Commons Sitting of 5 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 963

    c875
  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c875
  2. Preamble 5 words
    3. c875
  3. DEATH OF A MEMBER 49 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
        2. cc875-6
      1. Director General of Fair Trading 266 words
        2. cc876-8
      2. Price Commission 849 words
        3. cc879-80
      3. Price Increases 565 words
        4. cc880-1
      4. Inflation (International Comparisons) 258 words
        5. cc881-2
      5. European Community (Food Prices) 432 words
        6. cc882-4
      6. Price Commission (Disallowed Price Increases) 767 words
        7. cc884-7
      7. Inflation 1,136 words
        8. cc888-9
      8. £ Sterling 408 words
        9. cc889-90
      9. Drugs 457 words
        10. cc890-6
      10. Food Prices 2,009 words
        11. cc896-7
      11. Minimum Lending Rate 465 words
      cc897-9
    2. PUBLIC EXPENDITURE 472 words
      3. cc899-902
    3. MINIMUM LENDING RATE 1,136 words
      4. cc902-4
    4. SCOTLAND (COURTS DISPUTE) 948 words
      5. c904
    5. NEW MEMBERS 19 words
      6. cc905-7
    6. NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS 920 words
      7. cc907-10
    7. EMPLOYMENT PROJECTS (TREASURY MEMORANDUM) 1,122 words
      8. cc910-1
    8. BILL PRESENTED 90 words
      9. c911
    9. ARBITRATION BILL [Lords] 14 words
      10. c911
    10. CONSENTS TO PROSECUTIONS BILL 15 words
    cc912-1041
  5. ORDERS OF THE DAY 49,906 words, 1 division
    6. cc1043-56
  6. HOVERCRAFT (CIVIL LIABILITY) 5,167 words
    7. cc1056-66
  7. HOSPITALS (MIXED SEX WARDS) 3,624 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 5 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 963

    c399W
  1. SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS 54 words
    cc399-400W
  2. ENDOWMENT AND GLEBE MEASURE 231 words
    c400W
  3. DEVOLUTION 76 words
    cc400-1W
  4. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS (SOUTH AFRICAN INVESTMENTS) 347 words
    c401W
  5. PERSONAL INJURY (ROYAL COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS) 117 words
    cc401-2W
  6. OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS 249 words
  7. HOME DEPARTMENT
      8. cc402-3W
    1. Firearms Act 1968 116 words
      cc403-4W
    2. Obscene Publications 309 words
      c404W
    3. Firearms (Mail Order Purchase) 45 words
      c404W
    4. Firearms 191 words
      cc404-5W
    5. Terrorism (European Community Agreement) 128 words
      c405W
    6. Hackney Carriage Trade (London) 61 words
      c405W
    7. Model Aeroplanes (Radio Interference) 105 words
      cc405-6W
    8. Extradition 133 words
      c406W
    9. District Councils (Ward Boundaries) 153 words
      cc406-7W
    10. Holloway Prison 144 words
      c407W
    11. Legal Aid 208 words
  8. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      9. cc407-8W
    1. Public Reference Libraries 133 words
      c408W
    2. Quangos (Expenditure) 103 words
      c408W
    3. Student Grants 81 words
      c409W
    4. Nursery Education 88 words
      cc409-10W
    5. Foreign Languages (O-and A-level Successes) 617 words
      cc410-1W
    6. Language Students 114 words
      c411W
    7. 16 to 19-year-olds 143 words
      c411W
    8. Student Grants (Parental Contributions) 109 words
      cc411-2W
    9. Expenditure (Maintenance Grants) 173 words
      cc412-3W
    10. Births and Population Trends 311 words
  9. WALES
      10. c413W
    1. Hydatidosis 151 words
      cc413-4W
    2. Scab 110 words
      c414W
    3. Welsh Community Council Association 59 words
  10. CIVIL SERVICE
      11. c414W
    1. Pay 70 words
      cc414-5W
    2. Government Information Services 115 words
      c415W
    3. Information Officers 124 words
      c415W
    4. Civil Servants (Pay) 92 words
      cc415-6W
    5. Official Report (Indexes) 136 words
      c416W
    6. Government Computer Centres 78 words
  11. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
