Commons Sitting of 21 November 1983

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. STANDARD CHARTERED MERCHANT BANK BILL 4 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES
      1. Council House Sales 459 words
      2. United States Companies 444 words
      3. Rate Support Grant 617 words
      4. European Regional Development Fund 325 words
      5. Advance Factories 605 words
      6. Wyndham Western Colliery 444 words
      7. Regional Aid 539 words
      8. Manpower Services Commission 218 words
      9. Rates 332 words
      10. Tourism 291 words
      11. Secondary Schools (Teaching Standards) 214 words
      12. Road Safety 133 words
      13. Housing Stock 601 words
      14. Bypasses 288 words
      15. Coal Industry 102 words
      16. Building Industry 169 words
      17. School Meals 59 words
      18. Chirk and Ruabon (Bypass) 138 words
    2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. Catering Staff 358 words
      2. Trade Unions 286 words
    3. THE ARTS
      1. Arts Funding 541 words
      2. Elgin Marbles 878 words
  5. Welsh Question Time 110 words
  6. Nuclear Waste (Sellafield) 1,687 words
  7. County Armagh (Church Shootings) 3,108 words
  8. Northern Ireland (Terrorism) 562 words
  9. Scottish Affairs 214 words
  10. Telecommunications Bill (Allocation of time) 20 words
    1. Committee 23 words
    2. Report and Third Reading 202 words
    3. Procedure in Standing Committee 148 words
    4. Conclusion of proceedings in Committee 26 words
    5. Dilatory motions 46 words
    6. Extra time on allotted days 128 words
    7. Private business 102 words
    8. Conclusion of proceedings 426 words
    9. Supplemental orders 149 words
    10. Saving 78 words
    11. Re-committal 76 words
    12. Interpretation 23,967 words, 1 division
    13. Committee 23 words
    14. Report and Third Reading 202 words
    15. (3) Procedure in Standing Committee 148 words
    16. Conclusion of proceedings in Committee 26 words
    17. Dilatory motions 46 words
    18. Extra time on allotted days 131 words
    19. Private business 99 words
    20. Conclusion of proceedings 426 words
    21. Supplemental orders 149 words
    22. Saving 76 words
    23. Re-committal 76 words
    24. Interpretation 106 words
  11. Opposition Day 5 words
    1. Co-operation and Economic Development in the Commonwealth 25,380 words, 1 division
    2. European Community (Steel) 10,037 words
      1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS &c.
        1. HOUSING (SCOTLAND) 51 words
        2. NORTHERN IRELAND 44 words
    3. Nationality Fees (Cost) 3,457 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 November 1983

