14 April 1988

Commons Sitting of 14 April 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. LONDON REGIONAL TRANSPORT BILL (By Order) 157 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. NATIONAL FINANCE
      1. Personal Incomes 532 words
      2. Economic Growth 424 words
      3. Business Taxation 627 words
      4. Budget (Representations) 716 words
      5. Personal Incomes 665 words
      6. Departmental Votes (Transfers) 188 words
      7. Balance of Payments 889 words
      8. Personal Incomes 414 words
      9. Income Tax 820 words
      10. Married Couples (Taxation) 592 words
      11. Personal Incomes 190 words
      12. Economic Assistance (Leicester) 275 words
      13. Interest Rates 133 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,076 words
  5. Business of the House 5,541 words
  6. Community Charge Registration (Strathclyde) 513 words
  7. Scottish Business (Selection) 1,324 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Health and Medicines Bill 8 words
      1. Clause 7
        1. DENTAL SERVICES 1,403 words
      2. Clause 8
        1. CHARGES FOR DENTAL APPLIANCES AND TREATMENT 20,130 words, 1 division
      3. Clause 9
        1. THE DENTAL ESTIMATES BOARD AND THE SCOTTISH DENTAL ESTIMATES BOARD—CHANGE OF NAME AND EXTENSION OF FUNCTIONS 52 words
      4. Clause 10
        1. GENERAL OPHTHALMIC SERVICES AND OPTICAL APPLIANCES 20,273 words, 1 division
      5. Clause 11
        1. SIGHT-TESTING 14 words
      6. Clause 13
        1. LIMITS ON REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES 6,021 words, 1 division
      7. Clause 20
        1. COMMENCEMENT AND TRANSITIONAL 16 words
      8. Clause 21
        1. NORTHERN IRELAND 16 words
      9. Schedule 2
        1. REPEALS 2,105 words, 1 division
  9. PETITION
    1. Mr. Vasili Shipilov 213 words
  10. National Health Service (Bradford) 4,172 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 14 April 1988

