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Commons Sitting of 22 May 1980 Series 5 Vol. 985

c689
1. Preamble 12 words
c689
2. PRIVATE BUSINESS 40 words
3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. NATIONAL FINANCE
cc690-1
1. Building Societies 554 words
cc691-3
2. Money Supply 483 words
cc693-4
3. Balance of Payments 490 words
cc694-5
4. Value Added Tax 161 words
cc695-6
5. Interest Rates 520 words
cc696-8
6. North Sea Oil Revenue 471 words
cc698-9
7. Money Supply 494 words
cc699-700
8. Monetary Policy 295 words
cc700-1
9. North Sea Oil Revenue 494 words
cc701-2
10. Property Sales (Stamp Duty) 142 words
cc702-5
11. Inflation 970 words
cc705-6
12. Income Tax 470 words
cc706-7
13. North Sea Oil and Gas Revenues 421 words
cc707-8
14. Taxation System 175 words
cc708-10
2. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 824 words
cc710-1
3. "WHY WORK?" SYNDROME 357 words
cc711-4
4. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 937 words
cc714-5
5. SPECIAL CONTROL UNITS 230 words
cc716-22
4. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 2,157 words
c722
5. IRAN (SANCTIONS) 145 words
c722
6. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 56 words
7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
cc723-95
1. HOUSING BILL 11 words
1. Clause 128
cc723-65
1. AMENDMENTS OF LEASEHOLD REFORM ACT 1967 etc. 16,486 words, 1 division
2. Schedule 19
1. AMENDMENTS OF LEASEHOLD REFORM
c765
2. ACT 1967 (c.88) AND HOUSING ACT 1974 (c.44), SCHEDULE 8 78 words
3. Schedule 21
1. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL
c766
2. AMENDMENTS: TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS 52 words
4. Schedule 22
cc766-7
1. REPEALS 199 words
5. New Schedule
cc767-8
1. ' HOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION: REVISED PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN OFFENCES 711 words
6. New Schedule
cc769-95
1. ' APPLICATIONS FOR REGISTRATION OF RENT 10,360 words, 1 division
cc795-818
2. SOCIAL SECURITY BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME) 8,818 words, 1 division
cc818-902
3. SOCIAL SECURITY BILL 3 words
1. Clause 4
cc818-27
1. MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS 3,195 words
2. Clause 6
cc827-32
1. AMENDMENTS OF SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS ACT 1976 2,048 words
3. Schedule 2
c833
1. AMENDMENTS OF SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS ACT 1976 146 words
cc834-92
4. UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE (SAFETY) 21,659 words
cc893-902
5. DUDLEY SKILLCENTRE 3,659 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 22 May 1980 Series 5 Vol. 985

1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
cc267-8W
1. Herbicide 2,4,5-T 540 words
2. SOCIAL SERVICES
cc268-9W
1. Hospital Policy 280 words
c269W
2. Public Hygiene Standards 117 words
3. ENERGY
c270W
1. Coal Producers 120 words
c270W
2. Offshore Oil Equipment 59 words
cc270-1W
3. Mining (Glyn Tai) 377 words
cc271-2W
4. British National Oil Corporation 92 words
4. EMPLOYMENT
c272W
1. Horse Racing Industry (Training) 148 words
cc272-3W
2. Young Persons (Merseyside) 392 words
cc273-4W
3. Fishing Industry (Decasualisation) 125 words
c274W
4. Employment Rehabilitation Centres 204 words
cc274-5W
5. Factory Inspectors 199 words
5. TRADE
cc275-6W
1. Motor Vehicle Imports 248 words
c276W
2. Southern Water Authority 100 words
c276W
3. Oil Companies 111 words
cc276-7W
