12 April 1988

Commons Sitting of 12 April 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. SOCIAL SERVICES
      1. Sickle Cell Anaemia 426 words
      2. Disabled People (Assistance) 611 words
      3. Property Sales 404 words
      4. Disabled People (Assistance) 687 words
      5. 1991 Census 610 words
      6. Family Income Supplement 280 words
      7. Social Security Rreform 1,276 words
      8. Social Security Reform 1,204 words
      9. Disabled People (Assistance) 535 words
      10. Hospitals (Nucleus System) 235 words
      11. NHS (Building Programme) 137 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,961 words
  4. Social Security System (Changes) 627 words
  5. Points of Order 1,004 words
    1. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 30 words
  6. Blacklists (Access to Information) 3,028 words, 1 division
    1. BLACKLISTS (ACCESS TO INFORMATION) 202 words
  7. Orders of the Day
    1. School Boards (Scotland) Bill 52,227 words, 2 divisions
  8. School Boards (Scotland) [Money] 6,652 words, 1 division
  9. Church Commissioners (Priority Areas) 3,339 words
  10. Green Belt (Bearsden and Milngavie) 4,278 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 12 April 1988

  1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Mr. John T. Saxon 67 words
  2. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Passport Office, Birmingham 34 words
    2. Sports (Fire Safety) 164 words
    3. Prisoners (Remission) 126 words
    4. ANC Representatives 109 words
    5. Brockhill Remand Centre 612 words
    6. Immigration 235 words
    7. Entry Refusals 95 words
    8. Arsenal Football Club 159 words
    9. Official Secrets Act (Police Officers) 80 words
    10. Michael Ryan (Shootings) 120 words
    11. Recidivism 96 words
    12. Rural Areas (Policing) 70 words
    13. Extradition (USA) 98 words
    14. North Wales Police 80 words
    15. Crime Statistics 106 words
    16. Trespass and Illegal Occupation 214 words
    17. Racing (Drug Misuse) 242 words
  3. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Fiji 218 words
    2. Illegal Regimes 26 words
    3. Turkey (Visit) 76 words
    4. Chile (Ministerial Statement) 140 words
    5. Education Reform 85 words
    6. Regional Editors (Reception) 57 words
    7. British Citizenship Applications 40 words
    8. Engagements 215 words
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Sittings of the House 52 words
    2. Select Committee on Procedure 86 words
    3. "Official Report" (Parliamentary Questions) 179 words
  5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Mozambique 642 words
    2. Saharawi Refugees 87 words
    3. UNICEF 194 words
  6. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Education Reform 115 words
    2. Student Loans 89 words
    3. Universities and Polytechnics 146 words
    4. GCSE 86 words
    5. Mentally Handicapped Children 107 words
    6. Stoke (School Reorganisation) 149 words
    7. Student Loans 280 words
    8. Schools (Closures and Mergers) 730 words
    9. Education Expenditure 852 words
    10. School Trips 159 words
    11. Higher Education (Contingency Reserves) 96 words
  7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Shipbuilding 670 words
    2. Exporters (Sterling Exchange Rate) 70 words
    3. Data (Accuracy) 451 words
    4. Columbus Space Platform Programme 128 words
    5. Motor Cycles and Bicycles 260 words
    6. Airbus 87 words
    7. Launch Aid 125 words
    8. Air Combat Manouevring System Platforms 49 words
    9. EC Single Market 159 words
    10. Footwear 289 words
    11. Yorkshire and Humberside 186 words
    12. Credit Cards (Report) 74 words
    13. Consumer Credit Register 89 words
    14. Telecommunications (Competition) 85 words
    15. North Peckham Task Force 574 words
    16. Departmental Television Advertisement Campaign 41 words
    17. Poppy Products and Derivatives 42 words
    18. EC Mergers Directive 138 words
    19. Sub-Post Office, Southchurch Road, Southend-on-Sea 88 words
    20. Manufactures 237 words
    21. Industry (Nottingham, North) 110 words
    22. Libya 60 words
    23. Turkey (Clothing Products) 132 words
    24. Origin Marking 252 words
    25. Correspondence 91 words
    26. New Enterprise Consultancy Package 124 words
    27. Textile and Clothing Exports 60 words
    28. Leyland Bus Division 360 words
  8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Resistencia Nacional Mocambica 113 words
    2. Mozambique 272 words
    3. Hong Kong 45 words
    4. Fiji 186 words
    5. Nuclear Weapons 126 words
    6. European Parliament 168 words
    7. Treaty of Rome 88 words
    8. Western European Union (Co-location) 58 words
    9. NATO Headquarters (Arrested Britons) 75 words
    10. Bangladesh 59 words
    11. Turkey 63 words
    12. Munich Opera 105 words
    13. "Cry Freedom" 46 words
    14. Drugs 123 words
    15. Plutonium 50 words
    16. World Food Conference 121 words
    17. Morocco 215 words
    18. UN African Peace Plan 142 words
    19. WEU (Collaborative Equipment Projects) 138 words
    20. Israel (Non-proliferation Treaty) 113 words
  9. DEFENCE
    1. Tucano 123 words
    2. Air Combat System 56 words
    3. US Air Force Headquarters 46 words
    4. Military Mission (Bangladesh) 48 words
    5. Nimrod Project 75 words
    6. Ammunition Transport (Caerwent) 177 words
    7. House Sales 127 words
    8. Low Flying 267 words
    9. Fighter Evasion Exercises 150 words
  10. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Wages Inspectorate 468 words
    2. Adjudication Officers 479 words
    3. EC Single Market 97 words
    4. Gas Appliance Installers 85 words
