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Commons Hansard for 17 December 1981 (Volume 15)

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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 3a520bce-73c1-45d3-ba7f-624dc3b3b396)

Prayers
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Message From The Queen
Zimbabwe (Gift Of A Speaker's Chair) (item number 1) (id d0e24938-b8fd-4ef2-8b36-1a4114561b71)

Private Business
Humberside Bill Lords (By Order) (item number 1) (id 6c3b6339-7649-4079-b832-41a1de50c550)

Oral Answers To Questions
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National Finance
Currency (item number 1) (id d88603ef-e707-42e3-8004-9ce28ef9af64)
National Insurance (Employers' Surcharge) (item number 1) (id 53155574-16ec-437d-9350-39b42fe92cac)
Investment Income (item number 1) (id 5c10c931-7421-4439-ace6-8edf1805af55)
Economic Policy (Incentives) (item number 1) (id 94516bd7-d050-49d6-98e4-8abd324b3c00)
Chancellor (Statement) (item number 1) (id 5277f774-9449-4d56-9a3b-6b8352e9d086)
Corporate Taxation (Spare Capacity) (item number 1) (id 3ecf66d6-9431-4745-960b-e39181601599)
Inflation (item number 1) (id 4b3bb529-fc71-40e3-b7c4-6d97f4de2854)
Government Expenditure (item number 1) (id 1b22b41c-476b-4ef3-b0da-f49f5e8afa10)
Open Heart Surgery Equipment (Import Duty) (item number 1) (id 57b5ca00-71f3-4ccc-a6ce-6596c341f323)
British Leyland (Asset Disposal) (item number 1) (id 7c7ec0f6-8b15-4adf-bfd1-6dbe692169d6)
Government Expenditure (item number 1) (id c72c17eb-0998-4c08-b0b0-6c8c73ec3d9e)
Tax Havens And Company Residence (item number 1) (id 1b0a484e-c987-4f5f-9112-3e9b486f46d8)
Economic Growth (item number 1) (id 4a47ba19-f2fb-4a31-84dd-8425c65b2f84)
Tax And Price Index (item number 1) (id f707f72a-cc0b-427c-bfb5-50ad84816a3a)

Prime Minister
Nurses (Pay) (item number 1) (id fea0d862-f30c-4047-a1d9-2fa69fe51954)
Engagements (item number 1) (id 4398ce7f-592f-4a72-9e12-09ab857e2aa7)
Greater London Council (House Of Lords Judgment) (item number 4) (id bdc166c2-5baf-4320-9ed2-32074c21f2e1)
Business Of The House (item number 5) (id 8c8aca92-6012-41d2-9953-1479f8cc3a5e)
Rev Canon John Baker (item number 6) (id ae8a2a05-584d-4da5-93b6-e1fb5df027af)
Greater London Council (House Of Lords Judgment) (item number 7) (id 2365fed1-8190-45a2-87ab-76bb3c0ca3c0)

Bill Presented
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Oil And Gas (Enterprise) (item number 1) (id d367f234-1cea-4e09-ac28-dfc90ac066ee)

Orders Of The Day
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Social Security (Contributions) Bill (item number 1) (id 4df5e020-0768-4aae-a36f-0e2415077230)

Clause 1
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Increase In Contributions (item number 1) (id aa311c1a-b3d9-457d-a742-2f116d625224)

Clause 2
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Alteration Of Treasury Supplement To Contributions (item number 1) (id 919095cc-e73f-4d31-84c3-b479c942a683)

Clause 3
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Allocation Of Contributions (item number 1) (id 2f3318a1-c15e-424b-8b79-7920c7c669e0)

Schedule 1
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Consequential Amendments (item number 1) (id a71776a1-0b4f-4e4c-8aad-63898bf242cd)
House Of Commons Members' Fund (item number 14) (id a738a379-5444-4a73-8f0f-ded2686fe5d3)

Statutory Instruments, &C
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Companies (item number 1) (id a7c5deb7-61ca-48ad-82ed-ef5c54514b02)
Agriculture (item number 1) (id cb23e4f3-40f3-4d2f-8cef-cb46a9121903)
Lee James Whitmore (item number 1) (id d679b324-30af-4e81-8396-753c22e2b0a3)
Uxbridge Cottage Hospital (item number 1) (id df6b181f-d9a6-410e-8b35-01830c0cbbdc)
National Health Service (Private Enterprise) (item number 1) (id ea6d94b5-70e2-4eea-9f1c-747c5b998641)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id c6180a25-aea5-4e03-898b-8bb24190b26d)

