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Commons Hansard for 6 December 1979 (Volume 975)

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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 694f2508-fe90-4514-9e03-216e19672847)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 43bccc0c-1545-4f09-9f1b-f8e9cfcaa3be)
Royal Assent (item number 3) (id 212ceb55-ab32-4b9a-9e78-1688ca694ef3)

Private Business
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Greater London Council (General Powers) Bill (By Order) (item number 1) (id 5fd2c1ce-3ade-466b-bfd3-86d98ca16e51)
University College London Bill Lords (By Order) (item number 1) (id 5020fc27-8580-40e4-bb07-26241c2baa2f)
Tyne And Wear Bill Lords (By Order) (item number 1) (id b30781b7-eecf-4c7b-af78-df76418079f2)
Trade (item number 1) (id 0140e4d4-87f4-44f4-8518-7f172b6bd89e)

Oral Answers To Questions
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Untitled Debate

National Finance
British Petroleum (item number 1) (id 2ff5fae5-abaa-4107-b33d-fd3a54ed6238)
Economic Growth (item number 1) (id ad6619de-775f-4581-b348-71d5abf7ee5b)
Value Added Tax (item number 1) (id 7fa5256f-64c5-44dd-af6c-24952df2583d)
Substitution Account (item number 1) (id 2283d67a-adb8-4d38-b49c-b8d5b7d9d685)
Minimum Lending Rate (item number 1) (id 8ebf4e52-b6dc-47c9-9eee-2f87bd82b2b9)
Exchange Controls (item number 1) (id 0f044a5d-32c4-4a66-b58a-3a72767a37b0)
Mortgage Repayments (item number 1) (id faea7205-4598-4098-a4e8-dcc74a0263d3)
Inflation (item number 1) (id 1b370dc4-770f-4337-a640-939717fd87aa)
Industrial Investment (item number 1) (id 5f040588-06b0-445c-b523-7d631edc5549)
Share Ownership (item number 1) (id da484215-8185-4b12-af6f-613849f0483d)
Money Supply (item number 1) (id fb1dae9b-0879-4e5b-a8ce-3ac2fd62f29e)
Middle East (item number 1) (id 6cb16272-a8b7-4577-af0c-481e5013d7ae)
Lending Rates (item number 1) (id 58e90be8-9d5d-46e8-9675-26b647986887)
West Germany (Finance Minister) (item number 1) (id 20949f52-4474-4928-8316-0e3ee2fdb638)
National Savings Certificates (item number 1) (id 618ba2cd-522b-4bf1-953c-a2dc0f28a756)
Prime Minister (Engagements) (item number 1) (id e077a9f9-427d-45b4-8883-27f571f179e0)
Questions To Ministers (item number 1) (id f0d31acb-cc29-4473-95ce-fbf8d4e80e43)
Business Of The House (item number 1) (id 213cb1aa-1523-4c38-a883-d9fff94d4b63)
Civil Service (Size And Cost) (item number 1) (id cf22803d-8c1a-4132-b5a4-cf853df304d0)
Questions To Ministers (item number 1) (id ec1cd6b5-ea66-41ba-b54a-a91e272217fd)
House Of Commons (Procedure) (item number 1) (id a6bc4185-f549-4c5b-b42d-bb0bd13b1d5d)
Abortion (Amendment) Bill (item number 1) (id 7a5ffa4b-6ec2-4835-a744-6154be3f3e52)
Civil Service (Ministerial Statement) (item number 1) (id 7a43f8b8-af0c-4bd8-a183-a84669b3db3a)
Zimbabwe And Employment Bills (item number 1) (id 12b7ed20-2c00-4b4f-aff3-4ad54f250036)

Bills Presented
Zimbabwe (item number 1) (id 27912985-c52c-480c-96da-7dc218e2443e)
Highland And Islands Air Service (Scotland) (item number 1) (id 117e824c-a1ba-48d2-b4d3-21f5bcab8786)
Employment (item number 1) (id 80ce75c8-876e-4855-9d0f-c7a56938ee3b)
Business Of The House (item number 1) (id 2f6f8bb9-8b2d-49a6-b900-df4d3bcb95eb)

