18 December 1986

Commons Sitting of 18 December 1986

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. Royal Assent 72 words
    2. PRIVATE BUSINESS 60 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. HOME DEPARTMENT
      1. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis 961 words
      2. Birmingham Pub Bombings 1,896 words
      3. Crime Prevention 896 words
      4. Neighbourhood Watch Schemes 894 words
      5. Crime (Costs) 429 words
      6. Justices' Clerks 261 words
      7. Local Government Reform (Voluntary Groups) 370 words
      8. Subversion 330 words
      9. Dangerous Weapons 218 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,960 words
  4. Airborne Early Warning Aircraft 4,957 words
  5. Business of the House 3,263 words
  6. Airborne Early Warning System 217 words
  7. Telephone Facilities 189 words
  8. BILLS PRESENTED
    1. LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE 91 words
    2. GYPSIES (CONTROL OF UNAUTHORISED ENCAMPMENTS) 42 words
  9. Supplementary Benefit (Single Payments) 15,246 words, 1 division
  10. Social Security 7,695 words
  11. Airborne Early Warning System 26,649 words, 1 division
  12. Social Security 10,709 words
  13. SOCIAL SECURITY 45 words
  14. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT 24 words
  15. SOCIAL SECURITY 50 words
  16. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS &c. 18 words
  17. ANIMALS 26 words
  18. Third World Debt 3,993 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 18 December 1986

  1. TRANSPORT
    1. Merchant Ships (Surveys) 371 words
    2. Ships (Investors) 180 words
    3. Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950 177 words
    4. Severn Bridge 251 words
    5. Shipping Investment (West Germany) 60 words
    6. Motorways 71 words
    7. M25 (Traffic Studies) 59 words
    8. West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority 59 words
    9. Warminster Bypass 40 words
    10. Buses (West Sussex) 105 words
    11. Driving Tests 57 words
    12. The Minches 302 words
    13. Drink-Drive Campaign 61 words
    14. London Road Assessment Studies 182 words
    15. London Regional Transport 121 words
    16. MV Kowloon Bridge 101 words
    17. Traffic Order Schemes 46 words
  2. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Former Crown Servants (Business Appointments) 45 words
  3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Recorders 265 words
    2. Sir Arthur Franks 56 words
    3. State Security 148 words
    4. Judges (Drink-Driving Offences) 131 words
  4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Rolls-Royce plc 444 words
    2. Film Industry 116 words
    3. Vauxhall Cars 101 words
    4. General Motors 105 words
    5. Greek Cement 131 words
    6. Radio Regulatory Division (Annual Report) 51 words
    7. Vosper Shiprepairers 62 words
    8. Research and Development 69 words
    9. Lloyd's (Neil Inquiry) 60 words
    10. Japan 371 words
    11. British Steel Corporation 111 words
    12. Financial Services 121 words
    13. Rover Group 67 words
  5. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Plutonium 84 words
    2. Syria 65 words
    3. Corporal Punishment 113 words
  6. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Nuclear Accidents 307 words
    2. Lord Rothschild 76 words
    3. Nurses and Midwives 125 words
    4. Civil Servants (West Germany) 116 words
    5. Westland plc 101 words
    6. Police and Military Establishments 29 words
    7. Visits 885 words
    8. Engagements 172 words
  7. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. International Development Association 205 words
  8. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
    1. Mrs. Catherine MacInnes 58 words
  9. WALES
    1. A55 120 words
    2. Cardiac Surgery Unit, Cardiff 79 words
    3. Motorways 55 words
    4. Planning Appeals 32 words
    5. Wales Tourist Board 62 words
    6. Housing 126 words
  10. ENERGY
