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Commons Sitting of 22 December 1982 Series 6 Vol. 34

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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1. Royal Assent 95 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. ULLAPOOL PIER (WORKS) ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL 6 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Angola 739 words
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2. Hong Kong 474 words
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3. North Atlantic Council 1,032 words
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4. Zimbabwe (Detained Persons) 393 words
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5. Anatoly Shcharansky 616 words
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6. Middle East 1,101 words
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7. BBC Overseas Service 353 words
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8. Uruguay 261 words
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9. Lebanon 482 words
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10. China 231 words
2. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. Community Budget 357 words
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2. Japan 581 words
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3. Reform 728 words
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4. Community Tactics (International Organisations) 265 words
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5. Council of Ministers 779 words
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6. Common Fisheries Policy 299 words
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7. Community Budget 175 words
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8. Gibraltar 592 words
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5. Council of Fisheries Ministers 3,176 words
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6. Anderson Strathclyde and Charter Consolidated (Report) 4,188 words
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7. Department of Health and Social Security Offices 556 words
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8. Questions to Ministers 232 words
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9. Conduct of Ministers 2,362 words
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10. Standing Charges of Public Utilities to Pensioners (Regulation) 1,314 words
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1. STANDING CHARGES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES TO PENSIONERS (REGULATION) 47 words
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11. Privilege 95 words
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12. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 18 words
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1. AGRICULTURE 21 words
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2. INTERNATIONAL IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES 21 words
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3. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING 21 words
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4. TAXES 23 words
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5. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT 24 words
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6. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT 23 words
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7. MONOPOLIES AND MERGERS 31 words
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13. Falkland Islands (Shackleton Report) 39,523 words
14. PETITION
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1. Royal Marsden Hospital (Breast Cancer Screening Unit) 109 words
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15. Lancashire (Education) 3,752 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 22 December 1982 Series 6 Vol. 34

1. SCOTLAND
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1. Local Authorities (Manpower) 128 words
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2. Knitwear Industry 142 words
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3. Unemployment Statistics 331 words
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4. Fisheries Policy 59 words
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5. Torness Power Station 42 words
2. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Recruitment 297 words
3. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Education Standards 57 words
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2. Development Education 206 words
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3. Education Expenditure 108 words
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4. Arts Grant 545 words
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5. Computer Facilities (Mathematics Training) 87 words
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6. Information Technology (Engineering Related Courses) 48 words
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7. 17-Plus Intermediate Examination 152 words
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8. Rate Support Grant (Education) 188 words
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9. Information Technology 70 words
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10. Universities (Restructuring) 46 words
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11. Further Education (Capped Pool Allocations) 240 words
4. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. European Elections 667 words
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2. Non-statutory Bodies (Grants) 1,083 words
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3. Greenham and Cookham Commons (Byelaws) 99 words
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4. Breathalyser Machines 72 words
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5. Miss Jaikaran Singh 76 words
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6. Illegal Weapons (Amnesty) 141 words
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7. Heathrow (Immigration Procedures) 242 words
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8. Appeals 77 words
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9. Prison Officers 206 words
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10. Non-departmental Public Bodies 223 words
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11. Criminal Law Act 1977 68 words
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12. Fire Statistics 82 words
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13. Criminal Justice Act 1982 228 words
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14. Suspended Sentences 183 words
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15. Vietnamese Refugees (Report) 237 words
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16. Criminal Statistics 118 words
5. INDUSTRY
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1. Government Assistance (Waltham Forest) 118 words
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2. Zinc Industry 93 words
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3. Concorde 40 words
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4. Gross Domestic Product (Textile and Clothing Industries) 102 words
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5. Microprocessors in Schools 140 words
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6. Agricultural Engineering 113 words
6. DEFENCE
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1. Chatham Dockyard 116 words
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2. Non-statutory Bodies (Grants) 260 words
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3. Light Trainer Aircraft 30 words
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4. Falkland Islands (Argentine Forces) 73 words
