Commons Sitting of 10 June 1985

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRANSPORT
      1. Air Services 1,047 words
      2. Nationalised Industries (Purchasing Policy) 1,089 words
      3. Services (Signposting) 432 words
      4. Cyclists 343 words
      5. Coach Services 752 words
      6. A127 387 words
      7. London Regional Transport 332 words
      8. Road Safety (Research) 808 words
      9. British Rail (Equal Employment Opportunities) 182 words
    2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      1. Community Law Centres 897 words
      2. Circuit Judges 580 words
    3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      1. Ethiopia 656 words
      2. Ethiopia 473 words
      3. Famine Prevention 362 words
      4. Questions to Ministers 142 words
      5. Mr. Rajab 109 words
    4. WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE (AMENDMENT)
      1. (No. 2) BILL 85 words
      2. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 16 words
      3. Opposition Day 5 words
    5. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons
      1. Act 27,048 words
  4. Orders of the Day
    1. Food and Environment Protection Bill [Lords] 1,668 words
      1. New Clause 2 4,331 words
      2. Clause 1 5,920 words
      3. Clause 4 133 words
      4. Clause 5 10,102 words
      5. Clause 8 1,512 words
      6. Clause 11 21 words
      7. Clause 13 44 words
    2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 71 words
    3. Belgian Sanitaryware 3,007 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 10 June 1985

