Sitting of 13 July 1978

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Commons Sitting of 13 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. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL 13 words
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2. KING'S COLLEGE LONDON BILL 4 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Trade Unions 757 words
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2. Criminal Offences (Sentences) 366 words
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3. Industrial Investment 688 words
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4. Prisons (Deputation of Members) 1,406 words
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5. Political Talks 938 words
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6. Planning Applications 180 words
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7. Policing and Administration (Community Participation) 521 words
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8. Secondary Schools 321 words
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9. Police Vehicles (Protection) 219 words
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10. Security 661 words
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11. Secondary Education 257 words
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12. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 1,760 words
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13. NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES 392 words
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5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 5,771 words
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6. SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICES (CLOSURE) 556 words
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7. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 87 words
8. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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1. FINANCE BILL 12 words
1. Clause 30
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1. CLOSE COMPANIES: RELEVANT INCOME OF TRADING COMPANIES 225 words
2. Clause 31
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1. CLOSE COMPANIES: ACQUISITION OF TRADES 869 words
3. Schedule 5
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1. RELEVANT INCOME OF CLOSE COMPANIES—AMENDMENTS OF FINANCE ACT 1972, SCHEDULE 16, PART II 818 words
4. Clause 32
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1. CAPITAL ALLOWANCES: LONG LEASES 3,322 words, 1 division
5. Clause 36
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1. RELIEF FOR GAINS LESS THAN £9,500. 123 words
6. New Schedule
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1. RELIEF FOR GAINS LESS THAN £9,500 6,550 words
7. Clause 38
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1. RELIEF FOR GIFTS OF BUSINESS ASSETS 281 words
8. Schedule 7
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1. RELIEF FOR GIFTS OF BUSINESS ASSETS 30 words
9. Clause 40
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1. TRANSFER OF BUSINESS ON RETIREMENT 4,626 words
10. Clause 41
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1. RELIEF IN RESPECT OF LOANS TO TRADERS 1,912 words
11. Schedule 8
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1. PROFIT SHARING SCHEMES 8,354 words, 1 division
12. Clause 43
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1. THE PERIOD OF RETENTION, THE RELEASE DATE AND THE APPROPRIATE PERCENTAGE 5,472 words, 2 divisions
13. Clause 44
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1. DISPOSAL OF SCHEME SHARES 61 words
14. Clause 49
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1. INTERPRETATION AND CONSTRUCTION 49 words
15. Clause 50
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1. REDUCTION OF TAX 707 words
16. Clause 54
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1. DEFINITION OF CONTROL OF COMPANY 1,269 words
17. Clause 55
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1. EMPLOYEE TRUSTS 520 words
18. Schedule 10
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1. EMPLOYEE TRUSTS 162 words
19. Clause 59
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1. PROTECTIVE TRUSTS 486 words
20. Clause 60
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1. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES IN FOREIGN OWNERSHIP 277 words
21. Clause 63
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1. DISCLOSURES OF INFORMATION TO TAX AUTHORITIES IN OTHER MEMBER STATES 16,275 words, 1 division
22. Schedule 11
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1. CUSTOMS AND EXCISE CONSOLIDATION AMENDMENTS 119 words
23. Clause 66
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1. SHORT TITLE, INTERPRETATION, CONSTRUCTION AND REPEALS 27 words
24. New Schedule
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1. RELIEF FOR GAINS LESS THAN £9,500 2,632 words, 2 divisions
25. Schedule 12
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1. REPEALS 4,218 words
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9. MARINE OIL POLLUTION 4,362 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 953

1. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Prisoners and Prisons 201 words
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2. Community Leaders (Meetings) 51 words
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3. Political Talks 58 words
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4. Security 47 words
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5. Trade Unions 44 words
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6. Industrial Investment 52 words
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7. Belfast Redevelopment (Area No. 31) 89 words
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8. Belmont House 101 words
2. SCOTLAND
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1. Mr. D. C. Anderson 615 words
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2. Control of Pollution Act 1974 119 words
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3. Scottish Development Agency (Tenants' Debts) 72 words
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4. Scottish Development Agency (Accounts) 87 words
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5. Port Dundas (Housing) 62 words
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6. Strathclyde (Sheltered Workshop) 69 words
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7. South of Scotland Electricity Board (Accounting Procedures) 43 words
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8. Electricity Prices 79 words
3. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Metropolitan Police (Road Speed Metres) 111 words
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2. Illegal Immigrants (Prosecutions) 48 words
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3. Avon and Somerset Constabulary (Police Duties) 108 words
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4. Mentally Abnormal Offenders 148 words
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5. Metropolitan Police (Manpower) 58 words
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6. Prisoners (Escapes) 4,917 words
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7. Firemen (Pay) 109 words
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8. Race Relations 95 words
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9. Crime (London) 60 words
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10. Mr. I. Whiteley 118 words
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11. Judicial Studies and Information (Report) 62 words
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12. Imprisonment (Maintenance Arrears) 92 words
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13. Short Sentences (Costs) 55 words
4. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Retired Civil Servants (Employment) 138 words
5. ENERGY
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1. Coking Coal 419 words
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2. Concessionary Coal (Cost) 49 words
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3. Mining Industry (Wages and Conditions) 154 words
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4. Coal 209 words
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5. Coking Plants 204 words
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6. Metallurgical Coke 247 words
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7. Coal Pits (Finances) 70 words
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8. Mr. Joe Gormley 67 words
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9. HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT (EXHIBITION) 49 words
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10. HOUSE OF COMMONS Staff (Pay) 50 words
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11. Library 1,233 words
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12. LORD PRESIDENT'S DEPARTMENT (STAFF SALARIES AND PENSIONS) 138 words
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13. LEGISLATION (PREPARATION) 184 words
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14. MINISTERS AND MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (PAY) 346 words
6. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Electricity Industry (Scotland) 83 words
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2. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (ACCOMMODATION) 152 words
7. INDUSTRY
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1. Cable and Wireless Limited (Chairman) 100 words
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2. Shipping (Investment Grants) 248 words
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3. Paper Recycling (Research) 268 words
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4. European Community 92 words
8. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Barclays Bank, Brent (Pay) 125 words
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2. Disabled Persons 948 words
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3. Training (Ipswich) 214 words
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4. Unemployed Persons 353 words
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5. Ipswich, Sudbury and Woodbridge 316 words
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6. Alcoholism 192 words
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7. Wisbech 118 words
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8. Lost Working Days 207 words
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9. Telecommunications Industry 109 words
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10. Companies (Statistics) 173 words
9. DEFENCE
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1. Northern Ireland (Troop Numbers) 54 words
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2. Ulster Defence Regiment 84 words
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3. Argentina 81 words
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4. Departmental (Employees Suffolk) 34 words
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5. United Nations (Peacekeeping Operations) 95 words
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6. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 463 words
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7. PRESIDENT CARTER (TALKS) 39 words
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8. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL (BREMEN MEETING) 68 words
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9. TUC AND CBI 196 words
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10. EAST ANGLIA 24 words
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11. SECRETARIES OF STATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL SERVICES 74 words
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12. USSR 51 words
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13. SHEFFIELD 24 words
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14. MOTTRAM ST. ANDREW 26 words
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15. ORMSKIRK 25 words
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16. SECURITY COMMISSION (REFERENCES) 72 words
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17. FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY 42 words
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18. RESOURCES POLICY 46 words
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19. NORTH DEVON LINK ROAD PROPOSALS 287 words
10. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. National Health Service (Northern Region) 344 words
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2. National Insurance (Class 4 Contributions) 73 words
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3. Psychogeriatric Patients (Walsall) 67 words
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4. Local Authorities (Returns) 73 words
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5. Prescription Charges 61 words
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6. Hospitals (Capital Expenditure) 52 words
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7. Orthoptists 137 words
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8. Alcoholism 184 words
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9. Visual Defects (Screening of Children) 231 words
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10. Heart Treatment (Merseyside) 138 words
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11. Washington, County Durham (Departmental Office) 294 words
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12. North Staffordshire Maternity Hospital (Patient's Death) 128 words
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13. Freeman Hospital, Newcastle (Heart Patients) 141 words
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14. Population Census, 1981 41 words
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15. One-Parent Families 107 words
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16. Family Income Supplement 162 words
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17. Public Analysts 175 words
11. TRADE
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1. COMECON 99 words
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2. Coal 199 words
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3. USSR 62 words
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4. Multi-Fibre Arrangement (Textile Surveillance System) 109 words
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5. Textiles (Imports) 222 words
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6. Overseas Investment (Developing Countries) 150 words
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7. T-shirts and Singlets (Imports) 150 words
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8. Council of Europe (Health and Social Affairs Committee) 253 words
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9. Castle Donington Airport (Runway Extension) 136 words
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10. Exports (International Comparisons) 115 words
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11. Ministerial Appointments 125 words
12. TRANSPORT
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1. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre 154 words
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2. Lorries (Exhaust Emissions) 88 words
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3. Bury St. Edmunds Bypass 71 words
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4. A52 76 words
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5. Toxic Substances 55 words
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6. British Railways (Inter-City Trains) 66 words
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7. Accident Statistics (Public Holidays) 61 words
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8. Driving Tests (Worcester) 198 words
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9. Tachographs 103 words
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10. British Railways Board (Depreciation and Amortisation) 46 words
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11. Loaded Passenger Train Kilometres 111 words
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12. National Bus Company 83 words
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13. River Clyde (Port Facilities) 123 words
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14. A49 (Woodcote Way, Shrewsbury) 77 words
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15. Birmingham West Orbital Route 25 words
13. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Middlesex Guildhall 81 words
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2. Local Government Staff (Pay) 116 words
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3. Local Authorities' Superannuation Funds (Management) 169 words
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4. Voluntary Organisations (Accommodation Grants) 420 words
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5. Rate Support Grant 80 words
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6. Housing Subsidies 154 words
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7. Households (Occupation) 124 words
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8. Urban Aid 333 words
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9. Lawnmowers (Noise) 199 words
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10. Ribble Estuary 377 words
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11. North Cheshire Housing Association Schemes 173 words
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12. Pollution Control 176 words
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13. Council House Building 64 words
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14. Planning Applications 45 words
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15. New Town Development Corporations (Housing Assets) 74 words
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16. Building Societies' Support Scheme 156 words
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17. Bicycle Parking (Government Offices) 840 words
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18. Construction Industry (Manpower) 150 words
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19. Opencast Mining (Consett) 100 words
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20. Disabled Persons (Housing) 53 words
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21. Petrol (Lead Content) 121 words
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22. Woodwool Formwork (Fire Hazards) 61 words
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23. Council Housing (Rents and Rates) 1,255 words
14. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. State Schools (Report) 289 words
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2. Higher Education (Mandatory Grant Scheme) 194 words
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3. School Inspectors (Jersey and Guernsey) 86 words
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4. Voucher System 88 words
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5. Teachers 281 words
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6. School Milk 152 words
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7. Pensions 83 words
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8. Nursery Schools, Lancashire 214 words
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9. Schools 442 words
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10. School Governors (Kent) 101 words
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11. Comprehensive Schools (Sixth Forms) 206 words
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12. Lytchett Minster Comprehensive School 344 words
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13. Student Grants 131 words
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14. Comprehensive Schools (Dorset) 119 words
15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Enzootic Bovine Leukosis 337 words
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2. Fishing (Greenland Waters) 170 words
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3. Fishing (European Community Agreements) 125 words
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4. Fishing (Norwegian Waters) 181 words
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5. Sheep (Killing by Dogs) 230 words
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6. New Zealand Butter 136 words
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7. Intensive Livestock Houses (Fire Hazards) 190 words
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8. Food Science and Human Nutrition 190 words
16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Rhodesia 234 words
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2. International Peace Academy 65 words
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3. Passports 407 words
17. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. European Assembly (Members' Salaries) 44 words
18. WALES
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1. European Community (Regional Development Fund) 62 words
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2. Welsh Assembly 349 words
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3. Welsh Office (Budget) 135 words
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4. Ministerial Appointments 64 words
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5. Departmental Staff 232 words
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6. Derelict Land 83 words
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7. Artificial Limb and Appliance Centres 133 words
19. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Rental Income (Service Personnel) 127 words
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2. Mortgages (Tax Relief) 131 words
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3. North Sea Oil 128 words
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4. British Petroleum Limited (Government Directors) 61 words
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5. Value Added Tax 302 words
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6. Personal Incomes 851 words
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7. Gross Domestic Product 1,057 words
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8. Taxation (Yield) 92 words
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9. £ Sterling 204 words
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10. Small Businesses 44 words
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11. Tax Evasion 86 words
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12. Public Expenditure 1,158 words
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13. Foreign Investment 200 words
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14. Unemployed Persons 59 words
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15. Social Wage 165 words
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16. Consumer Expenditure 89 words
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17. Standard of Living 107 words
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18. Economic Trends (World Trade) 83 words
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19. Road Fund 135 words
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20. Inflation 96 words
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21. Tax Revenue 191 words
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22. Road Haulage Firms (Government Action) 109 words
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23. Bank Notes (Durability) 74 words
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24. Northern Ireland 47 words
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25. 715 Tax Certificates 61 words
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26. National Debt 58 words
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27. Dividend Restraint 72 words
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28. Taxation Costs 544 words
20. DEFENCE
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1. Retirement Pay 60 words
21. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Roads (Edge-lining) 107 words
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2. Cockcroft Report 66 words
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3. Secondary Education (Reorganisation) 419 words
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4. Political Settlement 71 words
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5. Republic of Ireland (Prime Minister) 40 words
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6. National Insurance Contributions 60 words

