27 May 1988

Commons Sitting of 27 May 1988

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    1. First-time Home Buyers 5,583 words
    2. Shipbuilding (Lower Clyde) 5,521 words
    3. Harland and Wolff 5,542 words
    4. Wool Textile Industry (West Yorkshire) 6,039 words
    5. Vacant Land 4,153 words
    6. Children in Care 4,070 words
    7. Emergency Aid in Schools 3,338 words
    8. Health Services (Waltham Forest) 4,072 words
      1. PROCEDURE 144 words
      2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 231 words
  3. Orders of the Day
    1. Electricity (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Bill 18 words
    2. Basildon 4,065 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 27 May 1988

  1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
    1. Cash Limits 225 words
    2. Welsh Language 63 words
    3. Lecturers 212 words
    4. A-levels (Bolton) 66 words
    5. Pupils (Equal Opportunities) 135 words
    6. Dementia 112 words
    7. Aging 66 words
  2. TRANSPORT
    1. Planning Inquiries (Reports) 55 words
    2. Air Routes 182 words
    3. Road Schemes (Kent) 376 words
    4. Passenger Ferries 154 words
    5. North Sea Surveyor (Collision) 102 words
    6. Fishing Vessels (Collisions) 237 words
    7. Mobility Advice and Vehicle Information Service 76 words
    8. Tachographs (Repairs) 53 words
  3. PRIME MINISTER
    1. National Health Service 107 words
    2. Year 2000 (Celebration Plans) 48 words
    3. Gibraltar (Shootings) 163 words
  4. ENERGY
    1. CEGB (Energy Efficiency) 91 words
    2. Petroleum Production Licences 758 words
    3. Coal 80 words
    4. Equal Opportunities 119 words
    5. Energy Pricing 56 words
    6. Pit Closures 97 words
    7. Coal Mining Subsidence 121 words
    8. North Sea Oil Production Platforms 107 words
  5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Cash Limits 111 words
  6. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Ministerial Duties 60 words
    2. Pollution 167 words
    3. Water Authorities (Finance) 2,029 words
    4. Water Industry (Privatisation) 163 words
    5. Rating Reform 264 words
    6. Liverpool (Visit) 54 words
    7. Bathing Water Survey 55 words
    8. Barn Owls 74 words
    9. Sporting Events (Violence) 162 words
    10. Waste Disposal 175 words
    11. Residential Development 64 words
    12. BWB Freight Depots (Sale) 224 words
    13. ID Investment Development AG 54 words
    14. Planning 69 words
    15. SERPLAN 35 words
    16. Tenants (Milton Keynes) 41 words
    17. Racial Equality 52 words
    18. Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee 45 words
    19. Cash Limits 234 words
    20. London Docklands Development Corporation 215 words
    21. Housing Defects 132 words
    22. Sporting Events 975 words
    23. Americium-241 173 words
  7. SCOTLAND
    1. Post-operative Deaths 42 words
    2. Wage Rates 264 words
    3. Bathing Water 53 words
    4. Rating Reform 121 words
    5. Ministerial Meetings 48 words
    6. Pre-court Diversion Schemes 57 words
    7. Unemployed Young People 126 words
    8. Technical, Vocational and Educational Initiative 73 words
  8. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Discontinued Cases 645 words
    2. Torfaen Borough Council (Court Case) 125 words
    3. "Spycatcher" 101 words
  9. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Car Park (Passes) 211 words
    2. Televising (Lighting) 405 words
  10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. European Directives 67 words
    2. Foreign Honours and Medals 185 words
    3. Disarmament 663 words
  11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Research and Development 99 words
    2. Equal Opportunities 239 words
    3. Carbadox and Olaquindox 48 words
    4. Regional Development Grant 103 words
    5. Pen Tops (Safety) 116 words
    6. Airbus 82 words
    7. Regional Enterprise Grant 174 words
    8. Departmental Cash Limit 67 words
  12. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. VAT 53 words
    2. Customs and Excise 550 words
    3. Overseas Investment 518 words
    4. Hearing Aids 165 words
    5. National Savings 34 words
    6. Income Tax 161 words
    7. Public Expenditure 769 words
    8. BP Shares 169 words
  13. THE ARTS
    1. Liverpool 82 words
    2. Tate Gallery of the North 139 words
    3. Libraries 236 words
