Sitting of 6 July 1978

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Commons Sitting of 6 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 953

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. BRITISH RAILWAYS BILL (By Order) 6 words
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2. TAMAR BRIDGE BILL 9 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
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1. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 17 words
1. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Courts (Witness Attendance) 338 words
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2. Socialist Workers Party 266 words
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3. Police (Recruitment) 989 words
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4. Criminal Damage 186 words
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5. Police Station Closures (London) 454 words
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6. Immigrants (Detention and Deportation Cases) 324 words
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7. Criminal Statistics 490 words
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8. Official Secrets Act (White Paper) 371 words
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9. Corporal Punishment (Isle of Man) 362 words
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10. Police Pay 533 words
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11. Fire Service 353 words
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12. Public Sector Employment (Coloured Persons) 366 words
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13. Prison Population 410 words
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14. Remand Centres 277 words
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15. Metropolitan Police (Commissioner's Report) 632 words
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16. TUC AND CBI 708 words
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17. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 1,725 words
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5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 3,883 words
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6. RAILWAYS (SLEEPING-CAR FIRE) 1,978 words
7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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1. SCOTLAND BILL 1,341 words
1. Clause 1
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1. THE SCOTTISH ASSEMBLY 26,865 words, 3 divisions
2. Clause 15
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1. DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS IN ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS 11,948 words, 1 division
3. Clause 19
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1. SCRUTINY OF ASSEMBLY BILLS 2,091 words, 1 division
4. Clause 20
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1. THE SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE 12,440 words, 2 divisions
5. Clause 26
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1. COMMITTEES 10,309 words, 1 division
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8. LAWRENCE-MOON-BIEDL SYNDROME (HODEN FAMILY) 6,004 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 6 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 953

1. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. London Transport Services (Vandalism and Violence) 97 words
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2. Mr. and Mrs. Kassamali (Deportation Order) 71 words
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3. General Elections (Voting Rights) 36 words
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4. Bail Act 200 words
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5. Immigration Act 1971 83 words
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6. Immigration Control 48 words
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7. Crimes of Violence (West Midlands) 75 words
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8. Metropolitan Police 260 words
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9. Hotels and Holiday Camps (Fire Precautions) 80 words
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10. Police Forces (Co-ordination) 66 words
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11. Attachment of Earnings 66 words
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12. Prison Officers (Accommodation) 83 words
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13. Television Fourth Channel (Wales) 67 words
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14. Police Personnel (Heights) 61 words
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15. Broadcasting 135 words
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16. Fire Service (Recruitment) 145 words
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17. Detention Centres 75 words
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18. Vandalism 133 words
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19. Police (Pay and Conditions) 71 words
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20. Immigration Appeals 61 words
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21. Women Offenders (Prison Sentences) 68 words
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22. Capital Punishment 65 words
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23. Pentonville Prison 76 words
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24. Immigrants (Detention) 208 words
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25. Refugee Applications 105 words
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26. Blood Sports 58 words
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27. General Elections (Ballot Secrecy) 129 words
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28. Indecent Displays 49 words
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29. Police Recruitment 93 words
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30. Police (Injuries) 73 words
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31. European Community Nationals (Employment) 71 words
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32. Wrongful Imprisonment 217 words
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33. Model Aircraft (Flights in Parks) 127 words
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34. Cardiff (Commercial Radio Station) 69 words
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35. Parliamentary Candidates (Lower Age Limit) 77 words
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36. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 471 words
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37. DISARMAMENT (UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL SESSION) 106 words
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38. WASHINGTON 31 words
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39. TUC AND CBI 200 words
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40. USSR 38 words
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41. HOUSING 58 words
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42. SOUTH KOREA 33 words
2. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Drug Prescribing 321 words
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2. Children and Young Persons Act 45 words
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3. Abortion Deaths 115 words
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4. Mentally Disordered Offenders (Secure Units) 195 words
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5. Hospital Waiting Lists (Orthopaedic Appointments) 109 words
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6. Self-employed Persons 120 words
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7. Scientology 96 words
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8. Hospital Beds (Leek) 54 words
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9. Attendance Allowance 125 words
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10. Pensions 128 words
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11. Heart Operations 109 words
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12. Unemployment Benefit (Married Women) 48 words
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13. Suffolk (Capital Revenue) 84 words
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14. Regional Health Authorities (Chairmen) 279 words
3. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Civil and Public Services Association (Dispute) 621 words
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2. Unemployed Persons 62 words
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3. Telecommunications Industry 33 words
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4. Post Office (Dispute) 55 words
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5. Activity Rates 71 words
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6. Newspapers and Periodicals (Departmental Purchases) 68 words
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7. Leek 140 words
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8. Shelton Steel Works 440 words
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9. Fish Processing 178 words
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10. Farm Workers 202 words
4. INDUSTRY
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1. European Commission (Regional Aids Review) 68 words
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2. Shipbuilding 66 words
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3. Industrial Development Certificates (Leek) 310 words
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4. Industrial Assistance 71 words
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5. Industrial Development (Staffordshire) 53 words
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6. Industrial Development Certificates 171 words
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7. Sperm Whale Oil Substitutes 100 words
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8. Telecommunications 55 words
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9. Driving Schools (Car Purchases) 104 words
5. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Identity Passes 146 words
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2. PALACE OF WESTMINSTER (GUIDE DOGS) 74 words
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3. HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT (VISITING PERMITS) 85 words
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4. PALACE OF WESTMINSTER (IDENTITY PASSES) 63 words
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5. SMALL BUSINESSES (SCOTLAND) 54 words
6. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Health and Safety 152 words
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2. Press Officers 349 words
7. SCOTLAND
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1. Hospital Pay Beds (Revenue) 42 words
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2. Rescobie Loch (Protection Order) 114 words
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3. Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 121 words
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4. Poultry Meat Inspection 305 words
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5. North Sea Oil Development (Employment) 74 words
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6. Scottish Development Agency 60 words
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7. Herring Fishing Ban 479 words
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8. Fish Processing 111 words
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9. Fishermen 251 words
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10. Fish Conservation 292 words
8. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Nursery Education (Lancashire) 374 words
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2. Secondary School Building (Leek) 63 words
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3. Teachers' General Council 61 words
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4. Polytechnics 258 words
9. WALES
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1. Coal Miners' Houses (Improvement Loans) 84 words
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2. Welsh Language 52 words
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3. Personal Social Service Projects (Financing) 245 words
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4. Home Insulation (Public Sector) 269 words
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5. Straying Animals 81 words
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6. PUTNEY 30 words
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7. DISASTER RELIEF 64 words
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8. HOVE 34 words
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9. NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES 47 words
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10. COLNE 33 words
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11. CONSTITUTIONAL COURT 47 words
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12. NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 54 words
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13. GOVERNMENT POLICIES (PRIME MINISTER'S ADDRESS) 64 words
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14. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (ENLARGEMENT) 84 words
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15. GARSTON 30 words
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16. TOP SALARIES 102 words
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17. PRIME MINISTER'S DEPARTMENT (PAY INCREASES) 185 words
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18. SECRET AND CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS 82 words
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19. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRADE (SPEECH) 60 words
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20. PRIME MINISTER'S QUESTION TIME 34 words
10. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Poultry Meat (Inspection) 506 words
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2. Foodstuffs (Supply Emergencies) 122 words
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3. Salmon Netting Licences 290 words
11. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Organisation of African Unity 29 words
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2. Poultry (Stocking Density) 141 words
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3. Fishermen (Employment) 189 words
12. TRADE
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1. European Community 108 words
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2. PVC Inflatables (Imports) 154 words
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3. Oil Slick (Rathlin Island) 78 words
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4. Seal Pelts (Imports) 69 words
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5. Cinemas (Eady Levy) 83 words
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6. Horsemeat (Exports) 148 words
13. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Toxic Products Tips 107 words
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2. Noise and Thermal Insulation 144 words
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3. Waste Material (Recycling) 117 words
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4. Building and Construction Industry 61 words
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5. Farm Shops and Roadside Selling 82 words
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6. Agricultural Derating 101 words
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7. Fish Farms 79 words
14. TRANSPORT
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1. Roads (Maintenance) 167 words
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2. Rate Fund Contributions 173 words
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3. Stoke-Derby Road (Staffordshire) 77 words
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4. Drivers (Tests and Licences) 233 words
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5. Motorways (Driving Standards) 42 words
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6. Motor-free Sunday (Legislation) 27 words
15. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Ampersand Ltd. 191 words
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2. USSR (Human Rights Trials) 108 words
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3. Morrocco 91 words
16. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Post-war Credits 121 words
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2. Top Salaries 153 words
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3. Dividends 70 words
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4. Taxation Costs 56 words
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5. Post-War Credits 130 words
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6. Vehicle Excise Duty 153 words
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7. Gross Domestic Product 154 words
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8. Tax Evasion (Prosecutions) 45 words
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9. Development Land Tax 124 words
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10. Stamp Duty 39 words
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11. Ticket Touts (Tax Assessments) 87 words
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12. KIRKBY (LAW CENTRE) 73 words
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13. CRIME (SENTENCES) 80 words
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14. LAND REGISTRATION 103 words
17. DEFENCE
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1. Sperm Whale Oil Products 217 words
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2. National Service 93 words
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3. Procurement Policy 348 words
18. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Public Bodies (Running Costs) 963 words
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2. Midwives 158 words