      12. c416W
    1. Overseas Removal Companies 78 words
      cc416-7W
    2. Local Price Surveys 388 words
      cc417-8W
    3. Cement 93 words
  12. EMPLOYMENT
      13. c418W
    1. Shorter Working Week 95 words
      cc418-9W
    2. Comparative Earnings 1,210 words
  13. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
      14. c421W
    1. Price Commission (Amendment) Bill 40 words
      c421W
    2. European Community (Commission Discussions) 217 words
      cc421-2W
    3. Cadmium 137 words
  14. EMPLOYMENT
      15. cc422-5W
    1. Work Force 934 words
      cc425-6W
    2. Unemployment (Calculations) 284 words
      c426W
    3. Skelmersdale 75 words
      c426W
    4. Research 108 words
      cc426-7W
    5. Earnings 426 words
      cc427-8W
    6. Inflammable Substances (Identification) 223 words
      cc428-31W
    7. Disabled Workers 1,177 words
      cc431-2W
    8. Health and Safety (Lifting of Weights) 305 words
      cc432-3W
    9. Pottery Industry (Health and Safety) 220 words
      cc433-4W
    10. Health and Safety Executive (Public Relations) 217 words
      c434W
    11. " Accidents " 118 words
      cc434-5W
    12. Health and Safety (Expenditure) 175 words
      c435W
    13. Unemployment (International Comparisons) 396 words
      c435W
    14. Trade Unionists (Political Levy) 74 words
      cc435-6W
    15. Trade Unions (Political Funds) 172 words
      cc436-7W
    16. Political Fund Exemption Notices 204 words
      c437W
    17. Unemployment 164 words
      cc437-8W
    18. Adult Employees (Earnings) 97 words
      cc438-9W
    19. Quangos (Expenditure) 227 words
      cc439-41W
    20. Earnings (International Comparisons) 597 words
      c441W
    21. Homeworkers Advisory Committee 53 words
      c441W
    22. Secretarial Training 47 words
      c441W
    23. Training Boards 105 words
  15. ENVIRONMENT
      16. cc441-3W
    1. Footpaths and Bridleways 420 words
      c443W
    2. Maps (Local Authority Duties) 93 words
      cc443-4W
    3. Sports Organisations (Rates) 190 words
      c444W
    4. Building and Civil Engineering (Register) 287 words
      c445W
    5. Liverpool Inner Area Partnership 234 words
      c445W
    6. Public Sector Tenants (Security of Tenure) 83 words
      c446W
    7. Improvement Grants 37 words
      c446W
    8. Common Land (Working Party's Report) 59 words
      c446W
    9. Mobile Homes 49 words
      c446W
    10. Home Insulation (Public Expenditure) 46 words
      cc446-7W
    11. Westbury Manor, Fareham 70 words
      c447W
    12. Tree Preservation and Public Path Orders 134 words
      cc447-8W
    13. Local Authorities (Government Controls) 282 words
  16. TRANSPORT
      17. c448W
    1. Freight Haulage 177 words
      cc449-50W
    2. Motorways 660 words
      cc450-1W
    3. Bromham Bypass, Bedfordshire 106 words
      c451W
    4. Oakley Road—Clapham High Street, Bedfordshire 62 words
      cc451-2W
    5. A6 Bedfordshire 332 words
      cc452-3W
    6. Road Accidents 429 words
      cc453-4W
    7. Footpaths and Bridleways 84 words
      c454W
    8. Trunk Roads 69 words
      c454W
    9. Roads (Steel Lighting Columns) 67 words
      c454W
    10. Lighting Columns 90 words
      cc454-5W
    11. Quangos (Expenditure) 130 words
      c455W
    12. Driving Tests (Burton) 48 words
      c455W
    13. Vehicle Excise Duty 83 words
      cc455-6W
    14. Driving Test Examiners (Establishment) 81 words
      c456W
    15. Driving Tests (Uttoxeter) 48 words
      c456W
    16. Driving Tests (Civil Service Dispute) 35 words
      c456W
    17. Rail Accident (Long Ditton) 197 words
      c457W
    18. Tachographs 250 words
      c457W
    19. OFFICIAL RECEIVERS 56 words
      c458W
    20. MINISTERS (UNION SPONSORSHIP) 93 words
  17. INDUSTRY
      18. c458W
    1. British Aerospace (146 Aircraft) 136 words
      cc458-9W
    2. Skelmersdale 155 words
      c459W
    3. GEC Fairchild Ltd. 161 words
      cc459-60W
    4. Microelectronics 136 words
      c460W
    5. Disabled Persons (Postal Services) 42 words
