Commons Sitting of 31 January 1984

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. ALEXANDER PARK AND PALACE BILL. 8 words
    2. ANGLIAN WATER AUTHORITY (KING'S LYNN TIDAL DEFENCES) BILL.
      1. ASSOCIATED BRITISH PORTS (NO. 2) BILL. 6 words
      2. BARCLAYS BANK BILL.
      3. BRITISH RAILWAYS (NO. 2) BILL. 8 words
      4. CARDIFF CITY COUNCIL BILL. 6 words
      5. DARTMOOR COMMONS BILL. 8 words
      6. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL. 6 words
      7. LONDON DOCKLANDS RAILWAY (NO. 2) BILL.
      8. LONDON TRANSPORT BILL. 8 words
      9. MERSEYSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BILL. 6 words
      10. PIECE HALL, HALIFAX BILL. 85 words
      11. PORTSEA HARBOUR COMPANY BILL.
      12. SELBY BRIDGE BILL.
      13. STANDARD CHARTERED BANK BILL. 14 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SOCIAL SERVICES
      1. Committee on Safety of Medicines 636 words
      2. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 854 words
      3. Child Benefit 453 words
      4. Open-heart Surgery (Manchester) 724 words
      5. Disabled Persons (Discrimination) 208 words
      6. Leicestershire Health Authority 373 words
      7. Tinnitus 528 words
      8. Perinatal Mortality 797 words
      9. Appeal Tribunal Panels 472 words
      10. Severe Disablement Allowance 203 words
      11. Child Abuse 219 words
      12. Association of Directors of Social Services (Survey) 420 words
      13. Portable Oxygen Equipment 329 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,379 words
  5. Vocational Education and Training 7,107 words
  6. Maternal Surrogate Clinics 979 words
    1. MATERNAL SURROGATE CLINICS 45 words
  7. Rate Support Grant (Scotland) 21,813 words, 1 division
  8. Housing Support Grant (Scotland) 23,266 words, 1 division
  9. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 44 words
  10. County Durham 3,898 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 31 January 1984

