Commons Sitting of 5 March 1984

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES
      1. Housing Improvements 951 words
      2. Severn Crossing 453 words
      3. Pupil-Teacher Ratio 210 words
      4. Youth Training Scheme 268 words
      5. School Visits 325 words
      6. WINvest 292 words
      7. Schools (Modern Languages) 210 words
      8. Farming 642 words
      9. Pig Industry 260 words
      10. Countryside Commission (Meeting) 220 words
      11. Welsh Language 606 words
      12. Local Government (Employees) 384 words
      13. Elderly Persons (Accommodation) 339 words
      14. Pit Closures 358 words
    2. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
      1. Church Sites (Sale) 690 words
    3. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. Staff (Overseas Visits) 583 words
    4. THE ARTS
      1. National Portrait Gallery 233 words
      2. Local Government Reform 1,184 words
      3. Arts Body (Funding) 835 words
  4. Fowl Pest 704 words
  5. Rating and Valuation (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time) 28,663 words, 1 division
  6. OPPOSITION DAY 3 words
    1. Immigration Rules 28,612 words, 2 divisions
      1. SOMERSET HOUSE BILL [LORDS] 53 words
      2. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 18 words
        1. AGRICULTURE 33 words
    2. St. Mary Overy Wharf 4,271 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 5 March 1984

