Sitting of 19 January 1970

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Commons Sitting of 19 January 1970 Series 5 Vol. 794

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1. Preamble 16 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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3. BRIGADIER SIR FRANCIS REID, C.B.E. 173 words
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4. HON. MEMBER FOR MORPETH 117 words
5. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. WALES
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1. Prince of Wales (Investiture) 222 words
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2. Llantrisant (New Town) 213 words
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3. South Wales Valleys (Social and Industrial Requirements) 246 words
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4. Employment 337 words
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5. Motorways 206 words
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6. Glamorgan and Monmouth 219 words
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7. Trunk Road Schemes 223 words
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8. Hospitals (Geriatric Facilities) 265 words
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9. By-pass Roads (Proposals) 236 words
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10. Housing 776 words
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11. Development Projects (Compensation Payments) 142 words
2. TECHNOLOGY
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1. Motor Industry 460 words
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2. Investment Grants 1,038 words
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3. Manufacturing Investment 374 words
3. POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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1. Capital Expenditure Programme 437 words
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2. House of Commons (Postal Deliveries) 269 words
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3. Telephone Service (Tariff Changes) 237 words
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4. Independent Television Companies (Levy) 863 words
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5. Post Office Research Team (Report) 160 words
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6. B.B.C. (Finance) 115 words
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7. Colour Television Reception (Merseyside) 151 words
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8. Post Office Employees (Pay) 220 words
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9. International Telecommunication Union 156 words
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10. Universal Postal Union (Conference) 99 words
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11. PUBLIC ORDER ACT (SWANSEA TRIAL) 167 words
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12. CRIMINAL AND CIVIL CASES 503 words
4. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Superannuation 190 words
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2. Medical Aid Association 310 words
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6. WALES (LLUEST WEN RESERVOIR) 1,131 words
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7. NIGERIA 6,728 words
8. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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1. NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION AND SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL 48,371 words, 2 divisions
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2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 29 words
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3. NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION AND SOCIAL INSURANCE [MONEY] 261 words
9. WAYS AND MEANS
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1. NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION AND SOCIAL INSURANCE 202 words
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10. WALES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD 12,422 words, 1 division
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11. SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT AREA POLICY 3,681 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 19 January 1970 Series 5 Vol. 794

1. WALES
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1. European Conservation Year 171 words
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2. Rural Bus Services 106 words
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3. Sheep Flocks 173 words
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4. Hospital Nursing Staffs 69 words
2. TECHNOLOGY
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1. Industrial Output and Export Levels (Import Content) 86 words
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2. High-speed Trains 65 words
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3. Beagle Aircraft Company 178 words
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4. Smokeless Fuel Supplies 46 words
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5. British Steel Corporation (Report) 40 words
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6. Industrial Reorganisation Corporation (Loans) 40 words
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7. V.T.O.L. Aircraft 65 words
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8. National Engineering Laboratory, East Kilbride 62 words
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9. Supersonic Flying 161 words
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10. Coal (Demand and Supply) 49 words
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11. Pipe-laying Contracts (Scottish Firms) 48 words
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12. Clyde Ore Terminal 57 words
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13. Shipbuilding Industry 40 words
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14. Shipbuilding Industry Board (Guarantees) 42 words
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15. Sunderland (New Jobs) 61 words
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16. Industrial Technological Support 116 words
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17. Government Research and Development (Savings) 93 words
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18. Manufacturing and Construction Industries (Investment) 126 words
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19. Merchant Ships (Nuclear Propulsion) 99 words
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20. BAC 3–11 Aircraft 49 words
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21. Industrial Effluent (Treatment Plant) 70 words
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22. Textile Industry 383 words
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23. National Coal Board (Interest Payments) 131 words
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24. Weights and Measures (Metrication) 47 words
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25. Coal Subsidies 70 words
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26. Motor Industry 192 words
