Commons Sitting of 26 March 1979

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. WALES
      1. Referendum 870 words
      2. Job Creation 371 words
      3. House Building 325 words
      4. Marginal Land 257 words
      5. Welsh Office (Organisation) 881 words
      6. Schools (Foreign Language Teaching) 216 words
      7. Rates 434 words
      8. Hospitals (Gwent and Mid-Glamorgan) 476 words
      9. Royal Gwent Hospital 374 words
      10. Advance Factories 696 words
      11. Freight Traffic 357 words
      12. Sports Teams (Visits to South Africa) 248 words
    2. CIVIL SERVICE
      1. Official Information Bill 165 words
      2. Pay 855 words
      3. Staff Dispersal (Scotland) 304 words
    3. SCOTLAND (DEVOLUTION) 324 words
    4. REFERENDUMS 586 words
    5. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. Friday Sittings 473 words
    6. SELECT COMMITTEE ON PROCEDURE (RECOMMENDATIONS) 582 words
  4. OFFSHORE OIL LICENSING (SIXTH ROUND) 3,313 words
  5. EMPLOYMENT (KIRKBY AND MERSEYSIDE) 496 words
  6. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 200 words
  7. HOUSE OF COMMONS (REFRESHMENT FACILITIES) 126 words
  8. DEFENCE 46,880 words
  9. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 21 words
  10. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (ENERGY POLICY) 12,387 words, 1 division
  11. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. FORESTRY BILL [Lords] 43 words
  12. COAL INDUSTRY 7,713 words
  13. DUNLOP PLANT, SPEKE (CLOSURE) 3,368 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 26 March 1979

