Commons Sitting of 29 March 1983

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. BRITISH RAILWAYS (LIVERPOOL STREET STATION) BILL 4 words
    2. TORBAY HARBOUR (TORQUAY MARINA &c.) BILL
    3. COMMONS REGISTRATION (GLAMORGAN) BILL 6 words
    4. CONTINGENCIES FUND 1981–82 58 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. DEFENCE
      1. Nuclear Weapons 1,707 words
      2. Type 23 Frigate 395 words
      3. Zimbabwe 510 words
      4. Hovercraft 164 words
      5. Nimrod Aircraft 369 words
      6. Sea King Helicopter 390 words
      7. Arms Sales 601 words
      8. NATO (Maritime Contribution) 410 words
      9. Frigates 445 words
      10. Non-proliferation Treaty 413 words
      11. Cruise Missiles 675 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,261 words
  5. NEW MEMBER 13 words
  6. Standing Orders (Select Committee Report) 813 words
  7. Marital Rape 1,211 words
    1. MARITAL RAPE 49 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Telecommunications Bill
      1. 2ND ALLOTTED DAY 8 words
        1. Clause 2
          1. ABOLITION OF BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXCLUSIVE PRIVILEGE ETC. 13,891 words, 1 division
        2. Clause 3
          1. GUIDELINES FOR SECRETARY OF STATE AND DIRECTOR 15 words
        3. Clause 4
          1. MEANING OF "TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM" AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS 365 words
        4. Clause 7
          1. POWER TO LICENSE SYSTEMS 1,505 words
        5. Clause 8
          1. CONDITIONS OF LICENCES 37 words
        6. Clause 9
          1. THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CODE 413 words
        7. Clause 10
          1. MODIFICATION OF LICENCE CONDITIONS BY AGREEMENT 535 words
        8. Clause 11
          1. LICENCE MODIFICATION REFERENCES TO COMMISSION 64 words
        9. Clause 12
          1. REPORTS ON LICENCE MODIFICATION REFERENCES 223 words
        10. Clause 14
          1. REGISTER OF LICENCES 20 words
        11. Clause 15
          1. SECURING COMPLIANCE WITH LICENCE CONDITIONS 387 words
        12. Clause 17
          1. APPROVAL OF CONTRACTORS 971 words
        13. Clause 19
          1. APPROVAL ETC. OF APPARATUS 243 words
        14. Clause 20
          1. DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONS UNDER SECTION 19 14 words
        15. Clause 27
          1. RATING IN NORTHERN IRELAND 259 words
        16. Clause 39
          1. INTERRUPTION OR INTERFERENCE WITH PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM 7,021 words, 1 division
        17. Clause 44
          1. INTERPRETATION OF PART II 15 words
        18. Clause 45
          1. GENERAL FUNCTIONS 14 words
        19. Clause 46
          1. PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION AND ADVICE 20 words
        20. Clause 47
          1. INVESTIGATION OF COMPLAINTS 174 words
        21. Clause 48
          1. POWER TO ESTABLISH ADVISORY BODIES, ETC. 66 words
        22. Clause 51
          1. POWERS TO REQUIRE INFORMATION ETC. 24 words
        23. Clause 52
          1. ANNUAL AND OTHER REPORTS 45 words
        24. Clause 56
          1. CONVERSION OF CERTAIN LOANS TRANSFERRED TO THE SUCCESSOR COMPANY 152 words
        25. Clause 60
          1. FINANCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE SUCCESSOR COMPANY 62 words
        26. Clause 63
          1. DISSOLUTION OF BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS. 106 words
        27. Clause 65
          1. TAX PROVISIONS 73 words
        28. Clause 66
          1. POWERS OF MANAGERS OF CERTAIN WELFARE FUNDS TO 18 words
        29. Schedule 2
          1. THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CODE 495 words
        30. Schedule 4
          1. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS 170 words
        31. Schedule 5
          1. GENERAL TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS 1,716 words
        32. Schedule 7
          1. REPEALS 82 words
  9. Telecommunications Bill 23,047 words, 1 division
  10. Housing Benefits 11,724 words, 1 division
  11. Upholstered Furniture (Safety) 8,003 words
  12. Smith Houses 3,511 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 29 March 1983

