Commons Sitting of 4 March 1980

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. CANE HILL CEMETERY BILL [Lords] 6 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      1. Education Vouchers 697 words
      2. Meals and Transport Charges 621 words
      3. Comprehensive Reorganisation 547 words
      4. Further Education 328 words
      5. Common Core Curriculum 623 words
      6. Social Work (Qualification) 172 words
      7. School-leaving Regulations 684 words
      8. Microelectronics 123 words
      9. Expenditure Cuts (Educational Standards) 846 words
      10. Teachers' Trade Unions 814 words
      11. Assisted Places Scheme 489 words
      12. Dispute (South Yorkshire) 251 words
      13. Business Studies 310 words
      14. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 676 words
      15. PROFESSIONAL AND EXECUTIVE REGISTER 481 words
      16. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 1,043 words
  5. RHODESIA (ELECTIONS) 4,607 words
  6. BILL PRESENTED
    1. NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INVALID DIRECTION) 61 words
    2. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 30 words
    3. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 238 words
  7. GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND (SCOTTISH CONVENTION) 2,766 words, 1 division
  8. REVIEW BODY ON TOP SALARIES (REPORT) 39,793 words, 1 division
  9. MEMBERS OFFICE, SECRETARIAL AND RESEARCH ALLOWANCE 2,431 words, 2 divisions
  10. CAR MILEAGE ALLOWANCES FOR MEMBERS' SPOUSES 724 words
  11. GRANTS FOR FORMER MEMBERS 1,474 words, 1 division
  12. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 104 words
  13. HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS AIR SERVICES (SCOTLAND) BILL 59 words
  14. HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS AIR SERVICES (SCOTLAND) [MONEY] 1,179 words
  15. HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS AIR SERVICES (SCOTLAND) BILL 9 words
    1. Clause 1
      1. ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS PROVIDING AIR SERVICES SERVING THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS 5,896 words
    2. New Clause 2
      1. REPORT BY SECRETARY OF STATE 608 words
  16. PREVENTION OF TERRORISM 12,142 words, 1 division
  17. NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INVALID DIRECTION) BILL 44 words
  18. WIDOWS 2,998 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 4 March 1980

