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Commons Hansard for 2 April 1979 (Volume 965)

From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated 12 May 2018 at 3.27pm.

Commons Chamber

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

House Of Commons (item number 1) (id 4cb7a7b9-9a05-4730-a668-d02522b5af2f)
Prayers (item number 2) (id b5800f17-6aba-4148-a24b-cde8898a47be)
Mr Airey Neave (Tributes) (item number 3) (id 2b8bf1c9-fb1d-49b5-8bcb-7c686d4e57b1)
Palace Of Westminster (Security) (item number 6) (id 3cb34848-0146-492d-8201-eb2cadcdabf7)
Security (item number 7) (id 85ce059b-85c7-4f6d-aaa6-53ec76152786)
Arbitration Bill Lords (item number 12) (id f87e6282-fee4-49c4-be59-fa46f47b8c19)
Crown Agents Bill (item number 13) (id 4d74ad16-1499-4d8d-acf9-be3d4499523c)
Telephone Tapping (item number 16) (id 9eb76b0d-6798-4a1a-a8fa-865c67e1903e)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 7789ebe7-7337-4632-9000-f4513fad92b5)

Scotland

White Fish Authority (Vessel Grants) (item number 1) (id 3c5a402f-6478-4e98-8f1b-9b0aacf489ee)
Art Teachers (Qualifications) (item number 1) (id fbfc1396-fbd6-4a85-b221-2dc8e404f827)
Quangos (item number 1) (id 35a7f782-de65-4210-93a8-35a2bbe6c13f)
Roads And Transport (Expenditure) (item number 1) (id baf8584d-fea6-455d-9df1-437fe410cca2)
Rents (item number 1) (id 7bdd3b17-89ae-454e-8191-d3fc9d988a9f)
Electricity Generating Capacity (item number 1) (id 7cd48e6d-874b-4050-b808-8948b554101e)
Roads (item number 1) (id be3b780c-eeec-4a5a-ab94-3a5ae1aa8b6c)
Community Land (item number 1) (id fd118df9-7467-41c7-9294-54142223ab2a)
Rent Rebates (item number 1) (id fe681485-7a40-4ce9-bb5f-02a4aff282d2)
Bus Fares (item number 1) (id d08e9e90-e366-43a1-9aa6-10127f24905f)
Housing (Public Sector Sales) (item number 1) (id 89e2b351-c2ee-4d20-92ff-30842e674106)
Building Society Loans (item number 1) (id 76340dae-7872-4aeb-a9f9-e7ec27016b3b)
House Purchase And Improvement Loans (item number 1) (id 0f01dcec-c9c5-4914-b816-60ea4fd740eb)
Unemployment (item number 1) (id 93e57886-37b1-4192-8aee-becedf2825a3)
Housing Expenditure (item number 1) (id fd3b0507-a121-4572-a487-2b50b6e7fd05)
New Towns (Housing) (item number 1) (id ef267ace-9bc2-4505-b9c7-0688318b13d2)
Employment (item number 1) (id 29f2a1b3-5ed7-402f-b4c5-28e7818f1e5b)
Housing Revenue Accounts (item number 1) (id 2749b7b5-acfe-406c-9422-4ab05226da17)
European Funds (item number 1) (id 34a4f841-1c94-4f8d-928a-ec2d9b39d812)
Owner-Occupation (item number 1) (id ac4df58f-4d5b-4e25-a85e-3c94edd99516)
Scottish Development Agency (item number 1) (id 49e2f52b-df53-48eb-a337-58d888d3c94e)
Regional Assistance (item number 1) (id 48a8a5c1-fa6a-47f2-8aa6-97a6abec2884)
Highlands And Islands Development Board (item number 1) (id 3d240f58-8f45-40f7-bb8d-79cd2d8eaef7)
Rate Support Grant (item number 1) (id bceadf99-0b50-41a8-abb8-d7e4a268dd64)
Local Government Expenditure (item number 1) (id 622172de-e533-4260-be56-e9d9e0c3a384)
Hospital Waiting Lists (item number 1) (id f2ac023b-1331-4276-9259-3c0fd31ee2d9)
Abortion (item number 1) (id b0011af3-e9da-482f-a6b2-29bbe60eb95f)
Secondary Schoolchildren (item number 1) (id 982866e5-c109-4892-8702-2b74360739e4)
Hospital Beds (item number 1) (id d6257bde-649c-4e69-b2e7-9a1919050075)
National Health Service (Finance) (item number 1) (id f93c280e-f3ca-4d60-8259-ba99f5add7f8)
Housing Subsidies (item number 1) (id 683c6bee-a6f3-43a2-8cc1-1eb9b2a5c7f2)
School Leavers (Certificate Of Education) (item number 1) (id df648036-a852-4f3f-8394-56a7018fe6f9)
Rates (item number 1) (id 397229ee-7c26-4e28-b32a-34ec0ed5cf4e)
Nursery Education (item number 1) (id ba92bca9-5b5d-4c59-8bcd-740acbb09e8c)
Crime (Detection Rate) (item number 1) (id e5bd23a7-cb1b-4523-b5eb-82f6424e7bfb)
Scottish Transport Group (item number 1) (id 4c13eacc-a80f-479d-8c67-3671ba8d5235)
Legal Aid (item number 1) (id b1335b87-3a0d-4941-972c-f3ca957ca053)
Environmental Services (Expenditure) (item number 1) (id 6c04bbd7-14e6-4d5f-8449-5fb043253fe3)
Police (item number 1) (id cd5e27b8-2424-40a4-97e8-7d46c68706a1)
Fishing Vessels (Grants And Loans) (item number 1) (id ccaea8ab-cf37-4020-b29e-b43af1980548)
Teachers (item number 1) (id 3e57da04-690d-4bc2-b601-830c1f0e0ba7)
Administration Of Justice (item number 1) (id e6896629-e2bd-476b-84a0-0acceca3cd13)
Criminal Statistics (item number 1) (id f17cbc34-469c-4499-b39d-97a40d558c65)
Rate Fund Services (Expenditure) (item number 1) (id f9b3fc9e-7af1-4282-895b-6389d6f4ea71)
Pupil-Teacher Ratios (item number 1) (id 7b33c918-f021-40c9-914b-7fb47a897f49)

