31 March 1988

Commons Sitting of 31 March 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      1. Fish Farms (Pollution) 697 words
      2. Foodstuffs (Radioactivity) 1,052 words
      3. Sheepmeat 882 words
      4. Nitrates 302 words
      5. National Farmers Union 1,242 words
      6. Forestry 323 words
      7. Research and Development 250 words
      8. Bees 266 words
      9. Green Pound 446 words
      10. Coastal Protection 201 words
      11. Forestry 354 words
      12. British Produce (Marketing) 185 words
      13. Forestry 194 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,417 words
  4. Business of the House 4,952 words
  5. Light Aircraft (Safety) 3,912 words
  6. AIDS 3,754 words
  7. Rover Group 3,604 words
  8. Community Care 4,491 words
  9. East Yorkshire Health Authority 4,258 words
  10. Crown Prosecution Service 3,847 words
  11. Exercise Fire Focus 3,631 words
  12. The Executive (Powers) 3,602 words
  13. Planning in Towns and Cities 4,113 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 31 March 1988

  1. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Unused Land 31 words
    2. Community Care 48 words
    3. Terrorists (Surveillance) 68 words
    4. Health Insurance 88 words
    5. Agricultural Stabilisers 90 words
    6. European Council 56 words
    7. EC Expenditure 139 words
    8. Scottish Electricity Boards 92 words
    9. Companies (Names) 46 words
    10. Engagements 110 words
  2. THE ARTS
    1. China 585 words
    2. Rylands Library (Manchester) 82 words
    3. Library Subscription Services 124 words
    4. Libraries (Premium Lending Service) 72 words
    5. South Bank Arts Estate 304 words
  3. WALES
    1. Education Maintenance Allowance 87 words
    2. Inner Cities 107 words
    3. Export Breakfasts 81 words
    4. Press Office 96 words
    5. Forestry 71 words
    6. House Condition Survey 23 words
    7. Local Authority Services (Competition) 351 words
    8. Foreign Investment 452 words
    9. Manufacturing 80 words
    10. Consultancy Contracts 139 words
    11. Nurses 1,021 words
    12. Hospital Beds 678 words
    13. Mink Farms 190 words
  4. ENERGY
    1. Inner Cities 31 words
    2. Parliamentary Questions 65 words
    3. Ministerial Interview 89 words
    4. Power Station Statistics 221 words
    5. Nuclear Waste 419 words
    6. Bradwell Reactor 122 words
  5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Industry Regeneration (Lewisham) 149 words
    2. British Steel (Privatisation) 49 words
    3. Manufacturing Industry (Exchange Rate) 109 words
    4. Inner Cities 2,268 words
    5. Mr. Peter Luff 85 words
    6. Export Credits Guarantee Department 199 words
    7. Fida 88 Exhibition, Chile 45 words
    8. Action for Cities Initiative 55 words
    9. EC Countries 102 words
    10. Letter Post 678 words
    11. Consultancy Contracts 759 words
    12. Regional Aid 221 words
  6. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Capitation Payments 150 words
    2. ILEA (Abolition) 62 words
    3. Testing 118 words
    4. School Meals 265 words
  7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Official and Library Corridors 382 words
    2. Guillotined Measures 600 words
    3. "The House Magazine" 170 words
  8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Non-military Aid 102 words
    2. Biwaters Project (Malaysia) 156 words
    3. Aid Projects (Single Contractors) 76 words
    4. Ethiopia 127 words
    5. Khmer Rouge 86 words
    6. Nicaragua 142 words
  9. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Tax Revenue 262 words
    2. Special Advisers (Payments) 75 words
    3. EC Budget (United Kingdom Contribution) 119 words
    4. Inheritance Tax 197 words
    5. Loans (Tax Relief) 126 words
    6. Elderly Home Owners 67 words
    7. Privatisation 449 words
    8. Age Allowances 263 words
    9. Computer Services 305 words
    10. Higher and Senior Executives 143 words
    11. Taxation Changes (Purchasing Impact) 54 words
    12. EC Finance Ministers 90 words
    13. Business Expansion Scheme 132 words
    14. Drugs (Illegal Imports) 111 words
    15. Income Tax (Higher Rates) 961 words
    16. London Weighting Allowance 308 words
    17. Pensions 173 words
    18. Consultancy Contracts 360 words
    19. Job Dispersal 209 words
    20. Exchange Rate 111 words
    21. Overseas Investments 131 words
    22. Interest and Exchange Rates 41 words
    23. Income Tax 158 words
  10. TRANSPORT
    1. Aviation Safety 204 words
    2. British Rail (Electrification) 102 words
    3. Road Bridges 164 words
    4. InterCity 114 words
    5. M25 149 words
    6. A51 (Clotton) 42 words
    7. A6 (Disley-High Lane Bypass) 276 words
    8. Inner Cities 167 words
    9. Traffic Growth 101 words
    10. Road Schemes 242 words
    11. White Hart Roundabout, Northolt 110 words
    12. Central London Rail Study 559 words
    13. Summer Time 81 words
    14. Airports (Landing Charges) 233 words
    15. Radio Beacons 261 words
    16. Seagoing Craft (Radios) 93 words
    17. Signposting 200 words
    18. Motor Cyclists 1,060 words
  11. DEFENCE
    1. Aircraft Accidents 103 words
    2. Inner Cities 58 words
    3. Tanks (Purchase) 108 words
    4. Journalists (Hospitality Costs) 89 words
    5. Exercise Arrowhead Express 155 words
    6. North Sea (Air Combat Platforms) 379 words
    7. Scientists (Deaths) 121 words
    8. Low-flying Aircraft 969 words
