26 January 1988

Commons Sitting of 26 January 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. DEFENCE
      1. Cruise Missiles 721 words
      2. Petty Officer John Black 188 words
      3. Challenger Tanks 321 words
      4. Northern Region (Departmental Jobs) 310 words
      5. RAF Air/Sea Rescue Service 999 words
      6. Nuclear Convoys 440 words
      7. Low-flying Aircraft 441 words
      8. Army Ammunition Accidents 390 words
      9. Defence Programmes (Employment Implications) 551 words
      10. Nuclear Tests (Radiation Victims) 423 words
      11. Chemical Weapons 554 words
      12. Low-flying Aircraft 391 words
      13. European Fighter Aircraft 326 words
      14. Nuclear Weapons 228 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,236 words
  4. Parliamentary Standards 92 words
  5. National Health Service 78 words
  6. Regional Health Authorities (Abolition) 3,224 words, 1 division
  7. Royal Prerogative 1,460 words
  8. The Army 45,533 words
  9. Church of England (Legal Aid and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 12,611 words, 1 division
  10. PETITION
    1. Rating Reform 183 words
    2. Stockport (Road Schemes) 3,842 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 26 January 1988

  1. WALES
    1. Battery Hens 307 words
    2. Cardiology Service (North Wales) 122 words
    3. Surgery 168 words
    4. Hospital and Health Services 119 words
    5. Infants (Spinal Curvature) 221 words
  2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Social Security Commission (Cardiff Office) 159 words
    2. Bail 177 words
  3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Population Component 99 words
  4. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Murderers and Rapists 137 words
    2. Horses and Ponies 149 words
    3. Firearms 372 words
    4. Community Radio 92 words
    5. Animal Experiments 167 words
    6. B2 Division, Lunar House 110 words
  5. PRIME MINISTER
    1. RAF Molesworth 28 words
    2. St. Philip's Marsh, Bristol 28 words
    3. Engagements 186 words
    4. Cabinet Committees 119 words
  6. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Teacher Training (Report) 396 words
    2. Students 1,247 words
    3. Persian Studies 99 words
    4. Achievement Profiling 286 words
    5. Universities 134 words
    6. Modern Languages 172 words
  7. TRANSPORT
    1. Night Flying 60 words
    2. London Dial-a-Ride 78 words
    3. Roads 87 words
    4. London Regional Transport 47 words
    5. London Underground 143 words
    6. Lorry Drivers (Refreshment Facilities) 338 words
    7. Cattle Creep (A52 Bypass) 63 words
    8. Underpasses 258 words
    9. Coal Imports 231 words
  8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Financial Services Act 1986 106 words
    2. London Hackney Cabs 83 words
    3. Heathrow (Night Movements) 40 words
    4. Steel 265 words
    5. Ships 264 words
    6. Cars 557 words
    7. Imports 93 words
    8. Iran 157 words
    9. Sheffield 275 words
    10. High Technology Audits 57 words
    11. Trade Mission (South Africa) 83 words
    12. Textile Industry (False Labelling) 158 words
    13. Deregulation 144 words
    14. Regional Aid 1,167 words
    15. Planning and Expenditure 192 words
    16. Regional Selective Assistance 378 words
    17. Associated British Foods 182 words
    18. European Regional Development Fund 71 words
    19. BP Shares 50 words
  9. ENERGY
    1. Coal Industry 98 words
    2. Coal Imports 278 words
  10. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Savings 342 words
    2. Publicity 86 words
    3. Exchange Rate 154 words
    4. Interest Rates 81 words
    5. Customs Clearance Station (Armagh) 134 words
    6. Industrial Building Allowances 58 words
  11. THE ARTS
    1. Business Sponsorship 231 words
  12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Conventional Stability 273 words
    2. Arms Verification 202 words
    3. COCOM 65 words
    4. Mr. Douglas Forsyth 165 words
    5. Middle East 59 words
    6. European Commission 66 words
    7. Central America 120 words
    8. Sri Lanka 46 words
    9. Ireland 86 words
    10. United Nations 85 words
    11. Contra Rebels (Funding) 76 words
    12. Cultural Diplomacy 113 words
    13. Youth Exchange Schemes 297 words
  13. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Small Firms 170 words
    2. Benefits (Adjudication Officers) 409 words
    3. Labour Statistics 184 words
    4. Trade Union Elections 61 words
    5. Deregulation 302 words
    6. Small Firms 2,502 words
  14. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Ordnance Survey 393 words
    2. Pollution 231 words
    3. Planning Appeals 232 words
    4. Official Posts 168 words
    5. Environmental Assessment 358 words
    6. Sport (Drugs Testing) 251 words
    7. Mentally Disordered Prisoners 56 words
    8. School Management 70 words
    9. Education Reform 93 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. Electorate 994 words
    2. Museums and Galleries Commission (Report) 38 words
    3. Scottish Museums Council 176 words
    4. Departmental Expenditure 48 words
    5. Rating Reform 163 words
