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Commons Sitting of 26 July 1977 Series 5 Vol. 936

c277
1. Preamble 7 words
c277
2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. MESSAGES FROM THE QUEEN
c277
1. LOCATION OF OFFICES BUREAU 50 words
c277
2. DOUBLE TAXATION RELIEF 160 words
4. PRIVATE BUSINESS
c277
1. NORTH WEST WATER AUTHORITY BILL [Lords] (By Order) 8 words
c278
5. MERSEYSIDE PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL (By Order) 29 words
c278
6. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON BILL [Lords] 305 words
7. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
cc279-80
1. School Places (Allocation) 491 words
cc280-2
2. School Milk 530 words
cc282-3
3. Comprehensive Schools (Computerised Selection) 428 words
cc283-4
4. Schools Council 556 words
cc284-6
5. Adult Literacy Programme 429 words
cc286-7
6. Arts Council 603 words
cc287-9
7. Education Grants (Discussions) 590 words
cc289-90
8. Leicester 456 words
cc290-3
9. School Meal Charges 855 words
cc293-4
10. Alcoholism 460 words
cc294-6
11. Broadcasting (Children's Programmes) 737 words
cc296-7
12. QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER 214 words
cc297-304
13. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 2,383 words
cc304-5
8. HONOURABLE MEMBERS (SUPPLY OF PAPERS) 392 words
cc305-7
9. QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER 736 words
cc307-12
10. COLLEGES OF EDUCATION (WALES) 1,827 words
cc313-28
11. DEVOLUTION 5,931 words
cc328-9
12. STANDING ORDER NO. 9 67 words
c329
13. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 71 words
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14. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 23 words
cc330-1
15. INDEPENDENCE OF HOUSE OF COMMONS 375 words
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16. INDEPENDENCE OF HOUSE OF COMMONS 61 words
cc332-460
17. CONDUCT OF MEMBERS 50,610 words, 6 divisions
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18. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 68 words
c462
19. CONDUCT OF MEMBERS 46 words
cc463-8
20. OVERSEAS AID (AFRICANM DEVELOPMENT FUND) 1,801 words
cc469-72
21. HOUSING (OPTION MORTGAGE SUBSIDY) 1,200 words
cc473-86
22. MEMBERS' OFFICE, SECRETARIAL AND RESEARCH ALLOWANCE 5,176 words
cc487-524
23. MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS 14,221 words, 1 division
cc525-38
24. MINISTERIAL AND OTHER SALARIES 4,928 words, 1 division
cc539-72
25. HOUSE OF COMMONS (SOUND BROADCASTING) 12,117 words
c573
26. SOUND BROADCASTING (JOINT COMMITTEE) 249 words, 1 division
c573
27. HOUSE OF COMMONS (SERVICES) 31 words
28. PETITION
cc573-5
1. High Court Attendance (Officers of the House) 561 words
cc575-88
2. HOSPITAL SERVICES (ISLINGTON) 4,480 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 26 July 1977 Series 5 Vol. 936

1. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Pharmacists 74 words
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2. Invalidity Pensions (Married Women) 326 words
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3. Voluntary Organisations 62 words
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4. Neurology and Neurosurgery 175 words
c111W
5. Girocheques 215 words
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6. Hospital Out-patients 152 words
c112W
7. Dentistry 82 words
c112W
8. Smoking 42 words
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9. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 169 words
c113W
10. Death Benefits (Cancer) 118 words
cc113-4W
11. Health Services (Liverpool) 393 words
cc114-5W
12. National Insurance Contributions 190 words
c115W
13. Doctors (Pay) 267 words
c115W
14. Departmental Annual Report 39 words
cc115-6W
15. Benefits (Girocheque Payments) 196 words
cc116-8W
16. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons 720 words
cc118-20W
17. Chiropody 541 words
cc120-1W
18. Departmental Questionnaires 269 words
c121W
19. Juvenile Prisoners 118 words
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2. SOUTH AFRICA 184 words
c122W
3. TERRORISM PREVENTION 127 words
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4. TUC AND CBI 149 words
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5. SOCIAL CONTRACT 82 words
cc123-4W
6. ECONOMIC PROSPECT 127 words
c124W
7. UNEMPLOYMENT 120 words
c124W
8. WALSALL 25 words
cc124-5W
9. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 173 words
c125W
10. NEW ZEALAND 25 words
c125W
11. NATO HEADS OF GOVERNMENT 71 words
cc125-6W
12. BEXLEY 28 words
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13. PRE-TRIAL PROCEDURES (ROYAL COMMISSION) 31 words
c126W
14. FIFE 39 words
c126W
15. CITY OF LONDON 43 words
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16. EAST ANGLIA 25 words
c126W
17. TAIWAN 15 words
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18. INTELLIGENCE SERVICES 30 words
c127W
19. YUGOSLAVIA 41 words
c127W
20. PRIME MINISTER (STAFF PAY) 157 words
21. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Schools Reorganisation (Cheshire) 65 words
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2. Teacher Training 104 words
c128W
3. Green Paper 130 words
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4. Calderdale Schoolteachers 68 words
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5. Further Education 321 words
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6. School Examinations 84 words
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7. Arts Council 50 words
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8. Workers' Educational Association (Grants) 95 words
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9. Illiteracy (School Leavers) 69 words
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10. University Governing Bodies (Representation) 84 words
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11. Truancy 125 words
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12. University College, Buckingham 116 words
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13. Arts Students (Grants) 71 words
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14. Ordnance Survey 85 words
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15. Demyelinating Diseases Unit, Newcastle 89 words
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16. School Transport 44 words
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17. School Meals 51 words
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18. Teachers 255 words
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19. School Leaving Dates 58 words
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20. Handicapped Children 117 words
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21. School Milk 71 words
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22. West Indian Community (Report) 98 words
c135W
23. O-level English Examination 53 words
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24. Married Schoolgirls 115 words
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25. Teacher-pupil Ratios 162 words
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26. Teacher Training 142 words
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27. Ballet 131 words
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28. School Uniforms 51 words
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29. Student Grants 214 words
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30. Burnham Committee 178 words
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31. Overseas Students 107 words
22. HOME DEPARTMENTM
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1. Mr. Maurice Jones 70 words
cc139-40W
2. Convictions (Reviews) 323 words
cc140-1W
3. Police Cadets 309 words
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4. Illegal Immigrants 179 words
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5. Police (Establishments) 127 words
c142W
6. Police (Pay) 79 words
c142W
7. Crowd Control 46 words
cc142-4W
8. Crime 839 words
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9. Metropolitan Police 985 words
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10. Rape 70 words
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11. Police (Arundel) 109 words
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12. Police (Cameras) 140 words
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13. Prisoners (Mail) 142 words
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14. Scotland Yard 41 words
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15. Criminal Intelligence Unit 354 words
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16. Mr. James Humphreys 65 words
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17. Voluntary Organisations 85 words
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18. Sir Robert Mark 71 words
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19. European Assembly (Electorates) 233 words
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20. Electorates (Hampshire) 173 words
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21. Local Broadcasting Programmes (Wired Distribution) 68 words
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22. Racing Levy Receipts (Scotland) 89 words
23. ENERGY
c153W
1. National Union of Mineworkers 101 words
c153W
2. Departmental Staff 192 words
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3. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion 132 words
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4. Electricity Discount Scheme 55 words
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5. Beatrice Oilfield 197 words
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6. Thermal Reactors 65 words
c155W
7. Frigg Gasfield 105 words
24. TRADE
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1. Tourism 100 words
c156W
2. Trident Aircraft (Noise) 60 words
c156W
3. Tourist Operators 60 words
c156W
4. Cars (Japan) 107 words
25. TRANSPORT
c157W
1. Brough Bypass 70 words
26. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Inner City Areas 100 words
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2. Property Damage (Compensation) 165 words
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3. Sandtoft Aerodrome 98 words
c158W
4. Housing Corporation 143 words
27. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Housing Starts 346 words
cc159-60W
2. Centaur Law and Community Arts Centre 48 words
c160W
3. Wolds Way, North Humberside 142 words
c160W
4. National Heritage 50 words
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5. Voluntary Bodies 317 words
cc161-2W
6. Caravans and Camping 311 words
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7. Planning Appeals 85 words
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8. Government Offices (Carpeting) 31 words
c163W
9. Rate Support Grant 186 words
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10. Waste Recycling 118 words
28. DEFENCE
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1. Pay 99 words
c164W
2. Leave 105 words
c164W
3. Weapons (Research and Development) 53 words
cc164-5W
4. Civil Flights (Notification Procedure) 178 words
cc165-6W
5. Cardigan Bay Firing Range 267 words
29. SCOTLAND
c166W
1. English Language (Teaching) 66 words
cc166-7W
2. Unfit Houses 601 words
cc167-72W
3. Housing Action Areas 1,446 words
30. NATIONAL FINANCE
c173W
1. Income Tax and National Insurance 244 words
cc173-4W
2. Economic Strategy 325 words
c174W
3. Manufactures (Prices) 70 words
cc174-5W
4. Travel Expenses 336 words
c175W
5. European Regional Development Fund 93 words
cc175-7W
6. Prices 419 words
c177W
7. Customs and Excise (Enforcement) 68 words
c177W
8. Self-employed Persons 43 words
cc177-8W
9. Government Borrowing 57 words
c178W
10. Public Sector Debt 184 words
cc178-9W
11. Mortgage Interest 146 words
c179W
12. National Debt 163 words
cc179-80W
13. Overseas Borrowing 279 words
cc180-1W
14. Government Debt 251 words
31. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
c181W
1. Crown Agents 93 words
c181W
2. Commonwealth Development Corporation 126 words
32. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Sick Leave (Public Services) 116 words
c182W
2. Peers 57 words
c182W
3. Travel Expenses 56 words
cc182-3W
4. Pay 72 words
33. INDUSTRY
c183W
1. Company Locations 79 words
c183W
2. Shipbuilding 88 words
c183W
3. Ammonia 58 words
cc183-4W
4. Drax B Power Station 84 words
c184W
5. Postal Deliveries 37 words
cc184-5W
6. Advance Factories (Liverpool) 276 words
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7. British Leyland 288 words
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8. Small Businesses 118 words
cc186-7W
9. Cotton Spinning 246 words
c187W
10. Bedfordshire (Industrial Development Certificates) 181 words
cc187-9W
11. Whale Oil 478 words
34. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
c189W
1. Street Traders and Tourists 204 words
35. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
cc189-90W
1. Passports 222 words
cc190-1W
2. Indonesia 382 words
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3. Arms Control and Disarmament Department 432 words
c193W
4. Falkland Islands 146 words
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5. Ambassadors 71 words
36. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
cc193-4W
1. Moretti Ryegrass 81 words
c194W
2. Pork 74 words
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3. Rabies 230 words
c195W
4. Sheep Exports 216 words
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5. Pig Industry 61 words
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6. Fodder 103 words
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7. Cereals and Sugar Beet (Yields) 145 words
c196W
8. Colorado Beetle 63 words
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9. Animal Exports 136 words
c197W
10. Fish Farming 66 words
cc197-8W
11. Cereals (Intervention Buying) 249 words
37. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Horticulture 167 words
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2. Crumlin Road Prison 133 words
38. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Retail Prices Index 128 words
cc199-200W
2. Coventry 177 words
cc200-1W
3. Explosives 366 words
c201W
4. Grimsby 111 words
cc201-2W
5. Professions (Pay) 141 words
c202W
6. Youth Employment Subsidy 75 words
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7. Temporary Employment Subsidy 99 words
cc202-3W
8. Youth Opportunities Scheme 91 words
c203W
9. Grampian Region 122 words
c203W
10. Job Release Scheme 107 words
cc203-4W
11. Departmental Staff 248 words
cc204-5W
12. Toxic Substances (Safety) 110 words
cc205-6W
13. School Leavers 533 words
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14. St. Albans Sand and Gravel Company Ltd. 78 words
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15. Teachers 41 words
c207W
16. Trade Unionists 285 words
39. DEFENCE
cc208-9W
1. Married Quarters 339 words
cc209-10W
2. 7511 Torpedo 67 words