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Electoral Law (Select Committee Report) 203 words
    2. Heroin 66 words
    3. Mr. David Freeman 109 words
    4. Sri Lankan Tamils 331 words
    5. Civil Defence 536 words
    6. Entrapment Techniques 159 words
    7. Police (Civilian Jobs) 487 words
    8. Remanded Persons 297 words
    9. Prison Transfers 67 words
    10. Television Licence 178 words
    11. Prisoners (Costs) 141 words
    12. Breath Tests 97 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. GCHQ, Cheltenham 617 words
    2. Security Commission 61 words
    3. Intelligence Service (Trade Union Membership) 78 words
    4. Engagements 1,094 words
    5. EC Commission (President) 40 words
    6. Kingswood 24 words
    7. Disarmament 93 words
    8. Overseas Visits 49 words
    9. Opencast Coal Mining 133 words
    10. Financial Management Initiative Visit 109 words
    11. Hong Kong 58 words
  3. SCOTLAND
    1. Museums and Galleries (Grants) 171 words
    2. Hospital Waiting Lists 59 words
    3. Labour Statistics 56 words
    4. Prisoners (Costs) 76 words
  4. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Young Persons 567 words
    2. Private Medicine 68 words
    3. Death Grant 169 words
    4. Funeral Expenses 53 words
    5. Housing Benefit 301 words
    6. Pharmacists 109 words
    7. Benefit Recipients (Purchasing Power) 34 words
    8. Supplementary Benefit 275 words
    9. Personal Portable Pensions 92 words
    10. NHS Expenditure 59 words
    11. NHS Reorganisation (Griffiths Report) 212 words
    12. Greenham Common Protestors (Benefits) 58 words
    13. Medical Gases and Equipment 190 words
    14. NHS Resources 330 words
    15. Oxford Regional Health Authority 52 words
    16. Mobility and Attendance Allowances (Oglesby Report) 39 words
    17. Kidney Patients 73 words
    18. Nurses (Management Studies) 100 words
    19. Occupational Pension Schemes 99 words
    20. Unemployed Persons (Benefit) 315 words
    21. Retirement 250 words
    22. Elderly Persons 56 words
    23. Mental Health Act 1983 103 words
    24. Heating Bills (Assistance) 69 words
    25. North Thames Regional Health Council 28 words
    26. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Amendment) Bill 49 words
    27. Invalidity Benefit 47 words
    28. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 49 words
    29. Manpower Statistics 147 words
    30. Heart Patients 94 words
    31. Trent Health Region 80 words
    32. Departmental Offices (Inner City Areas) 181 words
    33. Retirement Pension 48 words
  5. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Food (Exports-Imports) 58 words
    2. Land Drainage and Coast Protection 96 words
    3. Crop Spraying 342 words
    4. Pigeons 67 words
    5. Export Rebates and Intervention Buying 134 words
    6. Forests (Acid Rain) 93 words
    7. Whirling Disease 116 words
    8. Inland and Coastal Fisheries 55 words
    9. Salmon 79 words
    10. Redmouth Disease 174 words
    11. French Meat Imports (Restriction) 482 words
    12. Weed Killer (North Sea) 462 words
    13. Local Authorities (Finance) 211 words
  6. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Rates 1,706 words
    2. Milton Keynes and Northampton 382 words
    3. Bedfordshire 65 words
    4. Agricultural Land (Bedfordshire) 86 words
    5. Nitrates 339 words
    6. "Land for Housing" 36 words
    7. Mortuaries 61 words
    8. Footpaths 125 words
    9. Property Services Agency 39 words
    10. Audit Commission 1,193 words
    11. Private Schools 73 words
    12. Dartmoor 68 words
    13. "Streamlining the Cities" 112 words
    14. Metropolitan County Councils (Abolition) 91 words
  7. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Community Programme 237 words
    2. Labour Statistics 344 words
    3. South Shields 235 words
    4. Young Persons 142 words
    5. Vredeling Directive 55 words
    6. Youth Training Scheme 411 words
    7. Manpower Services Commission 80 words
    8. Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service 111 words
    9. Voluntary Organisations (Training Programmes) 143 words
  8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Irrigation Work 57 words
    2. Steering Location Inquiries 91 words
    3. Wales (Financial Assistance) 265 words
    4. Textile Industry 697 words
    5. North of England 443 words
    6. Kidneys 99 words
  9. ENERGY
    1. Energy, Research and Technology 50 words
    2. Oil Prices 113 words
    3. Target Saving 213 words
    4. Nuclear Leakage 66 words
    5. Onshore Oil and Gas Licences 56 words
    6. Coal Exports 62 words
    7. Energy Efficiency 99 words
    8. Domestic Energy Supplies 73 words
  10. TRANSPORT
    1. Emergency (Preston) 114 words
    2. MV Radiant Med 428 words
  11. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Invalidity Pension 60 words
    2. Furnished Holiday Lettings 77 words
    3. Britannia Building Society 195 words
    4. Nationalised Industries 435 words
    5. Export Credit Subsidies 111 words
    6. Value Added Tax 112 words
    7. Private Schools (Tax Exemption) 74 words
    8. Alcohol (Taxation Policy) 294 words
    9. Personal Taxation 46 words
    10. Trade Deficit 258 words
    11. Mortgages 141 words
    12. Income and Taxation 299 words
    13. Privatisation (Share Prices) 169 words
    14. Industrial Building Allowances 106 words
    15. Tax Relief (Overseas Absence) 78 words
  12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Hong Kong 1,030 words
    2. Cyprus 155 words
    3. United Nations (Expenditure) 135 words
    4. European Community (Economic and Social Committee) 789 words
    5. Children (Travel Costs) 119 words
    6. Council of Ministers 481 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Armagh Prison 247 words
    2. Departmental Administration Costs 117 words
    3. Fuel Conversion 82 words
    4. Advance Factories 143 words
    5. Civil Servants (Retirement) 337 words
    6. Prisoners (Costs) 214 words
    7. Remedial Teaching 172 words
    8. School Books 97 words
    9. United States of America (Ministerial Visits) 159 words
    10. Civil Servants (Travel Costs) 55 words
    11. Unfit Housing 94 words
  14. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Expenditure Statistics 213 words
    2. Housing Benefit 110 words
    3. Benefit Claimants 386 words
    4. Company Directors (Debt Proceedings) 201 words
    5. Chrysoidine Dye 146 words
    6. Medical and Surgical Sundries (Contracts) 100 words
    7. Doctors' Deputising Services 471 words
    8. Hospital Patients (Pension Books) 117 words
    9. NHS (Waiting Lists) 70 words
    10. Health and Local Authorities (Joint Funding) 163 words
    11. Private Nursing Homes (NHS Equipment) 91 words
    12. Elderly Persons (Drugs) 117 words
    13. Severe Disablement Allowance 178 words
    14. Supplementary Benefit 136 words
    15. Medical Academic and Research Staff 69 words
    16. Women Consultants 36 words
    17. Fuel Allowances 172 words
    18. National Insurance Tribunals 90 words
    19. Wrexham Local Office 174 words
  15. DEFENCE
    1. Defence Budget 158 words
    2. Commonwealth Games 82 words
    3. Boarding School Allowance 211 words
    4. Children (Travel Costs) 72 words
    5. Falkland Islands (Ministerial Visit) 38 words
    6. Armed Forces (Statistics) 493 words
    7. Royal Ordnance Factories 449 words
    8. Royal Air Force (Trainer Aircraft) 675 words
  16. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Assisted Places Scheme 2,941 words
    2. Examinations 142 words
    3. Education Expenditure (Statistics) 112 words
    4. Teachers 382 words
    5. Teachers (In-service Courses) 350 words
    6. Schools Inspectors 110 words
    7. School Closures 490 words
    8. Specialist Teachers 199 words
    9. "The Arts in Schools" 69 words
    10. Private Schools 230 words
    11. Teacher Training Course 220 words
    12. Degree Courses (Cost) 107 words
    13. School Children (Travel Costs) 136 words
    14. School Population 73 words
    15. Pupil Profiles 99 words
    16. Political Introduction 53 words
  17. WALES
    1. Joint Finance Expenditure Disregard 125 words
    2. Local Authorities (Capital Commitments) 125 words
    3. Welsh Language 163 words
    4. House Renovation Grants 55 words
    5. Regional Policy 66 words
    6. House Building 97 words
    7. Gross Domestic Product 181 words
    8. Welsh Development Agency (Factories) 194 words
    9. Local Authorities (Meetings) 38 words

