Commons Sitting of 14 December 1981

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. DERBYSHIRE BILL [Lords] 8 words
  3. HUMBERSIDE BILL 12 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRADE
      1. Road Vehicles (Imports-Exports) 343 words
      2. Channel Tunnel 418 words
      3. Consultative Council on Local Government Finance 122 words
      4. British Airports Authority 314 words
      5. Industrial Goods (European Free Trade Area) 328 words
      6. West Germany (Trade Deficit) 416 words
      7. World Trade 424 words
      8. Multi-Fibre Arrangement 892 words
      9. Japanese Light Vehicles 825 words
      10. USSR (United Kingdom Exports) 578 words
      11. European Community—Japan 488 words
      12. Monopolies and Mergers Commission 635 words
      13. Spain (Balance of Trade) 278 words
      14. British Products (Counterfeiting) 725 words
    2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      1. Least Developed Countries 522 words
      2. Students (Underdeveloped Countries) 789 words
      3. India 202 words
  5. Poland 3,618 words
  6. Steel Industry 4,537 words
  7. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C. 64 words
  8. Employment Prospects in Wales 18,392 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Civil Aviation (Amendment) Bill 10,740 words
    2. Housing (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill 9,368 words
    3. Welsh Water Supply 13,194 words, 1 division
    4. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENT 18 words
    5. STOCK EXCHANGE LISTING: INTERIM REPORTS 82 words
    6. SOCIAL SECURITY (CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL 42 words
    7. Industrial Deafness 3,298 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 14 December 1981

  1. TRADE
    1. Bankruptcies and Liquidations 81 words
    2. European Monetary System 49 words
    3. Pilots 72 words
    4. Balance of Trade 68 words
    5. Hairdressers (European Community Directive) 56 words
    6. Steel Imports 84 words
    7. Eurocontrol (Meeting) 88 words
    8. Cars (Differential Pricing) 96 words
    9. Household Products (Danger to Children) 55 words
    10. Vehicle Imports 88 words
    11. Customs Duties (Alcoholic Beverages) 285 words
    12. France (Import Measures) 168 words
    13. Scotch Whisky 148 words
    14. Air Traffic Control 309 words
    15. Sealink (UK) Limited 60 words
    16. Airport Charges 123 words
    17. Brazil (Memorandum of Understanding) 378 words
    18. Imports (Safety Standards) 244 words
    19. European Community (Imports-Exports) 337 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Purchasing Policy 85 words
    2. Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Representations) 231 words
    3. Alcohol (Teratogen Effects) 86 words
    4. Alcohol (Central Policy Review Staff) 31 words
    5. Public Sector Companies 574 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Fixed Penalty Parking Fines 215 words
    2. Homicides 80 words
    3. Serious Offences 287 words
    4. Indictable Offences 88 words
    5. Hotels (Television Licences) 99 words
    6. Metropolitan Police (Compensation Claims) 452 words
    7. Disused Properties 150 words
    8. LD50 Test 210 words
    9. Boundary Commission (Parliamentary Seats) 115 words
    10. Polyurethane Foam 177 words
    11. Mr. Trevor Hardy 108 words
    12. Television Licence (Fee Refund) 54 words
    13. West Yorkshire Police 68 words
    14. Late Night Refreshment Houses Act 1969 39 words
  4. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Factory Closures 272 words
    2. Farm Machinery (Protective Guards) 221 words
    3. Disabled Persons 67 words
    4. Port Workers (London) 452 words
  5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Aid Budget 86 words
    2. Aid to Developing Countries 56 words
    3. Commonwealth Development Corporation 637 words
    4. Common Fund for Commodities 74 words
    5. Aid Programme 126 words
  6. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Select Committees (Staff) 141 words
    2. Employment Committee 234 words
    3. Committee on Welsh Affairs 74 words
  7. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Bristol Courts Family Conciliation Service 45 words
  8. INDUSTRY
    1. Volume-produced Tractors 66 words
    2. Dorman Long Ltd. 82 words
    3. British Steel Corporation 853 words
    4. Boilers (Coal-firing Conversion Schemes) 144 words
    5. Charities (Christmas Card Deliveries) 95 words
    6. Motor Cars (Production and Exports) 183 words
    7. Talbot and Peugeot (Loans and Guarantees) 170 words
    8. British Leyland (Bathgate) 262 words
  9. SCOTLAND
    1. Public Bodies (Departmental Responsibility) 235 words
    2. Housing (Insulation) 138 words
    3. Sewerage System 113 words
    4. Roads (Expenditure) 79 words
    5. Trunk Road Programme (Bypasses) 104 words
    6. Edinburgh Airport Car Park (Stolen and Damaged Vehicles) 341 words
    7. Castlelaw (Firing Ranges) 106 words
    8. STUC (Unemployment) 192 words
    9. Police Complaints 384 words
  10. ENERGY
    1. Energy Costs (Assistance) 123 words
    2. Drilling Rigs and Production Platforms (Equipment and Safety Procedures) 67 words
    3. North Sea Oil and Gas 124 words
    4. Gas Flaring 172 words
    5. Uranium 107 words
  11. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. European Guidance and Guarantee Fund 349 words
    2. Milk 133 words
    3. Fishing Rights (Yorkshire Coast) 93 words
  12. WALES
    1. Committee on Welsh Affairs (Recommendations) 128 words
    2. Public Bodies (Departmental Responsibility) 134 words
    3. Local Government Expenditure 217 words
    4. Grants to Local Authorities 116 words
    5. European Regional Development Fund 34 words
    6. All-Wales Working Party on Services for Mentally Handicapped People 254 words
    7. Farm Products (Sales) 89 words
    8. Lamb Exports 123 words
    9. Handicapped Children (Special Care and Assessment Centres) 64 words
    10. Land Registration 102 words
    11. Overseas Companies (Employees) 68 words
  13. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Council Houses (Ownership Statistics) 99 words
    2. New Town Properties (Sales) 71 words
    3. Earlham School, Norfolk 95 words
    4. Tenancies (Transfer) 166 words
    5. Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 155 words
    6. Brook Advisory Centre 90 words
    7. Smoke Control Programme 193 words
    8. Construction Industry (European Community Circular) 129 words
    9. Crown Estate Commissioners 96 words
    10. Mortgages (Support Lending Scheme) 291 words
    11. Hackney (Urban Aid and Partnership Money) 155 words
  14. TRANSPORT
    1. M40 149 words
    2. Railways Sidings (Grants) 128 words
    3. Transport Act 1981 325 words
    4. School Zone Signs 75 words
    5. Unlit Parked Skips 54 words
    6. A34 (Public Inquiry) 144 words
    7. Port of London Authority 136 words
    8. Lorry Checks 366 words
    9. Avon (Bypasses) 100 words
  15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Primary and Secondary Curriculum (First Degrees) 75 words
    2. Teacher Training (Circular) 31 words
    3. Staff-student Ratios 154 words
    4. Private Education (Local Authority Assistance) 1,061 words
  16. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Child Benefit 79 words
    2. RUC (Long Service Medal) 54 words
  17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Hong Kong (Narcotics) 52 words
    2. NATO (Boundaries Policies) 103 words
    3. United States Deputy Secretary of State (Talks) 124 words
    4. Venice Declaration 152 words
    5. Hijacking (Withdrawal of Air Services) 163 words
    6. Sally Ashcroft 130 words
  18. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Accidents in Childhood 117 words
    2. Orthopaedic Surgery 208 words
    3. Pregnancy (Alcohol Consumption) 196 words
    4. Death Grant 64 words
    5. Islington Brook Advisory Centre 127 words
    6. Disabled Persons 135 words
    7. London Borough of Wandsworth (Disabled Persons) 230 words
    8. Special Hospitals (Nursing Standards) 582 words
    9. Patients' Records 90 words
    10. Insulin 235 words
    11. Maternity Benefit 189 words
    12. Unemployment Benefit (Abatement) 55 words
    13. Earnings Rule (Abatement) 68 words
    14. Benefits (Compulsory Uprating) 261 words
    15. Supplementary Benefit 333 words
    16. Industrial Accidents (Benefit) 322 words
    17. Widows (Benefits) 297 words
    18. Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980 262 words
    19. Cyclamates 57 words
    20. Alcohol Abuse 191 words
  19. DEFENCE
    1. Chatham Dockyard 281 words
    2. Manpower Savings 177 words
    3. Service Children (Private Education) 123 words
    4. Devonport Dockyard 97 words
  20. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Scotland (Expenditure) 265 words
    2. Charitable Covenants 177 words
    3. Tax-free Income 560 words
    4. New Businesses (Tax Concessions) 59 words
    5. Government Spending 66 words
    6. Keith Committee Report 46 words
    7. Rossminster (Investigation) 68 words
    8. Investigations (Seizure of Documents) 100 words
    9. Personal Taxation (Allowances) 72 words
    10. Coinage (Intrinsic Value) 34 words
    11. PAYE (Manual Entries) 43 words
    12. Earnings (Public Sector) 736 words
    13. Overseas Tax Evasion 103 words
    14. Personal Taxation 168 words
    15. Value Added Tax (Students) 96 words
    16. Tax Reliefs and Personal Tax Allowances 249 words
  21. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Senior Grades (Entrants) 177 words

