16 December 1987

Commons Sitting of 16 December 1987

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Soviet Union (Human Rights) 647 words
    2. Vienna Conference 676 words
    3. South Africa (Front-line States) 656 words
    4. East-West Relations 565 words
    5. Sri Lanka 355 words
    6. Horn of Africa 762 words
    7. European Community 832 words
    8. Afghanistan 458 words
    9. Middle East 984 words
    10. El Salvador 443 words
    11. Guatemala 447 words
    12. AIDS 270 words
    13. Mr. Charles Powell 359 words
    14. Commonwealth Conference 535 words
    15. East-West Relations 452 words
  4. Health Authority (Financial Allocations) 7,482 words
  5. Britoil 505 words
  6. Points of Order 463 words
  7. National Health Service (Improved Provision of Services) 1,501 words
    1. NATIONAL HEATH SERVICE (IMPROVED PROVISION OF SERVICES) 236 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Local Government Finance Bill 40,797 words
    2. Comptroller and Auditor General 10,248 words, 1 division
      1. OFFICE COSTS ALLOWANCE (SPECIAL CASE) 50 words
      2. LIAISON COMMITTEE 160 words
    3. PETITIONS
      1. Rating Reform 419 words
    4. Pension Books 222 words
    5. Pearson Report 3,437 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 16 December 1987

  1. SCOTLAND
    1. National No-Smoking Day 39 words
    2. Civil Defence 428 words
    3. Sheltered Employment 211 words
    4. Midwives 44 words
    5. Social Work Authorities 73 words
    6. School Management 34 words
    7. Chief Inspector of Prisons (Report) 436 words
    8. Fishing Industry 91 words
    9. NHS (Commercial Contractors) 117 words
    10. Social Work (Scotland) Act 302 words
    11. Parole 417 words
  2. WALES
    1. Education Reform 78 words
    2. Gwent Health Authority 27 words
    3. NHS (Funds) 639 words
  3. ENERGY
    1. Disconnections 214 words
    2. Fuel Prices 666 words
    3. Subsidies 108 words
    4. Easington 59 words
    5. Fast Reactors (Exhibition) 69 words
    6. Nuclear Waste 189 words
    7. Plutonium 71 words
    8. Magnox Reactors 149 words
  4. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. AIDS 150 words
    2. Primary Schools 93 words
    3. Education Reform 150 words
  5. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Rating Reform 954 words
    2. Consultative Council on Local Government Finance 73 words
    3. Unleaded Petrol 399 words
    4. Small Business Tenancies 281 words
    5. Local Government Reform 294 words
  6. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Firearms 202 words
    2. Boundary Commission (Report) 102 words
    3. Prisoners (Statistics) 73 words
    4. Pornography and Crime 138 words
    5. Electoral Registers 123 words
    6. Passport Office 81 words
    7. False Passports 83 words
    8. AIDS 57 words
    9. Prisoners (Compassionate Release) 78 words
    10. Prison Accommodation 461 words
  7. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Women 101 words
    2. United Nations Children's Fund (Exhibition) 75 words
    3. Ethiopia 246 words
    4. Commonwealth Distance Education Initiative 76 words
  8. TRANSPORT
    1. Commuter Services 120 words
    2. Headphones 82 words
    3. London Traffic 135 words
    4. London Underground 59 words
    5. London Regional Transport 78 words
    6. Drink-related Accidents 46 words
    7. Train Accidents 150 words
    8. Heathrow (Sewage Works) 124 words
    9. Airports (Expenditure Allocations) 173 words
    10. Stansted Airport (Noise) 191 words
  9. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Crown Prosecution Service 77 words
  10. PRIME MINISTER
    1. National Health Service 123 words
  11. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Unleaded Petrol 76 words
    2. Privatisation 53 words
    3. Petroleum Revenue Tax 380 words
  12. THE ARTS
    1. Museums and Galleries 1,634 words
    2. Reviewing Committee (Report) 68 words
  13. DEFENCE
    1. Exercise Firemen's Revenge 211 words
    2. AIDS 75 words
    3. Chemical Weapons 108 words
    4. ALARM 127 words
    5. International Military Services 56 words
    6. Overseas Territories (British Troops) 90 words
  14. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. South Africa 57 words
    2. Barnsley 43 words
    3. Electronics 98 words
    4. Estate Agents Act 1979 38 words
    5. Mergers (Control Procedures) 42 words
    6. Textiles (Turkey) 1,106 words
    7. Credit Cards 87 words
    8. Doorstep Selling 104 words
    9. Unfair Trade Unit 349 words
    10. Inner City Task Force 6,952 words
  15. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Gulf War 384 words
    2. E1 Salvador 79 words
    3. Soviet Union (Foreign Minister) 112 words
    4. Bophuthatswana 58 words
    5. Afghanistan 254 words
    6. Kenya 56 words
    7. EC (Deregulation) 117 words
    8. UNESCO 31 words
    9. Arms Control 98 words
    10. South-East Asia 61 words
    11. Greece 79 words
    12. Iran 86 words
    13. South Africa (Diplomats) 59 words
    14. Latin America 78 words
    15. Mr. Gorbachev (Visit) 61 words
    16. Iran-Iraq War 108 words
    17. Chile 74 words
    18. INF Treaty 59 words
    19. Arms Reductions 131 words
    20. Bangladesh 70 words
    21. Mozambique 210 words
    22. Federal Republic of Germany 57 words
    23. Heads of Government Meeting (Copenhagen) 66 words
    24. President of the European Commission 68 words
    25. Soviet Union (Human Rights) 218 words
    26. Soviet Union 110 words
    27. Western European Union 97 words
    28. South Africa 53 words
    29. Terrorism 77 words
    30. Southern Africa 223 words
    31. Fiji 111 words
    32. Gulf (Navigation Rights) 104 words
    33. East-West Relations 74 words
    34. Sharpeville Six 82 words
    35. EC (Single Market) 87 words
    36. European Foreign Policies 161 words
    37. Anglo-Egyptian Relations 50 words
    38. Conventional Forces (Europe) 114 words
    39. West Bank and Gaza 72 words
    40. Anglo-Argentinian Relations 61 words
    41. Falkland Islands 65 words
    42. United Nations 55 words
    43. Eastern Europe 59 words
    44. Anglo-French Relations 41 words
    45. Nuclear Bases (Inspection) 182 words
    46. Cyprus 93 words
    47. NATO (Foreign Ministers) 98 words
    48. Pakistan 62 words
    49. Anglo-Soviet Relations 107 words
    50. Arab-Israeli Dispute 54 words
    51. Gibraltar 128 words
    52. Mr. M. G. Shastri 110 words
    53. Poland (Radio Broadcasts) 47 words
    54. Soviet Jewry 91 words
    55. Mr. Ronald Li 56 words
    56. Mr. Jeffrey Sun 44 words
    57. Hong Kong Securities Review Committee (Report) 116 words
    58. Anglo-USA Meeting 56 words
    59. United Nations 109 words
    60. Dependent Territories 311 words
    61. Foreign Affairs Council 263 words
  16. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Labour Statistics 200 words
    2. Availability for Work 87 words
    3. YTS Trainees 214 words
    4. Job Training Scheme 116 words
    5. Noise Levels 70 words
    6. Unemployed People (Training) 679 words
    7. Health and Safety Inspectors 76 words
    8. Accident Statistics 318 words
    9. AIDS 116 words
    10. Dependent Territories (Work Permits) 86 words
    11. Benefit Office, Aytoun Street, Manchester 188 words
  17. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. National No-Smoking Day 25 words
    2. EC (Surplus Food) 154 words
    3. Planning Appeals 110 words
    4. Citizens Advice Bureaux 194 words
    5. Personal Files (Access) 105 words
    6. Hospital Waiting Lists 518 words
    7. "Elected Representatives and the Democratic Process in Northern Ireland" 76 words
    8. Social Fund 458 words
    9. Unemployment (Young People) 100 words
  18. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Rating Reform 514 words
  19. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Council of Ministers 517 words
    2. Food Labelling 470 words
    3. Farmers (EC Proposals) 264 words
    4. EC (Domestic Animals) 254 words
    5. Sheep Imports (Ireland) 107 words
    6. Animals (Radioactivity) 224 words
  20. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Stockport Infirmary 94 words
    2. Laboratory Officers 2,160 words
    3. Nurses (North West Region) 96 words
    4. Nursing and Midwifery 150 words
    5. Primary Health Care 76 words
    6. Foetal and Genetic Abnormality 56 words
    7. High-titred Dried Material 62 words
    8. AIDS 608 words
    9. Child Benefit 294 words
    10. NHS (Charges) 272 words
    11. Audiometry Facilities 348 words
    12. Opren 137 words
    13. Midwives 47 words
    14. Kimberley Carlile 286 words
    15. Social Fund 64 words
    16. Nurses (Overtime) 57 words
    17. RPI (Computer Error) 96 words
    18. Nurses (Outside Income) 117 words
    19. Heating Bills 74 words
    20. Cold Weather (Advice to Elderly) 205 words
    21. Doctors' Records 112 words
    22. Rating Reform 897 words
    23. Spectacles 235 words
    24. Agency Nurses 149 words
    25. Joint Civil/Military Medical Planning 177 words
    26. Mortality 776 words
  21. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Staff Statistics 419 words

