Commons Sitting of 19 December 1985

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      1. Cereals 379 words
      2. Milk Quotas 766 words
      3. Cereals 1,221 words
      4. Food Labelling 757 words
      5. Cereals 807 words
      6. Agricultural Land 302 words
      7. Ewes 560 words
      8. Southall Horse Market 220 words
      9. Milk Co-responsibility Levy 133 words
      10. Common Agricultural Policy 360 words
      11. Outgoers' Scheme 265 words
      12. Falkland Islands 373 words
      13. Salmon 204 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,204 words
  4. Cervical Cancer (Screening) 1,906 words
  5. Business of the House 5,340 words
  6. Fisheries Council 3,468 words
  7. Gartcosh 696 words
  8. Royal Assent 84 words
  9. BILL PRESENTED
    1. DRUG TRAFFICKING OFFENCES 85 words
  10. Orders of the Day
    1. Building Societies Bill 35,549 words
    2. BUILDING SOCIETIES BILL [MONEY] 86 words
  11. WAYS AND MEANS
    1. BUILDING SOCIETIES BILL 103 words
  12. Legal Aid 5,073 words
  13. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 18 words
  14. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT 51 words
  15. PETITIONS
    1. Sunday Trading 258 words
  16. Dog Fighting 235 words
  17. Greenbelt (Hertfordshire) 3,249 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 19 December 1985

  1. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. UNESCO 234 words
  2. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Letter Post Service 546 words
    2. Grain Exports 77 words
    3. Associated British Foods 186 words
    4. Distribution and Media Sales (UK) Ltd. 78 words
    5. Small Businesses 161 words
    6. Westland plc 87 words
    7. Office of Fair Trading 98 words
    8. Council of Ministers (Research) 297 words
    9. Trade Descriptions (Origin Marking) 103 words
    10. Gas Appliances (Exhibition) 61 words
    11. Securities and Investments 143 words
  3. DEFENCE
    1. Ulster Defence Regiment 308 words
    2. Trident Missile 35 words
    3. Widows (Pensions) 313 words
    4. Mr. Seamus Mallon 82 words
    5. VC10 Tankers 144 words
    6. Procurement Contracts and Projects 119 words
  4. ENERGY
    1. Coalminers (Redundancy) 520 words
    2. Fuels (Capital Investment) 151 words
    3. North Sea Rigs 125 words
    4. Nuclear Installations (Incidents) 256 words
    5. Iranian Oil (Imports) 141 words
    6. North Sea Oil Development 94 words
    7. NCB (Enterprise) Ltd. 67 words
    8. Health and Safety 297 words
  5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Shops Bill 716 words
    2. Ms. Adebola Makenjuola 58 words
    3. Associated British Foods 95 words
    4. Fraud (Member's Correspondence) 53 words
    5. Legal Aid 158 words
    6. Law Centres 174 words
    7. Fraud Investigation 115 words
  6. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Smith Houses 549 words
    2. Housing Investment Programme 402 words
    3. Nitrate Levels 123 words
    4. Local Government Reform 275 words
    5. Rent Arrears 477 words
    6. Pollution 44 words
    7. Thamesmead Community Trust 145 words
    8. Willowbrook Estate, Peckham 53 words
    9. Council House Sales 230 words
    10. Urban Programme 108 words
    11. Superstore Development, Cippenham 59 words
    12. Water and Sewerage Charges 87 words
    13. Richmond Terrace 69 words
    14. Law Centres 443 words
    15. Housing Corporation 168 words
    16. Efficiency Scrutinies 107 words
    17. London Marathon 94 words
    18. Homes Insulation Programme 51 words
    19. Empty Dwellings 334 words
  7. PRIME MINISTER
    1. North Yorkshire 27 words
    2. Private Office 53 words
    3. Foreign Tours 62 words
    4. Entertainment Costs 78 words
    5. Engagements 119 words
    6. Strategic Defence Initiative 44 words
  8. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Anglo-Irish Agreement 94 words
    2. Security 135 words
    3. Hospitals 217 words
    4. Rally (Belfast) 59 words
