Commons Sitting of 12 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 964

    c1
  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. c1
  3. Preamble 5 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. TRADE
      1. cc1-3
      2. Shipping Industry 455 words
    2. TRADE
      1. cc3-5
      2. Multi-Fibre Arrangement 844 words
      3. cc6-7
      4. Chile (ECGD Cover) 666 words
      5. cc8-9
      6. Overseas Trade (TUC and CBI Co-operation) 604 words
      7. cc9-11
      8. Motor Vehicles and Vehicle Equipment (Exports) 484 words
      9. cc11-2
      10. Steel (Dumping) 488 words
      11. cc12-3
      12. Paper and Board (Duty-free Quotas) 221 words
      13. cc13-4
      14. European Community (Coastguard Service) 330 words
      15. cc14-5
      16. European Community (Council of Trade Ministers) 516 words
      17. cc15-6
      18. British Airports Authority 291 words
      19. cc16-8
      20. Current Account Surplus 566 words
      21. cc18-9
      22. Third London Airport 422 words
      23. cc19-20
      24. China 471 words
      25. cc21-2
      26. Tourism Development Areas 572 words
      27. cc22-3
      28. Her Majesty's Coastguard 237 words
      29. cc23-5
      30. Motor Vehicles (Imports) 647 words
      31. c25
      32. Patent Applications 203 words
      33. cc25-7
      34. UNCTAD V (Common Fund) 382 words
      35. c27
      36. Ships (Registration) 169 words
      37. cc27-8
      38. Exports 248 words
      cc28-30
    3. LAMBETH PALACE 532 words
    cc30-2
  5. QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 769 words
  6. cc33-40
  7. NORTHERN IRELAND (PRISONERS) 2,504 words
  8. cc40-8
  9. OCEAN ISLAND (SECURITY) 3,122 words
  10. cc49-51
  11. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DRAFT ORDER) 885 words
  12. cc52-4
  13. " WEEKEND WORLD"TELEVISION PROGRAMME 1,085 words
  14. c54
  15. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 26 words
  16. cc55-173
  17. ORDERS OF THE DAY 44,828 words, 1 division
  18. c173
  19. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 21 words
  20. c174
  21. LOCAL GOVERNMENT GRANTS (ETHNIC GROUPS) [MONEY] 58 words
  22. cc175-230
  23. LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE BILL 21,042 words
  24. cc230-1
  25. LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE [MONEY] 170 words
  26. cc231-42
  27. RETIREMENT PENSIONS 4,204 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 12 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 964

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. c1W
    2. Former Colonial Residents (Parliamentary Assemblies) 75 words
      c1W
    3. Surrey County Police 123 words
      cc1-2W
    4. Interpol (British Office) 108 words
      c2W
    5. Magistrates' Courts (Folkestone) 149 words
      cc2-3W
    6. Telephone Tapping 210 words
      c3W
    7. Privacy (Younger Committee Report) 126 words
      cc3-4W
    8. Courts (Industrial Disruption) 111 words
      c4W
    9. Election Boxes 70 words
      c4W
    10. SELF-EMPLOYMENT (DEFINITION) 41 words
      cc4-5W
    11. COURT OFFICIALS (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE) 149 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. c5W
    2. Members' Salaries 90 words
      c5W
    3. PUBLIC BODIES (MEMBERS' EXPENSES) 79 words
    cc5-6W
  3. DEVOLUTION 102 words
    c6W
  4. LORD ADVOCATE'S DEPARTMENT 279 words
  5. EMPLOYMENT
    1. c7W
    2. Rossendale 35 words
      c7W
    3. Jobcentre, Rossendale 69 words
      c7W
    4. Church Dignitaries (Salaries) 61 words
      c7W
    5. High Technology 57 words
      cc7-8W
    6. School Leavers 37 words
      c8W
    7. Microprocessors 142 words
      cc8-9W
    8. Hours of Work (European Community Regulations) 134 words
      cc9-10W
    9. Standing Commission on Pay Comparability 321 words