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27. Coal Prices and Productivity 133 words
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28. Motor Vehicles (Exhaust Fumes) 86 words
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29. Concorde Aircraft 53 words
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30. Power Stations (Electricity) 115 words
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31. Power Supplies (Industrial Disputes) 47 words
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32. Ferro-silicon 337 words
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33. Industrial Development Certificates (St. Ives) 97 words
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34. Regional Employment Schemes (Cornwall) 51 words
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35. Supersonic Flights 137 words
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36. Skelmersdale 161 words
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37. Investment Grants (Development Areas) 102 words
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38. Atmospheric Pollution (Strontium 90 and Caesium 137) 142 words
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39. Electricity Council (Memorandum) 67 words
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40. Aircraft Engines (Noise) 60 words
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41. Former Private Colliery Owners (Compensation) 107 words
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42. Smokeless Fuel Supplies 73 words
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43. Multi-role Combat Aircraft Projects 49 words
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44. Pressure Vessels (Report) 278 words
3. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Aircraft (Hijacking) 107 words
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2. Libya (British Women) 120 words
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3. Biafra (Relief) 143 words
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4. Hong Kong 373 words
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5. Rudolf Hess 427 words
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6. Praslin Island (Vallée de Mai) 108 words
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7. Nigeria (Military Planning Report) 74 words
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8. Nigeria (Relief Supplies) 76 words
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9. Western European Union (Council Meeting) 85 words
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10. Rhodesia 122 words
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11. Protection of Arcæhwological Heritage (Convention) 63 words
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12. Vietnam (Private Eric Gould) 83 words
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13. Thai-Malayan Border (Guerilla Activities) 146 words
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14. Tripoli 677 words
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15. Ethiopia (Reuter's Correspondent) 100 words
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16. Brunei 259 words
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17. Indonesia (British Assets) 69 words
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18. Atlantic Salmon 150 words
4. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Prescription Charges 39 words
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2. Physiotherapists and Nurses (Pay) 129 words
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3. Salterley Grange (Adolescent Unit) 48 words
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4. Mrs. Joan Cant, Brent (Kidney Machine) 158 words
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5. Influenza Epidemic 646 words
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6. Supplementary Pensions (Disregards) 107 words
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7. Skelmersdale (Ambulance Station) 63 words
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8. Elderly Persons 834 words
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9. Horton Hospital, Banbury (Nursing Staff) 61 words
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10. Population Movement (Cornwall) 261 words
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11. Executive Officers (Official Information) 156 words
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12. Teachers of Mentally Handicapped Children 126 words
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13. Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry 81 words
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14. Central Hospital, Warwick (Patients) 67 words
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15. St. Cross Hospital, Rugby (Accident Casualties) 33 words
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16. Hospitals, Rugby (Coventry Patients) 166 words
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17. Immigrant Births 85 words
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18. Royal Gloucestershire Hospital 94 words
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19. European Economic Community 92 words
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20. Supplementary Benefit (Industrial Disputes) 125 words
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21. Superannuation Scheme 51 words
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22. Social Service Offices (Newham) 208 words
5. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Criminals (Newspaper Articles) 64 words
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2. Hotels (Fire Safety Regulations) 152 words
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3. Enzyme Detergents 111 words
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4. Police (Deaths) 213 words
6. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Exports of Works of Art 167 words
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2. Murder (Children) 142 words
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3. Students (Grants) 118 words
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4. Handicapped Children (Bootle) 109 words
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5. Performing Arts 206 words
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6. Teachers (Mentally Handicapped) 618 words
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7. Secondary Education (Newcastle-under-Lyme) 78 words
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8. Common Cold Research Unit (Volunteers) 87 words
7. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Early Potatoes 114 words
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2. Fishing Industry 288 words
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3. Milk Production 101 words
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4. Net Farm Incomes 76 words
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5. Atlantic Salmon 84 words
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6. Farmers (Prices and Costs) 115 words
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7. Flood Prevention (Rhayader Bridge) 97 words
