Commons Sitting of 23 March 1989 Series 6 Vol. 149

    c1243
  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c1243
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
      3. c1243
    1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. MERCHANT SHIPPING 80 words
  3. PETITIONS
      4. c1244
    1. Plessey (GEC takeover) 236 words
      2. c1244
    2. HM Coastguard 234 words
      3. cc1245-54
    3. Community Care (Dundee) 5,162 words
      4. cc1255-61
    4. Animal Experiments (Cosmetics) 3,742 words
      5. cc1262-5
    5. Gwynedd Health Authority 1,752 words
      6. c1265
    6. DEATH OF A MEMBER 49 words
      7. cc1266-74
    7. Explosion (Peterborough) 4,745 words
      8. cc1275-81
    8. Gwynedd Health Authority 3,758 words
      9. cc1282-90
    9. Legal Profession (Green Papers) 4,963 words
      10. cc1291-8
    10. Housing Benefit (Retired People) 4,072 words
      11. cc1299-306
    11. Hearing Aids 4,663 words
      12. cc1307-15
    12. Housing (Newham) 4,702 words
      13. cc1316-22
    13. Magistrates Courts (Clerks) 3,904 words
      14. cc1323-9
    14. British Aerospace 3,762 words
      15. cc1330-8
    15. UN Peacekeeping Operations 4,013 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 23 March 1989 Series 6 Vol. 149

  1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      2. c681W
    1. Self-defence 162 words
      2. c681W
    2. School Leavers 71 words
      3. c681W
    3. Pupil-teacher Ratios 75 words
      4. cc681-2W
    4. Indic Languages 185 words
      5. c682W
    5. Teaching as a Career 97 words
      6. c682W
    6. Teachers' Pay and Conditions 146 words
      7. cc682-3W
    7. University Staff 121 words
      8. c683W
    8. Nursery and Primary Education 204 words
      9. cc683-4W
    9. Teacher Training 366 words
      10. c684W
    10. Grant-maintained Schools 176 words
      11. c684W
    11. Lecturers (Dispute) 53 words
      12. cc684-5W
    12. National Curriculum 109 words
      13. c685W
    13. Derbyshire County Council 251 words
      14. c685W
    14. Education Costs 72 words
      15. cc685-6W
    15. Books (Expenditure) 212 words
      16. cc686-7W
    16. Nursery Schools 605 words
      17. cc687-9W
    17. Examinations 870 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
      3. c689W
    1. Canadian Prime Minister (Visit) 60 words
      2. cc689-90W
    2. NHS (Clwyd) 282 words
      3. c690W
    3. Policing (North Wales) 107 words
      4. c690W
    4. Hazardous Waste 95 words
      5. cc690-1W
    5. Dangerous Substances 251 words
      6. c691W
    6. Tornado Aircraft 148 words
      7. c691W
    7. Newspapers (Legal Proceedings) 43 words
      8. cc691-2W
    8. Pamella Bordes 58 words
  3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      4. c692W
    1. Junior Counsel 108 words
      2. c692W
    2. Crown Prosecution Service 168 words
      3. cc692-3W
    3. Legal Reform 143 words
      4. c693W
    4. Entry Clearance 75 words
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      5. cc693-4W
    1. Miss Pamela Bordes 283 words
      2. c694W
    2. Division Bells 125 words
      3. c694W
    3. Passes 93 words
  5. WALES
      6. c694W
    1. Wildlife Poisoning 84 words
      2. cc694-5W
    2. Roads 75 words
      3. c695W
    3. Small Businesses 173 words
      4. cc695-6W
    4. Development Areas 234 words
      5. c696W
    5. Alcohol 111 words
