13 June 1988

Commons Sitting of 13 June 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
      1. SOUTHERN WATER AUTHORITY BILL 7 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. ENERGY
      1. Continental Shelf (Exploration Drilling) 414 words
      2. National Union of Mineworkers 694 words
      3. British Coal 1,248 words
      4. Energy Efficiency 648 words
      5. Coal Imports 623 words
      6. Continental Shelf (Oil Reserves) 426 words
      7. coal Mining (Labour Productivity) 701 words
      8. Nuclear Reactors 616 words
    2. THE ARTS
      1. Library Services (Old People's Homes) 396 words
      2. Public Library Development Incentive Scheme 340 words
      3. Public Libraries (Photographic Exhibitions) 376 words
      4. Local Theatres 392 words
      5. Premium Book Subscription Schemes 221 words
    3. CIVIL SERVICE
      1. Armstrong Memorandum 438 words
      2. Appointments 661 words
      3. AIDS 179 words
    4. THE ARTS
      1. Regional Theatres 216 words
  4. Devonport Dockyard (Redundancies) 2,604 words
  5. Barlow Clowes Group 4,993 words
  6. Sharpeville Six 579 words
  7. Valleys Initiative (Press Conference) 917 words
  8. Mining Subsidence 20,135 words
  9. Orders of the Day
    1. Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Bill 54 words
    2. WAYS AND MEANS
      1. CONSIDERATION FOR CERTAIN RESTRICTIVE UNDERTAKINGS 23 words
      2. ANNUAL PAYMENTS BY SCOTTISH PARTNERSHIPS 13 words
      3. RESIDENT COMPANIES CEASING TO BE LIABLE TO UNITED KINGDOM TAX 67 words
      4. GAINS ARISING FROM CERTAIN SETTLED PROPERTY 32 words
      5. POST-CONSOLIDATION AMENDMENTS 43 words
      6. VALUE ADDED TAX ON CERTAIN SUPPLIES OF MEDICAL GOODS 20 words
      7. Housing Bill 708 words
    3. Clause 32
      1. NEW PROTECTED TENANCIES AND AGRICULTURAL, OCCUPANCIES RESTRICTED TO SPECIAL CASES 7,888 words
    4. Clause 33
    5. REMOVAL OF SPECIAL REGIMES FOR TENANCIES OF HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS ETC. 91 words
  10. Clause 37
  11. STATUTORY TENANTS: SUCCESSION 9,016 words, 1 division
  12. Schedule 4
    1. STATUTORY TENANTS: SUCCESSION 412 words
  13. Clause 38
    1. JURISDICTION OF COUNTY COURTS 15 words
    2. Clause 39
      1. RENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEES: PROCEDURE AND INFORMATION POWERS 954 words
    3. Clause 40
      1. INFORMATION AS TO DETERMINATIONS OF RENTS 547 words
    4. Clause 42
      1. APPLICATION TO CROWN PROPERTY 53 words
    5. Clause 43
      1. INTERPRETATION OF PART I 66 words
    6. New Clause 25
      1. HOUSING FOR WALES 5,416 words
    7. New Clause 26
      1. TRANSFER TO HOUSING FOR WALES OF REGULATION ETC. OF HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS BASED IN WALES 354 words
    8. New Clause 27
      1. INTERPRETATION OF PART II AND AMENDMENTS OF HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS ACT 1985 300 words
      2. `HOUSING FOR WALES Status 101 words
      3. Membership 2,059 words
    9. New Schedule
      1. `AMENDMENTS OF HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS ACT 1985
        1. PART I AMENDMENTS OF PART I WITH RESPECT TO THE HOUSING CORPORATION, HOUSING FOR WALES AND SCOTTISH HOMES 3,009 words
    10. PART II
      1. AMENDMENTS OF PART II WITH RESPECT TO THE HOUSING CORPORATION AND HOUSING FOR WALES 299 words
    11. PART III
      1. AMENDMENTS OF PART III WITH RESPECT TO ME HOUSING CORPORATION AND HOUSING FOR WALES 578 words
    12. Clause 45
      1. HOUSING ASSOCIATION GRANTS 3,717 words, 1 division
      2. ELECTRICITY (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL [MONEY]: 118 words
    13. PETITION
      1. Opencast Mining (Mastin Moor) 216 words
      2. Council Estates (Security Patrols) 3,684 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 June 1988

  1. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Health and Safety Legislation (Prosecutions) 41 words
    2. Terrorism 179 words
    3. Sunday Trading 235 words
    4. Mr. Stuart Holmes 93 words
    5. Police Complaints Authority 75 words