Lords Sitting of 26 July 1977 Series 5 Vol. 386

c861
1. Preamble 31 words
c861
2. LORD CHITNIS 33 words
cc861-2
3. WELDING KITS: OTECTIVE GOGGLES 239 words
c862
4. TDI RESEARCH: PROTECTIVE MEASURES 216 words
cc863-4
5. NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY: GENEVA TALKS 590 words
cc864-6
6. INDIA: INDUSTRIAL WORKERS' WAGES 649 words
cc866-7
7. DEVOLUTION 33 words
c867
8. BRITISH RAILWAYS BILL 12 words
c867
9. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES COMMITTEE 51 words
c867
10. MINISTERIAL AND OTHER SALARIES ORDER 1977 166 words
c868
11. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL [H.L.] 31 words
c868
12. COMMONS AMENDMENTS 11 words
cc868-9
13. COMMONS AMENDMENT 340 words
cc869-70
14. COMMONS AMENDMENT 596 words
cc870-2
15. COMMONS AMENDMENT 713 words
cc872-3
16. COMMONS AMENDMENTS 376 words
c874
17. COMMONS AMENDMENT 226 words
cc874-5
18. COMMONS AMENDMENTS 317 words
cc875-6
19. WATER CHARGES EQUALISATION BILL 99 words
c876
20. COMMONS REASON FOR DISAGREEING TO CERTAIN OF THE LORDS AMENDMENTS AND COMMONS AMENDMENTS TO ONE OTHER OF THE LORDS AMENDMENTS 20 words
cc876-8
21. LORDS AMENDMENT 792 words
c878
22. LORDS AMENDMENTS 269 words
cc878-96
23. COMMODITY PRICES: SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT 6,707 words
cc896-907
24. DEVOLUTION 4,282 words
cc907-64
25. COMMODITY PRICES: SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT 21,586 words
cc964-6
26. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL 816 words
c966
27. INSURANCE BROKERS (REGISTRATION) BILL 9 words
c966
28. NORTH WEST WATER AUTHORITY BILL [H.L.] 15 words
c967
29. HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICES 11 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 26 July 1977 Series 5 Vol. 386

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1. NORTH SEA AND ENGLISH CHANNEL: REGULATION OF HUMAN ACTIVITY 459 words