Commons Sitting of 11 February 1985

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES
      1. Limited List Prescribing 826 words
      2. Heath Hospital, Cardiff 745 words
      3. Cigarette Smoking 307 words
      4. Local Authorities (Capital Expenditure) 410 words
      5. Cynon Valley (Housing Survey) 352 words
      6. River Dee (Pollution) 481 words
      7. Labour Statistics 692 words
      8. Council House Sales 513 words
      9. Labour Statistics 660 words
      10. East Dyfed Health Authority 193 words
      11. Nuclear Burst 183 words
      12. Labour Statistics 225 words
      13. Nuclear Burst 211 words
      14. Labour Statistics 307 words
      15. AIDS 148 words
    2. THE ARTS
      1. National Theatre 1,391 words
      2. Public Libraries 175 words
      3. The Arts (Private Sector Funds) 188 words
    3. Mr. Speaker's Letters to Members 374 words
  4. Haringey Borough Council 1,414 words
  5. Mr. Clive Ponting (Trial) 447 words
  6. Sleipner Gas 3,552 words
  7. Atomic Energy Authority 2,015 words
  8. NHS (Theft and Corruption) 654 words
  9. Coal Industry Dispute 690 words
  10. Mr. Clive Ponting (Trial) 706 words
  11. Abortion 18,793 words
  12. Local Government Bill (Allocation of Time) 20 words
    1. Committee 29 words
    2. Report and Third Reading 204 words
    3. Procedure in Standing Committee 147 words
    4. Conclusion of proceedings in Committee 39 words
    5. Dilatory Motions 46 words
    6. Extra time on first allotted day 128 words
    7. Private business 100 words
    8. Conclusion of proceedings 424 words
    9. Supplemental orders 150 words
    10. Saving 82 words
    11. Re-committal 78 words
    12. Interpretation 25,036 words, 1 division
    13. Committee 29 words
    14. Report and Third Reading 204 words
    15. Procedure in Standing Committee 146 words
    16. Conclusion of proceedings in Committee 39 words
    17. Dilatory Motions 46 words
    18. Extra time on first allotted day 128 words
    19. Private business 99 words
    20. Conclusion of proceedings 426 words
    21. Supplemental orders 150 words
    22. Saving 80 words
    23. Re-committal 78 words
    24. Interpretation 107 words
  13. Health and Safety 10,170 words, 1 division
  14. Teachers (Scotland) 3,605 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 11 February 1985

  1. ENERGY
    1. Electricity and Gas 97 words
    2. Severn Barrage 134 words
    3. Culham Laboratory 275 words
    4. Coal Industry (Apprenticeships) 36 words
    5. Electricity Boards (Pricing Policy) 65 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Public Sector Employment (Costs) 379 words
    2. Milk 55 words
    3. Payments to Farmers 116 words
    4. Northern Ireland (Security) 113 words
    5. Guatemala 131 words
    6. Belize 51 words
    7. Wintex—Cimex '85 Exercise 38 words
    8. Security Vetting (Northern Ireland) 99 words
  3. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Administration Costs 138 words
    2. Education and Training Board 70 words
    3. Teaching Shortages 64 words
    4. Physics Teaching 99 words
    5. School Closures 77 words
    6. Universities (Recurrent Costs) 322 words
    7. A and O-level Passes 64 words
    8. Comprehensive and Selective Systems 61 words
    9. VAT (Books) 114 words
  4. SCOTLAND
    1. AIDS 34 words
    2. Buses 136 words
    3. Private Health Insurance 43 words
    4. Draft Deer (Firearms Etc.) (Scotland) Order 1984 100 words
    5. Salmon and Sea Trout 94 words
    6. Roads (Safety Barriers) 468 words
    7. Corporal Punishment 104 words
  5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. In Camera Proceedings 139 words
    2. Gipsies (Hampstead Heath) 56 words
    3. Small Claims 33 words
  6. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prison Building 183 words
    2. Prisoners (Suicides) 69 words
    3. Royal Prerogative of Mercy 231 words
    4. Probation Service (North Wales) 105 words
