Commons Sitting of 4 December 1984

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS 9 words
    1. LOCHMADDY AND EAST LOCH TARBERT (IMPROVEMENT OF PIERS, ETC.) ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 7 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      1. Student Awards 1,012 words
      2. Free School Meals 287 words
      3. Student Awards 1,479 words
      4. Further Education (Cumbria) 241 words
      5. Primary Schools (Expenditure) 209 words
      6. Pupils (Capitation) 458 words
      7. "Parental Influence at School" 351 words
      8. Teachers (Pay) 470 words
      9. Non-advanced Further Education> 455 words
      10. Liverpool (Schools Reorganisation) 209 words
      11. "The Economy and Higher Education" 225 words
      12. Scottish Universities 291 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,038 words
      2. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 22 words
  5. Orders of the Day
    1. Local Government Bill 60,959 words, 4 divisions
    2. Local Government Bill [Money] 8,541 words, 1 division
    3. Railway Accident (Salford) 3,130 words
    4. Petrol (Lead and Benzene Content) 11,912 words
      1. HOUSE OF COMMONS (SERVICES) 26 words
    5. West Midlands (Northern Relief Route) 3,912 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 4 December 1984

  1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. ILEA (Budget) 308 words
    2. Technical and Vocational Education Initiative 285 words
    3. Teachers 114 words
    4. Educational Maintenance Grants 1,319 words
    5. Educational Maintenance Allowance 47 words
    6. Research Councils (Budgets) 83 words
    7. Secondary School Places 34 words
    8. Chenet and Sherbrook Schools, Cannock 56 words
    9. Student Awards 905 words
    10. Unemployment 75 words
    11. Pupil-Teacher Ratio 49 words
    12. Information Technology 60 words
    13. Education Act 1981 66 words
    14. Adult Education (Civil Defence) 66 words
    15. Deaf Persons (Teachers) 79 words
    16. Secondary Education Examination 79 words
    17. Students (Travel Costs) 38 words
    18. Teachers (Pay and Appraisal) 52 words
    19. Maintained Schools (Surplus Places) 116 words
    20. Nursery Education 85 words
    21. "Teaching Quality" 122 words
    22. Further Education 46 words
    23. Institute of Information Technology 76 words
    24. School Curriculum 77 words
    25. Expenditure 124 words
    26. Pupils (Special Educational Needs) 123 words
    27. Open University 66 words
    28. Bradwell and Trinity High Schools, Newcastle-under- Lyme 62 words
    29. Peace Studies 64 words
    30. Higher Education (Access) 87 words
    31. London (Further and Higher Education) 127 words
    32. Parental Contribution (Statistics) 35 words
    33. School Closures 177 words
  2. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Civil Service 132 words
    2. Local Government Elections 72 words
    3. Value Added Tax 316 words
    4. VALUE ADDED TAX: THREATENED INFRACTION PROCEEDINGS ON ZERO RATES 346 words
  3. DEFENCE
    1. Military Exercises (Land Use) 90 words
    2. 5 Airborne Brigade 50 words
    3. Voluntary Organisations 131 words
    4. Departmental Staff (Blind Persons) 49 words
    5. Pirbright Ranges 113 words
    6. Equipment Suppliers 97 words
    7. HMS Conqueror 105 words
    8. General Belgrano 94 words
  4. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Departmental Staff (Blind Persons) 60 words
    2. Exporting Companies 159 words
    3. Diplomatic Immunity (Car Accidents) 156 words
  5. ENERGY
    1. Power Stations 55 words
    2. Coal Stocks (Report) 75 words
  6. TRANSPORT
    1. Edinburgh-Aberdeen Railway Line 46 words
  7. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
    1. Coal Industry Dispute 630 words
  8. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Departmental Staff (Blind Persons) 72 words
    2. Wetlands and Marshlands (Drainage) 87 words
    3. Butter 168 words
    4. Pesticides 304 words
    5. Common Agricultural Policy 3,191 words
  9. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Water Rates 98 words
    2. Ordnance Survey 93 words
    3. River Thames (Freight Handling) 36 words
    4. Coliform Bacteria 106 words
    5. Sewage Discharges 42 words
    6. Water Authorities (Financial Targets) 164 words
    7. Merseyside (Visit) 94 words
    8. Polychlorinated Biphenyls (Disposal) 84 words
    9. Avon Structure Plan 563 words
    10. Housing 62 words
    11. Property Services Agency 147 words
    12. Housing Associations (Accounting Requirements) 159 words
    13. Voluntary Organisations 125 words
  10. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Post Offices (Closure) 366 words
    2. Regional Aid 84 words
    3. Clothing, Footwear and Textile Investment Scheme 91 words
    4. Post Office (Lost Mail) 70 words
    5. Electrical Imports (Complaints) 191 words
    6. United States (Steel Imports) 1,016 words
    7. Advertising (EC Directive) 58 words
    8. Manchester Airport 290 words
    9. Merseyside 323 words
  11. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Nuclear Power 48 words
    2. Knowsley 163 words
    3. Supplementary Benefit 36 words
    4. Wales (Regional Development Aid) 92 words
    5. Leeward Islands Air Transport 86 words
    6. Engagements 89 words
    7. European Community (Purchasing Policies) 66 words
    8. Multi-Department Scrutiny 82 words
    9. Crown Appointments Committee 161 words
    10. Franco-British Council 87 words
    11. National Heritage Memorial Fund 243 words
  12. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Television (Concessionary Licences) 156 words
    2. Embarkation and Arrival Cards 117 words
    3. Isle of Man 128 words
    4. Public Disorder (Circulars) 66 words
    5. Voluntary Organisations 1,139 words
    6. Association of Chief Police Officers 150 words
    7. Wormwood Scrubs Prison 55 words
    8. Prisons (Statistics) 92 words
    9. Data Protection Act 154 words
    10. Departmental Staff (Blind Persons) 95 words
    11. Liquor Licensing 517 words
    12. Unconvicted Prisoners (Food) 61 words
    13. Probation and After Care Service 465 words
  13. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Ethiopia 548 words
    2. Leeward Islands Air Transport 117 words
    3. World Bank (Executive Director) 132 words
    4. Lomé Convention 752 words
  14. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
    1. Coal Industry Dispute 483 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. Teachers (Pay) 59 words
    2. Hyperbaric Oxygen 66 words
    3. Blind Persons 109 words
    4. Forest Land (Sales) 5,961 words
    5. Labour Statistics 280 words
    6. Licensing Hours 91 words
    7. Forestry Commission 493 words
    8. Western Isles (Development) 67 words
    9. Prestwick Freeport (Grants) 129 words
    10. Republic of Ireland (Extradition Warrants) 121 words
  16. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Swann Committee 79 words
    2. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 108 words
    3. Student Awards 1,705 words
    4. Higher Education (Ethnic Background) 95 words
    5. Teachers 222 words
    6. Training 82 words
    7. Primary School (Saltley) 44 words
  17. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Disablement Resettlement Officers 221 words
  18. WALES
    1. Skillcentres 83 words
    2. Manpower Services Commission 67 words
    3. Departmental Staff (Blind Persons) 56 words
    4. Welsh Water Authority 56 words
    5. Job Creation 84 words
    6. Hill Farming 98 words
    7. West Wales Hospital (Renal Dialysis Unit) 144 words
  19. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. AIDS 235 words
    2. Dentists 278 words
    3. Cervical Cancer 178 words
    4. NHS (Drugs Budget) 99 words
    5. Rural Dispensing 249 words
    6. Drugs (Generic Prescribing) 229 words
    7. Supplementary Benefit 258 words
    8. Family Practitioner Committees 100 words
    9. Salford AHA (Submission) 90 words
    10. General Practices (Prescription Policies) 49 words
    11. Housing Benefit 152 words
    12. GP Surgery, Newcastle-under-Lyme 51 words
    13. Drugs (Parallel Imports) 216 words
    14. Youth Training Scheme 338 words
    15. Limited List Prescribing 677 words
    16. National Insurance (Contributions) 429 words
    17. Statutory Sick Pay Scheme 113 words
    18. Benefits 188 words
    19. Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme 35 words
    20. Pharmaceuticals (Patent Life) 69 words
    21. Osteopathy 107 words
    22. NHS (Prescribed Drugs) 108 words
    23. Ambulances 305 words
    24. Dental Statistics 83 words
    25. Supplementary Professions 238 words
    26. Newcastle Computer Dispute 153 words
    27. Christmas Bonus 93 words
    28. Heating Allowances 66 words
    29. Medical Negligence 130 words
    30. NHS (Managers) 121 words
    31. Coal Industry Dispute 27 words
    32. Drugs (Side Effects) 690 words
    33. Hospital Beds 209 words
    34. NHS (Ancillary Services) 107 words
    35. Perinatal Deaths 243 words
  20. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Customs and Excise 271 words
    2. Nationalised Industries (Return on Capital) 316 words
    3. Pensions 135 words
    4. Departmental Staff (Blind Persons) 83 words
    5. European Communities (Supplementary Finance) 233 words
    6. Customs and Excise (Confiscated Books) 226 words
    7. Mortgages 99 words

