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Commons Sitting of 19 December 1983 Series 6 Vol. 51

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. ENERGY
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1. Onshore Licences 317 words
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2. Coal Industry 492 words
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3. Onshore Licences 132 words
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4. British Gas Corporation 406 words
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5. Electricity Supplies 286 words
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6. Energy Prices 1,377 words
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7. European Community Energy Policy 180 words
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8. Energy Prices 807 words
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9. Oil Industry 315 words
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10. Coal Use 598 words
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11. Alternative Energy Sources 205 words
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12. Coal Industry 373 words
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13. Foundry Coke Subsidy 209 words
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14. Energy Prices 116 words
2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Accommodation 561 words
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2. Ex-Members of Parliament 183 words
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3. Government Information Policy 368 words
3. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Retirement 485 words
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2. Northern Region 299 words
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3. Retired Civil Servants 285 words
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4. Unified Grades 333 words
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4. Harrods (Bomb Incident) 4,519 words
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5. Greenham Common 744 words
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6. Scott Lithgow (Britoil Contract) 744 words
7. BILLS PRESENTED
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1. ORDNANCE FACTORIES AND MILITARY SERVICES 177 words
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2. RATES 132 words
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3. LAW REFORM (HUSBAND AND WIFE) (SCOTLAND) 76 words
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8. SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE 37 words
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9. Adjournment (Christmas) 21,680 words
10. Orders of the Day
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1. CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL 57 words
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2. Airbus A320 10,847 words
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11. Visiting Forces Act 1952 10,859 words
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12. South-West Region 22,956 words
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13. Wales (Home Improvement Grants) 10,332 words
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14. Charities 11,562 words
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15. Housing Benefit 15,112 words
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16. Al-M1 (Cambridgeshire) 4,992 words
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17. Licensing Laws 5,786 words
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18. Africa (Aid) 7,062 words
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19. Foreign Policy (Caribbean) 2,203 words
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20. South Sefton Area Health Authority 3,757 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 19 December 1983 Series 6 Vol. 51

1. TRANSPORT
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1. Doctors (Car Horns) 60 words
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2. British Rail (Catering Facilities) 115 words
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3. Road Construction Costs 173 words
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4. Road Freight 185 words
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5. Road Lengths 141 words
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6. Roads (Regional Expenditure) 69 words
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7. Conspicuity Aids 97 words
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8. Roads (Trunking) 143 words
2. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Trade Unions (Talks) 44 words
3. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Pedal Cyclists 48 words
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2. Foreign Visitors 58 words
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3. Solvent Abuse 55 words
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4. Postal Votes 398 words
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5. Police National Computer 149 words
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6. Sir David McNee 76 words
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7. London Fire Brigade 74 words
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8. Prison Facilities (Carlton) 90 words
4. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Middle Schools 69 words
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2. Science in Universities (Funding) 75 words
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3. West Midlands College 156 words
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4. Award Holders (Overseas Grading) 395 words
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5. Catholic Teacher Training 166 words
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6. Racial Prejudice 135 words
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7. Teachers Superannuation Scheme 76 words
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8. Higher Education (Local Authority Provision) 477 words
5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Legal Aid (Member's Correspondence) 85 words
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2. Legal Aid 256 words
6. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Nicaragua 51 words
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2. Falkland Islands 43 words
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3. Heavy Water 196 words
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4. Supplementary Benefit 387 words
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5. Government Communications Headquarters 88 words
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6. Dependent Territories 162 words
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7. Rayner Reports (Implementation) 50 words
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8. Marine Oil Spills 172 words
7. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. European Community (Budget Refunds) 700 words
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2. Local Authority Expenditure 200 words
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3. Building Societies (Special Advances) 57 words
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4. Britannia Building Society 162 words
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5. Public Sector Finance 160 words
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6. Treasury Model (Review) 85 words
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7. Public and Private Sector Borrowing (Statistics) 116 words