    6. Sex Discrimination Act 67 words
    7. Endangered Species 123 words
    8. Neighbourhood Watch Schemes 106 words
    9. Member's Representations 95 words
    10. Police Interviews (Tape Recording) 295 words
  2. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Departmental Staff(Education) 57 words
    2. GCSE 106 words
    3. Higgingson Report 68 words
    4. School Leavers 48 words
    5. Derbyshire (Expenditure) 71 words
    6. Head Teachers (Early Retirement) 89 words
    7. Irish Citizens 56 words
    8. Teacher Training 180 words
    9. Mr. Paul Gray (Letters) 86 words
    10. Education Reform 62 words
    11. Senior School Population 39 words
    12. "The Bangladeshis in Britain" 62 words
    13. Technological Studies 137 words
    14. City Technology Colleges 610 words
    15. Grant-maintained Schools 124 words
    16. Student Finance 65 words
    17. Universities (Expenditure) 671 words
    18. Village Schools 209 words
    19. Schools (Expenditure) 107 words
  3. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Scotland (Ministerial Visits) 59 words
    2. Graffiti 37 words
    3. Psychological Operations (Ministerial Responsibility) 50 words
    4. President Reagan (Visit) 75 words
  4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Ethiopia 194 words
    2. Budget 84 words
    3. Project Evaluation (Women) 61 words
  5. WALES
    1. Public Library Service 46 words
    2. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 62 words
    3. Long-term Unemployment (Clwyd) 114 words
    4. Channel Tunnel (Job Creation) 84 words
    5. Labour Statistics 126 words
    6. Youth Training Scheme 66 words
    7. Restart 37 words
    8. Skills Shortages 98 words
  6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Singapore 413 words
    2. Nicaragua (Arms Exports) 100 words
    3. Hong Kong 364 words
    4. Elephants 84 words
  7. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Dangerous Emissions 74 words
    2. Hedgerows 100 words
    3. Local Authorities (Spending) 189 words
    4. Urban Development Corporations 70 words
    5. Right-to-Buy Forms 126 words
    6. House Sales (Corby) 118 words
    7. Clinical Waste (Disposal) 101 words
    8. Member's Correspondence 59 words
    9. Civil Servants (Outside Activities) 380 words
    10. Planning Appeals 261 words
    11. Rating Reform 116 words
    12. Companies (Local Authority Involvement) 436 words
    13. Plumbers 175 words
    14. American Waste 53 words
    15. Merseyside Task Force 49 words
    16. Pollution 136 words
    17. Rating Reform 290 words
    18. National Engineering Laboratory 359 words
  8. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Labour Statistics 1,756 words
    2. Engineering Industry 103 words
  9. ENERGY
    1. Oil and Gas (Field Development Approvals) 72 words
    2. Electricity Privatisation 315 words
    3. Power Stations (Gas Burn) 130 words
    4. Hinkley Point C PWR 98 words
    5. Oil and Gas Production (North Sea) 97 words
    6. Coal Industry Privatisation 54 words
    7. Fawley B Power Station 90 words
    8. Offshore Petroleum Licences 76 words
    9. Power Stations (Coal Burn) 55 words
    10. Coal Industry Dispute 66 words
    11. Paper Manufacturing Industry 62 words
    12. Offshore Supply Industry 168 words
    13. Fast Breeder Reactors 82 words
    14. Energy Efficiency 158 words
    15. Sullom Voe (Oil Throughput) 62 words
    16. Dounreay Fast Breeder Reactor 115 words
    17. Fuel Disconnection 87 words
    18. Hinkley Point A Power Station 45 words
    19. British Gas 54 words
    20. Continental Shelf (Gas Shares) 77 words
    21. Research and Development Projects 67 words
    22. Natural Gas Imports 109 words
    23. Association of Independent Electricity Producers 41 words
    24. Electricity Industry (Regulatory Framework) 66 words
    25. Dumping at Sea 291 words
    26. Plutonium (Japan) 171 words
    27. Nuclear Safety 43 words
    28. Fluidised Bed Project (Grimethorpe) 77 words
    29. Coke 165 words
  10. SCOTLAND
    1. Acute Beds 166 words
