Sitting of 29 March 1979

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Commons Sitting of 29 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 965

c599
1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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3. PRIVATE BUSINESS 70 words
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4. CONTINGENCIES FUND, 1977–78 55 words
5. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Prison Officers' Association 613 words
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2. Sentences (Partial Suspension) 544 words
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3. Indictable Offences 681 words
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4. Police (Recruitment) 656 words
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5. Metropolitan Police Computer 1,049 words
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6. Fines and Custodial Sentences 245 words
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7. Prisoners and Human Rights 345 words
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8. European Assembly Elections 194 words
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9. Refugees 528 words
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10. District Council Elections 341 words
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11. Juvenile Courts 329 words
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2. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 2,120 words
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6. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 6,173 words
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7. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 28 words
8. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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1. INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY BILL 10 words
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1. Clause 1 7,998 words
2. Clause 2
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1. Financial Provisions 572 words
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2. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL 4,128 words
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3. ROYAL ASSENT 46 words
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4. INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY BILL 1,518 words
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5. BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION 24,501 words
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6. FIELD VEGETABLES (DESTRUCTION) 8,913 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 29 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 965

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1. MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY 88 words
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2. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 492 words
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3. TUC and CBI 236 words
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4. WHITTON 21 words
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5. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEET ING (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH) 37 words
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6. NORTH-WEST REGION 28 words
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7. HIGH TECHNOLOGY (EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS) 73 words
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8. EDINBURGH 23 words
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9. SIR DOUGLAS WASS (MEMORANDUM) 86 words
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10. MINISTERS'PRIVATE INTERESTS 84 words
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11. BRUSSELS 26 words
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12. PRESIDENT CARTER 24 words
13. PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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1. Consumer Credit Act 242 words
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2. Retail Price Index 64 words
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3. Retail Food Prices (International Comparisons) 50 words
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4. Toothpaste (Chloroform Content) 84 words
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5. Novelty Goods 123 words
14. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Aid and Trade Contingency Fund 108 words
15. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Telephone Tapping 77 words
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2. Women Prisoners 43 words
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3. Multiple Registration 77 words
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4. Probation Officers 147 words
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5. Television Licences (Pensioners and Handicapped Persons) 113 words
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6. Crime (London) 39 words
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7. European Community (Council of Ministers) 101 words
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8. Commissioner of Police 86 words
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9. Police Recruitment 78 words
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10. Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 114 words
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11. Commission for Racial Equality 35 words
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12. Burglary 110 words
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13. Fire Precautions Act 26 words
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14. Metropolitan Police Computer 170 words
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15. Immigrant Population (Grants) 1,310 words
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16. Citizens Band Radio 80 words
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17. Model Aircraft Flying (Bromley) 124 words
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18. Mentally Ill Prisoners 97 words
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19. Boundary Commissions 95 words
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20. Indictable Offences (Metropolitan Area) 72 words
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21. Prison Officers (Accommodation) 84 words
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22. Service Men's Wives (Electoral Registration) 41 words
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23. Local Government Boundaries 140 words
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24. Juveniles (Supervision Orders) 152 words
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25. Juveniles (Crimes of Violence) 97 words
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26. Disabled Persons (Adaptation of Public Places) 155 words
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27. Open Broadcasting Authority 50 words
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28. Refugee Status 32 words
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29. Crossbows 41 words
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30. Television Licence Fees 79 words
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31. School Buildings (Election Use) 38 words
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32. Electoral Boundaries (Staffordshire) 54 words
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33. Weapons (Mail Order Sales) 53 words
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34. Prison Service (Pay) 63 words
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35. Bullwood Hall Girls' Borstal 29 words
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36. Badgers (Yorkshire) 91 words
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37. Electoral Register 104 words
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38. Prison Hospitals 103 words
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39. Quangos (Expenditure) 526 words
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40. Alcoholism 66 words
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41. Extradition 1,202 words
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42. Prison Officers 375 words
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43. Penal Establishments (Barbiturates) 81 words
16. TRADE
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1. Works of Art (Resale) 107 words
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2. Quangos 125 words
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3. Harp Seals 109 words
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4. European Community 153 words
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5. Fishing Vessels (Radio Communications) 184 words
17. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Symphony Orchestras 103 words
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2. British Film Institute Grants (Scotland) 100 words
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3. Law Students (Grants) 92 words
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4. Quangos 79 words
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5. O-level Examinations (Physics and Technical Drawing) 63 words
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6. Dyslexic Schoolchildren (Medway) 64 words
18. ENERGY
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1. Quangos 247 words
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2. National Coal Board (Government Grants) 158 words
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3. Offshore Oil Exploration 77 words
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4. Deemed Planning Permission 81 words
19. SCOTLAND
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1. Student Grants (Payment) 78 words
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2. Farm Businesses 104 words
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3. Tweed Basin (Fisheries Protection) 151 words
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4. Boat Building 42 words
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5. Crime (Statistics) 91 words
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6. House Building 56 words
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7. Unemployment 69 words
20. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Unemployment Projections 45 words
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2. School Leavers 76 words
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3. Quangos 317 words
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4. Engineering Industry (Apprentices) 355 words
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5. Employment Protection Act 47 words
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6. Trade Union Accounts (Audit) 120 words
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7. Unemployment 36 words
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8. Hotel and Catering Industry 399 words
21. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Industrial Dispute (Costs) 62 words
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2. Wages and Salaries (Method of Payment) 75 words
22. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Statutory Instruments and European Community Documents 236 words
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2. Members' Pay 62 words
23. DEFENCE
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1. The Queen's Flight 103 words
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2. Quangos 267 words
24. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Quangos 222 words
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2. Farm Businesses 209 words
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3. Food Imports (European Community) 145 words
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4. European Community (Food Surpluses) 51 words
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5. Farmers (Financial Assistance) 77 words
25. WALES
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1. Handicapped Children 139 words
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2. Quangos 447 words
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3. Health and Social Services (Confidential Documents) 108 words
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4. Artificial Limbs and Appliances 111 words
26. INDUSTRY
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1. Quangos 117 words
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2. British Shipbuilders 165 words
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3. British Leyland 42 words
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4. Small Finns Policy (Independent Schools) 54 words
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5. Preston and West Lancashire 194 words
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6. European Community and Great Britain (Reciprocal Investment) 63 words
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7. Microelectronics 167 words
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8. Meals-on-Wheels Kitchens 98 words
27. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Ordnance Survey 60 words
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2. Noise 126 words
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3. Waste Management Advisory Committee 82 words
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4. Land 433 words
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5. Planning Permission 124 words
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6. Fire Precautions 97 words
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7. Canals (West Midlands) 132 words
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8. Harlow 116 words
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9. Council Housing 72 words
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10. Historic Buildings 333 words
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11. Compulsory Purchase Orders (Brigg and Scunthorpe) 43 words
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12. Waterways 154 words
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13. Private House Building (Brigg and Scunthorpe) 108 words
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14. Land Compensation Act 1973 109 words
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15. Quangos 82 words
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16. Development Land Tax 63 words
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17. Community Land 879 words
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18. Storm Damage (Norfolk) 311 words
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19. Urban Development Programmes 176 words
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20. Business Property (Rating Questionnaire) 468 words
28. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Children in Care 52 words
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2. Community Homes (Juvenile Offender Places) 128 words
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3. Chemist Contractors 87 words
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4. Ambulance Personnel (Pay) 233 words
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5. Imipramine and Amitriptiline 27 words
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6. Supplementary Benefit (Thames North and South Offices) 403 words
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7. Children's Homes (Cost) 160 words
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8. Tuberculosis 96 words
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9. Quangos 228 words
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10. Whitleyism 98 words
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11. Brookwood Hospital (Young Patient) 71 words
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12. Cigarettes (Tar and Nicotine Tables) 70 words
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13. Maternity Beds (East Berkshire) 187 words
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14. Mobility Allowance 137 words
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15. National Health Service (Preston) 43 words
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16. Member's Correspondence 101 words
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17. Mentally Handicapped Persons 46 words
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18. Unemployment Benefit (Alleged Fraud) 124 words
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19. Hospital Building Programme 204 words
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20. Lone Parents 199 words
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21. Non-smokers (Facilities) 368 words
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22. Pensionable Age 103 words
29. TRANSPORT
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1. Town and Country Planning Act 1971 32 words
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2. Land (Release) 66 words
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3. Roads (Maintenance Cost) 49 words
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4. Quangos 163 words
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5. Driving Examiners 58 words
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6. M1-A1 Link 130 words
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7. Goods Vehicles 44 words
30. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. Assembly Elections (Communist Party) 126 words
31. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Quangos 448 words
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2. Tax Rebates 77 words
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3. Value Added Tax 235 words
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4. Luncheon Voucher Concession 73 words
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5. Gross Domestic Product 244 words
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6. 714 Certificates 52 words
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7. VAT Repayments 500 words
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8. Standard of Living (Alterations) 57 words
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9. Inflation 85 words
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10. Quangos 180 words
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11. National Debt 92 words
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12. Exchange Controls 56 words
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13. Take-home Pay 45 words
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14. European Community (Invisibles Deficit) 50 words
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15. Numismatic Bureau 211 words
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16. VAT (Charitable Institutions) 41 words
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17. Public Expenditure 102 words
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18. £ Sterling 23 words
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19. Schedule E Taxpayers 340 words
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20. Income Tax 13 words
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21. European Community (Assistance) 490 words
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22. Motor Vehicles (Tax Relief) 135 words
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23. Tax Amnesty (Fleet Street Workers) 102 words
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24. Civil Service (Industrial Dispute) 113 words
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25. Gallantry Awards 170 words
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26. Quangos 39 words
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27. Retirement Savings Certificates 67 words
32. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Public Bodies (Accountability) 149 words
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2. Education Boards (Expenditure) 130 words
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3. Enterprise Ulster 273 words
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4. Quangos 59 words
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5. Strathearn Audio Limited 95 words
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6. Belfast Harbour Commissioners (Chairman) 106 words
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7. European Community 132 words
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8. Housing Executive 131 words
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9. Belfast Harbour Board 551 words
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10. Fair Employment 290 words

