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Commons Hansard for 1 August 1978 (Volume 955)

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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 69dd7aa8-66f0-4dbb-b1d9-98152db5c56c)
Prayers (item number 2) (id e9ec4a77-cc61-4c04-91ec-67b5288c5145)
Sittings Of The House (item number 5) (id 9bafc4a5-46c6-41fe-8dfb-e29d9e377730)
Private Bills Lords (Suspension) (item number 7) (id 22e64857-c9e6-4c3e-9676-2df71af2e60f)
Employment (London) (item number 9) (id ccf6e053-0d4c-4354-8fdb-a735cebc7057)
Education (Scotland) (item number 10) (id 65f811da-6365-49d1-a1ed-1e810f1b8984)
Japanese Lorry Imports (item number 11) (id c5f91816-dc5c-4701-85cb-b406e403a388)
Inland Waterways (item number 12) (id 64d31f06-9df9-4181-af02-53e4a4ee736a)
Advisory, Conciliation And Arbitration Service (item number 13) (id 23949b19-281a-4545-aee6-87e7c68bdc49)
Trade Restrictions (item number 14) (id cd89b07f-97ef-4aa9-9f60-16245623e504)
Lead Pollution (item number 15) (id 8d4eed29-c3e3-41ed-8b8f-e59074ea6848)
Specialist Musical Education (item number 16) (id c859886e-598c-41a6-a536-4cb4f1e4962f)
Taxi Fares (item number 17) (id 0e5a0969-d3f0-41e3-b17b-5536b119d96d)
Broadcasting (item number 18) (id bd95b719-17a1-41f4-8a1d-7a7446d76ef0)
Nursery Education (item number 19) (id 57256be3-499c-4ba5-93ec-c0db583766e2)
Transport Supplementary Grants (item number 20) (id 3e8f4da8-a318-48b6-a2da-26971f2fdfaf)
Nationalised Industries (Accounting Practice) (item number 21) (id 3312a4c0-0f4a-4524-807b-e079c6836aac)
Industry Act Assistance (item number 22) (id 07a3e899-29e0-43b6-b265-4f03e942c325)
National Health Service (Essex) (item number 23) (id cb1ae38f-6765-47df-a2ac-cd1f516b45e7)
Charity Commission (item number 24) (id d1df2c28-fadf-4413-8e0e-39d536c96215)
Computer Macrosystems (item number 25) (id d370947e-c886-4c48-9ce1-2939998cebce)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id c0355740-0006-40f1-b1eb-7297265bc85a)
Prime Minister (Engagements) (item number 2) (id c11bfcf3-2d50-49a3-bb4f-866f05ebf0e6)

