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Commons Sitting of 20 December 1983 Series 6 Vol. 51

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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3. PRIVATE BUSINESS 70 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Beadnell Village School 210 words
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2. Academic Results 527 words
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3. Religious Education 455 words
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4. Pupil-teacher Ratios 489 words
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5. Higher Education (Lecturers) 262 words
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6. Village Schools (Closures) 343 words
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7. Higher Education (Parental Contributions) 372 words
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8. Free School Transport 308 words
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9. Youth Training Scheme (Further Education Colleges) 464 words
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10. Students (Unemployment Benefit) 343 words
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11. Youth and Community Services (Thompson Report) 317 words
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12. Adult and Continuing Education. 587 words
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13. School Places (Reductions) 351 words
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14. Students (Travel Costs) 183 words
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15. Further Education (Allowances) 355 words
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16. Degree Course Places 206 words
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17. Pupil Numbers 205 words
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18. Teachers (Dismissal) 115 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Engagements 2,204 words
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5. Rate Support Grant (Wales) 4,000 words
cc281-91
6. British Shipbuilders (Britoil Contract) 5,599 words
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7. Tour Operators (Advertising of Foreign Holidays) 1,021 words
8. Orders of the Day
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1. Health and Social Security Bill 42,337 words, 1 division
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2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 23 words
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3. HEALTH AND SOCIAL SECURITY [MONEY] 69 words
9. WAYS AND MEANS
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1. HEALTH AND SOCIAL SECURITY 55 words
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2. Social Security 6,672 words, 1 division
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3. Fisheries (Northern Ireland) 11,730 words, 1 division
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4. OCCUPIERS LIABILITY BILL [LORDS] 53 words
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5. MERCHANT SHIPPING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL [LORDS] 53 words
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6. MERCHANT SHIPPING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL [MONEY] 58 words
10. PETITION
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1. Southwark (Hospital Beds) 282 words
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2. Plastic Pound Note 3,873 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 20 December 1983 Series 6 Vol. 51

1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Research Funds 77 words
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2. Grammar Schools 60 words
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3. Further Education (Expenditure) 220 words
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4. Education Authorities (Cost-effectiveness) 75 words
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5. Manpower Services Commission (Off-the-job Training) 70 words
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6. Education Authority Expenditure 111 words
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7. Education Vouchers 58 words
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8. Liverpool 50 words
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9. Young Persons (Further Education) 62 words
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10. Research Councils 110 words
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11. Undergraduates (Education Costs) 97 words
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12. Children (Cultural and Racial Groups) 54 words
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13. Pupil Costs 78 words
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14. Comprehensive Education 43 words
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15. University Grants Committee 39 words
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16. Education Authorities (Budget Control) 51 words
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17. Warrington (Roman Catholic Sixth Form Unit) 50 words
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18. GCE O-level 105 words
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19. Devon County Council (Representations) 104 words
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20. Polytechnic Students 66 words
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21. A-level Courses 57 words
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22. West Midlands College of Higher Education 152 words
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23. Hall Fees 129 words
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24. Higher Education (Consultations) 68 words
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25. Schools (Remote Rural Areas) 144 words
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26. School Rolls 98 words
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27. Student Maintenance Grants 117 words
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28. School Closures 93 words
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29. Further Education (Allowance) 66 words
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30. Development Initiatives 73 words
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31. Teachers' Unions (Discussions) 58 words
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32. Vocational Courses (Polytechnics) 128 words
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33. School Assemblies 138 words
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34. Selective Education (Richmond and Solihull) 30 words
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35. Core Curriculum (Definition) 40 words
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36. Higher Education (Cost-effectiveness) 172 words
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37. University Lecturers 50 words
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38. Higher Education (Women) 291 words
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39. Higher Education (Access) 324 words
