Commons Sitting of 8 March 1982

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS 14 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. ENERGY
      1. Domestic Energy Supplies 925 words
      2. Oil Sales 191 words
      3. British National Oil Corporation 395 words
      4. Space Policy 132 words
      5. Diesel Fuel 100 words
      6. Energy Prices 728 words
      7. British Gas Corporation (Domestic Supplies) 627 words
      8. Domestic Heating (Rebate Scheme) 350 words
      9. Alternative Energy Sources 660 words
      10. Energy Prices 768 words
      11. Amersham International Ltd. 412 words
      12. Gas Prices 326 words
      13. Gas Tanker (Solent) 333 words
      14. North Sea and English Channel (Oil Exploration) 260 words
      15. British Gas Corporation (Monopoly Powers) 154 words
      16. Energy Reserves 350 words
      17. Boiler Conversion Scheme 364 words
      18. Gas Prices 348 words
    2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. Low Cholesterol Meals 341 words
      2. Big Ben Clock Tower 323 words
      3. Universal Suffrage (Statues) 306 words
      4. Television Crews (Access) 215 words
      5. Research Assistants 287 words
  5. Poly-cholorinated Biphenyl 723 words
    1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 121 words
  6. President Reagan (Address to Parliament) 630 words
    1. WELSH AFFAIRS 26 words
  7. Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill (Allocation of Time) 27,874 words, 1 division
  8. Homeless Persons (Report) 441 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Canada Bill 23,639 words, 1 division
      1. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 19 words
        1. MEAT HYGIENE 111 words
      2. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS &c. 18 words
        1. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 35 words
    2. Petition
      1. ELDERLY AND DISALED PERSONS 197 words
    3. Prevention of Crime 3,635 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 8 March 1982

