Commons Sitting of 14 May 1984

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. ENERGY
      1. Sleipner Gas 605 words
      2. Power Stations (Refurbishment) 409 words
      3. Energy Conservation Areas 539 words
      4. Power Stations (Coal Supplies) 1,747 words
      5. Coal Mining Dispute 1,934 words
      6. CEGB (Costs) 244 words
      7. Alternative Energy 202 words
      8. Landlords (Charges) 189 words
      9. Coal Mining Dispute 259 words
    2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. Office Accommodation 334 words
      2. Public Accounts Commission 236 words
      3. Whit Monday (Sitting of the House) 185 words
      4. Thomas Cook and Son Ltd. 448 words
    3. CIVIL SERVICE
      1. Management and Personnel Office 554 words
      2. Unions (Meetings) 737 words
  4. UNITA Prisoners (Release) 1,729 words
  5. Police and Criminal Evidence Bill 186 words
  6. Statutory Instruments, &c. 162 words
  7. Orders of the Day
    1. Police and Criminal Evidence Bill 7 words
      1. New Clause 3
        1. POLICE DETENTION TO COUNT TOWARDS CUSTODIAL SENTENCE 670 words
      2. New Clause 4
        1. SEIZED ARTICLES: ACCESS AND COPYING 1,536 words
      3. New Clause 5
        1. RETENTION OF SEIZED ARTICLES 176 words
      4. New Clause 6
        1. ABOLITION OF CERTAIN POWERS OF CONSTABLES TO SEARCH PERSONS 1,068 words
      5. New Clause 7
        1. POWER OF CONSTABLE TO USE REASONABLE FORCE 1,641 words
      6. New Clause 25
        1. ROAD CHECKS 15,602 words, 1 division
      7. New Clause 26
        1. REPRESENTATION AT DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS 1,468 words
      8. New Clause 9
        1. POWERS OF ARREST FOR OFFENCES CONTRARY TO SECTION 32 OF THE SEXUAL OFFENCES ACT 1956 18,157 words, 1 division
      9. New Clause 10
        1. EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE OTHER THAN CONFESSIONS 222 words
      10. New Clause 12
        1. EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE OBTAINED IN THE COURSE OF IMPROPER SEARCH 194 words
      11. New Clause 13
        1. EXCLUSION OF CONFESSIONS OR ADMISSIONS 6,931 words
      12. New clause 14
        1. ADDITIONAL RIGHTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE DURING SEARCHING 182 words
        2. ADDITIONAL RIGHTS FOR ARRESTED JUVENILES WHO MAY BE INTIMATELY SEARCHED 1,803 words
        3. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 23 words
        4. Police and Criminal Evidence Bill 703 words
      13. New Clause 16
        1. ABOLITION OF COMMON LAW POWERS WHEN STATUTORY POWERS COME INTO FORCE 8,577 words, 1 division
  8. Mr. Ashley Doubtfire 3,440 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 14 May 1984

  1. PRIME MINISTER
    1. European Treaty of Union 94 words
    2. South African Prime Minister (Visit) 63 words
    3. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 214 words
    4. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origin) 74 words
  2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 152 words
    2. Equal Opportunities Officers 157 words
    3. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origins) 75 words
  3. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
    1. Conunission for Racial Equality (Code) 105 words
    2. Equal Opportunities Officer 101 words
    3. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origin) 75 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Vietnamese Refugees 79 words
    2. Political Refugees 68 words
    3. British Videogram Association 51 words
    4. Police Cars 167 words
    5. Police Act 1964 45 words
    6. Immigration 62 words
    7. Prison Service 104 words
    8. Coal Industry Dispute 186 words
    9. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origins) 83 words
    10. Immigrants (Police Registration Fee) 83 words
    11. Special Constables 59 words
    12. Jonathan Bloch 102 words
  5. TRANSPORT
    1. North Essex (Trunk Roads) 72 words
    2. EC (Airlines) 166 words
    3. M25 (Services) 184 words
    4. Pilotage 32 words
    5. A6(M) Stockport 91 words
    6. Kay Avenue, Bredbury 103 words
    7. Vehicle Excise Duty (Offences) 85 words
    8. Shipping Conferences 69 words
    9. Cross-Channel Freight 161 words
    10. Road Fund Taxation 57 words
    11. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Transport) 165 words
    12. Stansted and Heathrow Inquiries 52 words
