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Commons Sitting of 19 July 1977 Series 5 Vol. 935

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. LONDON HYDRAULIC POWER BILL 4 words
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2. CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL 8 words
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3. NORTH WEST WATER AUTHORITY BILL 11 words
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4. BRITISH RAILWAYS ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 7 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Disabled Persons (Vehicles) 833 words
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2. Pharmacists 786 words
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3. Health Sere ice Facilities (Bromley) 290 words
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4. Supplementary Benefits System (Review) 282 words
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5. Child Benefit Scheme 363 words
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6. Vaccine-Damaged Children (Compensation Claims) 684 words
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7. National Health Service Reorganisation 1,100 words
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8. Kidney Transplants 258 words
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9. Overseas Doctors 238 words
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10. Finer Report Recommendations 337 words
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11. Mental Health Services 1,197 words
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2. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 467 words
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3. AUSTRALIA 521 words
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4. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 917 words
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5. HATFIELD 259 words
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5. QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 211 words
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6. MR. SPEAKER'S CONFERENCE (NORTHERN IRELAND) 405 words
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7. MR. SPEAKER'S RULING (CRITICISM OF JUDGES) 1,371 words
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8. ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY 3,436 words
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9. HOSPITAL SERVICES (BIRMINGHAM) 308 words
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10. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY) 54 words
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11. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 59 words
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12. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS &c. 132 words
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13. RAPE 2,850 words, 1 division
14. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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1. SUPPLY 3 words
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1. DEFENCE AND CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1977–78 (OUTSTANDING VOTES) 130 words
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2. CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) 69 words
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2. PROBLEMS OF LARGE TOWNS AND CITIES 42,041 words
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3. NORTHERN IRELAND (COMPENSATION FOR CRIMINAL DAMAGE) 10,748 words
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4. NORTHERN IRELAND (INSOLVENCY PAYMENTS) 1,411 words
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5. NORTHERN IRELAND (LEGAL AID) 1,495 words
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6. HOPS MARKETING SCHEME 2,976 words
7. PETITION
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1. Disabled Persons (Mobility) 370 words
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8. MR. H. C. THORNE 2,905 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 19 July 1977 Series 5 Vol. 935

1. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Abortion 640 words
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2. Hospital Services (Liverpool) 167 words
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3. Mid-Sussex (Hospital) 47 words
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4. Supplementary Benefits Commission 93 words
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5. Doctors 71 words
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6. Mental Health Services 5,644 words
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7. Regional Health Authorities 96 words
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8. Community Health Councils 165 words
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9. Child Benefit 63 words
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10. Occupational Pensions Board 24 words
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11. Bromsgrove and Redditch (New Hospital) 64 words
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12. Over-75s 72 words
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13. Area Health Authority Chairmen 85 words
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14. Hospital Beds 60 words
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15. Pharmacists (Contract) 120 words
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16. After-care Facilities 193 words
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17. Optical Charges (Partially Sighted Persons) 67 words
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18. Disabled Persons (Vehicles) 488 words
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19. State Pension Scheme 97 words
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20. Retirement Pensioners 69 words
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21. Mentally Handicapped Persons (Services) 54 words
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22. Pension Fund Boards (Representation) 39 words
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23. Attendance Allowance 128 words
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24. Special Hospital Patients (Transfer) 63 words
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25. Self-employed Persons 27 words
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26. Mentally Handicapped Children 232 words
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27. Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone 73 words
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28. Sickness Benefit (Late Claims) 381 words
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29. Hospital Waiting Lists 254 words
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30. South-East Thames Regional Health Authority 46 words
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31. Secretary of State (Engagements) 79 words
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32. Physiotherapists (Training) 43 words
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33. Postgraduate Teaching Hospital Patients 312 words
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34. Families with Children 92 words
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35. National Insurance Contributions 128 words
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36. "Population and the Social Services" 51 words
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37. Pharmaceutical Industry 62 words
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38. Benefits (Increases) 96 words
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39. Benefit Entitlement (Publicity) 139 words
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40. Kessel Committee 107 words
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41. Pensions 37 words
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42. Nurses (Pay) 86 words
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43. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 123 words
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44. Television Rental Payments 97 words
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45. Jobless Persons 165 words
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46. Social Security Office, Glasgow 77 words
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47. Family Planning Services 103 words
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48. Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham 66 words
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49. Enterovioform 87 words
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50. Psychiatric Hospitals 568 words
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51. Butazolidin and Tofranil 262 words
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52. Social Workers 203 words
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53. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 487 words
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54. National Development Teams 333 words
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55. Mental Handicap Hospitals (Child Residents) 201 words
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56. Benefits (Publicity) 326 words
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57. Broadmoor Special Hospital 153 words
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58. Psychogeriatric Assessment Units 749 words
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59. Mental Health Act 1959 100 words
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60. Moss Side Special Hospital 418 words
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61. Health Services (Inner Cities) 70 words
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62. Regional Health Authorities 419 words
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63. Obesity 73 words
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64. Hampshire Area Health Authority (Finance) 115 words
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65. Health Services (Cost) 245 words
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66. Medical Treatment Abroad (Reciprocal Arrangements) 366 words
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67. Psychiatric Patients 86 words
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68. Psychiatric Beds (London) 304 words
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69. Voluntary Organisations 107 words
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70. Disputes 179 words
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71. Trifocal Lenses 62 words
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72. Asbestosis and Mesothelioma 81 words
2. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Mental Health Review Tribunal Decisions 163 words
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2. Prison Officers 53 words
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3. Vagrants 229 words
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4. Television (Tanat Valley) 118 words
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5. Remanded Persons 159 words
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6. Gartree Prison 459 words
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7. Prisoners 71 words
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8. High Point Prison 151 words
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9. Broadcasting Companies (Shareholdings) 115 words
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10. Grunwick Processing Laboratories Ltd. 55 words
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11. Strangeways Prison 53 words
3. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Belize 66 words
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2. Albania 174 words
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3. Uruguay 30 words
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4. Guatemala (Arms Supplies) 52 words
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5. Passports 120 words
4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Western European Union Business 164 words
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2. Divisions and Tellers 28 words
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3. Disabled Persons (Interviewing) 50 words
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4. Members' Pay 105 words
5. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Electricity Consumers 159 words
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2. Job Creation 180 words
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3. PVC 60 words
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4. Foundries 297 words
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5. Waste Recycling 151 words
6. TRADE
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1. Hotels 85 words
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2. Hong Kong 106 words
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3. Commercial Travellers (Contracts) 72 words
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4. Departmental Licences 79 words
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5. European Community and United States of America 365 words
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6. Sona Consultants Ltd. 104 words
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7. Noise Insulation (Grants) 85 words
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8. British Caledonian Airways 371 words
7. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Divorce and Homosexuality 115 words
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2. Devolution 64 words
8. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Social Security Benefits and Income Tax 137 words
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2. Taxation 184 words
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3. Cigarettes 110 words
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4. National Debt 261 words
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5. Beer, Wine and Spirits 124 words
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6. Public Sector Debt 132 words
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7. Occupational Pensions 69 words
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8. Income Tax 224 words
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9. Departmental Questionnaires 344 words
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10. Investment Income Surcharge 55 words
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11. Age Allowance 57 words
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9. LANCASHIRE 26 words
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10. EDUCATION 49 words
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11. TUC 54 words
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12. PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH) 187 words
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13. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 192 words
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14. CBI 53 words
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15. ANIMALS (EXPORT) 56 words
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16. NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 45 words
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17. POWER PLANT INDUSTRY 71 words
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18. SAFFRON WALDEN 39 words
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19. SOUTH AFRICA 25 words
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20. PETERBOROUGH 25 words
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21. CHINA 55 words
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22. BALMORAL 32 words
23. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Fish Catches 518 words
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2. Cheese and Butter Imports 1,006 words
24. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Parliamentary Papers 148 words
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2. Dispersal 88 words
25. SCOTLAND
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1. Merchant Navy (Training) 171 words
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2. Local Authority Building Contracts 50 words
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3. Mental Health Services 64 words
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4. Drinking and Driving 608 words
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5. Telephones (Western Isles) 86 words
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6. Psychogeriatrics 98 words
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7. Direct Labour 283 words
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8. Teachers 143 words
26. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Commons Court (Housing Redecoration) 93 words
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2. One-parent Families 42 words
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3. Planning Appeals 256 words
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4. Waste Recycling 273 words
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5. Water and Sewerage Charges 55 words
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6. Roads and Footpaths (Design) 156 words
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7. Dogs 54 words
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8. Metropolitan District and County Councils 59 words
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9. Big Ben 91 words
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10. Angling 205 words
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11. Local Government Services 90 words
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12. Land Rover Services Ltd., Birmingham 55 words
27. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Housing Finance 5,232 words
28. TRANSPORT
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1. Hertfordshire (East-West Road) 78 words
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2. Railways (Commuter Lines) 35 words
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3. Railway Fares (Essex) 79 words
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4. Channel Tunnel 109 words
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5. St. Ives Bypass and Bridge, Huntingdonshire 105 words
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6. Railway Closures 54 words
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7. Train Drivers 205 words
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8. A1, Archway Road 237 words
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9. Picketing 90 words
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10. Labour Inspection (ILO Convention) 28 words
29. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Job Creation 119 words
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2. Leek 355 words
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3. Unemployed Persons 710 words
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4. Statistical Returns 278 words
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5. Professional and Executive Registration 58 words
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6. Job Creation 267 words
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7. Fishermen 250 words
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8. Students 174 words
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9. Coventry 191 words
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10. Safety Committees 85 words
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11. Disabled Persons 1,082 words
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12. Health and Safety Inspectors 59 words
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13. Game Farms 128 words
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14. Fares to Work 148 words
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15. Mesothelioma 130 words
30. ENERGY
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1. "Save It" Appeal 147 words
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2. Fuel Bills 106 words
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3. Apprentices 142 words
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4. Shilbottle Coals 107 words
31. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Medical Students 63 words
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2. Educational Maintenance Allowances 341 words
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3. Teachers (Superannuation) 175 words
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4. School Uniforms 635 words
32. WALES
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1. Unemployed Persons 197 words
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2. Mental Health Services 681 words
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3. Powys (Aid) 103 words
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4. School Leavers 110 words
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5. Psychogeriatrics 93 words
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6. Psychiatric Hospitals 139 words
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7. Mentally Handicapped Children 149 words
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8. Construction Industry 82 words
33. DEFENCE
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1. Fishery Protection 176 words
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2. Royal Air Force (Personnel) 131 words
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3. NATO (European Command) 131 words
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4. Asbestosis and Mesothelioma 63 words
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5. Recruiting 285 words
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6. Pay 108 words
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7. Neutron Bomb 59 words
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8. 7511 Torpedo 322 words

