Commons Sitting of 14 January 1985

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRANSPORT
      1. London Transport (Travel Passes) 532 words
      2. Heavy Lorries 357 words
      3. Bus Bill 839 words
      4. Rural Bus Services 482 words
      5. Publicity Campaigns 485 words
      6. Bus Deregulation 1,380 words
      7. Dial-a-Ride Service 2,060 words
      8. British Rail (Ancillary Services) 230 words
      9. British Railways Board 246 words
    2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      1. Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 648 words
      2. Price Waterhouse (Sequestration) 446 words
      3. Latent Damage 214 words
      4. Price Waterhouse (Sequestration) 230 words
    3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      1. Aid (Asia) 170 words
      2. Nicaragua 288 words
      3. Ethiopia 355 words
      4. Falkland Islands 312 words
      5. Ethiopia 265 words
      6. International Planned Parenthood Federation 133 words
      7. Turks and Caicos Islands (Airport) 165 words
  4. Sterling (Exchange Rate) 2,954 words
    1. WELSH AFFAIRS 29 words
  5. Orders of the Day
    1. Trustee Savings Banks Bill 26,222 words, 1 division
    2. Water (Fluoridation) Bill 16,957 words
      1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 27 words
    3. Water (Fluoridation) Bill 18,448 words, 1 division
    4. National Heritage (Scotland) Bill 7 words
      1. New Clause 1
        1. SCOTTISH MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY 2,013 words
      2. New Clause 2
        1. ORDERS FOR ADMISSION CHARGES 3,929 words
      3. Clause 2
        1. THE BOARD'S GENERAL FUNCTIONS 889 words
      4. Clause 3
        1. GENERAL POWERS OF BOARD 696 words
      5. Schedule 1
        1. THE BOARDS 4,789 words
      6. WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE 74 words
    5. Ex-Miners (Unemployment Pay) 3,384 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 14 January 1985