  1. TRADE
    1. Tokyo Round 652 words
    2. European Community (Imports-Exports) 319 words
    3. British Airways 46 words
    4. Bankruptcies 185 words
    5. Vehicle Light Bulbs 81 words
    6. Quality, Assurance and Standards Division 113 words
    7. Multi-fibre Arrangement 69 words
    8. Export Assistance 238 words
    9. Airport Baggage Handling 49 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Secretarial Assistance 117 words
    2. Trident 86 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Sensitive Premises (Police Procedure) 91 words
    2. Chief Constables (Accountability) 92 words
    3. Football Matches (Policing Costs) 84 words
    4. Dr. A. Clift 59 words
    5. Police Recruitment 71 words
    6. Health Service Workers (Rape) 83 words
    7. Nuclear Shelters 51 words
    8. Police (Personal Injury Insurance) 109 words
    9. Criminal Statistics 94 words
    10. Street Crime 182 words
    11. Surveillance Equipment 126 words
  4. ENERGY
    1. Severn Barrage 49 words
    2. Electricity Generation 106 words
    3. Gas Prices 74 words
    4. British Gas Corporation 109 words
    5. Dungeness B Power Station 119 words
    6. Gas and Electricity Prices 100 words
    7. Nuclear Power Station Programme 59 words
    8. Oil Drilling (Sites) 94 words
    9. European Community (Energy Prices) 771 words
    10. Domestic Energy Supplies 63 words
    11. Domestic Heating Oil 90 words
    12. British National Oil Corporation 83 words
    13. Oil Exploration 95 words
    14. Scottish Gas Boards 50 words
    15. North Sea Oil 52 words
    16. Oil Resources (Depletion) 77 words
  5. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Firearms Certificates 417 words
    2. Firearms (Thefts) 843 words
    3. Mr. John McKeague 69 words
    4. Extradition 75 words
  6. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Purchasing Contracts 125 words
    2. Income Tax 470 words
    3. Trading Profit 754 words
    4. Treasury Bills 173 words
    5. Farmers (Profits) 552 words
    6. Floating Debt 380 words
    7. Funded Borrowings 340 words
    8. Corporation Tax 208 words
    9. Foreign Income (Taxation) 76 words
    10. European Community (Budget) 167 words
    11. Labour Productivity 121 words
    12. Capital Investment (Interest on Borrowing) 54 words
    13. Value Added Tax 152 words
    14. Building Societies 385 words
    15. Manufacturing Industry (National Insurance Charges) 42 words
    16. Gas, Water and Electricity Industries (Output) 86 words
    17. National Insurance Surcharge 85 words
    18. Customs and Excise (Heathrow Airport) 64 words
    19. Privatisation 62 words
    20. Mortgage Interest Rates (Tax Relief) 57 words
    21. Tax Collection (Cumbernauld) 159 words
    22. Gross Domestic Product 49 words
    23. Revenue Estimates 220 words
    24. Public Expenditure 290 words
    25. Insider Dealing 74 words
    26. Taxation (Staff Requirements) 130 words
  7. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. UNRWA (Palestine) 178 words
  8. PAYMASTER GENERAL
    1. Information Technology 53 words
  9. WALES
    1. Measles 239 words
    2. General Practice Trainers Incentives 107 words
    3. Job Creation 144 words
    4. School Meals 181 words
    5. Industrial Investment 255 words
    6. School Meals and Transport 45 words
  10. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Class Sizes 51 words
    2. "Greenfield Strategy" (Suffolk) 104 words
    3. Atmospheric Pollution (Schoolchildren) 211 words
    4. Secondary School Curriculum 95 words
    5. Student Grants 52 words
    6. Student Numbers 119 words
    7. Higher Education (Statistics) 190 words
    8. Inner City Schools (Parental Involvement) 101 words
    9. Public Sector Higher Education (Exhibition) 67 words
    10. Public Lending Right 53 words
    11. Royal College of Music (Appeal) 89 words
  11. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Foodstuffs 368 words
    2. Food Prices 256 words
    3. Severe Weather Damage (Funds) 94 words
    4. Uncooked Meat (Import) 87 words
    5. Fishery Protection 94 words
    6. Calves (Air Transport) 58 words
    7. Shell Fisheries (The Wash) 618 words
    8. Fishery Protection 196 words
  12. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Select Committees 85 words
    2. Parliamentary Delegations (Cost) 108 words
  13. INDUSTRY
    1. Engineering and Manufacturing 152 words
    2. Intermediate Areas (Male Unemployment) 64 words
    3. Loan Guarantee Scheme (Cornwall) 195 words
    4. Cornwall 565 words
    5. Carpet Manufacture 151 words
    6. Regional Development Grants (Wales) 194 words
    7. British Steel Corporation 41 words
    8. New Technology 501 words
  14. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Road Transport Industry Training Board 186 words
    2. Employment Transfer Scheme 74 words
    3. Training Opportunities Scheme (Cornwall) 120 words
    4. Development Areas 84 words
    5. Barnsley (Redundancy Payments) 73 words
    6. Woollen and Worsted Industry 69 words
    7. Job Search Scheme (Wales) 73 words
    8. Baggage Handling Dispute (Heathrow Airport) 71 words
    9. Training 183 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. Rents and Rate Poundage 621 words
    2. Severe Weather Damage (Funds) 86 words
    3. Electricity Boards (Manpower) 57 words
    4. Grampian Health Board (Manpower) 139 words
    5. Aluminium Smelter, Invergordon 75 words
    6. Mental Health Legislation 47 words
  16. DEFENCE
    1. Londonderry 46 words
    2. NATO (Defence Expenditure) 135 words
    3. No. 14 Maintenance Unit, RAF Carlisle 60 words
    4. Young Persons Training Scheme (Royal Navy) 114 words
    5. HMS "Fearless" and "Intrepid" 137 words
    6. JP 233 Airfield Attack Weapon 113 words
    7. Tornado F2 Aircraft 52 words
    8. Blindfire Rapier (Delivery) 95 words
    9. Sea Harrier 67 words
  17. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Terms of Service (Breaches) 210 words
    2. Fluoridation 41 words
    3. Surgeries (Vandalism) 110 words
    4. Community Health Councils 97 words
    5. Safety of Medicines 343 words
    6. Debendox 264 words
    7. Benefits 206 words
    8. Optical Prescriptions 64 words
    9. Heating Allowance 148 words
    10. Nurses' Homes (Security) 41 words
    11. Dental Treatment 83 words
    12. Department of Experimental Chemical Pathology (Westminster) 158 words
    13. Education Cuts (Patient Care) 73 words
    14. Diabetes 122 words
    15. Hospital Waste Disposal 52 words
    16. Pensioners 206 words
    17. Attendance Allowance 263 words
    18. Occupational Asthma 68 words
    19. National Health Service (Pay) 256 words
  18. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Rents 427 words
    2. Council House Sales (Norwich) 98 words
    3. Housing Improvement Grants 36 words
    4. Single Homeless Persons 345 words
    5. Grisco Ltd. and Comshare Ltd. 92 words
    6. Local Authorities (Work Contracts) 59 words
    7. Gipsies 407 words
    8. Urban Programme Resources 634 words
  19. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Zimbabwe 269 words
    2. India Office Library and Records 597 words
    3. United Nations Truce Supervision Office 105 words
    4. Southern Lebanon 295 words
    5. Judaea and Samaria 161 words
    6. Hong Kong (Carcinogenic Chemicals) 350 words
  20. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Land Titles 500 words
    2. Legal Aid (Matrimonial Cases) 196 words
    3. National Conciliation Service 151 words
    4. R. v. Arthur (Judgment) 620 words
  21. TRANSPORT
    1. Road Accident, Cockburnspath 163 words
    2. Community-based Transport Schemes 206 words
    3. Lorry Weights 119 words

Lords Sitting of 8 March 1982

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Apartheid in South Africa: Economic Sanctions 763 words
  3. Local Government Staff and Economies 911 words
  4. American Weapons and European Bases 1,705 words
  5. London: Non-Domestic Rates Increase 277 words
  6. Travel Concessions (London) Bill 8,801 words
  7. Coal Industry Bill 12 words
  8. Administration of Justice Bill [H.L.] 13,745 words
  9. Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 29,774 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 8 March 1982

  1. REFUGEES FROM EASTERN EUROPE 157 words
  2. IMMIGRATION ACT 1971: DEPORTATION 802 words
  3. INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY AND RECORDS: COLLECTIONS 601 words
  4. EL SALVADOR: ELECTION OBSERVERS 168 words
  5. GLOBAL NEGOTIATIONS: NEW DELHI CONFERENCE REQUEST 109 words
  6. EAST TIMOR 76 words
  7. NATURE CONSERVATION CIRCULAR: REVISION 148 words
  8. SWANS: LEAD POISONING 175 words
  9. NATURE CONSERVANCY COUNCIL: GRANT-IN-AID 74 words
  10. WILD BIRDS: PROTECTION AREAS 278 words
  11. HOUSING AUTHORITIES: NORTH WILTSHIRE SCHEME 52 words
  12. IRISH REPUBLIC: U.K. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 190 words