Commons Sitting of 13 April 1981

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. ALLIED IRISH BANKS BILL 4 words
      2. GREATER MANCHESTER BILL [Lords] 12 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRADE
      1. Hazardous Products (Labelling) 512 words
      2. European Community (Veto) 326 words
      3. Competition Act 465 words
      4. European Community (Shipping) 323 words
      5. British Standards 451 words
      6. European Community (Trade Policy) 422 words
      7. Air Fares (Discounting) 575 words
      8. Motorway Service Stations 907 words
      9. Pharmaceutical Products (Exports) 367 words
      10. Manufacturers (Liability) 121 words
      11. Tourism 705 words
      12. South America 173 words
      13. West Germany 741 words
      14. South Africa (Machinery Exports) 439 words
      15. Exports 294 words
    2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      1. Overseas Students 591 words
      2. "Village Adoption" Scheme 248 words
      3. Zimbabwe 595 words
      4. Commonwealth Development Corporation 114 words
  4. Brixton (Disturbances) 5,609 words
  5. National Health Service (Hospitals) 514 words
  6. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (MINERALS) BILL [Lords] 951 words, 1 division
  7. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 101 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Finance Bill 45,109 words, 1 division
      1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 49 words
      2. FINANCE BILL 90 words
    2. English Industrial Estates Corporation Bill [Lords] 1,375 words
      1. Clause 2
        1. FUNCTIONS OF THE CORPORATION 1,205 words
    3. Film Levy Finance Bill [Lords] 1,507 words
    4. National Film Finance Corporation Bill [Lords] 1,386 words
    5. Public Passenger Vehicles Bill [Lords] 162 words
    6. Judicial Pensions Bill [Lords] 152 words
    7. SCOTTISH AFFAIRS 31 words
    8. ENVIRONMENT 20 words
    9. Unemployment (Mid-Glamorgan) 3,966 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 April 1981