    1. Plutonium 44 words
    2. Severn Barrage 472 words
    3. Nuclear Power Stations 450 words
    4. Gas and Electricity Disconnections 177 words
    5. CEGB (Financial Control Systems) 200 words
  11. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Firearms Licences 188 words
    2. Anglo-Irish Agreement 69 words
    3. Labour Statistics 562 words
    4. Benefits 933 words
  12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Trent Grain Ltd. 42 words
    2. Potatoes 53 words
    3. Sheep (Radioactivity) 61 words
    4. Rhizomania 123 words
    5. Milk Production 119 words
    6. Environmentally Sensitive Areas 398 words
    7. Animal Welfare 71 words
  13. THE ARTS
    1. Royal Opera House 712 words
    2. Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art 68 words
    3. Council of Ministers 47 words
    4. Public and Private Bodies (Expenditure) 44 words
    5. Arts Council (Grant) 110 words
    6. Visits 50 words
    7. Funding 81 words
    8. Paintings Sale (Levy) 64 words
    9. Local Government Reform 47 words
    10. Sponsorship 53 words
  14. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Job Training Programme 63 words
    2. Print Workers 215 words
    3. Training Colleges (Entrant Selection) 107 words
    4. Trainees (Employment) 48 words
    5. Power Stations (Asbestos) 97 words
    6. Pregnancy 117 words
    7. Small Businesses 89 words
    8. Employment, Training and Enterprise Programmes 218 words
    9. New Businesses (Southwark) 67 words
    10. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 70 words
    11. BNFL (Safety Audit) 76 words
    12. Claims Adjudication, Birmingham 124 words
    13. YTS 302 words
    14. North Liverpool Music Resource Centre 150 words
    15. Small Firms (Debts) 77 words
    16. Speech Therapists (Pay) 60 words
    17. Training and Employment Schemes (Bolton) 756 words
    18. Labour Statistics 192 words
  15. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Deaths at Sea 43 words
    2. Burglaries 111 words
    3. Air Weapons 109 words
    4. Victims of Crime 1,530 words
    5. Birmingham Pub Bombings 342 words
    6. Frontiers (Weapons Control) 43 words
    7. Drug Control 165 words
    8. BBC 64 words
    9. Crimes of Violence 89 words
    10. Crime Statistics 163 words
    11. Maxwell Fyfe Directive 65 words
    12. Domestic Violence 150 words
    13. Drugs Squad (Merseyside) 52 words
    14. Firearms 49 words
    15. Fine Defaulters 146 words
    16. Drug Liaison Officers 162 words
    17. Nuclear Accidents 66 words
    18. Prisoners (Statistics) 43 words
    19. Child Abuse 577 words
    20. Neighbourhood Watch Scheme 316 words
    21. Unsolved Crimes 91 words
    22. Identity Cards 63 words
    23. Violent Offenders 72 words
    24. State Security 35 words
    25. Drug Control (International Collaboration) 134 words
    26. Emergency Services 107 words
    27. Commercial Television 118 words
    28. Crown Immunity 44 words
    29. Crime Prevention 70 words
    30. Private Security Companies 99 words
    31. Stocken Prison 178 words
    32. Licensing Law Reform 48 words
    33. Royal Prerogative of Mercy 245 words
    34. Drinking Age 41 words
    35. Cruelty to Animals 104 words
    36. Civil Defence 33 words
    37. Prisoners (Protests) 62 words
    38. Peremptory Jury Challenge 60 words
    39. Radio and Television (Current Affairs Programmes) 66 words
    40. Offensive Weapons (Children) 59 words
    41. Amyl Nitrite 177 words
    42. Shops (Violence) 203 words
    43. Departmental Initiatives (Women) 388 words
    44. London Fire Brigade 546 words
    45. Overseas Police 75 words
    46. Prisoners (Life Sentences) 98 words
    47. Martial Arts Paraphernalia 153 words
    48. Prisoners (Smoke-free Environment) 108 words
    49. Immigration 82 words
    50. Detained Children 78 words
    51. Police Training (Radioactivity) 76 words
    52. Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons 112 words
