Commons Sitting of 18 December 1984

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. EMPLOYMENT
      1. GCHQ Cheltenham 638 words
      2. Adult Training 258 words
      3. Industrial Relations 200 words
      4. Youth Training Scheme 514 words
      5. Young Workers Scheme 330 words
      6. Young Persons 676 words
      7. Skillcentres 513 words
      8. Youth Training Scheme 463 words
      9. Job Sharing Scheme 489 words
      10. Labour Statistics 283 words
      11. Youth Training Scheme 627 words
      12. Trade Unions (Postal Ballots) 505 words
      13. Wages Councils (Inspections) 388 words
      14. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 294 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,212 words
  4. Ethiopia Refugees 2,312 words
  5. Local Authority Capital Expenditure (England) 8,524 words
  6. Local Authority Capital Expenditure (Wales) 4,734 words
  7. NEW MEMBER 15 words
  8. Local Authority Capital Expenditure 514 words
  9. Arts Funding 971 words
  10. Civil Aviation Bill 911 words
  11. ESTIMATES DAY
    1. BILL PRESENTED
      1. MILK (CESSATION OF PRODUCTION) BILL 100 words
      2. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 96 words
      3. Prevention of Fraud (Investments) Act 1958 (Amendment) 1,078 words
      4. PREVENTION OF FRAUD (INVESTMENTS) ACT 1958 (AMENDMENT) 48 words
  12. ESTIMATES DAY 3 words
    1. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1984–85
      1. Class IV, Vote 5
        1. Industrial Support (Department of Energy) 21,936 words
        2. Industrial Training 8,189 words
      2. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1984–85
        1. Class IV, Vote 5 80 words
      3. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1984–85 60 words
      4. ESTIMATES, 1985–86 (Vote on account) 91 words
      5. CONSOLIDATED FUND 52 words
      6. Heavy Lorries 3,988 words
      7. Heavy Lorries 6,931 words, 1 division
    2. PETITION
      1. Human Embryos 181 words
      2. County Hospital, Lea Valley 4,065 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 18 December 1984

