9 March 1987

Commons Sitting of 9 March 1987

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. ENERGY
      1. Offshore Supplies Office 368 words
      2. Oil and Oil-Related Construction Activity 345 words
      3. Nuclear Power Stations 658 words
      4. Dismissed Miners (Review) 742 words
      5. North-East Leicestershire Coalfields 619 words
      6. Mersey and Severn Barrages 513 words
      7. Nuclear Power Industry (Accidents) 496 words
      8. Shetland Islands 554 words
      9. Coal-Fired Power Stations 620 words
      10. Coal-fired Power Stations 775 words
    2. THE ARTS
      1. Scotland (Expenditure) 574 words
      2. Acceptance-in-lieu 640 words
      3. Museums and Galleries (Refurbishment) 463 words
    3. CIVIL SERVICE
      1. Recruitment 477 words
      2. Trade Unions 620 words
      3. Official Forms 477 words
  4. Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster 3,458 words
  5. Statutory Instruments, &c. 106 words
  6. European Community Documents 65 words
    1. CHEVENING ESTATE BILL [LORDS] 15 words
  7. Opposition Day 3 words
    1. Intermediate Nuclear Weapons 30,775 words
    2. Regional Employment Opportunities 20,581 words, 1 division
    3. Representation of the People 1,863 words
      1. ESTIMATES 14 words
      2. PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE 24 words
    4. Grammar Schools (Warwickshire) 3,865 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 9 March 1987

  1. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Ethnic Monitoring 107 words
    2. London Newspapers 137 words
    3. Taxis 176 words
    4. Cleaning Contracts 44 words
  2. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Prison Population 64 words
    2. Broadleaved Woodlands 304 words
  3. WALES
    1. National Museum of Wales 51 words
    2. Angling Clubs (Compensation Scheme) 66 words
    3. Fish (Radioactivity) 411 words
    4. National Childminding Association 81 words
    5. Health Authorities (Clerks) 47 words
    6. Hospital Waiting Lists 89 words
    7. Dairy Farms (Inspections) 140 words
    8. Play Board 138 words
    9. Engineering Industry 71 words
    10. Skill Shortages 68 words
    11. Engineering (Skills Training) 84 words
    12. Health Services (Privatisation) 90 words
    13. Private In-patient Care 190 words
    14. Patient Care 136 words
    15. EEC Butter and Beef (Distribution) 611 words
    16. Welsh Language 43 words
    17. Schools (Welsh Language) 1,604 words
  4. TRANSPORT
    1. Ethnic Monitoring 277 words
    2. London Underground (Automated Ticketing) 170 words
    3. Bus Deregulation 87 words
    4. A56 Chester Road 96 words
    5. Highway Code 105 words
    6. Kingmoor Motor Transport Sheds, Carlisle 79 words
    7. Airlines (UK Airports) 51 words
    8. Seafarers 37 words
    9. East Coast Railway Line 83 words
    10. Disused Canals 74 words
    11. M25 (Facilities for HGV Drivers) 127 words
    12. M6 (Facilities for HGV Drivers) 87 words
    13. M1/A1 Link (Facilities for HGV Drivers) 91 words
    14. Heavy Goods Vehicles (Licences) 165 words
    15. Road Users (Service Facilities) 160 words
  5. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
    1. BBC, Scotland (Police Raid) 113 words
    2. Sheriff Officers 44 words
    3. Degrees in Summary Cause 131 words
    4. Warrant Sales and Poindings 130 words
    5. Rates (Non-payments) 48 words
  6. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Job Creation (Art Content) 74 words
    2. Ethnic Monitoring 267 words
    3. Jobs (Portsmouth) 90 words
    4. Jobcentres 27 words
    5. Engineering Apprenticeships 29 words
    6. Unemployment (Kirklees) 335 words
    7. Resource Centre 142 words
    8. Job Training Scheme 113 words
  7. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Natural History Museum 228 words
    2. Member's Correspondence 116 words
    3. Capital Expenditure 51 words
    4. Her Majesty's Inspectors 145 words
    5. Secondary Education (Warwickshire) 57 words