4. China 96 words
c277W
5. Tufted Carpets 76 words
c277W
6. Interest Payments 84 words
cc277-8W
7. European Economic Community 84 words
c278W
8. Weldit Yard (Barrow-in-Furness) 94 words
c278W
9. Fairey Holdings Limited 74 words
c278W
10. Eastman Kodak Limited 103 words
cc278-9W
11. IMCO Conventions 86 words
cc279-80W
12. Textiles and Clothing (Imports-Exports) 570 words
cc280-3W
13. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 571 words
c283W
14. MINTLAW 25 words
c283W
15. CONCORDE 28 words
cc283-4W
16. PRIME MINISTER (BELGRADE DISCUSSIONS) 58 words
c284W
17. THE NORTH-WEST 25 words
c284W
18. EDUCATIONAL DISADVANTAGE 27 words
c284W
19. CBI 37 words
c284W
20. NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 43 words
cc284-5W
21. WESTERN POWERS (CO-ORDINATION OF FOREIGN POLICY) 99 words
c285W
22. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING) 68 words
c285W
23. COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY (DEPARTMENTAL INFORMATION) 108 words
cc285-7W
24. PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES (PAY) 644 words
c287W
25. FRANCE—USSR (Meeting) 53 words
6. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY BUDGET
cc287-8W
1. (United Kingdom Contribution) 74 words
7. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
c288W
1. International Development Association 104 words
c288W
2. Aid Programme (Supervisors' Travel Costs) 132 words
8. HOME DEPARTMENT
c289W
1. Penal Establishments (Disturbances) 85 words
c289W
2. Vietnamese Refugees 62 words
cc289-90W
3. Iranian Nationals 215 words
c290W
4. Member's Correspondence 87 words
c290W
5. Voluntary Services Unit 138 words
cc290-2W
6. Electoral Boundaries 274 words
c292W
7. Mentally Disordered Prisoners (Release) 258 words
cc292-3W
8. Mental Patients (Police Custody) 42 words
9. CIVIL SERVICE
c293W
1. Technology Industry 337 words
10. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
c294W
1. Council for National Academic Awards 98 words
c294W
2. Council of Educational Technology 119 words
cc294-6W
3. Certificate of Extended Education 308 words
c296W
4. Teachers (Pay) 109 words
11. INDUSTRY
c296W
1. British Leyland (Car Range) 43 words
cc296-7W
2. National Enterprise Board 136 words
c297W
3. Nationalisation (Compensation) 187 words
cc297-8W
4. Fairey Holdings Limited 144 words
c298W
5. Planning (Dr. D. Green) 38 words
c298W
6. Regional Development Grants 75 words
c298W
7. Batteries (Quality Control) 46 words
cc298-9W
8. British Steel Corporation 178 words
c299W
9. Doxford Marine Engine Works, Sunderland 100 words
12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
c299W
1. Lamb (Deficiency Payments) 84 words
cc299-300W
2. Bread 273 words
cc300-1W
3. Dog Licence Fees 73 words
c301W
4. European Community (Food and Feedstuffs Imports) 609 words
cc301-2W
5. Farm Incomes 80 words
cc302-3W
6. Eggs (Imports) 545 words
13. SCOTLAND
cc303-6W
1. Colleges of Education 899 words
cc306-7W
2. School Leavers (Dundee) 166 words
c307W
3. Health Education 190 words
cc307-8W
4. National Committee for In-service Training of Teachers 159 words
c308W
5. Hospital Beds (Dundee and Tayside) 93 words
cc308-9W
6. Hunterston B Reactor 109 words
c309W
7. Unemployment (Tayside and Dundee) 67 words
cc309-10W
8. Educational Expenditure 358 words
c310W
9. Chiropody School (Dundee) 72 words
c310W
10. National Front 48 words
cc310-1W
11. Dundee (Oil-related Industry) 114 words
c311W
12. Teachers (Pay) 143 words
c311W
