Sitting of 31 January 1984

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Commons Sitting of 31 January 1984 Series 6 Vol. 53

c119
1. Preamble 7 words
c119
2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
c119
1. ALEXANDER PARK AND PALACE BILL. 8 words
2. ANGLIAN WATER AUTHORITY (KING'S LYNN TIDAL DEFENCES) BILL.
c119
1. ASSOCIATED BRITISH PORTS (NO. 2) BILL. 6 words
2. BARCLAYS BANK BILL.
c119
3. BRITISH RAILWAYS (NO. 2) BILL. 8 words
c119
4. CARDIFF CITY COUNCIL BILL. 6 words
c119
5. DARTMOOR COMMONS BILL. 8 words
c120
6. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL. 6 words
7. LONDON DOCKLANDS RAILWAY (NO. 2) BILL.
c120
8. LONDON TRANSPORT BILL. 8 words
c120
9. MERSEYSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BILL. 6 words
c120
10. PIECE HALL, HALIFAX BILL. 85 words
11. PORTSEA HARBOUR COMPANY BILL.
12. SELBY BRIDGE BILL.
c120
13. STANDARD CHARTERED BANK BILL. 14 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. SOCIAL SERVICES
cc121-2
1. Committee on Safety of Medicines 636 words
cc122-4
2. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 854 words
c124
3. Child Benefit 453 words
cc125-6
4. Open-heart Surgery (Manchester) 724 words
c126
5. Disabled Persons (Discrimination) 208 words
cc126-7
6. Leicestershire Health Authority 373 words
cc127-8
7. Tinnitus 528 words
cc128-30
8. Perinatal Mortality 797 words
cc130-1
9. Appeal Tribunal Panels 472 words
c131
10. Severe Disablement Allowance 203 words
cc131-2
11. Child Abuse 219 words
c132
12. Association of Directors of Social Services (Survey) 420 words
cc132-3
13. Portable Oxygen Equipment 329 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
cc133-8
1. Engagements 2,379 words
cc139-52
5. Vocational Education and Training 7,107 words
cc153-4
6. Maternal Surrogate Clinics 979 words
c154
1. MATERNAL SURROGATE CLINICS 45 words
cc155-93
7. Rate Support Grant (Scotland) 21,813 words, 1 division
cc194-234
8. Housing Support Grant (Scotland) 23,266 words, 1 division
cc235-6
9. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 44 words
cc237-44
10. County Durham 3,898 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 31 January 1984 Series 6 Vol. 53

1. HOME DEPARTMENT
c113W
1. Electoral Law (Select Committee Report) 203 words
c113W
2. Heroin 66 words
c113W
3. Mr. David Freeman 109 words
cc113-4W
4. Sri Lankan Tamils 331 words
cc114-5W
5. Civil Defence 536 words
cc115-6W
6. Entrapment Techniques 159 words
cc116-7W
7. Police (Civilian Jobs) 487 words
c117W
8. Remanded Persons 297 words
cc117-8W
9. Prison Transfers 67 words
c118W
10. Television Licence 178 words
c118W
11. Prisoners (Costs) 141 words
cc118-9W
12. Breath Tests 97 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
cc119-20W
1. GCHQ, Cheltenham 617 words
c120W
2. Security Commission 61 words
c120W
3. Intelligence Service (Trade Union Membership) 78 words
cc120-3W
4. Engagements 1,094 words
c123W
5. EC Commission (President) 40 words
c123W
6. Kingswood 24 words
c123W
7. Disarmament 93 words
cc123-4W
8. Overseas Visits 49 words
c124W
9. Opencast Coal Mining 133 words
c124W
10. Financial Management Initiative Visit 109 words
c124W
11. Hong Kong 58 words
3. SCOTLAND
cc124-5W
