Commons Sitting of 5 December 1977 Series 5 Vol. 940

    c983
  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c983
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
      4. cc983-1012
    1. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 32 words
      1. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
          2. cc983-5
        1. Price Commission 654 words
          2. cc985-8
        2. Retail Price Index 1,108 words
          3. cc988-9
        3. Consumer Advice Centres (Manchester) 319 words
          4. cc989-90
        4. Nationalised Industry Consumers 294 words
          5. cc990-1
        5. Retail Prices 340 words
          6. cc991-2
        6. Performing Right Society Limited 509 words
          7. cc992-4
        7. Food Prices 491 words
          8. cc994-6
        8. Petrol Prices 620 words
          9. cc996-8
        9. Price Increases 954 words
          10. cc998-9
        10. Prices (Efficiency Criterion) 122 words
          11. cc999-1001
        11. Price Commission 735 words
          12. c1001
        12. Frozen Chip Potatoes 306 words
          13. cc1001-3
        13. Clip-board Selling 481 words
          14. cc1003-4
        14. Bread 302 words
          15. cc1004-5
        15. Industrial Pricing Policy 323 words
          16. cc1005-6
        16. Rail Fares and Charges 330 words
          17. c1006
        17. Trade Practices (Inquiries) 91 words
          18. cc1006-7
        18. Road Haulage Industry 391 words
        cc1007-9
      2. INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 490 words
        3. cc1009-12
      3. CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 976 words
    cc1012-3
  4. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 345 words
    5. cc1013-4
  5. QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 258 words
    6. cc1014-24
  6. BERMUDA 3,949 words
    7. cc1024-5
  7. RHODESIA 460 words
    8. cc1026-96
  8. CROWN AGENTS 26,801 words, 1 division

Written Answers (Commons) of 5 December 1977 Series 5 Vol. 940

  1. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      2. cc477-8W
    1. Members' Salaries 584 words
      cc478-9W
    2. Select Committees' Reports (Debates) 686 words
      cc479-81W
    3. Car Parking 230 words
      c481W
    4. UNITED KINGDOM DELEGATIONS (TRAVEL EXPENSES) 99 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
      3. cc481-2W
    1. Fire Services (Dispute) 158 words
      c482W
    2. Criminal Pardons 144 words
      cc482-3W
    3. Telephone Tapping 110 words
      c483W
    4. Nuclear Fall-out Shelters 64 words
      c483W
    5. Fire Precautions 169 words
      cc483-4W
    6. Firemen 115 words
      c484W
    7. Fire Stations 71 words
      c484W
    8. Police (Complaints) 143 words
      cc484-5W
    9. Lifts 57 words
      c485W
    10. Dangerous Substances (Transport) 56 words
  3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      4. c485W
    1. United Kingdom-based Bodies (Grants) 102 words
      cc485-6W
    2. Health Technology 156 words
      c486W
    3. Departmental Staff 51 words
      c486W
    4. Mozambique 53 words
      c486W
    5. Solar Power 87 words
  4. TRADE
      5. c487W
    1. Tankers (Safety and Pollution Prevention) 91 words
      c487W
    2. Tourism 158 words
      cc487-8W
    3. Concorde 45 words
      c488W
    4. Oil and Gas Rigs (Services) 189 words
      cc488-9W
    5. Air Travel Reserve Fund Agency 136 words
      c489W
    6. British Tourist Authority and English Tourist Board 222 words
      cc489-90W
    7. Company Law (EEC Directive) 215 words
      cc490-1W
    8. Civil Aviation (United Nations Resolution) 180 words
      c491W
    9. Bananas (Imports) 136 words
