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Commons Hansard for 3 April 1979 (Volume 965)

From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated 12 May 2018 at 3.28pm.

Commons Chamber

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

House Of Commons (item number 1) (id 1ba70259-9cff-4831-83f5-3f69982bb589)
Death Of A Member (item number 2) (id eec1e606-10c0-45c5-a48a-6f2f5580c287)
Council Of Europe And European Parliament (item number 5) (id b71e091c-ce23-4145-9624-3e1149c5253a)
Nantes Aircraft Crash (item number 14) (id 7abced85-90e9-4abc-b46d-a7ec99dee11e)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id affd4bd8-028d-4b14-9b03-51abd728d4d0)

Social Services

Pensionable Age (item number 1) (id bdcfa266-c980-4485-9fe8-45f32972f514)
Hospitals (Voluntary Workers) (item number 1) (id 87788d44-607f-4c6a-8720-88c44e86f179)
Ambulance Drivers (Pay) (item number 1) (id fb9b1dac-13a3-4821-bba5-023cb640ced2)
National Health Service (Industrial Relations) (item number 1) (id 329e3c11-b326-4db9-ae2d-cdb6c2270e2a)
Hospitals (Picketing) (item number 1) (id 1516a4fe-dac3-4225-8a6c-581801a6ac65)
Pensioners' Organisations (item number 1) (id 63db29b6-4851-4f89-af5f-5cae29b230c6)
Stoke Mandeville Hospital (item number 1) (id 596e0879-e192-46f6-8855-ade08ce46b60)
National Health Service (Industrial Relations Machinery) (item number 1) (id 8acd5cfa-cdce-4ebe-ab8f-285679013e3a)
Hospital Ward Closures (Bromley) (item number 1) (id 61392b4f-8538-4298-949e-fb3cc16c5816)
Disablement Benefit (Medical Appeal Tribunal Procedures) (item number 1) (id d552dc46-0fbe-4171-a09e-c7af6938954f)
Benefits (Fraud) (item number 1) (id 64d99c52-a68a-4254-abcd-de082688ba67)
Hospital Waiting Lists (item number 1) (id e86997b8-1061-4a1d-83ab-2142cd060c37)
Royal College Of Nursing (item number 1) (id e8fbb0c9-dc28-437d-bc9c-6fc3e130469c)
European Community (Council Of Ministers) (item number 1) (id fcf8063c-8433-46d9-ba7f-d4dad2f8241b)
Drugs (Research And Development) (item number 1) (id d1a82472-7fa6-4490-aa7d-63bb8ac707f1)
Elderly Persons (item number 1) (id 0c644f93-5436-440d-9a6a-03bca86af355)
Maternity Grant (item number 1) (id 71073830-47b9-43b5-8d05-acae170f72d0)
London Teaching Hospitals (Food Supply) (item number 1) (id d93ad2f1-9df4-4966-8cb6-c7b6f334d9f3)
Community Homes (item number 1) (id 002ad50a-cccf-48db-a243-72fec068cb10)
Child Benefit (item number 1) (id 24ceb0c8-e831-404e-9c4a-1b1ba496fb04)
Neurological Services (Wessex) (item number 1) (id 46d8286a-ae2f-4b7e-9cda-29a330d02156)
Silicosis (Diagnostic Techniques) (item number 1) (id 1f6b8341-53da-4457-9845-406cb1773628)
Family Income Supplement (Brigg And Scunthorpe) (item number 1) (id d2f15f16-9233-4252-be76-5ecb6f9c3b03)
Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone (item number 1) (id c4f4c799-548b-48d6-8820-a3774e16454c)
National Health Service (Industrial Democracy) (item number 1) (id 77d8eeb0-425a-4777-9f10-59eaeeccf91e)
Pension Fund Boards (Trade Union Representation) (item number 1) (id d9baf8f3-00c3-486d-a7ee-0d678cc5bd1b)
Benefit (Students) (item number 1) (id d0488a32-7982-4869-95ce-ae13ced0a294)
Pensions (item number 1) (id 76a1b5ea-e349-4879-abd1-3859f2debcb5)
Invalid Tricycle (item number 1) (id 0fcf8a02-4b30-480c-9843-48bd426be377)
Area Health Authorities (Revenue Resources) (item number 1) (id b54edf0d-a4b9-4ede-a5fa-a60b56d1036b)
Death Grant (item number 1) (id b3554a3a-93b8-45e0-a212-233918a0767d)
Housewives' Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension (item number 1) (id 93e676b3-1379-487a-ab30-674f05028b50)
Children (Social Workers' Decisions) (item number 1) (id 194344c3-1042-4466-911b-f02cb9fc5110)
Contraceptive Pill (item number 1) (id 385829b5-6284-43b7-8e31-34c8be9bd785)
Hospitals (Common Waiting Lists) (item number 1) (id c8762198-19b3-4cc6-a65a-3e8d87ab2dee)
Benefit (Uprating) (item number 1) (id cd2a3cf4-065e-4c32-b163-a8bc9bf0f981)
Hospital Patients (Reduction Of Benefit) (item number 1) (id e84e97cb-59fb-4779-8205-0555062875cc)
Medical Care (West Midlands) (item number 1) (id 184e61d9-ca5b-4527-a90e-0d56ef782f54)
Hospitals (South Yorkshire) (item number 1) (id 91b17167-744f-4979-8063-d2cf5dc82e73)
Medical Scientists (Soviet-British Co-Operation) (item number 1) (id b992a2c8-a000-40e3-a8f5-5edd4a0d1fdd)
National Association Of Community Health Councils (item number 1) (id 866c940e-9843-4ffc-b736-bf05e0e94b99)
District Nurses (Transport) (item number 1) (id 96bdd064-65cd-4afc-b5f0-3e935bd5eaab)
Family Planning Services (item number 1) (id df0cf62b-6218-4922-8d36-9bbc68267947)
Prime Minister (Engagements) (item number 1) (id 4b35fc80-e933-46cd-bf09-70c339799e19)
Tuc And Cbi (item number 1) (id 3f10d6a2-5004-41fe-b5db-286d20e57c6c)
Bromsgrove (item number 1) (id 31ef3ea0-6cf2-43de-ac5b-065ad5437d10)
Nationalised Industries (item number 1) (id 16f3e780-776d-4ebc-bd0b-767c01599640)
Putney (item number 1) (id 58ed944a-d79f-4a52-a5a6-ab28f0436ce6)
Quangos (item number 1) (id cf1a690b-7a98-4d11-a5f1-65d6bf41462d)
Dinorwig (item number 1) (id 613b1adb-ebd8-42f8-b1ca-e6c6e46cb4ac)
Stockport (item number 1) (id cafb266f-e039-4747-9df4-eea600ebdabd)
Northampton (item number 1) (id 018a9059-57da-472c-a431-8e5f8a5a7095)

