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Commons Sitting of 13 December 1983 Series 6 Vol. 50

c817
1. Preamble 7 words
c817
2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Mental Health Act 1982 506 words
cc818-9
2. NHS (Abuses) 501 words
cc819-20
3. NHS (Catering) 484 words
cc820-1
4. Disabled Persons 365 words
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5. Disabled Persons 634 words
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6. Wessex Health Region 235 words
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7. Disabled Persons 510 words
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8. Hospital Waiting Lists 333 words
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9. Family Practitioner Services 942 words
cc826-7
10. Seat Belts 420 words
cc827-8
11. NHS (Expenditure) 558 words
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12. Death Grant 295 words
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13. General Managers 254 words
cc829-30
14. NHS (Productivity) 332 words
c830
15. NHS (Recruitment Advertising) 131 words
cc830-1
16. Deputising Services 464 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Engagements 2,187 words
c837
4. Cruise Missiles (Greenham Common) 112 words
cc837-8
5. Regional Industrial Policy (White Paper) 426 words
c838
6. Hospital Cleaning Services 174 words
cc839-52
7. Regional Industrial Policy 7,063 words
cc852-4
8. European Human Rights Convention 1,109 words
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9. EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTION 77 words
10. Orders of the Day
cc855-918
1. London Regional Transport Bill 36,360 words
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2. London Regional Transport Bill 7,589 words, 2 divisions
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3. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1983–84 56 words
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4. ESTIMATES 1984–85 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT) 90 words
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5. CONSOLIDATED FUND 52 words
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6. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 25 words
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7. LONDON REGIONAL TRANSPORT BILL [MONEY] 176 words
11. WAYS AND MEANS
cc933-45
1. London Regional Transport 7,090 words, 1 division
cc946-62
2. European Community (Transport Infrastructure) 9,579 words
cc963-8
3. Industrial Training 3,212 words
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4. JOINT COMMITTEE ON CONSOLIDATION, & c., BILLS 56 words
cc969-76
5. Law of the Sea (United Nations Convention) 3,956 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 December 1983 Series 6 Vol. 50

