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Commons Hansard for 28 July 1980 (Volume 989)

From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated 13 May 2018 at 12.00am.

Commons Chamber

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

House Of Commons (item number 1) (id 96292316-aa3f-4284-9cd1-b949d3c7f44b)
Prayers (item number 2) (id ef1731d0-ba6b-4ee0-a7a1-75d8c61446a2)
Private Business (item number 3) (id 786d1bda-efe2-4047-a810-8fa3ea9a5549)
National Health Service(Scotland) (item number 5) (id 1b5cdd97-ef70-448d-9880-0c99e6a5fbb5)
Business Of The House (item number 6) (id c72261ed-4625-42ab-a56c-46999905fe42)
Social Security Benefits(Uprating) (item number 7) (id 447e4736-f686-43b5-88e9-4c9d4a8518bb)
See Division 430 In Col 1249 (item number 8) (id 0ebcef62-8f7f-4ead-96d3-3a01bcf73e09)
Business Of The House (item number 9) (id 3bc27ce6-d150-4f2e-9bdd-0bef5003baab)
Orders Of The Day (item number 10) (id 076569c8-e755-42f8-ab9f-711cc7a3ccd6)
Employment Bill (item number 11) (id 2a48a99f-9b5a-42fb-b638-b3391123c4dd)
Education (Scotland) Billlords (item number 17) (id d06bd50d-a7de-4a12-a5c7-0567d40ba3f5)
Water (Scotland) Bill Lords (item number 18) (id e4e15695-ecc9-4c2a-9399-50e8e340ce15)
Solicitors (Scotland) Bill Lords (item number 19) (id d2ec24cc-1761-4613-b481-eaee4f02ea8b)
Criminal Appeal (Northernireland) Bill Lords (item number 20) (id 1aa99f8e-0d77-4879-b2cc-59a6c8400a20)
Highways Bill Lords (item number 21) (id cda7da02-1730-4622-916f-c58798a1d85f)
State Schools (Voluntaryaid Services) (item number 22) (id 3faa2a53-fc13-43b0-8007-b7c83b52fbd7)
Social Security Benefit (Uprating) (item number 23) (id 2eacb7be-4616-4d57-9a6f-3b5ea2dde8c7)
Employment Bill (item number 24) (id aa473fda-98d0-4241-9ad4-0ee07b654c9c)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id c3b8ca9c-5e07-4e83-99a0-1725b20e399b)

Employment

Kirklees (item number 1) (id 9ffbf518-58c8-4d2b-a299-0892a70775b6)
Liquid Petroleum Gas Pipeline (Canvey Island) (item number 1) (id a42571a3-76c4-42fc-aeb9-339cfcd81532)
Unfair Dismissal (Compensation) (item number 1) (id 7cb88cc1-990f-418f-a1fe-8f60eabfc5eb)
Unemployment Rates (item number 1) (id 3feab6be-1f90-402c-b378-e6b6bb98f27f)
Industrial Retraining (item number 1) (id 1180c38d-cb82-4fbe-9236-012a147dbeb7)
"Fit For Work" Campaign (item number 1) (id d50d3d84-b744-45c8-9e8d-e84991369f04)
Unemployed Persons (item number 1) (id b21c2b16-3aa8-4566-9a9c-fac6e7d73cfd)
Scaffolders (Training) (item number 1) (id 8e463949-a1d0-4e5f-86af-f85dcba3500a)
Liverpool Inner Employment Office (item number 1) (id ac72a04b-0b9f-4484-8cb5-685f2d8a1b7b)
Merseyside (item number 1) (id d3a266cc-05cc-41da-b45a-6b616947a920)
Disabled Persons (item number 1) (id eec20d0f-273a-4e6a-a22a-a4723d096d7c)
Construction Workers (item number 1) (id 26274259-f92b-4abb-ba2f-2cadf0bfc8e0)
Small Businesses (Closures) (item number 1) (id 5a0fc7ab-5f15-4e40-83df-1ea967b9ab44)
School Leavers (Bolton) (item number 1) (id 36cfbb5c-2446-4875-aac1-4d7ea05ca359)
St Fergus Gas Terminal (item number 1) (id a76c9c6c-5838-44ec-bf83-1b34692609fa)
Graduates (Wages) (item number 1) (id da97a3d6-f8ce-405e-9146-f6ab24144937)
Wage Levels (item number 1) (id 10ec9a40-64bf-44a8-8187-21fed8fb6321)
Ethnic Minorities (Birmingham) (item number 1) (id e344c38c-23c9-4ea7-baed-ca472a7f2385)
Public Enterprise (item number 1) (id 48d77395-974d-4a9d-b41d-d02cb732588d)
Manchester (item number 1) (id cdc9832c-4173-497e-abaa-c92bfb24307b)
Retail Price Index (item number 1) (id cc0a84c8-fc53-4e5f-8318-2535b979710c)
Maryport (item number 1) (id 39dd1198-65ab-4795-8ed5-1d7152f0eb09)
Short-Time Working (item number 1) (id 3c2d41d4-739a-4e21-a932-61d015640af5)