Lords Sitting of 16 December 1987

  1. Preamble 35 words
  2. Pelicans in St. James's Park 782 words
  3. Friern Barnet Hospital: Ward Closures 1,033 words
  4. Cancer Screening: House of Lords 627 words
  5. Nuclear Power Stations 888 words
  6. Business 198 words
  7. Human Rights: Jurisdiction 17,684 words
  8. Allocations to Health Authorities 4,547 words
  9. Regional Economic Prospects 19,047 words
  10. Land Registration Bill [H.L.] 1,374 words
  11. Landlord and Tenant Bill [H.L.] 4,376 words
  12. Sunday Sports Bill [H.L.] 1,188 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 16 December 1987

  1. PRISONERS' RELATIVES: ASSISTED VISITS SCHEME 225 words
  2. ASIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN SCHOOLS 37 words
  3. UNIVERSITY EXTRA-MURAL ADULT EDUCATION: FUNDING 201 words
  4. MSC: EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND ALLOCATIONS 224 words
  5. YTS: EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND ALLOCATIONS 181 words
  6. RESEARCH: DEFINITION FOR TAX PURPOSES 142 words
  7. FAST REACTOR PLANNING IN EUROPE 58 words
  8. MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES FUNDING 1988–91 1,631 words
  9. CONVEYANCING SERVICES: LEGISLATION 29 words
  10. FAMILY COURTS 66 words