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Commons Hansard for 23 March 1989 (Volume 149)

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Commons Chamber

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

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 6cef1927-2b2e-464b-905a-8a1e9deb19a3)

Transport

Trunk Roads (item number 1) (id 6a846489-baab-40a1-9d42-c984fb22a116)
Channel Tunnel (item number 1) (id edccf700-bd52-468e-8ba1-f321a708db14)
British Rail (Signalling And Safety) (item number 1) (id 98829a6c-1da2-4724-9825-f8d5046b1c17)
Car Telephones (item number 1) (id 9bb8d397-dd30-4a1d-a476-1b27cb4fceb2)
Railway Safety (item number 1) (id cd4bc521-8bfa-4130-a323-9f719590404b)
Hazardous Cargoes (item number 1) (id 40ff4279-1f57-40d2-9b30-10d4b37f322e)
M40 (Wendlebury To Waterstock) (item number 1) (id b103ec2f-5e4f-479f-8b04-74356fc034ce)
Nuclear Fuel Transporter (Doncaster) (item number 1) (id 395508ce-d6af-4f9a-97d0-ec9625d7b451)
East London River Crossing (item number 1) (id f8c702df-6f90-4e74-98f7-3b9e2c1f7f5b)
Town Police Clauses Act 1847 (item number 1) (id c1629a82-93cb-4aa3-ab44-bea998791de6)
A27 Arundel Bypass (item number 1) (id 2ae9da8b-a304-495f-9d9c-fc4bb271172f)
Microlight Aircraft (item number 1) (id c257d98d-c7f0-4638-9ba8-bd40854f319c)
M1 Luton (item number 1) (id c0541404-61d5-4511-836e-f4743140066f)
Consulting Engineers (item number 1) (id 9de38fb8-e2b0-48ff-9eac-0740ab82623d)
Civil Servants (Ec) (item number 1) (id d73e8a6e-239b-4c5a-b9ca-a05d3da91554)
British Rail (Disciplinary Procedure) (item number 1) (id caec9793-a9fc-4edf-88f0-e491958fb21d)
Bridge Inspections (Divers) (item number 1) (id 44482199-28d0-4fe0-9be1-4b7dbcec2881)
Plutonium (Air Transport) (item number 1) (id 51a934fe-9982-419e-9f64-72c448cb21ea)
Unadopted Streets (item number 1) (id b65286d3-ad19-4736-aa7b-e76df716c49d)

Agriculture, Fisheries And Food

Forestry (Yorkshire) (item number 1) (id a5d7147c-6100-4084-9c8e-f7edc543c5eb)
Slaughtering (item number 1) (id 7a135870-d06c-4fd2-a532-c4bfd43b8bcb)
Toxic Pesticides (item number 1) (id 22857dd3-fc95-4068-8107-e906ae4de4e6)
Abattoirs (item number 1) (id 48583947-d9bd-4b72-8cb1-307063efcd31)
Salmonella (item number 1) (id fb7c68d4-3931-4395-bad9-b9a92444522a)
Animal Mutations (item number 1) (id a2b52114-cbbc-4228-978c-2f2d82f02193)
Radioactive Monitoring (item number 1) (id c75da7fa-b7bf-45fb-b5fe-a2b3e84e67ab)
Sheep (item number 1) (id 2e20250e-cdc4-48e1-b321-9daacf773fab)
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (item number 1) (id d325142b-2e4e-4545-abad-e4f51a9c496d)
Radioactivity (Cumbria) (item number 1) (id a6508a87-7be8-4a1e-a223-081871bee762)
Sheep Dip (item number 1) (id d3c3665e-2340-4587-ae60-f685e5778480)
Adas (Staff) (item number 1) (id 65d3d0dd-89ee-4b48-a16d-5c47141f09cb)
Central Veterinary Laboratory (item number 1) (id 716372e2-0427-4d89-9269-f9da95412a62)
Experimental Husbandry Farms (item number 1) (id 917a6049-1308-46a7-9a6e-879e27af1650)
Laboratories (item number 1) (id e89dc0c2-4851-4ef8-bb24-c5687386a2da)
Horticultural Stations (item number 1) (id 846f9cef-9d9c-4e57-8c77-13106719949d)
Woodlands (item number 1) (id c81119c0-81e5-4499-9a5d-6d91daf3cd47)
Butter (item number 1) (id 1b443c8b-b4dc-4531-8d2e-cb839a11e2d2)
Veterinary Products Committee (item number 1) (id f97dcc55-5822-44d2-a932-2de1d5c983bf)
Pesticides (item number 1) (id 916c7628-f2cc-42ba-b774-7200e6601f12)
Lindane (item number 1) (id 97c37fe3-e1ca-46f4-8092-43c32d879ccb)
Levies (item number 1) (id 4fad3ea5-845f-40bf-b545-6d839b0d7e72)
Bovine Somatotropin (item number 1) (id daa7db3c-61f3-476e-a19e-eef52b00469b)

