Commons Sitting of 16 February 1984

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. GINNS AND GUTTERIDGE, LEICESTER (CREMATORIUM) BILL (By Order) 13 words
    2. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order) 14 words
    3. SHREWSBURY AND ATCHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order) 50 words
    4. LONDON DOCKLANDS RAILWAY (No. 2) BILL (By Order) 15 words
    5. ULLAPOOL HARBOUR ORDER CONFIRMATION 44 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. HOME DEPARTMENT
      1. Civil Defence 887 words
      2. "Weekend" Sentences 290 words
      3. Police (Effectiveness) 746 words
      4. Civil Defence 445 words
      5. Immigration 268 words
      6. Gatwick Airport (Magistrates' Court) 175 words
      7. Metropolitan Police 1,245 words
      8. Departmental Performance Review 116 words
      9. Air Weapons 342 words
      10. Television Licence 320 words
      11. Tamils (Repatriation) 388 words
      12. Weapons and Crowd Control Devices 134 words
      13. Young Offenders 577 words
      14. Voluntary Sector (Government Policy) 146 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,453 words
  5. Business of the House 4,430 words
  6. Orders of the Day
    1. Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [Lords] 45,307 words, 1 division
      1. CONSOLIDATION, &c., BILLS 39 words
  7. Hearing Aids 3,882 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 16 February 1984