Trade
Vehicles (Imports-Exports) (item number 1) (id 47b70f9e-b664-4204-a851-7bf2146414ae)
Weights And Measures Act 1979 (item number 1) (id d9ed3925-7809-40b0-9ed9-d465987dd5b5)
Polyurethane Furniture (item number 1) (id 7dd9c405-9cf1-493d-a054-0f3361829ce0)

Environment
Imported Waste (Controls) (item number 1) (id 7083cc51-d801-405e-9254-c26062a10e8a)

National Finance
Mortgage Interest Relief (item number 1) (id f30db793-4cba-4dd1-8f17-73b684b279d0)

Agriculture, Fisheries And Food
Farm Units (Enlargement) (item number 1) (id bc2e788d-feb0-4331-83da-38f57b9609da)
Agricultural Training Board (item number 1) (id 2ad00ef3-55e2-4e1c-992b-2d8da65b5fcf)
Farms (Electrical Turbines) (item number 1) (id 3b0e6264-8f74-4016-bfe6-50722d110736)
Sugar (item number 1) (id 533387a1-d28d-4a15-b61c-36cefcfe4c81)
Isoglucose (item number 1) (id 9b626a84-3c0e-47be-966e-27e701c3583d)
European Community (Fishing Rights) (item number 1) (id e521126d-abae-4745-98d3-20d19b503669)
Common Fisheries Policy (item number 1) (id 2c909755-9eab-49d3-b4dd-31438ead71b0)
Calves (item number 1) (id 1fe0ea20-a7ed-4956-90f4-255340c6eedc)
Fish Prices (item number 1) (id 429fb93e-05e5-4a07-90f1-7ca7b315d8f7)
Animal Welfare (item number 1) (id 8f595dcc-6935-4645-b4b1-7354ff953c14)

Energy
Electricity Supplies (item number 1) (id 1e677e1b-1499-46b4-ac4b-1b2185df9b2f)
Fuel Direct Billing (item number 1) (id 5d2af305-215c-4530-9dfa-3367ccc856c4)
Drilling Rigs (Fitness Certificates) (item number 1) (id 465b8960-db2c-4d5b-bcac-b7e9783941b4)
Oil Production (item number 1) (id eb3470eb-94c2-428d-b75b-82761d24a4e6)
Renewable Energy (Expenditure) (item number 1) (id ce48ab86-384d-41f9-aa4e-f2edee851d2b)
British Gas Corporation (North Sea Oil Interests) (item number 1) (id 92774ebd-2897-465d-bea6-6248bb3a8fdd)
Plutonium (item number 1) (id 88cbcd5b-f081-4812-9bc0-c20f32affcff)
Radiation (Safety Measures) (item number 1) (id 19e86243-b2bd-4a47-9053-2f7c5c840fa7)
Nuclear Power Stations (item number 1) (id 4d6c8ecf-1a2d-4095-b52f-620c561915e7)
Oil Savings Bonds (item number 1) (id 5871dcc7-4a2d-49dc-8ffc-ffcf15f0c8a8)

Home Department
Metropolitan Police (Establishment) (item number 1) (id 627018a7-d817-4610-a859-2e6589f2174d)
Criminal Injuries Compensation (item number 1) (id 59785e3d-417f-4db3-97db-2cb863169e7e)
Railton Road (Police Raid) (item number 1) (id 484cbb19-7196-410c-8aee-41d9c7fbaa5c)
Police Officers (Racial Misconduct) (item number 1) (id 2768d526-a414-46d9-bade-c34b62437953)
Bail Conditions (item number 1) (id 1c5d98a8-3f0b-4bf3-84dd-1f7c368e2a01)
Commission For Racial Equality (item number 1) (id 58499251-9a3b-4a25-b5b8-601d1f0ec42d)

