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Commons Sitting of 14 November 1977 Series 5 Vol. 939

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. ENERGY
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1. Reserves 248 words
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2. Coal Production 1,138 words
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3. Electricity Grid (Cross-Channel Link) 369 words
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4. Save It Campaign 454 words
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5. Power Station Construction 595 words
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6. Solar Heating 208 words
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7. British National Oil Corporation 639 words
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8. Coal Industry 1,139 words
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9. North Sea Oil Exports 813 words
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10. Renewable Sources 313 words
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11. Fuel Bills 685 words
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12. Electricity Production 237 words
2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Kenya 391 words
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2. Paraguay 175 words
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3. Falkland Islands 624 words
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4. Malawi 326 words
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5. Mozambique 1,309 words
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4. FIRE SERVICE (DISPUTE) 378 words
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5. SCOTLAND BILL (LONG TITLE) 5,957 words
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6. HON. MEMBERS (REGISTER OF INTERESTS) 406 words
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7. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 198 words
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8. SCOTLAND BILL 62,676 words, 3 divisions
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9. SCOTLAND [MONEY] 63 words
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10. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CIGARETTES EXCISE DUTY) 13,941 words
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11. FINANCE (INCOME TAX RELIEFS) BILL 45 words
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12. CIDER INDUSTRY (HEREFORDSHIRE) 3,227 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 14 November 1977 Series 5 Vol. 939

1. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Price Increases 115 words
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2. Electricity Plugs and Sockets 107 words
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3. British Shipbuilders 49 words
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4. Petrol 122 words
5. TRADE
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1. Air Travel Reserve Fund 125 words
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6. Companies (Winding Up) 269 words
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7. Chile 107 words
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8. Spanish Gold Real Estates 80 words
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9. Hijacking 139 words
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10. Air Traffic Control Assistants 218 words
11. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Courses 61 words
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12. Sri Lanka 87 words
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13. Zambia 99 words
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14. Crown Agents 50 words
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15. Mozambique 94 words
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16. Developing Countries 80 words
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17. Immunisation (African Countries) 216 words
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18. Commonwealth Development Corporation 189 words
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19. "Overseas Development" 86 words
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20. WHALES 198 words
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21. TERRORISTS (SENTENCING) 69 words
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22. QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER 105 words
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23. LEGISLATION (RENTON REPORT) 206 words
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24. Devolution 101 words
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25. SCOTLAND BILL 135 words
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26. UNION OF INDEPENDENT COMPANIES 79 words
27. ENERGY
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1. Coal Miners (Pay) 126 words
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28. Energy Trends 55 words
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29. Electricity Generating 45 words
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30. Coal Mining 563 words
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31. Park Colliery, Staffordshire 72 words
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32. Windmills 134 words
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33. Drax power Station 71 words
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34. Nuclear Reactors 413 words
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35. National Coal Board (Chairmanship) 48 words
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36. Coal Exports and Imports 189 words
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37. Participation Agreements 484 words
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38. Electricity (Generating Costs) 314 words
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39. Electricity Bills (Discount Scheme) 295 words
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40. Coal Supplies 848 words
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41. Coal Consumption 133 words
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42. Western European Union 158 words
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43. Lichfield and Tamworth 136 words
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44. Strikes 164 words
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45. Grunwick Processing Laboratories Limited 132 words
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46. Industrial Disputes 245 words
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47. Low-paid Workers 140 words
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48. Departmental Staff 112 words
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49. Disabled Workers (Seminar) 178 words
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50. Lift Engineers (Dispute) 101 words
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51. Liverpool 191 words
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52. Hairdressing 83 words
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53. Courtaulds Ltd. 84 words
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54. Button Manufacturing 36 words
55. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Immigration 95 words
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2. Police (Demonstration Control) 41 words
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3. National Front 109 words
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4. Police (Pay) 104 words
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5. Illegitimacy 84 words
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6. Nationality 92 words
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7. European Assembly Elections Bill 289 words
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8. Firemen (Pay) 72 words
56. WALES
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1. Employment 152 words
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2. Roads (Planning Inquiries) 57 words
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3. Town and Country Planning 52 words
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4. Dairy Industry 114 words
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5. Elderly Persons (Pembroke) 43 words
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6. Ministerial Appointments 606 words
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7. Advance Factories 85 words
57. INDUSTRY
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1. Steel 170 words
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2. Planning Agreements 91 words
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3. Business Statistics Office 78 words
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4. Television Tubes 55 words
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5. Cutlery 47 words
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6. Small Businesses 103 words
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7. Mr. Arthur Scargill 52 words
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8. Liverpool 126 words
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9. Yorkshire 63 words
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10. Iron and Steel Scrap 244 words
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11. Telephone Kiosks 84 words
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12. National Enterprise Board 416 words
58. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Glasshouse Industry 66 words
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2. Milk 130 words
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3. Beef (Imports) 116 words
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4. International Sugar Agreement 68 words
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5. Horses and Ponies 94 words
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6. Farms (Sales) 117 words
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7. Dog Licences 147 words
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8. Cod 135 words
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9. Mackerel 229 words
59. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Falkland Islands 77 words
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2. USSR 228 words
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3. Ministerial Travel 71 words
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4. Western European Union 213 words
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5. Ocean Island 105 words
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6. Passports 76 words
60. TRANSPORT
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1. Great Britain-Republic of Ireland (Transport Links) 93 words
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2. Trailers (Parking) 366 words
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61. Road Haulage Permits (Europe) 78 words
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62. A11 (Norfolk) 102 words
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63. Voluntary Organisations 132 words
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64. A590 (Greenodd) 67 words
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65. Highways (Rumble Areas) 79 words
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66. Traffic Signs (Hinckley) 173 words
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67. Driving Licences 92 words
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68. Vehicle Fumes 88 words
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69. Lorries (Parking) 97 words
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70. Ferry Vessels (Resale) 109 words
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71. Freight Carriers 62 words
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72. Motorways (Service Areas) 90 words
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73. Road Construction 227 words
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74. A17 (Bypass) 80 words
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75. Driving Tests (Motor Cyclists) 87 words
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76. M42 (Inquiries) 206 words
77. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Psychiatric Patients 195 words
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2. District Nurses 126 words
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3. Food 121 words
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4. Doctors 330 words
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5. Poliomyelitis 582 words
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6. Deaf Persons 64 words
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7. Mothers and Children 115 words
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8. Kidney Machines 216 words
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9. Abortion 153 words
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10. Hospitals (Rural Areas) 100 words
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11. Mexico 49 words
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12. Cystic Fibrosis 87 words
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13. Fuel Bills 148 words
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14. Sick Pay 59 words
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15. Family Practitioner Committees 362 words
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16. Capital Allocation 342 words
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17. Clothing Grants 144 words
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18. Emigration 323 words
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19. Woolton Vale (Liverpool) Assessment Centre 50 words
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20. Child Benefit 169 words
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21. Swivel Walker 439 words
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22. Institute of Hearing Research 249 words
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23. Cigarettes 115 words
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24. Mental Hospitals 112 words
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25. Population 236 words
78. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Artists (Taxation of Bursaries) 31 words
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2. Student Unions 270 words
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3. Overseas Students (Fees) 160 words
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4. Adult Literacy Courses (Manchester) 92 words
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5. Teacher Training 113 words
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6. Central Advisory Council for Education 78 words
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7. Industrial Scholarship 100 words
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8. Calcium Chloride (Buildings) 182 words
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9. Liverpool 189 words
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10. School Sports 100 words
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11. School Holidays 76 words
79. ENVIRONMENT
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1. District Heating 63 words
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2. Liverpool 156 words
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3. Land Use 90 words
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4. Construction Industry 510 words
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5. Council Houses 147 words
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6. Mid-Cornwall Garages 74 words
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7. Palace of Westminster (Lifts) 236 words
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8. Local Authorities (European Relations) 101 words
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9. King's Lynn 69 words
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10. Local Government Councillors (Allowances) 55 words
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11. Ambergris 111 words
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12. Mountaineering 199 words
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13. Thermal Insulation 170 words
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14. Yorkshire 181 words
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15. Laybys 148 words
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16. Road Construction (Whiddon Down—Okehampton) 77 words
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17. Okehampton (Bypass) 64 words
80. DEFENCE
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1. Royal Navy Presentation Team 143 words
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2. Tanks 78 words
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3. Northern Ireland 157 words
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4. Shooting Ranges (Henley Park) 81 words
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5. Army Youth Teams 135 words
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6. Ulster Defence Regiment 90 words
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7. Pay 416 words
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8. Trade Unions 204 words
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9. RAF Innsworth 421 words
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10. Western European Union 221 words
81. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Pay 663 words
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2. Computers 41 words
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3. Public Appointments 61 words
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4. Ministry of Defence Police 114 words
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5. Pay Research Unit 67 words
82. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Power Station Employees (Pay) 47 words
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2. Tax Evasion (Complaints Inquiry) 80 words
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3. Cider 88 words
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4. Personal Incomes 232 words
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5. Income Tax 344 words
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6. Development Grant Tax 167 words
83. SCOTLAND
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1. Children's Play Areas 322 words
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2. Telephones 78 words
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3. Teachers 73 words
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4. Dog Licences 56 words
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5. Flats (Multi-storey Blocks) 267 words
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6. Advance Factories 122 words
84. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Security Statistics 1,145 words
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2. Dog Licences 60 words
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3. Voluntary Organisations 269 words
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4. Public Service Pensions 166 words

