Commons Sitting of 28 January 1980

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. INDUSTRY
      1. Manufacturing Industry (Investment) 476 words
      2. British Steel Corporation 1,220 words
      3. CBI 463 words
      4. Microprocessors 540 words
      5. Small Foundries (Capital Loan Scheme) 428 words
      6. British Steel Corporation and British Leyland 388 words
      7. Imports 557 words
      8. Post Office 306 words
      9. Motor Vehicles (Manufacture) 717 words
      10. Rolls-Royce Ltd. 194 words
      11. Titanium 306 words
      12. Mexborough and Wombwell 124 words
      13. Nationalised Industries (Guidance) 547 words
      14. Steel Industry 846 words
    2. PROSECUTIONS (AUTHORISATION) 450 words
    3. MISS P. LAMBLE 495 words
    4. LAW OF PROPERTY (TITLE TO GOODS) 242 words
    5. PICKETING 1,136 words
    6. RHODESIA (BINGHAM REPORT) 168 words
    7. BILL PRESENTED 73 words
    8. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, ETC. 25 words
  4. EAST-WEST RELATIONS 57,953 words
  5. RESIDENTIAL HOMES (FIRE PRECAUTIONS) 3,596 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 28 January 1980

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Police 160 words
    2. Burnbake Trust (Workshop) 62 words
    3. Juvenile Offenders 200 words
    4. Police Officers (Long Service Medals) 99 words
    5. Dartmoor Prison 59 words
    6. Bristol Prison 49 words
    7. Wandsworth Prison 170 words
    8. Police Station (Orpington) 54 words
    9. Prisoners 34 words
    10. Operation Countryman 56 words
    11. Immigration (X-ray Examinations) 71 words
    12. Loral Radio Station (Northampton) 67 words
    13. Prison Building (Norfolk) 61 words
    14. Civil Defence 108 words
    15. Liverpool 57 words
    16. Merseyside 86 words
    17. Canterbury Prison 48 words
    18. Indictable Offences 82 words
    19. Juvenile Offenders 96 words
    20. Official Information 65 words
    21. MANPOWER 49 words
  2. INDUSTRY
    1. Unimation Inc. 126 words
    2. Steel Industry 484 words
    3. CBI 32 words
    4. Finniston Report 194 words
    5. British Steel Corporation 41 words
    6. Fuel and Materials Index 41 words
    7. Manufacturing Industry (Investment) 54 words
    8. Gas and Electricity Charges 112 words
    9. Regional Policy 131 words
    10. Sub-Post Offices 99 words
    11. Investment 489 words
    12. Footwear Industry Assistance Scheme 113 words
    13. Meteosat Satellite 309 words
    14. European Space Agency 90 words
    15. Research and Development 141 words
    16. Motor Car Industry 80 words
    17. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS 73 words
    18. JURIES 65 words
    19. PROSECUTIONS (AUTHORISATION) 98 words
    20. REGINA v. BENNETT, MILLS AND OTHERS 105 words
    21. MANPOWER 61 words
    22. JURORS 50 words
    23. MANPOWER 72 words
    24. PUBLIC EXPENDITURE 39 words
    25. URENCO 83 words
  3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Expenditure 76 words
  4. ENERGY
    1. Oil Reserves 91 words
    2. Mr. Alan Blackshaw 55 words
    3. Miners (Pay Awards) 82 words
    4. North Sea Fuels 80 words
    5. Gas 70 words
    6. Manpower 53 words
    7. North Sea (Oil Licences) 153 words
    8. Home Heating 1,820 words
  5. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Charities 106 words
    2. Manpower 179 words
  6. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Pensions 77 words
    2. Independent Schools 97 words
    3. School Population 158 words
    4. Government Hospitality Fund 82 words
    5. Manpower 104 words
  7. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Young Persons (Industry) 83 words
    2. Trade Unions (Accounting Procedures) 109 words
    3. Unemployed Persons 327 words
    4. Closed Shops 270 words
    5. West Yorkshire 104 words
