Commons Sitting of 30 July 1982

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PETITION
    1. Najat Chafee 237 words
  4. Orders of the Day 12 words
    1. Unemployment (Western Isles) 3,520 words
    2. National Health Service (Scotland) 6,235 words
    3. Interest Rates and Debt 6,801 words
    4. Extradition (Irish Republic) 5,082 words
    5. Royal Assent 104 words
    6. Motor Vehicles (Imports) 3,550 words
    7. Pensioners (Heating Costs) 4,373 words
    8. Victoria Hospital, Romford 3,635 words
    9. Merchant Navy 4,327 words
    10. Hearing-impaired Persons (Telephones) 3,582 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 30 July 1982

  1. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
    1. Churches (Birkenhead) 275 words
  2. WALES
    1. Mid-Glamorgan District Health Authority (Pay Beds) 323 words
    2. Hospital Check List System 188 words
  3. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Economic Community (Transport Levies) 174 words
    2. Fishing Industry 485 words
    3. Farm Workers (Housing) 73 words
    4. Tomatoes 132 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Population Programmes 42 words
    2. Renewable Natural Resources 188 words
    3. Family Planning 268 words
    4. African Medical and Research Foundation 292 words
    5. India 57 words
  5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Representation of the People Acts 468 words
  6. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Museums 113 words
    2. Special Educational Needs 440 words
    3. Visually Handicapped Children 282 words
    4. Education Act 1981 59 words
    5. Social Science Research Council 94 words
    6. School Governors 364 words
    7. Pre-1902 Schools 205 words
    8. Secondary School Pupils 81 words
    9. Head Teachers 94 words
    10. Muscular Dystrophy 30 words
    11. School Meals 29 words
    12. Malaysian Students 106 words
    13. Flick Knives and Knuckledusters 103 words
    14. Bogus Academic Degrees 37 words
  7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Sessional Printed Papers (Demand Form) 126 words
    2. Underground Car Park 89 words
    3. Norman Shaw North (Fire Drill) 183 words
    4. Buckingham Palace (Security) 84 words
    5. Official Report (Sessional Index) 166 words
    6. Members (Retirement Pensions) 240 words
    7. Inbucon Recommendations 67 words
    8. Staff Inspector 190 words
  8. DEFENCE
    1. Queen's Flight 269 words
    2. Supplementary Expenditure Programmes 121 words
    3. Advertisements 51 words
    4. Museums 72 words
    5. Royal Dockyards (Sick Pay Scheme) 84 words
    6. Requisitioned Ships (Compensation) 203 words
    7. "Atlantic Conveyor" 109 words
    8. Devonport Dockyard (Accident Inquiry) 105 words
    9. SS20 Missiles 95 words
    10. Electric Shock Weapons 32 words
    11. Falkland Islands (Accommodation) 441 words
    12. Argentine (Arms Sales) 72 words
    13. Prisoners of War (Payments) 153 words
    14. Management Information and Accounting Systems. 65 words
    15. Small Arms (Disposal Policy) 129 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Cyprus 101 words
    2. Namibia 77 words
    3. Falkland Islands 85 words
    4. Lau Shan-Ching 193 words
    5. Dr. Ralph Pinder-Wilson 43 words
    6. Hong Kong 396 words
    7. Venezuela 63 words
    8. Diplomatic Immunity 1,957 words
    9. Zimbabwe 143 words
    10. E1 Salvador 98 words
    11. European Commission (Staff) 56 words
    12. Rockall 113 words
    13. International Arms Sales 101 words
    14. USSR (Parliamentary Visits) 296 words
    15. Management Information and Accounting 56 words
  10. TRANSPORT
    1. Melton Mowbray (Inner Relief Road) 154 words
    2. Hazardous Loads 236 words
    3. Road Casualties 176 words
    4. Weighbridges 71 words
    5. Take-away Food Shop, Keighley 184 words
    6. M42 (Tamworth) 114 words
    7. Israel (Ministerial Visit) 65 words
    8. Diplomats (Vehicle Licences) 73 words
    9. Horses 301 words
    10. House Purchases, Keighley 68 words
