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Commons Sitting of 22 December 1983 Series 6 Vol. 51

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1. Preamble 8 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Economic Growth 651 words
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2. Tax Revenue 197 words
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3. Gas and Electricity 482 words
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4. Taxation (Reduction) 528 words
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5. Tax Revenue 201 words
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6. Public Expenditure 248 words
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7. Economic Recovery 753 words
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8. Job Creation 573 words
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9. Mercury 162 words
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10. Northern Region 480 words
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11. Value Added Tax 391 words
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12. Tobacco and Alcohol 465 words
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13. Fiscal Restraints 353 words
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14. Investment 366 words
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15. Service Contracts (Guidelines) 233 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Newham 675 words
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2. Engagements 1,364 words
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3. Billericay 205 words
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4. Business of the House 3,656 words
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5. House of Commons (Services) 1,366 words
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6. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION 244 words
7. PETITION
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1. Contraception (Under-age Girls) 213 words
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2. Clatter County Primary School, Powys 3,843 words
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3. Foreign Office (Structure) 4,104 words
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4. Scott Lithgow Shipyard 3,446 words
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5. Lennard Hospital, Bromley(Closure) 3,416 words
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8. Fortress Falklands Policy (Cost) 3,257 words
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9. Passports (Children's Names) 3,759 words
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10. Agriculture and Food Research Council 4,495 words
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11. Deen City Farm, Mitcham 3,262 words
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12. Sri Lanka (Human Rights) 3,786 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 22 December 1983 Series 6 Vol. 51

1. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Members' Cloakroom 76 words
2. WALES
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1. Departmental Grants 817 words
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2. Bodelwyddan Resources Centre for Disabled People 137 words
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3. Bone Marrow Transplants 76 words
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4. Agricultural Incomes 39 words
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5. Severn Bridge (Tolls) 59 words
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6. Motorways 291 words
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7. Industrial Development Grant 122 words
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8. Mental Health (Hospital Admissions) 2,885 words
3. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Students (Educational Costs) 77 words
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2. Mandatory Awards 124 words
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3. School Places 99 words
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4. Medical Schools 56 words
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5. Universities 114 words
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6. Spina Bifida 164 words
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7. Teachers 437 words
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8. School Buildings (Age) 181 words
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9. Pupil-teacher Ratios 93 words
4. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Engagements 787 words
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2. Polygraph Tests 133 words
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3. Lebanon 25 words
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4. Hungary 52 words
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5. Counter-intelligence Operations (Publication) 122 words
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6. Sellafield 43 words
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7. Unitary Taxation 178 words
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8. Comptroller and Auditor General 22 words
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9. Pit Closures 98 words
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10. Council of Europe 53 words
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11. European Community (Budget) 73 words
5. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Community Programmes 196 words
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2. Herrington Pit (Closure) 110 words
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3. Youth Training Scheme 377 words
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4. Manpower Services Commission (Documents) 53 words
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5. Labour Statistics 136 words
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6. Minimum Wage 40 words
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7. Invalidity Benefit 83 words
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8. Job Release Scheme 105 words
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9. Coventry Jobcentre 106 words
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10. Health Services Industry Advisory Working Party 60 words
6. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Cigarettes (Young Persons) 68 words
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2. Convicted Terrorists 107 words
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3. Body Orifices (Concealed Weapons) 83 words
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4. Metropolitan Police 63 words
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5. Cable Television 375 words
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6. Prostitution 162 words
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7. Children and Young Persons Act 1969 86 words
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8. Children (Evidence in Court) 225 words
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9. Civil Defence 511 words
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10. Deportation 75 words
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11. Terrorists 69 words
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12. Crime Statistics 52 words
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13. Provisional Sinn Fein 76 words
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14. Police Cadets 88 words
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15. Ranby Prison 207 words
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16. Immigration 72 words
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17. Iraq and Iran Citizens 180 words
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18. Police (Pension Entitlement) 42 words
