Sitting of 6 November 1979

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Commons Sitting of 6 November 1979 Series 5 Vol. 973

c199
1. Preamble 7 words
c199
2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
c199
1. WEST MIDLANDS COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order) 65 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. EMPLOYMENT
cc200-1
1. Greater London Area 480 words
cc201-3
2. Northern Region 700 words
cc203-5
3. Construction Industry Training Board 613 words
cc205-7
4. Unemployment Forecasts 634 words
cc207-8
5. Closed Shop 500 words
cc208-10
6. Baking Industry 452 words
c210
7. Plymouth 153 words
cc210-1
8. Inner City Areas 387 words
cc211-3
9. Trade Union Legislation 500 words
cc213-4
10. Consett and Stanley 187 words
c214
11. Alnwick 187 words
cc214-6
12. Unemployment (Statistics) 425 words
cc216-7
13. Industrial Relations 428 words
cc217-22
2. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 1,576 words
cc222-4
3. SCOTLAND 662 words
cc225-8
5. TEHRAN (BRITISH EMBASSY) 1,401 words
cc229-33
6. COASTER "POOL FISHER" (LOSS) 1,581 words
c233
7. TEN-MINUTE SPEECHES 203 words
cc233-6
8. ISLE OF MAN BILL 774 words
c236
9. RHODESIA 101 words
c236
10. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 126 words
cc237-9
11. SCHOOL RECORDS 1,092 words
c239
1. SCHOOL RECORDS 51 words
12. ORDERS OF THE DAY
cc240-363
1. INDUSTRY BILL 46,400 words, 1 division
cc363-4
2. INDUSTRY [MONEY] 215 words
cc365-6
3. ISLE OF MAN BILL 49 words
cc367-76
4. TEXTILE INDUSTRY 3,397 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 6 November 1979 Series 5 Vol. 973