  1. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Waltham Forest Council 96 words
    2. Water Pollution 44 words
    3. Rate Capping 111 words
    4. Urban Programme 319 words
    5. House Sales 93 words
    6. Child Care 85 words
    7. Local Government Reform 196 words
    8. London Borough of Hillingdon 218 words
    9. Fluoridation 80 words
    10. Local Authorities (Capital Receipts) 60 words
    11. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 114 words
    12. Lake Vyrnwy 107 words
    13. Water Pollution (North-West) 246 words
    14. Housing Investment Programme Allocations 64 words
    15. Local Government Reform 134 words
    16. Water (Fluoridation) Bill 126 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Tax Concessions 86 words
    2. Public Employees 190 words
    3. National Heritage Memorial Fund 91 words
    4. Child Abuse 81 words
    5. Africa (Famine Relief) 264 words
    6. Civil Contingencies Unit (Coal Industry Dispute) 65 words
    7. Government Boarding Allowances 234 words
  3. ENERGY
    1. Coal Stocks 77 words
    2. Miners (Redundancies) 37 words
    3. NCB (Advertising and Publicity) 80 words
    4. Scottish Coalfields (Investment) 113 words
    5. Atomic Energy 223 words
    6. Gas Prices 104 words
  4. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Nurses 80 words
    2. Child Care 199 words
    3. Milk 174 words
  5. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Photosynthesis Research 115 words
    2. Music Teachers 170 words
    3. School Leavers 38 words
    4. Human Embryos 156 words
    5. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 204 words
    6. Ethnic Minority Groups (Report) 69 words
  6. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Coal Industry Dispute 208 words
    2. Police (Pay) 148 words
    3. Prison Rules 54 words
    4. Asbestos 60 words
    5. Prevention of Terrorism 396 words
    6. Mr. James Magis 164 words
    7. Weekend Detention 138 words
    8. Criminal Sentencing System 48 words
    9. National Reporting Centre 224 words
    10. Winson Green Prison 70 words
    11. Circular Instruction 10/1976 24 words
    12. Prisoners (Information Booklet) 86 words
    13. Mr. Mohammed Siddique 39 words
    14. Mr. Abdul Raja 36 words
    15. Mr. Riaz 35 words
    16. Unconvicted Prisoners 34 words
    17. Winson Green Prison (Prisoners' Letters) 70 words
    18. Thames Valley Police 257 words
    19. Drugs Offences 192 words
  7. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Legal Aid 91 words
    2. Criminal Legal Aid 95 words
    3. Residential Flats (Leasehold Reform) 140 words
    4. Official Referee (Waiting List) 92 words
  8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Manufacturing Industry 140 words
    2. European Space Agency 146 words
    3. Securities 82 words
    4. Erasers (Swallowing Accidents) 420 words
    5. Food Imitations (Safety) Regulations 1985 61 words
    6. Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 209 words
  9. WALES
    1. Secondary Quota Distribution Tribunals 31 words
    2. Housing Stock 62 words
    3. House Building 135 words
    4. Nursery Schools 856 words
    5. Pupil-Teacher Ratio 41 words
    6. Education Expenditure 338 words
    7. Local Authority Expenditure 64 words
    8. Rate Support Grant 206 words
    9. Rates 593 words
    10. Unemployment Benefit 56 words
  10. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Milk 594 words
    2. EC (Food and Wine Exports) 247 words
    3. EC Expenditure 149 words
    4. Wheat Prices 131 words
    5. EC Grain Stocks 112 words
    6. EC Surplus Butter 127 words
    7. Intervention Stocks (Information) 174 words
  11. THE ARTS
    1. National Theatre (Funding) 56 words
  12. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Shortlisting Criteria 108 words
  13. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Community Programme 142 words
    2. Trainees (Business Ventures) 78 words
    3. Wages 270 words
    4. Visual Display Units 69 words
    5. Women (Earnings) 163 words
    6. Labour Statistics 322 words
    7. Wages and Labour Costs 352 words
    8. Apprenticeship Training Schemes 234 words
    9. Wages Councils 146 words
    10. Youth Training 636 words
    11. Skillcentres (Instructors) 232 words
    12. Abbeystead Pumping Station 63 words
    13. Unemployed Persons 1,299 words
  14. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Namibia 100 words
    2. Ethiopia 92 words
    3. Philippines 112 words
  15. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. United Nations Institute for Namibia 108 words
    2. Post Closures 87 words
    3. Itinerants (Ireland) 33 words
    4. Namibia 112 words
  16. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. CAP Budget 221 words
    2. Civil Service (Bonuses) 148 words
    3. Exchange Rate 98 words
    4. Inflation 57 words
    5. £1 Notes and Coins 36 words
    6. European Community (Budget) 140 words
    7. Heroin 45 words
    8. Council House Sales 101 words
    9. £1 Note 73 words
  17. TRANSPORT
    1. British Rail (Track Servicing) 62 words
    2. A1 (Safety) 76 words
    3. National Bus Company 102 words
    4. Buses (Safety) 67 words
    5. Highlands and Islands Airports 47 words
    6. Concessionary Fares 48 words
    7. Severn Crossing 44 words
    8. Rail Passenger Services (Timekeeping) 92 words
    9. Concessionary Fares 42 words
    10. Stansted-Heathrow (Inquiry) 68 words
    11. Vehicle Exhaust Pollution 131 words
    12. New Road Construction 92 words
    13. Motorway Construction (Midlands) 60 words
    14. Buses (White Paper) 122 words
    15. Motor Insurance (EC Directive) 57 words
    16. British Airways 79 words
    17. Scottish Lowlands Airport (Policy Review) 57 words
    18. Taxis (Seat Belts) 87 words
    19. Regional Airports 75 words
    20. Road Construction (Investment) 56 words
    21. Bus Deregulation 74 words
    22. Channel Link 28 words
    23. Motorways (Speed Limits) 91 words
    24. Sealink 69 words
    25. Concessionary Fares 72 words
    26. Bus Maintenance (Safety Record) 226 words
    27. Road Passenger Vehicles (Safety) 80 words
    28. East Anglia (Rail Services) 59 words
    29. Airports Policy 53 words
    30. Drink-Driving Campaign 70 words
    31. Bus Deregulation 138 words
    32. Concessionary Fares 43 words
    33. Channel Tunnel 96 words
    34. Stansted Airport 54 words
    35. Heathrow (Air Transport Movements) 75 words
    36. British Airways 56 words
    37. Coal Industry Dispute 60 words
    38. National Bus Company 57 words
    39. A13 (Statistics) 130 words
    40. Bus Industry 83 words
    41. Stoke-on-Trent (Trunk Roads) 157 words
    42. Motorways (Accidents) 76 words
    43. Tolls 97 words
    44. Drinking and Driving 156 words
    45. "Stay Low" Campaign 145 words
    46. Articulated Heavy Lorries 75 words
    47. Three-wheeled Vehicles 71 words
    48. A6 (Barton Bypass) 39 words
    49. M40 (Extension) 447 words
    50. British Rail (Diesel Multiple Units) 67 words
    51. M65 (Blackburn) 293 words
    52. Mallaig (Road Improvements) 101 words
  18. SCOTLAND
    1. Pupils (Statistics) 235 words
    2. Child Care 350 words
    3. Prevention of Terrorism Act 119 words
    4. Labour Statistics 134 words
    5. Hospital Waiting Lists 67 words
    6. Grey Seals 183 words
    7. Forestry 414 words
    8. Coal Industry Dispute 88 words
  19. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Westminster Hospital 207 words
    2. Social Security Payments 72 words
    3. Mobility Allowance 1,013 words
    4. Under-16-year-olds (Contraceptive Pill) 207 words
    5. Children in Care 146 words
    6. Warnock Report 50 words
    7. Surrogate Motherhood 160 words
    8. Attendance Allowance 42 words
    9. Fuel Allowance 180 words
    10. Child Care 129 words
    11. Retirement Pensioners 202 words
    12. Hospitals (Ethnic Committees) 49 words
    13. Distinction Awards 201 words
    14. Low Birthweight Babies 152 words
    15. Health Authorities (Managers) 151 words
    16. Canada (Reciprocal Social Security) 144 words
    17. Human Embryos (Implantation) 163 words
    18. Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Services 93 words
    19. Contraceptive Services 163 words
    20. Limited List Prescribing 170 words
    21. Divorced and Separated Women (Rents) 151 words
    22. Hospital Waiting Lists 192 words
    23. Benefits (Review) 102 words
    24. West Midlands Regional Health Authority 79 words
    25. Hospital Patients (Dental Examinations) 70 words
    26. Youth Training Scheme 112 words

