Sitting of 29 November 1982

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Commons Sitting of 29 November 1982 Series 6 Vol. 33

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. HAMPSHIRE BILL [Lords] 13 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. INDUSTRY
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1. Steel Industry 1,719 words
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2. Regional Development Grants 129 words
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3. Advance Factories 218 words
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4. New Businesses 563 words
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5. West Midlands 668 words
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6. Manufacturing Output 670 words
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7. Industrial Growth 617 words
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8. Industrial Competitiveness 753 words
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9. Girobank 344 words
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10. Cable Television 756 words
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11. Industry Education Unit 702 words
2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Mr. David Somes 106 words
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2. Shoplifting 924 words
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3. Births, Marriages and Deaths (Records) 434 words
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5. Fast Reactor Programme 460 words
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6. GATT (Ministerial Meeting) 4,632 words
1. BILL PRESENTED
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1. CIVIL AVIATION (EUROCONTROL) 80 words
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7. Statutory Instruments, &c. 85 words
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8. British Telecommunications 330 words
9. Orders of the Day
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1. Telecommunications Bill 44,643 words, 2 divisions
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1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 24 words
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2. TELECOMMUNICATIONS [MONEY] 2,472 words, 1 division
2. WAYS AND MEANS
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1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS 32 words
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3. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 40 words
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1. ANIMAL 52 words
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2. HOUSING (SCOTLAND) 27 words
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3. HOUSING 27 words
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4. HOUSING (SCOTLAND) 27 words
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5. CUSTOMS AND EXCISE 25 words
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6. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT 33 words
4. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.
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1. ANIMALS 100 words
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5. Oxford Textile Mills 3,133 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 29 November 1982 Series 6 Vol. 33

1. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Leeds (Pilot Ethnic Survey) 156 words
2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Dependent Territories 54 words
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2. Statute Law (Application) 42 words
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3. Official Secrets Act (Trials) 43 words
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4. Departmental Lawyers 18 words
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5. European Court of Human Rights (Legal Aid) 42 words
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6. Mr. Norman Crawford (Trial) 47 words
3. ENERGY
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1. Fast Reactor Policy 415 words
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2. Power Stations 45 words
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3. Pressurised Water Reactors 68 words
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4. Plutonium 204 words
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5. Electricity Act 1947 (Amendment) 55 words
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6. Electricity Prices (Alignment) 58 words
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7. Aluminium and Chlorine Production 66 words
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8. Electricity Tariffs 146 words
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9. Electricity (Private Generation) 263 words
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10. Electricity Users 170 words
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11. North Sea Oil 235 words
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12. Mr. Arthur Scargill 63 words
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13. Energy Conservation 68 words
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14. National Coal Board (Chairman) 50 words
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15. Standing Charges 125 words
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16. Oil Exports 62 words
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17. Pressurised Water Reactor 448 words
4. SCOTLAND
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1. Workplace Nurseries 46 words
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2. Education (Fees) 148 words
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3. Secondary and High Schools 116 words
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4. Sheep Scab 145 words
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5. Earnings 42 words
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6. Housing (Fixed Capital Formations) 42 words
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7. Unemployment 118 words
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8. Assisted Places Scheme 2,361 words
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9. National Playing Fields Association 224 words
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10. Urban Aid Programme (Assistance to Women) 129 words
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11. Job Creation 152 words
5. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Falkland Islands 273 words
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2. Exocet Missiles 56 words
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3. Argentina (Arms) 341 words
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4. Arms Exports 44 words
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5. RFA "Fort Austin" 45 words
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6. Falklands Campaign 179 words
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7. Ministerial Advisers 46 words
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8. Sir Anthony Parsons 164 words
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9. Brigadier A. B. D. Gurdon 50 words
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10. Mr. R. J. O'Neill 41 words
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11. South Atlantic Fund 172 words
6. INDUSTRY
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1. Inner City Areas 65 words
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2. Commercial Vehicles 84 words
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3. Engineering Council 91 words