1. THE ARTS
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1. Elgin Marbles 39 words
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2. Concert Halls 122 words
2. ENERGY
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1. CEGB (Turbines) 74 words
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2. Nuclear Power 69 words
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3. Petroleum Licensing Awards 141 words
3. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Ministerial Appointments 430 words
4. WALES
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1. Labour Statistics 249 words
5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. National Girobank 219 words
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2. Student Numbers 67 words
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3. Tourism 286 words
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4. Blackpool Tower (Refurbishment) 65 words
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5. Microwaves (Public Health) 174 words
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6. Norton Villiers Triumph 161 words
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7. Special Security Services Ltd. 37 words
6. DEFENCE
c384W
1. Cyprus (Sovereign Bases) 77 words
c384W
2. Host Nation Support Arrangements 218 words
7. TRANSPORT
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1. Roads (Gloucestershire) 120 words
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2. Armitage Recommendations (Implementation) 145 words
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3. Ministerial Appointments 67 words
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4. A419–A417 (Bypasses) 110 words
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5. Roadside Interviews (East Lancashire) 99 words
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6. Vehicle Lighting 162 words
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7. Motorways (Lighting) 386 words
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8. Road Humps 98 words
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9. Rail Services (Timekeeping) 59 words
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10. British Rail (Fares) 64 words
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11. Airport Investment 235 words
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12. Aerial Advertising 120 words
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13. Airports 237 words
8. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Council House Sales (Legal Aid) 187 words
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2. Ministerial Appointments 253 words
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3. Treasury Solicitor 142 words
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4. Nora Hussey 107 words
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5. Queen's Evidence 98 words
9. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Greenham Common 124 words
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2. Electoral Registers (Sales) 53 words
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3. Citizens Band Radio 84 words
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4. Solvent and Drug Abuse 82 words
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5. Police (Establishment) 90 words
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6. Street Offences Act 1959 216 words
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7. Breathalysers 562 words
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8. Ranby Prison 326 words
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9. Detained Persons 112 words
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10. Police (Recruitment) 87 words
10. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Married Man's Tax Allowance 209 words
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2. European Community (Value Added Tax) 221 words
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3. Bank Notes (Scotland) 73 words
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4. Business Expansion Scheme 93 words
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5. 20p Piece 75 words
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6. Cable and Wireless 113 words
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7. Treasury Solicitor 107 words
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8. Eurobonds 42 words
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9. Pension Funds 67 words
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10. Output and Inflation (Forecasts) 275 words
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11. European Community (Spain and Portugal) 79 words
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12. Imports 71 words
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13. Exports 145 words
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14. Hospital Staff (Taxation) 86 words
11. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Engagements 973 words
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2. Nuclear Disarmament 75 words
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3. Electronics Industry (Scotland) 108 words
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4. European Commission 38 words
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5. Erdington 24 words
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6. Commonwealth Conference 151 words
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7. European Community (Common Agricultural Policy) 66 words
12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Emergency Food Supplies and Equipment 484 words
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2. Fishing Vessels (Licences) 103 words
13. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Refuse Disposal. (River Thames) 110 words
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2. Dudley 211 words
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3. Local Government Reform 155 words
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4. Ministerial Appointments 68 words
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5. National Garden Festival 1989 116 words
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6. Local Authorities (Compensation) 166 words
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7. Council House Tenants (Rates) 85 words
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8. Water Authorities 57 words
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9. Asbestos 67 words
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10. Nuclear Warfare 139 words
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11. Sellafield 375 words
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12. Nuclear Establishments (Safety) 82 words
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13. Improvement and Insulation Grants 210 words
14. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Safety at Work (Correspondence) 204 words
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2. Unfair Dismissal 301 words
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3. Asbestos 262 words
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4. Ethnic Minorities (Training) 86 words
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5. Mowlem Ltd. (Redundancies) 73 words
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6. Mullhead Ltd. (Redundancies) 76 words
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7. Youth Training Scheme 403 words
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8. Travelling Fairs (Equipment and Inspection) 112 words
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9. European Social Fund 142 words
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10. Health and Safety Executive 84 words
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11. Commission for Racial Equality 125 words
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12. Radiation 146 words
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13. Construction Industry (Scotland) 180 words
15. SCOTLAND
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1. Education Bursaries 256 words
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2. Birth Rate 213 words
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3. Trunk Road Schemes 484 words
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4. Motor Vehicles (Rear Lights) 71 words
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5. Halliday Report 92 words
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6. Hunterston Nuclear Power Station 391 words
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7. Housing 142 words
16. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Mental Health and Mental Handicap (Aid) 158 words
17. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Young Persons (Special Educational Needs) 139 words
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2. Women Teachers (Superannuation Benefits) 113 words
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3. Student Grants 332 words
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4. Students (Travel Costs) 38 words
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5. Student Places 91 words
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6. Comprehensive Schools (Examination Results) 97 words
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7. Teachers 65 words
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8. Polytechnics 33 words
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9. Higher Education 155 words
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10. Middle Schools 150 words
18. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Stockholm Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe 184 words
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2. Swiss Embassy, Guatemala City 59 words
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3. Guatemala 41 words
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4. Turks and Caicos Islands (Satellite Tracking Station) 85 words
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5. South Africa 110 words
19. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Housing Benefit 504 words
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2. Bone Marrow Transplants 154 words
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3. Deputising Services 160 words
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4. Overseas Visitors 55 words
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5. Health and Smoking 117 words
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6. NHS (Expenditure) 221 words
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7. Ambulance Staff 94 words
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8. Disabled Persons 40 words
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9. St. Benedict's Hospital, Tooting 56 words
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10. Child Dependency 86 words
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11. Orpington Hospital 64 words
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12. Health Districts (Resources) 89 words
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13. Old Persons 72 words
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14. Death Grant 45 words
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15. Glue Sniffing 86 words
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16. Social Security Benefit 260 words
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17. Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 51 words
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18. Kidney Dialysis 74 words
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19. Disabled Persons 56 words
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20. Pensions 129 words
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21. Mobility Allowance 45 words
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22. Child Care 49 words
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23. Spectacles 90 words
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24. Greater Manchester 91 words
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25. Dental Charges 47 words
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26. Community Health Councils 129 words
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27. Mentally Ill Persons 39 words
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28. Supplementary Benefit 203 words
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29. Departmental Staff 130 words
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30. North-West Region (Ambulance Service) 59 words
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31. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 63 words
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32. Hypothermia 51 words
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33. Day-care Facilities 394 words
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34. Family Practitioner Service 78 words
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35. NHS (Management) 82 words
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36. Pharmacists 80 words
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37. Elderly Women (Knickers) 39 words
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38. Medical and Nursing Staff (Training) 56 words
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39. Contraceptive Prophylactics 64 words
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40. Doctors and Dentists (Complaints) 48 words
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41. Pharmaceutical Products 49 words
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42. Griffiths Report (Appointments) 48 words
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43. Death Grant 41 words
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44. Disabled Persons 70 words
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45. Regional Health Authorities (Manpower) 66 words
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46. Invalidity Benefit 50 words
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47. Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel 166 words
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48. Regional Health Authorities (Finance) 77 words
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49. Carer's Charter 86 words
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50. Home Care 147 words
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51. Nurses (Pay) 77 words
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52. Mentally Handicapped Persons (Rehabilitation) 78 words
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53. Drugs (Yellow Cards) 155 words
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54. Arthritis Drugs 171 words
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55. Drugs (Product Licences) 292 words
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56. Drugs (Adverse Reactions) 581 words
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57. Benefits 583 words
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58. Invalidity Pension (Housewives) 140 words
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59. Nuclear War (Health Care) 213 words
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60. Neonatal Intensive Care Cots 149 words
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61. Solvent Abuse 92 words
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62. Disablement Benefit 108 words
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63. Social Security Advisory Committee 197 words
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64. REGULATIONS MADE WITHOUT PRIOR REFERENCE TO SSAC UNDER SECTION 10(2)(a) OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1980, AS AMENDED 245 words
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65. Hearing Aid Services, Nottingham 162 words
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66. Fluoridation 104 words
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67. Private Health Insurance 35 words
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68. Committee on Safety of Medicines 143 words
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69. Deaths (Industrial Disease) 212 words
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70. Unemployment and Para-suicide (Research) 89 words
20. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Salmon 306 words
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2. Caugh Hill (Chemical Spillage) 308 words
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3. Primary Schools (Pupil Numbers) 82 words
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4. Construction Industry 951 words
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5. Border Crossings 174 words
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6. Terrorist Activity 147 words
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7. Public Expenditure 370 words

