Sitting of 19 March 1979

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Commons Sitting of 19 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 964

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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. Central Electricity Generating Board (Oil Supplies) 191 words
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2. Energy Policy 733 words
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3. National Coal Board 1,080 words
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4. European Community (Energy Ministers) 839 words
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5. Coalmining (Productivity) 275 words
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6. North Sea Oil 471 words
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7. Park Colliery, Staffordshire 358 words
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8. Energy Commission 445 words
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9. Coal Industry (Financial Support) 377 words
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10. Coal Prices 330 words
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11. National Nuclear Corporation 655 words
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12. Heating Discount Scheme 422 words
2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Aid Budget 660 words
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2. Angola 292 words
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3. East Caribbean Associated States 243 words
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4. European Community (Ministerial Meetings) 628 words
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5. Vietnam 335 words
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6. UNCTAD 188 words
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4. GOLDBORNE COLLIERY (ACCIDENT) 1,495 words
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5. STANDING ORDER No. 9 113 words
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6. DR. ROBERT IRWIN 741 words
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7. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 139 words
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8. PUBLIC EXPENDITURE 52,751 words, 1 division
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9. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 25 words
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10. ORDERS OF THE DAY 6 words
1. Clause 2
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1. ATTENDANCE ALLOWANCE 55 words
2. New Clause A
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1. AMENDMENT OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO EARNINGS AFTER RETIREMENT AGE 8,180 words, 1 division
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3. Clause 16 715 words
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4. Clause 17 177 words
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11. LAND REGISTRATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [LORDS] 38 words
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12. LAND REGISTRATION (SCOTLAND) [MONEY] 136 words
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13. X-RAY SERVICES (HEREFORD AND WORCESTER) 4,899 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 19 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 964

