28 April 1988

Commons Sitting of 28 April 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. LONDON REGIONAL TRANSPORT BILL (By Order) 23 words
      2. TEIGNMOUTH QUAY COMPANY BILL (By Order)
        1. YORK CITY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order)
          1. ASSOCIATED BRITISH PORTS (No. 2) BILL (By Order)
            1. CARDIFF BAY BARRAGE BILL (By Order)
              1. CITY OF LONDON (SPITALFIELDS MARKET) BILL (By Order)
                1. FALMOUTH CONTAINER TERMINAL BILL (By Order)
                  1. NORTH KILLINGHOLME CARGO TERMINAL BILL (By Order)
                    1. ST. GEORGE'S HILL, WEYBRIDGE, ESTATE BILL (By Order)
                      1. NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE TOWN MOOR BILL [Lords] (By Order) 15 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. NORTHERN IRELAND
      1. Unlicensed Black Taxi System (Belfast) 361 words
      2. Irish Foreign Minister 1,601 words
      3. Economic Prospects 820 words
      4. Integrated Education 1,085 words
      5. Security 1,539 words
      6. Political Parties (Talks) 632 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,322 words
  4. Business of the House 8,969 words
    1. BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR MONDAY 16 MAY 571 words
    2. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, ETC. 26 words
  5. Orders of the Day
    1. Copyright, Designs and Patents Bill [Lords] 42,919 words
      1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 21 words
      2. COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS AND PATENTS BILL [LORDS] [MONEY] 73 words
  6. WAYS AND MEANS
    1. COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS AND PATENTS BILL [LORDS] 91 words
    2. Summer Time 11,359 words
      1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 20 words
        1. AGRICULTURE 29 words
      2. DEFENCE 30 words
      3. HOME AFFAIRS 21 words
      4. TRANSPORT 20 words
      5. Holyhead (Government Agencies) 3,217 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 28 April 1988

