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Commons Hansard for 16 December 1980 (Volume 996)

From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated 13 May 2018 at 1.31am.

Commons Chamber

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

House Of Commons (item number 1) (id d38f3b74-be68-4d05-bef5-989544ebee75)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 59e28fcb-2cb3-4c78-8ae7-712e7bbc1975)
Royal Assent (item number 4) (id 2b91cef8-7ebc-4120-8ac7-b703ba21e75a)
Rate Support Grant (England) (item number 7) (id 79d45c6b-1741-4c9d-82dd-558c0e83ecd5)
Rate Support Grant And Housing (Wales) (item number 8) (id 2f60d272-1518-4a00-804d-dfd62869f876)
Business Of The House (item number 9) (id 920fb38d-abbe-4485-bb8c-a5a0381fa0c3)
Steel Industry (item number 11) (id 2a80725e-5f1c-4345-b837-beee0d427060)
Defence Estimates, 1981–82 (Vote On Account) (item number 12) (id d5e7adde-8d7d-46f7-a6c1-d53398925a4b)
Civil Estimates, 1981–82 (Vote On Account) (item number 13) (id ec4704f7-97cd-42ec-a73a-9eab77ba5960)
Civil Estimates, (Class Xiiia) 1981–82 (Vote On Account) (item number 14) (id f0008b22-233b-4874-a556-6ddc2766a588)
Defence Supplementary Estimates, 1980–81 (item number 15) (id f667abdb-fcf2-41af-a670-07d8b9e029c8)
Civil Supplementary Estimates, 1980–81 (item number 16) (id 560ec6fd-16d4-4671-ac71-dabb9b5e22e2)
Consolidated Fund (item number 17) (id 9f60b8c8-01d4-4967-8e4a-696bc8b0311b)
European Community (Newsprint Quota) (item number 18) (id c056192d-b46a-4472-b020-a86c6c8061ee)
Coal Industry (Redundant Mineworkers And Concessionary Coal) (item number 19) (id bfb3b80b-4579-4083-95f9-78d74199dbff)
Railway Services (London) (item number 20) (id 22bc6a44-b514-4bb1-933e-87c18ed7abaf)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 7e930874-a369-408f-8326-e934885db4c5)

