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Commons Hansard for 2 February 1971 (Volume 810)

                From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 
1 May 2026 at 4.02pm.
            

Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.

House of Commons

PRAYERS

BERKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords]

BRISTOL CORPORATION (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords]

ALDRIDGE-BROWNHILLS URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL

BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS BILL

CHICHESTER HARBOUR CONSERVANCY BILL

CO-OPERATIVE BANK BILL

EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL (NEWHAVEN BRIDGE) BILL

ETON RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL

HARINGEY CORPORATION BILL

HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL

HUMBER BRIDGE BILL

KESTEVEN COUNTY COUNCIL BILL

LONDON TRANSPORT (No. 2) BILL

MANCHESTER CORPORATION (LOTTERIES) BILL

OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (No. 2) BILL

STOCKPORT CORPORATION BILL

TRENT RIVER AUTHORITY (GENERAL POWERS) BILL

PAISLEY CORPORATION (CART NAVIGATION) ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL (By Order)

ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

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SOCIAL SERVICES

Blind Persons

Smoking (Lung Cancer)

Pneumoconiosis Medical Panels

Industrial Lung Diseases

Hypothermia (Deaths)

Directors of Social Services

Water Supplies (Fluoridation)

Liquid Vitamin Drops

King George Hospital, Ilford (Casualty Department)

Psychiatric Beds (London)

Elderly Persons (Hardship Cases)

Disabled Persons (Vehicle Fuel)

Dental Charges

National Health Service (Parliamentary Commissioner)

Hospital Emergency Generators

St. Cross Hospital, Rugby

Retirement Pensioners (Fuel Costs)

District Nurses and Home Helps

COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING

CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)

QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS

LAOS

LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT)

CONTROL OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL

Clause 34

BREACH OF COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT

Clause 35

APPLICATION TO INDUSTRIAL COURT RELATING TO PROCEDURAL PROVISIONS

Clause 36

PROVISION FOR EXTENDING SCOPE OF REFERENCE UNDER SECTION 35

Clause 37

ACTION BY COMMISSION FOR PROMOTING SETTLEMENT OF QUESTION REFERRED UNDER S. 35

ANIMALS BILL [Lords]

WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHS (FRAUDULENT PRACTICES)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

National Health Service Charges For Spectacles (Retirement Pensioners)

Family Planning and Abortion

National Health Service (Sources of Revenue)

Social Security Offices (Privacy)

Mentally Defective Children

Supplementary Benefits (Retirement Pensioners)

Supplementary Benefits (Disregards)

State and Local Authority Benefits (Report)

Tobacco (Advertising and Sales Promotion)

Amphetamines

L.S.D. Drugs

Medicine Containers

Disabled Persons (Vehicles)

Motorway Ambulance Helicopters

Laboratory Technicians (Pay)

Homeless Families

Children, Birmingham (Ear, Nose and Throat Care)

Supplementary Benefits (Dependent Relatives' Transport Costs)

Non-Cancer-Inducing Cigarette

Malnutrition

Family Income Supplement

Retirement Pension

Casuals (Overnight Accommodation)

Hospital Construction, Bradford

Junior Hospital Staff, Bradford and Halifax

Strikes (Supplementary Benefit Payments)

Brucellosis

Hospital Waiting Lists

Nurses (Pay)

Occupational Pensions

Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Newburn (Supplementary Allowances)

Dental Charges

Babies' Cot Deaths

Home Safety

Rhesus Immunisation (Gamma Globulin)

Social Security and Health Service Benefits

Overseas Countries (Reciprocal Arrangements)

Cigarettes (Respiratory and Heart Complaints)

National Health Service Facilities (Misuse)

Medical Administrators and Public Health Officers

Sheffield Regional Hospital Board (Geriatric Beds)

North Staffordshire Hospitals (Pay Beds)

Parliamentary Commissioner (National Health Service)

War Pensioners (Earnings Limit)

Pneumoconiosis Medical Panels

Cardiological Technicians (Pay)

General Practitioners (Registration of Patients)

Anti-influenza Vaccine

Ely Hospital, Cardiff

Social Security Benefits (Representations)

