Commons Sitting of 16 July 1984

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES
      1. Llandough Hospital 892 words
      2. Transport Infrastructure 538 words
      3. Local Authorities (Capital Expenditure) 579 words
      4. Coal Industry Dispute 1,689 words
      5. Derelict. Land 182 words
      6. Dairy Farmers 683 words
      7. Labour Statistics 399 words
      8. Information Technology Companies 146 words
      9. Overseas Companies (Job Creation) 250 words
      10. Council House Sales 282 words
    2. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
      1. Clergy (Pay) 387 words
      2. St. Alban's, Teddington 207 words
      3. Clergy (Pay) 704 words
    3. THE ARTS
      1. Victoria and Albert Museum 452 words
      2. Royal Shakespeare Theatre 424 words
      3. East Midlands 290 words
      4. Opera and Ballet (Subsidised Tickets) 242 words
      5. Welsh Arts Council 202 words
      6. Temba and CAST Theatre Companies 212 words
      7. Questions to Ministers 183 words
      8. Ministerial Statement 60 words
  4. Business of the House 1,809 words
  5. Personal Pensions 3,791 words
  6. Dock Strike 4,752 words
  7. Merrel Drug Company 495 words
  8. Dock Strike 260 words
  9. GCHQ, Cheltenham 2,294 words
  10. Investor Protection (Gower Report) 38,117 words
  11. Value Added Tax 5,637 words
  12. Statutory Instruments, &c. 40 words
    1. INTERNATIONAL IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES 23 words
    2. EDUCATION 20 words
    3. CONSUMER PROTECTION 21 words
    4. COMPANIES 26 words
  13. Appointment of Bishops Measure 10,696 words, 1 division
  14. Heart Disease 3,711 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 16 July 1984

  1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Solicitors (Compensation Fund) 66 words
  2. TRANSPORT
    1. Underground Railways (London) 117 words
    2. Ports Aid (London and Liverpool) 324 words
    3. Driving Tests 315 words
    4. Commission of Irish Lights 72 words
    5. Cycle Schemes 54 words
    6. Motor Cyclists (Tests) 144 words
    7. District General Hospitals (Access) 75 words
    8. M27 (Southampton) 76 words
    9. Cruise Ships 206 words
    10. British Rail (Weedkiller) 97 words
    11. Civil Aviation Authority (Review) 93 words
  3. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Appointment of Bishops Measure 26 words
    2. Voluntary Organisations (Grants) 31 words
    3. Special and Personal Advisers 69 words
    4. Staff 27 words
    5. Greater London Council (Ratepayers) 133 words
    6. Overseas Visits 32 words
    7. Office Expenses 48 words
  4. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
    1. St. John's Church, Birkenhead (Organ) 43 words
  5. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Gallery (Accommodation) 53 words
  6. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. South African Embassy 113 words
    2. Immigration (Detention) 1,761 words
    3. Deportation 1,077 words
    4. Seamen (Detention) 619 words
    5. Detained Persons 1,403 words
    6. Harmondsworth Detention Centre 1,121 words
    7. Prisoners (Statistics) 188 words
    8. Spain (Wanted Persons) 48 words
    9. Immigration 287 words
    10. Aliens (Registration Fee) 140 words
    11. Prison Adjudications 49 words
    12. Royal Prerogative of Mercy 191 words
    13. Concessionary TV Licence Scheme 63 words
    14. Zimbabwe 61 words
    15. Coal Mining Dispute 442 words
    16. Places of Worship (Fire Precautions) 268 words
    17. Fire Precautions Act 1971 112 words
    18. Fire Officer Duty Systems 83 words
    19. Places of Public Entertainment (Fire Protection) 89 words
    20. World Administrative Radio Conference 223 words
    21. Illegal Moneylending 92 words
    22. Mr. Bill Bush 48 words
  7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Job Creation (Dewsbury) 97 words
    2. Company Information (Postal Sales) 63 words
    3. Company Information (Statutory Charge) 147 words