Home Department

Shoplifting (item number 1) (id a54f4964-380a-40aa-b390-8fb7dc9f1e2e)
Illegal Immigrants (Detention) (item number 1) (id 20471d8b-0e5e-4aab-90f3-4cd6f1ef4e5b)
Entry Refusals (item number 1) (id a797f4e3-7f48-4e69-91a5-22bd4c2ead4a)
Lambeth Conference Visitors (item number 1) (id f04bac92-0223-4477-b573-9d9d7f782fff)
Mr Chacon Herrero (item number 1) (id 58ad3440-8cb5-47f9-a068-d565f3490282)
Mr Sun Myung Moon (item number 1) (id d79228d8-9ba8-47a7-bc27-9b29078e3842)
Mentally Disturbed Offenders (Re-Convictions) (item number 1) (id 84867c36-5511-4b41-9dd5-47b089633557)
Police Officers (Medals) (item number 1) (id 9b0c8f00-2f42-4d9b-8668-6691dfa3fa03)
Private Security Organisations (item number 1) (id e7de7ed1-bc36-40ef-a0f3-77eccf821667)
Equal Opportunities Commission (item number 1) (id ad3196fe-d636-435a-b300-81730a23d07f)
Immigrants (item number 1) (id c641a488-8aed-467d-84cf-8f4044fc4529)
European Assembly Election (Candidates' Deposits) (item number 1) (id cddaa45d-f374-423b-bb55-539021ea353f)
Thefts (Airports) (item number 1) (id 2046c65c-c81d-442b-b7b9-7cfcbbc9f427)
Work Permit Renewals (item number 1) (id e26c7e1a-146e-4cf6-b03c-ac5c46ca8c44)
Private Security Organisations (Custody And Detention Powers) (item number 1) (id 53f3e9d2-719f-43ca-93e9-d4ad28e4baa4)
Immigrants (Trial Juries) (item number 1) (id e6ca3989-4425-4902-aa6c-0a5cba64c279)
Illegal Immigrant Suspects (Detention) (item number 1) (id 593c7fb5-9597-4ee2-beab-9d1f0a899084)
Official Secrets Act (item number 1) (id 3c45c6b0-dd92-430e-bdc4-d1a9ab6f0ebf)
Open Government (item number 1) (id cf899a6b-ef50-4f55-80ac-f244c419aa46)
Eddie Butler And Hugh Doherty (item number 1) (id 2d9f6bae-e10d-4283-8d22-edb19a1fc7e9)
Mrs Ananther (item number 1) (id 1e07ffd4-f479-4ef8-9e09-483c25123e00)
Mrs Iris Mills (item number 1) (id 98adcdf1-7a1d-4dc6-b03d-566e34ef719f)

Employment

Job Creation (item number 1) (id 353ea1ad-8624-4eb9-b8e8-772d40e96855)
Unemployment (London) (item number 1) (id 7756ede0-551d-4975-8f03-ec71de78904c)
Employed Persons (item number 1) (id f4af62db-bf8d-420f-ae97-0abbd6a190fd)
European Community (Unemployment Levels) (item number 1) (id 0afb1b4b-3a7a-4fb7-8c3b-7ba08bc29341)
Wages (Regional Differentials) (item number 1) (id 60f20445-48a6-4819-aa1d-2bebe76630e4)
Job Opportunities (item number 1) (id 900d319e-84db-4162-8b32-81e2890e3e24)
School Leavers (Southend) (item number 1) (id 283dbf93-fdf6-4631-b2ad-ea489e47c17a)
Average Earnings (item number 1) (id 142d0095-6ade-4975-8337-9250a329040e)
Over-Sixties (item number 1) (id 2b337ddf-e94c-495d-9a5f-12f92514f661)
Textile Industry (item number 1) (id 5070c9b9-7ac2-477d-9463-d683a779d52d)
Unemployment Trend (item number 1) (id 0af97c33-1b50-4a49-8a75-ec79358501e4)
Adult Employment Subsidy (item number 1) (id 53bc05fc-351e-46d6-a8be-cc76c27871cb)
Working Week (item number 1) (id 225d5ac1-d0e0-4761-b06f-c720a53755b9)
Youth Employment (item number 1) (id 9eb13d19-7b17-4746-8401-cae13f600e2b)
Small Firms (Employment Protection Legislation) (item number 1) (id fb5a1af8-d4ea-4e1b-a918-1a144fd8dbd0)
Coventry (item number 1) (id 87897d5b-c357-41aa-a86c-79361677321a)
Microelectronic Industry (item number 1) (id 963a3e7d-058e-452e-bde4-d44063a3cec1)
Temporary Employment Scheme (item number 1) (id b272d40b-e375-4a3b-b29f-a470845326b2)
Job Availability (item number 1) (id 15c06bf3-8820-4663-9b50-00a6c26f32f5)
South-West England (item number 1) (id 6c7804e5-f535-49e4-83e3-7e6289b039b0)
Seel House Press, Liverpool (item number 1) (id 9e83970a-d5ab-4237-a1f0-d19e51a55ccd)
Bedfordshire (item number 1) (id ea516b1c-324b-46b5-bcfc-2814b3a03e20)
Distant Islands Allowances (item number 1) (id 3a82d81a-0983-4731-a46a-67f9cf75c0a1)
Railway Industry Advisory Committee (item number 1) (id 05f0b90c-a384-4fd8-931d-29bd0e9d667b)
Blackpool (item number 1) (id 084da225-af63-49b6-bf0e-dbeede72cbe0)
Work Permits (item number 1) (id 46d2447f-f2a3-4343-9525-edfbe650e5aa)
Canvey Island (Hazardous Industrial Activities) (item number 1) (id 3fca0daa-e51a-4c68-93d0-852e8058f3b9)
Fair Employment Agency (item number 1) (id c63c916c-9882-4cd5-a8cb-b6ce4f3c7a20)
Youth Opportunities And Special Temporary Employment Programmes (item number 1) (id 8e7d347a-9aaa-41f0-ba13-9f4e9af272b0)