Lords Sitting of 4 December 1984

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Books and Art: VAT 1,054 words
  3. Civil Defence: Easingwold College 486 words
  4. Strikers: Mortgage Payments 1,602 words
  5. Higher Education: Value-for-Money Audits 485 words
  6. Reserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Bill [H.L.] 167 words
  7. Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 22,490 words
  8. Family Law (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 5,807 words
  9. St. Helena 16,058 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 4 December 1984

  1. SUNDAY TRADING 87 words
  2. SHOP WORKERS: WAGES COUNCIL MACHINERY 59 words
  3. PRISONERS' MEDICINES: NON-PROPRIETARY PRESCRIBING 146 words
  4. POLICE CONSTABLES' PAY AND ALLOWANCES 105 words
  5. IRISH REPUBLIC: CONSULAR REPRESENTATION 17 words
  6. EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE AND COASTAL STATE JURISDICTION 98 words
  7. UN LAW OF THE SEA CONVENTION 62 words
  8. CUSTOMS AND EXCISE: POWERS AND SEIZURE 132 words
  9. PUBLIC BODIES: EFFICIENCY 220 words
  10. DAIRY QUOTAS: JOB LOSSES 72 words
  11. SOUTH DOWNS: EROSION 96 words
  12. FARM ANIMALS: FUTURE ACTION ON REPORT 57 words
  13. BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS REVIEW 73 words
  14. MISLEADING ADVERTISING: EC DIRECTIVE 51 words
  15. COUNTRYSIDE COMMISSION'S REPORT 47 words
  16. HAZARDOUS AND NOXIOUS WASTE: DISPOSAL AND COMPENSATION 241 words
  17. DANGEROUS OR HAZARDOUS MATERIALS IN SHIPS 182 words
  18. STUDENT GRANTS: PARENTAL CONTRIBUTION 133 words
  19. HMS "CONQUEROR": LOGS 607 words