Orders Of The Day
Supply (item number 1) (id f8c09e4c-e1ab-4e0b-9340-820917bd925e)
Television Licence Fee (item number 1) (id b23bf12e-ef3f-4f42-8a0c-4bc0fcbb1894)
Cambodia (item number 6) (id 59a54c89-5aad-46fd-9306-6e3d7146048f)
Citizens Band Radio (item number 7) (id 39e98f7c-e575-4a1e-b84f-0e3b7e5c809f)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 6eb3a62a-2a90-468f-9d1d-c71783194f02)
Prime Minister (Engagements) (item number 2) (id 0d8577d5-0019-4838-98c9-8c16029aa3c5)
Macmerry, East Lothian (item number 3) (id 20439646-2989-4e7c-a7fd-8d94b06b1653)
European Council (Dublin) (item number 4) (id 3baa2d0d-dc02-4f15-a0cc-18ec28abcbb2)
Hednesford (item number 5) (id 44b7899f-6f48-43fe-8f5f-43630d36e87d)
Trades Union Congress (item number 6) (id 2febca8d-0272-435a-85f1-2c300b29a274)
West Of Scotland (item number 7) (id f5874a81-26d5-476b-bfa1-4b2eac7b5fe0)
Business Premises (Rights Of Entry) (item number 8) (id 2ebd3658-7f42-481b-af6a-fec29c68be72)
Reading (item number 9) (id 498316ac-4514-41d0-a6cb-7a9113cac325)
Security Services (item number 10) (id 69329611-6661-41e2-9bc3-b5427a7846b3)
Immigration Rules (item number 11) (id ebfe4da2-9c35-4bbe-ae06-2c452ffaa30d)
European Community Budget (item number 12) (id 732d8c32-6d1f-4113-8047-18fb0c32eb03)
Edl Cabinet Committee (item number 13) (id 570ef796-4fc4-492f-90b4-2accc339f97b)

Civil Service
Manpower (item number 1) (id 697f3b4a-35c9-4976-989c-4faaa73765a6)
Telephone Services (item number 1) (id f05b8cb2-3932-42d0-b5ef-c38e325b61fc)
Retired Civil Servants (Employment) (item number 1) (id b373710c-7346-4dad-b75d-34ad8d19244f)
Vagrancy Act 1824 (item number 1) (id 2f7294d7-14e5-46c4-85d2-aa14152bd730)

Overseas Development
African Countries (item number 1) (id 21f05dc5-8f3a-4d70-a382-f2789d111379)
Aid Criteria (item number 1) (id eacf6639-7837-4d42-8aad-52ddf43e061d)

Education And Science
Pupils And Teachers (Statistics) (item number 1) (id 4a122064-468c-429e-82f9-a324b3970b8b)
Annual Returns (item number 1) (id dc609be7-4f0c-4de4-b84c-08ef7789359d)
High Level Engineering Courses (Jubilee Scholarships) (item number 1) (id 6f4acf95-2482-4740-a207-22b79828d562)
School Meals (item number 1) (id 39740229-d19e-4531-ba23-11d9d9b2e0bd)

National Finance
Inflation (item number 1) (id ce6fcd26-8b4d-4f3d-99cb-fad7cdaf1a95)
Interest Rates (item number 1) (id 6c48971f-01ac-49fe-9080-96cac3b217bd)
Disposable Incomes (item number 1) (id 19824920-168b-4349-8bfd-e94f518bfe03)
Money Supply (Measurement) (item number 1) (id 6df14524-449e-4e13-bb79-ada7d4918029)
Inland Revenue—Customs And Excise (Information Exchange) (item number 1) (id 2e57be4b-4d9f-41be-b792-cdfaf4bb2d4c)
Tax And Prices Index (item number 1) (id d1b503ea-3ed0-495a-aa1d-fbfa517cc1c2)
Tax Evasion (item number 1) (id 373a3132-1051-4667-b4a3-db826a153439)
Unemployment (item number 1) (id 3edc4cd8-dd2a-4888-b93f-0e656d79985b)
Index-Linked Earnings (item number 1) (id e595eb70-6b2f-4057-9105-61402358a874)
Value Added Tax (item number 1) (id d9f683fe-06d8-4359-bd9a-aaebf1476866)
Monetary Policy (item number 1) (id cd4ee52e-e6c6-4f18-8491-cc5a80de0ad2)
Public Expenditure (item number 1) (id 20b14215-a9b4-4f54-90c5-a10a12b286bf)
European Community (Value Added Tax) (item number 1) (id 02f8d8b9-3143-4952-8151-1e3ed9f0752c)
Life Assurance (Tax Relief) (item number 1) (id 70cd9833-93c3-4c26-8726-b2472fd45e38)
Economic Progress (item number 1) (id 4af8efca-e48c-41ba-bb34-550f46485fc1)
Royal Mint (Comptroller) (item number 1) (id f4461563-aa32-44d5-9bdb-9d728418fe08)
Mortgage Rates (item number 1) (id 7ff8e9a8-f197-469e-8fab-e914e3e704d4)
Taxes And Expenditure (item number 1) (id b701622b-06b1-40cf-817b-81cc256000a0)
Public Sector Borrowing Requirement (item number 1) (id 0d677fe6-e3f8-4d15-adf4-05e666c3a51b)
Social Security Benefits (item number 1) (id 2989d8c5-f9ab-4874-ac3e-a04624c26f85)