1. Museums and Galleries (Grants) 171 words
c125W
2. Hospital Waiting Lists 59 words
c125W
3. Labour Statistics 56 words
c125W
4. Prisoners (Costs) 76 words
4. SOCIAL SERVICES
cc125-7W
1. Young Persons 567 words
c127W
2. Private Medicine 68 words
c127W
3. Death Grant 169 words
c127W
4. Funeral Expenses 53 words
cc127-8W
5. Housing Benefit 301 words
c128W
6. Pharmacists 109 words
c128W
7. Benefit Recipients (Purchasing Power) 34 words
cc128-9W
8. Supplementary Benefit 275 words
c129W
9. Personal Portable Pensions 92 words
c129W
10. NHS Expenditure 59 words
cc129-30W
11. NHS Reorganisation (Griffiths Report) 212 words
c130W
12. Greenham Common Protestors (Benefits) 58 words
c130W
13. Medical Gases and Equipment 190 words
cc130-1W
14. NHS Resources 330 words
c131W
15. Oxford Regional Health Authority 52 words
c131W
16. Mobility and Attendance Allowances (Oglesby Report) 39 words
cc131-2W
17. Kidney Patients 73 words
c132W
18. Nurses (Management Studies) 100 words
c132W
19. Occupational Pension Schemes 99 words
cc132-3W
20. Unemployed Persons (Benefit) 315 words
c133W
21. Retirement 250 words
cc133-4W
22. Elderly Persons 56 words
c134W
23. Mental Health Act 1983 103 words
c134W
24. Heating Bills (Assistance) 69 words
c134W
25. North Thames Regional Health Council 28 words
c134W
26. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Amendment) Bill 49 words
c134W
27. Invalidity Benefit 47 words
cc134-5W
28. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 49 words
c135W
29. Manpower Statistics 147 words
c135W
30. Heart Patients 94 words
c135W
31. Trent Health Region 80 words
cc135-6W
32. Departmental Offices (Inner City Areas) 181 words
c136W
33. Retirement Pension 48 words
5. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
c136W
1. Food (Exports-Imports) 58 words
c136W
2. Land Drainage and Coast Protection 96 words
cc136-7W
3. Crop Spraying 342 words
c137W
4. Pigeons 67 words
c137W
5. Export Rebates and Intervention Buying 134 words
cc137-8W
6. Forests (Acid Rain) 93 words
c138W
7. Whirling Disease 116 words
c138W
8. Inland and Coastal Fisheries 55 words
c138W
9. Salmon 79 words
cc138-9W
10. Redmouth Disease 174 words
cc139-40W
11. French Meat Imports (Restriction) 482 words
cc140-1W
12. Weed Killer (North Sea) 462 words
cc141-2W
13. Local Authorities (Finance) 211 words
6. ENVIRONMENT
cc142-5W
1. Rates 1,706 words
cc145-6W
2. Milton Keynes and Northampton 382 words
cc146-7W
3. Bedfordshire 65 words
c147W
4. Agricultural Land (Bedfordshire) 86 words
cc147-8W
5. Nitrates 339 words
c148W
6. "Land for Housing" 36 words
c148W
7. Mortuaries 61 words
c148W
8. Footpaths 125 words
c148W
9. Property Services Agency 39 words
cc148-51W
10. Audit Commission 1,193 words
c151W
11. Private Schools 73 words
c151W
12. Dartmoor 68 words
c151W
13. "Streamlining the Cities" 112 words
cc151-2W
14. Metropolitan County Councils (Abolition) 91 words
7. EMPLOYMENT
c152W
1. Community Programme 237 words
cc152-3W
2. Labour Statistics 344 words
c153W
3. South Shields 235 words
cc153-4W
4. Young Persons 142 words
c154W
5. Vredeling Directive 55 words
cc154-5W
6. Youth Training Scheme 411 words
c155W
7. Manpower Services Commission 80 words
c155W
8. Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service 111 words
cc155-6W
9. Voluntary Organisations (Training Programmes) 143 words
8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
c156W
1. Irrigation Work 57 words
c156W
2. Steering Location Inquiries 91 words
cc156-7W
3. Wales (Financial Assistance) 265 words
cc157-8W
4. Textile Industry 697 words
cc158-9W
5. North of England 443 words
c159W
6. Kidneys 99 words
9. ENERGY
c159W
1. Energy, Research and Technology 50 words
c159W
2. Oil Prices 113 words
cc159-60W
3. Target Saving 213 words
c160W
4. Nuclear Leakage 66 words
c160W
5. Onshore Oil and Gas Licences 56 words
c160W
6. Coal Exports 62 words
cc160-1W
7. Energy Efficiency 99 words
c161W
8. Domestic Energy Supplies 73 words
10. TRANSPORT
c161W
1. Emergency (Preston) 114 words
cc161-2W
2. MV Radiant Med 428 words
11. NATIONAL FINANCE
c162W
1. Invalidity Pension 60 words
c162W
2. Furnished Holiday Lettings 77 words
cc162-3W
3. Britannia Building Society 195 words
cc163-4W
4. Nationalised Industries 435 words
c164W
5. Export Credit Subsidies 111 words
c164W
6. Value Added Tax 112 words
c164W
7. Private Schools (Tax Exemption) 74 words
cc164-5W
8. Alcohol (Taxation Policy) 294 words
c165W
9. Personal Taxation 46 words
c165W
10. Trade Deficit 258 words
cc165-6W
11. Mortgages 141 words
cc166-7W
12. Income and Taxation 299 words
c167W
13. Privatisation (Share Prices) 169 words
c167W
14. Industrial Building Allowances 106 words
c167W
15. Tax Relief (Overseas Absence) 78 words
12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
cc167-70W
1. Hong Kong 1,030 words
c170W
2. Cyprus 155 words
c170W
3. United Nations (Expenditure) 135 words
cc170-2W
4. European Community (Economic and Social Committee) 789 words
c172W
5. Children (Travel Costs) 119 words
cc172-3W
6. Council of Ministers 481 words
13. NORTHERN IRELAND
c174W
1. Armagh Prison 247 words
c174W
2. Departmental Administration Costs 117 words
cc174-5W
3. Fuel Conversion 82 words
c175W
4. Advance Factories 143 words
c175W
5. Civil Servants (Retirement) 337 words
cc175-6W
6. Prisoners (Costs) 214 words
cc176-7W
7. Remedial Teaching 172 words
c177W
8. School Books 97 words
cc177-8W
9. United States of America (Ministerial Visits) 159 words
c178W
10. Civil Servants (Travel Costs) 55 words
c178W
11. Unfit Housing 94 words
14. SOCIAL SERVICES
c179W
1. Expenditure Statistics 213 words
c179W
2. Housing Benefit 110 words
cc179-80W
3. Benefit Claimants 386 words
c180W
4. Company Directors (Debt Proceedings) 201 words
cc180-1W
5. Chrysoidine Dye 146 words
c181W
6. Medical and Surgical Sundries (Contracts) 100 words
cc181-2W
7. Doctors' Deputising Services 471 words
c182W
8. Hospital Patients (Pension Books) 117 words
c182W
9. NHS (Waiting Lists) 70 words
cc182-3W
10. Health and Local Authorities (Joint Funding) 163 words
c183W
11. Private Nursing Homes (NHS Equipment) 91 words
c183W
12. Elderly Persons (Drugs) 117 words
cc183-4W
13. Severe Disablement Allowance 178 words
c184W
14. Supplementary Benefit 136 words
c184W
15. Medical Academic and Research Staff 69 words
c184W
16. Women Consultants 36 words
cc184-5W
17. Fuel Allowances 172 words
c185W
18. National Insurance Tribunals 90 words