National Finance

Double Taxation Agreement(Canada) (item number 1) (id 8b1773d7-d6e7-48e7-adbf-d209b01bf86a)
Petroleum Revenue Tax (item number 1) (id 0b283907-0ec0-4daa-b377-49f7f301c3cd)
Government Stocks And Shares (Interest) (item number 1) (id f354fc84-8749-48c3-b2e3-83ec994ce483)
Retired Men (Tax Allowances) (item number 1) (id 1a9095d0-508f-4f96-ac16-51a8153825a0)
Gross Domestic Product (item number 1) (id bf67fe23-d25c-491b-a536-d0d18f620d16)
Value Added Tax (item number 1) (id 0891cfda-acb2-426f-b6e4-08095d6333b1)
National Debt (item number 1) (id 09306e8e-2aeb-4bc4-81ff-d11775665860)
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (item number 1) (id 91f7ee95-1ba8-4a08-8cb6-7dc254a91db0)
Retail Price Index (item number 1) (id f27f3dca-6ca2-4882-83a1-94d1e64d4280)
European Community (item number 1) (id bf48254e-a78b-4f49-9de9-ca42fe6ed82f)
Productivity (item number 1) (id 71aaedeb-22e3-48a1-8d76-460f52fd59f1)
Taxation (item number 1) (id 7b474442-924b-4647-80f8-03435b786548)
Cash Limits (item number 1) (id ab99f436-d51b-4932-a990-71f8ea38a7b9)
Schedule D Tax (item number 1) (id df07206b-4f22-46b2-82bf-f1ca199d069e)
Paye (Insolvent Businesses) (item number 1) (id 886c79d3-a219-41a3-97e6-f38c20796115)
Insolvent Income Surcharge (item number 1) (id 93762b70-aee8-43d0-ae91-a419e44a0d59)
Nationalised Industries (item number 1) (id 64b9c8a5-4f8d-4b05-9214-e3004d274fc1)
Government Services (Northern Ireland) (item number 1) (id 6d651980-cd73-43e6-a11d-741f474c4e89)
European Community (item number 1) (id 6c95265c-0c8a-4627-954d-9c5636e4f365)
Tuc And Cbi (item number 1) (id cfec3da1-c25c-4ba9-bff0-bb441e183233)
Edinburgh (item number 1) (id 57573e25-091f-4699-8cc7-93575d820d3c)
Boscombe (item number 1) (id a0c5932f-c64c-46fa-9686-76721491027d)
Mentally Handicapped Persons (Education And Training) (item number 1) (id 88ece069-b6d8-4edf-8f0c-d071cf5e07d3)
Equipment Purchases (Departmental Policy) (item number 1) (id 92318be3-4ebe-4f2d-b384-d7eeacc5da28)
Royal Commission On The Distribution Of Income And Wealth (item number 1) (id 22d233bc-2919-43c6-97f7-6b26cd367919)

