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Commons Sitting of 3 April 1980 Series 5 Vol. 982

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Diplock Courts (Status of Convicted Persons) 828 words
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2. Constitutional Conference 1,635 words
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3. Security 1,109 words
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4. Irish Congress of Trade Unions 532 words
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5. Elected Local Authorities 386 words
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6. De Lorean Motor Company Limited 1,029 words
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7. Publicly Owned Buildings (Sale) 639 words
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8. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 960 words
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9. AFGHANISTAN 815 words
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10. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 588 words
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4. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 3,181 words
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5. COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND WESTERN EUROPEAN UNION DELEGATIONS 204 words
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6. BRISTOL (DISTURBANCE) 3,363 words
1. BILL PRESENTED
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2. FILMS 66 words
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3. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS. &c 18 words
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4. CIVIL AVIATION 25 words
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5. EASIER ADJOURNMENT DEBATES 33 words
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7. FORESTRY COMMISSION 5,430 words
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8. SCHOOLS (TEACHING VALUES) 5,040 words
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9. ROYAL ASSENT 52 words
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10. SCHOOLS (TEACHING VALUES) 2,408 words
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11. CAMBODIA 3,711 words
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12. INTERNATIONAL SPORTS COMPANY LIMITED, MERSEYSIDE 4,395 words
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13. RATES (GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTION) 3,753 words
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14. IMMIGRATION PROCEDURES 3,886 words
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15. OLDCHURCH HOSPITAL, ROMFORD 4,099 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 3 April 1980 Series 5 Vol. 982