    13. M40 Extension 204 words
    14. Air and Air Traffic Regulations 56 words
    15. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre, Swansea 100 words
    16. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 84 words
    17. Equal Opportunities Officers 81 words
    18. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origin) 77 words
  6. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Taxation (Overpayments) 351 words
    2. Scotch Whisky 92 words
    3. Investment Income Surcharge 55 words
    4. Imported Legacies 151 words
    5. Coal Mining Dispute 80 words
    6. Eurobonds 43 words
    7. Deep Discount Securities 52 words
    8. Inflation 45 words
    9. Nationalised Industries (Donations) 36 words
    10. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origins) 75 words
    11. Value Added Tax (Building Work) 91 words
    12. Illegal Drugs 192 words
    13. £l Coin 98 words
    14. Capital Allowances 112 words
    15. Government Contracts 131 words
  7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Information Technology Centres 43 words
    2. Oil (Balance of Trade) 202 words
    3. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 97 words
    4. Equal Opportunities Officers 135 words
    5. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origin) 101 words
  8. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Libyan Students 25 words
    2. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 109 words
  9. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. "Training for Jobs" 99 words
    2. Health Visitors 378 words
    3. Schools Re-organisation (Manchester) 66 words
    4. Freshwater Biological Association, Windermere 132 words
    5. Teachers (Pay) 297 words
    6. Hearing-impaired Children 75 words
    7. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 97 words
    8. Equal Opportunities Officers 145 words
    9. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origins) 77 words
    10. Natural Environment Research Council 290 words
    11. Higher Education (Report) 77 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. El Salvador 67 words
    2. Diplomatic Status 488 words
    3. Falkland Islands 342 words
    4. Hong Kong 606 words
    5. European Community (Policy) 132 words
    6. Israel 147 words
    7. Libya 215 words
    8. Raoul Wallenberg 94 words
    9. EC (Rebate) 80 words
    10. Passport Control (France) 58 words
    11. South African Prime Minister (Visit) 93 words
    12. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 101 words
    13. Equal Opportunities Officers 102 words
    14. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origins) 84 words
    15. Syria 69 words
    16. Iran-Iraq War 114 words
    17. Test Ban Treaty 58 words
    18. Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions 116 words
    19. EC (Budget) 107 words
  11. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 150 words
    2. Guyana 82 words
    3. Falkland Islands 169 words
    4. Crown Agents 32 words
  12. ENERGY
    1. Sleipner Gas 50 words
    2. Pit Closures 106 words
    3. Substitute Natural Gas 92 words
    4. British Gas (Domestic Connections) 45 words
    5. Departmental Costs 48 words
    6. "Plan for Coal" 92 words
    7. Coal Mining Dispute 169 words
    8. Easter Ross (Contracts) 75 words
    9. Low Income Households 58 words
    10. Conservation Investment 128 words
    11. Electricity Prices 53 words
    12. Pit Closure Programme 117 words
    13. Coal Gasification 104 words
    14. Oil (Offshore Fields) 75 words
    15. JET (Culham) 54 words
    16. North Sea (Marginal Fields) 43 words
    17. Coal Stocks 44 words
    18. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 135 words
    19. Equal Opportunities Officers 106 words
    20. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origins) 70 words
    21. Electricity Generation 103 words
    22. Waverley Report (Nuclear Energy) 110 words
    23. North Sea Gas (Exports) 82 words
    24. Coal Supplies 177 words
    25. Gas Supplies (Norway) 58 words
  13. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Metropolitan County Councils 71 words
    2. Local Government Reform 851 words
    3. Legislation (Expenditure Consequences) 66 words
    4. Nature Conservation 645 words
    5. Management Agreements 322 words
    6. Planning Permission 62 words