  1. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
    1. Donald Donner 101 words
  2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Crown Agents 264 words
    2. Loan Projects 95 words
  3. THE ARTS
    1. Elgin Marbles 229 words
    2. London Festival Ballet 106 words
    3. Experimental Art 58 words
    4. Arts Council 52 words
    5. Arts Support 217 words
    6. Arts Expenditure 109 words
    7. Regional Visits 78 words
    8. Library Association 114 words
    9. Regional Arts Associations 112 words
    10. Bodies (Funding) 715 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Police Forces (Liaison) 101 words
    2. London Borough of Newham 134 words
    3. Prisons (Hygiene) 125 words
    4. Detained Persons (Photographing) 415 words
    5. Motoring Offences (Drugs) 138 words
    6. Cable Television 66 words
    7. Private Tenants (Harassment) 122 words
    8. Sexual Offences (Review) 159 words
    9. Nuclear Defence (Protest Marches) 115 words
    10. Dorset (Police Establishment) 154 words
    11. Shooting Incident (Disciplinary Proceedings) 83 words
    12. Drugs Offences 425 words
    13. Stop and Search Operations 163 words
    14. Metropolitan Police (Report) 80 words
    15. Indictable Crimes (Humberside) 72 words
    16. Anti-cruise Demonstrations 68 words
    17. Prisons 241 words
  5. TRANSPORT
    1. Roads (Services Conduits) 127 words
    2. Driving Licences 169 words
    3. Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950 78 words
    4. Nuclear Waste (Transportation) 151 words
    5. Seat Belts 72 words
    6. Speed Limits 238 words
    7. M1 (Leicestershire) 134 words
    8. Motorways (Lighting) 157 words
    9. Air Travel Reserve Fund 126 words
    10. M5 (Design) 174 words
    11. Heathrow and Gatwick (Signposts) 60 words
    12. Roads 133 words
  6. ENERGY
    1. Redundancy Costs 112 words
    2. Petroleum Stocks (Amendment) Order 79 words
    3. Coal Output (Statistics) 75 words
    4. Standing Charges 164 words
    5. Coal Stockpiling 137 words
  7. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Assisted Area Status 74 words
    2. Heavy Water 125 words
    3. European Convention on Human Rights 93 words
  8. DEFENCE
    1. Liverpool (Ministerial Visit) 82 words
    2. Royal Arsenal Land 174 words
    3. Defence Intelligence Staff 50 words
    4. Cruise Missiles 180 words
    5. Accounting Procedures 98 words
    6. Salisbury Plain 120 words
    7. Budget Increases 32 words
    8. Royal Ordnance Factory, Chilwell 90 words
    9. War Widows (Pensions) 56 words
    10. Departmental Management 89 words
    11. Departmental Contracts 226 words
  9. WALES
    1. Transport Supplementary Grant 44 words
    2. Housing Renovation Grants 120 words
    3. Labour Statistics 249 words
    4. Leukaemia 80 words
    5. Civil Engineering Projects 126 words
    6. International Sporting Teams 91 words
    7. Sheep 722 words
    8. Health Expenditure 54 words
    9. Planning Appeals 794 words
    10. Primary Schools 155 words
  10. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Telephone Answering Service 201 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Grenada 474 words
    2. South Africa 469 words
  12. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Council for British Archaeology 107 words
    2. Rent Acts 98 words
    3. London Borough of Newham 208 words
    4. Local Authorities (Expenditure) 124 words
    5. Assured Tenancies 143 words
    6. Welwyn Hatfield District Council (Staff Numbers) 192 words
    7. Hertfordshire County Council (Staff Numbers) 202 words
    8. Homeless Persons 190 words
    9. Albert Gate, Hyde Park 100 words
    10. Housing Starts 54 words
    11. Tower Blocks 168 words
    12. Basildon Development Corporation 88 words
    13. House of Commons (Heating) 153 words
    14. Property Services Agency (Empty Premises) 100 words
    15. Totnes (Floor Space) 233 words
    16. Arts Expenditure 88 words
    17. Military Establishments 33 words
    18. Council House Sales 100 words
    19. Urban Renewal 79 words
    20. Elderly Owner-occupiers 98 words
    21. Town Planning Regulations (Enforcement) 134 words
    22. Concrete Prefabricated Houses 54 words
    23. European Ministers for Sport (Meeting) 351 words
  13. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Microchips 125 words
    2. Mozambique (ECGD Facilities) 94 words
    3. West Midlands (Bankruptcies) 80 words
    4. West Midlands (Aid) 530 words
    5. Companies (Profitability) 174 words
    6. Trade Statistics 157 words
    7. Regional Policy 71 words
    8. North-West 46 words
    9. Foreign Investment 945 words
    10. Overseas Investment 69 words
    11. British Telecom (Advertising) 45 words
    12. Gas Appliances (Safety) 62 words
