21 November 1972

Commons Sitting of 21 November 1972

  1. PRAYERS 5 words
  2. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. GLAMORGAN COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] 14 words
  3. PETITION
    1. Beam Trawling (South Coast) 169 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      1. Animals (Transport for Slaughter) 1,700 words
      2. Meat (Imports from Argentina) 133 words
    2. Food Prices 2,439 words
      1. Dutch Elm Disease 700 words
      2. Cereal Prices 434 words
      3. Packaging and Tinning 221 words
      4. Whale Products (Substitutes) 369 words
      5. Cost of Living (London) 129 words
      6. North Sea (Pollution) 195 words
      7. Date Marking (Report) 173 words
    3. FOOD PRICES 597 words
    4. CONSUMER PROTECTION (MINISTER'S SPEECH) 199 words
    5. INFLATION 1,882 words
  5. QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 415 words
  6. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. NORTHERN IRELAND (BORDER POLL) BILL 52,086 words, 1 division
    2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 22 words
    3. NORTHERN IRELAND (BORDER POLL) [MONEY] 94 words
    4. NORTHERN IRELAND (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL 40 words
  7. NORTHERN IRELAND (BUILDING REGULATIONS) 8,678 words
    1. ADJOURNMENT 12 words
    2. MR. CHARLES ASHWORTH (WAR PENSION) 2,848 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 November 1972

