Commons Sitting of 13 December 1976 Series 5 Vol. 922

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  1. Preamble 7 words
    2. c941
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. INDUSTRY
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      1. Rolls-Royce (American Collaboration) 313 words
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      2. British Airways (Chairman) 232 words
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      3. Nationalised Industries (Chairmen) 281 words
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      4. Investment 553 words
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      5. Sub-Post Offices (Rural Areas) 393 words
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      6. Post Office (Mail Monopoly) 282 words
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      7. Public Ownership 679 words
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      8. Planning Agreements 727 words
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      9. Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries 499 words
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      10. Scotland 426 words
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      11. Courtaulds 843 words
        12. cc956-7
      12. Capital Returns 296 words
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      13. European Regional Development Fund Applications 287 words
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      14. Small Firms (National Insurance Contributions) 514 words
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      15. Industrial Strategy 643 words
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      16. Productivity 356 words
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      17. LEGAL SERVICES (ROYAL COMMISSION) 121 words
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      18. OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT (PROSECUTIONS) 373 words
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      19. GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LTD. (DISPUTE) 885 words
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  4. WINDSCALE (RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION) 1,990 words
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  5. SECURITY REPORTS (NEWSPAPER ARTICLE) 392 words
  6. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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    1. SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL 65,803 words
      2. cc1150-62
    2. ROAD IMPROVEMENTS (COMPENSATION) 4,379 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 December 1976 Series 5 Vol. 922

    c471W
  1. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS 35 words
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  2. SELF-EMPLOYED BUILDERS 35 words
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  3. LAW OFFICERS' DEPARTMENT (SAFETY REPRESENTATIVES) 72 words
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  4. BRYANT BUILDERS (BIRMINGHAM) 65 words
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  5. SIR HUGH FRASER, BART. 89 words
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  6. LORD ADVOCATE'S DEPARTMENT (SAFETY REPRESENTATIVES) 73 words
  7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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    1. Stationery 74 words
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    2. Pay 92 words
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    3. Library 94 words
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    4. Broadcasting 68 words
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    5. Videotape Viewing Machine 39 words
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    6. DEVOLUTION 470 words
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    7. SCOTTISH ASSEMBLY 328 words
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    8. COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING INSTITUTIONS (ROYAL CHARTER) 94 words
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    9. PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE (SAFETY REPRESENTATIVES) 82 words
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    10. PARLIAMENT (STATE OPENING) 153 words
  8. ENERGY
      9. c478W
    1. Gas and Electricity Disconnections 229 words
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    2. PAYMENT OF DOMESTIC ELECTRICITY AND GAS BILLS 328 words
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    3. SAFEGUARDS RELATING TO DISCONNECTION 714 words
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    4. Collieries (Ministerial Visits) 83 words
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    5. North Sea Oil 79 words
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    6. Coal Mining Areas (European Assistance) 222 words
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    7. Oil and Gas Exploration 75 words
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    8. Coal Stocks 1,909 words
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    9. Pipelines 98 words
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    10. Supply Vessels 78 words
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    11. Coal Mining (Ayrshire) 82 words
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    12. North Sea Oil and Gas 58 words
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    13. Coal Miners 136 words
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    14. Electricity Consumption 224 words
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    15. Costs 184 words
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    16. Electricial Appliances 47 words
