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Commons Sitting of 2 December 1980 Series 5 Vol. 995

c109
1. Preamble 56 words
2. PRIVATE BUSINESS
c109
1. FELIXSTOWE DOCK AND RAILWAY (NO. 2) BILL 9 words
2. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) (NO. 2) BILL
c109
3. BRITISH RAILWAYS BILL 11 words
c109
4. GREATER MANCHESTER BILL [Lords] 13 words
c109
3. TRADE 24 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. Defence
cc109-11
1. Cruise and Trident Missiles 903 words
cc111-2
2. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 764 words
cc112-3
3. Reserve Forces 197 words
c113
4. Air-to-Air Refuelling Capacity 331 words
cc113-5
5. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 829 words
cc115-8
6. Cruise Missiles 1,506 words
cc118-9
7. Defence Expenditure 580 words
cc119-21
8. Arms Expenditure 949 words
cc121-4
2. Prime Minister (Engagements) 1,732 words
cc124-5
3. European Community (Heads of Government Meeting) 224 words
cc125-6
4. Southall 403 words
cc127-8
5. Service Women (Carriage of Arms) 835 words
cc128-34
6. Falkland Islands 3,096 words
c134
7. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C. 22 words
c134
8. NORTHERN IRELAND AFFAIRS 34 words
9. Orders of the Day
cc135-212
1. British Telecommunications Bill 47,005 words, 1 division
cc212-7
2. BRITISH TELECOMMUNCATIONS [MONEY] 609 words
cc218-33
3. National Health Service (Drugs and Appliances Charges) 10,738 words, 1 division
c233
4. WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE 70 words
cc233-44
10. Small Businesses (Liverpool) 4,080 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 2 December 1980 Series 5 Vol. 995

1. Overseas Development
c39W
1. Disaster and Emergency Relief 217 words
2. Trade
cc39-40W
1. Manufactures 587 words
cc40-1W
2. Indonesian Textile Imports 78 words
c41W
3. Exports 104 words
c41W
4. Manufactured Goods 72 words
c41W
5. Car Radios (Imports) 190 words
cc41-2W
6. Aviation Security Levy 165 words
c42W
7. Glue Sniffing 183 words
cc42-3W
8. Maritime Safety Conference 327 words
3. National Finance
c43W
1. Wages and Import Prices 185 words
cc43-4W
2. Imports and Exports 318 words
c44W
3. Income Tax 73 words
cc44-5W
4. Unemployment Costs 293 words
c45W
5. European Community Budget (United Kingdom Contribution) 156 words
c45W
6. Oil Products (Excise Duty) 46 words
c45W
7. Fuel Oil (Excise Duty) 132 words
cc45-6W
8. European Community (Energy Pricing) 74 words
c46W
9. Husband and Wife Taxation 138 words
c46W
10. Government Expenditure 238 words
cc46-7W
11. Depreciation Allowances 144 words
4. Home Department
cc47-8W
1. Immigrants 982 words
cc48-9W
2. Deportation 421 words
c49W
3. Remand Costs 59 words
c49W
4. Prisoners (Interviews) 30 words
cc49-50W
5. Prisoners (Visits by Relatives) 48 words
c50W
6. West Yorkshire Police (Secondments) 45 words
c50W
7. Special Patrol Group 67 words
c50W
8. Illegal Immigrants 159 words
c50W
9. Equal Opportunities Commission 49 words
cc50-1W
10. Squatting 123 words
c51W
11. Metal Detecting Devices 135 words
cc51-3W
12. Prime Minister (Engagements) 743 words
c53W
13. Scotland 34 words
c53W
14. Gulf War 106 words
c53W
15. Animal Welfare 57 words
cc53-4W
16. Longside, East Aberdeenshire 39 words
c54W
17. Local Authority Manpower 29 words
c54W
18. TUC and CBI 44 words
c54W
19. Hamilton Teachers Training College 31 words
c54W
20. Wales 31 words
c54W
21. President-elect Reagan 40 words
5. Energy
c54W
1. Redundant Opencast Coal Operatives 35 words
cc54-5W
2. Mineworkers (Redundancy Payments) 106 words
c55W
3. Oil Products (Excise Duty) 117 words
6. Employment
cc55-7W
1. Unemployment Statistics 988 words
cc57-8W
2. Manpower Services Commission and Jobcentres 119 words
cc58-67W
3. Wages Councils 3,761 words
c67W
4. West Yorkshire 242 words