Scotland

Queens University (item number 1) (id edb2f87d-f8af-4b53-b271-f7515534f2d7)
Scottish Assembly (item number 1) (id fa51fbd2-06ff-4fa8-b5b1-8654d6a98216)
Disabled People (item number 1) (id 5f1a6655-934b-4608-a75e-9d9115f38979)
Bathing Waters (item number 1) (id d5f1c48a-6313-446c-b49d-0105715964ce)
Sentencing (item number 1) (id c2ba0476-2550-4ece-80d9-112d72024055)
Dampness (item number 1) (id 0bbcae3e-7c0c-488d-89de-8b754189750d)
Housing (Amenities) (item number 1) (id dc5955c8-6eb9-4b74-8894-728413ab57b1)
Nhs (Repairs) (item number 1) (id d97e9762-0ba5-4d6e-8c09-36386e196a79)
Schools (Capital Spending) (item number 1) (id b203779a-d497-4df9-8d70-eece574bd72b)
House Repossessions (item number 1) (id a5afdfc9-36bf-42fd-80c3-409c55c96207)
Crime Statistics (item number 1) (id a98c5e48-e1c6-4e53-9721-63e0ed4087ab)
Housing Repairs (item number 1) (id 67399910-bb3a-48fd-96f1-d067686360a7)
Overcrowding (item number 1) (id 95d1d730-7804-484f-9330-7667accda27d)
Manufacturing (item number 1) (id dd402283-2d67-458b-b731-7fe92db6784c)
Capital Formation (item number 1) (id 39a07c45-d7af-4cc9-ade8-0a08be8f28cf)
Children (item number 1) (id 288903c8-dac5-4201-828a-41017dcc9ed4)
Housing Construction (item number 1) (id 65680510-2856-4677-8513-d5b6a7d3e564)
School Leavers (item number 1) (id 59b0f6a3-ff45-4b2f-9d12-193fae4e0a6b)
School Books (item number 1) (id e443b7e1-c449-4185-9a71-22f1ebde6d0c)
Forestry (item number 1) (id 5c4c9aca-3bb1-48a1-b5fa-5afa6f584bd0)
Crofters (Tree Growing) (item number 1) (id 22c4ac4a-dc4a-4e8d-819a-aac6a52279c1)
Road Bridge (Dornoch Firth) (item number 1) (id d0d903b6-e5cc-4736-8ae6-976b88fa5586)
Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (item number 1) (id cba3a4ca-dbe4-43e6-be98-f75b67232179)
Boundary Commission (Members) (item number 1) (id 268599e2-f4ff-4055-a552-760a9ca196ae)
Electricity Boards (item number 1) (id 89803154-5092-45cf-8ca0-4d98b43d4810)
Health Boards (item number 1) (id 625e112d-9ed9-4152-bc69-be24960d1054)
Hospital And Community Health Services Capital (item number 1) (id 6de1cf2a-1bcd-482c-8d18-073f801fbed4)
Parole (item number 1) (id f2b5ff96-1594-4eb5-a05e-1ea4c829b1bf)
Schools (Self-Government) (item number 1) (id f6536d3d-9d8e-4a57-a6b1-dbfd3e7bff62)
Birds (Shetland) (item number 1) (id 23ef90cf-7a00-45f6-aa3d-dfd8c0416953)

