Commons Sitting of 11 June 1979 Series 5 Vol. 968

    c1
  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c1
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    3. c1
  3. COMMITTEE OF SELECTION 62 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. ENERGY
        2. cc2-3
      1. Wave Energy 449 words
        2. cc3-5
      2. Alternative Sources 527 words
        3. cc5-7
      3. Coal Liquefaction 590 words
        4. cc7-8
      4. Council of Energy Ministers 569 words
        5. cc8-10
      5. Central Electricity Generating Board 418 words
        6. c10
      6. Oil Supplies 166 words
        7. cc10-2
      7. Energy Conservation 538 words
        8. cc12-3
      8. Diesel Fuel and Paraffin 438 words
        9. cc13-5
      9. Oil (Sufficiency) 578 words
        10. cc15-7
      10. Gas Supplies 630 words
        11. c17
      11. North Sea Oil (Refining) 289 words
        12. cc17-9
      12. Stirlingshire-Clackmannan Coalfield 409 words
        13. cc19-20
      13. National Coal Board 525 words
        14. cc20-1
      14. Quangos 197 words
        15. c21
      15. Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union 123 words
        16. cc21-4
      16. Pressurised Water Reactor 836 words
    2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
        3. cc24-5
      1. Members' Pay 257 words
        2. c25
      2. Back Benchers 198 words
        3. cc25-6
      3. London Affairs 160 words
        4. cc26-8
      4. Procedure 689 words
        5. cc28-9
      5. Questions (London) 179 words
    cc30-3
  5. HONG KONG (VIETNAMESE REFUGEES) 1,165 words
    6. cc33-7
  6. DC10 AIRCRAFT (GROUNDING) 1,389 words
    7. cc37-55
  7. OIL SUPPLIES 6,521 words
    8. cc55-6
  8. QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 485 words
    9. cc56-7
  9. OIL SUPPLIES 342 words
  10. ORDERS OF THE DAY
      11. c58
    1. KIRIBATI BILL 9 words
  11. Clause 1
      12. cc58-147
    1. INDEPENDENCE FOR KIRIBATI 34,043 words, 1 division
  12. Clause 2
      13. cc147-71
    1. POWER TO PROVIDE FOR CONSTITUTION OF KIRIBATI AS REPUBLIC 8,568 words, 2 divisions
    c172
  13. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 19 words
    14. c173
  14. KIRIBATI BILL 22 words
  15. Clause 4
      16. cc173-9
    1. CONSEQUENTIAL MODIFICATIONS OF BRITISH NATIONALITY ACTS 2,200 words
  16. Clause 5
      17. cc179-96
    1. RETENTION OF CITIZENSHIP OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND COLONIES IN CERTAIN CASES 6,382 words
      2. cc196-208
    2. FIRE SERVICES (LONDON) 4,257 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 11 June 1979 Series 5 Vol. 968

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
      2. c1W
    1. Feltham Borstal 42 words
      c1W
    2. Murder (Statistics) 239 words
      cc1-2W
    3. Immigration 272 words
      cc2-3W
    4. Election Deposit 63 words
      c3W
    5. Parliamentary Constituencies (London) 53 words
      c3W
    6. Prisons (Suicide Statistics) 74 words
      c3W
    7. Aliens 56 words
      cc3-4W
    8. Public Life (Royal Commission Report) 61 words
      c4W
    9. Taxis 78 words
      c4W
    10. Scientology 70 words
      c4W
    11. Sra Celina Locau de Torres Molina 47 words
      cc4-5W
    12. Sentencing Policy (Youth Violence) 210 words
      cc5-8W
    13. Prisons 496 words
      c8W
    14. Local Government Grants (Ethnic Groups) Bill 64 words
      cc8-9W
    15. Taxi Fares 133 words
      c9W
    16. Southall Disturbances (Inquiry) 64 words
      c9W
    17. Police Complaints Board (Report) 58 words
      c9W
    18. Postal Votes 67 words
      cc9-10W
    19. Police (Pay) 98 words
      c10W
    20. Local Authority Boundaries (Review) 83 words
      c10W
    21. Pyedale District Council (Elections) 109 words
      c10W
    22. Television Licences (Pensioners) 53 words
      cc10-1W
    23. Criminal Libel 69 words
      c11W
    24. Scientology 132 words
  2. DEFENCE
      3. c11W
    1. Cyprus 25 words
