Wednesday, 16 July 1980
The House met at half-past Two o'clock.
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
As amended, considered; to be read the Third time.
Order for Second Reading read.
In the interests of making greater progress, I hope that hon. Members will not try to ask more than one supplementary question and that, in any case, Ministers will answer one supplementary...
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he has plans to increase the amount of grant for the activities of the British Council above what has been already announced for the next three years; and if he...
asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will raise the cause of those Soviet Jews who have applied to leave the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics at the forthcoming Madrid review conference to review...
asked the Lord Privy Seal what latest discussions he has had with representatives of the Warsaw Pact countries regarding the implementation of the Helsinki agreement.
asked the Lord Privy Seal what representations he has received on the proposals on the Middle East put forward at the European Council meeting in Venice.
asked the Lord Privy Seal when he will next meet Mr. Gromyko and Mr. Muskie to discuss reduction of medium-range missiles in Europe.
asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will raise at the next meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Foreign Ministers the testing of the French neutron bomb.
asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will make a statement on relations between Her Majesty's Government and the Republic of South Korea.
Mr. R. C. Mitchell: asked the Lord Privy Seal whether it is the policy of his Department to claim diplomatic immunity on behalf of British diplomats who commit parking offences in other countries.
asked the Lord Privy Seal if there have been any recent talks between the Government, the Hong Kong Government and the Government of the People's Republic of China concerning the construction and...
asked the Lord Privy Seal what arrangements he is making for the attendance of Government representatives at the independence celebrations of the New Hebrides on 30 July.
asked the Lord Privy Seal what recent representations have been made to South Africa regarding its defiance of the United Nations resolution over Namibia.
asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will specify the nature of the European Economic Community instrument that will authorise the amount of repayment to the United Kingdom from the European Economic...
asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will seek to place on the agenda at future meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministers the need for Community action to achieve lower air fares between the member...
asked the Lord Privy Seal when next he expects to meet other EEC Ministers to discuss the future planning of the Community.
asked the Lord Privy Seal what constraint he anticipates the continuation of common financial responsibility for Community policies will have upon the EEC's examination of structural charges,...
asked the Lord Privy Seal when he expects Spain to become a member of the EEC.
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I draw your attention to Question Time, and the balance between questions on foreign affairs and those on the EEC? If I am right, 13 questions out of the 46...
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement about the postal monopoly. The House will recall that on 2 July 1979 I stated that if co-operation to improve postal services were...
Ordered,That the draft North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (Compensation for Smelter Deficits) Order 1980 be referred to a Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c.—[Mr....
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to set up a committee to review the original terms of compensating the former owners of the assets nationalised by the Aircraft and...
Ordered,That the Third Reading of the Finance (No. 2) Bill may be taken immediately after the consideration of the Bill notwithstanding the practice of the House as to the intervals between the...
Not amended in the Committee, and as amended in the Standing Committee, considered.
(1) Where a building or land which is qualifying property for the purposes of subsection (3) of section 84 of the Finance Act 1976 (maintenance funds for historic buildings) forms part of an...
(1)No stamp duty shall be chargeable on any instrument whereby property ceases to be comprised in a settlement if as a result of the property or part of it becoming comprised in another...
Section 248 of the Taxes Act (allowances of charges on income) shall be amended as follows:— (a)at the end of subsection (3)(b) by the insertion of the words— "(c) any donation to...
Expenses incurred by a single person on lodging rents when travelling away from his normal permanent domicile wholly necessarily and exclusively in pursuit of his trade, vocation or profession...
No stamp duty shall be chargeable on any transfer of any unit in an authorised unit trust to which section 59 of this Act applies and under the terms of which the funds of the trust cannot be...
(1) Section 72 of the Taxes Act shall be amended by inserting after paragraph (a) in subsection (1) thereof— (aa) in respect of travelling and other expenses wholly and necessarily incurred...
At the end of subsection (1A) of section 8 of the Taxes Act (Personal reliefs) there shall be added the following paragraph; and (c) in relation to a claim by a widow who does not come under...
As from the date of the passing of this Act in section 9(1) of the Finance Act 1972 (as amended by section 1(1)(b) of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1979) (standard rate of value-added tax) for the...
In paragraph 14(b) of schedule 9 (to the Finance Act 1978), the words "only pursuant to a direction given by or" shall be omitted and the following words shall be added "in such manner as the...
After subsection (2) of section 30 of the Finance Act 1978 there shall be inserted the following subsection— (2A) With effect from the year 1980–81, subject to the provisions of this...
I beg to move amendment No. 2, in page 9, line 25, after'substituted', insert '£20 but if payment has not been made of the amount assessed and notified to the person concerned under section...
I beg to move amendment No. 4, in page 13, line 25, leave out '£2,145' and insert '£2,250'.
I beg to move amendment No. 8, in page 15, line 30, leave out second '(1)(a)'. This is a consequential drafting amendment to the amendment moved in Committee by my right hon Friend the
I beg to move amendment No. 9, in page 16, line 5, leave out clause 25.
I beg to move amendment No. 163, in page 17, line 27, at end insert— '(1A) In paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to the Finance Act 1974 (conditions for interest relief; interest in...
I beg to move amendment No. 16, in page 18, line 3, leave out 'with reference to the other, or'. This is an amendment to clause 30 which, quite rightly, ends the exploitation of life assurance...
I beg to move amendment No. 19, in page 21, line 38, leave out 'be amended as follows' and insert 'have effect with the amendments specified in subsections (2) and (3) below'.
I beg to move amendment No. 161, in page 25, line 17, after 'and', insert 'where by virtue of subsection (3) of section 19 of the said Act of 1979 that consideration is deemed to be equal to the...
I beg to move amendment No. 23, in page 28, line 12, leave out 'shares or other securities' and insert— '(a) shares; or(b) other securities not being a qualifying loan or qualifying loan...
I beg to move amendment No. 24, in page 28, line 35, after 'incurred', insert: 'on a new ship not more than three years but otherwise'.
I beg to move, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that the Summer Time Order 1980 be made in the form of the draft laid before this House on 9 July. The order will have...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Peter Morrison.]
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