National Finance

Fringe Benefits (Taxation) (item number 1) (id 58700360-6cb7-415a-bd0d-423b2b53e953)
Personal Taxation (item number 1) (id 419da915-4fea-4498-bb42-b99c17dc2501)
Unemployment Costs (item number 1) (id 4422216c-552e-44a4-be93-9f394501f0a8)
North Sea Oil (Economic Effect) (item number 1) (id 384e97e5-d516-42db-b5c6-86c48448bdf6)
Charities (Disabled Persons) (item number 1) (id 33a1462d-3249-461f-87c7-3e5646b7f142)
Value Added Tax (item number 1) (id 4a88f996-282d-4fb4-8c56-b43888567c2c)
Motability (Car Taxation) (item number 1) (id 50a05b32-1920-45d9-a20f-7e719bd8eef9)
Travel-To-Work Costs (item number 1) (id 25818bdf-6f17-4d63-b7cd-081d59b97b1a)
Married Women (Earnings) (item number 1) (id 4424fc97-40dc-4416-898e-47c44a378078)
Company Taxation (item number 1) (id 75d865de-2167-488b-83f3-72f06041d340)
Corporation Tax (item number 1) (id 2f9fb707-0acd-4e6a-ae07-88845266fc59)
Personal Incomes (item number 1) (id ecfe7833-6be2-4ebe-a6c2-4b8251a1ad4e)
Nationalised Industries (item number 1) (id 009b591e-8a47-4f82-8847-ea588371218d)
Investment Funds (item number 1) (id fdd9f807-a52b-4ce0-9ef3-db53e296a9c2)
Prices And Money Supply (item number 1) (id 6bbba45f-92aa-4a81-b88e-4578e8c7991b)
Equity Capital (item number 1) (id 7053171b-12be-401b-b49e-676ea87f6b4e)
State Enterprises (item number 1) (id 6d4681cf-0b5f-4cac-9046-73744ea431ee)
Gross Capital Formation (item number 1) (id 594e7f5f-99e1-4191-8acb-9368b2524769)
National Museums Council (item number 1) (id 91ac2b6c-321b-4709-8f71-9c8017a43334)
Ethnic Art(Government Assistance) (item number 1) (id 6d6ea37f-85f9-43f8-a0fb-26266f80ec96)
Railway Engines (Barry) (item number 1) (id d401bb04-4d2c-49e4-9f51-9425f496ec79)
Works Of Art(Capital Gains Tax) (item number 1) (id 4d660e96-9012-4ff7-9cb0-40c948c7cec4)
Galleries (Expenditure Ofpublic Funds) (item number 1) (id 29ac2bef-1bbf-4066-906a-e96b2f6fcd8b)
Departmental Costs (item number 1) (id ae3a9e5a-05ec-4fc0-824b-8af32a1b202e)
Arts Sponsorship Advisory Committee (item number 1) (id 4ee5196e-4418-44dd-9c3f-1c866d46ccd0)

