Sitting of 17 July 1974

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Commons Sitting of 17 July 1974 Series 5 Vol. 877

c419
1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
c419
1. United States Secretary of State 211 words
cc419-21
2. Israel 473 words
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3. Nuclear Tests 621 words
cc423-5
4. Rhodesia 950 words
cc425-7
5. Namibia 482 words
cc427-8
6. United Nations Secretary-General 394 words
cc428-30
7. Commonwealth (International Rôle) 505 words
cc430-1
8. European Security and Co-operation 560 words
cc431-2
9. Portugal (Rhodesian Sanctions) 279 words
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10. East-West Security and Co-operation 342 words
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11. China 370 words
cc434-5
12. Republic of Ireland 339 words
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13. South Africa 229 words
2. EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
cc436-7
1. Middle East 344 words
cc437-44
2. Renegotiation 2,185 words
cc444-6
3. Regional Development Fund 789 words
cc446-51
4. CYPRUS 1,780 words
cc451-5
5. PRISONERS (ARTIFICIAL FEEDING) 1,632 words
cc455-65
6. AGRICULTURE (EEC MINISTERS' MEETING) 3,648 words
cc465-6
7. FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (PERSONAL STATEMENT) 202 words
cc466-8
8. COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE 621 words
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9. TOWER OF LONDON (EXPLOSION) 80 words
cc469-72
10. ABOLITION OF CHIEF RENTS BILL 1,376 words
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1. ABOLITION OF CHIEF RENTS 43 words
11. ORDERS OF THE DAY
cc473-622
1. FINANCE BILL 12 words
1. Clause 10
cc473-513
1. CORPORATION TAX—OTHER RATES AND FRACTIONS 15,233 words, 1 division
2. Clause 12
cc513-24
1. PAYMENTS IN ADDITION TO ADVANCE CORPORATION TAX DUE IN FINANCIAL YEAR 1974. 4,048 words
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2. ROYAL ASSENT 99 words
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3. FINANCE BILL 1,589 words
cc528-33
4. TOWER OF LONDON (EXPLOSION) 1,700 words
cc533-59
5. FINANCE BILL 9,994 words
3. Clause 13
cc559-74
1. ALTERATION OF PERSONAL RELIEFS 5,492 words
4. Clause 15
cc574-605
1. RESTRICTIONS ON RELIEF FOR INTEREST 12,563 words, 3 divisions
5. Schedule 1
1. RELIEF FOR INTEREST
cc606-22
1. PART I 6,246 words, 1 division
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1. ADJOURNMENT 12 words
cc622-34
2. TELEVISION RECEPTION (WESTON-SUPER-MARE) 3,976 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 17 July 1974 Series 5 Vol. 877

