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Commons Sitting of 15 December 1977 Series 5 Vol. 941

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 27 words
1. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Broadcasting Services 311 words
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2. Offences (Midlands) 232 words
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3. Fire Brigades Union 1,074 words
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4. Public Meetings and Marches 651 words
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5. Vandalism 776 words
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6. Violent Crimes 434 words
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7. Armley Prison 215 words
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8. Television Advertising 356 words
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9. Departmental Correspondence 433 words
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10. Albany Trust and Princedale Trust 284 words
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11. Shoplifting 417 words
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12. Television Licences 490 words
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13. General Elections (Deposits) 330 words
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14. Criminal Responsibility 242 words
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15. Child Pornography 399 words
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16. Illegal Immigrants 547 words
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17. CBI 397 words
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18. WELLING, KENT 486 words
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19. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 604 words
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20. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (SUMMIT) 773 words
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21. HONOURABLE MEMBERS (PENSIONS) 256 words
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4. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 2,985 words
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5. PAPUA NEW GUINEA (GIFT OF A CLOCK) 769 words
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6. ROYAL ASSENT 49 words
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7. RATE SUPPORT GRANT ORDER 61,254 words, 1 division
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8. SOCIAL SECURITY (CONTRIBUTIONS) 8,146 words
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9. CHURCH OF ENGLAND (DIOCESES MEASURE) 1,560 words
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10. HOUSE OF COMMONS (LIBRARY) 35 words
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11. MR. DUDLEY GLANFIELD 3,603 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 15 December 1977 Series 5 Vol. 941

