Commons Sitting of 15 November 1983

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. SEVERN-TRENT WATER AUTHORITY BILL 4 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SOCIAL SERVICES
      1. Poverty (Statistics) 756 words
      2. National Health Service (Staff) 712 words
      3. One-parent Benefit 205 words
      4. Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel 384 words
      5. Pension Schemes (Equity Benefits) 455 words
      6. Hospital Closures (London) 740 words
      7. North-East Thames Regional Health Authority 270 words
      8. Seasonal Workers (Benefit) 299 words
      9. Griffiths Report 812 words
      10. Private Hospital Beds 478 words
      11. New Hospital Beds 602 words
      12. London Health Authorities (Manpower Cuts) 286 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,927 words
  4. Cyprus (Turkish Community) 2,765 words
  5. House of Commons Stationery (Members' Use) 682 words
    1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 87 words
  6. Working Conditions of Government Trainees 1,562 words
    1. WORKING CONDITIONS OF GOVERNMENT TRAINEES 55 words
  7. Orders of the Day
    1. Coal Industry Bill 43,709 words
    2. COAL INDUSTRY BILL [MONEY] 1,059 words
    3. Education (Fees and Awards) (Scotland) 6,910 words, 1 division
    4. PETITION
      1. Contraception (Under-age Girls) 74 words
    5. Margaret Livesey 3,473 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 15 November 1983