      c491W
    10. Transkei 47 words
  5. ENERGY
      6. c491W
    1. Electricity (Consumption) 100 words
      cc491-2W
    2. Electricity Prices (Coal and Oil Fuel) 166 words
      cc492-3W
    3. Consumption 158 words
      c493W
    4. Coal 183 words
      cc493-4W
    5. Coal Mining 223 words
      c494W
    6. Lighting (Advertisements and Shop Windows) 85 words
      cc494-5W
    7. Power Stations 201 words
      c495W
    8. Gas Leaks 108 words
      c495W
    9. Nuclear Establishments (Emergencies) 94 words
      cc495-6W
    10. Thermal Insulation 138 words
      c496W
    11. Solar Heating 126 words
  6. ENVIRONMENT
      7. cc496-7W
    1. Development Control 104 words
      c497W
    2. Ordnance Survey (Archaeological Division) 78 words
      c497W
    3. Westminster Hall 45 words
      cc497-8W
    4. Rate Support Grant 328 words
      cc498-9W
    5. Local Government Commissioner 146 words
      c499W
    6. Mortgages 91 words
      c499W
    7. Sewers (Accidents) 144 words
      cc499-500W
    8. Launderettes 129 words
      c500W
    9. Housing Finance 146 words
      cc500-1W
    10. Customs Station, Newry 95 words
      c501W
    11. Sodium Fluoride 119 words
      c501W
    12. Rating 68 words
      cc501-2W
    13. Mobile Homes 120 words
  7. TRANSPORT
      8. c502W
    1. Roads (Sanding and Gritting) 52 words
      c502W
    2. Dangerous Substances 108 words
      c502W
    3. Lorry Drivers (Working Hours) 39 words
      cc502-3W
    4. A17 (Bypass) 78 words
      c503W
    5. Kidney Donor Cards 65 words
      c503W
    6. M1-A1 Link Road 89 words
  8. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
      9. cc503-4W
    1. Consumer Protection Councils 61 words
      cc504-5W
    2. Price Commission 360 words
      c505W
    3. Hire Charges 65 words
      cc505-6W
    4. Food Prices 171 words
      c506W
    5. Inflation 277 words
      cc506-7W
    6. Price Freeze 57 words
      c507W
    7. Manufacturer's Recommended Price 98 words
      c507W
    8. Bread 60 words
      cc507-8W
    9. Coffee 86 words
      cc508-9W
    10. Price Increases 400 words
      c509W
    11. Accidents in the Home 85 words
      cc509-10W
    12. Prices, Mergers and Monopolies 254 words
      cc510-1W
    13. Electrical Plugs and Sockets 148 words
      c511W
    14. Toys 50 words
      cc511-2W
    15. Contract Terms (Partners) 335 words
      c512W
    16. Electric Batteries 207 words
      cc512-3W
    17. Advertising 65 words
      c513W
    18. Consumer Protection (Expenditure) 72 words
      cc513-4W
    19. Monopolies and Mergers Commission 338 words
      c514W
    20. Manufactures 201 words
      cc514-5W
    21. Motor Vehicles 74 words
      c515W
    22. Potatoes 126 words
  9. SOCIAL SERVICES
      10. cc515-6W
    1. Influenza Vaccine 138 words
      c516W
    2. Retirement Age 94 words
      c516W
    3. Hospital Waiting Lists 41 words
      cc516-7W
    4. Newham 167 words
      c517W
    5. District Nurses 131 words
      cc517-8W
    6. Personal Incomes 257 words
      c518W
    7. Criminal Proceeds 127 words
      c518W
    8. Fraud (Prosecutions) 37 words
      cc518-9W
    9. Fraud Investigations 82 words
      c519W
    10. National Insurance Commissioner (Appeals) 110 words
      c519W
    11. Down's Syndrome 70 words
      cc519-20W
    12. Girocheques 102 words
      cc520-1W
    13. Departmental Appeals 597 words
      cc521-3W
    14. Cohabitation 689 words
      cc523-4W
    15. One-parent Families 105 words
      c524W
    16. National Insurance Commissioner and Medical Tribunals (Appeals) 110 words
      c524W
    17. Christmas Bonus 95 words
      cc524-5W
    18. Pensioners 95 words
      c525W
