Commons Sitting of 24 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 954

    c1117
  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c1117
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. TRADE
        2. cc1117-8
      1. Air Fares (Illegal Discounting) 380 words
        2. cc1118-9
      2. Small Businesses 198 words
        3. cc1119-20
      3. Import Controls 612 words
        4. cc1120-4
      4. Tankers (Oil Pollution) 1,327 words
        5. cc1124-6
      5. British Airways 715 words
        6. cc1126-7
      6. Film Industry 397 words
        7. cc1127-30
      7. Chipboard 889 words
        8. cc1130-1
      8. Trade Statistics 258 words
        9. cc1131-3
      9. Cotton Yarn and Knitted Shirts (Greece) 742 words
        10. cc1133-5
      10. British Tourist Authority 663 words
        11. cc1135-6
      11. USSR (Credits) 362 words
        12. cc1136-7
      12. Mowing and Grinding Machines (Noise Levels) 355 words
        13. cc1137-8
      13. Aircraft Noise 415 words
        14. cc1138-9
      14. Biggin Hill Airfield 331 words
        15. cc1139-40
      15. Whale Sperm Oil Manufactures 262 words
        16. cc1140-1
      16. Motor Vehicles (European Community) 297 words
        17. cc1141-2
      17. REDUNDANT CHURCHES 462 words
    2. TRADE
        3. cc1142-4
      1. European Community Countries 607 words
    cc1144-5
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS (INFORMATION BULLETIN) 216 words
    5. c1145
  5. REFLECTIONS ON ROYAL FAMILY 249 words
    6. cc1145-7
  6. NUCLEAR SUBMARINES 455 words
    7. cc1147-8
  7. INNER URBAN AREAS BILL (LORDS AMENDMENT) 369 words
  8. ORDERS OF THE DAY
      9. c1149
    1. SUPPLY 3 words
      2. cc1149-287
    2. UNEMPLOYMENT 51,287 words, 1 division
      3. c1287
    3. CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1978–79 71 words
      4. c1287
    4. DEFENCE AND CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1978–79 (OUTSTANDING VOTES) 81 words
    cc1287-8
  9. CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) 431 words
    10. cc1289-325
  10. DOCK LABOUR SCHEME 14,122 words, 1 division
    11. c1325
  11. NORTHERN IRELAND COMMITTEE 42 words
    12. c1325
  12. DIVIDENDS BILL 43 words
    13. cc1325-38
  13. CUTLERY INDUSTRY 4,501 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 24 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 954

  1. TRADE
      2. c471W
    1. Unit Trust Management Charges 53 words
      c471W
    2. Japanese Motor Cars 46 words
      c471W
    3. New Zealand 62 words
      cc471-2W
    4. British Airways (Aircraft Purchases) 93 words
      c472W
    5. Motor Car Imports 128 words
      c472W
    6. South Africa (Company Reports) 131 words
      cc472-3W
    7. Special Steel Industry 211 words
      c473W
    8. Air Traffic Control 238 words
      cc473-4W
    9. North Atlantic Flights 39 words
      c474W
    10. Continental Ferries (Medical Facilities) 90 words
      c474W
    11. USSR (Credits) 28 words
      cc474-5W
    12. Commonwealth Countries 181 words
      cc475-6W
    13. Textile Imports 432 words
      c476W
    14. Airports 105 words
      cc476-7W
    15. Air Travel (Delays) 104 words
      c477W
    16. Chile (Rolls-Royce Aero-engines) 106 words
      c477W
    17. Loft Insulation Material 163 words
      cc477-8W
    18. Institute of Development Studies 150 words
  2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      3. cc478-9W
    1. Administrators and Planners (Training) 156 words
      c479W
    2. Public Funds (Economy) 69 words
      c479W
    3. Zambia 119 words
      cc479-80W
    4. Underdeveloped Countries (Aid) 170 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
      4. cc480-1W
    1. Mentally Disordered Prisoners 449 words
      cc481-2W
    2. Immigration (EEC Directive) 113 words
      c482W
    3. Bail Hostels 113 words
      c482W
    4. Motorways (Driving Offences) 144 words
      cc482-3W
    5. Mr. Mohsen Berenchi 86 words
      c483W