      cc11-2W
    2. Married Quarters 112 words
      c12W
    3. Thorney Island 141 words
      c12W
    4. Nimrod Project 42 words
      c12W
    5. Air-to-Air Refuelling 56 words
      cc12-3W
    6. Fighter Aircraft 47 words
      c13W
    7. Service Helicopters 101 words
      c13W
    8. Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich 166 words
      cc13-4W
    9. Aircraft Accidents 63 words
      c14W
    10. Job Relocation 42 words
      c14W
    11. TAVR (Annual Camps) 115 words
      cc14-5W
    12. Tornado Aircraft 165 words
      c15W
    13. Training Aircraft (Crashes) 268 words
      cc15-6W
    14. Tornado Aircraft 102 words
      c16W
    15. Provisional IRA 187 words
  3. WALES
      4. cc16-7W
    1. Council Houses (Waiting Lists) 61 words
      c17W
    2. Council Houses (Sale) 51 words
      c17W
    3. National Health Service (Administrative and Clerical Staff) 77 words
      c17W
    4. Houses (Construction) 24 words
      c17W
    5. Houses (Improvement and Conversion Grants) 46 words
      cc17-8W
    6. Land Authority for Wales 58 words
      c18W
    7. Land Reclamation 35 words
      c18W
    8. LAND 118 words
      cc18-9W
    9. DIVORCED WOMEN 121 words
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      5. c19W
    1. Procedure 28 words
      c19W
    2. Members' Salaries 180 words
  5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      6. cc19-20W
    1. Cyprus 172 words
      c20W
    2. United Nations High Commission for Refugees 121 words
      cc20-1W
    3. Central African Empire 69 words
  6. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      7. c21W
    1. Secondary Education 150 words
      c21W
    2. Grammar Schools (Transfers) 110 words
      cc21-2W
    3. Professional Association of Teachers 97 words
      c22W
    4. Education Vouchers 71 words
      cc22-3W
    5. Student Grants 207 words
      c23W
    6. Eggington Lower School (Bedfordshire) 72 words
      c23W
    7. Mathematics and Science Teachers 103 words
      cc23-4W
    8. Research and Development Programme 68 words
      c24W
    9. School Leavers and Undergraduate Applications (Scotland) 250 words
      cc24-5W
    10. Grammar Schools (Norfolk) 118 words
      c25W
    11. School Attendance 108 words
      cc25-6W
    12. Retinitis Pigmentosa 116 words
      c26W
    13. Teachers (Pay) 158 words
      cc26-8W
    14. School Meals 660 words
      cc28-9W
    15. School Pupils (Maintenance Grants) 176 words
      c29W
    16. School Milk 39 words
      cc29-30W
    17. Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff 160 words
      c30W
    18. School Leavers 122 words
      c30W
    19. DEMONSTRATIONS AND PARADES 88 words
      cc30-1W
    20. PUBLIC PROCESSIONS 83 words
  7. SCOTLAND
      8. c31W
    1. General Election 1979 142 words
      c31W
    2. Chiropodists 50 words
      cc31-2W
    3. Fish Processing (East Aberdeenshire) 236 words
      c32W
    4. Perth-Aberdeen Road (Extension) 72 words
      cc32-3W
    5. Pig Slaughtering (Lawson's of Dyce) 94 words
      cc33-4W
    6. Fuel Supplies 662 words
      c34W
    7. Roads (Construction) 86 words
      cc34-5W
    8. Mentally Handicapped Children 216 words
      c35W
    9. Porterfield Prison, Inverness 60 words
      cc35-6W
    10. Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 71 words
      c36W
    11. Geriatric and Psychogeriatric Beds 134 words
      c36W
    12. Hospital Service (Staffing Ratios) 57 words
      cc36-7W
    13. Education (Teachers-Administrators Ratio) 94 words
      c37W
    14. Grey Seals (Control) 244 words
      cc37-8W
    15. Murders 88 words
      c38W
    16. Prisons (Suicide Statistics) 56 words
      c38W
    17. A1 (Ayton) 104 words
      cc38-9W
    18. Museum Exhibits (Compensation) 187 words
  8. ENERGY
      9. c39W
    1. British National Oil Corporation 94 words
      c39W
    2. Energy Commission 44 words
      cc39-40W
    3. Pollution 65 words
      c40W