Home Department

Metropolitan Police Stations (item number 1) (id 2b00fea4-8aef-4a55-89eb-c03202921c43)
Iranian Nationals (item number 1) (id b1ac315f-8d2a-4e10-a588-90e745331a15)
Foreign Nationals (item number 1) (id fa15c346-160a-49e2-86de-4536c51a0ae2)
Bbc (Financing) (item number 1) (id d0f7e00d-aaba-496f-a450-e3eba84761ca)
Immigration Offences (Police Raids) (item number 1) (id dbe2fd7c-92a4-4622-a4aa-49374674aea8)
Vietnamese Refugees (item number 1) (id 0b1dbadf-7a04-4940-82b3-6ab7e9557f43)
Prisoners (Suicides) (item number 1) (id 2d38eeb1-c884-4b19-821a-894c48e460fd)
Crimes Of Violence (item number 1) (id 443ecf60-f0bd-42ea-b818-fd6c9f0c510a)
Self-Service Stores (Bag Parks) (item number 1) (id e250bcb3-1346-4a4f-99d8-6615c75edbe6)
Private Security Industry (item number 1) (id 22a6998f-b2f8-459e-843d-8cb76e00922d)
Picketing (item number 1) (id 739dbe3e-8a6d-459b-9e7b-04e40df4c74e)
Gaming (Amendment) Act (item number 1) (id 9247c164-8661-4633-8515-320e761d3da7)
Civil Defence (item number 1) (id 91561ca5-ecbb-4a04-b642-e4a725a060db)
European Parliament(Travel Allowances) (item number 1) (id fa6160a7-41dc-4404-9209-5d7d535f7792)
Escaped Prisoners(Information) (item number 1) (id a0493265-4332-4351-9ee9-d4331a86f0da)
Police (Firearms) (item number 1) (id 67f80d41-084f-49cd-8ad8-97b6a43c0409)
Police (Cs Gas) (item number 1) (id 5b3baeb7-deda-47cb-b497-d205023c8353)
Television Licences (item number 1) (id 4f6eec39-eccc-4542-85d2-8fe48737df53)
Nationality (item number 1) (id 911d1a0b-9085-4118-9342-81028a43818f)

Trade

Footwear Industry (item number 1) (id b411cc98-159f-4e42-937f-6a83165a26df)
Italy (item number 1) (id 45f0fa2a-eda0-491b-8b86-f1a5acbcd7f3)
Washing Machines (item number 1) (id 3d7a5f82-09d8-4e3e-852f-fe5182dbbc63)
Fluoride Powder (item number 1) (id 0fe3bc90-d4c0-4027-8e64-8571ab7f4aeb)
Soviet Union (Motor Cars) (item number 1) (id 1fb2784a-2feb-44f1-8fe0-afe9e7d013c3)
Wood (Imports) (item number 1) (id 0ca432a4-b569-4cb6-be0d-41053676171f)
Regional Airports (item number 1) (id 525821ac-6c79-42e7-8eea-04a7eace927f)
Electricity Consultative Councils (item number 1) (id 0f8f1cc9-9817-41fc-8419-ce4d71a45b8d)
Air Travel (Disabled Persons) (item number 1) (id 17f2ff69-7dd4-4271-9630-78a88f5c682b)
Bicycles (item number 1) (id fcfff047-48b4-4d59-a4eb-50707ffef0a2)
Canada (item number 1) (id 5768e0b0-127f-451d-a450-8500b0160af2)
Prato Industries (item number 1) (id 029f6fe4-9bca-4a5a-af1c-e04621042e81)
Oil Tankers (Navigation Equipment) (item number 1) (id 771922cd-cdca-460e-919e-60b2e566b021)
Carpets (United States) (item number 1) (id 2b4cbc54-8349-49b5-b148-9d0daf695ffa)
Gatwick Airport (item number 1) (id 78bb2b54-49e2-40df-8b4b-a93349b557a9)
Iraq (item number 1) (id 103360d6-6613-4276-96bf-c16bad6017e1)
Imports And Exports (Own Subsidiaries) (item number 1) (id 433711cc-c99f-44a0-824d-3ec9062b7e30)
Visible Trade (item number 1) (id 4098e4a4-9340-4ff2-a48b-89cdc585e1b7)
Multi-Fibre Arrangement (United States) (item number 1) (id 4538f3b7-f007-4d5e-8a51-afa5da5da21f)
Clothing And Footwear (item number 1) (id 24e0e1dc-d21e-430f-a8e5-3a44723ee09e)
Commercial Agents(Community Directive) (item number 1) (id 1ecba688-b6d8-4a43-a906-7c3b3bb8d7d5)
Textiles (item number 1) (id e45b8146-061a-4a4d-bb9c-52aaa78649bd)

