Commons Sitting of 29 January 1985

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS 154 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. DEFENCE
      1. Trident 2,139 words
      2. Experimental Aircraft Project 359 words
      3. Nuclear Missiles 281 words
      4. FH70 Ammunition 379 words
      5. Nuclear Tests (Radiation) 314 words
      6. Scottish Junior Soldiers 331 words
      7. European Fighter Aircraft 702 words
      8. Joint Defence Consultative Process 419 words
      9. Chemical Weapons 720 words
      10. Ethiopia (RAF Aircraft) 504 words
      11. Royal Observer Corps 167 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,507 words
  5. Interest Rates 1,750 words
  6. Financial Services 4,551 words
  7. London Regional Transport 3,067 words
  8. Coal Industry Dispute 2,218 words
  9. Severe Weather Payments 577 words
  10. Protection of the Rights of the Elderly in Home Ownership 1,116 words
    1. PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE ELDERLY IN HOME OWNERSHIP 118 words
  11. Orders of the Day
    1. Representation of the People Bill 156 words
      1. Clause 1
        1. EXTENSION OF PARLIAMENTARY FRANCHISE 36,230 words, 3 divisions
      2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 21 words
    2. Business of the House 534 words
    3. Representation of the People Bill 4 words
      1. Clause 2
        1. REGISTRATION OF BRITISH CITIZENS OVERSEAS 2,729 words
      2. Clause 3
        1. EXTENSION OF FRANCHISE FOR EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 1,795 words, 1 division
    4. M25 (Reigate-Leatherhead) 2,940 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 29 January 1985

