Commons Sitting of 23 March 1978 Series 5 Vol. 946

    c1719
  1. Preamble 6 words
    2. c1719
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    3. c1719
  3. CONTINGENCIES FUND 1976–77 54 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. NATIONAL FINANCE
        2. cc1719-20
      1. Diesel Fuel (Duty) 316 words
        2. cc1720-1
      2. Exchange Rate 562 words
        3. cc1721-3
      3. Defence and Housing (Expenditure) 624 words
        4. cc1723-4
      4. Investment Income Surcharge 336 words
        5. cc1724-6
      5. Economic Performance 582 words
        6. cc1726-8
      6. Money Supply 702 words
        7. cc1728-31
      7. Budget Proposals 1,088 words
        8. c1731
      8. Value Added Tax 203 words
        9. cc1731-2
      9. Widows 199 words
        10. cc1732-6
      10. Inflation 1,332 words
        11. c1736
      11. Halfpenny Coin 156 words
        12. cc1736-7
      12. Motor Car Taxation 289 words
        13. cc1737-9
      13. Pay Policy 595 words
        14. cc1739-40
      14. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 517 words
        15. cc1740-2
      15. SOUTH AFRICA 573 words
        16. cc1742-4
      16. WEST GERMANY (TALKS) 770 words
        17. cc1744-6
      17. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 476 words
    cc1746-52
  5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 2,295 words
    6. cc1752-3
  6. ROYAL ASSENT 98 words
    7. cc1753-4
  7. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c 224 words
      8. c1754
    1. SOCIAL SECURITY 51 words
      2. c1754
    2. HOUSE OF COMMONS (SERVICES) 36 words
    cc1755-72
  8. INSURANCE CLAIMS (LLOYD'S) 6,666 words
    9. cc1773-88
  9. CONCORDE (SONIC BOOM) 5,973 words
    10. cc1788-803
  10. BRITISH RAIL (ASBESTOS STRIPPING) 5,683 words
    11. cc1803-15
  11. HELICOPTER SERVICE (HEATHROW-GATWICK) 4,367 words
    12. cc1815-27
  12. WALSALL 4,492 words
    13. cc1827-39
  13. SHOPLIFTING 4,332 words
    14. cc1839-50
  14. SNATCHED CHILDREN 3,924 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 23 March 1978 Series 5 Vol. 946

  1. DEFENCE
      2. c637W
    1. Research and Development 82 words
      c637W
    2. Armed Forces (Trade Unionism) 76 words
      cc637-8W
    3. Reciprocal Procurement (United States of America) 105 words
      c638W
    4. Belize (Armed Forces' Pay and Conditions) 128 words
      cc638-9W
    5. Operation Keelhaul 339 words
      cc639-40W
    6. Equipment 275 words
      c640W
    7. BAOR (Teachers' Pay) 108 words
      cc640-1W
    8. Missiles (Contracts) 110 words
      c641W
    9. Northern Ireland (Service Men's Deaths) 59 words
  2. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      3. cc641-2W
    1. Pigs 216 words
      c642W
    2. Beef Premium 204 words
      cc642-3W
    3. Weather Damage (Compensation) 67 words
      c643W
    4. Wales (Less-Favoured Areas) 121 words
      cc643-4W
    5. Milk 209 words
      cc644-5W
    6. Brucellosis 327 words
      c645W
    7. Merchant Ships (Boarding Procedures) 152 words
  3. WALES
      4. cc645-7W
    1. Public Bodies (Membership) 655 words
      c647W
    2. Welsh Assembly 75 words
      cc647-8W
    3. Tan-Yr-Unto Corner (Road Improvements) 83 words
      c648W
    4. Bilingual Education 37 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      5. c648W
    1. Malawi 103 words
      cc648-9W
    2. Food and Agricultural Organisation 119 words
      c649W
    3. Cambodia 170 words
  5. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
      6. c649W
    1. Price Increases 93 words
      cc649-53W
    2. Metrication 1,000 words
      c653W
    3. Transistor Batteries 158 words
      cc653-4W
    4. Tea 121 words
      c654W
    5. Arthur Bell and Sons 87 words
  6. INDUSTRY
      7. c654W
    1. British Shipbuilders 45 words
      cc654-5W
    2. Rubber Processing (NEDO Report) 141 words