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40. Manpower Needs 86 words
2. TRANSPORT
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1. Concrete Carriageways 66 words
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2. Motorway Construction 100 words
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3. Road Transport Subsidy 130 words
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4. British Transport Police 169 words
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5. Local Authorities (Transport Powers) 376 words
3. THE ARTS
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1. Arts and Libraries Programme 634 words
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2. Royal Opera House and Royal Shakespeare Company 487 words
4. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. "Public Bodies" (1983 Edition) 138 words
5. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Youth Training Scheme 424 words
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2. Noise 196 words
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3. Young Workers Scheme 317 words
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4. Average Earnings 76 words
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5. Skillcentre, Lambeth 77 words
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6. Job Release Scheme (Allowances) 342 words
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7. European Community Council of Labour and Social Affairs Ministers (Meeting) 218 words
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8. Trade Union Elections (Malpractice) 167 words
6. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Easter Recess 78 words
7. DEFENCE
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1. Skynet 49 words
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2. Departmental Grants 49 words
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3. International Military Services 239 words
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4. Greenham Common 53 words
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5. Departmental Land 111 words
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6. Cruise Missiles (Convoys) 43 words
8. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Remanded Persons 166 words
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2. Stephen Waldorf (Report) 134 words
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3. Private Security Firms 62 words
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4. Travel Documents 333 words
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5. Cigarettes (Young Persons) 106 words
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6. European Community 139 words
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7. Police Exercise (Fulham) 212 words
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8. Roads (Police Patrols) 39 words
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9. Departmental Forms 113 words
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10. Police (War Duties) 185 words
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11. Cinematograph (Amendment) Act 121 words
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12. Voluntary Organisations 107 words
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13. Merseyside 205 words
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14. Detained Persons 59 words
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15. Civil Defence 71 words
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16. Extradition 872 words
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17. British Nationality Act 1981 96 words
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18. London Fire Brigade 83 words
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19. Harmondsworth Detention Centre 57 words
9. ENERGY
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1. Natural Gas Prices 149 words
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2. Radioactive Waste (Leakages) 362 words
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3. Energy Use Surveys 109 words
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4. Grants 205 words
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5. Refuse-derived Fuels 92 words
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6. North Sea (Oil-related Contracts) 134 words
10. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Citizens Band Radio 44 words
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2. Citizens Advice Bureaux 91 words
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3. Regional Policy 40 words
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4. Cable Television 135 words
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5. Rank Xerox (Undertakings) 573 words
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6. Estate Agents Act 1979 94 words
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7. J. Bibby Edible Oils Ltd. (Takeover) 95 words
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8. Asbestos Fibres 170 words
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9. Motor Vehicle Batteries 92 words
11. SCOTLAND
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1. Schools Inspectors 104 words
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2. Colleges of Education (Inspection Arrangements) 40 words
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3. Association of Lecturers in Colleges of Education 37 words
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4. Employment Statistics 2,158 words
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5. Cancer 537 words
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6. Leukaemia 319 words
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7. Scottish Development Agency 67 words
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8. Housing Support Grant 120 words
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9. Housing (Dundee) 349 words
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10. Lanarkshire Health Board 88 words
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11. Council House Rents 59 words
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12. Voluntary Organisations 1,048 words
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13. Support Financing Scheme 95 words
12. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Britannia Building Society 265 words
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2. National Debt 55 words
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3. European Community (Budget Contribution) 325 words
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4. Life Insurance Premiums 87 words
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5. Mortgage Interest 81 words
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6. Coins 132 words
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7. Reflation 184 words
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8. Civil Servants (Travel Allowances) 66 words
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9. Personal Income and Taxation 702 words
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10. Public Sector Houses (Valuations) 72 words
