Commons Sitting of 19 November 1981

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. NATIONAL FINANCE 21 words
      1. Medium-term Financial Strategy 520 words
      2. Car and Petrol Benefits 130 words
      3. European Community Budget 684 words
      4. Manufacturing Industry 852 words
      5. Unemployment (Tax Revenue) 823 words
      6. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 625 words
      7. £ Sterling 326 words
      8. Confederation of British Industry 652 words
      9. Interest Rates 654 words
      10. Inflation 727 words
      11. Interest Rates 300 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,953 words
  4. Business of the House 4,364 words
  5. British Leyland 328 words
    1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS,&c. 83 words
  6. Orders of the Day
    1. SUPPLY 3 words
      1. Scottish Economy and Industry 49,862 words, 2 divisions
      2. Goole Hospital 3,928 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 19 November 1981

  1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Dr. Leonard Arthur (Trial Costs) 38 words
    2. Court Cases (Legal Costs) 137 words
  2. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Recycled Paper 51 words
  3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Zimbabwe 130 words
    2. Aid Guidelines (Development Council) 144 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Private Property (Occupation) 128 words
    2. Advisory Bodies (Race Relations and Refugees) 127 words
    3. Boundary Commission (Merseyside) 70 words
    4. Prison Chaplaincy Service 379 words
    5. Disabled Persons (Television Licence Concession) 141 words
  5. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Departmental Press Inquiries 73 words
    2. House Purchase (Bridging Finance) 55 words
    3. Economic Progress 108 words
    4. Tax and Price Index 75 words
    5. Revenue and Expenditure 48 words
    6. Retail Price Index and Tax and Price Index 61 words
    7. Inflation 71 words
    8. North Sea Tax Regime 97 words
    9. Family Taxation 82 words
    10. Economic Prospects 32 words
    11. Voluntary Charitable Disablement Organisations 90 words
    12. Tax Evasion (Staffing) 86 words
    13. Economic Improvement 69 words
    14. Capital Outflow 83 words
    15. Economic Policy 38 words
    16. Economic Measures 48 words
    17. Age Allowance 34 words
    18. Financial Targets (Definition) 93 words
    19. Interest Rates 60 words
    20. Company Residence, Tax Havens and the Corporate Sector 69 words
    21. Value Added Tax (Charities) 42 words
    22. North Sea Oil Fund 49 words
    23. West Cumbria 64 words
    24. Nationalised Industries (Borrowing) 91 words
    25. Unemployment Costs 35 words
  6. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Engagements 465 words
    2. Holland 27 words
    3. Economic Growth 42 words
    4. Leeds 29 words
    5. Carlingford Lough 80 words
    6. Trades Union Congress 18 words
    7. Liverpool-Belfast Ferry 84 words
  7. WALES
    1. National Health Service (Dispensing) 101 words
    2. Government Expenditure 246 words
    3. Pembroke Dock (Offshore Construction Yard) 85 words
    4. Lime Subsidy 64 words
    5. Roads (Ceredigion) 100 words
    6. Employment (Upper Afan Valley) 68 words
    7. Quangos 88 words
    8. Rate Support Grant 99 words
  8. ENERGY
    1. British National Oil Corporation 171 words
    2. Home Insulation 261 words
    3. Nuclear Irradiation (Steel Embrittlement) 81 words
    4. Electricity Production (Wales) 131 words
    5. Disconnections 222 words
    6. North Sea Oil 234 words
    7. Offshore Development 264 words
    8. Coal Subsidy 114 words
  9. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Seamen (Unemployment Statistics) 170 words
    2. Unemployed Persons (Wolverhampton) 318 words
    3. Liquefied Energy Gases (Experiments) 191 words
  10. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Place of Speaking 58 words
  11. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. European Community (Members of Parliament) 116 words
  12. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Plastic Bullets 263 words
    2. Housing Executive (Report) 48 words
    3. Unemployment 157 words
    4. Liverpool-Belfast Ferry 80 words
    5. Family Income Supplement 97 words
  13. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Kampuchea 132 words
    2. Police Complaints Board 152 words
  14. INDUSTRY
    1. Information Officers 96 words
