Commons Sitting of 5 July 1979

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. BRITISH RAILWAYS (SELBY) BILL 13 words
    2. LONDON TRANSPORT BILL (By Order)
    3. EAST KILBRIDE DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL (By Order)
    4. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON BILL [Lords] (By Order) 14 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. NORTHERN IRELAND
      1. Irish Republican Army (Terrorist Conspiracy) 293 words
      2. Security 1,770 words
      3. Northern Ireland Housing Executive 802 words
      4. Totalisator 274 words
      5. Young Persons (Training) 362 words
      6. Public Expenditure 256 words
      7. Political Initiative 1,024 words
      8. Political Consultations 608 words
      9. Rates 350 words
      10. Terrorism 286 words
    2. EDGE HILL 218 words
    3. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 1,855 words
  5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 5,817 words
  6. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS &c. 64 words
  7. SCOTTISH ESTIMATES 107 words
  8. FINANCE BILL 12 words
    1. Clause 4
      1. CONTINUATION OF REGULATOR POWERS 44,630 words
  9. ST. VINCENT (TERMINATION OF ASSOCIATION) 3,733 words
  10. PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER FOR ADMINISTRATION 39 words
  11. JOINT COMMITTEE ON CONSOLIDATION, &c., BILLS 131 words
  12. POLYURETHANE FOAM 3,889 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 5 July 1979

