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Commons Sitting of 8 May 1978 Series 5 Vol. 949

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. ENERGY
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1. European Community 1,074 words
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2. North Sea Oil (Price) 597 words
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3. Oil Exploration 375 words
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4. Offshore Oil Industry 492 words
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5. Wave Power 282 words
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6. Electric Vehicles 473 words
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7. Heat and Power Schemes (Power Stations) 237 words
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8. Energy Sources 916 words
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9. Offshore Oil Licensing (Sixth Round) 716 words
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10. Wood-burning Stoves 216 words
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11. Gas (Supply) 436 words
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12. Coal Industry (Productivity Schemes) 716 words
2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Aid Budget 364 words
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2. Crown Agents 364 words
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3. Developing Countries (Educational Opportunity) 520 words
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4. Bilateral Aid Programme 425 words
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5. Grenada 735 words
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4. PORT OF LONDON 2,769 words
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5. OIL POLLUTION (EAST ANGLIAN COAST) 3,739 words
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6. SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS 696 words
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7. PERSONAL STATEMENT 139 words
8. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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1. FINANCE BILL 40 words
1. Clause 11
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1. CHARGE OF INCOME TAX FOR 1978–79 56,427 words, 1 division
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2. STATE IMMUNITY BILL [Lords] 47 words
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2. WEAPON SYSTEMS (STANDARDISATION) 3,980 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 8 May 1978 Series 5 Vol. 949

1. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Sri Lanka 109 words
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2. Middle East 76 words
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3. Development Council (Luxembourg Meeting) 196 words
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4. Ethiopia 59 words
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5. Departmental Staff 135 words
2. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Zoos and Safari Parks 91 words
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2. Football Hooligans 42 words
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3. National Front (March) 94 words
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4. Albany Trust (Grant) 57 words
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5. Animal (Experiments) 116 words
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6. Private Security Firms 104 words
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7. Bail 138 words
3. TRADE
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1. Air Traffic (Orkney and Shetland) 66 words
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2. Common Fund 110 words
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3. Animals (Experiments) 129 words
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4. Shipping Companies 123 words
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5. Steel Pipes 98 words
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6. Aircraft Noise (Soundproofing Grants) 75 words
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7. South Africa (European Companies) 79 words
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8. Architects (Statistical Survey) 69 words
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9. Aircraft Equipment 151 words
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10. Seals 66 words
4. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Sand and Ballast 222 words
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2. Spiller French (Bakery Closures) 108 words
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3. Coffee 79 words
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4. Departmental Staff 42 words
5. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Domestic Heating 187 words
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2. Building Society Lending 230 words
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3. Rate Support Grant (Northamptonshire) 83 words
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4. Liverpool Street and Broad Street Stations (Redevelopment) 94 words
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5. Local Authority Contingency Reserve Funds 46 words
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6. Thermal Insulation (Commercial and Industrial Premises) 64 words
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7. Mortgages 127 words
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8. Flood Relief 170 words
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9. Windscale Inquiry 1,458 words
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10. Inner Urban Areas 241 words
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11. Building Societies (Safeguards for Investors and Mortgagors) 111 words
6. INDUSTRY
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1. Steel Pipes 79 words
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2. Sperm Oil Substitutes (Research) 147 words
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3. Development Boards 667 words
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4. St. Ives, Cornwall 158 words
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5. Interest Relief Grants 152 words
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6. Loans and Grants 269 words
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7. Co-operative Development Agency 396 words
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8. Concorde 436 words
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9. Government Strategy 125 words
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10. British Shipbuilders 49 words
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11. National Enterprise Board (Grants and Loans) 72 words
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12. National Enterprise Board (Investments) 128 words
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13. Sperm Oil Substitutes (Research) 135 words
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14. Regional Development Grants 153 words
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15. Manufacturing Investment 83 words
7. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. North Sea Oil and Gas Revenue 125 words
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2. Post-War Credits 200 words
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3. Capital Gains Tax 131 words
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4. Industrial Production 133 words
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5. Borrowing Requirement 185 words
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6. Government Debt (Interest) 70 words
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7. Unemployment Forecasts 62 words
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8. Company Profits 262 words
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9. Tax Allowances 229 words
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10. Personal Incomes 158 words
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11. Income Tax 672 words
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12. Value Added Tax 296 words
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13. Prices (Public Holiday Effects) 72 words
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14. Degas Painting 72 words
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15. Business Profits 100 words
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16. Taxation 172 words
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17. Stamp Duty 100 words
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18. Inland Revenue (Entry Rights) 208 words
8. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Former Prime Ministers (Pensions) 87 words
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2. Retired Service Personnel (Pension Commutation) 89 words
9. TRANSPORT
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1. A66 (Temple Sowerby) 61 words
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2. Leighton Buzzard (Relief Road) 87 words
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3. Seat Belts 51 words
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4. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre 127 words
10. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Disabled Persons 65 words
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2. Personal Incomes 450 words
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3. Ophthalmic Services 44 words
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4. Child Benefits 258 words
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5. Self-employed Persons and Contracted-out Employees 129 words
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6. National Insurance Contributions 79 words
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7. Dentists 71 words
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8. Family Practitioners 48 words
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9. Dental Services 44 words
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10. Salmonella and Brucellosis 112 words
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11. Health and Personal Social Services 75 words
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12. Pharmaceutical Services 43 words
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13. Liverpool Teaching Hospitals 210 words
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14. Retinitis Pigmentosa 104 words
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15. Diabetic Children (Use of Disposable Needles) 57 words
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16. Fluoridation 40 words
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17. Ashby Hospital 32 words
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18. Hospital Waiting Lists 179 words
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19. Loughborough Hospital 40 words
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20. Burnley General Hospital 172 words
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21. Kent Area Health Authority 187 words
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22. Health and Safety 121 words
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23. Container Allowance 130 words
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24. Prescriptions 253 words
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25. National Insurance Contributions 114 words
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26. Benefits 224 words
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27. Rejected Food Imports 330 words
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28. Medway Health District 575 words
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29. Doctors and Staff (Ratios) 90 words
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30. Prescriptions 182 words
11. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Overseas Student Nurses 91 words
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2. Redundancy Payments and Guaranteed Payments 259 words
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3. May Day Holiday 43 words
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4. Toy and Button Manufacturing 73 words
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5. Pay Settlements (Monitoring) 151 words
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6. Job Creation 97 words
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7. Employment Protection Act 50 words
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8. Health and Safety 291 words
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9. Hospitals and Government Departments (Safety) 249 words
12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Beer 100 words
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2. Meat (Veterinarian Inspectors) 341 words
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3. Livestock (Weather Loss Compensation) 164 words
13. SCOTLAND
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1. Pierowall, Westray (Harbour) 61 words
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2. Sub-standard Housing 160 words
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3. Housing Revenue Accounts 226 words
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4. Hampden Park 53 words
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5. Housing Action Areas 1,759 words
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6. May Day 120 words
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7. Tertiary Education 106 words
14. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. British Library Board (Cost) 105 words
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2. Research Councils (Cost) 324 words
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3. Schools Council (Cost) 133 words
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4. University Grants Committee (Cost) 129 words
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5. Technical Education Council (Cost) 230 words
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6. Advisory Board for Research Councils (Cost) 97 words
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7. Crafts Advisory Committee (Cost) 107 words
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8. Burnham Committees (Cost) 164 words
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9. Computer Board for Universities and Research Colleges (Cost) 141 words
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10. Jazz Bands 92 words
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11. European Centre for Nuclear Research (Documents) 250 words
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12. European Organisation for Nuclear Research 148 words
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13. Computerised Teaching Machines 186 words
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14. School Milk 38 words
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15. Holyport C. of E. Primary School 152 words
15. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Comprehensive Education 98 words
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2. Employment (Disabled Persons) 125 words
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3. Dunmurry 136 words
16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Passports (Impersonation Safeguards) 129 words
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2. Hong Kong 400 words
17. WALES
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1. Welsh Development Agency 34 words
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2. Pharmacies 35 words
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3. Welsh Language 116 words
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4. Local Authority Housing (Cost Yardsticks) 111 words
18. ENERGY
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1. Oil Refining 61 words
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2. Conservation 80 words
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3. Gas and Electricity Supply (Northern Ireland Link) 120 words
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4. Energy Commission 130 words
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5. Electricity Prices 86 words
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6. Nuclear Power 68 words
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7. North Sea Oil (Depletion Policy) 207 words
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8. Teversal Colliery, Nottinghamshire 122 words
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9. Wave Power 96 words
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10. Motor Cars (Fuel Consumption) 112 words
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11. Severn Tidal Power Scheme 193 words
19. DEFENCE
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1. RAF Germany 21 words
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2. BAOR (Overseas Allowance) 75 words
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3. Inquiry (Press Association Report) 48 words
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4. BAOR Personnel 73 words
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5. Expenditure 125 words
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6. USSR Navy 92 words

Lords Sitting of 8 May 1978 Series 5 Vol. 391

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. "LAW AND ORDER": POLICE AND PRISON SERVICES 1,361 words
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3. PRIMODOS: PREGNANCY TESTING 347 words
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4. SHIPBORNE FIXED WING AIRCRAFT 708 words
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5. PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY 2,039 words
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6. HOUSING: FUTURE POLICY 29,545 words
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7. BRITISH AIRWAYS: AIRCRAFT PURCHASES 6,632 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 8 May 1978 Series 5 Vol. 391

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1. SCHOOL MILK: FLAVOURING 119 words
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2. ILLEGAL ENTRY: DETECTION AND PREVENTION 225 words
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3. EEC: CONSUMER PROTECTION LEGISLATION ENFORCEMENT 142 words