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4. Post Office 149 words
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5. Regional Policy 76 words
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6. Microcomputers 80 words
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7. Advanced Information Technology 53 words
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8. Steel Industry 207 words
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9. Small Businesses and Self-employment 209 words
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10. Battery Industry 111 words
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11. Subsidies 80 words
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12. Manufacturing Industry 235 words
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13. Cable Television 176 words
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14. Medium-sized Firms 76 words
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15. Airbus A320 52 words
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16. Industrial Regeneration 47 words
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17. Microcomputers (Secondary Schools) 82 words
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18. Loan Guarantee Scheme 96 words
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19. West Cumbria 71 words
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20. Local Enterprise Agencies 164 words
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21. English Industrial Estates Corporation 75 words
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22. Footwear Industry 109 words
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23. Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering 335 words
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24. Telephone Standing Charges 77 words
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25. Support for Innovation Scheme 269 words
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26. Heavy Engineering 86 words
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27. Steel Prices 227 words
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28. Steel Capacity 78 words
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29. European Community (Production Quotas) 93 words
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30. British Steel Corporation 95 words
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31. Steel Imports 61 words
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32. Dioxin 74 words
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33. Pulp, Paper and Board Industry 85 words
7. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Gainsborough 112 words
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2. Newham 74 words
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3. New Enterprise Allowance 49 words
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4. Redundancies (Derbyshire) 135 words
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5. Job Creation (Norwich) 230 words
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6. New Training Scheme 91 words
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7. Health and Safety Inspectorate 909 words
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8. Manpower Services Commission 82 words
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9. Unemployment Statistics 1,054 words
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10. Women's Affairs 157 words
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11. Steel Industry 127 words
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12. Racial Equality 96 words
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13. Lost Working Days (Cost) 113 words
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14. Average Earnings 168 words
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15. Industrial Tribunals 234 words
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16. Dismissals (Compensation) 62 words
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17. Closed Shop (Dismissals) 172 words
8. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Custodial Remand (Statistics) 239 words
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2. Tachograph (Prosecutions) 65 words
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3. Nuclear Explosions (Casualties) 69 words
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4. Convention on the Control of Animal Experiments 156 words
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5. Charities for the Disabled 206 words
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6. Civil Defence 209 words
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7. Firearms Certificates 186 words
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8. Councillor Gordon Ley (Property Damage Inquiry) 74 words
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9. Immigration 311 words
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10. Nuclear Explosion (Effect) 200 words
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11. Foreign Visitors 184 words
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12. Iranian Citizens 38 words
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13. Outstanding Judgments 145 words
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14. Women's Affairs 97 words
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15. Drug Dependence 111 words
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16. Voluntary Organisations (Grants) 1,101 words
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17. Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man 139 words
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18. Victoria Gate, Hyde Park 85 words
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19. London Borough of Newham 162 words
9. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Horticulture Industry (Energy Prices) 87 words
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2. River Lymington (Silt Spillage) 81 words
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3. Farm Wages 137 words
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4. Coypus and Mink 79 words
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5. Outstanding Judgments 197 words
10. WALES
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1. Heavy Lorries 36 words
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2. Health Services 208 words
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3. Aberaeron-Llwyncelyn Trunk Road 73 words
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4. Sheep Scab 61 words
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5. Elderly People 234 words
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6. Conwy Tunnel 102 words
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7. A5 and A55 (Improvements) 135 words
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8. Hospital Waiting Lists (Clwyd) 34 words
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9. Welfare Milk 38 words
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10. Free School Meals 73 words
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11. Nursery and Pre-school Facilities 201 words
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12. School Meals Service 35 words
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13. Health Expenditure 75 words
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14. NHS (Private Patients) 59 words
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15. Perinatal and Neonatal Care 37 words
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16. Perinatal and Infant Mortality 400 words