Environment

Building Regulations (item number 1) (id 230dab48-bb30-4c05-8c5e-0345312880d2)
Crashed Aircraft(Damage Claims) (item number 1) (id 870ac3f6-d528-49b8-a7d1-a5b9600b2755)
Archaeology (item number 1) (id f4f17b26-960b-4a01-958c-7f75c0b1cbd5)
Whale Products (item number 1) (id b0dccf23-cbba-4910-905e-b32f5946fe48)
Housing Estates(Heating Systems) (item number 1) (id a0b5abcf-59a5-40d7-855f-592470b70e0f)
Roadford Reservoir (item number 1) (id ebf96395-0ecd-4b3a-90e7-f8272cf33ede)
Houses (Chimneys) (item number 1) (id 5aaa5a45-d784-4749-8aae-fb061e190de6)
Footpath Procedures (Review) (item number 1) (id 1de6c88c-e813-4c4f-809e-38e6671af2f7)
Housing Loans (item number 1) (id 0e511b81-90bc-4b98-b2e1-a289cdba9cad)
Local Authority And New Town Houses (Sale) (item number 1) (id 178435fc-854b-48f7-9078-31b487b0c620)
Publicly-Owned Property (Sales) (item number 1) (id 8fd194f7-ca3a-4756-a331-40d90305d623)
National Parks (Access) (item number 1) (id 9d42f5a4-93d7-4815-96df-0606dac04ae4)
County Boundaries (item number 1) (id 2f4a22c5-b697-44fa-8453-787a177a9beb)
Disabled Persons (Access To Buildings) (item number 1) (id 3ed55082-6d04-4d92-84eb-dae8cb11001c)
Local Authority Staffs (item number 1) (id e59fe985-1a10-40d8-8ccc-cd7510df42bf)
Local Authority Expenditure (item number 1) (id 32aa7913-3592-4977-9121-83f320caed34)
Water And Sewerage Charges (item number 1) (id 1cb43f94-ae1b-4601-908a-cbc7e36962da)
Agré Ment Board (item number 1) (id 6a60902d-4025-4ae7-a40e-fb0d5e6289d9)
Council House Building (item number 1) (id 29dde3ef-f066-487d-9622-533a77d04559)
Direct Labour Organisations (item number 1) (id 143ae68a-aac6-460c-8588-b2ea1d64684f)

Social Services

South West Thames Regional Healthauthority (item number 1) (id dd11048a-0b49-4eff-b9dd-5e3585f928b3)
Hexachlorophene (item number 1) (id 64e5ccea-6efa-4037-b98a-c89d369087ef)
Emergency Bed Bureau (item number 1) (id 606d8d01-d611-4ca6-9455-8e0c418f1883)
Pornographic Material (Loans) (item number 1) (id d6e30e34-b5fd-42ba-b11a-bcef60e2ae62)
Private Health Treatment (item number 1) (id a0abf937-d2e5-4464-b6d2-c3626ca97073)
Benefits (item number 1) (id 65f66cdf-2cbf-4d1e-abf7-d0b657efc770)
Mobility Allowance (item number 1) (id 4e408ed4-70da-4075-945f-e5c826956713)
Disabled Persons (item number 1) (id 1bdf4ae9-20d5-4238-80b2-bcdd55873faa)
Dentists And Opticians (Code Of Practice) (item number 1) (id a6a33dcd-f715-4f9d-81a7-522ceeddbe30)
Prescription Charges (item number 1) (id 8deab1be-0c38-4b3d-b8a1-5477f1133340)
Disabled Persons (item number 1) (id 171deba2-aba8-406a-a3e1-0058fa51572c)
Acute Beds (item number 1) (id 69505cb2-0ab9-448d-96bc-7c2087923f16)
Deaf And Hearing-Impaired Persons (item number 1) (id cffa1334-3c6a-417a-be89-19aa896eba04)
Family Income Supplement (item number 1) (id aa1e2f9c-fd0a-4dd2-a0db-1a16a684b34d)
Supplementary Allowance And Pension (item number 1) (id fec2d24a-c5e1-46cc-9d87-48b44a90884b)
Homoeopathic Medicines (item number 1) (id 7e98d1e2-f055-4546-b43f-2a8eaaf539f2)
National Insurance Fund (item number 1) (id b8c0102c-bca2-4fd1-862c-bfd07ceda311)
Essex (Day Centres) (item number 1) (id 0d1f20ae-550a-45df-91e1-50e3582bc986)
Fluoridation (item number 1) (id ac58f8db-5ad7-4de0-ad5d-bba573a1c73a)
Retirement Pension (item number 1) (id 95cf35f3-b350-411c-9d4f-34820c9875ef)
Mentally Retarded Children (item number 1) (id 0af04bfa-eee6-49c6-95b6-aaf7b5a432b9)