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1. SCOTTISH ASSEMBLY 56 words
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2. PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS 58 words
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3. HEAT POVERTY 81 words
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4. UNCTAD V 58 words
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5. BOYLE REPORT 114 words
6. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Pharmaceutical Products 95 words
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2. Angola 84 words
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3. Aid Commitments 192 words
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4. Vietnam (Aid) 158 words
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5. Tanzania 122 words
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6. Heads of Mission Small Projects Fund 121 words
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7. Swaziland (Teachers) 109 words
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7. CRIMINAL PROSECUTION (COST) 34 words
8. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Television Reception (Kingswood) 205 words
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2. Civil Service 128 words
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3. Metropolitan Police Recruits (Findings of Guilt and Convictions) 159 words
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4. Sexual Offences (Hormone Treatment) 66 words
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5. Air Rifles and Air Pistols 26 words
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6. British Nationality 175 words
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7. Northallerton Prison 121 words
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8. Firearms (Variation of Fees) Order 1979 62 words
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9. Fire Inspection 99 words
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10. Statutory Fees 466 words
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11. Parkhurst Prison 232 words
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12. Prison Staff 144 words
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13. Prison Slang 122 words
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14. Crime (Public Expenditure) 107 words
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15. European Community (Elections) 84 words
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16. " Protect and Survive " 109 words
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17. Probation and After-care Service 57 words
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18. Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 399 words
9. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Field Vegetables 54 words
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2. Enzootic Bovine Leukosis 263 words
10. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Secretarial Training 278 words
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2. Disabled Persons (Aids) 185 words
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3. Industrial Diseases (Quarrying) 58 words
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4. Liverpool (Inner City Partnership Meeting) 164 words
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5. Youth Opportunities Programme 208 words
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6. Liverpool 641 words
11. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Tyre Gauge Testing 72 words
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2. Bargain Offers 88 words
12. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Local Authority Schemes (Industrial Investment) 101 words
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2. Building Plot Prices 133 words
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3. Rent and Rate Rebates (Isle of Wight) 142 words
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4. Solon Housing Association 101 words
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5. Local Government Advertising 74 words
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6. Housing Subsidies 85 words
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7. Local Authority Expenditure 356 words
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8. Construction Industry Manpower Board (Registration) 395 words
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9. Nature Conservation 362 words
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10. Community Land 110 words
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11. Social Workers 115 words
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12. Northgate House, Derby 423 words
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13. Housing (Southampton) 143 words
13. INDUSTRY
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1. Inmos 160 words
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2. Post Office Corporation 137 words
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3. Microtechnology 104 words
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4. British Aerospace (146 and A310 Projects) 125 words
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5. International Computers Limited 159 words
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6. Shipbuilding Intervention Fund 38 words
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7. Research 166 words
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8. Consumer Electronics 139 words
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9. Microelectronics 100 words
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10. Microprocessors 108 words
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11. Overseas Investments 154 words
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12. Small Firms Service 60 words
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13. British Shipbuilders 62 words
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14. Deep Sea Mining 341 words
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15. National Enterprise Board 68 words
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16. Quangos (Expenditure) 46 words
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17. Rolls-Royce Limited 84 words
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18. Meriden Co-operative 203 words
14. TRANSPORT
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1. Elm Grove Road, Barnes (Sleeping Policemen) 99 words
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2. Vehicle Registration 137 words
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3. Preston (Port) 177 words
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4. Warsaw Pact Ships 154 words
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5. Road Accidents 168 words
15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Universities and Industry (Relationship) 482 words
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2. Language Tuition 27 words
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3. Engineer Graduates 231 words
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4. University Technicians 126 words
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5. Eating (School Sale) 155 words
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6. Dental Research 96 words
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7. Heart Disease (Research) 53 words
16. ENERGY
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1. Mexican National Oil Company 98 words
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2. Electricity Prices 343 words
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3. Oil Companies 36 words
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4. British National Oil Corporation 88 words
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5. Oil Supplies (Self-sufficiency) 43 words
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6. North Sea Oil (Licences) 169 words
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7. Oil Exploration 189 words
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8. Fuel Economy (Motor Transport) 90 words
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9. Fuel Poverty 93 words
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10. Fuel Costs (Elderly Persons) 142 words
17. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Public Expenditure 99 words
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2. Profit-sharing and Equity Savings 61 words
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3. Tax Amnesty (Fleet Street Workers) 1,039 words
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4. Inflation 187 words
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5. International Revenues 57 words
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6. Industrial Growth 46 words
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7. European Economic Community 81 words
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8. Customs and Excise (Repayment) 115 words
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9. National Savings 43 words
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10. Customs and Excise (Industrial Dispute) 74 words
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11. Trusts (Capital Transfer Tax) 140 words
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12. Public Expenditure 516 words
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13. Corporation Tax 85 words
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14. Money Supply and Inflation (International Comparisons) 67 words
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15. Remission of Tax 71 words
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16. Import Controls 87 words
18. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Official Cars 95 words
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2. Quangos (Expenditure) 99 words
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3. Pay 168 words
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4. Customs and Excise (Industrial Dispute) 163 words
19. SCOTLAND
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1. Nurses (Pay) 55 words
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2. BSc(Eng) Degrees 155 words
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3. Meldrum House 90 words
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4. Skillcentre, Glasgow 126 words
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5. Royal High School, Edinburgh 66 words
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6. Children (Foreign Languages) 391 words
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7. Referendum (Cost) 286 words
20. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Employees (Pension Rights) 149 words
21. DEFENCE
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1. Cyprus 75 words
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2. Oman 48 words
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3. Ulster Defence Regiment (Mr. Edward McIlwane) 52 words
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4. Service Personnel (Medical Discharge) 178 words
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5. Women's Forces 128 words
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6. SS. 20 Ballistic Missiles 96 words
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7. Defence Estimates 1979 31 words
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8. Belfast (Census) 50 words
22. WALES
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1. Small Firms (Grants) 94 words
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2. Mobile Nursery (Powys) 55 words
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3. Devolution 61 words
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4. Schools (Indoor Toilet Facilities) 70 words
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5. Housing (Disabled Persons) 74 words
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6. Coal Exchange, Cardiff 41 words
23. TRADE
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1. Companies Registry 52 words
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2. Import Controls 49 words
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3. Paper Dumping 346 words
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4. Warsaw Pact Countries 916 words
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5. Metals (Imports) 209 words
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6. Quangos (Expenditure) 47 words
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7. Heathrow and Stansted Airports 63 words
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8. Daihatsu Motors 105 words
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9. Textiles (Tariffs) 699 words
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10. Tankers (Ballast Tanks) 248 words
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11. Soviet Union 91 words
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12. Customs and Excise (Industrial Dispute) 54 words
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13. Domestic Appliances 171 words
24. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Mentally Handicapped Persons 724 words
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2. Mrs. Helen Ezenwa 122 words
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3. Dental Treatment 520 words
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4. Dentists 120 words
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5. Administrative and Ancillary Work (National Health Service Hospitals) 67 words
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6. Elderly Persons 161 words
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7. National Health Service (Ancillary Workers and Bed Occupancy) 370 words
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8. Dangerous Drugs (Exports) 73 words
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9. Normanfield Hospital 47 words
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10. Barbiturate Self-Poisoning 32 words
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11. Prescriptions 165 words
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12. National Health Service (Wage Bill) 158 words
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13. National Insurance (Newspaper Industry) 82 words
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14. Drugs 3,107 words
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15. Phenacetin 293 words
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16. St. Nicholas Hospital, Plumstead 97 words
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17. Poisons Centre (Laboratory) 57 words
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18. Births, Death and Marriages (Fees) 79 words
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19. Casual Workers (Fleet Street) 76 words
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20. Aided Countries (Medical Information) 91 words
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21. Departmental Expenditure 225 words
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25. OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT 80 words
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26. MR. IAN VAUGHAN SHEFFIELD 83 words
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27. HOLIDAYS (CYPRUS) 73 words
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28. RHODESIA 144 words
29. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Zambia 80 words
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2. Sea Bed Exploitation 569 words
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3. Arabian Sea 74 words
30. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. Membership 59 words
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2. Apartheid in Sport 156 words
31. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Murdered Persons (Compensation) 177 words
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2. Compensation (Review) 75 words
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3. Electricity Service 101 words
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4. Dr. Robert Irwin 200 words
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5. Coleraine Hospital 126 words
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6. Rates 423 words
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7. Foyle Area (Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 41 words
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8. Beekeepers 84 words
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9. Forestry 54 words
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10. Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 32 words
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11. Foyle Fisheries Commission 142 words
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12. Tree Planting 60 words
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13. European Investment Bank (Loan) 68 words
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14. Housing (Improvement Grants) 41 words
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15. Madoms Bank Bridge 41 words
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16. De Lorean Motor Car Company 391 words
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17. Regional Development Fond 115 words
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18. Scheduled Offences (Confessions) 146 words
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19. " Weekend World"Television Programme 159 words