Lords Sitting of 29 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 399

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1. Preamble 29 words
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2. LORD MILES 34 words
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1. CARDIFF COAL EXCHANGE: COSTS 328 words
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2. HOSPITALS: DISPUTES AND VOLUNTARY HELP 1,424 words
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3. WORLD CLIMATE CONFERENCE: RECENT WEATHER PATTERNS 421 words
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4. YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAMME: POLICY 524 words
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5. DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT 187 words
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6. EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT BILL [H.L.] 9 words
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7. INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND BILL [H.L.] 9 words
c1661
8. PROSECUTION OF OFFENCES BILL [H.L.] 9 words
c1661
9. FOSTER CHILDREN BILL [H.L.] 56 words
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10. CHILD CARE BILL [H.L.] 20 words
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11. CONFIRMATION TO SMALL ESTATES (SCOTLAND) BILL 313 words
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12. PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE BILL [H.L.] 29 words
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13. COMMONS AMENDMENT 237 words
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14. CARAVAN SITES BILL [H.L.] 25 words
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15. CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS (LIMITS OF LEVY) ORDER 1979 1,663 words
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16. AIRPORT TERMINALS: PUBLIC INQUIRY PROCEDURES 4,034 words
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17. ROYAL ASSENT 156 words
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18. BUSINESS REARRANGEMENT 3,332 words
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19. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL 732 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 29 March 1979 Series 5 Vol. 399

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1. RATE REBATES: ELIGIBILITY AND PAYMENTS 179 words
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2. RENT REBATES AND ALLOWANCES: ELIGIBILITY AND PAYMENTS 283 words
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3. FLAMMABLE GAS EXPLOSIONS: LNG/LPG CARRIERS 250 words
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4. CHEMICAL WARFARE: CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS 107 words