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Commons Sitting of 24 May 1979 Series 5 Vol. 967

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN
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1. QUEEN'S SPEECH (ANSWER TO ADDRESS) 40 words
4. PRIVATE BUSINESS
1. BRITISH RAILWAYS (No. 2) BILL (By Order)
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1. CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order) 130 words
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2. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order) 18 words
3. LONDON TRANSPORT BILL (By Order)
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1. EAST KILBRIDE DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL (By Order) 49 words
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5. ADJOURNMENT MOTIONS UNDER STANDING ORDER No. 9 44 words
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6. CLOSURE OF DEBATE (STANDING ORDER No. 30): 2 words
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7. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 139 words
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8. PRIVATE BILLS AND PRIVATE BUSINESS 277 words
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9. PUBLIC BILLS 132 words
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10. SELECT COMMITTEES 112 words
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11. SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE AND BUSINESS OF SUPPLY 99 words
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12. STANDING COMMITTEES 182 words
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13. SPECIAL PROCEDURE ORDERS 173 words
14. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Security 2,515 words
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2. Select Committee on Procedure 144 words
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3. Road Programme 506 words
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4. Bennett Report 794 words
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5. Political Situation 946 words
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6. Energy Supplies 386 words
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7. Special Accommodation (Belfast) 165 words
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8. Nominated Boards (Representation) 287 words
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9. Expenditure 629 words
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2. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 1,892 words
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3. GIDEA PARK 405 words
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15. HONG KONG (VIETNAMESE REFUGEES) 1,322 words
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16. CLERK OF THE HOUSE (RETIREMENT) 217 words
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17. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 2,888 words
18. BILL PRESENTED
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1. EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (SALARIES AND PENSIONS) 91 words
19. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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1. KIRIBATI BILL 37,393 words, 1 division
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2. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 54 words
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3. ROADS (CHESHIRE) 5,039 words
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4. A2 ROAD 2,999 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 24 May 1979 Series 5 Vol. 967

1. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Belfast City Hospital 130 words
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2. De Lorean Car 79 words
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3. Crusaders Football Ground 94 words
2. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Royal Commission on Legal Services 96 words
3. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. School Meals 49 words
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2. Retinitis Pigmentosa 129 words
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3. Secondary Education 54 words
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4. DEVOLUTION 57 words
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5. CABINET COMMITTEES 112 words
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6. INDUSTRIAL POLICY 73 words
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7. PRESIDENT CARTER 46 words
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8. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 108 words
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9. ORMSKIRK 25 words
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10. TUC AND CBI 74 words
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11. AUSTRALIA 27 words
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12. CITY OF LONDON 29 words
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13. CONSULTANTS 65 words
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14. RHODESIA 22 words
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15. PRIME MINISTER (PERTH SPEECH) 52 words
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16. ADVANCED GAS-COOLEDR REACTOR 51 words
4. WALES
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1. Local Authority Dwellings 944 words
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2. Fishing Industry 77 words
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3. Development Board for Rural Wales 42 words
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4. Nursery Schools 65 words
5. ENERGY
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1. North Sea Oil 264 words
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2. British National Oil corporation 60 words
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3. Electricity (Costs) 409 words
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4. Town and Country Planning Act 1971 52 words
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5. Land 45 words
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6. Coking Coal 67 words
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7. Oil Prices 709 words
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8. Energy Council 291 words
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9. International Energy Agency 242 words
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10. LAW CENTRES 63 words
6. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Rating (Night Storage Heaters) 67 words
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2. Value Added Tax 313 words
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3. Mobility Allowance 45 words
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4. Luncheon Vouchers 62 words
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5. Stamp Duty 63 words
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6. Mortgage Relief 53 words
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7. Personal Allowances 127 words
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8. Building Societies Association 58 words
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9. Building Societies 53 words
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10. European Community (British Contribution) 58 words
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11. Nurses (Income Tax Relief) 71 words
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12. Government Expenditure 81 words
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13. Currency 163 words
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14. Government Purchasing (Guidance) 226 words
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15. Budget Statement 125 words
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16. Tobacco Duty 69 words
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17. Stock Appreciation (Tax Relief) 63 words
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18. Customs and Excise (Enforcement Procedures) 66 words
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19. Corporation Tax 392 words
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20. Take-Home Pay 144 words
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21. Government Revenue 200 words
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22. Personal Taxation 207 words
7. INDUSTRY
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1. Shipbuilding 574 words
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2. Massey Ferguson 140 words
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3. Shipbuilding (Redundancy Payments) Act 70 words
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4. Microprocessors (Government Assistance) 98 words
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5. Small Businesses (Newton Aycliffe) 73 words
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6. British Oxygen Co. Ltd., Kirkby 44 words
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7. Shipbuilding and Aerospace Industries 69 words
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8. Microtechnology 60 words
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9. WORKS OF ART (PUBLIC DISPLAY) 120 words
8. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Motor cycle Accident 136 words
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2. Chelsea College (Land Use) 82 words
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3. Pneumoconiosis 121 words
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4. Welfare Foods 717 words
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5. Prescription Charges 300 words
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6. Leptospirosis 152 words
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7. Regional Health Authorities (Expenditure) 657 words
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8. Nurses (pay) 75 words
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9. Rickets 99 words
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10. Child Benefit Order Books 143 words
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11. Capital Allocation (Sheffield) 230 words
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12. Low-income Families 430 words
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13. Child Benefit 93 words
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14. Doctors and Dentists (Pay) 83 words
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15. One-Parent Families 58 words
9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Mr Joshua Nkomo 155 words
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2. British Shipbuilders 50 words
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3. Gibraltar 110 words
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4. North Atlantic Assembly 136 words
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5. Rhodesia 98 words
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6. Central African Republic 95 words
10. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. European Community (Council of Ministers) 41 words
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2. National Fishery Policy 63 words
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3. Sheepmeat 191 words
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4. Quangos 152 words
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5. Pig Products 327 words
11. TRADE
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1. Conventions and Protocols 93 words
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2. Knitwear 64 words
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3. UNCTAD V 146 words
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4. Accountancy (Discipline Procedures) 88 words
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5. Overseas Investment 521 words
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6. Trade Balances 293 words
12. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Human Rights 43 words
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2. Aid Projects (Funding) 35 words
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3. Priority Assistance 50 words
13. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. Regional Fund 66 words
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2. Developing Countries 48 words
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3. Greece, Portugal and Spain 38 words
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4. Travel Documents (Abolition) 106 words
14. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Immigration 904 words
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2. Shetland (Radio Amateur Licences) 72 words
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3. Motor Cycle Accidents 396 words
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4. Prisons 82 words
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5. Rhodesia 50 words
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6. Entry Certificates 57 words
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7. Prison Officers (Murder) 45 words
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8. Pool Competitions Act 1971 73 words
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9. Murder 1,153 words
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10. Prison Service (Inquiry) 57 words
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11. Car Parks (Thefts) 144 words
15. TRANSPORT
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1. South Humberside 145 words
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2. Driving Tests 346 words
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3. Motoring Offences (Disqualification) 73 words
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4. Heavy Lorries 287 words
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5. Road Works (Cheshire) 63 words
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6. Woodhead Route 92 words
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7. Stockbridge Bypass 96 words
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8. Beatrice Field (Invergordon) 242 words
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9. Cromarty Firth Ports Authority 165 words
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10. Reliant Robin Motor Car 270 words
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11. Macclesfield (Road Proposals) 98 words
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12. M66, Manchester 82 words
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13. Kelsall Bypass 35 words
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14. Tarvin Bypass 50 words
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15. Town and Country Planning Act 1971 30 words
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16. Land 65 words
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17. Greater London Council 91 words
16. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Mr. Jack McLenaghan 90 words
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2. Mr. Stanley Wray 84 words
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3. Bombings 245 words
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4. Bennett Report 47 words
17. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Council Houses (Sales) 633 words
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2. Inner Cities 286 words
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3. Ferry Lane Estate, London 72 words
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4. Rate Support Grant 98 words
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5. South Shoreditch Industrial Improvement Area 96 words
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6. Rates 168 words
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7. Mr. Peter Ellis 95 words
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8. Whitehall Shop 81 words
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9. Teesdale (Nursery Factories) 67 words
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10. Direct Labour 81 words
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11. Water Service Charges 32 words
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12. Immigrant Population (Aid) 116 words
18. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Standing Commission on Pay Comparability 88 words
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2. Industrial Democracy 89 words
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3. Special Employment Measures 141 words
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4. Otis Elevators, Kirkby 44 words
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5. School Leavers 50 words
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6. Moss Lea, Ormskirk 104 words
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7. Employment Protection Act 1975 56 words
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8. Manpower Services Commission 44 words
19. SCOTLAND
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1. Teacher Training 891 words
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2. Beatrice Field (Invergordon) 90 words
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3. Iona 280 words
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4. Schools (Open Plan System) 129 words
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5. Scottish Development Agency 103 words
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6. Schools (Tayside) 108 words
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7. Nursery Education 299 words
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8. Employment (Dundee) 248 words
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9. School Leavers 166 words
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10. European Funds (Tayside) 103 words
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11. Primary Schools (Tayside) 81 words
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12. Munn and Dunning Reports 134 words
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13. Lawson's (Dyce) 185 words
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14. Schools (Quotient Tests) 283 words
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15. Secondary Schoolchildren 170 words
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16. Rents 57 words
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17. Pig-Processing (North-East) 113 words
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18. Lost Working Days 65 words

Lords Sitting of 24 May 1979 Series 5 Vol. 400

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1. Preamble 38 words
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2. THE HELSINKI AGREEMENT 965 words
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3. TERRORISM 936 words
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4. CUBAN AND USSR PERSONNEL IN AFRICA 638 words
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5. RHODESIA—ZIMBABWE: CONFERENCE ON ELECTIONS 1,495 words
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6. PRIVILEGES 124 words
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7. LEAVE OF ABSENCE AND LORDS' EXPENSES 142 words
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8. POOL COMPETITIONS ACT 1971 (CONTINUANCE) ORDER 1979 5,534 words
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9. OIL SUPPLIES 7,799 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 24 May 1979 Series 5 Vol. 400

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1. HONG KONG PUBLIC ORDER ORDINANCE 93 words
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2. BRUNEI: POLITICAL EXILES 46 words
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3. CIDER: TAXATION 332 words
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4. OIL PLATFORMS AND EQUIPMENT: LICENSEES' RESPONSIBILITIES 111 words
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5. IMMIGRATION: WAITING PERIODS 90 words
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6. DYSLEXIA: WARNOCK REPORT 112 words
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7. PRIMATES: RESEARCH IMPORTS 168 words