24 May 1988

Commons Sitting of 24 May 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS
    1. PRIVATE BUSINESS 5 words
      1. TOR BAY HARBOUR (OXEN COVE AND COASTAL FOOTPATH, BRIXHAM) BILL 7 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. DEFENCE
      1. RAF Dishforth 195 words
      2. Cruise Missiles 346 words
      3. Dartmoor (Live Firing) 328 words
      4. BAOR 670 words
      5. NATO Nuclear Planning Group 1,257 words
      6. Maritime Strategy 953 words
      7. SAS 294 words
      8. Departmental Insurance 378 words
      9. Ex-Government Employees (Outside Appointments) 443 words
      10. Weapons Purchasing Policy 404 words
      11. Arms Levels 548 words
      12. Merchant Shipping (Wartime Use) 115 words
    2. PRIME MINISTER
      1. Engagements 2,001 words
  4. Seafreight Freeway (Fire) 1,995 words
  5. Business of the House 1,825 words
  6. Scottish Bus Group 5,687 words
    1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 18 words
  7. Vaccine Damage (Compensation Arrangements) 1,590 words
    1. VACCINE DAMAGE (COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENTS) 56 words
  8. Orders of the Day
    1. Employment Bill 358 words
      1. Clause 1
        1. RIGHT TO A BALLOT BEFORE INDUSTRIAL ACTION 18,567 words, 2 divisions
      2. Clause 5
        1. FURTHER REMEDIES FOR INFRINGEMENT OF RIGHT UNDER SECTION 3 363 words
      3. Clause 7
        1. RIGHT TO REQUIRE EMPLOYER TO STOP DEDUCTIONS OF UNION SUBSCRIPTIONS 275 words
      4. Clause 12
        1. EXTENSION TO NON-VOTING POSITIONS OF DUTY TO HOLD ELECTIONS 1,719 words
          1. Election addresses 3,499 words
      5. Clause 14
        1. INDEPENDENT SCRUTINY OF CERTAIN BALLOTS AND ELECTIONS 699 words
      6. Clause 16
        1. BALLOTS ON INDUSTRIAL ACTION AFFECTING DIFFERENT PLACES OF WORK 679 words
      7. Clause 20
        1. PROVISIONS SUPPLEMENTAL TO SECTION 19 5,453 words, 1 division
      8. Clause 21
        1. PROCEDURE BEFORE THE CERTIFICATION OFFICER 436 words
      9. Clause 24
        1. FUNCTIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND OF THE COMMISSION 7,129 words
      10. Clause 33
        1. SHORT TITLE, COMMENCEMENT AND EXTENT 244 words
      11. Schedule 3
        1. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS 6,504 words, 1 division
          1. The Agricultural Training Board Act /982 (c. 9) 42 words
          2. The Industrial Training Act 1982 (c. 10) 150 words
    2. Elderly People (Social Security System) 3,732 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 24 May 1988