  1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Local Government (Consultation) 59 words
    2. Agricultural Development and Advisory Service 119 words
    3. Food Labelling 223 words
    4. Surplus Foodstuffs 430 words
    5. Milk Quotas 162 words
  2. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Member's Correspondence 62 words
    2. PAYE 76 words
    3. EC (Grants) 140 words
    4. Financial Management Unit 132 words
    5. Value Added Tax 53 words
  3. ENERGY
    1. Acid Deposition 65 words
    2. Kleinwort, Benson (Sale of British Gas) 76 words
    3. North Sea (Supply Ships) 71 words
    4. Plutonium 220 words
    5. Civil Nuclear Materials (Safeguards) 87 words
  4. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. HMS Conqueror (Officer's Diary) 152 words
    2. Mr. John Tate 79 words
    3. International Find a Child Organisation 84 words
    4. Criminal Prosecutions 183 words
  5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Gibraltar 179 words
    2. Ethiopia 113 words
    3. Nicaragua 75 words
    4. UN International Fund for Agricultural Development 70 words
    5. Overseas Aid 70 words
    6. UNESCO 188 words
    7. West Bank and Gaza (Aid) 295 words
    8. Organisation of East Caribbean States 131 words
  6. PRIME MINISTER
    1. EC Budget 69 words
    2. Midwives (Pay and Conditions) 102 words
    3. Crime Prevention 135 words
    4. Portsmouth Health Authority 162 words
    5. Mr. John Smith (Meeting) 47 words
    6. Average Earnings 240 words
    7. Mr. Raoul Wallenberg 116 words
    8. Air Services (Malaysia) 157 words
    9. International Find a Child Organisation 61 words
    10. Lobby Briefing 40 words
  7. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Young Offenders 40 words
    2. ARWEN 37 Weapon 50 words
    3. Laboratories (Inspections) 53 words
    4. Tamils 100 words
    5. A303 (Public Disturbance) 283 words
    6. Political Refugees 91 words
    7. Petty Officer John Anthony Black 111 words
    8. Travel Documents (Withdrawal) 74 words
    9. Illegal Animal Fights 82 words
  8. DEFENCE
    1. World War One (Cowardice Convictions) 96 words
    2. Tucano Aircraft 156 words
    3. Classified Documents (Disposal) 169 words
    4. Exercise Brave Defender 28 words
    5. Trident 66 words
    6. Chemical Weapons 84 words
  9. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Division Bells 180 words
    2. Toilets 46 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Gibraltar 195 words
    2. Chemical Weapons 96 words
    3. Palestine Liberation Organisation 128 words
    4. Petty Officer John Anthony Black 151 words
    5. El Salvador 72 words
    6. El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala 179 words
    7. Non-proliferation Treaty 215 words
    8. Mr. Raoul Wallenberg 424 words
    9. Consultative Council on Local Government Finance 82 words
  11. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
    1. Mr. William Macrae 91 words
  12. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Water Supplies (Disconnection) 145 words
    2. Local Authority Associations 37 words
    3. Ordnance Survey 79 words
    4. Rates (Waltham Forest) 72 words
    5. Commercial Premises (Change of Use) 126 words
    6. Local Government (Consultation) 69 words
    7. Radioactive Waste 123 words
    8. Urban Aid Programme (London) 318 words
    9. Water Rates 127 words
    10. Nitrogen Oxide Emissions 188 words
    11. Hydrocarbon Emissions 156 words
    12. Tenants Exchange Scheme 237 words
    13. Sulphur Emissions 111 words
    14. Nitrogen Oxide and Hydrocarbon Emissions 63 words
    15. Water (Aluminium Levels) 381 words
    16. Areas of Special Scientific Interest 136 words
    17. London Borough of Hillingdon (Planning Appeal) 83 words
    18. Local Government Reform (Residuary Bodies) 184 words
    19. London Residuary Body 225 words
    20. Greater London Council 65 words
    21. Asbestos 152 words
    22. Acid Rain 44 words
    23. Drainage (Householders’ Liability) 203 words
    24. Small Businesses (Building Regulations) 1,485 words
    25. Rate Demands 135 words
    26. London Docklands 143 words
  13. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. British Shipbuilders (Pension Scheme) 66 words
    2. Consumer Protection Legislation 54 words
    3. Consumer Safety (Compliance Costs) 103 words
    4. British Telecom (Overseas Orders) 61 words
    5. Tropical Timber 844 words
    6. Novice Amateur Radio Licence 151 words
    7. Asbestos 305 words
    8. Pharmaceuticals (Patent Life) 133 words
    9. Domestic Insurance Policies 135 words
    10. Small Workshop Scheme 48 words
  14. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. 16 to 19-year-olds 614 words
    2. Teachers" Superannuation Working Party 584 words
    3. Education Act 1981 50 words
    4. Religious Education 477 words
    5. Polytechnic (Research Funds) 251 words
    6. Science Education 104 words
    7. Higher Education 1,310 words
    8. Lower Attaining Pupils Programme 128 words
