Commons Sitting of 11 March 1980

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. WESLEY'S CHAPEL, CITY ROAD BILL 9 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. DEFENCE
      1. Armoured Fighting Vehicle Equipment 433 words
      2. Military Equipment Projects (European Collaboration) 425 words
      3. Offshore Protection Vessels 541 words
      4. Cruise Missiles 633 words
      5. NATO (Defence Ministers) 404 words
      6. Air Defence Capability 404 words
      7. Territorial Army Bounties 283 words
      8. Chevaline 312 words
      9. Defence Expenditure 519 words
      10. Private Soldiers (Cost) 468 words
      11. Service Personnel (House Purchase) 462 words
      12. Fulwood Barracks 141 words
      13. Straits of Hormuz (Survey) 448 words
      14. United States of America (Secretary for Defence) 422 words
    2. NATO (Defence Ministers) 289 words
    3. V-Bomber Force 270 words
    4. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 661 words
    5. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY BUDGET (UNITED KINGDOM CONTRIBUTION) 784 words
    6. THAILAND 365 words
    7. TUC 254 words
  5. BILL PRESENTED
    1. HOUSING (HOMELESS PERSONS) (AMENDMENT) 58 words
  6. POLICE 1,594 words
    1. POLICE BILL 129 words
  7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INVALID DIRECTION) BILL 50,284 words
  8. LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS (CANDIDATES' EXPENSES) 598 words
  9. CHURCH OF ENGLAND (DEACONESSES AND LAY WORKERS) 1,385 words
  10. SHEFFIELD MANCHESTER (WOODHEAD RAIL LINK) 4,393 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 11 March 1980

  1. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 689 words
  2. RHODESIA 58 words
  3. TUC 39 words
  4. TAX THRESHOLDS 45 words
  5. NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS (HEALTH AND SAFETY) 143 words
  6. LOCAL AUTHORITY ORGANISATIONS 29 words
  7. MINISTER OF TRANSPORT 100 words
  8. PUBLIC SECTOR BORROWING REQUIREMENT 119 words
  9. BASILDON 23 words
  10. CUMINESTOWN 24 words
  11. BRANDT COMMISSION REPORT 56 words
  12. NUCLEAR SECURITY 171 words
  13. DEFENCE
    1. Rhodesia 134 words
    2. Expenditure 144 words
    3. Cruise and Pershing Missiles 131 words
    4. Gulf Region (Defence Support) 50 words
    5. HMS "Fisgard", Torpoint 53 words
    6. Defence Equipment (Expenditure) 64 words
    7. Naval Vessels (Maintenance Costs) 38 words
    8. Amble North Pier 93 words
    9. Nuclear Weapons (Europe) 60 words
    10. NATO (Defence Ministers) 67 words
    11. Polaris (Successor Missile) 49 words
    12. Departmental Land 88 words
    13. Air Defence Capability 135 words
    14. Bordon (Officers' Mess) 215 words
    15. Service Personnel (Off-duty Travel) 112 words
    16. Armed Forces (Recruitment and Resignations) 73 words
    17. Royal Dockyards 67 words
    18. Service Personnel (Local Authority Housing) 150 words
    19. V-Bomber Force 37 words
    20. Nuclear Fleet 50 words
    21. Berlin (Secretary of State's Visit) 125 words
    22. Armaments Exports 62 words
  14. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Job Promotion Schemes (Huddersfield) 318 words
    2. Race Relations Employment Advisory Group 139 words
    3. Disabled Persons 111 words
    4. Professional and Executive Register (Vocational Guidance Facilities) 107 words
    5. Inmos 59 words
    6. Unemployed Persons 90 words
    7. Employment Census 110 words
    8. Employed Persons 64 words
    9. British Steel Corporation 115 words
    10. Jobcentre (Macclesfield) 61 words
    11. Construction Industry 317 words
  15. TRADE
    1. Polyester Fibre Yarn 138 words
    2. Recycling Industry 68 words
  16. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Occupational Vitiligo 83 words
    2. Footwear (Imports) 182 words
    3. Family Income Supplement 213 words
    4. Back Strain (Preventive Education) 147 words
    5. Supplementary Benefit 451 words
    6. Private Patients (Bad Debts) 56 words
    7. Mobility Allowance 110 words
    8. Maternity Grant 89 words
    9. Drugs 682 words
    10. Family Expenditure 127 words
    11. Community Homes (West Midlands) 571 words
    12. Orthopaedic Facilities (West Midlands) 93 words
    13. Foster Parents 137 words
    14. Family Income 120 words
  17. FOOD
    1. Price Support System Slaughterhouses 52 words
    2. Slaughterhouses 613 words
    3. Fishing Industry, Hull 307 words
    4. Sheep 306 words
    5. Senior Civil Servants (Pay) 171 words
  18. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Manpower 113 words
    2. Central Office of Information 81 words
  19. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Polytechnics 356 words
    2. Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges 69 words
    3. Primary Education Pupils (Reading and Mathematics Tests) 239 words
  20. ENERGY
    1. Plutonium Stockpile (Windscale) 47 words
    2. Plutonium Nitrate (Trans-shipment) 178 words
    3. Dounreay Power Station 88 words
    4. Low-paid Workers (Energy Discount Scheme) 79 words
    5. Gas 279 words
  21. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Staff (Protective Garments) 59 words
  22. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Rhodesia 166 words
  23. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Food Aid Convention 135 words
  24. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Custodial Remands 144 words
    2. Fingerprints 190 words
    3. Electoral Registers (Humberside) 88 words
    4. Television Licence Fees 73 words
    5. Police Vehicles (Insurance) 131 words
    6. Motorways (Traffic Information) 86 words
    7. Civil Defence 131 words
    8. Indictable Offences 362 words
    9. Metropolitan Police District (Reorganisation) 202 words
    10. Police (Complaints) 101 words
    11. Latin American Refugees 183 words
    12. Woolworth's Store, Piccadilly, Manchester (Fire) 73 words
    13. Coroners' Juries 236 words
    14. Gaming Act 1968 64 words
  25. INDUSTRY
    1. Inmos 48 words
    2. Steel Workers (Retirement) 129 words
    3. Small Businesses 65 words
  26. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Housing Improvement Grants 62 words
    2. Refuse Collection 63 words
    3. Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas 79 words
    4. Improvement Schemes (Rugby) 104 words
    5. Water Authorities 100 words
    6. Olympic Games 95 words
    7. Greater London Council (Housing Estates) 92 words
    8. Intensive Livestock Units 63 words
    9. Office Space (London) 59 words
    10. London Borough of Lambeth (Audit) 152 words
    11. Public Sector Housing 160 words
    12. Housing (Older Industrial Areas) 288 words
    13. Local Authorities (Soviet Union Twinning Arrangements) 129 words
  27. TRANSPORT
    1. Lighting Regulations 77 words
    2. Traffic Information (Broadcasting) 73 words
    3. Traffic Control Devices 141 words
  28. WALES
    1. Farmers (European Community Competition) 115 words
  29. SCOTLAND
    1. Divorce Rate 82 words
    2. Primary and Secondary Schools 252 words
    3. Education (Expenditure) 55 words
    4. Higher Education Students 120 words
    5. Indictable Offences 166 words
    6. Police (Complaints Investigations) 116 words
    7. Local Authority Housing Plans 147 words
    8. HOUSING PLANS 1979 428 words
    9. Domestic and Industrial Refuse (Collection) 110 words
    10. Enterprise Zone (Glasgow) 27 words
    11. Artificial Limbs 118 words
    12. Megget Water Scheme (Selkirkshire) 74 words
  30. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Schedule A Tax 171 words
    2. Housing Expenditure 94 words
    3. Tax Allowances 176 words
    4. Life Assurance 249 words
    5. Mortgage Interest 143 words
    6. Capital Gains Tax 123 words
    7. Plant and Equipment (Purchases) 80 words
    8. Mortgage Interest and Life Assurance Premiums 469 words
    9. Stamp Duty 50 words
    10. Income Tax 664 words
    11. Personal Taxation 62 words
    12. Value Added Tax 570 words
    13. Tax Allowances and Child Benefit 83 words
    14. Free Enterprise Zone (Lambeth) 46 words
    15. European Community (Loans) 83 words
    16. European Monetary System 58 words
    17. British Petroleum Shares (Sale) 60 words
    18. Exchequer and Audit Departments Acts 129 words
    19. Estate Duty (Property in Lieu) 301 words
    20. Development Land Tax Office 186 words
    21. Capital Taxes Office 248 words
    22. Tobacco Products (Duty) 90 words
    23. Tax Threshold 219 words
    24. Widows (Allowances) 61 words
    25. Tax Rates 246 words
  31. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Prisoners' Wives (Financial Assistance) 215 words
    2. Services for the Handicapped 61 words
    3. Public Officials (Nationality) 193 words

