28 March 1988

Commons Sitting of 28 March 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. ENERGY
      1. Electricity Privatisation 941 words
      2. EC Energy Policy 438 words
      3. Electricity Privatisation 589 words
      4. Open and Coke Fires 424 words
      5. Combined Heat and Power 446 words
      6. Central Electricity Generating Board 836 words
      7. Electricity Generating Stations 569 words
      8. British Coal 830 words
      9. Electricity Privatisation 485 words
    2. THE ARTS
      1. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 409 words
      2. Arts Council Funding (Liverpool) 390 words
      3. Photographs (Schools) 255 words
      4. Theatre Funding (Leicester) 285 words
      5. Premium Book Subscription Service 487 words
    3. CIVIL SERVICE
      1. Government Management 206 words
      2. Examinations 323 words
      3. Civil Service Reform 208 words
      4. Agencies 728 words
      5. Ex-Civil Servants (Employment) 276 words
  4. Community Charges Regulations (Scotland) 1,534 words
  5. BILL PRESENTED
    1. NORTHERN IRELAND (TERMINATION OF JURISDICTION) 85 words
  6. Statutory Instruments, &c. 63 words
  7. Orders of the Day
    1. Education Reform Bill
      1. 4TH ALLOTTED DAY 8 words
        1. Clause 135
          1. ABOLITION OF ILEA 30,314 words, 1 division
        2. Clause 148
          1. LIABILITY OF LONDON RESIDUARY BODY FOR REDUNDANCY AND COMPENSATION PAYMENTS 16 words
        3. Clause 163
          1. EDUCATION ASSETS BOARD 14 words
        4. Clause 166
          1. WRONGFUL DISPOSALS 15 words
        5. Clause 176
          1. APPLICATION OF EMPLOYMENT LAW DURING FINANCIAL DELEGATION 6,177 words, 1 division
        6. Clause 180
          1. ORDERS AND REGULATIONS 41 words
        7. Clause 184
          1. COMMENCEMENT 240 words
        8. Schedule 10
          1. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS 71 words
        9. Schedule 11
          1. REPEALS 20,336 words, 1 division
  8. Community Charges (Scotland) 14,188 words, 1 division
  9. PETITION
    1. Health Services (Tower Hamlets) 237 words
  10. Council House Sales (Sutton) 4,278 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 28 March 1988

  1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Medical Research Council (Expenditure) 161 words
    2. Child Guidance Service 82 words
    3. Free School Meals 193 words
    4. French Language 157 words
  2. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. International Atomic Energy Agency 112 words
    2. Central America 72 words
    3. Sita Ram Maskey 67 words
    4. Vasili Shipilov 312 words
    5. Refugees (Hong Kong) 50 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Young Offenders 854 words
    2. Economic League 48 words
    3. Rates (Imprisonment) 192 words
    4. Prisons (Facilities) 182 words
    5. Video Recordings Act 1984 104 words
  4. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Juries 57 words
  5. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Forestry 120 words
    2. PLO (Military Equipment) 162 words
    3. Litter Collection (St. James' Park) 73 words
  6. WALES
    1. Heart Surgery 161 words
    2. ADAS 438 words
    3. Wales and Marches Postal Board 77 words
    4. Private Health Service Contractors 54 words
    5. Brick Industry 79 words
    6. Council House Rents 54 words
    7. Government Employment and Training Measures 184 words
    8. Local Authorities Staff 56 words
    9. Home Confinement 51 words
    10. Electricity Industry (Privatisation) 68 words
    11. Rating Reform 53 words
    12. Breast Screening 121 words
    13. Export Breakfasts 139 words
  7. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Tourism 70 words
    2. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 312 words
    3. Training Project Programmes 159 words
