Commons Sitting of 25 January 1983

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      1. School Curricula 437 words
      2. Technical and Vocational Education 297 words
      3. Ethnic Minorities 532 words
      4. School Closures 333 words
      5. School Curricula 609 words
      6. Free Milk 189 words
      7. Kilburn Polytechnic 461 words
      8. Youth Service (Thompson Report) 766 words
      9. Nursery Education 703 words
      10. Higher Education (Parental Contributions) 425 words
      11. Overseas Students 590 words
      12. School Books 479 words
      13. Initial Teacher Training (Manchester) 234 words
      14. Head Teachers and Senior Staff 139 words
      15. Computers 117 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,485 words
      2. Job Creation 586 words
      3. United Empire Loyalists (Bicentenary) 198 words
  4. Wages Councils Act 1979 (Amendment) 593 words
    1. WAGES COUNCILS ACT 1979 (AMENDMENT) 44 words
  5. Falkland Islands (Franks Report) 47,785 words
  6. Nuclear Bases 4,443 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 25 January 1983

  1. TRADE
    1. Imports (Trade Agreements) 146 words
    2. Weapons (Export Licences) 77 words
    3. Hong Kong 37 words
    4. Departmental Grants 48 words
    5. Namibia 120 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Falkland Islands (Visit) 137 words
    2. Engagements 491 words
    3. General Belgrano 47 words
    4. Public Expenditure 113 words
    5. "Buy British" 98 words
    6. Committees of Inquiry 164 words
    7. Franks Report 125 words
    8. Civil Servants (Public Statements) 92 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Mr. Mohammed Jahangir 147 words
    2. Licensing Hours 63 words
    3. Jersey and Guernsey (Immigration Controls) 160 words
    4. Death Sentences 309 words
    5. Television (Channel 4) 173 words
    6. Vietnamese Refugees 219 words
    7. Voluntary Services Unit (Grants) 405 words
    8. Mr. David Martin 64 words
    9. Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Wales 85 words
    10. Sunday Trading 3,936 words
  4. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Student Unions (Payments) 115 words
  5. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Unemployment Costs 113 words
    2. Work Skills Courses 45 words
    3. Employment Act 1980 (Picketing) 68 words
    4. Stockport 157 words
    5. Doctors and Surgeons 70 words
    6. Worksop 156 words
    7. Bootle 159 words
    8. Lambeth 171 words
    9. Departmental Grants 103 words
    10. Community Programme 49 words
    11. Ethnic Monitoring (Code) 61 words
    12. Soda Ash 59 words
    13. Glass Industries 60 words
    14. Industrial Noise 99 words
    15. Equal Pay Act 1970 60 words
  6. INDUSTRY
    1. Steel Industry 96 words
    2. Small Engineering Firms Investment Scheme 84 words
    3. Timex 96 words
    4. World Communications Year 131 words
    5. China (Visit) 29 words
    6. European Community (Manufacturing Industry) 74 words
    7. Departmental Grants 103 words
    8. Synthetic Fibres (Agreement) 102 words
    9. Grampian Region 64 words
  7. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Management and Personnel Office (Grants) 59 words
    2. Government Departments (Workplace Nurseries) 145 words
  8. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Probationary Teachers 64 words
    2. Local Education Authorities (Grants) 51 words
    3. Teachers (Secondary Schools) 93 words
    4. Teachers (In-service Training) 118 words
    5. Computers 40 words
    6. Academic Staff (Redundancy Payments) 77 words
    7. Printing Courses 30 words
    8. Pupil Numbers 70 words
    9. Nursery Education 39 words
    10. School Meals 205 words
    11. Teacher Training Institutions 60 words
    12. Education Expenditure 120 words
    13. Text Books 54 words
    14. Secondary Schools (Shire Counties) 63 words
    15. University Students (Grants) 93 words
    16. Technical Training (Young Persons) 66 words
    17. Institute of Hearing Research 71 words
    18. Teachers (Morale) 139 words
    19. Schools (Sex Differences) 78 words
    20. Denominational Schools 82 words
    21. Overseas Students (Fees) 49 words
    22. Student Unions (Payments) 85 words
    23. Manpower Services Commission (Consultative Machinery) 289 words
  9. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
    1. Nicaragua 135 words
    2. Political Parties (Expenditure) 76 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Sinn Fein 37 words
    2. Portugal and Algarve (Holiday Fatalities) 113 words
    3. Government Communications Headquarters 80 words
    4. New Territories 89 words
    5. South Africa (Death Sentences) 128 words
  11. WALES
    1. School Meals 138 words