    5. Tourism 669 words
    6. Labour Statistics 156 words
    7. Job Vacancies (Nottingham) 702 words
    8. Unemployment Benefit 153 words
    9. Adult Training Scheme 283 words
  11. SCOTLAND
    1. Forestry 78 words
    2. Water Supplies 218 words
    3. Rating Reform 105 words
    4. Departmental Correspondence (Confidentiality) 98 words
    5. School Clothing Grants 402 words
    6. Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations 462 words
    7. Speech Therapy (Twechar) 95 words
    8. Inshore Fishing 157 words
    9. South of Scotland Electricity Board 85 words
    10. Private Medical Schemes 101 words
  12. WALES
    1. Spastics Society 191 words
    2. Correspondence 52 words
  13. ENERGY
    1. Eastcrop District Heating, Nottingham 67 words
    2. Air Combat System 134 words
    3. Plutonium 222 words
    4. Nuclear Fuel 281 words
    5. River Aire (Flooding) 213 words
  14. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. ACE Funding 84 words
    2. Terrorists (Sentence Remission) 115 words
    3. Electricity Generation 69 words
    4. Lecturers 292 words
    5. Prison Population 164 words
    6. Public Bodies 94 words
    7. Sinn Fein 83 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Green Rates 414 words
    2. Monetary Compensatory Amounts 147 words
    3. Farming Industry (Assistance) 103 words
    4. Radioactivity 55 words
    5. Bass 129 words
    6. Food Surpluses 110 words
    7. Production Subsidies 72 words
    8. Agricultural Production 196 words
    9. EAGGF and Set-aside Scheme 91 words
    10. Food Aid 408 words
    11. Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 92 words
  16. THE ARTS
    1. Arts Council 1,746 words
    2. Museums (Storage Space) 162 words
    3. British Museum 96 words
  17. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Agencies 76 words
  18. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Tax Allowances 340 words
    2. Income Tax 85 words
    3. Credit Card Companies 91 words
    4. Exchange Rate 46 words
    5. Freeports 65 words
    6. Credit Controls 26 words
    7. Mortgage Repayments 46 words
    8. Queen's Warehousekeeper 201 words
    9. Loxodonta Africana 61 words
    10. EC (UK Contribution) 63 words
    11. Taxation Statistics 249 words
    12. EC Intergovernmental Agreement 466 words
    13. Policy Work (Financial Management Initiative) 111 words
    14. Staff Productivity and Efficiency 76 words
    15. Personal Incomes 501 words
    16. Seabed Mooring Rentals 542 words
    17. Mortgage Interest Tax Relief 578 words
  19. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Property Services Agency (Doncaster) 411 words
    2. Tourism 85 words
    3. Pollution 642 words
    4. Canals and Waterways 96 words
    5. Shopping Developments 86 words
    6. Merseyside Development Corporation 78 words
    7. Greenham Common 51 words
    8. Local Authorities (Rating and Capital Expenditure) 109 words
    9. Nuclear Materials (Mislabelling) 93 words
    10. Unity Houses (Southend) 182 words
    11. Caravan Sites 86 words
    12. Stud Farms (Rates) 106 words
    13. Mobile Homes 170 words
    14. Ozone Layer 65 words
    15. Conservation 60 words
    16. Council House Sales 59 words
    17. Rating Reform 162 words
  20. TRANSPORT
    1. British Railways (Luffenham) Level Crossing Order 160 words
    2. Fishing Vessels (Radio Batteries) 198 words
    3. Fishing Vessels (Approval) 125 words
    4. Crewe Bus Station 80 words
    5. Higham and Strood Tunnels (Flooding) 158 words
    6. Clotton Bypass 48 words
    7. Coastguards (Equipment) 182 words
    8. North Review 179 words
    9. Aircraft Safety 223 words
    10. Drivers (Licence Requirements) 156 words
    11. Crossbush, West Sussex 88 words
  21. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. NHS Building Programme 669 words
    2. Psychiatric Patients 195 words
    3. Benefits (Proof of Need) 131 words
    4. Disabled People (Assistance) 335 words
    5. Community Care 150 words
    6. Social Security Reform 235 words
    7. Firemen 233 words
    8. Social Fund 288 words
    9. Child Benefit 49 words
    10. Hospitals (Nucleus System) 129 words
    11. 1991 Census 131 words
    12. Hospital Waiting Lists 101 words
    13. Births, Marriages and Deaths (Registration) 143 words
    14. Health and Personal Social Services 667 words
    15. NHS Staff 1,277 words
    16. Eye Operations (Newcastle) 109 words
    17. Urgent Cases 224 words
    18. Waiting Lists (Eye Treatment) 121 words
    19. Benefit System 25 words
    20. Training Schemes 103 words
    21. Mental Patients 47 words
    22. Leukaemia 199 words
    23. "Charities Digest" 49 words
    24. National Childbirth Trust 36 words
    25. Regional Health Authorities (Civil Defence) 104 words
    26. Poverty Trap 46 words
    27. Women's National Cancer Control Campaign 74 words
    28. City Hospital, Nottingham 71 words
    29. Consultants 96 words
    30. Drugs and Therapies (Licences) 220 words
    31. Hospital Beds 383 words
    32. Griffiths Report 66 words
    33. Europe Against Cancer Campaign 92 words
    34. Tobacco Products 194 words
    35. Cancer Prevention 87 words
    36. AIDS 598 words
    37. Teaching Hospitals 281 words
    38. Regional Health Authorities 57 words
    39. Mentally Handicapped People 113 words
    40. Personal Social Services 820 words
    41. HIV Screening 96 words
    42. Hospital Development Programmes 177 words
    43. Hounslow and Spelthorne DHA 80 words
    44. Abortion 94 words
    45. Technical Guides 136 words
    46. Independent Living Fund 57 words
    47. Pathology Services 168 words
    48. NHS Cleaning Contracts