29 March 1988

Commons Sitting of 29 March 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. BRITISH RAILWAYS ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 7 words
  4. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. EMPLOYMENT
      1. Schools-Employers (Compacts) 593 words
      2. Labour Statistics 1,453 words
      3. Training Schemes 239 words
      4. Strikes 611 words
      5. River Holidays 492 words
      6. "Training for Employment" 335 words
      7. Regional Aid 432 words
      8. Insolvency 327 words
      9. Rural Areas 268 words
      10. Steel Industry 398 words
      11. Employment Trends 460 words
      12. Manufacturing Industry 352 words
      13. YTS 151 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 1,995 words
  5. Rover Group (Privatisation) 9,315 words
  6. Urban Policy (Scotland) 8,148 words
  7. MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS (TRANSFERS) BILL [LORDS] 17 words
  8. Horses, Ponies and Donkeys 850 words
    1. HORSES, PONIES AND DONKEYS 79 words
  9. Orders of the day
    1. Housing (Scotland) Bill 337 words
      1. New clause 7
        1. COST FLOOR LIMIT ON DISCOUNT ON PRICE OF HOUSE PURCHASED BY SECURE TENANT 7,783 words
      2. New Clause 8
        1. ABOLITION AND CAPITALISATION OF CERTAIN SUBSIDIES AND CONTRIBUTIONS 1,417 words
      3. New clause 1
        1. SCOTTISH HOUSE CONDITION SURVEY 15,476 words, 1 division
      4. New Clause 5
        1. DETERMINING A RENT BY RENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE 8,759 words, 1 division
      5. New clause 9
        1. RIGHTS OF SCOTTISH SPECIAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION TENANTS 15,515 words, 1 division
      6. New clause 11
        1. APPLICATIONS SERVED ON NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS 5,652 words
      7. Clause 2
        1. GENERAL FUNCTIONS OF SCOTTISH HOMES 50 words
      8. Clause 12
        1. ASSURED TENANCIES 1,327 words
      9. Clause 16
        1. SECURITY OF TENURE 247 words
      10. Clause 17
        1. FIXING OF TERMS OF STATUTORY ASSURED TENANCY 170 words
      11. Clause 18
        1. ORDERS FOR POSSESSION 5,554 words, 1 division
      12. Clause 19
        1. NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS FOR POSSESSION 414 words
      13. Clause 22
        1. PAYMENT OF REMOVAL EXPENSES IN CERTAIN CASES 25 words
      14. Clause 24
        1. INCREASES OF RENT UNDER ASSURED TENANCIES 81 words
      15. Clause 25
        1. DETERMINATION OF RENT BY RENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE 37 words
      16. Clause 29
        1. SHORT ASSURED TENANCIES 25 words
      17. Clause 30
        1. RECOVERY OF POSSESSION ON TERMINATION OF A SHORT ASSURED TENANCY 107 words
      18. Clause 31
        1. REFERENCE OF EXCESSIVE RENTS TO RENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE 31 words
      19. Clause 33
        1. DAMAGES FOR UNLAWFUL EVICTION 17 words
      20. Clause 35
        1. FURTHER OFFENCE OF HARASSMENT 33 words
      21. Clause 37
        1. CASES EXCLUDED FROM SECTIONS 23 AND 24 OF RENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 1984 123 words
      22. Clause 39
        1. NEW PROTECTED TENANCIES RESTRICTED TO SPECIAL CASES 153 words
      23. Clause 40
        1. REMOVAL OF SPECIAL REGIMES FOR TENANCIES OF HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS ETC. 45 words
      24. Clause 43
        1. STATUTORY TENANTS: SUCCESSION 76 words
      25. Clause 46
        1. INFORMATION AS TO DETERMINATION OF RENTS 40 words
      26. Clause 53
        1. RIGHT CONFERRED BY PART III 1,496 words
  10. Televising of Proceedings 10,248 words, 1 division
  11. PETITION
    1. Health and Safety Executive (Dundee Office) 111 words
  12. Tin Mining (Cornwall) 4,582 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 29 March 1988

  1. ENVIRONMENT
    1. EC (Non-quota Textile Scheme) 173 words
    2. Chlorofluorocarbons 637 words
    3. Pollution Paper No. 15 136 words