      6. cc696-7W
    6. Disabled Persons 465 words
      7. c697W
    7. Rural Water Supply 55 words
      8. cc697-8W
    8. Therapists 337 words
      9. c698W
    9. Crime (Homing Estates) 129 words
      10. c698W
    10. Lluesty Hospital 196 words
      11. cc698-9W
    11. NHS (Clwyd) 211 words
      12. c699W
    12. Hospital Journeys (Clwyd) 45 words
      13. cc699-700W
    13. NHS Review 274 words
      14. c700W
    14. Broadleaved Woodland Grant Scheme 89 words
      15. cc700-1W
    15. Welsh Water Authority 359 words
  6. THE ARTS
      7. c701W
    1. Scottish Arts Council 104 words
      2. c701W
    2. Items in Lieu of Tax 95 words
  7. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
      8. c701W
    1. Comic Relief 97 words
      2. cc701-2W
    2. Namibia 96 words
  8. NATIONAL FINANCE
      9. c702W
    1. National Debt 262 words
      2. c702W
    2. Exchange Equalisation Account 66 words
      3. cc702-3W
    3. Gilts 85 words
      4. c703W
    4. Treasury Loan 88 words
      5. cc703-4W
    5. Value Added Tax 326 words
      6. c704W
    6. Interest Rates 38 words
      7. c704W
    7. Take-home Pay 58 words
  9. TRANSPORT
      10. c704W
    1. Trunk Roads 149 words
      2. cc704-5W
    2. Channel Tunnel 166 words
      3. c705W
    3. British Rail (Signalling and Safety) 112 words
      4. c705W
    4. Car Telephones 112 words
      5. c705W
    5. Railway Safety 111 words
      6. cc705-6W
    6. Hazardous Cargoes 281 words
      7. c706W
    7. M40 (Wendlebury to Waterstock) 85 words
      8. c706W
    8. Nuclear Fuel Transporter (Doncaster) 92 words
      9. cc706-7W
    9. East London River Crossing 90 words
      10. c707W
    10. Town Police Clauses Act 1847 78 words
      11. c707W
    11. A27 Arundel Bypass 108 words
      12. c707W
    12. Microlight Aircraft 43 words
      13. c707W
    13. M1 Luton 107 words
      14. cc707-8W
    14. Consulting Engineers 161 words
      15. c708W
    15. Civil Servants (EC) 77 words
      16. c708W
    16. British Rail (Disciplinary Procedure) 195 words
      17. cc708-9W
    17. Bridge Inspections (Divers) 122 words
      18. c709W
    18. Plutonium (Air Transport) 61 words
      19. cc709-10W
    19. Unadopted Streets 541 words
  10. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      11. cc710-1W
    1. Statistics 552 words
      2. c711W
    2. Regional Development Grant 229 words
      3. cc711-2W
    3. Arms Contracts 125 words
      4. cc712-3W
    4. Oftel 97 words
      5. c713W
    5. Tornado Aircraft 101 words
      6. c713W
    6. Internal Market Council 76 words
      7. cc713-4W
    7. Companies House Executive Agency 341 words
      8. c714W
    8. Bradford Task Force 357 words
  11. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      12. cc714-7W
    1. Forestry (Yorkshire) 1,643 words
      2. c717W
    2. Slaughtering 149 words
      3. cc717-8W
    3. Toxic Pesticides 246 words
      4. cc718-9W
    4. Abattoirs 221 words
      5. c719W
    5. Salmonella 166 words
      6. c719W
    6. Animal Mutations 91 words
      7. cc719-20W
    7. Radioactive Monitoring 152 words
      8. c720W
    8. Sheep 178 words
      9. c720W
    9. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 154 words
      10. c720W
    10. Radioactivity (Cumbria) 59 words
      11. cc720-1W
    11. Sheep Dip 415 words
      12. cc721-2W
    12. ADAS (Staff) 100 words
      13. c722W