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5. Purchasing Systems 89 words
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6. Surplus Goods (Expenditure) 82 words
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7. Surplus Cars (Expenditure) 77 words
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8. South Atlantic Fund 214 words
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9. British Aerospace 146 Aircraft 126 words
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10. Court and Brokers' Farm, Luddestown 265 words
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11. Falklands Campaign (Helicopters) 172 words
7. TRADE
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1. Food and Agricultural Produce (Exports) 200 words
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2. Tin Plate Exports 143 words
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3. Titanium Exports 130 words
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4. Tourism 442 words
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5. Indonesia (Arms Supplies) 130 words
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6. North Sea (Supply and Servicing) 103 words
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7. Package Tours (Misleading Advertisements) 104 words
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8. Japanese Exports 62 words
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9. Non-departmental Public Bodies 72 words
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10. Retail Greengrocers 95 words
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11. South Africa (Workers) 87 words
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12. Burmah Oil 76 words
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13. Associated British Foods 52 words
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14. Opticians Act 1958 68 words
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15. Nationalised Industry Consumer Councils 231 words
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16. Aviation Security Fund 240 words
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17. British Midland Airways 209 words
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18. Liquidations and Bankruptcies 472 words
8. PRIME MINISTER
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1. "General Belgrano" 46 words
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2. Chief Scientist (Staff) 106 words
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3. Diplomatic Service 65 words
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4. Civil Servants (Public Statements) 97 words
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5. Franks Committee 44 words
9. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Car Parks (Belfast) 92 words
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2. Beef Premium 46 words
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3. Beef Cows 81 words
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4. Marketing and Business 123 words
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5. Youth Training Programme 189 words
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6. Belfast 166 words
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7. Car Parking 93 words
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8. Traffic Management 127 words
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9. Housing Benefit 122 words
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10. Teacher Training 85 words
10. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. IRA Members (Prosecutions) 132 words
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2. Horror Comics (Prosecutions) 105 words
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3. Video Cassettes 202 words
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4. Rape 28 words
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5. Mr. Ben Oliver 81 words
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6. Official Secrets Act (Prosecutions) 70 words
11. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Laparoscopes 45 words
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2. Aid and Development (Parliamentary Questions) 45 words
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3. African Medical and Research Foundation 95 words
12. WALES
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1. Non-statutory Bodies (Grants) 1,790 words
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2. Hospital Consultants 247 words
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3. Hospitals (Private Beds) 115 words
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4. Baby Units 91 words
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5. Entertainment Allowance 96 words
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6. Infant and Perinatal Mortality 75 words
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7. West Glamorgan (Ministerial Visits) 53 words
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8. Trunk Roads 92 words
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9. Local Authorities (Manpower) 70 words
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10. Domestic Rates 91 words
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11. Local Authorities (Expenditure) 197 words
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12. Employment Statistics 444 words
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13. Health Projects (Joint Funding) 326 words
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14. Rubens Cartoon 161 words
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15. Fishing Byelaws (Report) 54 words
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16. Adaptation Grants 77 words
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17. Concessionary Travel 56 words
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18. Land Registers 140 words
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19. Mental Illness Services, Dyfed (Report) 207 words
13. TRANSPORT
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1. Asphalt Compaction 84 words
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2. Heavy Lorries 153 words
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3. Common Transport Policy 67 words
14. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Common Fisheries Policy 45 words
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2. Monetary Compensation Amounts 163 words
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3. Fisheries Council 84 words
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4. Fishermen (Compensation) 80 words
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5. Marginal Land Scheme 92 words
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6. Farm Shops 51 words
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7. European Community Butter (Remote Areas) 84 words
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8. Common Agricultural Policy (Italy) 75 words
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9. Producer Prices 90 words
15. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Construction Industry 104 words
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2. House Building 176 words
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3. Rate Support Grant 313 words
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4. Urea Formaldehyde Foam 218 words
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5. Homes Insulation 67 words
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6. Local Authorities (Expenditure) 82 words
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7. Departmental Staff 34 words
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8. Local Authorities (Grants) 130 words
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9. New Town Assets 130 words
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10. Community Land Act 35 words
