28 October 1987

Commons Sitting of 28 October 1987

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. ABERDEEN HARBOUR ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 7 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      1. British Telecom 1,080 words
      2. Rural Areas (Funding) 537 words
      3. Life Assurance Policies 597 words
      4. Research and Development 583 words
      5. Japan (Shoes and Leather) 386 words
      6. Alnwick and Amble 268 words
      7. Textiles (False Labels) 307 words
      8. Afghanistan 257 words
      9. Manufacturing Industry 842 words
      10. British Space Centre 1,085 words
      11. Research and Development 505 words
      12. European Economic Community 374 words
      13. Birmingham 334 words
      14. Manufacturing Industry 898 words
      15. Oftel and Ofgas 586 words
      16. Space Plan 255 words
      17. Regional Aid 423 words
  5. Mr. Adolfo Calero 1,308 words
  6. Questions to Ministers 146 words
    1. BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 15 words
    2. BILLS PRESENTED
      1. PROTECTION OF OFFICIAL INFORMATION 101 words
      2. SCOTCH WHISKY 82 words
      3. ABORTION (AMENDMENT) 88 words
      4. CONSUMER ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS 89 words
      5. MOTOR VEHICLES (WEARING OF REAR SEAT BELTS BY CHILDREN) 78 words
      6. MALICIOUS COMMUNICATIONS 77 words
      7. SUNDAY SPORTS (No. 2) 101 words
      8. SLAUGHTER OF DEER 83 words
      9. ENVIRONMENT AND SAFETY INFORMATION 83 words
      10. ACCESS TO MEDICAL REPORTS 88 words
      11. OPTICAL APPLIANCES (BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PERSONS) 106 words
      12. PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (AMENDMENT) 111 words
      13. LICENSING (RETAIL SALES) 83 words
      14. HOUSING (HOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION) 172 words
      15. UNFAIR REPORTING AND RIGHT OF REPLY 115 words
      16. ABORTION (TREATMENT OF NON-RESIDENT WOMEN) 105 words
      17. UNBORN CHILDREN (PROTECTION) 79 words
      18. HOUSING (WAITING LIST RESTRICTIONS) 80 words
      19. COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCILS (ACCESS TO INFORMATION) 62 words
      20. ABORTION (FINANCIAL BENEFIT) 76 words
    3. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 21 words
  7. Defence 73 words
    1. SECOND DAY'S DEBATE 54,345 words, 2 divisions
  8. Foodstuffs (Radioactive Contamination) 12,303 words, 1 division
  9. Pontefract District Health Authority 3,810 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 28 October 1987

