Sitting of 26 January 1978

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Commons Sitting of 26 January 1978 Series 5 Vol. 942

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Travel to Work 466 words
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2. Economic Policy 576 words
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3. Government Debt 923 words
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4. Pay Policy 818 words
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5. Investment Income Surcharge 248 words
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6. Inflation 952 words
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7. Value Added Tax 203 words
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8. Exchange Control 973 words
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9. Unemployment (Cost) 742 words
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10. Gross National Product and Public Expenditure 574 words
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2. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 696 words
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3. TUC 848 words
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4. DISABLED PERSONS (MOBILITY) 418 words
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5. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 713 words
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4. SCOTLAND BILL (DIVISION) 2,185 words
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5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 3,993 words
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6. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS) 3,337 words
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7. EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME) 26,808 words, 1 division
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8. OFFICIAL REPORT (PRINTING) 18,955 words, 3 divisions
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1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 54 words
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9. HOUSE OF COMMONS (SOUND BROADCASTING) 12,381 words
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10. HOUSE OF COMMONS (LIBRARY) 8,715 words
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11. OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) 87 words
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12. ROAD SIGNS (WALES) 4,089 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 26 January 1978 Series 5 Vol. 942

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1. SMALL BUSINESSES 97 words
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2. LORD ADVOCATE'S DEPARTMENT (BANKING) 64 words
3. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Police (Establishments) 215 words
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2. Television (Tanat Valley) 74 words
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3. Scientologists 102 words
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4. Police (Computers) 102 words
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5. Deportation 480 words
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6. Swift (Chemicals), Chatteris 45 words
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7. Voting Rights 107 words
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8. Public Records 400 words
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9. PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE (BANKING) 69 words
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10. OPTICAL COUNCIL 447 words
4. SCOTLAND
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1. Departmental Banking 65 words
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2. Houses (Building Costs) 63 words
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3. Housing Expenditure 1,227 words
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4. Rent Acts 40 words
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5. GOVERNMENT (INFORMATION) 1,428 words
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6. ENGAGEMENTS 207 words
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7. CYPRUS 86 words
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8. SCOTLAND 23 words
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9. LANCASHIRE 25 words
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10. INCOMES POLICY (PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST) 151 words
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11. CBI 38 words
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12. SOUTH-EAST ASIA 27 words
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13. RHODESIA 38 words
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14. TUC 36 words
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15. ACKLAM 25 words
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16. SITTINGBOURNE 22 words
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17. REFUGEES 76 words
5. TRANSPORT
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1. Road Haulage Licences 47 words
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2. Thornaby (Tees Bridge) 40 words
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3. A66 (Thornaby) 50 words
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4. Lorry Drivers 189 words
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5. Pay Settlements (Guideline Breaches) 73 words
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6. Parking Meters (Purchase) 178 words
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7. Motoring Insurance 366 words
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8. Accidents (Leitch Report) 45 words
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9. Departmental Correspondence 65 words
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10. Roads (Cheshire) 78 words
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11. Regional Highway Traffic Model 49 words
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12. Road Signs 120 words
6. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Housing Finance 482 words
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2. Dangerous Substances 190 words
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3. Council House Sales 124 words
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4. Houses (Building Costs) 45 words
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5. Oil Refineries 50 words
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6. Rate Support Grant 57 words
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7. Rates (Arrears) 105 words
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8. Flood Damage 79 words
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9. Clarendon Palace 50 words
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10. Windscale Inquiry 27 words
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11. National Parks 297 words
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12. Flood Warning System (East Anglia) 135 words
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13. River Nene (Flood Prevention) 77 words
7. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. National Heritage 139 words
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2. Open University 88 words
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3. Expenditure (West Yorkshire) 256 words
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4. University Teachers (Pay) 208 words
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5. Student Grants 91 words
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6. School Meals 203 words
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7. "BULLDOG NEWSHEET" 43 words
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8. MR. WILLIAM STERN 65 words
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9. TRIBUNALS AND INQUIRIES ACT 1971 138 words
8. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. War Widows' Pension Books 54 words
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2. Rehabilitation (Tunbridge Report) 162 words
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3. Unemployed Persons 289 words
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4. Re-establishment Centres 636 words
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5. Departmental Correspondence 124 words
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6. Memorial Hospital, Shooters Hill 57 words
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7. Family Allowances 184 words
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8. Mentally Handicapped Persons 209 words
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9. Child Health (Court Report) 100 words
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10. Statutory Instruments 61 words
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11. Harefield (Dental Treatment) 63 words
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12. Kidney Machines 122 words
9. INDUSTRY
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1. Research Grants 104 words
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2. Sir Matthew Stevenson 123 words
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3. British Steel Corporation (Pension Fund) 61 words
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4. Liverpool (Office Employment) 99 words
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5. Investment (National Enterprise Board) 303 words
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6. Small Companies (Loan Guarantees) 104 words
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7. Business Statistics Office 228 words
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8. Furniture and Upholstery Industry 954 words
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9. British Leyland 517 words
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10. Departmental staff 43 words
10. EMPLOYMENT
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1. New Year Bank Holiday 90 words
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2. Earnings 68 words
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3. Women (Earnings) 198 words
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4. Teachers 127 words
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5. Mental Patients 67 words
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6. Bedford 92 words
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7. Factories (Inspection) 181 words
