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Commons Sitting of 8 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 963

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. Preamble 5 words
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3. PRIVATE BUSINESS 86 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Retention of Troops 787 words
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2. Political Discussions 1,797 words
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3. Maze Prison (H Block) 571 words
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4. Public Investment 350 words
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5. Republic of Ireland (Foreign Minister) 1,023 words
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6. Security 703 words
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7. Select Committee on Procedure (Recommendation) 171 words
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8. Prisoners 493 words
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2. NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES 578 words
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3. TRADES UNION CONGRESS 720 words
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4. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 1,145 words
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5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 5,607 words
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6. CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 2) BILL 176 words
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7. INCOME TAX 1,082 words
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8. QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 726 words
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9. NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE) 319 words
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10. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DRAFT ORDER) 387 words
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11. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY) 8,969 words, 1 division
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12. ORDERS OF THE DAY 35 words
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13. DEFENCE ESTIMATES, 1979–80 (NAVY), VOTE A 28 words
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14. DEFENCE ESTIMATES 1979–80 (ARMY), VOTE A 57 words
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15. DEFENCE ESTIMATES 1979–80 (AIR), VOTE A 49 words
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16. DEFENCE ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1978–79 1,284 words, 1 division
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17. CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1978–79 58 words
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18. DEFENCE AND CIVIL ESTIMATES EXCESSES, 1977–78 138 words
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19. EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACTS 31,916 words, 1 division
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20. GAS SUPPLY (BRISTOL) 2,988 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 8 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 963

