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Commons Sitting of 2 June 1980 Series 5 Vol. 985

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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3. KIRIBATI (INDEPENDENCE GIFT) 65 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. WALES
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1. Unemployment 740 words
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2. Road Programme 376 words
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3. Sheep and Beef Rearing 461 words
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4. Industrial Sites (Newport) 461 words
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5. Water Rates 342 words
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6. Welsh Language 618 words
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7. Bilingual Education 275 words
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8. Assisted Places Scheme 229 words
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9. Coal Industry (South Wales) 529 words
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10. Steel Closures 914 words
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11. Local Government Manpower 487 words
2. INDUSTRY
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1. Manufacturing Industry 428 words
3. TRADE
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1. Defective Products (European Community Directive) 401 words
4. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Richmond Park (Deer) 554 words
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5. NATIONAL HERITAGE FUND 360 words
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6. PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT 803 words
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7. NATIONAL HERITAGE TRUSTEES (HEADQUARTERS) 299 words
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8. WELSH LANGUAGE 195 words
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5. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL MEETING) 5,001 words
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6. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING) 4,548 words
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7. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 283 words
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8. MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS 263 words
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9. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY 511 words
10. ORDERS OF THE DAY
1. FINANCE (No. 2) BILL
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1. (Clauses Nos. 10, 17,18, 20, 23, 53, 68 and 91) 10 words
2. Clause 10
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1. REGULATOR POWERS 28,669 words, 1 division
3. Clause 17
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1. CHARGE OF INCOME TAX FOR 1980–81 AND ABOLITION OF LOWER RATE 21,737 words, 2 divisions
4. Clause 18
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1. CHARGE OF CORPORATION TAX FOR FINANCIAL YEAR 1979 1,848 words
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11. DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY 3,171 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 2 June 1980 Series 5 Vol. 985

