Commons Sitting of 21 January 1985

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES 149 words
    2. Regional Policy 542 words
    3. Coal Industry Dispute 682 words
    4. Aberystwyth (Ministerial Visit) 393 words
    5. Coal Industry Dispute 1,097 words
    6. Drugs Use 593 words
    7. Secondary Schools (Pupil Costs) 283 words
    8. Rate Support Grant 277 words
    9. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 281 words
    10. Enterprise Zones 456 words
    11. Social and Economic Features 444 words
    12. Cardiff Airport 337 words
    13. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
      1. Curates (Pay) 444 words
      2. Inner-city Sites 263 words
    14. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. Staff (Statistics) 324 words
    15. THE ARTS
      1. Arts and Libraries 809 words
      2. England Entertains Campaign 345 words
      3. British Library 151 words
      4. Taxation (Works of Art in Lieu) 481 words
  4. Coal Industry Dispute 616 words
  5. Orders of the Day
    1. Hong Kong Bill 47,986 words
    2. Northern Ireland (District Electoral Areas) 6,551 words
    3. Northern Ireland (District Electoral Areas) 4,595 words, 1 division
      1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 49 words
    4. Thorney Farm, Iver 3,007 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 January 1985

  1. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Violence in Sport 705 words
    2. Shire Counties (Expenditure) 475 words
    3. Government Buildings (Emergency Power) 61 words
    4. Rate Support Grant 173 words
    5. Textiles (EC Allocations) 62 words
    6. Home Insulation Grants 117 words
    7. Housing Defects Act 1984 75 words
    8. Local Authorities (Land Disposal) 173 words
    9. Sports Facilities 500 words
    10. Private Sector Housing Development 36 words
    11. Non-quota Textile Measures 92 words
    12. Housing Corporation 485 words
    13. Survey of London 81 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Costs 135 words
  3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Johnson Matthey Bankers 65 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. VJ Day 93 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Police (Complaints) 214 words
    2. Prisoners (Ethnic Origins) 129 words
    3. Civil Defence 245 words
    4. Prison Department (Dental Charges) 128 words
    5. Prisoners (Suicides) 51 words
    6. Animals (Experiments) 74 words
    7. Police (Computers) 133 words
    8. Deportation Statistics 92 words
    9. Sentencing Policy 113 words
    10. Imitation Firearms 526 words
    11. Firearms Act 1982 37 words
    12. Mr. Yasser Arafat 56 words
    13. Hotel Television Licences 83 words
    14. Prevention of Terrorism 147 words
    15. Coal Industry Dispute 56 words
    16. Winson Green Prison 63 words
    17. Assisted Prison Visits Scheme 72 words
    18. Departmental Staff 44 words
    19. Citizenship 78 words
  6. ENERGY
    1. Coal Industry Dispute 81 words
    2. Coal Mines (Investment) 125 words
    3. Power Stations (Sulphur Dioxide Emissions) 309 words
    4. Electricity Generation 141 words
    5. "Energy in a Finite World" 63 words
    6. Uranium (Namibia) 97 words
    7. North Sea Oil (Price) 50 words
    8. Norwegian Oil (Price) 85 words
  7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Information Technology 182 words
    2. Departmental Financial Support 120 words
    3. Trade Statistics 205 words
    4. British Space Industry 121 words
    5. BL Corporate Plan 59 words
    6. Civil Research and Development Expenditure 93 words
    7. British Aerospace Space Freighter 92 words
    8. European Space Agency 296 words
    9. Independent Space Agency 52 words
    10. Shipbuilding (Investment) 113 words
  8. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. GCHQ, Cheltenham 56 words
  9. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Store Cattle (Exports) 45 words
  10. THE ARTS
    1. Arts Funding 69 words
    2. National Gallery 159 words
    3. Yorkshire Water Colour Society 66 words
    4. Museums and Galleries (Attendance Figures) 292 words
  11. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Methyl Isocyanate 140 words
    2. Children (Accidents) 126 words
    3. Children (Illegal Employment) 152 words
    4. Homosexuals (Discrimination) 95 words
    5. Strikes 83 words
    6. Youth Training 198 words
    7. Trade Union Subscriptions 382 words
    8. Youth Training Scheme (Leicestershire) 99 words
    9. Melton Would Workers Scheme 107 words
    10. Young Persons (Employment Statistics) 1,965 words
    11. Youth Training Scheme 220 words
    12. Unemployment Statistics (Yorkshire) 93 words
    13. Travel-to-Work Areas (West Yorkshire) 117 words
    14. Gas Leaks 402 words
  12. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Ethiopia 63 words
    2. The Sahel 139 words
    3. The Philippines 367 words
  13. WALES
    1. Companies (Financial Aid) 71 words
    2. Housing Statistics 312 words
    3. Improvement Grants 80 words
    4. Employment Statistics 100 words
    5. Industrial Floor Space 84 words
    6. School Leavers 375 words