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1. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 401 words
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2. HARRIER AIRCRAFT 62 words
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3. MINISTERS (PRIVATE FINANCIAL INTERESTS) 80 words
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4. CARDIFF 26 words
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5. NORTHERN REGION 25 words
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6. TUC AND CBI 170 words
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7. RISE PARK 28 words
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8. SCOTLAND 22 words
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9. REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (FOREIGN MINISTER) 57 words
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10. TURKEY 27 words
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11. NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 42 words
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12. PRIME MINISTER (VISIT TO SHEFFIELD) 40 words
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13. PAY (COMPARABILITY ARRANGEMENTS) 43 words
14. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Race Relations (Tavistock Institute Report) 112 words
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2. Wass Memorandum 70 words
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15. COURT OFFICIALS (INDUSTRIAL ACTION) 263 words
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16. CUSTODY 52 words
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17. EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY 135 words
18. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Members' Salaries 281 words
19. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. University Technicians (Pay) 138 words
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2. Radioactive Emissions 115 words
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3. Pupil-Teacher Ratio (West Midlands) 129 words
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4. Nursery Schools (Lambeth) 164 words
20. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Prisons 100 words
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2. Irish Republican Army 67 words
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3. Irish Citizens (Accommodation Addresses) 100 words
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4. School Transfer Procedures 66 words
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5. Security Forces (Crowd Control) 55 words
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6. James Taylor 84 words
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7. House Building 91 words
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8. Rents 64 words
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9. Republic of Ireland (Foreign Minister) 49 words
21. ENERGY
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1. International Energy Agency 800 words
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2. London Electricity Board (Members' Pay and Allowances) 71 words
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3. National Coal Board 87 words
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4. Gas Tariffs 95 words
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5. Electicity Boards (Rebates) 142 words
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6. Coal Converted Oil 48 words
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7. Coal Production 50 words
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8. Advisory Council on Energy Conservation 74 words
22. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Scottish and Welsh Assemblies 819 words
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2. County Structure Plans 129 words
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3. Rate Fund Services 318 words
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4. Ministers' Cars 48 words
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5. Local Authorities (Pensions) 196 words
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6. Water Authorities (Staff Costs) 101 words
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7. Rate Support Grant 266 words
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8. Local Authorities (Debt) 105 words
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9. Local Authorities (Government Grants) 78 words
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10. Public Buildings (Works of Art) 37 words
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11. Welsh Assembly 247 words
23. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Shoplifting (Diplomatic Privilege) 189 words
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2. Telephone Tapping 499 words
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3. Pentredwfr, Llangollen (Television Reception) 128 words
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4. Electoral Boundaries (Kent) 103 words
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5. Data Protection (Lindop Report) 109 words
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1. TABLE A 1,451 words
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2. TABLE B 189 words
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3. TABLE C 228 words
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6. Lewes Prison 91 words
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7. Probation and After-care Service 82 words
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8. Unruly Girls (Certificates) 205 words
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9. Metropolitan Police Computer 226 words
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10. Terrorism 43 words
24. TRANSPORT
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1. Driving Tests (Brighton) 49 words
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2. A23 (Improvements) 86 words
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3. Rural Rail Services 100 words
25. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Boyle Report 39 words
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2. Wages, Prices and Pensions 103 words
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3. Job Creation (Peterborough) 227 words
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4. Temporary Employment Subsidy 69 words
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5. Liquefied Gas (Storage) 126 words
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6. Jobcentres 301 words
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7. Job Release Scheme 300 words
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8. Ethylene Oxide 352 words
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9. Wages Councils 996 words
26. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. National Farmers' Union 45 words
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2. Swine Vesicular Disease 123 words
27. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Value Added Tax 212 words
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2. Workers (Wages) 88 words
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3. Government Debt 55 words
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4. Benefits (Income Tax Assessment) 81 words
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5. North Sea Oil 163 words
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6. Government Securities (Interest Charges) 53 words
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7. Public Expenditure 164 words
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8. Foreign Currency 56 words
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9. Income Tax 62 words
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10. Income Comparisons 70 words
28. DEFENCE
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1. Decorations (Replacement Cost) 161 words
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2. Army Cadet Force (Northern Ireland) 164 words
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3. Ships (Names) 58 words
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4. Expenditure 329 words
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5. Depleted Uranium Ammunition 219 words
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6. Defence Estimates 66 words
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7. Equipment and Weaponry 232 words
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8. Ulster Defence Regiment 108 words
29. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Rhodesia 158 words
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2. Iran 124 words
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3. Quangos (Expenditure) 241 words
30. INDUSTRY
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1. Managing Directors (Posts) 35 words
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2. Post Office Users' National Council (Report) 124 words
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3. Post Office (Code of Practice) 110 words
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4. Civilian Aeroplanes (Vertical Take-off) 91 words
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5. British Steel Corporation 140 words
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6. Hartle Machinery International 86 words
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7. Special Steels 518 words
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8. Planning Agreements 180 words
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9. Thorne Group 175 words
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10. Goods and Services (Legislative Controls) 170 words
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11. Harland and Wolff Limited 81 words
31. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Baptism, Marriages and Funerals (Cost) 67 words
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2. Goods and Services (Delivery Delays) 188 words
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3. Gramophone Records (Prices) 121 words
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4. Nationalised Industries (Users' Councils) 250 words
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5. Post Office Users' National Council 725 words
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6. Firework Injuries (Statistics) 637 words
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7. Data Protection (Lindop Report) 49 words
32. TRADE
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1. Goods and Services (Public Service Dispute) 77 words
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2. Vessels (Scrap Sales) 93 words
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3. Mass Transit Railway Corporation, Hong Kong 169 words
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4. London-Aberdeen Air Route (Fare Increases) 60 words
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5. Rhodesia (Chrome Sales) 68 words
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6. Flight Delays (Aberdeen-London) 112 words
33. SCOTLAND
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1. Dundee College of Education 99 words
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2. Referendum (Cost) 57 words
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3. Firearms and Shotgun Certificates 607 words
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4. Radioactivity (Aberdeen) 128 words
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5. Royal High School, Edinburgh 178 words
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6. Local Authority Debt 94 words
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7. Scottish Assembly 201 words
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8. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances 90 words
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9. Public Services (Expenditure) 423 words
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10. Assembly Building 271 words
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11. Court Staff (Industrial Dispute) 232 words
34. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. India (Visits of Departmental Staff) 709 words
35. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Quangos (Expenditure) 678 words
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2. Unemployment 335 words
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3. Ambulance Drivers 230 words
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4. Irish Republican Army March (Belfast) 69 words
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5. Terrorism 53 words
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6. Bomb Damage 177 words
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7. Royal Ulster Constabulary 140 words
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8. Republican Parades 129 words
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9. Ministerial Correspondence 96 words
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10. Trades Union Congress 55 words
36. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Supplementary Benefit (Blind Persons) 127 words
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2. Invalid Care Allowance 105 words
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3. Radio-diagnostic Consultancy (Basingstoke) 227 words
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4. Ambulance Men (Average Earnings) 109 words
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5. Hospital Waiting Lists (Basingstoke) 104 words
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6. Nurses (Pay and Conditions) 64 words
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7. St. Columba's Hospital, Hampstead 68 words
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8. Institute of Hearing Research 154 words
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9. 1971 Census (Prosecutions) 93 words
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10. Nursery Schools (Lambeth) 55 words
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11. Jay Committee (Report) 942 words
37. WALES
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1. Hill Farming (Compensation Allowances) 82 words
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2. Penygroes and Llanllyfni Bypass 149 words
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3. Council for the Welsh Language 57 words
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4. Coal Exchange, Cardiff 104 words

Lords Sitting of 8 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 399

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1. Preamble 29 words
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2. PORTUGAL: DISPOSSESSED BRITISH FARMERS 411 words
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3. OAK WILT DISEASE 1,535 words
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4. DELAYS AT DOCKS: LOSS OF EXPORT ORDERS 448 words
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5. TACHOGRAPHS AND BRITISH ROAD VEHICLES 1,515 words
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6. CARRIAGE BY AIR AND ROAD BILL [H.L.] 65 words
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7. SOCIAL SECURITY BILL 1,430 words
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8. VACCINE DAMAGE PAYMENTS BILL 7,646 words
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9. EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS REGULATIONS 1979 4,194 words
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10. EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) REGULATIONS 1979 40 words
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11. HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) BILL 2 words
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12. AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1979 2,282 words
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13. APPROPRIATION (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1979 5,265 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 8 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 399

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1. INSTALLATIONS AT SEA: 500 METRE SAFETY ZONE 134 words