Sitting of 7 July 1981

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Commons Sitting of 7 July 1981 Series 6 Vol. 8

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. BRITISH RAILWAYS (No. 2) BILL 13 words
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2. PETERBOROUGH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BILL [Lords] 9 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Research Sponsorship (Queen Mary College) 544 words
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2. Chapel-Allerton Hospital, Leeds 442 words
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3. Earnings-related Benefit 836 words
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4. North Humberside Health Districts 319 words
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5. Civil Service Dispute (Retirement Pensioners) 1,042 words
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6. Schizophrenia 395 words
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7. "Compensating Employers for Statutory Sick Pay" 519 words
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8. Community Health Councils (Leicestershire) 187 words
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9. Departmental Offices (Privacy) 414 words
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10. "Compensating Employers for Statutory Sick Pay" 396 words
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11. Mental Hospitals 535 words
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12. Benefits (Take-up) 330 words
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13. Widowers (Pensions) 274 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Trades Union Congress 322 words
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2. President of France 952 words
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3. Engagements 1,906 words
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5. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Moscow Visit) 2,309 words
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6. Disturbances (Liverpool) 685 words
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1. Statutory Instruments, &c. 142 words
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2. WALES 27 words
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3. Garden Supplies (Sunday Trading) 883 words
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4. GARDEN SUPPLIES (SUNDAY TRADING) 54 words
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7. Defence Programme 49,752 words, 2 divisions
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1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 26 words
8. Orders of the Day
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1. British Telecommunications Bill 3 words
1. Clause 4
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1. REDISTRIBUTION OF PROPERTY, RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES AMONG WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARIES 103 words
2. Clause 17
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1. MARKING ORDERS 111 words
3. New Clause A
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1. ENFORCEMENT OF SECTIONS I7 AND I8 4,812 words
1. Clause 31
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1. THE CORPORATION'S ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT THEREOF 104 words
2. Clause 33
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3. POWER OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO MAKE ORDERS ABOUT PENSIONS 2,622 words
4. Clause 55
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5. POWER OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS NEW OFFICES OR FACILITIES 77 words
6. Clause 57
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7. INTERPRETATION AND EXTENT OF PART I 164 words
8. Clause 58
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9. POWERS OF THE POST OFFICE 312 words
10. Clause 59
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11. GENERAL DUTY OF THE POST OFFICE 93 words
12. Clause 66
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13. EXCLUSIVE PRIVILEGES OF THE POST OFFICE WITH RESPECT TO THE CONVEYANCE ETC. OF LETTERS 1,215 words
14. Clause 69
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15. SUSPENSION OF THE POSTAL PRIVILEGE 191 words
16. Clause 70
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17. THE POST OFFICE TO BE SUBJECT TO LIMITED LIABILITY IN RESPECT OF CERTAIN INLAND PACKETS 401 words
18. Clause 80
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19. EXTENDED APPLICATION OF THE TELEGRAPH ACTS 661 words
20. Clause 82
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21. TAX PROVISIONS 198 words
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2. Fishing Industry (Fuel Oil Costs) 2,826 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 7 July 1981 Series 6 Vol. 8

1. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Mexico 34 words
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2. Council House Sales 118 words
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3. Boddam 31 words
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4. Engagements 537 words
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5. Long-term Unemployed Persons 103 words
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6. Council For Wales 94 words
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7. St. Vincent and the Grenadines 109 words
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8. Small Businesses (Departmental Co-ordination) 197 words
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9. Factory Closures 48 words
2. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Crimes (Statistics) 164 words
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2. Borstal Trainees (Mothers) 264 words
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3. Women in Custody (Childbirths) 229 words
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4. Wormwood Scrubs Prison (Incident) 48 words
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5. Electronic Bugging 86 words
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6. Police (Computers) 56 words
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7. Television Licences 52 words
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8. Escorted Prisoners (Escape) 199 words
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9. Reverend Sun Myung Moon 122 words
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10. Meryn Leroy Phillips 62 words
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11. City of London and Metropolitan Police Forces (Amalgamation) 56 words
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12. Sporting Events (Police Crowd Control) 206 words
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13. Dunham Brindley and Linn (Correspondence) 244 words
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14. Television (Satellite Transmissions) 193 words
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15. Motoring Offences 105 words
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16. Entry Certificates 170 words
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17. Parents and Foster Parents (Probation Case Conferences) 122 words
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18. Open Channel Radio 289 words
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19. Prisoners (Drug Treatment) 93 words
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20. Television (Social Effects) 382 words
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21. Police (Tactical Firearms Units) 100 words
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22. Breakfast Television 134 words
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23. Dr. Clift 74 words
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24. Police Radar Equipment 119 words
3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. In re W Trial (Transcript) 54 words
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2. Broken Marriages (Cost) 92 words
4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Vietnam, Laos and Kampuchea 284 words
5. TRADE
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1. Bankruptcies and Insolvencies 157 words
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2. Hovercraft (Operating Permits) 43 words
6. WALES
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1. Compulsory Purchase Order (Arfon) 157 words
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2. Council for the Principality 117 words
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3. Less Favoured Areas (North Carmarthen) 51 words
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4. Prescriptions 99 words
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5. Welsh Water Authority 81 words
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6. Unemployed Persons (Neath) 30 words
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7. Llanystumdwy (Bypass) 84 words
7. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. National Heritage and Capital Taxation 106 words
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2. Broken Marriages (Periodical Payments Orders) 44 words
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3. Royal Wedding Crowns 55 words
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4. Industry (Employee Share Ownership) 133 words
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5. Revenue Yield 293 words
8. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Common Agricultural Policy 89 words
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2. Green Pound 41 words
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3. Strawberry Imports 106 words
9. INDUSTRY
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1. Public Bodies (Redundancy Payments) 61 words
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2. Shipbuilding 64 words
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3. English Industrial Estates Corporation 183 words
10. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Apprenticeships 175 words
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2. Work Permits 151 words
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3. Industrial Employment (Supplementary Rates) 38 words
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4. Temporary Short-time Working Compensation Scheme 101 words
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5. Manpower Services Commission (Funds) 149 words
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6. Unemployment Register 346 words
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7. Special Measures Programme (Allerdale) 99 words
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8. Jobcentre (Warrington) 115 words
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9. School Leavers 313 words
11. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Departmental Policy 144 words
12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Anglo-Iraqi Relations 64 words
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2. Departmental Policy 715 words
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3. Iraq (Arms Sales) 104 words
13. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Housing 127 words
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2. Hunger Strikers 840 words
14. SCOTLAND
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1. Agriculture and Food Processing Industries 242 words
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2. Sea Transport (Subsidies) 214 words
15. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Private Patients (Emergency Beds) 254 words
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2. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 89 words
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3. Inflation (Calculation of Benefits) 125 words
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4. "Silent Minority" 114 words
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5. Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons 116 words
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6. Long-term Unemployed Persons 69 words
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7. Perinatal Deaths (West Yorkshire) 80 words
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8. Child Abuse 67 words
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9. Special Hospitals (Patient Transfers) 93 words
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10. Training of Staff 122 words
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11. Health Authorities (Commencement) 55 words
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12. Benefits Officers (Fraud Investigations) 101 words
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13. European Community (Reciprocal Medical Facilities) 164 words
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14. Pensioners (Domestic Services Standing Charges) 91 words
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15. Unemployed Persons (Supplementary Benefit) 54 words
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16. Community Care (Departmental Study) 27 words
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17. West Midlands Regional Health Authority 117 words