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    17. Supply and Demand 159 words
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    18. Policy 161 words
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    19. Power Stations 217 words
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    20. Electricity Generating Capacity 55 words
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    21. Oil and Gas Industries (Health and Safety) 462 words
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    22. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 84 words
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    23. Electricity Supply (Management) 120 words
  9. SOCIAL SERVICES
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    1. Regional Health Authorities (Finance) 382 words
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    2. National Health Service (Staff) 312 words
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    3. Medical Consultants 99 words
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    4. Hospital Patients 172 words
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    5. Influenza Vaccine 103 words
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    6. Poverty 151 words
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    7. Building Workers 270 words
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    8. Unemployment Benefit (Scotland) 129 words
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    9. Unemployment Benefit 95 words
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    10. Derbyshire Royal Infirmary (Student Nurses) 108 words
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    11. Trent Regional Health Authority 250 words
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    12. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 114 words
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    13. Mobility Allowance 151 words
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    14. Doctors' Lists (Coventry) 67 words
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    15. East Anglian Regional Health Authority 89 words
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    16. Hospital Beds (Occupancy Rates) 84 words
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    17. Giro Cheques 441 words
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    18. Immigrants 53 words
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    19. Supplementary Benefit 194 words
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    20. Girvan (Unemployment Benefit) 75 words
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    21. Rubella 210 words
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    22. Cigarette Advertisements 107 words
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    23. National Insurance Fund 52 words
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    24. Family Income Supplement 84 words
  10. HOME DEPARTMENT
      11. c506W
    1. Director of Public Prosecutions 78 words
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    2. Junior Attendance Centres 137 words
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    3. Deportation 253 words
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    4. Citizens-band Radio 46 words
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    5. Lotteries 66 words
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    6. Vandalism (Telephones) 101 words
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    7. Licensed Premises (Assaults) 137 words
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    8. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 90 words
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    9. Taxi Cabs 105 words
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    10. Unification Church 48 words
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    11. Departmental Correspondence 59 words
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    12. GOVERNMENT POLICIES (MINISTERIAL SPEECH) 118 words
  11. CIVIL SERVICE
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    1. Government Information (Access) 134 words
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    2. Tax Inspectors and Collectors 260 words
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    3. Her Majesty's Stationery Office 190 words
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    4. Office Cleaning 88 words
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    5. Ministerial Staff (Safety Representatives) 76 words
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    6. Personal Injuries (Inquiry) 84 words
  12. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
      13. c513W
    1. Transkei 23 words
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    2. Middle East (Development Division) 114 words
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    3. Statutory Instruments 110 words
      c514W
    4. Departmental Staff (Safety Representations) 85 words
  13. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      14. c514W
    1. Visas and Entry Permits (Photographs) 64 words
      c514W
    2. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 85 words
  14. TRADE
      15. c515W
    1. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 100 words
      c515W
    2. Oil Imports 99 words
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    3. Steel 46 words
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    4. Imports and Exports 325 words
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    5. Insurance (Oil Pollution) 140 words
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    6. Submersibles (Registration) 147 words
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    7. Motor Cars (USSR) 128 words