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8. Electricians (Pay Settlement) 219 words
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9. Plumbing 152 words
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10. Unemployed Persons 65 words
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11. School Leavers 101 words
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12. Norfolk 254 words
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13. Pay Settlements 295 words
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14. Public Services 148 words
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15. Heating and Ventilating 117 words
11. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Beer 100 words
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2. Price Increases 105 words
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3. Hearing Aid Council 155 words
12. ENERGY
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1. Norway 101 words
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2. Disabled Persons 119 words
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3. Electricity Bills 69 words
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4. Electricity Industry Workers 90 words
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5. Divers 29 words
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6. Nuclear Power Stations 189 words
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7. Insworke Point Power Station 49 words
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8. Offshore Oil Exploration 135 words
13. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Flood Damage (Wisbech) 134 words
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2. Agricultural Wages 82 words
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3. Food Manufacturing Industry 51 words
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4. Green Pound 48 words
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5. Goats 82 words
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6. Dwelling-House Advisory Committees 77 words
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7. Calves 95 words
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8. Aujeszky's Disease 191 words
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9. Pesticides 579 words
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10. Departmental Banking 124 words
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11. Animals (Export) 72 words
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12. European Community Ministers (Meeting) 44 words
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13. Marginal Lands 64 words
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14. Production (Self-sufficiency) 225 words
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15. Coast Defence 119 words
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16. Thames Barrier 71 words
14. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Directorate of Overseas Surveys 74 words
15. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Administration Group 73 words
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2. Dispersal 144 words
16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Bribery and Corruption 151 words
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2. Unification Church 205 words
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3. Iran 44 words
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4. British Patrial Passport Holders 80 words
17. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. Parliamentary Salaries 133 words
18. TRADE
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1. Dangerous Substances 274 words
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2. Export Competitiveness 71 words
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3. British Leyland 83 words
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4. Vehicles 51 words
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5. Dumping 365 words
19. DEFENCE
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1. Recruitment (Expenditure) 179 words
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2. Travel Expenses 429 words
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3. Bands 83 words
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4. Disturbance Allowance 197 words
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5. Contractors' Pay Settlements (Guideline Breaches) 67 words
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6. Departmental Staff (Dispersal) 209 words
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7. Floods (Eastern England) 106 words
20. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Royal Victoria Hospital 66 words
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2. Musgrave Park Hospital 118 words
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3. Aldergrove Airport 72 words
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4. Forkhill Police Station (Attack) 213 words
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5. European Community Aid 857 words
21. WALES
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1. Farmers' Unions 268 words
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2. Government Cars 69 words
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3. Road Signs 148 words
22. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Governor of the Bank of England 48 words
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2. Income Tax 123 words
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3. Taxation and National Insurance (Yields) 112 words
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4. Pay Policy 264 words
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5. Exchange Controls 97 words
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6. Farmers 68 words
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7. Pay Settlements (Guideline Breaches) 567 words
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8. Meat Porters (Smithfield) 50 words
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9. Personal Tax Allowances 79 words
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10. Sex Discrimination 153 words
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11. Domestic Credit 34 words
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12. Whisky 43 words
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13. Low-wage Earners 188 words
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14. Banks (Government Accounts) 91 words
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15. Value Added Tax 90 words
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16. European Investment Bank (Loans) 183 words
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17. BBC (External Services) 383 words
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18. Budget 1978 45 words
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19. Inflation 53 words
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20. Public Expenditure 462 words
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21. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 87 words
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22. Trade Balance 57 words
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23. Money Supply 370 words
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24. Spirits 208 words
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25. Food Imports (Levies) 129 words
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26. European Community Budget 293 words
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27. Government Borrowing (Foreign Currency) 429 words
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28. Owner-Occupiers (Student Lettings) 87 words
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29. European Community Aid 86 words
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30. Food (Tax Revenue) 719 words
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31. Secondary Banks (Lifeboat Scheme) 83 words
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32. North-East Development Area 170 words
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33. Income Tax (Yield) 155 words
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34. Development Land Tax 34 words
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35. Investment Income Surcharge 65 words
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36. Blind Persons 206 words
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37. Personal Incomes 71 words

Lords Sitting of 26 January 1978 Series 5 Vol. 388

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1. Preamble 29 words
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2. VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS AND EMPTY PROPERTY RATE 1,270 words
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3. AIRLINE OVER-BOOKING COMPENSATION 766 words
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4. CUSTOMS CLEARANCE FOR FOREIGN FREIGHT 598 words
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5. PAY INCREASES SINCE 31st JULY 1977 929 words
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6. THE GREEN POUND 30 words
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1. COMMONWEALTH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATON BILL [H.L.] NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL [H.L.] 238 words
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2. GUN BARREL PROOF BILL [H.L.] 279 words
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3. CONSERVATION OF WILD CREATURES AND WILD PLANTS (AMENDMENT) BILL [H.L.] 5,672 words
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4. THE GREEN POUND 3,226 words
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5. CONSERVATION OF WILD CREATURES AND WILD PLANTS (AMENDMENT) BILL [H.L.] 4,693 words
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6. THE PRESS 24,352 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 26 January 1978 Series 5 Vol. 388

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1. PEACEFUL NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS: ADVISORY GROUP REPORT 114 words
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2. CRIMINAL APPEALS IN SCOTLAND 81 words
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3. SCOTTISH CRIMINAL LAW: IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURE 106 words