  1. WALES
    1. National Health Service 279 words
    2. Ewe Premium 47 words
    3. Small Firms 185 words
    4. Rates 930 words
    5. Grant-related Expenditure Allocation 358 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Flecknote 26 words
    2. Vacant Land 31 words
    3. British Time 90 words
    4. Engagements 86 words
    5. Benefits 118 words
    6. European Community (Unemployment) 61 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Child Care 165 words
    2. Remand Centres and Open Prisons 147 words
    3. Police Interviews (Tape-recording) 151 words
    4. Children (Penal Custody) 177 words
    5. Television 431 words
    6. Passports 110 words
    7. Member's Correspondence 139 words
    8. Lotteries 115 words
    9. Offensive Weapons 184 words
  4. TRANSPORT
    1. Airedale Route 63 words
    2. Vehicle Licensing 114 words
    3. Coaches (Speed Limiters) 50 words
    4. Vehicles (British Standards) 91 words
    5. Life-jackets 450 words
    6. Dalton-in-Furness Bypass 119 words
    7. Swarthmoor Bypass 47 words
    8. Melton Brow Road Improvement 71 words
    9. Motor Cycles (Leg Protectors) 225 words
  5. ENERGY
    1. Plutonium 232 words
    2. Coal Imports (Holland) 97 words
    3. Non-fossil Fuel 66 words
    4. Coal Industry 65 words
    5. Life-jackets 67 words
  6. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Small Firms 545 words
    2. EC Fusion and Eureka Programmes 737 words
    3. Economic League 74 words
    4. Voluntary Restraint Agreements 679 words
    5. Car Telephones 123 words
    6. Investment 367 words
    7. Life Assurance and Unit Trusts Regulatory Association 352 words
    8. Unichem 82 words
    9. Securities and Investments Board 175 words
  7. ENVIRONMENT
    1. BAOR Contracts 555 words
    2. Urban Programme 125 words
    3. Small Shops 65 words
    4. Newham (Rates) 97 words
    5. Civil Service Chauffeurs 51 words
    6. Rates Exemption 67 words
    7. Opencast Mining 65 words
    8. Richmond House 153 words
    9. United States Military Bases 94 words
    10. Employment 86 words
    11. London Boroughs 79 words
    12. Local Authorities (Employees) 177 words
  8. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Magnisite Ltd. 62 words
    2. Mr. Anthony Parnes 53 words
  9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. China 45 words
    2. European Foreign Ministers 57 words
    3. Tel Aviv (Passport Renewals) 105 words
    4. Fentanyl 117 words
    5. Persian Gulf 78 words
    6. Chemical Weapons 70 words
    7. Ethiopian Army (Chemical Weapons) 66 words
    8. Mr. Abu Jihad 83 words
    9. Panama 157 words
    10. Commonwealth Institute 188 words
  10. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Docklands Liaison Group 142 words
    2. Labour Statistics 521 words
    3. Textile Workers 461 words
    4. Community Programme 55 words
    5. Hospitals (Staffing Levels) 104 words
  11. SCOTLAND
    1. New Towns 230 words
    2. "The Scotsman" (Break-in) 56 words
    3. Boundary Commission 110 words
  12. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Class Sizes 228 words
    2. Literacy 48 words
    3. Pupil Expenditure 199 words
    4. English Teaching (Kingman Report) 44 words
    5. A-level Examinations (Higginson Reports) 37 words
    6. Residential Colleges 68 words
    7. Pen Tops 170 words
    8. Bracken Spores and Stomach Cancer 91 words
    9. Education Reform 280 words
    10. Students (Income and Expenditure) 68 words
  13. DEFENCE
    1. Exercise Excalibur 93 words
    2. NATO 179 words
    3. Uranium 200 words
    4. Plutonium 126 words
    5. Property Damage (County Donegal) 179 words
    6. Low Flying 115 words
    7. Forward Air Control Exercise 123 words
    8. Fast Jet Operational Training Programme 52 words
    9. US Military Personnel (Arrests) 76 words
    10. Air Staff Requirement 1584 58 words
    11. Army Equipment Exhibition 66 words
    12. Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich 166 words
    13. Armilla Patrol 75 words
    14. Exercise Elder Forest 92 words
    15. United States Forces 157 words
    16. 360 Squadron RAF 64 words
    17. 100 Squadron RAF 62 words
    18. European Fighter Aircraft 672 words
    19. Gulf War 167 words
  14. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Pass Holders 89 words
  15. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Hospital Services (Privatisation) 58 words
    2. Rampton Special Hospital 135 words
    3. Teaching Hospitals 90 words
    4. Nurses and Midwives 165 words
    5. Hospitals 75 words
    6. Alarm Systems 96 words
    7. Pathology 109 words
    8. Vibration White Finger 73 words
    9. Consultants 163 words
    10. Social Workers (Vetting) 84 words
    11. Benefits (Advertising) 177 words
    12. Free Milk 204 words
    13. Eye Tests (Pontefract) 186 words
    14. Listeria Monocytogenes 147 words
    15. Brook Hospital, Woolwich 99 words
    16. Cook-chill System 330 words
    17. Social Security Expenditure 409 words
    18. Nurses 123 words
    19. Data Protection Act 110 words
    20. Juvenile Offenders (Supervision) 253 words
    21. Child Benefit 51 words
    22. Hospital Waiting Lists 85 words
    23. Income Support 244 words
    24. Chiropody 194 words
    25. Michael Forsyth Ltd. 82 words
    26. Mental Handicap Services 235 words
    27. Labour Statistics (Castleford) 81 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Chickens 126 words
    2. Pigs 62 words
    3. Cows 72 words
    4. Beef Variable Premium 108 words
    5. Bovine Spongiform 174 words
    6. Research and Development 64 words
    7. Foodstuffs (Radioactivity) 601 words
  17. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. War Loan 79 words
    2. Exchange Rate 411 words
  18. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Photocopying Machines 76 words
    2. Tea Ladies 29 words
    3. Consumer Expenditure 196 words
  19. THE ARTS
    1. Ethnic Minority Arts 1,456 words
  20. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Electricity Generation 119 words
    2. Health and Social Services 60 words
    3. Social Security 160 words
    4. Integrated Education 77 words
    5. Economic Activity (West Belfast) 170 words
    6. Security 160 words
    7. Health Service 248 words
    8. Disabled Persons 64 words
    9. Regional Council 71 words
    10. House Building 118 words
    11. Sentences (Remission) 157 words
    12. Catholic Hierarchy (Meetings) 60 words
    13. Political Parties (Talks) 54 words
    14. Equal Opportunities 329 words
    15. Aerosols 47 words
    16. Unlawful Killings 349 words
    17. Constitutional Reform 69 words
    18. Rating Reform 85 words
    19. Economic Prospects 80 words
    20. Fourth College, Belfast 89 words
    21. Consultants (Patient Referral) 83 words
    22. Hospital Waiting Lists 59 words

Lords Sitting of 28 April 1988

  1. Preamble 35 words
  2. EC Policies: Consumer Integration 403 words
  3. May Day Bank Holiday 752 words
  4. ILEA Sports Grounds: Future 552 words
  5. County Hall, London 155 words
  6. British Railways Order Confirmation Bill 6 words
  7. Housing (Scotland) Bill 15,881 words, 1 division
  8. Merchant Shipping Bill [H.L.] 15,698 words
  9. Home Office: Unopened Correspondence 4,124 words
  10. Licensing Bill 19 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 28 April 1988

  1. PAROLE: EFFECT OF TIGHTER POLICY 164 words
  2. SEAL SANDS: RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL 68 words