Industry

British Leyland (Corporate Plan) (item number 1) (id 087b7924-4e65-49f1-af90-633d93da27dd)
Industry Act Assistance (item number 1) (id 057219c2-5342-46d3-b1d5-d9a2b2af7b95)
Departmental Scientists (item number 1) (id e69ec581-2968-4d49-a338-0bff5d3a39c3)
British Shipbuilders (item number 1) (id f53c5363-28fe-4aea-94bf-6f093509e6eb)
British Leyland (item number 1) (id b3bc7a4d-0cf9-4b9c-820c-c500a46db777)
East Midlands (item number 1) (id 8387ebc0-f151-4942-ad36-0d55f8d94358)
British Steel Corporation (item number 1) (id 0ab163a7-d7f6-41c0-9f3c-1ac340d29d33)
Hs146 (item number 1) (id a7db4c79-30a0-4fba-be75-126d70e4c098)
Fork-Lifts (item number 1) (id d79b5f38-25da-4983-96f0-66291d929f69)
Secretary Of State For Industry (Visit To China) (item number 1) (id 2a9cbc9b-05f4-4a1c-ba30-6f650fd101c9)
Foundry Industry (item number 1) (id 3100ae47-605c-4928-85e5-5a745f96b33c)
British Council Of Productivity Associations (item number 1) (id e6aa5e84-ffd8-468c-b229-1119b8f034c0)
Special Steels (item number 1) (id 7c555087-aed9-4bcd-9b7f-0dafa52a24da)
Cable And Wireless Limited (item number 1) (id 5c0cc446-450e-4481-8d20-5acee741ec98)
Profitability (item number 1) (id 668b5c7a-0329-40e9-922d-0ee71bc555a6)
Post Office (item number 1) (id 0c20a57c-3bc4-4c11-96d5-35845d483807)
Commissioner D'avignon (item number 1) (id 726cd591-e11b-4ffa-a28f-2ca33beed4ff)
Northern Region (item number 1) (id 166f20ab-71a7-4854-b2b2-7d105f13e9fd)
Teesside Travel-To-Work Area (item number 1) (id 056636f3-842e-4f3d-bbcf-c4071fac029e)
Scunthorpe (item number 1) (id 4d067ff5-2cfa-44f7-9352-9463b66e7d54)
Tyres (item number 1) (id 78b2c9bc-82ec-433e-b686-ab0f97e4638e)
National Enterprise Board (item number 1) (id c623b9ea-1db5-40c4-9f9d-c5c858deebd6)
Microelectronics (item number 1) (id 8f9f4774-034d-4263-9baf-6c88afaa6a0d)
European Community (Grants And Loans) (item number 1) (id 823f6198-592e-4796-b8ff-8f8a0eb23536)
Industry Act Assistance (Aberdeen) (item number 1) (id 08a1beee-3ba8-47bc-a448-669c36ebd12a)
Advanced Computer Technology Project (item number 1) (id 4b82962e-77da-4a9d-8c6a-49f71e632e2d)
Cornwall Development Area (item number 1) (id f77b5fb3-bb57-440b-93a7-32287327ccad)
Multinational Companies (item number 1) (id 7f34e2fd-2d59-4cbf-b4b7-6df4d8d533d4)
