Commons Sitting of 18 December 1987 Series 6 Vol. 124

    c1355
  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c1355
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PETITION
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    1. Rating Reform 119 words
    cc1356-65
  4. Armed Forces (Pensions) 5,694 words
    5. cc1366-75
  5. Southern Africa 5,483 words
    6. cc1376-84
  6. Retail Prices Index (Error) 4,426 words
    7. c1385
  7. Britoil 354 words
    8. cc1386-93
  8. Vietnamese Refugees 4,514 words
    9. cc1394-402
  9. National Health Service (London) 4,820 words
    10. cc1403-9
  10. Northern Ireland Schools 3,744 words
    11. cc1410-7
  11. Poverty (Bradford) 4,062 words
    12. cc1418-25
  12. Oceanography 3,926 words
    13. cc1426-32
  13. Coal Board Housing 4,054 words
    14. cc1433-40
  14. Cystic Fibrosis Sufferers 4,658 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 18 December 1987 Series 6 Vol. 124

  1. DEFENCE
      2. c751W
    1. Effluent Treatment (Cardiff) 190 words
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    2. Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment Vessel 99 words
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    3. AWRE Aldermaston 61 words
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    4. Falkland Islands 137 words
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    5. RAF Bases (Alert States) 53 words
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    6. French Defence Minister 158 words
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    7. Surplus Firearms 101 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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    1. Strangers Gallery 88 words
  3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      4. c753W
    1. Vietnam 66 words
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    2. Ethiopia 43 words
      3. cc753-4W
    3. Famine Relief 207 words
  4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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    1. Energy Efficiency 45 words
      2. c754W
    2. Rural Postal Services 68 words
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    3. Kingrosia Park, Clydach 106 words
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    4. Northumberland (Rural Post Offices) 71 words
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    5. ERG Group (Takeover) 88 words
      6. cc754-5W
    6. Racal-Vodaphone 50 words
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    7. British Steel Corporation 106 words
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    8. National Girobank 81 words
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    9. Inner-city Initiative 219 words
      10. cc755-6W
    10. British Steel 89 words
      11. c756W
    11. Postal Services 53 words
      12. c756W
    12. Patent Office 66 words
  5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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    1. Registered Homes Tribunal 49 words
      2. cc756-7W
    2. Mr. Jeremy Warner 212 words
      3. c757W
    3. Kimberley Carlile 369 words
  6. ENERGY
      7. cc757-8W
    1. Electricity Requirement 55 words
      2. c758W
    2. Domestic Fuel Charges 70 words
      3. c758W
    3. Advisory Committees 134 words
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    4. Central Electricity Generating Board 59 words
      5. cc758-9W
    5. Electricity Supply 197 words
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    6. Electricity Supply Industry (Revenue Collection) 285 words
  7. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      8. cc759-60W
    1. Student Grants 492 words
      2. cc760-1W
    2. Primary Schools 189 words
      3. c761W
    3. Science Teachers 189 words
      4. c761W
    4. Student Statistics 140 words
      5. cc761-2W
    5. City Technology Colleges 206 words
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    6. Epilepsy 99 words
      7. cc762-3W
    7. Consultative Documents (Responses) 229 words
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    8. Capital Programmes 63 words
