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Commons Hansard for 18 April 1978 (Volume 948)

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Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House Of Commons (item number 1) (id 2cee8c03-7563-4a1f-9bb7-62ab07237adb)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 81fbdd4e-fb6f-464a-864f-c5af1bd4879e)

Private Business
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King's College London Bill (item number 1) (id 4a665c27-0fd6-45fc-865c-8d20f2a740e5)
Greater London Council (General Powers) Bill (By Order) (item number 1) (id 63d1c335-3745-4127-86e6-5598b71e4811)

Abingdon Market Place Bill Lords

Union Theological College Of The Presbyterian Church In Ireland Bill Lords
Greater London Council (Money) Bill (item number 1) (id 0d5921d9-bb1e-4247-a438-7ea2be96f111)

Oral Answers To Questions
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Oral Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 728deff5-2238-4196-bd0d-859fddf1f188)

Education And Science
School Meals (item number 1) (id 220ba4eb-2d7a-4f7d-8064-c375fe0d2737)
School Leaver Projects (European Community Grants) (item number 1) (id ee987d2c-9670-42d4-84d0-f2595ccc924f)
Adult Literary (item number 1) (id 5d880c2e-ccdf-4418-aeeb-51178ba40ad7)
Disabled Children (item number 1) (id 4e076f4b-3ef8-4a8a-b9a8-8b3397268db4)
Universities (Finance) (item number 1) (id 7a80fcb0-9678-4f46-9dfb-e4794db6411e)
Assessment Of Performance (item number 1) (id b30c5adf-204e-4e53-81b2-61e860a8742a)
Teacher Training Candidates (item number 1) (id a0046785-9ebc-4c94-8f94-be9a7822e77c)
University Entrants (item number 1) (id 44b6ac0e-7611-4764-a2f3-b582d30c235f)
Science Research Council (item number 1) (id 7b8f0a1f-5af7-4eeb-9a28-2e5ff8ae6520)
Unemployed Teachers (item number 1) (id 1271dca3-8fcf-41ad-8baa-4ebc7173126d)
Adult Literacy (item number 1) (id 054aa204-a1a0-4b24-a6c0-bd05fd6fdfbb)
Comprehensive Education (item number 1) (id 991b338a-1999-49ae-b657-b9e3c5f720b1)
Public Schools (item number 1) (id 74987c61-552b-4028-9f2e-dd56b29bd1b1)
Prime Minister (Engagements) (item number 1) (id b97504fd-ccdd-4127-91bd-c86a732dd57a)
Porthmadog (item number 1) (id 36462e6d-0542-4b02-9752-09ac7f1b76b5)
Prime Minister (Engagements) (item number 1) (id f9271d87-5540-42b6-b314-d24501f33b95)
Questions To Ministers, (Mr Speaker's Ruling) (item number 5) (id 2fb09ec6-ca17-4d3b-a2ae-62a2a691991f)
Rhodesia (item number 6) (id 33ad0c68-223f-4f12-b703-95bf6020c303)
Shops (Amendment) (item number 7) (id 2124e382-db0e-4564-a955-3cc40e10a9a5)

Orders Of The Day
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Wales Bill (item number 1) (id c7147085-d30c-4a31-8e2f-84fda66dd661)

Clause 61
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Power To Make New Provision As To Certain Bodies (item number 1) (id 69242504-202a-47fe-a77e-6a434683b339)

Schedule 7
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Public Bodies (item number 1) (id c06c816c-fca0-43cf-b58b-330ff9dfd283)

Clause 62
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Power Of Assembly To Assume Functions Of Certain Bodies (item number 1) (id 13d97118-688b-4c18-b904-b359e914f8ee)

Clause 64
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Countryside Commission For Wales (item number 1) (id 7ee7fe95-ab24-4bf6-9119-6b9faa1bf8d8)

Clause 65
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Water (item number 1) (id 6d002641-ec98-4185-bc89-22e85d2a0c0f)

Clause 66
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Planning (item number 1) (id c9ab0f95-2612-4a4d-80ea-2eeaf7f9e534)

Schedule 9
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Intervention By Secretary Of State In Planning Matters (item number 1) (id aa10b348-153d-40dd-898b-8bf52b231e98)

