Commons Sitting of 9 December 1985

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. WALES
    1. Patients (Statistics) 642 words
    2. Coking Coal 358 words
    3. Housebuilding Land 339 words
    4. Welsh Language Education 334 words
    5. District Councils (Capital Funding) 361 words
    6. National Coal Board (Enterprise) Ltd. 381 words
    7. West Glamorgan and Dyfed (High Technology) 460 words
    8. Labour Statistics 852 words
    9. Economic Prospects 1,080 words
    10. National Health Service 387 words
    11. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
      1. Clergy Wives and Widows 529 words
      2. Dilapidations and Other Works 431 words
      3. South Africa (Investment Policy) 181 words
      4. Redundant: Churches 253 words
      5. Redundant Churches 200 words
    12. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. Weekly Information Bulletin 280 words
    13. THE ARTS
      1. Financial Promotions (Retained Receipts) 522 words
      2. British Film Institute 292 words
      3. Sponsorship 617 words
      4. Fawcett Library 175 words
  4. Strategic Defence Initiative 6,529 words
  5. Austin Rover (Redundancies) 362 words
  6. Strategic Defence Initiative 336 words
  7. BILLS PRESENTED
    1. TELEVISION ACT 1964 (AMENDMENT) 95 words
    2. DOG FIGHTING (PENALTIES) 58 words
  8. Channel (Fixed Link) 45,812 words, 1 division
  9. Hormonal Growth Promoters 9,215 words
  10. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS &c. 35 words
  11. SOCIAL SECURITY 45 words
  12. AGRICULTURE 19 words
  13. CONSUMER PROTECTION 19 words
  14. FORESTRY 37 words
  15. Dangerous Goods (Imports) 4,209 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 9 December 1985

  1. PRIME MINISTER
    1. European Parliament 83 words
    2. Crime Prevention (Downing Street Seminar) 81 words
    3. European Community 160 words
    4. Economic and Monetary Union (Luxembourg Summit) 159 words
    5. Small and Medium-Sized Undertakings 75 words
    6. Illiteracy 169 words
    7. Energy Policy 150 words
    8. Bishops 71 words
    9. Pensioners' Charter 49 words
    10. Television (Obscenity) 512 words
    11. UNESCO 72 words
    12. European Charter of Self-Government 53 words
    13. Public Bodies (Appointments) 116 words
  2. ENERGY
    1. Hinckley Point (Gas Leakage) 154 words
    2. Plutonium 265 words
    3. Coal Mining Subsidence 49 words
    4. National Coal Board 180 words
    5. Coal Mining Subsidence 89 words
    6. Coal Firing Scheme 187 words
    7. British National Oil Corporation 310 words
    8. Gas and Electricity (Disconnections) 64 words
    9. Coal Industry (Redundancies) 67 words
    10. British Gas 45 words
  3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Contempt of Court (Sequestration) 104 words
    2. Fraud 87 words
    3. Fraud Investigation Group 99 words
  4. TRANSPORT
    1. British Railways Board (Property) 665 words
    2. Vehicle Testing 70 words
    3. M25 140 words
    4. Motorways (Lighting) 79 words
    5. Drink Drive Campaign 62 words
    6. Ribblehead Viaduct 70 words
    7. Channel Fixed Link 338 words
    8. Nationalised Transport Companies (Purchasing Policies) 68 words
    9. Civil Aviation Authority (Meteorological Services) 198 words
    10. Driving Instruction 238 words
    11. Garscadden (Grants and Loans) 296 words
  5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Durham, North (Grants) 107 words
    2. Hull (Regional Aid) 249 words
    3. Regional Grants (Scotland) 366 words
    4. Equal Opportunities Officer 104 words
    5. Alvey Programme 54 words
    6. Life Assurance and Unit Trusts 102 words
    7. Insurance Claims 56 words
    8. Pharmaceutical Products (Patents) 130 words
    9. Multi-fibre Arrangement 72 words
    10. Textiles and Clothing (Imports) 234 words
    11. Trendhart Limited and Odestage Limited 63 words
    12. Grants (Northern Region) 391 words
    13. Carpets 395 words
    14. Multi-fibre Arrangement 254 words
    15. Anti-dumping Legislation 105 words
    16. Westland Helicopters 98 words