Family Expenditure Survey

Mentally-Handicapped Persons

Pension Schemes

Hospitals (Medical and Psychiatric Social Work)

Long-Stay Patients (After Care)

National Health Service (Reorganisation)

Abortion

Social Security Benefits (Fraudulent Claims)

Sheffield Regional Hospital Board (Geriatric Beds)

Poliomyelitis

Retirement Pensioners (Inquiry)

Single Women (National Insurance Contributions)

Drug Dependence

Prescription Charge Exemptions

Welfare Benefits (Increase)

Drugs (Over-Prescribing)

Strikers (Welfare Benefits)

Dental Charges

Housebuilding Firms (Bank Loans)

Value-added Tax

Unemployment (Economic Measures)

Incomes

Disabled Persons (Rule 9, Schedule E)

Bankruptcies (Debts to Inland Revenue)

Business Men and Entertainers (Recovery of Tax)

Inland Revenue Computer Centre, Bootle

Decimalisation (Local Advertisements)

Investment Allowances, Wales

Tobacco Duty (Citizens returning from Overseas)

O.E.C.D. (Meeting)

Decimalisation (Price Increases)

Wilberforce Committee (Report)

Pay Increases

Strikers (P.A.Y.E. Refunds)

United States Chamber of Commerce (Chancellor's Speech)

Contractual Savings Schemes

Disabled Persons (Purpose-Built Housing)

Street Nameplates and House Numbering

Butene Olygomer

Moston Brook, Manchester

M3 Motorway (Opening Dates)

A45 (Flyovers)

Burst Water Mains (Ex-Gratia Payments)

Coal Spoil Heaps

North-East

Regional Policy (Report)

Thurrock (Rents)

Construction Work (Direct Labour)

Building Targets, West Midlands

Buses (Capital Expenditure Grant)

Lorries (Weight and Length Regulations)

Ml Motorway

Coloured Children (Statistics)

Primary Schools Programme

Multiple Sclerosis

School Meals and Milk

Amphetamines

School Children (Special Help)

Community Development Projects

Demonstration, Wolverhampton

Football Grounds (Safety Precautions)

Fines (East London Boroughs)

Fines (Collection)

Taxicab Trade (Decimal Conversion Tables)

Lambeth (Urban Aid Programme)

Fire Dangers and Deaths (Children)

Violence and Threats (Members of the Government)

Fireworks (Accidents)

Amphetamines

L.S.D. (Penalties)

Cherry Top and Purple Haze Tablets

Prisoners (Mentally Abnormal)

Dangerous Liquid (Accidents)

University Hospital of Wales (Nurses)

Cardiganshire (Infrastructure)

Housing, Newport

PRESIDENT NIXON (DISCUSSIONS)

CIGARETTE SMOKING

LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING

PRICES

RETIREMENT PENSIONS

INDUSTRIAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

PARIS (VISIT)

CABINET OFFICE CENTRAL CAPABILITY UNIT

PENSIONERS (LETTERS)

SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)

PRIME MINISTER (VISIT TO UNITED STATES)

KING EDWARD VIII (OFFICIAL PAPERS)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (DELEGATIONS)

DRUGS (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)

GOVERNMENT POLICY STATEMENTS (PRESS LEAKS)

POST OFFICE WORKERS (STRIKE)

UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)

Higher-Paid Public Servants (Salaries and Pensions)

Former Prime Ministers (Allowance)

Refreshment Department (Prices)

Price Review (Increased Efficiency)

Food Prices

Feedingstuffs (Northern Ireland)

European Economic Community

Hill Farmers (Grant)

Pegasus Vectored Thrust Power Plant

Northern Ireland (Bombing Incidents)

Belfast (Security Forces)

Army Cadet Force

Norwich

Labour-Only Sub-Contractors

Mr. Geoffrey Jackson

European Economic Community

Narcotics

Sierra Leone (Disturbances)

O.E.C.D. (United Kingdom Membership)

Council of Europe (Delegations and Expenses)

Hospitals (Fire Prevention)

Teenage Drinking (Identity Cards)

Family Planning Services

Farmers (Bankruptcy)

Receipts (Abolition of Stamp Duty)

NATIONAL FINANCE

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