Social Services

Nurses (Pay) (item number 1) (id 0bc6b42a-d6f1-4ba8-848a-2eeb9fffd533)
Cremation (item number 1) (id 787b2a2e-b33f-4913-a389-e17352aab449)
Supplementary Benefit (item number 1) (id fcf8156f-c360-44ec-ae17-26a9fbcb1905)
Disablement Income Group (item number 1) (id af2916b2-4ffc-4cc7-ad06-ee2178088d7b)
Fraud And Abuse (item number 1) (id 0717820c-e4bf-412e-a589-2bf022dd11ba)
Means-Tested Benefits (item number 1) (id 0bd5cd77-5a88-40ae-88e3-a6392b15e7b4)
Retirement Pensions (Age Addition) (item number 1) (id 5ad3b6a1-6334-4c01-b224-07019f1b8b29)
Social Security Benefits (School Leavers) (item number 1) (id ba5843b0-fa04-4b6d-b3fd-5be84bc35939)
Cuckfield And Crawley Health District (item number 1) (id 68590d3e-eed0-4f87-826d-12e72c06eeda)
Elderly Persons (item number 1) (id 819d589c-f25b-4e5c-bbba-0a0637cf9e1e)
Gas And Electricity Supplies (item number 1) (id a68f6ce5-3935-4ae4-b3eb-ae83f9951365)
Child Care Services (item number 1) (id 3e407c87-a45d-49fd-8a00-4057f82f1a8b)
Special Hospital Patients (item number 1) (id e30ad012-ce26-480d-b8fc-2cdafab2706e)
Adoption (item number 1) (id 31f1112c-6f70-462d-9ec7-c0944e4b10c7)
Psychiatric Care (item number 1) (id 68b5cc25-0bfa-4f8c-a3bc-47fa23ab6976)
Maternity Benefit (item number 1) (id 4aae27d1-21b0-4138-8632-6194de8d0e83)
Sick Pay (item number 1) (id 30ad7e33-09f1-40e1-9084-a45cb6338ba7)
Council House Rents (item number 1) (id 06a2d6f5-f594-4e68-a61d-42fe7651c905)
Health Centres (item number 1) (id 43ca1480-1df2-4575-a219-03a1f4909a65)
Disabled Persons (item number 1) (id 4260dc67-dac1-47b6-bb4b-a126986bcfb4)
National Insurance Contributions (item number 1) (id b65f309b-b460-42ff-b19c-e88e045c6fbb)
Benefits (Uprating) (item number 1) (id 02f523fc-534c-4cb2-9e73-e639bc7efb19)
Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 (item number 1) (id bb71cc0a-5d04-4a84-8292-927b9904bec9)
Strathclyde Region (Benefit Take-Up) (item number 1) (id 2bb0ce70-fdba-4ef8-9890-9c25fa8af159)
Departmental Manpower (item number 1) (id 4bbc19fa-c7ea-4c06-ac7c-4c1a60674451)
Peripheral Vascular Disease (item number 1) (id 847e1b18-aabd-4d3a-9622-7243b7fe3e0b)
Eye Examinations (item number 1) (id f2b336af-e566-4a19-ae3e-108a93ce0e77)
Pension (Uprating) (item number 1) (id 17c66554-6e9c-427d-a8ee-6dbce3845841)
Short-Term Sickness Benefit (item number 1) (id 9d76ec59-1f11-4e58-a415-fd3d8a1882a0)
Unmodified Electroplexy (item number 1) (id d809d1b9-7795-4f98-b193-94b93aea86b1)
Invalidity Benefit (item number 1) (id 85ed0943-bb72-4fa5-a80b-ba44a50ca4f6)
Child Income Support (item number 1) (id 9c52612d-0e6a-43da-b666-e5e637409bad)
Leicester (Ministerial Visit) (item number 1) (id f7a169dd-1c1b-4f1a-8662-38748bb63ddd)
Black Report (item number 1) (id 3e952804-7a31-468c-833f-a66ea4361e4b)
Mentally Handicapped Children (item number 1) (id 42bcd4bf-a733-469d-9924-57df90a560ac)
Consultants (Domiciliary Visits) (item number 1) (id 061f6e8a-1d9d-405c-b665-bd3e0055d801)
National Health Service (item number 1) (id e30ac468-6a4f-4e44-8022-6b354be4faae)
Hospital Waiting Lists (Greenwich And Bexley) (item number 1) (id 8a668706-70f7-48bc-9cf7-6a06b085ce5c)
Hospitals (Thames Region) (item number 1) (id c25c9ccf-e8ef-4dc0-9d87-d92e040c7dd5)
Unemployed Persons (Re-Establishment Centres) (item number 1) (id e307cde0-8104-43cd-a038-ec5c4f149ca2)
Peers (Appointments) (item number 1) (id ca7c0aa5-be77-424c-897a-b47d52e6f30c)
State Retirement Pension (item number 1) (id 84ae7add-00c0-4a7c-a317-895e7918c44e)
Vocational Training (item number 1) (id 46e13f56-0503-4e43-adc7-e9806d021e98)
