Sitting of 31 October 1988

• Skip to Commons Sitting
• Skip to Written Answers (Commons)
• Skip to Lords Sitting
• Skip to Written Answers (Lords)

Commons Sitting of 31 October 1988 Series 6 Vol. 139

c647
1. Preamble 7 words
c647
2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. WALES
cc647-8
1. Teaching Unions 827 words
cc648-50
2. Water Privatisation 680 words
c650
3. Advance Factory Programme 280 words
cc650-1
4. Organ Transplants 215 words
c651
5. Higher Education 359 words
cc651-2
6. Homelessness 366 words
cc652-4
7. Privatisation 740 words
cc654-5
8. Hospital Waiting Lists 733 words
cc655-7
9. Home Buyers 822 words
c657
10. Voluntary Organisations 101 words
c657
11. Education Establishments 209 words
cc657-8
12. Health Authorities 242 words
c658
13. Valleys Initiative 189 words
2. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
cc658-60
1. Ordination of Women 971 words
cc660-1
2. Stipends and Pensions 304 words
3. WALES
c661
1. Welsh Language Board 205 words
cc661-2
2. Older Housing 228 words
4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
cc662-3
1. European Directives 613 words
cc663-4
2. Palace of Westminster (Facilities) 266 words
c664
3. Working Practices 292 words
cc664-5
4. Members' Passes 222 words
cc665-6
5. Westminster Hall 202 words
4. Orders of the Day
cc667-760
1. Rate Support Grants Bill 52,587 words, 1 division
c760
2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 22 words
cc761-72
3. Rate Support Grants Bill [Money] 5,804 words
c773
4. Foreign Marriage (Amendment) Bill [Lords] 150 words
cc774-93
5. Road Traffic (Penalty Points) 11,487 words
cc794-802
6. Textile and Clothing Industry 4,581 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 31 October 1988 Series 6 Vol. 139

