21 October 1987

Commons Sitting of 21 October 1987

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. Imprisonment of a Member 162 words
    2. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. BRITISH RAILWAYS (LONDON) BILL [Lords] 7 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      1. Council of Ministers 1,390 words
      2. European Community (Policies) 682 words
      3. Arms Control and Disarmament 894 words
      4. Guatemala 376 words
      5. Sino-British Relations 713 words
      6. Contadora Peace Process 383 words
      7. Argentina 348 words
      8. European Commission 764 words
      9. Test Ban Treaty 311 words
      10. Cuba 425 words
      11. Falkland Islands 302 words
      12. European Community Budget 650 words
      13. Soviet Jews 412 words
      14. Austria 255 words
      15. UNESCO 506 words
      16. Soviet Union 338 words
      17. Sri Lanka 136 words
  4. The Gulf 3,036 words
  5. Storm Damage (England) 7,484 words
  6. Flooding (Wales) 5,089 words
  7. Redbrook-Woolley Collieries Complex 492 words
  8. SBG Engineering Ltd. (Closure) 585 words
  9. Whitley Hospital, Coventry 660 words
  10. Palace of Westminster (Security) 4,601 words
    1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 42 words
  11. Orders of the Day
    1. Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Bill 35,985 words, 2 divisions
      1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 22 words
    2. Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Bill [Money] 5,307 words
    3. Scottish Development Agency Bill 30,546 words, 2 divisions
    4. PETITION
      1. Poll Tax 261 words
    5. Disabled Persons (Clothing) 3,547 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 October 1987

