15 March 1988

Commons Sitting of 15 March 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      1. Education Reform 512 words
      2. Funding Councils 384 words
      3. Heriot-Watt University 273 words
      4. Student Grants 838 words
      5. Pupil Costs 784 words
      6. Pen Tops (Safety) 303 words
      7. Equal Opportunities 633 words
      8. Higher Education 635 words
      9. AIDS 357 words
      10. City Technology Colleges 425 words
      11. Education Reform 806 words
      12. Assisted Places Scheme 260 words
      13. Student Grants 256 words
      14. Education Reform 137 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,115 words
  4. WAYS AND MEANS
    1. Budget Statement 298 words
      1. THE ECONOMIC BACKGROUND 1,062 words
      2. MONETARY POLICY 218 words
      3. PUBLIC SECTOR FINANCES 796 words
      4. TAX REFORM 257 words
      5. INDEPENDENT TAXATION AND TAX PENALTIES ON MARRIAGE 728 words
      6. BUSINESS TAXATION 1,405 words
      7. COVENANTS AND MAINTENANCE 845 words
      8. TAXES ON SPENDING 522 words
      9. TAXES ON CAPITAL. 1,235 words
      10. INCOME TAX 4,061 words, 1 division
      11. PERORATION 148 words
        1. PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES 1,354 words, 1 division
    2. Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
      1. AMENDMENT OF THE LAW 12,389 words
      2. Royal Assent 96 words
    3. British Railways (London) Bill 20,304 words
    4. British Railways (No. 2) Bill (By Order) 1,882 words
    5. Lookout Posts (Newry and Armagh) 3,770 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 15 March 1988

