Commons Sitting of 28 February 1980

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. DARTMOOR COMMONS BILL [Lords] (By Order)
    2. TYNE AND WEAR BILL [Lords] (By Order) 15 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. HOME DEPARTMENT
      1. WELSH LANGUAGE BROADCASTING 732 words
      2. Firearms 350 words
      3. Television Licences (Sale) 115 words
      4. Remand Facilities 446 words
      5. Telephone Tapping 535 words
      6. Association of Chief Police Officers 846 words
      7. Television Programmes 361 words
      8. Juvenile Offenders 362 words
      9. Children and Young Persons Act 1969 587 words
      10. Prison Service (May Report) 612 words
      11. Kidney Transplants 214 words
      12. Prison Population 378 words
      13. British Broadcasting Corporation 578 words
      14. Civil Defence 454 words
      15. "Athina B" 347 words
      16. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 502 words
      17. PUBLIC EXPENDITURE 494 words
      18. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 713 words
      19. RHODESIA 388 words
  5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 3,552 words
  6. LAMBETH, SOUTHWARK AND LEWISHAM AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY 730 words
  7. HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES) 47,475 words, 1 division
  8. ST. JOHN'S HOSPITAL, DROITWICH 3,584 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 28 February 1980

  1. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Industrial Disputes (Lost Working Days) 52 words
    2. Skill Shortage Mobility Experiment 252 words
    3. Disabled Persons (Concessionary Travel) 152 words
    4. Information Officers 157 words
    5. Industrial Training Boards 161 words
    6. Jobcentres and Employment Exchanges 78 words
  2. ENERGY
    1. Atomic Energy Reactors 300 words
    2. Windscale (Contaminated Water Seepage) 472 words
    3. Information Officers 133 words
    4. INFORMATION OFFICERS 47 words
  3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Expenditure 52 words
    2. United Nations Conference, Delhi 459 words
    3. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 581 words
    4. PUBLIC TRUSTEE 20 words
    5. COMMON FISHERIES POLICY 62 words
    6. CHILD BENEFIT 77 words
    7. WEST YORKSHIRE 22 words
    8. RHODESIA 29 words
    9. BELLS HILL 22 words
    10. ENGINEERING INDUSTRY 53 words
    11. SOUTH WALES 25 words
    12. PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS 44 words
    13. NATIONAL ECONOMIC EVELOPMENT COUNCIL 23 words
    14. INFORMATION OFFICERS 278 words
    15. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 207 words
  4. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Political and Publicity Organisations (NATO Grants) 216 words
    2. Information Officers 209 words
    3. USSR (Trade Inspectors) 169 words
    4. British Trade Inspectors (Communist Countries) 52 words
    5. Communist Countries (Trade Inspectors) 74 words
    6. USSR Officials (United Kingdom Residents) 112 words
  5. TRADE
    1. Copyright Acts 352 words
    2. Information Officers 104 words
    3. Manufactures 122 words
    4. Imports and Exports 122 words
    5. Company Directors (Penalties) 49 words
    6. USSR (Exports) 68 words
    7. Lead Acid Batteries 64 words
  6. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Social Security (Entitlement) 202 words
    2. INFORMATION OFFICERS 65 words
  7. INDUSTRY
    1. Information Officers 108 words
    2. Industrial Assistance 458 words
    3. Shipyards 192 words
    4. Microelectronics 504 words
    5. Platt Saco Lovell 106 words
    6. Post Office Pension Fund 97 words
    7. European Community (Steel Production and Consumption) 1,137 words
  8. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Mrs. Lillian Wilson 89 words
    2. Wormwood Scrubs 210 words
    3. Persons on Remand 39 words
    4. British Broadcasting Corporation 36 words
    5. Criminal Offences (Statistics) 127 words
    6. Citizenship Applications 118 words
    7. Telephone Tapping 128 words
    8. Parliamentary Candidates (Deposits) 59 words
    9. Metropolitan Police Force 62 words
    10. Electoral Rolls 71 words
    11. Jurors (Regina v. Bennett, Mills and Others) 87 words
    12. Chief Constable of Merseyside 35 words
    13. Police Photograph Albums 76 words
    14. Civil Defence 117 words
    15. Short Stay Visitors 81 words
    16. Parliamentary Candidates (Age) 52 words
    17. Vandalism and Violence (Powers of Punishment) 89 words
    18. Special Constables 97 words
    19. Police Complaints Board 37 words
    20. Diana Irons 33 words
    21. Demonstrations (Policing Costs) 53 words
    22. Association of Chief Constables 42 words
    23. Immigration 542 words
    24. Sinn Fein 31 words
    25. Citizens Band Radio 98 words
    26. Police (Complaints) 208 words
    27. Fingerprints 118 words
    28. Police (Use of Cameras) 46 words
    29. Picketing (Steel Dispute) 134 words
    30. Police Supervision (Payment) 111 words
    31. Winson Green Prison 159 words
    32. Horserace Totalisator Board 44 words
    33. Special Branch 85 words
    34. Information Officers 139 words
    35. Equal Opportunities Commission 45 words
    36. Broadcasting Criteria (Olympic Games) 250 words
    37. Young Offenders 80 words
    38. Animal Experiments (Inspection) 57 words
    39. Send Detention Centre 103 words
    40. Women Prisoners 338 words
    41. Michael McFadden 103 words
  9. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Apples and Pears 90 words
    2. Information Officers 161 words
    3. Cattle (Artificial Insemination) 1,315 words
    4. Untreated Milk 60 words
  10. DEFENCE
    1. HMS "Hermes" (Visits by Schoolboys) 315 words
    2. Information Officers 173 words
    3. Royal Air Force (Aircraft Losses) 331 words
  11. SCOTLAND
    1. National Health Service (Scotland) Superannuation Scheme 406 words
    2. Glasgow Sheriff Court 69 words
    3. Car Accidents (Dundee) 86 words
    4. Jobs Creation (Dundee) 174 words
    5. River Tay 80 words
    6. Schools (Dundee) 160 words
    7. Local Authorities (Transfer of Powers) 36 words
    8. Parliamentary Boundary Commission (Report) 42 words
    9. Local Authority Rates 20 words
    10. O GRADE 84 words
    11. Information Officers 108 words
    12. Robroyston Hospital 107 words
    13. Strathclyde Regional Council 33 words
    14. Islands (Transport Services) 160 words
  12. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Vacant Posts 85 words
  13. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Interest Rate 1,198 words
    2. Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise (Powers of Inspection) 108 words
    3. Information Officers 53 words
    4. Tax Allowances 93 words
    5. Value Added Tax 233 words
    6. Stock Relief 54 words
    7. Family Income 557 words
    8. Exchange Controls 127 words
    9. Inland Revenue (Debt) 199 words
    10. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 65 words
  14. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Benefits (Payment) 152 words
    2. Children's Medical Treatment (Parental Costs) 217 words
    3. Retirement Pensions (Payment) 111 words
    4. Chemist Contractors 75 words
    5. Breast Cancer 176 words
    6. Belgrave Children's Hospital 142 words
    7. Information Officers 98 words
    8. Family Income 376 words
    9. Communicable Diseases 58 words
    10. Cardiac Transplants 545 words
    11. Supplementary Benefit 387 words
    12. Long-term Unemployed (Supplementary Benefit) 426 words
    13. Unemployment 82 words
    14. Limbfitters 81 words
    15. Invalidity Benefits 74 words
    16. Heart Operations (King's College) 53 words
  15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. School Meals 140 words
    2. Information Officers 152 words
    3. Welsh Language 177 words
    4. High Schools (Ealing) 224 words
    5. School Transport 253 words
    6. Natural Environment Research Council (Purchasing Policy) 108 words
  16. WALES
    1. Hill and Upland Research and Development 255 words
    2. British Steel Corporation, Shotton 161 words
    3. Information Officers 233 words
    4. Welsh Development Agency 103 words
    5. Nuclear Waste Management 63 words
    6. Snowdonia National Park 56 words
    7. Radioactive Waste 466 words
  17. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Cash Limits 216 words
    2. Job Sutpport 100 words
    3. Industry and Education 104 words
    4. Sludge Disposal 108 words
    5. Elderly Persons (Health Care) 67 words
    6. Information Officers 127 words
    7. Security 132 words
  18. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Refuse Collection 241 words
    2. European Wildlife Convention 171 words
    3. Government Car Pool 375 words
    4. River Trent (Bridges) 73 words
    5. Rate Support Grant 1,313 words
    6. Council House Sales 40 words
    7. Local Authorities (Manpower) 119 words
    8. Disabled Persons (Central London) 122 words
    9. European Ministerial Conferences 72 words
    10. Sporting Fixtures (Ticket Distribution) 71 words
    11. Environmental Impact Analysis 176 words
    12. Local Authority Housing 305 words
    13. Radioactive Waste 361 words
    14. Information Officers 162 words
    15. Vitrification (Research) 169 words
    16. Housing Starts 144 words
  19. TRANSPORT
    1. M4 (Chiswick-Heathrow) 68 words
    2. A1 (Felton Bypass) 212 words
    3. Transport Supplementary Grants 57 words
    4. Railway Sidings (Section 8 Grants) 93 words
    5. Lighting Regulations 96 words
    6. Bypasses 204 words
    7. M6—Perry Beeches, Birmingham 65 words
    8. Strategic Road Network 126 words
    9. Information Officers 152 words
    10. Nuclear Waste (Carriage) 201 words
  20. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Currency 92 words