Social Services

Medicines (Safety) (item number 1) (id ecae315f-b9fe-44e5-bccb-183a4338d4be)
Unemployment Benefit (Retired Miners) (item number 1) (id 47b04244-debd-484c-9424-261aa15dbf48)
War Pensions (item number 1) (id e9972124-06cf-413d-bade-fd165954c498)
Hospitals (Admissions) (item number 1) (id 031c371f-7af9-412b-9f50-70239fbacc3e)
Mentally Handicapped Persons (Education) (item number 1) (id fa4132fe-b7bb-4539-b701-f7d050dee5b6)
Drugs (Destruction) (item number 1) (id 45ce0a25-5d19-4268-b858-31b402fabbe5)
Pharmaceutical Products (Sale) (item number 1) (id cdbb45bf-7833-4c57-ac68-60ebbd34f4da)
Pensions (Sri Lanka Nationals) (item number 1) (id e1e815ca-f031-49eb-9e85-9c967988d8db)
War Pensioners (Cars) (item number 1) (id 74ee71b3-e39e-4199-abb7-d0b9f0ea07fe)
Supplementary Benefits Commission (Circulars) (item number 1) (id 85357d9e-17f5-4a43-8c5f-9aaaf09d177c)
School Dental Service (item number 1) (id 66e67342-6ea1-4478-8c43-167887e77b79)
Chorley Hospital (Casualty Service) (item number 1) (id 4df14d11-db74-4649-a864-21f3e00b8a1e)
Caldy Manor Heart Hospital (item number 1) (id 95787d65-ceab-4df9-9c72-ce7d7c0e29dd)
Family Incomes (item number 1) (id c2c83c6b-5abe-4192-a33f-4c290d983588)
Benefits (Unemployed Persons) (item number 1) (id 23980970-e0f3-49e6-94fe-f68359755c67)
Dentists (Manchester) (item number 1) (id 0de7f5ac-69a5-447f-84b2-b5ab6480fe7e)
Invalid Care Allowance (item number 1) (id 80ef69e8-a99a-456d-8f5a-7b68c0cc4daa)
Genetically Transmitted Diseases (item number 1) (id 2282875f-5f1e-4ff5-b3ec-560dc36ba3c3)
Benefit Recipients (Rent Payments) (item number 1) (id f296014a-3ebe-403a-a0a5-2d601764ebf2)
Clothing Allowance (Disabled Persons) (item number 1) (id 6bc05888-a493-4bf8-ad75-873c05b22378)
Residential Accommodation And Day-Care Facilities (item number 1) (id 3e264cf5-74cf-454b-8d87-7a73e2fb38d1)
National Insurance Contributions (Self-Employed Persons) (item number 1) (id 1ffdac8c-a2c5-41c8-8351-82eefa444665)
Illegitimate Births (Young Persons) (item number 1) (id 721953c7-0922-4d35-9169-8f1012f0c4d1)
Salmonellosis (Cheshire) (item number 1) (id b9c3c886-8ef1-44f3-8c77-6bd5be707b3e)
Venereal Diseases (Young Persons) (item number 1) (id 2c47f854-bbc6-46bd-afa7-31ec7000120f)
Abortions (Young Persons) (item number 1) (id 3e426f4a-1c43-4db1-b819-6862623b6547)
War Widows' Pensions (Withdrawals) (item number 1) (id 46008cd1-db62-4390-a075-e366e444fd24)
Post-Operative Infection (item number 1) (id b61f830d-ba4b-402f-a3d3-ddbf67fa4564)
National Insurance Fund (Investment) (item number 1) (id af70ad9d-f591-4f6c-acd0-0e3ddede2834)
Poor Persons (item number 1) (id 1dfa69ad-bcce-4ee2-b22e-5f4bc57e002f)
Capital Projects (item number 1) (id 4e39ad65-0b3c-457a-a69d-5b00d8b6c47a)
Personal Incomes (item number 1) (id 90ebf7f9-c84b-462e-9f81-3158c49dd6e1)
Hospitals (House Officer Posts) (item number 1) (id 8743340e-0a7c-4509-b452-997c690ba0ba)
Marginal Tax Rates (item number 1) (id 2f5239b4-ecfa-48b1-8890-702247440a76)

