Commons Sitting of 12 December 1983

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES
      1. Home Improvement (Payments) 898 words
      2. Dental Treatment (Costs) 310 words
      3. Labour Statistics 627 words
      4. Trespass (Common Land) 338 words
      5. Housing Investment Programme 660 words
      6. Singleton Hospital, Swansea 84 words
      7. Job Creation 137 words
      8. Motorway Access 397 words
      9. Labour Statistics 508 words
      10. Gwynedd Area Health Authority 343 words
      11. Welsh Development Agency 278 words
      12. National Health Service 305 words
      13. River Severn (Crossing) 385 words
      14. Small Firms Information Centres 413 words
    2. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
      1. Ecclesiastical Buildings 371 words
      2. Payroll Statistics 573 words
    3. THE ARTS
      1. Royal Opera House and Royal Shakespeare Company 182 words
      2. Arts Council 1,394 words
  4. National Graphical Association (Dispute) 2,004 words
  5. House Buyers Bill (Mr. Speaker's Ruling) 445 words
  6. British Airways 4,802 words
  7. Statutory Instruments, &c. 187 words
  8. Motor Industry 19,573 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Coal Industry Bill 20,193 words
    2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 30 words
    3. COAL INDUSTRY BILL 14,200 words
    4. Town and Country Planning Bill 20 words
  10. Clause 4
    1. REQUIREMENT OF PLANNING PERMISSION FOR CONTINUANCE OF USE INSTITUTED BY THE CROWN 1,975 words
  11. New Clause 1
    1. EXTENSION OF TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1972 5,411 words
    2. Prisons 6,494 words
  12. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.
    1. SOCIAL SECURITY 47 words
    2. HOUSE OF COMMONS (SERVICES) 34 words
    3. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 206 words
    4. Straw Burning 4,191 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 12 December 1983

