Sitting of 2 February 1971

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Commons Sitting of 2 February 1971 Series 5 Vol. 810

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
1. BERKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords]
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1. BRISTOL CORPORATION (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] 10 words
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4. ALDRIDGE-BROWNHILLS URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL 6 words
5. BRITISH RAILWAYS (No. 2) BILL
1. BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS BILL
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1. CHICHESTER HARBOUR CONSERVANCY BILL 23 words
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6. CO-OPERATIVE BANK BILL 14 words
7. D.amp; J. FOWLER LIMITED AND ASSOCIATED COMPANY BILL
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1. EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL (NEWHAVEN BRIDGE) BILL 15 words
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8. ETON RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL 14 words
9. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) (NO. 2) BILL
1. HARINGEY CORPORATION BILL
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1. HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL 15 words
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10. HUMBER BRIDGE BILL 6 words
11. ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY COUNCIL BILL
1. KESTEVEN COUNTY COUNCIL BILL
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1. LONDON TRANSPORT (No. 2) BILL 15 words
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12. MANCHESTER CORPORATION (LOTTERIES) BILL 16 words
13. NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK (NORTH CENTRAL FINANCE & LOMBARD BANKING) BILL
1. OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (No. 2) BILL
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1. STOCKPORT CORPORATION BILL 20 words
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14. TRENT RIVER AUTHORITY (GENERAL POWERS) BILL 6 words
15. GLASGOW CORPORATION (FINANCE &c.) ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL
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1. PAISLEY CORPORATION (CART NAVIGATION) ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL (By Order) 11 words
16. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Blind Persons 267 words
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2. Smoking (Lung Cancer) 502 words
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3. Pneumoconiosis Medical Panels 175 words
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4. Industrial Lung Diseases 209 words
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5. Hypothermia (Deaths) 472 words
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6. Directors of Social Services 318 words
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7. Water Supplies (Fluoridation) 362 words
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8. Liquid Vitamin Drops 229 words
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9. King George Hospital, Ilford (Casualty Department) 126 words
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10. Psychiatric Beds (London) 213 words
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11. Elderly Persons (Hardship Cases) 481 words
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12. Disabled Persons (Vehicle Fuel) 643 words
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13. Dental Charges 922 words
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14. National Health Service (Parliamentary Commissioner) 435 words
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15. Hospital Emergency Generators 243 words
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16. St. Cross Hospital, Rugby 95 words
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17. Retirement Pensioners (Fuel Costs) 101 words
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18. District Nurses and Home Helps 252 words
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2. COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING 937 words
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3. CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH) 1,139 words
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17. QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 1,158 words
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18. LAOS 440 words
19. BILLS PRESENTED
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1. LICENSING (ABOLITION OF STATE MANAGEMENT) 115 words
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2. CONTROL OF PERSONAL INFORMATION 81 words
20. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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1. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL 15 words
1. Clause 34
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1. BREACH OF COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT 16,857 words, 3 divisions
2. Clause 35
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1. APPLICATION TO INDUSTRIAL COURT RELATING TO PROCEDURAL PROVISIONS 41,804 words, 7 divisions
3. Clause 36
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1. PROVISION FOR EXTENDING SCOPE OF REFERENCE UNDER SECTION 35 2,451 words, 2 divisions
4. Clause 37
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1. ACTION BY COMMISSION FOR PROMOTING SETTLEMENT OF QUESTION REFERRED UNDER S. 35 1,515 words
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5. ANIMALS BILL [Lords] 53 words
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2. WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHS (FRAUDULENT PRACTICES) 3,025 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 2 February 1971 Series 5 Vol. 810

1. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. National Health Service Charges For Spectacles (Retirement Pensioners) 96 words
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2. Family Planning and Abortion 65 words
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3. National Health Service (Sources of Revenue) 81 words
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4. Social Security Offices (Privacy) 72 words
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5. Mentally Defective Children 50 words
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6. Supplementary Benefits (Retirement Pensioners) 135 words
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7. Supplementary Benefits (Disregards) 71 words
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8. State and Local Authority Benefits (Report) 76 words
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9. Tobacco (Advertising and Sales Promotion) 110 words
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10. Amphetamines 383 words
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11. L.S.D. Drugs 89 words
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12. Medicine Containers 67 words
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13. Disabled Persons (Vehicles) 40 words
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14. Motorway Ambulance Helicopters 64 words
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15. Laboratory Technicians (Pay) 184 words
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16. Homeless Families 209 words
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17. Children, Birmingham (Ear, Nose and Throat Care) 67 words
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18. Supplementary Benefits (Dependent Relatives' Transport Costs) 54 words
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19. Non-Cancer-Inducing Cigarette 77 words
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20. Malnutrition 67 words
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21. Family Income Supplement 111 words
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22. Retirement Pension 217 words
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23. Casuals (Overnight Accommodation) 134 words
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24. Hospital Construction, Bradford 103 words
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25. Junior Hospital Staff, Bradford and Halifax 97 words
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26. Strikes (Supplementary Benefit Payments) 180 words
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27. Brucellosis 51 words
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28. Hospital Waiting Lists 64 words
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29. Nurses (Pay) 76 words
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30. Occupational Pensions 50 words
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31. Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Newburn (Supplementary Allowances) 100 words
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32. Dental Charges 49 words
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33. Babies' Cot Deaths 72 words
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34. Home Safety 115 words
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35. Rhesus Immunisation (Gamma Globulin) 42 words
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36. Social Security and Health Service Benefits 93 words
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37. Overseas Countries (Reciprocal Arrangements) 114 words
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38. Cigarettes (Respiratory and Heart Complaints) 65 words
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39. National Health Service Facilities (Misuse) 48 words
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40. Medical Administrators and Public Health Officers 59 words
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41. Sheffield Regional Hospital Board (Geriatric Beds) 122 words
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42. North Staffordshire Hospitals (Pay Beds) 69 words
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43. Parliamentary Commissioner (National Health Service) 34 words
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44. War Pensioners (Earnings Limit) 47 words
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45. Pneumoconiosis Medical Panels 52 words
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46. Cardiological Technicians (Pay) 85 words
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47. General Practitioners (Registration of Patients) 220 words
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48. Anti-influenza Vaccine 255 words
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49. Ely Hospital, Cardiff 176 words
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50. Social Security Benefits (Representations) 141 words
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51. Family Expenditure Survey 86 words
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52. Mentally-Handicapped Persons 70 words
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53. Pension Schemes 64 words
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54. Hospitals (Medical and Psychiatric Social Work) 57 words
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55. Long-Stay Patients (After Care) 92 words
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56. National Health Service (Reorganisation) 159 words
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57. Abortion 60 words
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58. Social Security Benefits (Fraudulent Claims) 135 words
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59. Sheffield Regional Hospital Board (Geriatric Beds) 171 words
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60. Poliomyelitis 501 words
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61. Retirement Pensioners (Inquiry) 204 words
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62. Single Women (National Insurance Contributions) 61 words
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63. Drug Dependence 93 words
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64. Prescription Charge Exemptions 190 words
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65. Welfare Benefits (Increase) 235 words
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66. Drugs (Over-Prescribing) 179 words
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67. Strikers (Welfare Benefits) 40 words
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68. Dental Charges 55 words
69. NATIONAL FINANCE
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70. Housebuilding Firms (Bank Loans) 55 words
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71. Value-added Tax 47 words
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72. Unemployment (Economic Measures) 86 words
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73. Incomes 68 words
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74. Disabled Persons (Rule 9, Schedule E) 60 words
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75. Bankruptcies (Debts to Inland Revenue) 115 words
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76. Business Men and Entertainers (Recovery of Tax) 69 words
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77. Inland Revenue Computer Centre, Bootle 127 words
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78. Decimalisation (Local Advertisements) 100 words
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79. Investment Allowances, Wales 155 words
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80. Tobacco Duty (Citizens returning from Overseas) 104 words
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81. O.E.C.D. (Meeting) 39 words
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82. Decimalisation (Price Increases) 192 words
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83. Wilberforce Committee (Report) 58 words
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84. Pay Increases 133 words
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85. Strikers (P.A.Y.E. Refunds) 39 words
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86. United States Chamber of Commerce (Chancellor's Speech) 99 words
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87. Contractual Savings Schemes 54 words
2. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Disabled Persons (Purpose-Built Housing) 68 words
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2. Street Nameplates and House Numbering 53 words
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3. Butene Olygomer 95 words
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4. Moston Brook, Manchester 89 words
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5. M3 Motorway (Opening Dates) 90 words
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6. A45 (Flyovers) 82 words
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7. Burst Water Mains (Ex-Gratia Payments) 137 words
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8. Coal Spoil Heaps 281 words
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9. North-East 57 words
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10. Regional Policy (Report) 58 words
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11. Thurrock (Rents) 258 words
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12. Construction Work (Direct Labour) 73 words
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13. Building Targets, West Midlands 59 words
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14. Buses (Capital Expenditure Grant) 280 words
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15. Lorries (Weight and Length Regulations) 101 words
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16. Ml Motorway 128 words
3. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Coloured Children (Statistics) 309 words
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2. Primary Schools Programme 97 words
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3. Multiple Sclerosis 85 words
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4. School Meals and Milk 61 words
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5. Amphetamines 148 words
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6. School Children (Special Help) 97 words
4. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Community Development Projects 108 words
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2. Demonstration, Wolverhampton 427 words
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3. Football Grounds (Safety Precautions) 37 words
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4. Fines (East London Boroughs) 158 words
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5. Fines (Collection) 232 words
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6. Taxicab Trade (Decimal Conversion Tables) 188 words
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7. Lambeth (Urban Aid Programme) 252 words
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8. Fire Dangers and Deaths (Children) 174 words
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9. Violence and Threats (Members of the Government) 45 words
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10. Fireworks (Accidents) 124 words
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11. Amphetamines 318 words
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12. L.S.D. (Penalties) 48 words
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13. Cherry Top and Purple Haze Tablets 74 words
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14. Prisoners (Mentally Abnormal) 211 words
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15. Dangerous Liquid (Accidents) 352 words
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16. University Hospital of Wales (Nurses) 120 words
5. WALES
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1. Cardiganshire (Infrastructure) 166 words
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2. Housing, Newport 173 words
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3. PRESIDENT NIXON (DISCUSSIONS) 38 words
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6. CIGARETTE SMOKING 52 words
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7. LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING 31 words
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8. PRICES 22 words
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9. RETIREMENT PENSIONS 31 words
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10. INDUSTRIAL HEALTH AND SAFETY 29 words
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11. PARIS (VISIT) 27 words
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12. CABINET OFFICE CENTRAL CAPABILITY UNIT 23 words
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13. PENSIONERS (LETTERS) 81 words
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14. SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS) 87 words
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15. PRIME MINISTER (VISIT TO UNITED STATES) 37 words
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16. KING EDWARD VIII (OFFICIAL PAPERS) 51 words
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17. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (DELEGATIONS) 145 words
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18. DRUGS (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY) 117 words
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19. GOVERNMENT POLICY STATEMENTS (PRESS LEAKS) 102 words
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20. POST OFFICE WORKERS (STRIKE) 79 words
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21. UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH) 91 words
22. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Higher-Paid Public Servants (Salaries and Pensions) 133 words
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2. Former Prime Ministers (Allowance) 104 words
23. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Refreshment Department (Prices) 570 words
24. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Price Review (Increased Efficiency) 49 words
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2. Food Prices 347 words
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3. Feedingstuffs (Northern Ireland) 35 words
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4. European Economic Community 122 words
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5. Hill Farmers (Grant) 71 words
25. AVIATION SUPPLY
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1. Pegasus Vectored Thrust Power Plant 54 words
26. DEFENCE
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1. Northern Ireland (Bombing Incidents) 66 words
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2. Belfast (Security Forces) 65 words
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3. Army Cadet Force 249 words
27. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Norwich 92 words
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2. Labour-Only Sub-Contractors 55 words
28. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Mr. Geoffrey Jackson 198 words
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2. European Economic Community 775 words
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3. Narcotics 172 words
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4. Sierra Leone (Disturbances) 60 words
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5. O.E.C.D. (United Kingdom Membership) 83 words
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6. Council of Europe (Delegations and Expenses) 173 words
29. SCOTLAND
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1. Hospitals (Fire Prevention) 64 words
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2. Teenage Drinking (Identity Cards) 102 words
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3. Family Planning Services 154 words
30. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Farmers (Bankruptcy) 164 words
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2. Receipts (Abolition of Stamp Duty) 190 words

