Commons Sitting of 15 February 1982

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES
      1. Unemployment Statistics 668 words
      2. Council House Sales 260 words
      3. Unemployment Statistics 1,321 words
      4. Llanwern Steelworks 373 words
      5. Unemployment Statistics 622 words
      6. Council House Sales 722 words
      7. Unemployment Statistics 676 words
      8. Development Board for Rural Wales 246 words
      9. Welsh Water Authority 568 words
      10. Nursing and Midwifery 354 words
      11. Education and Youth Services 144 words
      12. State Registered Nurses 225 words
    2. INDUSTRY Plessey Ltd.
      1. Plessey Ltd. 195 words
      2. Leicester 275 words
    3. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      1. Arts Council (Grant) 1,007 words
      2. Arts Budget 325 words
      3. National Heritage Fund 226 words
      4. Victoria and Albert and the Science Museums 222 words
  4. FIRE SERVICE COLLEGE BOARD (ABOLITION) BILL [Lords] 17 words
  5. Defence 26,503 words, 1 division
  6. Orders of the Day
    1. Hops Marketing Bill [Lords] 43 words
    2. House of Commons (Supply Procedure) 22,668 words
    3. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 7,156 words
    4. Nuclear Disarmament 119 words
    5. Tourist Industry 3,768 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 15 February 1982

