Sitting of 17 July 1978

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Commons Sitting of 17 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 954

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Doorstep Selling 429 words
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2. Roofing Contractors 222 words
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3. Consumer Organisations (Scotland) 62 words
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4. Price Control Orders 449 words
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5. Retail Price Index 537 words
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6. Electricity Consumers' Council 432 words
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7. Food Prices 1,311 words
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8. Retail Price Index 996 words
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9. Frozen Chips 444 words
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10. House Prices 420 words
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11. Petrol Price Displays 376 words
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12. Cost of Living 597 words
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13. Retail Price Index 917 words
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2. EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION (GUIDANCE) 623 words
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3. CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 109 words
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4. DUCHY OF LANCASTER 265 words
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5. MONEY SUPPLY 405 words
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4. QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 1,574 words
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5. POLICE (PAY) 4,954 words
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6. POST OFFICE WORKERS (INDUSTRIAL ACTION) BILL 511 words
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1. NEW MEMBERS SWORN 22 words
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7. WALES BILL (TIMETABLE MOTION) 498 words
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8. ROLLS-ROYCE ENGINES (CHILE) 415 words
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1. REGIONAL AFFAIRS 26 words
9. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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10. SCOTLAND BILL 7 words
1. Clause 31
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1. REMUNERATION OF MEMBERS, ETC. 15,287 words, 1 division
2. New Clause "D"
cc89-106
1. PROTECTION OF SPECIAL INTERESTS OF ORKNEYS AND SHETLANDS 6,408 words
3. Clause 48
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1. LIMITATION OF CAPITAL EXPENDITURE FINANCED BY BORROWING 984 words, 1 division
4. New Clause "E"
cc111-55
1. PROPOSALS FOR POWERS TO RAISE MONEYS 19,112 words, 2 divisions
5. New Clause "F"
cc155-206
1. VOTING OF SCOTTISH MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT 19,836 words, 2 divisions
6. Clause 67
cc207-20
1. TRANSFER OF PROPERTY 5,469 words, 3 divisions
cc221-8
11. NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION) 2,896 words
cc229-38
12. SCHOOL RECORDS (PARENTAL INSPECTION) 3,488 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 17 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 954

1. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Bargain and Flash Offers 83 words
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2. Inflation 248 words
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3. Non-ethical Proprietary Medicines 128 words
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4. Price Commission Index 53 words
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5. Food (Household Expenditure) 115 words
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6. Monopolies and Mergers Policy 63 words
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7. Cosmetics Regulations 34 words
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8. Departmental Cost 43 words
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9. Price Code (Safeguard Clauses) 96 words
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10. Retail Price Index 69 words
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11. Food Prices 83 words
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12. Repricing 88 words
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13. Footwear (Report) 45 words
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14. Central Transport Consultative Committee 51 words
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15. North Thames Gas Consumers' Council 63 words
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16. Hearing Aids (Code of Practice) 71 words
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17. Product Liability 65 words
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18. Price Commission 69 words
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19. Unit Pricing 84 words
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20. Bread Prices 69 words
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21. Office of Fair Trading 27 words
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22. Licensed Premises (Rent) 120 words
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23. Motorway Service Areas 47 words
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24. Legislation 38 words
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25. HEADS OF GOVERNMENT (BONN MEETING) 57 words
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26. CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER (DUTIES) 53 words
2. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Theatre Museum 63 words
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2. Teachers (Special Schools) 146 words
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3. Comprehensive Education (Nottinghamshire) 173 words
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4. Higher Education (Working Group's Report) 160 words
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5. Guinea (Student Exchanges) 68 words
3. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. British Citizens Overseas (Taxation) 49 words
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2. Extradition (Malta) 89 words
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3. Local Government Boundaries (St. Albans) 109 words
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4. Violent Crime (Suffolk) 52 words
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5. Regional Television Programmes 105 words
4. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Farming (Incomes and Productivity) 140 words
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2. Information Returns 61 words
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3. Departmental Circulars 100 words
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4. Mackerel Fishing 180 words
5. DEFENCE
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1. Arms Sales 98 words
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2. United Nations (Peacekeeping Activities) 102 words
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3. Colonels (Salary and Retirement Pay) 215 words
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4. Service Personnel (Resettlement) 231 words
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5. Short Service Commissions (CBI Scheme) 253 words
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6. Salary Scales 74 words
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7. Chinook Helicopter (Air Show Display) 38 words
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8. Dartmoor Training (Inquiry) 95 words
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9. Wellington Barracks 106 words
6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Her Majesty's Ambassador, Washington 137 words
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2. Africa (Diplomatic Representation) 67 words
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3. USSR (Helsinki Treaty Monitoring Group) 115 words
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4. Guinea 185 words
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5. Washington and New York Missions (Information Staff) 182 words
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6. Ethiopia 77 words
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7. Passports 303 words
7. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Road Tankers (Dangerous Loads) 166 words
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2. Apprentices (Payment) 76 words
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3. Ipswich 70 words
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4. Technicolour Ltd., Harmondsworth 103 words
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5. Government Schemes 209 words
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6. Labour Attachés 77 words
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7. Wages and Salaries 142 words
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8. Textile Workers (Redundancy Payments) 44 words
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9. Canvey Island (Hazardous Industrial Activities) 1,896 words
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10. Race and Sex Discrimination 50 words
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11. Professional and Executive Register 113 words
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12. Health and Safety (Railway Industry) 99 words
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13. Unemployed Persons 823 words
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14. Health and Safety at Work Act (Offences) 77 words
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15. Road Tanker Explosion (Spain) 86 words
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16. Small Firms 255 words
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17. European Community (United Kingdom Contract Agents) 198 words
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18. Lancaster 79 words
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19. Industrial Retraining Centres 70 words
8. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Members' of Parliament Salaries 96 words
9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Guinea 30 words
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2. St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla 494 words
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3. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL (BREMEN MEETING) 180 words
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4. CANVEY ISLAND 239 words
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5. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE 136 words
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6. TURKEY 108 words
10. SCOTLAND
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1. Roads (Expenditure) 218 words
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2. Clyde Fisheries 96 words
11. TRADE
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1. European Community 49 words
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2. Company Records (Microfilm Copies) 321 words
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3. Trade Marks 108 words
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4. Top Salaries (British Airports Authority) 140 words
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5. Aviation Security Levy 232 words
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6. Heathrow and Sumburgh Airports (Aircraft Movements) 53 words
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7. Top Salaries (British Airways) 94 words
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8. Imports (International Comparisons) 153 words
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9. Japan 480 words
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10. Airports Policy (Advisory Committee) 150 words
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11. Whisky 118 words
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12. Technical Help for Exporters 86 words
12. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Local Government Superannuation 152 words
13. ENERGY
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1. State Corporations (Employed Persons) 171 words
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2. Canvey Island (Hazardous Industrial Activities) 188 words
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3. Top Salaries (Atomic Energy Authority) 243 words
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4. Top Salaries (Area Electricity Boards) 222 words
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5. Park Colliery, Staffordshire 75 words
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6. Vale of Belvoir Coalfield 95 words
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7. Top Salaries (Central Electricity Generating Board) 244 words
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8. Nationalised Coal Board (Redundancies) 76 words
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9. Spoil Heaps (Reclaimed Land) 133 words
14. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Widow's Allowance 53 words
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2. Diesel Fuels 65 words
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3. Personal Incomes 579 words
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4. Taxation and Social Security Contributions 127 words
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5. 50p coins (Greater Manchester County) 62 words
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6. Balance of Payments (International Comparisons) 936 words
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7. Value Added Tax 273 words
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8. Exchange Control (Overseas Footballers) 133 words
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9. British Citizens Overseas (Taxation) 269 words
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10. Tax Clearance Certificates (Emigration) 48 words
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11. Public Expenditure 85 words
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12. Tax Credit Scheme 577 words
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13. Inflation 56 words
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14. Government Debt 399 words
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15. Tax Revenue (Northern Ireland) 107 words
15. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. National Health Service (Staff) 68 words
16. WALES
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1. Mold-Ruthin Trunk Road 107 words
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2. Advance Factory (Caernarvon) 58 words
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3. Egg Producers 122 words
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4. Bilingual Schools 128 words
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5. Colliery Tips 166 words
17. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Housing Grants and Subsidies (Lancashire) 128 words
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2. Building Societies 110 words
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3. New Towns (Property Occupation) 539 words
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4. Local Government Debt 34 words
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5. Standard Rateable Value 530 words
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6. Local Government Expenditure 128 words
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7. Local Authorities (Staffs) 213 words
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8. Local Authority Accounts (Audits) 98 words
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9. Rates 187 words
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10. Unoccupied Property (Rating) 85 words
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11. Structure Plans 65 words
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12. Property Services Agency 331 words
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13. Green Belt Land 170 words
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14. Water Authorities (Revenue) 91 words
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15. Septic Tanks (Emptying Costs) 61 words
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16. Rate Fund Services 271 words
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17. Construction Output 141 words
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18. Local Authority Expenditure (Loan Sanction) 156 words
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19. Local Councillors (Attendance Allowances) 214 words
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20. Local Authorities (Housing Revenue Accounts) 279 words
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21. Public Buildings (Disabled Persons' Access) 131 words
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22. Rate Support Grant 139 words
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23. Local Authorities (Statutory Responsibilities) 336 words
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24. Ministerial Visits (Immigration Areas) 134 words
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25. Domestic Rate Bill 109 words
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26. Home Insulation (Elderly Persons) 115 words
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27. Public Lavatories 122 words
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28. Housing (Elderly Persons) 101 words
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29. Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 124 words
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30. Housing Co-operatives 172 words
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31. Canvey Island (Hazardous Industrial Activities) 324 words
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32. Parish Council Elections (Costs) 127 words
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33. Housing Land (London) 208 words
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34. Building Regulations (Spiral Staircases) 68 words
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35. Greater London Council (House Sales) 132 words
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36. Ribble Estuary 314 words
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37. Somerset House (Fine Rooms) 81 words
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38. Community Land 1,183 words
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39. Child Benefit Centre, Tyne and Wear 47 words
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40. Local Authorities (Loan Sanctions) 496 words
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41. Hanley Telephone Exchange 183 words
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42. Water Supplies and Sewage Disposal 98 words
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43. Petrol (Lead Content) 90 words
18. INDUSTRY
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1. Industrial Development Certificates (Leek) 49 words
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2. Lucas Aerospace 949 words
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3. British Steel Corporation (Chairman) 94 words
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4. Chrysler UK Ltd. 263 words
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5. Top Salaries (Public Bodies) 242 words
19. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Local Authorities (Returns) 119 words
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2. Petrol 65 words
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3. Car Dealers and Garages 175 words
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4. Departmental Circulars 374 words
20. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Hospital Waiting Lists 96 words
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2. London Transport Users' Consultative Committee 97 words
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3. Health Services (Expenditure) 75 words
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4. National Health Service Staff (Wages and Working Conditions) 65 words
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5. Homoeopathic Medicine 57 words
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6. Botleys Park Hospital 109 words
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7. Emphysema and Chronic Bronchitis 208 words
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8. Supplementary Benefit and Family Income Supplement Recipients 112 words
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9. Royal Marsden Hospital (Convicted Social Worker) 65 words
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10. Housewife's Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension 47 words
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11. Electro-convulsive Therapy 301 words
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12. Acupuncture 98 words
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13. Community Homes (Secure Places) 155 words
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14. Brook Advisory Centres 74 words
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15. District Domestic Service Managers 92 words
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16. Huntington's Chorea 378 words
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17. Mentally Handicapped Persons (Policy) 98 words
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18. Sheltered Employment (Television Programme) 108 words
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19. Fluoridation 286 words
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20. Mentally Handicapped Children 552 words
21. TRANSPORT
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1. Road and Rail Accidents 220 words
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2. Canvey Island (Fire Risks) 112 words
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3. British Railways (Administration Costs) 182 words
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4. Driving Licence Applications (Medical Fitness) 118 words
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5. Nurses (Parking Facilities) 61 words
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6. Road Vehicles (French Black List) 200 words
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7. Dangerous Substances 1,151 words
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8. North Devon Link Road (Inquiry) 235 words
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9. Seat Belts 104 words