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8. Index-linked Borrowing 75 words
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9. Wives (Business Cars) 60 words
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10. Benefits (Special Taxation Rules) 135 words
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11. Income and Expenditure 163 words
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12. Benefits in Kind 46 words
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13. Military Equipment 69 words
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14. Life Insurance Premiums 41 words
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15. Mortgage Interest 242 words
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16. Estates (Residential Property) 185 words
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17. Tax Relief 112 words
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18. Foreign Nationals 67 words
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19. Civil Servants (Scotland) 362 words
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20. NHS Equipment (Value Added Tax) 53 words
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21. Departmental Forms 161 words
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22. Housing (Valuations) 51 words
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23. Unitary Taxation 50 words
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24. Black Economy 38 words
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25. Exploration Licences 55 words
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26. Taxation Statistics 72 words
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27. Value Added Tax 157 words
8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Grenada 251 words
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2. Overseas Students (Aid) 277 words
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3. Physically and Mentally Handicapped Persons 107 words
9. THE ARTS
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1. Public Institutions (Allocations) 198 words
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2. Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art (Report) 70 words
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3. Museums and Galleries (Purchase Grants) 80 words
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4. Museums and Galleries (Attendance Figures) 75 words
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5. Theatres (Liverpool) 141 words
10. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Historic Buildings Bureau 127 words
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2. Green Belt (Hertfordshire) 78 words
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3. Welwyn Hatfield 110 words
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4. Rate Support Grant 137 words
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5. Housing 91 words
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6. Mental Health Project (Manchester) 73 words
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7. Local Authorities (Service Expenditure) 117 words
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8. Sports Stadium (Luton) 77 words
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9. Departmental Forms 122 words
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10. Rates 229 words
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11. National Heritage Memorial Fund 112 words
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12. Falkland Islands 52 words
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13. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 82 words
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14. Mr. A. Murrell (Appeal Decision) 107 words
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15. Inner City Partnerships 156 words
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16. Local Authorities (Libel Actions) 62 words
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17. Urban Development Grants 236 words
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18. School Playing Fields 78 words
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19. Local Authority Expenditure 838 words
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20. Pilot Projects on Housing (Report) 55 words
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21. Shared Ownership Scheme 63 words
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22. Housing Capital Expenditure 125 words
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23. Hemerdon Mine Tungsten Project 66 words
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24. Slate 222 words
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25. Building Research Establishment 98 words
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26. Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 86 words
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27. Greater London Council 279 words
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28. English House Condition Survey 363 words
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29. "Oil Pollution of the Sea" 479 words
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30. Property Services Agency 157 words
11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Mr. Antony Rushford 87 words
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2. United Kingdom Representations (Staff) 115 words
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3. Falkland Islands 464 words
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4. Argentina 134 words
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5. Sir Nicholas Henderson 73 words
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6. Departmental Staff 253 words
12. DEFENCE
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1. Departmental Forms 130 words
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2. Equipment (Content) 270 words
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3. Alsager Royal Ordnance Factory 136 words
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4. MV Astronomer (Conversion Cost) 65 words
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5. Containerised Air Defence Systems 60 words
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6. Lucernia 43 words
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7. Arapaho (Payment) 73 words
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8. Rosyth Dockyard (New Facilities) 97 words
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9. Fighter Aircraft 179 words
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10. Mr. Walid Jumblatt 132 words
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11. Defence Spending 123 words
13. ENERGY
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1. Coal Industry 214 words
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2. Combined Heat and Power Schemes 72 words
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3. British Gas Corporation 44 words
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4. Domestic Supplies (Disconnections) 105 words
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5. Energy Efficiency Office 49 words
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6. Wytch Farm 53 words
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7. British Gas (Showrooms) 53 words
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8. British National Oil Corporation 130 words
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9. British Gas Corporation (Norwegian Gas Purchase) 212 words