    13. Central Veterinary Laboratory 150 words
      14. c722W
    14. Experimental Husbandry Farms 73 words
      15. c722W
    15. Laboratories 71 words
      16. c722W
    16. Horticultural Stations 93 words
      17. cc722-3W
    17. Woodlands 90 words
      18. c723W
    18. Butter 139 words
      19. c723W
    19. Veterinary Products Committee 174 words
      20. cc723-5W
    20. Pesticides 581 words
      21. c725W
    21. Lindane 55 words
      22. c725W
    22. Levies 194 words
      23. cc725-6W
    23. Bovine Somatotropin 72 words
  12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      13. c726W
    1. Chemical Weapons 89 words
      2. c726W
    2. Israel 54 words
      3. c726W
    3. Tibet 52 words
      4. c726W
    4. E1 Salvador 47 words
      5. cc726-7W
    5. Council of Ministers 452 words
      6. cc727-9W
    6. Immigration 1,103 words
      7. cc729-30W
    7. Ethiopia 88 words
      8. c730W
    8. Chemical Products (Regulation) 200 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
      14. c730W
    1. Attendance Allowance 52 words
      2. c730W
    2. Special Diets 81 words
      3. cc730-1W
    3. Comber (Bypass) 96 words
      4. c731W
    4. Urban Development Grants 101 words
      5. c731W
    5. Social Security Payments 31 words
      6. cc731-2W
    6. Married Teachers 321 words
      7. c732W
    7. Felling 32 words
      8. c732W
    8. Objective 1 (EC) 174 words
      9. cc732-3W
    9. Rates 653 words
      10. c733W
    10. Housing Executive Properties 106 words
      11. cc733-4W
    11. Loans and Grants 305 words
      12. cc734-5W
    12. Loans and Grants 127 words
      13. cc735-6W
    13. Social Fund 946 words
      14. cc736-7W
    14. Housing Executive Properties 797 words
      15. cc737-40W
    15. Social Security Payments 1,222 words
  14. SCOTLAND
      15. c741W
    1. Queens University 40 words
      2. c741W
    2. Scottish Assembly 96 words
      3. c741W
    3. Disabled People 108 words
      4. c741W
    4. Bathing Waters 39 words
      5. cc741-2W
    5. Sentencing 119 words
      6. c742W
    6. Dampness 39 words
      7. c742W
    7. Housing (Amenities) 236 words
      8. c742W
    8. NHS (Repairs) 42 words
      9. c742W
    9. Schools (Capital Spending) 80 words
      10. cc742-3W
    10. House Repossessions 65 words
      11. c743W
    11. Crime Statistics 367 words
      12. cc743-4W
    12. Housing Repairs 40 words
      13. c744W
    13. Overcrowding 29 words
      14. c744W
    14. Manufacturing 94 words
      15. cc744-5W
    15. Capital Formation 312 words
      16. c745W
    16. Children 106 words
      17. c745W
    17. Housing Construction 84 words
      18. c745W
    18. School Leavers 111 words
      19. cc745-7W
    19. School Books 809 words
      20. cc747-8W
    20. Forestry 445 words
      21. c748W
    21. Crofters (Tree Growing) 58 words
      22. c748W
    22. Road Bridge (Dornoch Firth) 124 words
      23. cc748-9W
    23. Criminal Injuries Compensation Board 253 words
      24. c749W
    24. Boundary Commission (Members) 106 words
      25. c749W
    25. Electricity Boards 88 words
      26. cc749-50W
    26. Health Boards 197 words
      27. c750W
    27. Hospital and Community Health Services Capital 212 words
      28. cc750-1W
    28. Parole 477 words
      29. cc751-2W
    29. Schools (Self-Government) 336 words
      30. cc752-3W
    30. Birds (Shetland) 568 words