c93W
1. LANARKSHIRE 24 words
c93W
2. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 189 words
cc93-4W
3. TUC 25 words
c94W
4. ORMSKIRK 25 words
c94W
5. WASHINGTON NEW TOWN 23 words
c94W
6. WINSTON CHURCHILL MEMORIAL LECTURE 33 words
c94W
7. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT 38 words
cc94-5W
8. TUC AND CBI 30 words
c95W
9. ARMED SERVICES 124 words
c95W
10. AILSA CRAIG 25 words
c95W
11. CBI 23 words
cc95-6W
12. BABY MILK (OVERSEAS SALES) 131 words
c96W
13. FRANCE (IMPORTS/EXPORTS) 41 words
14. HOME DEPARTMENT
c96W
1. Demonstrations (Police Costs) 50 words
c96W
2. Prisoners (Dependent Relatives) 34 words
cc96-7W
3. Custodial Sentences (Peterborough) 63 words
c97W
4. Prisoners (Employment Histories) 68 words
c97W
5. Metropolitan Police (Burglar Alarm Inspectorate) 74 words
c97W
6. Penal Reform 128 words
cc97-8W
7. Commission for Racial Equality 53 words
c98W
8. Bail Act 150 words
cc98-9W
9. Detention Centres 149 words
c99W
10. Speeding Prosecutions 69 words
c99W
11. Equal Opportunities Commission 159 words
cc99-100W
12. Fires 85 words
c100W
13. Criminal Cases (Annulment) 118 words
c100W
14. Police (Cambridgeshire) 84 words
cc100-1W
15. Animals (Experiments) 140 words
c101W
16. Immigration 80 words
c101W
17. LEGAL AID (TRIBUNAL CASES) 103 words
15. ENERGY
cc101-2W
1. Electrical Goods (Labelling) 55 words
c102W
2. Coking Coal 183 words
c102W
3. Oil Licences (Seventh Round) 49 words
cc102-3W
4. Energy Demand 177 words
c103W
5. Uranium 152 words
cc103-4W
6. Purchasing Contracts 241 words
16. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
cc104-5W
1. Nursery School Children 204 words
c105W
2. Grammar Schools 116 words
c105W
3. Purchasing Contracts 57 words
cc105-6W
4. A-level Passes 93 words
cc106-7W
5. Kirklees and Oldham 367 words
17. NATIONAL FINANCE
c107W
1. Expenditure (Unemployment Forecasts) 99 words
cc107-8W
2. Tax Demands (Delivery) 209 words
c108W
3. Metal-Using Industries 71 words
cc108-10W
4. Taxes (International Comparisons) 529 words
cc110-1W
5. Officials (Powers of Entry) 81 words
c111W
6. British Petroleum 104 words
c111W
7. Exchequer and Audit Act 60 words
cc111-2W
8. Value Added Tax (Charitable Organisations) 74 words
c112W
9. Industry Act (Forecasts) 31 words
c112W
10. Exchange Control Act 1947 71 words
c112W
11. Inland Revenue (Special Offices) 109 words
cc112-3W
12. European Community Budget 367 words
c113W
13. National Land Fund 39 words
18. TRADE
cc113-4W
1. Stansted Airport 170 words
c114W
2. South Africa 43 words
c114W
3. Baby Milk (Overseas Sales) 97 words
19. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
cc114-5W
1. Stop Polio Campaign 58 words
20. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
c115W
1. Cyprus 75 words
c115W
2. Northern Ireland (Information) 88 words
cc115-6W
3. Chile 242 words
21. EMPLOYMENT
c116W
1. Picketing 57 words
c116W
2. Preston 78 words
cc116-7W
3. Trades Union Congress 42 words
c117W
4. West Midlands 48 words
c117W
5. Old Skills 117 words
cc117-8W
6. Unemployment (Statistics) 93 words
c118W
7. Mexborough and Wombwell 89 words
c118W
8. Postal Ballots 39 words
c118W
9. Stockport 73 words
cc118-9W
10. Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service 73 words
c119W
11. Manpower Services Commission 94 words
c119W
12. Skillcentres 161 words
cc119-20W
13. North-West England 120 words
c120W
14. Homeworkers 79 words
c120W
15. Trades Union Legislation 85 words
22. EMPLOYMENT
c121W
1. Northern Region 66 words
c121W
2. Industrial Tribunals 70 words
cc121-2W
3. Operation Decoration Scheme (Rossendale) 116 words
cc122-5W
4. Disabled Persons 1,356 words
cc125-8W
5. Electrical Equipment (Approval Service) 788 words
c128W
6. Closed Shop 47 words
c128W
7. Weekly Earnings 177 words
cc128-9W
8. Temporary Employment Programme 51 words
c129W
9. Industrial Disputes (Ballots) 125 words
c129W
10. Purchasing Contracts 55 words
c129W
11. Engineering Dispute (Lost-Days) 47 words
cc129-30W
12. Redundancy Payments 62 words
cc130-1W
13. Unemployed Persons 400 words
23. DEFENCE
c131W
1. Anzio Camp, Episkopi (Refugees) 48 words
cc131-2W
2. USSR (Strategic Nuclear Weapons) 202 words
c132W
3. USSR (Backfire Bombers) 148 words
c132W
4. Eastern Mediterranean 63 words
cc132-3W
5. Royal Air Force (14 Maintenance Unit) 79 words
c133W
6. Missiles (Siting) 84 words
c133W
7. Airfields (Protection) 84 words
c133W
8. Gibraltar Military Base (Maintenance Costs) 47 words
cc133-4W
9. Hydrographic Survey Vessels 61 words
c134W
10. Blast-Proof Shelters (Aircraft) 118 words
24. SCOTLAND
c134W
1. Redundancies (Dundee) 45 words
cc134-5W
2. Teachers (Salaries) 119 words
c135W
3. Dyslexia 180 words
c135W
4. Housing Management Policies 46 words
cc135-6W
5. School Leavers 114 words
c136W
6. Council Houses (Sale) 177 words
cc136-7W
7. Employment (Dundee) 209 words
c137W
8. Disabled Persons 61 words
cc137-8W
9. Otters 202 words
c138W
10. Parliamentary Boundary Commission 107 words
25. INDUSTRY
cc138-9W
1. Investment 158 words
c139W
2. Microelectronics 73 words
c139W
3. Regional Development Grant 94 words
c139W
4. Shipbuilding 52 words
26. TRANSPORT
cc139-41W
1. Trunk Road Schemes 448 words
c141W
2. Motor Cycle Accidents 115 words
c141W
3. Severn Bridge 59 words
cc141-2W
4. Driving Tests 124 words
c142W
5. Channel Tunnel 108 words
c142W
6. Noise Insulation (Cheadle Heath) 75 words
cc142-3W
7. M6 88 words
27. ENVIRONMENT
c143W
1. Local Authority (Capital Grant Payments) 122 words
c143W
2. Oil Storage (Security) 87 words
cc143-4W
3. Planning Approvals and Completion Orders 112 words
c144W
4. Local Authorities (Spending) 57 words
c144W
5. Non-Metropolitan Areas 66 words
c144W
6. Rate Support Grant 30 words
cc144-5W
7. Employment Transfer Scheme 132 words
c145W
8. Palace of Westminster (Central Heating) 33 words
c145W
9. Horses 98 words
cc145-6W
10. Housing Revenue Accounts 71 words
c146W
11. Hypermarkets 80 words
c146W
12. Plutonium 65 words
cc146-7W
13. Housing Programme 197 words
28. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
c147W
1. Inshore Fisheries 172 words
cc147-8W
2. Common Fisheries Policy 65 words
c148W
3. Fisheries (Vessel Licensing) 137 words
c148W
4. Zander 150 words
29. NORTHERN IRELAND
c149W
1. Bus Shelters 62 words
c149W
2. Departmental Staff (Powers of Entry) 171 words
30. WALES
cc149-50W
1. Hospital Locums 77 words
c150W
2. Health Service 39 words
c150W
3. National Health Service 105 words
c150W
4. Hospital Service (Staff Ratios) 55 words
cc150-1W
5. Teachers 137 words
c151W
6. Rural Schools (Closures) 196 words
c151W
7. School Meals 57 words
cc151-2W
8. Disabled Persons 79 words
c152W
9. Area Health Authorities 188 words
cc152-4W
10. Industry Act 1972 655 words
c154W
11. Social Surveys 59 words
cc154-5W
12. Fuel Supplies (Rural Areas) 80 words
c155W
13. Parliamentary Boundaries 94 words
31. SOCIAL SERVICES
c155W
1. Cervical Screening 125 words
cc155-6W
2. Family Doctor Deputising Service (Ashfield) 81 words
c156W
3. New Dwellings 108 words
c156W
4. Social Benefits (EEC Residents) 58 words
cc156-7W
5. Dental Care Services (Central Nottinghamshire) 98 words
c157W
6. Health Unions (Pay Award) 131 words
c157W
7. Powdered Milk 57 words
cc157-8W
8. Benefits (Uprating) 266 words
cc158-60W
9. Family Allowance (International Comparisons) 648 words
cc160-1W
10. Hospital Treatment (Pension Reductions) 129 words
cc161-3W
11. Disabled Persons 532 words
c163W
12. Voluntary Organisations 91 words
c163W
13. Retirement Pension 158 words
cc163-4W
14. Model 70 Trike 129 words
c164W
15. Community Psychiatric Nursing 42 words
c164W
16. Breast Cancer (Screening) 106 words
cc164-5W
17. Family Practitioner Committees (Investigations) 41 words
c165W
18. Northern Region Health Authority 86 words
c165W
19. Common Waiting Lists 57 words
c165W
20. Regional Health Authority Works Departments 52 words
cc165-6W
21. National Health Service (Parliamentary Commissioner) 79 words
c166W
22. Central Nursing Council 162 words
c166W
23. Consultants (Wales) 61 words
cc166-8W
24. Supplementary Benefits Commission (Report) 270 words

