Commons Sitting of 10 March 1980

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. ENERGY
      1. British National Oil Corporation 769 words
      2. Gas Gathering System 565 words
      3. National Coal Board 892 words
      4. Energy Output and Demand 1,224 words
      5. Pressure Water Reactor 322 words
      6. Nuclear Energy Generation 791 words
      7. Fuel Costs 402 words
      8. Nationalised Fuel Industries (Chairman) 854 words
      9. Gas Corporation (Liability) 249 words
      10. North Sea Oil (Pricing) 511 words
      11. European Community (Ministerial Meetings) 437 words
    2. PALACE OF WESTMINSTER
      1. Accommodation 570 words
      2. Facilities 172 words
      3. GOVERNMENT PUBLICITY SERVICES 399 words
      4. PRESS (MEETINGS) 331 words
  4. SECOND ADJOURNMENT DEBATES 281 words
  5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 3,285 words
  6. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. SUPPLY 3 words
  7. HOUSING (GOVERNMENT POLICIES) 27,603 words, 1 division
  8. DEFENCE ESTIMATES, 1980–81 (NAVY), VOTE A 74 words
  9. DEFENCE ESTIMATES, 1980–81 (ARMY), VOTE A 55 words
  10. DEFENCE ESTIMATES, 1980–81 (AIR), VOTE A 51 words
  11. DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1979–80 57 words
  12. CIVIL SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1979–80 57 words
  13. CIVIL SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES (CLASS XIII A) 1979–80 59 words
  14. CIVIL DEFENCE ESTIMATES, EXCESSES, 1978–79 84 words
  15. CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) 52 words
  16. IMMIGRATION RULES 21,013 words
  17. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 34 words
  18. IMMIGRATION RULES 15,143 words, 1 division
  19. PROTECTION OF TRADING INTERESTS BILL 3 words
    1. Clause 1
      1. OVERSEAS MEASURES AFFECTING UNITED KINGDOM TRADING INTERESTS 1,754 words
  20. BEES BILL 3 words
    1. Clause 1
      1. CONTROL OF PESTS AND DISEASES AFFECTING BEES 555 words
  21. SMALL BUSINESSES 4,245 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 10 March 1980

