Commons Sitting of 23 February 1982

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. WORMWOOD SCRUBS 81 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. DEFENCE
      1. Nuclear Weapons (Zero Option) 397 words
      2. Radar System 216 words
      3. Aircraft 608 words
      4. Mrs. Galbraith (Medallion) 159 words
      5. Sting Ray 220 words
      6. Cyprus (Sovereign Base Areas) 425 words
      7. Fleet Carriers 1,105 words
      8. Sea Wolf 241 words
      9. Space Policy 289 words
      10. Chemical Weapons 461 words
      11. Isle of Man 127 words
      12. Low-flying Aircraft 362 words
      13. Trident 614 words
      14. Royal Naval Reserve and Support 281 words
      15. Petrol Allocation 283 words
      16. Malaysia (Tank Sales) 147 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,984 words
  5. Unparliamentary Expressions 249 words
    1. Lough Foyle (Bombing Incident) 896 words
    2. Questions to Ministers 294 words
    3. Members (Speeches) 1,388 words
  6. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 945 words, 1 division
  7. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 969 words, 1 division
  8. Essential Goods and Services (Price Control) 1,211 words
  9. Canada Bill 3,938 words
  10. Clause 1
  11. CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982 ENACTED 767 words
  12. PART IV A 299 words
  13. ABORIGINAL RIGHTS COMMISSION 35,260 words
  14. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 20 words
  15. Canada Bill 1,088 words, 1 division
  16. AGRICULTURAL TRAINING BOARD BILL [LORDS] 45 words
  17. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING BILL [LORDS] 43 words
  18. Chinese Slippers (Imports) 3,457 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 23 February 1982