  1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Ministerial Visit (Caribbean) 80 words
    2. Agricultural Expenditure 197 words
  2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. African Countries 81 words
  3. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Amateur Radio Licence 70 words
    2. Pharmaceutical Products (Exports-Imports) 82 words
    3. Artificial Sweetners 120 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Hyndburn 27 words
    2. East Anglia 27 words
    3. Channel Tunnel 106 words
    4. Caernarfon 23 words
    5. Engagements 60 words
    6. Ministerial Cars (Drivers' Instructions) 47 words
    7. Personal Taxation 334 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Firearms and Shotguns 204 words
    2. Off-course Betting Shops 97 words
    3. Metropolitan Police (Out-of-Court Settlements) 130 words
    4. Prevention of Terrorism 230 words
    5. Metropolitan Police 474 words
  6. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. O and A-level Examinations 53 words
    2. Secondary Schools (Discipline) 95 words
    3. Open University 795 words
    4. Pupil-Teacher Ratio 123 words
    5. Physically Impaired Pupils (Teachers) 83 words
    6. School Meals 59 words
    7. Plant Breeding Institute (Aphids Research) 147 words
    8. Computing Sciences Centre, Milton Keynes 77 words
    9. Hammersmith Hospital (Imaging Techniques) 40 words
    10. European Organisation for Nuclear Research 65 words
    11. Research Councils (Restructuring) 198 words
    12. Scientific Projects 92 words
    13. Handicapped Pupils 354 words
  7. TRANSPORT
    1. Public Service Vehicles 78 words
    2. Tyneside Metro 34 words
    3. Fog Detection 68 words
    4. Stolport (Newham) 73 words
    5. Helicopters 78 words
    6. Bolton (Road Safety) 90 words
    7. Merseyside (Ministerial Visit) 65 words
    8. M25 Motorway 71 words
    9. The Minch (Nuclear Waste Cargoes) 101 words
    10. British Airways 112 words
    11. Manchester Airport 778 words
    12. Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways (Report) 108 words
    13. Train Accident (Rugby) 192 words
  8. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Falkland Islands 75 words
    2. Southampton Skillcentre 153 words
    3. Community Programme 116 words
    4. Schoolchildren (Careers Guidance) 87 words
    5. Unemployment Benefit 39 words
    6. Notifiable Installations 1,089 words
    7. Self-Employed Persons (Green Paper) 27 words
    8. Young Persons 314 words
    9. Youth Training Scheme 160 words
    10. Job-Splitting Scheme 209 words
    11. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 182 words
    12. Equal Opportunities Commission (Code of Practice) 95 words
    13. Skillcentre Training Agency 93 words
    14. Unemployment Benefit (Seasonal Workers) 621 words
  9. SCOTLAND
    1. Homes Insulation Scheme 718 words
    2. Psychiatrists 342 words
    3. Psychiatric Nurses 389 words
    4. Hexafluorosilicic Acid and Disodium Hexafluorosilicate 51 words
    5. Hallside Village (Property Survey) 75 words
    6. Scottish Development Agency 730 words
  10. ENERGY
    1. Coal Industry Dispute 144 words
    2. Plutonium Isotopes (Transport) 91 words
    3. Pit Closures 66 words
    4. Atomic Energy Authority 390 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Gulf (Ministerial Visit) 229 words
    2. Cyprus 143 words
    3. European Assembly 148 words
    4. European Community Budget 137 words
  12. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Falkland Islands (Vic Hallam Construction Company) 49 words
    2. Control of Pollution Act 1974 544 words
    3. Housing Statistics 12,200 words
    4. Pesticides 220 words
    5. Water Authorities 312 words
    6. Commercial and Industrial Buildings (Use) 296 words
    7. Property Services Agency 173 words
    8. London Docklands, Development Corporation 460 words
    9. Isle of Dogs Enterprise Zone 83 words
    10. Local Authority Charges 76 words
    11. Domestic Rates 54 words
    12. Greater London Development Plan 148 words
    13. Local Authorities (Expenditure Limits) 109 words
    14. Local Government Reform 67 words
    15. Civil Airports (Noise Control) 48 words
  13. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Wild Animals 49 words
    2. Departmental Publications 87 words
    3. Housing Executive 122 words
    4. Equal Opportunities (Questionnaire) 346 words
    5. Civil Service 188 words
    6. Nurses 220 words
    7. Western Health and Social Services Board 98 words
    8. Government Offices 96 words
    9. Roads (Maintenance and Improvement) 112 words
    10. Castledawson Bypass 29 words
    11. Primary Schools 2,154 words
    12. Equal Opportunities Unit 72 words
    13. Strip Searches 977 words
    14. Security 112 words
    15. A-level Curriculum 662 words
  14. DEFENCE
    1. Trident 785 words
    2. Boarding School Allowance 92 words
    3. Mean Temperatures 95 words
    4. RAF Uxbridge 111 words
    5. Canberra PR9 55 words
    6. Chile (Aircraft Acquisitions) 81 words
    7. Shipbuilding Orders 402 words
    8. Soviet Union 104 words
    9. Nuclear Tests 159 words
    10. Departmental Staff 41 words
      1. 1. RESPONSIBILITIES 710 words
      2. 2. NUMBERS AND GRADES 282 words
    11. Departmental Organisation 159 words
    12. Enhanced Radiation Artillery Shells 59 words
    13. Battlefield Nuclear Weapons 145 words
    14. Armed Services (Manpower) 329 words
    15. RAF Pilots (Training) 65 words
    16. Vehicle Security 81 words
    17. Greenham Common 32 words
    18. Nimrod Aircraft 149 words
    19. Space Weapons 84 words
    20. Youth Training Scheme 90 words
    21. VE Day (40th Anniversary) 62 words
    22. Chemical Weapons 114 words
    23. Chemical Weapons Research Establishment 141 words
    24. Cruise Missiles 239 words
    25. China 85 words
    26. Falkland Islands 251 words
    27. Departmental Arms Control Unit 103 words
    28. Devonshire and Dorset Regiment 55 words
    29. Conventional Weapons 121 words
    30. Privatisation 223 words
    31. Nuclear War (Prevention) 149 words
    32. European Fighter Aircraft 57 words
    33. RAF Trainer Aircraft 318 words
    34. United States (Strategic Defence Initiative) 69 words
    35. Tornado Aircraft 131 words
    36. Wintex 35 words
    37. Service Personnel (Drugs) 44 words
    38. Royal Ordanance Factories plc 49 words
  15. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Relocated Employees 215 words
    2. Public Sector Employment 255 words
    3. Income Tax and National Insurance Contributions 57 words
    4. Personal Incomes 71 words
    5. EC (Expenditure) 37 words
    6. EC (Budget) 63 words
    7. Trustee Savings Banks 74 words
    8. Plant and Machinery (Balancing Allowances) 62 words
    9. Plant and Machinery (Writing Down Allowance) 100 words
    10. Capital Transfer Tax 31 words
  16. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Heating Allowances 105 words
    2. Medicines (Safety) 245 words
    3. Unemployed Persons 201 words
    4. Yellow Fever Vaccinations 204 words
    5. Foot Health 217 words
    6. Chiropodists 101 words
    7. Supplementary Benefit 87 words
    8. Women Patients (Treatment) 55 words
    9. Departmental Publications 80 words
    10. Resettlement Units 680 words
    11. Heart Transplants 105 words
    12. Hospitals (Ethical Committees) 37 words
    13. Depo Provera 71 words
    14. Housing Benefit 285 words
    15. Homeless Persons 69 words
    16. Epilim 255 words
    17. Invalidity Pension 100 words
    18. NHS (Achievements and Objectives) 790 words

Lords Sitting of 29 January 1985

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Second World War: Commemoration 474 words
  3. Nuclear Sites: Security 1,367 words, 1 division
  4. London Regional Transport: Services 934 words
  5. Soil Survey: Future Funding 767 words
  6. Business 149 words
  7. Dangerous Vessels Bill [H.L.] 2 words
  8. Insolvency Bill [H.L.] 3,432 words
  9. Interest Rates 4,928 words
  10. Financial Services 3,408 words
  11. London Regional Transport: High Court Judgment 2,656 words
  12. Insolvency Bill [H.L.] 20,901 words, 1 division
  13. Tyne and Wear Metro (Rateable Values) Order 1984 2,801 words
  14. Insolvency Bill [H.L.] 1,421 words
  15. Valerie Mary Hill and Alan Monk (Marriage Enabling) Bill [H.L.] 8 words
  16. Brunei and Maldives Bill [H.L.] 14 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 29 January 1985

  1. TELEVISION PROGRAMMES: RELATED ADVERTISEMENTS 157 words
  2. HOMELESS PEOPLE: LONDON 112 words
  3. LIVESTOCK: WELFARE 95 words
  4. BUCKHUNT LICENCE: OBSERVANCE OF CONDITIONS 240 words
  5. SCHOOL-LEAVERS: QUALIFICATIONS 1,529 words