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Schoolbys (Unruly Certificates) 438 words
    2. Prisoners 91 words
    3. Air Weapons 165 words
    4. Rape 177 words
    5. Constituencies (Electoral Quotas) 90 words
    6. Immigrants (Arranged Marriages) 106 words
    7. Fire Authorities (Powers) 102 words
    8. Television Licences 104 words
    9. Local Elections (Cost) 86 words
    10. Winson Green Prison 157 words
    11. Hostel Wardens (Salaries) 206 words
    12. Firemen (Accident Insurance Cover) 38 words
    13. Radiac Instruments 109 words
    14. Immigration Statistics 196 words
  2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. British Private Investment 96 words
    2. Tanzania, Zambia, Jamaica and Bangladesh 138 words
  3. PROCURATORS FISCAL 84 words
  4. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MINISTERIAL MEETINGS) 118 words
  5. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, BANGOR 57 words
  6. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (STAFF) 138 words
  7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Members' Pay 46 words
  8. TRADE
    1. Import Penetration 181 words
    2. Arab Boycott 40 words
  9. BARRISTERS' FEES (TAXATION) 131 words
  10. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Departmental Staff (Birmingham) 106 words
    2. Pay 288 words
    3. Work Experience 140 words
    4. Scottish Office (Staff Suspensions) 154 words
  11. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS (SPEECH) 39 words
  12. RHODESIA 38 words
  13. SIR DOUGLAS WASS (MEMORANDUM) 177 words
  14. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 105 words
  15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Immigration Populations (Ministerial Visas) 144 words
    2. Microprocessors (School Study) 55 words
    3. Education Act 1944 200 words
    4. Teacher Supply and Training 372 words
    5. Quangos (Expenditure) 63 words
  16. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Income Policies (Expenditure) 135 words
    2. Pay Comparability 52 words
    3. Contract Cleaning Industry 47 words
    4. Blackburn 60 words
    5. Slate Quarrymen (Dust Disease) 60 words
    6. Disabled Persons 1,006 words
  17. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
    1. School Safety 132 words
    2. Potatoes 64 words
    3. Quangos (Expenditure) 46 words
  18. WALES
    1. Development Board for Rural Wales 62 words
    2. North Wales Council on Alcoholism 73 words
    3. Tourism 168 words
    4. Rail Freight Facilities 127 words
    5. Job Creation 66 words
    6. Rates 96 words
    7. Unemployment 89 words
    8. Nominated Bodies 51 words
  19. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Immigrant Populations (Ministerial Visits) 108 words
    2. Retirement Age 287 words
    3. Departmental Employees (Salaries and Expenses) 355 words
    4. Elderly Persons (Accommodation) 192 words
    5. Food Shops (Cleanliness) 76 words
    6. Retirement Pension (International Comparisons) 311 words
    7. NHS Spectacle Frames 501 words
    8. Health Service Responsibilities 43 words
    9. Supplementary Benefits Commission 278 words
    10. Private Practice 101 words
    11. Hospital Development (Cannock Chase) 138 words
    12. Deaf and Blind Persons 432 words
    13. Speakman Committee Report 62 words
    14. Chemist Contractors 185 words
  20. INDUSTRY
    1. HS146 and A310 43 words
    2. Small Firms 485 words
    3. Paper and Board Industry 378 words
    4. 64K RAM 68 words
    5. Microelectronics 92 words
    6. British Steel Corporation 167 words
    7. British Shipbuilders (Corporate Plan) 97 words
    8. National Coal Board and British Steel Corporation 124 words
    9. Shipyards 620 words
    10. Companies (Departmental Shareholdings) 218 words
    11. Blackburn (Industrial Assistance) 393 words
    12. Meriden Workers' Co-operative 156 words
    13. Ford Motor Company Limited (Lorraine Site) 249 words
    14. Investment Grants (Overpayments) 156 words
    15. Merseyside Special Development Area 221 words
  21. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. European Community (Intervention Surpluses) 358 words
    2. Potatoes 204 words
    3. Farmers (Cessation of Business) 44 words
  22. ENERGY
    1. Fuel Utilisation 110 words
    2. Pneumoconiosis (Compensation Scheme) 82 words
    3. Coal Mines 193 words
    4. Electricity Generation 47 words
    5. Fuel Oil Supplies (North-West England) 129 words
    6. Quangos (Expenditure) 66 words
    7. Nuclear Power Station (Denver, Norfolk) 39 words
  23. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Income Tax (Indexation) 100 words
    2. European Community (VAT Constraints) 186 words
    3. Income Tax Relief 57 words
    4. Isle of Man (Financial Contribution) 151 words
    5. Incomes, Profits and Government Expenditure 327 words
    6. Taxpayers 41 words
    7. Income Tax (Indexation) 223 words
    8. Luncheon Vouchers 35 words
    9. Textile Companies (Special Assistance) 120 words
    10. Pay Settlements (Government Action) 148 words
    11. Capital Taxes Office 121 words
    12. Productivity 131 words
    13. Charities 355 words
    14. Northern Ireland Capital Taxes Office 113 words
  24. SCOTLAND
    1. Roads (Repairs and Maintenance) 169 words
    2. Microprocessors 63 words
    3. Hackney Carriages (Hamilton) 106 words
    4. River Teviot (Road Bridge) 58 words
    5. A7 (Hawick-Carlisle) 72 words
    6. Free School Milk 94 words
    7. Quangos (Expenditure) 56 words
    8. Farming Businesses 33 words
  25. DEFENCE
    1. Gallantry Awards 327 words
    2. Expenditure (Scotland) 264 words
    3. Chieftain Tanks 80 words
    4. Research and Development 333 words
    5. Service Personnel (Resignations) 154 words
    6. Northern Ireland (Service Men's flours) 90 words
    7. Expenditure 117 words
    8. Northern Ireland 69 words
    9. Seadart and Seawolf 59 words
    10. BAOR (Pay) 175 words
    11. Defence Research and Intramural Resources Committee 218 words
    12. International Military Services Limited 78 words
    13. Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve 49 words
    14. Service Personnel (Electoral Register) 111 words
    15. NATO Countries (Defence Budgets) 208 words
  26. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Coal Exchange, Cardiff 60 words
    2. Second Chance Education 189 words
    3. Council Houses 450 words
    4. Housing Expenditure 155 words
    5. Housing Subsidies 254 words
    6. Compulsory Purchase Orders 505 words
    7. Refuse Collection and Disposal 107 words
    8. Rate Support Grant (London and Essex) 121 words
    9. Solon Housing Association 315 words
    10. Roads (Macclesfield) 98 words
    11. Northgate House, Derby 108 words
    12. House Building (Gloucestershire) 158 words
    13. Mortgage Interest (Tax Relief) 131 words
    14. Local Authority Investment 63 words
  27. TRANSPORT
    1. Noise Barriers 216 words
    2. Concessionary Fares 143 words
  28. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. South Africa ("Muldergate" Investigation) 103 words
    2. Istanbul (Consular Flag) 69 words
    3. El Salvador 51 words
  29. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
    1. Commissioner Burke (Salary and Expenses) 105 words
  30. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. House Improvement Grants 265 words
    2. Alcohol 99 words
    3. Politicians (Police Protection) 148 words
    4. Housing Executive 46 words
    5. European Community 93 words
    6. Area Health Boards (Expenditure) 792 words
    7. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons 1,221 words
    8. Belfast Harbour Commissioners 72 words
    9. Provisional Irish Republican Army (Chief of Staff) 115 words
    10. Madams Bank Bridge 83 words
    11. Stevenson's School, Dunmurry 110 words
    12. Rents 94 words

Lords Sitting of 26 March 1979

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. FOREIGN BOYCOTTS BILL: RECOMMENDATIONS 1,267 words
  3. THE CIVIL SERVICE: CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 1,239 words
  4. COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY: PER CAPITA COST 1,169 words
  5. EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT BILL [H.L.] 104 words
  6. INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND BILL [H.L.] 29 words
  7. PROSECUTION OF OFFENCES BILL [H.L.] 29 words
  8. CONFIRMATION TO SMALL ESTATES (SCOTLAND) BILL 71 words
  9. INDUSTRY BILL 11,427 words
  10. MEAT AND LIVESTOCK COMMISSION LEVY SCHEME (CONFIRMATION) ORDER 1979 2,603 words
  11. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND COMPANY BILL [H.L.] 8 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 26 March 1979

  1. LONDONDERRY AND DONEGAL-CROSS-BORDER COMMUNICATIONS STUDY 774 words
  2. SOUTH WEST AFRICA: SETTLEMENT PROPOSALS 137 words
  3. WAGE INCREASES: SOUTH AFRICA AND RUSSIA 142 words