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17. Children in Care 410 words
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18. Disabled Persons (Household Aids) 206 words
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19. Disabled Children (Assistance) 776 words
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20. Divorce Statistics 124 words
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21. Welsh Water Authority 64 words
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22. Unemployment Statistics 68 words
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23. Housing (Fixed Capital Formation) 29 words
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24. Earnings 85 words
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25. Housing (Capital Allocations) 316 words
11. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Kenya 47 words
12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Namibia 89 words
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2. Radio Communications (Interference) 127 words
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3. Falkland Campaign 75 words
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4. Falkland Islands 210 words
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5. British Citizens (Foreign Imprisonment) 68 words
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6. Pitcairn Islands 45 words
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7. South Africa 122 words
13. TRADE
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1. Copyright (Taped Music) 80 words
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2. Exclusive Distribution Agreements 85 words
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3. Companies Registration Office 62 words
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4. Patent Office (Computerisation) 124 words
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5. Dangerous Goods 72 words
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6. Imported Goods (Standards) 85 words
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7. Non-departmental Public Bodies 1,005 words
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8. South America (Official Visits) 52 words
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9. British Caledonian Airways 49 words
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10. Insolvency Law Review 43 words
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11. Dioxin 62 words
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12. Coal Imports 51 words
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13. Aviation Security 89 words
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14. Advisory Panel on Company Law 51 words
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15. Steel Imports 94 words
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16. European Community 116 words
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17. Brookgate Investments 48 words
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18. Consumer Credit Act 50 words
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19. Beer Casks and Kegs (Volume) 82 words
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20. British Airways 74 words
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21. Internal Air Services 67 words
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22. Holiday Caravans 103 words
14. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Mink 43 words
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2. Kincora Inquiry 146 words
15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Student Grants 138 words
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2. State Education (Costs) 140 words
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3. Universities 48 words
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4. Newham (Ministerial Visit) 135 words
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5. Further Education (Report) 75 words
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6. St. George's School, Stowmarket 30 words
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7. Remuneration of Teachers Act 63 words
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8. Secondary and High Schools 657 words
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9. Radio Nucleides 110 words
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10. British Antarctic Survey 179 words
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11. Computers in Schools 113 words
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12. Women's Affairs 56 words
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13. School Ships 38 words
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14. Parental Contributions 52 words
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15. Voluntary Organisations (Grants) 814 words
16. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. European Community Budget 726 words
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2. Widows (Tax Allowances) 156 words
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3. Widows' Pensions (Taxation) 100 words
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4. Income Tax (Thresholds) 297 words
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5. Taxation 298 words
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6. Industrial Building Allowances 71 words
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7. Value Added Tax (Tourism) 113 words
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8. Women's Affairs 123 words
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9. Matches and Mechanical Lighters 90 words
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10. European Community (Expenditure) 325 words
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11. Value Added Tax (Registration Limit) 53 words
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12. Mexico 55 words
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13. Stamp Duty 175 words
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14. Mortgages 104 words
17. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Royal Marsden Hospital 411 words
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2. Cleaver Hospital, Heswall 191 words
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3. Drugs (Information Services) 213 words
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4. Mr. Michael Fagan 106 words
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5. Personal Social Services 150 words
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6. St. Mark's Hospital 220 words
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7. Abortion (Luton and Dunstable Hospital) 68 words
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8. Dioxin 61 words
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9. Perinatal and Infant Mortality 401 words
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10. Earnings Rule 94 words
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11. Children in Care 44 words
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12. Chief Pharmacist 79 words
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13. Family Income 1,424 words
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14. Unemployment Benefit 438 words
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15. Supplementary Benefit 144 words
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16. Falklands Campaign (Injured Persons) 36 words
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17. Women's Affairs 316 words
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18. Pensions 158 words