Lords Sitting of 13 December 1983 Series 5 Vol. 446

c95
1. Preamble 33 words
cc95-8
2. Prisons: Standards 1,457 words
cc98-9
3. The Civil Service: Administration Trainees 601 words
cc99-103
4. Heating Benefit 1,882 words
cc103-6
5. The Falkland Islands: Records s 1,455 words
c106
6. Business 139 words
c106
7. British Shipbuilders (Borrowing Powers) Bill 6 words
cc106-9
8. Judgments Enforcement (Attachment of Debts) (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 1,315 words
cc109-18
9. Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill 4,914 words, 1 division
cc118-29
10. Regional Industrial Policy 5,975 words
cc129-36
11. Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill 3,664 words, 1 division
c136
12. Coal Industry Bill 12 words
c136
13. Town and Country Planning Bill 12 words
cc136-68
14. Agricultural Holdings Bill [H.L.] 17,881 words, 2 divisions
cc168-87
15. Appropriation (No. 3) (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 10,678 words
cc188-98
16. Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978 (Continuance) (No. 2) Order 1983 5,192 words
cc199-202
17. Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 1,963 words
cc202-30
18. Agricultural Holdings Bill [H.L.] 14,827 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 13 December 1983 Series 5 Vol. 446

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1. PARKHURST PRISON: CELL TEMPERATURES 59 words
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2. HM PRISONS: CHECKS ON VISITORS 148 words
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3. LIFE SENTENCE AND PAROLE POLICY: SCOTLAND 117 words
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4. "HOME DEFENCE AND THE FARMER" 182 words
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5. GARDEN FESTIVAL: SITE 110 words
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6. FISHING: TERRITORIAL WATERS 59 words
c232WA
7. SHIPS ADAPTED FOR NAVAL SUPPORT: STATUS 91 words