Prime Minister
Engagements (item number 1) (id 8caf0ff9-4e2d-4fb4-b8a2-55f5deacb774)
Pay Settlements (item number 1) (id 3f6e8c81-df74-48d4-b471-00cb29f9da76)
Marks And Spencer Ltd (item number 1) (id d40705b3-ed2f-4f56-8aa6-4af9fbc5cec5)
Refuse Collection (item number 1) (id 8531d689-7294-4aef-8cd8-52bd274dc95b)
Trades Union Congress (item number 1) (id 5faee440-7eb1-4a69-b55e-26b56cd4813e)
Management Accounts And Information Systems (Civil Service) (item number 1) (id aec57076-6580-42e0-95f6-a4b07235b69c)
European Community (item number 1) (id 16210fd8-5be9-4f1b-9f9e-64ec292e70b7)
Soviet Government (Confidence-Building Measures) (item number 1) (id 8c7cb712-0710-44ae-a899-d5b67f667a08)
British Leyland (item number 1) (id 87749fff-e7c6-41b0-b933-87723b1daae5)
Science (National Policy) (item number 1) (id bef27c24-553b-42af-ba7a-fdaee5d2ec50)
Nurses' (Pay) (item number 1) (id af33a6ce-387c-4a52-964b-615d3ae314ab)
Rate Support Grant (Parliamentary Questions) (item number 1) (id a99f04a7-df6d-4eed-b948-8d4f0035eb18)

National Finance
Tax And Price Index (item number 1) (id c66c53a7-fc5b-41c1-b9ef-ed234caaa112)
Private Manufacturing Industry (Capital Investment) (item number 1) (id 54e95b09-db08-4638-88f2-619305548481)
Value Added Tax (item number 1) (id cb05e617-c767-4f0c-80c9-731e8953d3ce)
North Sea Oil (Taxation) (item number 1) (id 396b0023-cfe5-41a9-bd27-7862378df9d2)
Chancellor (Statement) (item number 1) (id b4262aae-3fb9-4c64-9f34-09cdb189ce41)
Index-Linked Bonds (Capital Projects) (item number 1) (id f6d0083a-0e96-4bad-be15-9beae220e9ba)
Black Economy (item number 1) (id f45efe0d-0cd2-493d-9b7b-c62093a9ceff)
Unemployment (Costs) (item number 1) (id d7910055-4da4-4128-94db-41ceb977a0d2)
Economic Policy (item number 1) (id 58b4e708-71ce-41d9-9f18-dacdff02600f)
Poverty Trap (item number 1) (id aca1f1ac-b7a2-4cd8-a4da-46305eee8abf)
Economic Advisers (item number 1) (id 2b383b82-8168-4f45-b31a-649c1334d2ce)
Public Sector Borrowing Requirement (Unemployment Costs) (item number 1) (id 6d0adabd-4cf1-4eb6-8a0a-8b98c0f714d9)
Private Health Provision (item number 1) (id 5ddbd76e-f4e7-45c7-bb97-8a67de71a9c6)
Tax Revenue (item number 1) (id 546391a4-9d04-4cdd-a55e-cc501d8a9c74)
Public Expenditure (item number 1) (id 70b2ec03-50f2-4eea-ba85-cdf1fac1c564)
Gross Domestic Capital Formation (item number 1) (id c6ea24ca-c9dd-444e-b207-1b429569214a)
Public Sector Wages (item number 1) (id bc3ddeec-bb98-499a-a7df-4baf37975568)

Wales
Second And Holiday Homes (Memorandum) (item number 1) (id f37d0912-596a-4b47-96f2-d7c6c13741a8)
Registered Common Land (item number 1) (id 8d166a8b-5086-4af4-a594-2f5fad273cf6)

Employment
Youth Opportunities Programme (item number 1) (id 51dc4600-650a-4dcf-bba1-338c6517e93a)
Unemployment Statistics (item number 1) (id 28bfcc4d-b5ce-4418-9ee1-e12df64e0ec9)
Maternity Pay Fund (item number 1) (id 2030e9ff-37aa-4a14-8f3a-d1cab2aba4ab)

