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Commons Sitting of 27 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 965

c233
1. Preamble 7 words
c233
2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
c233
1. CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order) 13 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. EMPLOYMENT
cc233-5
1. Disabled Persons 600 words
cc235-6
2. Overseas Footballers (Work Permits) 507 words
cc236-8
3. Trades Union Congress 740 words
cc238-9
4. Unfair Dismissal Claims (Upper Age Limit) 307 words
cc239-43
5. Closed Shop 1,091 words
c243
6. Newspaper Industry (Casual Workers) 265 words
cc243-4
7. Health and Safety Executive (Planning Applications) 249 words
cc244-6
8. Unemployment 431 words
cc246-7
9. Standing Commission on Pay Comparability 611 words
cc247-9
10. Industrial Disputes 413 words
cc249-50
11. Trade Unions (USSR) 354 words
cc250-3
12. Birmingham and West Midlands 948 words
c253
13. Unemployment Benefit Office, Knottingley 118 words
cc253-8
2. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 1,947 words
cc259-69
5. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF MINISTERS' MEETINGS) 3,722 words
1. BILL PRESENTED
c269
1. PNEUMOCONIOSIS ETC. (WORKERS' COMPENSATION) 103 words
cc270-3
6. INLAND REVENUE (DISCRETION) 1,318 words
c273
1. INLAND REVENUE (DISCRETION) 84 words
7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
cc274-400
1. DEFENCE 47,954 words, 2 divisions
c401
2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 23 words
cc401-17
8. PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE BILL [Lords] 7 words
1. New Clause 2
cc401-17
1. ANNUAL REPORT 6,042 words
cc417-30
9. LIQUEFIED GAS STORAGE (CANVEY ISLAND) 4,806 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 27 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 965

1. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)
cc87-9W
1. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 599 words
2. CBI AND TUC
cc89-90W
1. CBI AND TUC 272 words
3. WEST MIDLANDS
c90W
1. WEST MIDLANDS 24 words
4. OPEN GOVERNMENT
cc90-1W
1. OPEN GOVERNMENT 46 words
5. EAST ANGLIA
c91W
1. EAST ANGLIA 21 words
6. WEST LOTHIAN
c91W
1. WEST LOTHIAN 24 words
7. TAMWORTH
c91W
1. TAMWORTH 25 words
8. NURSING PROFESSION
c91W
1. NURSING PROFESSION 24 words
9. RHODESIA
c91W
1. RHODESIA 25 words
10. ANGLESEY
c91W
1. ANGLESEY 25 words
11. MESSRS. AUBREY, BERRY AND CAMPBELL (TRIAL)
c92W
1. MESSRS. AUBREY, BERRY AND CAMPBELL (TRIAL) 81 words
12. PSRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
cc92-3W
1. Bargain Offer Claims 491 words
cc93-5W
2. Price Commission (Investigations) 430 words
13. EMPLOYMENT
c95W
1. Closed Shop 115 words
c95W
2. Unemployment 60 words
cc95-6W
3. Employed Persons 61 words
c96W
4. Merseyside 182 words
cc96-7W
5. Unemployment and Vacancies 124 words
cc97-8W
6. Job Preservation and Job Creation 488 words
cc98-9W
7. Hospital Theatre Workers (Occupational Risks) 103 words
c99W
8. Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 43 words
c99W
9. Job Release 129 words
cc99-100W
10. Young Persons 130 words
c100W
11. Working Population 98 words
cc100-1W
12. School Leavers 217 words
c101W
13. Wage Settlements 125 words
c101W
14. Work Experience Programme 92 words
cc101-2W
15. Job Subsidy Schemes 100 words
c102W
16. Regional Policy 102 words
c102W
17. Manufacturing Industry (Skill Shortages) 154 words
cc102-3W
18. Health and Safety Commission 59 words
c103W
19. North-West England 36 words
c103W
20. European Community (Council of Ministers) 57 words
cc103-4W
21. Disabled Persons 142 words
c104W
22. Handicapped Persons 87 words
c104W
23. Employment Protection Act 126 words
cc104-5W
24. TGWU—Waltham Roadways Ltd. (Agreement) 111 words
c105W
25. Prices 317 words
cc105-6W
26. Three-day Working Week 107 words
c106W
27. South Yorkshire 108 words
cc106-7W
28. Work Permits 176 words
c107W
29. Quangos (Members' Allowances) 71 words
cc107-8W
30. Silicosis 148 words
c108W
31. Hereford and Worcester (Social Fund Grants) 126 words
c108W
32. South-West Region 78 words
cc108-9W
33. Disabled Persons (Wales) 154 words
c109W
34. National Theatre (Industrial Dispute) 52 words
cc109-10W
35. Racial Equality 264 words
cc110-1W
36. Health and Safety 371 words
c111W
37. European Community (Employment Ministers' Meeting) 113 words
c111W
38. Contract Cleaning Industry 83 words
cc111-2W
39. Blackburn 213 words
c112W
40. Pay Comparability 109 words
cc112-3W
41. Tachographs 183 words
14. ENVIRONMENT
cc113-5W
1. Liverpool Street and Broad Street Stations 713 words
cc115-6W
2. Immigrant Populations (Ministerial Visits) 374 words
cc116-7W
3. Rehabilitation of Dwellings (Acquisitions) 79 words
c117W
4. Community Land Act 152 words
c117W
5. Allotments 70 words
cc117-8W
6. Public and Local Authorities (Employees) 136 words
c118W
7. Housing (Bedfordshire) 155 words
cc118-9W
8. Direct Labour 129 words
c119W
9. Waste Land 58 words
cc119-20W
10. South Africa (Sporting Links) 232 words
c120W
11. Cement (Prices) 226 words
15. HOME DEPARTMENT
cc120-1W
1. Scientologists 165 words
c121W
2. Metropolitan Police Computer (Members of Parliament) 132 words
c121W
3. Constituencies (Electoral Quotas) 75 words
cc121-2W
4. Animals (Experiments) 316 words
cc122-3W
5. Immoral Earnings 126 words
c123W
6. Bouncers (Legal Status) 109 words
cc123-4W
7. Prisoner (Winson Green Prison) 81 words
c124W
8. Police Officers (Statements) 59 words
c124W
9. IMMIGRATION (GYNAECOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS) 73 words
16. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
c124W
1. Community Arts 116 words
cc124-5W
2. Teaching Staff (Appointment) 130 words
c125W
3. British Library (Somers Town) 69 words
c125W
4. University Recurrent Grant 74 words
cc125-6W
5. Animals (Experiments) 165 words
cc126-7W
6. Computers 479 words
cc127-8W
7. SOLICITORS (LAW SOCIETY POWERS) 91 words
17. INDUSTRY
c128W
1. Small Firms (Subcontract Work) 139 words
cc128-9W
2. Microelectronics 163 words
c129W
3. National Enterprise Board 125 words
c129W
4. Tanning Industry 66 words
cc129-30W
5. Meals-on-wheels Kitchens 56 words
18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
cc130-1W
1. Animals (Experiments) 311 words
19. TRANSPORT
c131W
1. Motor Vehicles (Registration) 117 words
c131W
2. Vehicle Licence V10 Form 46 words
cc131-2W
3. Goods Vehicles 141 words
c132W
4. Northleach Bypass 61 words
20. CIVIL SERVICE
c132W
1. Official Cars 106 words
cc132-3W
2. Ministers and Senior Civil Servants (Travel and Subsistence Allowances) 97 words
c133W
3. Quangos (Expenditure) 159 words
cc133-4W
4. Pay 169 words
21. TRADE
c134W
1. Microelectronics 58 words
c134W
2. Companies House, Cardiff 89 words
22. SOCIAL SERVICES
cc134-5W
1. Hospital and Health Services (Teesside) 106 words
c135W
2. Agency Nurses (Birmingham) 136 words
c135W
3. Births and Deaths (Registration) 94 words
cc135-6W
4. Nurses (Employment Cost) 156 words
c136W
5. Pharmacists 147 words
cc136-7W
6. In-patients (Costs) 228 words
c137W
7. Hampshire Area Health Authority 147 words
cc137-8W
8. Equal Rights for Disabled Women Campaign 69 words
c138W
9. Marriages (Statistics) 118 words
c138W
10. Alcoholism 147 words
cc138-9W
11. Pay Beds 274 words
cc139-40W
12. Hospital Waiting Lists 263 words
c140W
13. Pensions 66 words
cc140-1W
14. Child Benefit 82 words
c141W
15. Unemployment Benefit 83 words
23. WALES
c141W
1. Genetic Counselling 115 words
cc141-2W
2. Unemployed Persons (Clwyd) 77 words
c142W
3. Schools (Careers Education) 89 words
c142W
4. Handicapped Children 60 words
c142W
5. Bypasses 131 words
cc142-3W
6. Antenatal Screening 88 words
c143W
7. Roads (Repair and Maintenance) 156 words
cc143-4W
8. Agricultural Land 119 words
c144W
9. Welsh Language (Birth Registration) 58 words
24. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
c144W
1. Rhodesia (Public Service Pensions) 111 words
cc144-5W
2. Grenada 104 words
c145W
3. Hong Kong 224 words
c145W
4. South Africa 63 words
25. NATIONAL FINANCE
cc145-6W
1. House of Lords (Members' Fares and Allowances) 205 words
c146W
2. Civil Service (Industrial Dispute) 119 words
cc146-7W
3. Paye 220 words
cc147-9W
4. British Petroleum 435 words
c149W
5. Tools and Industrial Clothing (Allowances) 79 words
c149W
6. Public Bodies (Members' Fees and Expenses) 163 words
cc149-50W
7. Child Allowances 143 words
26. DEFENCE
c150W
1. Recruitment (Review) 92 words
cc150-1W
2. Low-flying Aircraft (Carnforth) 180 words
c151W
3. NATO Aircraft (Parachute Operations) 58 words
c151W
4. Service Hospitals (Bed Occupancy Rate) 43 words
cc151-2W
5. Forces Pay 157 words
cc152-3W
6. BAOR 359 words
27. ENERGY
c153W
1. BNOC 153 words
cc153-4W
2. Electricity Supply (Farms) 198 words
c154W
3. Coal-burning Gas Turbine Locomotive 68 words
c154W
4. Pneumoconiosis 81 words
28. SCOTLAND
c155W
1. House Building 28 words
cc155-6W
2. Disabled Persons (Employment Quota) 339 words
c156W
3. Nursery Education Building 145 words
c156W
4. Capital Transfer Tax (Works of Art) 61 words
cc156-7W
5. Scottish Grand Committee 79 words
c157W
6. Births (Forth Valley) 123 words
c157W
7. Unemployed Persons (Social and Health Problems) 43 words
cc157-8W
8. Disabled Persons 201 words
c158W
9. Terrorism (Arrests and Detentions) 174 words
cc158-9W
10. Colleges of Education (Staff) 196 words
c159W
11. Students (Emergency Training Courses) 116 words
cc159-60W
12. Chiropody (Training) 110 words
c160W
13. Peterhead Prison 49 words
c160W
14. Parliamentary Questions 84 words
c160W
15. Correspondence (Members of Parliament) 46 words
cc160-1W
16. Schools (Use of Youth Hostels) 101 words
c161W
17. Fish Landings (Value) 56 words
c161W
18. Roads (Expenditure) 110 words
cc161-2W
19. Bypasses 306 words
c162W
20. Road Maintenance (Cost) 43 words
c162W
21. Handicapped Students (Facilities) 73 words
29. NORTHERN IRELAND
c163W
1. Public Services (Abuses) 83 words
c163W
2. North Sea Gas Supply 86 words
c163W
3. Civil Service (Staff Absences) 69 words
cc163-4W
4. Moneylenders Act 1933 160 words
c164W
5. Street Lighting, Belfast (Cost) 41 words
c164W
6. Belfast Harbour Board 34 words
c164W
7. Housing Executive 85 words
cc164-5W
8. Bennett Report 83 words
cc165-6W
9. Benefits (Deductions) 312 words
c166W
10. Arts Council 186 words
cc166-8W
11. Industrial Estates (Ground Rents) 429 words
c168W
12. Fair Employment 56 words
c168W
13. Industrial Training Centre, West Belfast 174 words
c168W
14. Rents 65 words

