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Commons Sitting of 10 June 1980 Series 5 Vol. 986

c275
1. Preamble 8 words
c275
2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
1. BANGOR MARKET BILL [Lords]
c275
2. YORKSHIRE WOOLLEN DISTRICT TRANSPORT BILL 13 words
c275
3. FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE (REIGATE) BILL [Lords] 11 words
4. SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND AND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY BILL (By Order)
c275
1. STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY BILL (By Order) 13 words
cc275-6
5. SOUTH YORKSHIRE BILL [Lords] (By Order) 62 words
c276
6. PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDER (BRIGHTON WEST PIER) BILL 10 words
c276
7. PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDER (GREAT YARMOUTH WELLINGTON PIER) BILL 235 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
c277
1. School Leavers 282 words
cc277-9
2. Nursery Education 603 words
cc279-81
3. Inner London Education Authority 463 words
cc281-2
4. School Meals 501 words
cc282-4
5. Truancy 497 words
cc284-5
6. Strathclyde University 601 words
cc285-7
7. Teachers (Pay and Conditions of Service) 535 words
cc287-8
8. Assisted Places Scheme 280 words
cc288-9
9. University Financing 529 words
cc289-92
10. School Meals 837 words
cc292-4
11. Books and Equipment 806 words
cc294-6
2. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 612 words
cc296-7
3. GRUNTY FEN 188 words
c297
4. WALES 258 words
cc297-301
5. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 1,298 words
c301
6. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS (DEBATES) 87 words
cc302-13
5. TENERIFE AIR CRASH 4,379 words
cc314-5
6. AFGHANISTAN 381 words
cc315-6
7. FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY 414 words
c316
8. NORTHERN IRELAND 211 words
9. ORDERS OF THE DAY
cc317-445
1. TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL 7 words
1. New Clause 1
cc317-21
1. REPEAL OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO INCREASE OF RECOVERABLE RENT ON ACCOUNT OF IMPROVEMENTS 1,583 words
2. New Clause 2
cc321-3
1. MODIFICATIONS OF SECTION 5A OF THE 1971 ACT 885 words
3. New Clause 3
cc323-5
1. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 21(2)(b) OF THE 1971 ACT 489 words
4. New Clause 4
c325
1. CONSENT OF TENANT TO CARRYING OUT OF WORKS 256 words
5. New Clause 5
c326
1. AMENDMENT OF DEFINITION OF ' PRESCRIBED ' IN HOUSING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1974 104 words
6. New Clause 6
cc326-8
1. CANCELLATION OF ENTRIES IN REGISTER RELATING TO PART VII CONTRACTS AT INSTANCE OF LANDLORD 724 words
7. New Clause 7
cc328-30
1. AMENDMENT CF SECTIONS 17 AND 145 OF HOUSING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1966 711 words
8. New Clause 8
c330
1. DUTY OF LOCAL AUTHORITY TO HAVE REGARD TO AMENITIES OF LOCALITY ETC. 97 words
9. New Clause 9
c330
1. BOARD EXCLUDED IN CALCULATING RENT ALLOWANCES 126 words
10. New Clause 10
c331
1. RESIDENT LANDLORDS 167 words
11. New Clause 11
cc331-2
1. INCREASES IN PENALTIES FOR OFFENCES RELATING TO HOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION 297 words
12. New Clause 12
cc332-5
1. AMENDMENT OF ENACTMENTS RELATING TO HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS 894 words
13. New Clause 13
cc335-9
1. EFFECT OF REGISTRATION OF RENT 1,620 words
14. New Clause 14
cc339-41
1. EXTENSION OF RENT ALLOWANCES 916 words
15. New Clause 15
c341
1. EXTENSION OF RENT ALLOWANCE SCHEME 105 words
16. New Clause 28
c342
1. SPECIAL PROVISION FOR HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS 329 words