    2. Iran (British Subjects) 78 words
    3. Namibia 95 words
    4. Welsh Language (Passports) 137 words
    5. Minority Languages and Culture 128 words
    6. Chile (Ministerial Visit) 46 words
    7. Sri Lanka (Official Visits) 106 words
    8. Korea (Peaceful Reunification) 87 words
  15. TRADE
    1. Industrial Counterfeiting 81 words
    2. Quangos 192 words
    3. Trade Statistics 368 words
    4. Cheese 82 words
    5. Roofing Tiles 863 words
    6. Mr. B. E. Calvert 125 words
    7. Corporate Management Planning Ltd. 95 words
  16. SCOTLAND
    1. Rural Areas (Research) 64 words
    2. Quangos 112 words
    3. Regional Road (East Fife) 103 words
    4. Nurses' Home (Kirkcaldy) 538 words
    5. Doctors, Nurses and Teachers 155 words
    6. Teachers 99 words
    7. Special Schools (Costs) 82 words
    8. Assisted Places Scheme 494 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Gunner Julius Parker 88 words
    2. Airfields (Radar) 66 words
    3. Exercise "Ocean Safari" 163 words
    4. Nuclear Strategy 118 words
    5. Naval Exercises (Caribbean) 86 words
    6. Craft and Technician Apprentices 521 words
  18. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Shorthold Lettings 81 words
    2. Single Homeless Persons 100 words
    3. Rate Settlement Grant 145 words
    4. Wages and Salaries (Statistics) 242 words
    5. Council House Sales 422 words
    6. Agrément Board and National Building Agency 337 words
    7. Liverpool (Ministerial Visit) 101 words
    8. Rate Support Grant 99 words
    9. Housing Subsidy 348 words
  19. TRANSPORT
    1. Public Transport (Violence) 196 words
    2. British Railways (Property Sales) 139 words
  20. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Economic Policy 159 words
    2. Gross Domestic Product 68 words
    3. Customs and Excise (Annual Report) 76 words
    4. Purchasing Policy 114 words
    5. European Community Budget 293 words
  21. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Pupil Numbers 46 words
    2. Burnham Further Education Committee 68 words
  22. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. National Insurance Fund 221 words
    2. Blind and Disabled Persons 115 words
    3. Unemployment Benefit 309 words
    4. Homeless Persons (Health Care) 307 words
    5. Resettlement Units 383 words
    6. Pharmacies (Profits) 128 words
    7. Detoxification Centres 84 words
    8. Radiation and Radioactivity (Advisory Bodies) 92 words
    9. Dr. Leonard Arthur 69 words
    10. Mersey Region (Representations) 119 words
    11. Defence Planning Officers 205 words
    12. Budget Allocations 88 words
    13. Medical and Ancillary Vacancies 130 words
    14. Volunteers (Hospitals and Community Care) 121 words
    15. Rickets (Asian Community) 147 words
    16. Private Patients (Unpaid Bills) 70 words
    17. Psychogeriatric Hospital Patients 231 words
    18. Outturn Expenditure 108 words
    19. Pension Age (Costs of Reduction) 151 words
    20. DHHS NOTE ON COSTS OF REDUCING MINIMUM PENSION AGE FOR MEN 573 words
  23. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Beef Imports 114 words
    2. Advisory Committee on the Banana Trade 119 words
    3. Consumers' Committees 124 words
    4. European Community (Exports) 238 words
    5. Food Aid 89 words
    6. International Sugar Agreement 106 words
    7. Imports 249 words
    8. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances 393 words
    9. Intervention-support Prices 357 words
    10. Market Prices 254 words

Lords Sitting of 19 November 1981

  1. Preamble 29 words
  2. The Lord Chancellor: Leave of Absence 82 words
  3. Taxation Levels 1,828 words
  4. Central London: Traffic Regulation 966 words
  5. Chile: Sale of Cruiser and Tanker 559 words
  6. Cambodia: Pol Pot Régime 574 words
  7. Procedure of the House: Select Committee 128 words
  8. House of Lords Offices: Select Committee 334 words
  9. Beverage Containers Bill [H.L.] 28,686 words, 1 division
  10. Midlothian District Council Order Confirmation Bill 27 words
  11. ECC 41st Report: Outward Processing of Textiles and Clothing 13,989 words
  12. The Cowal Peninsular Ferry Service 5,162 words
  13. Humberside Bill [H.L.] 58 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 19 November 1981

  1. IRISH PRISONERS: ASSISTED VISITS 191 words
  2. INDUSTRY: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS 209 words
  3. THE POSTAL CODE SYSTEM 111 words
  4. DYSLEXIA: EDUCATIONAL PROVISION IN OXFORDSHIRE 182 words