      c460W
    6. British Shipbuilders (Employees) 42 words
      cc460-1W
    7. Waste Paper 127 words
      c461W
    8. Dunlop UK 173 words
      c461W
    9. Times Newspapers Limited 24 words
      cc461-4W
    10. Investment Projects (South-East) 1,488 words
      c465W
    11. Microprocessors 122 words
      c465W
    12. Mail Delivery (Tower Hamlets) 63 words
      cc465-6W
    13. Strategic Economic Planning (Europe) 170 words
      cc466-9W
    14. European Commission (Ministerial Discussions) 1,113 words
      cc469-70W
    15. Commodity Stockpiles 118 words
      c470W
    16. Concorde 113 words
      cc470-1W
    17. Vietnam (Ships) 191 words
      c471W
    18. Telephone Service (Elderly and Housebound Persons) 102 words
  18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      19. c471W
    1. Milk 95 words
      cc471-2W
    2. Farms (Drainage) 117 words
      cc472-3W
    3. Pigs 551 words
      c473W
    4. Return on Capital 78 words
      cc473-4W
    5. European Community (Council of Ministers) 64 words
      c474W
    6. Land Prices 89 words
      cc474-5W
    7. Badgers 165 words
      c475W
    8. Farmland (Capital Machinery and Buildings) 159 words
      cc475-6W
    9. European Community (Incomes) 367 words
      cc476-8W
    10. Quangos (Expenditure) 418 words
      c479W
    11. Slaughterhouses 138 words
      cc479-80W
    12. Oak (Imports) 456 words
      cc480-2W
    13. Dog Licences 326 words
      c483W
    14. European Community (Intervention Stocks) 378 words
      cc483-4W
    15. Agricultural Marketing (Inquiries) 190 words
      cc484-5W
    16. Oak Witt 90 words
      c485W
    17. Milk Marketing Board 46 words
  19. TRADE
      20. c485W
    1. Oil Tankers 39 words
      c485W
    2. China 82 words
      cc485-7W
    3. Oil Pollution 426 words
      c487W
    4. Copyright 195 words
      c487W
    5. Domestic Appliances 62 words
      cc487-8W
    6. Limited Companies 324 words
      cc488-9W
    7. Concorde 252 words
      cc489-90W
    8. Textiles 368 words
      cc490-1W
    9. Navigational and Radar Equipment 116 words
      c491W
    10. Foreign Ships (Masters' Competence) 103 words
      c491W
    11. European Community (Commission Discussions) 66 words
      cc491-2W
    12. Straits of Dover (Ship Surveillance and Control) 100 words
      c492W
    13. Manufactured Imports 62 words
      c492W
    14. Manufactured Exports 60 words
      c492W
    15. Bacon 74 words
      cc492-3W
    16. Multi-fibre Arrangement 85 words
      c493W
    17. Freight Market (Soviet Bloc Carriers) 157 words
      cc493-4W
    18. European Community (Anti-Dumping Procedures) 159 words
      c494W
    19. Canadian Seal Pelts 185 words
      cc494-5W
    20. Import Substitution 414 words
      c495W
    21. Fishing Vessel "Do It Again" (Loss) 77 words
      c496W
    22. Turkey 154 words
  20. SOCIAL SERVICES
      21. c497W
    1. Child Benefit 57 words
      c497W
    2. Hospital Waiting Lists 119 words
      cc497-8W
    3. Benefits (Abuse and Control) 309 words
      c498W
    4. Intermediate Areas (General Practice) 136 words
      c499W
    5. Lead Pollution 207 words
      c499W
    6. Taxation 90 words
      cc499-500W
    7. Mentally Ill Persons (Day Centre Places) 256 words
      cc500-1W
    8. Blind Children (Compensation) 163 words
      c501W
    9. Public and Private Inquiries 196 words
      cc501-2W
    10. Secure Units 88 words
      cc502-3W
    11. Health Education 480 words
      c503W
    12. Pneumoconiosis, Emphysema and Bronchitis 94 words
      cc503-4W
    13. St. Columba's Hospital, Hampstead 111 words
      c504W
    14. The A Code 236 words
      cc504-5W
    15. Hospital Patients (Length of Stay) 93 words
      c505W
    16. Mobility Allowance 95 words
      c505W
    17. Disability Allowances 87 words
      c505W
    18. Hospital Waiting Lists (Yorkshire and Humberside) 43 words
      c506W
    19. Nurses (Income Comparability) 119 words
      c506W
    20. Students 144 words
      cc506-7W
    21. Nursing and Medical Staff (Fylde) 154 words