Lords Sitting of 31 January 1984

  1. Preamble 33 words
  2. Youth Training Scheme: Statistics 511 words
  3. Public Record Office: Borrowing 815 words
  4. UK Airports: Surface Movement Radar 254 words
  5. Tourism: Statistics 1,084 words
  6. Business 82 words
  7. Business of the House 90 words
  8. Dentists Bill [H.L.] 381 words
  9. Animal Health and Welfare Bill [H.L.] 5,934 words
  10. Vocational Education and Training 2,630 words
  11. Animal Health and Welfare Bill [H.L.] 15,368 words
  12. Roads (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 25,549 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 31 January 1984

  1. BRITISH CITIZENSHIP: OUTSTANDING APPLICATIONS 26 words
  2. PRISONERS: TRANSFERS 44 words
  3. FOOD PRODUCTION IN NUCLEAR WAR 54 words
  4. BADGER TRAPPING 190 words
  5. MAGPIE POPULATION STATISTICS 89 words
  6. WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981 80 words
  7. MIDDLESEX AREA MAGISTRATES' COURTS 118 words
  8. LEBANON: PEACE INITIATIVES 99 words
  9. MALAYSIA: DEATH SENTENCES 89 words
  10. MR. MAHMUT DIKERDEM 75 words
  11. TURKISH PEACE ASSOCIATION MEMBERS' TRIAL 55 words
  12. TURKISH PEACE COMMITTEE: NOBEL PRIZE PROPOSAL 25 words
  13. AFRICAN STATE BOUNDARIES: OAU RESOLUTION 152 words
  14. CHEMICAL WEAPONS: WARSAW PACT PROPOSAL 81 words
  15. US NUCLEAR WARHEAD PRODUCTION 443 words
  16. NUCLEAR WEAPONS: VOTING ON UN RESOLUTIONS 356 words