    4. Cyprus (Exports) 73 words
    5. Balance of Payments 209 words
    6. Company Directors (Government Nominees) 60 words
    7. Sunshine Radio 44 words
    8. Illegal Moneylenders 175 words
    9. "The Observer" 150 words
    10. Council of Ministers 124 words
  8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Crown Agents (Dispute) 83 words
  9. WALES
    1. Health and Social Services 83 words
    2. Coal Industry Dispute 65 words
    3. Civil and Political Activities 28 words
    4. Milk Quotas 335 words
    5. Mental Handicap Strategy 86 words
    6. Road Construction 109 words
    7. Trunk Roads (Pembroke) 165 words
    8. Colleges of Further Education 1,201 words
    9. School Books (Expenditure) 55 words
    10. Schools Inspectors 291 words
    11. Radioactivity (Survey) 164 words
    12. Teachers (Religious Education) 47 words
    13. Boundary Commissioners 132 words
  10. THE ARTS
    1. Works of Art (Sale and Purchase) 60 words
    2. Arts Funding 112 words
    3. London-based Symphony Orchestras 51 words
    4. National Museum (Admission Charges) 121 words
    5. Libraries 110 words
  11. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Open University 120 words
    2. Science and Engineering Training 229 words
    3. Drugs Abuse 135 words
    4. Church-aided Schools 174 words
    5. Schools (Construction) 144 words
    6. National Union of Students (Submissions) 160 words
    7. Special Needs (Funding) 125 words
    8. Teachers' Strike 48 words
    9. Embryos (Research) 134 words
    10. British Post-Graduate Medical Federation 249 words
  12. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Wealth (Statistics) 212 words
    2. Commercial Buildings (Capital Allowances) 228 words
    3. Whisky (Duty) 145 words
    4. Wine and Whisky (Consumption) 63 words
    5. Japan 56 words
    6. North Sea Oil 47 words
    7. Disabled Persons (Income Tax Relief) 340 words
    8. Non-departmental Public Bodies 179 words
  13. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Young Persons (Newham) 182 words
    2. Average Earnings 266 words
    3. Youth Training Scheme 74 words
    4. Tooting Jobcentre (Dispute) 152 words
    5. Jobcentres 82 words
    6. Asbestos 797 words
    7. Discrimination (Codes of Practice) 82 words
    8. Littlebrook Power Station, Dartford (Asbestos) 130 words
    9. Strikes (Days Lost) 535 words
    10. Labour Statistics 136 words
  14. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. School Building 51 words
    2. Departmental Staff (Air Journeys) 894 words
    3. Prison Population 99 words
  15. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Thames Water Authority 100 words
    2. Private Sewers 52 words
    3. Green Belt 104 words
    4. Maisonettes and Flats (Leasehold Tenure) 131 words
    5. Single Homeless 250 words
    6. Fire Precautions 68 words
    7. Water Reserves 69 words
    8. Waste Disposal 184 words
    9. Water Loss 255 words
    10. RAF Lakenheath (Hospital) 108 words
    11. Drought (Financial Loss) 35 words
    12. National Water Grid 47 words
    13. Rent Officers 39 words
    14. Rents 189 words
    15. Council Houses (Demolition) 224 words
    16. Liverpool 1,372 words
    17. Water Transfers 63 words
    18. Departmental Staff 111 words
    19. Metropolitan County Councils 363 words
    20. Internal Audit 203 words
  16. DEFENCE
    1. Air Cadets (Gliders) 97 words
    2. Ascension Island 48 words
    3. Bodney Camp, Norfolk 65 words
    4. Service Vehicles (Leicester) 81 words
    5. US Hospitals (Back-up Facilities) 96 words
    6. Ascension Island (Tristar Aircraft) 22 words
    7. Rosyth Dockyard 184 words
    8. Leander and Oberon Vessels (Refitting) 116 words
  17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Cyprus 80 words
    2. Greenland Treaty 66 words
    3. Falkland Islands 84 words
    4. EC (Flags, Anthems and Honours) 131 words
    5. Israel (High Seas Seizure) 83 words
