Sitting of 23 July 1979

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Commons Sitting of 23 July 1979 Series 5 Vol. 971

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. SEVERN-TRENT WATER AUTHORITY BILL 6 words
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2. CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL 10 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. INDUSTRY
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1. British Steel Corporation 397 words
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2. National Enterprise Board 1,096 words
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3. Small Businesses 485 words
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4. North-East England 215 words
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5. Post Office 534 words
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6. Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Industry 54 words
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7. Regional Aid 414 words
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8. British Leyland 254 words
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9. Post Office Act 181 words
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10. Regional Policy 775 words
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11. Post Office 483 words
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12. Titanium 320 words
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13. Manufacturing Industry 198 words
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14. Motivation Programmes 300 words
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15. National Enterprise Board 357 words
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16. Post Office 350 words
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17. South Yorkshire (Advance Factories) 218 words
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18. Union of Post Office Workers 498 words
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19. SHOPLIFTING 489 words
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20. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS 589 words
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2. WITNESSES (IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION) 402 words
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5. BRITISH AEROSPACE AND BRITISH SHIPBUILDERS 4,016 words
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6. SHIPBUILDING 6,077 words
7. BILL PRESENTED
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1. BEES 60 words
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8. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 18,024 words, 3 divisions
9. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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1. COMPETITION BILL 21,839 words
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10. NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION) 51,687 words
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11. NORTHERN IRELAND (FIREARMS) 3,306 words
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12. MEMBERS' INTERESTS 58 words
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13. PIGS (AUJESKY'S DISEASE) 3,816 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 23 July 1979 Series 5 Vol. 971