Defence

"World In Action" Programme (item number 1) (id ee1aee2b-a12f-4242-87cd-b37a02f679ea)
Chemical Weapon Agents (item number 1) (id f4c50d67-dedb-4580-8c47-775e22e0c778)
Nuclear Plant (Clean-Up) (item number 1) (id 431869fc-7958-46a4-a8bb-4d76b9e13aef)
Plutonium And Tritium (item number 1) (id 165aec1d-5886-48f2-83a7-d9d713dbefe3)
Bird Strikes (item number 1) (id 92dd8ed1-dccc-4ef6-aa26-d061ad0ac1cd)
Skyguard (item number 1) (id 092fed6d-9f2a-4870-b4df-93c81c4d5845)
Low Flying (item number 1) (id b4c1d41d-465b-42a5-aa6d-529cd4604361)
Armoured Personnel Carriers (Vauxhall) (item number 1) (id a17119ca-4471-4093-8395-8364e89b7d1e)
Tornado Sales (item number 1) (id 5a63b780-003a-43af-ad5b-a7e71f6e9707)
Us Forces (Deployment) (item number 1) (id 5a122f89-bca0-4b41-b38e-ff3570196225)
Military Lands (item number 1) (id fcb8353c-2f3e-4945-bbff-1184c8bbe219)
Raf Sculthorpe (Air Traffic Zone) (item number 1) (id 3fcc6219-9258-4ad7-a680-67468aa4f2ef)
Usaf Vehicles (Salisbury Plain) (item number 1) (id b3fa100d-48f7-4c9a-9295-69a5ee9c721c)
Visiting Forces (Markings) (item number 1) (id a0b78298-7796-4b40-92ee-d4013d6cec7f)
Peace Symbols (item number 1) (id 2e102abb-444d-4b89-99b2-79c599842f58)
Rating Reform (item number 1) (id da1bc171-31d9-4b46-9139-76db4ee93da1)
Small Arms (Price) (item number 1) (id d90030bc-1f83-48e1-9902-e8bbedacdc6e)
Aldermaston And Burghfield (Audit) (item number 1) (id deeef178-e309-47bb-acb4-72fd6bc076bd)
Barracks (Security) (item number 1) (id e02b0145-9660-446a-a827-23c26de27790)
Perimeter Fencing (item number 1) (id 4c54a0b8-76c6-4d97-a62b-d0efd284fc5c)
Private Security Guards (item number 1) (id 84c66d59-a4ad-48ba-b38b-9a1881d15ddf)
Mod Police (item number 1) (id 9e4bc8ca-f7dc-4801-bbe4-6c2216f28e62)
Mines (Price) (item number 1) (id 0ffd6dfa-c464-4634-9fb3-9486979c34c6)
Elf Transmitter (Glengarry Forest) (item number 1) (id 95ff0aef-e64e-4228-881f-80fd097e75e9)

Health

Social Workers (Training) (item number 1) (id 19df5ca1-93cb-416c-965f-d752833af535)
General Practitioners (item number 1) (id b18bca10-2ed8-453b-bbf7-eb044206022f)
Coronary Heart Disease (item number 1) (id 6dc60d5b-7b8e-41f8-add4-3783f8537e53)
Family Practitioner Committees (item number 1) (id 85efc6bd-f624-4179-93ec-e2027236c255)
Drinking Water (item number 1) (id d1e90a4b-5439-4ef5-8c99-a105b67fe164)
Drugs (item number 1) (id 7257bc55-c231-4cc8-a313-8a63f192badb)
Waiting Lists (item number 1) (id d0d6358c-92cb-445f-8d46-645917deb082)
Hospital Building Schemes (item number 1) (id 5d0a349d-4d7c-4ef0-a0c8-b7bca8d0851a)
Vaccinations (item number 1) (id bd689739-9ced-41fc-a6c1-173a9804e6c9)
Environmental Health Officers (item number 1) (id 46469830-8e13-4acb-8051-9f25df6a210d)
Sex Change Operations (item number 1) (id 42641dab-64fc-4c2e-b63b-1c9384dae2e3)
Pact Information (item number 1) (id 27bb8660-f2c3-4d81-b35b-1fb4a20906bf)
General Practitioners (item number 1) (id ec21ccdd-e903-4774-bd5a-728b14c529cf)
Teenage Pregnancies (item number 1) (id 93ba1c0b-fba3-438c-bee5-7c32690a0f92)
Stroke Victims (item number 1) (id 6ba1e6d7-7394-4eb4-ab52-0e3902627ea6)
Newchurch Hospital, Culcheth (item number 1) (id d3a801d4-b213-44bd-bef4-f73e9b0d9060)
Self-Governing Hospitals (item number 1) (id bd3ec372-c494-47fd-abd6-0488a632d9b4)
Hospital Computer Systems (item number 1) (id 21c3a93d-0211-4366-b562-1f31154d749f)
Family Practitioner Committees (item number 1) (id 55499476-e7a3-4bdd-b796-649a8fcc6985)
Advisory Committees (item number 1) (id 4156646c-5405-46b5-8091-1859f9a1b16d)
Food Safety (item number 1) (id 7c117211-c815-4407-9cc6-302404745406)
Vaccine Damage (item number 1) (id 6036ab6a-a68f-495d-8ddc-033a1b223ac0)

