Commons Sitting of 27 March 1984

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. ANGLIAN WATER AUTHORITY (KING'S LYNN TIDAL DEFENCES) BILL 19 words
      2. CARDIFF CITY COUNCIL BILL 7 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SOCIAL SERVICES
      1. Women's Hospital, Liverpool 790 words
      2. Alternative Medicines 439 words
      3. Hospital Staffing (Birmingham) 348 words
      4. Portable Pensions 402 words
      5. NHS Trade Unions (Meetings) 980 words
      6. Health and Prescription Charges 699 words
      7. Local Community Hospitals 364 words
      8. Mental Health Act 1982 257 words
      9. Association of Professionalal Ambulance Personnel 404 words
      10. Leptospirosis 265 words
      11. Organ Transplants 208 words
      12. Parallel Imports 815 words
      13. Hospital Closures 410 words
      14. Supplementary Benefit 167 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 422 words
      2. Local Authority Services (Privatisation) 257 words
      3. Engagements 1,177 words
  4. Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill 963 words
  5. Statutory Instruments, &c 89 words
  6. European Community Documents 68 words
  7. Select Committee on Members' Interests 410 words
  8. Local Authority (Standards of Service) 854 words
  9. LOCAL AUTHORITY (STANDARDS OF SERVICE) 51 words
  10. RATES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME) 205 words
  11. Orders of the Day
    1. Rates Bill 10 words
  12. New Clause 6
    1. LEVELS OF EXPENDITURE 17,787 words, 1 division
  13. New Clause 10
    1. REPRESENTATIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE 2,523 words
  14. New Clause 11
    1. RATE OF GROWTH IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE 1,855 words
  15. New Clause 12
    1. EFFECT ON PUBLIC SPENDING 2,373 words
  16. New clause 15
    1. CONSULTATION ON PRINCIPLES 7,315 words, 1 division
  17. Clause 1
    1. POWER TO PRESCRIBE MAXIMUM RATES AND PRECEPTS 13,157 words, 1 division
  18. Clause 2
    1. DESIGNATION OF AUTHORITIES 13,932 words, 1 division
  19. Clause 4
    1. DETERMINATION OF MAXIMUM RATE OF PRECEPT 5,162 words, 1 division
    2. Public Records (Commission for the New Towns) 874 words
    3. HOUSE OF COMMONS (SERVICES) 47 words
    4. Trafford Park 4,339 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 27 March 1984