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    9. Local Education Authorities 71 words
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    10. Advisory Committees 180 words
      11. cc763-4W
    11. Education Expenditure 223 words
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    12. Sir David Phillips 68 words
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    13. University Research 124 words
      14. cc764-5W
    14. Co-ordinating Committee on Marine Science and Technology 364 words
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    15. Capital Allocations 1,709 words
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    16. Capital Allocation (Calderdale) 109 words
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    17. Higher Education 577 words
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    18. Inner London Education Authority 234 words
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    19. Teachers (Training) 199 words
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    20. Teachers (Pensions) 263 words
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    21. Governors 244 words
  8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      9. c773W
    1. Cyprus 124 words
      2. c773W
    2. Member's Correspondence 59 words
      3. c773W
    3. Middle East 84 words
      4. cc773-4W
    4. Food (Radiation) 60 words
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    5. Hong Kong 326 words
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    6. Uranium (Pakistan) 97 words
      7. cc774-5W
    7. Mr. Mordecai Vanunu (Trial) 82 words
  9. TRANSPORT
      10. c775W
    1. Passenger Transport Authorities 319 words
      2. c775W
    2. London Stations (Escalators) 70 words
      3. cc775-6W
    3. Notting Hill Gate (Fire) 128 words
      4. c776W
    4. King's Cross (Fire) 46 words
      5. c776W
    5. Advisory Committees 120 words
      6. cc776-7W
    6. Motor Cyclists (Leg Protection) 192 words
      7. c777W
    7. Severn Bridge 41 words
      8. c777W
    8. M1 (Repairs) 122 words
      9. cc777-8W
    9. National Bus Company 371 words
      10. c778W
    10. London Underground (Fires) 114 words
      11. cc778-9W
    11. Airports (Rateable Values) 198 words
      12. c779W
    12. Air Transport (Smoke Hoods) 90 words
      13. c779W
    13. A19 72 words
      14. c779W
    14. London Regional Transport 61 words
      15. cc779-80W
    15. Secondhand Cars 157 words
      16. c780W
    16. Civil Aviation Authority 66 words
      17. cc780-1W
    17. Direction Signs 446 words
  10. PRIME MINISTER
      11. cc781-2W
    1. Lawyers (Civil Service) 262 words
      2. c782W
    2. Hong Kong 58 words
      3. c782W
    3. Civil Servants 195 words
      4. c782W
    4. Earl of Leven 50 words
  11. ENVIRONMENT
      12. c783W
    1. Construction Industry 126 words
      2. c783W
    2. Bruntlandt Commission 117 words
      3. cc783-5W
    3. Rating Reform 751 words
      4. c785W
    4. Bed-and-Breakfast Accommodation 87 words
      5. c785W
    5. Housing Revenue Accounts 135 words
      6. cc785-6W
    6. Housing Statistics 312 words
      7. c786W
    7. Homelessness 257 words
      8. cc786-7W
    8. LDDC (Arts Centre) 142 words
      9. c787W
    9. Inner Cities 84 words
      10. c787W
    10. Advisory Committees 147 words
      11. cc787-8W
    11. Housing Subsidy 312 words
      12. c788W
    12. Block Grant 28 words
      13. c788W
    13. Urban Development Corporations 39 words
      14. c788W
    14. Enterprise Zones 69 words
      15. cc788-9W
    15. Council Houses 660 words
      16. c789W
    16. Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 34 words
      17. cc789-90W
    17. Derbyshire County Council 52 words
      18. cc790-1W
    18. Planning 703 words
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    19. Hazardous Waste 81 words
      20. c792W
    20. Easington 48 words
      21. cc792-3W
    21. Housing Investment Programme 398 words
      22. c793W
    22. Housing Costs 642 words
      23. cc793-4W
    23. Publicity 292 words
      24. cc794-5W
    24. Acid Rain 168 words
  12. THE ARTS
      13. c795W
    1. Mansfield Society of Artists 72 words
      2. c795W