Overseas Doctors (item number 1) (id d3f0d244-d74a-40a6-a71d-324ac8a80501)
Family Spending Power (item number 1) (id 2e0ea809-d3df-46b0-b7e3-845034721339)
European Community Legislation (item number 1) (id 69faa3f1-a025-4e57-8ec8-4d1c5df425da)
Hypnosis (item number 1) (id 6d6e0ced-618b-49b4-9b1a-3701c736a314)
Part-Time Medical Officers (item number 1) (id 7e75da48-18db-4b8d-b025-01b9afe9bb4b)
Tobacco And Tobacco Products (Advertising) (item number 1) (id a2fd0410-7de4-4838-a6a7-3b35a1f4182d)
Retirement Pensioners (Television Licence Fee) (item number 1) (id 7c9c4e04-c7f1-41c8-8738-95d5f4c203de)
Old People's Homes (item number 1) (id adf2df53-0956-4f78-844e-35a950b995ae)
Child Benefit (Dundee) (item number 1) (id 69f52d7a-322d-4c20-b64f-d3cbb4de61a9)
Occupational Pensions (Transferability) (item number 1) (id 50ddf65d-3b40-4074-a0a6-16a9256b2782)
Depo Provera (item number 1) (id c731d50b-16f2-463f-9428-2a8f01e0e517)
Committee On Safety Of Medicines (item number 1) (id 854a5d81-28cf-494a-81e0-8eb1cf3637b1)
Grove Maternity Hospital (Barton-On-Sea) (item number 1) (id 76ebba57-14e2-4037-bd72-4df4c667fa38)
Hospital Beds (item number 1) (id 61f48f2d-1295-4715-83f9-25c5a4af6f1f)
"Fuel Direct" System (item number 1) (id 7961868d-73f3-48f4-a11c-ec54351e36de)
"Lead Or Health" (item number 1) (id dc572824-00b1-4ffd-951f-0ce03858c39b)
Abortions (item number 1) (id 39558502-2610-4ab4-bb3f-84ff541c01e0)
Sanitary Appliances (item number 1) (id 23d48099-5c86-4104-9480-3fdc102ec601)
Blood Donors (item number 1) (id 8b88499f-33d1-4873-b017-89b788889140)
South Yorkshire (Psychiatric Services) (item number 1) (id d47e118d-db05-4b9a-9435-8444deea7107)
Derbyshire Area Health Authority (Hospital Closures) (item number 1) (id 463bb228-8140-407c-817b-cc4abe66e160)
Liverpool (Geriatric And Paediatric Services) (item number 1) (id 95642d52-e734-4d8a-b3fe-f51fa50ee08b)
Mr Philip G Carr (item number 1) (id 93f232e6-980e-47d3-9c7a-b51ce2aab9fe)
Information (Unauthorised Disclosure) (item number 5) (id 87336b2f-187f-460b-bd27-64e0d137457f)
Prime Minister (Engagements) (item number 6) (id 0431a79f-2dcf-4a16-a35d-e85624e906de)
European Community (Heads Of Government) (item number 7) (id aac9609e-8dd5-4c2a-95aa-724503a58cd0)
Lancashire Hill, Stockport (item number 8) (id 0cd93ec9-6b74-460a-b497-ab1859985a20)
Poland (Prime Minister) (item number 9) (id bbbde722-c9b3-4d52-8c0f-5b8b0c4637a4)
Nuclear Deterrent (item number 10) (id cda7c7e5-ae81-4cdd-b7c6-d48921d4b067)
Sir Robert Armstrong (Paris Visit) (item number 11) (id d4761437-4464-4f9f-b636-67c0b6c06fc1)
Sir Derek Rayner (item number 12) (id 2f25b84f-b8d2-4bc1-9921-39ef060eebd8)
Central Educational Institutions And Universities (item number 13) (id ea8fbf81-5c0e-4094-ae5b-54d61f9af47f)
Prison Population (item number 14) (id ab7d6651-79fa-4468-a233-1c4af7e97711)
Iranian Students (item number 15) (id 1781994b-3bf1-4146-bf33-66a5ac63a71b)
Expenditure Cuts (item number 16) (id dba206cf-3d70-428f-8625-5c07d630a73d)
Departments Of The Environment And Transport (Regional Offices) (item number 17) (id 6347da79-d33b-459b-b2a6-4fdddeacb037)
Old Deer, Aberdeenshire (item number 18) (id bd30fe84-9755-4f4f-bba9-098d0dab2e1f)
Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire (item number 19) (id 3d1282af-691e-4992-b4e5-c7835c46f7dc)
Legal Costs (Limits) (item number 23) (id 38e33b16-da79-409d-91b6-6c1a781adcfd)
Plaintiffs Claims (Investment Accounts) (item number 24) (id 14174b16-4413-4aa7-bd02-24ba52b2fcf2)
Legal Aid Contributions (item number 25) (id 0942bbaa-3719-431b-8a08-ad156b7ce4b6)