  14. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. School Books (Expenditure) 100 words
    2. Medical Students (London) 173 words
    3. Teaching Hospitals (London) 53 words
    4. Liverpool 347 words
    5. Hertfordshire (Education Provision) 142 words
    6. Special Educational Needs 193 words
    7. West Midlands College 109 words
    8. University Teachers (Pensions) 148 words
    9. Student Grants 59 words
    10. London Boroughs 94 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Grants 149 words
    2. Agricultural Support 84 words
    3. Overseas Personnel 56 words
    4. Civil Servants (Travel Costs) 75 words
    5. East Coast Sprat Fishery 331 words
    6. Hill Sheep 129 words
    7. Mackerel 154 words
    8. Ultra-heat Treated Milk 83 words
  16. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Income Tax 63 words
    2. Forestry Fund 197 words
    3. BP (Share Sale) 67 words
    4. Industrial Companies (Capital) 69 words
    5. Norway (Double Taxation) 96 words
    6. NHS Medical Facilities 44 words
    7. Private Medical Facilities 43 words
    8. Charitable Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes 45 words
    9. Tax Changes 156 words
    10. Foreign and Commonwealth Office 110 words
    11. Unemployment 112 words
    12. Mortgage Interest Relief 87 words
  17. EMPLOYMENT
    1. London Borough of Newham 150 words
    2. Cairnryan (Asbestos) 103 words
    3. European Social Fund (Greater London) 41 words
    4. Youth Opportunities Programme 368 words
    5. Accident Statistics 132 words
    6. Community Programme (Birmingham) 133 words
    7. Youth Training Scheme 1,086 words
    8. Stoke on Trent 121 words
  18. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Tree Felling (Licences) 69 words
    2. Assembly (Members' Telephone Calls) 94 words
    3. Geriatric Care 161 words
    4. Electricity Consumers 52 words
    5. Electricity (Research and Development) 111 words
    6. Assembly 76 words
    7. Londonderry Enterprise Zone 113 words
    8. Health and Social Services (Privatisation) 50 words
    9. Hairdressing Apprentices 107 words
  19. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Family Doctors 621 words
    2. Hospital Services (Private Contractors) 45 words
    3. Local Offices (Birmingham) 1,873 words
    4. Nurses 38 words
    5. Newham (Medical Staff) 164 words
    6. Newham (Hospital Waiting Lists) 303 words
    7. Hospital Meals (Charges) 31 words
    8. Voluntary Organisations (Grants) 128 words
    9. Supplementary Benefit 300 words
    10. World Plan of Action on Aging 134 words
    11. Pensioners (Concessions) 95 words
    12. Geriatric Beds 152 words
    13. Nursing Homes 1,146 words
    14. Elderly Persons (Cold-related Diseases) 203 words
    15. Griffiths Inquiry 70 words
    16. Brent (Supplementary Benefit) 154 words
    17. Brent (Hospital Waiting Lists) 213 words
    18. Brent (Departmental Staff) 108 words
    19. Family Income Supplement (Stoke on Trent) 71 words
    20. Prescriptions 175 words
    21. National Health Service (Staff Illness) 182 words
    22. Ambulance Service (Staffing Levels) 63 words
    23. Reciprocal Pension Arrangements 126 words
    24. Tinnitus 132 words
    25. National Insurance Rates 176 words
    26. Child Dependency Additions 98 words
    27. Death Grant 476 words
    28. Departmental Expenditure 79 words
    29. War Widows (Pensions) 92 words
    30. Thames Health Regions 117 words

Lords Sitting of 21 November 1983

  1. Preamble 28 words
  2. World Cup Soccer Tournament 1990 1,078 words
  3. EC Citizens: Medical Treatment in U.K. 863 words
  4. West Midlands College of Higher Education 597 words
  5. Youth Training and Social Benefits 950 words
  6. Business 79 words
  7. Oil Taxation Bill 2,083 words
  8. Access to the Countryside (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 2,617 words
  9. Radioactive Waste: Sellafield 1,627 words
  10. Darkley, Armagh: Shootings 2,270 words
  11. Access to the Countryside (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 1,924 words
  12. Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [H.L.] 40,931 words
  13. "Free Pardon": Proposed Legislation 3,819 words
  14. Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Bill 16 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 21 November 1983

  1. SHOTGUN CERTIFICATES: ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS 77 words
  2. PRISONS: NEW BUILDING AND STAFFING 231 words
  3. LEGAL AID: VAT PAYMENTS 67 words
  4. LIFE PEERAGES 200 words
  5. BRITISH APPROVALS BOARD FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS 214 words
  6. ECGD: LOSSES WRITTEN OFF 136 words
  7. STRAW BURNING 209 words
  8. THE EWE PREMIUM 113 words