    17. CR6 Taxi 134 words
    18. Imports and Exports 170 words
    19. Grants (Job Creation) 1,642 words
    20. Live Aid Concert (Pirate Video Recordings) 86 words
    21. Lloyd's Syndicate Bellew, Parry, Raven 36 words
    22. Textiles and Clothing (Yorkshire and Humberside) 162 words
  6. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Construction Industry 84 words
    2. Armagh Prison (Strip Searches) 298 words
    3. Anglo-Irish Agreement 51 words
  7. WALES
    1. Road Maintenance 82 words
    2. National Health Service 57 words
    3. Welsh Development Agency 79 words
    4. Rhuddlan Promenade (Caravan Parking) 116 words
    5. Hospital Waiting Lists 62 words
    6. Pig Industry 81 words
    7. Cardigan (Job Creation) 68 words
    8. Health Service (Powys) 61 words
    9. Rural Pharmacies 63 words
    10. Cardiff Harbour Barrage 69 words
    11. Home Dialysis Machines 47 words
    12. Housing Defects Act 112 words
    13. Mentally Handicapped Persons (Gwynedd) 78 words
    14. Disabled Children (Education) 83 words
    15. Small Firms (Liquidations) 75 words
    16. National Coal Board (Chairman) 80 words
    17. Morriston Hospital 99 words
  8. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
    1. Clergy Stipends and Pensions 45 words
    2. Residential Flats, Edgware Road 101 words
  9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Gibraltar 104 words
    2. Copyright 90 words
  10. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Universities and Polytechnics (Student Places) 194 words
    2. College Building Modernisation 242 words
    3. Students (Drop-out Rate) 122 words
    4. Vocational Qualifications (Review) 153 words
    5. CERN 56 words
    6. Initial Teacher Training 1,312 words
    7. Open University 248 words
    8. Student Awards 86 words
    9. Children with Special Needs 116 words
    10. Religious Education Teachers 169 words
    11. Academic Tenure 87 words
    12. Poundswick School 488 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Falkland Islands (Fisheries) 64 words
    2. Education Expenditure 195 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Police Interviews (Tape Recording) 117 words
    2. Road Maintenance Condition Survey 136 words
    3. Licensing (Scotland) Act 133 words
    4. Construction Industry 129 words
    5. Dental Charges 89 words
    6. Rate Support Grant 97 words
    7. Forestry Commissioners 313 words
    8. Childhood Cancer 71 words
    9. Higher Education 536 words
  13. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Foreign Visitors 910 words
    2. Police (Raids) 125 words
    3. Police (Drivers) 68 words
    4. Departmental Broadcasting Unit 65 words
    5. Brixton Prison 338 words
    6. Leo Walker and Judith Bennett 85 words
    7. Greenham Common (Police Vans) 117 words
    8. Departmental Objectives 138 words
    9. Dr. Sathananthian 44 words
    10. Electoral Rolls 208 words
    11. Civil Defence 362 words
  14. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Water 393 words
    2. Sewers 206 words
    3. Council House Sales 122 words
    4. Sporting Events (Sponsorship) 128 words
    5. Construction Industry 374 words
    6. Municipal Housing (Rent Arrears) 95 words
    7. Kirklees (Empty Council Properties) 82 words
    8. Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 62 words
    9. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 52 words
    10. Council Houses (Maintenance) 89 words
    11. Housing Statistics 236 words
    12. Local Government Reform 169 words
    13. Smith Houses 101 words
    14. Waste Disposal (Newham) 98 words
    15. Canary Wharf 93 words
    16. Norfolk Broads 164 words
    17. Waste Disposal (West Yorkshire) 389 words
    18. Local Government Finance 1,664 words
    19. Legislation 466 words
    20. Northumberland Wharf (Transfer Station) 86 words
    21. County Hall 80 words
    22. Queen Elizabeth II Centre 58 words
    23. Greater London Enterprise Board 570 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Soil Survey 320 words
    2. Intervention Stores 110 words