    4. United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (Northern Headquarters) 44 words
      c40W
    5. Morecambe Bay Gas Field 55 words
      c40W
    6. CEGB (Purchasing and Building Policies) 65 words
      cc40-1W
    7. North Sea Oil 124 words
      c41W
    8. South Wales Coalfield 61 words
      c41W
    9. Petrol Stations (Closures) 89 words
      cc41-2W
    10. Oil Supplies (Industrial Users) 115 words
      c42W
    11. Electricity Supply Industry (Reorganisation) 48 words
      c42W
    12. National Coal Board 122 words
      c42W
    13. Research and Development 55 words
      cc42-3W
    14. NEI Parsons Limited 78 words
      c43W
    15. Morecambe Bay Gas Field 73 words
      c43W
    16. Heating Payments 66 words
      cc43-4W
    17. North Sea Oil 137 words
      c44W
    18. Anglesey Aluminium Ltd. 78 words
      c44W
    19. Petrol Supplies 217 words
      cc44-5W
    20. Oil Supplies 163 words
      c45W
    21. Coking Coal 125 words
      cc45-6W
    22. Oil Availability and Sales 75 words
      c46W
    23. Gas and Electricity Consumers (Disconnections) 240 words
  9. NORTHERN IRELAND
      10. c47W
    1. Withdrawal of Troops 67 words
      c47W
    2. Upper Galwally, Newtownbreda (Development Application) 86 words
      c47W
    3. Belfast Shipyard 116 words
      cc47-8W
    4. Disabled Persons 77 words
      c48W
    5. Energy Supplies 90 words
      c48W
    6. Absent Voters 134 words
      cc48-9W
    7. Museum Exhibits (Compensation) 85 words
  10. TRADE
      11. c49W
    1. Office of Fair Trading 128 words
      c49W
    2. Price Commission 104 words
      cc49-50W
    3. Larger Firms 293 words
      cc50-1W
    4. Visible Exports 44 words
      c51W
    5. Aircraft Noise 92 words
      cc51-2W
    6. Air Fares 165 words
      c52W
    7. DC-10 Aircraft 123 words
      cc52-4W
    8. UNCTAD V 648 words
      c54W
    9. Sugar, Syrup and Starch Industry 64 words
      c54W
    10. Petrol Prices 57 words
  11. ENVIRONMENT
      12. cc54-5W
    1. Council Houses (Construction) 299 words
      c55W
    2. Gipsies 93 words
      cc55-6W
    3. Housing (Batley and Morley) 109 words
      c56W
    4. Structure Plans 305 words
      cc56-7W
    5. Private Tenants (House Purchase) 108 words
      c57W
    6. Sunday Markets 119 words
      c57W
    7. Research and Development 69 words
      cc57-8W
    8. Inner Cities (Construction Expenditure) 82 words
      c58W
    9. Pollution 109 words
      cc58-9W
    10. Endangered Species 142 words
      c59W
    11. Government-owned Housing (Sales) 45 words
      c59W
    12. Conservation Areas 182 words
      cc59-60W
    13. Land Ownership (Inner London) 235 words
      c60W
    14. Council Houses (Heating) 51 words
      c60W
    15. Mobile Homes (Insurance) 42 words
      cc60-1W
    16. Construction Industry 51 words
      c61W
    17. Auriol Housing Foundation 84 words
      c61W
    18. Council Houses (Sale) 118 words
      c61W
    19. Advisory Committee on Co-operatives 40 words
      cc61-2W
    20. Local Government (Staffing Levels) 119 words
      c62W
    21. Roads (Maintenance) 124 words
      c62W
    22. Shooters Hill (Radio Mast) 39 words
      cc62-3W
    23. Rent and Rate Rebates 282 words
  12. TRANSPORT
      13. c63W
    1. Inland Waterways 71 words
      cc63-4W
    2. A650 315 words
      cc64-5W
    3. Road Traffic Offences 32 words
      c65W
    4. Motor Cycle Deaths 85 words
      c65W
    5. Buses (Automatic Doors) 144 words
      c65W
    6. Highway Powers 46 words
      cc65-6W
    7. River Thames (Rail Tunnel) 40 words
      c66W
    8. Public Transport 46 words
      c66W
    9. Railways (Fares) 173 words
      cc66-7W
    10. British Railways (Investment) 50 words
      c67W
    11. Local Transport (Subsidies) 47 words
      c67W
    12. M23 (Central London) 134 words
  13. CIVIL SERVICE
      14. cc67-8W
    1. Staff 238 words
      c68W
    2. Government Car Service 86 words
      c68W
    3. Job Dispersal 46 words