  1. ENERGY
    1. Combined Heat and Power 93 words
    2. Thermal Rock Deposits 135 words
  2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Energy Manager (Appointment) 52 words
  3. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Immigration Service 619 words
    2. European Community (Agricultural Expenditure) 87 words
    3. Civil Servants (Travel and Subsistence Costs) 51 words
  4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Balance of Trade 276 words
    2. BAe 146 (Costs) 137 words
    3. Airbus Project 167 words
    4. Manufactures 633 words
    5. Insurance 50 words
    6. Nationalised Industries (Privatisation) 102 words
    7. Asbestos Fibres 45 words
    8. Steam Turbine Industry 315 words
    9. General Electric Company 130 words
    10. Non-oil Terms of Trade 48 words
    11. Key Telephone Systems 204 words
    12. Deep Sea Mining (Temporary Provisions) Act 1981 53 words
  5. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Seals 752 words
    2. Milk 112 words
    3. European Community (Animal Health Regulations) 100 words
    4. Whisky Regulations 92 words
    5. New Zealand Lamb 113 words
  6. TRANSPORT
    1. Roads (Expenditure) 582 words
    2. Bypasses 240 words
    3. Transport Supplementary Grant 68 words
    4. A40 (Upgrading) 214 words
    5. A40 (Traffic Flows) 404 words
    6. GLC (River Thames) 91 words
    7. Road Accident Statistics 230 words
    8. Severn Bridge 79 words
    9. Lorry Weights 91 words
    10. Orange Badge Scheme (Abuses) 205 words
    11. Nationalised Industries (Privatisation) 50 words
    12. Airports 79 words
    13. Aerial Advertising 53 words
    14. British Rail 126 words
  7. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. School Books 335 words
    2. Education Costs 181 words
    3. Northamptonshire (Schools Capital Expenditure) 94 words
    4. Teachers 81 words
    5. Ministerial Appointments 119 words
    6. Research Projects 51 words
    7. Handicapped Young Persons 162 words
    8. School Rolls 63 words
    9. School Population 825 words
    10. Corporal Punishment 110 words
    11. Honours Degree Courses (Funding) 98 words
    12. Asbestos 76 words
  8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Ministerial Appointments 63 words
    2. France (Entry Policy) 59 words
    3. Falkland Islands 34 words
    4. South Africa (Ministerial Visit) 74 words
    5. Uganda 232 words
  9. ENVIRONMENT
    1. European Coal and Steel Community (Subsidised Housing Scheme) 186 words
    2. Rates (Departmental Manpower) 67 words
    3. Rates 258 words
    4. Local Government Reform 292 words
    5. House of Commons (Sound Broadcasting) 121 words
    6. Private Residences (Listing) 298 words
    7. Local Authority Services (Trade Union Agreements) 82 words
    8. Planning Appeals (Macclesfield) 84 words
    9. Tenants' Associations 92 words
    10. Council House Sales 197 words
    11. Water Authorities 166 words
    12. Falkland Islands 76 words
    13. Rate Support Grant (Waltham Forest) 258 words
    14. Nationalised Industries (Privatisation) 122 words
    15. Local Government 74 words
    16. Captive Balloons 101 words
    17. Improvement and Insulation Grants 210 words
  10. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Caribbean States (Development Assistance) 328 words
  11. SCOTLAND
    1. Construction Industry 207 words
    2. Houses (Facing Bricks) 110 words
    3. Labour Statistics 141 words
    4. Expenditure Plans 1,444 words
  12. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Youth Training Scheme 135 words
    2. Community Programme 527 words
    3. Ministerial Appointments 135 words
    4. Construction Industry (Scotland) 200 words
    5. Construction Industry (Injuries) 103 words
    6. Regional Investigation Teams 351 words
    7. Asbestosis, Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma (Death Certificates) 178 words
    8. Young Workers Scheme 89 words
    9. Norwood Jobcentre 81 words
    10. Engineering Careers Information Service (Display) 63 words
    11. Factory Inspectors 583 words
  13. THE ARTS
    1. Private Funding 67 words
    2. Arts Council 847 words
    3. District Council Expenditure 97 words
    4. Concert Halls 208 words
    5. London Orchestras (Support) 116 words
    6. Marble Hill House and Rangers House 113 words
    7. London Boroughs (Expenditure) 136 words
    8. Iveagh Bequest 90 words
    9. Property (Acceptances in Lieu of Tax) 78 words
    10. Scottish Opera 109 words
  14. DEFENCE
    1. RAF Finningley 118 words
    2. RAF Bawtry 67 words
    3. Northern Ireland 299 words
    4. Cruise Missiles 20 words
    5. North Atlantic Council (Firepower) 96 words
    6. Trident and Tornado 168 words
    7. Falkland Islands 48 words
    8. Merseyside (Military Aircraft Manoeuvres) 35 words
  15. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Stamp Duty 109 words
    2. Mrs. J. M Gerchenovitch 44 words
    3. Bank Notes (Scotland) 173 words
    4. £1 Coins 26 words
    5. Bank Notes (Circulation) 49 words
    6. Value Added Tax 99 words
    7. PAYE (Computerisation) 60 words
    8. Petrol (Taxation) 69 words
    9. Offshore Commodity Funds 109 words
    10. European Community (Payment Delays) 82 words
    11. Public Expenditure Plans 134 words
    12. Imports 50 words
    13. Exports 79 words
    14. Northern Ireland 260 words
    15. Unitary Taxation 66 words
    16. Capital Transfer Tax Business Relief 48 words
    17. European Community (Spain and Portugal) 43 words
  16. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Aylesbury Prison (Inspector's Report) 252 words
    2. Youth Custody (Girls) 128 words
    3. Drug Offences (United States Personnel) 146 words
    4. Detained Persons 335 words
    5. Council Elections 133 words
    6. Ministerial Appointments 117 words
    7. Bingo and Social Clubs (Advertising) 59 words
    8. Broadcasting Authorities (Arts Expenditure) 55 words
    9. Prison Service 275 words
    10. Sir David McNee 179 words
    11. Disabled Persons Act 1981 112 words
    12. Air Weapons 150 words
    13. Cable Television 361 words
  17. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Political Donations 41 words
    2. Parliamentary Proceedings (Televising) 71 words
    3. Ministerial Appointments 48 words
    4. Members (Salaries and Expenses) 112 words
  18. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Hypothermia 96 words
    2. Health Advisory Service 97 words
    3. Wessex Health Authority 239 words
    4. Health Authorities (Forward Plans) 138 words
    5. Anthony Nolan Trust 101 words
    6. Leukaemia Patients 132 words
    7. Pensioners (Spending Power) 126 words
    8. Disablement Benefits 230 words
    9. Infant Mortality 377 words
    10. Bone Marrow Transplants 242 words
    11. Addressed Labels (East Kilbride) 98 words
    12. War Widows 189 words
    13. Renal Failure 87 words
    14. Hip Replacement Operations 65 words
    15. Cervical Smears 56 words
    16. Heating Additions 325 words
    17. Health Authorities 54 words
    18. Health Service Management Costs 50 words
    19. Hospital Doctors (Secretarial Staff) 62 words
    20. Health Districts 61 words
  19. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. New Disablement Benefit 130 words
    2. Housing Benefit 157 words
    3. Pharmaceutical Wholesale Distributors 167 words
    4. Isobutyl Nitrite 119 words
    5. International Population Conference 168 words
    6. Long-stay Mental Handicap Hospitals 4,466 words
  20. WALES
    1. Regional Policy 66 words
    2. South Cardiff Initiative 70 words
    3. National Health Service 81 words
    4. Housing Renovation 561 words
    5. School Leavers (Qualifications) 106 words
    6. Nationalised Industries 67 words
    7. Welsh Water Authority 467 words
    8. Milk (Quota) 89 words
    9. Water (Select Committee Report) 62 words
    10. Elderly Mentally Infirm 196 words
    11. Infant Mortality 1,730 words
    12. Neonatal Care 128 words
    13. Primary School Children (Health Care) 104 words
    14. Bus Services 67 words
    15. Capital Expenditure 225 words
    16. Local Authorities (Overspending) 40 words
    17. Home Improvement Grants 158 words
    18. Housing Statistics 104 words
    19. Job Creation 240 words
    20. Foreign Companies (Statistics) 838 words
    21. Geriatric Beds 167 words
    22. Redundancies 542 words
    23. Nissan Motor Company 70 words
    24. Job Losses 129 words
    25. Urban Aid 96 words
  21. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Departmental Financial Aid 88 words
    2. Terrorism 73 words
    3. Public Expenditure 45 words