    6. Disabled Persons 140 words
    7. Redundancy Payments 162 words
    8. Industrial Co-operatives (Disabled Persons) 53 words
    9. Closures and Reductions 44 words
    10. Strathclyde Region 122 words
    11. Cancer 228 words
    12. Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 49 words
    13. Motor Industries (Trade Unions) 147 words
    14. Manpower Services Commission 88 words
    15. Enfield Skillcentre 128 words
    16. Manpower 281 words
    17. Job Creation 304 words
    18. Independent Schools 33 words
    19. MANPOWER 80 words
  8. WALES
    1. Unemployed Persons 211 words
    2. Manpower 53 words
    3. School Population 54 words
    4. Flood Damage 344 words
    5. Sheltered Employment 41 words
    6. Skillcentres 429 words
    7. Supplementary Benefit 169 words
  9. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. National Insurance 136 words
    2. Widow's Charter 88 words
    3. Child Custody Orders 176 words
    4. National Health Service (Private Patients) 254 words
    5. Strike Benefits (Payments) 81 words
    6. Bedford Hospital 181 words
    7. St. Helens and Knowsley Area Health Authority 217 words
    8. Care Proceedings 125 words
    9. Locum Agencies 169 words
    10. National Health Service Supply Council 145 words
    11. North-West and Mersey Regional Health Authorities 151 words
    12. Family Income Supplement 85 words
    13. Medical Examinations (Pottery Industry) 175 words
    14. Steel Industry Workers (Benefits) 218 words
    15. Disabled Persons 230 words
    16. Medway Health District 89 words
    17. Kidney Transplants 123 words
    18. Vaccine Damage 351 words
    19. Depo Provera 239 words
    20. Rubella Vaccine 124 words
    21. Manpower 56 words
    22. Royal Liverpool Teaching Hospital 124 words
    23. Benefits 297 words
    24. Old Persons (Benefits) 79 words
    25. Abortion 241 words
    26. Pharmacists (Salaries) 43 words
    27. Benefits (Post Office Charges) 133 words
    28. Child Benefit 311 words
    29. Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work 127 words
    30. Prescription Charges 220 words
    31. Premature Births 107 words
    32. Christmas Bonus 143 words
  10. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Food Prices 153 words
    2. Fishing 73 words
    3. Manpower 48 words
    4. Fishing Industry (Levies) 113 words
    5. Warkworth Harbour, Amble 122 words
    6. Salmon Fishing 213 words
    7. Fish (Imports) 2,564 words
    8. Foie Gras (Imports) 44 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Manpower 154 words
    2. Turkey 73 words
    3. Mr. Paul McCartney 59 words
    4. Cyprus 80 words
    5. Soviet Diplomats 232 words
    6. Rockall 94 words
    7. Angola 91 words
    8. Rhodesia 387 words
    9. St. Kitts-Nevis 49 words
    10. India 103 words
    11. Guyana (Prime Minister) 71 words
    12. Western European Union 93 words
    13. Council of Europe 166 words
    14. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 103 words
  12. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Private Rented Accommodation 162 words
    2. Savings and Earnings 89 words
    3. Capital Transfer Tax 145 words
    4. School Fees (Tax Relief) 123 words
    5. Age Allowance 46 words
    6. Capital Gains Tax 343 words
    7. North Sea Oil (Revenue) 52 words
    8. Manpower 190 words
    9. Profit Sharing 42 words
    10. Council of Europe (Travellers' Imports) 90 words
    11. Government Stocks 395 words
    12. Reflector Discs 111 words
    13. Allowances and Benefits 488 words
    14. PALACE OF WESTMINSTER (SECURITY) 78 words
    15. Personal Allowances 111 words
    16. BUST OF MONSIGNOR CHERRI (EXPORT) 60 words
    17. MANPOWER 135 words
  13. SCOTLAND
    1. Planning and Building Controls 122 words
