Commons Sitting of 30 April 1974

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. BARCLAYS BANK INTERNATIONAL BILL [Lords] 6 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. EMPLOYMENT
      1. Housing 174 words
      2. Mexborough and Wombwell 232 words
      3. Social Contract 793 words
      4. May Day 262 words
      5. Engineering Industry 247 words
      6. Industrial Relations Act 1,449 words
      7. London Weighting 1,474 words
      8. Departmental Agencies (Head Offices) 202 words
      9. Glasgow Firemen (Travel Allowances) 562 words
      10. Trades Union Congress (Talks) 278 words
      11. Picketing 263 words
      12. Government Scientists (Pay) 264 words
      13. MERSEYSIDE 422 words
      14. CENTRAL POLICY REVIEW STAFF 573 words
      15. OFFICIAL VISITS 683 words
      16. GOVERNMENT POLICY (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH) 790 words
  5. LEADER OF THE HOUSE 169 words
  6. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING) 522 words
  7. COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING) 5,315 words, 1 division
  8. COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING) 176 words
  9. BILL PRESENTED
    1. TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS 103 words
  10. SAFETY PACKAGING FOR MEDICINES BILL 1,476 words
  11. SAFETY PACKAGING FOR MEDICINES 44 words
  12. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. CHANNEL TUNNEL BILL 31,387 words, 1 division
    2. CHANNEL TUNNEL [MONEY] 586 words
  13. WAYS AND MEANS
    1. CHANNEL TUNNEL 74 words
    2. VALUE ADDED TAX 25,744 words, 1 division
    3. ADJOURNMENT 11 words
    4. A590 (LEVENS BRIDGE—ULVERSTON) 2,980 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 30 April 1974