  1. SCOTLAND
    1. Air Traffic Control Services 175 words
    2. Schoolchildren (Suspension Notices) 32 words
    3. Police 331 words
    4. National Mobility Scheme 279 words
    5. Employment Statistics 346 words
    6. Housing Stock 197 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. VHF Band II Planning Conference 250 words
    2. Solicitors Act 1974 86 words
    3. Drug Toxicity 45 words
    4. Police 428 words
    5. Civil Defence 122 words
    6. Community Radio 196 words
  3. ENERGY
    1. Energy Prices 95 words
    2. Research and Development 131 words
    3. North Sea (Foreign Nationals) 51 words
    4. North Sea Oil 93 words
    5. Windscale (Radioactive Contamination) 275 words
  4. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Commons Commissioners 80 words
    2. Housing Expenditure 159 words
    3. Local Authority Expenditure 49 words
    4. Local Authority Lending 42 words
    5. Local Authority Finance 104 words
    6. Rate Rebates 99 words
    7. Local Government Act 1972 117 words
    8. London Labour Leaders 54 words
    9. Boundary Commission for England 59 words
    10. Welwyn and Hatfield Council (Manpower) 78 words
    11. House Building (Timber Frames) 86 words
    12. Jewel Tower, Westminster 75 words
    13. Councillors (Allowances) 365 words
    14. Waste Disposal 270 words
    15. Radioactivity (Monitoring) 57 words
    16. Pentachlorophenol 141 words
    17. Local Authority (Expenditure Powers) Bill 91 words
  5. TRANSPORT
    1. Hoverspeed 336 words
    2. Capital Investment Projects 145 words
    3. Bus Services 195 words
    4. Deaf Drivers 139 words
    5. Rail Services (Cumbria) 69 words
    6. Motor Cyclists (Tests) 145 words
    7. Heavy Goods Vehicles (Sideguards) 68 words
    8. London Transport (Pensioners Concessions) 96 words
    9. Rail Services (Grants) 88 words
    10. Land Compensation (Birmingham) 133 words
    11. Pelican Crossings (Accidents) 115 words
  6. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Welsh Language Forms 64 words
    2. Welsh School of Medicine 98 words
    3. Liverpool (Ministerial Visit) 78 words
    4. University Students 137 words
    5. Jerusalem (Ministerial Visit) 325 words
  7. DEFENCE
    1. Submarines 61 words
    2. Jetstream 31 49 words
    3. Port Stanley Airport 46 words
    4. Falkland Islands 162 words
    5. Cruise Missiles 206 words
    6. Polaris Force 111 words
    7. Footwear 63 words
    8. Widow's Pension 43 words
    9. Nuclear Weapons 57 words
    10. Northern Ireland 53 words
    11. Defence Sales 83 words
    12. Serving Officer (Foreign Service) 34 words
    13. Married Quarters 51 words
    14. Glasgow (Defence Jobs) 106 words
  8. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Engagements 688 words
    2. Newbury 25 words
    3. Nationalised Industries 91 words
    4. Crime Reduction 148 words
    5. National Economic Development Council 49 words
    6. Mr. Joshua Nkomo 29 words
    7. Merseyside 108 words
    8. Police and Criminal Evidence Bill 451 words
  9. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Housing (Insulation) 459 words
  10. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Solicitors Act 1974 191 words
    2. Houses (Compulsory Registration) 142 words
    3. Land Registration 50 words
    4. Land Registry 122 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Nicaragua 81 words
    2. Arms Control (Outer Space) 89 words
    3. Hong Kong 142 words
  12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Land Use 156 words
    2. Aujeszky's Disease 83 words
    3. Lamb (Hormone Tests) 55 words
    4. Council of Agriculture Ministers 113 words
    5. Bass 329 words
  13. INDUSTRY
    1. Information Technology 36 words
    2. Departmental Initiatives (Advertising Expenditure) 111 words
    3. London (Post Office Boundaries) 176 words
    4. British Shipbuilders 68 words
    5. British Steel Corporation 100 words
  14. TRADE
    1. L. Landers Ltd. 44 words
    2. Consumer Credit Act 1974 190 words
    3. Aviation Facilities 132 words
    4. Microlight Aircraft 99 words
  15. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Hospital Bed Reductions, Manchester 249 words
    2. Greenfield Report 37 words
    3. Consultant Posts 164 words
    4. NHS Staff (Pay) 277 words
    5. Addenbrooke's Hospital (Private Contractors) 291 words
    6. Disability Organisations (Financial Support) 154 words
    7. Hospital Waiting Lists 242 words
    8. Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital 55 words
    9. Benefit Officers (Birkenhead) 50 words
    10. Elderly Persons (Residential Houses) 134 words
    11. Washwood Heath Local Office 64 words
    12. Generic Drugs (Research and Development) 163 words
    13. Nebulisers 83 words
    14. NHS (Private Contractors) 69 words
    15. Disabled Persons (Access Facilities) 113 words
  16. WALES
    1. Mental Illness 40 words
    2. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Telephones) 52 words
    3. Construction Industry (Unemployment) 290 words
    4. Council House Rents 196 words
    5. Kidney Diseases 96 words
    6. Easter Holiday Projects (Grants) 154 words
  17. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Information Technology 144 words
  18. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Archaeologists 58 words
    2. Long-term Unemployed 108 words
    3. Employment Discrimination 71 words
    4. Employment Statistics 510 words
    5. Disablement Resettlement Officers 103 words
    6. L. Landers Ltd. 178 words
    7. Youth Training Schemes 155 words
    8. Unemployment Statistics (West Midlands) 251 words
  19. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Leedale v. Lewis 580 words
    2. Wife's Earnings Allowance 230 words
    3. Microcomputers 344 words
    4. Value Added Tax 88 words
    5. Exchange Rate 170 words
    6. Educational Courses (VAT) 100 words
    7. Sydenham Airport, Belfast 61 words
    8. Family Income 466 words
    9. Charities Covenants 45 words
    10. Rate Support Grant 168 words
    11. Local Authorities (Borrowings) 72 words
    12. Government Departments and Health Authorities (Private Contracting Work) 96 words