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Commercial Radio and Television 507 words
    2. Human Tissue Transplants 316 words
    3. Traffic Wardens 220 words
    4. Local Authority Staffs (AP and T Grades) 62 words
    5. Departmental Manpower 33 words
    6. Broadcasting Authorities (Payment of Fees) 39 words
    7. Data Protection 176 words
    8. Firearms and Shotgun Certificates 140 words
    9. Fire-Fighting Vehicles 78 words
    10. Criminal Libel 44 words
    11. Civil Defence 177 words
    12. Welsh Language Broadcasting 130 words
    13. Prisons (Administration of Drugs) 65 words
    14. Horserace Advisory Council 62 words
  2. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Epping Forest 124 words
    2. Jobcentres 113 words
    3. Women Employees 64 words
    4. Minimum Wage (International Comparisons) 278 words
    5. Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 74 words
    6. Textile Industry, Redundancies (West Yorkshire) 44 words
    7. Youth Opportunities Programme 164 words
    8. Wolverhampton 61 words
    9. Maternity Benefit 223 words
    10. Job Training and Retraining (Brent) 74 words
    11. Wages Councils 162 words
    12. Health and Safety Executive 180 words
    13. Pneumoconiosis (Workers' Compensation) 155 words
  3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Malawi 326 words
  4. TRADE
    1. Hotel and Boarding Houses (Registration) 113 words
    2. Potatoes 113 words
    3. Air-Sea Rescue Work, Sumburgh 80 words
    4. National Film Finance Corporation 153 words
    5. MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES 38 words
  5. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Members' Pay and Pensions 120 words
  6. INDUSTRY
    1. Engineering Industry (Finniston Report) 46 words
    2. East Midlands Industries 95 words
    3. Small Firms 74 words
  7. DEFENCE
    1. Army Medal Office 129 words
    2. Holly Hedge House, Blackheath 170 words
    3. Expenditure 1,169 words
    4. Departmental Housing 86 words
    5. Cruise Missile Sites 322 words
  8. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Slimming Drugs 122 words
    2. Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Area Health Authority 451 words
    3. Life Expectancy 162 words
    4. Psychiatric Units 197 words
    5. Family Income Supplement 185 words
    6. Benefits (Claimants' Rights) 88 words
    7. Invalid Care Allowance 123 words
    8. Flowers Committee and London Health Planning Consortium (Reports) 400 words
    9. Disabled Persons 143 words
    10. Area Health Authorities (Redundancies) 116 words
    11. Unclaimed Benefits 228 words
    12. Pensions (Women) 96 words
    13. Retirement and Widow's Pensions (Canadian Residents) 96 words
    14. Detoxification Centres 363 words
    15. Nurses 319 words
    16. Sex Equality 87 words
    17. Drugs (Use in Children's Homes) 63 words
    18. Prisoners' Wives (Prison Visits) 139 words
    19. Supplementary Benefit 259 words
  9. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Departmental Manpower 79 words
    2. Farm Animal Welfare Council 51 words
    3. Hull Fishing Vessel Owners Association 65 words
    4. Fishing Industry, Hull 295 words
    5. Welsh Development Agency (Shareholdings) 131 words
  10. WALES
    1. Adult Literacy 81 words
    2. Physically Disabled Children 417 words
  11. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Sterling 122 words
    2. Wilson Committee 72 words
    3. Personal Taxation 59 words
    4. Taxation Revenue 56 words
    5. Estate Duty (Property in Lieu) 149 words
    6. Tax Evasion 51 words
    7. Private Investment 266 words
    8. Value Added Tax 162 words
    9. Average Earnings (Great Yarmouth) 167 words
    10. Information Officers 344 words
    11. Exchange Rate Policy 66 words
  12. TRANSPORT
    1. Suffolk County Council (Traffic Census) 84 words
    2. Free Bus Passes 230 words
    3. Traffic Signals, Birstall 126 words
  13. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Typewriters, Photocopiers and Office Furniture 150 words
  14. ENERGY
    1. Gas 123 words
    2. Oil-Derived Gas 83 words
  15. FOREIGN & COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Gibraltar 105 words
    2. Rhodesia 332 words
    3. Soviet Trade Inspectors 260 words
    4. Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty 122 words
  16. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Local Government Employees 108 words
    2. Listed Buildings 232 words
    3. Employment Agencies 136 words
    4. Water Authorities (Staff) 289 words
    5. Domestic Rates 156 words
    6. Sport (Grants) 92 words
    7. Community Land Accounts 103 words
    8. Building Regulation Inspections 136 words
    9. Development Land Tax 253 words
    10. South Oxfordshire District Council (Audit) 45 words
    11. Test Bore (Cheviot Hills) 97 words
  17. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Centres of Excellence 86 words
    2. Tropical Diseases (Research) 92 words
    3. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 182 words
    4. Further Education 95 words
    5. Standards of Education 79 words
    6. Architectural Association School of Architecture 49 words
    7. Primary Education 68 words
    8. Assisted Places Scheme 85 words
    9. School Facilities (Community Use) 66 words
    10. Assessment of Performance Unit 26 words
    11. Local Education Authorities 47 words
    12. Bootle 37 words
    13. Village Schools 95 words
    14. Education Act 1944 44 words
    15. Mathematics 95 words
    16. Physically Disabled Children 491 words
    17. Road Safety 96 words
    18. Higher Education (Physically Disabled Students) 182 words
    19. Educational Maintenance Allowances 61 words
    20. Student Grants 89 words
    21. ECONOMIC POLICY 49 words
    22. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 493 words
    23. OVERSEAS STUDENTS (FEES) 47 words
    24. TUC 37 words
    25. ITALY (PRESIDENT) 27 words
    26. PAKISTAN (NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT) 51 words
    27. KEIGHLEY 23 words
    28. MARKINCH, FIFE 26 words
    29. DRUG SAFETY 137 words
  18. SCOTLAND
    1. Schools (Ministerial Visits) 77 words
    2. Nuclear Installations Inspectorate 133 words
    3. "MAVIS" 209 words
    4. Housing Complaints 84 words
    5. Rating System 53 words
    6. Improvement Grants 139 words
    7. Sport 76 words
    8. Family Income 137 words
    9. Heart Surgery 313 words
    10. Physically Disabled Children 109 words
    11. Laboratory Technicians (Dispute) 93 words
    12. Mullwharcher (Purchase) 107 words
    13. Housing Development, Easter Pencaitland 193 words
    14. Job Release Scheme 193 words
    15. Stonefield Vehicles 78 words
    16. Regional and Island Authorities 598 words
    17. Herbicide 2,4,5-T 181 words
    18. Retirements (Dundee) 36 words
    19. Unemployment (Dundee) 45 words
  19. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Abortions 53 words
    2. Physically Disabled Children 129 words
    3. Clothing Factories 65 words
    4. Gas Supply 258 words

Lords Sitting of 4 March 1980

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT: STAFF REDUCTIONS 586 words
  3. THE HELSINKI AGREEMENT: HAMBURG SCIENTIFIC FORUM 800 words
  4. THE TOOTAL GROUP: COMPANY POLICY 805 words
  5. ARMS SALES OUTSIDE NATO 474 words
  6. RHODESIA ELECTIONS: NEW GOVERNMENT 3,559 words
  7. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (VARIATION OF LIMITS OF CANDIDATES' ELECTION EXPENSES) ORDER 1980 641 words
  8. CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) BILL [H.L.] 34,292 words, 3 divisions

Written Answers (Lords) of 4 March 1980

  1. WOODLANDS ENCLOSURE AND MAINTENANCE: TAX RELIEF 191 words
  2. THE AGLIONBY REPORT AND THE HORSERACE TOTALISATOR BOARD 114 words
  3. NATO: PUBLICITY AND EDUCATIONAL GRANTS 210 words
  4. THE LOI D'ORIENTATION AGRICOLE 98 words