  1. WALES
    1. Waiting Lists (Gwent) 109 words
    2. Homeless People 140 words
    3. Housing Statistics 612 words
    4. Synthetic Index 101 words
  2. ENERGY
    1. Electricity (Privatisation) 40 words
    2. Oil-based Muds 89 words
    3. Liverpool 110 words
    4. North Sea Employees 156 words
    5. Plutonium (Transport) 82 words
  3. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Basingstoke 22 words
    2. Denmark 27 words
    3. Land Statistics 123 words
    4. Northern Region 30 words
    5. Avon 27 words
    6. Engagements 91 words
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Procedure Committee 65 words
    2. Parliamentary Pensions 388 words
    3. Opposition Parties (Financial Aid) 492 words
  5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Biwaters Project (Malaysia) 202 words
    2. Overseas Aid 35 words
  6. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Weapons Control (EC Proposal) 75 words
    2. Jury Service 69 words
    3. Coach Parking, Westminster 134 words
    4. Tactical Aid Unit (Merseyside) 172 words
    5. Entry Clearance Applications 406 words
    6. Immigration 282 words
    7. Neighbourhood Watch Schemes 109 words
  7. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Durham County Council 93 words
    2. Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities (Veterinary Colleges) 129 words
    3. City Technology Colleges 132 words
    4. Teachers (Qualifications) 387 words
  8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Overseas Takeover Bids 358 words
    2. Trade Statistics 577 words
    3. Trading Standards Officers 171 words
    4. Pirate Radio (Birmingham) 141 words
    5. Biwater Project 56 words
    6. Radio Britannia 73 words
    7. Anglo-Soviet Trade 180 words
    8. Turkish Yarn (Imports) 476 words
    9. Civil Servants (Outside Activities) 269 words
  9. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Sewage Sludge 68 words
    2. Barter Deals 85 words
    3. Property Services Agency 174 words
    4. Council House Sales 61 words
    5. Rate Support Grant 278 words
    6. Ealing 146 words
    7. Local Government Superannuation Scheme 243 words
    8. Opencast Mining 66 words
    9. Local Government Finance 56 words
    10. "News on Sunday" 62 words
    11. Palace of Westminster (Toilets) 83 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. Disarmament (Verification) 74 words
    2. Maori Warrior's Head (Sale) 93 words
    3. Hong Kong 123 words
    4. Japanese Wartime Signals 74 words
    5. St. John's Church, Maseru 137 words
    6. Entry Clearance Applications 77 words
    7. Gibraltar (Shootings) 82 words
    8. Cash Limits 149 words
  11. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Belfast Urban Area Plan Inquiry 106 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Departmental Staff 60 words
    2. Nurses 322 words
    3. News Releases 54 words
    4. Cairngorms 613 words
    5. East Kilbride (Housing) 61 words
    6. Rating Reform 148 words
    7. Quality Street Housing Association 147 words
    8. New Town Development Corporations 442 words
    9. Ro-Ro Ferries 77 words
    10. New Towns (Housing) 518 words
    11. House Sales 65 words
    12. Local Authorities (Compensation) 141 words
    13. Defective Housing 493 words
    14. Council House Sales 174 words
    15. Fife Health Board 171 words
    16. Health Boards (Managers) 286 words
    17. Drug Tariff 550 words
    18. Chernobyl (Compensation) 225 words
    19. Tayside Region (Assistance) 98 words
  13. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Departmental Advertising 89 words
    2. Benefits 98 words
    3. Labour Statistics 201 words
    4. Tourism 187 words
    5. Economic League 39 words
    6. Benefit Fraud (Glasgow) 86 words
    7. Mines and Quarries Act 1954 108 words
    8. Cash Limits 486 words
    9. "Action for Jobs" 116 words
    10. Government Campaigns 194 words
    11. Turkish Yarn (Imports) 102 words
  14. THE ARTS
    1. Museums, Galleries and Theatres 196 words
    2. Galleries and Museums (Funding) 130 words
  15. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Public Bodies 82 words
  16. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Building Societies 95 words
    2. Channel Tunnel (Customs Facilities) 62 words
  17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Sheepmeat (Testing) 67 words
    2. Sewage Sludge 111 words
    3. Industrial Waste 88 words