    7. Milk (Outgoers Scheme) 145 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Education 177 words
    2. A9 (Dornoch) 324 words
    3. Dornoch Firth Crossing 73 words
    4. Housing Authorities (Compensation) 134 words
    5. Concessionary Fares 80 words
  15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Student Support 609 words
    2. Soil Survey 116 words
    3. Corporal Punishment 101 words
    4. Deaf Children (Teacher Training) 154 words
    5. Teachers (Appraisal) 97 words
    6. Students (Vocational Courses) 139 words
    7. School Files (Parental Access) 29 words
    8. O and A-level Results 893 words
    9. School Premises 303 words
    10. School Allocations (Parental Choice) 623 words
    11. Schools (Fire Insurance) 147 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Soil Survey 60 words
    2. Soya Beans 190 words
    3. Store Cattle 330 words
    4. Chemicals 160 words
    5. Pesticides 151 words
    6. Fishing Vessels 2,007 words
  17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Nuclear Weapons 97 words
    2. Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament (UN Vote) 135 words
    3. Hong Kong (Refugee Camps) 154 words
    4. Hong Kong (Remanded Persons) 345 words
    5. Grenada 100 words
    6. Laos 382 words
    7. Diplomatic Representation 65 words
    8. Embassies 49 words
    9. International Year of Youth Conference (Delegation) 178 words
    10. Non-proliferation Treaty 320 words
    11. Mr. Yasser Arafat 61 words
    12. Argentina (Arms Sales) 74 words
    13. Iran (Human Rights) 133 words
    14. The Philippines 104 words
    15. Republic of Ireland 98 words
    16. Southern Africa 81 words
    17. Falkland Islands 52 words
  18. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Greater Manchester Council (Staff) 240 words
    2. Homes Insulation Scheme 209 words
  19. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Deposits 184 words
    2. Direct Taxation 110 words
    3. Tax Thresholds 432 words
    4. Currency Levels 323 words
    5. Her Majesty's Stationery Office 42 words
    6. Taxation 228 words
    7. Taxation Categories 60 words
    8. Dependent Relative Relief 81 words
    9. Personal Allowances 159 words
    10. Gay's the Word Bookshop 76 words
    11. Plant and Machinery (Balancing Allowances) 57 words
    12. Trident 72 words
    13. Relocated Employees 103 words
  20. DEFENCE
    1. Mr. Peter Levene 143 words
    2. Vehicle Depot, Hilton (Study) 82 words
    3. Ministry of Defence Police 89 words
    4. Type 22 Frigates 40 words
    5. Departmental Property (Security) 121 words
    6. Service Personnel (Premature Retirement) 297 words
    7. Service Personnel (Costs) 56 words
    8. Reforger Exercises 185 words
  21. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. National Radiological Protection Board 65 words
    2. Oglesby Report 82 words
    3. EC Anti-poverty Programme 72 words
    4. Epilim 93 words
    5. Severe Disablement Allowance 533 words
    6. Invalidity Pension 423 words
    7. Nursing Homes 643 words
    8. Private Hospitals 712 words
    9. NHS (Ancillary Services) 210 words
    10. Patient Care 1,344 words
    11. Consultants 77 words
    12. Health Authorities (Income) 2,125 words
    13. NHS (Contractual Arrangements) 1,832 words
    14. Residential Care 187 words
    15. Pay Beds 60 words
    16. Private Patients 70 words
    17. Chrysoidine Dye 284 words
    18. Limited List Prescribing 641 words
    19. Warnock Report 129 words
    20. Population Statistics 268 words
    21. Bassetlaw District Hospital 149 words
    22. EEC Anti-poverty Programme 260 words
    23. "Women and the Health Service" 56 words
    24. AIDS 516 words
    25. Pendlebury Children's Hospital 121 words
    26. Cystic Fibrosis 321 words
    27. Cancer Screening Facilities 315 words
    28. Severe Weather Payment 1,099 words
    29. Health Authorities (Managers) 72 words
    30. Benefits 110 words
    31. West-Midlands RHA (Consultants) 90 words
    32. Pre-school Playgroups Association 64 words
    33. Pharmaceutical Companies (Profits) 79 words
    34. Drugs (Prices) 73 words
    35. Surrogate Mothers 108 words
    36. Itinerants (Emergency Shelter) 72 words
    37. Itinerants (Statistics) 138 words
  22. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Trade Union Subscriptions 884 words
    2. Unemployment Statistics 77 words

Lords Sitting of 21 January 1985

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Water Authorities: Finance Policy 1,340 words
  3. Unemployment and Health 1,481 words
  4. Nuclear Disarmament: Verification 1,101 words
  5. Local Authorities' Assets: Capital Receipts 1,076 words
  6. Business 53 words
  7. Leicestershire Bill [H.L.] 79 words
  8. Prosecution of Offences Bill [H.L.] 30,682 words, 2 divisions
  9. Regional Development Grant (Prescribed Percentage, Amount and Limit) Order 1984 6,967 words
  10. Prosecution of Offences Bill [H.L.] 10,754 words
  11. Leicestershire Bill [H.L.] 63 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 21 January 1985

  1. UN DECLARATION ON AFRICA 117 words
  2. THE SURVEY OF LONDON 82 words