    2. Yorkshire Watercolour Society 77 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
      14. cc795-6W
    1. Wind Power 114 words
      2. c796W
    2. Southern Education and Library Board 229 words
      3. c796W
    3. Joint Consultative Committee for Building 30 words
      4. c796W
    4. Belfast Area Plan 100 words
      5. cc796-7W
    5. Education Maintenance Allowances 503 words
      6. cc797-8W
    6. Single Payments 54 words
      7. c798W
    7. Staffing and Overtime Payments (Social Security Offices) 90 words
      8. cc798-9W
    8. Invalid Care Allowance 386 words
      9. c799W
    9. Allowances (Claims) 64 words
      10. c799W
    10. Anglo-Irish Agreement 114 words
      11. c799W
    11. Police Forces (Army Uniforms) 78 words
      12. cc799-800W
    12. Arterial Drainage Schemes 158 words
      13. c800W
    13. Mr. Chan Hok Chun 70 words
      14. c800W
    14. Royal Ulster Constabulary 55 words
      15. cc800-1W
    15. Remand and Bail Statistics 210 words
      16. c801W
    16. Firearms (Deaths) 369 words
      17. cc801-2W
    17. Students (Republic of Ireland) 123 words
      18. c802W
    18. Firearms Certificates 159 words
      19. cc802-3W
    19. Publicity 265 words
      20. c803W
    20. Rating Reform 128 words
      21. c803W
    21. Council Districts (Valuations) 55 words
      22. c803W
    22. Ratepayers 104 words
      23. cc803-4W
    23. Battery Hens 219 words
      24. c804W
    24. Explosive Devices 142 words
  14. WALES
      15. cc804-5W
    1. History Curriculum 167 words
      2. c805W
    2. Urban Aid 59 words
      3. c805W
    3. Patent Office 59 words
      4. c805W
    4. Agriculture (Assistance) 123 words
      5. cc805-7W
    5. Housing Revenue Account 1,266 words
      6. cc807-9W
    6. Empty Houses 1,235 words
      7. c809W
    7. Pupil Costs 135 words
      8. cc809-10W
    8. Housing Revenue Accounts 85 words
      9. c810W
    9. Education Authorities 194 words
      10. c810W
    10. Cystic Fibrosis 98 words
      11. cc810-1W
    11. Road Safety 241 words
      12. c811W
    12. Land Authority for Wales 93 words
      13. c811W
    13. Epilepsy 111 words
      14. c811W
    14. Post-Chernobyl Emergency 58 words
      15. cc811-2W
    15. Advisory Committees 226 words
      16. c812W
    16. Labour Statistics 42 words
      17. c812W
    17. Weighbridge, Deeside 128 words
      18. cc812-3W
    18. Drug Advisory Committees 188 words
      19. c813W
    19. Drug Advisiory Committees (New Projects) 137 words
      20. c813W
    20. Nursery Schools 88 words
      21. cc813-4W
    21. Health Authorities 142 words
      22. c814W
    22. Gwynedd Health Authority 266 words
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    23. Welsh Language (Ministerial Broadcast) 83 words
  15. SCOTLAND
      16. cc814-5W
    1. Post Mortems 52 words
      2. c815W
    2. Rating Reform 257 words
      3. cc815-6W
    3. Free Food 205 words
      4. c816W
    4. Bus Services 193 words
      5. c816W
    5. Epilepsy 91 words
      6. c816W
    6. Anaesthetists 112 words
      7. cc816-8W
    7. Newbattle Abbey College 1,069 words
      8. cc818-9W
    8. Advisory Committees 189 words
      9. c819W
    9. Economic Advisers 78 words
      10. c819W
    10. Electricity Boards (Performance) 117 words
      11. cc819-20W
    11. Student Allowances 570 words
      12. c820W
    12. National Health Service 80 words
      13. c820W
    13. Personal Files (Access) 65 words
      14. cc820-1W
    14. Urban Programme Areas (Housing Subsidy) 569 words
  16. EMPLOYMENT
      17. c821W
    1. Industrial Noise 17 words
      2. cc821-3W
    2. Housing Costs 509 words
      3. cc823-7W
    3. Job Training Scheme 1,643 words
      4. c827W
    4. New Workers Scheme 107 words
      5. cc827-8W
    5. YTS 402 words
      6. c828W
    6. Federation of Business and Professional Women (Exhibition) 64 words
      7. cc828-9W
    7. Chief Adjudication Officer 455 words
      8. c829W
    8. TVAM (Dispute) 74 words
      9. c829W
    9. Construction Industry 153 words
      10. cc829-30W
    10. Stratford Colour Company Ltd. 154 words
      11. c830W
    11. Small Firms 48 words
      12. c830W
    12. Advisory Committees 135 words