    6. Higher Education 51 words
    7. GCSE 282 words
    8. School Inspections 224 words
    9. Nursery Schools (Hampshire) 71 words
    10. Engineering Council 102 words
    11. Education (No. 2) Act 1986 105 words
    12. School Uniforms 117 words
    13. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 83 words
    14. Meningitis (Research) 99 words
    15. Expenditure Steering Group 142 words
    16. Hearing Damage 156 words
  8. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Government Policies (Effects) 101 words
    2. Engagements 102 words
    3. Portsmouth (Voluntary Organisations) 40 words
    4. Intermediate Range Nuclear Force Agreement 116 words
  9. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Ethnic Monitoring 268 words
    2. Crime 138 words
    3. Asylum Seekers 86 words
    4. Canning House Probation Hostel 392 words
    5. Prison Officers' Houses, Culcheth 98 words
    6. Bookmaking 89 words
    7. Jordanian Embassy (Employees) 102 words
    8. Death at Sea 168 words
    9. Immigration 64 words
    10. Tamils 62 words
    11. Drink Driving 159 words
    12. Zircon Project 46 words
    13. Drug Abuse 119 words
    14. Crime (Wales) 58 words
    15. Mr. Mark Thatcher (Wedding) 103 words
  10. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Regional Assistance 900 words
    2. United States (Internal Control Programme) 164 words
    3. Bookmaking 62 words
    4. Vacuum Flexible Mirror (Sale) 33 words
    5. Civil Research and Development 298 words
    6. Circuit Breakers 92 words
    7. Trade Descriptions Act 1972 158 words
    8. Leicester (Ministerial Visit) 69 words
    9. Match Imports 311 words
    10. British Aerospace 56 words
    11. Sequestrations and Bankruptcies 226 words
    12. Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association 41 words
    13. Employment (Assistance) 136 words
    14. Industry (Public Funds) 120 words
  11. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. AIDS 123 words
  12. ENERGY
    1. Combined Heat and Power 77 words
    2. Nuclear Power Industry (Equipment Supplies) 67 words
    3. Conservation Schemes 50 words
    4. Crude Oil Prices 39 words
    5. Home Insulation 84 words
    6. Sizewell B 123 words
    7. French Energy Minister 47 words
    8. Surplus Energy 85 words
    9. British Coal 56 words
    10. Closed Power Stations 53 words
    11. Nuclear Power Industry (Equipment Supplies) 71 words
    12. Coal Industry (Industrial Relations) 63 words
    13. Pressurised Water Reactor Power Stations 48 words
    14. Wind Power 107 words
    15. Efficiency (Industry) 180 words
    16. Scottish Coalfields 65 words
    17. Energy Efficiency 318 words
    18. Electricity Generation (Costs) 62 words
    19. Nuclear Materials 45 words
    20. Ethnic Monitoring 264 words
    21. Nuclear Fuel 222 words
    22. Nuclear Power 389 words
    23. Nuclear Accidents 84 words
    24. CEGB (Monopoly) 127 words
    25. Anthracite 62 words
    26. Sir Ian MacGregor 61 words
    27. Coal Strike (Dismissals) 197 words
    28. Petroleum 221 words
  13. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Central America 117 words
    2. Development Education 100 words
  14. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Convention on Human Rights 84 words
    2. Jordan (Diplomatic Immunity) 112 words
    3. Sri Lanka 131 words
    4. Jews (Soviet Union) 261 words
    5. Lebanon 76 words
    6. Entry Visas 116 words
  15. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Ethnic Monitoring 126 words
  16. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Job Descriptions and Definitions 79 words
    2. Training 71 words
  17. ENVIRONMENT
    1. House Insulation (Cancer) 75 words
    2. Nuclear Waste 64 words
    3. Construction Industry (Training) 310 words
    4. Flats 47 words
    5. Ethnic Monitoring 281 words
    6. Local Government Finance (Waltham Forest) 225 words
    7. West Sussex Structure Plan 86 words
    8. Official Drivers 99 words
