27 March 1979

Commons Sitting of 27 March 1979

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order) 13 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. EMPLOYMENT
      1. Disabled Persons 600 words
      2. Overseas Footballers (Work Permits) 507 words
      3. Trades Union Congress 740 words
      4. Unfair Dismissal Claims (Upper Age Limit) 307 words
      5. Closed Shop 1,091 words
      6. Newspaper Industry (Casual Workers) 265 words
      7. Health and Safety Executive (Planning Applications) 249 words
      8. Unemployment 431 words
      9. Standing Commission on Pay Comparability 611 words
      10. Industrial Disputes 411 words
      11. Trade Unions (USSR) 354 words
      12. Birmingham and West Midlands 948 words
      13. Unemployment Benefit Office, Knottingley 118 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 1,947 words
  5. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF MINISTERS' MEETINGS) 3,722 words
    1. BILL PRESENTED
      1. PNEUMOCONIOSIS ETC. (WORKERS' COMPENSATION) 103 words
  6. INLAND REVENUE (DISCRETION) 1,318 words
    1. INLAND REVENUE (DISCRETION) 84 words
  7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. DEFENCE 47,954 words, 2 divisions
    2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 23 words
  8. PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE BILL [Lords] 7 words
    1. New Clause 2
      1. ANNUAL REPORT 6,042 words
  9. LIQUEFIED GAS STORAGE (CANVEY ISLAND) 4,806 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 27 March 1979