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19. Independent Television Companies (Levy Relief) 163 words
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20. Greenham Common 92 words
7. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Greater London Council 178 words
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2. Public Sector Pensions 94 words
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3. Local Authority Expenditure 375 words
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4. London (Planning Commission) 76 words
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5. Nuclear Waste (Billingham) 676 words
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6. Sellafield 158 words
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7. Property Services Agency 1,046 words
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8. Local Government (Records) Act 1962 107 words
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9. Radioactivity (Maryport) 125 words
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10. London Borough of Haringey 130 words
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11. Industrial and Warehouse Units (Salisbury) 76 words
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12. Rates 374 words
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13. Animal Deaths (Calow and Duckmanton) 97 words
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14. Water industry 133 words
8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Manufacturing Industry (Job Support) 113 words
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2. Counterfeiting 452 words
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3. Photonics 72 words
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4. Copyright 192 words
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5. Special Steels (Imports) 122 words
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6. Trading Standards Service 444 words
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7. BL (Corporate Plan) 53 words
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8. Nitrosamines 109 words
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9. Company Records 174 words
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10. Companies House 159 words
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11. Companies Registration Offices 41 words
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12. Regional Industrial Policy 110 words
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13. Regional Development Grants 190 words
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14. London Cityrama Ltd. 67 words
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15. Limebourne Ltd. 59 words
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16. London Brick 94 words
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17. China 96 words
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18. Land Mobile Services 117 words
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19. Twinlock Ltd. 353 words
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20. Brussels Nomenclature 417 words
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21. Coal-firing Scheme 97 words
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22. Export Credits Guarantee Department 77 words
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23. Film Industry 656 words
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24. Jute (Imports) 324 words
9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Grenada 59 words
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2. Caribbean 413 words
10. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Wage Levels 110 words
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2. Inflation 112 words
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3. Labour Statistics 87 words
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4. Cable Operators 48 words
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5. Service Sector (Investment) 54 words
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6. Economic Growth 78 words
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7. Bank of England 49 words
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8. Exports 58 words
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9. Close Companies 92 words
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10. European Community 122 words
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11. Tourism (Development Aid) 422 words
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12. Freeports 54 words
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13. Appointments 133 words
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14. Car Allowance 145 words
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15. Service Industries 74 words
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16. Pensioners (Taxation) 90 words
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17. Departmental Grants 26 words
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18. Taxation Statistics 122 words
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19. Public Sector Employment Statistics 751 words
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20. Civil Servants 62 words
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21. Cable Television (Capital Allowances) 215 words
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22. Corporation Tax 108 words
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23. Argentina (British Firms) 90 words
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24. Value Added Tax 142 words
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25. Exports 97 words
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26. Deep Discount Securities 221 words
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27. Civil Service Catering 679 words
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28. Freeholds (Stamp Duty) 139 words
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29. House Sales 62 words
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30. Mortgage Interest 253 words
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31. Income Tax 510 words
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32. Britannia Building Society 129 words
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33. SOCIAL SERVICES Benefits 1,892 words
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34. Home Helps 157 words
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35. Social Surveys 84 words
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36. Community Health Care 137 words
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37. Supplementary Benefit (Children) 130 words
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38. Rent and Rate Rebates (Waltham Forest) 140 words
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39. National Health Service (Links with United States) 57 words
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40. Health Centre (Leyton) 42 words
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41. National Health Service (Security) 174 words
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42. Unemployment Benefits 97 words
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43. Solvent Abuse 139 words
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44. International Population Conference 102 words
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45. National Health Service (Expenditure) 64 words
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46. Clothing Allowances 142 words
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47. National Health Service (Clinical Psychologists) 886 words
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48. Family Holiday Association 64 words