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11. Control of Pollution Act 1974 254 words
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12. Land Register (Sales) 57 words
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13. Local Authority Mortgages 205 words
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14. Council House Sales (Mortgages) 122 words
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15. Unoccupied Properties (Rating) 354 words
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16. Royal Parks Constabulary (Hand-held Radar Gun) 65 words
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17. Fire Escapes 132 words
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18. Housing Corporation (Development Programme) 522 words
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19. Building Research Establishment (Research Support Services) 408 words
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20. European Community (Income) 96 words
16. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. European Community (Budget Refund) 683 words
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2. Civil Service (Pay) 69 words
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3. Budget Deficit 192 words
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4. Crown Estate Commissioners 78 words
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5. Wages and Salaries 78 words
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6. Development Land Tax 103 words
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7. Civil Service 460 words
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8. Luncheon Vouchers 110 words
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9. Pay Research Unit 116 words
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10. Tax Allowances 354 words
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11. Income Tax 68 words
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12. Child Benefit 66 words
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13. European Community (Budget Contribution) 136 words
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14. Independent Schools (Tax Benefits) 50 words
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15. Treasury Econometric Model 155 words
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16. Stamp Duty 245 words
17. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Committee on Safety of Medicines 127 words
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2. Geriatric and Psychiatric Patients 295 words
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3. Prescription Charges 50 words
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4. Mobility Allowance 1,808 words
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5. Wexham Park Hospital 817 words
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6. Mental Health Act 1959 194 words
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7. Mental Health (Detention of Patients) 155 words
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8. East Berkshire (Psychiatric Services) 67 words
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9. Kings Mill Hospital, Sutton in Ashfield 110 words
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10. National Health Service (Manpower) 81 words
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11. National Insurance Contributions 181 words
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12. Family Benefits 129 words
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13. Pharmaceuticals (Product Licences) 259 words
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14. Disabled Persons (Cash Benefits) 182 words
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15. Attendance Allowance 648 words
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16. Hospital Treatment (Funding) 84 words
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17. St Mark's Hospital 56 words
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18. Health Authorities (Private Contractors) 227 words
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19. Experimental Nursing Homes 86 words
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20. NHS Regulations (Private Health Care) 173 words
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21. Health Projects (Joint Funding Formula) 152 words
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22. Pensioners (Christmas Bonus) 411 words
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23. Blind Person's Allowance 47 words
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24. Public Expenditure Programmes 52 words
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25. Benefits 738 words
18. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Sex Equality 71 words
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2. Construction Industry 454 words
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3. School Leavers 54 words
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4. Benefit Offices (Ethnic Monitoring) 140 words
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5. School Meals 396 words
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6. Unemployment Statistics 919 words
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7. Young Worker Scheme 929 words
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8. Enterprise Allowance 76 words
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9. Adult Male Wage 137 words
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10. Job Release Scheme (Allowances) 502 words
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11. Community Programme 69 words
19. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Arab League (Visit) 162 words
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2. Cyprus 59 words
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3. Lebanon 221 words
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4. Argentina 24 words
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5. Law of the Sea Convention 172 words
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6. BBC World Service 150 words
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7. Turkey 104 words
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8. Central America 248 words
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9. Falkland Islands (Exclusion Zone) 87 words
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10. Middle East (British Citizens) 147 words
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11. Diego Garcia 62 words
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12. Angola (British Prisoners) 71 words
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13. Horn of Africa 65 words
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14. Floater 83 Arms Exhibition 42 words
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15. Felix Kochubievsky 79 words
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16. Middle East 114 words
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17. United States of America (Secretary of State) 77 words
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18. Afghanistan 108 words
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19. Hong Kong 103 words
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20. Russian Debt 105 words
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21. British Citizens (Repatriation) 65 words
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22. Henderson Island, South Pacific 85 words
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23. Hong Kong (Vietnamese Refugees) 38 words
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24. Prince Philip Dental Hospital, Hong Kong 470 words
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25. Independent Commission Against Corruption, Hong Kong 52 words
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26. British Citizens Abroad (Custody) 56 words