      13. cc830-1W
    13. Family Expenditure 219 words
      14. c831W
    14. Bracken 157 words
      15. c831W
    15. Industrial Language Training Service 83 words
      16. cc831-2W
    16. Unemployment Policy 384 words
      17. cc832-3W
    17. Publicity 689 words
  17. HOME DEPARTMENT
      18. c834W
    1. Animals (Cruelty) 332 words
      2. c834W
    2. Equines 73 words
      3. cc834-5W
    3. Sunday Trading 77 words
      4. c835W
    4. Prisoners (Drugs) 80 words
      5. c835W
    5. Wandsworth Prison 87 words
      6. c835W
    6. Remand 65 words
      7. cc835-6W
    7. Court of Appeal (Statistics) 572 words
      8. c836W
    8. Free Pardons and Remission 91 words
      9. cc836-7W
    9. Wrongful Convictions 242 words
      10. c837W
    10. Independent Television Companies 79 words
      11. cc837-8W
    11. North Wales Constabulary 215 words
      12. c838W
    12. Police National Computer 85 words
      13. c838W
    13. Nationality Applications 189 words
      14. cc838-9W
    14. Mr. Andrew Jennings 253 words
      15. c839W
    15. Detective Superintendent Anthony Lundy 227 words
      16. cc839-40W
    16. Scotland Yard (Senior Officers) 99 words
      17. c840W
    17. Citizenship (Registration) 148 words
      18. c840W
    18. DNA Tests 64 words
      19. cc840-1W
    19. King's Cross (Fire) 203 words
      20. c841W
    20. Kent Police (Rifles) 197 words
      21. cc841-2W
    21. Restaurant Staff (Attacks) 324 words
      22. c842W
    22. M1 Convoy (14 December) 128 words
  18. NATIONAL FINANCE
      19. cc842-3W
    1. Pensions 357 words
      2. c843W
    2. Take-home Pay 70 words
      3. c843W
    3. Taxation 137 words
      4. cc843-4W
    4. Capital Gains Tax 42 words
      5. cc844-5W
    5. Information Technology 427 words
      6. c845W
    6. Latin America 46 words
      7. c845W
    7. Corporation Tax 68 words
      8. c845W
    8. Overseas Assets 131 words
      9. cc845-6W
    9. Retail Prices Index (Error) 676 words
      10. cc846-7W
    10. Government Data Network 134 words
      11. c847W
    11. Labour Statistics 85 words
      12. c847W
    12. Business Expansion Scheme 217 words
      13. cc847-8W
    13. Government Revenue 459 words
      14. cc848-50W
    14. Mortgage Interest Tax Relief 1,129 words
      15. cc850-69W
    15. Personal Incomes 14,907 words
      16. cc869-70W
    16. Incomes 74 words
      17. c870W
    17. Personal Income (Taxation) 146 words
      18. cc870-1W
    18. Tax Reliefs and Allowances 506 words
      19. c871W
    19. Tax Liability 170 words
      20. cc871-2W
    20. Taxable Incomes 216 words
      21. cc872-3W
    21. Publicity 239 words
      22. c873W
    22. Income Tax 144 words
      23. cc873-4W
    23. Households (Statistics) 369 words
  19. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      20. c874W
    1. EC (Food) 95 words
      2. cc874-5W
    2. Capital Grants 188 words
      3. c875W
    3. Food Aid 171 words
      4. c875W
    4. Bee Officers 65 words
      5. cc875-6W
    5. Environmentally Sensitive Areas 82 words
      6. c876W
    6. Research and Development 185 words
      7. cc876-7W
    7. Bracken 342 words
      8. c877W
    8. Fertiliser 73 words
      9. c877W
    9. Advisory Committees 122 words
      10. cc877-8W
    10. Drainage 317 words
      11. c878W
    11. Poultry Industry 78 words
      12. cc878-9W
    12. Intervention Stocks 327 words
      13. c879W
    13. Publicity 82 words
      14. c879W
    14. Nephrops 163 words
      15. c879W
    15. Employment (Set-aside Policies) 66 words
      16. cc879-80W
    16. Common Agricultural Policy 100 words
      17. c880W
    17. Sheep 219 words
  20. SOCIAL SERVICES
      21. cc880-3W
    1. Hospital Beds 1,465 words
      2. c883W
    2. Accident and Emergency Units 39 words
      3. cc883-6W
    3. Nurses 1,433 words
      4. c886W
    4. NHS (Administration) 178 words
      5. cc886-7W
    5. Expenditure (Kettering) 169 words
      6. cc887-8W
    6. Housing Benefit Supplement 753 words
      7. cc888-903W
    7. Hospital Building 8,728 words
      8. cc903-5W
    8. Bioplan Ltd. 142 words
      9. c905W
    9. Residential Care 189 words
      10. c905W
    10. Benefits (Seaham and Peterlee) 136 words
