Commons Sitting of 5 December 1985

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. MESSAGES FROM THE QUEEN
    1. INCOME TAX 92 words
    2. SUMMER TIME 30 words
    3. PRIVATE BUSINESS 73 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. HOME DEPARTMENT
      1. Shops Bill 688 words
      2. Criminal Statistics 490 words
      3. Prison Population 527 words
      4. Plastic Bullets 682 words
      5. Detainees (Police and Court Cells) 442 words
      6. Civil Defence (Local Authority Communications) 113 words
      7. Trespass 336 words
      8. Licensing Laws 693 words
      9. Criminal Statistics 886 words
      10. Channel Islands 290 words
      11. Manchester University (Ministerial Visit) 456 words
      12. Drug Misuse 347 words
      13. Cinemas (Safety) 231 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,086 words
      2. Points of Order 1,143 words
  5. European Council (Luxembourg) 5,745 words
  6. Business of the House 3,961 words
  7. UNESCO 4,803 words
  8. BILLS PRESENTED
    1. BUILDING SOCIETIES 63 words
    2. PUBLIC ORDER 161 words
    3. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 646 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Education (Amendment) Bill 13,691 words, 1 division
  10. EDUCATION (AMENDMENT) BILL [MONEY] 56 words
  11. Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 22,423 words
  12. STATUTORY INSTUMENTS, &c. 18 words
  13. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 26 words
  14. HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS SHIPPING SERVICES 39 words
  15. HOUSE OF COMMONS (SERVICES) 27 words
  16. EUROPEAN LEGISLATION 24 words
  17. LIAISON COMMITTEE 22 words
  18. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS 23 words
  19. Mr. Malcolm Pike 3,853 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 5 December 1985