    4. Restrictive Labour Practices 291 words
    5. Earnings Statistics 79 words
    6. YTS 88 words
  8. SCOTLAND
    1. Mentally Ill People 118 words
    2. Rural Infrastructure (Plantation Timber) 169 words
    3. Sudden Death 235 words
    4. Forestry Grant Scheme 87 words
    5. Iceland (Electricity Imports) 54 words
    6. Uist and Galloway (Aerial Survey) 136 words
    7. Radioactivity (Aerial Surveys) 128 words
    8. Scottish Office (Permanent Under-Secretary) 182 words
    9. Ford Plant, Dundee 63 words
    10. Inverclyde Initiative 213 words
    11. Major Trunk Road Projects 179 words
    12. Eye Tests and Dental Examinations 59 words
  9. ENERGY
    1. CEGB 80 words
    2. Nuclear Power Stations (Insurance) 77 words
    3. Gas Disconnections 149 words
    4. Electricity Privatisation 300 words
    5. Electricity Charges 136 words
    6. Uranium 51 words
    7. Electricity Council 53 words
    8. Coal Industry (Productivity) 154 words
    9. Nirex 41 words
    10. Energy Efficiency Office 84 words
    11. Coal Industry Dispute 55 words
    12. Power Station, Kingsnorth 50 words
    13. Windmills 162 words
    14. Electricity Area Board Chairmen 73 words
    15. Offshore Oil Licensing 47 words
    16. Heat and Power Schemes 80 words
    17. Coal Industry 48 words
    18. Coal Industry (Financial Support) 155 words
    19. British Coal Enterprise Ltd. 45 words
    20. Renewable Energy Sources 166 words
    21. Nuclear Generation 80 words
    22. Hinkley Point C Power Station 58 words
    23. CBI (Energy Costs) 61 words
    24. British Coal 42 words
    25. South African Coal 136 words
    26. Nuclear Waste 89 words
    27. Coal (Sulphur Content) 264 words
    28. Electricity 72 words
    29. National Nuclear Corporation 72 words
    30. Plutonium 160 words
  10. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Press Gallery 65 words
    2. Line of Route (Refreshments) 95 words
  11. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Departmental Staff 216 words
    2. Tree Preservation Orders 124 words
    3. Warrington-Runcorn New Town 239 words
    4. Local Authority Housing 905 words
    5. Policies (Market Research) 63 words
    6. Crown Premises (Valuation) 329 words
    7. Water 1,090 words
    8. Buildings (Logbooks) 217 words
    9. Planning Appeals 87 words
    10. Unleaded Petrol 681 words
    11. Crown Suppliers 133 words
    12. Rate Precepts 605 words
    13. Rating Reform 230 words
    14. District General Hospital (Norwich) 120 words
    15. New Hospitals 59 words
    16. Superglass Insulation Ltd. 211 words
    17. Waste Disposal 95 words
    18. Stockport 198 words
    19. Defective Houses (Grants) 281 words
    20. Sports and Leisure Facilities 193 words
    21. Water Authorities (Billing Lists) 53 words
  12. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Mental Hospitals 100 words
    2. Homosexuality (Inquiry) 76 words
    3. Patient Treatment 154 words
    4. Private Health Care 75 words
    5. Nurse Recruitment and Training 160 words
    6. Local Authority Members (Oaths) 78 words
    7. Hayshed Bugging 59 words
    8. Homelessness 160 words
  13. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Marine Fish Farming 74 words
    2. Peanuts 81 words
    3. Sheep Exports (Restrictions) 57 words
    4. Fishing Fleet 74 words
    5. Cod 134 words
    6. Irradiated Food 89 words
  14. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Agencies 74 words
    2. Reform (Public Expenditure) 57 words
    3. Briefing Sessions 112 words
  15. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Job Decentralisation 50 words
    2. Income Tax 840 words
    3. Betting Duty 141 words
    4. Tax Rates and Work Incentives 130 words
    5. Interest Rates 73 words
    6. Exchange Rate 56 words
    7. Liquefied Petroleum Gas 62 words
    8. Take-home Pay 55 words