Clause 68
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Transfer Of Property (item number 1) (id 4c8d48bb-3f87-4894-a456-3ecab644eedc)

Clause 69
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Stamp Duty (item number 1) (id cab4b960-521b-4709-bea7-a61e48231eed)

Clause 72
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Determination Of Issues As To Assembly's Powers (item number 1) (id bb9637ce-0f9e-48a7-be94-9150c88e3722)
Business Of The House (item number 1) (id f6fc33ff-5cdd-4782-a1cd-654893278627)
Wales Bill (item number 1) (id 32e58de8-ed16-4fb8-aa22-953b4fb84a56)

Ways And Means
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Value Added Tax On Supplies By Welsh Assembly (item number 1) (id f767d5d0-d9f3-4164-9d2f-f9c8197d2cfa)
Thorn Electronics (Factory Closures) (item number 1) (id 697b14e1-c0b5-481b-a21b-b19331b57e25)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id b50eb7b0-118a-4e9a-b265-6927cd12b5d1)

Agriculture, Fisheries And Food
European Farm Price Review (item number 1) (id 939499f2-442d-4377-8e06-2cd15b2de1ce)
Potatoes (item number 1) (id 7609b50b-2294-4c65-8735-cee18e778461)

Wales
Hawarden Airport (item number 1) (id 2bdfb890-d15e-479a-ba88-484b97e0b30a)
Roads Policy (item number 1) (id 246a1883-680d-4d0f-9bf5-1ac09a96d7d4)

Energy
Oil And Gas (item number 1) (id 315615b1-671c-488c-8a8d-5e929074c994)
Gas Account Debts (Warrant Sales) (item number 1) (id 3cc394c9-5d0c-42a1-8536-87d44f197d25)

Education And Science
Comprehensive Schools (Sixth Forms) (item number 1) (id 02d4dca8-9a6f-4172-b9d6-db0686136fcc)
Fircroft College, Selly Oak (item number 1) (id 8b20d898-99ac-4b11-9650-cd68c649bc00)
School Transport (item number 1) (id 89c87f59-8dfc-4e90-92dc-d14a3243531e)
Burnham Committee (item number 1) (id 7b9eeb58-ac6c-44cc-ab36-b3773c11fd7a)
Education Standards (item number 1) (id bd5b9d76-f97d-4a0d-8f67-654a5a9d4d50)
Further Education Students (item number 1) (id 14ca9653-f2f5-4371-a9f5-7efc1cec71b1)
Schools (Governing Bodies) (item number 1) (id 3853f38d-5cc7-43a7-83d5-f50d1dfeba79)
Violent Children (item number 1) (id ffd7a70e-232e-46f5-8bf3-2046f3612c16)
Student Awards (Arts Courses) (item number 1) (id a36719a1-0c31-4575-a64b-c6888b75660a)
Comprehensive Schools (York Conference) (item number 1) (id 6305ee5e-2cdd-4e9a-ac65-18acfe91bcfe)
Comprehensive Reorganisation (item number 1) (id 4918b8b4-f841-4f53-ae3a-8e63cd990404)
Primary School Closures (item number 1) (id aa3febcf-a37d-4328-a4e5-32fdb5b20997)
Higher Education Students (Grants) (item number 1) (id 162bdea6-9373-4d28-9cd9-b8ed8ad7f13a)
Local Education Authorities (item number 1) (id 9633e88f-dbd7-4a94-9834-5d76b6cc5a94)
School Building Programmes (item number 1) (id 1ad98e55-63c0-47ad-a351-8d4725873ac5)
Truancy (item number 1) (id e7e93766-24ad-4ff6-8e5e-f0d1b12f890d)
Speech Defects (item number 1) (id 9805c9ab-bd39-41c9-982f-12c6e115296a)
Illiteracy (item number 1) (id a1ef6af1-5825-4eb0-8392-f773fac78b90)
Remedial Education (item number 1) (id ef5ef6c7-2a1d-45d7-bbef-d6edee56f2dc)
School Meals (item number 1) (id d05a47bc-9d2c-480d-87f4-a699f7cfda96)
Teachers (Retirement) (item number 1) (id 0105fa51-3809-44bc-8bef-843ba6e69db5)
Political Education (item number 1) (id aa001dc2-8ead-4374-8a61-675cbb320aea)
Mathematics Teaching (item number 1) (id 04533aea-645d-447f-96cb-8ac22d11bb12)
Head Teachers (Appointments) (item number 1) (id 716fbb7e-c136-499e-a8a7-be1ed10331b2)
University Teachers (Pay) (item number 1) (id 2001f4bb-d303-4e9c-ba5d-70955814be9e)
Examinations (item number 1) (id 2935c920-1b84-400c-b7ac-b5a132470d80)
Education Act 1976 (item number 1) (id 47309090-451c-4e30-8495-7d9da9695187)
Religious Education (item number 1) (id 061a0598-b0bd-44c8-a326-5afd5f4696ce)
Gifted Children (item number 1) (id 8fd28021-feb9-4446-a4df-49c2dd353719)
Arts Council (item number 1) (id a0a688e5-213d-4e32-9d10-a1bc9fe1428e)
Teachers (Employment) (item number 1) (id 9facd844-692c-4690-9d67-841dd230eb0f)
Social Priority Schools Allowance Scheme (item number 1) (id fa2c75ce-828e-469a-aa0e-c27f0505251e)
Public Schools (item number 1) (id 2a05a246-52f7-40d6-bc18-39bd44d706da)
Expenditure (item number 1) (id 3588c7c2-8f06-4257-b7b8-03fed5e6ac22)
Museum (Purchase Grants) (item number 1) (id b9d7c2b2-9c97-46f8-9619-45aa1592e02a)
School Population (item number 1) (id 6342e781-6a74-46a4-896b-8df7e9879e55)
School Meals (item number 1) (id 9049f896-fe91-4517-83f6-aa97e5a01966)