  1. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Income Tax 627 words
    2. Investment Income Surcharge 52 words
    3. Taxation 184 words
    4. Capital Allowances 51 words
    5. Personal Financial Statistics 79 words
    6. Diplomats (Duty-free Goods) 108 words
    7. Company Cars 178 words
  2. DEFENCE
    1. Youth Training Scheme 120 words
    2. Exports 87 words
    3. Armed Forces (Recruitment) 152 words
  3. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Newcastle Disease (Pet Shops) 81 words
    2. Ice Cream Manufacturers 124 words
    3. Mackerel Fishing 317 words
    4. EC (Pigment Regulations) 212 words
    5. Tributyl Tin 141 words
    6. Green Pound 43 words
    7. Diseases of Fish Act 1983 32 words
    8. Weeds Act 1959 372 words
  4. WALES
    1. Development Board for Rural Wales 1,142 words
  5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Magistrates 203 words
    2. Journalists (Prosecution) 415 words
    3. Judicial Proceedings (Witnesses) 496 words
    4. Corporate Management Planning Ltd. 72 words
  6. EMPLOYMENT
    1. USA and UK (Labour Statistics) 59 words
    2. Labour Statistics 713 words
    3. Northern Region (Skillcentres) 467 words
    4. European Community (Employment Opportunities) 113 words
    5. Young Persons (Average Earnings) 265 words
    6. Job Creation 59 words
    7. Temporary Short Time Working Schemes 95 words
    8. Youth Training Scheme 119 words
    9. Asbestos 124 words
  7. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Rates 33 words
    2. Engagements 1,393 words
    3. Leicester 25 words
    4. Further Education Colleges (Lecturers) 103 words
    5. United Nations 26 words
    6. Aldbury, Hertfordshire 26 words
    7. Leeds 27 words
    8. Common Market Premiers 42 words
    9. European Community Budget 67 words
    10. Nuclear Weapons (Control) 40 words
  8. TRANSPORT
    1. British Railways Board 67 words
    2. London Docklands Railway 284 words
    3. Speed Limits 160 words
    4. Vehicle Lighting 134 words
    5. Goods Vehicles (Overloading) 157 words
    6. Dangerous Materials (Road Haulage) 116 words
    7. Bus Fares 91 words
    8. Public Transport 91 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Passports 114 words
    2. Hong Kong (International Conventions) 438 words
    3. GCHQ, Cheltenham 165 words
  10. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Metropolitan Police 223 words
    2. Planning Development (Tidal Estuaries and Seaward Areas) 196 words
    3. GLC (Expenditure) 69 words
    4. Police Authorities (Expenditure) 208 words
    5. Police Services (Grants) 126 words
    6. Rate Support Grant Negotiations 68 words
    7. Housing Expenditure 139 words
    8. Local Authority Holdback 60 words
    9. Empty Houses (Cornwall) 59 words
    10. Nuclear Waste Disposal 89 words
    11. Local Authorities (Expenditure) 116 words
    12. Water Research Centre 807 words
  11. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Greenham Common 76 words
    2. Licensed Betting Offices 82 words
    3. Electoral Law 67 words
    4. Cable Television Authority 46 words
    5. Thames Valley Police 58 words
    6. Voting Rights 97 words
    7. Prisons (Overcrowding) 174 words
    8. Police (Recruit Training) 171 words
    9. Vietnamese Refugees 172 words
    10. Representation of the People Bill 153 words
    11. Immigration 129 words
    12. Drug-related Crime 107 words
    13. Naturalisation 43 words
    14. Parole Board 64 words
    15. Crime Prevention 228 words
    16. Voluntary Organisations (Performance) 143 words
    17. Sunday Trading 77 words
    18. NATO Exercises 65 words
    19. Television Licences 127 words
    20. Member of Parliament (Qualifying Age) 40 words
    21. Merseyside 214 words
    22. Dog Licences 53 words
    23. Metropolitan Police (Sex Discrimination) 97 words
    24. Fines 67 words
    25. Civil Defence 201 words
    26. Channel Islands and Isle of Man 38 words
    27. Nationality Fees 68 words
    28. Independent Broadcasting Authority 83 words
    29. Immigrants (Repatriation) 66 words
    30. Burglaries 182 words
    31. Horse Racing 122 words
    32. Fire Inspectors 222 words
    33. London (Fire Services) 90 words
    34. Seat Belts 54 words
    35. Holloway Prison (Strip-searches) 200 words
    36. Prisoners (Transfers) 70 words
    37. Dr. Alan Clift 127 words
    38. Drink-Drive Offences (Penalties) 156 words
    39. Radio and Television Franchises 93 words
    40. Glue Sniffing 99 words
    41. Eastern European Citizens (Visas) 280 words
    42. Entry Visas 61 words
    43. Shoplifting 293 words
    44. Equal Opportunities Commission 61 words
    45. Air Weapons (Young Persons) 77 words
    46. Civil Defence Community Volunteers 40 words
    47. Harrods (Terrorist Incident) 70 words
  12. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Housing Benefit 316 words
    2. Benefits 498 words
    3. Grammar School Places 234 words
    4. Nursery Education 548 words
    5. Rural Schools 103 words
    6. Primary Medical Care and Community Care 286 words
    7. Invalidity Benefit 51 words
    8. Mobility Allowance 137 words
    9. Patients (Waiting Time) 183 words
    10. Unemployment Benefit 58 words
    11. Youth Training 285 words
    12. Textile and Cothing Industries 218 words
    13. Gas Consumers 113 words
    14. Houses (Belfast) 38 words
    15. Live Births 218 words
    16. Milk 37 words
    17. Drug Addiction 168 words
    18. Companies (Annual Returns) 227 words
    19. Butter 64 words
    20. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 44 words
    21. Learjet Project 51 words
    22. Lear Fan 2100 Aircraft 524 words
    23. Security Statistics 2,062 words
  13. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Universities (Expenditure Cuts) 80 words
    2. Nursery School Places 93 words
    3. Religious Education (Teachers) 103 words
    4. North-West Region 172 words
    5. Universities (Finance) 405 words
    6. University Students 605 words
    7. Higher Education 118 words
    8. University Teachers 133 words
    9. Expenditure Statistics 230 words
  14. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Citizens Band Radio 59 words
    2. Cuba 420 words
    3. Exports (Tariff Barriers) 128 words
    4. Motor Vehicle Servicing and Repairs 154 words
    5. Thai Knitting Industry 47 words
    6. Cement Imports 164 words
    7. Merchant Ships 121 words
    8. Rubber Tyres 240 words
    9. Mail (Delivery Targets) 514 words
    10. Network Services (Financial Support) 209 words
    11. Steel 438 words
    12. Scented Erasers 305 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. Vehicle Excise Duty 107 words
    2. Nurses' Accommodation 97 words
    3. Local Authority Finance 282 words
    4. Labour Statistics 150 words
    5. Forestry Commission (Sales) 147 words
    6. Corporal Punishment 148 words
    7. Hepatitis B 155 words
    8. Peterhead Prison 121 words
  16. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Civil Servants (Employment Conditions) 64 words
    2. "Public Bodies 1984" 92 words
    3. Ethnic Origin Surveys (Cost) 97 words
  17. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. NHS Staff (Re-employment) 41 words
    2. Contraception 113 words
    3. Hospital Fees (Overseas Visitors) 164 words
    4. Housing Benefit 75 words
    5. Specialist Claims Control Officers 87 words
    6. Calderdale Health Authority 281 words
    7. NHS Expenditure 78 words
    8. Supplementary Benefit 146 words
    9. Deputising Services 73 words
    10. Private Pensions (Index-linking) 67 words
    11. Non-departmental Public Bodies 103 words
    12. Consultant Posts 30 words
    13. Doctors (Education and Career Structure) 167 words
    14. Disabled People 42 words
    15. Single-parent Families 320 words
    16. Fraud (Convictions) 136 words
    17. Health and Social Security Bill (Blind People) 161 words
    18. Community Care 322 words
    19. Benzodiazepine 336 words
    20. Old Persons' Nursing Homes 214 words
    21. Child Benefit 252 words
    22. War Widows 128 words

Lords Sitting of 16 February 1984

  1. Preamble 29 words
  2. Nuclear Weapons: Launch Control 867 words
  3. American Bases: Servicemen's Rules 1,043 words
  4. Naval Defence Deployment 936 words
  5. Retail Sales: Statistics 562 words
  6. Business 36 words
  7. Telecommunications Bill 49,871 words, 3 divisions

Written Answers (Lords) of 16 February 1984

  1. M.6 MOTORWAY: GRAVELLY HILL RESURFACING 245 words