Lords Sitting of 13 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 394

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1. Preamble 21 words
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2. THE CIVIL SERVICE: MANPOWER REDUCTION 1,013 words
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3. STONEHENGE: WORKING PARTY REPORT 508 words
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4. BELIZE: NEGOTIATIONS WITH GUATEMALA 624 words
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5. THREE-DAY WEEK 773 words
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6. DINNERS 20 words
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7. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 80 words
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8. STATE IMMUNITY BILL [H.L.] 31 words
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9. COMMONS AMENDMENT TO ONE OF THE LORDS AMENDMENTS TO ONE OF THE COMMONS AMENDMENTS 448 words
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10. WALES BILL 14,443 words, 1 division
11. DO YOU WANT THE PROVISIONS OF THE WALES ACT 1978 TO BE PUT INTO EFFECT?
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1. A YDYCH AM I DDARPARIAETHAU DEDDF CYMRU 1978 GAEL EU GWEITHREDU? 7,189 words
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2. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEFINITION OF TREATIES) (NO. 5) (JOINT EUROPEAN TORUS) ORDER 1978 5,600 words
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3. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (PRIVILEGES OF THE JOINT EUROPEAN TORUS) ORDER 1978 31 words
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4. KING'S COLLEGE LONDON BILL 9 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 13 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 394

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1. JUDICIAL STUDIES AND INFORMATION: WORKING PARTY REPORT 73 words