    19. Firemen (Family Income Supplement) 43 words
      c525W
    20. Abortion 113 words
      cc525-6W
    21. Expenditure 123 words
      c526W
    22. Kidney Donor Cards 95 words
      c526W
    23. Teaching Hospitals (London) 88 words
      cc526-7W
    24. Population Census 146 words
      c527W
    25. Private Patients 57 words
      cc527-9W
    26. Hospital Services (Wirral) 609 words
      c529W
    27. Doctors (Emigration) 155 words
      c529W
    28. Diabetics (Syringes) 71 words
      cc529-31W
    29. Clinical Laboratories (Howie Report) 388 words
      c531W
    30. Northamptonshire Area Health Authority 191 words
      cc531-2W
    31. Otolaryngologists 135 words
      c532W
    32. Deafness (Industrial Injuries Regulations) 194 words
      cc532-3W
    33. Kidney Disease 116 words
      c533W
    34. Benefits and Allowances (Statistics) 279 words
      cc533-4W
    35. Benefits (Widows) 103 words
      c534W
    36. Mr. David Williams 95 words
      c534W
    37. War Pensioners 136 words
      cc534-5W
    38. National Insurance Contributions 55 words
      c535W
    39. Pay Beds 99 words
      cc535-6W
    40. Family Income Supplement 218 words
  10. DEFENCE
      11. cc536-7W
    1. Car Allowances 500 words
      c537W
    2. Press Interviews 148 words
      cc537-8W
    3. Sales 256 words
      c538W
    4. Kidney Donor Cards 79 words
      cc538-9W
    5. United States of America 93 words
      c539W
    6. Wrecks 200 words
      cc539-40W
    7. Ordnance Factories 101 words
      cc540-1W
    8. Hydrography 304 words
      c541W
    9. Helicopters 141 words
      c541W
    10. Service Personnel (Civilian Employment) 69 words
      cc541-2W
    11. Harrier Aircraft 74 words
      c542W
    12. Chemical Weapons 214 words
      cc542-3W
    13. Shooting Ranges 113 words
      c543W
    14. Armed Forces (Pay) 213 words
      cc543-4W
    15. Contracts 80 words
      c544W
    16. Army Youth Teams 76 words
      cc544-5W
    17. Shipbuilding 239 words
      c545W
    18. Fire Service 25 words
  11. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      12. c545W
    1. Nursery Schoolchildren 135 words
      cc545-6W
    2. Ruskin College 114 words
      c546W
    3. Works of Art (Export) 73 words
      c546W
    4. School Transport 68 words
      cc546-7W
    5. University Teachers 179 words
      cc547-8W
    6. Illiteracy 488 words
      cc548-9W
    7. Student Fees and Grants 450 words
      c549W
    8. Education Councils 197 words
      cc549-50W
    9. Counselling 203 words
      cc550-1W
    10. Museums and Galleries 143 words
  12. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
      13. c551W
    1. Transitional Period 102 words
  13. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      14. cc551-4W
    1. Departmental Expenditure 801 words
      c554W
    2. Overseas Representation 63 words
      c554W
    3. Embassies and Missions 126 words
      cc554-5W
    4. South Africa 126 words
      c555W
    5. Iran 64 words
  14. INDUSTRY
      15. cc555-6W
    1. Advance Factories 272 words
      c556W
    2. Yorkshire and Humberside (Aid) 75 words
      c556W
    3. Scotland (Employment) 70 words
      cc556-7W
    4. Grants and Loans 240 words
      cc557-9W
    5. British Steel Corporation 563 words
      c559W
    6. Petrochemicals 88 words
      cc559-60W
    7. Steel 173 words
      c560W
    8. National Enterprise Board 40 words
      cc560-1W
    9. European Community 421 words
      cc561-2W
    10. Planning Agreements 205 words
      c562W
    11. Financial Assistance (EEC Approval) 135 words
      cc562-3W
    12. Industry Act Schemes (Applications) 431 words
      cc563-4W
    13. Printing (Machinery) 118 words
      cc564-5W