Employment
Wage Rates (item number 1) (id 68af6f3a-37e3-4aa9-ad37-65f4df36fc78)
Underwater Training School For Divers (item number 1) (id a07c5101-83f0-41e5-b96b-ec916330b051)
Industrial Diseases (item number 1) (id 86e44c3c-738d-4aeb-8231-42eb2cc59841)
Redundancy Payments (item number 1) (id 3a27fc79-44ef-48a3-9438-6c8041a33c2f)
Coal Mining Industry (Employees' Earnings) (item number 1) (id 964c19ca-bf55-43d6-9da3-5c44075409e1)
Training Allowance (item number 1) (id a1bf4183-c041-4935-865c-1ece4a808431)
Minimum Wage (item number 1) (id 583dea18-1756-467b-8879-f19f950e35c4)
Pay Statistics (item number 1) (id b29c57ca-423c-488c-b9f1-d58039e074eb)
Unemployed Persons (item number 1) (id 000369d2-ec55-42c8-877a-067f789f1153)
Job Creation (item number 1) (id 6bd81c26-564b-4b4c-8ee1-4810d8b08e2d)
Trade Unions (Political Levy) (item number 1) (id 6dcdceb0-0caf-4e74-ba4a-dec4ba65f0ce)

Wales
Housing Revenue Accounts (item number 1) (id 96c1f02f-222c-4c3e-83d8-10787a0d2328)
Small Businesses (item number 1) (id 5488f120-1d75-4e1b-9912-267324667190)
Homes Insulation (item number 1) (id bb524f37-2acf-4be7-989b-25840fd89b24)

Home Department
Obscenity And Film Censorship (item number 1) (id 8a9c9764-5ac1-470d-bef1-c24a5f0f4edd)
Iranian Nationals (item number 1) (id 7252acbd-1740-4d8a-b806-6c2b02c5b0ab)
Voluntary Services Unit (item number 1) (id 95c6c4e7-b8df-46a2-8669-228837a0e910)
County Council Electoral Districts (Cheshire) (item number 1) (id f88c06e0-ee35-465b-b143-85499237d2c1)
Latin America (Refugees) (item number 1) (id 47e071bf-eae8-44a9-984e-ae537fc03c89)
Ward Boundaries (Manchester) (item number 1) (id 8db2b317-1928-49ba-94df-1bb58d0e2f5b)
Sentencing Policy (item number 1) (id 3a28b900-a420-4076-b497-427593174181)
Immigration (item number 1) (id 6d2ef6c9-7eca-4ea4-bc43-3c26070f950d)
Data Protection (item number 1) (id 4630d389-a66b-4036-8edf-661991fa75e5)
Prison Services (Inquiry) (item number 1) (id f102db3f-f8d3-4720-8005-d00da10a3c88)
Crime Policy Planning Unit (item number 1) (id 1a27f24f-9b99-4713-95c2-5eed24dd068c)
Detention Centres (item number 1) (id 73eaf902-4c17-4334-8340-c0443696b796)

