Commons Sitting of 16 November 1983

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      1. Agricultural Machinery 515 words
      2. Girobank 369 words
      3. Regional Policy 1,258 words
      4. Manufactured Goods 286 words
      5. Manufacturing Industry (Output) 712 words
      6. Iraq 198 words
      7. Balance of Trade 773 words
      8. Oriental Countries (Trading Malpractices) 774 words
      9. Regional Development Grants 993 words
      10. Colombia and Venezuela 526 words
      11. Electric Traction Units (Exports) 406 words
      12. Film Industry 367 words
      13. Public Companies (Political Donations) 917 words
      14. Tourist Boards 383 words
      15. Monopolies and Mergers 157 words
  4. Redundancies (Trafford Park) 429 words
  5. Prevention of Delays of Trials 739 words
  6. PREVENTION OF DELAYS OF TRIALS 47 words
  7. Opposition Day 5 words
  8. Improvement Grants (Cuts) 25,946 words, 1 division
  9. Milk 33,332 words, 1 division
  10. MILK (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2,137 words, 1 division
  11. Pharmacists (Discount Arrangements) 4,210 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 16 November 1983

  1. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Water Authorities 51 words
    2. Overseas Travel 80 words
    3. Overseas Personnel 150 words
    4. Control of Pollution Act 1974 85 words
    5. Private and Public Buildings (Timber) 133 words
    6. Collier's Tip, Rixton 244 words
    7. Water Charges 136 words
    8. Greater London Council 29 words
    9. Council Houses (Exchanges) 138 words
    10. Home Loan Scheme 335 words
    11. House Purchase 111 words
  2. TRANSPORT
    1. Pilotage Commission 226 words
  3. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Civil Servants (Travel Costs) 74 words
    2. Value Added Tax 110 words
    3. Overseas Personnel 64 words
    4. Heroin 83 words
    5. Banking (Scotland) Act 1845 (Amendment) 105 words
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Civil Servants (Travel Costs) 95 words
    2. Overseas Personnel 56 words
  5. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
    1. Civil Servants (Travel Costs) 68 words
    2. Overseas Personnel 25 words
  6. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Rape Trials 205 words
    2. Northern Ireland (Informers) 236 words
  7. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Mathematics Teaching 691 words
    2. Overseas Personnel 78 words
    3. Dyslexic Children 136 words
    4. Institute of Hearing Research 77 words
  8. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Health Expenditure 139 words
    2. European Community (Expenditure) 80 words
    3. Sir Nicholas Henderson 74 words
    4. Classified Documents (Unauthorised Circulation) 120 words
    5. Crown Lands (Planning Permission) 84 words
  9. ENERGY
    1. Coal Mining Industry 359 words
    2. Derv (Price) 53 words
    3. Atomic Energy Authority 91 words
    4. Conservation 217 words
    5. Travel Costs 66 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. NATO (United Kingdom Delegation) 143 words
    2. Annual Report (Departmental Work) 100 words
    3. Zimbabwe (Detained British Citizens) 254 words
    4. Irish Foreign Minister (Discussions) 154 words
    5. Amnesty International 74 words
    6. Passport Fees 269 words
    7. Gibraltar 46 words
  11. SCOTLAND
    1. Children Act 1975 89 words
    2. Dental Treatment 57 words
    3. Support Financing Scheme 302 words
    4. Detained Persons 115 words
    5. Alternatives to Prosecution 139 words
    6. New Towns 331 words
  12. WALES
    1. Chiropody 167 words
    2. Hospital Beds 73 words
    3. National Health Service (Ancillary Workers) 182 words
    4. Nurses 653 words
  13. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. New Scotland Yard (Command and Control System) 122 words
    2. Health Authorities (Consultants) 128 words
    3. Police (Computers) 489 words
    4. Police Officers (Discipline Charges) 270 words
  14. DEFENCE
    1. Civil Defence 123 words
  15. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Services (Trade Liberalisation) 84 words
    2. Leicester 98 words
    3. European Community (Trade Barriers) 315 words
    4. Limited Liability 117 words
    5. Microprocessors and Semi-conductors 88 words
    6. Industrial Production 50 words
    7. Research Projects (Small Firms Division) 43 words
    8. Regional Policy 192 words
    9. Motor Vehicle Pricing 98 words
    10. Special Steel Imports 75 words
