Commons Sitting of 23 January 1984

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES
      1. Urban Programme 371 words
      2. Selective Financial Assistance Applications 283 words
      3. Milk (EC Negotiations) 759 words
      4. Mentally Ill Persons 471 words
      5. Chatsworth House Hospital, Prestatyn 256 words
      6. Perinatal and Infant Mortality 376 words
      7. Secondary Schools 366 words
      8. Rate Support Grant 343 words
      9. Rate Capping, Gwent 475 words
      10. Cardiff (Job Creation) 437 words
      11. Labour Statistics 929 words
    2. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
      1. Mepal Churchyard (Tombstone) 230 words
      2. Ecclesiastical Buildings 393 words
    3. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. Industrial Relations 273 words
    4. WALES
      1. House Building 225 words
      2. Local Authority Expenditure 297 words
    5. ARTS
      1. Arts Council Grant 703 words
      2. Public Funds (Inquiries) 300 words
      3. Parthenon Marbles 785 words
  4. Poisonous Cargo (North Sea) 788 words
  5. Prescot Industries Limited (Closure) 405 words
  6. Mr. Bernard Ingham (Statement) 251 words
    1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 61 words
  7. Local Government 49,391 words
  8. Local Government 10,039 words, 1 division
  9. Leyland Vehicles (Scotland) 4,182 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 23 January 1984

