Commons Sitting of 16 December 1981

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      1. Spain (British Visitors) 361 words
      2. Nuclear Weapons (Negotiations) 614 words
      3. Middle East (Fahd Plan) 630 words
      4. Angola and Namibia 433 words
      5. Middle East Peacekeeping Force 993 words
      6. Middle East (Fahd Plan) 738 words
      7. Shackleton Report (Implementation) 314 words
      8. East-West Relations 1,096 words
      9. Namibia 417 words
    2. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
      1. Political Co-operation 668 words
      2. British Presidency 1,658 words
      3. Mandate (Negotiations) 345 words
      4. Europe-Japan Relations 366 words
  4. Electricity Supplies 2,003 words
  5. Local Government Finance 4,213 words
    1. BILL PRESENTED
      1. LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE (No. 2) 114 words
  6. Replica Firearms 1,397 words
    1. REPLICA FIREARMS 85 words
  7. Defence Estimates 380 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. SUPPLY 3 words
    2. Television Licence Fee (Pensioners) 22,791 words, 1 division
    3. Council House Rents 22,034 words, 2 divisions
    4. CIVIL SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1981–82 57 words
    5. DEFENCE ESTIMATES, 1982–83 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT) 87 words
    6. CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1982–83 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT) 87 words
    7. CONSOLIDATED FUND 51 words
    8. Education (Assisted Places) 11,484 words, 1 division
    9. Gipsy Site, Carlisle 3,545 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 16 December 1981

  1. TRADE
    1. Upholstered Furniture (Safety) Regulations 213 words
    2. Credit Cards 121 words
    3. Opticians Act 1958 376 words
    4. Norwest Holst Ltd. 47 words
    5. Private Cars (Imports) 51 words
  2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Education (Fee Support Scheme) 127 words
  3. ENERGY
    1. Combined Heat and Power Scheme (Fort Dunlop) 87 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prevention of Terrorism Act (Detained Students) 117 words
    2. Scarman Report 92 words
    3. Bail (Legislation) 77 words
  5. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. House of Commons (Parliamentary Papers and "Official Report") 104 words
  6. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Inspector of Staffing 138 words
  7. WALES
    1. Supplementary Benefit 106 words
    2. Day Care Centres 90 words
  8. DEFENCE
    1. Chatham Dockyard 137 words
    2. Submarine Refits (Welders) 118 words
    3. Ulster Defence Regiment (Decorations) 70 words
    4. Nuclear Submarines 111 words
    5. HMS "Sovereign" 49 words
    6. HMS "Courageous" 17 words
    7. HMS "Dreadnought" 143 words
    8. HMS "Swiftsure" 157 words
    9. Trident Bases (Faslane-Coulport) 40 words
    10. "Ocean Safari" (Exercise) 82 words
    11. Royal Air Force (Officer Recruitment) 84 words
    12. Military Communications Satellites 114 words
    13. Purchasing Policy 94 words
    14. Heavyweight Torpedo 132 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Seychelles 58 words
    2. Hong Kong (Vietnamese Refugees) 76 words
    3. British Visitor's Passports 116 words
    4. Middle East 614 words
    5. Disarmament Talks (Geneva) 127 words
    6. Western Sahara 101 words
    7. Camp David Agreement 97 words
    8. El Salvador (Election Observers) 52 words
    9. School Leavers (Departmental Staff) 28 words
    10. Namibia 91 words
    11. Theatre Nuclear Forces 87 words
    12. Prime Minister (Kuwait Statement) 129 words
    13. El Salvador 82 words
    14. Continental Shelf (Delimitation) 74 words
    15. Jerusalem (Venice Declaration) 90 words
    16. Madrid Conference 96 words
    17. Gibraltar 74 words
    18. Anglo-Soviet Relations 69 words
    19. Malta (Foreign Minister) 28 words
    20. Underground Nuclear Tests 99 words
    21. Poland 160 words
    22. Philippines (Cruelty to Dogs) 106 words
  10. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
    1. Foreign Policy 46 words
    2. Future Prospects 77 words
    3. British Membership 60 words
    4. Budgetary Reform 74 words
    5. Associate Status (Applications) 114 words
    6. Foreign Affairs Council 51 words
  11. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Residential Property (Registration) 267 words
    2. Land Registry (Changes of Ownership) 236 words
    3. Divorce (Financial Consequences) 59 words
    4. Land Charges Register 92 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Prescriptions 156 words
    2. Day Care Centres 101 words
    3. Overseas Students 113 words
    4. Village Halls (Grants) 116 words
    5. Oil-related Industries 166 words
    6. Loch Doon 91 words
  13. INDUSTRY
    1. Investment Loans and Grants 305 words
    2. North-West Region (Subsidies) 157 words
    3. Electricity Boards (Deposits from Small Businesses) 119 words
    4. Industrial Development Certificates (Staff Savings) 83 words
    5. In-plant Training 142 words
    6. Truck Component Development (Support) 213 words
    7. Small Business Assistance (Finance) 99 words
    8. Regional Preferential Assistance 389 words
    9. Manufacturing Industry (Inter-regional Movement) 99 words
    10. Yorkshire and Humberside (European Community Aid) 245 words
    11. Bridlington (Comparisons) 45 words
  14. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Industrial Retraining Places 233 words
    2. Handicapped and Disabled Persons 137 words
    3. Dock Work Regulation Scheme (Disputes) 73 words
    4. Leyton and Walthamstow 130 words
    5. Wage Rates 57 words
    6. Maternity Pay Fund 32 words
    7. Employment Protection (Variation of Limits) Order 1981 558 words
    8. Redundancy Fund 35 words
    9. Average Gross Weekly Earnings 400 words
    10. Unemployment Statistics 172 words
    11. Offshore Survival Courses (Grants and Allowances) 72 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Housing Benefit 44 words
    2. Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978 (Arrests) 80 words
    3. United States Deputy Secretary of State (Talks) 218 words
    4. Industry and Employment 111 words
    5. Ulster Farmers Union 45 words
    6. Agriculture (Industry) 42 words
    7. Integrated Operations Experiment (Belfast) 183 words
    8. Electricity (Supply and Cost) 209 words
    9. Day Care Centres 90 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Intervention Stocks 230 words
    2. Pigmeat 96 words
    3. Sugar Beet 182 words
    4. Agriculture Ministers (Meeting) 316 words
  17. TRANSPORT
    1. Transport Act 1981 136 words
    2. Business Cars (Mileage) 54 words
    3. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Transport) 270 words
    4. Vehicle Light Bulbs 62 words
    5. Nuclear Waste 194 words
    6. Lorries (Jack-knifing) 130 words
  18. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Mr. David Woodhouse 248 words
    2. Psychopathic Patients 112 words
    3. Republic of Ireland (Medical Graduates) 315 words
    4. Mentally Handicapped Persons 135 words
    5. Mental Illness and Unemployment 86 words
    6. St. Nicholas Hospital, Plumstead 88 words
    7. Benefits 428 words
    8. Nurses 169 words
    9. Brookfield House Children's Home (Correspondence) 96 words
    10. Medical Training 103 words
    11. Pharmacists 92 words
    12. Unemployment and Health (Fagin Report) 76 words
    13. Disabled Persons 205 words
    14. Patient Handling Techniques 694 words
    15. "Day Care Centres" 135 words
    16. Blood Plasma 90 words
    17. Neonatal Intensive Care 178 words
    18. Spectacles (Lens Charges) 147 words
  19. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Unemployed Persons (Benefit) 431 words
    2. Income Tax 153 words
    3. Building Societies 718 words
    4. Sterling Exchange Rate 134 words
    5. Purchasing Policy 155 words
    6. Alcoholic Drinks (Excise Duty) 72 words
    7. Capital Allowances 78 words
    8. Public Expenditure 78 words
    9. Gross Domestic Product 110 words
    10. Manufacturing Industry 251 words
  20. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Inner City Partnerships 334 words
    2. Handicapped and Disabled Persons 133 words
    3. Palace of Westminster 312 words
    4. "Day Care Centres" 71 words
    5. Newham-Brentwood (Rented Accommodation) 100 words
    6. Radioactive Waste (Disposal) 646 words