Lords Sitting of 17 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 395

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. WELLINGTON BARRACKS: REHABILITATION 214 words
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3. PUBLIC SECTOR BOARDS: TSRB REPORT 1,351 words
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4. FIRST CLASS MAIL: RELIABILITY 594 words
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5. DISARMAMENT: UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL ASSEMBLY 612 words
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6. POLICE PAY 36 words
7. CHRONICALLY SICK AND DISABLED PERSONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) BILL
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1. CIVIL LIABILITY (CONTRIBUTION) BILL 17 words
cc10-27
2. BRITISH TRANSPORT DOCKS BILL 6,382 words
cc27-46
3. POLICE PAY 6,884 words
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4. FINANCE BILL 10 words
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5. HOUSE OF COMMONS (ADMINISTRATION) BILL 65 words
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6. ECC 36th REPORT ON MUTTON AND LAMB (SHEEPMEAT) 19,599 words
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7. EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION (CONSOLIDATION) BILL [H.L.] 82 words
cc97-103
8. MAXIMUM NUMBER OF JUDGES ORDER 1978 2,368 words
cc103-8
9. VALUATION LISTS (POSTPONEMENT) ORDER 1978 1,944 words
cc108-11
10. CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS (COLLECTION OF LEVY) (AMENDMENT No. 6) REGULATIONS 1978 1,279 words
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11. PROTECTION OF DEPOSITORS (ACCOUNTS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1978 381 words
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12. BRITISH AEROSPACE: CIVIL/MILITARY AIRCRAFT 8,977 words
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13. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) (No. 2) BILL 9 words
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14. VALE OF GLAMORGAN (BARRY HARBOUR) BILL 15 words
8. IMPORT OF LIVE FISH (SCOTLAND) BILL [H.L.]
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1. INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES BILL [H.L.] 29 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 17 July 1978 Series 5 Vol. 395

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1. THE SEVESO DISASTER 492 words
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2. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND GOVERNMENT AID 189 words
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3. SOCIAL SECURITY: ABUSE OF BENEFITS 259 words
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4. INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION 122 words