13. Police Interrogations (Tape Recording) 99 words
cc311-2W
14. Dundee (Job Creation) 69 words
c312W
15. Manufacturing Industry 179 words
cc312-3W
16. Local Authorities (Expenditure) 50 words
c313W
17. Clegg Commission (Award Costs) 84 words
c313W
18. Bridge Tolls 217 words
cc313-4W
19. Parliamentary Business 121 words
14. SOCIAL SERVICES
c314W
1. Royal Hospital, Richmond 116 words
cc314-5W
2. Quangos 252 words
cc315-6W
3. Pregnancy (Blood Lead Levels) 81 words
c316W
4. Mutagenicity 43 words
c316W
5. Lead Pollution 52 words
cc316-7W
6. Abortion 246 words
c317W
7. Dr. Christopher Burks 134 words
cc317-8W
8. Retail Price Index 156 words
c318W
9. Hospittal Waiting Lists 372 words
cc318-20W
10. Preventive Medicine 379 words
c320W
11. Hospitals (Service Costs) 105 words
c320W
12. Transplant Surgery 73 words
cc320-1W
13. Tanderil (Adverse Reactions) 127 words
c321W
14. Rathbone Hospital, Liverpool 109 words
c321W
15. London Hospital Committee 107 words
cc321-2W
16. Health and Safety at Work Etc. Act 102 words
c322W
17. Mr. Jack Zussman 168 words
cc322-3W
18. Mr. Edward McCarthy 128 words
c323W
19. National Surveys (Ethnic Minorities) 148 words
c323W
20. Pharmaceutical Products (Minors) 70 words
cc323-6W
21. Health Service Commissioners 1,315 words
cc326-8W
22. Child Support 837 words
cc328-9W
23. National Health Service (Structure and Management) 151 words
c329W
24. Cremation (Medical Certification Cost) 85 words
15. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Companies (Capital Investment Programmes) 59 words
c330W
2. Taxation Tables 53 words
c330W
3. Credit Card Borrowing 128 words
cc330-1W
4. Interest Rates 95 words
c331W
5. Balance of Trade 66 words
c331W
6. Inflation 72 words
c331W
7. Corporation Tax 65 words
cc331-2W
8. Domestic Credit Expansion 108 words
c332W
9. Public Sector Pay Awards 103 words
c332W
10. Black Economy 81 words
cc332-3W
11. Unemployment (Tax Revenue Loss) 146 words
c333W
12. Coinage 42 words
c333W
13. Pay Settlements 90 words
cc333-4W
14. Economic Policies and Inflation (Consultations) 125 words
c334W
15. Family Income 172 words
c334W
16. Wines (Duty Rates) 74 words
cc334-5W
17. Economic Strategy 58 words
c335W
18. International Monetary Fund (Substitution Account) 90 words
c335W
19. Quangos 71 words
c335W
20. Supplementary Benefit 67 words
cc335-6W
21. Income Tax Assessment and Collection (Computerisation) 51 words
c336W
22. Beer, Whisky and Wine (Prices) 180 words
c336W
23. £ Sterling (Exchange Rate) 52 words
cc336-7W
24. Form P60 77 words
c337W
25. North Sea Oil Revenue 64 words
c337W
26. Tax Collection (Cost) 52 words
c337W
27. Investment Income Surcharge 101 words
cc337-8W
28. Income Tax Allowances 297 words
cc338-9W
29. Income Tax Assessment (Married Couples) 130 words
c339W
30. Value Added Tax 58 words
c339W
31. Blind Persons (Tax Relief) 311 words
cc339-40W
32. Blind Persons 71 words
c340W
33. Armaments (Transfers) 63 words
16. WALES
cc340-1W
1. Job Creation 145 words
c341W
2. Rate Support Grant (Gwynedd) 82 words
cc341-2W
3. " Patients First " 189 words
c342W
4. General Practitioner Maternity Units 81 words
c342W
5. Household Incomes 55 words
c342W
6. Training Facilities (Dyfed) 70 words
cc342-3W
7. Roads 69 words
c343W
8. House Building 527 words
cc343-4W
9. (Bask Amenities) Dwellings 149 words
cc344-5W
10. Leaseholds and Freeholds 239 words
17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
c345W
1. Vietnamese Refugees (Hong Kong) 80 words
cc345-6W
