18 April 1988

Commons Sitting of 18 April 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRANSPORT
      1. Disabled People 334 words
      2. Domestic Air Fares 248 words
      3. Aviation Safety 1,043 words
      4. Abandoned and Untaxed Vehicles 377 words
      5. Warrington (Bus Services) 311 words
      6. Motorways 707 words
      7. London Underground 548 words
      8. Aircraft (Fire Safety) 260 words
      9. Tyres 475 words
      10. Rail Electrification 937 words
      11. London City Airport 309 words
      12. Travelcard and Capitalcard 177 words
      13. Coaches (Safety) 188 words
    2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
      1. Teesside Crown Courts 318 words
      2. Crown Prosecution Service 509 words
      3. Security Services 259 words
      4. Prosecutions 242 words
    3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      1. AIDS 339 words
      2. Kampuchea 529 words
      3. Nepal 357 words
      4. Soil Erosion (Assistance) 330 words
  4. Persian Gulf (Developments) 2,729 words
  5. Shipbuilding 6,312 words
  6. Govan Shipyard 500 words
  7. RUC (Code of Conduct) 412 words
  8. Single Internal Market 222 words
    1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 20 words
  9. Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time) 471 words
  10. Orders of the Day
    1. Local Government Finance Bill 10 words
      1. New Clause 1
        1. Scale of personal community charge payments 45,494 words, 1 division
    2. PETITIONS
      1. Pensioners 1,163 words
    3. Supplementary Benefit Appeals 3,716 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 18 April 1988

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Justices Clerks 105 words
    2. Nationality Applications 55 words
    3. Prisoners (AIDS) 222 words
    4. Police, Probation and Prison Services (Expenditure) 95 words
    5. Trevor Monerville 87 words
    6. Official Hospitality 41 words
    7. Horserace Betting Levy Board 181 words
    8. Broadcasting Standards Council 47 words
    9. Immigration 44 words
    10. Lunar House, Croydon 349 words
    11. Deportation 99 words
    12. Passports 206 words
    13. Gipsies (Trespass) 111 words
    14. Police National Computer 176 words
    15. EC (Passports) 113 words
  2. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Education Support Grant 269 words
    2. Polytechnics Governors 73 words
    3. AIDS (Video) 260 words
    4. Personal, Social and Health Education 119 words
    5. Russian Language 257 words
    6. Official Hospitality 39 words
    7. Medical Research 428 words
    8. GCSE 71 words
    9. Information Technology Equipment 159 words
    10. Free School Meals 149 words
    11. Student Unions 237 words
  3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Sri Lanka 94 words
    2. Rajasthan 100 words
    3. Kampuchea 100 words
    4. Sub-Saharan Africa 54 words
    5. Ethiopia 32 words
    6. Rhodesia and Nyasaland 139 words
    7. UNICEF 242 words
    8. GOBI Programme 82 words
    9. Cyclone Bola 66 words
    10. Aid Recipients 99 words
    11. Falkland Islands 107 words
    12. Africa (Aid) 106 words
  4. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Land Registries 88 words
    2. Director of Public Prosecutions 50 words
    3. Legal Aid 48 words
    4. "New Statesman" (Material) 103 words
    5. Crown Prosecution Service 128 words
    6. "Spycatcher" 59 words
    7. Shops Act 1950 150 words
    8. Wright Case 212 words
    9. Official Hospitality 56 words
    10. Mr. Anthony Parnes 33 words
  5. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Chile (Helicopters) 60 words
    2. Military Equipment Sales 83 words
    3. Buccaneer Jets 32 words
    4. Cyprus 86 words
    5. United Nations Council for Namibia 100 words
    6. Official Hospitality 56 words
    7. European Convention on Human Rights 111 words
  6. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Community Care 80 words
    2. Offices of State 104 words
    3. Newspapers and Periodicals 48 words
    4. Hampstead and Barnet District Health Authorities 39 words
    5. Staff Statistics 122 words
  7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Sittings (Suspensions) 41 words
  8. ENERGY
    1. Coal Production 284 words
    2. Official Hospitality 28 words
  9. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Nuclear Waste 60 words
    2. Sporting Events (Attendances) 205 words
    3. Water 260 words
    4. Common Land 76 words
    5. Council House Sales 104 words
    6. Water Privatisation 95 words
    7. Right to Buy (Funds) 136 words
    8. Rating Reform 302 words
    9. Pollution 110 words
    10. Housing Association Maintenance Budgets 108 words
    11. Housing Corporation 894 words
    12. Housing Investment Programme 174 words
    13. Housing Capital Expenditure 156 words
    14. System-built Houses 84 words
    15. Local Authorities (Rating and Capital Expenditure) 194 words
    16. National Sporting Bodies 78 words
    17. Gipsies 93 words
    18. European Charter of Local Self-government 66 words
    19. London Residuary Body 83 words
    20. Water Quality 610 words
    21. Conservation (Payments) 151 words
  10. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Adult Training Scheme 73 words
    2. Settle-Carlisle Railway Line 92 words
    3. Labour Statistics 2,632 words
    4. "Training for Employment" 41 words
    5. Job Search Boundaries 137 words
    6. Industrial Premises (Inspections) 313 words
    7. Health and Safety 823 words
    8. Official Hospitality 32 words