Lords Sitting of 6 November 1979 Series 5 Vol. 402

c695
1. Preamble 23 words
c695
2. INSULATION IN FACTORIES 222 words
cc696-7
3. LITTER PREVENTION: BEVERAGE CONTAINERS 493 words
cc697-8
4. MULTI-FIBRE ARRANGEMENT QUOTAS 261 words
cc698-700
5. THE ASTIN REPORT: GOVERNMENT ACTION 463 words
cc700-17
6. BAIL ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL 6,718 words
cc717-49
7. MINISTRY OF OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT (DISSOLUTION) ORDER 1979 12,307 words
cc749-85
8. ECC 10th REPORT: PASSPORT UNION 14,155 words
cc785-806
9. BRITISH AIRWAYS' FUTURE STRATEGY 7,858 words
c806
10. CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL 17 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 6 November 1979 Series 5 Vol. 402

cc806-7WA
1. HEATHROW AIRPORT: TEMPORARY ADMISSION AND DETENTION STATISTICS 359 words
cc807-8WA
2. TRUNK ROAD INQUIRIES 141 words
cc808-9WA
3. ROAD SCHEMES AND PETROL PRICE FORECASTS 228 words
c809WA
4. TECHNICAL TRAFFIC ISSUES: INDEPENDENT EXAMINATION 150 words
cc809-10WA
5. THE GRANGE, NORTHINGTON 68 words
c810WA
6. SOFT TISSUE LESIONS: TREATMENT 140 words