    9. PLO (Military Equipment Sales) 71 words
    10. Debt Interest 233 words
    11. Public Corporations (Borrowing) 242 words
    12. Financial Statement and Budget Report 221 words
    13. Land and Buildings (Departmental Sales) 364 words
    14. National Accounts Adjustments 136 words
    15. Personal Taxation 159 words
    16. Income Statistics 172 words
    17. Revenue Contributions 305 words
    18. Taxation and National Insurance 494 words
    19. Ethnic Monitoring 240 words
  16. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. NHS Staff 384 words
    2. Waiting Lists 79 words
    3. Housing Benefit 2,503 words
    4. Alcohol (Cancer) 132 words
    5. Benzodiazepines 715 words
    6. Mentally Ill People 242 words
    7. Mental Hospital Sites (Sales) 252 words
    8. Community Care 426 words
    9. Hospital Hostels 200 words
    10. Griffiths Report 219 words
    11. Medical Laboratory and Pathology Staff 120 words
    12. Ward Closures 54 words
    13. Riverside DHA (Hospital Closures) 174 words
    14. Regional Health Authorities 222 words
    15. Northern Ireland (Tax Benefits) 184 words
    16. AIDS 197 words
    17. Cervical Cancer 104 words
    18. Departmental Research Funding 190 words
    19. General Practitioners 151 words
    20. Dentistry (Hepatitis) 268 words
    21. Benefits 201 words
    22. Hospitals and Wards (Closure) 203 words
    23. NHS Hospitals (Income) 442 words
    24. Salford and South Manchester Health Authorities 337 words
    25. Departmental Offices, Bradford 91 words
    26. Departmental Offices (Social Security Act 1986) 202 words
    27. Social Security Regulations 106 words
    28. District Health Authorities (Chairmen) 148 words
    29. Blood Transfusion Service 88 words
    30. School Meals and Welfare Milk 120 words
    31. Housing Benefit (Sunderland) 73 words
    32. Income Support and Family Credit (Sunderland) 53 words
    33. NHS Performance Indicators 973 words
    34. South East Thames Regional Health Authority 140 words
    35. In-patients 2,521 words
  17. THE ARTS
    1. Library Services (Old People) 115 words
    2. Business Sponsorship 125 words
    3. Public Library Service 63 words
    4. Library Services (Norfolk) 69 words
    5. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 44 words
    6. Heritage (Funding) 76 words
    7. Opera 47 words
    8. National Theatre 56 words
    9. Marketing Skills 86 words
    10. Libraries (Services) 47 words
    11. Libraries (Funding) 97 words
    12. Private Patronage 124 words
    13. Theatres (Funding) 53 words
    14. Community Library 133 words
    15. Inner-city Regeneration 73 words
    16. Museums, Galleries and Libraries 155 words
    17. British Theatre Association (Library) 182 words
    18. "The Urban Renaissance" 88 words
    19. Museums 247 words
  18. TRANSPORT
    1. Vehicle Records 128 words
    2. Unsafe Vehiicles (Sale) 103 words
    3. Airports (Delays) 61 words
    4. Roll-on/Roll-off Ferries (Inspection) 148 words
    5. Herald of Free Enterprise (Marine Surveyors) 331 words
    6. Road Accidents 79 words
    7. Lydden and Dover Eastern Docks 54 words
    8. Helicopters (Coastal Rescue) 180 words
    9. Breeches Buoy Equipment 153 words
    10. Woolwich Ferry (Electronic Warning Signs) 95 words
    11. Airports (Flight Delays) 80 words
  19. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Manufactured Goods 87 words
    2. Insider Dealing 46 words
    3. Arthur Bell and Son plc and DCL (Takeover) 53 words
    4. Lebanon (Military Equipment) 127 words
    5. Plastics (Exhibition) 57 words
    6. United States Space Station 187 words
    7. Horizon 2000 143 words
    8. Nissan 123 words
    9. Tour Operators (Surcharges) 214 words
    10. Internal Market 79 words
  20. DEFENCE
    1. Exercise Outback 88 608 words
    2. Psychological Warfare 157 words
    3. Forged CI