4 February 1988

Commons Sitting of 4 February 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. LONDON REGIONAL TRANSPORT BILL (By Order) 122 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      1. Sheepmeat 1,059 words
      2. North Sea Cod and Saithe 527 words
      3. Tree Planting 378 words
      4. Farming Methods 525 words
      5. Green Pound 840 words
      6. Rating Reform 490 words
      7. Agricultural Workers (Wages) 232 words
      8. Conservation Headlands 366 words
      9. Set-aside Scheme 519 words
      10. Fish Landings (Newlyn) 178 words
      11. Trade Concessions 161 words
      12. Food Prices 313 words
      13. Pig Industry 435 words
      14. Agricultural Wages 177 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,167 words
  5. Business of the House 9,044 words
  6. Inner London Education Authority 12,722 words
  7. Human Fertilisation and Embryology 34,188 words
  8. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 18 words
    1. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT AND CO-OPERATION 21 words
    2. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT 26 words
    3. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT 25 words
  9. Northern Ireland Housing Executive 2,953 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 4 February 1988

  1. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Punishment Attacks 222 words
    2. Farm Effluents 468 words
    3. Potato Cyst Nematode 61 words
    4. Potatoes 113 words
    5. Agricultural and Horticultural Stocks 576 words
  2. WALES
    1. Rents 721 words
    2. Alyn and Deeside (Industry) 380 words
  3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Conveyancing 207 words
    2. Judiciary 131 words
    3. Mr. John Stalker 64 words
    4. Social Security Commissioners 99 words
    5. DNA Tests (Legal Aid) 161 words
  4. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Official Information 95 words
    2. EC Budget 59 words
    3. Retford Hospital 26 words
    4. Governor-General of New Zealand 32 words
    5. Economic League 127 words
    6. Engagements 172 words
  5. TRANSPORT
    1. M1 (Congestion) 79 words
    2. Cargo Reservation 127 words
    3. Air Traffic 67 words
    4. National Bus Company 93 words
    5. Heavy Goods Vehicles 554 words
    6. Breeches Buoy Equipment 48 words
    7. Preston Station (Accident) 234 words
    8. Train Drivers' Cabs 123 words
    9. Double Decker Buses 25 words
    10. Abnormal Loads 205 words
  6. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Standard Passport 194 words
    2. Juvenile Crime 120 words
    3. Amusement Arcades 114 words
    4. Refugees 120 words
    5. Interception of Communications 190 words
    6. Police (Leicestershire) 69 words
    7. Radio 53 words
    8. Demonstrations 383 words
  7. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Pen Tops 89 words
    2. Medical Students 107 words
    3. ILEA (Education Costs) 193 words
    4. School Leavers 263 words
    5. Mode 3 Examinations 50 words
    6. Education Reform 455 words
    7. Assisted Places Scheme 208 words
  8. SCOTLAND
    1. Pig Industry 182 words
    2. Pigs 382 words
    3. Meat Production (Subsidies) 89 words
    4. Gaming Machines 60 words
    5. Mr. A. Graeme Adam 82 words
    6. Surgery (Private Sector) 100 words
    7. Media (Meeting) 87 words
    8. Ophthalmology 1,014 words
    9. Mentally Handicapped People 67 words
  9. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Regional Aid 59 words
    2. Schools (Industry Links) 158 words
    3. Origin Marks (Harmonisation) 89 words
    4. Debt 118 words
    5. Private Nursing Homes 153 words
    6. Mergers 220 words
    7. Trading Standards 90 words
    8. Trade Statistics 161 words
    9. Charter Group Initiative 86 words
    10. Enterprise Initiative 116 words
    11. Single Company Projects 63 words
    12. Government Policies (Impact on Business) 137 words
    13. Small Businesses (Employees) 44 words
    14. Contracting-out 100 words
    15. Enterprise Counsellors 82 words
    16. Manufactures 55 words
    17. Small Firms (Exemption from Regulations) 85 words
    18. Consumer Protection 224 words
    19. Microgravity Research 65 words
    20. Earth Observation 56 words
    21. Space Policy 61 words
    22. RADARSAT 41 words
    23. Radio and Electronic Equipment 57 words
    24. Proofing of Guns 84 words
    25. Information Technology 141 words
    26. Airbus 197 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Fiji 85 words
    2. India ("Panorama" Programme) 61 words
    3. Royal Prerogative 204 words
  11. THE ARTS
    1. Library Services 103 words
  12. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Smoke Detectors 85 words
    2. Inflation 56 words
    3. "Adjustment With a Human Face" 168 words
  13. EMPLOYMENT
    1. MSC (London Docklands) 120 words
    2. Childcare Payment System 67 words
  14. ENERGY
    1. British Coal 210 words
  15. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Nature Reserves 69 words
    2. Water Boards (Bonuses) 138 words
    3. Low-cost Housing 87 words
    4. Water Authority Employees 266 words
    5. Exmoor National Park Committee 86 words
    6. Harecastle Tunnel 78 words
    7. Mineral Workings and Derelict Land 90 words
    8. Estate Agents 163 words
    9. Water Supplies (Disconnections) 381 words
    10. Crown Suppliers 51 words
    11. Town and Country Planning 924 words
    12. Rates (Summonses) 93 words
    13. Rating Reform 428 words
  16. DEFENCE
    1. Exercise Bonnie Dundee 99 words
    2. RAF Stornoway 279 words
    3. Exercise ASWEX 1–88 201 words
    4. RAF Aird Uig, Lewis 102 words
    5. Air-sea Rescue 823 words
    6. Weather Satellites 161 words
    7. Exercise Purple Warrior 153 words
    8. Women's Royal Voluntary Service 217 words
    9. Army Barracks (Food and Accommodation Costs) 74 words
    10. Royal Naval Chaplains 39 words
    11. DROPS 212 words
    12. Royal Navy Ships 261 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Free Food 224 words
    2. EC Agricultural Commissioner 65 words
    3. Inshore Fishing 63 words
    4. Intervention Stocks 205 words
    5. Pesticides 695 words
    6. Water Quality (Intensive Farming) 124 words
    7. Eastern Bloc Klondykers 53 words
    8. Nutrition Labelling 212 words
    9. Monetary Compensatory Amounts 118 words
    10. Cereals Surplus 237 words
    11. Milk Marketing Board 53 words
    12. Less-favoured Areas 106 words
    13. Set-aside Scheme 283 words
    14. Severe Weather Damage 73 words
    15. Carry-Over Premium Scheme 71 words
    16. Food Research 59 words
    17. Cereal Policy 90 words
    18. Conservation 117 words
    19. Farm Incomes 62 words
    20. Food Intolerance 200 words
    21. Tree Planting 73 words
    22. Rural Economy 257 words
    23. Rating Reform 43 words
    24. EC-Israel Protocol 168 words
    25. Council of Fisheries Ministers 77 words
    26. Potato Imports (Hungary) 40 words
    27. Breeding Ewes 52 words
    28. Pig Producers 112 words
    29. Food Surpluses 139 words
    30. Fishing Industry (Support) 139 words
    31. Milk Quotas 107 words
    32. Fishing Industry 89 words
    33. Common Agricultural Policy 54 words
    34. Chernobyl 74 words
    35. Agriculture Industry 82 words
    36. British Sherry 95 words
    37. Grain Surpluses 49 words
    38. Extensification (Report) 59 words
    39. Agricultural Tenancies 100 words
    40. Sheepmeat 143 words
    41. Farming Methods 64 words
    42. Nature Reserves 46 words
    43. Value Added Tax 81 words
    44. Research and Development 103 words
    45. Woodland Scheme 106 words
    46. Clyde Herring 151 words
    47. Fishing Vessels (Decommissioning) 31 words
    48. Weil's Disease 142 words
    49. Arable land 62 words
    50. Green Pound 53 words
    51. Potato Marketing Board 69 words
    52. Agricultural Support 94 words
    53. Agriculture Council Meeting 75 words
    54. Blue-marked Sheep 130 words
  18. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Spending Power 2,499 words
    2. X-ray Apparatus 207 words
    3. Health Authorities (Outer London) 313 words
    4. Voluntary Organisations (Grants) 2,575 words
    5. Mentally Ill People 239 words
    6. Single Payments 87 words
    7. Cancer Screening 118 words
    8. Hospital Developments 347 words
    9. RAWP Ratings 215 words
    10. Surgical Beds (West Midlands) 208 words
    11. Health Districts (Resources) 64 words
    12. Special Payments 126 words
    13. Health Screening 93 words
    14. Retail Prices Index (Error) 133 words
    15. Elderly People (Care) 49 words
    16. Health Authorities (Efficiency) 222 words
    17. Social Fund Applicants 110 words
    18. Retirement (Earnings Rule) 148 words
    19. Retford Hospital 593 words
    20. Meningitis 768 words
    21. Ministerial Speech 88 words
    22. Dartford and Gravesham District Health Authority 304 words
    23. District Health Authorities (Staff) 69 words
    24. Residential Care Allowances 300 words
    25. Cash Limits 407 words
    26. Diabetic Blindness 226 words
    27. Income Support 204 words
    28. Advisory Committee on Irradiated and Novel Foods 464 words
    29. Social Fund 247 words

