Sitting of 17 July 1973

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Commons Sitting of 17 July 1973 Series 5 Vol. 860

c229
1. Preamble 6 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
1. RYDE CORPORATION BILL
c229
1. SOUTHAMPTON CORPORATION BILL 6 words
2. MEDWAY PORTS AUTHORITY BILL [Lords]
c229
1. RHONDDA CORPORATION BILL [Lords] 16 words
3. SALFORD CORPORATION BILL [Lords]
c229
1. CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) Bill [Lords] 8 words
c229
2. QUEEN MARY COLLEGE BILL [Lords] 8 words
4. ABERDEEN CORPORATION ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL
1. DUNDEE CORPORATION (BROKERS, ETC.) ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL
c229
1. NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 8 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Elderly Persons' Benefits 537 words
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2. Children in Care (Homeless Families) 384 words
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3. Cigarettes 409 words
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4. Hospital Staff (Stoke-on-Trent) 283 words
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5. Health Visitors (Huntingdonshire) 210 words
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6. Hospital Visiting Expenses 196 words
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7. Retirement Pensions 851 words
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8. Family Planning Act Circular 292 words
cc239-40
9. Vitamins A and D 216 words
cc240-2
10. Speech Therapists 610 words
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11. Disabled Children (Grants) 370 words
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12. Disabled Persons' Aids 341 words
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13. Mental Patients (Security) 360 words
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14. Unemployment Benefit (Earnings-Related Supplement) 159 words
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15. Industrial Disputes (Benefit) 406 words
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16. Manchester Royal Infirmary 245 words
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17. Family Planning 270 words
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18. Community Health Councils 229 words
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19. Hospital Expenditure (Birmingham) 233 words
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2. FOOD SUPPLIES 300 words
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3. CANCER RESEARCH 590 words
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4. WORKS COUNCILS 406 words
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5. PRICES (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH) 1,944 words
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5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 699 words
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6. RENT ACT 1968 (AMENDMENT) (YOUNG MARRIEDS' HOMES AND RETIRED PERSONS' ANNUITIES) BILL 819 words
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7. RENT ACT 1968 (AMENDMENT) (YOUNG MARRIEDS' HOMES AND RETIRED PERSONS' ANNUITIES) 52 words
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8. ADJOURNMENT 13 words
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9. PORTUGAL 27,284 words, 1 division
1. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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2. INSURANCE COMPANIES BILL [Lords] 6 words
3. New Clause 1
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1. INSURANCE COMMISSIONER 9,720 words
4. New Clause 2
cc366-75
1. DIRECTOR'S REMUNERATION 3,427 words, 1 division
10. Clause 1
cc375-7
1. MARGIN OF SOLVENCY AND MINIMUM PAID UP SHARE CAPITAL REQUIRED FOR AUTHORISATION 215 words
11. Clause 2
c377
1. No AUTHORISATION FOR INSURANCE COMPANY UNDER CONTROL ETC. OF UNFIT PERSONS 245 words
12. Clause 6
cc377-80
1. STATEMENTS OF TRANSACTIONS OF PRESCRIBED CLASS OR DESCRIPTION 964 words
13. Clause 8
cc380-2
1. APPLICATION OF ASSETS OF COMPANY WITH LONG TERM BUSINESS 711 words
14. Clause 10
cc382-5
1. RESTRICTION ON TRANSACTIONS WITH CONNECTED PERSONS 1,018 words
15. Clause 12
cc385-7
1. GROUNDS ON WHICH POWERS ARE EXERCISABLE 872 words
16. Clause 13
cc387-8
1. RESTRICTIONS ON NEW BUSINESS 231 words
17. Clause 15
cc388-9
1. MAINTENANCE OF ASSETS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 316 words
18. Clause 20
c389
1. POWER TO OBTAIN INFORMATION AND REQUIRE PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS 144 words
19. Clause 22
c390
1. NOTICE OF PROPOSED EXERCISE OF POWER UNDER SECTION 13 111 words
20. Clause 26
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1. SANCTION OF COURT REQUIRED FOR TRANSFERS OF LONG TERM BUSINESS 417 words
21. Clause 28
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1. MARGIN OF SOLVENCY FOR GENERAL BUSINESS 31 words
22. Clause 34
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1. APPROVAL OF PERSON PROPOSING TO BECOME CONTROLLER OF INSURANCE COMPANY WHERE SECTION 33 DOES NOT APPLY 198 words
23. Clause 35
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1. DUTY TO NOTIFY CHANGE OF DIRECTOR, CONTROLLER OR MANAGER 501 words
24. Clause 43
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1. INTERMEDIARIES IN INSURANCE TRANSACTIONS 1,121 words
25. Clause 47
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1. LINKED LONG TERM POLICIES 319 words
26. Clause 52
c398
1. OFFENCES AND PENALTIES 198 words
27. Clause 53
cc398-9
1. REGULATIONS AND ORDERS 310 words
28. Clause 57
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1. SHORT TITLE, CITATION AND COMMENCEMENT 137 words
29. Schedule 3
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1. APPLICATION TO NORTHERN IRELAND 182 words
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30. NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION BILL 3 words
31. Clause 25
c401
1. PROCEDURE 57 words
32. Clause 36
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1. PROVISIONS AS TO OTHER NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICERS 726 words