  1. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Engagements 1,350 words
    2. Long-term Unemployed Persons 220 words
    3. European Community (Own Resources) 124 words
    4. EEC (Budget) 140 words
    5. EEC (Trade) 49 words
    6. Gibraltar (Visit) 49 words
    7. Consumers (Expenditure) 147 words
    8. Temporary Civil Servants 89 words
    9. Oxygen Concentrators 226 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Peter Sutcliffe 160 words
  3. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Lyceum Club, Liverpool 143 words
  4. DEFENCE
    1. S90 Frigate 73 words
    2. Vinten 43 words
    3. Warehousing (Woolwich) 139 words
    4. D-Day (40th Anniversary) 80 words
    5. Arms Imports 82 words
  5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Prevention of Fraud (Investments) Act 1958 245 words
    2. Local Guarantee Scheme 217 words
    3. British Telecom (Accounts) 510 words
  6. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Building Societies 57 words
    2. Family Income 406 words
    3. Personal Taxation 469 words
    4. Pension Funds 39 words
    5. Privatisation (Fees and Commissions) 84 words
    6. Income and Taxation 263 words
    7. Defence Budget 93 words
    8. Retail Price Index 100 words
    9. EC Staff (Income Tax) 116 words
    10. Pensioners (Taxation) 134 words
    11. Age Allowance 69 words
  7. TRANSPORT
    1. London Transport (Underground Closures) 57 words
    2. Heavy Lorries (Spray Guards) 90 words
    3. Road Bridges 131 words
  8. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Road Accidents (No-fault Liability) 292 words
  9. ENERGY
    1. Plutonium Nitrate Shipment 67 words
    2. Convictions (Statistics) 178 words
    3. Mineworkers (Redundancy Payments) 69 words
    4. Coal Industry (Subsidence Payments) 66 words
    5. Nuclear Power 134 words
  10. WALES
    1. Vacancies 106 words
    2. Redundancies 83 words
    3. School Leavers 224 words
    4. Physically Handicapped and Disabled Persons 76 words
    5. Dialysis Units (Privatisation) 125 words
    6. Dialysis Treatment 64 words
    7. Housing Associations 91 words
    8. Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Houses 49 words
    9. Hospitals (Waiting Lists) 200 words
  11. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Police (High Command Posts) 184 words
    2. Pakistan Nationals (Asylum) 215 words
    3. Libyan Nationals (Deportation) 28 words
    4. Prison Control (Report) 59 words
    5. Woolwich Arsenal (Prison) 55 words
    6. Terrorism 61 words
    7. Licensing (Liverpool) 136 words
    8. Metropolitan Police 245 words
    9. Citizenship Applications (Cost) 101 words
    10. Computers (Personal Data) 1,357 words
    11. Drug Offences 649 words
  12. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Full-time Education 156 words
    2. Polytechnics and Colleges (Expertise and Research) 113 words
  13. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Property Services Agency 135 words
    2. Departmental Staff 136 words
    3. Defective Houses 82 words
    4. London Electricity Board 134 words
    5. Inner City Partnerships 408 words
    6. Rents 107 words
    7. Local Authorities (Accounts and Wages) 77 words
    8. Homeless Persons 84 words
    9. Council House Sales 62 words
    10. Housing Association Dwellings (Sales) 97 words
    11. Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Houses 116 words
    12. Liverpool 318 words
  14. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Youth Training Scheme 181 words
    2. Local Government Reform 41 words
    3. Local Government Finance 84 words
    4. Job Statistics (Merseyside) 163 words
    5. Temporary Employment and Training Schemes 542 words
    6. Skill Shortage (West Midlands) 32 words
    7. Labour Statistics 171 words
    8. Publications Distribution Co-operative 74 words
    9. Leicester 543 words
    10. Regional Benefit Investigation Teams 240 words
  15. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Chemical Weapons 76 words
    2. Belfast Passport Office 307 words
    3. Staff (Statistics) 83 words
    4. Departmental Expenditure 297 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Temik 15G 77 words
    2. Maize Gluten 156 words
    3. Pesticide Safety 70 words
    4. Physically Handicapped and Disabled Persons 353 words
    5. Indigenous Type Foods 200 words
    6. Food (Consumer Spending) 184 words
    7. Birds (Imports) 113 words
  17. SCOTLAND
    1. Infant Mortality 92 words
    2. Employment Patterns 172 words
    3. Labour Statistics 93 words
    4. Redundancies 121 words
    5. Charities (Registration) 38 words
    6. Old People's Homes 97 words