      c655W
    3. British Steel Corporation 43 words
      c655W
    4. Tyres 153 words
      cc655-6W
    5. Doppler Microwave Landing System 130 words
      c656W
    6. Sector Working Parties 125 words
      c656W
    7. Nationalised Industries (Advertising) 39 words
      cc656-7W
    8. Industrial Strategy 105 words
      c657W
    9. Development Grants 145 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      8. c657W
    1. Uganda 81 words
      cc657-8W
    2. Rhodesia 77 words
      c658W
    3. Zambia 87 words
      c658W
    4. Satellite Broadcasting 117 words
      cc658-9W
    5. Falkland Islands 117 words
      c659W
    6. Belize 44 words
      c659W
    7. Cyprus (United Kingdom Citizens) 109 words
      cc659-60W
    8. Immigrants (Indian Sub-continent) 214 words
      c660W
    9. Passports 85 words
      c660W
    10. Lesotho 111 words
  8. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      9. c661W
    1. Social Science Research Council 119 words
      cc661-3W
    2. Teachers (Pay) 720 words
      cc663-4W
    3. University Teachers (Pay) 285 words
      c664W
    4. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 154 words
      cc664-5W
    5. Walsall (Expenditure) 140 words
      cc665-6W
    6. Colleges of Education (Film Facilities) 409 words
      cc666-7W
    7. Expenditure (West Country) 321 words
      c667W
    8. Teachers and Staff 73 words
      c667W
    9. Thomas Huxley College 73 words
      cc667-8W
    10. Science Graduates 158 words
  9. NORTHERN IRELAND
      10. cc668-9W
    1. Dyslexia 332 words
      c669W
    2. Harland and Wolff 42 words
      cc669-70W
    3. Public Employees (Fees and Emoluments) 137 words
      c670W
    4. Craigavon New Town (Leases) 110 words
      c670W
    5. Nationalised Industries (Advertising) 41 words
      cc670-1W
    6. Trade Union Officials (Fees and Emoluments) 441 words
      c671W
    7. Employment Appeals Tribunal 99 words
      cc671-2W
    8. Roads Safety Council 253 words
      cc672-3W
    9. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS 120 words
      cc673-4W
    10. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 208 words
      c674W
    11. NEW YORK 49 words
      c674W
    12. TUC AND CBI 106 words
      cc674-5W
    13. GOVERNMENT POLICY (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH) 113 words
      c675W
    14. QUESTION TIME 46 words
      c675W
    15. CROSSMAN DIARIES 37 words
      c675W
    16. CHANCELLOR SCHMIDT 64 words
      cc675-6W
    17. BANKING (PUBLIC AUTHORITIES) 73 words
      c676W
    18. UNITED NATIONS 52 words
  10. CIVIL SERVICE
      11. c676W
    1. Ministers and Civil Servants (Transatlantic Flights) 64 words
      cc676-7W
    2. Civil Servants (Pay) 181 words
      c677W
    3. Government Car Service 130 words
      cc677-8W
    4. Pensions 202 words
      c678W
    5. Government Advertising 74 words
      c678W
    6. Public Bodies (Members' Fees) 85 words
      cc678-9W
    7. Civil Servants 121 words
      cc679-80W
    8. Departmental Advertising 350 words
      c680W
    9. Press Hospitality 112 words
      c680W
    10. Official Opposition Whips' Office 87 words
      cc680-1W
    11. Ministers (Overseas Visits) 49 words
      cc681-2W
    12. Government Bank Accounts 406 words
      cc682-5W
    13. Civil Servants (Retirements and Pensions) 911 words
  11. HOME DEPARTMENT
      12. cc685-6W
    1. Firearms and Shotgun Certificates 212 words
      c686W
    2. Remanded Women 105 words
      cc686-7W
    3. Convicted Persons (Deportation) 104 words
      c687W
    4. Beagles (Smoking) 80 words
      c687W
    5. Shoplifting 73 words
      c687W
    6. Television Licences (Abolition) 67 words
      cc687-9W
    7. Metropolitan Police Force 392 words
      c689W
    8. Prison Officers (Dartmoor and Isle of Wight) 127 words
      c689W
    9. Police (Recruitment) 113 words