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2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 30 words
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3. NORTHERN IRELAND CONSTITUTION BILL 485 words
33. Clause 38
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1. POWER TO LEGISLATE BY ORDER IN COUNCIL FOR CERTAIN MATTERS RELATING TO NORTHERN IRELAND. 316 words
34. Schedule 3
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1. MINIMUM RESERVED MATTERS ON APPOINTED DAY 390 words
35. Schedule 6
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1. REPEALS 557 words
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2. WATER BILL 427 words
36. Clause 3
cc410-1
1. MEMBERS OF WATER AUTHORITIES 258 words
37. Clause 4
cc411-4
1. ESTABLISHMENT AND FUNCTIONS OF NATIONAL WATER COUNCIL 1,013 words
38. Clause 5
cc414-5
1. DIRECTIONS TO WATER AUTHORITIES 557 words
39. Clause 6
cc415-7
1. ARRANGEMENTS FOR DISCHARGE OF FUNCTIONS OF WATER AUTHORITIES 479 words
40. Clause 7
cc417-8
1. RATIONALISATION OF HOLDINGS OF PROPERTY, AND OF FUNCTIONS 522 words
41. Clause 9
cc418-9
1. WATER CONSERVATION 262 words
42. Clause 11
cc419-22
1. SUPPLY OF WATER BY STATUTORY WATER COMPANIES ON BEHALF OF WATER AUTHORITIES 1,087 words
43. Clause 16
cc422-4
1. REQUISITIONING OF SEWERS FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES 547 words
44. Clause 20
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1. RECREATION 599 words
45. Clause 21
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1. DUTIES WITH REGARD TO NATURE CONSERVATION AND AMENITY 168 words
46. Clause 22
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1. WATER SPACE AMENITY COMMISSION 1,132 words
47. Clause 23
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1. PERIODICAL REVIEWS, PLANS AND PROGRAMMES 98 words
48. New Clause A
cc430-7
1. DISCHARGE OF RECREATION AND AMENITY FUNCTIONS IN AND AROUND GREATER LONDON 2,932 words
49. New Clause B
cc437-40
1. SUPERANNUATION OF EMPLOYEES OF STATUTORY WATER UNDERTAKERS 1,018 words
50. Clause 27
cc440-5
1. WATER CHARGES 1,942 words
51. Clause 31
cc445-7
1. CONSEQUENTIAL, TRANSITIONAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISION 705 words
52. Schedule 4
cc447-8
1. LAND DRAINAGE 278 words
c448
2. ADJOURNMENT 12 words
cc448-54
3. MRS. PHYLLIS COXON (WIDOW'S PENSION) 2,269 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 17 July 1973 Series 5 Vol. 860

1. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Supplementary Benefits (Applicants' Assets) 118 words
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2. Cervical Smears 80 words
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3. Disabled Persons (Hydraulic Chairs) 87 words
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4. Hospital Staffs (Promotion) 68 words
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5. Retirement Pensions 206 words
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6. St. John's, Twickenham, and West Middlesex Hospitals 96 words
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7. Wage Stop 41 words
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8. Benefits Payments (Anonymous Allegations) 73 words
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9. Hospital Management Committees (Doctor Members) 90 words
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10. Doctors 54 words
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11. Dentists 57 words
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12. Home Nurses 60 words
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13. Children (Dental Health) 119 words
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14. Pensions (Television Licences) 51 words
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15. Invalid Vehicles 402 words
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16. Confidential Medical Information (Safeguards) 173 words
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17. Home Helps 68 words
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18. Elderly Persons (Wardens) 77 words
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19. Diabetic Children 186 words
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20. Dependants' Allowance (Single Women) 134 words
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21. Short-Term Benefits (Sick and Unemployed) 62 words
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22. Butter Subsidy 43 words
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23. Birmingham Regional Hospital Board 52 words
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24. Death Grant 47 words
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25. Population Movements (Hospital Development) 106 words
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26. Prescription Charges 130 words
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27. Cancer (Deaths) 182 words
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28. National Health Service Reorganisation (Television Programmes) 98 words
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29. St. Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth 65 words
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30. Industrial Injuries Advisory Council 60 words
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31. Casualty Officers (Manchester) 110 words
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32. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons 208 words
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33. Chiropodists 118 words
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34. Departmental Staff 100 words
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35. Handicapped Children's Hostel (Huddersfield) 72 words
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36. Employment of Women 100 words
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37. Hospital Staff (Recruitment) 294 words
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38. Butter Tokens 68 words
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39. National Insurance Tribunals (Allowances) 60 words