Environment

Rural Villages (Sewerage System) (item number 1) (id 5c66de2f-f89b-40c7-bc57-313aa3e7f2d8)
Fluoridation (item number 1) (id 470cdfe5-7f38-4f70-86e8-4a948b6b0afc)
Housing Co-Operatives (item number 1) (id 0c80cbad-c45c-41e7-b3b6-8da022b8e4a6)
Hazardous Waste (item number 1) (id da2cfafe-3424-4fda-949c-df0229df0a20)
Departmental Estates (Vat) (item number 1) (id fde9cb16-3f49-4e9c-9c9c-d6b8d481225a)
Water Charges (item number 1) (id db086418-5f05-4bef-9351-c6865188961d)
Common Land (item number 1) (id be6421e1-d69c-45a9-9f17-a26e4f04c9fc)
Drinking Water (item number 1) (id 0cb0c814-9842-4fbd-8595-52f79d082094)
Seal Skins (item number 1) (id 7d4e4125-7bef-47f5-a5a8-bc8fdf094e9d)
Air Pollution (item number 1) (id 07d15587-0240-4961-a8a2-3cd1680b6c24)
Repossessions (item number 1) (id a81d264a-c0f9-4ee3-97a8-6fdec5d859a7)
Global Environmental Declaration (item number 1) (id 09ae7945-5a5b-4a1a-baa2-9fec39f19cb7)
Radon (item number 1) (id 5bbcbe6f-f2c9-4eee-bf3d-e60da9876174)
Barium Sulphate Waste (item number 1) (id f7322e77-d651-41d4-8e1c-1b30e6bc7d5c)
Hinkley C (Inquiry) (item number 1) (id 50bc0d97-c5dd-420c-aa55-b929fec9d05b)
Home Improvement Grants (item number 1) (id a8161739-2acd-4ba3-b843-580ed5f997ce)
Fee Competition (item number 1) (id 638d3113-dc11-4f50-ace2-f1fdba553cb5)
Consumers (Consultation) (item number 1) (id 10e9154f-4109-4963-8a69-183ce62bc2ef)
Wildlife Poisoning (item number 1) (id 97251999-4b67-43a0-86d2-90817996192b)
Housing Transfers (item number 1) (id 2a29e502-3973-4ca6-b55e-72b3be3922db)
Housing Action Trusts (item number 1) (id 0c09b017-12b2-41f7-a561-370f25acc7e6)
No 1, Poultry (item number 1) (id 9c405e4f-8352-4f48-a135-e591bbd836f8)
Local Labour Clauses (item number 1) (id 31181708-13fe-4723-a54b-bfe3cc7a0923)
Cabinet War Rooms (item number 1) (id f1cd2573-6ea9-420f-a785-3fc5ed5c2d82)
Rating Reform (item number 1) (id 3c8e91f3-af95-421f-8e3a-d85cf821488b)
Private Landlords (item number 1) (id 44315fdc-b460-4a74-b91b-97d50857d204)
Director General Of Water Services (item number 1) (id a5d1bb64-c936-46d0-bd1d-6367a7ea7ba3)
County Hall, London (item number 1) (id c22d1669-cf05-444b-bf63-d618bf595484)
Local Government Expenditure (item number 1) (id c6589c08-15ec-44b4-a01d-da5f3805875a)
Water Quality (item number 1) (id ebca37e7-9118-41cb-9869-cda846b0b889)

Social Security

Low-Income Families (item number 1) (id a9d45573-e403-4ae9-a7bd-89e84dc82ec6)
Local Offices (item number 1) (id f21f19fa-9553-419c-bbdb-296eda99c51f)
Benefit Take-Up (item number 1) (id 374bb1eb-4798-4e44-a265-9d93dac988cd)
Housing Benefit (item number 1) (id 931c2285-5641-4f43-90e4-10f39f51b65e)
Children (item number 1) (id 3243fdb3-62e2-4cec-811e-925be46a393d)
Social Fund (item number 1) (id 4894504f-370e-4de0-b618-3702e436fbc9)
Teenage Pregnancies (item number 1) (id 444c0d42-07f0-4b73-9112-f026241b333d)
Attendance Allowance (item number 1) (id 2515aabd-c3f7-4f80-a7ae-27e642e79f61)
Pensions, Benefits And Allowances (item number 1) (id 24edd0d8-1874-4f54-befc-691d87d1b137)
Income Support (item number 1) (id 126995ec-8b57-4472-929c-878eee89d6d0)
Lone Parents (Benefit) (item number 1) (id 4de5f064-cd14-40da-8c2d-d8172fa90c9a)
Supplementary Benefit And Income Support (item number 1) (id 2662f816-e029-45b1-9700-6fe5327efc0f)
Funeral Expenses (item number 1) (id 2dcbfb01-a889-42e9-aa4f-b8bb36699151)
Cold Weather Payment (item number 1) (id b0c7ac15-9a7d-4fc9-a755-1c2c918e98ae)
Housing Benefit (item number 1) (id 6da3f366-9bef-46a5-bc1a-4ee1f5bb2301)
Sick Pay (item number 1) (id 37badec8-2d67-48db-95c4-ed04e4fbfc32)
Benefit Changes (item number 1) (id 4e9b93d5-6766-43b9-a325-a416a7328750)
Benefits (item number 1) (id 0adff361-747b-4b93-9b1c-44a4729667fb)
Pensioners (item number 1) (id 0c36f3b0-92b5-4733-b86f-ac853cb592d9)
Household Incomes (item number 1) (id b2746341-2554-4cf6-b154-b6ed63b858f8)
Housing Benefit (item number 1) (id 0487838d-b7d6-490c-9d5c-ed04d9dd50b6)
Equal Opportunities (item number 1) (id b4dd7a54-317d-4116-ba82-07790c036701)