  1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Turks and Caicos Islands 67 words
    2. Export Promotion Services 408 words
  2. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Royal Family (Civil List) 360 words
    2. Income Tax 336 words
    3. Taxes and Rates 376 words
    4. Allowances and Reliefs 566 words
  3. TRANSPORT
    1. Electric Multiple Unit Trains (Brake Failures) 182 words
    2. Motorway Safety Fences 249 words
  4. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Land Registry 456 words
  5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Research and Development 158 words
    2. Company Registrations 69 words
    3. Economic League 77 words
    4. Automotive Industry 169 words
    5. Regional Aid 1,375 words
  6. EMPLOYMENT
    1. London Docklands (Construction Sites) 96 words
  7. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Police Stations 80 words
    2. Prison Statistics 947 words
    3. Police Cells (Remanded Persons) 786 words
    4. Remanded Persons (Complaints) 235 words
    5. Police Cells 132 words
    6. Wandsworth Prison 155 words
    7. Crime Statistics 621 words
  8. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Inner City Partnership Authorities 146 words
    2. Housing Act 1985 111 words
    3. Rural Economy 77 words
    4. Urban Development 75 words
    5. Circular 26/85 93 words
    6. Committee Room 12 (Tapestries) 64 words
    7. Rating Reform 40 words
    8. Radioactive Waste 767 words
    9. Housing (Bolton) 131 words
    10. Historic Covenants 175 words
    11. Planning Appeals 61 words
    12. Green Belt and Housing Restraint Areas 69 words
    13. Building Regulations (Disabled Persons) 142 words
    14. Palace of Westminster (Carpets) 203 words
  9. WALES
    1. Rating Reform 99 words
    2. Withybush Hospital 83 words
    3. Welsh Water Authority 418 words
    4. Fair Rents 197 words
    5. Ward Closures (Mid Glamorgan) 106 words
  10. SCOTLAND
    1. Private Nursing Homes 81 words
    2. Unemployed Disabled People 82 words
    3. National Health Service Hospitals (Medical Equipment and Facilities) 50 words
    4. Non-Domestic Rate 439 words
    5. Surgical Operations (Fife) 562 words
    6. Scottish Islands (Agricultural Development) 46 words
    7. Nurses (Fife) 44 words
    8. Hospital Consultants (Fife) 94 words
    9. Recidivism 170 words
  11. PRIME MINISTER
    1. War Widows 433 words
    2. Weymouth and Portland 26 words
    3. Engagements 154 words
  12. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Waste Disposal 124 words
    2. Heavy Industry 82 words
    3. Larne and Carrickfergus 334 words
    4. Labour Statistics 94 words
    5. Accidents at Work 33 words
    6. European Social Fund 239 words
    7. Companies 87 words
    8. Farmland 149 words
    9. Training Schemes 357 words
    10. Aidan McAnespie 55 words
  13. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Maritime Dumping 211 words
    2. Fishing Grounds (Contamination) 110 words
    3. Radioactivity (Skipton) 147 words
    4. Irradiated Food 260 words
  14. DEFENCE
    1. War Widows 97 words
    2. Carrasco International Airport (Emergency Landing) 303 words
  15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Education Reform 1,011 words
    2. Teachers (Shortage) 159 words
    3. School of Physiotherapy, Coventry 81 words
    4. Scottish Universities (Vice-Chancellors) 154 words
    5. City Technology Colleges 310 words
    6. Church Schools 47 words
    7. Further and Higher Education 220 words
    8. General Certificate of Secondary Education 337 words
    9. Religious Instruction 341 words
    10. Nursery Education 335 words
    11. A-level Statistics 407 words
    12. Coal Mining Subsidence 46 words
    13. Education Expenditure 113 words
    14. School Leavers (Illiteracy) 108 words
    15. Universities (Funding) 143 words
    16. Schools (Spare Places) 91 words
    17. Student Grants 87 words
    18. Task Groups on Assessment and Testing 133 words
    19. Swimming Instruction 78 words
    20. Funding Councils 57 words
    21. School Buildings 49 words
    22. Teachers 227 words
    23. Research Funding 121 words
    24. Village Schools 121 words
    25. Science Budget 347 words
    26. AIDS 70 words
    27. Sports Facilities 103 words
    28. Teachers (Pay) 75 words
    29. Medical Research Council (Grants) 103 words
    30. "A Strategy for the Science Base" 56 words
    31. Dyslexia 62 words
    32. University Dental Schools 100 words
    33. Core Curriculum 63 words
    34. School Governors 267 words
    35. Workers' Education Association 163 words
    36. Student Finance 90 words
    37. School Closures 113 words
    38. Japanese Language 116 words
    39. Inner London Education 161 words
    40. Education Resources 82 words
    41. Capital Expenditure (Inner Cities) 81 words
    42. Academic Year 28 words
    43. Inner London Education Authority (Abolition) 135 words
    44. Local Education Authorities 131 words
    45. Headmasters 111 words
    46. Universities (Central Funding) 77 words
    47. Students (Rates Compensation) 101 words
    48. Polytechnics 93 words
    49. Science and Technology 90 words
    50. Education Budgets 123 words
    51. Geffrye Museum 62 words
  16. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. NHS Facilities (Usage Rate) 239 words
    2. Special Hospital Patients 107 words
    3. Health Authorities (Expenditure) 63 words
    4. Health Expenditure 911 words
    5. Doctors (Budgets) 196 words
    6. Community Care 100 words
    7. Family Planning 60 words
    8. Rampton Hospital 87 words
    9. AIDS 85 words
    10. Medical Practitioners 78 words
    11. Dental Caries 397 words
    12. Single Payments 135 words
    13. Mersey RHA 57 words
    14. NHS (RCN Representations) 64 words
    15. Elderly People 847 words
    16. Mentally Handicapped People 501 words
    17. Carers (Support) 283 words
    18. Private Residential Homes 124 words
    19. Personal Social Services 1,625 words
    20. Camberwell Resettlement Unit 421 words
    21. Resettlement Units 183 words
    22. Patients (Spending) 58 words
    23. NHS Staff 197 words
    24. Great Ormond Street Hospital 84 words

Lords Sitting of 15 March 1988

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. Lord Armstrong of Ilminster 49 words
  3. Namibia: Trade Policy 699 words
  4. European Council Document: Approval 637 words
  5. "Airbase" Television Programme 1,488 words
  6. Iran-Iraq War: UN Resolution 598 706 words
  7. The Sharpeville Six 958 words
  8. Royal Assent 74 words
  9. Licensing Bill 40,016 words, 2 divisions
  10. Financial Services Act 1986 (Investment Advertisements) (Exemptions) (No. 2) Order 1988 3,633 words
  11. Financial Services Act 1986 (Delegation) (No. 2) Order 1988 1,184 words
  12. Financial Services Act 1986 (Stabilisation) Order 1988 1,052 words
  13. Social Security Bill 20 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 15 March 1988

  1. PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANISATION 138 words
  2. CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL 65 words
  3. RECIPROCAL SOCIAL SECURITY AGREEMENTS 176 words
  4. RETAINED FIREFIGHTERS: REMUNERATION 220 words
  5. AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT RESEARCH 151 words
  6. WEEKS CASE: EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS DECISION 166 words
  7. REMAND PRISONERS 903 words
  8. VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY: EVASION CONTROL EXERCISE 135 words
  9. LONDON WEIGHTING: CRITERIA 84 words
  10. CIVIL SERVICE: LOCATION 72 words