    5. Extradition (Spain) 59 words
    6. Mr. and Mrs. Mahmoud 53 words
    7. M25 (Accident) 115 words
    8. Prevention of Terrorism (Amendments) 117 words
    9. Palestine Liberation Organisation 98 words
    10. Fire Service Regulations 147 words
    11. Voluntary After-care Scheme 84 words
    12. Fire Service (Funding) 52 words
    13. Police Service (Funding) 57 words
    14. Wintex-Cimex '85 Exercise 69 words
    15. Hospitals (Assaults on Staff) 53 words
    16. Ex-Pc I. M. McQuarrie (Criminal Injuries Claim) 57 words
    17. Overseas Visitors and Immigrants 74 words
    18. Exercise Brave Defender 31 words
    19. Lowdham Grange Youth Custody Centre 34 words
    20. Winson Green Prison 77 words
    21. Nitroglycerine (Greiss Test) 30 words
    22. Prevention of Terrorism (Arrest) 240 words
  7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. EC (Imports and Exports) 321 words
    2. British Standards Institution (Exhibition) 59 words
    3. Certification Marks 48 words
    4. Accredited Certification Bodies 49 words
    5. "Standards, Quality and Inter-nation Competitiveness" 94 words
    6. British Safety Council 51 words
    7. Church Services (Broadcasting) 132 words
    8. Riding Hats 193 words
    9. Telephones (BT Approval) 339 words
    10. Micro-electronics 183 words
    11. EC (Insurance) 266 words
    12. Companies Acts (Consolidation) 214 words
  8. TRANSPORT
    1. Departmental Administration 125 words
    2. Bypasses (Trees and Shrubs) 122 words
    3. Roads (Expenditure) 60 words
    4. Railways (Accident Statistics) 108 words
    5. Buses 1,128 words
    6. Speed Limits 217 words
    7. Traffic Statistics 178 words
    8. Road Transport (Statistics) 187 words
    9. M25 (Accident) 183 words
    10. Railway Accidents (Reports) 134 words
    11. Railway Accident (Rugby) 178 words
    12. Roads (Safety Barriers) 461 words
    13. Trinity House 121 words
    14. Coal Imports 50 words
  9. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Earnings 91 words
    2. Doctors 25 words
    3. South-West Region 396 words
    4. Collective Agreements 81 words
    5. Liverpool (Ministerial Visit) 98 words
    6. Labour Statistics (Burnley) 65 words
    7. EC Funds 313 words
    8. Youth Training Scheme 85 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Helsinki Accord (Monitoring) 143 words
    2. Extradition (Spain) 54 words
    3. Departmental Staff 201 words
    4. Mr. Adam Fergusson 163 words
    5. Margaret Hicks 103 words
    6. Syrian Nationals (Deportation) 139 words
    7. Kampuchea 132 words
  11. THE ARTS
    1. Taxation (Acceptance in Lieu) 78 words
    2. Riverside Studios and London Orchestral Concert Board 47 words
    3. Libraries (Privatisation) 55 words
    4. British Empire (Museum) 102 words
  12. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Aid 64 words
    2. Sub-Sahara Africa (Special Facility) 135 words
    3. International Fund for Agricultural Development 88 words
  13. LORD PRIVY SEAL
    1. Magistrates (Lancashire) 263 words
  14. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Local Authority Expenditure 644 words
    2. Disabled and Elderly Persons 124 words
    3. Sewage Waste 56 words
    4. Wintex-Cimex '85 Exercise 99 words
    5. North Eastern Regional Emergency Committee. 233 words
    6. Archaeological and Historic Artefacts (Whitehall) 159 words
    7. Rates Revaluation 107 words
    8. Local Government Reform 1,847 words
    9. South Yorkshire (Asbestos) 99 words
    10. Merseyside (Ministerial Visit) 119 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Plastic Bullets 256 words
    2. Non-scheduled Offences 218 words
    3. Beef 167 words
    4. Dairy Farmers 111 words
    5. Sewage Disposal 349 words
    6. Road Accidents (Statistics) 94 words
    7. Scheduled Offences 269 words
    8. Security Statistics 86 words
  16. WALES
    1. Regional Development Grant 139 words