Lords Sitting of 11 March 1980

  1. Preamble 28 words
  2. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE: ELECTROSTATIC PRINTS 289 words
  3. VALUE ADDED TAX ON CONFECTIONERY 515 words
  4. HOUSING (HOMELESS PERSONS) ACT 1977 843 words
  5. THE BARLINNIE PRISON EXPERIMENT 899 words
  6. BUSINESS 105 words
  7. EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL 31,671 words, 5 divisions
  8. CONCESSIONARY TRAVEL FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS (SCOTLAND) BILL 9 words
  9. CONSULAR FEES BILL 9 words
  10. NATIONAL HERITAGE BILL 6,681 words
  11. EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL 86,208 words, 12 divisions
  12. BEES BILL 9 words
  13. PROTECTION OF TRADING INTERESTS BILL 8 words
  14. POLICE NEGOTIATING BOARD BILL [H.L.] 16 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 11 March 1980

  1. NARCOTIC DRUGS: DEATHS 297 words
  2. RICKETS: GLASGOW HEALTH PROGRAMME 237 words
  3. COMPENSATION FOR PERSONAL INJURY: ROYAL COMMISSION REPORT 131 words
  4. INMOS: PRODUCTION IN AN ASSISTED AREA 94 words
  5. ASSISTED PLACES SCHEME: MAXIMUM DAY FEE 64 words
  6. ASSISTED PLACES SCHEME: OFFERS AND ACCEPTANCES 99 words
  7. HANDICAPPED AND NON- HANDICAPPED SCHOOL- CHILDREN: LEA ASSISTANCE 981 words
  8. CHIROPRACTICE: NEW ZEALAND REPORT 284 words
  9. EALING COUNCIL: SALE OF SCHOOLS TO RELIGIOUS BODIES 165 words
  10. PRICE INFLATION AND COMPETITIVENESS 98 words