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19. Voluntary Organisation (Grants) 50 words
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20. Junior Doctors 278 words
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21. Debendox 149 words
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22. Benefits (Claims Verification) 57 words
18. TRANSPORT
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1. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre 268 words
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2. Seat Belts 55 words
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3. Drink and Driving (Campaign) 68 words
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4. Pedestrian Crossings 180 words
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5. Heavy Lorries (Examiners) 39 words
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6. Lorry Weights 120 words
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7. Chairman of British Rail (Pay) 80 words
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8. British Rail (South American Contracts) 56 words
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9. British Transport Hotels 130 words
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10. Land Compensation Act 1973 68 words
19. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Speke Enterprise Zone 147 words
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2. Enterprise Zone 270 words
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3. Public Rights of Way 83 words
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4. Water Standing Charges 69 words
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5. Urban Programme 108 words
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6. Regional Water Authorities 40 words
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7. Eastern Council for Sport and Recreation 150 words
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8. House of Commons (East Cloisters) 233 words
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9. Sports Grounds 66 words
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10. Homeless Persons 86 words
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11. Cole Hall Farm, Birmingham 83 words
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12. Voluntary Organisations (Grants) 42 words
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13. Housing (Fixed Capital Formation) 144 words
20. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Car Park 52 words
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2. Official Report 79 words
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3. Suppliers 81 words
21. DEFENCE
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1. Rope Supplies (Navy) 131 words
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2. Senior Naval Personnel 132 words
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3. Devon and Rosyth Dockyards 141 words
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4. Military Bands 538 words
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5. Brunei 115 words
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6. MV "Wild Grebe" 109 words
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7. HMS "Endurance" 48 words
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8. "Ferncarrier" (Charter Cost) 69 words
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9. HMS "Illustrious" 54 words
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10. Submarine Movements 135 words
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11. Royal Fleet Auxiliaries (Bonus Payments) 128 words
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12. RFA "Fort Austin" 878 words
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13. Falkland Islands 593 words
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14. Supply and Use of Fuel (Financial Restrctions) 73 words
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15. Laser-guided Weapons 94 words
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16. Searchwater Radar 99 words
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17. Exercise "Springtrain" 42 words
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18. Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Eaglescliffe 79 words
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19. Argentine Submarines (Building and Repairing) 62 words
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20. Falkland Islands (War Graves) 487 words
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21. Arms Sales 36 words
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22. Merchant Ships (Anti-missile Seducers) 96 words
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23. In-flight Refuelling 151 words
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24. United Kingdom-Port Stanley (Air Journey) 43 words
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25. "General Belgrano" 182 words
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26. SS "Uganda" 306 words
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27. Exocet 79 words
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28. Falklands Campaign (Pay) 255 words
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29. Sea Harrier 96 words
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30. HMS "Swiftsure" 144 words
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31. Helicopters 62 words
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32. Arms Depot, Ruddington (Security) 95 words

Lords Sitting of 29 November 1982 Series 5 Vol. 436

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Energy Costs: Relief Measures for Industry 1,296 words
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3. Broadcasting of Parliament 1,624 words
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4. The Western Isles IDP: Magazine Article 797 words
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5. Penal Establishments: Health and Safety Measures 962 words
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6. The GATT Ministerial Meeting 30 words
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7. Merchant Shipping Bill [H.L.] 74 words
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8. Highland Region (Banavie Level Crossing) Order Confirmation Bill 31 words
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9. Epsom and Walton Downs Regulation Bill [H.L.] 11 words
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10. British Nationality (Falklands Islands) Amendment Bill [H.L.] 1,062 words
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11. The GATT Ministerial Meeting 4,094 words
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12. British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Amendment Bill [H.L.] 17,129 words
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13. Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 1982 12,529 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 29 November 1982 Series 5 Vol. 436

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1. FARM CAPITAL GRANTS: PROSECUTIONS 136 words
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2. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: ELECTORAL PROCEDURES 186 words
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3. METROPOLITAN POLICE: TRANSFERS TO ROYALTY PROTECTION BRANCH 163 words
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4. LEEDS CIVIL SERVANTS: ETHNIC SURVEY 153 words
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5. THE ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL: DIAGNOSTIC UNIT 421 words