2. Ethiopian Refugees 115 words
c346W
3. Illegal Immigrants (China) 147 words
cc346-7W
4. Iran (Sanctions) 168 words
c347W
5. New Hebrides 98 words
cc347-9W
6. European Community (Council of Ministers) 694 words
18. TRANSPORT
c349W
1. Vehicle Excise Duty 83 words
cc349-50W
2. Railway-Road Crossings 247 words
cc350-1W
3. Dangerous Substances (Carriage by Road) 157 words
c351W
4. British Railways Board (Planning Arrangements) 195 words
19. DEFENCE
c351W
1. Weaponry 72 words
cc351-2W
2. Vacant Residential Property 102 words
c352W
3. Reserve Forces (Protective Suits) 114 words
20. ENVIRONMENT
cc352-3W
1. Rent and Rate Rebates 115 words
c353W
2. Building Societies 92 words
c353W
3. Housing Corporation 93 words
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4. Home Insulation Grants 185 words
c354W
5. Whale Products 117 words
cc354-5W
6. Council House Building 178 words
c355W
7. Property Services Agency 102 words
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8. Local Authority Expenditure 109 words
c356W
9. Areas of Special Scientific Interest (Designation) 94 words
c356W
10. Government Buildings (Insulation) 100 words
cc356-7W
11. Listed Buildings, Cockermouth 229 words
c357W
12. Water Authorities (Restrictions) 291 words
cc357-8W
13. Houseboats 145 words
cc358-9W
14. Dwellings (Basic Amenities) 157 words
cc359-60W
15. Allotments 430 words
c360W
16. Housing Investment Programme Allocations 48 words
cc360-1W
17. Enterprise Zones 52 words
c361W
18. Local Government, Planning and Land (No. 2) Bill 99 words
c361W
19. Single Persons (Accommodation) 68 words
c361W
20. Commission for New Towns and New Town Development Corporations (Staff Redundancy Payments) 106 words
21. NORTHERN IRELAND
c362W
1. Terrorist Attacks 164 words
c362W
2. Police Stations 113 words
cc362-4W
3. Health and Social Services Beards 601 words
c364W
4. Armed Robberies 136 words
cc364-5W
5. Hospitals (Belfast) 99 words
c365W
6. Sexual Offences Act 1967 51 words
cc365-6W
7. Quangos 404 words
cc366-8W
8. Attendance Allowance 367 words
c368W
9. INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 122 words
cc368-76W
10. PARLIAMENTARIANS (PAY AND ALLOWANCES) 1,475 words

Lords Sitting of 22 May 1980 Series 5 Vol. 409

c1025
1. Preamble 42 words
cc1025-6
2. SOVIET UNION: EXPORT CONTROLS 488 words
cc1026-8
3. CYPRUS: BRITISH SOVEREIGN BASES 646 words
cc1029-33
4. EXPORTING AND FINANCIAL DISINCENTIVES 1,513 words
cc1033-6
5. THE OLYMPIC GAMES: UK PARTICIPATION DECISION 1,066 words
c1036
6. SOLICITORS (SCOTLAND) BILL [H.L.] 58 words
cc1036-7
7. TRANSPORT BILL 110 words
c1037
8. FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE (REIGATE) BILL [H.L.] 9 words
cc1037-61
9. EDWARD BERRY AND DORIS EILLEEN WARD (MARRIAGE ENABLING) BILL [H.L.] 9,547 words
c1061
10. SOCIAL SECURITY (NO. 2) BILL 10 words
cc1061-73
11. INDUSTRY BILL 4,599 words
cc1073-81
12. UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE (SAFETY) REGULATIONS 1980 3,136 words
cc1082-93
13. ST. CATHERINE'S HOUSE: PUBLIC SEARCH ROOM 4,368 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 22 May 1980 Series 5 Vol. 409

cc1093-4WA
1. THE STREET OFFENCES ACT 1959, SECTION 1: SENTENCES ON CONVICTION 269 words
c1094WA
2. UK/PARAGUAY COMMERCIAL RELATIONS 136 words
cc1094-5WA
3. ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE: SHIPPING STATISTICS 302 words
cc1095-6WA
4. PUBLIC SERVICE PENSIONS AND THE RPI 77 words
c1096WA
5. HOUSE OF LORDS: DIVISIONS 191 words