Sitting of 17 March 1980

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Commons Sitting of 17 March 1980 Series 5 Vol. 981

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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3. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY (ENTHRONEMENT) 48 words
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1. CONTINGENCIES FUND, 1978–79 57 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. WALES
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1. P. Leiner and Son 425 words
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2. Welsh Economy 640 words
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3. Road Traffic Signs 528 words
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4. Welsh Economy 711 words
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5. Welsh Development Agency 678 words
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6. Unemployment (Caernarvon) 789 words
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7. Expenditure 556 words
cc15-7
8. Steel Industry Closures (Job Losses) 866 words
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9. Colleges of Education 197 words
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10. Housing Finance 509 words
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11. Land Development (Flooding Danger) 193 words
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12. Welsh Development Agency (Financial Support Policy) 398 words
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13. Leasehold Reform 177 words
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14. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS 182 words
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15. PUBLIC LIBRARIES 359 words
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16. ARTS EXPENDITURE 314 words
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17. THE ARTS (PRIVATE SPONSORSHIP) 365 words
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18. ARTS EXPENDITURE 676 words
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5. EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL 892 words
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6. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 61 words
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7. OLYMPIC GAMES 50,902 words, 2 divisions
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8. CHANNEL TUNNEL 4,565 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 17 March 1980 Series 5 Vol. 981

