3 March 1988

Commons Sitting of 3 March 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS 113 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      1. Church Land 422 words
      2. Abattoirs 151 words
      3. Cereals 442 words
      4. Biscuits 435 words
      5. Agricultural Stabilisers 1,125 words
      6. Green Pound 704 words
      7. Pig Industry 492 words
      8. Church Land 730 words
      9. Marginal and Hill Areas 779 words
      10. Tree Planting 577 words
      11. Dairy Industry 368 words
      12. Alternative Land Use 195 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,395 words
  4. Business of the House 6,477 words
  5. Consolidated Fund (No.3) Bill 164 words
  6. Points of Order 2,077 words
  7. ESTIMATES 16 words
  8. The Royal Navy 43,708 words
    1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (ESTIMATES) 64 words
    2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 54 words
  9. PETITION
    1. Turner Memorial Hospital, Keith 177 words
  10. Profoundly Mentally Handicapped (Scotland) 4,152 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 3 March 1988

  1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Derbyshire (ex-Chief Constable) 80 words
    2. Labour Party (Red Cross Emblem) 69 words
  2. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Corporal Punishment 82 words
    2. RRS Frederick Russell 117 words
    3. Education Reform Bill 151 words
    4. Consultancy (Higher Education) 109 words
    5. Universities and Polytechnics 79 words
    6. London Residuary Body 93 words
  3. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Merchant Navy Reserve (Bounty) 80 words
    2. Income Tax 256 words
    3. Gross Domestic Product 174 words
    4. Manufacturing Investment 73 words
    5. Interest Rates 89 words
    6. Local Authorities 62 words
    7. Tax Matters (Convention) 146 words
    8. Privatisation Sales (Advertising) 494 words
    9. Charities 116 words
    10. Taxpayers 881 words
    11. Rating Valuations 162 words
    12. Taxable Income 263 words
    13. Third World 75 words
  4. THE ARTS
    1. Book Lending 84 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Lunar House 423 words
    2. Ian Richard Thain 381 words
    3. Greenham Common 59 words
    4. Fire Stations (Closures) 91 words
    5. Fire Brigades 249 words
    6. Remand Prisoners 99 words
    7. Leeds Prison 496 words
    8. London Information Business School 59 words
    9. Immigration Officers (Tottenham) 83 words
    10. Police Officers (Killings) 42 words
    11. Prison Officers (Killings) 55 words
  6. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Canada 38 words
    2. Cawston 39 words
    3. Identity Cards 113 words
    4. Engagements 138 words
  7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Masons 168 words
  8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Headstart Programme 96 words
    2. Departmental Staff 276 words
    3. Industrial Output 82 words
    4. European Regional Development Fund 129 words
    5. Space Research (Report) 71 words
    6. Management (Report) 146 words
    7. Chemical Industries Association 78 words
    8. Recording Industry 103 words
    9. EC (Internal Market) 139 words
    10. Legal Profession 67 words
    11. Textile Consignment (Occupied Territories) 65 words
    12. Carbon Carbon Technology (Export) 110 words
    13. Citizens Band Radio 222 words
    14. Merger Control 1,166 words
  9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Aid Statistics 46 words
    2. South African Development Co-ordination Conference 366 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Nuclear Waste 87 words
    2. Panama 208 words
  11. ENERGY
    1. Electricity (Privatisation) 589 words
    2. CEGB 39 words
    3. Flue Gas Desulphurisation 44 words
    4. Sellafield 91 words
    5. Coal Imports 113 words
    6. Onshore Licensing 109 words
    7. Hot Dry Rock Project 139 words
  12. TRANSPORT
    1. Ferry Safety 1,652 words
    2. Near Misses 1,247 words
    3. Cheap Bus Fares 105 words
    4. M11 Link Road 73 words
    5. "The Nuclear Trains" 83 words
    6. London Regional Transport 166 words
    7. Motorway Works (Speed Limits) 67 words
    8. Heavy Lorries 151 words
    9. Compressed Cases (Transport) 311 words
  13. WALES
    1. Community Programme 238 words
    2. Sports Centres (Rates) 56 words
    3. Community Care 79 words
    4. Debt 93 words
    5. Community Facilities 643 words
    6. Pensioners (Housing) 214 words
    7. Pensioners (Housing) 438 words
    8. Cardiff Bay Barrage 91 words
    9. Hospital and Community Health Services 259 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Scottish Bus Group 97 words
