Commons Sitting of 20 January 1981

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. LONDON TRANSPORT (No. 2) BILL 13 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. Defence
      1. British Army of the Rhine 481 words
      2. Combat Aircraft 326 words
      3. Nuclear Weapons 817 words
      4. Recruitment 514 words
      5. Careers Information Offices 433 words
      6. Manpower 210 words
      7. Offshore Protection Vessels 369 words
      8. Merchant Navy 361 words
      9. Tornado 587 words
      10. Nuclear Warfare 468 words
      11. Trident 609 words
      12. Defence Expenditure 484 words
    2. Prime Minister (Engagements) 2,110 words
    3. Questions to the Prime Minister 117 words
  5. Defence Estimates 1980–81 6,505 words
  6. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 28 words
  7. Orders of the Day
    1. European Assembly Elections Bill 9 words
      1. Clause 1
        1. AMENDMENT OF SCHEDULE 2 TO THE EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS ACT 1978 21,864 words, 3 divisions
    2. Water Bill 20,045 words
    3. WATER [MONEY] 112 words
    4. Visas (United States of America) 2,748 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 20 January 1981

  1. Overseas Development
    1. Development Divisions 52 words
  2. Trade
    1. Cargo Sharing 183 words
    2. Manufactured Goods 364 words
    3. Ball Bearing Industry 143 words
    4. Textile Industry 540 words
  3. Employment
    1. Unemployment Statistics 82 words
    2. Companies (Registrations and Closures) 122 words
    3. Companies (Registrations and Deregistrations) 2,876 words
    4. Paper Industry 63 words
    5. Small Businesses 67 words
    6. Youth Opportunities Programme 85 words
    7. Disabled Persons 120 words
    8. Redundancies 35 words
    9. Companies (Disclosure of Information) 281 words
    10. Prime Minister (Engagements) 588 words
    11. Rate Support Grant 91 words
    12. Edge Hill 24 words
    13. Cardigan 23 words
    14. Departmental Co-operation 37 words
    15. Company Directors (Loss of Office) 167 words
    16. Home Defence 89 words
    17. Science Research Council 91 words
  4. Home Department
    1. Citizens Band Radio 89 words
    2. Police (Radio and Television Broadcasts) 123 words
    3. Cumbria (Electoral Divisions) 77 words
    4. Civil Defence 235 words
    5. Vietnamese Refugees 3,834 words
  5. Scotland
    1. Glasgow Royal Infirmary 237 words
    2. Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital 144 words
    3. Employment Transfer Scheme (Cumbernauld) 71 words
    4. Rate Income 109 words
  6. Wales
    1. Rates Income 128 words
  7. Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
    1. Nuclear Weapons 124 words
    2. European Court of Human Rights 238 words
  8. Transport
    1. Transport Infrastructure (South Yorkshire) 206 words
    2. Roadside Trading 109 words
    3. Driving Tests (Eyesight Test) 46 words
    4. Heavy Goods Vehicle Testing Stations 53 words
    5. Seaspeed Hovercraft 290 words
    6. Public Service Vehicles 39 words
    7. M25 Motorway 63 words
    8. Road Maintenance 204 words
  9. Environment
    1. Planning Authorities 383 words
    2. Commercial Water Charges 96 words
    3. Rent Assessment Panels 120 words
    4. Urban Deprivation 149 words
    5. Housing (Pimlico) 65 words
    6. Kielder Reservoir 150 words
    7. South Holland District Council 100 words
    8. Local Authority Statistics 754 words
    9. Rates 128 words
    10. Departmental Land, Christchurch 89 words
    11. Liverpool (Ministerial Visit) 46 words
    12. Enterprise Zones 229 words
  10. Energy
    1. Chemical Industry (Energy Charges) 203 words
    2. Domestic Gas (Standing Charges) 77 words
    3. North Sea Gathering Pipeline 635 words
    4. Domestic Gas Appliances 49 words
    5. Brent Field 78 words
    6. Domestic Electricity Supplies (Disconnections) 89 words
    7. Energy Conservation and Fuel Switching 159 words
    8. Fuel Reprocessing Plant (Cap La Hague) 249 words
  11. Defence
    1. Defence Expenditure 33 words
    2. Cruise Missiles 213 words
    3. Royal Naval Ships (Operation Efficiency) 143 words
    4. Chemical Warfare 142 words
    5. Manpower Costs 57 words
    6. Defence Expenditure (International Comparisons) 86 words
    7. Gazelle Observation Aid 32 words
    8. Trident 122 words
    9. Sea Eagle 49 words
    10. Harrier Aircraft (Replacement) 65 words
    11. Royal Ordnance Factories 49 words
    12. HMS "Fisgard" 81 words
    13. Transfer of Functions 103 words
    14. Defence Expenditure (International Companies) 77 words
    15. Stornoway Airport 89 words
    16. Cruise Missiles 81 words
    17. Civil Service Posts (Plymouth) 54 words
    18. Service Women (Pay) 191 words
    19. Chemical Weapons 83 words
    20. Pressurised Water Reactors 146 words
  12. National Finance
    1. Corporation Tax 53 words
    2. European Community Commissioners (Pensions) 88 words
    3. Committee on Enforcement and Powers of the Revenue Bodies 131 words
    4. Value Added Tax 301 words
    5. Textile Industry 138 words
    6. Index-linked Savings Certificates 298 words
    7. Self-employed Persons and Small Businesses (Subscriptions) 73 words
    8. Income Tax 89 words
    9. European Community 170 words
    10. European Community Budget 179 words
    11. Wine and Beer (Excise Duties) 129 words
    12. Tax Thresholds and Break-even Points 359 words
    13. European Economic Council (Payments) 586 words
    14. Bankruptcies 84 words
  13. Education and Science
    1. Post-school Education 68 words
    2. Burnham Committee 202 words
    3. Science Budget 182 words
    4. English National Opera 116 words
  14. Industry
    1. Telecommunications Equipment 101 words
    2. Strategic Metals 286 words
    3. Business Statistics Office, Cardiff 101 words
    4. Manufacturing Industry (Robotics) 221 words
    5. Unit Labour Costs 59 words
    6. Redundancies 41 words
    7. British Robot Association (Exhibition) 63 words
    8. Waste Management Advisory Council 137 words
    9. British Telecom (Exhibition) 61 words
  15. Civil Service
    1. Departmental Reports 228 words
    2. Green Papers (Responses) 36 words
    3. Pensions 721 words
    4. Public Servants (Costs) 99 words
    5. Ex-Ministers of the Crown 169 words
  16. Social Services
    1. National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Regulations) 67 words
    2. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 109 words
    3. Children (Psychiatric Treatment) 457 words
    4. Mental Illness and Handicap (Expenditure) 106 words
    5. National Insurance (Employers' Contributions) 88 words
    6. Unemployment Benefit 317 words
    7. Farmers' Lung 49 words
    8. Kidney Machines 191 words
    9. Census Enumerators (Pay) 74 words
    10. Housing Estates (Heating Costs) 56 words
    11. Social Security Benefits 78 words
    12. Supplementary Benefit 149 words
    13. Disabled Persons 1,009 words
    14. United Kingdom Nationals (Benefits) 110 words
    15. Consultants (Establishment) 141 words
    16. Supplementary Benefit (Television Licences) 64 words
    17. Physiotherapists 108 words
    18. Health Service Administrators (Conference Expenses) 62 words
    19. Mr. Tom Wilkie (Accident) 57 words
    20. Retirement Pensions 190 words
    21. Retirement 51 words
    22. Down's Syndrome 138 words
    23. Hospital Waiting Lists (Macclesfield) 121 words
  17. Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
    1. Atlantic Salmon Stocks 88 words
    2. Animals (Exports) 152 words
    3. Eggs 120 words
    4. Inland and Inshore Fisheries 48 words
    5. European Community (Food Taxes) 361 words
    6. Green Pound 70 words
    7. Foodstuffs (Prices) 101 words
    8. European Community (Food Levy) 368 words
  18. Northern Ireland
    1. Operations 72 words
    2. Suckler Calves 281 words
    3. Nurses 201 words
    4. Nursing and Secretarial Staff 95 words
    5. Terrorism 104 words
    6. Hospitals (Ward Clerks) 345 words
    7. Seasonal Workers (Unemployment Benefit) 86 words
    8. Consultant Posts 816 words
    9. Public Expenditure 108 words
    10. Prisoners (Political Status) 70 words

