Commons Sitting of 21 February 1977

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. DEATH OF A MEMBER 52 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. ENERGY
      1. Power Stations (Reliability) 332 words
      2. United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 644 words
      3. Smokeless Fuel Stocks 428 words
      4. Nuclear Power Plant (Exports) 541 words
      5. Fast Breeder Reactors (Safety) 427 words
      6. North Sea Oil Exploration 369 words
      7. Energy Commission 753 words
      8. Price Control Powers 181 words
      9. Fusion Research Programme 534 words
      10. North Sea Oil and Gas Reserves 546 words
      11. Electricity and Gas Showrooms (Closure) 299 words
      12. Coal Demand 534 words
      13. Coal Supplies 413 words
      14. Coal Imports 359 words
    2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      1. Lomé Convention (Discussions) 728 words
      2. Mozambique (Rhodesian Refugees) 399 words
      3. European Community Council of Ministers 276 words
      4. Directorate of Overseas Surveys 376 words
      5. Stern Group 252 words
      6. Departmental Programme 526 words
  4. MR. ANTHONY CROSLAND (TRIBUTES) 2,610 words
  5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 49 words
  6. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 131 words
  7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. COVENT GARDEN MARKET (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL 7 words
  8. New Clause 2
    1. REPORT ON INSPECTION AND EVALUATION OF USE OF MANPOWER 3,031 words
    2. Clause 1
    3. REDUCTION IN THE DEBT OF THE COVENT GARDEN MARKET AUTHORITY 846 words
    4. Clause 2
    5. DISPOSAL OF SOME OF THE AUTHORITY'S ASSETS 13,200 words
  9. TEXTILES 35,370 words
  10. PETITION
    1. High Court Attendances (Officers of the House) 323 words
  11. CAERNARVON INNER RELIEF ROAD 4,857 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 February 1977

  1. ENERGY
    1. Advisory Council on Energy Conservation 60 words
    2. Coal Mining (Common Ownership) 58 words
    3. Drax B Power Station 85 words
    4. Coal Stockpiling 64 words
    5. Policy 106 words
    6. Wind Energy 57 words
    7. Pressure Water Reactors (Safety) 50 words
    8. Prices 363 words
    9. Electricity Generation 320 words
    10. Offshore Pipelines 105 words
    11. Power Generating Industry 54 words
    12. Research 93 words
    13. Oil Refining 20 words
    14. Coalfield Development (South Wales) 52 words
    15. Power Stations 51 words
    16. Energy Commission 191 words
    17. Oil Production 82 words
    18. British Nuclear Fuels Limited 295 words
    19. Offshore Oil (Republic of Ireland Dispute) 101 words
  2. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Tree Council 61 words
    2. Fishery Protection 98 words
    3. Covent Garden Market Authority 573 words
    4. Fishing Industry (Grants) 93 words
    5. Monetary Compensatory Amounts 218 words
  3. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Unemployed Persons 195 words
    2. Tobacco 31 words
    3. British Petroleum 108 words
    4. Scottish Budget 83 words
    5. Corporation Tax 78 words
    6. £ Sterling 103 words
    7. Income Tax 168 words
    8. Deferred Taxation 240 words
    9. Industrial Production 133 words
    10. Personal Incomes 68 words
    11. Child Tax Allowance 130 words
    12. Tobacco 164 words
    13. National Debt 50 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Education 59 words
    2. Belize (Citrus Fruit) 72 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Animals (Experiments) 100 words
    2. Paroled Prisoners 216 words
    3. Newspapers (Departmental Purchases) 125 words
    4. Gemman Santana Boza 135 words
    5. Police Flats, Huntley Street 83 words
    6. Police (Pay) 88 words
    7. Inquests (Babies) 308 words
    8. Journalists 65 words
    9. Widows (Criminal Injuries Compensation) 116 words
    10. Licensing Hours (Public Holidays) 27 words
  6. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. National Health Service (Ombudsmen's Recommendations) 359 words
    2. Abortions 481 words
    3. Family Incomes 82 words
    4. Invalid Vehicles 1,354 words
    5. Disabled Persons 329 words
    6. Walsall 1,124 words
    7. Exceptional Needs Payments 389 words
    8. Mortgage Interest 92 words
    9. Building Trades (Employment) 288 words
    10. Clothes Allowance 206 words
    11. Income Tax 419 words
    12. Children in Care 93 words
    13. Population 700 words
    14. Stillborn Children 187 words
    15. Travel Warrants 168 words
    16. Giro Cheques 94 words
    17. Wages Loss 124 words
    18. Maintenance 149 words