  1. ENERGY
    1. Nuclear Fusion 97 words
    2. Opencast Mining 242 words
    3. Nuclear Waste 163 words
    4. Energy Programme 96 words
  2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Juries 173 words
    2. Public Record Office 144 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Immigration 399 words
    2. Mr. Duncan Campbell 111 words
    3. Neighbourhood Watch Schemes 271 words
    4. Drug Squads 51 words
    5. Defective Tyres (Prosecutions) 276 words
    6. Police (Initial Recruitment Test) 105 words
    7. Sizewell B Inquiry 134 words
    8. Fraud 80 words
    9. Sentencing Policy 201 words
    10. Police Manpower 88 words
    11. Crime Statistics 82 words
    12. Greenham Common 143 words
    13. British Nationality (Fees) 48 words
    14. Representation of the People Acts (Consultation Papers) 84 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Public Sector Tenants Exchange 68 words
    2. Student Nurses 169 words
    3. Falkland Islands 172 words
    4. Society of Friends 147 words
    5. Scott Lithgow 114 words
    6. Electricity Council 62 words
    7. Oman University Contract 50 words
    8. Middle East 71 words
  5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Government Programmes (Local Support) 168 words
    2. Postal Service (Efficiency) 72 words
    3. Scottish Office (Correspondence) 93 words
    4. Yorkshire and Humberside 181 words
    5. Blessingwell Ltd. 87 words
    6. Steel Industry (West Midlands) 157 words
    7. Home-produced Steel 34 words
    8. A320 Airbus 61 words
  6. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Banks (Recognition) 51 words
    2. BP (Directors) 78 words
    3. Gratuities (Taxation) 590 words
    4. Motability (Car Tax) 49 words
    5. Accounts (Investigation) 183 words
  7. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Schools (Change of Status) 832 words
    2. Adult Training Strategy 105 words
    3. Fast Electronic Switching Devices (Research) 168 words
    4. Letcombe Laboratory (Closure) 51 words
    5. Heriot-Watt University 122 words
    6. Pharmacy Teaching 377 words
    7. School Meals Census 35 words
    8. Royal Forest of Dean Grammar School 144 words
    9. Unemployed Adults (Education) 164 words
    10. Foreign Languages 515 words
  8. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Parliamentary Pensions 70 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Falkland Islands 315 words
    2. GCHQ 74 words
    3. King George Island 85 words
    4. Trade Unions (Membership) 166 words
    5. Middle East 241 words
  10. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
    1. Political Activities 67 words
    2. Employees (Scotland) 95 words
    3. Employees (United Kingdom) 77 words
    4. Public Criticism (Official Apology) 47 words
  11. TRANSPORT
    1. Buses (Radio Equipment) 253 words
    2. Lorry Weights (Bridges) 149 words
    3. Correspondence 43 words
    4. Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority 126 words
    5. A1 (Wetherby-Dishforth) 99 words
    6. European Community (Frontier Formalities) 84 words
    7. Falkland Islands 68 words
    8. Highways (South Yorkshire) 916 words
    9. Coal and Coke Imports 1,142 words
    10. A19 (Repairs) 43 words
    11. British Airports Authority (Privatisation) 52 words
    12. Gatwick Airport 104 words
    13. Heavy Lorries (London) 296 words
    14. Roads (Islington) 109 words
  12. THE ARTS
    1. Local Government Reform 188 words
    2. Arts Council 48 words
    3. Ministerial Talks 113 words
    4. Financial Contributions 185 words
  13. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Housebuilding Bodies (Grants) 60 words
    2. Local Authority Audits 156 words
    3. Nitrogen Oxides and Ozone Levels 107 words
    4. Atmospheric Pollution 332 words
    5. Environmental Pollution 65 words
    6. Liverpool 167 words
    7. Local Government Personnel 911 words
    8. International Conference Centre 92 words
    9. National Parks 229 words
    10. Council House Rents 44 words
    11. Council House Sales 46 words
    12. Rate Capping 30 words
    13. Housing (Southwark) 357 words
    14. Lead in Petrol 159 words
    15. Lead 308 words
    16. Local Authority Debt 125 words
    17. Sellafield 188 words
    18. Radioactive Discharges 109 words
    19. Housing Revenue Accounts (Surplus) 144 words
    20. Football Hooliganism 98 words
    21. Homeless Persons 43 words
    22. Audits 111 words
    23. Exhaust Gases (Catalysts) 308 words
  14. WALES
    1. Bridgend Hospital 38 words
    2. Labour Statistics 91 words
    3. British Rail Investment 67 words
    4. Land Reclamation 85 words
    5. Rates (Clwyd) 103 words
    6. Welsh Development Agency (Factory Space) 64 words
    7. Housing Statistics 75 words
    8. Bronglais Hospital, Aberystwyth 41 words
    9. Mid-Wales Development Board (Meeting) 57 words
    10. National Parks 39 words
    11. Under-fives 169 words
    12. Elderly Persons (Accommodation) 95 words