1. ENERGY
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1. Natural Gas and Electricity 243 words
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2. Dungeness B Power Station 167 words
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3. Coal (Production Costs) 98 words
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4. Coal 118 words
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5. North Sea Oil 255 words
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6. Nuclear Power Stations 154 words
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7. Gas Prices (Horticulture Industry) 158 words
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8. Gas Monopoly (Exemption) 63 words
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9. Energy Demand 84 words
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10. Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors (Heysham and Torness) 90 words
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11. North Sea Licences (Seventh Round) 79 words
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12. North Sea Oil (Taxation) 68 words
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13. North Sea Oil and Gas Installations (Safety) 187 words
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14. North Sea Rigs 444 words
2. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Student Unions (Finance) 138 words
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2. Central Advisory Councils 46 words
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3. State Schools (Non-public Funds) 90 words
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4. Certificate of Extended Education 141 words
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5. I-level Examination 109 words
3. INDUSTRY
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1. British Steel Corporation 98 words
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2. Steel Industry 94 words
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3. Mr. J. Lippitt 161 words
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4. Computers 134 words
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5. JUVENILE COURTS (BLACK MAGISTRATES) 66 words
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6. POLICE (ILLEGAL ACTION) 105 words
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7. DEBT RECOVERY 70 words
4. SCOTLAND
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1. Scottish Office (Staffing) 89 words
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2. Households (Statistics) 79 words
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3. Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 33 words
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4. Poisons (Misuse) 64 words
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5. Small Hospitals 98 words
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6. Quarrying (Longhaven) 129 words
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7. East Aberdeenshire (Job Creation) 208 words
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8. Fraserburgh Hospital 86 words
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9. Interception of Communications 49 words
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10. Grampian Region 176 words
5. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Countryside (Misuse of Poisons) 43 words
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2. Liquid Milk 143 words
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3. Transhipment of Fish (White Fish Authority Levy) 177 words
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4. Agricultural Wastes 58 words
6. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. Circulation of Information 105 words
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2. Sudan (University of Juba) 92 words
7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Rhodesia 6 per cent. Stock 87 words
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2. Republic of Ireland 93 words
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3. Embassies (Alcoholic Beverages) 148 words
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4. Namibia 82 words
8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Foreign Aid Programme 101 words
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2. INSULATION STANDARDS FOR BUILDINGS (DEPARTMENTAL CO-ORDINATION) 39 words
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3. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 504 words
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4. TEXTILE INDUSTRY 70 words
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5. MIDDLE EAST 141 words
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6. HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING (AGENDA) 49 words
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7. NEWBURGH 24 words
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8. CBI 26 words
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9. FAMILY POLICY 33 words
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10. TOWN CLERK, MANCHESTER (REPRESENTATIONS) 138 words
9. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. "Tougher Regimes Pilot Project" 120 words
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2. New Hall Prison 115 words
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3. Wormwood Scrubs Prison 197 words
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4. Licensed Premises (Inner London) 76 words
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5. Prisoners (Pay Telephones) 156 words
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6. Mr. David Logden 75 words
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7. Firearms and Shotguns 308 words
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8. House Fires (Electricity Disconnections) 65 words
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9. Tribunal on the Crown Agents 198 words
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10. Iranian Nationals (Drug Offences) 202 words
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11. Police Constables (Oath) 84 words
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12. Religious Bodies (Annual Accounts) 66 words
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13. British Nationality 67 words
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14. Poisons and Poisoned Baits 140 words
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15. London Taxi Fares 304 words
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16. Credit Cards 86 words
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17. Money Supply 77 words
10. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Building Society Mortgages 255 words
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2. Personal Credit 90 words
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3. Company Cars 100 words
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4. Exchange Rate 87 words
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5. Budget Speech 131 words
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6. Economic Service 65 words
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7. Whisky, Beer and Cigarettes 165 words
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8. Objects in Lieu of Duty 132 words
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9. Nationalised Industries (Specific Directions) 73 words
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10. £ Sterling 81 words
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11. Value Added Tax 85 words
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12. Independent Schools (Endowments and Covenants) 55 words
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13. Royal Family 56 words
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14. Income Tax 906 words
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15. National Land Fund 95 words
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16. Average Mark-Ups 133 words
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17. HRH The Princess Anne 48 words
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18. Farm Income 96 words
11. TRANSPORT
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1. Tachographs 117 words
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2. Oxford to Birmingham Route 239 words
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3. Bus Support Grant 85 words
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4. Trunk Road Construction 178 words
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5. Motorways (Building and Maintenance) 356 words
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6. Dartford Tunnel 51 words
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7. Vehicles (Illegal Use) 71 words
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8. Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment 124 words
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9. Trains (Emergency Telephones) 120 words
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10. Closed Railway Lines (Re-opening) 88 words
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11. Nuclear Waste (Transport) 99 words
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12. Monowheel Trailer 52 words
12. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Housing Co-operatives 72 words
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2. Housing Corporation 202 words
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3. Housing Bill (Pre-emption Provisions) 75 words
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4. New Town Assets (Sale) 326 words
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5. Archaeological Digs, Christchurch 85 words
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6. Housing Expenditure 97 words
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7. Countryside (Poison and Poisoned Substances) 155 words
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8. Local Government, Planning and Land (No. 2) Bill 131 words
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9. Merseyside County Council Deputation 37 words
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10. Liverpool Inner City Partnership 160 words
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11. Property Advisory Group 41 words
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12. Inner City Areas (Revitalisation) 102 words
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13. Departmental Internal Audit 46 words
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14. Public Sector Sheltered Dwellings (Lifts) 224 words
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15. Brick-making (Bedfordshire) 94 words
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16. Sulphur Dioxide Emissions 149 words
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17. Royal Observatory 189 words
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18. Oil Pollution (North Northumberland Coast) 173 words
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19. Educational Charities (Rate Relief) 72 words
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20. Building Repair Costs 97 words
13. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Pensions 334 words
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2. Select Committees (Evidence) 109 words
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3. Republic of Ireland Citizens 62 words
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4. Manpower 205 words
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5. Governmental Statistical Services 114 words
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6. Salaries 815 words
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7. Departmental Manpower 239 words
14. TRADE
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1. Airport Landing Fees 97 words
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2. Concorde 113 words
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3. Manufactured Goods 128 words
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4. Inorganic Chemicals, Precious Metals and Radioactive Materials 152 words
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5. Pollution at Sea 104 words
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6. Man-made Fibres Industry 130 words
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7. Continuous Polyamide Fibres 330 words
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8. European Community (Manufactures) 71 words
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9. Pub Swaps and Draught Ales 191 words
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10. Company and Business Names 175 words
