Sitting of 25 June 1980

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Commons Sitting of 25 June 1980 Series 5 Vol. 987

c451
1. Preamble 7 words
c451
2. PRAYERS 5 words
1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
c451
1. ALEXANDRA PARK AND PALACE BILL [Lords] (By Order) 15 words
2. BREASCLETE HARBOUR ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL
c451
3. BRITISH RAILWAYS ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 6 words
3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. TRANSPORT
cc451-3
1. Road Service and Bus Licensing 509 words
c453
2. European Community (Motorway Toll Charges) 253 words
cc453-5
3. A10 (Buntingford Bypass) 447 words
cc455-6
4. Motorway Construction 441 words
cc456-7
5. Tachographs 197 words
cc457-9
6. London Transport (Capital Programmes) 632 words
cc459-60
7. Traffic Offences 444 words
cc460-2
8. Roads Policy 571 words
cc462-4
9. Public Transport Fares 695 words
cc464-5
10. Roads 475 words
cc465-6
11. Sealink 280 words
cc466-7
12. National Ports Council 421 words
cc467-9
13. Cyclists 549 words
cc469-70
14. Vehicle Excise Duty 427 words
cc470-1
15. Vehicle Components 211 words
cc471-3
16. Car-sharing 594 words
c473
17. M63 (Stockport) 157 words
2. CIVIL SERVICE
cc473-5
1. Manpower 535 words
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2. Manpower Costs 582 words
cc476-8
3. Information Storage and Retrieval 429 words
c478
4. Manpower 166 words
c478
4. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 62 words
5. BILLS PRESENTED
c479
1. DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES 49 words
c479
2. SOLICITORS (DISCIPLINE TRIBUNAL) (SCOTLAND) 67 words
cc480-6
6. SUNDAY TRADING LAWS 2,488 words, 1 division
7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
c487
1. SUPPLY 3 words
cc487-621
8. UNEMPLOYMENT 50,191 words, 2 divisions
c621
9. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 25 words
cc622-718
10. TRANSPORT BILL 101 words
1. Clause 2
cc622-45
1. DEFINITION OF "PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLE" 8,603 words
2. New Clause F
cc645-58
1. FARE-PAYING PASSENGERS ON SCHOOL BUSES 4,835 words, 2 divisions
3. Clause 4
cc658-9
1. ROAD SERVICE LICENCES 486 words
4. Clause 14
cc659-62
1. DUTY TO PUBLISH PARTICULARS OF STAGE CARRIAGE SERVICES IN TRIAL AREAS 876 words
5. New Clause A
cc662-3
1. RELAXATION IN TRIAL AREAS OF OPERAT ORS' DUTIES TO CO-OPERATE AND EXCHANGE INFORMATION 366 words
6. Clause 17
cc663-9
1. POWER TO PROHIBIT DRIVING OF UNFIT PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES 2,246 words
7. Clause 22
c669
1. REVOCATION, SUSPENSION, ETC. OF LICENCES 168 words
8. New Clause B
cc669-73
1. DUTY TO EXHIBIT OPERATOR'S DISC 1,469 words
9. Clause 23
cc673-4
1. DUTY TO INFORM TRAFFIC COMMISSIONERS OF RELEVANT CONVICTIONS, ETC. 358 words
10. Clause 24
c674
1. DUTY TO GIVE TRAFFIC COMMISSIONERS INFORMATION ABOUT VEHICLES 53 words
11. Clause 26
cc675-7
1. APPEALS TO THE MINISTER 925 words
12. New Clause C
cc677-8
1. FURTHER APPEALS ON POINTS OF LAW 479 words
13. New Clause D
cc678-9
1. PARTNERSHIPS AND RELATED MATTERS 221 words
14. New Clause E
cc679-82
1. DEATH, BANKRUPTCY, ETC. OF LICENCE- HOLDER 1,028 words
15. New Clause G
cc682-8
