Commons Sitting of 24 January 1978

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. ORKNEY ISLANDS COUNCIL BILL (By Order) 14 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. DEFENCE
      1. Fire Service Dispute 546 words
      2. Expenditure 1,892 words
      3. Recruiting 421 words
      4. Armed Forces Pay Review Body 535 words
      5. Expenditure 711 words
      6. Boarding Education (Service Personnel) 174 words
      7. Pay 1,086 words
      8. Equipment (Foreign Purchases) 273 words
    2. COCOM 154 words
    3. Hydrographic Strategic Review Body 168 words
    4. NATO HEADS OF GOVERNMENT 498 words
    5. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 1,417 words
  4. TUC AND CBI 443 words
  5. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS (PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE) 1,594 words
  6. UNEMPLOYMENT 226 words
  7. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 1,176 words
  8. HAIRDRESSERS (REGISTRATION) (AMENDMENT) 2,926 words, 1 division
  9. HAIRDRESSERS (REGISTRATION) (AMENDMENT) 40 words
  10. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. SCOTLAND BILL 15 words
      1. Clause 64
        1. STATUS AND REMUNERATION OF CERTAIN OFFICERS AND SERVANTS 32,233 words, 1 division
      2. Clause 65
        1. RATE SUPPORT GRANTS 14,983 words, 1 division
      3. Clause 66
        1. PUBLIC BODIES 4,925 words
      4. Schedule 13
        1. PUBLIC BODIES 183 words
      5. Clause 68
        1. PLANNING 1,150 words, 1 division
      6. Clause 69
        1. TRANSFER OF PROPERTY 100 words
      7. Clause 70
        1. ACQUISITION AND DISPOSAL OF LAND BY FIRST SECRETARY 31 words
      8. Clause 71
        1. SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS AS TO PROPERTY VESTED IN FIRST SECRETARY 51 words
      9. Clause 74
        1. CONFIRMATION BY HOUSE OF COMMONS OF RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY IT BUT NOT PASSED BY HOUSE OF LORDS 1,220 words, 1 division
    2. OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) 89 words
    3. HOLIDAY CARAVAN SITES 4,303 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 24 January 1978