Shipbuilding Redundancy Scheme (item number 1) (id ca722194-8277-4943-a7ba-b284b84ada1b)
Vietnam (item number 1) (id efe2db65-5093-4e7c-880f-875ff3e77344)
Cbi (item number 1) (id 5fb87ec9-9a14-4e0e-a0cf-2b73e880e7dc)
European Assembly (Elections) (item number 1) (id 322cd3fc-8e7f-496d-934c-1bac5e06c521)
European Assembly (Members' Salaries And Allowances) (item number 1) (id e3969d85-afea-4008-be43-f4285aa72a4f)

Employment

Manufacturing Companies (Northern Region) (item number 1) (id 9dbc5870-d75e-46f4-8d3e-8ccd7b3a3bf2)
Unemployment Statistics (item number 1) (id 8791825e-ade6-472b-8785-028d7756f7fc)
Health And Safety (item number 1) (id 069e62f4-7ada-4e0a-89c1-f89a1830fa32)
Unemployed Persons (Cornwall) (item number 1) (id 09020729-7467-4365-86f6-18df035e3d73)
Leek (item number 1) (id bcef0b63-71c5-41ad-8f7c-5a8f7ccdc980)
Disabled Persons (item number 1) (id 1ed63827-8583-4ae1-a020-c61320a95113)
Immigrant Populations (Ministerial Visits) (item number 1) (id d1417878-9ff4-404a-bd88-b30eb81b3356)
Disabled Unemployed (Bury And Rochdale) (item number 1) (id 24f968e5-30e8-4ace-a7df-c2ac1c228530)
Guaranteed Week (item number 1) (id 9676d46f-00b0-4cd4-b399-19f25a6e31dc)
Cornwall (item number 1) (id 9b20fc34-e7cf-45fc-a77f-2a0b99395c40)
Adoptive Mothers (Employment Protection Rights) (item number 1) (id b1dc65d2-44cf-4065-89a4-5dfebf47832f)
Canvey Island And Thurrock (item number 1) (id f84c8b02-b10d-4a7c-ba36-623054ba9fc4)
Trustee-Controlled Bodies (item number 1) (id b98e1b93-9be8-44fe-9c79-0e73e363edde)
Penistone (item number 1) (id 98c49e88-6996-4cb1-bb0e-e198a4c1b2bf)
West Norfolk (item number 1) (id b0939d85-c5c8-4fa2-9358-4375ca768df8)
Bulk Storage Silos (Safety Standards) (item number 1) (id 9eddee53-8008-4cb9-a31d-a6cfb3b7e27f)
Male Unemployment (item number 1) (id f5ce7238-25d9-44ab-acc8-5814545b5cf6)
Special Employment And Training (item number 1) (id 1943709c-5345-4ad0-97e8-1ad6398dd533)
Southern England (item number 1) (id fbe3281f-18d5-46c0-9e32-30c97d2e9c6b)
Walsall, Willenhall And Darlaston (item number 1) (id 55336982-44f6-471d-b663-63cb04902855)
Short-Time Working (Compensation) (item number 1) (id 8edc3c69-2642-4a3a-aa45-4e26c0862593)
Unemployment (item number 1) (id 46c86b75-eaa4-4e14-b43e-9a6990b0d912)

