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Commons Sitting of 26 July 1982 Series 6 Vol. 28

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) (NO.2) BILL 7 words
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2. COMMERCIAL BANKING COMPANY OF SYDNEY LIMITED (MERGER) BILL [Lords] (By Order) 12 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. ENERGY
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1. Coal Mining Subsidence (Compensation) 376 words
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2. Non-nuclear Energy Expenditure 476 words
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3. New Energy-producing Capacity (Costs) 440 words
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4. NCB (European Community Borrowing) 188 words
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5. Oil Companies (Departmental Discussions) 829 words
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6. NCB Facilities (Closure) 517 words
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7. Commercial Fast Breeder Reactor 543 words
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8. Coal Stocks 667 words
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9. Coal Industry (Investment) 1,084 words
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10. Britoil 439 words
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11. North-Western Electricity Board (Lancashire) 609 words
2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Office Accommodation 655 words
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2. Bridge Street Site 873 words
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3. Parliamentary Session 386 words
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4. Underground Car Park 367 words
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5. Foreign Affairs Council (Steel) 4,408 words
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6. Questions (Constituency Interests) 166 words
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7. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 100 words
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8. Housing 25,333 words, 1 division
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9. HOUSING 26 words
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10. SOCIAL SECURITY 2,203 words, 1 division
11. Orders of the Day
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1. Legal Aid Bill [Lords] 7 words
1. New Clause 1
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1. RESTRICTIONS ON ORDERS FOR CONTRIBUTORS 10,314 words, 1 division
2. New clause 2
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1. COMPUTATION OF RESOURCES 7,380 words, 1 division
3. New Clause 3
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1. REVIEW OF INCOME AND CAPITAL LIMITS 1,133 words
4. New Clause 4
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1. REPORT AS TO CONTRIBUTIONS 1,008 words
5. Clause 6
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1. REFUSAL OF LEGAL MD BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS 2,209 words
6. Clause 7
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1. LEGAL AID CONTRIBUTION ORDERS 486 words
7. Clause 9
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1. ENFORCEMENT OF LEGAL AID CONTRIBUTION ORDER 517 words
8. Clause 11
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1. PAYMENT OF COSTS OF LEGAL AID 364 words
9. Clause 12
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1. PAYMENT FOR ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE WHERE LEGAL AID ORDER IS SUBSEQUENTLY MADE 146 words
10. Clause 14
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1. CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS AND REPEALS 67 words
11. Schedule
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1. REPEALS 44 words
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2. Shipbuilding (Great Britain) 10,510 words
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3. Shipbuilding (Northern Ireland) 9,176 words
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4. Northern Ireland Assembly 10,644 words, 1 division
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5. Skelmersdale New Town 3,994 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 26 July 1982 Series 6 Vol. 28

1. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Computer Staff (Pay) 82 words
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2. King Hussein (Meeting) 89 words
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3. Falkland Islands 175 words
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4. Sub-postmasters 190 words
2. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Prison (Population Density) 91 words
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2. Detained Persons 120 words
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3. Prisoners (Recall) 77 words
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4. Prisoners (Licence) 227 words
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5. Police Officers (Broadcasting and Journalism) 55 words
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6. Video Piracy 70 words
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7. Exercise Hard Rock 41 words
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8. Crossbows (Injuries) 58 words
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9. Metropolitan Police Commissioner (Appointment) 61 words
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10. Juvenile Crime 211 words
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11. Commission for Racial Equality 167 words
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12. Offenders (Home Leave) 57 words
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13. Operation Countryman 95 words
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14. Irish Republican Army 96 words
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15. Electronic Eavesdropping Devices 82 words
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16. Iranian Students 174 words
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17. Air Guns 50 words
3. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Educational Maintenance Allowances 678 words
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2. Foreign Students 240 words
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3. Adult Education 70 words
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4. Block Grant 94 words
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5. Free School Transport 71 words
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6. Less Academically Able Children 140 words
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7. Spina Bifida 289 words
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8. University Teachers (Pay) 88 words
4. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Member's Correspondence 81 words
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2. RATIO OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE TO GDP 749 words
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3. Personal Savings 204 words
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4. European Community (Budget) 174 words
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5. Value Added Tax 183 words
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6. Defence Budget 69 words
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7. Air and Sea Passengers (Duty-free Goods) 126 words
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8. Disposal of Assets (Tax Liability) 71 words
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9. Taxation 330 words
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10. Contingency Reserves 84 words
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11. Cannabis Offences 90 words
5. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Pensions 58 words
6. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Trials (Press Reporting) 177 words
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2. Mr. Roy Garner and Mr. Kenneth Ross 74 words
7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Falkland Islands (Service of Thanksgiving) 52 words
8. TRADE
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1. Semi-manufactures 129 words
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2. Bargain Offer Claims 57 words
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3. Manchester Airport 71 words
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4. Co-insurance Directive 143 words
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5. Insurance Services (Directive) 253 words
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6. Freeport Study (Miami) 45 words
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7. Anderson Strathclyde (Bid) 74 words
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8. Ministerial Visit (Arab Countries) 64 words
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9. Hire Purchase Controls 185 words
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10. British Midland Airways 195 words
9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Foreign Students 266 words
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2. Population and Family Planning Programmes 319 words
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3. Departmental Expenditure 62 words
10. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Young Persons 259 words
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2. Unemployed Persons (Government Expenditure) 58 words
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3. Job Losses (West Yorkshire) 262 words
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4. West Midlands (Job Creation) 130 words
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5. Long-term Unemployment 274 words
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6. Oil Refineries 171 words
11. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Mackerel 209 words
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2. Agricultural Prices 110 words
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3. Pig Prices 62 words
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4. Herbicide 2,4,5-T 104 words
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5. Horticultural Holdings (Statistics) 120 words
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6. Glasshouses 132 words
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7. Horticultural Crops 172 words
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8. Common Fisheries Policy 82 words
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9. Local Authorities (Farms and Smallholdings) 138 words
12. ENERGY
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1. British Gas Corporation (Statutory Duty) 35 words
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2. Energy Consumption 57 words
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3. NCB (Financial Assistance) 37 words
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4. Electricity Costs 99 words
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5. Alternative Forms of Energy (Research) 57 words
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6. Substitute Natural Gas 67 words
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7. Tidal Power (Talks) 39 words
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8. North Sea Secondary Gas (Transport) 86 words
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9. Sizewell Reactor (Inquiry) 105 words
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10. Electricity Supply (Monopoly) 75 words
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11. Heat and Power Schemes 59 words
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12. Wind and Geothermal Energy 59 words
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13. British National Oil Company 102 words
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14. Council of Energy Ministers 129 words
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15. North Sea Oil (Refining Incentives) 53 words
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16. Oil Refinery Capacity 52 words
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17. Electricity Prices (International Comparisons) 198 words
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18. Gas Prices (International Comparisons) 345 words
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19. Power Station Coal Supplies 57 words
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20. North Sea Oil (Production) 101 words
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21. Iraq (Under-Secretary's Visit) 92 words
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22. Nuclear Incidents (Reporting) 330 words
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23. Friends of the Earth Insulation Project (Birmingham) 93 words
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24. Electricity Consultative Council and Gas Consumers' Council 139 words
13. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Northern Ireland Bill 131 words
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2. Irish Republican Army 53 words
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3. Departmental Officials (Interviews) 40 words
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4. Departmental Staff 506 words
14. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Family Practitioner Committees 154 words
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2. Novo Laboratories (Insulin) 191 words
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3. Leukaemia 127 words
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4. School Dental Service 108 words
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5. New Cross Dental School 65 words
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6. Overseas Visitors (Health Changes) 143 words
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7. Hospitals (Lighting Costs) 82 words
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8. Health Visitors (Car Allowances) 328 words
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9. Free Prescriptions 125 words
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10. Benefits (Clawback) 49 words
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11. Earnings-related Benefits 93 words
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12. Invalidity and Short Term Benefits (Cut) 91 words
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13. National Health Service Costs (Inquiry) 75 words
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14. Attendance Allowance 524 words
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15. Mobility Allowance 293 words
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16. NOTES ON MEDICAL CRITERIA 921 words
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17. NON-MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS 306 words
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18. Starch Blockers 92 words