Lords Sitting of 27 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 399

c1461
1. Preamble 22 words
c1461
2. VIENNA CONFERENCE: EAST-WEST CO-OPERATION 229 words
cc1462-3
3. FISH FARMING: POLICY REVIEW 364 words
cc1463-4
4. BRITISH ROAD SERVICES AND THE TACHOGRAPH 275 words
cc1464-7
5. OIL POLLUTION OF NORTH SEA 1,201 words
cc1467-8
6. EEC COUNCIL OF MINISTERS: APRIL BUSINESS 365 words
cc1468-73
7. ANCIENT MONUMENTS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREAS BILL [H.L.] 1,786 words
cc1473-96
8. NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS BILL 8,510 words
cc1496-524
9. DIRECT LABOUR (MAJOR CONSTRUCTION WORKS) ACCOUNTING BILL [H.L.] 10,953 words
cc1525-50
10. SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING) BILL [H.L.] 9,726 words
cc1550-71
11. AIRLINER DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION 8,100 words
c1571
12. FORESTRY BILL [H.L.] 6 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 27 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 399

c1572WA
1. SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFIT SCALES 101 words
c1572WA
2. ALCOHOL: INCREASED CONSUMPTION 125 words
cc1572-3WA
3. ALCOHOL: HEALTH WARNING IN ADVERTISEMENTS 70 words
c1573WA
4. ALCOHOL: TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENTS 76 words
cc1573-4WA
5. YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAMME 106 words
c1574WA
6. TEST CENSUS AND ETHNIC ORIGIN QUESTIONS 183 words
cc1574-5WA
7. GASSING OF BADGER SETTS 281 words
cc1575-6WA
8. OIL POLLUTION AT SEA: OFF-LOADING 186 words
c1576WA
9. CHEMICAL POLLUTION AT SEA: OFF-LOADING 127 words
cc1576-7WA
10. LNG AND LPG CARRIERS: POLLUTION AT SEA 147 words
c1577WA
11. CHEMICAL POLLUTION AT SEA: RESOURCES AND RESEARCH 168 words
cc1577-8WA
12. LNG/LPG RELEASE AT SEA: RESOURCES AND RESEARCH 150 words
c1578WA
13. OAK WILT 197 words