  15. DEFENCE
      16. c753W
    1. "World in Action" Programme 46 words
      2. cc753-4W
    2. Chemical Weapon Agents 59 words
      3. c754W
    3. Nuclear Plant (Clean-up) 181 words
      4. c754W
    4. Plutonium and Tritium 85 words
      5. c754W
    5. Bird Strikes 88 words
      6. cc754-5W
    6. Skyguard 47 words
      7. cc755-6W
    7. Low Flying 516 words
      8. c756W
    8. Armoured Personnel Carriers (Vauxhall) 62 words
      9. cc756-7W
    9. Tornado Sales 588 words
      10. cc757-8W
    10. US Forces (Deployment) 450 words
      11. cc758-9W
    11. Military Lands 141 words
      12. c759W
    12. RAF Sculthorpe (Air Traffic Zone) 35 words
      13. c759W
    13. USAF Vehicles (Salisbury Plain) 71 words
      14. c759W
    14. Visiting Forces (Markings) 73 words
      15. c759W
    15. Peace Symbols 120 words
      16. c759W
    16. Rating Reform 86 words
      17. cc759-60W
    17. Small Arms (Price) 75 words
      18. c760W
    18. Aldermaston and Burghfield (Audit) 77 words
      19. c760W
    19. Barracks (Security) 48 words
      20. c760W
    20. Perimeter Fencing 64 words
      21. c760W
    21. Private Security Guards 72 words
      22. cc760-1W
    22. MOD Police 241 words
      23. c761W
    23. Mines (Price) 53 words
      24. c761W
    24. ELF Transmitter (Glengarry Forest) 60 words
  16. ENERGY
      17. cc761-2W
    1. Wave Power 128 words
      2. c762W
    2. Radioactive Waste 146 words
      3. c762W
    3. Nuclear Materials (Export) 143 words
      4. c762W
    4. Civil Plutonium 72 words
      5. cc762-3W
    5. Fissile Materials (Export) 87 words
      6. c763W
    6. Coal Industry (Productivity) 128 words
      7. c763W
    7. Nuclear Installations 50 words
      8. c763W
    8. British Coal 44 words
      9. c763W
    9. Ofgas 90 words
      10. cc763-4W
    10. Nuclear Power 61 words
      11. c764W
    11. Coal (Subsidy) 300 words
  17. HEALTH
      18. cc764-5W
    1. Social Workers (Training) 162 words
      2. c765W
    2. General Practitioners 71 words
      3. c765W
    3. Coronary Heart Disease 140 words
      4. c765W
    4. Family Practitioner Committees 235 words
      5. c765W
    5. Drinking Water 38 words
      6. cc765-6W
    6. Drugs 160 words
      7. c766W
    7. Waiting Lists 113 words
      8. cc766-7W
    8. Hospital Building Schemes 138 words
      9. c767W
    9. Vaccinations 224 words
      10. c767W
    10. Environmental Health Officers 63 words
      11. c767W
    11. Sex Change Operations 95 words
      12. cc767-8W
    12. PACT Information 45 words
      13. c768W
    13. General Practitioners 368 words
      14. cc768-9W
    14. Teenage Pregnancies 81 words
      15. c769W
    15. Stroke Victims 121 words
      16. c769W
    16. Newchurch Hospital, Culcheth 80 words
      17. c769W
    17. Self-Governing Hospitals 67 words
      18. c769W
    18. Hospital Computer Systems 75 words
      19. cc769-70W
    19. Family Practitioner Committees 53 words
      20. c770W
    20. Advisory Committees 106 words
      21. c770W
    21. Food Safety 169 words
      22. cc770-2W
    22. Vaccine Damage 865 words
  18. ENVIRONMENT
      19. c772W
    1. Rural Villages (Sewerage System) 181 words
      2. cc772-4W
    2. Fluoridation 456 words
      3. c774W
    3. Housing Co-operatives 121 words
      4. c774W
    4. Hazardous Waste 79 words
      5. c774W
    5. Departmental Estates (VAT) 95 words