    2. Labour Statistics (Motherwell) 67 words
    3. Private Forestry 46 words
    4. Strathclyde Regional Council 522 words
    5. Capital Programmes 117 words
    6. Fife Health Board (Ministerial Meeting) 66 words
    7. Correspondence (Costs) 109 words
    8. Tobacco Products (Oral Use) 117 words
    9. Civil Scientific Research 79 words
    10. M8 (Baillieston and Newhouse) 136 words
    11. Operations 58 words
    12. Scottish Special Housing Association (Loan) 158 words
    13. Pupils (Qualifications) 153 words
    14. Glaucoma 38 words
    15. Hospital and Community Health Services Capital 228 words
  15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Church Land 1,115 words
    2. Pig Industry 140 words
    3. Green Pound 294 words
    4. Horse Sales 330 words
    5. Surplus Food and Wine 291 words
    6. Alternative Land Use 449 words
    7. Research and Development 269 words
    8. Forestry 50 words
    9. Upland Farming 64 words
    10. Free Food Scheme 240 words
    11. Sheepmeat 143 words
    12. Fishing Industry 100 words
    13. Spirit Drinks 95 words
    14. Common Agricultural Policy 68 words
    15. Agriculture Industry 35 words
    16. Sea Defences 105 words
    17. Agricultural Support Costs 248 words
    18. Food Prices 311 words
    19. Animal Welfare 237 words
    20. Agricultural Advisory Services 89 words
    21. Dairy Industry 51 words
    22. New Zealand Butter 67 words
    23. Intervention Stocks (Costs) 51 words
    24. Environmentally Sensitive Areas 254 words
    25. Animal Feedingstuffs (Cereals) 92 words
    26. Tree Planting (Essex) 55 words
    27. Food Exports 144 words
    28. Small Farmers Association 54 words
    29. Agriculture Ministers (Talks) 103 words
    30. Family Farms 95 words
    31. Forestry Training 89 words
    32. Departmental Purchasing 180 words
    33. Cereal Production 100 words
    34. Cereals 224 words
  16. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Sporting Events (Attendances) 108 words
    2. EC (Internal Market) 112 words
    3. Housing Associations (Tenants) 261 words
    4. Departmental Buildings 304 words
    5. Radiation Monitoring 130 words
    6. Rural Deprivation 98 words
    7. Nuclear Waste 121 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Belize 144 words
    2. AWRE (Contracts and Agreements) 59 words
    3. Nuclear Weapons 371 words
    4. Parachute Regiment (Incident) 273 words
    5. Trident Base (Clyde) 77 words
    6. Greenham Common 95 words
    7. Tactical Nuclear Capacity 74 words
    8. HMS Valiant 184 words
    9. Indonesia (Rapier Missiles) 90 words
    10. RN Helicopter Flight (Lee-on-Solent) 162 words
    11. Radioactive Incidents (Monitoring) 69 words
    12. Submarine Hull-Mounted Sonar System 243 words
  18. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Medicines 177 words
    2. Cervical Cytology Laboratories 233 words
    3. London School of Prosthetics 71 words
    4. Benefit Payments 36 words
    5. Heating Allowances 234 words
    6. Social Fund 146 words
    7. Benefits 284 words
    8. Incapacity for Work 117 words
    9. Adjudication Officers' Guide 68 words
    10. Sickle Cell Anaemia and Thalassaemia 111 words
    11. Children in Care 53 words
    12. Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer 94 words
    13. Measles 99 words
    14. Elderly People 781 words
    15. Under-fives Initiative 63 words
    16. Social Security Reform 106 words
    17. Pensioners (Benefits) 281 words
    18. Committee on Safety of Medicines 852 words
    19. Tranquillisers 544 words
    20. Long-Stay Patients 227 words
    21. Benefits (Disqualification) 72 words
    22. Terrorism, Jerusalem (Compensation) 55 words
    23. Meningitis 196 words
    24. Young Persons (Housing) 898 words
  19. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Banbridge District Council 174 words
    2. Patient Expenditure 177 words
  20. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Job Training Scheme 205 words
    2. Jobcentres (Docklands) 75 words
    3. Industrial Tribunals 65 words
    4. Data Protection 143 words
    5. Community Programme 762 words
    6. Major Hazards 187 words
    7. Work Accidents 432 words
    8. Benefit 391 words
    9. Training Schemes 1,687 words

Lords Sitting of 3 March 1988

  1. Preamble 35 words
  2. Air Europe: Fare Application 1,171 words
  3. Works of Art: Public Access 1,518 words
  4. Chieftain Tank Replacement 667 words
  5. Iran-Iraq Conflict 1,023 words
  6. Business 58 words
  7. Social Security Bill 34,865 words, 3 divisions
  8. Welsh Development Agency Bill 5,266 words