Commons Sitting of 20 January 1983

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS 70 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      1. European Community (Beef and Butter Prices) 409 words
      2. European Community (Fisheries Inspectorate) 566 words
      3. Agricultural Workers (Earnings) 667 words
      4. Green Pound 185 words
      5. Pig Industry (Intervention Grain) 688 words
      6. Class A Agricultural Land 519 words
      7. Horticulture (Support) 795 words
      8. Marginal Land Areas 374 words
      9. Tree Species (Climatic Conditions) 293 words
      10. Milk (Co-responsibility Levy) 319 words
      11. Dairy Cows (Yield) 389 words
      12. European Community (Wheat and White Sugar) 411 words
      13. European Community (Butter and Wheat) 312 words
      14. Temperate Foods 277 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,671 words
      2. Trading Imbalances 286 words
  5. Business of the House 3,023 words
  6. British Railways (Serpell Report) 9,589 words
  7. Official Report (Division List) 271 words
  8. BILL PRESENTED
    1. NUCLEAR MATERIAL (OFFENCES) BILL 65 words
    2. Rate Support Grant 38,147 words, 1 division
  9. EUROPEAN LEGISLATION, &c. 35 words
  10. Places of Religious Worship (Rating) 3,709 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 20 January 1983

  1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Nursery Education 83 words
    2. Assisted Places Scheme 616 words
    3. Overseas Students 133 words
    4. Museums and Galleries 150 words
    5. Sixth Form Places 159 words
  2. WALES
    1. Handicapped Children 270 words
    2. Welsh Language 116 words
    3. Temporary Short-time Working Compensation Scheme 220 words
    4. Apprenticeships 51 words
  3. DEFENCE
    1. RAF Kemble 114 words
    2. Falkland Islands (Argentine Dead) 87 words
    3. Falkland Islands Casualties (Next of Kin Visits) 191 words
    4. Nuclear Tests (Radiation Compensation) 161 words
    5. Gibraltar 82 words
    6. Hostilities (Media Involvement) 125 words
  4. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Scottish Industrial Tribunals (Appeals) 467 words
    2. Manpower Services Commission 260 words
    3. Apprenticeships 89 words
    4. Chrysoidine Dye 165 words
    5. European Social Fund 205 words
    6. Job Splitting Scheme 84 words
    7. Low-hydrogen Rods 73 words
    8. Earnings Profile 118 words
  5. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Engagements 637 words
    2. "General Belgrano" 132 words
    3. Exercise Springtrain 30 words
    4. Industrial Policy 43 words
    5. Export Credit Guarantee Scheme 64 words
    6. Coastal Resorts (Lifesaving Equipment) 102 words
    7. Diplomatic Service 325 words
    8. Vaccine Damage 241 words
    9. Cruise Missiles 221 words
    10. Dunlop Ltd. 54 words
    11. Nuclear Tests (Radiation Compensation) 137 words
    12. Lance-Corporal Aldridge 237 words
  6. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Souvenir Kiosk 112 words
  7. INDUSTRY
    1. Fibre Optics 256 words
    2. Multinational Companies (Transfer Pricing) 375 words
    3. Grampian Region (Assisted Area Status) 127 words
    4. Cycle Lamps 73 words
    5. Company Policies (Assistance and Intervention) 120 words
  8. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. World Banking System 73 words
    2. Schedule D Tax 69 words
    3. Tax Collection 487 words
    4. Inland Revenue (Staff) 92 words
    5. Income Tax and National Insurance 56 words
    6. Industrial Buildings Allowance Act 49 words
    7. Free Ports 36 words
    8. Personal Taxation 256 words
  9. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. London Borough of Newham (Crime Statistics) 1,055 words
    2. Civil Defence 155 words
    3. Magistrates' Courts 67 words
    4. Civil Disorder (Appeals Against Conviction) 92 words
    5. Mr. K. K. Abrol 120 words
    6. Citizens Band Radio 514 words
    7. Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 149 words
    8. Foreign Visitors (Working Holidays) 47 words
    9. Greenham Common 40 words
    10. Mr. James Gibson 96 words
  10. TRADE
    1. Film Industry (Review) 94 words
    2. North Korea 35 words
    3. Doorstep Sales (Return of Goods) 52 words
    4. Insurance Contracts 126 words
    5. Contract Deposits (Cooling-off Period) 52 words
    6. Lloyd's (Chief Executive) 77 words
    7. Airport Capacity (Inquiry) 126 words
    8. Defective Rice Cookers 120 words
    9. Internal Air Services 92 words
    10. Sea Ferries (Safety) 131 words
  11. ENVIRONMENT
