Sitting of 5 December 1983

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Commons Sitting of 5 December 1983 Series 6 Vol. 50

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. TRANSPORT
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1. Trunk Roads (Essex) 300 words
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2. Port of London Authority 409 words
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3. M1 and M6 392 words
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4. British Rail 269 words
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5. Heavy Lorries (London) 376 words
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6. Seat Belts 814 words
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7. A1 Hatfield 263 words
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8. Motor Insurance 249 words
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9. Railways (Investment) 623 words
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10. Railway Workshops 1,159 words
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11. London Transport 411 words
2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Prosecutions 484 words
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2. Rape Prosecutions 466 words
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3. Legal Aid (London) 194 words
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4. Conveyancing 182 words
3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Voluntary Service Overseas 142 words
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2. Afghan Refugees 293 words
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3. Crown Agents 591 words
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4. Grenada 362 words
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5. European Community Development Council 100 words
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6. Victoria Dam, Sri Lanka 207 words
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7. Oral Questions 92 words
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4. The Lebanon 4,620 words
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5. Greenham Common 418 words
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6. OCCUPIERS' LIABILITY BILL [Lords] 16 words
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7. MERCHANT SHIPPING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL [Lords] 19 words
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8. WELSH AFFAIRS 30 words
9. Orders of the Day
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1. Rating and Valuation (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill 47,947 words, 1 division
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2. RATING AND VALUATION (AMENDMENT) (SCOTLAND) [MONEY] 75 words
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3. Supplementary Benefit 11,018 words, 1 division
10. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.
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1. AGRICULTURE 49 words
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2. CONSUMER CREDIT 45 words
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3. Forestry 4,830 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 5 December 1983 Series 6 Vol. 50

1. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Value Added Network Services 168 words
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2. British Telecom 119 words
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3. Private Telephone Services 287 words
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4. Community Alarm Scheme 68 words
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5. Greece (Scotch Whisky Imports) 110 words
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6. Cassette Tapes 103 words
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7. Manufacturing Industry 87 words
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8. Small Businesses 267 words
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9. International Competition (Report) 60 words
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10. Deep Sea Mining (Applications) 55 words
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11. Copyright Law 114 words
2. THE ARTS
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1. Libraries 634 words
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2. Arts Council 195 words
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3. "Housing the Arts" 119 words
3. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Miners and Dock Workers 144 words
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2. United Nations 87 words
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3. Engagements 59 words
4. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Custodial Remands (Compensation) 92 words
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2. Prison Accommodation 85 words
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3. Plastic Bullets 314 words
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4. M1 (Speeding Summonses) 109 words
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5. Sentencing Policy (Custody) 68 words
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6. Messenger Group 825 words
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7. Prisoners (Remands) 515 words
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8. Shoplifting 552 words
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9. Police Cadets (Recruitment) 228 words
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10. Prisons (Contracts) 639 words
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11. Directorate of Industries and Farms 102 words
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12. Visas (Iranians) 160 words
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13. Hasbudak Family 126 words
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14. Community Relations 101 words
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15. Greenham Common 123 words
5. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Nuclear Waste (Bedford) 866 words
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2. Local Government Reform (Redundancies) 87 words
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3. River Mersey (Cleansing) 146 words
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4. Nuclear Waste 35 words
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5. Sellafield 71 words
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6. Timber Houses, Liverpool 51 words
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7. Local Authorities (Underdeveloped Land) 179 words
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8. Windscale 29 words
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9. Empty Houses, Collaton Cross, Newton Ferrers 191 words
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10. Housing Corporation 189 words
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11. Local Authority (Rate Fixing) 74 words
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12. Local Government Reform 123 words
6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Gibraltar 125 words
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2. Lebanon (Multinational Force) 46 words
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3. British Subjects (Deaths) 308 words
7. WALES
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1. Geriatric Care 600 words
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2. Forestry commission (Tree Sales) 65 words
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3. Unemployed Persons 81 words
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4. Kidney Patients 135 words
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5. Hospitals (Energy Costs) 102 words
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6. Local Authorities (Capital Overspending) 93 words
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7. Radioactive Waste Disposal 68 words
8. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Taxation 149 words
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2. Theatre 172 words
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3. Foreign Nationals 39 words
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4. Tax Files (Destruction) 63 words
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5. Departmental Expenditure 115 words
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6. Ports (Customs Clearance) 78 words
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7. Customs and Excise 91 words
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8. Historic Houses 146 words
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9. Schedule D (Reclassification) 249 words
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10. Tax Status (Contract Workers) 232 words
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11. Self-Catering Facilities (Income) 60 words
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12. Hotel Building Allowances 192 words
9. DEFENCE
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1. Service Children (Education) 246 words
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2. Information Services 51 words
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3. Air Staff 196 words
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4. Buy British 136 words
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5. Cruise Missiles 41 words
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6. Willsworthy Firing Range 77 words
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7. Greenham Common 33 words
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8. Nuclear Bases 54 words
10. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Jobcentres 233 words
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2. Community Programme 274 words
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3. Labour Statistics 243 words
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4. European Social Fund 531 words
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5. Industrial Disputes 254 words
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6. Castlemilk, Glasgow 37 words
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7. Newspaper Industry 122 words
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8. Skillcentres 376 words
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9. Adult Training 95 words
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10. Training Opportunities Programme 191 words
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11. Young Workers Schemes 110 words
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12. Youth Training Scheme 82 words
11. TRANSPORT
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1. London Transport 233 words
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2. Railway Workshops 182 words
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3. Channel Link 76 words
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4. Ports (Finance) 37 words
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5. Liner Conferences 91 words
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6. M4 Motorway 46 words
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7. Severn Crossing 40 words
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8. Railways (Investment) 115 words
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9. Dangerous Materials 77 words
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10. Civil Aviation Authority (Dent Review) 66 words
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11. British Cruise Lines (Soviet Penetration) 92 words
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12. M25 (Service Stations) 60 words
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13. Road Capital Budget 68 words
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14. Railway Electrification 114 words
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15. British Rail (Profitability Criteria) 31 words
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16. Sealink 37 words
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17. M40 (Oxford to Birmingham) 43 words
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18. London Transport (Pensioners' Passes) 111 words
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19. Motorways (Service Areas) 64 words
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20. Road Noise (Double Glazing) 93 words
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21. Hayes Bypass 116 words
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22. Manchester-Preston Railway (Electrification) 58 words
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23. Private Bus Operators 49 words
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24. Rail and Waterway Freight 122 words
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25. Greenham Common 42 words
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26. Express Coaches (Safety) 96 words
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27. M3–M27 Link 63 words
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28. British Airways 49 words
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29. Motor Cycle Exhausts 32 words
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30. Excise Licences 119 words
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31. Rural Bus Services 51 words
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32. London Transport (Fares) 69 words
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33. Local Authority (Road Building) 84 words
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34. Cycling 121 words
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35. Wheel Clamp Experiment 54 words
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36. Trunk Roads (Expenditure) 53 words
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37. London Transport (Concessionary Fares) 91 words
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38. Electrical Multiple Unit Rolling Stock 98 words
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39. Vehicle Excise Duty 91 words
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40. Concessionary Fares (London) 86 words
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41. Mersey Tunnels 85 words
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42. M3 (Bar End-Chilworth Extension) 123 words
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43. British Rail (Land) 88 words
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44. A52 (Muston Bends) 37 words
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45. British Rail 112 words
12. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Africa (Drought) 81 words
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2. Kabale (Agricultural Adviser) 53 words
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3. Crown Agents 91 words
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4. Loans and Interest Payments 66 words
13. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Judiciary (Selection) 57 words
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2. Defamation (Court Proceedings) 80 words
14. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. London Borough of Sutton 51 words
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2. Children (Special Educational Needs) 94 words
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3. Local Education Authorities' (Expenditure) 65 words
15. ENERGY
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1. Gas and Electricity Supplies 174 words
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2. Underdeveloped Land 102 words
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3. Standing Charges 112 words
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4. Gas Profits 116 words
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5. Domestic Supplies 143 words
16. SCOTLAND
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1. Students (Grants) 82 words
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2. Prisons (Remands) 504 words
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3. Western Relief Road (Edinburgh) 160 words
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4. NHS Spending 402 words
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5. Radioactive Waste (Disposal) 65 words
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6. Labour Statistics 397 words
17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. "Home Defence and the Farmer" 82 words
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2. Oils and Fats 151 words
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3. Pasteurised Cream 217 words
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4. Foot and Mouth Disease 123 words
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5. Milk 63 words
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6. European Community (Spirits) 308 words
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7. Poultry (Slaughter) 131 words
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8. Cheese 80 words
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9. Pigeons 56 words
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10. Fisheries 58 words
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11. Salmon 59 words
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12. Export to Cuba 135 words
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13. Agricultural Support Prices 231 words
18. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. South Islington and Finsbury (Geriatric Provision) 128 words
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2. Contraceptive Pill 96 words
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3. Unemployment Statistics (Merseyside) 141 words
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4. Housing Benefits 2,376 words
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5. Pensions and Allowances 121 words
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6. Radioactive Waste 138 words
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7. Dependent Children 184 words
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8. Doctors (Deputising Services) 186 words
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9. Benefits 187 words
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10. Mobility Allowance 267 words
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11. Services (Local Authority Change) 80 words
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12. Premature Retirements 133 words
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13. Disabled Persons (Discrimination) 130 words
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14. Genetic Counselling 61 words
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15. Health Authorities (Land) 284 words
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16. Local Authorities (Rents) 462 words
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17. Christmas Bonus 123 words
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18. Tinnitus 57 words
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19. Benefit Claimants 157 words
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20. Postage Costs 126 words
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21. International Population Conference, Mexico 93 words
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22. Resettlement Units 192 words
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23. Safety and Health (Report) 72 words
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24. Southampton University (Europe Chair of Rehabilitation) 107 words
19. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Enterprise Zone, Belfast 171 words
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2. Agriculture Committee 816 words
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3. Health and Social Services Committee 377 words
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4. Environment Committee 1,497 words
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5. Finance and Personnel Committee 486 words
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6. Education Committee 337 words
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7. Economic Development Committee 1,045 words
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8. Meals on Wheels 153 words
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9. Health Expenditure 49 words
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10. Day Centres 326 words
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11. Home Help Service 167 words
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12. Residential Homes 77 words
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13. Councillors (Allowances) 185 words
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14. Madams Bank Bridge 92 words
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15. Traffic Flows 201 words
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16. Road Works 92 words
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17. Home Helps 71 words
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18. Remanded Persons 123 words
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19. Republic of Ireland (Talks) 58 words
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20. Radioactive Waste Disposal 202 words
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21. Public Funds (Fraud Inquiries) 56 words
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22. Strip Searches 404 words