    6. Education Expenditure 90 words
    7. Vacant Dwellings 254 words
    8. Illegal Drugs 117 words
    9. Blood Donations 316 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. ADAS (Charges) 228 words
    2. Annual Review 50 words
    3. Sheep (Radioactivity) 69 words
    4. Farm Woodland Scheme 579 words
    5. Hedgerows 114 words
    6. Irradiated Foodstuffs 180 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Royal Ordnance Factories 76 words
    2. Persian Gulf (Service Personnel) 188 words
    3. Nuclear Artillery 183 words
    4. Dartmoor National Park 135 words
    5. French Defence Minister 172 words
    6. Nuclear Tests (Radiation Victims) 179 words
    7. Schoolchildren (Germany) 114 words
    8. Low-flying Aircraft 247 words
    9. Nuclear Modernisation (Montebello Decisions) 177 words
    10. European Fighter Aircraft 49 words
    11. Royal Navy 101 words
    12. Frigates 133 words
    13. Cruise Missiles 324 words
    14. Uniforms and Equipment 95 words
    15. Territorial Army 172 words
    16. RAF Air/Sea Rescue Services 145 words
    17. F-15E Strike Eagle 73 words
    18. South Rona 45 words
    19. USSR Nuclear Forces 55 words
    20. Defence Programmes (Employment Implications) 104 words
    21. Nuclear Weapons 82 words
    22. YTS 76 words
    23. German Defence Minister 95 words
    24. Falklands Campaign Widows (Assistance) 192 words
    25. Chemical Weapons 218 words
    26. Operational Requirements (Harmonisation) 61 words
    27. Strait of Hormuz (Armilla Patrol) 40 words
    28. Persian Gulf (Mines) 47 words
    29. Defence Exports 82 words
    30. Gartree Prison (Escape) 193 words
    31. Thames House, Millbank (Centralisation) 100 words
    32. Small Firms (Contracts) 223 words
    33. DROPS 105 words
    34. Trident 58 words
    35. United States Bases 112 words
    36. National Trust Land (Installations) 66 words
    37. SP-70 Programme (Replacement) 65 words
    38. Contracts (Police Inquiries) 58 words
    39. Frigates and Destroyers 94 words
    40. "Blundering Into Disaster" 26 words
    41. Contracts 191 words
    42. INF Treaty 57 words
    43. Blue Vixen Radar Programme 80 words
    44. Research Projects 102 words
    45. Anti-Air Warfare Missile System 156 words
  18. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Health Authorities (Money Raising) 104 words
    2. Pesticides 267 words
    3. Obstetric Units 51 words
    4. Incontinence Advisers 157 words
    5. Blood Glucose Monitoring Strips 62 words
    6. Surgery Statistics 1,994 words
    7. Midwives 466 words
    8. Midwifery Students 116 words
    9. AIDS 50 words
    10. Medicines Act 1968 147 words
    11. Wessex RHA (Overspending) 170 words
    12. Family Planning Clinics 56 words
    13. Professional and Linguistic Assessment 181 words
    14. Free Milk 69 words
    15. Medical Laboratory Scientific Officers 210 words
    16. Departmental Local Offices 4,857 words
    17. Hospital Waiting Lists (Derbyshire) 159 words
    18. Cash Limits 105 words
    19. General Practices (Inner Cities) 171 words
    20. Resources (Allocation) 538 words
    21. 1991 Census 72 words
    22. Mersey RHA 124 words
    23. Public Expenditure 941 words
    24. NHS (Trade Unions) 252 words
    25. Infant Mortality 1,183 words
    26. General Practice Finance Corporation 281 words
    27. Private Patients and Clinics 101 words
    28. Income Support 283 words
    29. Windscale (1957 Fire) 88 words
    30. Neighbourhood Nursing Schemes 39 words
    31. Infertility 1,044 words
    32. Psychogeriatric Patients 675 words
  19. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Gibraltar 67 words
    2. Anglo-Irish Agreement 139 words
    3. Nuclear Waste 106 words
    4. Amusement Machines 112 words
    5. Domestic Assistance 121 words
    6. Free Milk 46 words
    7. Single Payments (Abolition) 148 words
    8. Security 113 words
    9. Lignite 97 words
    10. Security (Belfast) 107 words
    11. Supplementary Benefit 72 words
    12. Cross-border Co-operation 122 words
    13. Trawsfynydd Power Station, North Wales 175 words

Lords Sitting of 26 January 1988

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Engineering Council's Education Proposals 1,157 words
  3. Statues: Codes of Practice 663 words
  4. Social Fund Regulations: Funding 930 words
  5. Persian Gulf: Naval Co-operation 1,088 words
  6. Business 59 words
  7. Liverpool Exchange Bill [H.L.] 11 words
  8. City of Westminster Bill 11 words
  9. Local Government Bill 37,930 words, 3 divisions
  10. Code of Local Government Audit Practice for England and Wales 4,695 words
  11. Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Order 1988 1,613 words
  12. Local Government Bill 21,141 words, 2 divisions

Written Answers (Lords) of 26 January 1988

  1. CIVIL DEFENCE GUIDANCE 82 words
  2. ARTS AND SPORTS SPONSORSHIP: EXPENDITURE AND TAX FORGONE 95 words
  3. ROAD SCHEMES: WILDLIFE PROTECTION 197 words
  4. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT:EC DIRECTIVE 335 words
  5. BATS: PROTECTION 157 words
  6. CANADIAN ARCHIPELAGO: SOVEREIGNTY 85 words
  7. MARITIME POLICY CO-ORDINATION 148 words