  1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Primary Schools (Curricula) 123 words
    2. 16–plus Examination 84 words
    3. Research Grants 146 words
    4. Pupils (Midday Supervision) 149 words
    5. Mathematics and Modern Languages 73 words
    6. Disabled University Students 115 words
    7. Married University Students 64 words
    8. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 406 words
  2. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Post Office (Welsh Language) 57 words
    2. Motor Car Industry 71 words
    3. Pharmaceutical Investment 196 words
    4. Crown Suppliers 62 words
    5. Hong Kong Festival 81 words
    6. Electricity (Resale) 433 words
    7. Grants (Job Creation) 1,631 words
  3. ENERGY
    1. British Gas (External Financing Limit) 197 words
    2. Sellafield (Separation of Facilities) 70 words
    3. Natural Gas 90 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Plastic Bullets 253 words
  5. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Local Government Reform 620 words
    2. Cresswell Crags 209 words
    3. Woolwich Prison 121 words
    4. Nationalised Industries 38 words
    5. Pollution 101 words
    6. Guildhall, Dartmouth 138 words
    7. Old Battery, Dartmouth Castle 415 words
    8. Home Improvement Grants 86 words
    9. Catering Equipment (Import Penetration) 121 words
    10. Weedon Aqueduct 58 words
    11. North Oxford Canal (Emergency Works) 161 words
    12. Municipal Housing (Repair Costs) 114 words
    13. Local Government Act 1985 188 words
    14. Asbestos Removal 445 words
    15. Mineral Damaged Land 62 words
    16. Water Authorities (Civil Defence Plans) 97 words
  6. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Facsimile Document Transmission 52 words
  7. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
    1. Holy Trinity Church, Paddington 80 words
    2. "Faith in the City" 63 words
  8. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Crown Prosecution Service 212 words
  9. TRANSPORT
    1. Thames Water (Mogden Works) 128 words
    2. British Rail (Modernisation) 95 words
    3. North Sea Oil (Support Vessels) 171 words
    4. Drivers (Testing) 102 words
    5. Motorway (Accident Statistics) 90 words
    6. Woolwhich Ferry (Traffic Forecasts) 109 words
    7. Trunk Roads 99 words
    8. M20 (Maidstone-Ashford) 87 words
    9. Ml Motorway 566 words
    10. GLC (Taxicard Scheme) 87 words
    11. Long Haul Flights (Route Licences) 85 words
    12. Helicopter Pilots 131 words
    13. Aircraft (Smoke Hoods) 117 words
    14. Aircraft (Halon Gas Flooding) 97 words
    15. Seat Belts 84 words
    16. Oil Spillage (Report) 95 words
  10. WALES
    1. Hotel and Catering Industries 145 words
    2. Housing (Financial Allocations) 236 words
  11. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Ethiopia (Food Aid) 156 words
  12. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Proportional Representation 48 words
    2. Hotel and Catering Industries 84 words
    3. Hospital Development 172 words
  13. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. British Broadcasting Corporation 118 words
    2. Criminal Statistics 736 words
    3. Inner Cities 147 words
    4. Shops Bill 160 words
    5. Crime Prevention 538 words
    6. Immigration 85 words
    7. SCOPE Report 77 words
    8. Police Policy 81 words
    9. Visas 83 words
    10. Civil Defence 913 words
    11. Identity Cards 39 words
    12. Buses and Lorries (Speeding Offences) 57 words
    13. Arrested Persons (Tottenham) 191 words
    14. Crime and Deprivation 90 words
    15. Murder (Penalty) 27 words
    16. Thames Valley Police 71 words
    17. Extradition 52 words
    18. Television Licence Fee 75 words
    19. Probation Service 168 words
    20. Bodies (Forensic identification) 137 words
    21. Violent Crime 251 words
    22. Unlawful Killing 75 words
    23. Community Policing 85 words
    24. Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse 143 words
    25. Police and Prison Officers 109 words
    26. Nuclear Weapons 47 words
    27. Trespass 61 words
    28. Rape Victims 181 words
    29. Prison Places 53 words
    30. Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 140 words
    31. Police Establishments 78 words
    32. Age of Consent 40 words
    33. Car Sirens 96 words
    34. Greenham Common 160 words
    35. Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985 74 words
    36. Woolwich Prison 374 words
    37. Swansea and Cardiff Prisons 89 words
    38. Drug Offences 70 words
    39. Obscenity 350 words
    40. Crime (Incidence) 129 words
    41. Demonstrators 90 words
    42. Police Officers (Fatalities and Injuries) 134 words
    43. Chemical and Biological Weapons 71 words
    44. Housebreaking 187 words
  14. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Central Scotland 28 words
    2. Low-paid and Pensioners 98 words
    3. USSR (Visit) 35 words
    4. European Summit 41 words
    5. Disarmament Conference 66 words
    6. Cabinet Papers 143 words
    7. Engagements 239 words
    8. Israeli Espionage 70 words
    9. Heads of Government (Entertainment Costs) 34 words
    10. Prime Ministerial Travel (Aircraft Use) 49 words
    11. EC Meetings 426 words
  15. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Labour Statistics 654 words
    2. Hotel and Catering Industries 715 words
  16. SCOTLAND
    1. Glasgow University 632 words
    2. Rate Support Grant 80 words
    3. Housing Support Grants 1,803 words
    4. Sheriff Courts 129 words
    5. Hotel and Catering Industries 561 words
    6. Civil Defence 334 words
    7. NHS Management (Griffiths Proposals) 144 words
    8. Rate Support Grant 59 words
    9. School Closures 229 words
  17. THE ARTS
    1. Film Industry 39 words
  18. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Advancement of Women 126 words
  19. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. EC Budget 179 words
  20. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Consultant-Junior Doctor Ratio 134 words
    2. Sickness Benefit (Hereford and Worcester) 110 words
    3. Nurses (Costs) 243 words
    4. Contraceptive Pill (Prescriptions) 60 words
    5. Drug Addiction 146 words
    6. Housing Benefit 1,538 words
    7. High Rent Area Scheme 560 words
    8. Cancer 434 words
    9. Supplementary Benefit 190 words
    10. Heating Additions 66 words
    11. Crown Immunity 36 words
    12. Disabled Persons (Access) 152 words
  21. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. European Court of Human Rights 141 words
    2. Plutonium 290 words
    3. Peace Organisations 108 words
    4. Advancement of Women 315 words
    5. MBFR Talks 262 words
    6. NATO (Barrier Defence) 77 words
    7. Equipment Losses 431 words
    8. RAF Personnel 284 words
    9. Leukaemia and Lymphatic Cancer 217 words
    10. Departmental Staff (Payments) 81 words
  22. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Fish (Mercury Levels) 318 words
    2. Equal Opportunities Officer 103 words

Lords Sitting of 5 December 1985

  1. Preamble 21 words
  2. Electricity Resale: Publicity 876 words
  3. Overseas Aid: OECD Comparisons 883 words
  4. Gat wick Airport: Immigration Service Staffing 307 words
  5. Channel Fixed Link 1,144 words
  6. Business: Christmas Recess 223 words
  7. European Council: Luxembourg, 2nd-3rd December 797 words
  8. Business of the House 91 words
  9. Okehampton Bypass (Confirmation of Orders) Bill 11,697 words
  10. UNESCO: British Membership 3,215 words
  11. Okehampton Bypass (Confirmation of Orders) Bill 49,375 words, 2 divisions
  12. Northern Ireland (Loans) Bill 33 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 5 December 1985

  1. LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND FOREIGN BORROWING TRANSACTIONS 132 words
  2. LOCAL AUTHORITIES: BORROWING APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS 166 words
  3. GLC AND MCC PROPERTIES: TRANSFER TO SUCCESSOR BODIES 565 words
  4. EL SALVADOR: ALLEGED MACHINE-GUNNING INCIDENT 40 words
  5. PRESIDENT ORTEGA: EXCHANGE OF LETTERS 69 words
  6. NUCLEAR WEAPON TESTING: OPINION POLL 82 words
  7. PRESIDENT REAGAN: MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER 61 words