Tuesday, 18 December 1979
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Lords amendments agreed to.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what advice he has received on adult literacy from the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what his estimate is of the number of British students currently studying at foreign universities.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what recent representations he has received about the transport of children to Roman Catholic schools, as affected by his Education (No. 2)...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what study he has made of the replies from local authority associations and 15 individual authorities to his consultative paper for a...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the organisation of the first and second years of secondary school in England and Wales with special...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the total cost of school transport in the last financial year; and what is his estimate of the flat fare required if costs are...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what reply he has given or intends to give to the Birmingham local education authority regarding its request that the polytechnic school of...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the major conclusions drawn by Her Majesty's Government from the recently published survey of secondary schools.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what estimate he has made on the effects on skill provision and the training of professional engineers, mathematicians, and scientists of...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what he estimates will be the effect on the pupil-teacher ratio of his request to local education authorities to reduce future planned...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list by local education authority the percentage of children aged 3 or 4 years who are at present attending nursery schools.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the rate of increase, or decrease, in the number of A-level passes per school-leaver between 1971 and 1979.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he is satisfied with the present teaching of arts subjects in secondary schools.
asked the Prime Minister if she will initiate discussions with the Governments of West Germany and Holland with aview to setting up an inquiry, with the purpose of improving security at Urenco,...
asked the Prime Minister when she next expects to visit Wind-scale.
asked the Prime Minister whether she will list her official engagements for 18 December.
asked the Prime Minister if she will make an official visit to Pratts Bottom.
Mr. Canavan asked the Prime Minister what are her official engagements for 18 December.:
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement on our nuclear programme. Safe nuclear power and a strong nuclear industry are essential to this country's energy policy. On present...
With permission Mr. Speaker, I shall make a statement on Rhodesia. All parties at the constitutional conference have now initialled the final conference report. Formal signature of the report...
The following Member took and subscribed the Oath:
Motion made, and Question proposed,That this House at its rising on Friday do adjourn till Monday 14 January.—[Mr. St. John-Stevas.]
Ordered,That, notwithstanding the practice of the House relating to the interval between the various stages of Bills of aids and supplies, more than one stage of the Consolidated Fund Bill may be...
9 pm
Mr. Alfred Dubs accordingly presented a Bill to provide that, whenever a residential property is sold, the price and date of sale are to be entered on a register which will be freely available to...
Order for Second Reading read.
I make no apology for being responsible for another debate on textiles, but it is the first one for some time intended to spotlight the problems of the industry in West Yorkshire. There is no...
Mr. Ronald W. Brown (Hackney, South and Shoreditch): After the long debate on the textile industry, I return the attention of the House to Class XI, Vote 1 of the Supplementary Estimates, which...
I approach this debate with contradictory sentiments. I am pleased that the Secretary of State has come himself to reply when it would have been so easy for him—as I expected him to...
Even at this late or early hour, I welcome the opportunity that the debate provides to discuss some of the many problems currently facing the fishing industry. We have not had a comprehensive...
Remembering Alan Nunn May, Bruno Pontecorvo, the Rosenbergs and even Klaus Fuchs, with his overall grasp of the concept of the physics of the atom bomb, it is arguable whether any of them, or,...
I am happy, even at this hour, to have the opportunity to raise a matter concerning the salary of the Director General of Fair Trading and thereby to consider the possibilities for the...
Motion made, and Question proposedThat this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Brooke.]
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