    14. Shipbuilding 146 words
      c565W
    15. Capacity 131 words
      c565W
    16. Printing Machinery 96 words
      cc565-6W
    17. Paper 188 words
      cc566-7W
    18. National Enterprise Board 190 words
  15. NATIONAL FINANCE
      16. c567W
    1. Prices, Taxation and National Insurance 320 words
      cc567-8W
    2. Personal Incomes 259 words
      cc568-9W
    3. Tax Deposit Certificates 278 words
      c569W
    4. Savings 40 words
      cc569-70W
    5. Betting 119 words
      c570W
    6. Construction Industry 129 words
      cc570-1W
    7. Liquor and Tobacco (Duty Allowances) 70 words
      c571W
    8. Commodity and Retail Prices 198 words
      cc571-2W
    9. Value Added Tax 225 words
      c572W
    10. Hire Purchase 87 words
      c572W
    11. Income Tax 78 words
      cc572-3W
    12. Computers 259 words
      cc573-4W
    13. Tax Revenue 188 words
      c574W
    14. Inland Revenue Office (Cumbernauld) 99 words
      c574W
    15. Personal Expenditure 77 words
  16. NORTHERN IRELAND
      17. c575W
    1. Firearm Thefts 225 words
      cc575-6W
    2. Security Forces (Complaints) 142 words
      c576W
    3. Statutory Instruments 36 words
      cc576-7W
    4. Housing Executive 310 words
      c577W
    5. Control of Pollution Act 1974 60 words
      c577W
    6. Water and Sewerage (Notices) 82 words
      cc577-8W
    7. Quarrying 193 words
      c578W
    8. Royal Ulster Constabulary (Weapons) 98 words
      c578W
    9. PAY POLICY 98 words
  17. SCOTLAND
      18. cc578-9W
    1. Docks and Harbours 153 words
      c579W
    2. Ordnance Survey (Archaeology Division) 124 words
      cc579-80W
    3. Scottish Economic Council and Oil Development Council 300 words
      cc580-1W
    4. Job Creation 121 words
      c581W
    5. Small Firms 78 words
      cc581-2W
    6. Fines 212 words
      c582W
    7. Warrant Sales 125 words
      c582W
    8. Shipbuilding 81 words
  18. WALES
      19. c583W
    1. Bilingual Education 90 words
      c583W
    2. House Building 132 words
      cc583-4W
    3. Housing (Rehabilitation Orders) 112 words
      c584W
    4. National Parks 63 words
      c584W
    5. Schools (Questionnaire) 63 words
  19. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      20. c584W
    1. Pig Herd 85 words
      cc584-5W
    2. Intervention Stocks 144 words
      c585W
    3. Badgers 151 words
      cc585-6W
    4. Brucellosis 103 words
      c586W
    5. Green Pound 101 words
      cc586-7W
    6. Fish Farming 320 words
      c587W
    7. Wool Marketing Board 56 words
      cc587-8W
    8. Animals (Welfare) 206 words
  20. EMPLOYMENT
      21. cc588-9W
    1. Wages and Hours 500 words
      cc589-90W
    2. Pensioners (Light and Fuel) 121 words
      c590W
    3. Engineering Apprentices 161 words
      cc590-1W
    4. Jobcentre, Harrogate 113 words
      c591W
    5. Job Creation 323 words
      c591W
    6. Sex Equality 88 words
      cc591-3W
    7. Unemployed Persons 566 words
      cc593-4W
    8. Earnings 296 words
      c594W
    9. Ashfield 52 words
      cc594-5W
    10. Food (Family Expenditure) 176 words
      cc595-6W
    11. Asbestos 291 words
      c596W
    12. Pay Settlements 57 words
      c596W
    13. Torrington 44 words
      cc596-7W
    14. Temporary Employment Subsidy 189 words
      cc597-8W
    15. Professional and Executive Recruitment 331 words
      c598W
    16. International Labour Organisation 121 words
      cc598-600W
    17. Manpower Services Commission (Inquiry) 475 words
      c600W
    18. Highlands and Islands Development Board 61 words
      cc600-9W
    19. Scotland 3,845 words
      cc609-10W
    20. Explosives (Store Licences) 172 words
      cc610-2W
    21. Manufacturing 77 words