    9. Student Grants 187 words
    10. Departmental Cash Limits 165 words
    11. Youth Training Scheme 5,524 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. Dental Technicians 86 words
    2. Airports Policy 113 words
    3. Broadleaved Woodland 134 words
    4. Edinburgh Dental Hospital 86 words
    5. Housing Defects Act 48 words
    6. Teachers (Dispute) 56 words
    7. Friarton Detention Centre 278 words
    8. Conifers (Survey) 131 words
    9. Veterinary Services 151 words
    10. Rates Relief (Edinburgh) 111 words
    11. Peel Hospital (Pay Bed) 55 words
    12. Health Boards (Resources) 143 words
  16. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Inner Cities (Expenditure) 63 words
    2. Greater London Council 70 words
  17. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Parental and Family Leave 146 words
    2. 16 to 19-year-olds 241 words
    3. Fairground Accidents 170 words
    4. Wages Councils 95 words
    5. Labour Statistics 778 words
    6. Dieldrin 205 words
    7. Crop Spraying Pollution 138 words
    8. Employee Involvement 140 words
    9. Community Programmes (Leicester) 283 words
  18. THE ARTS
    1. Local Government Reform 343 words
  19. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Publications (Languages) 112 words
    2. Northern Gas 182 words
    3. Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee 133 words
    4. Speech Therapists 63 words
    5. Family Income Supplement 52 words
    6. Medicines (Prices) 101 words
    7. Ruthenium 71 words
    8. "Unemployment, Health and Social Policy" 111 words
    9. NHS (Darkroom Technicians) 100 words
    10. Housing Benefit 89 words
    11. Population Study 61 words
    12. NHS (Consultants) 67 words
    13. Private Hospital Development 420 words
    14. Cremations (Form C) 85 words
    15. Drug Addicts 39 words
    16. Prison Hospital Service 59 words
    17. Social Security Review 441 words
    18. Limited List Prescribing 137 words
    19. Drug Prices 48 words
    20. Drugs (Hospital Pharmacies) 203 words
    21. Board and Lodging Payment 248 words
    22. Benefits 255 words
    23. Doctors (Pay) 55 words
    24. Diabetics 117 words
    25. National Insurance 136 words
    26. Mrs. Sylvia Jones 127 words
    27. Youth Training Scheme (Benefit) 308 words
    28. Pensioners 162 words
    29. Nurses and Midwives (Pay) 173 words
    30. Health (Social Inequalities) 111 words
  20. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. State Pensions 42 words
    2. Driving Tests 39 words
    3. Roads (Construction and Maintenance) 71 words
    4. Cycle Paths 40 words
    5. Transport Bill 81 words
    6. Labour Statistics 102 words
    7. Conservation 141 words
    8. Strip Searches 288 words
    9. Nurses and Midwives 154 words
  21. TRANSPORT
    1. Bus Services 555 words
    2. Al (Cross-over Barriers) 67 words
    3. St. Pancras-Sheffield Railway Line 69 words
    4. Motorways (Drainage) 40 words
    5. Railway Workshop Closures 99 words
    6. National Bus Company 83 words
    7. Road Maintenance 69 words
    8. Woolwich Ferry and River Thames Maintenance 94 words
    9. Road Safety 64 words
    10. Basildon (Direction Signs) 89 words
    11. Disabled Persons 144 words
    12. The Minch 112 words
    13. Motorways (Speed Control) 134 words
    14. One-person Operated Trains 132 words
    15. Train Drivers 61 words
    16. Driving Test 65 words
    17. Channel Fixed Link 82 words
    18. Road Construction 121 words
    19. M3 Motorway 72 words
    20. Accident Black Spots 57 words
    21. Private Hire Cars (London) 105 words
    22. Service Stations (Telecommunications) 98 words
    23. Local Government (Consultation) 58 words
    24. Cabotage (Italy) 132 words
    25. Ruthenium (Transport) 114 words
    26. Midlands Motorway Link 134 words
    27. M6 (Gravelly Hill Interchange) 248 words
    28. Her Majesty's Coastguard 838 words
    29. London Docklands Light Railway 313 words
    30. Motorways (Lighting) 100 words
    31. Aerial Spraying 146 words
    32. Roads and Motorways (Study) 38 words
    33. Oxford Circus (Fire) 211 words
    34. Okehampton Bypass 34 words

Lords Sitting of 10 June 1985

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. The Lord Chancellor: Leave of Absence 85 words
  3. Money Stock: Increase 831 words
  4. Occupational Therapists: Vacancies 555 words
  5. Hospital Waiting Lists 1,145 words
  6. Mercenaries in Central America 570 words
  7. Business 51 words
  8. Hastings Pier Bill 11 words
  9. Committee for Privileges 47 words
  10. Intoxicating Substances (Supply) Bill 185 words
  11. Local Government Bill 38,555 words, 3 divisions
  12. Hill Farming Bill 2,432 words
  13. Local Government Bill 25,174 words, 1 division

Written Answers (Lords) of 10 June 1985

  1. NAMIBIA: ADMINISTRATION 95 words
  2. WAGES COUNCILS: TORY REFORM GROUP MEMORANDUM 53 words
  3. ATTITUDES TO DISABILITY: EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES 153 words