    4. Rockwool and Glasswool Fibre 256 words
    5. Consultancy Contracts 119 words
    6. Local Authorities (Superannuation Funds) 99 words
    7. RNAD, Coulport 46 words
    8. Chemical Warfare Research (Marmosets) 80 words
    9. Litter 107 words
    10. Rating Reform 158 words
    11. Waterways 567 words
  2. ENERGY
    1. Nuclear Installations (Incidents) 48 words
    2. Nuclear Power Stations 79 words
    3. Consultancy Contracts 53 words
    4. Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation 157 words
    5. Sizewell B Power Station 121 words
    6. Amersham International 48 words
  3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Magistrates (Sentencing Policy) 235 words
    2. Consultancy Contracts 132 words
    3. PRIME MINISTER 100 words
    4. Scotland 16 words
    5. China (Ministerial Visits) 340 words
    6. Consultancy Contracts 56 words
    7. Litter Collection (St. James' Park) 90 words
    8. Interception of Communications Act 1985 150 words
    9. Engagements 140 words
  4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Electrical Installations (Safety) 164 words
    2. Telecommunications Industry 182 words
    3. China 1,753 words
    4. Consultancy Contracts 175 words
    5. Disabled People (Inner Cities) 85 words
    6. Magistrates 153 words
    7. Advertising Standards Authority 61 words
    8. Internal Market 97 words
    9. Investment Intermediaries 73 words
  5. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Fire Inspectorate 67 words
    2. Prisoners (Ethnic Origins) 140 words
    3. Operational Emergency Centres 335 words
    4. Civil Defence 643 words
    5. Crime Prevention 151 words
    6. Police (Subject Access Requests) 67 words
    7. Consultancy Contracts 158 words
    8. Iranian Refugees 153 words
    9. Firearms Certificates 72 words
    10. Police 562 words
    11. Visas 502 words
  6. WALES
    1. Consultancy Contracts 516 words
    2. Factory Closures 64 words
    3. Rating Reform 762 words
  7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Ratu Mara and Penaia Ganilau 84 words
    2. Consultancy Contracts 87 words
    3. China (Town Twinning) 81 words
    4. Iranian Refugees 82 words
    5. Agricultural Produce (Radioactivity) 91 words
    6. EC (Information) 111 words
  8. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Higher Education (Engineering) 56 words
    2. Education Reform 119 words
    3. Open University (Exhibition) 74 words
    4. Chinese Universities (British Students) 116 words
    5. Chinese Students 133 words
    6. Consultancy Contracts 74 words
    7. School Population (Suffolk) 42 words
    8. Medical Research (Charges) 257 words
    9. Computer Services (Skill Shortages) 176 words
  9. THE ARTS
    1. Consultancy Contracts 62 words
  10. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Taxation 113 words
    2. Interest Rates 40 words
    3. Consultancy Contracts 114 words
    4. British Rail (Customs Controls) 117 words
    5. EC (Own Resources) 360 words
    6. Business Expansion Scheme 255 words
  11. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Small Farmers Association 57 words
    2. Forestry 120 words
    3. Consultancy Contracts 42 words
    4. Sheep Exports (Restrictions) 106 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Mental Hospitals 475 words
    2. Forestry 122 words
    3. Psychiatric Nurses 53 words
    4. Mentally Ill People 233 words
    5. Civil Defence 412 words
    6. Consulting Contracts 46 words
    7. Rating Reform 907 words
    8. Free School Meals 114 words
    9. European Year of the Environment 88 words
    10. AIDS and Drug Misuse 997 words
    11. Superglass Insulations Company 71 words
    12. Attraction of Industry 336 words
  13. DEFENCE
    1. Trident (Lost Parts) 59 words
    2. Port of London 360 words
    3. Scorriton Down 114 words
    4. US Army Tactical Missile System 38 words
    5. RAF Greenham Common 83 words
    6. RAF Catering Services 62 words
    7. Consultancy Contracts 47 words