      cc689-90W
    10. Terrorist Visitors 126 words
      c690W
    11. Police and Traffic Control 92 words
      c690W
    12. Immigration Service 94 words
      cc690-3W
    13. Fire and Police Services and Departmental Staff 802 words
      c693W
    14. Wembley Stadium (Traffic Control) 202 words
      cc693-4W
    15. Phencyclidine 78 words
      c694W
    16. Equal Opportunities Commission 102 words
      cc694-5W
    17. Television (Closed Circuit Cameras) 201 words
      cc695-6W
    18. Mr. Charles Lowe 309 words
      c696W
    19. Securicor 95 words
      c696W
    20. Bail 67 words
      cc696-7W
    21. Police Constable Williams 93 words
      c697W
    22. Mr. Ahmed Kandil 200 words
      c697W
    23. Police (Pay and Allowances) 56 words
      cc697-8W
    24. Prisons (Overcrowding) 69 words
      c698W
    25. Thames River Police 134 words
      cc698-700W
    26. Criminal Statistics 380 words
      cc700-1W
    27. Merchant Ships (Boarding Procedures) 263 words
      cc701-2W
    28. Mr. L. Macdonald 96 words
      c702W
    29. London Hospital Broadcasting Service (Advertising) 58 words
      c702W
    30. Rhodesians 124 words
  12. SOCIAL SERVICES
      13. cc702-3W
    1. Young Chronic Sick 98 words
      c703W
    2. Doctors and Nurses (Cornwall) 323 words
      cc703-4W
    3. Battersea General Hospital 82 words
      cc704-5W
    4. Hospital Waiting Lists 347 words
      c705W
    5. Health Services (Expenditure) 289 words
      cc705-6W
    6. Personal Social Services 313 words
      cc706-7W
    7. Hospital Beds (Walsall) 257 words
      cc707-8W
    8. Tomography 92 words
      c708W
    9. Heath Road, Ipswich (Hospital Facilities) 103 words
      cc708-9W
    10. 1981 Census 199 words
      c709W
    11. Pensions and Benefits (Payment) 398 words
      cc709-10W
    12. Lodging Houses and Hostels 94 words
      cc710-1W
    13. Employees 239 words
      c711W
    14. Abortion 59 words
      cc711-3W
    15. Medical Ancillary Staff (Designation) 632 words
      c713W
    16. Patient Records (Confidentiality) 146 words
      cc713-4W
    17. National Health Service (Expenditure) 196 words
      cc714-5W
    18. Fluoridation 176 words
      c715W
    19. Benefits 53 words
      c715W
    20. National Insurance 61 words
      c715W
    21. Kidney Patients (Merseyside) 45 words
      cc715-6W
    22. Disabled Persons 344 words
      cc716-7W
    23. Retirement Pensioners (Index-Linking) 121 words
      c717W
    24. Chemist Contractors (Dispute) 63 words
      c717W
    25. Child Benefit 84 words
      c717W
    26. Cigarette Advertising 70 words
      cc717-8W
    27. Benefits (Immigrants' Dependants) 54 words
      c718W
    28. Drugs (Manufacturers' Promotion Expenditure) 115 words
      cc718-9W
    29. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 272 words
      c719W
    30. Hospitals (Telephone Calls) 77 words
      c719W
    31. Kidney Patients (Attendance Allowance) 65 words
      cc719-20W
    32. Immediate Care Schemes 308 words
      cc720-1W
    33. Self-Employed Persons (Insurance Contributions) 275 words
      c721W
    34. Gobowen Orthopaedic Hospital, North Wales 53 words
      cc721-2W
    35. Hammersmith Hospital (Operating Facilities) 65 words
      c722W
    36. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital 147 words
      c722W
    37. Thalidomide 142 words
  13. SOCIAL SERVICES
      14. c723W
    1. Consultants (Merit Awards) 40 words
  14. ENERGY
      15. c723W
    1. Gas (Supply) 330 words
  15. CIVIL SERVICE
      16. cc723-4W
    1. Official Cars 93 words
      c724W
    2. Nationalised Industries (Energy Usage) 153 words
  16. ENERGY
      17. c725W
    1. Nationalised Industries (Advertising) 143 words
  17. PALACE OF WESTMINSTER
      18. cc725-6W
    1. Lord Attlee (Statue) 190 words
  18. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      19. c726W