Lords Sitting of 19 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 399

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. PETROL: GRADES 236 words
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3. TELEPHONE TAPPING: AUTHORISATION 366 words
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4. RACE RELATIONS ACTS: CONTRACT OBLIGATIONS 387 words
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5. NUPE PICKETING AND BLOOD COLLECTION 1,402 words
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6. CONFIRMATION TO SMALL ESTATES (SCOTLAND) BILL 1,496 words
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7. ESTATES AGENTS BILL 26,216 words, 1 division
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8. CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 2) BILL 32 words
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9. ANCIENT MONUMENTS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREAS BILL [H.L.] 7,970 words
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10. LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE (FINANCIAL CONDITIONS) (NO.2) REGULATIONS 1979 1,641 words
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11. LEGAL AID (FINANCIAL CONDITIONS) REGULATIONS 1979 29 words
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12. LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE (SCOTLAND) (FINANCIAL CONDITIONS) (No.2) REGULATIONS 1979 29 words
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13. LEGAL AID (SCOTLAND) (FINANCIAL CONDITIONS) REGULATIONS 1979 38 words
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14. OIL POLLUTION NORTH OF SCOTTISH MAINLAND 9,428 words
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15. GREATER MANCHESTER BILL [H.L.] 12 words
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16. CRIMINAL EVIDENCE BILL, [H.L.] 6 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 19 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 399

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1. DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS: POLICY 167 words
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2. EEC MEMBERSHIP AND THE PRICE OF FOOD 146 words
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3. MINISTERIAL PRESS PUBLICATIONS: CONVENTIONS 94 words
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4. BRITISH RAILWAYS BOARD AND MR. SHOOP 70 words