1. USE OF CERTAIN VEHICLES BY EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER BODIES 2,384 words, 1 division
16. Clause 30
cc688-9
1. REDUCTION OF MINIMUM AGE FOR DRIVERS OF PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES 139 words
17. Clause 35
cc689-91
1. PROVISIONS AS TO CONSENTS REQUIRED BY SECTION 34 798 words
18. Clause 36
c691
1. INTERPRETATION OF PART I 85 words
19. New Clause J
cc692-4
1. INSURANCE OR SECURITY IN RESPECT OF PRIVATE USE OF VEHICLE TO COVER USE UNDER CAR-SHARING ARRANGE MENTS. 1,141 words
20. New Clause K
cc695-700
1. ROOF SIGNS ON VEHICLES OTHER THAN TAXIS 1,997 words
21. New Clause L
cc700-2
1. ABOLITION OF RAILWAYS AND COASTAL SHIPPING COMMITTEE 457 words
22. Clause 58
c702
1. CITATION, ETC. 71 words
23. Schedule 1
cc702-6
1. PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES: CONDITIONS AFFECTING STATUS OR CLASSIFICA TION. 1,437 words
24. Schedule 3
cc706-7
1. SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS AS TO QUALIFICATIONS FOR PSV OPERA TOR'S LICENCE 412 words
25. Schedule 5
cc707-8
1. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMEND MENTS RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES 276 words
cc708-18
26. PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS (BRADFORD) 3,395 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 25 June 1980 Series 5 Vol. 987

1. HOME DEPARTMENT
c165W
1. Pneumoconiosis and Asbestosis 141 words
2. SOCIAL SERVICES
c165W
1. Flowers Report 91 words
cc165-6W
2. Foetal Neural Tube Detection 117 words
c166W
3. Prescriptions 75 words
c166W
4. Dalkon Shield 93 words
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5. St. Cross Hospital 93 words
c167W
6. Spinal Injuries 417 words
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7. Professions Supplementary to Medicine 81 words
c168W
8. Hospital Stock 171 words
cc168-9W
9. Opencast Mining 59 words
c169W
10. National Health Service 182 words
cc169-70W
11. Hospital Building (Expenditure) 442 words
cc170-1W
12. Benefit Entitlement (Widows) 211 words
cc171-2W
13. Hospital Works Departments (Staff) 290 words
3. TRADE
c172W
1. British Railways (London and South-East Services) 46 words
cc172-3W
2. Wine (Measures) 95 words
c173W
3. Airport Tax 86 words
c173W
4. Trade Descriptions Act 1968 59 words
c173W
5. Construction Industry 77 words
cc173-4W
6. Spectacle Frames (Cost) 191 words
c174W
7. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (REVIEW COMMITTEE REPORT) 137 words
cc174-5W
8. DISABLED PERSONS (EXPENDITURE) 215 words
4. EMPLOYMENT
cc175-6W
1. Wages Councils 146 words
c176W
2. Health and Safety Executive 122 words
cc176-8W
3. Unemployment Statistics 750 words
cc178-9W
4. Work Experience 121 words
c179W
5. Disabled Persons (Wolverhampton) 81 words
cc179-80W
6. School Leavers 277 words
cc180-2W
7. Transport Industry (Unemployment) 510 words
5. TRANSPORT
c183W
1. Public Transport Undertakings (Subsidies) 64 words
c183W
2. Leyland Vehicles 48 words
c183W
3. British Railways (Restrictive Practices) 52 words
cc183-4W
4. Roads Policy 78 words
c184W
5. Mersey Docks and Harbour Company 63 words
c184W
6. Nuclear Material (Transportation) 56 words
c184W
7. Railway Electrification 114 words
cc184-5W
8. British Transport Docks Board 58 words
c185W
9. Two-wheeled Vehicles (Maximum Speeds) 114 words
c185W
