Commons Sitting of 16 December 1977 Series 5 Vol. 941

    c1125
  1. Preamble 6 words
  2. c1125
  3. PRAYERS 5 words
  4. PETITION
    1. cc1125-6
    2. Floods (Brent) 306 words
    cc1126-30
  5. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF MINISTERS' MEETINGS) 1,584 words
  6. cc1130-1
  7. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 38 words
    1. c1130
    2. SEA FISHERIES 54 words
    3. c1131
    4. WATER 23 words
    cc1131-43
  8. EDUCATIONAL COURSES (ALLOWANCES) 4,435 words
  9. cc1143-60
  10. HEALTH SERVICE (NORTHUMBERLAND) 6,713 words
  11. cc1161-73
  12. LIVERPOOL AIRPORT 4,776 words
  13. cc1174-85
  14. ACUPUNCTURISTS 4,166 words
  15. cc1185-93
  16. INDO-CHINA REFUGEES 3,045 words
  17. cc1193-202
  18. EDUCATION (AVON) 3,589 words
  19. cc1203-14
  20. MENDIP HOSPITAL, WELLS 4,199 words
  21. cc1214-26
  22. EMPLOYMENT (MERSEYSIDE) 4,194 words
  23. cc1226-36
  24. FALKLAND ISLANDS 3,849 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 16 December 1977 Series 5 Vol. 941

  1. SCOTLAND
    1. c409W
    2. Co-operatives 109 words
      c409W
    3. Voluntary Bodies (Grants) 152 words
      cc409-10W
    4. Criminal Appeals 106 words
  2. ENVIRONMENT
    1. cc410-1W
    2. Homeless Persons 471 words
      cc411-2W
    3. Construction Industry 99 words
      cc412-4W
    4. Rate Support Grant 917 words
      cc414-6W
    5. Sport and Recreation 471 words
      c416W
    6. Housing 122 words
      cc416-7W
    7. Local Government Finance 116 words
      c417W
    8. Departmental Staff (Travel) 96 words
      c417W
    9. Binningham (Fountain Court Employment Office) 62 words
      cc417-8W
    10. Waste Disposal 268 words
      cc418-9W
    11. Historic Buildings (Trowbridge) 123 words
      c419W
    12. National Theatre 56 words
      c419W
    13. Sports Council 70 words
      cc419-20W
    14. Tortoises (Imports) 209 words
      c420W
    15. Urban Programme 40 words
      c420W
    16. New Towns (Transfer of Assets) 105 words
      cc420-1W
    17. Housing Improvement 134 words
  3. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. cc421-2W
    2. Potatoes 528 words
      cc422-3W
    3. Production 124 words
      c423W
    4. Foodstuffs and Animal Feed 99 words
      cc423-4W
    5. Beef and Dairy Farming 162 words
      c424W
    6. Giro 134 words
      cc424-6W
    7. Agricultural Wages 558 words
      c426W
    8. Departmental Staff 177 words
      cc426-7W
    9. Meat Processing 189 words
      c427W
    10. Fish Farms 73 words
      c427W
    11. Sheep 88 words
      cc427-8W
    12. Marginal Land 164 words
      c428W
    13. Milk 65 words
      c428W
    14. Sows 86 words
      cc428-30W
    15. Meat Imports 407 words
      c430W
    16. European Community (Levies and Prices) 110 words
      c430W
    17. Animals (Welfare) 113 words
      cc430-1W
    18. Wheat (Levy) 169 words
  4. EMPLOYMENT
    1. cc431-4W
    2. Work Permits 1,023 words
      cc434-6W
    3. Avon County 1,078 words
      cc436-7W
    4. Pay Settlements 104 words
      c437W
    5. Health and Safety Regulations 175 words
      cc437-8W
    6. Job Creation 126 words
      c438W
    7. Small Businesses 189 words
      cc438-9W
    8. Earnings 169 words
      c439W
    9. Low-paid Workers 91 words
      cc439-40W
    10. Co-operatives 80 words
      c440W
    11. Manpower Services Commission 153 words
      cc440-3W
    12. Sex Discrimination 869 words
      c443W
    13. Employment Protection 359 words
      cc443-4W
    14. Liverpool 111 words
      c444W
    15. Training 90 words
      cc444-6W
    16. Voluntary Bodies 611 words
      cc446-8W
    17. Ince 392 words
      c448W
    18. Canvey Island 111 words
      c448W
    19. Nurses 41 words
      cc448-9W
    20. Industrial Tribunal Awards 86 words
      c449W
    21. Health and Safety (Public at Large) 69 words
      cc449-50W
    22. Unemployed Persons 221 words
      c450W
    23. Retail Prices Index 118 words
      cc450-2W
    24. Redundancies 291 words
      cc452-62W