  1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Education Reform 117 words
    2. General Teaching Council 94 words
    3. Schizophrenia 252 words
    4. Social Workers 141 words
    5. Conductive Education 109 words
    6. Sixth Forms 50 words
    7. Derby (Post-primary Education) 71 words
    8. CERN 108 words
    9. Pupil Costs 92 words
    10. School Teachers 146 words
    11. Education Standards 72 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Crayford 24 words
    2. National Insurance Files (Access) 58 words
  3. WALES
    1. Welsh Assembly 35 words
    2. Craig-y-nos Castle 220 words
    3. Farms (Radioactivity) 88 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Emergency Aid (Airline Contracts) 221 words
    2. Southern Air Transport 34 words
    3. Emergency Aid (Airline Contracts) 62 words
    4. Heat Grid (London) 134 words
    5. Electricity 57 words
    6. Severn Tidal Group 86 words
    7. South African Coal Industry 42 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Storm Damage 192 words
    2. Passports 147 words
    3. Medical Health Review Tribunals 224 words
    4. Schizophrenia 274 words
    5. Prisons (Staffing Levels) 313 words
    6. Prison Staff 110 words
    7. Firearms 223 words
    8. Police National Computer 54 words
    9. Child Prostitution 30 words
    10. Missing Children 104 words
    11. Dog Licensing 89 words
  6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. EC-Israel (Relations) 119 words
    2. Iraq (Chemical Weapons) 210 words
    3. Equal Opportunities 176 words
    4. Cross-border Trade (Republic of Ireland) 196 words
    5. Human Rights 46 words
  7. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Legal Aid 118 words
    2. Commonhold 121 words
    3. Freehold Flats 65 words
    4. Judges and Magistrates 180 words
    5. Illegitimacy 178 words
    6. Marconi 82 words
    7. Judicial Studies Board 607 words
  8. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich 132 words
    2. Water Meters 92 words
    3. Peregrine Falcons 153 words
    4. Falconry (Quarry Licences) 116 words
    5. County Hall, London 152 words
    6. Empty Properties 223 words
    7. Telford Development Corporation 325 words
    8. Pollution 102 words
    9. Public Inquiries (Costs) 121 words
    10. Endangered Species 97 words
    11. Yorkshire Water Authority 207 words
    12. River Pollution 194 words
    13. Structure Plans 128 words
    14. District Valuer 77 words
    15. Land Use 72 words
    16. Planning Applications 131 words
    17. Agricultural Derating 95 words
    18. Town and Country Planning 516 words
    19. Compulsory Purchase of Land Regulations 1982 94 words
    20. No-Fines Dwellings (Walsall) 308 words
    21. Rating Reform 417 words
  9. TRANSPORT
    1. Civil Engineers 111 words
    2. M66 66 words
    3. Seat Belts 103 words
    4. Cabotage 172 words
    5. M5 73 words
    6. M40 113 words
    7. A49 93 words
    8. Roads 309 words
    9. Sleeper Services 81 words
    10. Parking 90 words
    11. Buses 158 words
    12. Transport Policies and Programmes 53 words
    13. Motorway Accidents (Lorries) 101 words
    14. Air Traffic Controllers (Suspensions) 52 words
    15. Aircraft Safety 77 words
    16. Herald of Free Enterprise 230 words
  10. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Co-operatives 70 words
    2. Industrial Training Boards 892 words
    3. Equal Opportunities 108 words
    4. Labour Statistics 223 words
    5. Restart 531 words
    6. Industrial Tribunal Awards 33 words
    7. Timesharing (Exhibition) 50 words
    8. Docklands 123 words
    9. Closures 58 words
    10. Sex Discrimination 167 words
    11. Redundancy Payments 126 words
    12. Cash Limits 504 words
    13. Rates 65 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Director General of Telecommunications 43 words
    2. Inner Cities 131 words
    3. Industrial Output 106 words
    4. Car Sales 64 words
    5. Insurance 116 words
    6. Consultative Committees 47 words
    7. Manufacturing Industry 340 words
    8. Regional Aid 88 words
    9. Franchise Selling 34 words
    10. Outer Cities 58 words
    11. Research and Development 280 words
    12. Industrial Aid 70 words
    13. Regional Initiatives 91 words
    14. Privatisation 26 words
    15. Inner City Task Forces 55 words
    16. Domestic Furniture (Flammability) 117 words
    17. Post Office 140 words
    18. Pension Funds 189 words
    19. Furs (Imports) 159 words
    20. Register of Shareholders 80 words
    21. Manufactured Goods 968 words
    22. Citizens Advice Bureaux 238 words
    23. Lonrho (Accounts) 56 words
    24. British Home Stores (Bids) 161 words
    25. Professional Liability 167 words
    26. Investor Protection 139 words
  12. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Schizophrenia 77 words
  13. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Kimberley Carlile 82 words
    2. Ancillary Services 84 words
    3. Hip Replacements 90 words
    4. Commercial Tendering 126 words
    5. Committee on Safety of Medicines 419 words
    6. Family Planning 180 words
    7. Contraceptive Services 65 words
    8. Abortions 218 words
    9. Patients (Screening) 71 words
    10. Disabled Babies 91 words
    11. Multi-Handicapped Visually-Impaired People 215 words
    12. Public Expenditure White Paper 67 words
    13. Schools of Radiology and Radiography 83 words
    14. Sterilisation Operations 54 words
    15. Tattoos 63 words
    16. Child Care and Family Services 76 words
    17. Agency Nurses 79 words
    18. East Berkshire Home Authority 111 words
    19. London Weighting 64 words
    20. AIDS 85 words
    21. Agency Doctors 132 words
    22. Birth Statistics 58 words
    23. London 309 words
    24. Housing Benefit 1,957 words
  14. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Milk 148 words
    2. Data Protection Act 326 words
    3. Dairy Farmers (Incomes) 236 words
    4. CAP (Surpluses) 71 words
    5. Radiation 85 words
    6. Storm Damage 243 words
    7. Pesticides 758 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. Radiation Monitoring 125 words
    2. Rates 1,584 words
    3. SSHA (Tenants) 49 words
    4. Tourism 102 words
    5. Tourism 157 words
    6. Housing 79 words
    7. Pupils (Statistics) 58 words
    8. Arts 47 words
    9. Free School Meals 70 words
    10. AIDS 173 words
    11. School Meals 198 words
    12. Rating Reform 235 words
    13. Pupil-Teacher Statistics 110 words
    14. Scottish Special Housing Association 46 words
    15. Closures 209 words
    16. Higher and Further Education 97 words
    17. Nuclear Waste 158 words
    18. Immunisation 2,404 words
    19. SHARPEN Report 171 words
    20. Carstairs State Hospital 50 words
    21. Dredging Operations 97 words
    22. Adult Education 61 words
    23. National Health Service 57 words
    24. Haemophilia Centres (Funding) 73 words
    25. Air Misses 156 words
    26. Benefits 231 words
    27. Rents 217 words
  16. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Child Benefit 45 words
    2. Job Creation 84 words
    3. Data Protection 327 words
    4. Inland Revenue 184 words
    5. Income Tax 248 words
    6. BP Share Offer 631 words
    7. Value Added Tax 74 words
    8. Alcohol 94 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Nimrod Early Warning Programme 102 words
    2. Anglo-American Community Relations Committee 194 words
    3. Arms and Ammunition (Security) 284 words
    4. Equal Opportunities 300 words
    5. Northern Norway 108 words
    6. Fort Chaffee, Arkansas 65 words
    7. Irish Sea (Submarines) 85 words
    8. Rosyth Dockyard 273 words
    9. Courts Martial 410 words
    10. Bullying and Brutality 736 words
    11. Absent Without Leave 201 words
    12. Sentencing Policy 100 words
    13. Young Recruits (Experience) 65 words

Lords Sitting of 28 October 1987

  1. Preamble 34 words
  2. Lord Pym 36 words
  3. Lord Joseph 37 words
  4. River Lea: Improvements 759 words
  5. Nicaragua: US Action 883 words
  6. Middle East: Nuclear Weapons 270 words
  7. ANC: Prime Minister's Description 785 words
  8. Business 131 words
  9. Income and Corporation Taxes Bill [H.L.] 901 words
  10. Copyright, Designs and Patents Bill [H.L.] 159 words
  11. Consolidation Bills: Joint Committee 51 words
  12. Child Health Services 19,172 words
  13. Disabled People 19,445 words
  14. Air Defence in the United Kingdom 6,862 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 28 October 1987

  1. INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY 106 words
  2. ENERGY POLICY: AIMS AND PRIORITIES 120 words
  3. CEGB COAL PURCHASE AGREEMENT 91 words
  4. HEAVY FUEL OIL IMPORT PRICES 161 words