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11. Deep Sea Mining (Licences) 80 words
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12. Taxation 339 words
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13. Value Added Tax 331 words
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14. Budget Council Meeting 272 words
13. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Engagements 997 words
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2. Cornhill 27 words
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3. Hungary (Visit) 136 words
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4. Lord Mayor of Birmingham 26 words
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5. Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 50 words
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6. Higher Education 151 words
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7. Auchinairn 25 words
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8. Hong Kong 123 words
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9. European Community (Environmental Policy) 126 words
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10. Public Sector Manpower 106 words
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11. Income Tax 277 words
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12. Regional Policy 149 words
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13. Social Services (Expenditure) 56 words
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14. Merseyside 66 words
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15. Polygraph 93 words
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16. Science, Technology and Industry Seminar 231 words
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17. Pay Review Bodies 386 words
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18. Rayner Scrutinies 238 words
14. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Fishing Fleet (Aid) 516 words
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2. Ministerial Appointments 62 words
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3. Surplus Foodstuffs 513 words
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4. Meat 67 words
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5. Pigs 170 words
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6. Sheepmeat 201 words
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7. New Zealand Butter 182 words
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8. Departmental Forms 96 words
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9. Nuclear Attack (Emergency Feeding) 245 words
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10. White Bread 147 words
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11. Fisheries Conservation 303 words
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12. Intervention Payments 203 words
15. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Drugs 91 words
16. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Rate Support Grant 279 words
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2. Green. Belt 90 words
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3. Milton Keynes Development Corporation 49 words
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4. Sports Stadium (Luton) 75 words
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5. Rates 559 words
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6. European Community (Environmental Policy) 121 words
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7. Common Agricultural Policy 88 words
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8. Local Government Expenditure 83 words
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9. Haringey 796 words
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10. Collaton Cross, Newton Ferrers 76 words
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11. Law Centres 53 words
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12. Lambeth 1,615 words
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13. Dewsbury 53 words
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14. Council House Sales 94 words
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15. Lead-free Petrol 369 words
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16. Mortgages (Support Lending Scheme) 345 words
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17. Chatham Dockyard 186 words
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18. Derelict Land Schemes 1,917 words
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19. "Agriculture and Pollution" 259 words
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20. School Playing Field Facilities 113 words
17. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Rent Arrears 2,508 words
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2. Belfast Rail Link Scheme 62 words
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3. Old People's Home, Portaferry 130 words
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4. Foyle Bridge 67 words
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5. Ulster Defence Force 87 words
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6. Radioactive Waste Disposal 138 words
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7. Unfair Dismissal 1,517 words
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8. Ulster Museum (Attendances) 89 words
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9. Youth Training 44 words
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10. Population Statistics 212 words
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11. Agricultural Products (Imports) 88 words
18. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Foreign Police Officers (Educational and Training Courses) 89 words
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2. World Bank 264 words
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3. Egyptian Citizens 88 words
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4. Passports 62 words
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5. Passport Office 38 words
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6. Sapodilla Cays 46 words
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7. Treaty Obligations (Military Assistance) 118 words
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8. Mr. Richard Stope 70 words
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9. Central America 101 words
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10. Departmental Forms 121 words
19. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Appointments 134 words
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2. Fluoridation 383 words
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3. Friern Barnet Hospital (Closure) 220 words
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4. Health and Social Security Bill 75 words
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5. Social Services Select Committee Report 78 words
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6. Islington Health Authority (Meeting) 110 words
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7. Supplementary Benefit 181 words