Lords Sitting of 16 December 1981

  1. Preamble 37 words
  2. Small Businesses: Bureaucratic Burden 611 words
  3. Mobility Allowance 506 words
  4. Enterprise Zones 838 words
  5. Youth Unemployment 1,006 words
  6. LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE 46 words
  7. Business of the House: Housing (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill 58 words
  8. The Arms Race and the Economy 5,277 words
  9. Local Government Finance 4,669 words
  10. The Arms Race and the Economy 10,729 words
  11. South-West Atlantic: Development Opportunities 16,895 words
  12. West Indian Children: Rampton Recommendations 17,610 words
  13. Personal Statement: The Earl Ferrers 300 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 16 December 1981

  1. MR. D. WAKEFIELD: SEGREGATION UNDER PRISON RULES 116 words
  2. WORMWOOD SCRUBS PRISON: ADJUDICATIONS FACILITIES 22 words
  3. DEPORTATION NOTICES: APPEAL RENUNCIATION 44 words
  4. DEPORTATION: CUSTODY RELEASE 146 words
  5. PASSENGERS' DOMESTIC SERVANTS: ENTRY INTO U.K. 50 words
  6. GREY SEAL PUPS: LICENCES 207 words
  7. FORESTRY: SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT 72 words
  8. SEX DISCRIMINATION: UN CONVENTION 89 words
  9. OFFSHORE EXPLORATION EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES 289 words
  10. LAND SALES: DOUCEUR 125 words
  11. LOCAL AUTHORITY LOANS 129 words