    19. Abuses 84 words
    20. Bedfordshire 141 words
    21. National Insurance Contributions (Arrears) 101 words
    22. Occupational Pensions 412 words
    23. Health Advisory Committee 252 words
    24. Worthing Hospital 267 words
    25. Hospitals (Board and Lodging Costs) 312 words
    26. Pensions and Benefits (Hospital In-Patients) 178 words
    27. Perinatal Care 410 words
    28. Vaccination and Immunisation (Joint Committee) 141 words
    29. Research 80 words
    30. Toxicara Canis 78 words
    31. Family Income Supplement 84 words
    32. Adolescent Girls (Intensive Care Unit) 177 words
    33. Hospital Patients (Medicines) 81 words
    34. War Pensioners' Vehicle Service 117 words
    35. Dentists 156 words
    36. Dental Hygienists 235 words
    37. Emergency Dental Services 190 words
    38. Illnesses 53 words
    39. Preventive Dentistry 315 words
    40. Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy 57 words
    41. General Practitioners 1,017 words
    42. Life Expectancy 70 words
    43. Infant Mortality 135 words
    44. Hospital Places 178 words
    45. Mr. James Harvey 384 words
  7. INDUSTRY
    1. HS146 Aircraft 123 words
    2. Industrial Development Advisory Board 149 words
    3. National Enterprise Board 50 words
    4. Government Aid 536 words
    5. Aircraft and Shipbuilding (Nationalisation) 59 words
    6. Inflation 52 words
  8. TRADE
    1. Commodity Stabilisation 64 words
    2. Burnholme and Forder Ltd. 61 words
    3. Accountancy (Current Cost System) 75 words
    4. Overseas Construction Projects 956 words
    5. Export Credits 220 words
  9. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Security Companies 141 words
    2. Special Advisers 246 words
    3. Government Car Service 66 words
  10. DEFENCE
    1. South Korea 64 words
    2. Expenditure 76 words
    3. Air Defence 187 words
    4. Students 29 words
    5. Frigates 35 words
    6. Wehrkunde Conference (Munich) 47 words
    7. Gibraltar (Civilian Employees) 54 words
  11. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Ruskin College 246 words
    2. Teacher Training 146 words
    3. Independent Schools 143 words
    4. Turnlee Youth Centre, Glossop 84 words
    5. Mathematics 80 words
    6. School Closures 87 words
  12. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Community Health Councils 97 words
    2. Unemployed Persons 71 words
    3. Maternity Pay 113 words
    4. Illegitimacy 104 words
    5. Industrial Tribunals 40 words
    6. Company Directors (Trade Union Management) 47 words
    7. Sutton 311 words
    8. Huddersfield 148 words
    9. Wages 213 words
    10. School Leavers (Bexley) 77 words
    11. Self-employed Persons 444 words
    12. Sussex 454 words
    13. Land Commission 69 words
  13. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Weapons 300 words
    2. Indian Subcontinent (Emigration) 158 words
    3. Recruitment 72 words
    4. Belize 133 words
    5. Cyprus 77 words
  14. NEWSPAPER PURCHASES (LORD ADVOCATE'S OFFICE) 163 words
  15. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
    1. Newspapers (Departmental Purchases) 123 words
    2. Beer 177 words
    3. Soft Drinks (Hotels and Bars) 57 words
    4. Honda Motor Cycles 63 words
  16. SCOTLAND
    1. Building Trades (Employment) 154 words
    2. Newspapers (Scottish Office Purchases) 207 words
    3. Coho Salmon Eggs 252 words
    4. Civil Service and Local Government (Employees) 58 words
    5. Motorways 71 words
    6. Licensing Hours (Public Holidays) 25 words
  17. TRANSPORT
    1. Kew (Heavy Traffic) 120 words
    2. Coaches (Parking) 87 words
    3. Motorways 110 words
    4. Traffic Lights (Worthing) 218 words
  18. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Queen's Silver Jubilee 68 words
    2. Gas Undertakings (Financing) 211 words
    3. Water and Sewerage Charges 237 words
    4. Royal Ulster Constabulary 354 words
  19. MINISTERS AND GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES (PUBLIC STATEMENTS) 106 words
  20. MINISTERIAL REPLIES AND PRIVY COUNCILLORS 75 words
  21. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Historic Buildings 141 words
    2. Derelict Land 69 words
    3. Construction Exports Advisory Board 749 words
    4. Noise Insulation 56 words
    5. Mental Hostels (Construction and Financing) 93 words
    6. Rate Support Grant 1,349 words
    7. Water Authorities 624 words
    8. Freehold Purchasing 157 words
    9. Government Press Centre, St. James's 226 words
  22. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS 400 words
  23. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAWS 120 words