1. TRADE
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1. Export Credits 534 words
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2. Insurance (Overseas Projects) 270 words
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3. Dyes 77 words
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4. Coated Board 162 words
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5. Airport Strategy 66 words
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6. Shipbuilding (Anglo-Polish Joint Venture) 83 words
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7. Export Promotion 84 words
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8. TARPORLEY 25 words
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9. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES 45 words
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10. CBI 38 words
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11. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 242 words
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12. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND 59 words
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13. LEOMINSTER 25 words
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14. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (SUMMIT) 38 words
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15. TUC 36 words
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16. EUROPEAN COMMISSION 43 words
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17. NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES 339 words
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18. PAY SETTLEMENTS 74 words
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19. STEEL INDUSTRY (DEPENDENT AREAS) 38 words
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20. WORTHING 25 words
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21. FIRE SERVICES 31 words
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22. MINISTERIAL MEMOIRS 123 words
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23. ISRAEL (PRIME MINISTER) 37 words
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24. CANBERRA 24 words
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25. INLAND WATERWAYS 34 words
2. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Disabled Persons 622 words
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2. National Pay Arbitration Board 44 words
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3. Torrington 73 words
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4. Manpower Services Commission 49 words
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5. Labour Force 121 words
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6. Elm Trees 149 words
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7. Historic Buildings 82 words
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8. Printing Trades 85 words
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9. Malton 169 words
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10. Anand Marg 110 words
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11. Job Creation 136 words
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12. Sunday Work 160 words
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13. Expenditure 120 words
3. ENERGY
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1. Onshore Oil Drilling and Licensing 170 words
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2. Gas Explosions 567 words
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3. Public Sector Pricing 45 words
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4. Nuclear Reactors 149 words
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5. Hunterston B Power Station 190 words
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6. Nuclear Fuel Treatment 287 words
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7. Nuclear Power (Demand) 167 words
4. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. International Monetary Fund 1,404 words
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2. Sick Pay (Armed Forces and Civil Service) 72 words
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3. Motability 62 words
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4. Social Wage 87 words
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5. £ Sterling 119 words
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6. Uganda 89 words
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7. South Africa 117 words
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8. Child Tax Allowances 64 words
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9. Job Creation 72 words
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10. Maintenance Payments (Investment Income Surcharge) 42 words
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11. Investment Income 471 words
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12. Crown Agents 66 words
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13. National Savings Bank 298 words
5. SCOTLAND
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1. Labour Force 114 words
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2. Hunterston B Power Station 321 words
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3. LEGISLATION (RENTON REPORT) 276 words
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4. LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE 44 words
6. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Public Service Pay 252 words
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2. Public Appointments 681 words
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3. Pay 159 words
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4. Parliamentary Commissioner 279 words
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5. Pay Research Unit 96 words
7. INDUSTRY
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1. Shipbuilding 177 words
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2. Hitachi Company 162 words
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3. Departmental Contracts 65 words
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4. Industrial Development Certificates 58 words
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5. Insurance 49 words
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6. Government Aid 311 words
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7. Post Office 62 words
8. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. School Meals 233 words
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2. School Transport 98 words
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3. Remedial Education 269 words
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4. Student Grants 274 words
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5. Secondary Reorganisation 282 words
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6. Energy Conservation 166 words
9. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Radio 108 words
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2. Illegal Immigrants 412 words
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3. Police (Height Regulations) 53 words
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4. Devolution 50 words
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5. Penology 99 words
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6. Battered Wives 57 words
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7. Police Federation 41 words
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8. Fire Brigades Union 106 words
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9. Police (Pay) 81 words
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10. Pornography 140 words
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11. Criminal Procedure (Royal Commission) 66 words
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12. Metropolitan Police 109 words
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13. Parliamentary Questions 177 words
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14. Animals (Experiments) 49 words
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15. Fire Service (Dispute) 205 words
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16. Commonwealth Citizens (Children) 55 words
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17. Mrs. Lystra Downs 126 words
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18. Model Aircraft Flying (Bromley) 68 words
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19. Equal Opportunities 44 words
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20. Crime (Buses) 58 words
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21. Driving Licences (Endorsements) 89 words
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22. Public and Political Service (Candidates' Criminal Convictions) 239 words
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23. Alcoholic Drinks (Television Advertising) 69 words
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24. Bail Act 1977 122 words
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25. Marriage Guidance Councils 147 words
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26. Parliamentary Elections 79 words
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27. Postal Voting 367 words
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28. Tribunals of Inquiry 117 words
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29. Criminal Law Revision Committee 58 words
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30. Official Secrets (Nationalised Industries) 148 words
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31. Police (Resignations) 57 words
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32. Bolsover and Whitwell (Electoral Boundaries) 144 words
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33. Police (Committee of Inquiry) 617 words
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34. CROSSMAN DIARIES 195 words
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35. LEGAL AID 189 words
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36. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS ACT 1976 (INJUNCTIONS) 243 words
10. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. World University Service 141 words
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2. Crown Agents 157 words
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3. Expenditure 73 words
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4. International Development Association 248 words
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5. Great Britain—East Europe Centre 131 words
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6. Great Britain—USSR Association 35 words
11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Immigration 173 words
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2. Belize 62 words
12. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. Departmental Staff (Travel) 111 words
13. TRANSPORT
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1. Driving Licences (Endorsement) 158 words
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2. Dual Carriageways 32 words
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3. Trunk Roads 179 words
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4. Roads and Railways (Conservation Expenditure) 70 words
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5. Severn Bridge 356 words
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6. Roads (Speed Control Humps) 66 words
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7. A38 (Clay Mills-Branston) 92 words
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8. Roads (Expenditure) 184 words
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9. Road Vehicles (Length) 117 words
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10. Petrol (Lead Content) 134 words
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11. A27 85 words
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12. Traffic Overloading 252 words
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13. Driving Licence Application (Glasgow Constituent) 109 words
14. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Resource Accounting 117 words
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2. Sport and Recreation 242 words
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3. Sport and Recreation 289 words
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4. Rate Support Grant 182 words
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5. Atmosphere (Lead Content) 489 words
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6. Thermal Insulation (Cavity Foam) 122 words
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7. Wirral (Local Government Boundaries) 66 words
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8. Palace of Westminster (Lifts) 112 words
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9. Inner Cities 236 words
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10. New Towns (Health Services) 149 words
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11. Airfields 73 words
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12. Disabled Persons 84 words
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13. Neighbourhood Councils 135 words
15. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Price Increases 107 words
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2. Whisky 137 words
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3. Cigarettes 84 words
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4. Petrol 99 words
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5. School Uniforms 282 words
16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Animals (Welfare) 120 words
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2. Live Animals (Export) 82 words
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3. Butter 63 words
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4. Whisky 153 words
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5. Potatoes 181 words
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6. Land Ownership 115 words
17. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Gaelic Athletic Association 83 words
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2. Architects 222 words
18. WALES
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1. Aberystwyth 75 words
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2. Limbless Persons 60 words
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3. Housing Policy 227 words
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4. Industrial Development Certificates 146 words
19. DEFENCE
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1. El Salvador 41 words
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2. Giro 121 words
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3. Weather Forecasts 143 words
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4. Moonlighting 189 words
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5. Contracts 74 words
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6. Nuclear Weapons 91 words
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7. Expenditure 79 words
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8. Fines 72 words
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9. Fire Fighting 74 words
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10. Liverpool 193 words
20. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Worksop Victoria Hospital 123 words
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2. Retirement Age 268 words
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3. Staffing Statistics 355 words
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4. Mental Health Services 121 words
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5. Pensioners (Benefit) 347 words
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6. Health Authorities (Staffs) 44 words
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7. National Association for Mental Health 76 words
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8. Area Health Authorities 700 words
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9. National Insurance Benefits 147 words
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10. Anaesthetists 68 words
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11. Handicapped Persons 135 words
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12. Kidney Dialysis 86 words
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13. Breast Cancer 113 words
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14. Multiple Sclerosis 147 words
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15. Mobility Allowance 156 words
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16. Patients (Medical Records) 130 words
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17. Lead Levels 120 words
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18. Hospital Waiting Times 188 words
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19. Children in Care 126 words
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20. One-parent Families 366 words
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21. Occupational Pensions 229 words
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22. Cigarettes 84 words
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23. Hospital Closures 115 words
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24. Supplementary Benefits 122 words
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25. Child Benefit 145 words
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26. Maternity Services 155 words
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27. Unemployed Persons 149 words
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28. Earnings Rule 259 words
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29. Fire Service (Dispute) 80 words
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30. Mobility Allowance 51 words
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31. Pharmacists 167 words
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32. Hostels (Single Persons) 124 words
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33. Wallasey (Health Services) 151 words
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34. Bolton (Hospitals) 234 words
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35. National Insurance Contributions 93 words
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36. Giro Transactions 95 words
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37. King's Fund (1940) 174 words
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38. Preventive Medicine 145 words
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39. Unemployment Benefit 65 words
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40. Family Incomes 94 words