    1. Parliamentary Papers 136 words
      c726W
    2. REFERENDUMS 40 words
  19. TRADE
      20. cc726-7W
    1. £ Sterling 160 words
      c727W
    2. Inflation Accounting 232 words
      cc727-8W
    3. Woollen Cloths 61 words
      c728W
    4. Tanker "Amoco Cadiz" 133 words
      cc728-9W
    5. Cigarette Exports 108 words
      c729W
    6. Tyres (Imports) 313 words
      c729W
    7. UNCTAD (Common Fund) 123 words
      cc729-30W
    8. USSR and Eastern Europe 204 words
      cc730-1W
    9. Motor Cars (Imports) 467 words
      cc731-2W
    10. Nationalised Industries (Advertising) 39 words
      c732W
    11. Self-Service Shops 97 words
      cc732-3W
    12. Seal Pelts 187 words
      c733W
    13. European Community (Trade Deficit) 292 words
      cc733-4W
    14. Motorists (Damages Claims) 217 words
      cc734-5W
    15. Developing Countries 215 words
      c735W
    16. Shoes 140 words
  20. NATIONAL FINANCE
      21. cc735-6W
    1. Incomes and Wealth 76 words
      c736W
    2. Ghana, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia 53 words
      c736W
    3. Commercial Taxation 75 words
      c736W
    4. Merchant Ships (Boarding Procedures) 52 words
      cc736-7W
    5. Tax Relief (Pensions) 110 words
      c737W
    6. Growth 67 words
      c737W
    7. Customs Regulations (Evasion) 93 words
      cc737-8W
    8. Child Tax Allowances (Overseas Residence) 125 words
      c738W
    9. Social Security Benefits 197 words
      c738W
    10. Millionaires 86 words
      cc738-9W
    11. European Community Budget 113 words
      cc739-40W
    12. Taxation (Household Groups) 287 words
      c740W
    13. Personal Incomes 55 words
      c740W
    14. Investment Income Surcharge 57 words
      c740W
    15. Health and Personal Social Services (Expenditure) 65 words
      cc740-1W
    16. Industrial Strategy 182 words
      c741W
    17. Road Fund Licence 49 words
      c741W
    18. Invisible Trade 63 words
      cc741-2W
    19. European Community (Investment Loans) 144 words
      c742W
    20. Merchant Ships (Boarding Procedures) 130 words
      cc742-3W
    21. European Community 248 words
      c743W
    22. Value-Added Tax 98 words
      cc743-4W
    23. Child Care Costs 111 words
      c744W
    24. OECD Forecasts 157 words
      c744W
    25. 50p Coins 76 words
      cc744-8W
    26. Government Shareholdings 992 words
      cc748-9W
    27. Luncheon Vouchers 236 words
      cc749-50W
    28. Pension Funds, Life Assurance and Retirement Annuities 133 words
      c750W
    29. Tax Credits 118 words
      cc750-2W
    30. European Community Budget 666 words
      c752W
    31. European Community Finance Council 126 words
  21. EMPLOYMENT
      22. cc753-4W
    1. Unemployed Persons 568 words
      cc754-5W
    2. Temporary Employment Subsidy 159 words
      c755W
    3. Means-tested Benefits 195 words
      cc755-6W
    4. Prices 59 words
      c756W
    5. Newcastle upon Tyne 118 words
      cc756-7W
    6. Job Creation Schemes 475 words
      cc757-8W
    7. Youth Opportunities Scheme 131 words
      c758W
    8. Work Permits 213 words
      cc758-9W
    9. Hotel Staff (Rates of Pay) 75 words
      c759W
    10. Cleveland 621 words
      cc759-60W
    11. Pay Settlements (Equity) 161 words
      cc760-1W
    12. Lonrho Group (Chairman's Salary) 47 words
      c761W
    13. Disabled Persons 191 words
      cc761-2W
    14. Engineering Craftsmen (Woolwich) 114 words
      cc762-83W
    15. Temporary Employment Subsidy 12,366 words
      c783W
    16. Community Industry Scheme (Greenwich) 83 words
      cc783-4W
    17. Manpower Services Commission 137 words
      cc784-5W
    18. Community Health Councils 107 words
  22. SCOTLAND
      23. c785W
    1. Seafield Hospital 66 words
      c785W
    2. Social Work 60 words
      cc785-6W
    3. Unemployment 199 words
      c786W
    4. Hill Farmers 174 words