17. New Clause 16
cc343-79
1. DISPOSAL OF DWELLING-HOUSES IN RURAL AREAS 14,652 words, 1 division
18. New Clause 17
cc379-84
1. REPEAL OF PROVISIONS OF RENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 1971 1,485 words
19. New Clause 19
cc384-407
1. AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1(6) OF THE HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) ACT 1978. 9,105 words, 1 division
20. New Clause 20
cc407-45
1. RESTRICTION ON RIGHT TO BUY IN DISTRICTS WITH INSUFFICIENT HOUSING STARTS 13,509 words
c445
10. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 59 words
cc446-87
11. TENANTS' RIGHTS ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL 6,666 words, 1 division
1. New Clause 22
cc461-9
1. REPEAL OF SECTION 10A(3) OF HOUSING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1974 2,512 words
2. New Clause 25
cc469-87
1. INDEMNITY OF TENANTS 7,014 words, 1 division
cc487-518
12. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS 11,360 words
cc518-28
13. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE STAFF (BATH) 3,712 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 10 June 1980 Series 5 Vol. 986

1. TRADE
c79W
1. Multi-fibre Arrangement 111 words
cc79-80W
2. Dumping and Undercutting 301 words
c80W
3. Air Traffic Licensing Arrangements (Hong Kong—London) 120 words
cc80-1W
4. South Africa (African Workers) 168 words
c81W
5. Tenerife Air Crash 51 words
2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
cc81-2W
1. Sri Lanka 157 words
3. NATIONAL FINANCE
c82W
1. Company Directors (Cars) 124 words
cc82-3W
2. National Debt 483 words
c83W
3. European Community (Financial Control) 53 words
cc83-4W
4. Tax Evasion 128 words
c84W
5. Public Sector Borrowing Requirements 86 words
cc84-8W
6. European Community Budget 1,150 words
c88W
7. Objects in Lieu of Tax 161 words
c88W
8. Redistribution of Incomes 49 words
4. CIVIL SERVICE
cc88-9W
1. Select Committees (Evidence) 150 words
c89W
2. Day of Action 75 words
c89W
3. Inland Revenue Computers 89 words
cc89-92W
4. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 520 words
c92W
5. CRUDIE 30 words
c92W
6. NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND 27 words
c92W
7. MINISTERIAL BROADCAST 26 words
c92W
8. ARAB-ISRAELI RELATIONS 92 words
c92W
9. BEAN 26 words
cc92-3W
10. PAY POLICY 50 words
c93W
11. SCHOOL LEAVERS (DEPARTMENTAL CO-ORDINATION) 86 words
c93W
12. PUBLIC SECTOR (PAY) 34 words
cc93-4W
5. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS) 48 words
c94W
6. NORTHAMPTON 23 words
c94W
7. RURAL AREAS (DEPARTMENTAL CO-ORDINATION) 71 words
c94W
8. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY BUDGET (UNITED KINGDOM CONTRIBUTION) 86 words
cc94-5W
9. SERVICE PAY 122 words
c95W
10. NUCLEAR ALERT (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) 254 words
cc95-6W
11. Police (Resignations) 97 words
12. HOME DEPARTMENT
c96W
1. Open Prisons (Absconders) 169 words
cc96-7W
2. Brighton (Arrests) 111 words
c97W
3. Police Advisory Board for England and Wales 81 words
cc97-8W
4. Voluntary Services Unit (Grants) 498 words
cc98-9W
5. Commission for Racial Equality 95 words
c99W
6. Electoral Boundaries 71 words
c99W
7. Departmental Correspondence 89 words
cc99-100W
8. Summer Time 170 words
c100W
9. Alcohol-related offences 112 words
c100W
10. European Parliament (Members' Salaries and Expenses) 82 words
cc100-1W
11. Medway Borough Council (Police Investigation) 77 words
13. HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT
c101W
1. Members' Paintings (Exhibition) 64 words
14. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
c101W
1. United Kingdom Budget Contribution 91 words
15. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
cc101-2W
1. BBC (External Services) 162 words
c102W
2. Inspector John MacLennan 105 words
cc102-3W
3. Hong Kong 169 words
c103W
4. Chile 78 words
c103W
5. European Monetary System 148 words
cc103-4W
6. Sports Council for Wales 122 words
16. WALES
c104W
1. One-teacher Schools 30 words
c104W
2. National Parks 59 words
c104W
3. Primary Schools 59 words
cc104-5W
4. Berwyn Range 102 words
c105W
5. Welsh Language 71 words
c105W
6. Mentally Handicapped Persons 72 words
cc105-6W
7. Basic Slag and Lime 92 words
c106W
8. Green Pound 106 words
c106W
9. Community Health Councils 86 words
c106W
10. Leasehold Reform 24 words
c106W
11. Roads (White Paper) 37 words
17. EDUCATION AND SCDZNCE
c107W
1. Schools Council (Curriculum) 90 words
c107W
2. Burnham Committee 81 words
c107W
3. Overseas Students 75 words
cc107-8W
4. Students (Non-advanced Further Education) 86 words
c108W
5. Redundant Steel Workers 104 words
c108W
6. Maintained Secondary School Places 91 words
cc108-9W
7. Village Primary Schools 59 words
c109W
8. Teachers (Pay) 224 words
cc109-10W
9. Young Children (Teaching of Reading) 81 words
c110W
10. School Milk 160 words
c110W
11. Teachers (Assessment of Performance) 65 words
cc110-1W
12. School Equipment and Buildings 67 words
c111W
13. Secondary School (Burgess Hill) 59 words
c111W
14. Maintained Grammar Schools 64 words
c111W
15. Flowers Report 54 words
c111W
16. Specialist Teachers (Salaries) 39 words
cc111-2W
17. Comprehensive Schools (Briault Report) 71 words
c112W
18. Mixed Ability Teaching 90 words
c112W
19. Biotechnology 87 words
cc112-3W
20. School Leavers 124 words
c113W
21. Measurement Teaching 53 words
c113W
22. Schools (Indoor Toilet Facilities) 95 words
c113W
23. Polytechnics (Finance) 56 words
cc113-4W
24. Education Act 1980 59 words
c114W
25. History Teachers 146 words
c114W
26. Teachers (Conditions of Service) 63 words
cc114-5W
27. Warnock Report 52 words
c115W
28. Mathematics Teaching 126 words
cc115-6W
29. Pupil-teacher Ratios 220 words
c116W
30. Day of Action 210 words
cc116-7W
31. School Leaving Dates 107 words
c117W
32. Education Budget 89 words
c117W
33. Adult Education 150 words
cc117-8W
34. Schools (Sale to Church of England) 92 words
c118W
35. Shop Stewards (Training Grant) 112 words
c118W
36. Educational Disadvantage 54 words
cc118-9W
37. Truancy 58 words
18. INDUSTRY
c119W
1. Foreign Companies (Unfair Practices) 164 words
c119W
2. Regional Development Grants 69 words
cc119-20W
3. Small Firms (European Investment Bank Loan Facilities) 148 words
c120W
4. Redundancy Payments 50 words
cc120-2W
5. National Enterprise Board 628 words
cc122-3W
6. British Tanners Limited 118 words
19. SCOTLAND
cc123-4W
1. Colleges of Education (Use of Facilities) 286 words
c124W
2. Community Health Councils 111 words
20. TRANSPORT
cc124-5W
1. Containers and Pallets 121 words
c125W
2. Foster Committee 205 words
c125W
3. Driving Tests 105 words
cc125-6W
4. Roads Programme Policy 89 words
c126W
5. M1 (Heavy Lorries) 172 words
cc126-7W
6. Cyclists 148 words
21. EMPLOYMENT
cc127-8W
1. Corby 155 words
c128W
2. Family Incomes 110 words
c128W
3. Labour Attachés 42 words
c128W
4. Manpower Services Commission 83 words
cc128-9W
5. Disabled Persons 289 words
cc129-31W
6. Heavy Weights (Lifting) 578 words
c131W
7. Health and Safety 61 words
cc131-2W
8. Chief Inspector of Factories (Reports) 92 words
c132W
9. Health and Safety Executive 101 words
cc132-3W
10. Factory Inspectorate 316 words
c133W
11. European Community (Labour and Social Affairs Council) 87 words
cc133-4W
12. National Dock Labour Board 339 words
cc134-5W