House Of Commons
Members' Salaries (item number 1) (id 3a4cc156-7f78-4f6b-9e10-2ead9f1345f3)

Social Services
National Insurance Contributions (item number 1) (id b802f24d-5f94-4d89-8060-e9cd881bdf91)
General Practitioners (Remuneration) (item number 1) (id 12479e17-7448-473f-b93d-c9c5fd15c5b3)
Infant Mortality (item number 1) (id 3eaead6e-235d-4d44-af61-2cc7060bf5df)
Unemployment Benefit (item number 1) (id 151b5fe6-e34a-46d9-aa9e-9e2e2e55e95b)
Pensions (item number 1) (id d82b5c7f-88ae-47af-a063-5acdb71ef8cc)
Supplementary Benefit (Expelled Schoolchildren) (item number 1) (id 11bf356f-034d-4031-8518-88763153a2e7)
Children's Spectacles (item number 1) (id 7e35a88a-5daf-46c7-80bd-699af9cede69)
Means Tests (item number 1) (id 4e308ade-a308-4e59-9f64-fdfd1fe64348)
Fertility Drugs (item number 1) (id e8554ad1-13de-43b6-8441-1eb0e99fd8a1)
Disabled Persons (Equipment Evaluation) (item number 1) (id 738cf00c-5612-4828-855a-c7996c25f865)
Mentally Handicapped Persons (item number 1) (id f9aba673-0ca7-4122-a6fb-f1c434ce1ec9)
Booth Hall Hospital, Manchester (item number 1) (id e771dcc0-6720-4418-82bc-3792b85eaacd)
Disabled Married Women (Benefits) (item number 1) (id 554923ba-daf4-43b5-bb63-a1dae92eb836)
Electro-Convulsive Therapy (item number 1) (id 9a6df94d-298d-4d23-a40b-deaca83252ec)
Psychosurgery And Electro-Convulsive Therapy (item number 1) (id 5ff7987b-672c-4f5a-b701-6d92a59ecc2e)
Mental Patients (Compulsory Treatment) (item number 1) (id 11c2cef2-2c89-4e66-aebf-fa018190e8bb)
Psychosurgery (item number 1) (id 5a5ff70e-a687-4010-b744-c00dd0c93a42)
Disabled Ex-Service Men (Pensions) (item number 1) (id 084c921b-1faa-4149-8764-b88322e3d75b)

