Sitting of 15 November 1979

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Commons Sitting of 15 November 1979 Series 5 Vol. 973

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. WEST MIDLANDS COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order) 68 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Draws and Lotteries (Liquor Prizes) 191 words
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2. Immigration Rules 720 words
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3. Immigrant Population (Grants to Local Authorities) 256 words
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4. Police Complaints Board 1,232 words
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5. Road Traffic Offences 369 words
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6. Law and Order 267 words
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7. Taxicab Meters (London) 335 words
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8. Coroners' Courts 305 words
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9. Prison System 458 words
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10. Nursing and Residential Homes (Fire Precautions) 216 words
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11. Immigration Service 362 words
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12. Equal Opportunities Commission 372 words
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13. Prison Population 262 words
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14. Television Reception 363 words
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15. Convicted Persons (Voting Rights) 163 words
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16. Detention Centres (Regimes) 592 words
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17. Police 129 words
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2. USSR 472 words
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3. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 946 words
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4. COMMISSIONER TUGENDHAT 406 words
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5. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 256 words
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5. CONSTITUENCY REPRESENTATIONS (MEMBERS' RIGHTS) 677 words
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6. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 2,408 words
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7. MONETARY POLICY 6,201 words
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8. SIR ANTHONY BLUNT 743 words
9. BILL PRESENTED
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1. TRANSPORT 143 words
10. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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1. PROTECTION OF TRADING INTERESTS BILL 22,243 words
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2. PAPUA NEW GUINEA, WESTERN SAMOA AND NAURU (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL. 2,343 words
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3. ISLE OF MAN BILL 7,008 words
1. Clause 2
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1. ISLE OF MAN SHARE OF COMMEN DUTIES 138 words
2. Clause 6
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1. VALUE ADDED TAX 265 words
3. Clause 9
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1. REMOVAL OF GOODS FROM UNITED KINGDOM TO ISLE OF MAN 800 words
4. Clause 10
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1. EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION 541 words
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4. DARLINGTON—BISHOP AUCKLAND RAIL LINK 5,153 words
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5. MACCLESFIELD RELIEF ROAD 6,316 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 15 November 1979 Series 5 Vol. 973