      c10W
    10. Equal Opportunities 111 words
      cc10-1W
    11. Bolsover Coalite and Chemicals Limited 142 words
      c11W
    12. Health and Safety 180 words
      c11W
    13. Computers 81 words
      cc11-2W
    14. Health and Safety Executive and Commission (Publications) 91 words
      c12W
    15. Health and Safety Regulations 86 words
      c12W
    16. Secretarial Training 136 words
      cc13-4W
    17. Ethylene Dichloride and Ethylene Dibromide 680 words
    c15W
  6. LEGAL AID 233 words
  7. TRANSPORT
    1. cc15-6W
    2. Sleeping Policemen 110 words
      c16W
    3. Cycling 80 words
      c16W
    4. London Docks 28 words
      c16W
    5. Tachograph 46 words
      cc16-7W
    6. Concessionary Fares (Schoolchildren) 104 words
      c17W
    7. Railway Station Closures (Alternative Transport) 96 words
      c17W
    8. South-West Regional Traffic Commissioners 85 words
      cc17-8W
    9. Public Bodies (Members' Expenses) 117 words
      c18W
    10. National Freight Corporation (Pay Increase) 82 words
      c18W
    11. Channel Tunnel 61 words
      c18W
    12. Safety Belts (Coaches) 29 words
      cc18-9W
    13. Front Seat Passengers (Infants and Young Children) 45 words
      c19W
    14. M20-A20 (Folkestone-Dover) 84 words
      c19W
    15. British Railways (Staff Directives) 43 words
      cc19-20W
    16. 1973 Noise Insulation Regulations 129 words
      c20W
    17. Government Expenditure 88 words
  8. ENVIRONMENT
    1. c20W
    2. Nature Conservation 118 words
      cc20-1W
    3. Public Bodies (Member's Expenses) 120 words
      c21W
    4. Quangos (Expenditure) 261 words
      cc21-2W
    5. Canals (Maintenance) 125 words
      cc22-3W
    6. Public Sector Workers (Pay) 122 words
      c23W
    7. Refuse 178 words
      c23W
    8. British Waterways Board (Industrial Dispute) 66 words
      cc23-4W
    9. Trussed Rafter Roofs 241 words
      c24W
    10. North-West Water Authority 27 words
      cc24-5W
    11. Community Land 291 words
      cc25-6W
    12. Community Land Act 226 words
      c26W
    13. Location of Offices Bureau 96 words
      c27W
    14. Liverpool (Housing Investment Allocation) 190 words
      cc27-8W
    15. London Pavilion Theatre 382 words
      c28W
    16. Houses (Insulation) 66 words
      cc28-9W
    17. Needs Element (London, Avon and Gloucestershire) 84 words
      c29W
    18. Regional Water Authorities (Subsistence Rates) 143 words
      cc29-30W
    19. Home Owners (Repossession of Property) 182 words
      c30W
    20. Factory Building (Nottinghamshire) 49 words
  9. TRADE
    1. c30W
    2. International Air Transport Association 51 words
      c30W
    3. Peachey Property Corporation Ltd. 69 words
      c31W
    4. Noxious Cargo Carriers (Collisions) 106 words
      cc31-2W
    5. Cutlery Industry (Cheap Imports) 441 words
      c32W
    6. Agricultural Machinery 48 words
      c33W
    7. Air Travel Industry 40 words
      c33W
    8. Airports (Passengers and Air Transport) 81 words
      c33W
    9. Tankers (Ballast Discharge) 106 words
      cc33-4W
    10. Export Credit Guarantees (Iranian Contracts) 122 words
      c34W
    11. European Community (Liner Shipping) 93 words
      cc34-5W
    12. Worsted Yarns 147 words
      c35W
    13. Shetland Isles (Tanker Navigation) 80 words
      c35W
    14. European Community (Steel) 141 words
      cc35-7W
    15. Paper and Board Industry 466 words
      cc37-8W
    16. Tanker Accidents 426 words
      c38W
    17. Domestic Appliances (Imports) 64 words
      cc38-9W
    18. Textiles 197 words
      c39W
    19. European Community (Commission Discussions) 145 words
      cc39-40W
    20. Public Bodies (Members' Expenses) 201 words
  10. ENERGY
    1. c40W
    2. North Sea Oil (Exports) 65 words
      c40W
    3. Tricentrol (Thistle Field Loans) 81 words
      c41W
