Wednesday, 31 January 1979
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Yesterday there were complaints in the House about the small number of questions that we were able to reach. I propose to call fewer supplementary questions today, but it will also be a great...
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will bring forward proposals to provide sports scholarships on the same basis as awards for academic higher education?
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he is satisfied with the level of new house building and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what action he is taking to enable voluntary workers to restart clearance work on British Waterways Board canals.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what he expects to be the average increase in rates in 1979–80.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has any plans to introduce a new scheme under the Homes Insulation Act.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will now review the working of the Caravan Sites Act 1968.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what proposals he has for extending home ownership, by accelerating the sale of council houses and flats to their tenants; and if he will make a...
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he proposes to review the authorities receiving help under the Government's special inner urban areas programmes.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment which local authorities have made grants to attract industry, using the provisions of the Inner Urban Areas Act.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many civil servants are involved in membership and servicing of committees in connection with the partnership authorities.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement concerning the building standards for the size of lifts in public buildings.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has any plans to transfer powers from Staffordshire county council to Tamworth and Lichfield district councils as part of his scheme...
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, in the light of the discussions he has had with local authorities in the United Kingdom, what information he now has on the reasons why local...
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will make a statement on the role of the Building Research Establishment in helping to prevent building failures; and what resources...
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what consideration he is giving to the prevention of coast erosion on the East Coast of Yorkshire by use of colliery waste and power station fly...
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of your exhortation at the beginning of Question Time that you hoped to get through more questions today than was possible yesterday, may I draw your...
(by private notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will make a statement on the disruption by picketing of funeral facilities in the metropolitan boroughs of Tameside...
(by private notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will make a statement on the breakdown of negotiations over local authority manual workers' pay.
I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 9, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely,...
I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 9, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely,...
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I hope that you will think that this is an important matter for the House. On 15 December 1978 you were kind enough to write informing me that there was no...
4.28 p.m.
Mr. Greville Janner accordingly presented a Bill to require employers to accord equal retirement rights to men and women; to provide for paternity leave; and to ban sundry other discriminatory...
Considered in Committee.
I beg to move amendment No. 5, in page 1, line 10, after 'examinations)', insert: 'or, in the case of companies supplying foods and essential services, in order to earn profits to maintain their...
Ordered,That the Price Commission (Amendment) Bill may be proceeded with at this day's sitting, though opposed, until any hour.—[Mr. Walter Harrison.]
Again considered in Committee.
'(1) As from the end of the relevant period the Price Commission Act 1977 shall have effect as it would if the following provisions of this Act, namely section 1 and the Schedule, had not been...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do not adjourn.—[Mrs. Ann Taylor.]
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