  1. TUC AND CBI 348 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 256 words
  3. OXFORD 28 words
  4. ROMFORD 23 words
  5. SYDENHAM 21 words
  6. TOKYO SUMMIT MEETING 24 words
  7. KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS 146 words
  8. NORTHERN REGION 46 words
  9. FAST-BREEDER REACTOR 64 words
  10. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Travel Allowances 523 words
    2. School Meals 170 words
    3. Derby County Council (Grant) 147 words
    4. Dyslexia 52 words
  11. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Firearms Control 220 words
    2. Postal Voting 56 words
    3. European Assembly (Members' Salaries and Expenses) 311 words
    4. Open Prisons 82 words
    5. Refugees 54 words
    6. Closed Prisons 37 words
    7. Skylab 339 words
    8. Parliamentary Boundary Commissions 775 words
    9. Arrestable Offences 86 words
  12. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Professional and Technical Grades (Salaries) 533 words
    2. Pensions 81 words
    3. Parliamentary Papers (Printing) 95 words
    4. Government Mail (Delivery) 55 words
  13. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. African Front-line States 69 words
    2. British Shipbuilders (Vietnamese Orders) 127 words
    3. DRUM ARTS CENTRE 104 words
  14. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Vietnamese Refugees 255 words
    2. Passports 79 words
    3. Rhodesia 94 words
  15. WALES
    1. School Buildings (Dyfed) 107 words
    2. Single Person Accommodation 48 words
    3. After-School Care 68 words
    4. Social Services 53 words
    5. Welsh Development Agency (Factory Development) 95 words
  16. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Bishop Auckland 198 words
    2. Northern Region 84 words
    3. Departmental Staff 90 words
    4. Industrial Training Boards 81 words
    5. Training Opportunities Scheme 84 words
    6. Small Firms Employment Subsidy 86 words
    7. Youth Opportunities Programme 647 words
    8. Staflex International Ltd. 75 words
    9. Manpower Services Commission 136 words
    10. Homeworking Advisory Committee 27 words
    11. Retail Prices Index 65 words
  17. SCOTLAND
    1. Visually Handicapped (Optical Charges) 57 words
    2. Grant-aided Schools 156 words
    3. Employment (Dundee) 265 words
    4. School Leavers (Dundee) 48 words
  18. TRADE
    1. USSR (Christmas Cards) 101 words
    2. Whaling 42 words
    3. Staflex International Limited 144 words
    4. Imported Footwear 54 words
    5. Film Industry 224 words
    6. Eady Money (Soft Porn Films) 82 words
    7. Price Commission 94 words
    8. Gatwick Airport (Passenger Movements) 217 words
    9. Multi-Fibre Arrangement 91 words
    10. Price Increases (Value Added Tax) 268 words
  19. DEFENCE
    1. Nuclear Powered Submarines 67 words
    2. Service Personnel (Boarding School Allowance) 161 words
    3. Press Correspondents (Briefing) 73 words
    4. Air Defence Aircraft 58 words
  20. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. United Kingdom—Irish Republic (Border Controls) 108 words
    2. Retirement Pensions 37 words
    3. Value Added Tax 839 words
    4. Mortgage Interest Rate 174 words
    5. Third Country Trade 56 words
    6. Pilots' National Pension Fund 148 words
    7. Inland Revenue (Freephone) 155 words
    8. Gross Domestic Product (International Comparisons) 287 words
    9. Customs Entry Processing (Felixstowe) 185 words
    10. Married Man's Allowance 101 words
    11. Widows' Pensions 68 words
    12. Family Income 133 words
    13. Direct Taxation 309 words
    14. National Land Fund 54 words
    15. Housing (Expenditure) 96 words
    16. NORTHERN IRELAND (ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE) 87 words
    17. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS 835 words
  21. INDUSTRY
    1. TUC (Employment and Technology) 34 words
    2. Microprocessors 136 words
    3. Staflex International Limited 100 words
    4. Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Sector Working Party 110 words
    5. Meriden Co-operative 50 words
    6. Steel 49 words
    7. Aircraft and Shipbuilding (Nationalised Companies) 476 words
    8. Industrial Development Certificates 35 words
  22. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Office Development Control 135 words
    2. Construction Industry 182 words
    3. Sprinkler Installations 85 words
    4. Northern Region 142 words
    5. Rating 56 words
    6. Metropolitan District Councils 37 words
    7. General Housing Subsidies 71 words
    8. Subsidies, Grants and Allowances 225 words
    9. Metropolitan County Councils (Directives) 36 words
    10. British American Tobacco Company (Planning Application) 88 words
    11. Council House Sales (Discounts) 92 words
    12. Gatwick Airport (Planning Applications) 182 words
    13. Land Development (Registers) 61 words
    14. Ordnance Survey 67 words
    15. Inner City Areas (Small Firms) 53 words
    16. British Waterways Board 145 words
    17. Rates 154 words
    18. Water Charges 151 words
    19. Cesspool Drainage 45 words
    20. Refuse Collection 80 words
    21. Centre for Environmental Studies 197 words
  23. TRANSPORT
    1. Trunk Roads 62 words
    2. M3 (Winchester) 116 words
    3. Road Humps 88 words
    4. Roadworks 239 words
    5. Highway Code 95 words
    6. A38 127 words
    7. Taxation Revenue and Road Costs 76 words
    8. Road Maintenance (Expenditure) 38 words
    9. Heavy Lorries 166 words
    10. Roads 112 words
    11. Driving Tests 33 words
    12. Mopeds 32 words
    13. Taxation Revenue and Road Costs 182 words
    14. Port of London Authority 47 words
    15. School Bus Services 125 words
    16. IMPORTED TINNED FOODS 88 words
  24. ENERGY
    1. Oil Heating (Commercial Sector) 143 words
    2. Fuel Prices 50 words
    3. North Sea Gas 698 words
  25. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Political Consultations 63 words
    2. Oil Imports and Usage 166 words
    3. De Lorean Project 43 words
    4. Shipyards 38 words
    5. Sea Ferry Services 69 words
    6. British Troops 76 words
    7. Dr. De Lorean 42 words
    8. Criminal Injuries (Compensation) 75 words
    9. Constitutional Convention 42 words
    10. Secondary Education 93 words
    11. Vehicle Excise Licence 317 words
    12. Security 41 words
  26. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Mileage Allowances 481 words
    2. Free Milk 112 words
    3. Vaccine Damage 90 words
    4. X-ray Equipment 564 words
    5. Mobility Allowance 243 words
    6. Camberwell Reception Centre 102 words
    7. Invalidity Pensioners 59 words
    8. Visual Handicap (Optical Charges) 70 words
    9. Welsh Language (Registration of Births) 525 words
    10. Abortion 704 words
    11. Nurses (Pay) 158 words
    12. Pharmaceutical Societies (Code of Practice) 53 words
    13. Minor Surgery 128 words
    14. Child Benefit 315 words
    15. Contraceptives 196 words
    16. Child Care 126 words
    17. Elderly Persons (Drug Schedules) 113 words
    18. Prosthetics 58 words
    19. Drugs 173 words
    20. Mental Illness 138 words
    21. Childbirth 148 words
    22. Non-contributory Invalidity Pension 142 words
    23. Supplementary Allowances 138 words
    24. London Ambulance Service 71 words
    25. Infant Life Preservation Act 1929 100 words
    26. Noise Levels (Mining) 170 words
    27. Cyclamates 50 words
    28. Coal Miners (Deafness) 125 words
    29. Arthritis and Rheumatism 109 words
  27. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Common Agricultural Policy 45 words
    2. Fishing Industry 68 words
    3. Whales 188 words
    4. Hill Livestock Producers 265 words
    5. Brazilian Corned Beef (Canning Standards) 210 words
    6. Bacon 157 words
    7. Pigmeat 158 words

Lords Sitting of 5 July 1979

  1. Preamble 33 words
  2. AIR WEAPONS AND THE EXISTING LAW 607 words
  3. TWYFORD HIGH SCHOOL: SALE TO THE CHURCH 611 words
  4. RHODESIA: HARLECH MISSION 396 words
  5. FOREIGN BOYCOTTS: CERTIFICATION REVIEW 1,081 words
  6. WALES ACT 1978 (REPEAL) ORDER 1979 5,177 words
  7. EEC 14th REPORT—CULTURAL SECTOR: AND PROPOSED ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 20,721 words
  8. OVERSEAS STUDENTS: POLICY ON UNIVERSITY ADMISSION 22,024 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 5 July 1979

  1. BRITISH EMBASSY IN PARIS: STAFF 269 words
  2. NUCLEAR POWERED SUBMARINE ORDERS 64 words
  3. FALKLAND ISLANDS: SHACKLETON RECOMMENDATIONS 2,074 words