  12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Third World Debt 80 words
    2. Conventions and Protocols 202 words
    3. Bananas 165 words
    4. Inner Cities 40 words
    5. South Africa (EC Companies) 96 words
    6. Israel (Non-proliferation Treaty) 95 words
    7. Israel (Mordecai Vanunu) 70 words
    8. South Africa (Rugby Tour) 78 words
    9. Central American Parliament 85 words
    10. Guatemala Agreement 103 words
    11. Hong Kong (Vietnamese Refugees) 832 words
    12. Panama 282 words
    13. Council of Ministers (Forthcoming Business) 310 words
  13. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Food Labelling 88 words
    2. Less-favoured Areas 114 words
    3. Country Landowners Association 37 words
    4. Forestry Commission 46 words
    5. Torry Research Station, Aberdeen 178 words
    6. EC Agricultural Budget 49 words
    7. Sheepmeat 48 words
    8. Poultry and Eggs 54 words
    9. Rivers (Pollution) 99 words
    10. Milk Quotas 54 words
    11. Pigs 90 words
    12. Agricultural Policy 89 words
    13. Food Aid 143 words
    14. Monetary Compensatory Allowances 89 words
    15. Tenant Farmers Association 63 words
    16. Wool Board 54 words
    17. Green Pound 95 words
    18. Milk Marketing Board 57 words
    19. Freezer Trawlers 126 words
    20. Farm Woodland Scheme 28 words
    21. Pollution 71 words
    22. Set-aside Scheme 63 words
    23. Bass 276 words
    24. Agriculture Council 55 words
    25. Forestry 123 words
    26. Farming Unions 54 words
    27. Inner Cities 38 words
    28. Salmon Farming 58 words
    29. Arctic Foxes 62 words
    30. Food Irradiation 93 words
    31. Common Agricultural Policy 91 words
    32. Free Food 65 words
    33. Pig Producers 84 words
    34. Farm Woodlands 102 words
    35. Sheep (Radioactivity) 257 words
  14. SCOTLAND
    1. Rating Reform 244 words
    2. AIDS 444 words
    3. Forestry Commission 114 words
    4. Paper Board and Timber Mills 237 words
    5. Strip Searches 93 words
    6. Forestry 49 words
    7. North Sea Oil 120 words
    8. Inner Cities 47 words
    9. Department of Agriculture and Fisheries 727 words
    10. Mink Farms 188 words
    11. Police Inquiries (Guidelines) 90 words
    12. NHS (Seminar) 68 words
    13. Michael Forsyth Ltd. 106 words
    14. Patient Administration (Computerisation) 197 words
    15. Prisons (Alcoholism) 235 words
    16. Consultancy Contracts 434 words
  15. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Housing Benefit 496 words
    2. General Practitioners (Charges) 540 words
    3. Cleveland Child Abuse Inquiry 51 words
    4. Spending Power 64 words
    5. Mentally-ill People 152 words
    6. Community Health Councils 1,378 words
    7. Prostaglandin Abortion (Poison) 92 words
    8. District Health Authorities (Land) 105 words
    9. Inner Cities 246 words
    10. Social Fund 89 words
    11. Project 2000 81 words
    12. Hepatitis B 181 words
    13. Chlamydia 91 words
    14. Nurses (Professional Conduct) 305 words
    15. Community Care 86 words
    16. South Manchester Health Authority 204 words
    17. Strontium 90 133 words
    18. Sheltered Housing (Rents) 78 words
    19. Tranquillisers 710 words
    20. Northern RHA (Performance Indicators) 282 words
    21. Social Security Advisory Committee 50 words
    22. Independent Living Fund 629 words
    23. NHS (Compensation Payments) 149 words
    24. Social Security Reform 470 words
    25. Adjudication Officers' Guide 113 words
    26. NHS Finance 101 words
    27. Children in Care 2,344 words
    28. Motor Cyclists 78 words
    29. District Health Authority Staffing 1,707 words
  16. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Consultative Documents 113 words
    2. Deaf People (Training Schemes) 121 words
    3. Telephone Communications 300 words
    4. Adult Training Scheme 213 words
    5. Training Schemes 101 words
    6. Inner Cities 55 words
    7. Health and Safety Executive 41 words
    8. Wages 38 words
    9. Dock Workers 100 words
    10. Industrial Tribunals 156 words
    11. National Dock Labour Scheme 933 words
  17. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Community Programme 50 words
    2. Charities 480 words
    3. Prisoners (Education) 108 words
    4. Data Protection 347 words
    5. Prison Workshops 375 words
    6. Prisoners (Employment) 184 words
    7. Inner Cities 49 words
    8. Police Officers (Firearms) 162 words
    9. Passports 532 words
    10. Prisoners (Drug Addicts) 468 words
    11. Traffic Wardens (London) 301 words
    12. London Fire and Civil Defence Authority 136 words
    13. Police Act 1964 63 words
    14. Metropolitan Police (Wrongful Acts) 117 words
    15. BBC Hulton Picture Library 73 words
    16. Immigration Officers (Birmingham) 28 words
    17. Entry Clearance Applications 50 words
    18. Summer Time 195 words
    19. Lunar House, Croydon 410 words
    20. Michael Ryan 832 words
    21. Firearms 4,493 words
  18. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Mentally Ill People 332 words
    2. Mental Hospitals 165 words
    3. Protestants and Roman Catholics 218 words
    4. Psychiatric Nurses 89 words
    5. International Investments Ltd. 127 words
    6. Radioactive Fallout 76 words
    7. Housing 149 words
    8. Environmental Health and Building Control Staff 197 words
    9. Community Programme 93 words
    10. Harland and Wolff 83 words