Lords Sitting of 2 February 1971 Series 5 Vol. 314

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1. Preamble 23 words
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2. TRIBUTES TO THE LATE VISCOUNT SOULBURY 880 words
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3. PRESTWICK AIRPORT 507 words
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4. AIRPORTS AND FOG DISPERSAL SYSTEMS 526 words
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5. RURAL BUS SERVICES 1,742 words
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6. RECOGNITION OF DIVORCES AND LEGAL SEPARATIONS BILL [H.L.] 55 words
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7. MINERAL WORKINGS (OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS) BILL [H.L.] 89 words
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8. AIRCRAFT (OFFENCES) BILL [H.L.] 57 words
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9. MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (MELTON MOWBRAY AND SHEFFIELD) BILL 207 words
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10. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL [H.L.] 9 words
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11. STATUTE LAW REPEALS BILL [H.L.] 1,564 words
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12. CIVIL DEFENCE (POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS) REGULATIONS 1970 835 words
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13. FISHING VESSELS (ACQUISITION AND IMPROVEMENT) (GRANTS) (AMENDMENT) SCHEME 1970 1,909 words
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14. IRON CASTING INDUSTRY (SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH LEVY) ORDER 1971 1,481 words
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15. COPYRIGHT BILL [H.L.] 6 words
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16. POWERS OF ATTORNEY BILL 10 words
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17. COINAGE BILL [H.L.] 157 words
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18. ATTACHMENT OF EARNINGS BILL [H.L.] 269 words
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19. SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING) BILL [H.L.] 4,990 words, 1 division
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20. ROYAL MINT: REMOVAL TO WALES 5,989 words
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21. RHODESIA: PROPOSED DEPORTATION OF MR. CLUTTON BROCK 5,293 words
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22. BRITISH WATERWAYS BILL 32 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 2 February 1971 Series 5 Vol. 314

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1. E.E.C. AND ROAD HAULAGE POLICY 238 words
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2. E.E.C. AND PORT SUBSIDIES 26 words
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3. PROPOSED OPENCAST MINING IN SHROPSHIRE 158 words