Industry
Post Office Vehicles (Accidents) (item number 1) (id e9d37274-0dcf-428c-8184-5b306f92ceac)
Post Office Engineers (Dispute) (item number 1) (id 75e062c5-522b-44c1-84a6-52751454a7e4)
Departmental Organisations (item number 1) (id df97f8ab-0b0e-425e-9870-29a9627868f2)
Footwear (Assistance) (item number 1) (id b6816085-aa03-4be7-9910-6635aa1b3055)
Textiles (item number 1) (id d10ddbc7-16f9-4195-b1de-500fc09cd148)
Regional Development Fund (item number 1) (id 2aca1cf1-1f4a-48b9-874c-283848c5818b)

Trade
Zambia (item number 1) (id f6fda6d2-fe52-4768-87ef-ca32ddd41704)
Common Fund (item number 1) (id 0ada1d0f-c33f-4e07-bd19-94a30c7cbb55)
Prime Minister (Engagements) (item number 1) (id cb5c2699-0d1c-48e9-aa5b-7e7fa953dd30)
Tuc (item number 1) (id f3462854-d0e1-4193-87d9-930f2d998ab9)
Government Legislation (item number 1) (id e6097ba1-7b88-4a11-8dd0-37493c7a947e)
Northampton (item number 1) (id 18cbc68e-c0eb-4300-bb5c-ffaf7fa6be58)
New Invention (item number 1) (id 402b627a-3a14-4df3-afaf-e74cec1a8169)
Strasbourg (item number 1) (id 464b3c7b-336e-47d6-9c42-b373c63add89)
Secretary Of State For Employment (item number 1) (id 04f1ffa2-ec70-405a-b6a5-0ece537b47f6)
Scotland (item number 1) (id 81545721-5d10-4edb-90b2-ce818e8b0e4f)
Derbyshire (item number 1) (id e26acfc9-bb05-40e0-ac12-76af62b07115)
Lisbon (item number 1) (id 671d68b4-a862-4875-8098-af0c95ca0385)
Hessle (item number 1) (id 63e3e0c8-16f8-45ac-9cae-d6e044693bd6)
Labour And Trade Union Movement (item number 1) (id 7abbde52-a3ef-4532-87dd-1a8fedbd6779)
Cbi (item number 1) (id 3f212ef4-8941-4fcf-91e6-32c116937e25)
Political Parties (Ireland) (item number 1) (id 7128f13d-f3bd-4b36-9d73-bbfde59058fe)
African Countries (item number 1) (id 822d4819-9ec6-48d1-909f-98770d0651a4)
"Horse And Hound" (item number 1) (id 6c1bf1b8-2239-4ca4-9203-7f872407a59c)
Birkenhead (item number 1) (id be6ef8f2-9491-412c-8a5d-7047f78a47d2)

Scotland
Tweed And Eye Fishings (Protection Orders) (item number 1) (id 57fde967-8bf2-47b3-8a19-8e6b40eb74f4)
Luton (item number 1) (id 35393ded-1185-4dfa-ae3b-ddd8838895f0)

Northern Ireland
Probation Service (item number 1) (id 90b307a1-4d45-40ba-87a1-c3dc4ec18fd7)

Employment
Wool Carding Machines (item number 1) (id 4cb94d57-f956-4da2-8900-2e9965d32da3)
Unemployed Persons (item number 1) (id 813de114-7720-43c7-820e-76eca8565c88)
Apprenticeship Schemes (item number 1) (id 2a0933b0-3507-44d9-96c0-045aff59b205)
Health And Safety (item number 1) (id 5c8839ac-391f-4f92-b96f-af07b6557175)
Females (item number 1) (id d53c9d22-bf30-47d8-ae9f-c076c5399244)
Thanet (item number 1) (id d3913199-3213-4f8f-a415-220dc2c16829)
Job Release (item number 1) (id 21041675-75d8-4ce9-814c-6d0d67b0d7d7)
Short-Time Work (Compensation) (item number 1) (id 3dd32896-9aa7-4da1-a1c7-104b5e2e3b53)

Overseas Development
Aid (item number 1) (id ff687000-bdc9-43fe-a2a0-3f25ed7b9cb6)