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49. Road Accidents (Costs) 85 words
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50. Child Allowances 270 words
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51. Housing Benefit 63 words
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52. Children's Health Services 474 words
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53. Hospital Waiting Lists 3,891 words
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54. Child Support (Child Dependency Addition) 298 words
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55. Family Incomes 208 words
11. ENERGY
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1. Energy Efficiency Campaign 59 words
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2. Coal-firing Scheme 90 words
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3. BNFL Installations (Security) 238 words
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4. Argentine Atomic Energy Commission 79 words
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5. International Atomic Energy Agency 243 words
12. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Davidson Industries Ltd. 106 words
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2. Brussels Nomenclature 314 words
13. TRANSPORT
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1. Motorways Signposting (Southern Hampshire) 52 words
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2. Hydrographic Services 218 words
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3. Motorways 149 words
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4. British Airways 116 words
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5. Panama (Freight Tax) 374 words
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6. Port Authorities 78 words
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7. Civil Aviation 126 words
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8. Cleethorpes Driving Test Centre 224 words
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9. Dim-dip Lighting 265 words
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10. Accident Statistics 546 words
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11. Concessionary Fares (West Midlands) 94 words
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12. Berkswell Level Crossing 72 words
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13. Tyre Tread Depths 82 words
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14. Black Country Route 46 words
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15. London Taxis 136 words
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16. North Sea (Supply Vessels) 75 words
14. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Red Hall 47 words
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2. Deaths (Protestants) 49 words
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3. Security Forces 101 words
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4. Royal Ulster Constabulary (Interrogations) 64 words
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5. Miss Karen Linden 71 words
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6. Armagh Prison 129 words
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7. Hairdressing (Apprentices) 59 words
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8. Remanded Persons (Trials) 97 words
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9. School Curriculum 128 words
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10. Liquid Petroleum Gas (Safety Regulations) 123 words
15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Straw 85 words
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2. Agricultural Holdings Bill 167 words
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3. Monetary Compensatory Amounts 98 words
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4. Sellafield 127 words
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5. Hops (Exports) 63 words
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6. Land Settlement Association 97 words
16. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. Council of Ministers 363 words
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2. Parliamentary Questions 65 words
17. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. El Salvador and Nicaragua 42 words
18. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Hong Kong 424 words
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2. Grenada 362 words
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3. Sex Equality 80 words
19. SCOTLAND
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1. Downs Syndrome and Spina Bifida (Treatment) 157 words
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2. Departmental Forms 106 words
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3. Public Expenditure 351 words
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4. Primary Schools (Dundee) 98 words
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5. Elderly Persons (Supportive Services) 169 words
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6. Geriatric Care 580 words
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7. Motorways 85 words
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8. Social Services 410 words
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9. Meals-on-wheels 57 words
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10. Radioactivity (Palnackie Harbour) 140 words
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11. Highlands and Islands Development Board 89 words
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12. European College, Bruges 77 words
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13. Core Curriculum 52 words
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14. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 89 words
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15. Local Authorities (Education Budget) 54 words
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16. Rates 81 words
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17. Rosehearty School 107 words
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18. Local Authority Expenditure 1,319 words
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19. Rate Support Grant 414 words
20. DEFENCE
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1. Cyprus 123 words
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2. Widows (Pensions) 85 words
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3. Kenya 186 words
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4. Little Rissington Hospital 142 words
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5. MV Lucerna 160 words
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6. Falkland Islands 111 words
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7. Shuttle Launch 1986 85 words
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8. Fishing Vessels (Licences) 115 words
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9. Flak Jackets (Replacement) 128 words
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10. Combat Aircraft Project 111 words
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11. Cruise Missiles 106 words
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12. MV Astronomer 35 words
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13. Atlantic Causeway 68 words
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14. Iran (Support Vessels) 76 words
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15. Departmental Staff 300 words
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16. Contract Cleaning Companies 256 words
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17. Ship-to-ship Guided Weapons 92 words
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18. Royal Ordnance Factories 66 words