      cc786-7W
    5. Firearms 259 words
      c787W
    6. M8, Riddrie-Ballieston (Traffic) 102 words
      cc787-8W
    7. Children's Hearings 203 words
      cc788-9W
    8. List D Schools 709 words
      cc789-91W
    9. Forestry Commission 312 words
      cc791-3W
    10. Rate Support Grant 805 words
      c793W
    11. Nationalised Industries (Advertising) 39 words
      cc793-4W
    12. District Councils (Capital Housing Allocations) 393 words
      cc794-5W
    13. Regional Council Chief Executives 83 words
      c795W
    14. Approved Schools 176 words
  23. ENVIRONMENT
      24. cc795-6W
    1. Kirkby (Demolished Flats) 118 words
      c796W
    2. Mortgage Interest Rates 62 words
      cc796-7W
    3. Walsall 624 words
      cc797-8W
    4. Countryside Review Committee 32 words
      c798W
    5. Local Government Employees and Departmental Staff 67 words
      c798W
    6. Rate Support Grant (Cheshire) 116 words
      cc798-9W
    7. Locally Determined Sector Borrowing Allocation 92 words
      c799W
    8. Housing Standards 118 words
      c799W
    9. Polyurethane Foam 74 words
      cc799-800W
    10. Homeless Hospital Patients 172 words
      c800W
    11. Stroud Inner Ring Road 70 words
      c800W
    12. Rate Rebates 75 words
      cc800-1W
    13. Rent Rebates 197 words
      c801W
    14. Local Government Finance 88 words
      cc801-2W
    15. Nationalised Industries (Advertising) 133 words
      c802W
    16. London Docks Development Board 63 words
      c802W
    17. Advance Factories and Development Companies 57 words
      cc802-4W
    18. Expenditure 487 words
  24. TRANSPORT
      25. c804W
    1. Roads (Northern Region) 119 words
      cc804-5W
    2. Road Fund Licences 224 words
      c805W
    3. Tyres 55 words
      cc805-6W
    4. Highway Code 234 words
      c806W
    5. Crewe (Transport Museum) 40 words
      c806W
    6. National Services 67 words
      c806W
    7. Humber Bridge (Lighting) 59 words
      cc806-7W
    8. Community Bus Services 51 words
      c807W
    9. M4, Chiswick-Slough (Lighting) 203 words
      cc807-8W
    10. A52 97 words
      c808W
    11. Trailers (Sleeper Cab Units) 137 words
      c808W
    12. Nationalised Industries (Advertising) 40 words
      cc808-9W
    13. Disabled Persons (Car Badges) 70 words
      cc809-10W
    14. Elderly Persons (Concessionary Fare Passes) 54 words

Lords Sitting of 23 March 1978 Series 5 Vol. 389

    c1913
  1. Preamble 21 words
    2. cc1913-5
  2. INTERNAL COMMUNICATION: HOUSE OF LORDS 854 words
    3. cc1916-9
  3. ZAMBIA: PAYMENTS TO BRITISH OFFICERS 1,093 words
    4. cc1919-21
  4. DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS OVERSEAS 796 words
    5. cc1921-4
  5. SAFETY OFFICERS' QUALIFICATIONS 800 words
    6. c1924
  6. DINNERS 33 words
    7. c1924
  7. EXPORT GUARANTEES AND OVERSEAS INVESTMENT BILL [H.L.] 85 words
    8. cc1924-5
  8. OATHS BILL [H.L.] 71 words
    9. c1925
  9. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 62 words
    10. cc1925-6
  10. SCOTLAND BILL 260 words
    11. c1926
  11. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND (PROPERTY AND ENDOWMENTS) AMENDMENT ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 5 words
    12. c1926
  12. CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL 50 words
    13. cc1927-8
  13. EMPLOYMENT SUBSIDIES BILL 689 words
    14. cc1928-41
  14. STATE IMMUNITY BILL [H.L.] 4,519 words
    15. c1941
  15. ROYAL ASSENT 88 words
    16. cc1941-5
  16. SOCIAL SECURITY (CONTRIBUTIONS) CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1978 1,427 words
    17. cc1945-65
  17. EXPORT OF LIVE FARM ANIMALS 7,509 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 23 March 1978 Series 5 Vol. 389

    c1965WA
  1. TELEPHONE EXCHANGE NAMES 60 words
    cc1965-6WA
  2. EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 145 words