    8. Namibia (Uranium) 35 words
    9. Ex-gratia Payments 318 words
    10. Service Personnel (Accidents) 165 words
    11. AWACS Aircraft 52 words
    12. Devonport Dockyard 207 words
  14. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Safety at Work (Brown Book) 103 words
    2. Specialist Inspectors 52 words
    3. Suffolk 38 words
    4. Non-Statutory Training Organisations 201 words
    5. Job Vacancies 275 words
    6. Adult Training 1,103 words
    7. Vacancies (London) 65 words
    8. Labour Statistics 918 words
    9. Agricultural Inspectors 62 words
    10. Skillcentres 56 words
    11. Strikes 61 words
    12. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 157 words
    13. Youth Training Scheme 802 words
    14. Professional and Executive Register 59 words
    15. Skilled Labour 185 words
    16. Literacy Tuition 87 words
    17. Factory Inspectors 294 words
    18. Construction Industry 74 words
    19. Tourism 234 words
    20. Availability for Work Test 207 words
    21. Health and Safety Executive 69 words
    22. Health and Safety 1,972 words
    23. Caravan and Holiday Parks 131 words
    24. Equal Opportunities 159 words
    25. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 66 words
    26. School Leavers 76 words
    27. Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative 94 words
    28. Local Employer Networks 72 words
    29. Channel Tunnel 59 words
    30. Schools-Employers (Compacts) 118 words
    31. Unemployment 109 words
    32. Job Clubs 168 words
    33. Vacancies (East Anglia) 62 words
    34. Disabled People 78 words
    35. Enterprise Agencies 119 words
    36. Small Businesses 113 words
    37. Maternity Leave 45 words
    38. Mines and Quarries Inspectors 74 words
    39. "Training for Employment" 114 words
    40. Training Programme (Allowances) 92 words
    41. Small Firms Service 44 words
    42. Holiday Accommodation 79 words
    43. Contracts (Small Firms) 61 words
    44. Vacancies (South-West) 62 words
    45. Catering Industry 60 words
    46. Agriculture Industry 66 words
    47. American Visitors 76 words
    48. Trade Unions (Postal Ballots) 102 words
    49. Restart Programme 56 words
    50. Nuclear Installations Inspectors 66 words
    51. Industrial Tourism 94 words
    52. Accidents at Work 493 words
    53. Industrial Diseases 175 words
    54. Lost Working Days 405 words
    55. Small Businesses (Health and Safety) 81 words
    56. Consultancy Contracts 115 words
    57. Health and Safety Executive (Dundee) 93 words
    58. Tourism (China) 83 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Maghaberry Prison 89 words
    2. British Soldiers (Murders) 89 words
    3. Terrorist Killings 469 words
    4. Lord Justice Gibson 45 words
  16. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Mental Hospitals (Staff) 241 words
    2. Health Services (Staff) 205 words
    3. Child Benefit 80 words
    4. Severely Disabled People 44 words
    5. Griffiths Report 71 words
    6. Retirement Pensions 372 words
    7. Mentally-ill People 373 words
    8. Mental Hospitals 224 words
    9. Government Data Network 68 words
    10. Community Psychiatric Nurses 349 words
    11. Social Security Appeals 248 words
    12. Mental Patients 44 words
    13. Alcohol and Art (Exhibition) 70 words
    14. Circulars 722 words
    15. Contaminated Foodstuffs (Imports) 68 words
    16. Clinical Physicists 70 words
    17. Consultancy Contracts 35 words
    18. Pharmaceuticals (Adverse Reactions) 146 words
    19. Disabled People 104 words
    20. Access Committee for England 97 words
    21. Income Support 52 words
    22. Family Credit 88 words
    23. Housing Benefit 68 words
    24. Medical Laboratory Scientific Officers 417 words
    25. Tooth Decay 112 words
    26. Skoal Bandits 132 words
    27. Low-income Families 551 words
    28. Yorkshire Regional Health Authority 85 words
    29. Leeds Western Health Authority 54 words
    30. Abortion 613 words