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10. Departmental Staff 240 words
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11. Nuclear Power Stations 201 words
14. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Earnings 418 words
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2. Police and Fire Officers 45 words
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3. Departmental Forms 120 words
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4. Youth Training 337 words
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5. Community Programme Schemes 61 words
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6. Labour Statistics (Trafford Park) 225 words
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7. Departmental Sex Monitoring 37 words
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8. European Social Fund 48 words
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9. Trade Union Elections (Malpractice) 73 words
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10. Young Workers Scheme 75 words
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11. Departmental Staff 249 words
15. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Mobility Allowance 113 words
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2. Voluntary Organisations 127 words
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3. Supplementary Benefit 85 words
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4. Doctors (Deputising Services) 611 words
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5. Benefits 870 words
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6. Whittington Hospital (Service Standards) 74 words
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7. Drugs (Clinical Trials) 178 words
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8. Spectacles 297 words
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9. Griffiths Report 66 words
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10. Hospital Waiting Lists (Wandsworth) 502 words
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11. NHS Trade Unions 57 words
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12. Health Authority Funding (Hertfordshire) 140 words
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13. Hospital Services (Welwyn and Hatfield) 72 words
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14. Statutory Sick Pay Scheme 200 words
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15. Child Abuse 130 words
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16. Intensive Therapy Units 91 words
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17. Spectacle Manufacturers (Representations) 53 words
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18. Housing Benefit 319 words
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19. Medicines (Labelling) 689 words
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20. National Health Service (Expenditure) 2,905 words
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21. National Health Service (Medical Training) 214 words
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22. Frimley Park Hospital 81 words
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23. Pharmaceutical Industry 86 words
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24. Psychiatric Wards (Cheshire) 64 words
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25. Nurses (Pay) 75 words
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26. Wheelchairs 164 words
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27. District Health Authorities (Private Meetings) 40 words
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28. National Insurance Numbers 193 words
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29. Mobility Allowance 55 words
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30. Oglesby Report 159 words
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31. Disablement (Research) 85 words
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32. Walsall General Hospital 80 words
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33. National Health Service (Patient Care) 131 words
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34. Supplementary Benefit (Mortgage Interest) 41 words
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35. Member's Correspondence 52 words
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36. Solvent Abuse 44 words
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37. Nursing Homes Act 179 words
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38. Carers (Support) 84 words
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39. Invalid Care Allowance 107 words
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40. Canada (British Pensioners) 135 words
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41. Social Security Reciprocity 190 words
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42. Hospital Waiting Lists (Merseyside) 299 words
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43. Social Security Advisory Committee 61 words
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44. Royal Children's Hospital, Heswall 146 words
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45. Electoral Growth 269 words
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46. Mr. Michael Daube 71 words
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47. Committee on Safety of Medicines 229 words
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48. Hospital Staff (Taxation) 311 words
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49. Departmental Staff 251 words
16. SCOTLAND
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1. Roads 136 words
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2. Travelling Families 844 words
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3. Queen's Drive, Holyrood Park (Closure) 76 words
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4. A75 (Bypasses) 97 words
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5. M73 (Lighting) 117 words
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6. Overseas Students 74 words
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7. Edinburgh Dental Hospital 86 words
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8. National Health Service (Staffing) 48 words
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9. Museums and Galleries (Attendances) 79 words
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10. Defective Housing (Edinburgh) 80 words
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11. Parole 81 words
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12. May Report 244 words
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13. Prisons 501 words
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14. Prison Officers 182 words
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15. Norwegian Fisheries (Incident) 250 words
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16. Local Authority Expenditure 114 words
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17. Departmental Staff 249 words
17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Agricultural Expenditure 486 words
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2. West Cumberland Coast (Radioactivity) 97 words
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3. Dairy Products 123 words
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4. Variable Premium Scheme (Cattle and Sheep) 188 words
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5. Recombining Plants (Overseas Sales) 113 words
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6. Sheepmeat 114 words