  1. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Engagements 764 words
    2. Minister for Fisheries 39 words
    3. Hong Kong 119 words
    4. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Ethnic Minority Staff) 82 words
    5. Darlington 25 words
    6. NHS Hospitals 49 words
    7. Supplementary Benefit 54 words
    8. Heroin 264 words
    9. Health Expenditure 72 words
    10. World Population 59 words
  2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Village Hall, Stanton 628 words
    2. Road Injuries (Compensation) 63 words
    3. Advisory Committees 49 words
    4. Custodial Remand 70 words
  3. TRANSPORT
    1. British Rail 109 words
    2. Goole and Gilderdyke Bridge 149 words
    3. East London River Crossing 187 words
    4. Civil Servants (Travel Costs) 46 words
    5. Advisory Committees 555 words
    6. Vehicle Excise Duty 175 words
    7. Coaches (Motorways) 165 words
    8. Serpell Report 420 words
  4. ENERGY
    1. Isles of Scilly 113 words
    2. Advisory Committees 201 words
  5. THE ARTS
    1. Advisory Committees 232 words
    2. Office of Arts and Libraries (Annual Report) 140 words
    3. Greater London Council 262 words
  6. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Advisory Committees 173 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Overseas Travel 123 words
    2. Embassies, High Commissions and Consulates 1,728 words
    3. Overseas Personnel 168 words
    4. Grenada 74 words
  8. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Community Service Orders 37 words
    2. Supervision Orders 113 words
    3. Advisory Committees 112 words
    4. Firearms 53 words
    5. Slough (Public Disorder) 114 words
    6. Overseas Personnel 391 words
    7. Remembrance Day 91 words
    8. Cable Services 24 words
    9. Metropolitan Police 78 words
    10. Advisory Committees 137 words
    11. Prison Population 147 words
    12. Neighbourhood Watch 61 words
  9. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. "A Plan for Action" 76 words
    2. Electrical Equipment 302 words
    3. Civil Servants (Travel Costs) 65 words
    4. Overseas Personnel 71 words
    5. Duty-free Imports 59 words
    6. Advisory Committees 621 words
    7. Steel Industry 57 words
    8. British Telecom (Equipment Approvals) 184 words
    9. Monopolies and Mergers 62 words
    10. 2,4,5-T (Imports) 73 words
  10. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
    1. Advisory Committees 418 words
  11. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Local Government (Redundancies) 92 words
    2. Homeless Persons 297 words
    3. Housing Investment 133 words
    4. Council House Sales 1,801 words
    5. Housing Stock (London Boroughs) 208 words
    6. Underwater Heritage 88 words
    7. Rate Support Grant (Newham) 248 words
    8. Housing (Leicester) 148 words
    9. Captive Balloon Advertising 94 words
    10. Advisory Committees 412 words
    11. Nuclear Waste 79 words
    12. Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee 217 words
    13. Office Development 82 words
    14. Green Belt 118 words
    15. Paint (Lead Levels) 91 words
  12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Milk 143 words
    2. Cornwall (European Community Support) 59 words
    3. Pesticides 475 words
    4. European Community (Intervention Costs) 48 words
    5. Advisory Committees 548 words
    6. Herring Fishery 253 words
  13. WALES
    1. Council House Sales 110 words
    2. Jobcentres 110 words
    3. Gipsies 172 words
    4. Patients (Referrals) 92 words
    5. Waste Disposal 186 words
    6. Health Authorities (Manpower) 90 words
    7. Cardiothoracic Services 85 words
    8. Advisory Committees 347 words
    9. Welsh Water Authority 314 words
    10. School Leavers 38 words
  14. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Advisory Committees 379 words
    2. Crown Agents 187 words
  15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Dyslexic Children 81 words
  16. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Prefabricated Steel Bridges 243 words
    2. Civil Servants (Travel Costs) 57 words
    3. Open Enrolment 73 words
    4. Hereford and Worcester 321 words
    5. School Curriculum Development Committee 196 words
    6. Advisory Committees 177 words
  17. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Exchange Rates 191 words
    2. Double Taxation Convention 108 words
    3. Value Added Tax 139 words
    4. Advisory Committees 219 words
    5. Gibraltar (Double Taxation Relief) 77 words
    6. Cuba (Agreement) 69 words
    7. Unitary Tax 88 words
    8. Greenham Common Air Base 110 words
  18. DEFENCE
    1. Advisory Committees 309 words
    2. Greenham Common 278 words
    3. United States Air Forces Bases 136 words
    4. Visiting Forces Act 1952 324 words
  19. SCOTLAND
    1. Wild Birds (Control) 603 words
    2. Advisory Committees 449 words
    3. Blackburn-Orlit Houses 150 words
    4. Rate Support Grant (Dundee) 140 words
    5. Teachers (Tayside) 479 words
    6. NHS (Expenditure) 314 words
    7. NHS (Vacancies) 128 words
    8. Nurses (Hours) 97 words
    9. Hospital Waiting Lists (Dundee) 83 words
    10. Education Expenditure 283 words
    11. Labour Statistics 303 words
    12. Health Boards (Bad Debts) 44 words
    13. Travelling People 835 words
    14. Generating Capacity 107 words
    15. Scottish Development Agency 70 words
    16. Highlands and Islands Development Board 72 words
    17. Electricity 335 words
    18. NHS (Griffiths Report) 103 words
    19. Parents' Charter 110 words
    20. Education (Staff Statistics) 45 words
    21. NHS (Efficiency) 74 words
    22. Closures (Consultation) 122 words
  20. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Fair Wages 655 words
    2. Advisory Committees 817 words
    3. Parades 211 words
    4. Annual Report (Departmental Work) 42 words
  21. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Drugs Bill 160 words
    2. Inner Cities (Primary Care) 108 words
    3. Pacemakers 62 words
    4. National Association for Limbless Disabled 50 words
    5. Death Grant 139 words
    6. Occupational Pensions 148 words
    7. RAWP Formula 74 words
    8. Family Doctors (Inner Cities) 246 words
    9. Disabled Persons (Chair Lifts) 56 words
    10. Health Districts (Resources) 81 words
    11. Benefit Claims 169 words
    12. Tinnitus 48 words
    13. Mid-Sussex (District General Hospital) 159 words
    14. National Health Service (Waiting Lists) 149 words
    15. Ex-patients (Accommodation) 109 words
    16. Community First Aid Posts (Emergencies) 105 words
    17. Leicestershire Health Authority 48 words
    18. Families (Young Children) 81 words
    19. Family Support 219 words
    20. Pay Beds 31 words
    21. Generic Prescribing 58 words
    22. Christmas Bonus 36 words
    23. National Health Service (Privatisation) 107 words
    24. Private Hospitals (Inspection) 49 words
    25. Chemotherapy (Cancer Treatment) 193 words
    26. South London Hospital for Women 506 words
    27. Peterlee Community Hospital 68 words
    28. Regional Health Authorities (Capital Expenditure) 50 words
    29. Family Income 123 words
    30. Alternative Medicines 21 words
    31. Association of Directors of Social Services 66 words
    32. Drugs Prescribing 94 words
    33. National Health Service (Beds) 48 words
    34. Northumberland and Newcastle Health Authorities 138 words
    35. National Health Service (Consultants) 88 words
    36. Health Service Resources 90 words
    37. Family Practitioner Services (Expenditure Report) 42 words
    38. Disabled People 36 words
    39. Benefits (Increases) 34 words
    40. Tobacco Products (Advertising) 49 words
    41. Patient Treatment 121 words
    42. State Pension 105 words
    43. Supplementary Benefit (Pensioners) 57 words
    44. Poor Persons 108 words
    45. Benefits (Office Mergers) 63 words
    46. Single-handed Fishermen (National Insurance Contributions) 61 words
    47. Kidney Patients 1,122 words
    48. Southend Health Authority 99 words
    49. Social Workers (Misconduct) 171 words
    50. Specialist Claims Control Units 53 words
    51. Advisory Committees 856 words
    52. District Nurses 93 words
    53. Invalidity Pension 232 words
    54. Health Authorities (Manpower) 1,246 words
    55. Osmosin 308 words
    56. Benefits 70 words
    57. Social Security Advisory Committee 231 words
    58. Elderly Mentally Ill Persons 517 words

Lords Sitting of 15 November 1983

  1. Preamble 23 words
  2. Lord Wilson of Rievaulx 41 words
  3. Lord Bruce-Gardyne 37 words
  4. NHS: Staff Consultations 883 words
  5. The Falkland Islands: Immigration 519 words
  6. GLC Spending: Comparisons 1,539 words
  7. East Timor: Military Operations 840 words
  8. Cyprus: Turkish Declaration of Independence 104 words
  9. Business of the House 80 words
  10. Greater London Council (Moneys) Bill 6 words
  11. Crimes of Violence 7,116 words
  12. Cyprus: Turkish Declaration of Independence 1,362 words
  13. Crimes of Violence 46,921 words
  14. Cruise Missiles 12,795 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 15 November 1983

  1. DETENTION CENTRE SENTENCES 118 words
  2. YOUTH CUSTODY SENTENCES 292 words
  3. PRISONERS' APPEALS: INFORMATION LEAFLET 109 words
  4. EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK: REBATE 63 words
  5. HOOKE PARK FOREST: TRAINING CENTRE 156 words
  6. APPEALS TO THE COURT OF SESSION 219 words