    6. Police (Coloured Complainants) 62 words
      c483W
    7. Crime (Sir Colin Woods Statement) 277 words
      cc483-4W
    8. Public Funds (Economy) 76 words
      cc484-5W
    9. Police (Strength) 272 words
      c485W
    10. Police (Pay and Conditions) 105 words
      cc485-6W
    11. European Community (Movement of Labour) 163 words
      c486W
    12. Motoring Offences 137 words
      c486W
    13. Parliamentary Constituencies 94 words
      cc486-7W
    14. Police Station, Tottenham Court Road 121 words
  4. CIVIL SERVICE
      5. c487W
    1. Non-industrial Civil Servants 216 words
      cc487-8W
    2. St. stephen's Parliamentary Press 181 words
      cc488-9W
    3. Civil Servants 444 words
      cc489-90W
    4. Statutory Instruments 188 words
      cc490-1W
    5. Members of Parliament (Salaries and Pensions) 287 words
  5. ENERGY
      6. c491W
    1. Gas Cookers (Standards) 99 words
      c491W
    2. Energy Supplies 115 words
      cc491-2W
    3. Electricity and Coal 72 words
      c492W
    4. Statutory Instruments 74 words
      cc492-3W
    5. Solar Heating 281 words
      c493W
    6. Crude Oil 112 words
      cc493-4W
    7. Liquefied Gas (Handling and Storage) 324 words
      c494W
    8. JUDGMENTS (ENFORCEMENT) 67 words
  6. WALES
      7. cc494-5W
    1. Land Reclamation 205 words
      c495W
    2. Public Funds (Economy) 70 words
  7. INDUSTRY
      8. cc495-6W
    1. Concorde 96 words
      c496W
    2. Telephone Installations (Dispute) 154 words
      c496W
    3. Public Funds (Economy) 56 words
      cc496-7W
    4. Companies (Foreign Owners) 99 words
      c497W
    5. Regional Assistance 133 words
      c497W
    6. Effluent Treatment Charges 47 words
      cc497-8W
    7. British Shipbuilders 137 words
      c498W
    8. United Builders' Merchants 61 words
      c498W
    9. Footwear Industry (Consultancy Service) 72 words
  8. NATIONAL FINANCE
      9. cc498-9W
    1. Personal Taxes and Allowances 344 words
      c499W
    2. Emigrants (Taxation) 73 words
      cc499-500W
    3. Incomes 222 words
      cc500-1W
    4. Tax Credit 492 words
      c501W
    5. Income Tax 66 words
      cc501-3W
    6. Taxation 487 words
      cc503-4W
    7. European Community (Taxation Collaboration) 250 words
      c504W
    8. Tax Evasion 46 words
      cc504-5W
    9. Motor Vehicle Taxation 322 words
      cc505-6W
    10. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 122 words
      c506W
    11. Incomes Policy 75 words
      c506W
    12. European Currency Reserve Fund 79 words
      cc506-7W
    13. National Land Fund 117 words
      c507W
    14. General Practice Finance Corporation 87 words
      c507W
    15. Bank of England Exchange Regulations 120 words
      cc507-8W
    16. Value Added Tax 215 words
      c508W
    17. Social Wage 57 words
      c508W
    18. Personal Taxation 59 words
      cc508-9W
    19. National Insurance Surcharge 131 words
      c509W
    20. Income Tax Reliefs 62 words
      c509W
    21. Income Tax (Yield) 59 words
      c509W
    22. Expenditure 99 words
      cc509-10W
    23. Unemployment, Prices and Productivity 190 words
      c510W
    24. Credit Unions 37 words
      c510W
    25. Deposit-taking Institutions 45 words
      cc510-2W
    26. Personal Incomes 566 words
      c512W
    27. Balance of Payments Outturn 135 words
      cc512-3W
    28. Stock Appreciation Relief 253 words
  9. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      10. c513W
    1. International Sugar Agreement 50 words
      cc513-4W
    2. Productivity 255 words
      c514W
    3. Untreated Milk 47 words
      cc514-6W
    4. Fish Catches 293 words
      cc516-7W
    5. Agriculture Industry (Net Income) 480 words
      cc517-8W
    6. Tied Cottage Rent 68 words
      c518W
    7. Farm Products (Supplies) 155 words
      cc518-9W
    8. Breeding Herds and Flocks 283 words
      c519W
    9. Thames Flood Barrier 116 words
      cc519-20W
    10. Cattle Imports 134 words
  10. TRANSPORT
      11. c520W