National Finance

Official External Debt (item number 1) (id 98d8625c-70a4-413c-8817-ee4a4e881104)
Income Tax (item number 1) (id 3b57b593-56b2-48e4-b516-14dcc4eb2776)
State Industries (Financial Targets) (item number 1) (id 320e713c-1985-45af-baa8-f30e6f10ac82)
Investment (item number 1) (id 8781a3e6-63d7-4228-a623-a2d66a60d806)
House Of Lords (Attendance Allowance) (item number 1) (id 7070a9c4-0698-4940-a746-3d5d3b1f6f27)
Capital Transfer Tax (item number 1) (id cc3c1ddb-1933-415b-a2c3-93df1dddaa1a)
Paye (Offshore Oil Industry) (item number 1) (id e5e6ce02-113f-4d81-a270-66718481747c)
Household Allowance (item number 1) (id 780eddf1-3104-4a9c-a8f8-1c5dab256b0b)
Value Added Tax (Repayments) (item number 1) (id 26a582a4-4f0d-4ff8-8d9d-11fd41e1dbfe)
Industrial Production (item number 1) (id 659c860b-a7e8-4473-b543-e96d763dbddb)
Net Income (item number 1) (id 94ca74fa-5623-4ca6-ab92-6576bf8f1aad)
Public Sector Borrowing (item number 1) (id 95a8e633-85eb-4fb2-b9a1-6682d6e8a5e4)
Investment Income Surcharge (item number 1) (id b9675f85-8966-4945-99c3-a9d89bb37bd9)
European Community (Value Added Tax) (item number 1) (id 1c5cf3a8-0896-4540-97fb-edd368a0e30d)
Paye (Casual Workers) (item number 1) (id 5ac18a67-e81a-409f-9ce6-5d07e7da7951)
Stamp Duty (item number 1) (id 99c77586-d12e-40e6-a7f2-3da73de558c3)
Balance Of Payments (item number 1) (id a013e5a4-7c6d-4f65-b5db-4f60bf73f716)
Unearned Income (item number 1) (id 3cc91d61-f49b-4291-ba72-875195d1e2b9)
Corporation Tax (item number 1) (id d06e0dbc-287c-49e4-8bae-d673ee15bc04)
European Community (Grants To Farmers) (item number 1) (id 9ee1965f-fe11-4dd7-81a9-0cefdcf99a3a)
Luncheon Vouchers (item number 1) (id 5454a3e6-7547-45eb-861e-dcadd2c18f74)
Public Expenditure (item number 1) (id 250fad35-0fbb-431e-b908-caab049bb5b8)
Income Tax Relief (item number 1) (id c794c951-303a-446f-9118-c2f85847dd18)
Charities (item number 1) (id b92f8f3e-c2da-460f-9fab-997953362bb6)

