Wednesday, 19 December 1984
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Ordered,That in the case of the Greater London Council (Money) (No. 2) Bill, Standing Order 208 (Notice of consideration of Lords amendments) be suspended and that the Lords Amendments be now...
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if, following the recent review of the operation of COCOM, he is now satisfied that the COCOM rules apply equitably to British firms.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has had any recent representations from British Leyland about the funding of future car models.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether his Department exercises any control over exports of grain which form part of the barter deals.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what contacts he has with Ministers responsible for small firms' matters in other countries.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the contribution made by trade with Libya to the United Kingdom's balance of payments during 1983 and in 1984 to...
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on progress towards eliminating all barriers to trade in the internal market of the European Community.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many applications for selective regional aid have been received from firms having business in Liverpool and by firms intending to set up...
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has plans to seek to promote wider ownership of shares in British industry.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he is taking to encourage greater use of official and commercially collected data in connection with the provision of statistics on...
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what his Department is doing to assist the power engineering industry.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects to be in a position to publish the Silbertson report on the future of the multi-fibre arrangement.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he is satisfied with safety standards relating to child buggy pushchairs.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what progress he is making together with other European Economic Community Ministers in securing a free market for insurance within the...
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what specific steps Her Majesty's Government take to faciltate the access of small firms to Government contracts.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what progress he is making on removing barriers to trade in telecommunications' equipment between European Economic Community member states.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he proposes to take to seek to ensure that in 1985 the United Kingdom exports more manufactured goods than it imports.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he is satisfied with the accounting practices within the nationalised industries for which he is responsible.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what is the current balance of trade in manufactured goods.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on trade with the Soviet Union.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he has taken to provide encouragement for greater employee participation through share ownership schemes in the enterprises under...
I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 10, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely,...
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to establish an independent pay review body with powers to fix the annual rates of pay for teachers, their conditions of service and related...
Mr. Archy Kirkwood accordingly presented a Bill to establish an independent pay review body with powers to fix the annual rates of pay for teachers, their conditions of service and related...
I beg to move, That this House do now adjourn. Leave having been given on Tuesday 18 December under Standing Order No. 10 to discuss:The statements made on 18 December relating to local...
Motion made, and Question proposed,That this House at its rising on Friday 21 December do adjourn till Wednesday 9 January.—[Mr. Major.]
Order for Second Reading read. Question, That the Bill be now read a Second time, put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 113 (Consolidated Fund Bills), and agreed to. Bill accordingly read...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Lang.]
I congratulate the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Strang) on securing this debate. I agree with some of what the hon. Member for Stockton, North (Mr. Cook) said. The hon. Member for...
When the Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry came before the House on 28 November to announce his revised regional areas and regional development aid policy, he dealt a very cruel...
The cardinal purpose of this debate is to obtain some positive answers from the Government, who so far have failed to answer clearly and definitively the questions raised by the Opposition. The...
I am pleased to have this chance to raise the question of how we charge for the supply of water. I appreciate that my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment is...
There are several subjects that I care about, such as the financing of the BBC, teachers' pay, service and conditions, Scotland and Ethiopia. So, I shall be rapid and succinct on this subject. I...
Shortly before 5 o'clock in the morning is perhaps not the happiest time to consider such an important subject. Interest in this subject goes far beyond that of those hon. Members who are able to...
I am pleased to have the opportunity to bring to the House the issue concerning the ownership of Maltby far and low common. The Department of the Environment is deciding whether to allow a...
In the few minutes that we have at our disposal, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I wish to say that the farmers of south-west Wales—many of them small and some not so small—are facing a rather...
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Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Lang.]
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