Lords Sitting of 29 March 1983

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Proprietary Drugs and Generic Substitution 999 words
  3. Argentina: Licensed Supplies of Armaments 1,827 words
  4. Broadcasting Complaints Commission 1,027 words
  5. Dinner 31 words
  6. Business of the House 78 words
  7. Civil Aviation (Eurocontrol) Bill 6 words
  8. Public Records (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 280 words
  9. British Shipbuilders Bill 12,022 words, 3 divisions
  10. Supplementary Benefit (Resources) Amendment Regulations 1983 3,469 words
  11. Supplementary Benefit (Housing Benefits) (Requirements and Resources) Consequential Amendment Regulations 1983 27 words
  12. Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1983 1,673 words
  13. Social Security (Contributions) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1983 1,085 words
  14. London Docklands Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Greater London Council and Southwark London Borough Council) Order 1982 5,571 words
  15. Sound Broadcasting: First Report from the Select Committee, "Yesterday in Parliament" 9,188 words
  16. Mr. Stancu Papusoiu: Deportation 14,801 words
  17. Tor Bay Harbour (Torquay Marina &c.) Bill 14 words
  18. British Railways (Liverpool Street Station) Bill 10 words
  19. Staffordshire Bill [H.L.] 26 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 29 March 1983

  1. PRISONERS CONVICTED OF MURDER 66 words
  2. PRISONERS' EXTRA LETTERS TO MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT 121 words
  3. PIT CLOSURES 1950–82 235 words
  4. SSSIs: RENOTIFICATION UNDER THE WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981 73 words
  5. SOUTH GEORGIA: SCRAP METAL REMOVAL CONTRACT 84 words
  6. STATE STUDENTSHIPS 178 words
  7. SOMERSET LEVELS: CONSULTATIONS ON CONSERVATION 177 words
  8. SLAUGHTERHOUSES: FARM ANIMAL WELFARE COUNCIL REPORT 101 words
  9. POULTRY SLAUGHTER: GOVERNMENT ACTION ON REPORT 96 words