Social Services
St George's Hospital, Tooting (item number 1) (id 667927e6-0ab7-438c-a011-e194ba0b4956)
Mental Health Act 1959 (item number 1) (id 95817a91-880c-4ff9-851a-3f95ed5c4934)
Drug Administration (item number 1) (id 0e5c8e50-ed58-4ee1-8157-48bf547dfd01)
Child Benefit (item number 1) (id 9094bb3e-2440-4e04-92f0-16765b0a02a8)
Psychogeriatric Provision (item number 1) (id 3bd99202-0830-479e-b00b-a7eb94550cd6)
Maternity Services (Southampton) (item number 1) (id 81b67da6-1d1f-4a02-b87c-6ab4534ed51c)
Ambulance Service (item number 1) (id 5be45b9d-7527-4e39-b328-db2695295f89)
Hospital Waiting Lists (item number 1) (id c145089c-f306-4419-a4db-790b8f75408a)
Harlow (Hospital Beds) (item number 1) (id 8b76439f-dd16-448d-b33d-62a146a67a1c)
Unemployment Benefit (item number 1) (id ba32dab1-bd9d-4cb3-8be1-7d4fa38212f4)
Ante-Natal Care (item number 1) (id 2bf7eebd-8ce3-432a-8847-1888ae06fb06)
Health Authorities (Greater London) (item number 1) (id 3511ecb5-d651-4cfc-9b19-6e3d79fcb78e)
Unemployed Married Men (item number 1) (id b635d61f-b10a-4fb4-93e6-a1897e952639)
Archery House Project (Dartford) (item number 1) (id da6c2b69-7fb4-4337-a28a-490764022b87)
Social Security Advisory Committee (item number 1) (id 1d57f5c7-ce08-4314-b5b8-12a8a01b1b87)
Sickness Benefit (item number 1) (id 0220be2a-a49d-4077-97a2-486d6873247a)
Supplementary Benefit (item number 1) (id 55e66b53-c358-407f-8173-0d5bfab9ef9d)
Communicable Diseases (item number 1) (id c492a76c-95d8-40b8-80dc-05cae69674a0)
Medical Information (Privacy) (item number 1) (id 08d04956-253e-4621-8492-bd7a318ee925)
Supplementary Benefit Office (Kennington) (item number 1) (id 483f6c6c-13e3-43bd-9bfd-ce60c9e729bc)
Contraception (item number 1) (id 167b65f3-87d2-42a5-8d8d-adf8db37d188)
Mobility Allowance (item number 1) (id 15f30757-324a-43be-897d-c56b0455a449)
Epidemics (item number 1) (id 3da225bf-a3c9-422a-bfbf-b84435054f25)
Chiropodists (item number 1) (id a5daafc0-5803-42fa-ac39-ffba1ce47ae6)
Pneumoconiosis (item number 1) (id 5c96ff08-304f-46a1-b7c6-150082e1afa3)

Foreign And Commonwealth Affairs
South Africa (item number 1) (id 5a3475e3-eb50-4678-a980-ca8cfe720cc3)
Rhodesia (item number 1) (id f51c02f0-c6a9-45ce-ad1b-50922a97f2de)

European Community
Immigration (item number 1) (id 921d7fe8-8dce-4c1a-9c22-2321155a9d84)

Scotland
National Union Of Students (item number 1) (id 43b7d7dc-8795-448c-a699-3b31ac4a6b40)

Defence
Diego Garcia (item number 1) (id 95f9e2ba-6b77-43ef-9e2b-9d81d2b2be97)
Ussr (Nuclear Weapons) (item number 1) (id 5bffc2d6-e753-4bdb-a6d7-37ab4d312099)
Royal Navy (item number 1) (id 994bb726-3720-44f3-a73a-f55ba00815ab)
Retired Officers (Employment) (item number 1) (id bc697696-1c8c-48d6-b61c-128d5a0f43de)

Energy
Gas And Electricity (Meter Reading) (item number 1) (id 3d05a2c2-6b9c-4a63-b16a-4a14011d74d2)
Ukaea (Drilling Costs) (item number 1) (id 147d8c5f-d52b-4bdd-a5de-15d03afc9ffd)

Agriculture, Fisheries And Food
Horticulture (item number 1) (id 1259a74f-13d1-459e-99f3-641945581e94)
Laxton Estate, Nottinghamshire (item number 1) (id 7445efd1-cd32-40d5-91eb-79f1eeea30a0)
Bees (item number 1) (id 19f46217-4067-4f14-b337-0252eed88ab6)
Sugar (item number 1) (id c6c711f6-89f4-4813-9a02-885a99b6e905)
Fishery Protection Vessels (item number 1) (id a372fe7e-444d-4c18-994f-a79654b2723b)
Green Pound (item number 1) (id 87ae190e-7868-4529-9a88-d680d4b58507)
Investment And Production Incentives (item number 1) (id 347fc825-6317-4f79-81d4-e23042aa3e2c)
Ware Potatoes (item number 1) (id 6748ae8a-7e38-4964-bc60-b06af636f50f)
Sheep (item number 1) (id 5863a03e-f46c-4e79-a012-cdd39795e8f8)
Pigs And Pigmeat (item number 1) (id ab00872b-46c4-495a-b286-9fec94828179)
Farmers (Working Capital) (item number 1) (id a8cfd1ae-f0f0-4bcb-bc31-89c51de230b1)
Health And Safety At Work (Private Prosecutions) (item number 28) (id 4b868cbf-0d10-413d-a3e0-5319ebf5a769)