    1. A339 (Kingsclere Bypass) 61 words
      c520W
    2. River Thames (Pollution) 42 words
      cc520-2W
    3. Hazardous Substances 506 words
      c522W
    4. M3 (Winchester) 81 words
      c522W
    5. Tied Cottages (Rents) 30 words
      cc522-3W
    6. Noise Insulation (Double Glazing) 73 words
      c523W
    7. Hazardous Cargoes (Thames Estuary) 73 words
      c523W
    8. North Devon Link Road 146 words
      cc523-4W
    9. Railway Accounting Methods 89 words
      c524W
    10. Rolines 58 words
      c524W
    11. Road Traffic and Signs (United Nations Conventions) 117 words
      cc524-5W
    12. Hayes-Southall Bypass 125 words
  11. SOCIAL SERVICES
      12. c525W
    1. Health Services (Expenditure) 596 words
      cc525-6W
    2. Sickness and Unemployment Benefits 195 words
      cc526-7W
    3. Foster Parents (Payment) 138 words
      c527W
    4. Hormone Abortifacient 130 words
      c527W
    5. Hospitals (Industrial Action) 49 words
      cc527-33W
    6. Family Incomes 2,749 words
      c533W
    7. Opticians (Leek) 149 words
      cc533-4W
    8. Dentists (Leek) 147 words
      cc534-5W
    9. Mentally Handicapped Persons (Lancashire) 367 words
      cc535-7W
    10. Hospital Waiting Lists 422 words
      c537W
    11. Nutrition (Research) 184 words
      cc537-8W
    12. Supplementary Benefit Claims and Payments 102 words
      c538W
    13. Salmonellosis (West Yorkshire) 164 words
      cc538-9W
    14. Low Wage Households 592 words
      cc539-40W
    15. Prison Medical Facilities (Adaptation) 146 words
      cc540-1W
    16. Children and Young Persons (Implementation of Legislation) 224 words
      c541W
    17. St. Nicholas Hospital, Plumstead 151 words
      cc541-2W
    18. Medical Examinations (Elderly Drivers) 134 words
      c542W
    19. Prescriptions 141 words
      cc542-3W
    20. Milk Vouchers 422 words
      cc543-4W
    21. Maternity Hospitals (Beverages) 82 words
      c544W
    22. Overlapping Benefits (Widows) 235 words
      cc544-5W
    23. Drugs 305 words
      cc545-6W
    24. Death Grant 83 words
      c546W
    25. Fluoridation 287 words
      cc546-7W
    26. Family Income Supplement 58 words
      c547W
    27. Spiritualism 75 words
      cc547-8W
    28. Disabled Housewives (Benefit) 217 words
      cc548-9W
    29. Operations and Wound Infections 392 words
      c549W
    30. National Health Service Hospitals 62 words
      cc549-50W
    31. Domestic Services Management 323 words
      cc550-2W
    32. Censuses 484 words
      c552W
    33. Old People's Homes 153 words
      c552W
    34. Invalid Care Allowance 65 words
      cc552-3W
    35. Family Income Supplement 298 words
      c553W
    36. Regional Secure Units 144 words
      cc553-4W
    37. Orthopaedic Operations 231 words
      cc554-5W
    38. Committee on the Review of Medicines 123 words
      c555W
    39. Nottinghamshire 352 words
      cc555-7W
    40. Widowed Mothers' Allowance 588 words
      c557W
    41. National Health Service Employees (Essex) 112 words
      cc557-8W
    42. Baby Care Units (Cots) 105 words
      cc558-9W
    43. Supplementary Benefit 801 words
      c559W
    44. Child Benefit 13 words
      cc559-61W
    45. Benefits 215 words
      c561W
    46. Health Service Employees 179 words
      cc561-2W
    47. Southwark and Lewisham Area Health Authority (Expenditure) 100 words
  12. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      13. c562W
    1. Members' Salaries 106 words
  13. ENVIRONMENT
      14. c562W
    1. Lead (Health Hazards) 103 words
      cc562-3W
    2. Corby (Housing Repair Costs) 90 words
      c563W
    3. Air Raid Shelters (Demolition Grants) 308 words
      cc563-4W
    4. Home Insulation 97 words
      c564W
    5. Direct Labour (Loan Sanction) 153 words
      cc564-5W
    6. Exeter Court, Stamford (Compulsory Purchase Order) 114 words
      cc565-7W
    7. Public Bodies (Membership Particulars) 621 words
      c567W
    8. Centre for Urban and Regional Studies 72 words
      c567W
