29 February 1988

Commons Sitting of 29 February 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. WALES
      1. European Regional Development Fund 660 words
      2. Rating Reform 703 words
      3. NHS (Funding) 858 words
      4. Hospitals 507 words
      5. Agricultural Services 244 words
      6. Occupational Health Care 370 words
      7. Bible Translation (400th Anniversary) 362 words
      8. Labour Statistics 803 words
      9. Water Rates 649 words
      10. Labour Statistics 425 words
      11. Common Agricultural Policy 285 words
    2. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
      1. Rating Reform 465 words
      2. Clergymen 302 words
    3. HOUSE OF COMMONS
      1. Select Committees 803 words
    4. WALES
      1. Labour Statistics 397 words
    5. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
      1. Televised Proceedings 529 words
      2. Strangers' Gallery 570 words
    6. WALES
      1. Job Creation 134 words
      2. Psychiatric Treatment (Powys) 134 words
  4. Business of the House 1,111 words
  5. National Health Service (Charges) 6,055 words
  6. Points of Order 684 words
  7. Ministerial Statements 320 words
  8. Opposition Day 3 words
    1. South Africa (Apartheid) 25,561 words, 1 division
    2. British Science 23,201 words, 1 division
    3. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 26 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill
      1. Clause 2
        1. FUNCTIONS OF THE AUTHORITY: GENERAL 556 words
      2. Clause 11
        1. LICENCES REQUIRED FOR CONSTRUCTION OF WORKS 139 words
      3. Clause 13
        1. NAVIGATION CHARGES 2,938 words
      4. Clause 25
        1. INTERPRETATION 274 words
      5. Clause 26
        1. COMMENCEMENT 99 words
      6. Schedule 1
        1. THE BROADS AUTHORITY 12 words
          1. Authority chief officer 151 words
      7. Schedule 3
        1. FUNCTIONS OF AUTHORITY 198 words
      8. Schedule 6
        1. APPLICATION TO AUTHORITY OF CERTAIN ENACTMENTS APPLYING TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES ETC. 105 words
      9. Schedule 7
        1. TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS 504 words
          1. Consultation 167 words
      10. Education (Scotland) 13,188 words, 1 division
    2. PETITION
      1. A47 (Great Yarmouth) 234 words
      2. Schools Outreach Project 4,260 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 29 February 1988

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Firearms 71 words
    2. Brixton Prison 42 words
    3. Television Licences (Handicapped Pensioners) 43 words
    4. Exceptional Leave Criteria 113 words
    5. Blorg and Contango 89 words
    6. Birmingham Pub Bombings 96 words
    7. Parliamentary Questions 94 words
    8. Police Special Branches 251 words
    9. Weapons (Amnesty) 84 words
    10. Prisoners (Temporary Release) 127 words
    11. Settlers 199 words
  2. PRIME MINISTER
    1. State Security 179 words
    2. "Spycatcher" 93 words
    3. Parliamentary Questions 133 words
    4. Leak Inquiry Panels 170 words
    5. 30-Year Rule (Information) 104 words
    6. National Audit Office 59 words
  3. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Anglo-Irish Conference 65 words
    2. Homelessness 189 words
    3. Police Complaints 263 words
    4. Firearms 200 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Aid Policy 339 words
    2. Ethiopia and Kampuchea 87 words
    3. Aid-trade Provision 381 words
    4. Pakistan 47 words
  5. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Student Maintenance Awards 154 words
    2. Student Awards 117 words
    3. National Leathersellers Centre 232 words
    4. Education Reform 280 words
    5. Conductive Education 68 words
    6. "Your Choice for Life" 147 words
    7. Departmental Videos 1,122 words
    8. Voluntary Aided Schools 747 words
    9. Aberdeen University (Funding) 87 words
    10. Axe Valley (Secondary Education) 60 words
    11. St. George's Medical School 342 words
    12. Inner London Education 408 words
    13. Horniman Museum 173 words
  6. TRANSPORT
    1. M40 Extension 244 words
    2. Travel Concessions 87 words
    3. Vehicle Excise Duty 87 words
    4. Drigg (Development) 100 words
    5. Roads (Capital Allocations) 112 words
    6. Road Safety 244 words
    7. M63 (Noise Insulation) 91 words
    8. Ferries 102 words
  7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Airbus 227 words
    2. Consumer Goods 2,076 words
    3. Patent Royalties 305 words
    4. London Regional Passenger Committee 283 words
    5. Exports 52 words
    6. House of Fraser (Holdings) plc 111 words
    7. Consarc (Exports) 139 words
    8. Outward Direct Investment 73 words
    9. Belgian Textile Industry 50 words
    10. Turkish Acrylic Yarn 251 words
    11. Regional Aid 249 words
    12. GATT 89 words
    13. Post Office (Delivery Service) 80 words
    14. Commercial Arbitration 128 words
    15. Child-resistant Closures 107 words
    16. Coal Imports 74 words
  8. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
    1. Cheque Encashment Service 151 words
    2. Veal 71 words
  9. DEFENCE
    1. Consultants 91 words
    2. Stand-off Nuclear Missile 154 words
    3. Ionising Radiation 209 words
    4. International Commission of Historians 320 words
    5. Volunteer and Reserve Forces 103 words
    6. Red Cross Sign 208 words
    7. Army Medical Board 123 words
    8. Castledillon (Troop Deployments) 53 words
    9. Northern Ireland Training and Advisory Team 84 words
    10. Captain Holroyd (Allegations) 63 words