    25. Manchester 4,044 words
      cc462-70W
    26. Cheshire 2,636 words
      cc470-1W
    27. CIVIL SERVANTS (POLITICAL ACTIVITIES) 57 words
  5. DEFENCE
    1. c471W
    2. European co-ordination 101 words
      c471W
    3. Arms Sales 88 words
      cc471-2W
    4. National Army Museum 96 words
      cc472-3W
    5. Civilian Staff 310 words
      cc473-4W
    6. E1 Salvador 303 words
  6. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. c474W
    2. Giro 101 words
      c474W
    3. Departmental Staff (Travel) 84 words
      cc474-5W
    4. European Community (Regional Development Fund) 97 words
      c475W
    5. PARLIAMENTARY SALARIES 93 words
      c475W
    6. MR. WALTER NORVAL 47 words
  7. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
    1. c476W
    2. Milk (Subsidy) 66 words
      c476W
    3. Cocoa 110 words
      c476W
    4. Hairdressing 132 words
      cc476-7W
    5. Departmental Staff (Travel) 207 words
      c477W
    6. London Airport (Duty-free Shops) 102 words
      cc477-8W
    7. Flour and Bread 208 words
      c478W
    8. Price Increases 91 words
      cc478-9W
    9. Petrol (Motorway Service Areas) 87 words
      c479W
    10. Giro 133 words
      c479W
    11. Rank Film Distributors 71 words
      cc479-80W
    12. Public Bodies (Grants) 101 words
      c480W
    13. False Price Claims 237 words
  8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. c481W
    2. Official Secrets (Enigma and Ultra) 64 words
      cc481-2W
    3. Belize 282 words
      c482W
    4. Council of Europe 134 words
      c482W
    5. Korea 57 words
      cc482-3W
    6. Gas Resources (International Agreement) 84 words
      cc483-6W
    7. E1 Salvador 900 words
      c486W
    8. Human Rights (USSR) 175 words
      cc486-8W
    9. Diplomatic Immunity (East European Countries) 531 words
      cc488-9W
    10. Disarmament 326 words
      cc489-90W
    11. Cyprus 546 words
  9. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
    1. cc490-1W
    2. Textile Imports (Hong Kong) 258 words
      c491W
    3. Direct Elections 47 words
      c491W
    4. Budget 135 words
  10. TRADE
    1. cc491-500W
    2. Airports 2,376 words
      cc500-1W
    3. Automobile Association 127 words
      cc501-5W
    4. Company Law 1,128 words
      c505W
    5. Export Services (Charges) 67 words
      c505W
    6. Peachey Property Company 143 words
      cc505-6W
    7. Departmental Staff (Travel) 213 words
      c506W
    8. Secondary Banks 119 words
      c506W
    9. Industrial Democracy 47 words
      cc506-8W
    10. Merchant Navy 390 words
      c508W
    11. British Airways Board 206 words
      cc508-9W
    12. Rame Head Coastguard Station 112 words
      c509W
    13. Multi-Fibre Arrangement 84 words
      cc509-10W
    14. Ad Valorem Duty 402 words
      c510W
    15. Stonehouse Companies (Report) 99 words
      cc510-1W
    16. Giro 132 words
  11. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. c511W
    2. Electoral Boundaries (Cleveland) 379 words
      cc511-2W
    3. Equal Opportunities Commission 32 words
      c512W
    4. Radio Transmitters 172 words
      cc512-3W
    5. Police (Interrogations) 129 words
      cc513-4W
    6. Animals (Experiments) 252 words
      cc514-5W
    7. Rape 327 words
      c515W
    8. Giro 77 words
      c515W
    9. Departmental Staff (Travel) 127 words
      cc515-6W
    10. Anti-terrorism Legislation 139 words
      c516W
    11. Police (Traffic Duties) 108 words
      cc516-7W
    12. Fire Service (Dispute) 128 words
      c517W
    13. London Wards 116 words
      cc517-8W
    14. After-care Hostels (Grants) 157 words
      c518W
    15. Holloway Prison 290 words
      cc518-9W
    16. Prisons (Mothers with Children) 253 words
      cc519-20W
    17. Fire Service 300 words
      cc520-1W
    18. Firemen (Pay) 324 words
      c521W
    19. Dangerous Substances (Carriage by Road) 107 words
      cc521-2W
    20. Illegal Immigrants (Amnesty) 162 words
      cc522-3W
    21. Service Voters 157 words
