Commons Sitting of 21 February 1983

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. Australia (Message of Sympathy) 60 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRADE
      1. Exports/Imports 810 words
      2. Monopolies and Mergers Commission 1,055 words
      3. Competition Act 1980 142 words
      4. European Community (British Exports) 468 words
      5. Motor Vehicles (Imports) 603 words
      6. Spain (Balance of Trade) 454 words
      7. Inter-regional Air Services 496 words
      8. Multi-fibre Arrangement 464 words
      9. Balance of Trade 538 words
      10. Film Industry (Review) 712 words
      11. Balance of Trade 218 words
      12. Heliport 292 words
      13. Origin Marking 658 words
      14. Balance of Trade 316 words
    2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      1. "Common Crisis" 1,239 words
      2. West Indies 463 words
      3. Somalia 579 words
    3. MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL [Lords] 15 words
  4. European Community Budget 49,944 words, 1 division
    1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 23 words
  5. Orders of the Day
    1. Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) 11,288 words, 1 division
      1. INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT CONVENTIONS BILL [LORDS] 53 words
      2. WAYS AND MEANS
        1. INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT CONVENTIONS [MONEY] 60 words
      3. PLANT VARIETIES BILL [LORDS] 69 words
    2. Plant Varieties [Money] 1,335 words
    3. Statutory Instruments, &c. 32 words
      1. EXPORT GUARANTEES 95 words
    4. Bedford-St. Pancras Railway Line (Electrification) 3,614 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 February 1983