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Civil Defence (Shelters) 80 words
    2. Myra Hindley 123 words
    3. Arab Visitors 112 words
    4. Royal Abdication (1936) 32 words
    5. Departmental Banking 41 words
    6. Fire Service 196 words
    7. Sex Discrimination Act 56 words
    8. Pakistan 71 words
    9. Pornography 130 words
    10. TUC AND CBI 196 words
    11. INDUSTRIAL WORKERS (PAY) 111 words
    12. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 190 words
    13. BELIZE 25 words
    14. NATO HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT 108 words
    15. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY HEADS OF GOVERNMENT 27 words
    16. NATO HEADQUARTERS 27 words
    17. PRESTON 25 words
    18. ETTRICK 23 words
    19. CABINET OFFICE PAPERS 23 words
    20. SEX DISCRIMINATION ACT 39 words
    21. NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES 42 words
    22. EL SALVADOR 46 words
    23. BELGRAVIA 23 words
    24. KELSALL 25 words
    25. BRUSSELS 28 words
    26. CHEQUERS 54 words
    27. BANGLADESH, INDIA AND PAKISTAN 205 words
    28. SMALL BUSINESSES AND SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS 160 words
    29. PAY SETTLEMENTS 101 words
  2. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Liberal Party 72 words
    2. Departmental Banking 44 words
    3. Government (Supply of Information) 216 words
  3. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Fishing Quotas 410 words
  4. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Flood Damage (Wisbech) 289 words
    2. Housing Finance (Hertfordshire) 289 words
    3. Royal Parks 43 words
    4. Disabled Persons 123 words
    5. Lands (Ownership) 45 words
    6. Verney and Stevens Reports 61 words
    7. Liverpool Inner City Partnership Committee 197 words
    8. Crawley (New Town Houses) 73 words
    9. Direct Labour 362 words
    10. Departmental Banking 82 words
    11. Rent and Rate Rebates 63 words
    12. Urban Programme 385 words
    13. Construction Industry 200 words
    14. Launderettes 116 words
    15. Offices 290 words
    16. Historic Buildings 84 words
    17. St. Katharine's Dock 112 words
  5. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Capital Allowances (Buildings) 193 words
    2. Capital Gains Tax 360 words
    3. Sex Discrimination 152 words
    4. Unemployed Persons 86 words
    5. Travel by Car 92 words
    6. Tax Threshold 639 words
    7. Divers 494 words
    8. Monetary Union 146 words
    9. National Savings Bank 621 words
    10. Value Added Tax 378 words
    11. Investment (Employment Effect) 207 words
    12. Mortgage Interest 63 words
    13. Local Government Expenditure 1,385 words
    14. Income Tax 227 words
    15. Personal Incomes 322 words
    16. Social Security Benefits 42 words
  6. TRANSPORT
    1. Roads (Maintenance) 100 words
    2. Lorry Drivers 80 words
  7. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Unification Church 165 words
    2. Burial Costs 145 words
    3. Pensions 130 words
    4. Mr. A. J. Murphy, Newbury 110 words
    5. Disabled Children 54 words
    6. Gallantry Awards 72 words
    7. Meals on Wheels 104 words
    8. Departmental Correspondence 144 words
    9. Dental and Ophthalmic Services (Costs) 86 words
    10. Area Health Authorities 308 words
    11. National Health Service 318 words
    12. Community Health Councils 246 words
    13. Prescriptions (Administrative Costs) 81 words
    14. Regional Health Authorities 127 words
    15. Health Authorities 405 words
    16. Students 204 words
    17. Hospitals (Expenditure) 153 words
    18. Telephones (Rebates) 165 words
    19. Family Practioner Committees 27 words
    20. Pharmacies 80 words
    21. King's Lynn District General Hospital 306 words
    22. Hospital Services (North Cambridge) 572 words
    23. North Cambridgeshire Hospital 59 words
    24. Hunter Rowe Bequest 79 words
    25. Hospital Patients 111 words
    26. Orthopaedic Surgery 144 words
    27. Geriatrics (Norfolk and King's Lynn) 60 words
    28. Supplementary Benefit 99 words
    29. Violence in the Family (Report) 120 words
    30. Oakmere Rehabilitation Centre 93 words
    31. Hospital Patients 111 words
    32. Telephones 343 words
  8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Crown Agents 129 words
  9. SCOTLAND
    1. Oil Development Council 173 words
  10. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Kidwelly Employment Exchange 42 words
    2. Government Chemist's Laboratory 123 words
    3. Wages 106 words
    4. Heating and Ventilation 60 words
    5. Plumbing 64 words
    6. Departmental Banking 75 words
  11. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Manchester 183 words
    2. Electricians 56 words
    3. Fraud (Investigators) 152 words
    4. Pay Settlements 104 words
    5. Shipbuilding and Allied Industries Management Association 164 words
    6. Job Release Scheme 51 words
    7. Cannock Chase 178 words
    8. Textiles 141 words
  12. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. India (Ship Purchasing) 57 words
    2. Departmental Banking 127 words
  13. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Guatemala 77 words
  14. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
    1. Assembly Building 124 words
    2. Disarmament (United Nations Special Session) 68 words
    3. Departmental Banking 87 words
    4. Cyprus 91 words
    5. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE (NORTHERN IRELAND) 82 words
  15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Departmental Banking 73 words
    2. University Teachers (Pay) 224 words
    3. United Nations Association 44 words
    4. Music Colleges 62 words
    5. Further Education 45 words
    6. Teachers 151 words
  16. INDUSTRY
    1. British Leyland 71 words
    2. Investment 346 words
    3. Colwyn 102 words
    4. Government Aid 422 words
    5. Accelerated Projects Scheme 151 words
    6. Shipbuilding 72 words
    7. Selective Investment Scheme 64 words
    8. Development Areas 124 words
    9. British Shipbuilders 59 words
  17. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
    1. Bank Charges 126 words
    2. Mortgages 89 words
    3. Mail Order Businesses (Code of Practice) 82 words
  18. TRADE
    1. Export Credits Guarantee Department 349 words
    2. Oil Tankers (Discharging) 91 words
    3. Motor Cars 246 words
    4. Airports 38 words
  19. ENERGY
    1. Oil Rig Construction 95 words
  20. WALES
    1. Road Signs 88 words
    2. Metrication (Road Signs) 59 words
    3. Lorry Drivers 79 words
    4. Green Pound 101 words
  21. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Mortgages 235 words
    2. Dogs 93 words
    3. Strathearn Audio Ltd. 259 words
    4. Accident Reports 119 words
  22. DEFENCE
    1. Expenditure 366 words
    2. Electoral Registration 164 words
    3. Cruise Missile 57 words
    4. Recruiting 131 words
    5. Pay 251 words
    6. British Army of the Rhine 233 words
    7. Belfast Aircraft 26 words
    8. Neutron Bomb 55 words
    9. Low-flying Aircraft (Wales) 35 words
    10. El Salvador 90 words
    11. Accommodation Charges 62 words
    12. HMS "Bulwark" 69 words
    13. Weather Forecasts 179 words
    14. Army (Manpower) 37 words
    15. Latin American Countries 52 words
    16. Fire Service Duties 69 words
    17. Victoria Cross 266 words
    18. Territorial Army 118 words
    19. Dartmoor 302 words
    20. Retirements 202 words
    21. Royal Air Force (Bahrain) 199 words

Lords Sitting of 24 January 1978

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. BRITISH RAIL: DELAYED SERVICES 255 words
  3. CROSSBOWS: UNLICENSED USE 460 words
  4. COAL OUTPUT 1,184 words
  5. UN: COMMON FUND CONFERENCE 1,259 words
  6. PARTICIPATION AGREEMENTS BILL 17 words
  7. BLASPHEMY (ABOLITION OF OFFENCE BILL) [H.L.] 51 words
  8. MEDICAL BILL [H.L.] 12,374 words
  9. CONSUMER TRANSACTIONS (RESTRICTIONS ON STATEMENTS) (AMENDMENT) ORDER 1978 1,089 words
  10. ECC REPORT: SOCIAL SECURITY AND SEX EQUALITY 8,174 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 24 January 1978

  1. CRIMINAL APPEALS: PROCEDURE 44 words
  2. ECGD: UNDERWRITING DIVISIONS 179 words
  3. OATHS: TERMINOLOGY 171 words