Environment

Quangos (Members' Allowances) (item number 1) (id 6ed4dfed-5bd7-48ac-84e0-00e0461587f3)
Housing Costs (Supplementary Benefit Claimants) (item number 1) (id f283bd04-a66b-4e90-a0c9-8294510d848e)
Rent And Rate Rebates And Allowances (item number 1) (id 58531caa-8f38-4d48-815b-4d7d2f79f44d)
Immigrant Populations (Ministerial Visits) (item number 1) (id ef16cb68-b301-48ed-9b87-cdf0420efa5e)
Option Mortgage Scheme (item number 1) (id 8d76f05a-2ac6-42dd-beb3-5aa822cdc37b)
Footpaths (Herefordshire) (item number 1) (id 0a85fdd5-4202-4d9d-897f-c82c8724c388)
Housebuilding (Cambridgeshire) (item number 1) (id 1f8039fc-01ff-4529-9db9-de5346d847bf)
Departmental Conferences (item number 1) (id 29b1a71e-253b-488c-939d-ebb247291e13)
Royal High School, Edinburgh (Television Sets) (item number 1) (id 03e76471-de13-4aa7-93ae-4ac1dd0562c0)
European Community (Expenditure On Sport) (item number 1) (id 92fbe499-7496-4ec4-9691-c83e683ce9d8)
European Community (Indoor Sports Arenas) (item number 1) (id 4a6ee32c-cd87-4ad4-81c7-f125e8954918)
Voluntary Sports Clubs (item number 1) (id 3c08448a-f58f-41e4-8b61-5247c95bc9b3)
Sports Council (Technical Unit) (item number 1) (id 4e0cd13a-248c-411e-98c0-a4ff151c1bcf)
Fish Processing Vessels (Code Of Conduct) (item number 1) (id 2589179c-d5ec-44a1-b355-e7de5b3d3364)
Rate Support Grant (Cornwall) (item number 1) (id f29f9417-6771-4126-9524-12c791750658)
Inner Urban Areas Act (item number 1) (id 2a62297f-97d5-4a9c-869b-a6aca2b95cce)
Method Of Building Scheme (Window Frame Suppliers) (item number 1) (id 538649dc-2e4c-494a-abd4-936396d0afd9)
Sport (Expenditure) (item number 1) (id a4983a45-33e4-4e1e-b529-6f8996e6423f)
Northern Region Strategy Plan (item number 1) (id 1b811cf6-7a5e-4e61-9e30-015795c96714)
Water Birds (Lead Poisoning) (item number 1) (id 95b9b3ff-6fca-4e9e-9781-5d062f697610)
Otters (item number 1) (id 66f0c380-5fb0-4532-9b7a-b23df14a43f5)
Council Dwellings (Sales) (item number 1) (id 303b3ea5-d175-46bf-8b9a-d66e6ae50125)

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