    2. Rating Reform 99 words
    3. Power Stations (Coal Burn) 114 words
    4. Social Workers 147 words
    5. Radioactivity (Monitoring) 176 words
    6. Hospital Beds 834 words
    7. Lothian Regional Council 140 words
    8. National Engineering Laboratory 207 words
  11. THE ARTS
    1. Public Library Service 434 words
    2. Public Libraries (Cost-effectiveness) 99 words
    3. Haymarket Theatre, Leicester 37 words
    4. Arts-History Link 134 words
    5. South Bank Board 79 words
    6. Public Lending Right Scheme 133 words
    7. Acceptances-in-lieu 329 words
    8. Museums and Galleries Commission 178 words
    9. Industrial Archaeology 61 words
    10. Arts Bodies 102 words
    11. National Heritage Memorial Fund 405 words
    12. Museums and Galleries 79 words
  12. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Protestant Task Force 40 words
  13. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Interest Rates 90 words
    2. Balance of Trade 92 words
    3. Government Expenditure 181 words
    4. Housing Benefit 52 words
    5. Tax Forms 167 words
    6. Nationalised Industries (Fixed Assets) 172 words
    7. Local Authority Expenditure 783 words
  14. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Agencies 82 words
    2. Funding 87 words
    3. Polygraphs 76 words
  15. AGRICULTURE
    1. Hedgerows 144 words
    2. Set-aside Scheme 39 words
    3. Sheep (Radioactivity) 272 words
    4. Dumping at Sea 850 words
    5. Pâtè de Foie Gras 84 words
    6. Civil Servants (Outside Activities) 100 words
    7. Surplus Food 133 words
    8. Lambs 144 words
    9. Food Costs 55 words
    10. Rhizomania Infection 304 words
    11. Argentine Ant 77 words
  16. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Severely Mentally Handicapped People 193 words
    2. Departmental Offices (St. Helens) 90 words
    3. Twenty-four Hours Rule 112 words
    4. European Cancer Initiative 140 words
    5. Meningitis 311 words
    6. Aspirin 104 words
    7. Household Income 83 words
    8. Social Fund 133 words
    9. Community Care 1,609 words
    10. Long-stay Hospitals 252 words
    11. Disabled Child Premium 134 words
    12. Cranage Hall Hospital 158 words
    13. Crewe Health Authority (General Manager) 76 words
    14. Post-abortion Stress Disorder 68 words
    15. Physiotherapy (Data) 137 words
    16. Child Guidance Units 120 words
    17. Wakefield DHA (Inquiry) 124 words
    18. Nurses (Prescribing) 85 words
    19. Nurses (Grading Structure) 59 words
    20. Social Security Management Board 57 words
    21. Project 2000 113 words
    22. Social Services (Private Companies) 47 words
    23. Social Work Staff 46 words
    24. Conductive Education 189 words
    25. Inquest (Carlisle) 127 words
    26. Hospital and Community Health Service 94 words
    27. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis 73 words
  17. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Upper Waiting Hall (Exhibitions) 143 words
    2. Sittings of the House 550 words
  18. DEFENCE
    1. Southampton University (Contracts) 94 words
    2. Departmental Costs 143 words
    3. Woolwich Arsenal 526 words
    4. Rally Sport 170 words
    5. Procurement (Overspending) 86 words
    6. Service Personnel (Taxation) 138 words
    7. Low-flying Areas 354 words
    8. Ex-Service Personnel (Rejoining) 74 words
    9. RAF Feltwell 61 words
    10. Maritime Concepts 72 words
    11. B-52 Bombers 129 words
    12. Exercise Tristar 180 words
    13. Search and Rescue Helicopters 181 words
  19. TRANSPORT
    1. LRT (Chairman) 25 words
    2. Channel Tunnel 75 words
    3. East London River Crossing 194 words
    4. Driving Test Fees 118 words
    5. Drivers (Minimum Age) 225 words
    6. Toxic Waste (Switzerland) 108 words
    7. Manor Drive, Kirkham 54 words
  20. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Japan (Imports) 206 words
    2. Net Book Agreement 80 words
    3. Hearing Aid Council 250 words
    4. Manufacturing Output 182 words
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