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1. BOOKSHOPS (GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE) 38 words
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2. MUSEUMS (RETENTION POLICY) 103 words
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3. ORCHESTRAS 109 words
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4. WALES 64 words
5. TRANSPORT
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1. British Railways 506 words
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2. Road Maintenance 217 words
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3. Quangos 96 words
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4. London Rail Advisory Committee 28 words
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5. Road Construction Units 148 words
6. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Educational Disadvantage 167 words
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2. Microelectronics 299 words
7. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Traffic Wardens 66 words
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2. Police Advisory Committee on Sexual Offences 66 words
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3. TUC Mass Meeting (Police Operations) 96 words
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4. Road Traffic Law 49 words
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5. Special Patrol Group 39 words
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6. Operation Countryman 68 words
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7. Criminal Law Revision Committee (Report) 66 words
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8. Private Property (Occupation) 79 words
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9. Parish Council Elections (Voting) 43 words
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10. Glue Sniffing 107 words
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11. Students (Demonstration) 60 words
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12. Broadcasting (Terrorist Organisations) 45 words
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13. Drugs (Advisory Council) 608 words
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14. Holloway Prison (Remanded Prisoners) 45 words
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15. Commission for Racial Equality (Cost) 47 words
8. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Antarctic Marine Living Resources (Convention) 96 words
9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Development Assistance 480 words
10. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Departmental Manpower 333 words
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2. Official Report (General Index) 172 words
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3. Supplementary Benefits and Family Income Supplements (Publication) 41 words
11. EMPLOYMENT
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1. European Community (Consumer Prices) 60 words
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2. Rubber Tyre Industry 587 words
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3. British Steel Corporation 163 words
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4. Skilled Workers 128 words
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5. "The Careers Service 1974 to 1979" 82 words
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6. Special Temporary Employment Programme (Wales) 196 words
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7. Unemployment and Unfilled Vacancies 262 words
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8. Retail Trades (Wages Councils) 77 words
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9. Careers Service 122 words
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10. Disabled Persons 82 words
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11. Advisory Committee on Asbestos 80 words
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12. Agricultural Engineering (Nomenclature) 51 words
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13. Careers Officers 102 words
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14. Apprenticeships 145 words
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15. Health and Safety Executive (Chemical Safety) 61 words
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16. Private Manufacturing Industry 109 words
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17. Family Income and Expenditure 92 words
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18. Redundancies 63 words
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19. European Community (Redundancy Schemes) 154 words
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20. Assisted Areas (Inmos) 125 words
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21. Herbicide 2,4,5-T 189 words
12. ENERGY
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1. Sir Derek Rayner (Inquiry) 94 words
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2. Power Station Ordering Programme 71 words
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3. Liquid Nuclear Waste 36 words
13. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Rhodesia (Travel Restrictions) 72 words
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2. Hong Kong (Immigration) 104 words
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3. Biological Weapons 77 words
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4. Rhodesia (United African National Council) 104 words
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5. Esperanto 75 words
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6. Iran 154 words
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7. NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS INSTALLATIONS 94 words
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8. HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM 62 words
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9. SENIOR CIVIL SERVICE APPOINTMENTS 50 words
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10. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WALES (NUCLEAR POWER RESPONSIBILITIES) 105 words
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11. ROYAL COMMISSION ON LEGAL SERVICES 98 words
14. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Inflation 76 words
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2. Petroleum Revenue Tax 101 words
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3. Money Supply M3 41 words
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4. Board of Referees 27 words
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5. Value Added Tax Tribunals 31 words
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6. Travel-to-work Costs 89 words
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7. Tobacco and Alcohol (Tax Yield) 63 words
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8. National Savings Bank Investment Account 106 words
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9. National Debt Commissioners 73 words
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10. Nationalised Industries (Assistance) 62 words
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11. Private Industries (Assistance) 93 words
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12. Mobility Allowance 49 words
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13. Earned and Unearned Income 57 words
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14. Capital Transfer Tax 39 words
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15. Value Added Tax 464 words
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16. Inland Revenue Staff 73 words
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17. Widows (Earnings) 132 words
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18. Monetary Control 34 words
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19. Imported Goods and Services 219 words
15. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Specialist Staff 68 words
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2. Health Authorities (Budgets) 128 words
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3. Buildings (Investment) 201 words
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4. Health Improvement Programmes 138 words
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5. Health (Regional and Social Disparities) 95 words
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6. Community Care 96 words
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7. Health Centres 144 words
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8. Capital Investment Programme 107 words
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9. Health Authority Personnel (Secondment) 56 words
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10. Family Planning Association 174 words
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11. Children in Care 302 words
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12. Payments to Strikers (International Comparisons) 136 words
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13. District Health Authorities (Medical Representation) 240 words
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14. House Furnishing (Assistance) 115 words
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15. Medicines (Review Committee) 548 words
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16. Committee on Safety of Medicines 64 words
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17. Drugs and Medicines 71 words
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18. Health Care Exports 80 words
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19. National Insurance Contribution Records 79 words
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20. Glue Sniffing 73 words
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21. United Kingdom (Population) 140 words
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22. "Industrial Injuries Compensation" 181 words
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23. Community Health Councils 89 words
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24. Disabled Persons (Co-option to Committees) 109 words
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25. Fazakerley and Walton Hospitals 138 words
16. INDUSTRY
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1. Assistance to Industry 481 words
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2. Steel Industry (Industrial Dispute) 214 words
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3. British Steel Corporation 39 words
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4. British Shipbuilders (Engineers and Fabricators Yard, Burntisland) 36 words
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5. Albright and Wilson Limited 83 words
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6. Telematics Equipment 167 words
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7. European Community (Motor Car Prices) 58 words
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8. Engineering Profession (Committee of Inquiry) 87 words
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9. Quangos 119 words
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10. Furniture Development Council 53 words
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11. Passenger Vehicles 53 words
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12. Sir Derek Rayner (Inquiry) 41 words
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13. Alfred Herbert and Herbert Ltd. 221 words
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14. Rolls-Royce 84 words
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15. European Community (Accession of Greece, Spain and Portugal) 194 words
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16. Vosper Ltd. 73 words
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17. Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 (Compensation) 70 words
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18. European Community (Wool Textile and Clothing Industries) 294 words
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19. European Community (Industrial Restructuring and Conversion) 146 words
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20. Motor Car Production 333 words
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21. Apparel Assembly Techniques 178 words
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22. Footwear Production 251 words
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23. Televisions, Refrigerators and Typewriters 885 words
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24. Tractors 334 words
17. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Housing Executive (Cottage Improvement) 118 words
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2. American Investment 54 words
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3. Terrorism 299 words
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4. Castlereagh Police Station (Detention) 363 words
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5. Building Costs (Grants) 45 words
18. DEFENCE
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1. Private Michael Jeffries 850 words
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2. Royal Naval College, Greenwich 104 words
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3. Job Dispersal 165 words
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4. Defence Expenditure (NATO) 76 words
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5. Aeronautical Research Council 178 words
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6. Electronics Research Council 159 words
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7. Rosyth Dockyard (Radiation Levels) 341 words
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8. Royal Air Force Aircraft (Crash) 240 words
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9. National Radiological Protection Board (Powers) 31 words
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10. Sensitive Information (Security) 175 words
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11. Military Defence (Expenditure) 194 words
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12. Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston 484 words
19. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Housing 292 words
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2. Ministry of Defence Establishments (Maintenance Work) 163 words
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3. Union Place Resource Centre, Lambeth 73 words
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4. Housing Investment Programmes 81 words
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5. Water Authorities 135 words
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6. Lawn Tennis (Committee) 45 words
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7. Privately-rented Residential Accommodation 137 words
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8. Dog Licences 74 words
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9. Private Residential Property (Short-term Letting) 56 words
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10. Experimental Plant (Atomic Energy Authority, Harwell) 70 words
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11. Vitrification 30 words
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12. Ceremonial Flagstaffs 135 words
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13. British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. (Glass-making Plant) 81 words
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14. Radioactive Waste (Containers) 154 words
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15. Nuclear Waste 54 words
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16. Environmental Pollution 63 words
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17. Radioactive Waste (Management and Storage) 84 words
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18. Docklands Urban Development Corporation (Prince of Wales Park) 69 words
20. SCOTLAND
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1. Prosthetic Technicians 98 words
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2. Public Bodies 162 words
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3. Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 83 words
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4. Housing Starts 1,813 words
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5. Emigration 111 words
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6. Disabled Persons (co-option to Committees) 319 words
21. TRADE
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1. Glass (Imports) 54 words
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2. Imports and Exports 390 words
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3. Films 87 words
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4. Glue Sniffing 189 words
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5. Asset-stripping 46 words
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6. Man-made Fibres 403 words
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7. Takeovers 392 words
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8. London-Peking (Scheduled Air Services) 37 words
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9. Paper Supplies (Imports) 145 words
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10. Sales Incentives 86 words
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11. Boats and Marine Engines (European Community Import Duty) 82 words
22. WALES
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1. Small Businesses 117 words
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2. Council for the Principality 41 words
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3. Housing Investment Programme 57 words
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4. Iron and Steel Trades Confederation 33 words
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5. Pregnant Women (Diagnostic Techniques) 111 words
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6. Health District Employees (Isle of Anglesey) 281 words
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7. Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings 36 words
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8. Social Workers 253 words
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9. Closures and Redundancies (European Community Benefits) 44 words
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10. Unemployed Persons 54 words
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11. Private Residential Property (Short-term Lettings) 53 words
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12. Assisted Places Scheme 466 words
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13. Local Authority Committees (Disabled Persons) 60 words
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14. Radioactive Wastes 97 words
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15. Nuclear Waste 55 words
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16. General Practitioner Prescribing 69 words
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17. Magnox Reactors (Decommissioning) 150 words