Home Department

Jeremy Bamber (item number 1) (id 7f4472e8-8a9c-4ad9-b9c5-e481e251d6a4)
Law And Order Services (Spending) (item number 1) (id 873c5b7b-4b43-48d7-8477-0b0929646729)
Metropolitan Police Manpower (item number 1) (id f22b2011-6de3-439b-bd1f-d966936d0a93)
Prison Inspections (item number 1) (id 527a685a-314d-4d28-a87f-aba44ba61c88)
Food Poisoning (Prisons) (item number 1) (id 25a93be4-67c6-473c-81c9-ee8df5380d6b)
Entry Clearance (item number 1) (id 14de7f3f-7ad8-4cc5-9fbe-e31bbef02c09)
Policing (North Wales) (item number 1) (id 80d3b6eb-1635-4de7-b4f3-95a4e0a2be62)
Football Attendances (item number 1) (id 139f4410-f418-4390-8f18-c02495f3f8ac)
New Prisons (item number 1) (id f47af1fa-5cd2-4f24-ab9b-dc8beb43aba6)
Mr Ghulam Mohammed Ismail Tinwala (item number 1) (id b2aa238a-fbf2-43d8-808c-dda2ff7235c8)
Criminal Injuries Compensation (item number 1) (id d5d53206-da2f-4c7d-9349-c8474f79ab84)
Child Abuse (item number 1) (id 03a0554e-dcd2-4753-b921-1e34a22c22cc)
Broadcasting (item number 1) (id bee8d9c2-43b2-4c3f-afaf-e84d1ddf433c)
Forensic Pathology (item number 1) (id d02652bb-2bc0-4324-9494-66ca0ecf4917)
Police Chases (item number 1) (id 2892b702-3202-4ba6-af34-c9dda0f53042)
Immigration Guidelines (item number 1) (id bf8e492e-3925-4dff-aa63-c8179ae4c0a4)
Immigration Rules (item number 1) (id 14b325f1-7804-483e-ac3f-3d99cfc30348)
Safer Cities Scheme (item number 1) (id 5e6cd014-f47b-4838-a353-2992e7cbe5b6)
Drugs And Arms (Imports) (item number 1) (id f768dca7-1812-447a-8ff6-da53495e40db)
Crime Figures (item number 1) (id 831cc9eb-2ce6-486b-bf80-0ba3d3b15e4d)
Immigrant Detainees (item number 1) (id 1a6036f2-a112-480f-ba2c-faa8269eb097)
Community Volunteer (item number 1) (id 9166b424-613b-45b9-b4cb-da6a54b0705c)
Football Spectators Bill (item number 1) (id 6f66d178-37d5-4ca1-a16a-263982943175)
Crime Statistics (item number 1) (id fabb0100-3af9-46fc-878c-c2bc1eb02e38)
Remand Prisoners (item number 1) (id 43a1dd55-15ef-4f5b-a8fe-dd9306e45b90)
Police Discipline Code (item number 1) (id 2ffb4f02-bcc3-4a4d-9a5a-ea60814dfa66)
Prisoners (Suicide Attempts) (item number 1) (id 095cca89-b5d0-4a00-bd0b-c826b9c088eb)
Contracted-Out Catering (item number 1) (id 97b96316-0f93-4cd0-bfe6-c435fd84160d)
Dna Testing (item number 1) (id f57f3e09-7d58-421d-ab21-3a493b91900f)
Whatton Young Offenders Institution (item number 1) (id 2134c216-fed3-4dac-bd9a-53ab50693e52)
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