  1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. National Union of Students 77 words
  2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Companies' Accounts (Registration) 55 words
    2. Courts (Televising of Proceedings) 41 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Crime Prevention 58 words
    2. Interpol 155 words
    3. Psychiatric Patients 123 words
    4. Prisons (Wales) 94 words
    5. Drug Misuse 248 words
    6. Drug Trafficking 50 words
    7. Michael Ryan (Shootings) 263 words
    8. Conferences (Policing Costs) 271 words
    9. Union Flag 38 words
    10. Traffic Wardens 131 words
    11. Greater London Co-ordination Centre 127 words
    12. Firearms (Police) 240 words
  4. WALES
    1. Regional Health Authorities 42 words
  5. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Housing Benefit 70 words
    2. Marginal Tax Rates 123 words
    3. Regional Secure Units 363 words
    4. Mentally Ill Patients 359 words
    5. Industrial Disablement Pension and Housing Benefit (Nottingham) 154 words
    6. Benefits 118 words
    7. Vaccine Damage 342 words
    8. Melagenina 77 words
    9. Control of Medicines (Report) 542 words
  6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. BBC External Services 96 words
    2. Gibraltar 121 words
    3. Panama 58 words
    4. Turkey (Prime Minister's Visit) 43 words
    5. Bangladesh 90 words
  7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Textile and Clothing Exports 177 words
    2. Restrictive Practices 696 words
    3. Steelworkers 108 words
  8. SCOTLAND
    1. Scottish Community Education Council 218 words
    2. Education Reform 260 words
    3. Cancer Screening 208 words
  9. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Housing Executive 236 words
    2. Generating Capacity 66 words
    3. Police Stations (Repairs) 412 words
  10. TRANSPORT
    1. A19 (Litter) 286 words
    2. Bus Lanes (London) 84 words
    3. Motorway Accidents 339 words
    4. Speedboat Accident (Looe) 105 words
  11. ENERGY
    1. Uranium Supplies 102 words
    2. Nuclear Power (Exhibition) 67 words
    3. IAEA (Operational Safety and Review Team) 73 words
  12. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Harland and Wolff Shipyard 29 words
    2. Scotland 24 words
    3. Ryton-on-Dunsmore 30 words
    4. Engagements 188 words
    5. Canada and United States of America (Official Visit) 92 words
    6. Turkey (Official Visit) 68 words
    7. Official Entertainment (Cost) 43 words
    8. Official Residences (Costs) 271 words
    9. Official Expenditure 90 words
    10. Voluntary Bodies (Grants) 591 words
    11. 10 Downing Street (Staff) 41 words
    12. Official Travel 120 words
  13. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Taxation Incentives 41 words
    2. Capital Taxation 54 words
    3. Income Tax 1,222 words
    4. Economic Forecasts 21 words
    5. Budget (Representations) 140 words
    6. Exchange Rates 299 words
    7. Economic Growth 181 words
    8. Sterling Index 36 words
    9. Departmental Staff 52 words
    10. Third World Debt 63 words
    11. BP 104 words
    12. Business Investment 68 words
    13. Interest Rates 123 words
    14. Louvre Accord 45 words
    15. Labour Statistics 180 words
    16. Personal Incomes 492 words
    17. Monetary Aggregates 134 words
    18. Inflation 37 words
    19. Manufactured Goods 165 words
    20. Council of Ministers 59 words
    21. OECD Countries (Budgets) 113 words
    22. Corporation Tax 199 words
    23. Workplace Nurseries 64 words
    24. National Insurance 39 words
    25. Married Women (Taxation) 49 words
    26. Take-Home Pay 155 words
    27. Pay-As-You-Earn Deductions 87 words
    28. Pensions (Income) 92 words
    29. Business Taxation 45 words
    30. Personal Taxation 47 words
    31. Taxation Changes 37 words
    32. National Health Service 136 words
    33. Manufacturing Industry (Investment) 37 words
  14. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Lower Don Valley 62 words
    2. Sheffield Urban Development Corporation 142 words
    3. Endangered Species Branch 80 words
    4. System-built Houses 168 words
    5. Urban Development Corporations 72 words
    6. Concierge Systems 120 words
    7. Hampton Court Palace 208 words
    8. Downing Street (Decoration and Furnishing) 60 words
    9. Secure Car Service 82 words
    10. Ministerial Vehicles (Parking Fines) 199 words
    11. London Marathon 104 words
    12. London Residuary Body 162 words
    13. New Homes (Docklands) 43 words
    14. Sports Sponsorship 157 words
    15. Local Authority Tenants 403 words
    16. GLC (Seaside and Country Homes) 72 words
    17. Showman's Guild 124 words
    18. Hyson Green Flats, Nottingham (Sale) 88 words
    19. Rating Reform 461 words
  15. DEFENCE
    1. Morocco 90 words
    2. Devonport Dockyard 68 words
    3. Project Waterfront 22 words
    4. British Army Equipment Exhibition 333 words
    5. Bangladesh (Military Training) 54 words
    6. Military Training 359 words
    7. Greenham Common 47 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Plant Testing and Seed Certification 195 words
    2. Common Agricultural Policy 144 words
    3. Port Talbot Harbour and Channel (Spoil) 154 words

Lords Sitting of 14 April 1988

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. The Budget: Effect on Wage Claims 1,029 words
  3. Film Industry: Policy 1,339 words
  4. Palestinians: Imprisonment by Israel 1,033 words
  5. DTI Enterprise Initiative 683 words
  6. Business of the House: Debates, 27th April 79 words
  7. Foreign Marriage (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 460 words
  8. Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Bill 16,252 words
  9. Licensing Bill 10,745 words, 2 divisions
  10. Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate- Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Inspections) (Privileges and Immunities) Order 1988 2,057 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 14 April 1988

  1. REFUGEES: EUROPEAN POLICY CONSULTATION 224 words
  2. CHARITY LAW: REFORM PROPOSALS 53 words