Lords Sitting of 17 March 1980 Series 5 Vol. 407

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. NAMIBIA: UN/SOUTH AFRICAN DISCUSSIONS 1,107 words
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3. THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANISATION 1,609 words
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4. COMPETITION BILL 10,045 words, 1 division
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5. DIN NERS 101 words
cc38-55
6. NATIONAL HERITAGE BILL 6,675 words
cc56-78
7. PREVENTION OF TERRORISM (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) ACT 1976 (CONTINUANCE) ORDER 1980 8,764 words
cc78-139
8. BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL 22,928 words, 2 divisions
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9. COMPANIES BILL [H.L.] 56 words
cc140-53
10. ROAD PLANNING: SECOND STAGE AUDITING 5,277 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 17 March 1980 Series 5 Vol. 407

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1. SUNDAY SHOP CLOSING HOURS 56 words
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2. IMMIGRATION SERVICE AND THE COMMISSION FOR RACIAL EQUALITY 101 words
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3. THE TRANSKEI AND UK IMMIGRATION CONTROL 71 words
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4. REGIONAL SECURE UNITS: PATIENT PLACES 146 words
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5. UK REGISTERED MILK PRODUCERS 1,292 words
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6. KUALA LUMPUR ARMAMENTS EXHIBITION 369 words