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27. Iran 71 words
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28. Iraq 391 words
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29. Mr. Francis Bateman and Mr. Stephen Bateman 123 words
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30. Miss Gail Anne Jennings 37 words
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31. British Information Service 145 words
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32. Falkland Islands 117 words
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33. Rudolph Hess 93 words
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34. Namibia 81 words
20. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Disqualification Criteria (Report) 48 words
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2. Overseas Aid and Development (Debates) 44 words

Lords Sitting of 22 December 1982 Series 5 Vol. 437

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1. Preamble 21 words
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2. Royal Assent 79 words
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3. European Assembly Elections: Postal Vote 867 words
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4. Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations 1,783 words
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5. Business 73 words
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6. Local Government (Choice of Electoral Systems) Bill [H.L.] 71 words
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7. Representation of the People Bill [H.L.] 11 words
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8. Legal Aid (Scotland) (Exclusion of Proceedings) Regulations 1982 1,579 words
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9. Films (Suspension of Quota Requirements) Order 1982 5,088 words
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10. Monopolies and Mergers Commission (Membership of Groups for Newspaper Merger References) Order 1982 613 words
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11. Industrial Training Levy (Construction Board) Order 1982 1,546 words
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12. Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 3,605 words
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13. Employment Protection (Variation of Limits) (No. 2) Order 1982 2,625 words
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14. Unfair Dismissal (Increase of Compensation Limit) (No. 2) Order 1982 30 words
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15. Juries (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 1,576 words
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16. Trade Marks Act 1938 (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 10,365 words
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17. Nuclear Forces: Geneva Negotiations 4,761 words
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18. The Fisheries Council: 21st December Meeting 2,706 words
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19. Anderson Strathclyde and Charter Consolidated: Proposed Merger 3,045 words
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20. Nuclear Forces: Geneva Negotiations 10,104 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 22 December 1982 Series 5 Vol. 437

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1. NORTHERN IRELAND: ABORTIONS 40 words
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2. PREMATURE BABIES: INTENSIVE CARE FACILITIES 115 words
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3. INFANT MORTALITY 61 words
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4. CHILD HEALTH 214 words
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5. SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS: ABANDONMENT OF ASSETS 70 words
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6. CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 1982: IMPLEMENTATION 215 words
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7. ANIMAL PROTECTION 460 words
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8. NORTHERN IRELAND: TRANSFER OF PRISONERS FROM THE UK 262 words
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9. NORTHERN IRELAND: TRANSFER TO UK OF BRITISH MILITARY PRISONERS 98 words
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10. NATIONAL HERITAGE MEMORIAL FUND: TRUSTEES' REPORT 65 words
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11. PRIVATE TREATY SSSI LAND SALES AND TAX RELIEF 78 words
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12. NATURE CONSERVANCY COUNCIL: POLICY CRITICISMS 105 words
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13. SOMERSET LEVELS: NORTH MOOR PLOUGHING 166 words
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14. WEST SEDGEMOOR SSSI 624 words
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15. EEC DIRECTIVE 79/409, ARTICLE 4: SITES FOR PROTECTION 83 words
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16. NATURE CONSERVANCY COUNCIL SSSI NOTIFICATIONS: POLICY DISCUSSIONS 99 words
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17. NATURE CONSERVANCY COUNCIL: MARINE NATURE RESERVES FUNDING 112 words
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18. NATURE CONSERVANCY COUNCIL: MARINE CONSERVATION REVIEW 114 words
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19. PLANNING APPLICATIONS: DECISION REQUIREMENTS 141 words
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20. LOCAL AUTHORITY REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE: CAPITAL EXPENDITURE ALLOCATION 194 words
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21. THE CIVIL SERVICE: RECRUITMENT 284 words
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22. LARSEN SWEENEY PUBLICATIONS LIMITED: PRESS RELEASE ALLEGATIONS 1,778 words
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23. INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY: UK CONTRIBUTIONS 238 words
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24. MOTOR VEHICLE TAX POLICY 90 words
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25. RAF KEMBLE: FUTURE PLANS 90 words
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26. THE ROYAL NAVY: DESTROYER AND FRIGATE STRENGTH 158 words
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27. THE CAIRNGORMS: PROPOSED SKIING FACILITIES AT LURCHER'S CRAG 102 words
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28. OVERSEAS AID: EXPENDITURE 546 words
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29. OVERSEAS AID: EX-OFFICIALS' PENSIONS 341 words
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30. OVERSEAS AID: INTEREST AND CAPITAL REPAYMENTS 172 words
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31. GIBRALTAR: DEVELOPMENT AID 183 words
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32. GIBRALTAR: DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMY 140 words
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33. OECD: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: CONTRACTS 127 words
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34. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 159 words
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35. EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND: DEVON AND CORNWALL 141 words
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36. EEC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMMES 269 words
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37. TELEPHONE FAULTS: REPAIR PRIORITIES 116 words
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38. GUY'S HOSPITAL: FINANCE STAFF 55 words
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39. BADGERS: TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION 283 words
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40. NATIONALISED INDUSTRY CONSUMER COUNCILS 226 words