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1. CUSTODY OF CHILDREN (EUROPEAN CONVENTION) 162 words
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2. DAY OF ACTION (SCOTLAND) 86 words
3. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Departmental Circulars 76 words
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2. Small Businesses 49 words
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3. Domestic Employment 46 words
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4. Wages Councils (Private School Employment) 32 words
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5. TUC 82 words
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6. Youth Opportunities Programme 271 words
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7. Redundancies (Bolton) 322 words
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8. Disabled Persons 630 words
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9. Manufacturing Industries 179 words
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10. Dartford 935 words
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11. Chiropody Surgeries 56 words
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12. Pharmaceutical Industry 78 words
4. TRADE
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1. Electrical Machinery (1979 Import Prices) 95 words
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2. Departmental Circulars 47 words
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3. Petrol Outlets 90 words
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4. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 38 words
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5. National Economic Development Council 117 words
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6. Anti-dumping Measures 210 words
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7. Foreign Manufacturers (Quotas) 86 words
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8. Trade Patterns 130 words
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9. Textiles 60 words
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10. Imports 377 words
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11. Southern Water Authority 79 words
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12. Estate Agents (Regulations) 79 words
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13. Foreign Airlines (Aircraft Maintenance) 174 words
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14. Tenerife Air Crash 119 words
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15. SS " Richard Montgomery " 180 words
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16. Textile and Clothing Imports 48 words
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17. Textiles and Clothing (Imports—Exports) 148 words
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18. Frozen Cod Fillets (Imports) 128 words
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19. DEPARTMENTAL STAFF 78 words
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20. GYPSUM AND LIMESTONE 176 words
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21. CIVIL SERVICE MANPOWER 373 words
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22. TUC 112 words
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23. NATIONAL HERITAGE FUND 52 words
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24. EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS) 331 words
5. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Bolivia (Mining Aid Project) 68 words
6. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Civil Service Manpower 322 words
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2. " Protect and Survive " Pamphlet 103 words
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3. Departmental Circulars 73 words
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4. Institution of Professional Civil Servants 168 words
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5. DAY OF ACTION 95 words
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6. DEPARTMENTAL CIRCULARS 32 words
7. TRADE
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1. Departmental Staff 294 words
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2. African Workers (Wages) 203 words
8. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Members' Correspondence 175 words
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2. Prison Officers (Accommodation) 110 words
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3. Police Operations (Wales) 46 words
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4. Detained Persons (Costs) 91 words
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5. Young Offenders 46 words
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6. Civil Defence 181 words
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7. Offensive Weapons 31 words
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8. Criminal Records Files (East Ham) 126 words
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9. Prison Services 101 words
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10. Irish Citizens (Voting Rights) 52 words
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11. Police Station (Dyfed/Powys) 110 words
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12. Demonstrators (Royal Albert Hall) 111 words
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13. Corruption Allegations (Lancashire) 64 words
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14. Departmental Staff 222 words
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15. Day of Action 90 words
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16. Departmental Circulars 122 words
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17. Prison Accommodation 1,121 words
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18. Wormwood Scrubs Prison (Parliamentary Visit) 76 words
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19. Electoral Boundaries 114 words
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20. Noise Abatement Act 120 words
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21. Children and Young Persons 213 words
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22. Litter Act 265 words
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23. Police Pay 196 words
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24. Prison Detentions (Drunken and Subnormal Persons) 125 words
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25. Salmon Poaching 137 words
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26. Violent Crime (Statistics) 150 words
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27. TURNER GALLERY 66 words
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28. DAY OF ACTION 114 words
9. PALACE OF WESTMINSTER
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1. Members and Staff 284 words
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2. DEPARTMENTAL CIRCULARS 83 words
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3. LONDON MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY AND THE RIVER 104 words
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4. ARTS AND LIBRARIES (LOCAL AUTHORITY EXPENDITURE) 112 words
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5. BRITISH LIBRARY 161 words
10. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Public Bodies 187 words
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2. Income Tax 41 words
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3. TEN COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST STARTING RATES OF INCOME TAX 358 words
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4. Inflation 380 words
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5. Unemployment (Treasury Forecasts) 108 words
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6. Manufacturing Output 84 words
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7. Bank of England (Company Shares) 68 words
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8. Departmental Circulars 45 words
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9. Burmah Oil Company Limited 93 words
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10. £ Sterling (Purchasing Power) 48 words
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11. TUC 205 words
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12. National Savings Certificates (Retirement Issue) 148 words
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13. European Community (Finance Council) 123 words
11. WALES
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1. Nuclear Waste 41 words
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2. General Hospital (Rhymney Valley and Islwyn) 105 words
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3. Departmental Circulars 64 words
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4. Special Education Units 36 words
12. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Permanent Staff 130 words
13. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Terrorist Attacks 105 words
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2. North-South Border 31 words
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3. Tourism 63 words
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4. Enterprise Zones 45 words
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5. Departmental Staff 59 words
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6. Mental Hospitals 159 words
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7. Drug Prescriptions 240 words
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8. Day of Action 111 words
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9. Departmental Circulars 114 words
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10. Service Personnel (Imprisonment) 128 words
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11. Constitution (White Paper) 36 words
14. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Research Reactor. Queen Mary College 236 words
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2. Departmental Staff 124 words
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3. National Centre for Orchestral Studies 69 words
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4. Inner London Education Authority 115 words
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5. Secondary Schoolchildren 173 words
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6. Departmental Circulars 361 words
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7. Teachers' Qualifications 69 words
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8. Secondary Education 83 words
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9. Student Grants 114 words
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10. School Closures 107 words
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11. Nursery Schools 105 words
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12. Colleges of Further Education (Parental Preference) 116 words
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13. Chiropody Training (Trent Region) 71 words
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14. Special Education Units 141 words
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15. Education Policy 79 words
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16. TUC 120 words
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17. Overseas Students 115 words
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18. Boarding and Day School Allowances 391 words
15. INDUSTRY
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1. Manufacturing Investment 325 words
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2. Development Programme 318 words
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3. Departmental Circulars 48 words
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4. British Shipbuilders 232 words
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5. Consulting Engineers (Exhibition) 50 words
16. DEFENCE
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1. Recruitment (Women) 73 words
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2. Service Women (Arms) 112 words
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3. Day of Action 114 words
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4. Cleaning Services 383 words
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5. Departmental Circulars 268 words
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6. Northern Ireland 361 words
17. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Supplementary Benefit (School Leavers) 143 words
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2. Service Pay 59 words
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3. Census (Questions) 108 words