    2. Railways 76 words
    3. Departmental Grants 68 words
  12. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Glasgow Stamp Office 106 words
    2. Business Insolvencies 198 words
    3. Barristers (Income Tax Assessments) 66 words
    4. Mortgage Interest (Tax Relief) 79 words
    5. Employee Share Ownership 64 words
    6. Construction Work (Capital Expenditure) 106 words
    7. European Community (Budget) 229 words
    8. Stamp Duty 29 words
    9. Personal Incomes 446 words
    10. Married Woman's Allowance 179 words
    11. Personal Taxation 112 words
    12. Departmental Grants 104 words
    13. Civil List 202 words
    14. Business Start-up and Loan Guarantee Schemes 67 words
  13. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Prescription Charges 154 words
    2. Retirement Pensions 196 words
    3. Sickness Claims 136 words
    4. Health Education Council 51 words
    5. Child Benefit 40 words
    6. Opren 553 words
    7. Arthritis 184 words
    8. National Health Service (Drugs) 106 words
    9. Drugs (Marketing) 200 words
    10. Greenwich and Bexley Area Health Authority 220 words
    11. Greenwich Health District 177 words
    12. Supplementary Benefit 303 words
    13. Maternity Grant 194 words
    14. Departmental Grants 97 words
    15. National Insurance Contributions 103 words
    16. Hypothermia 206 words
    17. Heating Addition 128 words
    18. Retirement Age (Report) 299 words
    19. Invacars 185 words
    20. Residential Homes 165 words
    21. National Health Service (Land) 301 words
  14. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Rent Arrears 102 words
    2. Housing Executive (House Sales) 88 words
    3. Departmental Grants 68 words
  15. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Crown Agents 94 words
    2. Falkland Islands (Rehabilitation) 68 words
    3. "British Aid in Action" 89 words
    4. Falkland Islands (Seed Potatoes) 76 words
    5. E1 Salvador (Refugee Relief) 73 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. White Fish 153 words
    2. Common Fisheries Policy 80 words
    3. Departmental Grants 56 words
    4. Council of Agriculture Ministers (Statement) 145 words
  17. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Local Government Expenditure 198 words
    2. Rates 106 words
    3. Rent Arrears 78 words
    4. Manchester City Council (Partnership Agreement) 48 words
    5. Housing Investment Programme Allocations 53 words
    6. Rating Reform 54 words
    7. Ordnance Survey 350 words
    8. Emergency Seashore Rescue Equipment 195 words
    9. Departmental Grants 77 words
    10. Local Government Audit Commission 403 words
    11. Council House Sales 87 words
    12. Housing Investment Programme Allocations 2,529 words
    13. Local Authorities (Expenditure) 126 words
  18. TRANSPORT
    1. Trunk Roads (Fencing) 43 words
    2. M54 (Wellington Bypass) 81 words
    3. Street Lighting 135 words
    4. Cycle Paths 57 words
    5. Cyclists 65 words
    6. Transport Supplementary Grant 900 words
    7. A1 46 words
    8. Liquid Petroleum Gas 36 words
    9. Departmenal Grants 304 words
    10. M1 79 words
  19. DEFENCE
    1. Television Debate (British Defence Campaign) 30 words
    2. Departmental Deputy Secretaries 2,762 words
    3. Departmental Grants 58 words
    4. Hong Kong 64 words
    5. Falklands Campaign (Naval Control Systems) 72 words
  20. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Select Committees (Reports) 57 words
  21. SCOTLAND
    1. Good Neighbour Scheme 134 words
    2. Prisoners (Statistics) 190 words
    3. Community Service and Compensation Orders 591 words
    4. Alcoholism 250 words
    5. Glasgow (Housing Stock) 146 words
    6. Unemployment (Research) 58 words
    7. Crime Statistics 157 words
    8. Tayside (Hospital Admissions) 147 words
    9. Departmental Grants 41 words
    10. Johnstonebridge (Fence) 50 words
    11. Building in the Countryside 67 words
    12. Free Milk 84 words
    13. Regional Selective Assistance (Project Monitoring) 223 words
    14. Industry Act 1972 (Assistance) 125 words

Lords Sitting of 25 January 1983

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Telemessage Service 749 words
  3. Energy Tariffs: Relief to Industry 791 words
  4. International Development Association: UK Contributions 887 words
  5. Voluntary Service: Encouragement in Schools 1,544 words
  6. Business 72 words
  7. Plant Varieties Bill [H.L.] 15 words
  8. Statutory Sick Pay Up-rating Order 1982 2,527 words
  9. "Falkland Islands Review" (Cmnd. 8787.) 61,733 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 25 January 1983

  1. STAMP DUTY 195 words
  2. PIGS AND AUJESZKY'S DISEASE 105 words
  3. FOREIGN OFFICE NOTES 156 words