    9. Homelessness 134 words
    10. Home Insulation 35 words
    11. Neighbourhood Energy Action 40 words
    12. Anti-fouling Paint 182 words
    13. Tenants (Telford) 91 words
    14. Ministers (Car Telephones) 61 words
    15. Water (Privatisation) 86 words
    16. Sports Grounds, Brent 347 words
    17. Cleaning Contracts (Palace of Westminster) 141 words
    18. Housing Investment Programme 2,184 words
  18. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Public Sector Employees 563 words
    2. Autocatalysts 37 words
    3. Ethnic Monitoring 341 words
    4. Manufacturing Industry and Investment 127 words
    5. National Debt 87 words
    6. Taxpayers' Incomes 56 words
    7. Overdue Taxes 85 words
    8. European Investment Bank 207 words
  19. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Mental Health (Nursing) 173 words
    2. SERPS 187 words
    3. Free Milk and Vitamins 58 words
    4. Maternity Payments 208 words
    5. Hospital Waiting Lists 250 words
    6. Corporal Punishment 377 words
    7. Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Grants) 212 words
    8. Neurology Services (Guildford) 255 words
    9. Children (Homelessness) 296 words
    10. Family Practitioner Service (Surrey) 106 words
    11. Doctors and Dentists 252 words
    12. Nurses 512 words
    13. District Health Authorities 235 words
    14. Single Payments 188 words
    15. Hospital Beds 177 words
    16. Suicide 62 words
    17. North-West Regional Health Authority 54 words
    18. AIDS 48 words
    19. Prescriptions 646 words
    20. Blood Plasma 192 words
    21. NHS Patients (Private Treatment) 57 words
    22. Raptors 122 words
    23. Health Authorities (Private Patient Income) 50 words
    24. Competitive Tendering 59 words
    25. Benefits 113 words
    26. Severe Weather Payments 154 words
    27. Board-and-Lodging Payments 144 words
    28. Family Trust 130 words
    29. Pensioner Prices Index 115 words
    30. Radiation (Cancer) 212 words
    31. Premature Births 1,676 words
  20. THE ARTS
    1. North-West Region 234 words
    2. South-West Region 58 words
    3. Employment 550 words
    4. Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 78 words
    5. Museums (Admission Charges) 147 words
    6. Regional Arts Associations (Administrative Costs) 31 words
    7. Overseas Visitors (Expenditure) 64 words
    8. Business Sponsorship 76 words
    9. Tourism 173 words
    10. Live Music 56 words
    11. Value Added Tax 60 words
    12. Film 61 words
    13. Provincial Museums and Galleries (Borrowings) 107 words
    14. Expenditure (International Comparisons) 54 words
    15. Consumer Expenditure 60 words
    16. Expenditure 195 words
    17. Economics and Statistics Unit 65 words
    18. Payroll Giving 93 words
    19. Museums and Galleries (Extensions) 147 words
    20. Arts Council (Support Costs) 64 words
    21. New British Library Building 66 words
    22. West Midlands 92 words
    23. Crafts Council 44 words
    24. Arts Council (Grants) 44 words
    25. Arts Marketing Scheme 74 words
    26. Young Jazz Musicians 67 words
    27. Photography 87 words
    28. Choral Music 50 words
    29. Calder Valley Artists 65 words
  21. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Ethnic Monitoring 315 words
    2. ADAS 627 words
    3. Livestock (Attacks) 94 words
    4. Salmon Advisory Committee 44 words
  22. SCOTLAND
    1. Strathclyde (Industrial Assistance) 79 words
    2. Firms (Redundancies and Closures) 48 words
    3. Prison System 55 words
    4. Dr. John Mitchell 34 words
    5. List D Schools (Corporal Punishment) 100 words
    6. Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy (Unemployment) 752 words
    7. BBC, Scotland (Police Raid) 220 words
    8. Assisted Places Scheme 160 words
    9. Job Clubs 477 words
  23. DEFENCE
    1. Heart Disease 198 words
    2. Procurement Expenditure 39 words
    3. RAF Squadron Leader (Press Statement) 77 words
    4. Pte Jeffrey Singh