Lords Sitting of 4 February 1988

  1. Preamble 29 words
  2. Lord Monkswell: Personal Statement 157 words
  3. Motorcycles: Control of Noise 1,001 words
  4. Confectionery Exports: Japanese Tariff 714 words
  5. Religious Worship in Schools 1,689 words
  6. Severn Estuary: Second Crossing 912 words
  7. Personal Statements: Procedure 221 words
  8. Business 106 words
  9. Licensing Bill 12 words
  10. Welsh Development Agency Bill 12 words
  11. Income and Corporation Taxes Bill [H.L.] 31 words
  12. COMMONS AMENDMENTS 3,590 words
  13. Legal Aid Bill [H.L.] 7,044 words, 1 division
  14. Education in Inner London 7,777 words
  15. Legal Aid Bill [H.L.] 9,776 words, 2 divisions
  16. Employment Protection (Variation of Limits) Order 1987 1,370 words
  17. Unfair Dismissal (Increase of Limits of Basic and Special Awards) Order 1987 73 words
  18. Legal Aid Bill [H.L.] 12,524 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 4 February 1988

  1. FOOD IRRADIATION: GENERAL PROHIBITION 348 words
  2. HOMOEOPATHIC PRODUCTS: DHSS CONSULTATIONS 221 words
  3. DEER: NIGHT SHOOTING LICENCES 123 words