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11. Multi-fibre Arrangement 331 words
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12. GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (CORRESPONDENCE) 99 words
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13. DETAINED PERSONS (DEATHS) 968 words
15. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Currency Values 42 words
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2. European Community Funds 68 words
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3. Improvement Schemes 114 words
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4. Sectarian Education 85 words
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5. Electricity Prices 110 words
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6. Security 107 words
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7. House Building (East Belfast) 183 words
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8. Local Government Reorganisation 66 words
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9. Homeless Households 189 words
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10. Public Bodies (Chief Officers) 66 words
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11. Pickering's Factory, Coleraine 79 words
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12. District Councils 1,274 words
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13. Council Members and Officials (Visits) 58 words
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14. Bail 79 words
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15. Political Progress 67 words
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16. European Social Fund (Receipts) 448 words
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17. Rates 155 words
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18. Northern Ireland Economic Council 80 words
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19. European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund 418 words
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20. Public Expenditure 73 words
16. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Health Authority Officials (Resignations and Retirements) 90 words
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2. Heart Operations (Merseyside) 242 words
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3. Doctors (Warning Notices) 51 words
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4. Thames Regional Health Authorities (Losses) 71 words
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5. Family Practitioner Committee (Coventry) 143 words
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6. Radiographers (Clegg Commission Report) 115 words
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7. Skull Radiology 110 words
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8. Radiographers and Chiropodists (Clegg Commission) 500 words
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9. Patients (Medication Costs) 96 words
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10. Marriage (Statistics) 54 words
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11. Members of Tribunals (Breaches of Confidentiality) 56 words
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12. Smoking 983 words
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13. Unemployment Benefit 151 words
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14. Professions Supplementary to Medicine 496 words
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15. Hospital Waiting Lists and Bed Occupancy Rate (Cheshire) 155 words
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16. District Hospital Centre (Burton) 86 words
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17. Community Hospital (Uttoxeter) 84 words
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18. Depo Provera 128 words
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19. Committee on Safety of Medicines 66 words
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20. Laboratory Scientific Officers 83 words
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21. Prescriptions 1,245 words
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22. Drugs 212 words
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23. Regional Health Authorities 83 words
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24. Area Health Authorities (Decisions) 199 words
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25. Leaflet N112 (Unemployment Benefit) 79 words
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26. Psychiatric Hospitals (In-patients) 248 words
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27. Regional Secure Psychiatric Units 139 words
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28. Private Health Insurance 158 words
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29. Chronic Diseases (Prescription Charges) 95 words
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30. Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Commissioners 66 words
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31. Mesothelioma 134 words
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32. "Notes and News" 102 words
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33. Kidney Machines 64 words
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34. Arthritic and Rheumatic Diseases (Prescription Charges) 65 words
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35. Unemployment Benefit (Earnings-Related Supplement) 272 words
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36. Occupational Pensions 450 words
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37. Unemployed Persons (Benefits) 66 words
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38. Compulsory Retirement Age 106 words
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39. Unemployment Benefit (Test of Availability) 83 words
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40. Occupational Pensioners (Unemployment Benefit) 93 words
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41. Children (Departmental Responsibilities) 230 words
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42. Children in Care (Costs) 45 words
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43. Supplementary Benefit (Form BO 3TD) 58 words
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44. Supplementary Benefit (Prisoners' Families) 79 words
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45. Earnings-related Sickness and Unemployment Benefits 281 words
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46. National Insurance Contributions (Upper Earnings Limit) 109 words
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47. Supplementary Benefit (Classification of Claimants) 111 words
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48. Balderton Hospital 144 words
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49. Unmarried Mothers (Supplementary Benefit) 69 words
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50. Departmental Investigators 152 words
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51. Means-tested Benefits Experiment (Brighton) 106 words
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52. 1981 Census 90 words
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53. Census (Ethnic Question) 112 words
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54. Strike Pay 127 words
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55. Children in Care 365 words
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56. Drugs (Adverse Reaction) 131 words
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57. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons 472 words
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58. Field Workers—Administrators 229 words
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59. Family Incomes 1,004 words
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60. Medicines (Child Safety) 127 words
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61. Administrators (Statistics) 350 words
17. DEFENCE
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1. Strategic Nuclear Deterrent 68 words
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2. Expenditure 213 words
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3. Republic of Ireland Citizens 93 words
18. WALES
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1. Manpower Watch, December 1979 52 words
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2. Advance Factories 92 words
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3. Health Service Organisation 86 words
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4. Second Homes (Arson) 52 words
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5. Housing Stock 203 words
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6. Job Creation 142 words
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7. Conwy Estuary (Crossing) 105 words
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8. Listed Buildings (Demolition) 109 words
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9. Building Regulation Approval (Charges) 64 words
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10. Housing Invesment Programmes 164 words
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11. Merthyr Borough Council (Housing) 195 words
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12. Housing Investment Programmes (Mid-Glamorgan) 189 words
19. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Home Insulation 66 words
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2. Engineering Apprentices 137 words
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3. Unskilled Jobs 35 words
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4. Craft Apprenticeship Places 33 words
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5. Unemployment (Smethwick) 374 words
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6. Members' Salaries 574 words
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7. South Crofty Tin Mine 457 words
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8. Retail Price Index 113 words
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9. Employment Statistics 1,476 words
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10. Employment Protection Act 151 words
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11. Retail Price Index 35 words
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12. Prices 132 words
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13. Youth Opportunities Programme 583 words
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14. Unemployment Statistics 86 words
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15. Community Industry Programme (Manchester) 125 words

Lords Sitting of 3 April 1980 Series 5 Vol. 407

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1. Preamble 21 words
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2. THE VISIT OF DR. VILJOEN 1,009 words
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3. CIVILIAN GALLANTRY: RECOGNITION AND REWARD 269 words
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4. ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS 576 words
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5. TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS: OFFICIAL INTERCEPTION 1,277 words
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6. EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [H.L.] 65 words
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7. SOCIAL SECURITY BILL 132 words
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8. DISTURBANCES AT BRISTOL 3,535 words
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9. EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL 9 words
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10. HUMBERSIDE BILL [H.L.] 13 words
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11. FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE (REIGATE) BILL [H.L.] 25 words
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12. LIMITATION AMENDMENT BILL [H.L.] 14 words
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13. ROYAL ASSENT 70 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 3 April 1980 Series 5 Vol. 407

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1. "GONE FOR A SOLDIER" 116 words
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2. STATUTORY LEGACY: ADJUSTMENT OF LEVEL 79 words
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3. IMMIGRATION RULES: PARAGRAPH 10 128 words
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4. IMMIGRATION: THE CASE OF MRS BHAGAN 124 words