Scotland

Local Authority Housing Estates (Heating Systems) (item number 1) (id a5ea9662-7a8f-4d23-a527-14fb63a6c801)
Roadworks (item number 1) (id da6a3e38-5c5e-4384-98d9-264f082826ff)
Municipal Swimming Pools (item number 1) (id 5d875ad8-14ae-414a-a688-181de66ef2cf)
Housing Standards (item number 1) (id 4dd1cfad-e5c5-4147-9009-1586ef0d03cb)
District General Hospitals (item number 1) (id 375eecd8-702b-4a66-ba41-2db2d125931a)
Industrial Development Sites (item number 1) (id 5f5f7acc-7149-4d5d-a5de-8bd98e33d401)
Environmental Improvement (item number 1) (id 3bcd883a-55c6-4d1a-b7c6-f478a913d46f)
Unemployment Statistics (item number 1) (id 4ee76b1f-128e-43b5-9903-af39740c4524)
Fishing Fleet (Fuel Consumption) (item number 1) (id 1c90388c-e288-48a9-9824-94a0f3d05863)
Rates (item number 1) (id 15170c1a-3fb6-4d31-8622-19247cd46036)
Council Tenancies (item number 1) (id 5d84f5bc-e498-4fca-8f2a-82f6c07b4db1)
Tourist Industry (Grants) (item number 1) (id 7d86d875-1394-4dda-a76d-b3edab40fbe3)
Hotels And Boarding Houses(Fire Precautions) (item number 1) (id ebbfb7ba-f001-495f-b990-f9d64f776ce3)
Inshore Waters (Pollution) (item number 1) (id 6ed68a06-bc35-40a2-8350-dd8676973e9b)
Crimes Of Violence (item number 1) (id 1fa6b9c5-d238-4dfa-a5f4-faa05db0d4d4)
Herring (item number 1) (id bf886140-e1a1-44c7-9621-91ee44f76f73)
A74—M74 (item number 1) (id ac6bc0b6-fdc5-4f5d-9ef1-4470ff88449f)
Fishing Industry (item number 1) (id f1ec2ec7-bb38-4392-929d-671a059d1591)
Inner Urban Areas (item number 1) (id 7e041690-ef78-4cda-9a2a-1f19ed1a6a62)
Remedial Education (item number 1) (id 9d3a8978-262c-4fb9-9c3e-d924a7345d44)
Matrimonial Home And Domestic Violence (Legislation) (item number 1) (id 31fba0aa-4ed2-4b6e-95d4-20462f118ffe)
Prisoners (Suicides) (item number 1) (id a3897a7c-4ece-4e29-9fbd-3ac5916da374)
Youth Employment (item number 1) (id 4edd6bb6-6f1c-4e49-937a-651e41157782)
Mentally Retarded Children (item number 1) (id 8a60bdf9-7a01-466e-b164-06ae9cf6ed94)
Unemployment (Dundee) (item number 1) (id ccb9abd6-6434-48bb-83a3-1311d484ed5c)
Ministerial Meetings (item number 1) (id 7ce9b86d-9c3c-4217-b066-4b0b3a5d2407)
Doctors And Dentists (item number 1) (id 6961e851-2033-4498-b100-8e4f4b2e517f)
School Leavers ("O" Grades) (item number 1) (id db4b5c04-b032-42e1-a920-8e5658128a0f)
Teachers (item number 1) (id 2d14ea12-76f4-474a-916f-5a74583bb3a2)
Dundee ("West End Smell") (item number 1) (id dc850cc6-e219-4ac2-b7e2-2862aedcf95a)
Mr James Campbell Hogg (item number 1) (id 98acaf79-2f45-4193-8a22-257d8b02ee76)
Police (Cs Gas) (item number 1) (id 55eea860-73c7-4d54-8e04-a3312c560e56)
Police (Firearms) (item number 1) (id 5a620c18-8223-46f2-b3e7-fc899172b4ae)

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