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1. FOURTH TELEVISION CHANNEL 196 words
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2. SECURITY 835 words
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3. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 450 words
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4. LIVERPOOL 25 words
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5. AIRPORTS POLICY 72 words
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6. CHILDREN 86 words
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7. TUC 47 words
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8. BROADCASTING (DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY) 28 words
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9. UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING FORCES 91 words
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10. POLICE 82 words
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11. DOMESTIC RATING SYSTEM 69 words
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12. YOUNG PEOPLE 67 words
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13. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 38 words
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14. CIGARETTE SMOKING 53 words
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15. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (LEGISLATION) 153 words
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16. CABINET COMMITTEES 48 words
17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Passports (United Kingdom Non-residents) 96 words
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2. Antigua 88 words
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3. USSR (United Kingdom Representation) 30 words
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4. Chile (United Kingdom Ambassador) 44 words
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5. Ambassadors 160 words
18. INDUSTRY
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1. Motor Cars 346 words
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2. Research and Development (Government Expenditure) 101 words
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3. Small Businesses 46 words
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4. National Enterprise Board 162 words
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5. Car Manufacture (Inspection Systems) 58 words
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19. British Aerospace 109 words
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20. Commercial Vehicles 349 words
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21. RHODESIA SANCTIONS (CASTROL LIMITED) 71 words
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22. LEGAL AID (SOUTH-WEST AREA) 160 words
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23. M80 (FATAL ACCIDENT) 83 words
24. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance) 285 words
25. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. "Civil Service Year Book" 124 words
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2. Pensions 196 words
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3. London Weighting 49 words
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4. Small Businesses 112 words
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5. TAXES AND PRICES INDEX 117 words
26. SCOTLAND
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1. Public Employees 196 words
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2. Scottish Tourist Board 95 words
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3. Rabbits 88 words
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4. Fishing Vessels 96 words
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5. Geriatric Hospital Accommodation 68 words
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6. Joint Working Party on Bridge Tolls 43 words
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7. Scottish Development Agency 134 words
27. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Horses and Ponies 48 words
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2. Green Pound 33 words
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3. Fixed Cash Margins 88 words
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4. Food Imports 288 words
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5. British Sugar Corporation 81 words
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6. Apples 366 words
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7. Herbicide 2, 4, 5-T 162 words
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8. Wholesale Markets 94 words
28. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Local Radio Stations 235 words
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2. Electoral Law 65 words
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3. Local Government Districts (Electoral Arrangements) 85 words
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4. Prison Population 78 words
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5. United Nations Commissioner for Refugees 70 words
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6. Local Authority Fire Services 89 words
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7. Jury Vetting 49 words
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8. Television (Second ITV Channel) 338 words
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9. Pardoned Persons (Ex-gratia Payments) 125 words
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10. Police Training Centre (North-East) 105 words
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11. Prison Service 139 words
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12. Immigration Rules 79 words
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13. Immigration 278 words
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14. Broadcasting (Local Radio Stations) 193 words
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15. Wormwood Scrubs 249 words
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16. Prisoners (Parole) 73 words
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17. Police Recruitment 81 words
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18. Detention Centres (Regime) 63 words
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19. Counter-espionage and Bugging Devices 88 words
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20. Prison Service (May Report Recommendations) 223 words
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21. University of Sussex (Live Animal Experiments) 58 words
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22. Football Hooliganism 76 words
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23. Police Authorities (Membership) 74 words
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24. British Broadcasting Corporation 476 words
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25. 14 to 16-year-olds (Remands) 180 words
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26. Taxis (London) 98 words
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27. Fire Service (Pensions) 97 words
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28. Channel Islands (Charters) 88 words
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29. Immigrants (Gynaecological Tests) 79 words
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30. Racial Equality 101 words
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31. Latin America (Refugees) 174 words
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32. Prisons (Disturbances) 657 words
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33. Shops Act 1950 49 words
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34. Obscenity (Williams Committee Report) 66 words
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35. Road Traffic Offences 63 words
29. ENERGY
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1. Nuclear Waste (Transportation) 481 words
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2. British National Oil Corporation 118 words
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3. Liquefied Natural Gas 131 words
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4. Severnside (Development) 93 words
30. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Pupil Costs 374 words
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2. Shoreditch College/Brunel University (Merger) 56 words
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3. School Meals 160 words
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4. Nursery Education 138 words
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5. Cystic Fibrosis 185 words
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6. Schools (London) 157 words
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7. Schools (Cessation of Maintenance) 50 words
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8. Centre for Information and Advice on Educational Disadvantage 139 words
31. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Employment Transfer Scheme 116 words
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2. Benefits (Availability for Work) 118 words
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3. Health and Safety Executive (Inspectors) 133 words
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4. Disabled Persons 360 words
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5. Coal Mining (Safety Standards) 94 words
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6. Work Permits 253 words
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7. Mines Inspectors 311 words
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8. European Community—United Kingdom (Balance of Trade) 98 words
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9. Clegg Commission 40 words
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10. Hotel and Catering Industry 232 words
32. DEFENCE
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1. Neutron Bomb 77 words
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2. NATO (Ammunition and Supplies) 84 words
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3. Operation "Nifty Nugget" 58 words
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4. Military Expenditure 62 words
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5. Catterick Camp (Married Quarters) 100 words
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6. Armed Forces (Trade Union Membership) 113 words
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7. Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich 260 words
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8. Small Businesses 50 words
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9. Royal Navy 73 words
33. WALES
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1. Severnside (Development) 102 words
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2. Public Expenditure 99 words
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3. Further Education 53 words
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4. Departmental Statements 99 words
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5. Education (Expenditure) 94 words
34. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Electricity Discount Scheme 298 words
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2. National Health Service Employees 335 words
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3. Fuel Bills 241 words
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4. Heating Allowance 82 words
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5. Cleveland (Nursing Staff) 295 words
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6. Supplementary Benefit (Rent Contribution) 140 words
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7. Family Incomes 345 words
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8. Giro 81 words
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9. Masectomy 244 words
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10. Children Act 1975 268 words
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11. Breast Cancer (Surgery) 71 words
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12. Long-stay Patients (Children) 127 words
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13. Cigarette Smoking 76 words
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14. Darryn James Clarke 124 words
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15. Family Practitioner Committees 61 words
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16. Children at Risk 85 words
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17. Non-contributory Invalidity Pension 61 words
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18. Paul Brown 111 words
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19. Broadmoor Hospital 122 words
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35. Contraceptive Advice 64 words
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36. Area Health Authorities (Expenditure) 79 words
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37. Health Services Expenditure 501 words
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38. Plastic Lenses 229 words
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39. Social Security Payments 125 words
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40. Family Allowances 73 words
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41. Cystic Fibrosis 76 words
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42. Heating Costs 221 words
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43. Family Income 101 words
44. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Interest Rates 104 words
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2. British Petroleum 65 words
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3. Net Disposable Income 84 words
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4. Luncheon Vouchers 226 words
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5. Government Loans 67 words
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6. Personal Output and Taxation 217 words
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7. Unredeemed Currency 102 words
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8. Bank Notes (Denominations) 83 words
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9. Capital Gains Tax 82 words
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10. Double Taxation 707 words
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11. Expenditure 86 words
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12. Personal Incomes 108 words
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13. London Commodity Markets 67 words
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14. North Sea Oil and Gas 213 words
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15. European Community (Budget) 120 words
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16. Mobility Allowance 40 words
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17. Building Industry 93 words
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18. Premium Bonds 86 words
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19. National Savings Certificates 253 words
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20. Nationalised Industries 97 words
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21. National Savings (Payments) 60 words
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22. Parliamentary Questions 138 words
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23. Building Societies 76 words
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24. Expenditure 174 words
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25. Personal Taxation 163 words
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26. Health and Personal Social Services 130 words
45. TRADE
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1. Channel Tunnel 164 words
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2. Third London Airport 89 words
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3. Airports Policy 81 words
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4. Textiles 622 words
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5. Iron and Steel Products 72 words
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6. Mechanical Engineering Products 66 words
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7. Sewing Machines 79 words
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8. Building Societies Association 65 words
46. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Rent and Rate Rebates (Earnings Disregard) 110 words
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2. Liverpool (Inner City Partnership) 116 words
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3. Residential Property 50 words
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4. Miss Joyce Burnett 100 words
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5. Packington Street, London 170 words
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6. Home Ownership Group (Report) 83 words
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7. Local Authorities (Extraordinary Audits) 304 words
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8. Lead Pollution (Biological Screening) 232 words
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9. Snares 88 words
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10. Temple Bar 71 words
47. TRANSPORT
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1. Nuclear Waste (Transportation) 612 words
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2. M25 145 words
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3. Roads (Construction and Maintenance) 547 words
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4. British Rail (Subsidy) 137 words
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5. London Transport (Violence) 332 words
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6. Road Accidents 75 words
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7. Roads and Transport (Expenditure) 52 words
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8. Motor Cycles (Accidents) 137 words
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9. Severnside (Development) 107 words
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10. Disabled Drivers 102 words
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11. Dangerous Substances (Carriage) 102 words
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12. Stocksbridge-Penistone Bypass 94 words
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13. Beatrice Oilfield 52 words
48. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Coal 195 words
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2. Eastern Health and Social Services Board 97 words
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3. Carrickmore—Crossmaglen (Security) 69 words
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4. Prison Population 182 words
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5. Prison Staff 103 words
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6. Ballygowan Road, Castlereagh 149 words
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7. School Leavers (Employment) 435 words
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8. Royal Ulster Constabulary (Arms Supplies) 194 words
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9. Schools 312 words

