Commons Sitting of 4 February 1980

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. TRADE
      1. Statistical Information 221 words
      2. Import Regulations 794 words
      3. Hairdressing Council 238 words
      4. Trade and Development Programmes 206 words
      5. Inflation 612 words
      6. USSR 474 words
      7. Reports (Deletions) 340 words
      8. Air Traffic (South-East) 446 words
      9. Footwear (Exports) 289 words
      10. Price Commission 460 words
      11. Civil Aviation Authority 629 words
      12. Price Restraint (Competition) 503 words
      13. South Korea (Imports) 342 words
      14. Japan 327 words
      15. Inflation 464 words
      16. Multi-fibre Arrangement 907 words
      17. Second-hand Cars 139 words
      18. Airports Policy 454 words
      19. World Commodities Centre 325 words
      20. Provincial Airports 415 words
  4. STEEL INDUSTRY 2,356 words
  5. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 28 words
  6. WELSH AFFAIRS 49,098 words, 1 division
  7. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS) 11,349 words
  8. COAL INDUSTRY (SOUTH WALES) 4,166 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 4 February 1980

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Tote Inquiry 1,120 words
    2. Sunday Trading 61 words
    3. Radio and Television Programmes (Schedules) 75 words
    4. Meter Charges (Diplomatic Immunity) 119 words
    5. Immigration 329 words
    6. Member's Correspondence 131 words
    7. Wormwood Scrubs 94 words
    8. Jockey Club 46 words
    9. Prisoners (Interpreters) 220 words
    10. Prison Staff 327 words
    11. Dartmoor Steering Group (Report) 36 words
    12. Detained Persons (Deaths) 49 words
  2. DEFENCE
    1. Royal Yacht "Britannia" 140 words
    2. Conscription 48 words
    3. Amble North Pier Breakwater 89 words
    4. OLIVE ST. BARBE 41 words
    5. ARTS COUNCIL 101 words
  3. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
    1. Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism 77 words
    2. Budget (United Kingdom Contribution) 224 words
  4. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFARIS
    1. South Lebanon 229 words
    2. Ascension Island 71 words
    3. NUCLEAR SECURITY 172 words
    4. CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY RADAR SYSTEM 75 words
    5. DOG LICENSING (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY) 85 words
  5. INDUSTRY
    1. Electronics Industry 82 words
    2. Input and Output Prices 46 words
    3. Redpath Dorman Long Limited 159 words
    4. British Steel Corporation 289 words
    5. Robb Caledon Shipyard 56 words
    6. Steel Industry 165 words
  6. TRANSPORT
    1. Safety-crash Tests 320 words
    2. Salesmen (Insurance Green Cards) 170 words
    3. Vehicle Loads 85 words
    4. European Community (Transport Infrastructure) 183 words
    5. Transport Supplementary Grant 94 words
    6. A39 106 words
  7. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Skillcentres 198 words
    2. Redundancies 86 words
    3. Kirkby 72 words
    4. Docklands 142 words
    5. Small Firms Employment Subsidy 125 words
    6. Bury and Radcliffe 109 words
    7. Health and Safety 298 words
    8. Lancashire Textile Industry 534 words
    9. Community Workshops 543 words
  8. WALES
    1. Microelectronics Industry 114 words
  9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Iran 56 words
    2. Nuclear Installations 79 words
    3. Road Construction 126 words
    4. Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan 207 words
  10. ENERGY
    1. North Sea Oil (Gas Flaring) 52 words
  11. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Promotion 134 words
    2. Senior Professional Administrative Training Scheme 60 words
    3. Open and Limited Opportunity Posts 92 words
    4. Manpower 507 words
    5. Open Structure 256 words
    6. Recruitment 123 words
    7. Lateral Postings 58 words
    8. Government Departments (Review) 92 words
  12. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Development Projects (European Community Directive) 64 words
    2. Rent Officers 138 words
    3. Pollution 56 words
    4. Domestic Water Rate 61 words
    5. Nuclear Waste Disposal 338 words
    6. Screening for Lead 292 words
    7. Cayman Turtle Meat 152 words
    8. St. John's House, Bootle 208 words
    9. Manchester Main Drainage System 122 words
    10. Amble North Pier Breakwater 75 words
    11. Walsall Housing Investment Programme 40 words
    12. Derelict Land (Manchester) 94 words
  13. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Rate of Exchange 76 words
    2. Pension Funds (Tax-free Status) 498 words
    3. Value Added Tax 405 words
    4. Public Expenditure 198 words
    5. Public Contracts (Labour Terms) 46 words
    6. Public Expenditure 121 words
    7. Money Supply, Earnings and Output 74 words
    8. PAYE Centre 42 words
    9. Invisible Earnings 123 words
  14. TRADE
    1. Inflation 241 words
    2. Tourism 339 words
    3. Generalised Preferences 59 words
    4. Export Credits Guarantee Department 127 words
    5. Vessels (Navigation Devices) 97 words