    11. J. Bibby Edible Oils Ltd. (Takeover) 87 words
    12. Container Manufacture 91 words
    13. Italian Footwear Imports 65 words
    14. Small Firms Division (Manpower) 49 words
    15. International Small Business Congress, Singapore 167 words
    16. Nissan Car Plant 59 words
    17. Trade Barriers (Removal) 69 words
    18. Small Firms 134 words
    19. Loan Guarantee Scheme 51 words
    20. British Aerospace (Borrowing) 39 words
    21. Business Expansion Scheme 372 words
    22. Enterprise Agencies 768 words
    23. Shipbuilding Industry 160 words
    24. Frontier Formalities 294 words
    25. Service Industries (Regional Aid) 89 words
    26. Small Engineering Firms Investment Scheme (West Midlands) 69 words
    27. Silicon Chips 68 words
    28. Engineering Companies (West Midlands) 126 words
    29. Design Funded Consultancy Scheme 133 words
    30. Micros in Schools 54 words
    31. British Telecom 36 words
    32. Design for Profit Campaign 165 words
    33. Small Businesses (Loan Scheme) 118 words
    34. Regional Development Grants 149 words
    35. Pirate Radio Stations 154 words
    36. Manufacturing Surpluses 58 words
    37. European Civil Aircraft 106 words
  16. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Fair Wages Resolution 185 words
  17. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Wages Council Employees 121 words
    2. Arthur Young McClelland Moore 96 words
    3. Youth Training Scheme 130 words
    4. Overseas Personnel 58 words
    5. Elderly Persons (Assistance) 86 words
    6. Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention 1983 75 words
    7. Workington 71 words
    8. Community Programme 364 words
    9. Disabled Persons 152 words
  18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Pesticides 104 words
    2. Council of Agriculture Ministers 320 words
    3. Radioactive Waste 174 words
  19. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Alcohol Misuse 496 words
    2. Dr. Hamilton (Prosecution) 90 words
    3. Liverpool Women's Hospital 100 words
    4. NHS (Financing) 80 words
    5. Family Incomes 963 words
    6. Form SB20 (Claims) 104 words
    7. Contraceptives 61 words
    8. NHS (Private Contractors) 257 words
    9. NHS Facilities (Private Use) 231 words
    10. NHS Treatment (Statistics) 172 words
    11. NHS (Charges) 200 words
    12. Leukaemia Patients, Hull 66 words
    13. Health Authorities (Audits) 121 words
    14. Medical Resources (Cost Effectiveness) 161 words
    15. Blood Donors 126 words
    16. Service Men (Pensions) 205 words
    17. Child Benefit 151 words
    18. NHS (Refrigerators) 134 words
    19. Aspartame 91 words
    20. Family Doctors 145 words
    21. Overseas Doctors 154 words
    22. Ophthalmic Surgery 440 words
    23. Civil Servants (Travel Costs) 77 words
    24. Health Authorities (Rates) 254 words
    25. Cervical Smear Tests 153 words
    26. Drug Abuse 272 words
    27. Tinnitus 83 words
    28. Unemployment Benefit 79 words
    29. Artificial Limb Service 316 words
    30. Housing Benefit 78 words
    31. Residential Care 102 words
    32. NHS (Consultants) 196 words
    33. Inpatients (Waiting List) 93 words
    34. Blood (Handling Charge) 136 words
    35. NHS (Acute Beds) 172 words
    36. NHS (Building Projects) 221 words
    37. NHS (Capital Expenditure) 94 words
    38. Hospital Closures 129 words
    39. Overseas Visitors (Health Charges) 1,814 words
    40. NHS Hospitals (Inpatients) 462 words
    41. Population Conference, Mexico City 147 words

Lords Sitting of 16 November 1983

  1. Preamble 24 words
  2. Lord Grimond 31 words
  3. Lord Eden of Winton 62 words
  4. Public Assets: Investment of Sale Proceeds 1,256 words
  5. Scottish Farm Tenants: Land Purchase 702 words
  6. British Nationality Act and Travel Restrictions 890 words
  7. Starred Questions 1,302 words
  8. Business 152 words
  9. Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Bill 13 words
  10. Cyprus 15,731 words
  11. Employment Measures and Inflation 17,843 words
  12. Contemporary Art and Tax Legislation 10,532 words
  13. Severn-Trent Water Authority Bill 17 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 16 November 1983

  1. THE HOLLIES CHILDREN'S HOME 128 words
  2. PARKHURST PRISON: USE OF SPECIAL CELLS 50 words
  3. EMPLOYEES AND JOB APPLICANTS: ETHNIC RECORDS 161 words
  4. INDUSTRIAL NOISE 167 words
  5. ELECTRIC LIFTS: EC DIRECTIVE 152 words
  6. ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: SELECT COMMITTEE SECOND REPORT 84 words