    6. Middle East Centre for Arab Studies 485 words
  18. SCOTLAND
    1. Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies 32 words
    2. NHS Resources (Private Use) 61 words
    3. School Buildings 103 words
    4. Labour Statistics 834 words
    5. Ship-breaking, Cairnryan (Asbestos) 92 words
    6. Peterhead Cottage Hospital 69 words
    7. Care in the Community 90 words
    8. Local Authorities (Grant Abatement) 64 words
    9. Hospital Building Programme 348 words
    10. NHS (Expenditure) 277 words
    11. Staff Statistics 101 words
    12. Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults 122 words
  19. ENERGY
    1. Combined Heat and Power (Edinburgh) 135 words
    2. North Sea Oil 110 words
    3. OPEC 49 words
  20. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Aujeszky's Disease 107 words
    2. Milk Quotas 266 words
    3. Eggs (Imports) 109 words
    4. Mr. Whitehead (FEOGA Loan) 101 words
    5. Milk 101 words
    6. Cereals 48 words
    7. Milk Outgoers Scheme 202 words
  21. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Single Homeless Persons 435 words
    2. Hospital Beds 307 words
    3. Advice Services (Exhibition) 90 words
    4. Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies 130 words
    5. Medications (Charges) 95 words
    6. Dental Payments (Capitation System) 118 words
    7. Benefits (Dewsbury) 52 words
    8. Chiropodists 42 words
    9. Dental Treatment 163 words
    10. Southwark (Pensioners' Allowances) 32 words
    11. Attendance Allowance 92 words
    12. Stoma Statistics 152 words
    13. Dentists 130 words
    14. Maternity Units 246 words
    15. Interspecies Fertilisation 120 words
    16. Women (Pensions) 282 words
    17. Long-stay Patients 127 words
    18. Civil Defence 52 words
    19. NHS (Premature Retirement Scheme) 164 words
    20. Dr. John Griffin 478 words
    21. Greenwich Health Authority (Health Visiting Staff) 67 words
    22. Newcastle Computer (Dispute) 232 words
    23. Occupational Pensions 112 words
    24. Blood and Blood Products 130 words
    25. Benefits 214 words
    26. Retirement Pension 54 words
    27. Coal Industry Dispute 83 words
    28. NHS (Veterinary Surgeons) 23 words
    29. Heating Additions 191 words
    30. Paediatricians (Expenses) 96 words
    31. Supplementary Benefit 233 words
    32. Pensioners (Housing Cost Assistance) 259 words
    33. Supplementary Pensioners 133 words
    34. Housing Benefit 536 words
    35. Dentists (Earnings) 250 words

Lords Sitting of 16 July 1984

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Tourism in the UK and Hotel Tariffs 844 words
  3. Resource Allocation in the NHS 721 words
  4. EEC Expenditure Regulations: Cash Limits 895 words
  5. Local Authority Spending Levels 513 words
  6. Business 77 words
  7. Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill 36,109 words, 2 divisions
  8. Rent (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 11 words
  9. Foster Children (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 11 words
  10. Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Bill 67 words
  11. Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 7,156 words
  12. University of Ulster (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 3,507 words
  13. Finance (No. 2) Bill 26 words
  14. Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill 32,779 words, 3 divisions
  15. Written Answers
    1. DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY FROM SHOPLIFTING CHARGES 71 words
    2. MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN 347 words
    3. CORONARY ARTERY BY-PASS SURGERY 47 words
    4. BANKS' ANNUAL ACCOUNTS: EEC DRAFT DIRECTIVE 183 words
    5. TRADE WITH IRAN 63 words
    6. SPECIAL QUOTA VOUCHERS: APPLICATION DATES 144 words
    7. THE SINGLE HOMELESS: FUNDING 254 words
    8. EEC: UK FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION 227 words