      6. c774W
    6. Water Charges 56 words
      7. c774W
    7. Common Land 58 words
      8. cc774-6W
    8. Drinking Water 399 words
      9. c776W
    9. Seal Skins 63 words
      10. c776W
    10. Air Pollution 282 words
      11. cc776-7W
    11. Repossessions 144 words
      12. c777W
    12. Global Environmental Declaration 46 words
      13. c777W
    13. Radon 63 words
      14. c777W
    14. Barium Sulphate Waste 63 words
      15. c777W
    15. Hinkley C (Inquiry) 78 words
      16. cc777-8W
    16. Home Improvement Grants 48 words
      17. c778W
    17. Fee Competition 79 words
      18. c778W
    18. Consumers (Consultation) 45 words
      19. cc778-9W
    19. Wildlife Poisoning 365 words
      20. c779W
    20. Housing Transfers 79 words
      21. c779W
    21. Housing Action Trusts 174 words
      22. c779W
    22. No. 1, Poultry 69 words
      23. cc779-80W
    23. Local Labour Clauses 133 words
      24. c780W
    24. Cabinet War Rooms 334 words
      25. cc780-1W
    25. Rating Reform 170 words
      26. c781W
    26. Private Landlords 64 words
      27. cc781-2W
    27. Director General of Water Services 508 words
      28. c782W
    28. County Hall, London 84 words
      29. c782W
    29. Local Government Expenditure 97 words
      30. cc782-3W
    30. Water Quality 184 words
  19. SOCIAL SECURITY
      20. cc783-4W
    1. Low-income Families 639 words
      2. c784W
    2. Local Offices 69 words
      3. cc784-5W
    3. Benefit Take-up 172 words
      4. c785W
    4. Housing Benefit 177 words
      5. c785W
    5. Children 197 words
      6. cc785-6W
    6. Social Fund 244 words
      7. c786W
    7. Teenage Pregnancies 93 words
      8. c786W
    8. Attendance Allowance 103 words
      9. cc786-7W
    9. Pensions, Benefits and Allowances 98 words
      10. c787W
    10. Income Support 204 words
      11. cc787-8W
    11. Lone Parents (Benefit) 270 words
      12. c788W
    12. Supplementary Benefit and Income Support 181 words
      13. cc788-9W
    13. Funeral Expenses 98 words
      14. c789W
    14. Cold Weather Payment 116 words
      15. c789W
    15. Housing Benefit 100 words
      16. cc789-90W
    16. Sick Pay 163 words
      17. c790W
    17. Benefit Changes 232 words
      18. cc790-1W
    18. Benefits 289 words
      19. c791W
    19. Pensioners 114 words
      20. c791W
    20. Household Incomes 217 words
      21. cc791-2W
    21. Housing Benefit 242 words
      22. cc792-3W
    22. Equal Opportunities 233 words
  20. EMPLOYMENT
      21. c793W
    1. Holidays (ABTA) 39 words
      2. cc793-4W
    2. Inflation 528 words
      3. c794W
    3. Training 151 words
      4. cc794-5W
    4. Labour Statistics 152 words
      5. cc795-7W
    5. Dock Workers 791 words
      6. c797W
    6. Pesticides 247 words
      7. cc797-801W
    7. Wages Councils 1,212 words
      8. c801W
    8. Wages (Illegal Underpayment) 256 words
      9. cc801-2W
    9. Unemployment Benefit 452 words
      10. c802W
    10. Sikhs 92 words
      11. cc802-3W
    11. Job Release Scheme 327 words
      12. c803W
    12. Community Insulation Projects 81 words
      13. cc803-4W
    13. Health and Safety Inspectors 287 words
  21. HOME DEPARTMENT
      22. cc804-5W
    1. Jeremy Bamber 426 words
      2. c805W
    2. Law and Order Services (Spending) 304 words
      3. cc805-6W
    3. Metropolitan Police Manpower 228 words
      4. cc806-7W