c185W
19. Wrexham Local Office 174 words
15. DEFENCE
cc185-6W
1. Defence Budget 158 words
c186W
2. Commonwealth Games 82 words
c186W
3. Boarding School Allowance 211 words
c186W
4. Children (Travel Costs) 72 words
c186W
5. Falkland Islands (Ministerial Visit) 38 words
cc186-7W
6. Armed Forces (Statistics) 493 words
cc187-9W
7. Royal Ordnance Factories 449 words
c189W
8. Royal Air Force (Trainer Aircraft) 675 words
16. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
cc190-7W
1. Assisted Places Scheme 2,941 words
c197W
2. Examinations 142 words
c197W
3. Education Expenditure (Statistics) 112 words
cc197-8W
4. Teachers 382 words
cc198-9W
5. Teachers (In-service Courses) 350 words
c199W
6. Schools Inspectors 110 words
cc199-200W
7. School Closures 490 words
c200W
8. Specialist Teachers 199 words
cc200-1W
9. "The Arts in Schools" 69 words
c201W
10. Private Schools 230 words
c201W
11. Teacher Training Course 220 words
cc201-2W
12. Degree Courses (Cost) 107 words
c202W
13. School Children (Travel Costs) 136 words
cc202-3W
14. School Population 73 words
c203W
15. Pupil Profiles 99 words
c203W
16. Political Introduction 53 words
17. WALES
c203W
1. Joint Finance Expenditure Disregard 125 words
cc203-4W
2. Local Authorities (Capital Commitments) 125 words
c204W
3. Welsh Language 163 words
c204W
4. House Renovation Grants 55 words
c204W
5. Regional Policy 66 words
cc204-5W
6. House Building 97 words
c205W
7. Gross Domestic Product 181 words
cc205-6W
8. Welsh Development Agency (Factories) 194 words
c206W
9. Local Authorities (Meetings) 38 words

Lords Sitting of 31 January 1984 Series 5 Vol. 447

c547
1. Preamble 33 words
cc547-8
2. Youth Training Scheme: Statistics 511 words
cc548-50
3. Public Record Office: Borrowing 815 words
c550
4. UK Airports: Surface Movement Radar 254 words
cc550-3
5. Tourism: Statistics 1,084 words
c553
6. Business 82 words
c553
7. Business of the House 90 words
cc553-4
8. Dentists Bill [H.L.] 381 words
cc554-65
9. Animal Health and Welfare Bill [H.L.] 5,934 words
cc565-70
10. Vocational Education and Training 2,630 words
cc570-98
11. Animal Health and Welfare Bill [H.L.] 15,368 words
cc598-645
12. Roads (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 25,549 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 31 January 1984 Series 5 Vol. 447

c645WA
1. BRITISH CITIZENSHIP: OUTSTANDING APPLICATIONS 26 words
c645WA
2. PRISONERS: TRANSFERS 44 words
c645WA
3. FOOD PRODUCTION IN NUCLEAR WAR 54 words
cc645-6WA
4. BADGER TRAPPING 190 words
c646WA
5. MAGPIE POPULATION STATISTICS 89 words
c646WA
6. WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981 80 words
cc646-7WA
7. MIDDLESEX AREA MAGISTRATES' COURTS 118 words
c647WA
8. LEBANON: PEACE INITIATIVES 99 words
c647WA
9. MALAYSIA: DEATH SENTENCES 89 words
cc647-8WA
10. MR. MAHMUT DIKERDEM 75 words
c648WA
11. TURKISH PEACE ASSOCIATION MEMBERS' TRIAL 55 words
c648WA
12. TURKISH PEACE COMMITTEE: NOBEL PRIZE PROPOSAL 25 words
c648WA
13. AFRICAN STATE BOUNDARIES: OAU RESOLUTION 152 words
c649WA
14. CHEMICAL WEAPONS: WARSAW PACT PROPOSAL 81 words
cc649-50WA
15. US NUCLEAR WARHEAD PRODUCTION 443 words
cc650-1WA
16. NUCLEAR WEAPONS: VOTING ON UN RESOLUTIONS 356 words