  1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. National Farmers' Union (Discussions) 117 words
    2. Hill Farming 336 words
    3. Agricultural Land (Use) 109 words
    4. European Economic Community 160 words
    5. Iceland (Fishing Limit) 65 words
    6. Food Prices 850 words
    7. Woodlands (Dedication) 83 words
    8. Apples (Import) 192 words
    9. Cereal Marketing 116 words
    10. Sugar 55 words
    11. Farm Amalgamation Scheme 92 words
    12. Animals (Quarantine) 93 words
    13. Intensive Units (Fire Precautions) 143 words
    14. Slaughterhouses 187 words
    15. Artificial Meat (Restaurants and Canteens) 62 words
    16. Wines 279 words
    17. Farm Price Review 100 words
    18. Intervention Board (Chairman) 116 words
    19. Brucellosis Scheme 430 words
    20. Farm Workers 102 words
    21. Fishing (European Beam Trawlers) 71 words
    22. Fish Friers (Publicity Levy) 78 words
    23. Production Grants 53 words
    24. Animals (Transport for Slaughter) 36 words
    25. Co-operative Marketing (Hill Areas) 62 words
    26. Butter Stocks 47 words
    27. Stubble Burning 116 words
    28. Contract Farming 99 words
    29. Price Freeze (Telephone Calls) 52 words
    30. Dutch Elm Disease 101 words
    31. Beef Exports 49 words
    32. Fishery Protection 91 words
    33. Remote Farms (Access) 86 words
  2. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Value Added Tax 97 words
    2. European Economic Community 105 words
    3. Close Companies (Dividends) 307 words
    4. Purchase Tax (Retailers' Stocks) 95 words
    5. Pay and Benefits 108 words
    6. Tax Credits (Method of Payment) 86 words
    7. Tax Collection (Use of Giro) 63 words
  3. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Sheltered Workshops (Blind Persons) 101 words
    2. North Sea Oil 126 words
    3. Training Centres (Unfilled Places) 83 words
    4. Community Industry Scheme (Mexborough) 107 words
    5. Construction Industry (Safety) 142 words
    6. Coal Miners (County Durham) 133 words
    7. Retail Price Index 82 words
    8. Nationalised Industries 102 words
    9. Manufacturing and Service Industries (Scotland) 341 words
    10. International Labour Organisation 1,792 words
    11. Commission on Industrial Relations (References) 639 words
    12. Redundancy Payments 31 words
    13. Apprenticeships (Liverpool) 31 words
    14. Young Persons (Liverpool) 79 words
    15. Disabled Persons 96 words
  4. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Schizophrenia 117 words
    2. Health Authorities (Appointments) 48 words
    3. National Health Service (Banking System) 55 words
    4. Remedial Professions 612 words
    5. Pensions and Benefits 203 words
    6. General Medical Council 57 words
    7. Maintenance Payments 212 words
    8. Benefits (Method of Payment) 120 words
    9. 1971 Census 351 words
    10. Health Service Commissioner (Salary) 92 words
    11. Social Security Offices (Wales) 153 words
    12. Discretionary Benefits (Disregards) 59 words
    13. Burial in Common Graves 129 words
    14. Official Visits (Newham) 61 words
    15. Pensioners (£10 Bonus) 162 words
    16. Genealogical Research 146 words
    17. Sheltered Workshops (Hackney) 94 words
  5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Oil Rig Vessels 175 words
    2. Price Increases 58 words
    3. Retail Prices 82 words
    4. North Sea Oil and Gas 199 words
    5. Live Animals (Export) 62 words
    6. Imperial Monomark Appliances, Kingsway Nominees Limited 81 words
    7. Motor Cycles (Insurance) 87 words
    8. Industrial Development Certificates (Wolverhampton and Dudley) 132 words
    9. HS 748 Aircraft 43 words
    10. Unemployment (Carlisle) 208 words
    11. Industry Act 73 words
    12. Bowaters (Takeover) 149 words
  6. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Traffic Accidents (Windscreen Shattering) 225 words
    2. Housing Finance Act, 1972 73 words
    3. Pensioners (Bonus Payment) 43 words
    4. Tree Planting Year 69 words
    5. Aircraft Noise 108 words
    6. Caravan Sites (Manchester) 60 words
    7. Traffic Congestion (Huddersfield) 73 words
    8. Improvement Grants 85 words
    9. Water Supplies 100 words
    10. Departmental Offices 135 words
    11. Departmental Staff 68 words
    12. Motor-cyclists (Minimum Age) 55 words
    13. Building Inspectors 54 words
    14. Lincoln's Inn (Lawns) 69 words
    15. Gipsy Lane, Bleasby (Pumping Station) 96 words
    16. Foreign Lorries 282 words
    17. Coventry Review Plan 32 words
    18. National Parks (Land Sales) 51 words
    19. Covent Garden (Development) 34 words
    20. Charing Cross Road, London (Widening) 96 words
    21. Cambridge Circus (Development) 68 words
    22. Concessionary Bus Travel (Scotland) 46 words
    23. Alkali and Clean Air Act Offences 40 words
    24. General Rate Revaluation 45 words
    25. Richmond-Broad Street Railway 53 words
    26. Rating (Plant and Machinery) 95 words
  7. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Retirement Pensioners (Lobby of Parliament) 102 words
    2. Royal Commission on the Constitution (Report) 102 words
    3. Criminal Courts (Surrender to Bail) 363 words
    4. Accused Persons (Court Procedure) 75 words
    5. Hexachlorophane 70 words
    6. Ugandan Asians 186 words
    7. Central Criminal Court (Discontinued Trial) 96 words
    8. Diplomatic Immunity 353 words
    9. Scientology 54 words
    10. Prisoners (Irish Citizens) 66 words
    11. Murder (Penalty) 73 words
    12. Citizenship and Voting Rights 402 words
  8. GOVERNMENT OFFICES (DISPERSAL) 75 words
  9. POST-APOLLO PROGRAMME 77 words
  10. PRICES AND INCOMES 95 words
  11. BLACKPOOL 27 words
  12. FANFARE FOR EUROPE 45 words
  13. IRAQ 27 words
  14. INFLATION 215 words
  15. EUROPE (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH) 40 words
  16. NORTHERN IRELAND (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT) 284 words
  17. ECONOMIC AFFAIRS 61 words
  18. COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL 110 words
  19. DEFENCE
    1. Industrial Workers (Pay) 118 words
    2. Training Aircraft 48 words
    3. Nimrod Aircraft 74 words
  20. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Public Lending Right 75 words
    2. Careers Guidance 61 words
    3. Teachers' Aides 72 words
  21. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Iceland (Fishing Dispute) 71 words
    2. Rhodesians (British Passports) 49 words
    3. Timothy Davey (Repatriation) 49 words
    4. International Labour Organisation (Conventions) 159 words
    5. Argentina (British Art Works) 104 words
  22. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Government of Ireland Act, 1920 55 words
  23. POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    1. Radio Carlisle 55 words
    2. BBC (Chairman) 35 words
  24. SCOTLAND
    1. Licensing Courts (Retiring Age) 67 words
    2. Statutory Appointments 86 words
    3. Roads 84 words
    4. Physiotherapists 224 words
    5. Blind Persons 158 words
    6. Police (Salary Structure) 57 words
    7. Housing (Elderly and Disabled Persons) 157 words
    8. Hospitals (Geriatric Wards) 314 words
    9. Alcoholic Drinks (Television Advertising) 44 words
    10. Edinburgh Airport 63 words
    11. Alexandria Bypass 28 words
    12. Public Works Programmes 68 words
    13. Scottish Council (Overseas Industrial Promotion) 77 words
  25. WALES
    1. Fanfare for Europe 69 words
    2. Medical Student Places 62 words
    3. Water Supplies 69 words
    4. National Health Service (Reorganisation) 96 words
    5. Aberysrwyth—Shrewsbury Railway 62 words

Lords Sitting of 21 November 1972

  1. E.E.C.: BRITISH ENTRY AND MILITARY SERVICE 381 words
  2. MAXILLO-FACIAL TECHNICIANS: SALARY SCALES 483 words
  3. EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE 537 words
  4. E.E.C. INSTRUMENTS AND UNITED KINGDOM PARLIAMENT 568 words
  5. DEPUTY CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES 111 words
  6. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE (PRIVATE BILLS) 88 words
  7. CONSOLIDATION BILLS 122 words
  8. COUNTER-INFLATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)BILL 5,291 words
  9. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DESIGNATION) ORDER 1972 6,540 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 21 November 1972

  1. ARMED FORCES AND CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS 221 words