  1. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Excise Duties 336 words
    2. Ministers (Private Office Staff) 32 words
    3. Space Programme 101 words
    4. World Decade for Cultural Development 56 words
    5. Windscale Fire 1957 (Papers) 68 words
    6. Intergovernmental Organisations 64 words
    7. British Nuclear Fuels plc 88 words
  2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Members' Pensions 55 words
    2. Accommodation 70 words
  3. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Open University 65 words
    2. University Statistics 226 words
    3. United Nations International Literacy Year 87 words
    4. Education Reform 713 words
    5. Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education 442 words
    6. Lecturers 354 words
  4. Defence
    1. Plutonium and Uranium 66 words
    2. Consultancy Costs 50 words
    3. AIDS 125 words
    4. Master James Gibbs 397 words
    5. Falklands Campaign 48 words
  5. EMPLOYMENT
    1. School Leavers 212 words
    2. Labour Statistics 87 words
  6. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Birth Certificates 56 words
    2. "Spycatcher" 114 words
    3. Marcus Garvey 92 words
    4. Crown Prosecution Service 75 words
  7. WALES
    1. Anglesey Sea Zoo 704 words
    2. Capitation Allowances 46 words
    3. Teachers 136 words
    4. Wrexham-Chester Line 73 words
    5. Mixed Ability Classes 682 words
    6. Lambs and Sheep (Sale Restrictions) 33 words
  8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Aid Statistics 743 words
    2. Mr. Terence Donegan 81 words
    3. RMS St. Helena 63 words
  9. ENERGY
    1. Electricity Supply Industry 322 words
    2. British Coal Property 101 words
    3. Plutonium 417 words
    4. Coal Industry 47 words
  10. TRANSPORT
    1. Orbital Rail Services 68 words
    2. London Air Traffic Control Centre 239 words
    3. Roads (Contractors) 114 words
    4. Hovercraft 69 words
    5. Railways (Safety) 177 words
    6. Bus Services (Deregulation) 85 words
    7. British Rail 314 words
    8. East London River Crossing 183 words
    9. Night Flying (Heathrow) 59 words
    10. Gatwick Airport (Unscheduled Diversions) 43 words
    11. Victoria Coach Station 264 words
    12. Motorways (Roadworks) 82 words
    13. A595 (Egremont Bypass) 85 words
  11. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Disabled People 205 words
    2. London Refurbishing Company Ltd. 216 words
    3. Clerical Officers 134 words
    4. Cross-frontier Incursions 309 words
    5. Security Statistics 2,357 words
    6. Insurance Claims (Legal Costs) 147 words
    7. Terrorism 262 words
  12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Falkland Islands 125 words
    2. Spain 85 words
    3. Saudi Arabia 85 words
    4. Middle East 152 words
    5. Government Communications Centre 115 words
    6. Chile 180 words
    7. Belize 54 words
    8. Soviet Union 57 words
    9. Contadora Peace Process 71 words
    10. KMS Ltd. 53 words
    11. India 67 words
    12. Argentina 135 words
    13. Gibraltar 106 words
    14. Nicaragua 59 words
    15. Kenya 32 words
    16. Hungary 72 words
    17. Arms Control 84 words
    18. Honduras and Nicaragua 110 words
    19. Kuwaiti Tankers (Reflagging) 120 words
    20. INF Talks 108 words
    21. Arms Reductions 120 words
    22. Latin America 49 words
    23. Single European Act 115 words
    24. Persian Gulf 111 words
    25. Caribbean Dependent Territories 51 words
    26. South Africa 147 words
    27. Afghanistan 198 words
    28. Terrorism 108 words
    29. Arms Sales 64 words
    30. Iraq-Iran War 88 words
    31. Falklands Fishery Protection Service 53 words
    32. Hong Kong 75 words
    33. Turks and Caicos Islands 78 words
    34. Refuseniks 65 words
    35. South Korea 81 words
    36. Western Sahara 69 words
    37. Mr. Douglas Forsyth 216 words
    38. Aid Statistics 51 words
    39. Klaus Barbie 59 words
    40. Rudolf Hess 214 words
    41. UNESCO 117 words
    42. Parking fines 1,215 words
  13. SCOTLAND
    1. Scottish Transport Group 151 words
    2. Hypothermia 42 words
    3. Local Authority Services (Private Contractors) 63 words
    4. Lambs and Sheep (Sale Restrictions) 33 words
    5. Nuclear Accidents (Monitoring) 75 words
    6. Rating Reform 57 words
  14. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Deportees 59 words
    2. Citizenship 109 words
    3. Prison Staff 168 words
    4. Wandsworth Prison 87 words
    5. Offensive Weapons 287 words
    6. Television Licences 233 words
    7. Motorists (Blood Tests) 127 words
    8. Grendon Prison 289 words
    9. Equal Opportunities Commission 178 words
    10. Winson Green Prison 65 words
    11. Electoral Register 204 words
    12. Prisoners (Citizenship) 118 words
    13. Disabled People (Elections) 153 words
    14. USA (Visas) 72 words
    15. George Blake 65 words
    16. Prison Ships 962 words
    17. Firearms 702 words
    18. Departmental Staff 360 words
  15. THE ARTS
    1. Leicestershire Museums 94 words
    2. Arts Council 189 words
    3. "Spycatcher" 103 words
  16. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Corporation Tax 91 words
    2. Excise Duties 1,101 words
    3. Personal Allowances 390 words
    4. Small Businesses (Taxation) 45 words
    5. Income Tax 68 words
    6. Personal Taxation 181 words
    7. British Petroleum 198 words
    8. National Economic Development Council 411 words
    9. Taxation Statistics 328 words
    10. Management and Computer Consultancy 94 words
    11. Revenue Costs 358 words
    12. Britannia Coins 46 words
    13. Child Benefit 91 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Birds (Scare Guns) 114 words
    2. Horses 69 words
    3. Sea Defences 70 words
    4. Food Additives 123 words
    5. National Food Survey Committee 332 words
    6. Sheep (Sale Restrictions) 34 words
    7. Sugar 186 words
    8. Council of Agriculture Ministers 232 words
  18. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Alcohol Consumption 822 words
    2. Cancer Screening 84 words
    3. Social Security Appeals System 215 words
    4. Housing Benefit 726 words
    5. Interdepartmental Group for Under-fives 157 words
    6. Tardive Dyskinesia 199 words
    7. Electro-convulsive Therapy 188 words
    8. Royal Northern Hospital (Islington) 36 words
    9. Supplementary Benefit 310 words
    10. Administration and Medical Secretaries 53 words
    11. Invalid Care Allowance 159 words
    12. Telephone Exchange for the Deaf 96 words
    13. Benefits 129 words
    14. AIDS 67 words
    15. Maternity Payments 270 words
    16. Funeral Payments 205 words
    17. Funeral and Maternity Payments 65 words
    18. Hospitals (Birmingham) 848 words
    19. Orthopaedic Surgery (Birmingham) 154 words
    20. Birmingham Health Authorities 62 words
    21. Mortality Statistics 235 words
    22. Pension Books 61 words
    23. London Boroughs (Fostering Schemes) 57 words
    24. Family Credit 228 words
    25. Income Support 177 words
    26. Kidney Stones (Treatment) 44 words
    27. Kidney Patients (Birmingham) 108 words
    28. Child Raising (Costs) 111 words
    29. Family Taxation 348 words
    30. Rating Reform 137 words
  19. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Shoe Industry 141 words
    2. EC (Steel Industry) 156 words
    3. Post Office 105 words
    4. Film Distribution Scheme 89 words
    5. Mr. Ben Banerjee 63 words
    6. Mail (Russia) 523 words
    7. Monopolies and Mergers Commission 267 words
    8. Consumer Protection 79 words
    9. Advisory Committee on Telecommunications for Small Businesses 136 words
    10. Rover Group 57 words
    11. South Africa 99 words
    12. Post Office Counters Ltd. 69 words
    13. Fireworks 76 words
    14. Ship Radio Licences 377 words
    15. Handsworth Task Force 222 words
  20. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Steel-framed Houses 323 words
    2. Rating Reform 5,079 words
    3. Glass (Recycling) 405 words
    4. >British Coal (Houses) 230 words
    5. Mayall Road, SE24 (Envelope Scheme) 51 words
    6. Land Use (Departmental Bulletin) 162 words
    7. CoSIRA (Membership) 231 words
    8. Commission for New Towns (Membership) 168 words
    9. Listed Buildings 70 words
    10. Engineers Direct Labour Department (Northampton) 97 words
    11. No-Fines Dwellings (Walsall) 568 words
    12. Housing Deputations 85 words
    13. Common Land 37 words
    14. Bed-and-Breakfast Accommodation 589 words
    15. Housing Programme (Islington) 163 words
    16. Teddington Weir (Minimum Flow) 106 words
    17. National Rivers Authority 87 words
    18. Beaches (EC Standards) 131 words
    19. Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 142 words
    20. Right to Buy (Camden) 140 words
    21. Newham (Strategic Plans) 96 words
    22. New River Water Company (Assets) 61 words
    23. Royal Docks (Development) 258 words
    24. Rental Purchase Tenure 71 words
    25. Local Authorities (Companies Information) 59 words
    26. Textiles 127 words
    27. Home Improvements 124 words
    28. Gipsies (Planning Applications) 121 words
    29. Mapesbury Conservation Area 182 words
    30. Defective Housing 115 words
    31. Urban Regeneration Grants 237 words
    32. Estates Action 72 words
    33. Housing Associations (Tenants) 176 words
      1. CORRIGENDUM 17 words
    34. Surrogacy Agencies 71 words

Lords Sitting of 21 October 1987