  1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Jury Service (Loss of Earnings) 41 words
  2. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Security Services (House of Commons Committee) 72 words
    2. Members of Parliament (Salary) 60 words
    3. Peasants Revolt 1381 (Commemoration) 37 words
  3. TRADE
    1. Finished Manufactures (Imports) 42 words
    2. Copyright and Design Law 49 words
    3. Angola 86 words
    4. Cyprus (Turkish-occupied Areas) 65 words
    5. Monopolies and Mergers Commission 238 words
    6. Chimneys and Flues 238 words
    7. Safety at Sea 73 words
    8. America (Textile Imports) 161 words
    9. Spain 76 words
    10. Central Electricity Generating Board 51 words
    11. Air Fares 167 words
    12. Car Imports (Japan) 119 words
    13. Tariffs 176 words
    14. Newspaper Purchases 48 words
    15. Strontium Salts (Cosmetics) 90 words
    16. Furniture (Fire Test Labelling) 201 words
    17. Export United 111 words
    18. British Midland Airways (London-Glasgow- Edinburgh Routes) 61 words
    19. Multi-fibre Arrangement 41 words
    20. USSR (Cargo Vessels) 76 words
    21. Roller Skates 96 words
    22. Insolvency Law Review Committee 86 words
    23. British Sugar Corporation 174 words
    24. European Community (Manufactured Goods) 134 words
    25. Free Trade 131 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. International Development Association 78 words
    2. Wind Energy 89 words
    3. Aid (Percentage of Gross National Product) 151 words
    4. Zimbabwe 60 words
    5. Nicaragua 113 words
    6. Guatemala 52 words
    7. Population Activities 190 words
  5. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Minimum Lending Rate 107 words
    2. Sterling M3 76 words
    3. Capital Formation 309 words
    4. Gross Domestic Product 359 words
    5. Income Tax 60 words
    6. Sterling M1 58 words
    7. Domestic Credit 192 words
  6. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Disabled Persons 179 words
    2. Arts Council (Wales) 80 words
    3. Welsh Office (Agricultural Division) 74 words
  7. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Police Helicopters 96 words
    2. Police Manpower 307 words
    3. Passports (Civil Service Dispute) 70 words
    4. Charities (Legal Costs) 55 words
    5. West Yorkshire Police (Inquiry) 160 words
    6. Maintenance Orders 186 words
    7. North-East London Polytechnic Students (Arrest) 100 words
    8. Police (Firearms) 233 words
    9. Police Custody (Assaults) 136 words
    10. Alleged Offences (Member's Correspondence) 92 words
    11. Charity Commissioners 90 words
    12. National Federation of Community Organisations 93 words
    13. Private Mobile Radio Licence 532 words
    14. Prison Population 234 words
  8. WALES
    1. Expenditure Plans 3,158 words
    2. Housing Capital Expenditure 98 words
    3. Nuclear War Directors 65 words
    4. Departmental Post Transfers 132 words
  9. INDUSTRY
    1. Goods and Materials (United Kingdom Requirement) 110 words
    2. Clothing Industry Productivity Resources Agency 159 words
    3. International Computers Limited 151 words
  10. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Beef 69 words
    2. Common Agricultural Policy 195 words
    3. Interest Rates 452 words
  11. SCOTLAND
    1. Dental Treatment 240 words
    2. Expenditure Plans 61 words
    3. Housing (Expenditure) 509 words
    4. Sports Council 95 words
    5. Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 69 words
    6. New Towns 71 words
    7. M8 546 words
    8. Council House Sales 226 words
    9. Public Expenditure 227 words
    10. Housing Support Grant 427 words
    11. Rate Support Grant 157 words
    12. Local Authority Income 554 words
    13. John Watson's School 252 words
    14. Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 193 words
  12. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Construction Industry (Northern Region) 159 words
    2. Unemployment Statistics (Northern Region) 246 words
    3. Long-term Unemployment (Northern Region) 155 words
    4. Closed Shop Agreements 184 words
    5. School Leavers 67 words
    6. Mentally Handicapped Persons (Riding Therapy) 101 words
    7. Apprenticeships and Training 179 words
    8. Marconi, Chelmsford (Redundancies) 430 words
    9. Wage Settlements 467 words
  13. ENERGY
    1. Interruptible Gas Supply Contracts 130 words
    2. Interruptible Energy Contracts 151 words
    3. Electricity (Sales and Demand) 285 words
    4. Offshore Oil Installations (Health and Safety) 168 words
    5. South Africa (Oil Trade) 202 words
  14. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. School Meals 308 words
    2. Social Science Research Council 468 words
    3. Overseas Students 88 words
    4. National Federation of Community Associations 69 words
    5. Pupil Maintenance Grants 48 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Unemployed School Leavers 300 words
    2. Natural Gas 67 words
    3. Public Employees 162 words
    4. Dogs 38 words
    5. Unemployed Persons (Londonderry, Limavady and Coleraine) 129 words
    6. European Commission and Parliament 77 words
  16. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Select Committees (Specialist Advisers) 521 words
  17. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Unification Church 79 words
    2. Ethnic Minorities 78 words
    3. Northern Regional Health Authority 880 words
    4. Brain Deaths (Criteria) 90 words
    5. "Assistance with Housing Costs" 109 words
    6. Supplementary Benefit (Income Disregard) 209 words
    7. Resettlement Units 124 words
    8. Parliamentary Questions 141 words
    9. Census 323 words
    10. Medicine Testing Procedures 237 words
    11. Prescription Season Tickets 221 words
    12. Departmental Statistical Services 152 words
    13. Invalid Care Allowance 91 words
    14. Invalidity Pension 64 words
    15. Pensions 60 words
    16. Child Dependency Additions 153 words
    17. Child Minders 167 words
    18. Unemployment Benefit 72 words
    19. Pharmaceutical Firms 197 words
    20. District Health Authorities 574 words
    21. Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens 87 words
    22. Sterilisation (Females) 77 words
    23. Death Rates 343 words
    24. Poverty Trap 795 words
  18. ENVIRONMENT
    1. "Lead and Health" 129 words
    2. Children's Play (Departmental Responsibilities) 104 words
    3. Fishery Purchase (Sports Council Grants) 127 words
    4. Bickland Water, Falmouth 204 words
    5. Sports Council 88 words
    6. Property Services Agency 951 words
    7. Benefits 122 words
    8. Stonehenge 89 words
    9. Welsh Office (New Annex) 80 words
    10. Nature Conservancy Council 89 words
    11. Building Research Establishment 706 words
  19. TRANSPORT
    1. Public Stage Carriage Omnibuses (Inspections) 48 words
    2. Private Railway Lines 89 words
    3. Tyres (Tread Depths) 52 words
    4. Road Accidents 168 words
    5. Roads (Condition) 66 words
    6. Deflectograph Tests 78 words
  20. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Malaysia 414 words
    2. Moscow Embassy 46 words
  21. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Civil Servants (Northern Region) 314 words
    2. Pay 316 words
    3. "Employment Gazette" 138 words
    4. Departmental Reviews 112 words
    5. Retired Civil Servants. 48 words
    6. Costs 263 words
  22. DEFENCE
    1. Value Added Tax 196 words
    2. Service Children (Education Costs) 170 words
    3. Job Losses (Northern Region) 85 words
    4. Armed Forces (Devon) 45 words
    5. University of Wales and Polytechnic of Wales 149 words
    6. Civil Service Pay Dispute 244 words
    7. Royal Ordnance Factories (Redundancies) 57 words
    8. Defence White Paper 1981 24 words

Lords Sitting of 13 April 1981

  1. Preamble 23 words
  2. Disarmament: United Nations 2,458 words
  3. Botswana: Proposed Beef Exports to EEC 357 words
  4. Supplementary Benefit and School-leavers 645 words
  5. Brixton: Public Disorder 38 words
  6. British Railways (Victoria) Bill [H.L.] 9 words
  7. Criminal Attempts Bill 5,859 words
  8. Brixton: Public Disorder 3,570 words
  9. Criminal Attempts Bill 9,610 words
  10. British Telecommunications Bill 10 words
  11. Interpretation of Legislation Bill [H.L.] 677 words
  12. ECC 14th Report: Regional Policy 22,530 words
  13. The Police Act 1964 10,122 words
  14. United Reformed Church Bill [H.L.] 7 words
  15. Barnsley Borough Council Bill 9 words
  16. Milford Docks Bill [H.L.] 6 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 13 April 1981

  1. ELECTION EXPENSES 62 words
  2. PRISONERS DETAINED 15 YEARS OR MORE 125 words
  3. PSBR: TOTALS SINCE 1961 222 words
  4. GARAGE CHARGES: PROTECTION OF CAR OWNERS 263 words
  5. ANTIGUA: INDEPENDENCE ORDER 80 words
  6. ST. KITTS-NEVIS: INDEPENDENCE PROPOSALS 68 words
  7. IDA DARWIN HOSPITAL, CAMBRIDGE 79 words
  8. EXPORT OF LIVE ANIMALS 771 words