Lords Sitting of 15 December 1977 Series 5 Vol. 387

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1. Preamble 25 words
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2. COAL RESEARCH FUNDS 393 words
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3. AERODROME SURFACE MOVEMENT INDICATORS 608 words
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4. MR. LIDDLE TOWERS 1,694 words
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5. FIRE EQUIPMENT: AVAILABILITY 1,339 words
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6. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 56 words
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7. CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL 49 words
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8. FINANCE (INCOME TAX RELIEFS) BILL 4 words
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9. NORTHERN IRELAND (VARIOUS EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (CONTINUANCE) (No. 2) ORDER 1977 2,467 words
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10. RATES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1977 87 words
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11. SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1977 32 words
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12. SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS, ETC., (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1977 36 words
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13. AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1977 33 words
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14. GUN BARREL PROOF BILL [H.L.] 4,320 words
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15. ROYAL ASSENT 75 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 15 December 1977 Series 5 Vol. 387

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1. AIR NAVIGATION CHARGES 126 words
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2. CIRCUIT ADVISORY COMMITTEES 205 words
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3. DEFENCE EXPENDITURE CUTS 253 words
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4. THE SOCIAL WAGE: COMPUTATION 204 words
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5. THE SOCIAL WAGE: PUBLIC EXPENDITURE 239 words
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6. WESTMINSTER HALL ANNEXE 63 words
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7. CABIN CRUISERS: THAMES LICENCES 58 words
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8. CIDER TAX 128 words
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9. LOCAL AUTHORITIES: DIRECT LABOUR DEPARTMENTS 62 words
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10. SOUTH AUDLEY STREET, W1: PARKING 58 words