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    8. "Halcyon Isle" (Crew's Wages) 71 words
      c518W
    9. Films 39 words
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    10. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 81 words
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    11. British Overseas Trade Board 221 words
      c519W
    12. Foreign Currency Earnings 118 words
  15. TRANSPORT
      16. cc519-20W
    1. Road Accidents (Injury Costs) 161 words
      c520W
    2. Liverpool Corporation Works Department 144 words
      cc520-1W
    3. Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) 144 words
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    4. Driving Tests 83 words
      cc521-2W
    5. Motorways 297 words
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    6. Bus, Coach and Lorry Drivers 481 words
  16. INDUSTRY
      17. c524W
    1. Aircraft 281 words
      cc524-5W
    2. Calibration (Loads) 76 words
      c525W
    3. Nationalised Industries 98 words
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    4. Planning Agreements 148 words
      c526W
    5. Production 81 words
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    6. Ashdown House, Victoria Street 44 words
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    7. Paper and Board 69 words
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    8. Concorde 42 words
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    9. Trade Unions 44 words
      cc527-8W
    10. Power Generating Plant 561 words
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    11. Patscentre 89 words
      c529W
    12. Ferrous Industries 37 words
      c529W
    13. Wales 67 words
      c529W
    14. TUC and CBI 36 words
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    15. Advance Factories 39 words
      cc529-30W
    16. Plastics 139 words
      c530W
    17. Steel 101 words
      c530W
    18. Scunthorpe Steel Works (Iron Making) 44 words
      cc530-1W
    19. Industry Act 1975 (Implementation) 87 words
      c531W
    20. Small Businesses 111 words
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    21. AEC—Leyland (Southall) 116 words
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    22. Oil-related Business 75 words
      c532W
    23. Ship Repair Yards (Modernisation) 91 words
      c532W
    24. Yorkshire 143 words
      cc532-3W
    25. Investment 56 words
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    26. Scotland and Wales 142 words
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    27. Coal Mining (Suppliers) 113 words
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    28. Coal Mining (Suppliers) 146 words
      c534W
    29. Christmas Cards 44 words
      c534W
    30. Shipbuilding, Ship Repair and Marine Engines 55 words
      c534W
    31. Aircraft and Shipbuilding 65 words
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    32. Courtaulds Ltd. 132 words
      c535W
    33. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 78 words
  17. ENVIRONMENT
      18. c535W
    1. Demolition Control 75 words
      cc535-6W
    2. Government Property 223 words
      cc536-7W
    3. Local Government Staff (Staffordshire) 80 words
      c537W
    4. House Building 108 words
      c537W
    5. Angling Associations 41 words
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    6. Waste Disposal (Regulations) 190 words
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    7. Rates (Empty Commercial Premises) 95 words
      cc538-9W
    8. House Condition Survey 192 words
      c539W
    9. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 83 words
      c539W
    10. Home Loss Payments 100 words
      cc539-40W
    11. Windscale 95 words
  18. NATIONAL FINANCE
      19. c540W
    1. Government Purchasing Policy 60 words
      c540W
    2. Wealth Tax 247 words
      cc540-1W
    3. Death and Gift Taxation 635 words
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    4. Capital Movements 132 words
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    5. Royal Family 66 words
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    6. Scottish Budget 31 words
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    7. Advertising Business 81 words
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    8. Widows and Wives 199 words
      c544W
    9. Gilt-edged Securities 116 words
      cc544-5W
    10. London (Foreign Currency Earnings and Rate Support) 128 words
      c545W
    11. Tax Allowances 219 words
      c545W
    12. Unemployment and Sickness Benefits 46 words
      cc545-6W
    13. £ Sterling 131 words
      c546W
    14. Industrial Investment 73 words
      cc546-7W
    15. Value Added Tax 191 words
      c547W
    16. Import Duties (Collection) 106 words
      c547W
    17. Customs Duties (Administration) 135 words
      cc547-8W
    18. Public Sector Borrowing 179 words
      c548W
    19. Treasury (Safety Representatives) 90 words
      cc548-9W
    20. Child Allowance 54 words
      c549W
    21. Self-employed Persons 37 words
      c549W
    22. European Agricultural Fund 346 words
      cc549-50W
    23. Income Tax 136 words
      cc550-1W
    24. Special Drawing Rights 174 words
      c551W
    25. Budgetary Effects 76 words
      cc551-2W
    26. Armed Forces Personnel (Mortgages) 352 words
      c552W
    27. Personal Incomes 84 words
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    28. Public Expenditure 579 words
  19. NORTHERN IRELAND
      20. cc553-4W
    1. Security Staffs (Businesses) 206 words
      cc554-5W
    2. Public Demonstrations 61 words
      c555W
    3. Prisoners (Christmas Parole) 81 words
      c555W
    4. Electricity Supply (Cuts) 70 words
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    5. Meat Plant 148 words