    9. House of Commons (Members' Rooms) 98 words
      cc567-8W
    10. Offshore Oil Installations (Rating) 26 words
      c568W
    11. Gipsies (Caravan Sites) 128 words
      c568W
    12. Drainage Boards 136 words
  14. EMPLOYMENT
      15. cc568-73W
    1. Sectoral Percentages 2,742 words
      cc573-5W
    2. Unemployed Persons (Percentage Rates) 723 words
      c575W
    3. Textile Industry 188 words
      cc575-6W
    4. Unemployment 76 words
      c576W
    5. Training (Language Courses) 123 words
      cc576-7W
    6. Top Salaries (Pay Comparability) 151 words
      c577W
    7. Industrial Disputes (Days Lost) 107 words
      c577W
    8. Redundancy Fund 103 words
      cc577-8W
    9. Youth Opportunities Programme (Social Fund Grant Application) 60 words
      cc578-9W
    10. Work Experience Schemes 519 words
      c579W
    11. Male Workers (Pay) 74 words
      cc579-80W
    12. Vacancies 103 words
      cc580-1W
    13. Canvey Island (Hazardous Industrial Activities) 387 words
      c581W
    14. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Transport) 95 words
      cc581-3W
    15. Youth Opportunities and Special Temporary Employment Programmes 459 words
      c583W
    16. Statistics 547 words
  15. SCOTLAND
      16. c583W
    1. Secondary School Building 49 words
      cc583-4W
    2. Earnings 115 words
      cc584-5W
    3. Inverness (Traffic Scheme) 108 words
      c585W
    4. Employment 255 words
      cc585-6W
    5. Hospitals (Travelling Expenses) 92 words
      c586W
    6. Community Land 77 words
      c586W
    7. "Let the People Know" (Consumer Council Report) 111 words
      c586W
    8. Uranium Prospecting (Controls) 51 words
      cc586-7W
    9. Housing Modernisation Schemes (Standards) 116 words
      c587W
    10. Housing (Rehabilitation Grants) 92 words
      cc587-8W
    11. Rents (Council Tenants) 102 words
      c588W
    12. Western Isles (Ferry Services) 111 words
      c588W
    13. Housing (Public Sector Sales) 135 words
      cc588-9W
    14. Housing Revenue Accounts 135 words
      c589W
    15. Stance Rents 54 words
      cc589-90W
    16. Unemployment 285 words
      cc590-1W
    17. Regional Assistance 137 words
      c591W
    18. European Funds 200 words
      c591W
    19. Prisoners (Cost) 84 words
      cc591-2W
    20. Student Grants 84 words
      c592W
    21. Wages (Males) 62 words
      c592W
    22. Crime (Research) 115 words
  16. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      17. cc592-3W
    1. University Building 242 words
      cc593-5W
    2. School Milk 410 words
      c595W
    3. Museums and Galleries 255 words
      cc595-6W
    4. Primary Schools (Class Sizes) 90 words
      c596W
    5. Cumbria (Expenditure) 178 words
      cc596-7W
    6. Public Funds (Economy) 108 words
      c597W
    7. Science Information Services 127 words
      cc597-8W
    8. Joint European Torus Project (European School) 173 words
      c598W
    9. Computer Systems 75 words
      c598W
    10. Temporary Classrooms 88 words
      c598W
    11. Highwood School, Nailsworth 70 words
      cc598-9W
    12. Primary and Nursery Education (Expenditure) 142 words
      c599W
    13. Polytechnic Directors (Committee) 219 words
      c599W
    14. Manufacturing Industry (Employment) 35 words
  17. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
      18. c600W
    1. Inflation 165 words
      cc600-1W
    2. Statutory Instruments 164 words
  18. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      19. c601W
    1. Rhodesia (Bingham Report) 61 words
      c601W
    2. East European Countries (Monitoring of Broadcasts) 83 words
      cc601-2W
    3. USSR Government Representatives (Visits) 170 words
      c602W
    4. Custody Orders 142 words
      cc602-3W
    5. Cyprus 220 words
      cc603-4W
    6. USSR and Other Nationals (Official Documents) 163 words
      c604W
    7. OFFICIAL FORMS 141 words
      c604W
    8. INCOMES POLICY 134 words
      cc604-5W
    9. UNEMPLOYMENT 107 words