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1. EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY 174 words
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2. School Populations 65 words
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3. Nursery, Primary and Secondary Education 88 words
4. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Departmental Budget 148 words
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2. Examination (16 years-plus) 186 words
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3. School Meals 51 words
5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Aid Programme 51 words
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2. Tanzania 102 words
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3. Chewton Glen Hotel, Hants (Conference Expenditure) 43 words
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4. Indonesia 82 words
6. INDUSTRY
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1. Manufacturing Industry 141 words
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2. Sector Working Parties 59 words
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3. European Regional Development Fund 49 words
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4. Regional Assistance 85 words
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5. Intermediate Regions 49 words
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6. West Midlands 84 words
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7. British Steel Corporation 64 words
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8. Small Businesses 127 words
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9. National Enterprise Board 31 words
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10. Steel Industry 162 words
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11. London Boroughs Association 47 words
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12. Post Office 229 words
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13. Ministerial Role 36 words
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14. Merseyside 68 words
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15. Shipbuilding Industry 44 words
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16. British Leyland 60 words
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17. Docklands 47 words
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18. Iron Foundry Industry 67 words
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19. Corby (Steelworks) 63 words
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20. British Aerospace 38 words
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21. St. Helens 104 words
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22. Concorde 66 words
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23. Post Office (Chairman) 149 words
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24. Committee for Industrial Technology 165 words
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25. Microelectronics (Training Programme) 54 words
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26. West Midlands Economic Planning Council 42 words
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27. British Shipbuilders (Corporate Plan) 88 words
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28. National Enterprise Board (Dundee) 51 words
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29. Assisted Areas 68 words
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30. Tent Manufacturing 458 words
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31. Regional Aid 144 words
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32. Waste Management Advisory Council 38 words
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33. Yorkshire and Humberside 134 words
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34. Public Expenditure (Wales) 49 words
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35. Aid to Industry 303 words
7. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 452 words
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2. REVISED CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION SCHEME 3,577 words
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3. Chronic Alcoholics 86 words
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4. Drunkenness 191 words
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5. Prisoners (Letters) 61 words
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6. Juvenile Offenders 53 words
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8. Prisoners (Petitions) 103 words
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9. Traffic Wardens 74 words
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10. Woolworths, Manchester (Fire) 69 words
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11. Live Animals (Experiments) 35 words
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12. Old People's Homes (Fires) 337 words
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13. Southampton (Lord Mayoralty) 67 words
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14. Court Proceedings 86 words
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15. Scientology 286 words
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16. Registrar General for Wales 135 words
17. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Natural Gas Pipeline 158 words
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2. Harland and Wolff Ltd. 430 words
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3. Police Complaints Board 37 words
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4. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS 92 words
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5. MR. JAMES TAYLOR 220 words
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6. MEMBERS' CORRESPONDENCE 46 words
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7. PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE 39 words
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8. REGINA v. DEAKIN 190 words
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9. EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS 158 words
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10. WITNESSES' STATEMENTS (PURCHASE) 167 words
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11. REGINA v. RASTALL (COST) 122 words
18. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Professional and Technical Officers (Pay) 261 words
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2. Pay Research Unit 88 words
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3. Dispersal 719 words
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4. Expenditure 123 words
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5. Administrative Efficiency (Review) 101 words
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6. Institution of Professional Civil Servants (Dispute) 260 words
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7. Official Publications 106 words
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8. "The Civil Service Year Book" 69 words
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9. Cash Limits 114 words
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10. BINGHAM REPORT 35 words
19. TRADE
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1. Company Returns 114 words
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2. National Quality Strategy 68 words
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3. Weights and Measures 132 words
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4. Tent Manufacturing 235 words
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5. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 100 words
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6. Third London Airport 108 words
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7. Civil Aviation Policy 126 words
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8. Scotch Whisky 110 words
20. SCOTLAND
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1. Uranium (Orkney Islands) 218 words
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2. Cancer (Orkney Islands) 107 words
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3. Scottish Development Agency 36 words
21. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Retraining 72 words
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2. Intermediate Areas 181 words
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3. Assisted Areas 78 words
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4. Small Firms Employment Subsidy 41 words
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5. Employment Protection 84 words
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6. Unions (Membership) 126 words
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7. Tent Manufacturing 53 words
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8. Youth Opportunities 896 words
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9. Employment Agencies 144 words
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10. Gateshead and Felling 349 words
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11. IMI (Kynoch) Ltd. 479 words
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12. South Yorkshire 106 words
22. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Tax Allowances 319 words
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2. Local Authorities (Land Acquisition) 154 words
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3. Value Added Tax 242 words
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4. Income Tax 263 words
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5. European Community (United Kingdom Investment) 214 words
23. ENERGY
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1. Petrol Substitutes 151 words
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2. Electricity Generation 178 words
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3. Windscale 209 words
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4. Energy Policy 45 words
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5. North Sea Gas 123 words
24. PALACE OF WESTMINSTER
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1. Facilities (Charges) 114 words
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2. WORKS OF ART 98 words
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3. CARDINAL NEWMAN (PORTRAIT) 199 words
25. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. St. Helena 64 words
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2. Refugees 144 words
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3. East Timor 79 words
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4. Nicaragua 100 words
26. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Public Housing (Subsidies) 157 words
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2. European Community (Meetings) 92 words
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3. Council Houses (Subsidies) 207 words
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4. Netherton Tunnel (Birmingham Canal) 101 words
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5. Amenity and Conservation Societies 58 words
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6. Public Services (Disruption) 91 words
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7. Departmental Staff 209 words
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8. Local Government Services 100 words
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9. Ingol Distributor Road, Preston 127 words
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10. Derelict Land (Tameside and Manchester) 115 words
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11. Fluoridation 90 words
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12. Rent Officer Service 135 words
27. TRANSPORT
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1. Dartford Tunnels 51 words
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2. M6 (Traffic Congestion) 173 words
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3. Vehicle Testing Stations 313 words
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4. British Railways (Scrap Metal) 121 words
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5. Toll Bridges 311 words
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6. British Railways (Football Hooliganism) 45 words
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7. Motor Cycles (Exhaust Noise) 155 words
28. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Sheep Losses (Compensation) 132 words
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2. Eggs 104 words
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3. Pig Producers 103 words
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4. Fuel Supplies 153 words
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5. Sheep 90 words
29. WALES
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1. Homes Insulation Act 1978 44 words
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2. Advance Factories 533 words
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3. Employment 327 words
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4. National Health Service (Management Structure) 174 words
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5. Regional Development Grant 91 words
30. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Family Planning 126 words
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2. Hospital Waiting Lists 145 words
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3. Family Income Supplement 1,495 words
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4. Hospital Waiting Lists 85 words
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31. Psychiatric Patients (Coventry) 267 words
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32. Hospitals (Capital Expenditure) 124 words
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33. National Health Service 249 words
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34. General Practitioners (Patient Waiting Lists) 63 words
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35. Widow's Pension 73 words
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36. Ethnic Chinese 185 words
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37. Overseas Doctors 111 words
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38. National Expenditure (International Comparisons) 319 words
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39. Hospital Waiting Lists 118 words
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40. Abortion 128 words
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41. Geriatric Patients 75 words
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42. Dispensing Services 279 words
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43. Alcoholic Drinks 76 words
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44. Broadmoor (Visits) 137 words
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45. Social Security Cards 87 words
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46. Hepatitis Vaccines 50 words
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47. Child Benefit Centre, Washington 618 words
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48. Supplementary Benefit 157 words
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49. Respiratory Tuberculosis 133 words
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50. Swindon Health District 99 words
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51. Gwynedd (Emergency Calls) 78 words
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52. Maternity Grant 111 words
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53. Pregnancy (Exceptional needs Payment) 98 words
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54. Finer Committee Report 1,447 words
55. DEFENCE
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1. Submarines 67 words
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2. Expenditure 233 words
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3. Armed Services (Personnel) 414 words