      c556W
    6. Pharmacies and Poisons Orders 99 words
      c556W
    7. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 85 words
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    8. Departmental Correspondence 71 words
      c557W
    9. Gas Supply (Newry) 83 words
      c557W
    10. Bus and Coach Drivers 82 words
  20. WALES
      21. c557W
    1. Employment 55 words
      cc557-8W
    2. Welsh Assembly 149 words
      c558W
    3. Llanrhystud (Road Junction) 49 words
      c558W
    4. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 85 words
  21. DEFENCE
      22. c559W
    1. Portsmouth Dockyard (Photogrammetric Equipment) 100 words
      c559W
    2. Oil Industry Installations 209 words
      cc559-60W
    3. NATO 272 words
      cc560-1W
    4. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 78 words
      c561W
    5. Civilian Employment 163 words
  22. EMPLOYMENT
      23. cc561-2W
    1. Unemployed Persons 249 words
      c562W
    2. Local Government Staffs 127 words
      cc562-3W
    3. Shipbuilding 146 words
      cc563-4W
    4. Manufacturing 184 words
      c564W
    5. Surveys and Statistical Inquiries 129 words
      cc564-5W
    6. Ayrshire 183 words
      c565W
    7. Scotland 632 words
      c565W
    8. Small Businesses 40 words
      cc565-6W
    9. Industrial Disputes (Report) 121 words
      cc566-7W
    10. Timber Trades 332 words
      c567W
    11. Cost of Living Indices 26 words
      c567W
    12. Manpower Services Commission 50 words
      cc567-8W
    13. Professional and Executive Recruitment 206 words
      c568W
    14. Departmental Staff 105 words
      cc568-9W
    15. Public Services (Employment and Cost) 93 words
      c569W
    16. Coal Miners (Deaths) 100 words
      cc569-71W
    17. Hotels and Restaurants 734 words
      c571W
    18. Incentives 38 words
      cc571-3W
    19. Safety Representatives 357 words
      c573W
    20. Licensed Premises (Scotland) 96 words
      cc573-4W
    21. Overseas 161 words
      c574W
    22. Pay Limit 92 words
      c574W
    23. Temporary Employment Subsidy 94 words
      c574W
    24. Earnings 47 words
  23. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
      24. c575W
    1. Statutory Instrument 1377/76 71 words
      c575W
    2. Potatoes 107 words
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    3. Toys 230 words
      c576W
    4. Fish (Retail Prices) 109 words
      c576W
    5. Brewing Industry (Profits) 52 words
      cc576-7W
    6. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 87 words
      c577W
    7. Shoe Cleaning Fluid 140 words
      cc577-8W
    8. Bread 382 words
  24. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
      25. cc578-9W
    1. Weights and Measures (Metrication) 112 words
      c579W
    2. Beef (Intervention Stocks) 146 words
      cc579-80W
    3. Fishing Limits 169 words
      c580W
    4. Poultry Inspection (Entry Rights) 132 words
      cc580-1W
    5. Fishing Nets 171 words
      c581W
    6. Calves (Exports) 324 words
      cc581-2W
    7. Radioactivity 104 words
      cc582-3W
    8. Milk (Advertising) 315 words
      c583W
    9. Ministerial Staff (Safety Representatives) 104 words
      cc583-4W
    10. Mosshill Industrial Estate 108 words
  25. SCOTLAND
      26. c584W
    1. Teacher-Pupil Ratio (Dundee) 57 words
      c584W
    2. Geriatric Beds 79 words
      cc584-5W
    3. Rent rebates and Allowances 167 words
      cc585-6W
    4. Industry (Ayrshire) 362 words
      cc586-7W
    5. Scottish Special Housing Association (Tenants) 85 words
      c587W
    6. Rent Arrears 54 words
      cc587-8W
    7. Derelict Land 444 words
      c588W
    8. House Building 45 words
      c588W
    9. Capital Formation 78 words
      cc588-9W
    10. Rents 65 words
      c589W
    11. Scottish Development Agency 71 words
      c589W
    12. Industry (Government Aid) 120 words
      cc589-90W
    13. Strathclyde Survey 28 words
      c590W
    14. Emigration 71 words
      c590W
    15. Doon Valley Clothing Company 41 words
      c590W
    16. Employment (Ayrshire) 116 words
      cc590-1W
    17. Road Construction Programme 94 words
      c591W
    18. Roads 52 words
      c591W
    19. Dual Carriageways 32 words
      c591W
    20. Scottish Assembly 71 words
      cc591-2W
    21. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 91 words
      c592W
    22. Rate Support Grant 91 words
  26. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
      27. c592W
    1. "Y Ganolfan", Porthmadog 92 words
      cc592-4W
    2. School Meals 688 words
      c594W
    3. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 78 words
      cc594-5W
    4. Comprehensive Schools (Parental Consultation) 124 words
      c595W
    5. Schools Inspectorate 156 words
      cc595-6W
    6. Schools and Sixth-Form Colleges 218 words
      cc596-7W
    7. Teachers 593 words
      cc597-8W
    8. PAYMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE(SAFETY REPRESENTATIVES) 72 words
  27. SOCIAL SERVICES
      28. cc598-9W
    1. Retirement Pensions 372 words
      c599W
    2. Health Authorities (Costs) 159 words
      cc599-600W
    3. National Insurance Fund 197 words
      cc600-5W
    4. Hospital Waiting Times 1,820 words
      cc605-8W
    5. Resources Allocation 848 words
      c608W
    6. Doctors 213 words
      cc608-9W
    7. Family Practitioner Services (Rochford) 107 words
      c609W
    8. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons 169 words
      cc609-11W
    9. Eraldin 454 words
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    10. Departmental Staff (Safety Representatives) 435 words
      c612W
    11. Mental Patients 93 words
      cc612-3W
    12. St. Thomas's Hospital (Extension) 157 words
      cc613-4W
    13. Unemployment Benefit 224 words