Sitting of 30 April 1980

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Commons Sitting of 30 April 1980 Series 5 Vol. 983

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. ENVIRONMENT
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1. House Purchase (Interest Rates) 720 words
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2. Olympic Games 723 words
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3. Council Dwellings (Inner London) 627 words
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4. Young Families (Housing) 473 words
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5. Durham Beaches (Cleaning) 350 words
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6. Water Services Charges 1,010 words
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7. Rate Increases 459 words
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8. Southern Wafer Authority 359 words
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9. Housing Corporation 378 words
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10. Council House Sales 524 words
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11. Sheltered Housing 228 words
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12. Low-cost Home Ownership 286 words
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13. Local Authorities (Home Loan Lending) 737 words
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14. Caravan Sites (Designation) 514 words
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15. Coastline Erosion (South Shields) 185 words
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16. Wildlife and Countryside Legislation 272 words
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17. Rates (Value for Money) 332 words
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18. Lead in Water 321 words
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19. Tameside 147 words
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20. Consultative Council on Local Government Finance 459 words
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4. IRANIAN EMBASSY, LONDON 266 words
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5. PRISONS 5,890 words
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6. THE MAY REPORT: RECOMMENDATIONS ON ORGANISATION 1,144 words
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7. UNEMPLOYMENT (WALES) 529 words
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8. LAND DRAINAGE (AMENDMENT) 707 words
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1. LAND DRAINAGE (AMENDMENT) 44 words
9. ORDERS OF THE DAY
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1. EMPLOYMENT BILL 8 words
1. Clause 10
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1. NOTICES TO EMPLOYER 14,310 words, 1 division
2. Clause 11
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1. RIGHT TO RETURN 5,597 words, 1 division
3. Clause 13
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1. GUARANTEE PAYMENTS 1,453 words
4. Clause 14
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1. ACTION SHORT OF DISMISSAL RELATING TO TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES 91 words
5. Clause 15
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1. PICKETING 17,078 words, 2 divisions
6. Schedule 1
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1. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS 18 words
7. Schedule 2
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1. REPEALS 7,278 words
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10. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 31 words
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11. EMPLOYMENT BILL 9,375 words, 1 division
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12. BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL 3 words
1. Clause 1
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1. VESTING OF PROPERTY, ETC., OF BRITISH AEROSPACE IN A COMPANY NOMINATED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE 10,443 words, 1 division
2. Clause 8
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1. LIABILITY OF THE SUCCESSOR COMPANY FOR DEFAULTING SUBSIDIARY WHERE CAUSE OF ACTION AROSE BEFORE APPOINTED DAY 2,178 words
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13. WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL 4,565 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 30 April 1980 Series 5 Vol. 983

1. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Restricted Patients 168 words
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2. Invalidity Insurance Schemes 69 words
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3. Maternity Allowance 70 words
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4. General Practitioners (Complaints) 87 words
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5. Foster Children (Boarding-Out Allowances) 5,906 words
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6. Hospitals (Complaints) 196 words
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7. Mental Health (Legislation) 61 words
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8. War Disabled Pensioners 86 words
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9. National Insurance Benefits 246 words
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10. Anti-smoking Campaigns 53 words
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11. National Insurance Beneficiaries (Child Support Uprating) 120 words
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12. National Insurance Fund 71 words
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13. Communicable Diseases Report 368 words
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14. Debendox 229 words
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15. Drugs (Safety in Use) 123 words
2. ENERGY
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1. Colliery Waste (Vale of Belvoir) 61 words
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2. National Coal Board 127 words
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3. National Oil Account 131 words
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4. Coal Industry Working Party 189 words
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5. Quangos 599 words
3. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Wales (Redundancies) 365 words
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2. Homeworking 124 words
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3. Construction Industry 227 words
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4. Merseyside 131 words
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5. Health and Safety 148 words
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6. Disabled Persons 416 words
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7. Unemployed Persons 82 words
4. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Microelectronics 155 words
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2. Electricity Service 200 words
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3. Economic Council 145 words
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4. Child Minders 143 words
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5. Medical Scanners 171 words
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6. Housing Executive (Grants) 139 words
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7. Mr. Frederick Victor Wilson 152 words
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8. Housing Action Areas 91 words
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9. Vehicle Taxation 263 words
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10. Doctors 92 words
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11. Planning Appeals 44 words
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12. Mentally Disordered Persons 125 words
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13. Housing Expenditure 133 words
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14. Housing Stock (Belfast) 147 words
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15. Matthew Stopline (Castlereagh Borough) 50 words
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16. Property Valuations (Appeals) 114 words
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17. Social Security Benefits 110 words
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18. Industrial Undertakings (Outside Companies) 202 words
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19. Prisoners (Special Category Status) 151 words
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20. GOVERNMENT POLICIES 114 words
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21. OPTION MORTGAGE SCHEME (ELDERLY PERSONS) 111 words
5. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Water and Sewerage Charges 56 words
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2. Council House Sales 61 words
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3. Olympic Games 194 words
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4. Enterprise Zones 62 words
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5. Local Government Manpower 90 words
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6. New Towns (Sales of Assets) 84 words
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7. Effluent Disposal 58 words
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8. Local Authority Associations 44 words
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9. Building Societies Association 60 words
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10. Rent and Rate Rebates 133 words
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11. House Building 89 words
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12. Development Commission (Review Group Report) 49 words
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13. National Ice Skating Centre 111 words
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14. Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (Compensation Claims) 46 words
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15. Central Berkshire Structure Plan 78 words
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16. Inner Urban Areas (Assistance to Voluntary Bodies) 40 words
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17. Departmental Manpower 129 words
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18. Water Charges 120 words
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19. Sheltered Housing 42 words
6. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. International Monetary Fund (Loan) 46 words
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2. Value Added Tax 162 words
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3. Benefits (Taxation Treatment) 199 words
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4. Objects in Lieu of Estate Duty 183 words
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5. National Debt 219 words
7. TRADE
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1. Air Traffic Control Systems 159 words
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2. Purchasing Policy 99 words
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3. Export Services 139 words
8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Fisheries Projects 53 words
9. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Educational Responsibilities (London) 126 words
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2. School Meals 66 words
10. SCOTLAND
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1. Royal Commission on Legal Services 39 words
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2. Tertiary Education (Dundee) 52 words
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3. Local Authorities (Decisions of Sub-committees) 103 words
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4. Cardiac Surgery Units (Funding) 279 words
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5. Open-heart Surgery 208 words
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6. Island Fanners 42 words
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7. Children's Hearings System 52 words
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8. Housing Co-operatives 95 words
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9. Divorce Procedure 108 words
11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Gibraltar 96 words
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2. Jonas Savimbi (Meetings) 85 words
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3. Saudi Arabia (British Subjects) 113 words
12. DEFENCE
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1. Exercise " Elder Forest 80 " 175 words
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2. Ulster Defence Regiment 263 words
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3. Air Traffic Control Radar Systems 83 words
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4. Northern Ireland (Troop Levels) 148 words
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5. NATO Exercise 62 words
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6. Volunteer Services 81 words
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7. Defence Establishments (Redundancies) 59 words
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8. Trafalgar Cemetery, Gibraltar 89 words
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9. Royal Dockyard Policy Board 59 words
13. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Herbicide 2,4,5-T 77 words
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2. Green Pound 162 words
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3. Common Fisheries Policy 150 words
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4. White Fish Authority and Herring Industry Board 45 words
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5. Forestry Policy 46 words
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6. Battery Hens 89 words
14. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. World Administrative Radio Conference (Frequency Changes) 350 words
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2. Marches 72 words
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3. St. Paul's Area, Bristol (Riots) 84 words
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4. Winchester Prison (Detained Boy) 161 words
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5. Riding Establishments Acts 97 words
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6. National Front March (Lewisham) 47 words
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7. Drake Hall (Departmental Investigation) 47 words
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8. Commission for Racial Equality (Membership) 76 words
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9. Senior Police Officers (Public Statements) 68 words
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10. Immigrants (Admission of Relatives) 86 words
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11. Custodial Remands 146 words
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12. Mentally III Prisoners 245 words
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13. Quangos 1,536 words
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14. Alternative Research 31 words
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15. Immigration 128 words
15. WALES
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1. Welsh Development Agency (Investments and Loans) 92 words
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2. Roads (Expenditure) 314 words
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3. Mountain Area Framing 109 words
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4. Welsh Agriculture 54 words
16. TRANSPORT
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1. Licensed Motor Vehicles 364 words
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2. Motorways 82 words
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3. Roads (Expenditure) 83 words
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4. Reflector Discs 95 words
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5. Heavy Lorries (Traffic Management) 63 words
17. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Water Charges 45 words
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2. Merseyside (Urban Aid Programme) 39 words
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3. Enterprise Zones 123 words
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4. Sellindge (Electricity Converter Station) 121 words
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5. Council House Sales 94 words
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6. Liverpool Inner City Area Partnership Committee 37 words
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7. Land Registers 35 words
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8. Improvement Grants 166 words
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9. Water Rates (Rebate Scheme) 53 words
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10. Building Control Consent (Fees) 87 words
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11. Domestic Rates (Reform) 59 words
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12. Local Authority Associations 65 words
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13. Rate Support Grant (Representations) 123 words
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14. Council House Building 40 words
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15. Home Improvements Council 79 words
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16. Local Government, Planning and Land (No. 2) Bill (Compulsory Purchase Powers) 184 words
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17. Local Authority Finance 99 words
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18. Single Homeless People (Brent Report) 117 words
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19. Council House Sales 417 words
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20. Urban Programme and Housing Cost Yardstick 221 words
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21. Rate Rebates 48 words
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22. Departmental Staff 382 words
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23. Rate Rebate Scheme 50 words
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24. Local Taxation (Reform) 57 words
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25. Planning Applications (Charges) 102 words
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26. House Building 508 words
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27. Unsold Public Sector Houses 144 words
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28. Home Insulation Grants 170 words
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29. Rent Officer Service 135 words