  1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Coal Industry Dispute 200 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Literature (Asian Languages) 259 words
    2. Departmental Select Committees 150 words
  3. WALES
    1. Health Expenditure 252 words
    2. Education Statistics 98 words
    3. Children (Welsh Speakers) 136 words
    4. Conservation (Management Agreements) 151 words
    5. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 474 words
    6. Acid Rain 87 words
    7. Home Helps 41 words
    8. Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 44 words
    9. National Parks 154 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Ministerial Drivers 42 words
    2. HMS Conqueror 89 words
    3. Coal Industry Dispute 71 words
    4. Strathkelvin 37 words
    5. Leith 34 words
    6. Engagements 139 words
    7. London-New York (Air Travel) 220 words
    8. Departmental Policy Reviews 64 words
  5. ENERGY
    1. Coal Industry Dispute 90 words
    2. Plutonium 168 words
    3. Nuclear Reactors (Safeguards) 302 words
    4. Nuclear Waste 196 words
  6. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Plastic Baton Rounds 57 words
    2. Finnimore Wood Youth Custody Centre 125 words
    3. Coal Industry Dispute 652 words
    4. Drugs Offences 106 words
    5. Sports Sponsorship 46 words
    6. Departmental Staff 268 words
    7. "Drinking Sensibly" 145 words
    8. Elections (Impersonation) 259 words
    9. Longmoor Base, Hampshire 118 words
  7. SCOTLAND
    1. New Towns 327 words
    2. Nursery Education 78 words
    3. Pre-School Children 406 words
    4. Council House Sales 177 words
    5. Health Boards (Ancillary Services) 53 words
    6. Parole 794 words
    7. Local Government Expenditure 145 words
  8. THE ARTS
    1. European Music Year 92 words
  9. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Housing Public Expenditure Programme 485 words
    2. Sellafield (Discharges) 704 words
    3. Metropolitan County Enterprise Boards 151 words
    4. Rates 69 words
    5. Sports Sponsorship 325 words
    6. Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings 66 words
    7. London (Housing) 265 words
    8. Squatting 38 words
    9. Fire Service, London 95 words
    10. Asbestos Cement 42 words
    11. Block Grant Entitlements 149 words
    12. Rates Act 1984 785 words
    13. St. George's Hall, Liverpool 70 words
  10. DEFENCE
    1. Territorial Army 670 words
    2. NATO 64 words
    3. Service Personnel (Industrial Disputes) 65 words
    4. FH70 Programme 268 words
    5. Crown Proceedings Act 1947 126 words
    6. General Belgrano 73 words
    7. Commercial Shipping (Hire) 82 words
    8. United States Nuclear Bases 34 words
    9. Nuclear Installations 105 words
    10. Eastern Europe (Deep Targets) 49 words
    11. 38 REME Workshop, Chilwell 185 words
    12. Written Answers 63 words
  11. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Health and Safety (Industrial Plants) 377 words
    2. Labour Statistics 646 words
    3. Skillcentres 215 words
    4. Jobcentres 147 words
    5. Disabled Persons 143 words
    6. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 162 words
    7. Equal Opportunities Commission 90 words
    8. Health and Safety Commission and Executive 59 words
    9. Home Workers 154 words
    10. Wages Inspectorate 42 words
    11. Apprenticeships 117 words
    12. Industrial Relations 119 words
    13. Departmental Costs 115 words
    14. Information Technology Centres 69 words
    15. Employees (Assaults) 144 words
    16. Wages Councils 144 words
    17. Community Programme 343 words
    18. Youth Training 39 words
    19. Youth Training Scheme 317 words
    20. Young Persons (Wages) 58 words
    21. Adult Training 163 words
    22. Industrial Disputes (Lost Working Days) 69 words
    23. Job Creation 48 words
    24. Professional and Executive Recruitment Service 111 words
    25. Robotics and Microprocessor Controls 170 words
    26. Disabled Persons 86 words
    27. Coal Industry Dispute 364 words
    28. Unemployed Persons (Training) 111 words
    29. Young Workers Scheme 209 words
    30. Trade Unions (Ballots) 86 words
    31. Closed Shop Agreements 436 words
    32. Trade Union (Rule Books) 212 words
    33. Manufacturing Industry (Statistics) 403 words
    34. Industrial Training Associations 278 words
    35. Training Grants 101 words
    36. New Training Initiative 656 words
  12. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Pension Funds 124 words
    2. GDP and Consumer Spending 93 words
    3. Public Expenditure 462 words
    4. Manufacturing Employment 93 words
    5. Taxpayers (Tourism) 52 words
    6. Pay and Jobs (Links) 213 words
    7. EC (Contributions) 50 words
    8. EC (Refund) 119 words
    9. EC (Expenditure) 60 words
    10. Value Added Tax 80 words
    11. Privatisation (Fees and Commissions) 124 words
    12. Non-residents (Taxation) 114 words
    13. Customs Controls (Staff) 601 words
    14. Capital Allowances 240 words
    15. Pension Funds (Taxation) 73 words
    16. Pension Schemes 205 words
    17. Lump Sum Retirement Payments (Taxation) 100 words
    18. Sterling Balances 90 words
    19. Coins (Abolition) 264 words
    20. Single Parent Families 73 words
    21. Nationalised Industries (Shares) 85 words
    22. Caravan Sites (Taxation) 78 words
    23. National Insurance Pensions (Taxation) 150 words
    24. Alcoholic Beverages (Taxation) 191 words
  13. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Asbestos Cement 151 words
    2. Phoenix 2 50 words
    3. Loan Guarantee Scheme 77 words
    4. Trafalgar House 62 words
    5. Exchange Risk Guarantee Scheme 218 words
    6. Norton Villiers Triumph Ltd. 74 words
    7. Shipbuilding Redundancy Payments Scheme 83 words
  14. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Ethiopia 181 words
    2. Philippines 75 words
  15. TRANSPORT
    1. M25 Motorway (Accident) 76 words
    2. Railway Investment 296 words
    3. Motorway Warning Signs 65 words
    4. Speed Limits 278 words
    5. Roads (Lighting) 159 words
    6. GLC (Lorry Ban) 121 words
    7. London Transport 119 words
    8. Railways (Accidents) 148 words
    9. Motorways (Signs) 197 words
    10. London Underground 146 words
    11. Lorries (Accident Statistics) 99 words
    12. Road Accident Statistics 74 words
    13. Vehicle Excise Duty 162 words
    14. London Regional Transport (Grants) 479 words
    15. British Transport Police 234 words
  16. DEFENCE
    1. RAF Basic Trainer 247 words
    2. RAF Stations (Asbestos Cement) 62 words
    3. Aircraft Contracts 133 words
    4. Royal Ordnance Pension Schemes 143 words
    5. Lemnos (NATO Troops) 56 words
    6. General Belgrano 196 words
  17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Gibraltar 65 words
    2. Lausanne Treaty 94 words
    3. Lemnos 128 words
    4. Diplomatic Service 196 words
  18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Milk Production (Super Levies) 96 words
    2. Badgers 110 words
    3. Synthetic Alcohol 111 words
    4. Food Legislation (Review) 122 words
    5. Agricultural Arbitrators 207 words
  19. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. College-Employer Links Project 280 words
    2. Secondary Schools 62 words
    3. Secondary School Reorganisation (Liverpool) 278 words
    4. Single-sex Schools (Liverpool) 91 words
    5. Dyslexic Children 87 words
    6. Books and Periodicals (Prices) 351 words
    7. Higher Education 194 words
    8. 16-plus Examination 122 words
    9. Assisted Places Scheme 376 words
  20. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Generic Prescribing 414 words
    2. Clinical Psychologists 285 words
    3. Doctors (Training) 334 words
    4. Debendox 72 words
    5. Doctors (Retirement) 46 words
    6. Wellfield Site, Hatfield 284 words
    7. Death Grant 1,673 words
    8. Attendance Allowance 86 words
    9. National Insurance Contributions 312 words
    10. Population Statistics 66 words
    11. Housing Benefit 226 words
    12. Limited List Prescribing 509 words
    13. Geriatric Beds 90 words
    14. Psychiatric Hospitals (Beds) 147 words
    15. Blindness Allowance 468 words
    16. Mobility Allowance 86 words
    17. Prescriptions 278 words
    18. Ionising Radiation 84 words
    19. NHS (Charges) 117 words