Lords Sitting of 14 December 1981

  1. Preamble 23 words
  2. COSIRA: Incentives for New Businesses 425 words
  3. Glue Sniffing 1,230 words
  4. Southern Thule: Argentinian Presence 456 words
  5. Wheel Clamps: Use by the Police 902 words
  6. Steel: Assistance to Private Sector 42 words
  7. Poland: Martial Law 2,209 words
  8. British Railways (No. 2) Bill 17 words
  9. Nuclear Industry (Finance) Bill 3,332 words
  10. Constitutional Referendum Bill [H.L.] 3,842 words
  11. Steel: Assistance to Private Sector 3,740 words
  12. Constitutional Referendum Bill [H.L.] 14,945 words
  13. ECC 39th Report: Water Pollution by Cadmium Discharges 9,716 words
  14. Greater London Council(General Powers) Bill 11 words
  15. Derbyshire Bill [H.L.] 18 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 14 December 1981

  1. POLISH NATIONALS: ASYLUM 189 words
  2. H.M. PRISON VISITORS: GUIDANCE NOTES 60 words
  3. MR. R. J. MAWDSLEY: SEGREGATION UNDER RULE 43 239 words
  4. MR. D. J. CHEESMAN: SEGREGATION UNDER RULE 43 140 words
  5. MR. MICHAEL WRIGHT: SEGREGATION UNDER RULE 43 49 words
  6. PRISON RULES 1964: RULE 37A(1) 77 words
  7. UK CONSUMPTION OF LIQUID FUELS 141 words
  8. CAPITAL TRANSFER TAX: EXEMPTION ON PRIVATE TREATY SALE 162 words
  9. VEHICLE BREAKDOWN: WARNING TRIANGLE 186 words
  10. ALBANIA: GOLD 137 words