Lords Sitting of 15 November 1979 Series 5 Vol. 402

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1. Preamble 21 words
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2. COMMERCIAL RETURNS 841 words
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3. TEXTILE IMPORTS FROMNEW EEC MEMBERS 994 words
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4. EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION AND SMALL BUSINESSES 524 words
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5. INTERFERENCE WITH RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES 944 words
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6. MONETARY POLICY 35 words
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7. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [H.L.] 13 words
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8. CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL 4,587 words
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9. MONETARY POLICY 4,543 words
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10. CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL 308 words
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11. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (GREEK ACCESSION) BILL 10 words
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12. SHIPBUILDING BILL 10 words
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13. INSURANCE COMPANIES BILL [H.L.] 66 words
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14. LEGAL AID (SCOTLAND) (FINANCIAL CONDITIONS) (No. 2) REGULATIONS 1979 1,240 words
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15. LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE (SCOTLAND) (FINANCIAL CONDITIONS) (No. 4) REGULATIONS 1979 50 words
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16. HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT BOARD AREA EXTENSION ORDER 1979 1,100 words
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17. INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1979 196 words
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18. ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1979 712 words
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19. TAX, CONSUMER CREDIT AND JUDICATURE (NORTHERN IRELAND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ORDER 1979 117 words
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20. LEGAL AID, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1979 1,407 words
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21. FLUORIDE IN WATER SUPPLIES 19,227 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 15 November 1979 Series 5 Vol. 402

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1. IMMIGRATION: AGE ESTIMATES IN DACCA 253 words
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2. IMMIGRATION: INTERVIEW OF APPLICANTS IN DACCA 120 words
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3. IMMIGRATION: TAPE-RECORDED INTERVIEWS IN THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT 52 words
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4. IMMIGRATION: IDENTIFICATION OF PATRIAL APPLICANTS IN DACCA 66 words
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5. DACCA HIGH COMMISSION EMPLOYEES: DISMISSAL 73 words
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6. DACCA HIGH COMMISSION: ALLEGATIONS OF BRIBERY 93 words
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7. IMMIGRATION: APPEAL STATEMENTS: DELAY IN DACCA 111 words
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8. IMMIGRATION APPLICATIONS: INTERVIEW TIMES IN DACCA 90 words
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9. "THE SYLHET TAX PATTERN" 77 words
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10. IMMIGRATION APPLICATIONS: REFERMENT OR DEFERMENT AFTER INTERVIEW IN DACCA 117 words
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11. IMMIGRATION: INSTRUCTIONS ON MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS 154 words
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12. SNARES: PERMITTED USE 72 words
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13. HORSEMEAT EXPORTS TO EEC COUNTRIES 93 words
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14. SPECIAL POLICE PROTECTION: DIVISION OF COST 111 words
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15. IMPRISONMENT: CERTAIN SERIOUS OFFENCES 190 words
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16. SLAUGHTERHOUSES: RITUAL SLAUGHTER 51 words
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17. MERSEYSIDE DOCKLANDS: UDC 162 words