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40. Byssinosis (Advisory Committee Report) 49 words
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41. Maintenance Orders 76 words
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42. Medical Machines 59 words
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43. South Ockendon Hospital (Inquiry) 48 words
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44. Hospitals (Complaints Procedure) 66 words
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45. Cancer Research (Zuckerman Report) 168 words
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46. Oncology 190 words
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47. Nurses 177 words
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48. Hartlepool Hospitals (Development) 99 words
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49. West Bromwich (Doctors and Dentists) 91 words
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50. One-Parent Families (Finer Report) 55 words
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51. Corby Health Centre 58 words
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52. Agoraphobia 220 words
2. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Teachers' Superannuation Scheme (Contributions,) 68 words
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2. Suffolks Primary School, Enfield 66 words
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3. School Transport (Rural Areas) 90 words
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4. Sheffield Schools 113 words
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5. Mineral Survey (Scotland) 77 words
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6. Works of Art (Estate Duty) 240 words
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7. Cancer Research (Zuckerman Report) 59 words
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8. Primary Schools (Oversize Classes) 1,036 words
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9. National Portrait Gallery 90 words
3. DEFENCE
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1. Aircraft Noise (Wadborough) 99 words
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2. Harrier Aircraft 59 words
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3. Manston Aerodrome 115 words
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4. Nuclear Tests 78 words
4. EMPLOYMENT
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1. European Economic Community (British Workers) 138 words
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2. Liquefied Petroleum Gases (Regulations) 278 words
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3. Unemployed Persons 76 words
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4. Hull 408 words
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5. Regional Employment Premium 107 words
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6. Ships' Safety Regulations 86 words
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7. Home-Workers (Legislation) 354 words
5. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Channel Tunnel 48 words
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2. Sewage Disposal 148 words
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3. Road Improvements (Yorkshire) 121 words
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4. Home-loss Payments 96 words
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5. Lorries (Dover) 57 words
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6. Householders (Compensation for Depreciation) 97 words
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7. Residential Displacement 45 words
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8. Foreign Vehicles 58 words
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9. Clean Air Act (Application to Ships) 372 words
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10. Local Government Finance 81 words
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11. Lorry Parks 94 words
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12. Coastal Erosion 142 words
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13. Luton Airport 174 words
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14. St. Helens Chemical Works 152 words
6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Law of the Sea Conference 56 words
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2. Libya (British Assets) 206 words
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3. British Assets 122 words
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4. United Nations Association 106 words
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5. North Vietnam 132 words
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6. Upper Volta (Onchocerciasis) 93 words
7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Parliamentary Journalists (Financial Interests) 103 words
8. DISABLED CHILDREN (EDUCATION)
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1. DISABLED CHILDREN (EDUCATION) 91 words
9. COMMUNAL LIFE (MINISTER'S SPEECH)
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1. COMMUNAL LIFE (MINISTER'S SPEECH) 35 words
10. REGIONAL POLICY
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1. REGIONAL POLICY 36 words
11. COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES (MEETINGS)
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1. COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES (MEETINGS) 71 words
12. COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY
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1. COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY 157 words
13. URBAN AREAS
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1. URBAN AREAS 73 words
14. ELDERLY PERSONS
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1. ELDERLY PERSONS 36 words
15. NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
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1. NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 73 words
16. LOCAL COUNCILLORS AND OFFICIALS
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1. LOCAL COUNCILLORS AND OFFICIALS 58 words
17. REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (PRIME MINISTER)