      c523W
    22. Mr. Philip Agee 128 words
      c523W
    23. Children and Young Persons Act 1969 116 words
  12. ENERGY
    1. cc523-4W
    2. Nuclear Reactors 323 words
      cc524-5W
    3. Dounreay 205 words
      cc525-6W
    4. Cross-Channel Power Link 246 words
      c526W
    5. Conservation 241 words
      cc526-7W
    6. Dungeness B Power Station 41 words
      c527W
    7. National Coal Board (Finance) 247 words
      cc527-8W
    8. Nuclear Power 87 words
      c528W
    9. Gas and Electricity Consumers 188 words
      cc528-9W
    10. Electricity Generating and Supply (Finance) 253 words
      c529W
    11. Giro 130 words
      cc529-30W
    12. Petroleum Regulations 98 words
      c530W
    13. Petroleum Regulations 61 words
      cc530-1W
    14. Gas Corporation (Finance) 217 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. c531W
    2. Education and Health (Expenditure) 378 words
      cc531-3W
    3. Public Expenditure 372 words
      c533W
    4. Giro 136 words
      c533W
    5. Gaelic Athletic Association 65 words
      cc533-4W
    6. Housing Executive (Contracts) 123 words
      cc534-7W
    7. Community Services 385 words
      c537W
    8. Construction Industry 204 words
      cc537-8W
    9. Architects 236 words
      c538W
    10. Housing Grants 114 words
      cc538-9W
    11. Health and Education (Expenditure) 170 words
  14. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. cc539-40W
    2. Child Tax Allowances 327 words
      c540W
    3. Public Expenditure 132 words
      cc540-2W
    4. Capital Transfer Tax 765 words
      cc542-3W
    5. Construction Industry (Sub-Contractors' Certificates) 279 words
      cc543-4W
    6. Taxation (Domicile) 331 words
      c544W
    7. Currency 52 words
      cc544-5W
    8. Giro 132 words
      c545W
    9. Treasury Staff (Travel) 231 words
      cc545-6W
    10. Pay Settlements 133 words
      c546W
    11. Secondary Banks 115 words
      c546W
    12. Development Land Tax 91 words
      cc546-7W
    13. Child Benefit 77 words
      c547W
    14. Economic Forecasting Model 227 words
      cc547-8W
    15. Self-Employed Persons 79 words
      c548W
    16. Illegal Immigrants 44 words
      cc548-9W
    17. Construction Industry (Deputation) 350 words
      c549W
    18. Government Grants (Job Creation) 149 words
      cc549-50W
    19. Profit Sharing 59 words
      c550W
    20. Deposit-taking Institutions (Licensing) 60 words
      c550W
    21. Regional Development Grant and Agricultural Capital Grant 111 words
      cc550-1W
    22. Income Tax 373 words
      cc551-2W
    23. Mortgages 200 words
      c552W
    24. Divorced Persons 68 words
  15. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. c552W
    2. Her Majesty's Stationery Office 47 words
      cc552-3W
    3. Public Appointments (Peers) 167 words
      cc553-4W
    4. Expenditure 269 words
      cc554-5W
    5. Scotland 263 words
      c555W
    6. Dispersal 251 words
      cc555-6W
    7. Skelmersdale New Town 108 words
      c556W
    8. Ministerial Travel Expenses 80 words
  16. INDUSTRY
    1. c556W
    2. Industry Act 1972 90 words
      cc556-7W
    3. Planning 447 words
      cc557-8W
    4. Steel 71 words
      cc558-9W
    5. Government Aid 434 words
      c559W
    6. Concorde 51 words
      c559W
    7. Waste Paper 78 words
      cc559-60W
    8. Departmental Staff (Travel) 294 words
      cc560-2W
    9. Post Office 577 words
      c562W
    10. Oil Processing and Ethylene Crackers 99 words
      cc562-3W
    11. Development and Intermediate Areas 832 words
      cc563-5W
    12. Giro 169 words
      c565W
    13. British Steel Corporation 100 words
      c565W
    14. Fertilisers 57 words
      cc565-6W
    15. British Leyland 92 words
      c566W
    16. Shipbuilding 107 words
  17. TRANSPORT
    1. c566W
    2. M40 45 words
      c566W
    3. Road Schemes (Assisted Areas) 47 words
      cc566-7W
    4. Giro 156 words
      c567W
    5. A435 (Evesham) 94 words
      cc567-8W
    6. Tachographs 106 words