    4. Ionisation 286 words
    cc41-5W
  11. INDUSTRY 196 words
    1. cc42-3W
    2. Sector Working Parties 236 words
      c43W
    3. Departmental Statistics 58 words
      c43W
    4. Assisted Areas (Expenditure) 66 words
      cc43-4W
    5. Paper and Board Industry 107 words
      c44W
    6. Electronics Industry (Japanese Investment) 93 words
      c44W
    7. Aveling Barford Limited 79 words
      cc44-5W
    8. Titanium 116 words
      c45W
    9. Public Bodies and Nationalised Industries (Guarantees and Letters of Comfort) 269 words
  12. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. c46W
    2. Hospitals (Staffing Ratios) 230 words
      cc46-7W
    3. Lead Pollution 96 words
      c47W
    4. Aided Countries (Medical Information) 73 words
      c47W
    5. Drug Exports 129 words
      cc47-8W
    6. Chiropodists 91 words
      c48W
    7. Geriatric Care (Rossendale) 239 words
      cc48-9W
    8. St. Nicholas Hospital Nurses' Home, Plumstead 91 words
      cc49-50W
    9. Mentally Handicapped Persons 382 words
      c50W
    10. Public Bodies (Members' Expenses) 117 words
      cc50-1W
    11. Self-employed Persons 253 words
      c51W
    12. Community Nurses (Mileage Allowance) 178 words
      cc51-2W
    13. Regional Health Authorities (Expenditure) 178 words
      cc52-3W
    14. Mentally Handicapped Persons 118 words
      c53W
    15. Retirement Pensions (Canada) 232 words
      cc53-4W
    16. Out-patients (Gloucester) 136 words
      c54W
    17. Family Practitioner Committees 79 words
      c54W
    18. Health Service Reorganisation (Gloucestershire) 45 words
      cc54-5W
    19. Blind Persons (Electronic Aids) 309 words
      cc55-6W
    20. Family Practitioner Committees 149 words
  13. DEFENCE
    1. c56W
    2. Defence Codification 79 words
      c56W
    3. Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich 130 words
      cc56-7W
    4. Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich 121 words
      c57W
    5. Kenya 72 words
      cc57-8W
    6. Public Bodies (Members' Expenses) 200 words
      c58W
    7. Service Personnel (Resignations) 107 words
  14. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. c58W
    2. Microprocessors 115 words
      cc59-60W
    3. Clinical Academic Staff (Salaries) 353 words
      c60W
    4. Universities (Medical Departments) 74 words
      c60W
    5. Mark Lilley 61 words
  15. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. cc60-1W
    2. Project Aid 164 words
      c61W
    3. Eritrea (Medical Supplies) 121 words
      c61W
    4. Drugs 108 words
  16. WALES
    1. c62W
    2. Public Bodies (Members' Expenses) 122 words
      c62W
    3. Civil Servants 147 words
      cc62-3W
    4. Local Authorities (Pension Funds) 127 words
      c63W
    5. Railways 232 words
      cc63-4W
    6. Free School Meals 94 words
      c64W
    7. Unemployment (School Leavers) 206 words
      c65W
    8. Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport 118 words
      c65W
    9. Welsh Language 239 words
      c66W
    10. Coal Exchange, Cardiff 88 words
  17. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. c66W
    2. Local Government Expenditure 108 words
      cc66-7W
    3. Schedule E Taxpayers (Allowances) 274 words
      c67W
    4. Company Profits 60 words
      cc67-8W
    5. Stock Appreciation 138 words
      c68W
    6. Public Sector (Basic Wages) 111 words
      c68W
    7. Public Bodies (Members' Expenses) 115 words
      cc68-9W
    8. Domestic Credit Expansion 133 words
      c69W
    9. Pensions, Benefits and Allowances 63 words
      c69W
    10. Comparability Awards 88 words
      cc69-70W
    11. Devolution 73 words
      c70W
    12. Public Sector Pensions 95 words
      c70W
    13. Stamp Duty 116 words
      c70W
    14. National Savings Certificates 55 words
      cc71-3W
    15. Value Added Tax 787 words