Industry
British Steel Corporation (item number 1) (id 8d4ab3f4-a179-4f6b-b023-5eda555eb8ac)
Hunterston (Direct Reduction Plants) (item number 1) (id 4243c446-44f8-49a1-9c53-7621b3221c27)
European Regional Development Fund (item number 1) (id d9e15142-f0db-4bdb-9122-e112124db1b1)
South-West Region (European Community Grants) (item number 1) (id 6bed7c5e-0548-4bf3-817b-99532efebffd)
Telecommunications Equipment (Testing) (item number 1) (id 2a689b34-f084-474c-900c-f148fc3551d6)
Businesses (Incorporation And Liquidation) (item number 1) (id c1693c8f-4146-468f-8260-cdfef1573d02)
Steel Industry (item number 1) (id b594fdbc-4e51-42da-b85a-530b18cac58f)
British Leyland (item number 1) (id 7b9b4c96-6b36-46f5-bba4-378f5af23ad4)

Social Services
National Health Service (Computers) (item number 1) (id c8851ce4-7213-4efc-8948-7b83c90bb4e2)
Family Income (item number 1) (id d55b6cfa-06a2-498d-a20a-ae32b77fb8ba)
Funds (Charitable Sources) (item number 1) (id d8443c13-b5c0-46d2-b13b-2ec20589da18)
Radioprotective Prophylaxes (item number 1) (id 2e340753-5a99-45d2-b2e3-b6baf8b94716)
Unemployment Benefit (item number 1) (id c9bbec74-3b95-4fc1-9af2-716ecc2531a6)
District Health Councils (item number 1) (id 71a52fce-0103-404e-a4b9-d4908f911b7d)
Regional Health Authorities (item number 1) (id 47f48df7-63d1-41f1-a6da-88b5f9043191)
Radiation Exposure (item number 1) (id 1f0dcfa4-bc6a-49e8-91e1-d81585da191e)
Benefits (S Manual) (item number 1) (id 3fae80b1-f5f7-4a03-8a6f-ef99a474a2e7)
Earnings-Related Supplement (item number 1) (id bf20fe47-3ac9-484b-9da3-0e28a43ae3d5)
Clinical Waste (item number 1) (id 053c7371-fd00-4d26-912d-4ca98fb97bee)

Transport
Fylde Coast Eastern Bypass (item number 1) (id 4c7c3c5d-a6e5-4e95-b38d-bff738a256d7)
Railway Bridge, Bedford (Cost) (item number 1) (id d20e4830-0612-4125-aa6a-79fdecff3a9f)
Heavy Lorries (item number 1) (id cea4fe5a-b088-4c0b-a31b-beb2f048cb2f)
Bottesford Bypass (item number 1) (id b24b5e50-a007-48e2-82c4-5a0490192d62)
British Rail (item number 1) (id 745cdbd4-50ea-4951-9f5f-b778d11c81ce)
Port Of Bristol (Financial Assistance) (item number 1) (id e384b524-7459-4878-96e1-048335a10ee5)

Foreign And Commonwealth Affairs
China-Hong Kong (Economic Co-Operation) (item number 1) (id 1ee8a996-b4f0-4ab8-b094-91bad3385435)
El Salvador (item number 1) (id dbdf37dd-0c4e-422e-b199-c47fb0a9a1e9)
Poland (item number 1) (id ef294356-30e9-4e9d-9d12-70d036836381)

European Community
South Africa (item number 1) (id 45cce3e4-7ae1-4cdf-b044-add5e714fdcf)

Environment
Disused Properties (item number 1) (id 9eb5aefb-23e4-492c-921a-361cdbba134f)
Purchasing Policy (item number 1) (id 81053982-4336-40f2-b1d3-3afe8f5e25e1)
Compulsory Purchase (Site Values) (item number 1) (id 98887da0-d0bf-4227-9be0-de19e31bdebb)
Felixstowe Dock (Port Health Services) (item number 1) (id 155f1380-8551-40c4-9ae4-05c52b6931ee)
Rate Support Grant (item number 1) (id 7a0ed9ae-bb73-40c4-9067-90387bfa9658)
Radiation (Safety Measures) (item number 1) (id aee660df-d795-479a-8ba3-dd814282fd67)
House Building (item number 1) (id f23078cc-4809-4ec5-a20a-b954b50f98bb)

Attorney-General
Armed Robbery (City Of London) (item number 1) (id 0c140d4a-4e73-474d-a165-2b20b8b00561)
Mr Edward Scott (item number 1) (id 5dbe15d1-0f39-485e-8c5a-d4cde71b8dce)
Bail Applications (item number 1) (id 870a45b9-0480-494f-abca-4000ee170d6d)