cc67-9W
5. Skillcentres (Yorkshire) 689 words
c69W
6. Work Experience Scheme 170 words
cc69-70W
7. Early Retirement 107 words
c70W
8. Textile Industry (Redundancies) 93 words
c70W
9. Temporary Short-Time Working (Grants) 129 words
c70W
10. Family Incomes 84 words
cc70-1W
11. Stalybridge, Hyde and Glossop 479 words
cc71-2W
12. Departmental Reports 214 words
c72W
13. Christmas Items (Prices) 141 words
cc72-3W
14. Arts and Libraries (Expenditure) 213 words
cc73-4W
15. Parliamentary Pensions and Salaries 612 words
c74W
16. National Heritage Memorial Fund 72 words
7. Civil Service
c74W
1. Toilet Paper 127 words
8. Defence
c74W
1. Royal Ordnance Factories 96 words
cc74-5W
2. Diego Garcia 62 words
c75W
3. Gibraltar 66 words
c75W
4. Training Flights (Fuel Costs) 37 words
c75W
5. Reserve Forces (Mobility) 93 words
c75W
6. Territorial Army 70 words
c75W
7. Conventional Weapons (Purchasing Policy) 45 words
cc75-6W
8. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 57 words
c76W
9. Cruise Missiles 93 words
c76W
10. Defence Procurement 90 words
c76W
11. Press and Public Relations 73 words
c76W
12. Chemical Weapons 60 words
cc76-7W
13. Departmental Staff (Scotland) 53 words
cc77-8W
14. Defence Expenditure 275 words
c78W
15. Trident Missiles 22 words
c78W
16. Long-range Defence Capability 102 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 2 December 1980 Series 5 Vol. 995

1. Overseas Development
c73W
1. Disaster and Emergency Relief 216 words
2. Trade
cc73-4W
1. Manufactures 616 words
cc74-5W
2. Indonesian Textile Imports 79 words
c75W
3. Exports 104 words
c75W
4. Maufactured Goods 72 words
c75W
5. Car Radios (Imports) 189 words
cc75-6W
6. Aviation Security Levy 165 words
c76W
7. Glue Sniffing 183 words
cc76-7W
8. Maritime Safety Conference 325 words
3. National Finance
c77W
1. Wages and Import Prices 179 words
cc77-8W
2. Imports and Exports 334 words
c78W
3. Income Tax 73 words
c78W
4. Unemployment Costs 290 words
4. European Community Budget
c79W
1. (United Kingdom Contribution) 156 words
c79W
2. Oil Products (Excise Duty) 46 words
c79W
3. Fuel Oil (Excise Duty) 132 words
c79W
4. European Community (Energy Pricing) 74 words
cc79-80W
5. Husband and Wife Taxation 138 words
c80W
6. Government Expenditure 245 words
c80W
7. Depreciation Allowances 142 words
5. Home Department
cc81-2W
1. Immigrants 1,232 words
cc82-3W
2. Deportation 444 words
c83W
3. Remand Costs 59 words
c83W
4. Prisoners (Interviews) 30 words
cc83-4W
5. Prisoners (Visits by Relatives) 48 words
c84W
6. West Yorkshire Police (Secondments) 45 words
c84W
7. Special Patrol Group 67 words
c84W
8. Illegal Immigrants 159 words
c84W
9. Equal Opportunities Commission 49 words
cc84-5W
10. Squatting 126 words
c85W
11. Metal Detecting Devices 135 words
cc85-7W
12. Prime Minister (Engagements) 743 words
c87W
13. Scotland 35 words
c87W
14. Gulf War 106 words
c87W
15. Animal Welfare 57 words
cc87-8W
16. Longside, East Aberdeenshire 39 words
c88W
17. Local Authority Manpower 29 words
c88W
18. TUC and CBI 44 words
c88W
19. Hamilton Teachers Training College 31 words
c88W
20. Wales 31 words
c88W
21. President-elect Reagan 41 words
6. Energy
c88W
1. Redundant Opencast Coal Operatives 35 words
cc88-9W
2. Mineworkers (Redundancy Payments) 108 words
c89W
3. Oil Products (Excise Duty) 117 words
7. Employment
cc89-91W
1. Unemployment Statistics 995 words
cc91-2W
2. Manpower Services Commission and Jobcentres 245 words
cc92-101W
3. Wages Councils 4,017 words
c101W
4. West Yorkshire 244 words
cc101-3W
5. Skillcentres (Yorkshire) 710 words
c103W
6. Work Experience Scheme 170 words
c103W
7. Early Retirement 107 words
cc103-4W
8. Textile Industry (Redundancies) 93 words
c104W
9. Temporary Short-Time Working (Grants) 129 words
c104W
10. Family Incomes 84 words