Lords Sitting of 6 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 394

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1. Preamble 42 words
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2. TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS: PLO STATUS 882 words
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3. RHODESIA: OIL SUPPLIES —BINGHAM INQUIRY 830 words
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4. ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE 1,564 words
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5. RHODESIA: ALL-PARTY CONFERENCE 1,128 words
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6. INTERPRETATION BILL [H.L.] 9 words
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7. WALES BILL 28,709 words, 7 divisions
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8. CONSUMER SAFETY BILL 5,752 words
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9. NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT 1978 (CONTINUANCE) ORDER 1978 6,069 words
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10. NORTHERN IRELAND ACT 1974 (INTERIM PERIOD EXTENSION) ORDER 1978 46 words
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11. COMPANIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 1,858 words
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12. EDUCATION (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 549 words
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13. PAYMENTS FOR DEBT (AMENDMENT) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 384 words
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14. BRITISH RAILWAYS BILL 11 words
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15. STATE IMMUNITY BILL [H.L.] 37 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 6 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 394

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1. BARENTS SEA: OIL EXPLORATION 118 words
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2. ARMED FORCES: RESERVISTS 158 words
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3. AUXILIARY FORCES: MOBILISATION 85 words
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4. REGULAR RESERVISTS: TRAINING 24 words
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5. WOMEN VOLUNTEER RESERVES: DUTIES 41 words
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6. TAVR: ESTABLISHMENT 29 words
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7. AUXILIARY FORCES: PERCENTAGE OF CONSCRIPTS 76 words
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8. TAVR: MEMBERSHIP IN GREATER LONDON AREA 27 words
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9. DEFENCE EXPENDITURE 84 words
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10. DEFENCE EXPENDITURE: GNP ALLOCATION 131 words