    2. A55 (Roadworks) 152 words
    3. Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth 81 words
    4. Statutory Bodies (Confidential Statements) 100 words
    5. Wintex Cimex '85 Exercises 133 words
    6. Milk Quotas 84 words
    7. AIDS 132 words
    8. Buses (Revenue Support) 283 words
    9. Public Bodies (Appointments) 61 words
    10. Polytechnics 23 words
    11. Roads (Safety Barriers) 209 words
    12. A483 (Lighting) 57 words
    13. University Hospital of Wales 126 words
    14. Unlit Roads 93 words
    15. Roads 94 words
    16. S. W. Milburn and Partners 69 words
    17. Private Educational Establishments 110 words
    18. Cefn Mably Hospital 95 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Strategic Defence Initiative 152 words
    2. Cruise Missiles 72 words
    3. AST 404 56 words
    4. First-strike Weapons 95 words
    5. Wintex-Cimex '85 Exercise 70 words
    6. Departmental Purchases 92 words
    7. Royal Navy Stores 67 words
    8. Brave Defender Exercise 29 words
    9. HMS Starling (Logbook) 157 words
    10. Mr. Peter Levene 105 words
  18. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Public Expenditure 75 words
    2. Economic Statistics 290 words
    3. European Community (Competitiveness) 81 words
    4. European Community (Expenditure) 719 words
    5. European Community (Economic Comparison) 171 words
    6. Exchange Rate 487 words
    7. Wage and Labour Statistics 81 words
    8. Administration Costs 92 words
    9. Civil Service 795 words
    10. Customs and Excise (Drug Seizures) 254 words
    11. Customs and Excise (Establishment) 160 words
    12. Drug Smuggling 240 words
    13. Taxation and National Insurance Contributions 196 words
    14. Tax Revenue 249 words
    15. Mortgage Interest Relief 53 words
    16. "Nationalised Industries Legislation" 407 words
    17. Personal Incomes 539 words
    18. Income Tax and National Insurance Contributions 126 words
    19. Capital Gains Tax 81 words
    20. Taxation 501 words
  19. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Hill Farmers 87 words
    2. Lupin Grain 178 words
    3. Sugar 185 words
    4. Goats' Milk 198 words
    5. EC Expenditure 812 words
    6. Conservation 433 words
  20. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. EC (Poverty Definition) 87 words
    2. Acute Beds 162 words
    3. Health Authorities (Appointees) 133 words
    4. Steroids 147 words
    5. Post Neonatal Mortality 33 words
    6. Board and Lodging 523 words
    7. Benefits (Overpayments) 94 words
    8. AIDS 95 words
    9. Benefits 502 words
    10. Health Authorities (General Managers) 55 words
    11. Winterton General Practice Partnership South Humberside 44 words
    12. Doctors (Consultation Times) 49 words
    13. Limited List Prescribing 292 words
    14. Family Practitioner Committees 205 words
    15. Nursing Staff (Back Injuries) 80 words
    16. Nursing Homes 299 words
    17. Housing Benefit 94 words
    18. Pensioners 85 words
    19. National Insurance Contributions 264 words
    20. "Counter Benefits" 137 words
    21. Severe Weather Payments 382 words
    22. Head and Neck Injuries 62 words
    23. Venereal Disease 114 words
    24. Children (Sexual and Physical Abuse) 129 words
    25. Heart Replacement Surgery 56 words
    26. Drug Addicts 370 words
    27. Girocheque Frauds 155 words
    28. Ketoconazole 132 words
    29. Doctors (Prescriptions) 122 words
    30. Prescriptions (Costs) 94 words
    31. Advisory Bodies 416 words
    32. Ambulance Service 56 words
    33. Doctors (Medical Certificates) 167 words
    34. Rampton Hospital (Nurses) 492 words
    35. Specialist Claims Control 50 words
    36. DHSS Statistics 256 words
    37. General Practitioner (Dispensing) 71 words

Lords Sitting of 11 February 1985

  1. Preamble 30 words
  2. Water Authorities: Classification 456 words
  3. Houses in Multiple Occupation 964 words