1. PRIME MINISTER
c461W
1. Neutron and Proton Therapy 58 words
c461W
2. Badgers 48 words
c461W
3. GCHQ Cheltenham 95 words
c461W
4. Raoul Wallenberg 128 words
cc461-2W
5. Environment Policies 308 words
c462W
6. EC (Structure Fund) 187 words
cc462-3W
7. Labour Government (Destabilisation Plot) 92 words
c463W
8. Security (Information to Journalists) 99 words
c463W
9. Security Services 85 words
c463W
10. Mr. Peter Wright 26 words
2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
cc463-4W
1. "The Wilson Plot" 47 words
3. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
c464W
1. St. Botolph's Church, Aldgate 86 words
4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
c464W
1. Emergency Aid 194 words
5. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
cc464-5W
1. Publicity 452 words
c465W
2. Freedom of Speech 90 words
cc465-6W
3. School Leavers 131 words
cc466-7W
4. Foreign Languages 428 words
c467W
5. Public Relations 286 words
cc467-8W
6. Secondary Schools 200 words
c468W
7. Examination Statistics 167 words
cc468-9W
8. Student Union Membership 228 words
c469W
9. Natural Environment Research Council 118 words
c469W
10. Education Reform 116 words
c469W
11. Pupil Insurance 104 words
cc469-70W
12. High Energy Particle Physics 80 words
c470W
13. Chemistry and Physics 88 words
c470W
14. Support Grants 161 words
c470W
15. Funding Councils 91 words
cc470-1W
16. Member's Correspondence 78 words
6. HOUSE OF COMMONS
c471W
1. Vehicle Access 121 words
c471W
2. Scottish Business 218 words
cc471-2W
3. Palace of Westminster (East Entrance) 52 words
7. HOME DEPARTMENT
c472W
1. Safer Cities Project (Nottingham) 178 words
cc472-3W
2. Crime Statistics 672 words
cc473-4W
3. Prison Officers (Attacks) 227 words
cc474-5W
4. Seals 155 words
c475W
5. Charity Commission 120 words
c475W
6. Electronic Tags 86 words
c475W
7. Children (Fruit Machines) 165 words
cc475-6W
8. Vigilante Groups 157 words
8. ENERGY
c476W
1. Electricity and Gas Consumption 111 words
c476W
2. Electricity Generation 67 words
c476W
3. Electricity Prices 63 words
cc476-7W
4. Lead-free Petrol 74 words
c477W
5. Drilling Rigs (Inspections) 378 words
cc477-8W
6. Corrosion Inhibitors 185 words
c478W
7. Research 94 words
c478W
8. Fast Reactor Research (Scotland) 47 words
c478W
9. Nuclear Scientists 66 words
cc478-9W
10. Solar Heating Research 272 words
c479W
11. British Coal Enterprise Ltd. 93 words
c479W
12. Pipeline and Storage System 81 words
9. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
cc479-80W
1. Set-Aside Schemes 170 words
c480W
2. Advisory Committee on Pesticides 48 words
c480W
3. Cunliffe Report 228 words
10. THE ARTS
cc480-1W
1. Children's Books and Comics 254 words
c481W
2. Social Fund 61 words
c481W
3. Development Grants 119 words
11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
c481W
1. Fiji 54 words
12. NORTHERN IRELAND
c482W
1. Radiotherapy Staff 328 words
cc482-3W
2. Israel 354 words
c483W
3. Arab Boycott 51 words
cc483-4W
4. European Community (Decision-making) 118 words
c484W
5. India 395 words
cc484-5W
6. EC (Technical Standards) 53 words
13. HEALTH
c485W
1. Patient Treatment 43 words
c485W
2. Tranquillisers 160 words
c485W
3. Infant Mortality (Colchester) 101 words
cc485-6W
4. Dental Services 175 words
c486W
5. Alzheimer's Disease 97 words
c486W
6. Nursing Posts (Regrading) 62 words
c486W
7. Hospital Support Staff 35 words
cc486-7W
8. Waiting Lists 767 words
c487W
9. Ambulance Service 61 words
c487W
10. Doctors 81 words
c487W
11. Nurses 58 words
cc487-8W
12. Dalkon Shield 131 words
cc488-9W
13. Cook-chill Catering 438 words
c489W
14. Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine 126 words
c489W
15. Wakefield Health Authority 74 words
cc489-90W
16. NHS Ancillary Staff 148 words
14. SOCIAL SECURITY
c490W
1. British Pensioners Overseas 89 words
c490W
2. Reciprocal Social Security Agreements 54 words
c490W
3. Equal Opportunities 139 words
cc490-1W
4. Benefits 50 words
c491W
5. Family Credit 479 words
cc491-2W
6. Child Benefit 130 words
c492W
7. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis 42 words
cc492-3W
8. Housing Support 252 words
c493W
9. "Help with Hostel Charges" 55 words
c493W
10. Christmas Bonus 113 words
c493W
11. Single Payments 41 words
cc493-7W
12. Social Fund 1,679 words
15. NATIONAL FINANCE
c497W
1. Vacancies (London) 152 words
cc497-8W
2. Family Incomes 298 words
c498W
3. Private Hospitals (VAT) 148 words
cc498-9W
4. Mortgage Interest Relief 238 words
16. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
c499W
1. Automated Teller Machines 153 words
cc499-500W
2. Israel 391 words
c500W
3. North East Shipbuilders Ltd. 171 words
cc500-1W
4. European Space Agency 69 words
17. SCOTLAND
c501W
1. Joint Police and Fire Services 122 words
c501W
2. Haddington Sheriff Court 95 words
cc501-3W
3. Criminal Cases (Statistics) 767 words
c503W
4. Property Modernisation (Glasgow) 171 words
cc503-4W
5. Housing Statistics 175 words
c504W
6. Rents 133 words
c504W
7. Rates 165 words
cc504-5W
8. Health Boards (Cleaning and Catering Contracts) 70 words
c505W
9. Pupils (Special Education) 452 words
cc505-6W
10. Barley 305 words
c506W
11. Set-aside Schemes 119 words
cc506-7W
12. Stepps—Haggs (M80) 86 words
c507W
13. Industrial Rates 117 words
c507W
14. Sewage 111 words
cc507-8W
15. Cash Limits 347 words
18. EMPLOYMENT
c508W
1. Employment Training 119 words
cc508-9W
2. Ethnic Monitoring 568 words
cc509-10W
3. Water Companies 165 words
c510W
4. Training Schemes 192 words
cc510-1W
5. Health and Safety 775 words
cc511-5W
6. Labour Statistics 1,444 words
c515W
7. Opencast Mining (Health) 96 words
cc515-6W
8. Business Burdens 228 words
c516W
9. Redundancy and Insolvency Payments 80 words
cc516-7W
10. Cash Limits 531 words
19. DEFENCE
cc518-25W
1. Nuclear Tests 3,392 words
cc525-6W
2. Porton Down 216 words
c526W
3. Defence Secrets (Unauthorised Computer Access) 56 words
c526W
4. Bureau West, Devizes 90 words
c526W
5. Defence Statistics Organisation 105 words
cc526-7W
6. Advertising Budget 54 words
c527W
7. Woolwich Arsenal 95 words
c527W
8. Woolwich (Houses) 121 words
c527W
9. Meteorological Office 163 words
20. ENVIRONMENT
c528W
1. Water Authorities (Sale) 56 words
c528W
2. Water Authority Expenditure 86 words
c528W
3. Housing Action Trust Areas 220 words
cc528-9W
4. United Kingdom Nirex 81 words
c529W
5. Rating Reform 58 words
c529W
6. Water Privatisation 33 words
c529W
7. Lead-free Petrol 66 words
c529W
8. Hospital Sites (Redevelopment) 72 words
c529W
9. Radiation 116 words
cc529-30W
10. Housing (Newham) 165 words
c530W
11. Beaches 139 words
c530W
12. Council House Sales 106 words
cc530-1W
13. London Boroughs (Boundary Changes) 101 words
c531W
14. Dogs 358 words
cc531-2W
15. Genetically Engineered Micro-organisms 95 words
c532W
16. Unrebated Rent 71 words
c532W
17. Chelsea Football Ground 63 words
cc532-5W
18. Water 1,545 words
cc535-6W
19. Mersey Basin 137 words
c536W
20. Planning Inquiry (Gunton) 58 words
c536W
21. Air Pollution (London) 107 words
c536W
22. Local Government Staff (Political Activities) 101 words
cc536-7W
23. Local Authorities 506 words
cc537-8W
24. Mill Hill School (Planning Permission) 126 words
c538W
25. Planning Appeals 99 words
cc538-9W
26. Residuary Bodies 429 words
c539W
27. Cash Limits 347 words
cc539-40W
28. Water Authorities (Discharges) 203 words
c540W
29. New Council Houses (London) 199 words
c540W
30. Water Pollution 117 words
cc540-1W
31. Storm Damage 50 words
c541W
32. Ozone Layer 111 words
c541W
33. Toxic Waste (Briton Ferry) 183 words
c541W
34. National Rivers Authority 86 words
cc541-2W
35. Sewage 81 words
21. WALES
c542W
1. Health Authorities 53 words
cc542-3W
2. Labour Statistics 363 words
c543W
3. Water Industry 67 words
c543W
4. Asset Sales 97 words
c543W
5. West Wales (Employment) 105 words
c543W
6. Lakes and Rivers 65 words
cc543-4W
7. Prices 55 words
c544W
8. Industrialists (Discussions) 58 words
c544W
9. Northop and Mold Bypasses 81 words
c544W
10. Transport Links 67 words
c544W
11. Rating Reform 73 words
cc544-5W
12. CEGB 45 words
c545W
13. Water Standards 96 words
c545W
14. European Regional Development Fund Grants (Gwynedd) 64 words
c545W
15. Crossville Wales Motor Company 75 words
c545W
16. A487 (Bypasses) 113 words
cc545-6W
17. Sewage Disposal 67 words
c546W
18. Bypasses 55 words
c546W
19. Young People (Rented Accommodation) 138 words
c546W
20. YTS 113 words
cc546-7W
21. Adult Education 102 words
c547W
22. Physical Handicap 95 words
c547W
23. Special Schools 156 words
22. TRANSPORT
c547W
1. Light Rail/Train Systems 81 words
cc547-8W
2. Buses (Deregulation) 143 words
c548W
3. New Carriageways 253 words
cc548-9W
4. City Traffic 95 words
c549W
5. London (On-street Parking) 85 words
c549W
6. Investment Tests 139 words
c549W
7. Airports 109 words
cc549-50W
8. Light Dues 176 words
c550W
9. Buses 174 words
c550W
10. Bedford Bypass 93 words
cc550-1W
11. Clapham and Milton Ernest Bypass 74 words
cc551-2W
12. Cruise Ships 256 words
c552W
13. Buswatch 100 words
c552W
14. London Underground (Feet on Seats) 52 words
c552W
15. Buses (Manchester) 103 words