    11. Service Personnel (Downgrading) 95 words
    12. Medical Reports (False Information) 68 words
  10. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Unemployment (Calculations) 87 words
    2. YTS 320 words
    3. Employment Service 112 words
    4. YTS (Leeds) 103 words
    5. Labour Statistics 150 words
    6. Tourism (North-West) England 68 words
  11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. ANC and SWAPO 50 words
    2. Western European Union 352 words
    3. Weapons Limitation 96 words
    4. Belize 61 words
    5. Antarctica 675 words
    6. Bulgaria 137 words
    7. Turkey 101 words
    8. Entry Clearance 465 words
    9. Terrorism (Nuclear Materials) 52 words
    10. Nuclear Missiles 360 words
    11. Malaysia 55 words
    12. UNESCO 40 words
    13. New Zealand 43 words
    14. Hong Kong (Crown Service Employees) 90 words
    15. International Committee of the Red Cross 263 words
    16. Plutonium 120 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Consultant Surgeons 93 words
    2. Medical Posts 44 words
    3. Translucent-roofed Buildings 75 words
    4. Fishing Vessels 112 words
    5. No-fault Compensation 152 words
    6. Inverclyde Initiative 46 words
    7. Scottish Fire Service Training School 524 words
    8. Special Branches 126 words
    9. Salmon Net Fishing 61 words
    10. Firearms Incident (Mull) 63 words
    11. SDA Investments 1,445 words
  13. WALES
    1. Roads 51 words
    2. East Dyfed Health Authority 145 words
    3. NHS (Funding) 88 words
    4. Opencast Mining 41 words
    5. Welsh Water Authority 100 words
    6. University Hospital, Cardiff 76 words
    7. Housing (Senior Management) 24 words
    8. South Wales Coalfield 56 words
    9. Trawsfynydd Power Station 47 words
    10. Nursery Education 316 words
    11. Grants (Alyn and Deeside) 518 words
    12. Shopping Centre (Dee Estuary) 87 words
    13. European Regional Development Fund 127 words
    14. Brussels (Secretary of State's Visit) 111 words
    15. A55 (Expenditure) 268 words
  14. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Sport and Recreation (Tax Exemptions) 64 words
    2. Retirement Gratuity 278 words
    3. Taxation 987 words
    4. Sporting Rights 98 words
    5. Luncheon Vouchers 55 words
    6. Nominal Income Tax 343 words
    7. Farming (Taxes) 50 words
    8. Fraud 220 words
    9. "Paying for Local Government" 119 words
    10. HMSO Publications (Prices) 177 words
    11. Less Developed Countries 65 words
    12. Government Telecommunications Network 248 words
    13. Private Medical Insurance 791 words
    14. Income Tax 324 words
    15. Tax Evasion 228 words
    16. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Budget) 256 words
    17. Funeral Insurance 63 words
    18. Revenue Contributions 114 words
    19. Public Bodies (Audits) 384 words
    20. Appropriation Accounts (Certification) 58 words
    21. Exchange Rates 189 words
    22. Firearms 690 words
  15. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Medical Students (Statistics) 97 words
    2. Hospital Patients (Costs) 452 words
    3. Supplementary Benefit 87 words
    4. Retail Prices Index (Error) 131 words
    5. Child Benefit 108 words
    6. Pension Schemes 88 words
    7. Consultants 90 words
    8. Repetitive Strain Injury 96 words
    9. Kaltostat Dressings 62 words
    10. Irish Nationals 76 words
    11. Central Register 94 words
    12. Hypothermia 381 words
    13. Housing Benefits 54 words
    14. Nurses 379 words
    15. Mental Illness 215 words
    16. Benefit (Training) 140 words
    17. Freeline Social Security 171 words
    18. Meals Allowance 190 words
    19. RHAs (Clerical Officers) 131 words
    20. Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (Cataract Unit) 95 words
    21. "Firecode" 201 words
    22. Social Fund 193 words
    23. Invalid Care Transfer 64 words
    24. Speech Therapists 89 words
    25. Ethnic Monitoring 105 words
    26. Administrators 328 words
    27. Benefit Offices (Staff Safety) 62 words
    28. Waiting Lists 4,902 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Surplus Commodities 104 words
    2. EC (Depreciation of Stocks) 91 words
    3. Agricultural Policy 79 words
    4. Negative Monetary Compensatory Amounts 62 words
    5. Chlorofluorocarbons 93 words
    6. Houses (Land Slippage) 47 words
    7. Bass Fishery 553 words
    8. Chernobyl 86 words
  17. ENERGY
    1. Energy Subsidies 113 words
    2. Nuclear Research 130 words
    3. Imported Coal 63 words
    4. Scottish Coalfield (Work Force) 38 words
    5. Nuclear Waste 103 words
    6. Nuclear Policy 60 words
    7. Nuclear Material (Transport) 74 words
    8. Energy Efficiency 182 words
    9. Private Sector Energy Producers 75 words
    10. Home Insulation 123 words
    11. Energy Labelling Scheme 237 words
    12. Electricity (Private Producers) 136 words
    13. Spent Magnox Fuel 99 words
    14. Nuclear Materials (Safeguards) 90 words
    15. Power Stations (Environmental Impact) 149 words
    16. Electricity (Privatisation) 133 words
    17. Electricity Supply 55 words
    18. Electricity Generation 75 words
    19. Nuclear Materials 97 words
    20. Sellafield (Safeguards) 316 words
    21. British Nuclear Fuels plc 65 words
    22. Nuclear Facilities (Safeguards) 71 words
    23. Plutonium 122 words
  18. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Planning Applications 434 words
    2. Homelessness 161 words
    3. Planning Appeals 83 words
    4. Lead-free Petrol 57 words
    5. Planning Permission (Appeals) 134 words
    6. Lambeth (Housing) 110 words
    7. Wat