      11. c905W
    11. Medicines (Exemption from Licences) 74 words
      12. cc905-6W
    12. Doctors and Dentists (Easington) 81 words
      13. c906W
    13. Chiropody (Easington) 143 words
      14. c906W
    14. Emergency Medical Supplies 103 words
      15. c906W
    15. Industrial Injury Benefits 58 words
      16. cc906-7W
    16. Cataracts 317 words
      17. c907W
    17. Waiting Lists (North-East) 112 words
      18. c907W
    18. AIDS 116 words
      19. cc907-9W
    19. Patients (North-East) 236 words
      20. c909W
    20. Southend General Hospital 52 words
      21. c909W
    21. Mentally Handicapped Babies 62 words
      22. c909W
    22. Energy-saving Heaters 111 words
      23. c909W
    23. Wythenshawe Hospital 85 words
      24. c909W
    24. Milk Tokens 61 words
      25. cc909-10W
    25. Correspondence 47 words
      26. c910W
    26. Pensioners (Milton Ernest) 59 words
      27. c910W
    27. Post Mortems 203 words
      28. c910W
    28. Community Health Councils 91 words
      29. cc910-1W
    29. Day Nurseries 84 words
      30. c911W
    30. Sight Tests 59 words
      31. c911W
    31. Whooping Cough Vaccine 125 words
      32. c911W
    32. Invalidity Pensioners 64 words
      33. cc911-2W
    33. North Middlesex Hospital 122 words
      34. c912W
    34. Waltham Forest Health Authority 83 words
      35. c912W
    35. St. Bartholomew's Hospital 47 words
      36. c912W
    36. Paracetamol 112 words
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    37. Single Payments 227 words
      38. c913W
    38. Mentally Handicapped Persons 200 words
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    39. London Ambulance Service 341 words
      40. c914W
    40. National Health Service Expenditure 144 words
      41. cc914-5W
    41. Agency Staff 662 words
      42. cc915-7W
    42. Housing Benefit 1,263 words
      43. cc917-22W
    43. Family Practitioner Service 1,827 words
      44. c922W
    44. Bills (Payment) 73 words
      45. c922W
    45. Anaesthetists 131 words
      46. cc922-3W
    46. Cancer Screening 234 words
      47. c923W
    47. Gold Purchases 232 words
      48. c923W
    48. Leaflet G11 58 words
      49. cc923-4W
    49. Epilepsy 149 words
      50. c924W
    50. Cancer Treatment 68 words
      51. c924W
    51. Nottinghamshire Ambulance Service 208 words
      52. cc924-6W
    52. National Health Service Consultants 635 words
      53. cc926-7W
    53. District Health Authorities 289 words
      54. c927W
    54. Waiting Lists 385 words
      55. cc927-8W
    55. Health Authorities (Fund Raising) 93 words
      56. c928W
    56. Social Fund 81 words
      57. c928W
    57. Hospital Management System 53 words
      58. c928W
    58. Sir Roy Griffiths 90 words
      59. cc928-9W
    59. Health Care 540 words
      60. cc929-30W
    60. Foreign Health Services 292 words
      61. c930W
    61. Medical Laboratory Scientific Officers 88 words
      62. c930W
    62. Amniocentesis (Statistics) 67 words
      63. c930W
    63. Claims (Transitional Protection) 81 words
      64. cc930-1W
    64. Drugs (Abuse Reactions) 261 words
      65. c931W
    65. Vaccine Damage 127 words
      66. cc931-2W
    66. Abortion 253 words
      67. c932W
    67. Nurses' Homes 50 words
      68. c932W
    68. Passport Checks 105 words
      69. cc932-3W
    69. Hepatitis B 163 words
      70. c933W
    70. Social Workers 258 words
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    71. Pensions 155 words
      72. c934W
    72. Donor Organs 336 words
      73. cc934-5W
    73. Alphafetoprotein 57 words
      74. c935W
    74. Severe Weather Payments 326 words
      75. cc935-6W
    75. Low Calorie Diets 159 words
      76. c936W
    76. Invalid Care Allowance 232 words
      77. cc936-7W
    77. Health Authorities (Finance) 363 words
      78. cc937-8W
    78. Benefit Statistics 502 words
      79. cc938-41W
    79. Hospital Closures 1,044 words
      80. c941W
    80. Gloucester Family Practitioner Committee 294 words
      81. cc941-3W
    81. Nurseries and Playgroups 543 words
      82. cc943-4W
    82. Rates 476 words
      83. cc944-50W
    83. District Health Authorities (Patient Treatment) 2,744 words