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8. Departmental General Index 367 words
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9. Benefits 179 words
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10. Allowances and Pensions (Lay Adjudicators) 110 words
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11. Allowable Rent 103 words
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12. Housing Benefit 41 words
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13. Pensions (Early Leavers) 122 words
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14. Statutory Sick Pay Scheme 102 words
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15. Osmosin 143 words
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16. S Manual 121 words
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17. Benefits (European Community Residents) 137 words
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18. "Which Benefit?" 63 words
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19. Labour Force Survey 82 words
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20. War Widows 87 words
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21. Extra-statutory Payments 179 words
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22. Depo Provera 207 words
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23. Pensions Uprating (Canada) 83 words
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24. Meals on Wheels 96 words
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25. Taxi Advertising (Tobacco Health Warning) 244 words
cc205-6W
26. Benefit Leaflets (Gaelic) 97 words
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27. NHS (Waiting Lists) 249 words
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28. Hospital Patients 147 words
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29. Benefit Claimants 636 words
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30. Alcohol Consumption (Pregnancy) 655 words
20. WALES
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1. Hospital Patients 483 words
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2. Child Support 2,597 words
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3. Hospital Staffs 74 words
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4. Hospital Treatment 267 words
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5. Psychiatric Services 78 words
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6. Residential Accommodation 523 words
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7. Day Centres (Places) 67 words
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8. Bilingual Schools 71 words
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9. European Regional Development Fund (Mid-Wales) 88 words

Lords Sitting of 20 December 1983 Series 5 Vol. 446

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. The Lord Chancellor: Leave of Absence 6 words
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3. The Long-Term Unemployed 2,198 words
cc589-91
4. The One Pound Coin 785 words
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5. "Buy British": The Public Sector 1,164 words
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6. The Rating System: SAUS Response 882 words
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7. Business 128 words
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8. Mental Health (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 40 words
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9. Fosdyke Bridge Bill [H.L.] 67 words
cc596-608
10. Tourism (Overseas Promotion) (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 6,632 words
cc608-15
11. Rate Support Grant—Wales 3,718 words
cc615-22
12. British Shipbuilders: Britoil Contract 3,611 words
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13. Consolidated Fund Bill 22 words
cc622-38
14. Tourism (Overseas Promotion) (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 8,911 words
cc638-58
15. Roads (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 11,211 words
cc658-79
16. Somerset House Bill [H.L.] 11,580 words
cc679-96
17. Roads (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 9,317 words
cc696-706
18. Amusement Machines Bill [H.L.] 4,933 words
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19. Milford Haven Conservancy Bill 17 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 20 December 1983 Series 5 Vol. 446

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1. Mr. IAN BRADY 279 words
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2. PRIVATELY EMPLOYED SECURITY PERSONNEL 143 words
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3. ENTRY CERTIFICATE REFUSAL 183 words
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4. ELECTION EXPENDITURE BY POLITICAL PARTIES 120 words
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5. PALACE OF WESTMINSTER: SECURITY 154 words
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6. POLICE RECRUITS: INITIAL TRAINING 100 words
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7. PRISONERS: CONSENT TO MEDICATION 53 words
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8. LIFE PRISONERS: TRANSFER FROM OPEN PRISON 134 words
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9. LIFE PRISONERS: RELEASE DATES 109 words
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10. HAZARDOUS WASTES: LICENSING COSTS 68 words
cc710-1WA
11. ZOO ANIMALS: TEMPORARY REMOVAL 128 words
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12. "AGRICULTURE AND POLLUTION": ROYAL COMMISSION SEVENTH REPORT 246 words
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13. "OIL POLLUTION OF THE SEA": ROYAL COMMISSION EIGHTH REPORT 468 words
cc712-3WA
14. HARES DOWN AND KNOWSTONE MOORS SSSI 182 words
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15. EASTER 1984: PARLIAMENTARY RECESS 68 words
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16. BELIZE AND GUATEMALA 84 words
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17. DRUGS MISUSE: ADVISORY FACILITIES 284 words
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18. "PUBLIC BODIES 1983" 134 words
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19. ROYAL OPERA HOUSE AND ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY 460 words
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20. ARTS AND LIBRARIES: ALLOCATIONS 414 words
cc716-7WA
21. ORIGINAL 1983–84 ALLOCATIONS AND PROPOSED 1984–85 ALLOCATIONS 187 words
cc717-8WA
22. JOINT BOARDS AND JOINT COMMITTEES: Cmnd. 9063 566 words
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23. HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL 156 words
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24. DOMESTIC WASTE 48 words
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25. WASTE DISPOSAL AUTHORITIES 149 words
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26. GRANT RELATED EXPENDITURE BREAKDOWN 69 words
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27. RATE BILLS 114 words
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28. LOCAL AUTHORITIES: CAPITAL DEBT 99 words
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29. BRUE BASIN, SOMERSET: DRAINAGE PROPOSALS 170 words