    5. Farm Aid 208 words
    6. Public Expenditure 705 words
    7. National Health Service (Revenue and Expenditure) 668 words
    8. RUC (Code of Conduct) 66 words
  9. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Peremptory Jury Challenge 65 words
    2. Plastic Bullets (Police) 301 words
    3. Criminal Injuries Compensation Board 143 words
    4. Victims Support Scheme (Kirkby) 36 words
    5. 10 Downing Street (Intruder) 325 words
    6. Dr. Nazemi 70 words
    7. Civil Defence 491 words
    8. Immigration Statistics 185 words
    9. Police 239 words
    10. Fire Service Equipment 159 words
    11. Hostile Attacks (Monitoring) 101 words
    12. Shotgun Certificates 55 words
    13. Women (Violence) 245 words
    14. Advertising 108 words
  10. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Food Additives 214 words
    2. Cereals 247 words
    3. Food Surpluses 175 words
    4. Food Labelling 108 words
    5. Protein Crops 121 words
    6. Food Quality 53 words
    7. Agriculture Policy 53 words
    8. Dairy Products 67 words
    9. Common Agricultural Policy 56 words
    10. Horticulture Industry 243 words
    11. Sugar 107 words
    12. Butter 173 words
    13. Intervention Stores 97 words
    14. Agricultural Development and Advisory Service 537 words
    15. Milk Quotas 66 words
    16. Untreated Milk 71 words
    17. Farm Incomes 202 words
    18. Horses, Ponies and Donkeys 114 words
    19. Common Fisheries Policy 99 words
    20. Farmers (Debts) 73 words
    21. European Commission (Environmental Protection) 163 words
    22. Intervention Storage (Grain) 65 words
    23. Apralan 215 words
    24. Brucellosis 214 words
  11. WALES
    1. Hospitals (Children) 102 words
    2. Departmental Staff 78 words
    3. Hospitals 159 words
    4. Job Losses 90 words
    5. Population Statistics 102 words
    6. Labour Statistics 61 words
    7. School Playing Fields 102 words
    8. Wales Tourist Board 115 words
    9. Small Firms Service 152 words
  12. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge 100 words
    2. National Advisory Council for the Youth Service 478 words
    3. Religious Education 304 words
    4. Initial Teacher Training (Portsmouth) 97 words
    5. Children (Special Education Needs) 65 words
    6. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 61 words
    7. Education Support Grants 585 words
  13. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
    1. Sexual Offence Trials (Evidence) 95 words
  14. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 98 words
    2. Overseas Missions (Security) 111 words
    3. Entry Clearance Fees 115 words
  15. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Select Committees 136 words
  16. SCOTLAND
    1. Blood Products 79 words
    2. Motorways (Lighting) 147 words
    3. Lothian Health Board 60 words
    4. Civil Defence 514 words
    5. Hospital Catering Services 132 words
    6. Mr. Donald Grant 31 words
    7. Jordanhill College School 142 words
    8. Ravenscraig 75 words
    9. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances 235 words
  17. TRANSPORT
    1. Traffic Statistics (A45) 303 words
    2. A127 (Crash Barriers) 168 words
    3. Roads (Lighting and Signs) 493 words
    4. Motorways (Delays) 79 words
    5. A19 (Defects) 66 words
    6. British Rail 64 words
    7. Manchester International Airport 125 words
    8. Cars (Spare Wheels) 311 words
    9. Efficiency Scrutinies 134 words
  18. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Youth Training Scheme 106 words
    2. Information Technology 57 words
    3. Self-Employment 115 words
    4. Job Creation 184 words
    5. Labour Statistics 1,128 words
    6. Loan Guarantee Scheme 600 words
    7. Business (Safety Regulations) 93 words
    8. Community Programme 117 words
    9. Business (Deregulation) 157 words
    10. Small Firms 70 words
    11. Local Enterprise Agencies 102 words