  1. SCOTLAND
    1. Hawick 96 words
    2. Home Improvement Grants 335 words
    3. Council House Sales 171 words
    4. Consultants (Fees) 121 words
    5. Judicial Salaries 160 words
    6. Cervical Cancer 31 words
    7. Electoral Boundaries 110 words
    8. Highlands and Islands Development Board 155 words
  2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. United Nations Development Programme 93 words
    2. Nigeria (Expelled Workers) 104 words
    3. Overseas Aid 99 words
    4. Information Technology 160 words
    5. Angola 56 words
    6. European Community Development Fund (Contributions) 59 words
    7. Non-governmental Voluntary Agencies 116 words
    8. Turks and Caicos Islands 63 words
    9. Bangladesh 55 words
    10. Ghana 46 words
    11. "Common Crisis" 58 words
    12. Gross National Product 90 words
    13. Falkland Islands 67 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Tower Hamlets (Crime Statistics) 1,189 words
    2. Metropolitan Police 106 words
    3. Mental Patients (Voting Rights) 188 words
    4. Haldon Open Prison 221 words
    5. Missing Persons 216 words
    6. Prison Allocation Procedures 101 words
    7. Open Prisons 100 words
    8. Criminal Justice Act 1982 226 words
  4. TRADE
    1. Blank Recording Tape 51 words
    2. Motor Vehicles (Imports) 190 words
    3. Doorstep Selling 51 words
    4. European Community 65 words
    5. British Airways 87 words
    6. Exports 98 words
    7. National Economic Development Organisation 61 words
    8. Tourism 176 words
    9. Merchant Shipping 190 words
    10. Company Directors 72 words
    11. Balance of Payments 51 words
    12. Investors 37 words
    13. Unsafe Electrical Goods and Dangerous Toys 111 words
    14. Car Components Industry 52 words
    15. Monopolies and Mergers Commission 105 words
    16. Local Authorities (Anti-competitive Practices) 102 words
    17. Multi-fibre Arrangement 91 words
    18. Petrol Sales 92 words
    19. Overseas Projects (Aid) 74 words
    20. Aerial Advertising 96 words
    21. Citizens Advice Bureaux 206 words
    22. Galecron 63 words
    23. Manufacturing Trade 88 words
  5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Mr. Mark Anthony Hart (Court of Appeal Case) 69 words
    2. Ipswich (Crown and County Courts) 110 words
    3. Secure Tenancies 226 words
    4. Judicial Salaries 114 words
    5. HMS Edinburgh 75 words
  6. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Blind Persons (Interview Arrangements) 121 words
    2. European Community (Budget) 105 words
    3. Disabled Persons (Commonwealth Secretariat Recommendation) 101 words
    4. Press Embargoes 46 words
    5. Falkland Islands 128 words
  7. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Output 253 words
    2. Employment Census 68 words
    3. Earnings 304 words
    4. Leukaemia 360 words
    5. Manufacturing Earnings 46 words
    6. Community Programme 136 words
    7. Unemployment Statistics 620 words
    8. Unemployment 574 words
    9. Unemployed Young Persons (West Midlands) 227 words
    10. Redundancies (West Midlands) 134 words
    11. Youth Training Scheme 73 words
    12. Unemployed Persons 155 words
    13. Apprentices 107 words
  8. WALES
    1. Public Expenditure 4,175 words
    2. Employment Offices (Closure) 106 words
  9. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Telephone Tapping 42 words
  10. ENERGY
    1. Fuel Debts 93 words
    2. Collieries (Safety) 79 words
    3. Onshore Oil 100 words
    4. Severn Barrage 61 words
    5. Opencast Mining (Statutory Objectors) 238 words
    6. Management Information System 57 words
    7. Oil Stocks 170 words
    8. Fuel Consumption (Scotland) 98 words
    9. Electricity (Bulk Industrial Tariff) 335 words
  11. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Job Creation 271 words
    2. Overseas Promotion 206 words
    3. Republic of Ireland (Talks) 96 words
  12. INDUSTRY
    1. Financial Assistance (North-West) 81 words
    2. Industrial Production 247 words
    3. British Telecom (Exhibition) 66 words
    4. Cellular Radio System 325 words
    5. Westlands Helicopter EH101 106 words
    6. Industrial Production 98 words
    7. Output 86 words
  13. TRANSPORT
    1. Roads Construction 239 words
    2. M25 (Traffic Flows) 302 words
    3. Private Cars 109 words
    4. Publicity Expenditures 72 words
    5. Consultants (Fees) 473 words
    6. A33 (Winchester) 95 words
    7. British Railways Hotels 115 words
    8. Midlank Link Motorways 128 words
    9. Dim-dip Regulations 327 words
    10. British Railways Workshops 111 words
  14. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Output 230 words
    2. European Community (Own-resources Base) 201 words
    3. Travel Costs 101 words
    4. "Capital Taxation and the National Heritage" 84 words
    5. Tax Revenue 1,059 words
    6. Public Sector Debt 208 words
    7. Economic Prospects 104 words
    8. Spalding Report 44 words
    9. Retirement Pensioners (Mortgage Repayments) 79 words