Lords Sitting of 30 April 1980 Series 5 Vol. 408

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL AND THE FLOWERS REPORT 1,551 words
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3. NATIONAL FRONT MARCH IN LEWISHAM 1,336 words
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4. CONSERVATION: THE MAFF CAPITAL GRANT SCHEMES 1,176 words
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5. RENT INCREASES: SUGGESTED LIMITS 1,446 words
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6. SOCIAL SECURITY BILL 74 words
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7. POST OFFICE SERVICES 2,611 words
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8. IRANIAN EMBASSY INCIDENT 71 words
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9. PRISONS 1,261 words
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10. THE MAY REPORT: RECOMMENDATIONS ON ORGANISATION 5,161 words
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11. POST OFFICE SERVICES 19,367 words
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12. LOCAL GOVERNMENT GRANTS (ETHNIC GROUPS) BILL [H.L.] 10,014 words
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13. THE CHILDREN ACT 1975 8,414 words
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14. ALEXANDRA PARK AND PALACE BILL [H.L.] 7 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 30 April 1980 Series 5 Vol. 408

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1. EDUCATION DISCRETIONARY AWARDS 68 words
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2. FULL VALUE DISCRETIONARY AWARDS IN 1978–79—NUMBER AND LEA EXPENDITURE ON MAINTENANCE AND FEES, FOR ENGLAND AND WALES 940 words
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3. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND UKIAS/UNHCR 94 words
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4. UN DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE: MEMBERSHIP 77 words
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5. LIVE ANIMAL EXPORTS: PORTSMOUTH CITY COUNCIL BILL 65 words
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6. BULL CALVES: EXPORT TO ITALY 78 words
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7. IMF LOAN: BALANCE OUTSTANDING 50 words