Sitting of 14 December 1981

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Commons Sitting of 14 December 1981 Series 6 Vol. 15

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. DERBYSHIRE BILL [Lords] 8 words
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3. HUMBERSIDE BILL 12 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. TRADE
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1. Road Vehicles (Imports-Exports) 343 words
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2. Channel Tunnel 418 words
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3. Consultative Council on Local Government Finance 122 words
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4. British Airports Authority 314 words
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5. Industrial Goods (European Free Trade Area) 328 words
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6. West Germany (Trade Deficit) 416 words
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7. World Trade 424 words
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8. Multi-Fibre Arrangement 892 words
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9. Japanese Light Vehicles 825 words
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10. USSR (United Kingdom Exports) 578 words
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11. European Community—Japan 488 words
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12. Monopolies and Mergers Commission 635 words
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13. Spain (Balance of Trade) 278 words
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14. British Products (Counterfeiting) 725 words
2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Least Developed Countries 522 words
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2. Students (Underdeveloped Countries) 789 words
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3. India 202 words
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5. Poland 3,618 words
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6. Steel Industry 4,537 words
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7. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &C. 64 words
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8. Employment Prospects in Wales 18,392 words
9. Orders of the Day
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1. Civil Aviation (Amendment) Bill 10,740 words
cc86-102
2. Housing (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill 9,368 words
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3. Welsh Water Supply 13,194 words, 1 division
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4. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENT 18 words
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5. STOCK EXCHANGE LISTING: INTERIM REPORTS 82 words
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6. SOCIAL SECURITY (CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL 42 words
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7. Industrial Deafness 3,298 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 14 December 1981 Series 6 Vol. 15

1. TRADE
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1. Bankruptcies and Liquidations 81 words
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2. European Monetary System 49 words
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3. Pilots 72 words
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4. Balance of Trade 68 words
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5. Hairdressers (European Community Directive) 56 words
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6. Steel Imports 84 words
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7. Eurocontrol (Meeting) 88 words
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8. Cars (Differential Pricing) 96 words
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9. Household Products (Danger to Children) 55 words
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10. Vehicle Imports 88 words
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11. Customs Duties (Alcoholic Beverages) 285 words
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12. France (Import Measures) 168 words
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13. Scotch Whisky 148 words
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14. Air Traffic Control 309 words
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15. Sealink (UK) Limited 60 words
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16. Airport Charges 123 words
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17. Brazil (Memorandum of Understanding) 378 words
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18. Imports (Safety Standards) 244 words
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19. European Community (Imports-Exports) 337 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Purchasing Policy 85 words
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2. Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Representations) 231 words
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3. Alcohol (Teratogen Effects) 86 words
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4. Alcohol (Central Policy Review Staff) 31 words
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5. Public Sector Companies 574 words
3. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Fixed Penalty Parking Fines 215 words
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2. Homicides 80 words
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3. Serious Offences 287 words
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4. Indictable Offences 88 words
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5. Hotels (Television Licences) 99 words
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6. Metropolitan Police (Compensation Claims) 452 words
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7. Disused Properties 150 words
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8. LD50 Test 210 words
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9. Boundary Commission (Parliamentary Seats) 115 words
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10. Polyurethane Foam 177 words
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11. Mr. Trevor Hardy 108 words
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12. Television Licence (Fee Refund) 54 words
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13. West Yorkshire Police 68 words
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14. Late Night Refreshment Houses Act 1969 39 words
4. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Factory Closures 272 words
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2. Farm Machinery (Protective Guards) 221 words
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3. Disabled Persons 67 words
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4. Port Workers (London) 452 words
5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Aid Budget 86 words
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2. Aid to Developing Countries 56 words
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3. Commonwealth Development Corporation 637 words
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4. Common Fund for Commodities 74 words
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5. Aid Programme 126 words
6. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Select Committees (Staff) 141 words
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2. Employment Committee 234 words
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3. Committee on Welsh Affairs 74 words
7. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Bristol Courts Family Conciliation Service 45 words
8. INDUSTRY
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1. Volume-produced Tractors 66 words
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2. Dorman Long Ltd. 82 words
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3. British Steel Corporation 853 words
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4. Boilers (Coal-firing Conversion Schemes) 144 words
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5. Charities (Christmas Card Deliveries) 95 words
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6. Motor Cars (Production and Exports) 183 words
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7. Talbot and Peugeot (Loans and Guarantees) 170 words
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8. British Leyland (Bathgate) 262 words
9. SCOTLAND
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1. Public Bodies (Departmental Responsibility) 235 words
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2. Housing (Insulation) 138 words
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3. Sewerage System 113 words
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4. Roads (Expenditure) 79 words
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5. Trunk Road Programme (Bypasses) 104 words
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6. Edinburgh Airport Car Park (Stolen and Damaged Vehicles) 341 words
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7. Castlelaw (Firing Ranges) 106 words
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8. STUC (Unemployment) 192 words
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9. Police Complaints 384 words
10. ENERGY
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1. Energy Costs (Assistance) 123 words
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2. Drilling Rigs and Production Platforms (Equipment and Safety Procedures) 67 words
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3. North Sea Oil and Gas 124 words
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4. Gas Flaring 172 words
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5. Uranium 107 words
11. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. European Guidance and Guarantee Fund 349 words
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2. Milk 133 words
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3. Fishing Rights (Yorkshire Coast) 93 words
12. WALES
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1. Committee on Welsh Affairs (Recommendations) 128 words
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2. Public Bodies (Departmental Responsibility) 134 words
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3. Local Government Expenditure 217 words
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4. Grants to Local Authorities 116 words
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5. European Regional Development Fund 34 words
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6. All-Wales Working Party on Services for Mentally Handicapped People 254 words
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7. Farm Products (Sales) 89 words
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8. Lamb Exports 123 words
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9. Handicapped Children (Special Care and Assessment Centres) 64 words
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10. Land Registration 102 words
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11. Overseas Companies (Employees) 68 words
13. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Council Houses (Ownership Statistics) 99 words
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2. New Town Properties (Sales) 71 words
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3. Earlham School, Norfolk 95 words
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4. Tenancies (Transfer) 166 words
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5. Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 155 words
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6. Brook Advisory Centre 90 words
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7. Smoke Control Programme 193 words
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8. Construction Industry (European Community Circular) 129 words
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9. Crown Estate Commissioners 96 words
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10. Mortgages (Support Lending Scheme) 291 words
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11. Hackney (Urban Aid and Partnership Money) 155 words
14. TRANSPORT
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1. M40 149 words
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2. Railways Sidings (Grants) 128 words
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3. Transport Act 1981 325 words
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4. School Zone Signs 75 words
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5. Unlit Parked Skips 54 words
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6. A34 (Public Inquiry) 144 words
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7. Port of London Authority 136 words
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8. Lorry Checks 366 words
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9. Avon (Bypasses) 100 words
15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Primary and Secondary Curriculum (First Degrees) 75 words
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2. Teacher Training (Circular) 31 words
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3. Staff-student Ratios 154 words
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4. Private Education (Local Authority Assistance) 1,061 words
16. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Child Benefit 79 words
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2. RUC (Long Service Medal) 54 words
17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Hong Kong (Narcotics) 52 words
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2. NATO (Boundaries Policies) 103 words
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3. United States Deputy Secretary of State (Talks) 124 words
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4. Venice Declaration 152 words
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5. Hijacking (Withdrawal of Air Services) 163 words
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6. Sally Ashcroft 130 words
18. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Accidents in Childhood 117 words
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2. Orthopaedic Surgery 208 words
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3. Pregnancy (Alcohol Consumption) 196 words
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4. Death Grant 64 words
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5. Islington Brook Advisory Centre 127 words
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6. Disabled Persons 135 words
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7. London Borough of Wandsworth (Disabled Persons) 230 words
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8. Special Hospitals (Nursing Standards) 582 words
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9. Patients' Records 90 words
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10. Insulin 235 words
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11. Maternity Benefit 189 words
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12. Unemployment Benefit (Abatement) 55 words
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13. Earnings Rule (Abatement) 68 words
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14. Benefits (Compulsory Uprating) 261 words
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15. Supplementary Benefit 333 words
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16. Industrial Accidents (Benefit) 322 words
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17. Widows (Benefits) 297 words
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18. Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980 262 words
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19. Cyclamates 57 words
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20. Alcohol Abuse 191 words
19. DEFENCE
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1. Chatham Dockyard 281 words
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2. Manpower Savings 177 words
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3. Service Children (Private Education) 123 words
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4. Devonport Dockyard 97 words
20. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Scotland (Expenditure) 265 words
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2. Charitable Covenants 177 words
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3. Tax-free Income 560 words
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4. New Businesses (Tax Concessions) 59 words
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5. Government Spending 66 words
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6. Keith Committee Report 46 words
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7. Rossminster (Investigation) 68 words
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8. Investigations (Seizure of Documents) 100 words
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9. Personal Taxation (Allowances) 72 words
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10. Coinage (Intrinsic Value) 34 words
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11. PAYE (Manual Entries) 43 words
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12. Earnings (Public Sector) 736 words
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13. Overseas Tax Evasion 103 words
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14. Personal Taxation 168 words
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15. Value Added Tax (Students) 96 words
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16. Tax Reliefs and Personal Tax Allowances 249 words
21. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Senior Grades (Entrants) 177 words