  14. INDUSTRY
      15. c69W
    1. British Steel Corporation (Coal Imports) 61 words
      c69W
    2. Blackburn Travel-to-work Area 300 words
      cc69-70W
    3. Meriden Co-operative 159 words
      cc70-1W
    4. London Chamber of Commerce and Industry 71 words
      c71W
    5. Bubble Memory Chips 49 words
      c71W
    6. Steel Industry 86 words
      cc71-2W
    7. Research and Development 339 words
      c72W
    8. Commercial Vehicles 35 words
      cc72-3W
    9. Larger Firms 229 words
      c73W
    10. Prestcold (Purchase) 69 words
      c73W
    11. National Enterprise Board 84 words
      cc73-4W
    12. Ferranti Limited 82 words
      c74W
    13. Industrial Assistance (Newton) 213 words
      cc74-5W
    14. Raw Materials (Stockpile) 71 words
  15. EMPLOYMENT
      16. c75W
    1. Royal Commission on Wealth 190 words
      cc75-7W
    2. Job Creation 457 words
      c77W
    3. Picketing 184 words
      cc77-8W
    4. Youth Opportunities Programme 104 words
      c78W
    5. Young Persons 40 words
      c78W
    6. Long-term Unemployment 36 words
      c78W
    7. Health and Safety Commission 49 words
      cc78-9W
    8. IMI (Kynoch) Limited (Explosion) 171 words
      c79W
    9. Merseyside 170 words
      cc79-80W
    10. Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Employers' Co-operation) 149 words
      c80W
    11. Public Bodies (Staff Levels) 219 words
      cc80-1W
    12. Disabled Persons 154 words
      c81W
    13. Postal Ballots 89 words
      cc81-2W
    14. Wage Rates (International Comparisons) 143 words
      c82W
    15. Multiple Employment 47 words
      c82W
    16. Benefit Frauds 95 words
      c82W
    17. Picketing 100 words
      cc82-3W
    18. Quangos 187 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      17. cc83-4W
    1. Whaling 84 words
      c84W
    2. Research and Development Programmes 61 words
      c84W
    3. Aujesky's Disease 124 words
      cc84-5W
    4. Dutch Elm Disease 163 words
      c85W
    5. Sulphur 65 words
      cc85-6W
    6. Fish Processing 180 words
      c86W
    7. Green Pound 85 words
      c86W
    8. Petrol Supplies 101 words
      cc86-7W
    9. Land 205 words
      c87W
    10. Fisheries Protection 111 words
      cc87-90W
    11. Sugar 655 words
      c90W
    12. Bacon Curing 107 words
      c90W
    13. Marginal Land (Departmental Survey) 87 words
  17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      18. cc90-1W
    1. Vertientes Camagvey Sugar Company 55 words
      c91W
    2. Law of the Sea Conference 290 words
      cc91-3W
    3. Vietnamese Refugees 348 words
  18. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
      19. c93W
    1. Extension of Competence 81 words
  19. SOCIAL SERVICES
      20. cc93-4W
    1. Detoxification Centres 254 words
      c94W
    2. Social Security Benefits (Retired Persons) 72 words
      c94W
    3. Television Licences (Pensioners) 130 words
      cc94-5W
    4. Ophthalmology Services (Dudley) 119 words
      c95W
    5. Small Community Hospitals 106 words
      cc95-6W
    6. Chiropodists 213 words
      c96W
    7. Young Hospital Patients 107 words
      cc96-8W
    8. Quangos 417 words
      c98W
    9. Kidney Dialysis 173 words
      cc98-9W
    10. Death Grant 106 words
      c99W
    11. Respiratory Diseases (St. Helens) 175 words
      cc99-100W
    12. Rampton Hospital 334 words
      c100W
    13. Supplementary Benefit (Review) 50 words
      cc100-1W
    14. Research and Development Programme 124 words
      c101W
    15. Earnings Rule (Pensioners) 50 words
      cc101-2W
    16. Residential Homes (Staff) 386 words
      c102W
    17. Brook Hospital, Woolwich 112 words
      cc102-3W
    18. St. Nicholas Hospital, Plumstead 446 words
      cc103-4W
    19. Mobility Allowance 211 words
      c104W
    20. Senior Nurses (Appointments) 118 words
      cc104-5W
    21. South-West Durham Area Health Authority 215 words
      c105W
    22. Consultants (Appointments) 68 words
