (Municipal Acquisition) 74 words
      c316W
    22. Water Authorities and Local Councils 226 words
      cc316-7W
    23. Housing 388 words
      cc317-8W
    24. Blind Passengers' Drivers (Orange Badges) 37 words
      c318W
    25. Rate Poundages 57 words
      c318W
    26. Compulsory Purchase Order Decisions 64 words
      c318W
    27. Sports Teams (South African Visits) 70 words
      cc318-9W
    28. Motorway Safety Device 70 words
      c319W
    29. Coventry-Leicester Motorway 70 words
      c319W
    30. Motor Rallies 64 words
      c319W
    31. Ashford-Hastings Railway 39 words
      cc319-20W
    32. Windscreens 90 words
      c320W
    33. Rear Lights 97 words
      c320W
    34. Housing Need 135 words
      cc320-1W
    35. Army Vehicle Depot, Marchington 52 words
      c321W
    36. Housing Stress (Definition) 333 words
      c321W
    37. Worksop (Roads) 119 words
      cc321-2W
    38. Rates 24 words
      c322W
    39. Housing Completions (Newark and Southwell) 135 words
      cc322-3W
    40. Housing Estates (Purchase) 152 words
      c323W
    41. Government Staff (Cheshire) 154 words
      cc323-4W
    42. Rate Support Grant (Cheshire) 217 words
      c324W
    43. Motorways (South Derbyshire) 34 words
      c324W
    44. Caravan Site Rents 70 words
      cc324-5W
    45. Water and Sewerage Charges 105 words
      c325W
    46. Evolution of Parliament Exhibition 61 words
      c325W
    47. M42 Motorway 44 words
      cc325-6W
    48. Mortgages (Women) 114 words
  12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      13. c326W
    1. Seychelles 70 words
      c326W
    2. Nassau Agreement 38 words
      c326W
    3. Polaris Bases 74 words
      cc326-7W
    4. Diego Garcia 90 words
      c327W
    5. Arms Sales 57 words
      c327W
    6. North Vietnam 43 words
      c327W
    7. Rhodesia 140 words
      cc327-8W
    8. South Africa (Helicopter) 75 words
  13. INDUSTRY
      14. c328W
    1. Concorde 53 words
      c328W
    2. Smaller Businesses Association 68 words
      c328W
    3. First-class Mail 53 words
      cc328-9W
    4. Ferrous Scrap 90 words
      c329W
    5. Small Firms 66 words
      c329W
    6. Posts and Telecommunications 91 words
  14. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      15. cc329-30W
    1. Parliamentary Questions 90 words
      c330W
    2. Envelopes 41 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
      16. c330W
    1. Community Relations 121 words
      cc330-1W
    2. Dunloy Incident 141 words
      c331W
    3. Police Station, Larne 53 words
      c331W
    4. Financial Support 164 words
      cc331-2W
    5. Security 110 words
      c332W
    6. Prisoners (Hunger Strike) 179 words
      cc332-3W
    7. Prisoners (Parole) 257 words
      c333W
    8. Royal Ulster Constabulary 108 words
      cc333-4W
    9. Violent Criminals 85 words
      c334W
    10. Arms Caches 95 words
      c334W
    11. Hillsborough House 109 words
      c334W
    12. Royal Tour 33 words
  16. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      17. c335W
    1. Overseas Aid Expenditure 86 words
      cc335-6W
    2. Sahelian Africa 291 words
      c336W
    3. North Vietnam 60 words
  17. SCOTLAND
      18. c336W
    1. Fertilisers 37 words
      cc336-7W
    2. Telephones (Needy Persons) 129 words
      c337W
    3. Fishing Industry (Casualties) 229 words
      c337W
    4. Traffic Lights (Dumbarton) 41 words
      c337W
    5. Medical Facilities (Craw Road Annexe, Paisley) 72 words
      cc337-8W
    6. Urban Aid Programme (Paisley) 191 words
      c338W
    7. Schooling (Renfrewshire) 116 words
  18. TRADE
      19. c339W
    1. Fishermen (Casualties) 370 words
      cc339-40W
    2. West London Air Terminal 109 words
      c340W
    3. Scotland 53 words
      c340W
    4. Aircraft Noise 103 words
  19. WALES
      20. c340W
    1. A55, Northop (Traffic Lights) 43 words
      cc340-1W
    2. Tourists 211 words
      cc341-2W
    3. Welshpool Bypass Inquiry (Costs) 80 words
      c342W
    4. Elan Valley Water Costs 87 words
      c342W
    5. Hospital Visits (Transport Costs) 94 words