  1. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)
    1. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 599 words
  2. CBI AND TUC
    1. CBI AND TUC 272 words
  3. WEST MIDLANDS
    1. WEST MIDLANDS 24 words
  4. OPEN GOVERNMENT
    1. OPEN GOVERNMENT 46 words
  5. EAST ANGLIA
    1. EAST ANGLIA 21 words
  6. WEST LOTHIAN
    1. WEST LOTHIAN 24 words
  7. TAMWORTH
    1. TAMWORTH 25 words
  8. NURSING PROFESSION
    1. NURSING PROFESSION 24 words
  9. RHODESIA
    1. RHODESIA 25 words
  10. ANGLESEY
    1. ANGLESEY 25 words
  11. MESSRS. AUBREY, BERRY AND CAMPBELL (TRIAL)
    1. MESSRS. AUBREY, BERRY AND CAMPBELL (TRIAL) 81 words
  12. PSRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
    1. Bargain Offer Claims 491 words
    2. Price Commission (Investigations) 430 words
  13. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Closed Shop 115 words
    2. Unemployment 60 words
    3. Employed Persons 61 words
    4. Merseyside 182 words
    5. Unemployment and Vacancies 124 words
    6. Job Preservation and Job Creation 488 words
    7. Hospital Theatre Workers (Occupational Risks) 103 words
    8. Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 43 words
    9. Job Release 129 words
    10. Young Persons 130 words
    11. Working Population 98 words
    12. School Leavers 217 words
    13. Wage Settlements 125 words
    14. Work Experience Programme 92 words
    15. Job Subsidy Schemes 100 words
    16. Regional Policy 102 words
    17. Manufacturing Industry (Skill Shortages) 154 words
    18. Health and Safety Commission 59 words
    19. North-West England 36 words
    20. European Community (Council of Ministers) 57 words
    21. Disabled Persons 142 words
    22. Handicapped Persons 87 words
    23. Employment Protection Act 126 words
    24. TGWU—Waltham Roadways Ltd. (Agreement) 111 words
    25. Prices 317 words
    26. Three-day Working Week 107 words
    27. South Yorkshire 108 words
    28. Work Permits 176 words
    29. Quangos (Members' Allowances) 71 words
    30. Silicosis 148 words
    31. Hereford and Worcester (Social Fund Grants) 126 words
    32. South-West Region 78 words
    33. Disabled Persons (Wales) 154 words
    34. National Theatre (Industrial Dispute) 52 words
    35. Racial Equality 264 words
    36. Health and Safety 371 words
    37. European Community (Employment Ministers' Meeting) 113 words
    38. Contract Cleaning Industry 83 words
    39. Blackburn 213 words
    40. Pay Comparability 109 words
    41. Tachographs 183 words
  14. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Liverpool Street and Broad Street Stations 713 words
    2. Immigrant Populations (Ministerial Visits) 374 words
    3. Rehabilitation of Dwellings (Acquisitions) 79 words
    4. Community Land Act 152 words
    5. Allotments 70 words
    6. Public and Local Authorities (Employees) 136 words
    7. Housing (Bedfordshire) 155 words
    8. Direct Labour 129 words
    9. Waste Land 58 words
    10. South Africa (Sporting Links) 232 words
    11. Cement (Prices) 226 words
  15. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Scientologists 165 words
    2. Metropolitan Police Computer (Members of Parliament) 132 words
    3. Constituencies (Electoral Quotas) 75 words
    4. Animals (Experiments) 316 words
    5. Immoral Earnings 126 words
    6. Bouncers (Legal Status) 109 words
    7. Prisoner (Winson Green Prison) 81 words
    8. Police Officers (Statements) 59 words
    9. IMMIGRATION (GYNAECOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS) 73 words
  16. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Community Arts 116 words
    2. Teaching Staff (Appointment) 130 words
    3. British Library (Somers Town) 69 words
    4. University Recurrent Grant 74 words
    5. Animals (Experiments) 165 words
    6. Computers 479 words
    7. SOLICITORS (LAW SOCIETY POWERS) 91 words
  17. INDUSTRY
    1. Small Firms (Subcontract Work) 139 words
    2. Microelectronics 163 words
    3. National Enterprise Board 125 words
    4. Tanning Industry 66 words
    5. Meals-on-wheels Kitchens 56 words
  18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Animals (Experiments) 311 words
  19. TRANSPORT
    1. Motor Vehicles (Registration) 117 words
    2. Vehicle Licence V10 Form 46 words
    3. Goods Vehicles 141 words
    4. Northleach Bypass 61 words
  20. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Official Cars 106 words
    2. Ministers and Senior Civil Servants (Travel and Subsistence Allowances) 97 words
    3. Quangos (Expenditure) 159 words
    4. Pay 169 words
  21. TRADE
    1. Microelectronics 58 words
    2. Companies House, Cardiff 89 words
  22. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Hospital and Health Services (Teesside) 106 words
    2. Agency Nurses (Birmingham) 136 words
    3. Births and Deaths (Registration) 94 words
    4. Nurses (Employment Cost) 156 words
    5. Pharmacists 147 words
    6. In-patients (Costs) 228 words
    7. Hampshire Area Health Authority 147 words
    8. Equal Rights for Disabled Women Campaign 69 words
    9. Marriages (Statistics) 118 words
    10. Alcoholism 147 words
    11. Pay Beds 274 words
    12. Hospital Waiting Lists 263 words
    13. Pensions 66 words
    14. Child Benefit 82 words
    15. Unemployment Benefit 83 words
  23. WALES
    1. Genetic Counselling 115 words
    2. Unemployed Persons (Clwyd) 77 words
    3. Schools (Careers Education) 89 words
    4. Handicapped Children 60 words
    5. Bypasses 131 words
    6. Antenatal Screening 88 words
    7. Roads (Repair and Maintenance) 156 words
    8. Agricultural Land 119 words
    9. Welsh Language (Birth Registration) 58 words
  24. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Rhodesia (Public Service Pensions) 111 words
    2. Grenada 104 words
    3. Hong Kong 224 words
    4. South Africa 63 words
  25. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. House of Lords (Members' Fares and Allowances) 205 words
    2. Civil Service (Industrial Dispute) 119 words
    3. Paye 220 words
    4. British Petroleum 435 words
    5. Tools and Industrial Clothing (Allowances) 79 words
    6. Public Bodies (Members' Fees and Expenses) 163 words
    7. Child Allowances 143 words
  26. DEFENCE
    1. Recruitment (Review) 92 words
    2. Low-flying Aircraft (Carnforth) 180 words
    3. NATO Aircraft (Parachute Operations) 58 words
    4. Service Hospitals (Bed Occupancy Rate) 43 words
    5. Forces Pay 157 words
    6. BAOR 359 words
  27. ENERGY
    1. BNOC 153 words
    2. Electricity Supply (Farms) 198 words
    3. Coal-burning Gas Turbine Locomotive 68 words
    4. Pneumoconiosis 81 words
  28. SCOTLAND
    1. House Building 28 words
    2. Disabled Persons (Employment Quota) 339 words
    3. Nursery Education Building 145 words
    4. Capital Transfer Tax (Works of Art) 61 words
    5. Scottish Grand Committee 79 words
    6. Births (Forth Valley) 123 words
    7. Unemployed Persons (Social and Health Problems) 43 words
    8. Disabled Persons 201 words
    9. Terrorism (Arrests and Detentions) 174 words
    10. Colleges of Education (Staff) 196 words
    11. Students (Emergency Training Courses) 116 words
    12. Chiropody (Training) 110 words
    13. Peterhead Prison 49 words
    14. Parliamentary Questions 84 words
    15. Correspondence (Members of Parliament) 46 words
    16. Schools (Use of Youth Hostels) 101 words
    17. Fish Landings (Value) 56 words
    18. Roads (Expenditure) 110 words
    19. Bypasses 306 words
    20. Road Maintenance (Cost) 43 words
    21. Handicapped Students (Facilities) 73 words
  29. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Public Services (Abuses) 83 words
    2. North Sea Gas Supply 86 words
    3. Civil Service (Staff Absences) 69 words
    4. Moneylenders Act 1933 160 words
    5. Street Lighting, Belfast (Cost) 41 words
    6. Belfast Harbour Board 34 words
    7. Housing Executive 85 words
    8. Bennett Report 83 words
    9. Benefits (Deductions) 312 words
    10. Arts Council 186 words
    11. Industrial Estates (Ground Rents) 429 words
    12. Fair Employment 56 words
    13. Industrial Training Centre, West Belfast 174 words
    14. Rents 65 words