    11. Fire Engine Drivers 129 words
    12. M4–M25 Interchange 175 words
    13. A40 (Road Works) 139 words
    14. Tachographs 66 words
    15. Road Schemes 49 words
    16. Midland Link Motorways 237 words
  11. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Unemployment Statistics 260 words
    2. Continental Road Tankers (Hazardous Loads) 103 words
    3. Merseyside 77 words
    4. Manpower Services Commission (Appointments) 436 words
    5. Power Press Guards 249 words
    6. Keighley 96 words
    7. Asbestos 1,573 words
    8. Hull 1,235 words
    9. Gross Domestic Product 141 words
    10. Fair Wages Resolution 49 words
    11. Wages Council (Inspectors) 118 words
    12. Foreign Employees 161 words
    13. Redundancy Payments 249 words
    14. Employment Training 118 words
    15. Long-term Unemployed Persons 276 words
    16. Employment (Over-40s) 113 words
    17. Job Release Scheme 163 words
    18. Supplementary Benefit 207 words
    19. Youth Opportunities Programme 33 words
    20. Office Technology 41 words
  12. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. European Community (Prison Population) 92 words
    2. Buckingham Palace (Security) 502 words
    3. Recidivism 100 words
    4. Police Complaints Procedure 99 words
    5. Mr. Philip Myers 74 words
    6. Illegally Parked Vehicles (London) 117 words
    7. Drugs 67 words
    8. Prisoners (Life Sentences) 73 words
    9. Homeless Young Persons 108 words
    10. Police Officers (Positive Vetting) 149 words
    11. Departmental Staff (Positive Vetting) 92 words
    12. Electorates 281 words
    13. Repatriation 56 words
    14. Police Pay 67 words
    15. Prison Officers 274 words
    16. Civil Defence 88 words
    17. Wireless Telegraphy Equipment 146 words
    18. Illegal Immigration (Trials) 59 words
    19. Liverpool 72 words
    20. Road Accidents (Fire Officers) 91 words
    21. Firearms and Shotgun Certificates 44 words
    22. Traffic Offences (Diplomats) 1,150 words
    23. Political Asylum (South African Citizens) 442 words
    24. Police Recruitment 173 words
    25. Citizens Band Radio 96 words
    26. Miss Linda Burn 68 words
    27. Fire Service 125 words
    28. Commander Trestrail 167 words
    29. False Conviction and Imprisonment (Compensation) 111 words
    30. Terrorism (Penalties) 32 words
    31. European Assembly (Members' Pensions and Payments) 127 words
    32. Criminal Attempts Act 1981 738 words
    33. Departmental Inquiries 447 words
  13. TRADE
    1. Distributive Trades 387 words
    2. Johnson Group Cleaners 75 words
    3. Electric Crowd Control Appliances 184 words
    4. Balance of Trade 43 words
    5. Israel (Ministerial Visit) 141 words
    6. Public Houses 306 words
    7. Duty Free Areas 52 words
    8. Company Liquidations 431 words
    9. South Africa (Investment) 40 words
    10. Rheumatism and Arthritis (Advertising Claims) 89 words
    11. Tourism Grants 461 words
    12. Steel Exports 78 words
    13. Insolvency 125 words
    14. Steel Exports (United States) 370 words
  14. INDUSTRY
    1. North Sea Optical Fibre Cable 78 words
    2. Telecommunications (Optical Fibres) 91 words
    3. Optical Fibre Circuit (Atlantic Link) 95 words
    4. Small Firms 272 words
    5. Small Call Routing Systems 309 words
    6. Redundant Steelworkers 427 words
    7. Job Creation (Keighley) 145 words
    8. Regional Preferential Expenditure 224 words
    9. Expansion Projects 57 words
    10. Regional Assistance 316 words
    11. Industrial Grants 102 words
    12. NEB (Investments) 80 words
    13. Israel (Export Promotion) 76 words
    14. Industrial Development 77 words
    15. Information Technology Centres (Hertfordshire) 58 words
    16. Management Information and Accounting System 42 words
    17. British Telecom 108 words
    18. New Jobs 62 words
    19. Assisted Area Status (Derbyshire) 102 words
    20. Regional Development 617 words
    21. European Community—United Kingdom Relationship 93 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Housing (Expenditure) 220 words