    1. National Parks 159 words
    2. Rate Fund Expenditure 112 words
    3. Council House Sales 311 words
    4. Homesteading Schemes 94 words
    5. Local Government Audit Commission 116 words
    6. Local Authorities (Expenditure) 1,101 words
    7. Rate Support Grant Report 56 words
  12. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. NHS (Drugs) 114 words
    2. Supplementary Benefit 118 words
    3. Bircham Newton Training College 84 words
    4. North-West Thames Regional Health Authority 48 words
    5. NHS (Isle of Man and Channel Islands Residents) 71 words
    6. Cancer (Treatment) 96 words
    7. Hospital Beds 89 words
    8. Health Care (Expenditure) 161 words
    9. NHS (Bed Occupancy) 247 words
    10. Diabetics (Disposable Syringes) 141 words
    11. Committee on Safety of Medicines 380 words
    12. Drugs (Research Projects) 117 words
    13. Opren 422 words
    14. Housing Benefit Scheme 123 words
    15. Childbirth (Electrical Stimulation) 66 words
    16. Spectacles 59 words
    17. Medical Staff (Hours) 80 words
    18. Nursing Staff (Salaries) 93 words
    19. Greenfield Report 53 words
    20. Special Hospitals (Patients) 77 words
    21. Mrs. Badshe Begum 149 words
    22. Youth Treatment Centres 27 words
    23. St. Helen's Hospital 113 words
    24. Alcoholism 399 words
    25. "The Rising Tide" 148 words
    26. Drinking Water (Lead Content) 63 words
  13. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. North Korea 249 words
    2. Passports 195 words
    3. Gibraltar 98 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Assisted Places Scheme 24 words
    2. Police (Firearms) 649 words
    3. Weather Damage 266 words
    4. Electricity (Disconnections) 76 words
    5. Construction Industry 43 words
    6. Tay Road Bridge 271 words
    7. Strathclyde Police Area 107 words
    8. Companies (Financial Assistance) 451 words
    9. Engineering Industry 152 words
    10. Scottish Special Housing Association 249 words
    11. Scottish Development Agency 74 words
    12. Industrial Development (Review Board) 143 words
    13. Unemployment Statistics 87 words
    14. Fraserburgh 65 words
    15. Peterhead Prison 102 words
    16. Local Government (Expenditure) 99 words
    17. Fishing Industry (Financial Assistance) 110 words
    18. Maud Hospital 49 words
  15. TRANSPORT
    1. M62-M1 (Link) 41 words
    2. Cars (Tests) 128 words
    3. Cycle Lamps 96 words
    4. Serpell Report 564 words
    5. Railways Act 1974 (Grants) 899 words
    6. Nuclear Waste 157 words
    7. Tyre (Tread Depths) 196 words
    8. British Railways Board (Budget) 68 words
  16. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Falkland Islands (Prefabricated Houses) 136 words
    2. Zimbabwe 68 words
    3. Gibraltar 358 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Poultry Imports 64 words
    2. Forest Land (Statistics) 149 words
    3. Green Pound 68 words
    4. Common Fisheries Policy 137 words
    5. Monetary Compensatory Amounts 59 words
    6. Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce (Expenditure) 96 words
    7. Sheepmeat Production 37 words
    8. Marginal Land Areas 196 words
    9. Agricultural Guarantees (Negotiations) 125 words
    10. Financial Aid 108 words
    11. Pig Industry (Profitability) 64 words
    12. Common Agricultural Policy 186 words
    13. Christmas Butter Subsidy Scheme 46 words
    14. Land Settlement Association Scheme 90 words
    15. Barley Crop 85 words
    16. Unauthorised Fishing 61 words
    17. Fishing Industry 89 words
    18. Fishing Fleet (Hull) 103 words
    19. Hill Cows 48 words
    20. Food Dumping 160 words
    21. Marginal Hill Land (Wales) 135 words
    22. Farmland (Coal Mining Subsidence) 35 words
    23. Abattoirs 69 words
    24. Cereals (Exports) 129 words

Lords Sitting of 20 January 1983

  1. Preamble 29 words
  2. Airline Tariffs: IATA Request 1,003 words
  3. Further Education: Proposed Statement 961 words
  4. Oil Exploration: UK Continental Shelf 1,059 words
  5. Middle East Talks: PLO Representation 1,594 words
  6. Business of the House 187 words
  7. Mental Health Bill [H.L.] 55 words
  8. National Heritage Bill [H.L.] 100 words
  9. Data Protection Bill [H.L.] 4,632 words
  10. The Serpell Report 4,675 words
  11. Data Protection Bill [H.L.] 19,937 words
  12. Merchant Shipping Bill [H.L.] 1,771 words
  13. Energy Costs to Industry 11,508 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 20 January 1983

  1. HEALTH ADVISORY SERVICE REPORT, "THERISING TIDE" 140 words