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7. Salmon Poaching 60 words
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8. Inland and Coastal Fisheries (Review) 90 words
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9. Trawlers (Dredges) 148 words
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10. Agricultural Support 63 words
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11. European Community (Delayed Payments) 129 words
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12. Intervention Payments and Export Restitution 39 words
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13. Agricultural Holdings Bill 179 words
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14. Departmental Staff 251 words
18. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Departmental Staff 323 words
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2. Nationalised Industries 107 words
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3. Ulster Museum 55 words
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4. Training Allowance 82 words
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5. Agricultural Products (Imports) 37 words
19. WALES
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1. Clinical Psychologists 131 words
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2. Accident and Emergency Centres (Closure) 55 words
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3. Vanguard Scheme 128 words
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4. Departmental Forms 73 words
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5. "Home School Links" 927 words
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6. Roads 126 words
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7. Free School Meals 119 words
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8. Gwydyr House (Staffing Arrangements) 53 words
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9. Local Authorities (Papers and Documents) 64 words
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10. National Museum of Wales (Attendances) 94 words
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11. Local Authorities (Capital Allocations) 199 words
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12. Radioactive Waste Disposal 141 words
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13. Departmental Staff 473 words
20. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Boiler Conversion Scheme 73 words
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2. Trade Statistics 1,074 words
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3. Ministerial Appointments 107 words
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4. Brussels Nomenclature (Tariffs) 206 words
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5. Udaras na Gaeltacht 119 words
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6. Wholesale Price Index 63 words
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7. Invest in Britain Bureau 79 words
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8. Departmental Forms 124 words
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9. United States Export Administration Act 76 words
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10. Knitwear and Hosiery Industry 86 words
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11. China/Hong Kong (Outward Processing) 49 words
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12. Spanish Roofing Slate 166 words
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13. Suth America 54 words
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14. Manufacturing Industry 117 words
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15. Investment Statistics 59 words
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16. Motor Vehicle Batteries 54 words
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17. Textiles and Clothing 667 words
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18. Export Credits Guarantee Department 144 words
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19. Mechanical Construction Engineering Industry 127 words
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20. DEPARTMENTAL STAFF 402 words

Lords Sitting of 19 December 1983 Series 5 Vol. 446

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Council House Rent Increases 876 words
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3. Bread Flour: Calcium Supplement 890 words
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4. Marriage Registry Requirements: Passports 392 words
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5. Disabilities: Classification 568 words
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6. Bomb Explosion at Harrods 40 words
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7. Registered Homes Bill [H.L.] 72 words
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8. Cable and Broadcasting Bill [H.L.] 6,343 words
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9. Bomb Explosion at Harrods 4,173 words
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10. Cable and Broadcasting Bill [H.L.] 34,043 words
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11. Electronic Residual Circuit Safety Devices 6,032 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 19 December 1983 Series 5 Vol. 446

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1. GENERAL ELECTION: TENDERED BALLOT PAPERS 138 words
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2. GENERAL ELECTION: POSTAL BALLOT PAPERS 262 words
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3. FRANKLAND PRISON: CATEGORY A PRISONER TRANSFERS 56 words
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4. WATER CANNON 141 words
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5. VAT REVENUES 79 words
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6. GOVERNMENT-ADMINISTERED LICENSING 22 words
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7. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: TAX 76 words
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8. EDUCATION ACT 1981: COST 125 words
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9. LETCOMBE LABORATORY 89 words
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10. THE ARAB/ISRAELI DISPUTE: US AND EC POLICY 149 words
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11. US/EC POLICY CONSULTATION 104 words
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12. WALES: CAPITAL SPENDING ON INDUSTRIAL UNITS 372 words
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13. TURKEY: FREE INSTITUTIONS 167 words
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14. THE WESTERN EUROPEAN UNION ASSEMBLY AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 99 words
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15. SOUTH AFRICAN MILITARY, ETC., PERSONNEL: TRAINING 126 words
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16. "CRISIS IN CENTRAL AMERICA": BACKGROUND BRIEF 521 words
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17. BARNACLE GEESE: ISLAY 276 words
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18. GRASS SICKNESS IN HORSES 165 words
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19. AGRICULTURE: GUIDANCE ON COST BENEFITS 129 words
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20. AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE: GRANT NON-PAYMENT OR REDUCTION 104 words
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21. AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE: COST OF GRANTS 217 words
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22. LENNARD HOSPITAL, BROMLEY 97 words