Trade
Gatwick Airport (item number 1) (id b160d77f-a4dd-4f9f-b5ec-5978128981f6)
Dumping At Sea (item number 1) (id dda695d0-388e-460a-a9f9-80ba045bdb8d)
Man-Made Fibres And Products (item number 1) (id 28c52789-d362-44e3-be02-dcea196c3c68)
Heathrow Airport (item number 1) (id 1848a1f4-4365-47b8-9a56-fa16cf4ddfdc)
Company Returns (item number 1) (id 335ef986-9ea2-4456-909b-98eea13be398)

Environment
Housing Survey (item number 1) (id 88682822-4b5d-4d74-b96f-ddf6d0ebc255)
Interest Charges (item number 1) (id 82938cae-e26f-46a5-acbc-c88e65471c41)
Registered Housing Associations (Performance Bonds) (item number 1) (id 78c30948-a23d-4b55-994b-f64e5c220bb7)
Sheltered Housing (item number 1) (id 7d7db3e0-09e3-44b4-8e4a-b82d995504f9)
Roads (Maintenance Costs) (item number 1) (id 0c39bb04-a38e-4ba2-86d2-542b8e68ebdb)
Planning Appeal Procedures (item number 1) (id 2c15d1ee-6b78-45ac-9e73-8027d7e1aa9c)
Single-Person Flats (Space Standards) (item number 1) (id 9b2f0f5e-944f-437c-8d9e-4eb34b178c26)
Council House Tenants (Income) (item number 1) (id bb837726-5e31-428c-a3aa-c1807760e187)
Possession Of Premises (item number 1) (id 1cfee4ce-a28a-443a-ab70-b5c6b223fb71)

Industry
European Investment Bank (item number 1) (id 59c24189-fe50-4581-9a20-3b32c195f5db)
Departmental Staffing Levels (item number 1) (id 4f1091b2-ddd4-44c2-ae7b-f53a3c7ce6cb)
Microelectronic Technology (Exhibition) (item number 1) (id 2dde6e55-cfed-4711-9e01-07d7883cfda8)
Motor Cars (item number 1) (id 9d4cc7f5-6ae9-4517-a965-4d5ba00f88fb)
Small Firms (item number 1) (id a266a2ca-2bf3-487a-9926-8780095e04ed)
Engineering Profession (item number 1) (id 598f2e50-511b-4f79-8f04-2024e78ea155)
British Shipbuilders (item number 1) (id 9a51d6f8-25b0-4c98-b088-fcda74952295)
Austin And Pickersgill (item number 1) (id 75a26a03-762e-4c32-9d2f-0e591794b7e6)
Waste Management (item number 1) (id 22d41156-b8da-48f8-96c0-e544ba1b6ec4)

Northern Ireland
Venereal Disease (item number 1) (id 0e789580-e8c0-4d00-a4e1-2080b914f40a)

National Finance
The Arts (Patronage) (item number 1) (id 42e48309-c7ae-4079-b257-6e7a49f083fc)
Stamp Duty (item number 1) (id ed508c47-1b47-4f48-8f21-08504d7e4fee)
Stocks, Shares And Unit Trusts (item number 1) (id b3edaea0-6caa-4175-9918-873bf2cd408d)
Public Sector Borrowing Requirements (item number 1) (id 4966292d-7dae-4db0-aaee-19c707a067c4)
Double Taxation Relief (item number 1) (id 8d335ced-ba47-43e0-b074-d89125d73248)
£ Sterling (item number 1) (id 65726f8b-618d-4ec8-84f5-bc0abdd668b6)
Manufactures (Exports) (item number 1) (id fc57c903-f811-44d3-b47b-36e98e3ca4a1)
Balance Of Payments (item number 1) (id 78e90169-7c30-4a90-ac2f-62b514b8b40c)
Personal Incomes (Taxation) (item number 1) (id 9b76c2e6-402a-4766-9b4e-97c95da20653)
Expenditure (item number 1) (id 8a6a1d57-98dc-4201-baf9-d85c4223d3ce)
Premium Bonds (item number 1) (id f7393219-f72f-4a70-aba5-6fd35296e1bd)
Council House Sales (Tax Relief) (item number 1) (id e42ef125-9cc6-4ea9-a0ac-416a4f52b4dd)
European Monetary System (item number 1) (id 35ef5945-624d-4ea6-b8c9-ee27b62f9f4e)
Mortgage Interest (Tax Relief) (item number 1) (id ebb091e8-4453-4c2d-91dd-07ee331051eb)

Transport
Road Programme (item number 1) (id 522f4e95-9a80-4795-94ab-2addabcd2270)
Public Transport (item number 1) (id 78dd922b-7c1e-4405-9f5e-5cb408dca7bd)
Road Construction (Local Authority Budget) (item number 1) (id 18563532-175b-4459-a38c-d78607eb8185)
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