    53. Official Information 58 words
    54. Wheel-clamping (London) 167 words
    55. Community Relations 200 words
    56. Community Radio 52 words
    57. News International, Wapping 415 words
    58. Official Secrets Legislation (Nuclear Power Industry) 61 words
  16. SCOTLAND
    1. Labour Statistics 160 words
    2. Torness Nuclear Power Station 184 words
    3. Local Enterprise Grant 137 words
    4. EEC (Intervention Stores) 73 words
    5. Hospital Waiting Lists 47 words
    6. National Health Service 127 words
    7. Health and Social Work (Expenditure) 297 words
    8. Radioactive Discharges 245 words
    9. Eventide Homes 91 words
    10. Certificate of Education 408 words
    11. Scottish Amateur Music Association 136 words
    12. AIDS 98 words
    13. Scottish Health Education Group 71 words
  17. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. City Technology Colleges 78 words
    2. Ealing College of Higher Education 55 words
    3. Schools (Staffing Levels) 103 words
    4. Primary Schools (Repairs) 199 words
    5. Examination Statistics 365 words
    6. Liverpool University 141 words
    7. Higher Education 68 words
    8. University of Wales (Welsh Language) 101 words
    9. Down's Syndrome 414 words
    10. AIDS 141 words
  18. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Departmental Initiatives (Women) 323 words
    2. Profit Sharing 49 words
    3. Wholesale Finance Markets 116 words
    4. Personal Taxation 67 words
    5. Domestic Leasehold Rental Payments (Taxation) 47 words
    6. Syria 60 words
    7. Film Production 44 words
    8. Value Added Tax 258 words
    9. Unitary Tax 366 words
    10. European Community (Duty-free Sales) 95 words
    11. Cigarettes 100 words
  19. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Urban Regeneration Grants 119 words
    2. County and District Councils 697 words
    3. Voluntary Housing Sector 47 words
    4. Public Safety (Exhibition) 70 words
    5. Bed-and-Breakfast Accommodation 268 words
    6. Secondary Mortgage Market 58 words
    7. Conservation 872 words
    8. Reema Conclad Houses 59 words
    9. Severn Barrage 878 words
    10. Southwark 65 words
    11. West Yorkshire Residuary Body 388 words
    12. West Sussex Structure Plan 43 words
    13. Football Supporters 176 words
    14. Local Government Reform 959 words
    15. Old Bell's School, Portsmouth 137 words
    16. Birmingham 216 words
    17. Homelessness 45 words
    18. Council Housing 910 words
    19. Nitrates 231 words
    20. Water Legislation 124 words
    21. County Hall, London 52 words
    22. Inner London Education Authority 126 words
    23. Animal Welfare 90 words
    24. Property Services Agency 214 words
    25. Atmospheric Pollution 182 words
    26. Heating Charges 134 words
    27. Green Belt (Shopping and Leisure Centres) 374 words
    28. Housing Investment Programme 116 words
    29. United Nations Commission on Human Settlements 47 words
  20. DEFENCE
    1. Sri Lanka 125 words
    2. Spending 406 words
    3. Overseas Personnel (Training) 68 words
    4. ROF Leeds 195 words
    5. Nuclear Reactors (Training) 217 words
    6. Nuclear-powered Submarines 562 words
    7. Nimrod 47 words
    8. Departmental Land Sales 129 words
    9. Airborne Early Warning System 180 words
    10. Retired Service Men (Pay) 90 words
    11. Iran (Military Equipment) 52 words
    12. Harrier Aircraft 76 words
    13. NATO 222 words
    14. War Casualties 211 words
  21. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Supplementary Pensions 242 words
    2. Supplementary Benefit 235 words
    3. Retirement Pension (Automated Credit Transfer) 69 words
    4. Coronary Heart Disease 177 words
    5. Handicapped Children 229 words
    6. Housing Benefit 960 words
    7. Elderly People (Homes) 72 words
    8. Drug Addicts (In-patient Beds) 109 words
    9. J. E. Hanger and Co. Ltd. 153 words
    10. Single Payments 54 words
    11. Occupational Pensions 99 words