25 March 1974

Commons Sitting of 25 March 1974

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. GLASGOW CORPORATION (CONTROL OF PARKING ETC.) ORDER CONFIRMATION 56 words
    2. GLASGOW CORPORATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ORDER CONFIRMATION 54 words
    3. GREENOCK CORPORATION ORDER CONFIRMATION 52 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. INDUSTRY
      1. Strachans Factories, Eastleigh and Hamble 218 words
      2. Concorde 1,908 words
      3. North Staffordshire 171 words
      4. Regional Employment Premium 655 words
      5. Gas and Electricity Accounts (Payment at Post Offices) 171 words
      6. Employers (Consultations) 542 words
      7. Polyvinyl Chloride 349 words
      8. Steel Tube and Tube Fittings (Export) 122 words
      9. Three-Day Working Week 376 words
      10. Japanese Ball-bearing Factory 423 words
      11. Television and Motor Cars 299 words
      12. Seahorse Marine Engine 222 words
      13. Northern Region 429 words
      14. Steel 1,056 words
      15. Industrial Development Grants (Waste Material Recycling) 337 words
      16. Electrically-Propelled Vehicles 160 words
      17. JURORS (PAYMENT) 194 words
    2. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
      1. Consumer Advice Centres 175 words
    3. TRADE
      1. Deep-Sea Trawlers (Safety and Search Equipment) 421 words
      2. DC10 Aircraft Accident (Inquiry) 186 words
      3. Company Law 347 words
    4. ENERGY
      1. Pit Closures 311 words
  5. DISABLED PERSONS (SHARP REPORT) 2,843 words
  6. AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING) 3,691 words
  7. RATE SUPPORT GRANT 56,211 words, 1 division
  8. RATE SUPPORT GRANT (SCOTLAND) 11,199 words
  9. ELECTIONS OF COUNCILLORS (SCOTLAND) 105 words
  10. RATING AND VALUATION (STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS) 1,109 words
  11. CEMETERIES 1,710 words
    1. ADJOURNMENT 12 words
  12. RETIRED PERSONS (SAVINGS) 3,634 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 25 March 1974

  1. ENERGY
    1. Gas Supply Grants (New Industry) 71 words
    2. National Coal Board 180 words
    3. Gas Oil 140 words
    4. Coal and Oil Prices 311 words
    5. Coal Stocks 85 words
    6. Fuel Efficiency 79 words
    7. Coal Reserves (Scotland) 48 words
    8. Oil and Gas Exploration 249 words
    9. Severn Barrage 73 words
    10. Oil Rig Construction (Scotland) 127 words
    11. Oil Rig Supply Ships (Discrimination) 100 words
  2. WALES
    1. Water Charges 190 words
    2. Economic Planning 59 words
    3. Bilingual Traffic Signs 26 words
    4. Glangrwyncy-Gavilon Link Road 91 words
    5. Agriculture 65 words
  3. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Construction Industry Training Board 58 words
    2. Earnings 185 words
    3. Training 154 words
    4. Employed Persons 136 words
    5. Manual Workers (Output) 63 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Television Licences (Pensioners) 329 words
    2. Police (Housing) 102 words
    3. Criminal Prosecutions (Jurors) 118 words
    4. Television (Wales) 94 words
    5. Committee on Broadcasting Coverage 58 words
    6. Wireless Grade Personnel (Dispute) 154 words
    7. Concessionary Television Licences 133 words
  5. ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNALS (LEGAL AID) 77 words
  6. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Brucellosis 131 words
    2. Pig Production 135 words
    3. Wollaton Farm, St. Mellion 104 words
    4. Glasshouses (Heating) 185 words
    5. Potatoes 605 words
    6. Agricultural Workers (Pay) 99 words
    7. Eggs and Poultry Meat (Imports) 92 words
    8. Pigmeat (Imports) 134 words
  7. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Rents 147 words
    2. Housing Finance 159 words
    3. Rate Support Grant 1,219 words
    4. Small Firms (Rents) 136 words
    5. Housing 82 words
    6. Shipton, Yorkshire (Speed Limit) 58 words
    7. Edmonton Underpass (North Circular and Cambridge Roads) 99 words
    8. Canterbury Bypass 134 words
    9. Railways 30 words
    10. Channel Tunnel 45 words
    11. Lands (Local Authorities) 46 words
    12. Bridistowe Bypass 58 words
    13. Dual Carriageways (Exeter-Launceston) 63 words
    14. Housing Costs 62 words
    15. Cooling Systems 57 words
    16. Structure Plans 685 words
    17. Regional Planning 468 words
    18. M3 65 words
    19. Mrs. A. M. Abrahall 139 words
    20. Planning Control (Dobry Report) 93 words
    21. Hoddesdon Relief Road 53 words
    22. Cumbria Rent Assessment Board 215 words
    23. Improvement Grants 41 words
    24. Cumbria (Local Commissioner) 83 words
    25. Rates Relief 623 words
    26. Roads (Westmorland) 109 words
    27. M5 (Avon Bridge) 119 words
    28. Commission for Local Administration 163 words
    29. A57 (Aintree—Skelmersdale) 58 words
    30. Amenity Loss Compensation Rights (Publicity) 108 words
  8. DEFENCE
    1. Destroyers and Frigates (Refitting Programme) 55 words
    2. Chile and Greece (Naval Contacts) 64 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Inshore Fishing Limits 109 words
    2. Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe 98 words
    3. Brussels 65 words
  10. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Overseas Aid (EEC) 101 words
    2. Chile 42 words
  11. INDUSTRY
    1. Ministerial Responsibilities 141 words
    2. Advance Factories 77 words
    3. Concorde 464 words
    4. Cumnock 61 words
    5. Tracked Hovercraft Limited 132 words
    6. Aircraft Noise 202 words
    7. Three-Day Working Week 121 words
    8. Newsprint 87 words
  12. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Questions to Ministers 43 words
    2. Scottish Grand Committee 58 words
    3. Members' Car Allowance 170 words
  13. QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 68 words
  14. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Protective Clothing and Footwear (Allowances) 31 words
    2. Income lax 119 words
    3. Personal Incomes 161 words
    4. Revenue 161 words
    5. Estate Duty (Service Men) 72 words
    6. Expenditure 267 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Security 204 words
    2. Probationers 106 words
  16. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
    1. Advice Centres 69 words
    2. Metrication 124 words
    3. Bread 229 words
    4. Price Code 1,489 words
    5. Fares 50 words
  17. SCOTLAND
    1. Caravans 181 words
    2. A7 (Galashiels) 32 words
    3. Bridge Tolls 85 words
    4. Kyles of Bute (New Bridge) 61 words
    5. Health Visitors (Cars) 85 words
    6. Carolina Port, Dundee (Generators) 62 words
    7. Doctors 99 words
  18. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Earnings Rule 107 words
    2. Hospital Staff (Pay) 64 words
    3. Nurses (Training) 147 words
    4. Health Centres (Pharmacy Service) 80 words
    5. Overseas Pensioners 56 words
    6. Disabled Persons (Sharp Report) 39 words
  19. TRADE
    1. Ships (Radio and Radar) 171 words
    2. Ships (Voyage Recorders) 100 words
    3. Airlines (Traffic and Operating Costs) 110 words
    4. Concorde 479 words
    5. Romania 142 words
    6. British Airways (Routes) 43 words
    7. Air Accidents 459 words
    8. Consumer Credit 32 words
    9. International Commodity Agreements 45 words
    10. Deep-Sea Trawlers (Safety and Search Equipment) 298 words
    11. Food Imports (EEC) 48 words