      c73W
    16. Companies (Stock Relief) 83 words
      cc73-4W
    17. Republic of Ireland Currency (Circulation) 224 words
      c74W
    18. Poultrymeat 200 words
      cc74-5W
    19. Balance of Payments (North Sea Oil and Gas) 207 words
      c75W
    20. Foreign Debt 83 words
      cc75-6W
    21. Cash Limits 132 words
      c76W
    22. Tax Returns (Errors) 80 words
      c76W
    23. Corporation Tax 42 words
      c76W
    24. North Sea Oil Companies (Taxation) 40 words
      c76W
    25. Taxation (Discretionary Waiver) 36 words
      cc76-7W
    26. Government Debt 252 words
      c77W
    27. Public Expenditure 111 words
  18. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
    1. cc77-80W
    2. Council of Foreign Ministers 746 words
      c80W
    3. European Assembly (Members' Expenses) 81 words
      c80W
    4. Business Statements 108 words
  19. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. cc80-1W
    2. Immigrants (Indian Sub-continent) 199 words
      c81W
    3. Argentina 60 words
      cc81-2W
    4. Spandau Prison, West Berlin 238 words
      c82W
    5. Liberia 119 words
      cc82-3W
    6. Commonwealth Day 263 words
      c83W
    7. Rhodesia 54 words
      cc83-4W
    8. Council of Europe (Agreements) 92 words
  20. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. c84W
    2. Public Order Act 183 words
      cc84-5W
    3. Fair Employment Agency 147 words
      c85W
    4. De Lorean Company 227 words
      cc85-6W
    5. Employers' Premises (Training Scheme) 151 words
      c86W
    6. Terrorism 125 words
  21. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. c87W
    2. Cauliflowers 231 words
      cc87-9W
    3. Ministry Inspectors (Veal Units and Poultry) 581 words
      c89W
    4. Hill Livestock 79 words
  22. SCOTLAND
    1. cc89-90W
    2. Scottish Assembly 239 words
      cc90-1W
    3. Lothian Health Board 239 words
      c91W
    4. Local Government (Pension Funds) 157 words
      cc91-2W
    5. Local Government (Manpower) 342 words
      cc92-3W
    6. Rate Fund Services (Expenditure) 201 words
      cc93-4W
    7. Courts (Closure) 429 words
      c94W
    8. Local Authority Employees 91 words
      c95W
    9. Court Cases (Industrial Dispute) 170 words
      cc95-6W
    10. Building (Scotland) Act 1959 293 words
      cc96-7W
    11. Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations 91 words
      c97W
    12. Referendum 52 words
      c97W
    13. Royal High School, Edinburgh 48 words
      c97W
    14. Ministerial Appointments 65 words
      cc97-8W
    15. Fishing Vessel"Aquirla " 142 words
      c98W
    16. Mr. Brendan Gallagher 66 words
      c98W
    17. Under-Secretary of State (Glasgow Meeting) 110 words
      cc98-9W
    18. Writs and Summonses 132 words
      cc99-100W
    19. Legal Aid 78 words
      c100W
    20. Procurator Fiscal Service and Legal Aid 77 words

Lords Sitting of 12 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 399

    c355
  1. Preamble 23 words
  2. cc355-6
  3. ARUSHA MINISTERIAL MEETING 461 words
  4. cc356-7
  5. UN TREATY AGAINST HOSTAGE-TAKING 346 words
  6. cc357-60
  7. SAUDI ARABIA: STATE VISIT 949 words
  8. cc360-4
  9. SHIPPING: AID AND SALES TO VIETNAM 1,352 words
  10. cc364-7
  11. BRITISH RAILWAYS (SELBY) BILL 1,385 words
  12. NATIONAL HERITAGE FUND (No.2) BILL [H.L.]
    1. cc368-87
    2. formerly NATIONAL LAND FUND BILL [H.L.] 7,592 words, 1 division
    3. cc387-91
    4. HOVERCRAFT (CIVIL LIABILITY) ORDER 1979 1,418 words
    5. cc392-462
    6. THE COMMONWEALTH 27,024 words
    7. cc462-8
    8. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEFINITION OF TREATIES) (ECSC DECISION ON SUPPLEMENTARY REVENUES) ORDER 1979 2,192 words
    9. cc468-88
    10. SCOTTISH ASSEMBLY: REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN 7,667 words