    3. Food Act 1984 159 words
    4. Subsidised Alcohol 141 words
    5. Toxic Waste 70 words
    6. Advertising 243 words
    7. Glyphosate 414 words
    8. Common Fisheries Policy 641 words
    9. British Freezer Vessels 44 words
    10. North Sea (Aggregate Dredging) 51 words
    11. Falkland Islands 96 words
    12. Polluted Wine 102 words
    13. Field Drainage 265 words
    14. Internal Drainage Boards 89 words
    15. Broads Grazing Marshes Conservation Scheme 175 words
    16. Surplus Butter Sales 684 words
    17. Surplus Wine Alcohol 108 words
    18. French Turkeys 115 words
    19. Brucellosis 96 words
    20. Bovine Tuberculosis 139 words
    21. Badger Control 209 words
    22. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance 426 words
  16. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. NHS (Merit Awards) 134 words
    2. Lancashire (District Health Authorities) 416 words
    3. Spectacle Frames 88 words
    4. Limited List Prescribing 78 words
    5. McColl Committee 86 words
    6. Cervical Cancer Screening 132 words
    7. Consultant Waiting Lists 104 words
    8. Scoliosis 301 words
    9. Senior Registrars 63 words
    10. Health for All Strategy 90 words
    11. Health Care (Social Inequalities) 61 words
    12. Single Payments (Edinburgh) 124 words
    13. Dental Charges 88 words
    14. Cancer 463 words
    15. Health Education Council (Budget) 85 words
    16. Opticians (Fees) 63 words
    17. National Health Service (Red Alerts) 70 words
    18. AIDS 158 words
    19. National Insurance Contributions 115 words
    20. Residential Homes 58 words
    21. Residential Homes (Hampshire) 162 words
    22. Childhood Cancers 53 words
    23. Child Abuse 181 words
    24. Poverty (Definition) 74 words
    25. Acheson Report 36 words
    26. Prescriptions 81 words
    27. National Health Service (Annual Report) 1,413 words
    28. Private Practice 18,657 words
    29. Renal Failure 533 words
    30. Personal Social Services Research Unit, Kent 57 words
    31. Advancement of Women 100 words
    32. Cervical Cancer Screening 280 words
    33. Alphafetoprotein 92 words
  17. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Race Relations Act 485 words
    2. Equal Opportunities Officer 92 words
    3. Gravesham 161 words
    4. Advertising 257 words
    5. Long-term Unemployed (Pilot Scheme) 84 words
    6. Labour Statistics 173 words
    7. Wages Inspectors 36 words
    8. Wages Inspectorate 37 words
    9. Construction Industry 160 words
    10. Health and Safety Inspectors 61 words
    11. Labour Statistics 177 words
    12. Factory Inspectors (North-West) 187 words
    13. Abbeystead Pumping Station (Explosion) 86 words
    14. Long-term Unemployment (Government Experiment) 257 words
    15. Youth Training Scheme 130 words
    16. Job Release Scheme 78 words
    17. Labour Mobility 141 words
    18. Gas Installation (Safety) 100 words
  18. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Youth Training Scheme 83 words
  19. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Inland Revenue (Enforcement Powers) 55 words
    2. Taxation Revenue 57 words
  20. THE ARTS
    1. Musical Entertainment (Expenditure) 186 words
    2. Disabled People 109 words
    3. Funding 94 words
    4. Libraries (Audit Commission Recommendations) 42 words
    5. National Museums and Galleries 89 words
    6. Business Sponsorship 57 words
    7. Southern Arts 50 words
  21. DEFENCE
    1. Royal Aircraft Establishment, Oakhanger 70 words
    2. Service Men's Children (Education) 97 words
    3. Westland Helicopters 68 words
    4. Royal Dockyards (Privatisation) 125 words
    5. Civilian Pay and Records Office Department, Portsmouth 36 words
    6. Nimrod Advanced Early Warning Project 201 words
    7. South Africa 224 words
    8. Meteorological Office 201 words
    9. Procurement Contracts and Projects 65 words
    10. BARPLAN 156 words

Lords Sitting of 9 December 1985

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Helicopter Operations: Safety Pro