Lords Sitting of 23 July 1979 Series 5 Vol. 401

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. LORD BROOKS OF TREMORFA 50 words
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3. OILFIELD DEVELOPMENT: STAGED APPROVAL 758 words
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4. VIETNAM: PROVISION OF AID 1,156 words
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5. LIBEL LAW 532 words
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6. TANZANIA: ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE 406 words
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7. GOVERNMENT STATEMENTS 53 words
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8. BILL OF RIGHTS BILL [H.L.] 63 words
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9. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 113 words
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10. CHILD CARE BILL [H.L.] 187 words
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11. FOSTER CHILDREN BILL [H.L.] 158 words
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12. RESIDENTIAL HOMES BILL [H.L.] 96 words
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13. LIMITATION AMENDMENT BILL [H.L.] 354 words
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14. CHARGING ORDERS BILL [H.L.] 110 words
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15. COMPANIES BILL [H.L.] 497 words
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16. EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (PAY AND PENSIONS) BILL 4,900 words
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17. BRITISH AEROSPACE AND BRITISH SHIPBUILDERS: FUTURE FINANCIAL STRUCTURE 4,237 words
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18. THE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY'S FUTURE 3,808 words
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19. EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (PAY AND PENSIONS) BILL 1,298 words
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20. SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS UP-RATING ORDER 1979 2,620 words
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21. SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS (DETERMINATION OF REQUIREMENTS) REGULATIONS 1979 29 words
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22. FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS (COMPUTATION) REGULATIONS 1979 29 words
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23. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (IRON AND STEEL EMPLOYEES RE-ADAPTATION BENEFITS SCHEME) REGULATIONS 1979 2,105 words
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24. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (SOLID FUEL) (CARRIAGE BY RAIL) (AMENDMENT) ORDER 1979 607 words
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25. ECC ENERGY REPORTS 34,891 words
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26. AIR FARES IN WESTERN EUROPE 5,661 words
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27. DARTMOOR COMMONS BILL [H.L.] 14 words
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28. SCOTTISH EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY BILL 8 words
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29. SEVERN-TRENT WATER AUTHORITY BILL 11 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 23 July 1979 Series 5 Vol. 401

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1. RHODESIA: SANCTIONS-BREAKING NATIONS 117 words
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2. BRITISH CITIZENS AND CRIMINAL OFFENCES OVERSEAS 378 words
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3. BRITISH CITIZENS AND CANNABIS OFFENCES OVERSEAS 352 words
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4. UK WORKFORCE: AVERAGE PRODUCTIVITY 66 words
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5. OUTPUT PER HEAD 165 words
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6. MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1959: ORDERS UNDER SECTIONS 60 AND 65 120 words
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7. THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT: GRANTS TO VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS 119 words
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8. MATERNITY GRANT VALUE 101 words
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9. PRESCRIPTION CHARGES: EXEMPTION CRITERIA 74 words