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4. Family Incomes 145 words
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5. Child Mortality 72 words
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6. Mortality Rate 84 words
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7. European Community (Drug Regulations) 100 words
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8. Lobar Pneumonia 55 words
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9. Life Expectancy 123 words
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10. Tuberculosis (Death Rates) 121 words
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11. National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Sales) 222 words
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12. Day of Action 154 words
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13. West Midlands Regional Health Authority 111 words
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14. Health Authorities (Cash Limits) 177 words
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15. Mortality Statistics 173 words
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16. Child Benefit 238 words
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17. Homoeopathy 161 words
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18. Children (Health Surveillance) 489 words
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19. Harefield Hospital 117 words
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20. Immigrant Population 119 words
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21. Neural Tube Defects 79 words
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22. Wirral Area Health Authority 345 words
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23. Social Security (No. 2) BUI 123 words
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24. Nottinghamshire (Domiciliary Visits) 67 words
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25. Child Health Services 94 words
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26. Hospital Prices Index 164 words
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27. Pensioners 176 words
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28. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 249 words
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29. Departmental Circulars 90 words
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30. Nurses (Pay) 641 words
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31. TRANSPORT 266 words
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32. Departmental Staff 304 words
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33. Heathrow Airport (Underground Extension) 195 words
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34. Departmental Circulars 155 words
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35. Railway Electrification 59 words
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36. Motor Cycles (Exhaust Noise) 57 words
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37. Motor Car Accidents (Tyres) 89 words
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38. Lead Pollution 141 words
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39. Road Bridges (Lorry Weights) 76 words
18. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Departmental Circulars 125 words
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2. Local Authority Manpower 128 words
19. ENERGY
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1. National Coal Board 482 words
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2. Fuel Savings (Old and Disabled Persons) 44 words
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3. British National Oil Company 123 words
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4. Electricity Supply (Interest Payments) 52 words
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5. Electricity and Gas Showrooms 36 words
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6. Day of Action 89 words
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7. Departmental Circulars 58 words
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8. Energy Demand 63 words
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9. Conservation 84 words
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10. North Sea Oil (Licensing) 91 words
20. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Agricultural Training Board 272 words
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2. Apple and Pear Production 208 words
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3. Sheepmeat 206 words
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4. Sea Fisheries Committee 55 words
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5. Butter Saks (USSR) 54 words
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6. Potatoes 249 words
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7. Departmental Circulars 58 words
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8. Colorado Beetle 106 words
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9. European Community (Council of Agriculture Ministers) 50 words
21. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. Foreign Ministers' Meetings 105 words
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2. Council of Europe (Recommendation 861) 152 words
22. ENVIRONMENT
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1. TUC 136 words
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2. Building Industry (Rates of Pay) 228 words
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3. Private Garages (Rating) 51 words
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4. Greater London Council (Housing) 77 words
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5. Trees (Liverpool) 84 words
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6. Liverpool (Visit) 55 words
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7. London Borough of Newham (Housing Assistance) 92 words
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8. Industrial Archaeology 108 words
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9. Wellington Barracks 30 words
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10. St. Paneras Station 86 words
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11. Somerset House 72 words
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12. Derelict Land Clearance Areas 45 words
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13. Day of Action 147 words
23. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. British Embassy (Iran) 159 words
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2. Foreign Diplomats 226 words
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3. Day of Action 76 words
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4. Departmental Circulars 48 words
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5. Departmental Staff 177 words
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6. Chile (Anns Embargo) 99 words
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7. Hong Kong (Nuclear Power Plant) 420 words
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8. Tenerife Air Crash 76 words
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9. Arms Embargoes 240 words
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10. Morocco and Western Sahara 378 words
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11. Lebanon 148 words
24. SCOTLAND
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1. Gaelic (Government Expenditure) 90 words
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2. Scottish Economy (White Paper) 35 words
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3. Housing Expenditure (Tayside) 173 words
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4. Education (Composite Classes) 126 words
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5. Aid to Industry (Dundee) 133 words
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6. School Milk 160 words
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7. Primary and Secondary Education 387 words
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8. Employment (Elderly Persons) 55 words
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9. Unemployment (Dundee) 80 words
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10. Employment Rehabilitation Courses (Dundee) 58 words
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11. Unemployed Persons 338 words
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12. Building Adaptations (Dundee) 42 words
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13. Job Introduction Scheme (Dundee) 29 words
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14. New Projects (Dundee) 174 words
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15. Scottish Economy (Studies) 85 words
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16. Unemployment Forecasts 45 words
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17. Ear, Nose and Throat Patients 109 words
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18. Venereal Disease 336 words
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19. Newborn Babies (Life Expectancy) 85 words
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20. Household Incomes 196 words
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21. Local Authority Houses (Damp) 144 words
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22. Drug Prescriptions 201 words
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23. Bridge Tolls 88 words
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24. Mental Hospitals 1,060 words
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25. Child Mortality 69 words
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26. Fishing Industry 165 words
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27. Day of Action 76 words
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28. Departmental Circulars 78 words
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29. Teachers (Pay) 251 words
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30. Monklands District Council 424 words
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31. School closures 871 words
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32. Litter Act 43 words
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33. European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund 83 words
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34. Noise Abatement Act 77 words
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35. Northpress Project (Inverness) 127 words
25. WALES
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1. Agriculture Industry 73 words

Lords Sitting of 2 June 1980 Series 5 Vol. 409

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1. Preamble 28 words
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2. MOBILITY ALLOWANCE FOR HANDICAPPED PATIENTS 484 words
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3. THE ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS 407 words
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4. WEEDOL: PUBLIC WARNING 645 words
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5. SOMALIA: MILITARY AID SUPPLIES 767 words
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6. BUSINESS 58 words
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7. CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM BILL [H.L.] 84 words
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8. HOUSING BILL 21 words
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9. ALEXANDRA PARK AND PALACE BILL [H.L.] 9 words
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10. SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL 6,838 words
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11. EEC BUDGET: UK CONTRIBUTION 4,259 words
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12. EEC AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING: CAP 4,688 words
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13. SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL 17,510 words
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14. PORT OF LONDON (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) BILL 5,191 words
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15. THE MOSCOW OLYMPIC GAMES: POLICY 14,424 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 2 June 1980 Series 5 Vol. 409

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1. EEC ENERGY MINISTERS MEETING 206 words
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2. DRIVING LICENCES: ENDORSEMENT DISCRETION 117 words
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3. LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS TESTS 425 words
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4. UN SUBSCRIPTION ARREARS: FORFEITURE OF VETO 79 words