Commons Sitting of 24 February 1976

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. CITY OF ABERDEEN DISTRICT COUNCIL ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 6 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 36 words
    2. SOCIAL SERVICES
      1. Appetite Suppressants 145 words
      2. Private Hospitals and Beds (Licences) 396 words
      3. Pensioners' Organisations 644 words
      4. Heating Allowance 831 words
      5. One-Parent Families 377 words
      6. National Dried Milk 707 words
      7. Abuses (Prosecution) 552 words
      8. Poverty Trap 563 words
      9. Drugs (Prescriptions) 722 words
      10. Social Security Pensions Act 1975 568 words
      11. Hospital and Local Government Services 455 words
      12. Hospital Ward Closures and Staff Levels 194 words
      13. MINISTER FOR OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT (SPEECH) 204 words
      14. ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH) 1,898 words
  5. CIVIL SERVICE COLLEGE 278 words
  6. RHODESIA 1,876 words
  7. QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING) 510 words
  8. QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 207 words
  9. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 59 words
  10. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 22 words
  11. SOLICITORS ACT 1974 (AMENDMENT) 1,079 words
  12. SOLICITORS ACT 1974 (AMENDMENT) 56 words
  13. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. SUPPLY 3 words
    2. FOREIGN AFFAIRS (EAST-WEST RELATIONS) 52,077 words
    3. ARMED FORCES BILL 28 words
    4. STANDING ORDERS 175 words
    5. VIOLENCE IN THE FAMILY 135 words
    6. ADJOURNMENT 12 words
    7. TEA EXPORTS (DUTY-FREE SHOPS) 2,688 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 24 February 1976