Lords Sitting of 28 February 1980

  1. Preamble 29 words
  2. LENGTH OF SPEECHES AND PROCEDURE 1,620 words
  3. PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS: STAFF/PATIENT RATIO 434 words
  4. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING BOARDS: MSC REVIEW 528 words
  5. PETROLEUM: PRICES AND TAXATION 289 words
  6. PROCEDURE OF THE HOUSE 547 words
  7. WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL [H.L.] 108 words
  8. RESIDENTIAL HOMES BILL [H.L.] 27 words
  9. COMMONS AMENDMENTS 388 words
  10. PROTECTION OF TRADING INTERESTS BILL 2,223 words
  11. NATIONAL HERITAGE BILL 34,440 words, 1 division
  12. FARM CAPITAL GRANT (VARIATION) SCHEME 1980 5,364 words
  13. HORTICULTURE CAPITAL GRANT (VARIATION) SCHEME 1980 29 words
  14. FAST BREEDER NUCLEAR REACTOR 16,561 words
  15. BANGOR MARKET BILL [H.L.] 25 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 28 February 1980

  1. BAIL AND PROBATION: HOSTELS AND INFORMATION 142 words
  2. IMMIGRATION APPEALS AND ADJUDICATIONS 747 words
  3. GAS CARRIER ACCIDENTS: FINANCIAL LIABILITY 213 words
  4. GAS PROCESSING PLANTS: APPLICATIONS 242 words
  5. NATIONAL COAL BOARD: GRANTS AND LOANS 176 words
  6. ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND AGRICULTURAL YIELDS 160 words
  7. DEFENCE EXPENDITURE 64 words