Industry

Microprocessors (item number 1) (id dc5b21cd-5315-432e-ae37-e0b4fec157d9)
Microelectronics (item number 1) (id 23d9d414-9040-4384-a82d-3bddbaa48859)
Industrial Concerns (Foreign Take-Overs) (item number 1) (id ceaadd33-8234-46a9-802e-cd0513bc33e2)
Kirkby (Industrial Investment) (item number 1) (id 47835889-53e4-4164-896e-6fa003ef2495)
Grimsby (Development Aid) (item number 1) (id 14b813bb-a1cc-4d50-9b5b-462fa6eea613)
Akzo Chemie Uk Limited (item number 1) (id 26c9730e-06eb-43e6-ac52-32d923f861d9)
Post Office (Development Land) (item number 1) (id 2173df80-c7e0-4cd3-813c-32b6b3df9f1e)
Desalination (item number 1) (id dc4cc11e-67a4-41ef-a97b-dd742c24ad70)
Naphtha (item number 1) (id b53bd511-f508-4903-a8d7-cef851fc87d0)
Mechanical Handling (item number 1) (id 7726c8cb-80ad-4084-b6cd-599ba8f6a3a5)
Office Machinery (item number 1) (id e1771be8-4673-494a-b04b-23dd04b3b162)
Financial Assistance To Industry (item number 1) (id f91ec10e-9bc7-427a-946b-1f596e89d8a8)
British Shipbuilders (item number 1) (id c5d17f7d-b7ac-4e96-a77e-df00043778c2)
China (Vessels) (item number 1) (id 39bd2d20-f8a4-48a9-863c-b1783add15d8)
Aircraft And Shipbuilding Industries Act (item number 1) (id c7f4755f-9fae-422e-9143-277a11288174)
European Community Steel Prices (item number 1) (id 2299482d-f170-40b6-8d46-b002c2ad22e2)
Industrial Output (item number 1) (id 53a97736-11b7-4647-be4b-3b589a9c256a)
Post Office (Telecommunications) (item number 1) (id 19840777-ebed-430d-932f-271ccd6f5e56)
Concorde (item number 1) (id 62bb4bfc-2755-4691-85ad-8dc83948f91d)
Rolls-Royce Ltd (item number 1) (id 3c8b2360-c09e-4f4a-8ebc-ce8ce067c0a4)
Industrial Output (item number 1) (id 90e5d6fe-c3d2-44c0-a4b3-8fd373598801)

Employment

Bicc Limited, Kirkby (item number 1) (id 3aae4b6b-e4bc-40e5-ac01-10544a6461e5)
Wages (item number 1) (id a2bbe635-766b-47c7-9ed5-1ec2ad6ff487)
Job Creation (Liaison) (item number 1) (id 2d4e7851-62d3-4a8b-9532-e8228408fee6)
Manufacturing Industry (Overtime Working) (item number 1) (id e6ed4e7a-280c-4619-8a7b-2066e2f0dfaa)
North-West Region (item number 1) (id ef8498f6-92e9-4f8c-a77d-3e2e2110e518)
Health And Safety At Work Etc Act (item number 1) (id de4cbd74-7dc1-46f9-8108-c82d0cf30a8c)
Clergymen (Salary Increase) (item number 1) (id 2c45ad6c-461f-4aed-a8c8-d71bc311f26d)
Suffolk (item number 1) (id b496d8f2-302c-4e41-a4d6-9f55a7453276)
Youth Opportunities Programme (item number 1) (id 578b6656-d21b-4fd0-9e3e-990ff3b5a195)
Scunthorpe And Glanford (Planning Applications) (item number 1) (id 79a9294f-09f9-4026-b34d-89e4fbf57ad1)
Employment Protection (item number 1) (id d454c7f2-6e9a-47be-a9e7-cf7839b74029)
Short-Time Working (item number 1) (id 325f04d4-b6a8-4756-bfe5-65a12889fa25)
Special Employment And Training (item number 1) (id 61d12043-a78b-45ff-b24f-c74da6aead9a)
Trustee Bodies (item number 1) (id 3d5c7555-93b9-405d-9bb4-4638963a00fd)
Vocational Preparation (item number 1) (id 8f9d8fed-d60d-4f04-8699-2d9c5613623c)
Cornwall (item number 1) (id cda27b57-3ffa-4a99-9bd2-1bc50ab3d73c)
Falmouth And Camborne (item number 1) (id 39b84430-fe20-481b-bdcc-14d721162c63)
Penistone (item number 1) (id a4aa74da-2ecb-433d-92ec-b0cd6d069f5b)
West Norfolk (item number 1) (id 7d454582-75fd-4611-922e-562c4af57ab1)
Walsall (item number 1) (id 489bed15-8115-4ca5-b4c0-c9b2ab83a817)
West Country (item number 1) (id 6958642c-f8a9-4462-8021-d151464549e8)
Male Unemployment (item number 1) (id dc8a5594-4860-4f3e-a770-a6f4158099e7)
Small Firms (item number 1) (id 26e728ee-22a1-4ea3-94b2-9217bc4c0961)