Lords Sitting of 31 October 1988 Series 5 Vol. 501

c1
1. Preamble 22 words
cc1-3
2. Piper Alpha Inquiry: Information Access 958 words
cc3-4
3. Tourists: Statistics 372 words
cc4-7
4. Kurds: Human Rights 1,253 words
cc7-9
5. Keep Britain Tidy Campaign 986 words
c9
6. European Communities (Finance) Bill 27 words
c10
7. London Regional Transport (Penalty Fares) Bill [H.L.] 11 words
c10
8. Housing (Scotland) Bill 74 words
cc10-1
9. LORDS AMENDMENT 491 words
cc11-2
10. LORDS AMENDMENT 428 words
c12
11. AS A CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENT TO THE BILL 64 words
cc12-50
12. Firearms (Amendment) Bill 20,479 words, 2 divisions
cc50-60
13. Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 5,016 words
cc60-72
14. Penalty Points (Alteration) Order 1988 6,565 words
c72
15. London Regional Transport Bill 6 words
c72
16. Birmingham City Council 8 words
c72
17. Southern Water Authority Bill 22 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 31 October 1988 Series 5 Vol. 501

c73WA
1. NEW ZEALAND BUTTER IMPORT PROPOSALS 95 words
cc73-4WA
2. WORCESTER HEALTH DISTRICT: WAITING LISTS 162 words
c74WA
3. NURSES' PAY SETTLEMENT: CLINICAL GRADING EXERCISE 134 words
c74WA
4. KAMPUCHEA: NOBEL LAUREATES' APPEAL 75 words