    7. Urban Programme 488 words
    8. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 86 words
    9. Equal Opportunities Officers 81 words
    10. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origins) 78 words
    11. Local Authority Race Relations Information Exchange 147 words
    12. Local Government (Debt Management Expenses) 68 words
    13. Waste Disposal 93 words
    14. Rates 102 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Harbour Development Projects 152 words
    2. Sheriff Courts (Backlog) 153 words
    3. Scottish Women's Aid 68 words
    4. Sheltered Housing (Warden Service) 249 words
    5. Black Committee 146 words
    6. Surface and Coastal Waters (Radioactivity) 133 words
    7. Information Technology Centres 243 words
    8. Skillcentres 34 words
    9. Ravenscraig and Hunterston (Policing Costs) 149 words
    10. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 137 words
    11. Equal Opportunities Officers 99 words
    12. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origins) 80 words
  15. WALES
    1. Urban Programme Grants 46 words
    2. Dairy Farming 57 words
    3. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origins) 148 words
    4. Equal Opportunities Officers 108 words
    5. Teachers 150 words
    6. Capital Transfer Tax 118 words
  16. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Parental Leave 329 words
    2. Labour Statistics 278 words
    3. Jobcentres 139 words
    4. Youth Training Scheme 672 words
    5. Race Relations Employment Advisory Service 166 words
    6. Inquiries (Statistics) 88 words
    7. Far Eastern Restaurant, Liverpool 74 words
    8. May Day Bank Holiday 84 words
    9. Medical Insurance Schemes 67 words
    10. Regional Benefit Investigation Teams 222 words
    11. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 106 words
    12. Equal Opportunities Officers 107 words
    13. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origin) 77 words
    14. Edinburgh Monarchs Speedway Team 85 words
    15. Apprentices (Benefit) 120 words
    16. Private Training Agencies (Definition) 64 words
    17. Departmental Advertising 137 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Milk 510 words
    2. Common Agricultural Policy 219 words
    3. Scotch Whisky (Duty) 69 words
    4. Fowl Pest 197 words
    5. Exchequer Support 402 words
    6. Rabbits (Quarantine) 74 words
    7. Thames Water Authority (Rod Licences) 59 words
    8. Dairy Farmers 107 words
    9. Member's Questions 157 words
    10. Animal Movement Licences 49 words
    11. Farm Incomes 167 words
    12. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 82 words
    13. Equal Opportunities Officers 218 words
    14. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origin) 99 words
    15. EEC (Exports) 540 words
  18. DEFENCE
    1. Aftercare Facilities (Falklands War) 198 words
    2. Departmental Land 159 words
    3. South Atlantic Fund 54 words
    4. Falklands War (Handicapped Service Men) 56 words
    5. South African Prime Minister (Visit) 40 words
    6. Trident 53 words
    7. Expenditure 252 words
    8. Ravenscraig Steelworks and Hunterston Terminal (Military Personnel) 29 words
    9. Commission for Racial Equality (Code) 208 words
    10. Equal Opportunities Officers 578 words
    11. Non-industrial Civil Servants (Ethnic Origins) 76 words
    12. Royal Auxiliary Air Force 47 words
  19. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Kidney Patients (Equipment) 55 words
    2. General Practitioners 608 words
    3. Cancer Patients (Prescription Charges) 174 words
    4. Pensioners 402 words
    5. Benefits 436 words
    6. Supplementary Benefit 2,521 words
    7. Hospital Services (Privatisation) 35 words
    8. X-ray Plates (Scrap Value) 76 words
    9. "Hard-to-Heat" Houses (Manchester) 149 words
    10. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 78 words
    11. Invitro Fertilisation 296 words
    12. Departmental Appointments 61 words
    13. Student Benefits 612 words
    14. National Health Service Equipment (Advertising) 56 words
    15. Hospital Building 136 words
    16. Private Medical Institutions 94 words
    17. Family Practitioner Committees 217 words
    18. Unemployment Review 179 words
    19. Supplementary Benefit Regulations (Availability) 246 words
    20. Coal Industry Dispute 244 words
    21. World Health Assembly 88 words