    10. Companies (Rate of Return) 57 words
    11. Age Allowance 64 words
    12. Keith Committee (Report) 41 words
    13. Retirement Pensioners (Health Insurance Premiums) 37 words
    14. Ben Johnson Limited 43 words
    15. Her Majesty's Stationery Office 190 words
    16. Scotch Whisky (Revenue) 48 words
    17. Trustee Savings Banks (Shares) 160 words
    18. Income Tax 294 words
  15. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Pearson Report (Recommendations) 117 words
    2. Retirement 170 words
    3. Specialist Claims Control Units 90 words
    4. Drugs (Expenditure) 132 words
    5. Pensions 227 words
    6. Supplementary Benefit 104 words
    7. Triazolam 321 words
    8. Retirement Benefit 145 words
    9. Retirement Pensioners (Earnings Rule) 137 words
    10. Fuel Direct Scheme 155 words
    11. Drugs Advertisements (Prosecutions) 187 words
    12. Pharmaceutical Prices Regulation Scheme 50 words
    13. Transfer Pricing 71 words
    14. Greenfield Report 49 words
    15. Children in Care 48 words
    16. Medical Research 204 words
    17. Census (Welsh Language) 57 words
    18. Consultants (Fees) 203 words
    19. Long-Stay Patients 232 words
    20. Occupational Pension 83 words
    21. Deaf Children 89 words
    22. Nurses (Training) 158 words
    23. Retirement Age 67 words
    24. Retirement Pension 52 words
    25. Cervical Cancer 34 words
    26. National Health Service Hospitals (Consultants) 241 words
    27. Home Helps (Cambridgeshire) 170 words
    28. Kidney Patients (West Midlands) 733 words
    29. Opencast Mining (Nuneaton) 256 words
    30. Private Practice 119 words
    31. Neo-natal Mortality 75 words
    32. Health Budget 333 words
    33. Family Income Supplement 81 words
    34. Social Security Budget 178 words
    35. Sexual Equality 56 words
    36. Private Patients (Supplementary Benefit) 302 words
    37. Elderly Persons (Injuries) 138 words
    38. School Leavers (Supplementary Benefit) 143 words
    39. National Health Service (Expenditure) 83 words
    40. Pharmaceutical Products 157 words
    41. Drugs (Cost) 111 words
    42. One-parent Families 206 words
    43. National Health Services (Inner London) 664 words
  16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Antarctic Mineral Regime Negotiations 109 words
    2. South Georgia 52 words
    3. Brandt Report 59 words
    4. UNIFIL 78 words
    5. Angola 123 words
    6. Falkland Islands 407 words
    7. Palestinian Prisoners (Israel) 146 words
    8. Malta 81 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Falklands Garrison 209 words
    2. HARM and ALARM 64 words
    3. Port Howard 46 words
    4. Arms Sales (Chile) 51 words
    5. Cruise Missiles (Dual Key) 224 words
    6. Multilateral Disarmament 53 words
    7. Falkland Islands 73 words
    8. Task Force (Food) 120 words
    9. Floating Arms Exhibition 73 words
    10. Gibraltar 92 words
    11. Major-General Thorne ("Panorama") 49 words
  18. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Royal Parks (Traffic Flows) 77 words
    2. Housing Repair and Improvement Grants 66 words
    3. Derelict Land (North East) 180 words
    4. Council House Sales (Leicester) 69 words
    5. Ordnance Survey 56 words
    6. Property Services Agency (Auctions) 197 words
    7. Water Supplies (Company Closures) 111 words
    8. Tenants Exchange Scheme 545 words
    9. Minis System 32 words
  19. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Special and Independent Schools (Regulations) 71 words
    2. Higher Education (Library Expenditure) 433 words
    3. Schools (Parental Choice) 174 words
    4. Emergency Circuits (Payment) 82 words
    5. Special Schools and Classes 315 words
    6. "The Legal Basis of Further Education" 53 words
    7. Handicapped Children 124 words
    8. Micros in Schools 151 words
  20. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Livestock Farmers (Assistance) 114 words
    2. "English Gin" 111 words
    3. Food Prices 270 words
    4. Welsh Whisky 89 words
    5. Cereal Prices 135 words

Lords Sitting of 21 February 1983

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Water Meters 674 words
  3. Crown Agents Tribunal 1,104 words
  4. CT High Resolution Scanners 1,024 words
  5. Ghanaian Refugees from Nigeria: UK Aid 604 words
  6. Agricultural Marketing Bill 693 words
  7. Pig Industry Levy Bill 6 words
  8. ECC 2nd Report: Socio-Structural Policy 22,544 words
  9. ECC 20th Report: Strategic Minerals 15,829 words
  10. Immigration Rules: Statement of Changes 14,028 words
  11. The Commission on Energy and the Environment 8,129 words
  12. Lloyds Bowmaker Bill [H.L.]
    1. Parkeston Quay Bill [H.L.] 36 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 21 February 1983

  1. PASSPORTS AND COMPUTER RECORDS 266 words
  2. IMMIGRATION AND COMPUTER RECORDS 456 words
  3. WANDSWORTH: RUBBISH REMOVAL 103 words
  4. CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 1982: IMPLEMENTATION 205 words