10. Manpower 111 words
cc185-6W
11. Pelican Crossings 114 words
c186W
12. Commercial Vehicles 88 words
c186W
13. Commuter Cyclists 85 words
c186W
14. Railway Lines (Fencing) 26 words
cc186-7W
15. Vehicle Registration Numbers 63 words
c187W
16. Trunk Roads 94 words
c187W
17. Railway Network (North-East England) 78 words
c187W
18. Railways (Sheffield—St. Pancras) 55 words
cc187-8W
19. Channel Tunnel 56 words
c188W
20. British Railways (Subsidiaries) 164 words
6. SCOTLAND
cc188-9W
1. "Towards a Citizen's Militia" 97 words
7. HOME DEPARTMENT
c189W
1. Protection of Children Act 1978 111 words
cc189-90W
2. Criminal Statistics 174 words
8. CIVIL SERVICE
c190W
1. Rayner Review 184 words
c190W
2. Civil Service (Scotland) 48 words
cc190-1W
3. Industrial Action (Lost Days) 80 words
c191W
4. Catering Organisation 66 words
c191W
5. Civil Service Practices (Europe) 47 words
c191W
6. Pay Settlement 31 words
cc191-2W
7. Pensions 141 words
c192W
8. Civil Service Department (Efficiency) 48 words
9. WALES
c192W
1. Powys (Designated Areas) 61 words
cc192-3W
2. Clwydian Range (Designation) 159 words
c193W
3. Public Sector Housing 207 words
10. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
cc193-4W
1. East Africa (Famine Relief) 171 words
c194W
2. Tree Planting 133 words
11. DEFENCE
cc194-5W
1. Devonport Dockyard 251 words
c195W
2. Cruise Missiles 123 words
12. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
c196W
1. Textbooks 132 words
c196W
2. Vietnamese Refugees (Students) 87 words
cc196-7W
3. University Teachers (Pay and Conditions of Service) 187 words
c197W
4. Gifted Dyslectic Children 74 words
c197W
5. Teachers (Pay and Conditions of Service) 57 words
cc197-8W
6. Teachers (Nursery Facilities) 45 words
c198W
7. Teachers (Register) 108 words
13. HOUSE OF COMMONS
cc198-9W
1. Refreshment Department 360 words
14. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Iran 105 words
c200W
2. Esperanto 124 words
c200W
3. Saudi Arabia 149 words
cc200-1W
4. Somali Democratic Republic 91 words
15. INDUSTRY
cc201-2W
1. Waste Management Advisory Council 292 words
16. NATIONAL FINANCE
c202W
1. Inland Revenue Staff 88 words
cc202-3W
2. Works of Art (Tax Exemption) 355 words
cc203-4W
3. Personal Taxation 192 words
c204W
4. Business Expenses 92 words
cc204-5W
5. Premium Bonds 89 words
c205W
6. World Aid and Food Plan 582 words
cc205-6W
7. Personal Incomes 78 words
cc206-9W
8. Output and Employment 1,105 words
cc209-10W
9. Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England (Cash Limit) 107 words
cc210-1W
10. Construction Industry 186 words
c211W
11. Disabled Persons 132 words
c211W
12. Tax Evasion 91 words
17. ENVIRONMENT
cc211-2W
1. Local Authorities (Construction Expenditure) 35 words
c212W
2. Local Authority Services 114 words
c212W
3. Rate Support Grant 86 words
cc212-3W
4. Public Sector Housing 221 words
cc213-4W
5. Homes Insulation 290 words
18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
cc214-5W
1. Beef, Lamb, Pigmeat and Poultry 211 words
cc215-6W
2. Powdered Baby Milk 330 words
cc216-7W
3. Butter, Cheese and Sugar 279 words
19. NORTHERN IRELAND
c217W
1. Rents 106 words
cc217-8W
2. Stranmillis, St. Mary's and St. Joseph's Training Colleges 214 words
20. ENVIRONMENT
c218W
1. Local Authority Officers 68 words
cc218-9W