Lords Sitting of 5 December 1983 Series 5 Vol. 445

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1. Preamble 28 words
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2. Personal Statement: The Lord Denham 159 words
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3. Council on Tribunals: Report 1,026 words
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4. Blood: Licensing Requirements 1,158 words
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5. Korean Airliner: Identification 1,430 words
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6. Youth Training Scheme: Participants 1,379 words
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7. Business 105 words
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8. County Courts Bill [H.L.] 106 words
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9. Equal Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1983 4,314 words
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10. The Lebanon 2,066 words
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11. Equal Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1983 20,925 words, 1 division
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12. Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [H.L.] 13,202 words, 2 divisions
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13. Fosdyke Bridge Bill [H.L.] 4,157 words
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14. Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [H.L.] 10,517 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 5 December 1983 Series 5 Vol. 445

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1. FIREARMS: WORKING PARTY 77 words
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2. PRISON REMISSION 67 words
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3. MESOTHELIOMA: APPLICATIONS FOR BENEFIT 108 words
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4. MESOTHELIOMA: DISABLEMENT BENEFIT 136 words
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5. MESOTHELIOMA: BENEFIT REFUSALS 48 words
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6. MESOTHELIOMA AND ASBESTOSIS DISABLEMENT BENEFIT: COMPARATIVE FIGURES 100 words
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7. RETIREMENT PROVISION: SPECIAL INQUIRY 172 words
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8. OPTICIAN SERVICES: COMPETITION 49 words
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9. DIOXIN: REGULATIONS 107 words
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10. HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL 109 words
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11. BIRDS: LICENSED KILLING 154 words
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12. CYPRUS: CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS 315 words
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13. DEER: SLAUGHTERING 65 words
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14. GRASS SICKNESS IN HORSES 160 words
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15. AGRICULTURAL ARBITRATORS: APPOINTMENT PROCEDURE 121 words