  1. PAYMASTER GENERAL
    1. Departmental Staff 318 words
    2. Electrical Goods 201 words
  2. TRADE
    1. European Community 79 words
    2. British Airways 44 words
  3. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
    1. Departmental Staff 143 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Luton and Bedford (Crime Rate) 115 words
    2. Young Offenders 66 words
    3. Parliamentary Boundary Commission 140 words
    4. Members' Correspondence 180 words
    5. Departmental Staff 163 words
    6. Health Service Workers (Rape) 97 words
    7. Shoplifting 199 words
    8. Juvenile Offenders 79 words
    9. Miss Ewa Sadowska 202 words
    10. Bomb Disposal Games (Prohibition) 59 words
  5. ENERGY
    1. Gas Consumption 50 words
    2. Mineworkers' Pension Scheme 202 words
    3. Departmental Staff 151 words
    4. Gas Prices 218 words
    5. Wave Energy Generator 125 words
  6. INDUSTRY
    1. Departmental Staff 145 words
    2. Industrial Development Certificates 143 words
    3. Northern Region 63 words
    4. Loan Guarantee Scheme 127 words
  7. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Crown Courts (Bedford) 65 words
    2. Departmental Staff 110 words
  8. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Food Inspectors 123 words
    2. Food Costs 127 words
    3. Departmental Staff 137 words
  9. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Homeworking 120 words
    2. Apprentices 158 words
    3. Youth Training Scheme 175 words
    4. Ports (Redundancies) 115 words
    5. Departmental Staff 169 words
    6. Handicapped Persons 210 words
    7. Youth Opportunities Programme 42 words
    8. Family Expenditure and National Food Surveys (Merger) 61 words
  10. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Engagements 888 words
    2. Unemployed Persons 93 words
    3. Petrol (Lead Content) 53 words
    4. Nuclear Disarmament 107 words
    5. President Brezhnev 32 words
    6. Married Man's Tax Allowance 103 words
    7. Factory Closures 48 words
    8. Leith 27 words
    9. Burgess Hill 28 words
    10. Civil Service (Facilities Agreement) 74 words
    11. Leyland Vehicles 78 words
    12. Queen's Flight 86 words
    13. Northampton 25 words
    14. Times Newspapers 74 words
  11. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 191 words
    2. Supplementary Benefit 184 words
    3. European Community (Health Benefits) 105 words
    4. Free Milk and Vitamins 265 words
    5. Mortality Rates 44 words
    6. Renal Transplants 480 words
    7. Departmental Staff 145 words
    8. Hernia Operations 207 words
    9. Nurses' Homes (Security) 49 words
    10. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 130 words
    11. Surveys 1,248 words
    12. Kidney Failure (Treatment) 142 words
    13. Kidney Machines 101 words
    14. Kidney Failure (Survival Rates) 129 words
    15. Dental Therapists 181 words
    16. Dental Strategy Review Group (Report) 60 words
    17. Married Women (Support) 237 words
    18. Cholesterol 168 words
    19. Benefits 209 words
  12. WALES
    1. Starter Businesses (Assistance) 89 words
    2. Private Sector Steel Industry 77 words
    3. Unemployment Statistics 95 words
    4. Iron Foundries (Closures) 45 words
    5. British Steel Corporation 61 words
    6. Manufacturing Industry (Output) 193 words
    7. Public Sector Purchasing 79 words
    8. Council House Tenants 174 words
    9. Council House Sales 44 words
    10. Departmental Correspondence 46 words
    11. Hernia Operations 134 words
    12. Departmental Staff 140 words
    13. Area Health Authority (Dyfed) 208 words
  13. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Credit 193 words
    2. Departmental Staff 225 words
    3. Mortgage Tax Relief 65 words
    4. Government Caterers (Food Cholesterol Levels) 48 words
    5. Civil Servants (Pay) 75 words
  14. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Multilateral Disarmament 89 words
    2. Eritrea 73 words
    3. Passports 612 words
    4. Departmental Staff 134 words
    5. Ms Christine Vertucci 82 words
    6. Hong Kong 530 words
    7. Shanghai 247 words
    8. Departmental Staff 27 words
  15. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Inner City Areas 78 words
    2. Cadmium Pollution Working Party (Report) 27 words
    3. Burns Report 71 words
    4. Housing Construction 183 words
    5. Advance Factories 62 words
    6. Battersea General Hospital (Site Development) 64 words
    7. Domestic Water Supply (Disconnections) 237 words
    8. Research Projects 38 words
    9. Council House Sales (Norwich) 245 words
    10. Direct Labour Organisations 156 words
  16. TRANSPORT
    1. Maryport Harbour 130 words
    2. Road Junctions 72 words
    3. Port Statistics 85 words
    4. Departmental Staff 159 words
  17. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Higher Education 115 words
    2. Overseas Students 57 words
    3. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 230 words
    4. Teachers (Retirement) 91 words
    5. School Works 112 words
    6. Schoolchildren (Suffolk) 152 words
    7. South African Astronomical Observatory 495 words
    8. "Schools Council News" 62 words
    9. Hernia (Research) 156 words
    10. Departmental Staff 166 words
    11. Micros in School Programme 252 words
    12. School Meals 47 words
  18. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Industrial Development Board 114 words
    2. Hospital Waiting Times 115 words
    3. Departmental Staff 68 words
    4. School Leavers (Qualifications) 71 words
    5. Teachers 204 words
    6. Pupil-Teacher Ratio 40 words
    7. Kincora House 60 words
  19. SCOTLAND
    1. Hospital Waiting Times 95 words
    2. Departmental Staff 184 words
    3. Teachers (Physical Assaults) 58 words
    4. Pupil-Teacher Ratio 85 words
    5. Enterprise Allowances Scheme 43 words
    6. Residential Care Centres (Interception of Mail) 50 words
    7. Animal Breeding Research Organisation 129 words
  20. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Scottish Grand Committee (Edinburgh) 86 words
  21. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Departmental Staff 115 words
  22. DEFENCE
    1. Russia 91 words
    2. Royal Air Force (Front-Line Aircraft) 38 words
    3. Her Majesty''s Dockyards 64 words
    4. Trident 201 words
    5. Sentries 82 words
    6. Polaris 57 words
    7. HMS "Intrepid" and "Fearless" 114 words
    8. Armed Forces (Strength) 127 words
    9. Chemical Warfare Systems 130 words
    10. Surface and Underwater Vessels 72 words
    11. P110 53 words
    12. Nurses 78 words
    13. Tornado 42 words
    14. Training (Simulation Equipment) 42 words
    15. United States Secretary of Defence 61 words
    16. Hawk Trainer Aircraft 76 words
    17. Binary Weapons 34 words
    18. Defence Expenditure (United States) 82 words
    19. Northern Ireland 45 words
    20. Training Cadres 84 words
    21. Colchester Courts Martial (Cost) 108 words
    22. Defence Expenditure 186 words
    23. Departmental Staff 215 words
    24. Ammunition Depots 47 words
    25. Uranium 48 words
    26. Armed Forces (Paid Leave of Absence) 81 words
    27. German Nationals (Departmental Staff) 196 words

Lords Sitting of 23 February 1982

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Jakarta: Foreign Secretary's Visit 561 words
  3. Chatham Dockyard: Employment 1,378 words
  4. Middle East: Peace Negotiations 782 words
  5. Postage Rates and Service Efficiency 637 words
  6. DINNER 52 words
  7. Western Isles Islands Council (Loch Roag) Order Confirmation Bill 2,357 words
  8. Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations 1982 2,510 words
  9. Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) Regulations 1982 38 words
  10. Mental Health (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 47,909 words, 1 division

Written Answers (Lords) of 23 February 1982

  1. PRISON REGULATIONS ON CORRESPONDENCE 90 words
  2. THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE 70 words
  3. HONG KONG VISA: Ms CHRISTINE VERTUCCI 112 words
  4. PITCAIRN ISLAND: ADMINISTRATION 91 words
  5. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONS: UK CONTRIBUTIONS 120 words
  6. POLAND: HUMANITARIAN AID 435 words
  7. POLAND: SOVIET JAMMING OF BBC BROADCASTS 198 words
  8. THE AVIATION SECURITY FUND 218 words
  9. UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS: MSC ESTIMATE 216 words