Environment

Construction Industry (item number 1) (id d997951a-17f3-40fe-bcce-2e12545e2c47)
Weather Damage (Compensation) (item number 1) (id fe5818ba-4bb5-4a36-acf9-15b3982686ce)
Homes Insulation Act (item number 1) (id 49dd56c7-9178-4f2d-904b-0357c15aee57)
New Town Development Corporations (Finance) (item number 1) (id 4d313dbd-f901-4e38-974f-7d3e3eef08eb)
Rentcharges Act (item number 1) (id ccb0bc14-841e-4d0b-a0b4-02786c6c2bb2)
Housing (Homeless Persons) Act (item number 1) (id 1ca310cd-612c-4ab0-a74a-ecc1cb4b00b0)
Improvement Grants (Disabled Persons) (item number 1) (id c60b3eae-11f3-4647-8118-990d40f1026c)
Rate Rebates (item number 1) (id 82f11145-8667-479d-8182-0f9b49f5fe59)
Bed-And-Breakfast Establishments (item number 1) (id b03cd846-2d77-4ef2-87d9-88c5b4213003)
Homeless Persons (Council Accommodation) (item number 1) (id dfe83a9c-a83e-47ca-9243-ad7f519a9189)
Rate Support Grant (item number 1) (id 65b1575a-b87f-43fb-82d1-227baf33cb80)
Rates (item number 1) (id 0fe1fd12-f66d-4bd3-b7f3-3fa5b11b3e26)
Water Services (Revenue) (item number 1) (id f2c99ff6-7a7e-4981-86a3-2ccefcbfacab)
Derelict Land (Cheshire) (item number 1) (id f45d1494-6606-4089-868f-4833610bde36)
West Midlands Economic Planning Council (item number 1) (id 93422619-2be9-4e84-9666-9c217c383852)
Council Housing (Alnwick) (item number 1) (id 8d024fa6-433b-4a3a-a9f8-79f5f12b8091)
Rate Yields (item number 1) (id baee1cab-6970-4461-b679-1d0c7b0e848c)
Directorate Of Ancient Monuments (item number 1) (id bc422ff0-1cb8-4f2e-a9d2-c39366d09403)
Steel Works (Closures) (item number 1) (id 57d016d4-5b87-425b-bb2b-f8ea81370148)
High-Rise Flats (Fire Extinguishers) (item number 1) (id e53474ab-8f8c-457b-b888-b15bb8cb7990)
High-Rise Flats (Children) (item number 1) (id 5b13fcf6-3db5-498f-ad1d-7763b30d94f0)
Urban Programme (item number 1) (id 1174de60-3ac2-456c-9db6-e5623a63eed1)
Derelict Land (Calderdale) (item number 1) (id a99d86c9-68f4-491a-9118-87606f375816)
Building Control (item number 1) (id dcf6e622-2e3c-4bba-b1d2-23e8ef7e63d0)
Coast Protection Work (Northumberland) (item number 1) (id f9f113d8-76ae-4df0-8a95-dc79a59be80a)
Historic Buildings (Grants) (item number 1) (id 255c4297-e4b7-4d2b-8369-b1805b5a63b3)
Fladbury Local District Plan (Inquiry) (item number 1) (id 091ad931-8926-403a-8720-84e87cef7d65)
Water Supply And Sewerage Charges (Cheshire) (item number 1) (id b3216a46-7701-4bc1-8cc0-3032c1fbb19f)
Tudor Buildings (Moats) (item number 1) (id 1f05a1a4-336f-414a-862e-863a34add5d3)

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