Lords Sitting of 12 December 1983

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Tyne and Wear Metro 884 words
  3. Parking Restrictions: Diplomatic Immunity 2,481 words
  4. Cruise Missiles: Reliability 1,324 words
  5. Business 134 words
  6. Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [H.L.] 8,049 words, 1 division
  7. The NGA Dispute 1,041 words
  8. British Airways Privatisation 3,913 words
  9. Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [H.L.] 16,399 words
  10. Farm Structure (Payment to Outgoers) (Extension of Duration) Scheme 1983 1,151 words
  11. Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 1983 2,027 words
  12. Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [H.L.] 10,526 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 12 December 1983

  1. AIR RAID SIREN SOUNDING: LEGALITY 181 words
  2. VHF AND UHF CHANNEL ALLOCATIONS 105 words
  3. CROWN AGENTS: ACTION ON REPORT 109 words
  4. ARBITERS: APPOINTMENT (SCOTLAND) 160 words
  5. FALKLAND ISLANDS: FOREIGN FISHING FLEETS 90 words
  6. FALKLAND ISLANDS AND DEPENDENCIES: FISHING POLICY 249 words
  7. "CRISIS IN CENTRAL AMERICA": BACKGROUND BRIEF 494 words
  8. HONDURAS AND ANTI-SANDINISTA FORCES 83 words
  9. NICARAGUA: COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY GROUPS 68 words
  10. SCIENTIFIC CO-OPERATION: BRITAIN AND CANADA 187 words
  11. TRIDENT MISSILES AND LAW OF THE SEA CONVENTION 42 words
  12. SOMALIS AND SELF-DETERMINATION 137 words
  13. OPTICIAN SERVICES: ADVERTISING 234 words
  14. HOUSING BENEFIT: CONSULTATION 63 words