      c568W
    7. A13 81 words
      c568W
    8. Vehicles (Rear Lights) 115 words
      cc568-9W
    9. Fog Warning Systems 128 words
      c569W
    10. National Freight Corporation 62 words
      c569W
    11. National Bus Company 56 words
      c569W
    12. British Railways 102 words
      cc569-70W
    13. Lorry Drivers (Working Hours) 70 words
      c570W
    14. M54 65 words
      cc570-1W
    15. Vehicles (EEC Regulation 543/69) 275 words
      cc571-2W
    16. Lorry Drivers (Certificates of Competency) 892 words
      cc572-3W
    17. Supplementary Grant 405 words
      c573W
    18. Dangerous Substances 159 words
      cc573-4W
    19. Road Haulage (Operating Licences) 131 words
      c574W
    20. Departmental Staff (Travel) 89 words
      cc574-5W
    21. M11 (Lea Valley) 74 words
      c575W
    22. Roads (Public Inquiries) 288 words
      cc575-6W
    23. CIVIL LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION FOR PERSONAL INJURY (ROYAL COMMISSION) 72 words
  18. WALES
    1. c576W
    2. Doctors 95 words
      cc576-7W
    3. Schooling Costs 127 words
      c577W
    4. Departmental Staff (Travel) 153 words
      cc577-8W
    5. Teacher-pupil Ratios 437 words
      cc578-9W
    6. Voluntary Organisations 162 words
      c579W
    7. Residential Homes 286 words
      cc579-80W
    8. Tan-yr-Unto Corner 83 words
      c580W
    9. North Wales Expressway 52 words
      c580W
    10. Transport (County Council Expenditure) 59 words
  19. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. cc580-1W
    2. Fluoridation 96 words
      c581W
    3. Mr. G. W. Beckwith 58 words
      c581W
    4. Ambulance Men 156 words
      cc581-2W
    5. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 48 words
      c582W
    6. Departmental Staff (Travel) 183 words
      c582W
    7. Farmers (Scotland) 108 words
      cc582-3W
    8. Handicapped Persons (Wiltshire) 111 words
      c583W
    9. Thalidomide 106 words
      cc583-4W
    10. Kidney Patients 145 words
      cc584-5W
    11. Walsall 503 words
      cc585-6W
    12. Fraudulent Claims 107 words
      cc586-7W
    13. Pharmacies 675 words
      cc587-8W
    14. Supplementary Benefit 65 words
      c588W
    15. Teaching Hospitals (London) 129 words
      c588W
    16. Hospitals (Change of Function) 35 words
      cc588-9W
    17. Hospital Closures 90 words
      c589W
    18. Child Benefits 186 words
      cc589-90W
    19. Serum alphafetoprotein Screening 390 words
      cc590-1W
    20. Disabled Persons (Vehicles) 278 words
      cc591-2W
    21. Invalidity Pensions (Housewives) 216 words
      cc592-3W
    22. Hospitals (Greenwich and Bexley Area Health Authority) 535 words
      cc593-4W
    23. Mobility Allowance 99 words
      c594W
    24. Benefits 74 words
      c594W
    25. Stoke Mandeville Hospital 78 words
      cc594-5W
    26. Statistics 104 words
      c595W
    27. Skelmersdale New Town (Hospital) 108 words
      c595W
    28. Dr. Lim Poh Choo 92 words
      cc595-6W
    29. Mill Road Maternity Hospital, Cambridge 297 words
      cc596-7W
    30. Electro-Convulsive Therapy 119 words
      c597W
    31. Support Stockings and Tights 138 words
      cc597-8W
    32. Workmen's Compensation 179 words
      c598W
    33. Christmas Bonus 138 words
      cc598-600W
    34. Reception and Resettlement Centres 675 words
      c600W
    35. Health Centres 66 words
      cc600-1W
    36. Immigrants 248 words
  20. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. cc601-2W
    2. Snails 150 words
      c602W
    3. Departmental Staff (Travel) 157 words
      c602W
    4. School Meals 75 words
      cc602-3W
    5. Temple Newsam Museum (Mostyn Flagon Purchase) 109 words
      c603W
    6. Church of England School (Ealing) 74 words
      c603W
    7. Vehicle Drivers (Certificate of Competency) 55 words
      cc603-4W
    8. Student Grants 301 words
      c604W
    9. School Books 46 words
      cc604-5W
    10. Libraries 66 words
      cc605-6W
    11. Expenditure 103 words