    6. Overseas Legislation 79 words
    7. Dumping 79 words
    8. Liverpool Airport 80 words
    9. Advertising 82 words
    10. Departmental Activities 133 words
    11. Airport Security Charges 78 words
    12. Vehicles (Imports) 213 words
    13. World Commodities Centre 50 words
    14. Developing Countries 178 words
    15. Mergers 58 words
    16. Manufactures 153 words
    17. Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organisation 40 words
    18. Motor Vehicles 49 words
    19. Bargain Offers 60 words
    20. Restrictive Trade Practices 67 words
    21. Self-extinguishing Cigarettes 50 words
    22. Fastnet Yacht Race 75 words
    23. Eastern Europe 83 words
    24. Civil Aviation Authority 46 words
    25. Protectionism 62 words
    26. Exports 246 words
    27. European Community (Barriers to Trade) 151 words
    28. Solicitors (Practice Rules) 97 words
    29. Eastleigh Airport 68 words
    30. USSR 714 words
    31. European Community (Export Aid) 680 words
    32. Iran (Loans) 76 words
    33. Balance of Trade 155 words
    34. Export Industries 113 words
    35. Air Route Surveillance 62 words
    36. Exports and Tourism 116 words
    37. Fishing Industry (Losses at Sea) 387 words
    38. HMS "Colossus" (Pottery Shards) 139 words
    39. Energy Feedstocks (Dual Pricing) 460 words
    40. Manufactured Goods 50 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Lamb 88 words
  16. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Supplementary Benefit 263 words
    2. Debendox 688 words
    3. Supplementary Benefit 324 words
    4. Computer Languages 172 words
    5. Child Benefit 123 words
    6. Pensions 142 words
    7. Home Responsibilities Protection 128 words
    8. Invalid Tricycle 551 words
    9. Secure Units 138 words
    10. Benefits 477 words
    11. Foreign Nationals 130 words
    12. National Health Service (Employees) 114 words
    13. National Health Service (Industrial Disputes) 166 words
    14. Widows (Pensions) 183 words
    15. Hospital Waiting List (Bury) 105 words
    16. Mobility Allowance 187 words
    17. St. Benedict's Hospital, Tooting 24 words
    18. Overseas Countries (Reciprocal Medical Arrangements) 159 words
    19. Retired Persons (London Boroughs) 43 words
    20. Exceptional Needs Payments 125 words
    21. Vaccine-damaged Children 178 words
    22. Death Rates 666 words
    23. Day Nurseries 77 words
    24. Dalkan Shield Contraceptive 309 words
    25. Lead Pollution 64 words
    26. Neonates 139 words
    27. Abortions and Family Planning 108 words
    28. One-parent Families 46 words
    29. Disabled Persons 74 words
    30. Prescriptions 346 words
  17. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Assisted Places Scheme 130 words
    2. Inspectors and Educational Advisers 131 words
    3. Overseas Students 79 words
    4. Milk 82 words
    5. Private Schools (Places) 245 words
    6. Public Sector Higher Education 315 words
    7. Teaching Posts and Ancillary Jobs 176 words
    8. Public Expenditure 71 words
    9. Non-university Higher Education 89 words
    10. London Music Colleges (Salaries) 136 words
    11. Education Act 1944 (Section 13 Notices) 95 words
    12. Departmental Newspapers 45 words
    13. Sutton in Ashfield Schools 68 words
  18. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Job Creation 85 words
    2. Irish Sea (Tunnel) 264 words
    3. Constitutional Conference 53 words
    4. Summer Schemes 119 words
    5. Written and Broadcast Material 111 words
    6. Fair Employment Agency 450 words
  19. SCOTLAND
    1. James Boyle 695 words
    2. River Girvan 107 words
    3. River Pollution 57 words
    4. Planning Applications 361 words
    5. Blind and Disabled Persons 112 words
    6. Teachers 13 words
    7. Psychiatric Patients 99 words
    8. Housing 406 words
    9. Robroyston Hospital 809 words
    10. Housing Satisfaction 178 words
    11. Houses (Tenure) 116 words
    12. Prefabricated Houses 187 words
    13. Sheltered Houses 457 words

Lords Sitting of 4 February 1980

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. AIR FARES WITHIN THE EEC 127 words
  3. CHARITIES AND THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS: RECOMMENDATIONS 1,245 words
  4. ELECTORAL LAW AND PROCEDURES: REVIEW 1,141 words
  5. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: AUTHORITATIVE STATEMENTS 654 words
  6. THE STEEL STRIKE 78 words
  7. DEACONESSES AND LAY WORKERS (PENSIONS) MEASUKE 629 words
  8. NEW HEBRIDES BILL [H.L.] 4,255 words
  9. THE STEEL STRIKE 1,880 words
  10. NEW HEBRIDES BILL [H.L.] 935 words
  11. COMPETITION BILL 12,485 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 4 February 1980

  1. MALAGASY REPUBLIC: UK AID 279 words
  2. CAP REGULATIONS FOR ANNUAL RENEWAL 968 words
  3. RENTS: METHODS OF FIXING 104 words
  4. DANGEROUS CARGOES IN THE CHANNEL: EXPERIMENTAL SCHEME 467 words
  5. THE FINANCE ACT 1976: DESIGNATION OF LAND 1,087 words
  6. SIMULATED CAR CRASHES: ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS 113 words
  7. QUESTIONS ON NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES 165 words