Lords Sitting of 27 March 1979

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. VIENNA CONFERENCE: EAST-WEST CO-OPERATION 229 words
  3. FISH FARMING: POLICY REVIEW 364 words
  4. BRITISH ROAD SERVICES AND THE TACHOGRAPH 275 words
  5. OIL POLLUTION OF NORTH SEA 1,201 words
  6. EEC COUNCIL OF MINISTERS: APRIL BUSINESS 365 words
  7. ANCIENT MONUMENTS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREAS BILL [H.L.] 1,786 words
  8. NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS BILL 8,510 words
  9. DIRECT LABOUR (MAJOR CONSTRUCTION WORKS) ACCOUNTING BILL [H.L.] 10,953 words
  10. SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING) BILL [H.L.] 9,726 words
  11. AIRLINER DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION 8,100 words
  12. FORESTRY BILL [H.L.] 6 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 27 March 1979

  1. SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFIT SCALES 101 words
  2. ALCOHOL: INCREASED CONSUMPTION 125 words
  3. ALCOHOL: HEALTH WARNING IN ADVERTISEMENTS 70 words
  4. ALCOHOL: TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENTS 76 words
  5. YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAMME 106 words
  6. TEST CENSUS AND ETHNIC ORIGIN QUESTIONS 183 words
  7. GASSING OF BADGER SETTS 281 words
  8. OIL POLLUTION AT SEA: OFF-LOADING 186 words
  9. CHEMICAL POLLUTION AT SEA: OFF-LOADING 127 words
  10. LNG AND LPG CARRIERS: POLLUTION AT SEA 147 words
  11. CHEMICAL POLLUTION AT SEA: RESOURCES AND RESEARCH 168 words
  12. LNG/LPG RELEASE AT SEA: RESOURCES AND RESEARCH 150 words
  13. OAK WILT 197 words