    7. Sheltered Dwellings 42 words
    8. Family Aides 88 words
    9. Primary Schools (Dundee) 150 words
    10. Housing Associations 129 words
    11. Liquor Licensing Laws 109 words
    12. Electronics Industries 389 words
  18. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Terrorist (Prison Release) 48 words
    2. Terrorist Prosecutions (Guidance) 222 words
    3. Armagh Prison 571 words
    4. Labour Statistics 140 words
    5. Teacher-Pupil Ratios 110 words
    6. School Leavers (Employment) 41 words
    7. Assembly (Report) 57 words
    8. Housing Associations 62 words
    9. European Community (Regional Assistance) 758 words
  19. THE ARTS
    1. Geffrye Museum 203 words
    2. Physically Handicapped and Disabled Persons 65 words
  20. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Staff (Statistics) 174 words
  21. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Costs (Statistics) 133 words
    2. Pharmacists (Contract) 40 words
    3. Disabled Shoppers (Costs) 97 words
    4. Joint Financing (Community Care) 119 words
    5. Dental Treatment 46 words
    6. Joint Financing (Resources) 56 words
    7. Housing Benefits 149 words
    8. National Playbus Association 154 words
    9. Benefits (Fuel Costs) 116 words
    10. Fraud Officers 56 words
    11. Doctors (Deputising Services) 93 words
    12. Means-tested Benefits 94 words
    13. Imported Lenses (Quality Inspection) 132 words
    14. Cardiac Patients 78 words
    15. Optical Prescription 164 words
    16. Attendance Allowance (Old People's and Nursing Homes) 33 words
    17. Neurosciences Services (Central Middlesex Hospital) 72 words
    18. Drugs (Parallel Imports) 94 words
    19. Dietary Problems 114 words
    20. Supplementary Benefit 135 words
    21. Benefits 172 words
    22. Death Grant 171 words
    23. Prescription Charges 78 words
    24. Benefits (Indexation) 28 words
    25. NHS Hospitals (Privatisation) 99 words
    26. Disabled People 123 words
    27. Attendance Allowance 81 words
    28. Haringey District Health Authority 71 words
    29. Home Help Service 68 words
    30. NHS Staff (Movement) 122 words
    31. Care in the Community (Representations) 115 words
    32. Departmental Office Network 54 words
    33. Departmental Manpower 158 words
    34. Hearing Aids (Battery Contract) 63 words
    35. Maternity Benefits 51 words
    36. Audiological Medicine (Consultants) 229 words
    37. Griffiths Report 59 words
    38. Down's Syndrome Babies (Hammersmith) 210 words
    39. Hertfordshire and Essex Hospital 84 words
    40. Aldicarb 119 words
    41. Physically Handicapped and Disabled Persons 161 words
    42. Family Aides 111 words
    43. Old People's Homes 111 words
    44. Specialist Claims Control 57 words
    45. Bed and Breakfast Accommodation (Oldham) 102 words
    46. Hyperactive Children 928 words
    47. Irradiation (Food Preservation) 108 words
    48. Kidney Donation 84 words
    49. Child Additions 225 words
    50. Hospital Closures 339 words
    51. Unclaimed Benefits 56 words
    52. Yorkshire Regional Health Authority (Retirements) 80 words
    53. Disabled Persons (Legal Entitlements) 123 words
    54. Hospitals (Privatisation Contracts) 166 words
    55. Health Promotion Research Trust 125 words
    56. Spectacles (Dispensing) 109 words
    57. Severe Disablement Allowance 114 words
    58. Oxygen Concentrators 120 words
    59. Kneels of Exeter (Laundry Tender) 347 words
    60. NHS (Staff Retirements) 215 words
    61. Child Allowance 121 words

Lords Sitting of 27 March 1984

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Glorious Revolution: Tercentenary 1,087 words
  3. London Docklands: Stolport Project 349 words
  4. Education: Children with Special Needs 1,514 words
  5. Soccer Hooliganism 926 words
  6. Dinner 50 words
  7. Aberdeen and District Milk Marketing Scheme (Application to Banff) Revocation Order 1984 42 words
  8. Aberdeen and District Milk Marketing Scheme 1984 42 words
  9. Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill 37,134 words, 3 divisions
  10. Recreational Gardening Bill [H.L.] 4,047 words
  11. Prohibition of Female Circumcision Bill [H.L.] 5,809 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 27 March 1984

  1. H.M. PRISONS, HULL AND ALBANY: WORKSHOP NOISE LEVELS 165 words
  2. SOVIET MARITIME POLICY: MONITORING 70 words
  3. HIGHER EDUCATION: STUDENT GRANTS 114 words
  4. YOUTH SERVICE IN LONDON: RATE-CAPPING PROPOSALS 144 words
  5. WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE: UNESCO CONVENTION 116 words
  6. WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT: COST OF CLAIMS 182 words
  7. AIRBUS: FINANCING 101 words