    4. Prison Inspections 381 words
      5. c807W
    5. Food Poisoning (Prisons) 302 words
      6. cc807-8W
    6. Entry Clearance 436 words
      7. cc808-9W
    7. Policing (North Wales) 225 words
      8. c809W
    8. Football Attendances 83 words
      9. c809W
    9. New Prisons 72 words
      10. c809W
    10. Mr. Ghulam Mohammed Ismail Tinwala 148 words
      11. cc809-10W
    11. Criminal Injuries Compensation 267 words
      12. c810W
    12. Child Abuse 112 words
      13. cc810-1W
    13. Broadcasting 292 words
      14. c811W
    14. Forensic Pathology 102 words
      15. c811W
    15. Police Chases 95 words
      16. c811W
    16. Immigration Guidelines 63 words
      17. c811W
    17. Immigration Rules 30 words
      18. cc811-2W
    18. Safer Cities Scheme 75 words
      19. c812W
    19. Drugs and Arms (Imports) 94 words
      20. c812W
    20. Crime Figures 62 words
      21. c812W
    21. Immigrant Detainees 60 words
      22. c812W
    22. Community Volunteer 110 words
      23. cc812-3W
    23. Football Spectators Bill 116 words
      24. c813W
    24. Crime Statistics 54 words
      25. c813W
    25. Remand Prisoners 178 words
      26. cc813-4W
    26. Police Discipline Code 214 words
      27. cc814-5W
    27. Prisoners (Suicide Attempts) 338 words
      28. c815W
    28. Contracted-out Catering 69 words
      29. c815W
    29. DNA Testing 75 words
      30. cc815-6W
    30. Whatton Young Offenders Institution 624 words
      31. cc816-7W
    31. Firearms 225 words
      32. c817W
    32. Women and Children (Offences) 211 words
      33. cc817-8W
    33. Domestic Violence 202 words
      34. c818W
    34. Horse Racing 145 words
      35. c818W
    35. Arrests (Statistics) 132 words

Lords Sitting of 23 March 1989 Series 5 Vol. 505

    c821
  1. Preamble 19 words
    2. cc821-2
  2. Wastes: Imports Policy 642 words
    3. cc822-4
  3. Brown Bread and Cereals: Radio Report 985 words
    4. cc824-6
  4. Pensioners: Abolition of the Earnings Rule 973 words
    5. cc827-9
  5. Nitrate Pollution in Drinking Water 1,138 words
    6. c829
  6. Business 93 words
    7. cc829-42
  7. Transport (Scotland) Bill 6,646 words
    8. cc842-3
  8. Evidence in Divorce Actions Order 1989 623 words
    9. cc843-6
  9. Merchant Shipping (Weighing of Goods Vehicles and other Cargo) (Application to Non-UK Ships) Regulations 1989 1,470 words
    10. c846
  10. Merchant Shipping (Loading and Stability Assessment of Ro-Ro Passenger Ships) (Non-United Kingdom Ships) Regulations 1989 35 words
    11. cc846-61
  11. Rent Officers (Additional Functions) Order 1989 8,003 words
    12. c861
  12. Rent Officers (Additional Functions) (Scotland) Order 1989 46 words
    13. cc861-84
  13. Hong Kong: British Passports Proposal 12,594 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 23 March 1989 Series 5 Vol. 505

    c885WA
  1. SOLICITORS SERVING IN THE JUDICIARY 36 words
    c885WA
  2. LONDON WEIGHTING 120 words
    cc885-6WA
  3. COMPANIES HOUSE: PERFORMANCE TARGETS 310 words
    c886WA
  4. MARINE INSURANCE ACT 1906 56 words
    cc886-7WA
  5. TEXTBOOKS FOR THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES: SCHEME ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS 133 words
    c887WA
  6. MENTAL HOSPITALS AND UNITS IN ENGLAND: STATISTICS 343 words
    cc887-8WA
  7. WATER SERVICES OFFICE: LOCATION 161 words
    c888WA
  8. CHANNEL TUNNEL RAIL LINK 95 words