13. Pay Increases 129 words
c135W
14. Mr. B. Fox 247 words
22. NORTHERN IRELAND
cc135-6W
1. Housing Associations 249 words
cc136-7W
2. Community Health Councils 142 words
23. SOCIAL SERVICES
cc137-8W
1. Homoeopathic Medicine 314 words
cc138-40W
2. One-parent Families 702 words
cc140-2W
3. Family Incomes 408 words
c142W
4. Ophthalmic Industry 254 words
cc142-3W
5. Family Income Supplement 124 words
c143W
6. Mobility Allowance 113 words
cc143-4W
7. Homoeopathy (Liverpool) 136 words
c144W
8. Diabetes 94 words
c144W
9. Pensions 141 words
cc144-6W
10. Hospital Accommodation 698 words
cc146-7W
11. Community Health Councils 92 words
c147W
12. Resource Allocation Working Party 118 words
cc147-8W
13. Expenditure 97 words
c148W
14. Family Incomes 259 words
cc148-9W
15. TUC 126 words
c149W
16. SECRETARY OF STATE 115 words
c149W
17. MINISTER OF STATE FOR HEALTH 46 words
cc149-50W
18. Whittington Hospital 77 words
c150W
19. Mentally Handicapped and Mentally III Persons 108 words
c150W
20. Psychotropic Drugs 156 words
cc150-1W
21. St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner 271 words
24. DEFENCE
cc151-2W
1. Widow's Pension 143 words
cc152-3W
2. Defence Policy 340 words
25. ENVIRONMENT
cc153-4W
1. Children's Play Provision 460 words
cc154-5W
2. Rent and Rate Rebates 58 words
c155W
3. Rate Relief 213 words
cc155-6W
4. Tower Blocks (Newtown and Stratford Points) 137 words
c156W
5. Local Authorities (Planning Applications) 99 words
c156W
6. Local Authorities (Building Regulation Approvals) 115 words
cc156-7W
7. Rate Support Grant 68 words
c157W
8. House Improvement Grants 289 words
cc157-8W
9. Leasehold Property 123 words
c158W
10. Inner City Areas 69 words
cc158-9W
11. Domestic Rates 160 words
c159W
12. Local Authorities (Planning Applications) 157 words
cc159-60W
13. Industrial and Commercial Development 146 words
26. ENERGY
c160W
1. Gas and Electricity Disconnections 224 words
c160W
2. Nuclear Waste 86 words
cc160-1W
3. Ethane 105 words
c161W
4. Miners (Early Retirement Scheme) 123 words
c161W
5. Oil (Export Policy) 74 words
27. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
cc161-2W
1. Primary and Secondary School Classes 94 words
c162W
2. Schools (Ancillary Staff) 58 words
c162W
3. Pupil-teacher Ratios 95 words
cc162-3W
4. Adult Literacy 289 words
c163W
5. Adult Education 55 words
cc163-4W
6. Postgraduate Students (Grants) 392 words
cc164-6W
7. Iranian Students 418 words
28. TRADE
c166W
1. Trade Policy 52 words
29. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
c166W
1. Apple Growing (Suffolk) 38 words
cc166-71W
2. Sheepmeat 1,581 words
cc171-2W
3. Food and Crops (Lead Contamination) 115 words
c172W
4. Fishing Industry 164 words
cc172-3W
5. Vivisection 146 words
cc173-4W
6. Colorado Beetles 115 words

Lords Sitting of 10 June 1980 Series 5 Vol. 410

c159
1. Preamble 22 words
cc159-60
2. COUNCIL HOUSES: TENANTS' RIGHTS TO PURCHASE 274 words
cc160-3
3. IMF TERMS TO THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES 1,297 words
cc164-6
4. BRITISH RAIL: UNUSED TICKET REFUNDS 756 words
c166
5. BUSINESS 59 words
c166
6. WESLEY'S CHAPEL CITY ROAD BILL 12 words
cc166-252
7. EMPLOYMENT BILL 32,317 words, 3 divisions
cc252-61
8. SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL 3,460 words
cc261-422
9. EMPLOYMENT BILL 61,342 words, 2 divisions

Written Answers (Lords) of 10 June 1980 Series 5 Vol. 410

cc422-3WA
1. MEANS-TESTED BENEFITS 673 words
cc423-5WA
2. DATA PROTECTION 226 words
c425WA
3. MOSCOW OLYMPIC GAMES: PUBLIC FINANCIAL SUPPORT 160 words
cc425-7WA
4. THE TENERIFE AIR CRASH 524 words
cc427-8WA
5. PLASTIC BAGS: ASPHYXIA AMONG CHILDREN 322 words