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8. LAW OF FAMILY PROPERTY 111 words
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9. HOUSE PROPERTY MORTGAGES 112 words
8. DEFENCE
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1. War Memorials, Northern Ireland (Wreaths) 81 words
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2. Measurement at Sea (Metrication) 99 words
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3. Rum Ration 80 words
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4. Non-attributable Press Briefings 54 words
9. EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY
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1. Engineering Draughtsmen and Tracers (Pay) 228 words
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2. Unemployed Persons (Cornwall) 250 words
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3. Unemployment (Weymouth Area) 240 words
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4. Company Directors (Salaries) 89 words
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5. Coal Prices 138 words
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6. Industrial Disputes (Lost Working Days) 753 words
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7. Employed and Unemployed Persons 199 words
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8. Flying Training (Grants to Students) 100 words
10. HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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1. High-rise Flats (Strengthening) 259 words
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2. Housing (West Suffolk) 388 words
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3. Rate Support Grant (Brighton) 77 words
11. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Debt 47 words
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2. Investment Income 86 words
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3. Reflective Armbands (Purchase Tax) 70 words
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4. Wines and Spirits 73 words
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5. Members (Parliamentary Expenses) 146 words
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6. Tax-free Expenses Allowance 56 words
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7. Superannuation Schemes (Tax Rules) 65 words
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8. Agricultural Land (Disposal by Departments) 459 words
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9. Income Tax Returns (Wives) 42 words
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10. Employment Income 111 words
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11. London Postal Customs 193 words
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12. Royal Mint 152 words
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13. Newspaper Expenses (Taxation) 115 words
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14. Industrial Investment 99 words
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15. International Growth Rates 225 words
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16. Decimal Currency 246 words
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17. Selective Employment Tax 129 words
12. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Persian Gulf and South-East Asia (Aid) 194 words
13. POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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1. Post Office Corporation (Auditors) 53 words
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2. "The Times" (Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1949) 85 words
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3. B.B.C.1 Television Programmes (Reception) 115 words
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4. Local Radio Programmes 61 words
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5. Pirate Television Broadcasts 71 words
14. SCOTLAND
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1. Teachers (In-Service Training) 208 words
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2. Colleges of Education (Student Representation) 71 words
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3. Milk Marketing Boards 88 words
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4. Douglas-Ewart High School (Rebuilding) 46 words
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5. Rates 307 words
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6. Schools, Ayrshire 62 words
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7. Parliamentary Constituency Tables 45 words
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8. Afforestation 113 words
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9. Springbok Rugby Match (Police) 146 words
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10. Rural Water Schemes 30 words
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11. Hunterston B Nuclear Power Station 42 words
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12. Police (Recruitment) 186 words
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13. Crimes of Violence 48 words
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14. Regional Crime Squads 98 words
15. BOARD OF TRADE
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1. Hotel Development (Cornwall and Isles of Scilly) 114 words
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2. Potato and Broccoli Imports 71 words
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3. Aldergrove Civil Airport 188 words
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4. London Airport (Noise) 371 words
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5. Private Pilot Licences 70 words
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6. Boeing 747 78 words
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7. Films (Investment) 103 words
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8. Aircraft Noise (I.C.A.O. Meeting) 125 words
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9. Northolt Airport 43 words
16. TRANSPORT
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1. Roads Expenditure (Cornwall) 52 words
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2. Devon Bridge, Newark-on-Trent 54 words
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3. Manual "Driving" 110 words
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4. Palmers Green (Road Accidents) 190 words
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5. Commercial Vehicles (Size and Weight) 81 words
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6. Railway Investment Projects (Discounted Cash Flow Assessment) 127 words
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7. A1 (Accidents) 278 words
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8. Ports (Costs) 83 words
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9. Former Railway Owners (Compensation) 53 words
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10. Passenger Trains (Punctuality) 239 words
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11. A53, Blackbrook—Coneygreave, Staffordshire 59 words
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12. National Bus Company (Finance) 470 words