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19. Industrial Disablement Pension 97 words
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20. Social Workers 100 words
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21. Pregnancy (Vitamins) 125 words
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22. Abortions 102 words
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23. Patients (Treatment) 62 words
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24. Anthony Cyrus 83 words
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25. Artificial Insemination (Waiting List) 37 words
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26. Infertility 177 words
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27. Social Security Commissioner (Decisions) 61 words
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28. Residential Accommodation (Report) 60 words
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29. Hearing Aids (Insurance) 72 words
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30. Royal Northern Hospital, Islington 149 words
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31. Ministerial Visit (Arab Countries) 53 words
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32. Rayne Hill Hospital (Member's Correspondence) 73 words
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33. Cot Deaths 95 words
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34. NHS (Theft, Fraud and Arson) 56 words
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35. Great Ormond Street Hospital 105 words
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36. One-Parent Families 212 words
15. DEFENCE
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1. Falkland Islands (Compensation) 66 words
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2. Defence Equipment (Purchasers) 76 words
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3. British Warships (Courtesy Visits) 75 words
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4. Damaged Vessels (Repair) 75 words
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5. Dartmoor Steering Group 109 words
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6. Chilean Air Force 110 words
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7. Chilean Air and Naval Personnel 65 words
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8. Gruinard Island 73 words
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9. British Army of the Rhine 309 words
16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Malaysia 130 words
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2. Swaziland 63 words
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3. Vietnamese Refugees 351 words
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4. Lebanon (Red Cross Supplies) 105 words
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5. Argentina (Arms Supplies) 79 words
17. INDUSTRY
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1. Chemical Industry 947 words
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2. Manufacturing Industry 835 words
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3. Industrial Output 324 words
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4. Small Firms (North-West) 162 words
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5. Textile Industry 151 words
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6. Clothing Industry 634 words
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7. Man-made Fibres 75 words
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8. Science Research Projects 94 words
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9. Microtechnology Research 105 words
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10. Southampton (New Factories) 76 words
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11. Staff Salaries 66 words
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12. British Aerospace (A320) 139 words
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13. West Midlands 79 words
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14. British Shipbuilders (Accounts) 204 words
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15. Minister of State (Visit) 57 words
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16. Sub-postmasters 255 words
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17. Nissan Motor Company 204 words
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18. Departmental Staff 2,819 words
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19. Small Firms 552 words
18. WALES
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1. Redundancies 83 words
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2. West Wales Hospital, Carmarthen (Dialysis Unit) 52 words
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3. Local Authority Farms 140 words
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4. Mental Hospitals (Ministerial Visits) 159 words
19. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Council House Tenants (Right-to-buy) 333 words
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2. Macclesfield (Council House Sales) 120 words
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3. Housing Action Areas 170 words
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4. Liverpool (Tree Planting and Landscaping) 123 words
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5. Show Houses (Rating) 147 words
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6. Repair Grants 72 words
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7. Energy Conservation 130 words
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8. Empty Council Houses 73 words
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9. Wild Birds (Conservation) 218 words
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10. New Towns 227 words
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11. West Midlands (Employment) 71 words
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12. Recreation Services (Privatisation) 123 words
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13. Tower Wharf (Cyclists) 117 words
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14. North Pennines 96 words
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15. District Heating Scheme (Harlow) 179 words
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16. Ministerial Visits (Saudi Arabia) 176 words
20. TRANSPORT
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1. Denton (Road Schemes) 179 words
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2. Mr. Rodney Bitmead 60 words
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3. Motor Vehicles (Construction) 93 words
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4. A50 (Accidents) 79 words
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5. Waste Disposal Lorries 82 words
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6. French Coach Operators (Licences) 190 words
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7. Weighbridges (Accuracy) 91 words
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8. Ministerial Visits (Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) 170 words
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9. Public Transport (London) 414 words
21. SCOTLAND
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1. Education (Parents' Charter) 91 words
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2. Education Administrators 109 words
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3. Perth Prison (Workshop Safety) 204 words
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4. New Towns 323 words
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5. Strathclyde (Structure Plan) 399 words
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6. Common Services Agency 187 words
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7. Gaelic (Examinations) 165 words
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8. Giant Hogweed 56 words
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9. Hamilton College of Education 343 words
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10. Island Councils (Grants) 198 words
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11. Local Authorities (Agricultural Land Holdings) 147 words
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12. Irish Republican Army 100 words
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13. Personnel (Security Vetting) 151 words
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14. Cameron Report 217 words
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15. Bothwell 378 words
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16. Glasgow, Shettleston 100 words
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17. Policy Programme (Achievement) 95 words
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18. Community Land Act 1975 841 words

Lords Sitting of 26 July 1982 Series 5 Vol. 434

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1. Preamble 27 words
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2. Schools and Less Academic Children 1,027 words
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3. Motorways: Expenditure 1,052 words
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4. Sex Establishment Licences 1,173 words
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5. IRA Terrorists: UK/Irish Police Liaison 467 words
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6. Business 97 words
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7. EEC Foreign Affairs Council: Steel 2,451 words
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8. British Railways Bill 15 words
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9. West Yorkshire (Parking and Transport) Bill 13 words
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10. Finance Bill 57 words
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11. Economic Policy 46,545 words
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12. Stock Transfer Bill 6 words
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13. Criminal Procedure: Independent Prosecutors 11,645 words
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14. Greater London Council (Money) Bill 6 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 26 July 1982 Series 5 Vol. 434

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1. WINE BY THE GLASS: LEGISLATION 168 words
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2. BRITISH MIDLAND AIRWAYS: ROUTE APPLICATION 74 words
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3. THE HUMANITIES: RESEARCH COUNCIL 29 words
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4. NORTHERN IRELAND: TRIAL BY JUDGE AND JURY 231 words
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5. DESCHEDULED OFFENCES: ATTORNEY- GENERAL'S CERTIFICATION 80 words