    9. Ethnic Monitoring 175 words
  11. WALES
    1. General Council of British Shipping 39 words
    2. Rating Reform 58 words
    3. Nurses 163 words
    4. Welsh Language 47 words
    5. Elderly People 106 words
    6. Coal industry 135 words
    7. Steel Production 199 words
    8. Fishing Industry 88 words
    9. Self-sufficiency 478 words
    10. Exports and Imports 269 words
    11. Official Hospitality 34 words
    12. Labour Statistics 156 words
    13. Economic Regeneration 79 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Education Expenditure 209 words
    2. Roads (Improvement) 88 words
    3. Rating Reform 176 words
    4. Oil Landings (Shetlands) 47 words
    5. Official Hospitality 30 words
    6. A96 (Roundabout) 205 words
    7. MV Hebridean Isles 60 words
    8. Scottish Development Agency 344 words
    9. Labour Statistics 153 words
    10. Education (Ministerial Correspondence) 75 words
    11. Nursery Education 261 words
    12. Fines 73 words
    13. Anthony Cavendish 123 words
    14. Bus Services 125 words
    15. Pay Beds 107 words
  13. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Developing Countries (Debt) 895 words
  14. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Official Hospitality 51 words
  15. THE ARTS
    1. Van Dyck Portrait (James, 1st Duke of Hamilton) 135 words
    2. National Theatre Board (Chair) 47 words
    3. Museums and Galleries 646 words
    4. South Bank Board 58 words
  16. DEFENCE
    1. Civilian Employees 648 words
    2. NATO Exercise (Firth of Clyde) 170 words
    3. Combat Body Armour 147 words
    4. Procurement Expenditure 163 words
    5. Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. 90 words
    6. Official Hospitality 113 words
    7. Weapons and Ammunition (Transport) 347 words
    8. Drinking Clubs 87 words
    9. Ammunition (Storage and Handling) 95 words
    10. Benbecula (Visit) 59 words
    11. Low-flying Aircraft 105 words
    12. Aircraft Accidents 358 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Green Pound 88 words
    2. Official Hospitality 35 words
    3. Milk (Hormones) 116 words
    4. Surplus Food 52 words
    5. Green Pound 152 words
  18. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Official Hospitality 39 words
    2. School Assemblies 75 words
    3. Rallies 117 words
  19. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Road Accidents 70 words
    2. Housing Benefit 570 words
    3. Bronchitis and Emphysema 126 words
    4. Nurses 207 words
    5. Oldham Home-making Scheme 104 words
    6. Age Allowance 46 words
    7. Nursing Homes 270 words
    8. Local Offices (Partitions) 147 words
    9. Official Hospitality 55 words
    10. Supplementary Benefit 99 words
    11. Industrial Death Benefit 262 words
    12. National Insurance 129 words
    13. Social Fund 144 words
    14. Pensioner Households (Expenditure) 65 words
    15. Social Security Upratings 63 words
    16. Expenditure 224 words
    17. Hospital Waiting Lists 977 words
    18. Consultants 40 words
    19. AIDS 75 words
    20. Yorkshire RHAs 126 words
    21. Disregard Threshold 39 words
    22. Doctors' Pay 39 words
    23. Adjudication Officers' Guide 108 words
    24. National Health Service Building Programme 110 words
  20. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Jamaica and Windward Islands 27 words
    2. Space 486 words
    3. Tyneside City Action Team 330 words
    4. South Africa 108 words
    5. Engagements 329 words
    6. Regional Development Grant 123 words
    7. Burton Group 83 words
    8. Takeovers 129 words
    9. Enterprise Initiative 41 words
  21. TRANSPORT
    1. Channel Tunnel 70 words
    2. Accident Statistics 102 words
    3. Metropolitan Counties 139 words
    4. Air Traffic Control 63 words
    5. Railways (Overcrowding) 305 words
    6. Road Transport (Driving Hours) 53 words
    7. Transport Safety 229 words
    8. British Rail 45 words
    9. Road Accidents 92 words
    10. Departmental Staff (Safety Matters) 215 words
    11. Road Haulage Cabotage 718 words
    12. National Bus Company 629 words
    13. Airline Competition 172 words
    14. Nationalised Industries (Safety) 55 words
    15. Road Safety 146 words
    16. Motorways 76 words
    17. Network SouthEast 69 words
    18. Passenger Transport Authorities' 109 words
    19. Manchester Airport 29 words
    20. Motorways (Speed Limits) 179 words
    21. London Underground 487 words
    22. Central London 38 words
    23. Concessionary Bus Fares 64 words
    24. Air Traffic (Delays) 62 words
    25. Vehicle Seat Belts 149 words
    26. Departmental Expenditure (Safety Matters) 173 words
    27. Manchester Airport 49 words
    28. British Caledonian Routes 59 words
    29. Coaches (Speed Limiters) 80 words
    30. Roads Budget 559 words
    31. Road Accidents (Summer Time Changes) 82 words
    32. Western Environmental Improvement Route Project 60 words
    33. Eurotunnel 26 words
    34. Trunk Roads 86 words
    35. Highways (Agency Arrangements) 71 words
    36. Heathrow Airport (Underground Travel) 47 words
    37. Settle-Carlisle Line 147 words
    38. Consultants 59 words
    39. Litter 57 words
    40. Road Projects (Transport Supplementary Grant) 91 words
    41. ScotRail 51 words
    42. Light Rail Systems 56 words
    43. London Airports (Runway Capacity) 92 words
    44. Tyneside Metro 62 words
    45. Vehicle Registration 72 words
    46. Foreign Cars (Safety) 75 words
    47. Traffic (Haringey) 45 words
    48. Official Hospitality 38 words
    49. Ammunition (Transport by Road) 200 words