14 December 1987

Commons Sitting of 14 December 1987

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. ENERGY
      1. Imported Coal 879 words
      2. Electricity Council 366 words
      3. Electricity (Privatisation) 605 words
      4. Fuel Disconnections 522 words
      5. Alternative Energy Sources 257 words
      6. Electricity Charges 531 words
      7. CEGB 745 words
      8. Insulation 473 words
      9. Nuclear Power Plants (Working Practices) 524 words
      10. Electricity Charges 512 words
    2. THE ARTS
      1. Scottish Arts Council 296 words
      2. Lincolnshire and Humberside 295 words
      3. Cultural Co-operation 550 words
      4. Arts Council 483 words
    3. CIVIL SERVICE
      1. Job Satisfaction 644 words
      2. Management Development 612 words
    4. THE ARTS
      1. Touring Companies 211 words
      2. Glasgow 253 words
  4. Retail Price Index (Miscalculation) 1,975 words
  5. Points of Order 622 words
  6. Statutory Instruments, &c. 32 words
    1. EDUCATION (MANDATORY AWARDS) 21 words
    2. SCHOOL GOVERNMENT 21 words
    3. TEACHERS' PAY AND CONDITIONS 24 words
    4. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY (FEES) 25 words
  7. Unemployment 27,469 words, 1 division
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Local Government Bill 268 words
      1. New Clause 5
        1. RACE RELATIONS MATTERS 22,140 words
      2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 3,828 words, 1 division
      3. New Clause 2
        1. PART I: EXEMPTIONS 6,262 words, 1 division
      4. New Clause 4
        1. DOG LICENCE 6,074 words
  9. Aircraft Accident (Stornoway) 3,711 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 14 December 1987