  1. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Wider Opportunities for Women 79 words
    2. Manpower Services Commission (Sponsored Courses) 342 words
    3. Annual Census of Employment 46 words
    4. Employed Persons 179 words
    5. Jobcentre (Macclesfield) 42 words
    6. Small Undertakings (Employees) 133 words
    7. Maternity Benefit 452 words
    8. Employment Transfer and Job Search Schemes 78 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Special Patrol Group 353 words
    2. Immigration 68 words
    3. Police Forces (Sex Equality) 44 words
    4. Defence College, Easingwold 34 words
    5. Civil Defence 334 words
    6. Ethiopian Refugees 126 words
    7. Parliamentary Boundary Commissions 64 words
    8. Private Mail (Censorship) 118 words
    9. Coroners' Inquests (Press Attendance) 51 words
    10. HOUSE OF COMMONS (STANDING COMMITTEES) 58 words
  3. SCOTLAND
    1. Electricity Demand 103 words
    2. Educational Broadcasts 67 words
    3. Prisoners (Outside Visits) 805 words
    4. Unemployment 97 words
    5. Employment Programmes 102 words
    6. Health Boards (Support Financing) 391 words
    7. DIVORCE RATE (NORTHERN IRELAND) 84 words
    8. LEGAL PROFESSION (NORTHERN IRELAND) 61 words
    9. MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIARY (PENSIONS) 61 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Stabex Scheme 107 words
  5. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. School Meals and Transport 242 words
    2. School Uniform and Maintenance Allowances 124 words
    3. Metropolitan Districts (Education Expenditure) 364 words
    4. Expenditure 152 words
    5. BROADCASTING 29 words
    6. GOVERNMENT PUBLICITY SERVICES 60 words
    7. GOVERNMENT POLICY (MEDIA COVERAGE) 18 words
  6. WALES
    1. Hospitals 60 words
    2. Health Service Organisation 90 words
    3. Domestic and Industrial Refuse (Collection) 126 words
    4. Manpower Services Commission 66 words
  7. INDUSTRY
    1. Post Office 84 words
    2. Vosper Limited 83 words
    3. Assisted Areas 591 words
    4. Fairey Holdings Limited 136 words
    5. Small Businesses 45 words
    6. Computer Industry 61 words
    7. Redpath Dorman Long 149 words
    8. Concorde 59 words
  8. ENERGY
    1. Coal Industry (Investment) 41 words
    2. European Community (Energy Conservation) 91 words
    3. Fast Breeder Reactor 51 words
    4. British National Oil Corporation 54 words
    5. Reactor Designs 69 words
    6. Energy Conservation 73 words
    7. Gas Reserves (Continental Shelf) 62 words
    8. Coal (Lost Production) 53 words
    9. North Sea Oil 29 words
    10. North Sea Resources 85 words
    11. Horticulture 128 words
    12. Gas Supply (Members' Correspondence) 78 words
    13. Gas and Electricity (Advertising) 57 words
    14. National Coal Board 202 words
    15. Smokeless Fuels (Ancid Process) 46 words
    16. Gas 124 words
  9. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Generic Prescribing 241 words
    2. Liable Relatives 88 words
    3. Mental Handicap (Report) 166 words
    4. Children in Care 304 words
    5. Heart Surgery (Liverpool) 129 words
    6. Industrial Disputes (Benefits) 138 words
    7. Special Hospitals 191 words
    8. Family Benefits 186 words
    9. Social Workers 344 words
    10. Elderly Persons 267 words
    11. National Health Service (Expenditure) 46 words
    12. Supplementary Benefit 143 words
    13. Local Authorities (Accommodation Charges) 156 words
    14. One-parent Families 140 words
    15. Special Needs Payment (Nuclear Shelters) 55 words
    16. Hospital Building 246 words
    17. Hypothermia 348 words
    18. Child Benefit 165 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Tehran (Commission of Inquiry) 65 words
    2. Rhodesia 207 words
  11. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Departmental Manpower 82 words
    2. Housing Investment Programme 398 words
    3. Heat Metering 232 words
    4. National Trust (Exhibition) 55 words
    5. Evicted Tenants (Rent Rebate) 123 words
    6. Rent Allowances 47 words
    7. Council House Tenants (Rent Rebates and Supplementary Benefits) 55 words
    8. Deep Tube Shelters 63 words
    9. Coventry Churches Housing Association 77 words
    10. Rent Rebate—Supplementary Benefit (Transfer) 60 words
    11. Council House Sales 91 words
    12. Housing Expenditure 229 words
    13. Pollution 83 words
    14. Housing Bill 117 words
    15. Vauxhall Bridge Effra Site 65 words
    16. Office Development 164 words
    17. Regulated Tenancies 43 words
    18. Construction Industry (Redundancies) 55 words
  12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. "Agriculture and the Countryside" (Strutt Report) 122 words
    2. Fishery Protection Service 140 words
    3. Hull Fishing Vessel Owners' Company 100 words
    4. Fishing Vessels 85 words
    5. Fishing Quotas 551 words
    6. Fishing Industry 165 words
    7. Cod and Haddock 149 words
    8. Fish Landing Charges 200 words
    9. Fish Imports 301 words
    10. Albert Fish Dock, Hull 523 words
    11. Caramel 80 words
    12. Trawlers (Hull) 129 words
    13. Fish Meal Production 177 words
  13. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Civil Servants (Pensions) 279 words
    2. Staff Side (Meeting) 25 words
    3. Computers 151 words
  14. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Tax Allowances and Reliefs 42 words
    2. International Organisations (United Kingdom Contribution) 103 words
    3. Capital Taxes Office 59 words
    4. Tax Relief (Energy Saving) 117 words
    5. Development Land Tax Office 136 words
    6. Tax Expenditure 142 words
    7. Income Tax 156 words
    8. Tobacco Duty 79 words
    9. Taxation 88 words
    10. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 61 words
    11. Pensions 115 words
    12. £ Sterling 167 words
    13. Widows (Short-term Allowance) 38 words
    14. European Community (United Kingdom Contribution) 138 words
    15. Taxation Revenue 404 words
    16. Law Society (Value Added Tax) 32 words
  15. TRANSPORT
    1. Jubilee Line 103 words
    2. Harrowden, Eastcotts and Cambridge Roads, Bedford 244 words
    3. Derailment (Bushey) 89 words
    4. Traffic Signs 108 words
    5. M25 (Catering) 68 words
    6. Vehicle Excise Licence 94 words
    7. Nuclear Waste 132 words
    8. Trunk Road Construction 70 words
    9. Seat Belts 132 words
  16. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Telex Facilities 67 words
    2. Members' Salaries 72 words
    3. Members' Pensions 67 words
    4. Refreshment Department (Shirts) 167 words
  17. PALACE OF WESTMINSTER
    1. Accommodation 115 words
    2. CAPITAL TRANSFER TAX (WORKS OF ART) 161 words
    3. Clock Tower 91 words
  18. TRADE
    1. Counterfeit Automotive Parts 235 words
    2. "Pool Fisher" 96 words
    3. Lost Trawlers 211 words
    4. Fishing Vessels (Reporting-in) 229 words
    5. Fishing Vessels (Safety Requirements) 83 words
    6. Eurocontrol 346 words
    7. Airport Charges 174 words
    8. Aviation Security Fund 35 words
    9. Dan-Air Flight DA 064 (Pilot Record) 71 words
    10. Caramel 164 words
    11. Yarn Imports 81 words
    12. Concorde 92 words
  19. DEFENCE
    1. Armed Forces (Recruitment and Resignations) 381 words
    2. Frigates 83 words
    3. British Forces East of Suez 42 words
    4. Offshore Patrol Vessel 71 words
    5. Service Personnel (Pensions) 121 words
    6. Dan-Air Flight DA064 (Near Miss) 473 words
  20. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Firearms Certificates 956 words
    2. Firearms 658 words
    3. Departmental Staff 75 words
    4. Primary School, Lack, Co. Fermanagh 157 words
    5. Health and Education Services 146 words
    6. Unemployment (Dungannon and Omagh) 290 words
    7. Housing Executive 148 words
    8. Terrorist Offences (Legal Aid Costs) 172 words
    9. Secondary Education 197 words
    10. Child Prostitution 76 words
    11. Geriatric Provision (Belfast) 180 words

Lords Sitting of 10 March 1980

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. THE BORDERS DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL 601 words
  3. DOCKYARDS: GIRL APPRENTICES 267 words
  4. ARMS SALES AND HUMAN RIGHTS 1,998 words
  5. THE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY: DENATIONALISATION 892 words
  6. DINNERS 84 words
  7. EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL 31,389 words, 3 divisions
  8. NATIONAL HERITAGE BILL 8,636 words
  9. EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL 22,771 words, 2 divisions

Written Answers (Lords) of 10 March 1980

  1. LIFE PRISONERS: NUMBERS IN PRISON AFTER NINE OR 14 YEARS 108 words
  2. LIFE PRISONERS IN SPECIAL HOSPITALS 83 words
  3. DATA PROTECTION: LINDOP REPORT—CONSIDERATION 130 words
  4. AIR/SEA RESCUE MISSIONS: COST 182 words
  5. ETHIOPIA: GAMBELA PROJECT AND EEC AID 197 words