    2. Squatting 76 words
    3. Harland and Wolff, Belfast 141 words
    4. Benefits 197 words
    5. Rates and Rents (Rebates and Allowances) 135 words
    6. Security Statistics 2,302 words
    7. Management Information and Accounting System 264 words
    8. Assembly Members (Salary) 112 words
  16. SCOTLAND
    1. Public Expenditure 92 words
    2. Population Statistics 249 words
    3. Housing Statistics 51 words
    4. Job Creation 93 words
    5. Nurses and Teachers (Salaries) 40 words
    6. Nursery Schools (Running Costs) 41 words
    7. Nursery Education 48 words
    8. Scottish Pre-School Playgroup Association 92 words
    9. Unemployment Rates 270 words
    10. Muscular Dystrophy 77 words
    11. Residential Accommodation (Rent) 80 words
    12. Fuel Costs 47 words
  17. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Jobs (Advertising Costs) 138 words
    2. Departmental Running Costs 120 words
  18. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. European Community Budget 740 words
    2. European Community (Contribution) 163 words
    3. Travel Allowances (Taxation) 115 words
    4. Fares (Taxation Allowance) 69 words
    5. Housekeeper's Allowance 49 words
    6. Queen's Award to Industry 145 words
    7. Revenue Departments (Enforcement Powers) 87 words
    8. Social Wage 168 words
    9. Banks (International Supervision) 241 words
    10. Historic and Listed Buildings 182 words
    11. Public Industry (Loans and Grants) 79 words
    12. Occupational Pension Funds 138 words
    13. Works of Art (Taxation) 136 words
    14. Families (Savings) 61 words
    15. Public Sector (Employees) 337 words
    16. Uncollected Tax Revenue (Interest) 133 words
    17. Mortgage Interest Rates 81 words
  19. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Greater London (Improvement Grants) 366 words
    2. Greater London (Vacant Housing) 387 words
    3. Council House Sales 283 words
    4. Caravans 70 words
    5. Rivers (Death Rites) 143 words
    6. Race Relations (Ministerial Meetings) 133 words
    7. Industrial Promotion 110 words
    8. Manchester Central Station 84 words
    9. Derelict Land Grant 515 words
    10. Local Authority External Audits 405 words
    11. Departmental Costs 96 words
    12. Grant Penalty 198 words
    13. Grant-related Expenditure 70 words
    14. Block Grant 88 words
    15. Local Authority Expenditure 484 words
    16. Departmental Posts 164 words
    17. Circulars and Memoranda 256 words
    18. Israel (Visit) 230 words
    19. Natural History Museum 68 words
    20. MINIS 64 words
    21. Starter Homes 133 words
    22. Planning Decisions (Harborough) 144 words
    23. Exhibitions (Upper Waiting Hall) 86 words
    24. Beaches (Durham) 306 words
    25. Disability to Vote 212 words
    26. Direct Labour 249 words
    27. Belvoir Coalfield 111 words
    28. Greater London Council (Staff) 68 words
    29. Local Government 113 words
    30. Glazing (Child Safety) 82 words
    31. Rent Offices (Closures) 279 words
    32. Housing Act 1974 76 words
    33. Freeholds and Head Leases 39 words
    34. Tenants' Associations 90 words
    35. Roadford, Devon (Reservoir) 36 words
    36. Enterprise Zones 271 words
    37. Local Authorities (Audits) 133 words
    38. Right to Buy (Unsound Properties) 186 words
  20. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Cannabis Offences (Fines) 68 words
    2. Unemployment (International Statistics) 223 words
    3. Industrial Competitiveness 125 words
    4. Common Agricultural Policy 80 words
    5. Privatisation 195 words
    6. Estate Duty 131 words
    7. Civil Service Pay 46 words
    8. European Community (Budget Council) 524 words
    9. Public Sector Industry 85 words
    10. Ethane Valuation 76 words
    11. Travel and Accommodation Allowances (Taxation) 157 words
    12. Departmental Expenditure 545 words
    13. European Community (Cash Flow) 418 words
    14. Family Taxation (Unemployment) 204 words