  1. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Peers (Appointments) 104 words
    2. Hazardous Cargoes (Departmental Co-ordination) 128 words
    3. United States of America (Chemical Weapons) 102 words
    4. Private Tenants (House Purchase) 56 words
  2. INDUSTRY
    1. Industrial Assistance 112 words
    2. Bathgate Tractor Plant 80 words
    3. Telephone Calls and Charges 73 words
    4. Laker Group of Companies 111 words
    5. Industrial Development Certificates 442 words
    6. Subsidies 57 words
    7. European Community (Regional Development Fund) 73 words
    8. Shipbuilding (European Community Assistance) 93 words
    9. Invest in Britain Bureau 54 words
    10. Regional Assistance (Workington) 48 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Rape 76 words
    2. Bugging Devices 161 words
    3. Securicor 115 words
    4. Prison Places 122 words
    5. Data Protection. 97 words
    6. Police (Assaults) 107 words
    7. Sex Shops 92 words
    8. Shoplifting 85 words
    9. Dartford Tunnel (Surveillance Camera) 190 words
  4. WALES
    1. Diesel Fuel 80 words
    2. Helicopters 61 words
    3. Snow-clearing Equipment (Grants) 81 words
    4. Council House Building 442 words
    5. Industrial Assistance 91 words
    6. Potato Production 60 words
    7. Forestry 130 words
    8. Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 38 words
    9. Bronglais Hospital, Aberystwyth 58 words
  5. ENERGY
    1. North Sea Oil 199 words
    2. Gas and Electricity (Standing Charges) 82 words
    3. Energy Conservation 224 words
    4. Oil and Gas Discoveries 205 words
    5. Oil Prices 61 words
    6. Sizewell (Planning Inquiry) 139 words
    7. Coal Mining (Damage Compensation) 161 words
    8. Petroleum and Mineral Extraction 139 words
    9. Mining Subsidence 78 words
    10. Domestic Energy Supplies 164 words
  6. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Highbury Magistrates Court 71 words
    2. Detention Without Trial 65 words
    3. Unification Church 98 words
  7. DEFENCE
    1. Soft Skin Military Vehicles 172 words
    2. Controller of the Navy (Speech) 93 words
    3. Defence Expenditure 229 words
  8. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Division Bell Service 74 words
  9. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Trade Union Representatives (Meeting) 68 words
  10. TRADE
    1. Chemicals 354 words
    2. Carpet Industry 116 words
    3. Republic of Ireland (Air Services) 73 words
    4. Laker Airways 70 words
    5. Multi-fibre Arrangement 272 words
    6. Official Receiver 137 words
    7. European Community (Car Prices) 103 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Zimbabwe and Zambia 88 words
    2. Iran (Treatment of Baha'is) 138 words
    3. Chile 164 words
    4. Mozambique and Angola 60 words
    5. Deep Sea Mining 121 words
    6. Law of the Sea Treaty 118 words
  12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Fish Farms (Whirling Disease) 646 words
    2. European Community (Exports to Russia) 68 words
    3. Green Pound 69 words
    4. Common Agricultural Policy 252 words
  13. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Unemployment Statistics 863 words
    2. Manpower Services Commission 67 words
    3. Community Schemes (Young People) 136 words
    4. Equality of Opportunity 180 words
    5. European Social Fund 52 words
    6. Peterlee and Wingate 212 words
    7. Jobcentres 43 words
    8. Unemployed Persons (Occupational Analysis) 198 words
    9. Redundancies 160 words
  14. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Poland 89 words
    2. Civil Service Pensions 106 words
    3. Tax Changes 451 words
    4. Personal Taxation 249 words
    5. Civil Servants (Northern Region) 66 words
    6. Personal Allowances 78 words
    7. Tax Allowances 45 words
    8. District Action (Inland Revenue) 68 words
    9. Blind Persons (Allowance) 49 words
    10. Gross National Product 38 words
    11. Historic Building Repairs (Value Added Tax) 119 words
    12. Cultural Events (Value Added Tax) 135 words
    13. Public Expenditure (Unemployment) 100 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Explosions Damage (Compensation) 236 words
    2. Lisnevin Millisle 305 words
    3. Western Education and Library Board (Stationery) 97 words
    4. Maze Prison 518 words
    5. De Lorean Car Company Ltd. 56 words
    6. Employment Service (Rayner Investigation) 75 words
  16. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Football (World Cup) 75 words
    2. Council House Sales 223 words
    3. Amusement Arcades 148 words
    4. Severe Weather (Unemployed Persons) 70 words
    5. Derelict Land Reclamation (Expenditure) 140 words
    6. Dogs 61 words
    7. European Regional Development Fund 75 words
    8. Council House Building 106 words
    9. Hackney Carriages (Royal Parks) 72 words
    10. House Insulation 109 words
    11. Energy Conservation 149 words
    12. Assured Tenancy Scheme 169 words
    13. Filing Cabinets 97 words
    14. Control of Pollution Act 1974 323 words
    15. Internal Combustion Engine (Lead Additives) 83 words
  17. TRANSPORT
    1. Seat Belts 125 words
    2. Trunk Roads and Motorways (Winter Maintenance) 139 words
    3. Exeter (Western Bypass) 70 words
    4. Lead-free Petrol 303 words
    5. Motorway (Maintenance Work) 607 words
  18. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Nurses 66 words
    2. Drug Information Centres 108 words
    3. General Practitioners 81 words
    4. Poverty Plateau 174 words
    5. Family Income Supplement 111 words
    6. Abortion 279 words
    7. Prescription Charges 94 words
    8. Disabled Persons (Invalid Vehicles) 359 words
    9. Hearing Therapists 31 words
    10. Hearing Aid Centres 46 words
    11. Guy's Hearing Centre 665 words
    12. Health Expenditure 39 words
    13. Health Manpower (Distribution) 1,006 words
    14. Child Benefit 340 words
    15. Milk Tokens 100 words
    16. Unemployment Benefit 110 words
    17. Registered Claimants (Birmingham) 46 words
    18. Departmental Offices (Manpower) 46 words
    19. Mature Students (Entitlement) 83 words
    20. Blood Components 64 words
    21. Blood Donations 198 words
    22. Electro-convulsive Therapy 80 words
    23. Blind Persons (Benefits) 546 words
    24. Pension Entitlement 135 words
    25. Benefits 79 words
    26. Committee on Restrictions Against Disabled People 34 words
    27. War Pensions Tribunal 349 words
  19. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. The Arts (Business Sponsorships) 57 words
    2. Arts Council Support 71 words
    3. School Places 387 words
    4. Further Education 1,076 words
    5. "A New Training Initiative" 104 words
    6. Research Grants 150 words
    7. State Education 78 words
    8. Eastern Area Arts Association 38 words
    9. Universities 716 words
  20. SCOTLAND
    1. Biotechnology Industry 121 words
    2. Emergency Planning Teams 72 words
    3. Assisted Places Scheme 612 words
    4. Aid to Industry 88 words
    5. Student Grants 117 words
    6. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 55 words
    7. Winter Weather Damage 50 words
    8. Learning Exchange Groups 54 words

Lords Sitting of 15 February 1982

  1. Preamble 23 words
  2. Polaris and Trident Programme 1,428 words
  3. Local Radio Contractors: IBA Grants 608 words
  4. The Elgin Marbles 867 words
  5. Copyright Act 1956 (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 4,328 words
  6. "Science and Government": Select Committee Report 24,021 words
  7. Severn Estuary Tidal Power: The Bondi Report 18,037 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 15 February 1982

  1. CYPRIOT NATIONALS: DEPORTATION ORDERS 58 words
  2. SEVERN ESTUARY TIDAL POWER 210 words
  3. RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION: ESTIMATED COSTS 191 words
  4. GREENHAM COMMON NORTH, NEWBURY 76 words
  5. CONTROL OF POLLUTION ACT 1974, PART II: IMPLEMENTATION 317 words
  6. RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE BOARDING AND TUITION FEES 175 words
  7. DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: IDA LENDING 157 words
  8. WORLD BANK CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS 169 words
  9. LAND DRAINAGE SCHEMES 79 words
  10. AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT SCHEME 77 words