    2. National Health Service (Private Patients) 243 words
    3. Local Authority Housing 47 words
    4. Public Sector Housing (Sales) 100 words
    5. Local Planning Authorities (Appeals) 345 words
    6. "Fit for Life" Campaign 34 words
    7. Scottish Health Education Unit 127 words
    8. Renfrew District Council 122 words
    9. Strathclyde Region 301 words
    10. Disabled Persons (Telephones) 131 words
    11. Cancer 107 words
    12. Manpower 77 words
    13. Prisoners (Life Sentences) 161 words
    14. Independent Schools 48 words
    15. School Population 65 words
    16. Fishing Industry 156 words
    17. Tay Road Bridge 82 words
    18. Battered Women 74 words
    19. Electricity Discount Scheme 64 words
    20. Fish Imports 582 words
    21. Local Authority Offices (Borders Region) 33 words
    22. Fish Landings (Peterhead) 182 words
  14. TRADE
    1. Consumer Credit Act (Monetary Limits) 49 words
    2. Navigation (Safety Regulations) 247 words
    3. Country of Origin Marking 172 words
    4. Printing Machinery and Printed Matter 199 words
    5. Estate Agents Act 1979 60 words
    6. Interest Rates 72 words
    7. Price Fixing 463 words
    8. Concorde 50 words
    9. Airport Security 346 words
    10. Flags of Convenience 79 words
    11. Exports of Arms 158 words
    12. Exports (Control) 44 words
    13. Civil Aviation Authority 35 words
    14. Andrews Hydraulics International Limited 51 words
    15. Health and Safety at Work 47 words
  15. TRANSPORT
    1. Motorways and Trunk Roads 145 words
    2. Dangerous Road Surfaces 101 words
    3. Rail Freight 47 words
    4. Heavy Goods Vehicles 92 words
    5. A13 (Havering) 49 words
    6. Road Freight 42 words
    7. Regional Highway Traffic Model 184 words
    8. Seat Belts 211 words
    9. Reflector Discs 248 words
    10. Manpower 57 words
    11. British Railways 62 words
  16. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Conservation Areas 195 words
    2. Council House Sales 34 words
    3. Pollution (Mersey Estuary) 274 words
    4. New Towns 76 words
    5. Listed Buildings 68 words
    6. Homelessness (London) 107 words
    7. Sulphur Pollution (Report) 59 words
    8. Control of Pollution Act 1974 39 words
    9. Rents and Rates (Financial Assistance) 52 words
    10. Local Authority Housing 80 words
    11. Nuclear Waste 333 words
    12. Flood Damage (Devon) 60 words
    13. Nigerian High Commission (Outstanding Rates) 105 words
    14. Stress Housing Areas 68 words
    15. Insulation Grants 119 words
    16. Mortgage Interest Rate 150 words
    17. Water Charges 88 words
    18. Manpower 61 words
    19. Second Homes 98 words
    20. Architectural Heritage 84 words
    21. Housing Investment Programme 94 words
    22. Non-governmental Bodies (Government Property) 210 words
  17. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Fee-paying Pupils (Cheshire) 237 words
    2. Wandsworth 202 words
    3. Manpower 66 words
    4. School Population 72 words
    5. Educational Disadvantage 66 words
    6. Satellite Photographic Systems 152 words
    7. Lecturers (London Polytechnics) 49 words
  18. DEFENCE
    1. Campaign Medal (Suez Canal Zone) 114 words
    2. Military Manpower Costs 98 words
    3. Detained Persons (Death) 109 words
    4. Armed Forces (Strength) 92 words
    5. Reservists 123 words
    6. Expenditure 134 words
    7. Air Defence Squadrons 207 words
    8. Royal Navy (Ships and Submarines) 77 words
    9. Army Recruitment 178 words

Lords Sitting of 28 January 1980

  1. Preamble 23 words
  2. INFLATION AND PRICE INCREASES 1,104 words
  3. HOME DEFENCE 1,335 words
  4. JURIES: CONFIDENTIALITY OF DELIBERATIONS 1,112 words
  5. CANE HILL CEMETERY BILL [H.L.] 475 words
  6. PETROLEUM REVENUE TAX BILL 4,646 words
  7. BEES BILL 7,867 words