  1. CHANNEL TUNNEL 46 words
  2. WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR (TALKS) 51 words
  3. PRIME MINISTER (VISITS) 211 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 47 words
  5. ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH) 360 words
  6. NEDC 43 words
  7. EEC HEADS OF STATE 71 words
  8. PRESS (ROYAL COMMISSION) 77 words
  9. CZECHOSLOVAKIA 19 words
  10. TUC AND CBI 64 words
  11. ENERGY PRICES 47 words
  12. TAXATION (ROYAL COMMISSION) 36 words
  13. BANK OF ENGLAND 35 words
  14. CENTRAL POLICY REVIEW STAFF 43 words
  15. SOUTH AFRICAN BUREAU OF STATE SECURITY 80 words
  16. ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS 109 words
  17. GAMBLING (ROYAL COMMISSION) 78 words
  18. INDUSTRY
    1. paper and Board Industry 63 words
    2. Job Creation 287 words
    3. Waste Paper (Recycling) 155 words
    4. Chrysler (United Kingdom) Ltd. 100 words
    5. Zip Fasteners 130 words
    6. Shipbuilding 54 words
  19. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
    1. Departmental Publicity Costs 188 words
    2. Price Restraint (Costs) 44 words
  20. TRADE
    1. Companies Acts 59 words
    2. Paper 128 words
    3. Saudi Arabia 101 words
    4. Insurance Companies 254 words
    5. Cars (Japan) 117 words
    6. Imports 47 words
    7. PVC Imports 50 words
    8. Footwear 110 words
  21. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Medical Students 96 words
    2. Research 127 words
    3. Tate Gallery 123 words
    4. One-Parent Families 64 words
  22. DEFENCE
    1. BBC (External Services) 156 words
    2. Warships 60 words
    3. Simonstown 34 words
    4. Dockyards 168 words
    5. Missiles 31 words
  23. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Flatfish Stocks 114 words
    2. Tractor Manufacturers 186 words
    3. Potatoes 135 words
    4. Smallholdings 229 words
    5. Tubercular Cattle 124 words
    6. Farm Tenancies 67 words
    7. Hill Farm Compensation Payments 183 words
  24. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Sierra Leone 134 words
    2. Zambia (Detained British Lecturers) 79 words
    3. Rhodesia 108 words
    4. Soviet Union (Newspaper Correspondents) 42 words
    5. Soviet Union 346 words
    6. Passports 116 words
  25. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Dwellings 60 words
  26. SCOTLAND
    1. Scottish Assembly 134 words
    2. Erskine Bridge 68 words
    3. Social Workers 115 words
    4. Hill Farmers' Compensatory Payments 106 words
    5. Geriatric Beds 65 words
    6. Police (Complaints) 73 words
  27. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Building Societies (Interest Rate) 82 words
    2. Public Sector Costs and Prices 151 words
    3. Mortgages (Tax Relief) 283 words
    4. Public Expenditure (Scotland) 52 words
    5. Tax Arrears 83 words
    6. Income Tax 60 words
    7. Double Taxation Agreements 226 words
    8. Tax Yields 166 words
    9. Investment 345 words
    10. Budget Surpluses and Deficits 48 words
    11. Gross National Product 194 words
    12. Exports 156 words
    13. Inflation 55 words
    14. Occupational Pensions 349 words
  28. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Homeless Persons (Warrington) 129 words
    2. British Railways Board 97 words
    3. Goods Traffic 154 words
    4. Railways 353 words
    5. M25 (M16) 158 words
    6. M62 (Farmers' Compensation Claim) 77 words
    7. West Lancashire District Council 44 words
    8. Footpaths and Roads Protection 103 words
    9. Parking 88 words
    10. Road Lighting (Costs) 154 words
    11. Local Councillors' Allowances 67 words
    12. Castle Point District Council (Housing Scheme) 100 words
    13. A5 (Roman Settlement) 40 words
    14. Windscreens 249 words
    15. Local Government Expenditure 56 words
    16. Parcels Carriage 90 words
    17. Eastern Regional Sports Council 98 words
    18. Motor Insurance 77 words
    19. M54 (Telford) 75 words
    20. Noise Advisory Council (Exhibition) 68 words
  29. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Licensing Law 71 words
    2. Disaster Unit 97 words
    3. Fines 80 words
    4. Arrested Persons 99 words
    5. Judges' Rules 128 words
    6. Mr. Maurice O'Mahoney 108 words
    7. Prisoners 39 words
    8. Mr. Maurice O'Mahoney 108 words
    9. Immigrants 70 words
    10. Mercenaries 177 words
  30. WALES
    1. Smallholdings 291 words
  31. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Frauds and Abuses 97 words
    2. Development Commission 203 words
    3. Expenditure 241 words
    4. Doctors 538 words
    5. Medical Schools 107 words
    6. Pensioners 112 words
    7. Deaf Persons 97 words
    8. Pensions 435 words
    9. Benefit Payments 77 words
    10. Hospital Building 65 words
    11. Energy Conservation 303 words
    12. Hospital Beds 95 words
    13. National Health Service 75 words
    14. Supplementary Benefit Appeal Tribunals 87 words
    15. Barton, Oxford 57 words
    16. Tobacco Substitutes 143 words
    17. Hospitals (Complaints) 99 words
    18. Representation of the People Act 1948 101 words
    19. Social Workers 200 words
    20. Violence in Marriage (Select Committee) 54 words
    21. Grovelands Hospital, Southgate 51 words
    22. Road Accidents (Cost) 88 words
    23. Dental Treatment (Schoolchildren) 80 words
    24. Heating Costs and Allowances 839 words
    25. One-Parent Families 425 words
    26. Child Poverty Action Group (Report) 112 words
    27. Family Allowances 102 words
    28. Mobility Allowance 101 words
    29. Aliens 179 words
    30. Wives 119 words
    31. Motor Industry Workers (Unemployment Benefit) 194 words
    32. Benefits 172 words
    33. Disabled Persons 202 words
    34. Pay Beds 291 words
    35. Death Grant 59 words
    36. Pornography 75 words
    37. Boarding-Out Allowances 105 words
    38. Pneumoconiosis 66 words
    39. Homeless Persons (Cleaves Case) 133 words
    40. Republic of Ireland 166 words
    41. Local and Health Authorities (Joint Schemes) 139 words
    42. Disabled Persons (Telephones) 143 words
    43. Mentally Handicapped Children 86 words
    44. District Management Teams (Minutes of Meetings) 154 words
    45. Hypothermia 133 words
    46. Invalidity Pension 94 words
    47. Skelmersdale New Town (Hospital) 121 words
    48. Health Authorities (Finance) 88 words
    49. Spectacles 63 words
    50. Elderly Persons (North-East Essex) 88 words
    51. Private Patients 85 words
    52. Herts and Essex Hospital (Maternity Unit) 92 words
    53. Family Fund 96 words
    54. National Insurance Fund 117 words
    55. Geriatric Beds 97 words
    56. Sterilisation 63 words
  32. ENERGY
    1. North Sea Oil and Gas (Select Committee Report) 87 words
    2. Fuel Prices 57 words
    3. Inflation (North Sea Oil Equipment) 105 words
    4. Oil Prices 78 words
    5. Pensioners 195 words
    6. Energy Bill 30 words
    7. Opencast Workings (Blight Compensation) 70 words
    8. North Sea Gas 136 words
  33. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Industrial Tribunals 123 words
    2. "Safety Representatives and Safety Committees" 108 words
    3. Mercenaries 83 words
    4. European Community 973 words
    5. Educational Establishments (Health and Safety) 308 words
    6. Wales 173 words
    7. Clothing, Textiles and Footwear 108 words
    8. Prices Index 39 words
    9. Unemployed Persons 1,715 words
    10. Fatal Accidents 225 words

Lords Sitting of 24 February 1976

  1. Preamble 23 words
  2. BRUNEI AND UN RESOLUTION 3424 561 words
  3. TIVERTON AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL 869 words
  4. THE EASTER ACT 1928 458 words
  5. PEERS AND PARLIAMENTARY FRANCHISE 224 words
  6. RHODESIA 27 words
  7. CITY OF ABERDEEN DISTRICT COUNCIL ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 26 words
  8. MAPLIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (DISSOLUTION) BILL [H.L.] 13 words
  9. NATIONAL COAL BOARD (FINANCE) BILL 4 words
  10. TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL 6,308 words
  11. RHODESIA 1,721 words
  12. TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL 14,817 words, 1 division
  13. SOLICITORS (SCOTLAND) BILL [H.L.] 222 words
  14. SHOPS (HOLIDAY RESORTS— SUNDAY TRADING) BILL [H.L.] 2,797 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 24 February 1976

  1. ELECTRICITY: DOMESTIC CONSUMER DISCONNECTIONS 69 words
  2. IMMIGRATION FIGURES 46 words
  3. DEPENDENT RELATIVE ALLOWANCE 105 words
  4. AFFORESTATION: ACREAGE STATISTICS 420 words