1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Third World Countries (Nuclear Information) 112 words
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2. Oman 69 words
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3. Middle East 65 words
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4. Namibia (Status) 54 words
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5. Gibraltar 67 words
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6. Law of the Sea Conference 118 words
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7. Rhodesia 154 words
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8. Bangladesh (Biharis) 111 words
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9. Anguilla 75 words
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10. Namibia (Uranium Supplies) 66 words
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11. Lisbon (British Embassy) 72 words
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12. Economic Monitoring (United Nations Proposal) 120 words
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13. Multinational Corporations 148 words
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14. Zambia 137 words
2. EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
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1. Renegotiation 38 words
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2. Budgetary Powers 103 words
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3. Political Union 49 words
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4. Agricultural Commissioner 54 words
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5. Regional Fund 55 words
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6. Commission Sub-Office 86 words
3. ENERGY
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1. EEC Energy Policy 55 words
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2. Coal Gasification 176 words
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3. Coal (Research and Development) 117 words
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4. Uranium 402 words
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5. Coal (Electricity Generation) 277 words
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6. Divers (Fatalities) 164 words
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7. Oil and Gas Exploitation (Finance) 105 words
4. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Gross Domestic Product 72 words
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2. Company Registrations (Isle of Man) 127 words
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3. Income Tax 880 words
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4. 2½p Coin 53 words
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5. Value Added Tax 209 words
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6. Local Authority Mayors and Chairman (Allowances) 342 words
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7. Industrial and Primary Production 171 words
5. TRADE
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1. Cuba 53 words
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2. International Airport (Scotland) 813 words
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3. Import Prices 1,053 words
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4. Balance of Payments 74 words
6. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Civil Servants (Transfers) 296 words
7. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Fishing Industry (Grants and Loans) 125 words
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2. Civil Servants (Senior Posts and Salaries) 222 words
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3. Sugar (Holiday Resorts) 165 words
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4. Cured Meats (Nitrosamines) 265 words
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5. Sugar Beet 86 words
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6. Farm Price Review (Changes) 72 words
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7. Flood Prevention Works (Thamesside) 438 words
8. DEFENCE
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1. Hydrographer's Department 539 words
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2. Simonstown 162 words
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3. Service Cuts 41 words
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4. Admiralty Charts 95 words
9. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Scottish Universities (Unemployed Graduates) 81 words
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2. Animals (Experiments) 71 words
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3. Deaf School Leavers (Employment) 83 words
10. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Family Incomes (Scotland) 93 words
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2. Manufacturing Industry (Calderdale) 55 words
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3. Industrial Tribunals (Appeals) 145 words
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4. Wages Councils 81 words
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5. Rented Accommodation 348 words
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6. Retail Prices 389 words
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7. Family Expenditure (Rents and Rates) 152 words
11. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Battered Wives 79 words
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2. Animals (Experiments) 1,168 words
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3. Lotteries 113 words
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4. Police Graduates 254 words
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5. Wrabness Prison Site 46 words
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6. Television 65 words
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7. Sex Discrimination 39 words
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8. Chileans 161 words
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9. Public Processions (London) 125 words
12. INDUSTRY
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1. Irlam 163 words
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2. Steel (Scotland) 94 words
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3. Advance Factory (Ashington) 61 words
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4. Development Certificates (Scotland) 133 words
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5. Occidental Oil Co. (Refinery) 69 words
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6. Oil Spillage (Thames Estuary) 103 words
13. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Scrabo Tower 69 words
14. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. European Aid Programmes 116 words
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2. Oil Price Increase (United Nations Special Funds) 250 words
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3. United Nations (Review) 210 words
15. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Tea 64 words
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2. Television Rental 57 words
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3. Sugar 77 words
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4. Retail Margins 94 words
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5. Cost of Living 83 words
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6. Retail and Food Indices 159 words
16. SCOTLAND
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1. Vandalism 207 words
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2. Detained Mothers 102 words
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3. Housing 265 words
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4. Schools (Absenteeism) 38 words
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5. Hospital Waiting Times 105 words
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6. Council Rents 98 words
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7. Young Persons (Detention) 122 words
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8. Rent Accommodation 63 words
c181W
9. Teachers 79 words
17. WALES
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1. School Building Programme 84 words
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2. M4 (Pontardulais Bypass) 52 words
cc181-2W
3. Welsh Development Agency 70 words
c182W
4. Council Rents 123 words
cc182-3W
5. Family Expenditure (Rents and Rates) 254 words
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6. Calf Slaughterings 189 words
18. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Returning Emigrants 103 words
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2. Retirement Pensioners (South-East Region) 139 words
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3. Benefits (South-East Region) 298 words
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4. Hope Hospital, Salford (Orthopaedic Patients) 230 words
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5. Hospital Staff (North-West Region) 677 words
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6. Supplementary Benefits Commission 775 words
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7. Supplementary Benefit Appeals Tribunals 161 words
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8. Dentists (Practice Expenses) 148 words
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9. National Health Service (Private Revenue) 103 words
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10. Family Income Supplement 35 words
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11. Christmas Bonus 66 words
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12. Doctors (Practice Expenses) 89 words
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13. Hospital Waiting Times 427 words
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14. Taylor Memorial Home. Birmingham 48 words
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15. Hospital Beds 166 words
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16. Earnings Rule (One-Parent Families) 79 words
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17. Pensioners (Scotland) 101 words
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18. Private Overseas Patients 265 words
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19. Ugandan Asians 65 words
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20. Trent and Yorkshire Regional Hospital Boards 95 words
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21. Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy 84 words
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22. Medicine Sales (Grocery Shops) 150 words
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23. Hospital Visits by Appointment 86 words
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24. Radiographers 257 words
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25. Wessex Regional Health Authority 185 words
19. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Rent and Rates Rebates (Pensioners) 135 words
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2. Weston-under-Lizard (Bypass) 51 words
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3. Housing Finance 84 words
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4. Building Societies 157 words
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5. New Town Planning 82 words
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6. Housing Costs 78 words
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7. Lorry Parks 101 words
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8. M62 261 words
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9. Office Accommodation (Civil Service) 151 words
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10. Buses (Children's Fares) 69 words
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11. Road Accidents (Equestrians) 156 words
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12. Orford-Risley Expressway 59 words
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13. Selby Toll Bridge 34 words
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14. Transport Grant 154 words
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15. Rates Summonses 121 words
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16. Inner City Studies 198 words
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17. Hessle (A63 Footbridge) 90 words
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18. Ministerial Cars (Personal Use) 66 words
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19. Building Materials (Departmental Contract) 108 words
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20. Road Surfaces (Noise Nuisance) 77 words
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21. Water and Sewerage Rates 105 words
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22. Housing (Bedrooms) 236 words
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23. Council Rents 346 words
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24. Rented Accommodation 102 words
cc208-10W
25. Land Use 176 words