Lords Sitting of 14 December 1981 Series 5 Vol. 426

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1. Preamble 23 words
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2. COSIRA: Incentives for New Businesses 425 words
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3. Glue Sniffing 1,230 words
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4. Southern Thule: Argentinian Presence 456 words
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5. Wheel Clamps: Use by the Police 902 words
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6. Steel: Assistance to Private Sector 42 words
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7. Poland: Martial Law 2,209 words
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8. British Railways (No. 2) Bill 17 words
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9. Nuclear Industry (Finance) Bill 3,332 words
cc19-26
10. Constitutional Referendum Bill [H.L.] 3,842 words
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11. Steel: Assistance to Private Sector 3,740 words
cc33-58
12. Constitutional Referendum Bill [H.L.] 14,945 words
cc58-75
13. ECC 39th Report: Water Pollution by Cadmium Discharges 9,716 words
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14. Greater London Council(General Powers) Bill 11 words
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15. Derbyshire Bill [H.L.] 18 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 14 December 1981 Series 5 Vol. 426

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1. POLISH NATIONALS: ASYLUM 189 words
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2. H.M. PRISON VISITORS: GUIDANCE NOTES 60 words
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3. MR. R. J. MAWDSLEY: SEGREGATION UNDER RULE 43 239 words
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4. MR. D. J. CHEESMAN: SEGREGATION UNDER RULE 43 140 words
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5. MR. MICHAEL WRIGHT: SEGREGATION UNDER RULE 43 49 words
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6. PRISON RULES 1964: RULE 37A(1) 77 words
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7. UK CONSUMPTION OF LIQUID FUELS 141 words
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8. CAPITAL TRANSFER TAX: EXEMPTION ON PRIVATE TREATY SALE 162 words
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9. VEHICLE BREAKDOWN: WARNING TRIANGLE 186 words
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10. ALBANIA: GOLD 137 words