2. Local Authorities (Staff) 109 words
21. SOCIAL SERVICES
c219W
1. Generic Drug Substitution 124 words
cc219-20W
2. Lancaster University Community Action Group 108 words
c220W
3. Patients (Compensation for Mistreatment) 65 words
c220W
4. Supplementary Benefit 124 words
cc220-1W
5. Consultant Posts (West Midlands) 415 words
c221W
6. Benefit Take-up 59 words
cc221-2W
7. National Insurance Fund 29 words
c222W
8. Mobility and Attendance Allowance 142 words
cc222-3W
9. Invalid Care Allowance 413 words
22. TRANSPORT
c223W
1. Railways (State Intervention) 67 words
cc223-4W
2. Benefits 160 words
cc224-5W
3. Concessionary Bus Fares 51 words
c225W
4. Commercial Vehicles 44 words
c225W
5. Crewe-Holyhead Railway Line 49 words
c225W
6. Rail Electrification 74 words
c225W
7. Road Accidents 61 words
cc225-6W
8. Brigg—Grimsby Road 85 words
c226W
9. Regional Highway Traffic Model 101 words
c226W
10. British Transport Docks Board 77 words
cc226-8W
11. Underground Travel (Costs) 629 words
cc228-9W
12. Dunstable (Bypass) 97 words
c229W
13. Motor Cycle Safety 122 words
c229W
14. Vehicle Licensing Offices (Highlands and Islands) 46 words
cc229-30W
15. Heavy Goods Vehicle Testing Stations 85 words
c230W
16. Sheffield-London (High Speed Trains) 63 words
c230W
17. Stansted Airport (London Terminal) 79 words
c230W
18. Motorway Service Areas 86 words
cc230-1W
19. Tyre Safety 57 words
c231W
20. Motorway Maintenance (Traffic Delays) 59 words
c231W
21. A1–M1 Link (Northamptonshire) 36 words
cc231-2W
22. Road Traffic Act 1974 92 words
c232W
23. Overtaking Practice 36 words
c232W
24. Road Building 181 words

Lords Sitting of 25 June 1980 Series 5 Vol. 410

c1591
1. Preamble 22 words
cc1591-4
2. LEGISLATION: PROGRESS ON CONSOLIDATION 1,194 words
cc1594-6
3. UNIVERSITY TEACHERS: PAY PROPOSALS 456 words
c1596
4. DEFACING OF BANKNOTES 251 words
cc1597-600
5. SOUTH AFRICA: THE BRITISH LIONS' TOUR 1,363 words
cc1600-1
6. LONDON TRANSPORT BILL 294 words
c1601
7. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT AND CO-OPERATION BILL [H.L.] 9 words
cc1601-2
8. STATUTE LAW REVISION (NORTHERN IRELAND) BILL [H.L.] 180 words
cc1602-9
9. HIGHWAYS BILL [H.L.] 2,295 words
cc1609-10
10. CORONERS BILL 67 words
cc1610-45
11. FILMS BILL 13,758 words
cc1645-9
12. TREES (REPLANTING AND REPLACEMENT) BILL [H.L.] 1,310 words
cc1649-61
13. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEFINITION OF TREATIES) (SECOND ACP-EEC CONVENTION OF LOMé) ORDER 1980 4,697 words
cc1661-4
14. NATIONAL RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION BOARD (CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT) ORDER 1980 1,025 words
cc1664-73
15. INSURANCE (TRANSFER OF GENERAL BUSINESS) REGULATIONS 1980 3,129 words
cc1673-81
16. GAS BILL 3,005 words
cc1681-713
17. OIL SPILLS IN NORTH SEA: PREVENTION 12,219 words
c1713
18. CRIMINAL APPEAL (NORTHERN IRELAND) BILL [H.L.] 16 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 25 June 1980 Series 5 Vol. 410

cc1713-4WA
1. GREEK STUDENTS: HIGHER EDUCATION FEES 148 words
c1714WA
2. U.K. WETLAND SITES: SUPPORT LEVELS 146 words
cc1714-5WA
3. UK DEPENDENCIES: DESIGNATION OF WETLAND SITES 47 words
c1715WA
4. AEROSOLS AND CHLORO-FLUOROCARBONS 50 words
cc1715-6WA
5. THE COUNTRYSIDE: POWERS OF RESTRICTION OF ACCESS 85 words