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1. REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (PRIME MINISTER) 58 words
18. PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCASTS
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1. PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCASTS 24 words
19. SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL POLICIES
c97W
1. SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL POLICIES 74 words
20. PORTUGUESE PRIME MINISTER (VISIT)
c97W
1. PORTUGUESE PRIME MINISTER (VISIT) 56 words
21. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Vinegar 79 words
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2. Icelandic Fisheries 158 words
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3. Food and Milk (EEC Regulations) 83 words
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4. New Zealand Butter 87 words
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5. Cheese 130 words
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6. Beef 121 words
c100W
7. Sugar 68 words
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8. Forestry 67 words
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9. Beam Trawling 203 words
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10. Bacon 122 words
22. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Prison Population 74 words
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2. Remands in Custody 331 words
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3. Illegal Immigrants 162 words
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4. Police Housing 112 words
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5. Police (Wales) 119 words
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6. Gun Licences (Bedfordshire) 88 words
c104W
7. Firearms (Crime) 124 words
cc104-5W
8. Drug Smuggling (Publications) 86 words
c105W
9. Seal Culling 66 words
c105W
10. Probation Hostels 99 words
cc105-6W
11. Road Tanker Vehicles 343 words
cc106-7W
12. Electoral Law 60 words
cc107-8W
13. High-Velocity Weapons 453 words
c108W
14. West Midlands Constabulary 49 words
23. NATIONAL FINANCE
c108W
1. Balance of Payments 81 words
cc108-9W
2. Estate Duty (Works of Art) 184 words
24. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Firearms Control (Green Paper) 201 words
25. POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
c110W
1. Letter Post 67 words
26. SCOTLAND
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1. Bus Fares 30 words
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2. Fishing Vessels 136 words
c111W
3. New Towns (Planning Functions) 50 words
c111W
4. Scottish Special Housing Association 96 words
c111W
5. Constitutional Reform (Kilbrandon Commission) 54 words
27. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. European Space Agency 137 words
c112W
2. London Airport (Increased Traffic) 111 words
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3. VHF Television Receivers 141 words
c113W
4. Regional Development Grant (Scotland) 110 words
cc113-4W
5. Industrial Development Certificates 153 words
c114W
6. Beer Sales 96 words
c114W
7. Licensed Trade 39 words
c114W
8. Wool Textiles ("Shetland" Definition) 92 words
cc114-5W
9. Concorde 452 words
28. WALES
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1. Schools (Flintshire) 253 words
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2. Employment (Buckley) 74 words
c117W
3. Holywell Inner Ring Road 55 words
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4. Caergwrle Bypass 45 words
c117W
5. Bypass (Penyffordd) 46 words
cc117-8W
6. Chester Southerly Bypass 71 words
c118W
7. Traffic Lights (Buckley) 43 words
c118W
8. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 59 words
c118W
9. Welsh Language Publications (Subsidies) 118 words
cc118-9W
10. Flint and Holywell Cottage Hospitals 80 words
cc119-21W
11. Council Housing (Flintshire) 700 words
c121W
12. General Hospital (East Flintshire) 90 words
cc121-2W
13. Cambrian Mountains National Park 81 words
c122W
14. Welsh National Water Development Authority 84 words

Lords Sitting of 17 July 1973 Series 5 Vol. 344

c1001
1. Preamble 23 words
c1001
2. LORD ASHBY 30 words
cc1001-2
3. TAXATION EXEMPTION: BRITISH SUBJECTS ABROAD 502 words
cc1002-4
4. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY: TELEPHONE DELAYS 471 words
cc1004-6
5. HIJACKING OF AIRCRAFT 670 words
cc1006-7
6. EGYPTIAN STAMPS: DISTRIBUTION BY CROWN AGENTS 273 words
c1007
7. NORTH WALES HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER BILL 223 words
c1008
8. ENDOWED SCHOOL ACTS (AMENDMENT) BILL [H.L.] 66 words
c1008
9. CROMARTY FIRTH PORT AUTHORITY ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 3 words
c1008
10. ULLAPOOL PIER ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 3 words
c1008
11. GLASGOW CORPORATION (PARKS ETC.) ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 3 words
cc1008-17
12. EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL 3,278 words
cc1017-86
13. LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL 26,512 words, 1 division
c1086
14. INTERNATIONAL COCOA AGREEMENT BILL 68 words
c1086
15. REDUNDANT MINEWORKERS AND CONCESSIONARY COAL (PAYMENTS SCHEMES) ORDER 1973 50 words
cc1086-131
16. LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL 17,167 words
c1131
17. STATUTE LAW (REPEALS) BILL [H.L.] QUEEN MARY COLLEGE BILL [H.L.] 6 words
c1131
18. SOCIAL SECURITY BILL RYDE CORPORATION BILL SOUTHAMPTON CORPORATION BILL 9 words
c1131
19. CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL [H.L.] MEDWAY PORTS AUTHORITY BILL [H.L.] RHONDDA CORPORATION BILL [H.L.] SALFORD CORPORATION BILL [H.L.] 15 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 17 July 1973 Series 5 Vol. 344

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1. NORTH SEA RIGS: SAFETY ZONES 100 words
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2. "BRITISH SUBJECTS": DEFINITION 128 words
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3. G.L.C. HOUSING LOANS RESTRICTION 112 words
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4. PASSPORT INQUIRIES BY POLICE 90 words