      cc105-6W
    23. Hospital Doctors (Career Structure) 124 words
      c106W
    24. Social Assistance 44 words
      c106W
    25. Widows' Allowance 39 words
      c106W
    26. Retirement Age 67 words
      cc106-11W
    27. Hospital Waiting Lists (Greenwich and Bexley) 1,719 words
      cc111-2W
    28. Child Maintenance 387 words
      cc112-3W
    29. Civil Servants (Recruitment) 299 words
      c113W
    30. Pensions 256 words
      cc113-4W
    31. Child Benefit 81 words
      cc114-5W
    32. Social Security Contributions 427 words
      c115W
    33. Tuberculosis 97 words
      cc115-6W
    34. Benefit (Uprating) 236 words
      c116W
    35. Form BO/40 86 words
      cc116-7W
    36. Unemployment and Pension Payments 108 words
      c117W
    37. Iceland (Reciprocal Arrangements) 89 words
      c117W
    38. Fluoridation 165 words
      cc117-8W
    39. Prices and Earnings 51 words
      c118W
    40. National Insurance Fond 261 words
      cc118-9W
    41. Benefits 115 words
      c119W
    42. Supplementary Benefit 361 words
      cc119-20W
    43. Unemployment Review Officers 120 words
      c120W
    44. Re-establishment Centre 89 words
      cc120-1W
    45. Industrial Disputes (Benefits) 238 words
      cc121-2W
    46. Benefits (Disqualification) 342 words
      c122W
    47. War Disablement Pensions 46 words
      cc122-3W
    48. POWER STATION GENERATORS 154 words
      c123W
    49. BOYLE REPORT 34 words
      c123W
    50. NORTHERN IRELAND 23 words
      c123W
    51. TELEPHONE INTERCEPTIONS 19 words
  20. NATIONAL FINANCE
      21. cc123-6W
    1. Stamp Duty 923 words
      c126W
    2. Value Added Tax 83 words
      cc126-7W
    3. Income Tax (Employees' Motor Cars) 58 words
      c127W
    4. Public Sector Debt 135 words
      c127W
    5. Taxation Revenue 71 words
      cc127-30W
    6. Value Added Tax 958 words
      c130W
    7. European Community Funds (West Midlands) 62 words
      cc130-1W
    8. Government Organisations (Running Costs) 86 words
      c131W
    9. Cash Economies 113 words
      c131W
    10. Top Salary Increases (Cost) 67 words
      cc131-2W
    11. Income Tax 405 words
      cc132-3W
    12. Drug Smuggling 93 words
      c133W
    13. Midwives (Tax Allowances) 88 words
      cc133-4W
    14. Widows' Allowances 122 words
      c134W
    15. National Income 225 words
      c134W
    16. War Widows 40 words
      cc134-5W
    17. European Community (Employees' Expenses) 300 words
      cc135-6W
    18. Appropriation Accounts 184 words
      c136W
    19. Customs and Excise (Prosecutions) 109 words
      cc136-7W
    20. Uncollected Taxes 154 words
      cc137-8W
    21. Investment Income Surcharge (Exemptions) 338 words
      c138W
    22. Taxation (International Comparisons) 78 words
      c138W
    23. Widows (Pensions) 70 words
      cc138-40W
    24. Excise Duties 691 words
      cc140-3W
    25. European Community 845 words
      cc143-4W
    26. Short-term Social Security Benefits 586 words
      cc144-5W
    27. Family Income 600 words
      cc145-6W
    28. Income Tax 233 words
      cc146-7W
    29. Retirement Pensioners (Income) 142 words
      cc147-8W
    30. Company Taxation 520 words
      c148W
    31. Corporation Tax 85 words
      cc148-50W
    32. Personal Taxation (International Comparisons) 399 words
      c150W
    33. Financial Discipline (Private Sector) 92 words
      cc150-1W
    34. European Community (Budget Payments) 393 words
      c151W
    35. Mobility Allowance 82 words
      c151W
    36. Mortgage Relief 73 words
      cc151-2W
    37. Luncheon Vouchers 105 words
      c152W
    38. Building Societies 141 words
      cc152-3W
    39. Personal Allowances 478 words
      cc153-4W
    40. Nurses (Income Tax Relief) 169 words
      c154W
    41. European Community (British Contribution) 185 words
      cc154-5W
    42. Residual Child Tax Allowances 115 words
  21. ENVIRONMENT
      22. c156W
    1. Crown Estates (Tenants) 109 words