Lords Sitting of 20 January 1981

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Helsinki Agreement: Madrid Conference 1,230 words
  3. Training for the Mentally Handicapped: Charges 1,051 words
  4. Air Tickets: Discount Sales 1,404 words
  5. British Rail: Productivity 1,140 words
  6. Defence Expenditure 37 words
  7. Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 115 words
  8. Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 1981 125 words
  9. Elections (Welsh Forms) (No. 2) Regulations 1980 1,687 words
  10. Contempt of Court Bill [H.L.] 1,749 words
  11. Defence Expenditure 4,554 words
  12. Contempt of Court Bill [H.L.] 29,080 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 20 January 1981

  1. BAIL REFUSALS AND BAIL HOSTELS 120 words
  2. PRISON "GOVERNOR'S HANDBOOK" 54 words
  3. YELLOWLEES REPORT: DEFINITION OF "ADULT" 68 words
  4. YELLOWLEES REPORT: AGE ESTIMATIONS 78 words
  5. THE SWORD OF SHIVAJI 108 words
  6. HONG KONG: CONVICTION OF CHINESE GIRL 98 words
  7. AFGHANISTAN: UN RESOLUTION 78 words
  8. EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN 84 words
  9. WISLEY AIRPORT 293 words
  10. HOUSING FINANCE 171 words