      c507W
    22. Retirement Pensioners (Christmas Bonus) 420 words
      cc507-8W
    23. Lytham Hospital 44 words
      cc508-9W
    24. Hospital and Primary Health Care Service 245 words
      c509W
    25. Consultants 140 words
      cc509-10W
    26. Retirement Pensioners (Portugal) 166 words
      c510W
    27. South-East Thames Regional Health Authority 86 words
      cc510-1W
    28. Pharmaceuticals (Sector Working Party) 168 words
      c511W
    29. Voluntary Organisations (Staff Training) 287 words
      cc511-2W
    30. Married Couples (Spending Power) 122 words
      c512W
    31. In-patient Charges (International Comparisons) 128 words
      cc512-3W
    32. Quangos (Expenditure) 612 words
      cc513-5W
    33. Acupuncture, Ear-Piercing and Tattooing 285 words
      c515W
    34. Supplementary Benefit 49 words
      c515W
    35. Hertfordshire Area Health Authority (Office Accommodation) 126 words
      c515W
    36. Personal and Child Health Clinic, Birmingham 60 words
      cc515-6W
    37. Master Richard Hocking (Member's Correspondence) 86 words
      cc516-7W
    38. Fluoridation 369 words
      cc517-8W
    39. Hertfordshire Area Health Authority 337 words
      c518W
    40. Ambulance Service 94 words
      cc518-9W
    41. Pharmacists 109 words
      c519W
    42. Car Mileage Allowances 274 words
      cc519-20W
    43. Taxation and Child Benefit 320 words
  21. TRADE
      22. cc520-4W
    1. Oil Imports 1,516 words
    cc525-8W
  22. SOCIAL SERVICES 338 words
      23. cc525-6W
    1. Mental Illness 459 words
      cc527-8W
    2. Child Benefit and Tax Allowances 214 words
  23. DEFENCE
      24. c529W
    1. Flying Accidents 713 words
      cc529-31W
    2. Service Doctors 152 words
      c531W
    3. Service Hospitals (Treatment of Civilians) 502 words
      cc531-2W
    4. Service Personnel (Electoral Register) 150 words
      cc532-3W
    5. " Commerce Business Daily " 154 words
      c533W
    6. Orthopaedic Specialists 59 words
      c533W
    7. Atomic Weapons Research Establishment 83 words
      cc533-5W
    8. Gallantry Awards 796 words
      cc535-6W
    9. Defence Budget 84 words
      c536W
    10. Quangos (Expenditure) 181 words
      c537W
    11. Arms (Exports) 50 words
      c537W
    12. Service Personnel (Pay) 70 words
  24. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      25. cc537-8W
    1. Federal Republic of Germany (Statute of Limitations) 213 words
      c538W
    2. Rhodesia (Elections) 62 words
      c538W
    3. Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978 66 words
      cc538-40W
    4. Council of Europe (Agreements) 789 words
  25. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      26. c541W
    1. Human Rights 192 words
      cc541-2W
    2. Commonwealth Development Corporation 124 words
      c542W
    3. Aid Programme 132 words
  26. SCOTLAND
      27. c543W
    1. Education (Composite Classes) 45 words
      c543W
    2. Public House Staff (Assaults) 110 words
      c543W
    3. Assembly (Staff) 74 words
      cc543-4W
    4. GEAR Project 148 words
      c544W
    5. Orkney and Shetland 78 words
      c544W
    6. Peterhead Prison 101 words
  27. NATIONAL FINANCE
      28. cc545-6W
    1. Personal Incomes 514 words
      cc546-7W
    2. Stamp Duty 153 words
      c547W
    3. Child Care Costs (Tax Relief) 180 words
      c547W
    4. Inland Revenue Correpsondence (Welsh Language) 75 words
      cc547-8W
    5. Inland Revenue Offices (Wales) 149 words
      cc548-9W
    6. Isle of Man 242 words
      c549W
    7. Car Allowances 124 words
      cc549-50W
    8. Season Tickets (Tax Treatment) 192 words
      c550W
    9. Money Management Association 217 words
      c550W
    10. Allowances (Taxation) 86 words
      c551W
    11. Tax Allowance (Blind Persons) 73 words
      c551W
    12. Stock Relief (Farmers) 89 words
      cc551-2W
    13. Dollar Premium 226 words
      c552W
    14. Gross National Product (Scotland's Share) 205 words
      c552W
    15. Tax Threshold (Pensioners) 67 words