cc104-5W
11. Stalybridge, Hyde and Glossop 547 words
cc105-6W
12. Departmental Reports 160 words
c106W
13. Christmas Items (Prices) 140 words
cc106-7W
14. Arts and Libraries (Expenditure) 211 words
cc107-8W
15. Parliamentary Pensions and Salaries 612 words
c108W
16. National Heritage Memorial Fund 72 words
8. Civil Service
c108W
1. Toilet Paper 127 words
9. Defence
cc108-9W
1. Royal Ordnance Factories 98 words
c109W
2. Diego Garcia 62 words
c109W
3. Gibraltar 66 words
c109W
4. Training Flights (Fuel Costs) 37 words
c109W
5. Reserve Forces (Mobility) 93 words
c109W
6. Territorial Army 71 words
cc109-10W
7. Conventional Weapons (Purchasing Policy) 45 words
c110W
8. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 57 words
c110W
9. Cruise Missiles 93 words
c110W
10. Defence Procurement 90 words
c110W
11. Press and Public Relations 73 words
c110W
12. Chemical Weapons 60 words
cc110-1W
13. Departmental Staff (Scotland) 53 words
c111W
14. Defence Expenditure 275 words
c111W
15. Trident Missiles 22 words
cc111-2W
16. Long-range Defence Capability 102 words
c112W
17. Royal Dockyards 82 words
c112W
18. Bombs and Ammunition (Destruction) 56 words
c112W
19. Armed Services (Recruitment) 122 words
cc112-3W
20. Procurement Equipment 117 words
c113W
21. Armed Forces (Pay) 78 words
c113W
22. Cruise Missile (Departmental Brochure) 30 words
c113W
23. Arms Sales (Jordon) 61 words
c113W
24. American Bases and Establishments 121 words
c113W
25. Pay (Cash Limits) 53 words
cc113-4W
26. Night Observation Aids (Procurement Policy) 50 words
10. Scotland
c114W
1. Dundee Colleges 76 words
c114W
2. Fireman (Industrial Dispute) 93 words
c114W
3. Young Chronic Sick 89 words
c114W
4. Labour Force 78 words
cc114-5W
5. Fishing Industry 206 words
c115W
6. Rate Support Grant 112 words
c115W
7. Student Unions 111 words
cc115-6W
8. Assisted Places Scheme 355 words
c116W
9. Special Development Areas 112 words
cc116-7W
10. Grant-aided and Independent Schools (Fees) 245 words
11. Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
c117W
1. Falkland Islands 128 words
cc117-8W
2. Hong Kong 96 words
c118W
3. Antigua 91 words
c118W
4. Belize 107 words
12. Wales
c118W
1. Military Training Grounds (Access) 93 words
c118W
2. Departmental Reports 78 words
cc118-9W
3. Fishing Industry 88 words
c119W
4. Pig Industry 98 words
c119W
5. Council House Sales 70 words
c119W
6. Port Talbot 200 words
cc119-20W
7. Migration 189 words
c120W
8. Road Building 135 words
c120W
9. Road Programme 59 words
13. Social Services
cc120-1W
1. Central Supplies Council 83 words
c121W
2. Drugs 295 words
c121W
3. Benefits and Pensions 119 words
cc121-2W
4. Locum Tenens 159 words
c122W
5. Special Hospital Patients (North-East Thames) 147 words
c122W
6. Working Group on Prescribing 91 words
c122W
7. Children Act 1975 102 words
cc122-4W
8. Henley-in-Arden Work Camp, Warwickshire 851 words
cc124-5W
9. Pension Uprating 221 words
c125W
10. Medication Costs (Unemployment) 79 words
cc125-6W
11. Tuberculosis 722 words
c126W
12. Mental Health Act 1959 37 words
cc126-7W
13. Health Visitors 193 words
c127W
14. One-Parent Families 244 words
cc127-8W
15. High Blood Pressure (Screening) 189 words
c128W
16. Widows (Pension) 73 words
c128W
17. District Health Authorities (Boundaries) 171 words
cc128-9W
18. Income During Initial Sickness 131 words
14. Education and Science
c129W
1. School Meals 55 words
c129W
2. European Communities Act (Legislation) 104 words
cc129-30W
3. School Milk 173 words
c130W
4. Burnham Committee 90 words
c130W
5. Provision for Youth 57 words
c130W
6. Education Act 1980 (Implementation) 56 words
c130W
7. 16 to 19-year-olds 95 words
c130W
8. Further Education 69 words
cc130-1W
9. Student Grants 442 words
15. Environment
cc131-2W