  1. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Inner Cities Unit 130 words
    2. Inner City Task Force 3,897 words
    3. FIMBRA 506 words
    4. Financial Services Act 243 words
    5. Unfair Trade Unit 94 words
    6. British Telecom 188 words
    7. Post Office (Sale) 76 words
    8. Scientific Research and Development 57 words
    9. Customs Duties (Standing Committee) 63 words
  2. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Labour Statistics 63 words
    2. Small Businesses 60 words
    3. Voluntary Part-time Work 57 words
    4. Jobs (Castleford) 105 words
    5. Job Release Scheme 124 words
    6. Technical and Vocational Education Initiative 158 words
    7. Benefits 453 words
  3. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Rate Support Grant (Bolton) 196 words
    2. Education Reform 57 words
    3. Maintained Sector 52 words
    4. Nursery Education 39 words
    5. Capitation Allowance 432 words
    6. National Curriculum 112 words
    7. A-level and O-level Examinations 62 words
    8. Subject Teaching 383 words
    9. Universities (Contracts) 213 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prisoners 566 words
    2. Police Officers (Dismissals) 855 words
    3. Lorry Ban (London) 126 words
    4. Gartree Prison (Escapes) 80 words
    5. Brixton Prison 169 words
    6. Remand Prisoners 105 words
    7. Firearms 821 words
    8. Mr. Frank Turner 57 words
    9. Police (West Yorkshire) 66 words
    10. Immigration Rules 260 words
    11. Police, Fire and Civil Defence Authorities 339 words
    12. Civil Defence 208 words
  5. ENERGY
    1. Scottish Coalfield 59 words
    2. North Sea Oil 76 words
    3. Energy Efficiency 160 words
    4. British Coal 230 words
    5. Refuse Combustion 81 words
    6. Renewable Energy 42 words
    7. Fast Breeder Nuclear Technology 60 words
    8. Coal Industry (Productivity) 90 words
    9. CEGB (Projects) 49 words
    10. Electricity Council 68 words
    11. Colliery Closures 49 words
    12. Heating Fuel 54 words
    13. Electricity (Production Costs) 142 words
    14. Energy Savings (Industry) 55 words
    15. Insulation 62 words
    16. Electricity Demand Forecasts 116 words
    17. Generating Stations (Closures) 52 words
    18. Opencast Sites 85 words
    19. Oil Stocks 79 words
    20. Electricity Industry (Privatisation) 337 words
    21. Solar Energy 72 words
    22. Electricity Supply Industry 396 words
    23. Insulation 52 words
    24. Electricity Supplies 130 words
    25. Oil Exploration 48 words
    26. Fast Reactor Programme 55 words
    27. Power Station, Hinkley Point 65 words
    28. Nuclear Power Industry 53 words
    29. British Gas 55 words
    30. Plutonium 97 words
    31. Economy Tariffs 57 words
    32. Gas Reserves 52 words
    33. CEGB (Ministerial Meeting) 50 words
    34. Coalfield Communities Campaign (Exhibition) 76 words
    35. Sellafield 41 words
    36. Coalfield Communities 80 words
  6. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Integrated Schools 40 words
    2. Royal Ulster Constabulary 102 words
    3. Milk Quotas 72 words
    4. Artifical Insemination 284 words
    5. Plastic Bullets 85 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Science and Technology Graduates 53 words
    2. France (Iranian Dissidents) 117 words
    3. Illegal Arms Shipments (Ireland) 121 words
    4. Iran-Iraq Conflict 93 words
    5. EC (British Civil Servants) 99 words
    6. Mrs. Sturt, Thornton Heath 78 words
    7. Molesworth and Greenham Common 147 words
    8. INF Treaty 154 words
  8. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Ministerial Cars 137 words
    2. Housing and Planning Act 1986 72 words
    3. Easington 53 words
    4. Maen Valley Park, Falmouth 115 words
    5. Housing Records 49 words
    6. House of Commons (Members' Tea Room) 148 words
    7. Footpaths and Rights of Way 83 words
    8. Water Authorities 282 words
    9. Women (Domestic Violence) 117 words
    10. Women's Aid Refuges 108 words
    11. Water Rates 66 words
    12. Local Authority Dwellings (Unlawful Occupation) 143 words
    13. Homelessness 1,275 words
    14. Radioactive Waste (Disposal) 50 words
    15. Council Property Sales 130 words
    16. Opencast Mining 174 words
    17. LDDC (Mr. John Mills) 253 words
  9. WALES
    1. Welsh Language 84 words
    2. School Examinations 451 words
    3. Wales Railway Centre 98 words
    4. DEWIS 69 words
    5. Connah's Quay (School Closure) 187 words
    6. Schools (Capitation Allowance) 35 words
    7. Heartbeat Wales 60 words
  10. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Civil Servants (Statistics) 122 words
    2. Payroll Giving 35 words
    3. International Monetary Fund 314 words
    4. Employment 83 words
    5. Mortgage Interest Tax Relief 59 words
    6. Capital Gains Tax 66 words
    7. Value Added Tax 108 words
    8. Job Creation 310 words
    9. Rating Reform 98 words
  11. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Civil Servants (Appraisal) 58 words
    2. Ethnic Minority Recruitment 80 words
    3. Recruitment 58 words
    4. Civil Service College 142 words
  12. THE ARTS
    1. Business Sponsorship 54 words
    2. Funding 179 words
    3. Aldeburgh Foundation 70 words
    4. West Midlands 71 words
    5. Public Lending Right 93 words
    6. Funding 92 words
    7. British Library Project 66 words
    8. Museums and Galleries 189 words
    9. Photography (Funding) 55 words
    10. Greater London Arts 55 words
    11. Subsidised Art Bodies 115 words
    12. London (Arts Funding) 123 words
    13. Wales (Funding) 61 words
    14. Welsh Arts Council 29 words
    15. Scotland (Funding) 61 words
    16. David Shepherd (Art Exhibition) 68 words
  13. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Solicitors Complaints Bureau 43 words
  14. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Civil Servants 208 words
    2. European Community 85 words
    3. Inner Cities 76 words
    4. British National Space Centre 115 words
  15. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Development and the Environment (Dakar Conference) 100 words
    2. Ethiopia (Wheat) 186 words
    3. Third World (Sugar) 74 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Pollution 117 words
    2. Fishing Vessels 591 words
    3. Merchant Shipping Bill 63 words
    4. Farms 237 words
    5. Forestry Management 100 words
    6. EC Surplus 166 words
    7. Sewage Sludge 81 words
  17. SCOTLAND
    1. Doctors' Lists 75 words
    2. Rating Reform 603 words
    3. Local Authorities (Rates) 38 words
    4. Industrial Assistance 709 words
    5. Joint Planning 139 words
    6. Long-stay Hospitals 84 words
    7. Youth Training 220 words
    8. Job Creation 63 words
    9. Council House Sales 54 words
    10. Private Medical Companies (Debts) 85 words
    11. Scottish Development Agency 4,877 words
    12. Hospital Beds 68 words
  18. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Acute Beds 54 words
    2. Mr. J. A. Smith 64 words
    3. Whipps Cross Hospital 101 words
    4. NHS (Expenditure) 98 words
    5. Family Planning 52 words
    6. Primary Health Care (Brochure) 80 words
    7. AIDS 453 words
    8. Health Authorities (Chairmen) 92 words
    9. Health Bodies (Payments) 167 words
    10. Hospital Beds 222 words
    11. Nurses 350 words
    12. Radiotherapy Departments 60 words
    13. Retirement Pension 62 words
    14. Social Services Records (Access) 60 words
    15. Heart Bypass Operations 44 words
    16. Elderly Persons 162 words
    17. Operating Theatres (Report) 44 words
    18. School Phobia 87 words
    19. Single Payments 156 words
    20. Nursery Nurses 57 words
    21. Dental Treatment 326 words
    22. North Tyneside (Population) 114 words
    23. Benefit Offices (Payments) 102 words
    24. Ford Estate, Birkenhead 40 words
    25. Claimants (Urgent Payments) 119 words
    26. Low Income Workers 80 words
    27. Social Fund Commissioner 65 words
    28. Agency Nurses 66 words
    29. Benefit Payments 126 words
    30. Job Training Scheme 64 words
    31. Severe Weather Payments 618 words
    32. Radioactive Waste 86 words
    33. Prescriptions 264 words
    34. General Practice Finance Corporation (New Schemes) 131 words
    35. Social Fund 74 words
    36. Nurses and Midwives 260 words
    37. Nurse Budgets 51 words
    38. Housing Benefit 61 words
  19. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Liaison Committee 33 words
    2. Lobbying 92 words
  20. DEFENCE
    1. Maritime Operations 92 words
    2. Exercises 489 words
    3. Royal Navy (Rules of Engagement) 39 words
    4. Holy Loch (Visits) 78 words
    5. Battlefield Nuclear Weapons 48 words
    6. Joint Air Attack Team 78 words
    7. Directorate of Battle Doctrine 169 words
    8. National Joint Ocean Surveillance Information Centre 64 words
    9. Harrier GR5 110 words
    10. RAF Molesworth 54 words
    11. Aircraft Interceptions 175 words
    12. Tornado Aircraft 107 words
    13. Exercise Ocean Safari 114 words
    14. United States Navy Carrier-based Aircraft 94 words
    15. Royal Artillery Range, Hebrides 484 words
    16. Low-flying Aircraft 99 words
    17. North Uist (Radar Installation) 52 words
    18. Western Isles (Installations) 58 words
    19. Exercise JMC 87/3 24 words
    20. Exercise JMC 87/2 47 words
    21. Western Isles (Construction Projects) 238 words