      cc553-7W
    16. Public Expenditure 1,835 words
      cc557-8W
    17. Taxes (Scotland's Share) 260 words
      cc558-9W
    18. Customs Officers (Sex Education) 62 words
      c559W
    19. Income Tax (International Comparisons) 217 words
      c559W
    20. Clothing Allowance (Disabled Persons) 80 words
      cc559-60W
    21. Corporation Tax 210 words
      cc560-1W
    22. Increase in Earnings (Effect on Employment) 217 words
      c561W
    23. Personal Incomes 334 words
      c561W
    24. Balance of Payments (Invisible Earnings) 55 words
      cc561-2W
    25. Sport (Value Added Tax) 200 words
      cc562-3W
    26. Iran (British Expatriates) 98 words
      c563W
    27. Value Added Tax 50 words
      cc563-4W
    28. Quangos (Expenditure) 194 words
      c564W
    29. Taxation 215 words
      cc564-5W
    30. Textiles 171 words
      c565W
    31. Personal Incomes 121 words
      cc565-6W
    32. North Sea Oil (Revenue) 208 words
      c566W
    33. Allowances (Overseas Dependants) 67 words
      cc566-7W
    34. Family Incomes 913 words
      c569W
    35. Income Tax (International Comparisons) 329 words
  28. NORTHERN IRELAND
      29. cc569-72W
    1. Fishing (Foyle Commission Area) 935 words
      cc572-3W
    2. Carriageways 235 words
      c573W
    3. Toomebridge-Burntollet March 131 words
      c574W
    4. Knee-capping 217 words
      c574W
    5. Housing Executive (Grants Section Staffing) 71 words
      c575W
    6. Londonderry-and Coleraine-Limavady Trunk Road 81 words
      c575W
    7. Agivey (River Bann Bridge) 63 words
      cc575-6W
    8. Heating Oil 200 words
      c576W
    9. River Bann (Bridges) 94 words
      c576W
    10. Agivey Bacon Factory 77 words
      cc576-7W
    11. Statutory Bodies (Secretary of State's Appointees) 260 words
      cc577-8W
    12. Maze Prison 224 words
      c578W
    13. Sports Grants 51 words
      c578W
    14. Farmers (Cessation of Business) 127 words
      cc578-9W
    15. European Assembly Elections 102 words
      c579W
    16. Hoppe Trust 240 words
      cc579-80W
    17. Messrs Harland and Wolffe limited 109 words
      c580W
    18. Civil Servants 165 words
      cc580-2W
    19. Discrimination 508 words
      c582W
    20. Fair Employment Declaration 88 words
      cc582-3W
    21. Fair Employment Agency 130 words
      c583W
    22. Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension 58 words
      c583W
    23. Mobility Allowance 39 words
      cc583-5W
    24. Housing Executive 540 words
      c585W
    25. Illegal Occupation 73 words
      cc585-6W
    26. Turf Lodge Estate 74 words
      c586W
    27. Rent Rebates 34 words
      c586W
    28. Unemployment 203 words
      cc586-7W
    29. Gaelic Athletic Association (Compensation) 145 words
  29. INDUSTRY
      30. c587W
    1. De Lorean Car 118 words
    c587W
  30. AEROSPACE AND ENERGY EXHIBITION 70 words
  31. ENVIRONMENT
      32. c588W
    1. Homes Insulation Act 1978 82 words
  32. ENERGY
      33. c588W
    1. Power Stations (Coal Imports) 120 words
      cc588-9W
    2. National Coal Board (Corporate Plan) 107 words
      cc589-90W
    3. North Sea Oil Development (Debris) 386 words
      c590W
    4. Energy Boards (Land) 39 words
      c590W
    5. Heating Oils 126 words
      cc590-1W
    6. Coal 258 words
      c591W
    7. Solar Energy 143 words
      cc591-2W
    8. Rhodesia (Oil Embargo) 84 words
      cc592-3W
    9. Uranium Enrichment Plant (Capenhurst) 236 words
      c593W
    10. Electricity Discount Scheme 86 words
      c593W
    11. Paraffin (Retail Price) 100 words
      cc593-4W
    12. Mexico (Oil and Uranium) 100 words
      c594W
    13. Crude Oil Shipments 67 words
      c594W
    14. British National Oil Corporation (Rig Order) 105 words
      c594W
    15. North Sea Oil 78 words
      c595W
    16. Battersea Power Station 108 words
      cc595-8W
    17. European Community 1,259 words
      c598W
    18. Oil Supplies (Iranian Crisis) 154 words
      cc599-600W
    19. Household Paraffin and Kerosene 99 words