Lords Sitting of 14 January 1985

  1. Preamble 27 words
  2. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod 73 words
  3. Tributes to Sir David House 1,720 words
  4. Employee Shareholders 1,300 words
  5. Nuclear Sites: Security 708 words
  6. Civil Defence Act 1948: Amending Legislation 699 words
  7. Milk Quota Legislation: Interpretation 701 words
  8. Exchange and Interest Rates 63 words
  9. Mineral Workings Bill 12 words
  10. New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Bill 12 words
  11. Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills 69 words
  12. Administration of Justice Bill [H.L.] 4,139 words
  13. Exchange and Interest Rates 2,564 words
  14. Administration of Justice Bill [H.L.] 21,857 words
  15. Elections (Northern Ireland) Bill 2,247 words
  16. Pirate Radio 12,854 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 14 January 1985

  1. POLICE SERVICE: STRESS 114 words
  2. PRISONERS: CHRISTMAS CARDS 153 words
  3. PARKHURST PRISON HOSPITAL: CLOTHING 95 words
  4. STATE LOTTERIES AND HEALTH SERVICES 173 words
  5. IMMIGRATION APPEALS SYSTEM 222 words
  6. CONSOLIDATION OF ENACTMENTS 123 words
  7. NUM: SEQUESTRATOR'S COSTS 211 words
  8. SPACE STATION PROPOSAL 108 words
  9. ROYAL ORDNANCE plc: VESTING DAY 134 words
  10. RAF TRAINER: TENDERS 218 words
  11. DEFENCE CONTRACT TENDERS: PROCEDURE 166 words
  12. DIESEL CARS: FORFEITURE 147 words
  13. HEROIN AND COCAINE: VALUE OF SEIZURES 52 words
  14. AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 66 words