Transport

Off-Street Parking Charges (item number 1) (id 972cda55-2349-497e-b0f4-46b140809d0a)
Petrol (Lead Content) (item number 1) (id 20f93cd6-13ea-497d-a26f-3037df59a964)
Road Traffic Accidents (item number 1) (id 5c67ac5d-e5d6-4446-9791-611933d26611)
European Community Legislation (item number 1) (id d702ae8e-0ce7-4553-b520-8f6723586059)
Drinking And Driving (Alcohol Levels) (item number 1) (id 856174d1-e85b-47b3-af91-3c45e2b5e82d)
Armitage Report (item number 1) (id 295abc5b-b171-49ad-9e0f-7c7fbe4f4d92)
Roads (Expenditure) (item number 1) (id 973bd77a-a0c8-4790-b238-cc3ff4100a4e)
Freight Roll-On, Roll-Off Service (Heysham-Belfast) (item number 1) (id 85b79f87-dddc-4e85-808a-1d236da26ab1)
Regional Highway Traffic Model (item number 1) (id 22908e53-78ff-4e60-af35-9875e921b7df)
M40 Motorway (Land Take) (item number 1) (id c23a3941-aeba-433c-9c21-ff4dcf043d5e)
Winter Road Maintenance (item number 1) (id b5bea043-306f-43ac-b872-ab44724759be)
Vehicle Testing (item number 1) (id d845d5d3-07f2-439d-9c41-ebb667efc72a)
Al (Berwick-Upon-Tweed) (item number 1) (id 32477f27-70f3-438d-bf7d-fea877da5664)
Motorways (item number 1) (id 73b637c7-6269-4cc8-9943-66bf5a98c927)
Road Construction Unit (Harrogate) (item number 1) (id 1b72196f-6cb3-49fd-8429-db1ddf57437d)
Seat Belts (item number 1) (id f4c6ed48-5a35-4223-abce-d77d87c154c3)
Local Transport Capital Allocations (item number 1) (id ff0aa18f-f2de-4b59-bafb-707f5a537c3a)
Agricultural Vehicles (item number 1) (id de421319-abf2-4be9-bd8c-11494ab2de0f)
Information Services (item number 32) (id 756bdf15-0781-4349-9ab1-1ca045c3f607)
Baor (item number 35) (id cd593fd4-6f7b-4044-b3ea-be5c8a760a49)

Employment

Road Transport Industry Training Board (item number 1) (id 14a6e133-f567-4367-8875-81cc8b26f0c2)
Industrial Work Force (Relative Incomes) (item number 1) (id 071a647d-eb5f-459e-b1af-b06500863b44)
British Subjects (Overseas Work) (item number 1) (id 406abac5-8ffd-458e-b928-fddf3379ad12)
Job Creation (item number 1) (id 50f4e18f-1174-443a-9927-115ee8476d7f)
Unemployment Statistics (item number 1) (id 64673d1f-ce5e-4445-8550-ff0acbacc7f6)
School Leavers (item number 1) (id 2d3e4c2c-ecd4-4a59-9067-c9deef663942)
Engineering Training Board (item number 1) (id c3cb14a9-cc2c-42b6-bd53-70dd341e4b87)
Redundancies (item number 1) (id a48d32de-6878-478a-980e-39560d266429)
Redundancy Pay (item number 1) (id 7686cdad-8d32-47f8-9311-d4c435316e34)
Youth Opportunities Programme (item number 1) (id b16a1bab-0ef2-4c0e-a885-36cfe6c33355)
Northern Region (item number 1) (id 4e998a89-42ab-4b55-a30e-26e124282e4c)
Wages Councils (item number 1) (id 19045a59-8663-4aaf-becb-cb7f8f9c10d5)
Young Persons (item number 1) (id 5f61af1e-82a8-4d96-b774-063d1ef651b7)
Redundancy Payments Scheme (item number 1) (id abb19dd8-4fb2-4395-a1fb-a178368e36ad)
Migrant Workers (item number 1) (id 4339f02c-142e-462b-ab95-930b821ced11)
European Centre For The Development Of Vocational Training (item number 1) (id 7ceb88aa-5d06-4082-a30b-19219c26cea3)
Rehabilitation Centres (item number 1) (id 024c4c1c-d0c7-48b6-b7d7-acb605e42182)
Manpower Services Commission (item number 1) (id 0c8234c3-bfa7-4491-8d1a-be4bfd575ab8)
Manufacturing Industry (item number 1) (id 8a1eeddc-fbd4-40e5-8d7b-d9aa23759344)
Unemployment Statistics (item number 1) (id 8c1df0de-6433-43a0-9b78-452b795e96bf)
Wages Inspectorate (item number 1) (id c4c326bf-cbf7-419c-ac5d-44a0574e9acf)
Redundancy Pay (item number 1) (id ba816afc-5f05-463d-907f-3f2b07ea9d1b)
Short-Time Working (Blackburn) (item number 1) (id 3c9858ad-7e72-423a-bf54-2d9999659dcc)
Southampton (Youth Employment) (item number 1) (id ea22d5df-a347-4f13-ba74-568fc95c8e21)
Footwear Industry (Redundancies) (item number 1) (id 8191c44d-ef0f-45b9-82cf-41926f510c7b)
Employee Consultation (item number 1) (id 843ec339-c0a1-4b9a-b79f-70928dcbde2c)
European Community (Manufactured Goods) (item number 1) (id 1d367468-4cba-4a51-8bab-e1ff7dd3222b)

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