Lords Sitting of 17 July 1974 Series 5 Vol. 353

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1. Preamble 23 words
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2. LORD GORDON-WALKER 33 words
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3. LORD KALDOR 34 words
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4. HOVERCRAFT INDUSTRY 949 words
cc1120-2
5. HOUSE OF LORDS: GOVERNMENT MINISTERS 778 words
cc1122-4
6. NATIONALISATION POLICY 802 words
cc1125-7
7. BRUSSELS SEMINAR ON POVERTY 713 words
c1127
8. GOVERNMENT STATEMENTS 107 words
cc1127-31
9. HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL 1,176 words
cc1131-6
10. NORTHERN IRELAND BILL 2,104 words
cc1136-42
11. CYPRUS 1,958 words
cc1142-8
12. PRISONERS: ARTIFICIAL FEEDING 2,102 words
cc1148-55
13. E.E.C.: AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING 2,730 words
cc1155-88
14. NORTHERN IRELAND BILL 13,155 words
c1188
15. TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL 32 words
cc1188-90
16. NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT 1973 (CONTINUANCE) ORDER 1974 398 words
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17. EGIONAL EMPLOYMENT PREMIUM (CONTINUATION OF PAYMENT) (WINSFORD) (AMENDMENT) ORDER 1974. 274 words
cc1191-4
18. NATIONAL RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION BOARD (EXTENSION OF FUNCTIONS) ORDER 1974 1,229 words
cc1194-6
19. CALF SUBSIDIES (UNITED KINGDOM) (VARIATION) (No. 2) SCHEME 1974 844 words
cc1196-8
20. AGRICULTURAL LIME SCHEME (EXTENSION OF PERIOD) ORDER 1974 878 words
cc1199-202
21. HOP GARDENS (REPLANTING AND RESTRUCTURING) SCHEME 1974 1,331 words
c1202
22. ROYAL ASSENT 85 words
cc1203-16
23. HOUSING BILL 5,194 words
c1216
24. TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS BILL 12 words
cc1216-28
25. ASHDOWN FOREST BILL 4,549 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 17 July 1974 Series 5 Vol. 353

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1. MR. HEFFER: WREATH LAYING 72 words
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2. LAW OF THE SEA CONFERENCE: U.K. POLICY 101 words