    4. Slimming Products 84 words
    5. Beef 307 words
    6. Irradiated Foodstuffs 115 words
    7. Contamination 56 words
    8. Cod 213 words
    9. Plant Testing and Seed Certification 289 words
    10. Civil Servants (Outside Activities) 146 words
    11. Sheep Variable Premium 117 words
  18. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Dispensing 173 words
    2. Health Authorities (Costs) 739 words
    3. Benefit Entitlement 348 words
    4. Child Care 59 words
    5. Electro-convulsive Therapy 286 words
    6. Lobotomies 122 words
    7. Legionnaire's Disease 112 words
    8. Single Payments 198 words
    9. Solvent Abuse 118 words
    10. Three Rivers (Electorate) 189 words
    11. Dacorum (Electorate) 231 words
    12. Regional Health Authorities 105 words
    13. In-patients (Teaching Hospitals) 233 words
    14. North Sea Oil (Sub-contractors) 96 words
    15. Benefits 106 words
    16. Community Care 85 words
    17. District Health Authorities 241 words
    18. Cancer Hot-spots (Hull) 98 words
    19. HIV and AIDS 342 words
    20. Birmingham Children's Hospital 304 words
    21. Widows (Income Support) 112 words
  19. TRANSPORT
    1. Military Explosives (Transport) 37 words
    2. Carlisle-Settle Railway 53 words
    3. Historic Wrecks Advisory Committee 65 words
    4. East London River Crossing 161 words
    5. Ferries (Stability) 158 words
    6. Garages (Prosecutions) 136 words
    7. Breath Tests 137 words
  20. DEFENCE
    1. Maritime Strategy 81 words
    2. Trident 109 words
    3. Bramley Camp 102 words
    4. Defence Export Services Organisation 67 words
    5. NATO (nuclear Weapons) 254 words
    6. Merchant Shipping (Wartime Use) 95 words
    7. Air Sea Rescue 118 words
    8. Ex-Government Employees (Outside Appointments) 112 words
    9. UK-USSR (Confidence-Building Measures) 211 words
    10. Strategic Defence Initiative 39 words
    11. HM Forces (Equal Opportunities) 93 words
    12. Nuclear-capable Aircraft 195 words
    13. Merchant Fleet 57 words
    14. Type 23 Frigates 220 words
    15. Procurement Expenditure 183 words
    16. Sea King Helicopters 61 words
    17. Low-flying Aircraft 222 words
    18. Chemical warfare 169 words
    19. Ammunition Expenditure 43 words
    20. Royal Army Veterinary Corps, Melton Mowbray 85 words
    21. Air Combat Facility (North Sea) 47 words
    22. Donnington Central Ordnance Depot (Fire) 153 words
    23. Maritime Operations 117 words
    24. Low-flying Exercises 54 words
    25. Soldiers' and Airmen's Scripture Readers Association (Centenary) 92 words
    26. Air Cadet Motor Gliders (Noise) 79 words
    27. RAF Aircraft (Commercial Demonstrations) 68 words
    28. Glenmoriston Estates, Inverness-shire 77 words
    29. Military Supplies (Storage) 106 words
    30. Procurement 76 words
    31. Nuclear-powered Submarines (Decommissioning) 51 words
    32. Cruise Missiles 103 words
    33. Army Equipment (European Collaboration) 51 words
    34. Procurement (Collaborative Projects) 28 words
    35. USSR (Nuclear Forces) 96 words
    36. Arms Levels 48 words
    37. Tornado 84 words
    38. Royal Navy 44 words
    39. Nuclear Weapons (Accidents) 89 words
    40. NATO (Nuclear Planning Group) 190 words
    41. NATO Defence Ministers (Meetings) 71 words
    42. NATO 50 words
    43. Rating Reform 72 words
    44. Defence Spending 73 words
    45. Gibraltar (Incident) 80 words
    46. Bomb Disposal Units (Gibraltar) 59 words

Lords Sitting of 24 May 1988

  1. Preamble 26 words
  2. Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham 1,019 words
  3. British Passport: New Format 1,363 words
  4. Uniform Business Rate: Policy 1,237 words
  5. Education: Prime Minister's Statement 993 words
  6. Business 193 words
  7. Brighton and Preston Cemetery Bill 11 words
  8. South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Bill 10 words
  9. Scottish Development Agency (Oban South Pier) Order Confirmation Bill 6 words
  10. Local Government Finance Bill 35,040 words, 1 division
  11. Scotch Whisky Bill 6,165 words
  12. Local Government Finance Bill 15,661 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 24 May 1988

  1. SOCIAL FUND: GRANTS AND LOANS STATISTICS 116 words
  2. VOTING: DISQUALIFICATIONS 101 words
  3. COMMUNITY CHARGES REGISTER, SCOTLAND: DATE OF BIRTH INFORMATION 184 words
  4. LOCAL GOVERNMENT: GRANT SYSTEM 163 words
  5. NORTHERN IRELAND: COMPLETION OF DEBT REPAYMENT 49 words