  14. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Police Manpower (Staffordshire) 90 words
    2. Brownies Health Club 199 words
    3. Prison Population 71 words
    4. Boundary Proposals (Welwyn Hatfield) 88 words
    5. Immigration 83 words
    6. Firearms 211 words
    7. Alcohol (Prosecutions) 86 words
    8. Cash Limits 144 words
    9. Untried Persons (Custody) 470 words
  15. NORTHERN IRELAND
    1. Lough Neagh/Lough Beg 385 words
    2. Drainage (SSSIs) 157 words
    3. Equal Opportunities 380 words
    4. Invalid Care Allowance 81 words
    5. NHS (Expenditure) 163 words
    6. Royal Ulster Constabulary (Inquiry) 242 words
  16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Farm Woodland Scheme 118 words
    2. Set-aside Scheme 254 words
    3. Feed Additives 125 words
    4. CAP (Reform) 98 words
    5. New Zealand Butter 86 words
    6. Upland Soils (Radioactivity) 82 words
    7. European Directives 65 words
    8. Hill Livestock Support Payments 98 words
    9. Agricultural Land 79 words
    10. Farming Incomes 114 words
    11. Agricultural Holdings 309 words
  17. DEFENCE
    1. Women Officers (Pregnancy Leave) 53 words
    2. Self-propelled Howitzer 41 words
    3. Challenger Tank 61 words
    4. Marchwood Military Port 356 words
    5. BAOR (Mercedes-Benz Trucks) 98 words
    6. Army Trucks 97 words
    7. Equal Opportunities 91 words
    8. Northern Ireland Charities 143 words
    9. Disabled Service Personnel 128 words
    10. Pensions 47 words
    11. Injured Service Personnel 357 words
    12. Tornado Aircraft 49 words
    13. Military Helicopters 235 words
    14. Swimming Pool (Deal Barracks) 105 words
  18. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Mines and Quarries Act 1954 331 words
    2. Adult Training Scheme 263 words
    3. Job Release Scheme 68 words
    4. Parental Leave 136 words
    5. TVEI (Orkneys) 141 words
    6. Sex Discrimination 283 words
    7. Redundancy Payments (Equality) 103 words
    8. Disabled People 291 words
    9. Scotch Derrick Cranes 102 words
    10. Mines and Quarries Inspectorate 91 words
    11. Underpaid Employees 128 words
    12. Women's Pension Schemes 149 words
  19. WALES
    1. Electorate 307 words
    2. Equal Opportunities 168 words
    3. Farmers (Statistics) 155 words
    4. Farm Workers 153 words
    5. Language Assistants 208 words
    6. AIDS 528 words
    7. Carbadox and Olaquindox 44 words
    8. Psychiatric Hospitals 170 words
    9. Wage Rates 236 words
    10. "Western Mail (Article)" 59 words
    11. Valleys Initiative 492 words
    12. Torfaen (RSG) 205 words
    13. Construction Industry 290 words
    14. EC Payments 84 words
    15. Sheepmeat 179 words
    16. Green Pound 92 words
    17. Agricultural Research 94 words
    18. Silage Pollution 103 words
    19. Chernobyl Disaster (Compensation) 231 words
    20. Ewe Premium 83 words
    21. Farming Income 63 words
    22. Rating Reform 150 words
    23. Agricultural Holdings 82 words
    24. Dairy Processing Industry 140 words
    25. Mortality Rates 47 words
    26. Nurses (Pay) 90 words
    27. Engagements 299 words
    28. National Rivers Authority 101 words
    29. Housing 52 words
  20. SOCIAL SERVICES
    1. Medical Accidents (Awards) 365 words
    2. Electro-convulsive Therapy 236 words
    3. Hospital Beds (Waltham Forest) 83 words
    4. Blandford Fly 56 words
    5. AIDS 157 words
    6. Departmental Efficiency (Blackpool) 41 words
    7. Nursing Homes 84 words
    8. Tobacco (Health Warnings) 127 words
    9. Children (Malignancy) 167 words
    10. Housing Benefit 338 words
    11. Mentally Ill Patients 46 words
    12. Family Income Statistics 261 words
    13. Carbadox and Olaquindox 616 words
    14. Glaucoma 49 words
    15. Electorate (Hertfordshire) 514 words
    16. Hospices 197 words
    17. Research Grants 86 words
    18. Invalidity Pensions 183 words
    19. Pneumoconiosis 147 words
    20. War Pensions 39 words
    21. Invalid Care and Mobility Allowance 69 words
    22. Southampton Office 47 words
    23. Essex Hospitals 95 words
    24. Abortions 356 words
    25. Supplementary Benefit 61 words
    26. Regional Health Authorities (Budgets) 126 words
    27. Population Statistics 360 words
    28. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 105 words
    29. Benefit Changes (Coventry) 2,350 words