Lords Sitting of 14 November 1977 Series 5 Vol. 387

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. ROYAL COMMISSION ON CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 355 words
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3. BAIL ACT 1976: IMPLEMENTATION 338 words
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4. CONSUMERS AND THE NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES 620 words
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5. SPANISH AIRSPACE RESTRICTIONS 680 words
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6. NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL [H.L.] 68 words
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7. PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE 318 words
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8. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES COMMITTEE 382 words
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9. SOUTHERN RHODESIA ACT 1965 (CONTINUATION) ORDER 1977 28,364 words, 1 division

Written Answers (Lords) of 14 November 1977 Series 5 Vol. 387

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1. HONG KONG: POLICE CORRUPTION OFFENCES 171 words
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2. CHELMSFORD HOSPITAL SERVICE 74 words
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3. ANIMALS AND INHALATION EXPERIMENTS 600 words
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4. HORSES: SALE AND TRANSPORTATION 72 words
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5. PORTS: LIVE ANIMAL EXPORTS 363 words
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6. MOLE CONTROL 69 words
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7. MINK FARM CONDITIONS 105 words
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8. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL 49 words
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9. MATERNITY PAY 124 words
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10. EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON THE PROTECTION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE 87 words
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11. NUCLEAR EXPLOSION POLICY 168 words
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12. PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS 60 words
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13. RENTON COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION 44 words
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14. SOVIET AIRCRAFT CARRIERS 198 words
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15. UK-ITALY AIR SERVICES AGREEMENT 117 words
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16. BRITISH AIRWAYS: FOREIGN EARNINGS REMITTANCE 84 words
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17. GERALD ROAD POLICE STATION 73 words