1. Building Societies (Joint Advisory Committee) 137 words
c132W
2. University Students 133 words
cc132-3W
3. Direct Labour Building 165 words
c133W
4. Building Control Act 1966 317 words
cc133-4W
5. Council House Sales 306 words
c134W
6. House of Commons (Furniture) 53 words
cc134-5W
7. Radiation Dangers 120 words
c135W
8. Fees and Commission 125 words
16. Transport
c135W
1. British Transport Advertising 37 words
c135W
2. Railway Services (Development Areas) 67 words
c135W
3. Transport Supplementary Grant 83 words
17. Northern Ireland
c136W
1. Illegal Organisations (Membership) 137 words
c136W
2. Upper Galwally (Police Post) 169 words
c136W
3. Wrongful Imprisonment (Ex Gratia Payments) 103 words
cc136-7W
4. Maze Prison (H Block) 83 words
c137W
5. Unfit Homes (Rehousing) 129 words
18. Defence
c137W
1. Cruise Missiles 42 words
c137W
2. Nuclear Shelters 135 words
cc137-8W
3. Civil Airliners (Conversions) 74 words
c138W
4. Defence Expenditure 205 words
c138W
5. Sting Ray 88 words
c138W
6. Army Personnel (Resignations and Retirements) 63 words
cc138-9W
7. Army Recruitment 113 words
c139W
8. Gazelle Observation Aid 34 words
c139W
9. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Budget 65 words
19. Industry
cc139-40W
1. European Community (United Kingdom Expenditure) 335 words
c140W
2. Redundant Iron and Steel Workers (Corby) 100 words
c140W
3. Shipbuilding (Intervention Fund Assistance) 64 words
cc140-1W
4. Nationalised Industries (Financing) 355 words
cc141-2W
5. British Shipbuilders 495 words
c142W
6. Ormskirk and Skelmersdale 93 words
c142W
7. Companies (Return on Capital) 75 words
cc142-4W
8. Development and Special Development Areas 523 words

Lords Sitting of 2 December 1980 Series 5 Vol. 415

c323
1. Preamble 22 words
cc323-4
2. Aid to Developing Countries 749 words
cc324-6
3. Hong Kong: Small Business Evictions 666 words
cc326-7
4. Electricity Charges: Fuel Cost Estimates 692 words
c327
5. Business 68 words
cc327-8
6. Merchant Shipping Bill [H.L.] 58 words
c328
7. Procedure of the House 128 words
cc328-9
8. House of Lords Offices 210 words
cc329-42
9. Anguilla Bill [H.L.] 6,837 words
cc342-6
10. The Falkland Islands 2,386 words
cc346-53
11. Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 3,734 words
c353
12. Building Societies and Tax (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 1980 131 words
cc353-4
13. Leasehold (Enlargement and Extension) Amendment (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 503 words
cc354-60
14. Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 3,068 words
cc360-82
15. Wisley Airport 12,478 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 2 December 1980 Series 5 Vol. 415

c382WA
1. ASSISTANCE TO IMMIGRANTS: DISPLAY OF TELEPHONE NUMBERS AT AIRPORTS 93 words
cc382-3WA
2. APPLICANTS FOR CITIZENSHIP NATURALISATION: SPENT CONVICTIONS 130 words
c383WA
3. APPLICANTS FOR NATURALISATION: BACKGROUND INQUIRIES 276 words
c383WA
4. MARINE RESERVES TREATY 108 words
cc383-4WA
5. CARE FOR RELATIVES: RESTRICTIONS 206 words
c384WA
6. CYPRUS: UN SPONSORED DISCUSSIONS 77 words
c384WA
7. THE ISRAEL-LEBANON MIXED ARMISTICE COMMISSION 86 words
cc384-5WA
8. BELIZE: NEGOTIATIONS WITH GUATEMALA 93 words
c385WA
9. RICH AND POOR STATES: SUMMIT CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC RELATIONS 91 words
c385WA
10. THE UN DISASTER RELIEF ORGANISATION 136 words
cc385-6WA
11. TYRE: PROTECTION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES 84 words
c386WA
12. INDIA: SPECIAL VOUCHER APPLICATIONS 64 words
c386WA
13. "MANCHEPLAN" 154 words
cc386-7WA
14. HYDE PARK: GATES AND TRAFFIC FLOW 128 words
c387WA
15. DIVERS: LIABILITY RULES FOR DEATH OR INJURY 106 words
cc387-8WA
16. DEER WARNING SIGNS 149 words
c388WA
17. EDINBURGH BYPASS ROAD 101 words