      c605W
    10. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS 45 words
      cc605-6W
    11. SMALL FIRMS (FORM-FILLING) 235 words
  19. NORTHERN IRELAND
      20. cc606-7W
    1. Cement 206 words
      cc607-8W
    2. GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS (MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND PEERS) 546 words
  20. DEFENCE
      21. cc608-9W
    1. Demobilised Service Men (Rehousing) 276 words
      c609W
    2. Defence Establishments (Industrial Disputes) 81 words
      cc609-10W
    3. Ulster Defence Regiment 381 words
      cc610-1W
    4. Aircraft (Training Flight Paths) 107 words
      c611W
    5. Territorial Army (Shapland Report) 50 words
      c611W
    6. Arms Sales 119 words
      c611W
    7. Jet Pilots 57 words
      cc611-2W
    8. Nuclear Submarines (Dockyard Dispute) 272 words
      cc612-3W
    9. Regulations 75 words
      c613W
    10. Expenditure 173 words
      cc613-4W
    11. Rosyth and Faslane Dockyards (Dispute) 357 words
      cc614-5W
    12. Armed Forces (Pay) 157 words
      cc615-6W
    13. Cyprus 77 words
      c616W
    14. Rosyth Dockyard Workers (Pay) 49 words

Lords Sitting of 24 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 395

    c639
  1. Preamble 22 words
    2. c639
  2. LORD REILLY 32 words
    3. cc639-42
  3. EMPLOYERS' SCHOLARSHIP SCHEMES: INCOME TAX 1,219 words
    4. cc643-5
  4. MARITIME CONFERENCE: CONVENTION 748 words
    5. cc645-6
  5. HERR NICO HUBNER: IMPRISONMENT 376 words
    6. cc646-9
  6. LOMÉ CONVENTION: RENEGOTIATION POLICY 954 words
    7. c649
  7. UNSTARRED QUESTION BY THE LORD GEORGE-BROWN 31 words
    8. c649
  8. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) (No. 2) BILL 12 words
    9. cc649-50
  9. VALE OF GLAMORGAN (BARRY HARBOUR) BILL 429 words
    10. c650
  10. FINANCE BILL 4 words
    11. c651
  11. EMPLOYMENT (CONTINENTAL SHELF) BILL 4 words
    12. cc651-2
  12. WALES BILL 687 words
    13. cc653-5
  13. LORDS AMENDMENTS 1,146 words
    14. cc655-9
  14. ELECTORAL REGIONS AND ALLOCATION OF ADDITIONAL MEMBERS 1,288 words
    15. cc659-60
  15. LORDS AMENDMENT 385 words
    16. cc660-75
  16. LORDS AMENDMENT 6,057 words, 1 division
    17. cc675-7
  17. LORDS AMENDMENT 460 words
    18. cc677-8
  18. LORDS AMENDMENT 577 words
    19. cc679-82
  19. LORDS AMENDMENTS 1,524 words
    20. c683
  20. LORDS AMENDMENT 201 words
    21. cc683-6
  21. LORDS AMENDMENTS 1,307 words
    22. cc687-97
  22. LORDS AMENDMENTS 4,162 words, 1 division
    23. cc697-703
  23. LORDS AMENDMENT 2,167 words
    24. cc703-17
  24. LORDS AMENDMENTS 5,131 words, 1 division
    25. cc717-8
  25. LORDS AMENDMENTS 399 words
    26. cc718-21
  26. LORDS AMENDMENT 1,197 words
    27. cc721-2
  27. LORDS AMENDMENT 260 words
    28. cc722-3
  28. LORDS AMENDMENT 402 words
    29. cc723-4
  29. LORDS AMENDMENT 403 words
    30. cc724-7
  30. LORDS AMENDMENTS 940 words
    31. cc727-30
  31. LORDS AMENDMENT 1,229 words
    32. cc730-7
  32. LORDS AMENDMENT 2,981 words, 1 division
    33. cc737-9
  33. LORDS AMENDMENT 157 words
    34. c739
  34. LORDS AMENDMENT 179 words
    35. cc739-43
  35. LORDS AMENDMENT 1,447 words
    36. c743
  36. LORDS AMENDMENT 68 words
    37. cc743-6
  37. LORDS AMENDMENTS 836 words
    38. cc746-68
  38. DOMINICA TERMINATION OF ASSOCIATION ORDER 1978 8,193 words
    39. c768
  39. INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY BILL 12 words
    40. c768
  40. INNER URBAN AREAS BILL 41 words
    41. c768
  41. COMMUNITY SERVICE BY OFFENDERS (SCOTLAND) BILL 59 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 24 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 395

    c768WA
  1. RADIO: AMATEUR LICENCE HOLDERS 31 words
    cc768-9WA
  2. RADIO TRANSMITTERS: ILLEGAL USE 94 words
    c769WA
  3. KC135 AND BRITISH CIVIL AIRWORTHINESS REQUIRE- MENTS 81 words
    cc769-70WA
  4. MACKEREL: FISHING AND TRADE CONTROL 246 words
    cc770-2WA
  5. LAW OF INSURANCE AND THE LAW COMMISSION 138 words