Scotland

Marginal Land (item number 1) (id 96dfe192-dda3-413d-b461-11d9fba3a1e1)
Places Of Historic Interest (item number 1) (id 25f43fa4-734d-4eec-ae06-9869fb0d4abd)
Overseas Students (item number 1) (id f49284e8-4b86-4a5e-8206-adf406ba2096)
Education (Public Expenditure) (item number 1) (id 902c6673-3859-4f06-8749-2b53fef24318)
Fish Processing (item number 1) (id b376aa61-7369-44e2-8ece-9454db6815ed)
Public Appointments (item number 1) (id 9dd316af-7c90-4857-b329-52ba0bd957fb)
Fishermen (item number 1) (id db599568-186f-4e4c-9eaf-3fce8653c130)
Fisheries Catch (item number 1) (id ea2d3805-0c7d-4608-ba43-484d0bcf4ece)
Housing (Expenditure) (item number 1) (id da0976ff-21dd-41d7-a5d6-b71593325fa4)
National Health Service (Expenditure) (item number 1) (id b447ae1f-4cce-4e7c-9444-60265e8fafff)
Erskine, Forth And Tay Bridges (item number 1) (id 462eb8a3-bc8e-4d08-ac0f-af6d43924c53)
Shipping And Ferry Services (item number 1) (id b89f7c1a-57c3-4ca1-8bb9-cde21efcfdba)
Public Bodies (Land Holdings) (item number 1) (id 7b72e61a-2b9c-4475-8419-f9843da37ccd)
Dual Carriageway (item number 1) (id f6608a2c-9c38-4bf1-828c-5373809bb394)
Rate Yield (item number 1) (id 05f65498-2bca-4260-88b5-75b45c80f1ff)
Motorways (item number 1) (id 2dae43d7-d2cc-4d8e-a69a-48c4ca97922b)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 58aba860-476c-4121-abf6-0c5d8ebe18ad)
Job Creation (item number 1) (id 0af2f727-0dd8-4d04-8a2b-fd9a2bb5864d)
Children's Panel (Grampian Region) (item number 1) (id de386b75-309d-4fd6-a4d7-583ea2ea4206)
Inner Urban Areas Act 1978 (item number 1) (id ab226724-9db0-4011-a2cd-e3c4489468ad)
Deer Farming (item number 1) (id cb1b246c-3e6a-4786-8e81-ec335ade46a5)
Borders District General Hospital (item number 1) (id e403ee15-2d60-488a-a0df-705fd58de796)
Mental Illness (item number 1) (id cfa14d73-744b-41db-8b22-def2fb9719d7)
Local Authorities (Services Expenditure) (item number 1) (id 6050fec1-b19a-4d84-8b5e-c1fe3489a2ae)
Scottish Certificate Of Education (item number 1) (id e3f63357-3bab-4844-8ca2-683f4000791c)
Rate Support Grant (item number 1) (id 08c7b4ff-b78f-48ef-ae44-c8d8afb4123d)
New Towns (Housing) (item number 1) (id 2b23fff3-363f-41c2-be52-b32ec4474dc2)
Domestic Rates (item number 1) (id 3108449d-ecf2-4dc8-89fd-5a6c590b89e0)
Derelict Land (item number 1) (id 94043ac4-1240-4db1-9c46-8c6b2c4a870b)
Local Government Expenditure (item number 1) (id 603d5ddc-8df1-43dd-afe3-b72de4da9223)
Local Authority Staffing (item number 1) (id 450dcf66-e716-45e7-884d-4aa0b1baaae9)
Water Services (item number 1) (id 7d54c254-c8d6-4d53-ab77-9932aa603e29)
Rate Fund Services (item number 1) (id 1b7ae68d-0aac-413d-840e-686e2fa8ac2c)
Local Government Manpower (item number 1) (id 4af69ea6-b606-400c-b66f-6f30ed7b4734)