Lords Sitting of 18 December 1984

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Gas and Electricity Consumers' Councils: Guidelines 1,416 words
  3. Building Industry: Chancellor's Autumn Statement 600 words
  4. Royal Irish Rangers' Depot, Ballymena 349 words
  5. Business 83 words
  6. Greater London Council (Money) (No. 2) Bill 13 words
  7. British Railways Order Confirmation Bill 3 words
  8. Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 7,090 words
  9. Ethiopian Refugees 1,442 words
  10. Local Authority Capital Expenditure 2,679 words
  11. Family Law (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 876 words
  12. Local Government (Interim Provisions) Act 1984 (Appointed Day) Order 1985 4,576 words
  13. Local Authority Capital Expenditure: Wales 2,996 words
  14. Local Government (Interim Provisions) Act 1984 (Appointed Day) Order 1985 7,007 words, 1 division
  15. Elections (Northern Ireland) Bill [H.L.] 12,497 words
  16. Appropriation (No. 3) (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 11,676 words
  17. Dangerous Vessels Bill [H.L.] 1,822 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 18 December 1984

  1. LASER ROAD SHOW 121 words
  2. AUCTIONS (BIDDING AGREEMENTS) ACT 1969: PROSECUTIONS 126 words
  3. HEALTH AUTHORITY CHAIRMEN 104 words
  4. ROCKALL CONTINENTAL SHELF 247 words
  5. DIPLOMATIC SERVICE POSTS: CLOSURES 208 words
  6. INNER LONDON EDUCATION AUTHORITY: ECONOMY 236 words
  7. NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS: PUBLIC FUNDS 86 words
  8. ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY: R&D FUNDING 126 words
  9. ARTERIAL DRAINAGE AND FLOOD PROTECTION: NORTHERN IRELAND 119 words
  10. NORTHERN IRELAND DRAINAGE COUNCIL 265 words
  11. NORTHERN IRELAND VOLUNTARY GROUPS: THE HANDICAPPED 44 words
  12. NORTHERN IRELAND VOLUNTARY GROUPS: HEALTH EDUCATION 31 words
  13. CLOSED SHOP REGULATIONS: RAILWAYMEN'S CASE 132 words
  14. SELLAFIELD DISCHARGES 703 words
  15. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY 86 words
  16. AGRICULTURAL ARBITRATORS: APPOINTMENT RESPONSIBILITY 224 words