Lords Sitting of 19 July 1977 Series 5 Vol. 386

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1. Preamble 23 words
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2. LORD CARVER 39 words
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3. PICKETING LAW 1,497 words
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4. LAW OF THE SEA CONFERENCE 844 words
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5. BRITISH SHIPBUILDING: VESTED FIRMS 342 words
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6. PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS: MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY 263 words
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7. EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL [H.L.] 905 words
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8. TORTS (INTERFERENCE WITH GOODS) BILL [H.L.] 24 words
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9. COMMONS AMENDMENTS 475 words
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10. CONTROL OF OFFICE DEVELOPMENT BILL 3,902 words, 1 division
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11. LOCAL AUTHORITIES (RESTORATION OF WORKS POWERS) BILL 10,613 words, 3 divisions
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12. EEC COMMON COMMERCIAL POLICY: 40th REPORT OF THE ECC 15,712 words
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13. ETHYL ALCOHOL: 37TH REPORT OF THE ECC 8,779 words
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14. BRITISH RAILWAYS BILL 3 words
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15. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL 32 words
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16. CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL [H.L.] 15 words
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17. LONDON HYDRAULIC: POWER BILL 9 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 19 July 1977 Series 5 Vol. 386

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1. SALMON PROTECTION LEGISLATION 228 words
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2. AERODROME SURFACE MOVEMENT INDICATORS 182 words
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3. OVERSEAS INVESTMENT INCENTIVES 336 words
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4. EX-ARMY ACCOMMODATION, EDINBURGH 88 words