Social Services

Supplementary Benefit Claimants (Housing Costs) (item number 1) (id bc65d332-b2f9-4d25-bc9c-233b23e52338)
Health Care (Birmingham) (item number 1) (id e1ddda83-b980-4e02-846d-c0f43d1a4d5c)
Geriatrics (item number 1) (id 5da5f1a3-b701-4b22-84a6-c428586b5fb6)
National Health Service (Charges) (item number 1) (id af7aff58-9c4e-42c6-af1d-3418622bc36c)
Health Services Provision (North-West Region) (item number 1) (id 2851e389-05d2-4ac7-bee0-f28ad456d78f)
Hearing Aids (item number 1) (id 556bebbc-f2de-4c9a-8506-72b4a3d8819c)
Nhs Retirement Pension (item number 1) (id 12e07ac1-1e79-4c2b-96d8-2e84aeefd6d4)
Hospital Waiting List (Colchester District) (item number 1) (id 1041391c-0a28-45f0-b859-1bf2bd140666)
Death Grant (item number 1) (id efcffd4d-9bbd-4fb2-b3a4-cc8479d03417)
Invalid Care Allowance (item number 1) (id e014249a-39fc-4c5b-8f64-def2b357ab1a)
Mental Illness (Day Care) (item number 1) (id bc0071a0-0b82-493f-ad6f-e6a56a4cde3c)
Handicapped Children (item number 1) (id 92276677-d973-4298-91e4-2bfa8f96cdfb)
Means-Tested Benefits (item number 1) (id 29c36f0f-dbd7-42a7-9b0c-21ec6fb0e7da)
Mrs Lavinia Hocking (item number 1) (id 0b99bd1d-8795-4412-839a-4cab137d28c7)
Retirement Pension (item number 1) (id 3f4e3bf7-3d15-43b5-b487-de06213c8b2e)
Family Incomes (item number 1) (id 88d14259-d7a7-4273-bb80-d8909f68cf21)
Consultants (Domiciliary Visits) (item number 1) (id 166eca19-d2ea-4ebb-a92f-287f59740ab4)
Physically Handicapped Persons (item number 1) (id 85a266d7-2d9f-4a1c-8809-07245164cc6c)
Departmental Expenditure (Cornwall And Scilly Isles) (item number 1) (id 579fce50-0519-46b4-85b5-37e2e35ec762)
Surgical Tights (item number 1) (id 6626f315-7f8a-4ab3-bd8c-933fc481ef31)
Disability Pension (item number 1) (id 965f8fe4-249d-4bf1-891d-4ff6247601c7)
Abortion (item number 1) (id 749fa55b-94f4-4a48-9a2c-90aea33e5acf)
Widows' Pension (item number 1) (id e7626e32-5437-43b9-9b89-bc63fe698a3a)
Hospitals (Cheshire) (item number 1) (id 25694452-67e5-420b-9840-6a148165b6ce)
Hospital Waiting Lists (Barking) (item number 1) (id 66a226cc-260b-4e56-82bb-0e9ea440349d)
Barking And Havering Area Health Authority (item number 1) (id 943ef9a8-1be9-427a-a331-4c12a68c6582)
Brentwood (Hospitals) (item number 1) (id 71fdcfae-65a4-4e5d-b678-1868ca7e0905)
North-East Thames Regional Health Authority (item number 1) (id d4b9e5a1-615a-4944-b8a0-4f963f6b0a60)
Pre-School Playgroup Association (item number 1) (id e80b7613-cfe3-42f6-a7eb-fe216701bf4c)
Supplementary Benefits (item number 1) (id bddb11ed-4abf-4447-ac08-827cc2bee8f9)
Pay Beds (item number 1) (id bd43c8df-32f7-4037-bdaf-9d6fa45f4ea5)
South Yorkshire (item number 1) (id 113477fe-3977-4f33-9b04-280c77e347f2)
Chronically Sick And Disabled Persons (Amendment) Act 1976 (item number 1) (id 5b649cd8-b1bf-4788-8d1a-ac8b90853278)
National Health Service (Preston) (item number 1) (id 0d0b24ed-e156-4714-8e6a-372c6084bdc9)
Mentally Handicapped Persons (item number 1) (id 13895569-61e6-44d1-8cca-683b4310ed0a)

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