    13. Renal Disease 387 words
    14. Hospital Waiting Lists (Gwent) 91 words
    15. Dental Courses 24 words
    16. Dental Charges 145 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Agricultural Holdings 514 words
    2. Sugar 447 words
    3. Rape Seed (Intervention Costs) 68 words
    4. Field Beans 119 words
    5. Surplus Foodstuffs 271 words
    6. Agricultural Products 414 words
    7. Less-favoured Areas 181 words
    8. Hill Farmers 184 words
    9. Veal 436 words
    10. Milk Levy 73 words
    11. Animals (Disease Transmission) 521 words
    12. Correspondence 47 words
    13. Salmon (River Esk) 126 words
  16. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Computerised Information 546 words
    2. Maternity Benefits 42 words
    3. Pregnancy (Drug Hazards) 321 words
    4. NHS (Ancillary Staff) 109 words
    5. Pensioners 176 words
    6. Specialist Claims Control 177 words
    7. Health Funding (Liverpool) 175 words
    8. Health Authorities (Audits) 85 words
    9. Housing Benefit 90 words
    10. Ophthalmic Opticians 67 words
    11. Abortions 323 words
    12. Renal Disease 846 words
    13. Consultant Nephrologists 168 words
    14. Mobility Allowance 135 words
    15. Husband and Wife Claimants 331 words
    16. Leeds Eastern Health Authority 137 words
    17. Lassa Fever 92 words
    18. NHS (Privatisation) 67 words
    19. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital 410 words
    20. Drug Dependence Units 226 words
    21. NHS (Property Sales) 388 words
    22. Drug Abuse 155 words
    23. Overseas Doctors 62 words
    24. Invalidity Care Allowance 175 words
    25. Supplementary Pensions 294 words
    26. Ambulance Services 511 words
    27. Supplementary Benefits 2,215 words
    28. Family Income 319 words
    29. NHS Administrators (Redundancy Scheme) 216 words
  17. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Industrial Trainees 100 words
    2. Merseyside 78 words
    3. Labour Statistics 70 words
    4. Youth Training Scheme 473 words
    5. Community Programme 128 words
    6. Manpower Services Commission (Schemes) 171 words
    7. Hull Community Action Scheme 267 words
    8. Disabled Persons (Training) 115 words
    9. Disabled Persons (Employment) 132 words
    10. Industrial Stoppages 113 words
    11. Diving Supervisors 108 words
  18. SCOTLAND
    1. Under-fives 148 words
    2. Renal Disease 281 words
    3. Assisted Places Scheme 153 words
    4. School Closures 398 words
    5. Heriot-Watt University (Department of Pharmacy) 107 words
    6. Possilpark, Glasgow 135 words
    7. Springburn Festival 67 words
    8. NHS (Privatisation) 47 words
    9. Primary Schools (Dundee) 147 words
    10. Education (Consultation) 94 words
    11. Dental Courses 55 words
    12. Dental Charges 157 words
    13. Caledonian MacBrayne 70 words
  19. DEFENCE
    1. Merchant Ships (Charter) 746 words
    2. Nuclear Waste 594 words
    3. Porton Down 32 words
    4. Falkland Islands 118 words
    5. Departmental Staff 218 words
    6. HMS Brave 50 words
    7. CND (Departmental Staff) 43 words
    8. Porton Down (Test Volunteers) 314 words
    9. General Belgrano 109 words
    10. Statement on the Defence Estimates 45 words
    11. Forces Personnel (Absenteeism) 41 words
    12. MoD-ICL 2980 Computer 149 words
  20. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Housing Grants 469 words
    2. Association of Local Authorities 56 words
    3. Planning Applications 34 words
    4. Concessionary Fares 43 words
    5. Housing Executive 385 words
    6. Plastic Bullets 157 words
    7. Violent Death (Investigations) 62 words
    8. Licensed Premises 111 words
    9. Licensing Laws (Review) 72 words
    10. Strip Searches (Prisons) 70 words
    11. Gunshot and Bomb Blast Injuries 162 words
    12. European Assembly 107 words
    13. Provisional Sinn Fein 119 words
    14. Renal Disease 316 words
    15. Unapproved Roads 176 words
    16. Labour Statistics 197 words

Lords Sitting of 5 March 1984

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Statistics: Basis of Comparisons 1,047 words
  3. Missile Tender and the Exchange Rate 703 words
  4. Crime Rate 430 words
  5. Recovery and Re-use of Implants 530 words
  6. Fowl Pest Outbreaks 49 words
  7. Repatriation of Prisoners Bill [H.L.] 6,670 words
  8. Fowl Pest Outbreaks 1,452 words
  9. Repatriation of Prisoners Bill [H.L.] 29,587 words
  10. Education (Grants and Awards) Bill 14,923 words, 1 division
  11. Road Traffic (Driving Instruction) Bill 6,499 words
  12. Rate Levels and the Law 9,531 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 5 March 1984

  1. DRUG PRICING 64 words
  2. READING: READIBUS SERVICE 185 words
  3. ADVANCED FURTHER EDUCATION: FUTURE NUMBERS 109 words
  4. HIGHER EDUCATION: WOMEN'S FUTURE PARTICIPATION 77 words
  5. NANT Y BRAIN: AFFORESTATION 246 words
  6. CORMORANTS: GUN LICENCES 140 words
  7. FISHERIES PROTECTION: GUN LICENCES 171 words
  8. LISTED ECCLESIASTICAL BUILDINGS 163 words