Transport
Motorways (Repairs) (item number 1) (id c7ae2bdc-7c9f-4633-8fab-d17dea197eb4)
Driver And Vehicle Licensing Centre (item number 1) (id 9332adc6-bfbe-4025-903e-2416266b64ff)
Vehicle Registration Document Error (item number 1) (id b2a693ce-0e35-43cc-9d89-b3f1ac172f94)

Environment
East Midlands (Review Document) (item number 1) (id 961b5dca-15a2-44b3-a760-dadf1dfa55b0)
Enforcement Notices (Appeals) (item number 1) (id 6c2b0f3d-fb13-4d9b-aa5e-8a56ff53f8b7)
Water Rates (item number 1) (id 307b012b-a34e-43df-9389-53a2c34f937c)

National Finance
Child Allowances (Children Overseas) (item number 1) (id 065551fd-aa5b-4059-a084-e2e1a425f7d3)
Income Tax Debts (Warrant Sales) (item number 1) (id d554b66e-da71-40ac-b3b6-42c01a5b7180)
Tax Thresholds (item number 1) (id 928f5186-f62a-49df-ad11-175d78eefa47)
Living Standards (item number 1) (id 6dc3b468-2246-4cce-a7da-cbd78bbc4155)
Capital Allowances (Buildings) (item number 1) (id acf4fa7c-f27b-4826-863f-892fcebe2c05)
Expenditure (item number 1) (id 0df38514-5e0a-46c8-8f85-a3207ae0876b)
International Monetary Fund (item number 1) (id 4770b669-bca8-41d9-8b3c-5c241d7b45a5)
Personal Incomes (item number 1) (id 9fa5f534-76cd-41be-99ba-7bab0d24a365)
Capital Transfer Tax (item number 1) (id 4631c360-f19e-49b2-970c-3bc98efd55ad)
Pay Policy (item number 1) (id b72014ca-9543-47b6-9ce9-cfe7e9ecbbd6)
Income Tax (item number 1) (id 691ab701-87a9-46c1-8907-77da08ca1aeb)

Foreign And Commonwealth Affairs
Diplomats' Children (School Fees) (item number 1) (id 0a46bc42-c663-4248-aaf2-66267db0d72d)
Cyprus (item number 1) (id 2cc1d08e-c0d6-4430-bba1-43522cc57591)
Hong Kong (item number 1) (id 79243d44-3b8e-4dab-a607-c7ed037dc9ba)
Disarmament (United Nations Special Session) (item number 1) (id e8d8cc0b-3a56-4de7-b705-1eaabf74e812)
Photocopying Charges (item number 1) (id af607251-30d0-45b3-866a-6dc30519aeb7)
Director Of Public Prosecutions (item number 1) (id 67bb38f0-e0a4-42e2-a834-24a215d97f7d)

Defence
Aircraft Crash (Thetford) (item number 1) (id 43c7a2a6-428a-49bd-aded-ff126517e70a)
Armed Forces (Mileage Allowance) (item number 1) (id 5be823ec-9b41-4d39-b720-834542d1c779)
Rapier Missile System (item number 1) (id a3abf911-ac72-40aa-bcd3-b4ca4dd31bf0)
Jaguar Aircraft (Baor) (item number 1) (id d9a2e769-b259-4b3f-ba33-04cc5e68843e)
Disturbance Allowance (item number 1) (id e05ff138-6665-40ec-a064-1384bbec0fde)
Service And Civilian Personnel (Pay And Allowances) (item number 1) (id e2f77bb8-83fa-4e09-90e6-b2e8919b21b2)
Expenditure (item number 1) (id b06ebe3c-f00a-4efc-96a4-1bcffc4a8626)
Baor (item number 1) (id cf54d296-5731-4d3d-a023-693dab2477d4)
Naval Personnel (item number 1) (id dc59625a-4d68-439f-8824-78de1680a06a)
Service Personnel (Housing Possession) (item number 1) (id 01e70997-a312-48d6-a3f0-e9edfa4c76fa)
Baggage And Furniture Allowances (item number 1) (id 8157e4f7-2df0-42c7-9f7d-7b146c5e0a57)
Service Families (Education And Health Facilities) (item number 1) (id 70157c97-1e1c-4804-8e78-848e42a8707f)

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