Defence
Nuclear Submarines (Radiation) (item number 1) (id 175cdefb-a634-4fcb-a74b-351ca326dbfd)
Empty Property (item number 1) (id 97138a95-bece-404c-bf83-989c7b651036)
Radiation (Safety Measures) (item number 1) (id 2631cb68-cb53-4579-8f81-6dea80c57eba)

Northern Ireland
Terrorists (item number 1) (id 684127ab-d445-4420-af35-a627b40b53c0)
Shellfish Waters (Designation) (item number 1) (id 0bf4b6e2-1168-42a4-bfd2-325eddc2c335)
Oil Exploration Licences (item number 1) (id 8e339950-d7f4-4fc9-ad91-1638c80f0551)
Terrorist Offences (Convictions) (item number 1) (id 368dd4cc-cace-4612-be0a-04cf7ac3ee98)
Mater Hospital (item number 1) (id 8669b41e-ae96-4264-980d-319868cf1ce1)

Northern Ireland
Mater Hospital (item number 1) (id 5020d156-d264-4d84-8f84-14f626b2638c)
Flax Growing (item number 1) (id ea59d761-ad91-41d5-ad73-62aad229b409)
Bangor Hospital (item number 1) (id f38f6709-4e88-46f9-bb42-01940b7774bd)

Education And Science
Examination Results (item number 1) (id ecf7adff-6d19-4b59-8411-7e206e32ed6e)
Educational Standards (item number 1) (id 842f2ba5-885b-47a0-a0f5-c5a9a03f2e9f)
Overseas Students (item number 1) (id 542dfc1b-675f-42d5-b431-6d4966521758)
Education Voucher Schemes (item number 1) (id 4451e2cc-370c-4a9f-a7cb-37add6cf70ea)

Scotland
Primary Schools (item number 1) (id f136837f-d52e-4065-bd5f-cca837952dff)
Inner Cities (item number 1) (id 3568093e-142d-4ccc-8b86-07f049e56415)
Schoolchildren (Remedial Teaching) (item number 1) (id a8e45878-253d-46cc-bfe0-f9fb7097593d)
Employment Statistics (item number 1) (id 2759cec6-52c4-4b08-b1b8-eb9d8360affe)
National Health Service (item number 1) (id a1000919-0f07-4de1-b7ff-f1c0f4410a5b)

National Finance
Royal Mint (item number 1) (id ba431c48-6018-4d69-a58f-ff478fa66f8a)
Ethnic Minority Publications (item number 1) (id 223de427-5006-489c-bc60-3492729cb5e5)
£ Sterling (item number 1) (id a0acb073-c3bf-48d2-a0dc-ca3ab3498672)
Economic Cycle (item number 1) (id b85a2979-fca6-4105-8675-d38bae68c15f)
Personal Income (item number 1) (id 38aa58d7-2c3c-4e71-88f9-9d650a9a2950)
Bank Notes (item number 1) (id 1b844700-2ab9-4543-beca-d0d73367987e)
British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (item number 1) (id 5a648ae0-4775-4dc3-82dc-a0132a6eea4e)
Company Borrowings (item number 1) (id e4de3775-3881-4a32-88a4-0c22e1fd7087)
Statutes (Index) (item number 1) (id 1304e0ad-ca01-4f4b-ae5a-6f40c7f14657)
European Community Finance Council (item number 1) (id 856bf210-aaea-4b9f-a0ec-1000aff2b4bd)
Keith Committee Report (item number 1) (id 41e2ea17-49cb-4fed-affd-9ce60e2beb50)
Rossminster (Investigation) (item number 1) (id 86cb7643-cb70-4b77-9aba-67ceb8974352)
Investigation (Seizure Of Documents) (item number 1) (id 3a08daaa-4206-4ad0-a010-0e66ab6c5301)
Coinage (Intrinsic Value) (item number 1) (id 8ff9a42a-2fc7-46d8-8744-dceac583a542)
Personal Taxation (Allowances) (item number 1) (id 88a5007b-d5d5-4266-837d-116e4c8a0767)
Paye (Manual Entries) (item number 1) (id 79d705ff-acbf-4843-8b99-1962e1c9ff2f)
Fruit Machines (Taxation) (item number 1) (id 3bc83f36-3c33-4af2-b443-c1908c375fc0)

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