    12. Trade Unions (Ballots) 281 words
  19. THE ARTS
    1. Liverpool Empire and Philharmonic Halls 454 words
    2. Value Added Tax 130 words
    3. Public Borrowing 29 words
    4. Johnson Matthey Bankers 40 words
  20. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. MO (Percentage Rise) 84 words
    2. Manufacturing Exports 38 words
    3. Family Taxation 124 words
    4. Energy Efficiency Projects 44 words
    5. European Monetary System 76 words
    6. Stamp Duty 35 words
    7. Oil Revenue 51 words
    8. Double Taxation (Canada) 229 words
    9. Inland Revenue (Waste) 94 words
    10. Sub-Saharan Africa (Government Debt) 411 words
    11. Taxation Revenue 146 words
    12. Mutual Organisations (Recognition) 83 words
  21. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Food (Irradiation Techniques) 103 words
    2. Social Security 159 words
    3. McColl Report 60 words
    4. Kidney Patients 176 words
    5. NHS Privatisation 63 words
    6. Private Practice 60 words
    7. Health Authorities (Revenue Allocations) 189 words
    8. NHS (Consultants) 176 words
    9. Teaching Hospitals 89 words
    10. NHS (Pay) 68 words
    11. NHS (Staff) 916 words
    12. Amenity Beds 681 words
    13. Nicorette 57 words
    14. Single Payments 58 words
    15. Families (Disabled Children) 52 words
    16. Funeral Expenses 78 words
    17. Death Grant 99 words
    18. Housing Benefit 256 words
    19. Income Support 569 words
    20. Child Benefit 86 words
    21. Rates and Rent 82 words
    22. Benefits 48 words
    23. Social Fund 39 words
    24. Public Life (Standards of Conduct) 95 words
    25. Pensions 688 words
    26. Supplementary Benefit (Statistics) 459 words
    27. NHS Employees 158 words
    28. Hypothermia 109 words
    29. Health Statistics (Amber Valley) 450 words
    30. External Consultants 147 words
    31. Hospitals (Staff Sickness) 44 words
    32. Social Security Reform 54 words
    33. Cervical Cancer Screening 164 words
    34. General Practitioner Surgeries 49 words
    35. Post-operative Infection 38 words
    36. Stanley Royd Hospital (Inquiry) 104 words
    37. Cardiac Bypass Treatment 44 words
    38. Fertility Clinics 67 words
    39. Cost Improvement Programmes 70 words
    40. AIDS 57 words
    41. Regional and District Managers 31 words
    42. Nursing Management 42 words
    43. Hospital (Peterborough) 99 words
    44. Spectacle Frames 102 words

Lords Sitting of 19 December 1985

  1. Preamble 21 words
  2. The Arts: Business Sponsorship 1,371 words
  3. The European Fighter Aircraft 926 words
  4. Radioactive Waste: Discharge into Thames 1,511 words
  5. Bypass Construction on National Road Network 1,269 words
  6. Consolidated Fund Bill 60 words
  7. Atomic Energy Authority Bill [H.L.] 2,289 words
  8. Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [H.L.] 664 words
  9. Northern Ireland (Loans) Bill 1,988 words
  10. Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 203 words
  11. Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1985 1,671 words
  12. Royal Assent 72 words
  13. Security for Private Road Works (Scotland) Regulations 1985 741 words
  14. Summer Time Order 1985 1,696 words
  15. Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 (Schedule 4) (Amendment) Order 1985 3,330 words
  16. Restrictive Trade Practices (Services) (Amendment) Order 1985 1,161 words
  17. Cosmetic Products (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1985 847 words
  18. Asbestos Products (Safety) Regulations 1985 1,227 words
  19. Nightwear (Safety) Regulations 1985 3,248 words
  20. Pushchairs (Safety) Amendment Regulations 1985 629 words
  21. Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Specified Diseases) Order 1985 355 words
  22. Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 1985 60 words
  23. Employment Protection (Variation of Limits) Order 1985 2,046 words
  24. Unfair Dismissal (Increase of Limits of Basic and