  1. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Industrial Buildings Allowances 51 words
    2. Cigarettes (Taxation) 78 words
    3. Confiscated Goods 148 words
    4. Departmental Administration Costs 80 words
    5. Argentina 63 words
    6. Fair Wages Resolution 50 words
    7. Unemployment (Wales) 47 words
    8. Scholarships 222 words
    9. Civil Servants (Pay) 217 words
    10. Public Expenditure 166 words
    11. Family Income 173 words
    12. Income Tax 280 words
    13. Excise Duties 150 words
    14. Accountancy Firms (Contracts) 180 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Catering Staff (Pay) 110 words
    2. Commission Report 95 words
  3. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
    1. Redundant Churches 74 words
  4. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. British Telecom 95 words
    2. Court of Protection 111 words
    3. Law Centres (Funding) 61 words
  5. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Drug Abuse (Report) 52 words
    2. Argentina 47 words
    3. Metrication Programme 105 words
    4. UK-USSR Relations 65 words
    5. Benefits and Pensions 172 words
    6. Hong Kong 142 words
    7. Taxation 75 words
    8. Foreign Contracts 109 words
  6. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Milk 68 words
    2. Agricultural Output 403 words
    3. British Telecom 37 words
    4. "Home Defence and the Farmer" 76 words
    5. Hill Compensatory Allowances 125 words
    6. Atlantic Salmon Stocks 72 words
  7. TRANSPORT
    1. Motor Insurance (EC Directive) 163 words
    2. Urban Cycle Schemes 147 words
    3. Aircraft Passengers (Electrical Equipment) 193 words
    4. MV Pergo (Stranding) 264 words
    5. Inbucon Report (Agent Authorities) 129 words
    6. Drunken Driving 155 words
    7. Seat Belts 298 words
  8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. European Community (Research Ministers) 152 words
    2. South Africa 128 words
    3. Departmental Administrative Costs 135 words
    4. Expanding Novelties 143 words
    5. Film Industry 114 words
    6. Nissan Motor Company 68 words
    7. Argentina (Visitors to UK) 153 words
    8. Latin America (British Tourist Authority) 61 words
  9. ENERGY
    1. Departmental Mail 128 words
    2. Research Ministers Council (Meetings) 139 words
    3. Departmental Powers 92 words
    4. Argentina 337 words
    5. Cancer 440 words
    6. Fluidised Bed Combustion, Grimethorpe 183 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. NATO 103 words
    2. Arms Negotiations 117 words
    3. European Assembly 121 words
    4. Departmental Administrative Costs 108 words
    5. United Nations Resolution 435 125 words
    6. Victims of Torture (Fund) 58 words
    7. European Community (Tokyo Office) 63 words
    8. Falkland Islands 894 words
    9. Argentina 106 words
    10. United Nations Resolutions 69 words
    11. Information Technology 244 words
    12. Mr. Andrei Gromyko (Meeting) 52 words
  11. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Fire Services (Statistics) 799 words
    2. Treatment of Prisoners 99 words
    3. Prisoners (Medical Records) 140 words
    4. Prisons (Code of Standards) 88 words
    5. Departmental Budget 203 words
    6. Members' Correspondence 233 words
    7. Drink-driving Statistics 265 words
    8. Humberside Police 83 words
    9. Canvey Island (Fire Cover) 64 words
    10. Essex Police 163 words
    11. Drink-driving (Police Guidance) 98 words
  12. DEFENSE
    1. MCV80 and AT105 Vehicles 305 words
    2. Falkland Islands 164 words
  13. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Housing Corporation 45 words
    2. Local Government Act 1972 60 words
    3. Rates (Solar Heating) 119 words
    4. Rates (Wind Turbines) 41 words
    5. Multiple Occupation Houses (Fire Escape) 82 words
    6. Local Government Reform 159 words
    7. Rate Capping 198 words
    8. M25 (Industrial and Commercial Development) 97 words
    9. Public Authorities (Unused Housing) 135 words
    10. Departmental Administration Costs 103 words
    11. General Rate Act 1967 75 words
    12. General Development Order 606 words
    13. Falkland Islands 320 words
    14. Wildlife and Countryside Act 96 words
    15. Sewers 47 words
    16. Radioactivity (Cumbria) 167 words
    17. Calke Abbey 128 words
    18. Repair Grants 71 words
    19. Local Authority Housing 98 words
    20. Private Unoccupied Property (Rates) 180 words
  14. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Pregnant Women (Multivitamin Pills) 213 words
    2. Expenditure Statistics 238 words
    3. Esperanto 225 words
    4. Cardiovascular Disease 114 words
    5. Peace Studies 37 words
    6. University Graduates (Careers) 54 words
    7. Nursery Schools 117 words
    8. Weed Research Organisation, Oxford 148 words
    9. Agricultural and Food Research Council Laboratory, Letcombe 134 words
    10. Agricultural and Food Research Council 518 words
    11. Universities (Redevelopment) 45 words
    12. Assisted Places Scheme 71 words
    13. Voluntary Aided Schools 79 words
    14. Maintained Schools 179 words
  15. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Public Servants (Re-employment) 175 words
  16. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Project Appraisal 196 words
    2. UNESCO 253 words
    3. Falkland Islands 2,290 words
    4. Mr. John Fowler 54 words
    5. Falkland Islands Development Corporation 86 words
    6. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cockwell 60 words
    7. Bangladesh 40 words
  17. ARTS
    1. Arts Council (Membership) 60 words
    2. National Museum for Wales 52 words
    3. Riverside Studios 104 words
    4. Arts Council Grant 85 words
    5. Office of Arts and Libraries 109 words
    6. Museums and Galleries (Grants) 192 words
    7. European Music Year 42 words
    8. Business Sponsorship 160 words
    9. Liverpool (Ministerial Visit) 128 words
    10. Barbican Centre 102 words
    11. Museums (Collections Purchases) 159 words
  18. SCOTLAND
    1. Schools 99 words
    2. Cot Deaths 210 words
    3. Benbecula 103 words
    4. Stoneyburn, West Lothian 54 words
    5. Tobermory 51 words
    6. Woodland Planting 147 words
    7. Home Knitters 85 words
    8. Composite Classes 216 words
    9. Teachers 105 words
    10. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances 345 words
    11. Sentencing Policy 59 words
    12. Police Files (Security) 69 words
    13. Labour Statistics 92 words
    14. Closures and Redundancies 183 words
    15. Napier, Glasgow and Bell Colleges 119 words
    16. Prison Officers (Assaults) 46 words
  19. EMPLOYMENT
    1. St. David's Day 38 words
    2. Labour Statistics 73 words
    3. Departmental Administration Costs 98 words
    4. Young Workers' Scheme 170 words
    5. Retail Price Index 60 words
    6. Rotherham (Youth Unemployment) 136 words
    7. Correspondence 80 words
    8. Youth Training Scheme 320 words
    9. Community Programme 331 words
    10. Earnings 68 words
    11. Workington (Short-time Working) 60 words
  20. WALES
    1. Council House Sales 113 words
    2. Development Board for Rural Wales 96 words
    3. Labour Statistics 121 words
    4. Land Slippage, Dingle 59 words
    5. Foreign Languages (Examination Results) 101 words
    6. Cardiff Docks Development Scheme 159 words
    7. Departmental Administration Costs 100 words
    8. Owner-occupiers 94 words
    9. Farms 399 words
    10. Hill Compensatory Allowances 56 words
    11. Local Authority Expenditure 283 words
    12. Local Government Employees 138 words
    13. Housing Renovation Grants 107 words
    14. Rate Support Grant 38 words
    15. Rate Income 65 words
    16. Government Spending 93 words
    17. Rate Capping 53 words
    18. Cardiac Surgery and Bone Marrow Transplants 114 words
  21. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Housing Benefit (Wales) 145 words
    2. Single Payment Awards 81 words
    3. Drugs (Third World) 289 words
    4. Leaflets (Dundee Resources Centre) 162 words
    5. Supplementary Benefit 652 words
    6. Pharmaceutical Imports (Quality and Consistency) 206 words
    7. Expenditure Statistics 150 words
    8. South London Hospital for Women 111 words
    9. Benefits 81 words
    10. Convector Heaters 118 words
    11. Mentally-ill Persons 165 words
    12. Social Security Benefit 202 words
    13. Drugs 221 words
    14. Blood Glucose-Monitoring Equipment 63 words
    15. Public Health Laboratory Service 816 words
    16. Griffiths Report 530 words
    17. NHS (Efficiency) 345 words
    18. Social Workers 68 words
    19. Young Persons 158 words
    20. Unemployment Review Officers 119 words
    21. Re-establishment Centres 317 words
    22. Agency Agreement 159 words
    23. National Playbus Association (Exhibition) 72 words
    24. Civil Servants 156 words
    25. National Insurance Numbers 452 words

Lords Sitting of 23 January 1984

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Death Grant 1,210 words
  3. UK Shipping: Crosstrade Figures 614 words
  4. Further Education: Local Authority Provision 1,053 words
  5. Nuclear Weapons: Policy 1,579 words
  6. Business 111 words
  7. Cable and Broadcasting Bill [H.L.] 5,504 words
  8. Weed Killer: North Sea Pollution 1,951 words
  9. Cable and Broadcasting Bill [H.L.] 26,292 words, 2 divisions
  10. Prohibition of Female Circumcision Bill [H.L.] 10,576 words, 2 divisions
  11. Cable and Broadcasting Bill [H.L.] 20,922 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 23 January 1984

  1. METROPOLITAN COUNTY COUNCILS AND THE GLC 76 words
  2. HONOURS: CONFIDENTIALITY 75 words
  3. HONOURS: SELECTION 136 words
  4. CALKE ABBEY 128 words
  5. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: DEVELOPMENT OF NON-ANIMAL TECHNIQUES 227 words
  6. TAXIS: MARBLE ARCH ROUTE 56 words