  1. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Disabled Persons 122 words
    2. Training Boards 156 words
    3. New Jobs 86 words
    4. Social Contract 67 words
    5. Pay Code 61 words
    6. Industrial Relations Act and Pay Board 118 words
    7. Rocla Pipes (St. Helens) 77 words
    8. China Clay Industry 44 words
    9. Labour Force Statistics 197 words
    10. Chilean Warships 60 words
    11. Public Holidays 598 words
    12. Employment Agencies 66 words
    13. Aliens (National Insurance Cards) 79 words
  2. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Castlemilk (Departmental Facilities) 50 words
    2. Prescription Charges 57 words
    3. Building Design 67 words
    4. Radiography Students 56 words
    5. Speech Therapy Services 67 words
    6. Disregards 94 words
    7. Migraine 92 words
    8. Doctors (Migration) 465 words
    9. Hospital Building Programmes 416 words
    10. American Air Force Hospital, Ruislip 139 words
    11. invalid Vehicle Service 261 words
    12. Death Grant 60 words
    13. Food Poisoning 127 words
    14. Ear, Nose and Throat Operations 103 words
    15. Children and Young Persons Act 208 words
    16. Hospital Beds 251 words
    17. Doctor-Patient Ratio 124 words
    18. Artificial Insemination 80 words
    19. Disablement Pensions 82 words
    20. Widows' Pensions 139 words
  3. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Building Design 66 words
    2. Secondary Reorganisation 44 words
    3. Careers Advisers 101 words
    4. Adult Education 77 words
    5. Public Lending Right 83 words
    6. Arts Council 170 words
    7. The Arts 309 words
  4. DEFENCE
    1. Civilian Pay (Germany) 278 words
    2. Chilean Arms Contracts 102 words
    3. Northern Ireland 44 words
    4. Research 168 words
    5. Oman 109 words
    6. Union of Arab Emirates 65 words
    7. Dhofar 148 words
    8. Iran 119 words
    9. Recruiting Offices 87 words
    10. Housing (Ex-Servicemen) 70 words
  5. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Prices and Incomes Policy 79 words
    2. Family Expenditure 93 words
    3. Duty-Free Spirits 85 words
    4. Building Societies (Taxation) 92 words
    5. Tax Treaties 64 words
    6. International Loans 64 words
    7. Annuities and Life Assurance 165 words
    8. Gifts Tax 92 words
    9. Value Added Tax 34 words
    10. Estate Duty 199 words
    11. Savings Bonds (New Issue) 32 words
  6. SCOTLAND
    1. Wild Geese 104 words
    2. Planning Appeals 63 words
    3. Nurses and Midwives 68 words
    4. Melville Report 63 words
    5. Forestry 61 words
    6. Student Grants (Correspondence Courses) 53 words
    7. Improvement Grants 117 words
  7. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. London Allowance 72 words
    2. Pay Comparisons 205 words
    3. Policy Advisers 105 words
    4. BLACKPOOL 24 words
    5. EASTBOURNE 26 words
    6. GOVERNMENT POLICY (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH) 138 words
    7. CHINA 28 words
    8. PRESS AND BROADCASTING 81 words
    9. MERIDEN 25 words
    10. EXPORTS (DEPARTMENTAL CO-ORDINATION) 30 words
    11. NORTHERN IRELAND 70 words
    12. MINISTERIAL ADVISERS 69 words
    13. FILM INDUSTRY 59 words
    14. CHELMSLEY WOOD 26 words
    15. GOVERNMENT HOSPITALITY FUND 78 words
    16. CIVIL SERVICE 188 words
  8. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Apple and Pear Development Council 135 words
    2. Warble Fly 82 words
    3. Beef 213 words
    4. Cattle 129 words
    5. Crop Acreages 208 words
    6. Beam Trawling 59 words
    7. Pigmeat Imports 113 words
    8. Animal Exports 78 words
    9. Council of Ministers (Meeting) 45 words
    10. Tomatoes 132 words
    11. Sugar Beet 80 words
    12. Pigs 217 words
    13. Food Import Levies 115 words
    14. Home-Grown Cereals Authority 179 words
    15. INNER LONDON CROWN COURT 79 words
  9. ENERGY
    1. Nuclear Power Station Proposal (Dungeness) 96 words
  10. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Rents (Business Premises) 58 words
    2. A21 36 words
    3. A259 44 words
    4. Architecture (Preservation) 199 words
    5. Research Requirements Committees 436 words
    6. Rates (Bolton) 53 words
    7. A6, Desborough 113 words
    8. Improvement Grants 223 words
    9. Waste Materials (Recycling) 114 words
    10. Rate Relief 59 words
    11. Bilsborrow Hall 44 words
    12. Plumbers 50 words
    13. Haslingden Bypass 60 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Rhodesia 81 words
    2. Sea Bed (National Limits) 151 words
    3. Africa (Detained British Subjects) 202 words
    4. Uranium Ore 128 words
    5. Communist Countries (Ministerial Visits) 100 words
    6. Hong Kong 57 words
  12. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Picketing 72 words
    2. Foreign Husbands 79 words
    3. Security (Bomb Incidents) 75 words
    4. Battered Wives 63 words
    5. Food Poisoning (Prosecutions) 156 words
    6. Work Permits (Chilean Refugees) 48 words
    7. Children and Young Persons 1,525 words
    8. Illegal Immigrants 452 words
    9. Research 114 words
  13. INDUSTRY
    1. Engineers (Registration) 68 words
    2. Baler Twine 277 words
  14. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Oman 91 words
  15. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
    1. Food Subsidies 281 words
    2. Consumer Credit 64 words
    3. Polystyrene 113 words
  16. TRADE
    1. Gatwick Airport 141 words
    2. Copper Imports 1,303 words
    3. Marine Pollution 116 words
    4. Aircraft Accident (Luton) 96 words
  17. WALES
    1. Housing Expenditure 42 words
    2. Improvement Grants 234 words
    3. Housing Cost Yardstick 171 words

Lords Sitting of 30 April 1974

  1. Preamble 44 words
  2. AVIATION FUEL: RESTRICTIONS ON USE 209 words
  3. E.E.C.: DEMOCRATIC CONTROL 1,027 words
  4. NORTH SEA OIL: PLATFORM SITES 1,105 words
  5. E.E.C.: MEMBER STATES' NATIONALS AND CATERING JOBS 517 words
  6. CROUCH HARBOUR BILL [H.L.] 8 words
  7. CONTROL OF POLLUTION BILL [H.L.] 817 words
  8. NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL 18 words
  9. HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICES 1,428 words
  10. CONSUMER CREDIT BILL [H.L.] 79 words
  11. INSURANCE COMPANIES BILL [H.L.] 88 words
  12. SOLICITORS (AMENDMENT) BILL [H.L.] 6,079 words
  13. CONSUMER CREDIT BILL [H.L.] 18,246 words
  14. NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL 6,580 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 30 April 1974

  1. GATWICK AIRPORT SECOND RUNWAY 104 words
  2. E.E.C. AND FOOD PRICES 243 words
  3. E.E.C.: INFORMATION TO COMMISSION 99 words
  4. OLD STATIONERY OFFICE SITE 62 words