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18. Alcoholism 95 words
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19. Age-related Addition 76 words
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20. National Health Service (Administration) 100 words
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21. Prescription Charges 50 words
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22. Advisory Council on Child Care 151 words
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23. Personal Social Services (Consultation Document) 44 words
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24. Pensionable Age 130 words
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25. Children in Care 54 words
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26. Redundant Hospitals 130 words
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27. Sickness Benefit (Payment by Employers) 106 words
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28. St. George's Hospital Site 54 words
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29. Housewife's Non-contributory Invalidity Pension 57 words
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30. Nurses (Purchasing Power) 128 words
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31. Homeless People 573 words
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32. Supplementary Benefit 185 words
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33. Health Care Grants (Islington and Camden) 72 words
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34. Mansfield Harlow Wood Hospital (Waiting Lists) 117 words
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35. Deafness (Test) 153 words
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36. Elderly Persons (White Paper) 64 words
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37. National Insurance Contributions 371 words
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38. Parents and Foster Parents (Social Work Case Conferences) 145 words
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39. Supplementary Benefit (One-parent Families) 201 words
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40. Area Health Authorities (29 July Working) 147 words
16. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Secondary Schools (Pupil Numbers) 160 words
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2. Children (School Absences) 76 words
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3. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 114 words
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4. Scottish Universities 63 words
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5. Teachers (Unemployment) 51 words
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6. Dundee University 175 words
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7. Manor Road School (Closure) 429 words
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8. Trades Union Congress 183 words
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9. Export Licences 132 words
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10. Objects in Lieu of Tax 468 words
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11. Case Conferences (Schoolchildren) 184 words
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12. University Grants Committee 160 words
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13. University Admissions 73 words
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14. Full-time Education (Statistics) 99 words
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15. Recurrent Grant 106 words
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16. Public Lending Rights 53 words
17. TRANSPORT
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1. Motorways (Signposts) 224 words
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2. Cambrian Coast Railway Line 43 words
18. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 58 words
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2. Water Authority Officers (Mileage Allowances) 244 words
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3. Local Councillors 184 words
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4. Landscape in Cities and Towns (Exhibition) 87 words
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5. Quarries (Valuation) Order 1971 56 words
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6. Countryside Act 1968 61 words
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7. Local Authorities (Manpower Services Commission Funds) 76 words
19. ENERGY
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1. Vale of Belvoir 96 words
20. DEFENCE
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1. Royal Air Force (Lindholme) 65 words
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2. Tornado Aircraft 31 words
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3. Royal Navy Bases (Married Quarters) 124 words
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4. Eighth Field Force 64 words
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5. Dartmouth (Training) 50 words
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6. Nimrod (Missiles) 77 words
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7. Tornado (Weapons) 53 words
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8. AV8B Aircraft 45 words
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9. Rapier Missile System 72 words
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10. Army Equipment Projects 134 words
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11. British Army of the Rhine 199 words
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12. Royal Auxiliary Air Force 140 words
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13. Royal Air Force (Transport Squadrons) 33 words
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14. VC10 Aircraft 87 words
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15. Bloodhound Missiles 108 words
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16. SP70 Gun 45 words
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17. Medium-Range Missile (Development) 58 words
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18. Rapid Deployment Force 74 words
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19. HMS "Illustrious" 36 words
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20. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 137 words
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21. Land-based Nuclear Weapons (Europe) 142 words
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22. D Notice System 73 words
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23. Diesel-powered Submarines 106 words
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24. Royal Marines 82 words

Lords Sitting of 7 July 1981 Series 5 Vol. 422

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Lord Thomas of Swynnerton 31 words
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3. Northern Ireland: Arms from the USA 415 words
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4. Northern Ireland: Government Policy 1,247 words
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5. BBC External Services Cuts 1,816 words
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6. Diego Garcia: Discussions 481 words
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7. Business 70 words
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8. Foreign Secretary's Visit to Moscow 3,273 words
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9. Standing Orders of the House 494 words
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10. Standing Order (Private Business) 345 words
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11. British Nationality Bill 26,546 words, 1 division
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12. Road Traffic (Car-Sharing Arrangements) (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 1,533 words
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13. Supplementary Benefit (Requirements and Resources) Amendment Regulations 1981 3,981 words
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14. British Nationality Bill 23,125 words
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15. SOUTH YORKSHIRE BILL 8 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 7 July 1981 Series 5 Vol. 422

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1. GUYANA: THE AKAWAYO INDIANS AND THE UPPER MAZARUNI HYDRO ELECTRIC PROJECT 163 words