Sitting of 21 February 1983

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Commons Sitting of 21 February 1983 Series 6 Vol. 37

c645
1. Preamble 7 words
c645
2. PRAYERS 5 words
c645
1. Australia (Message of Sympathy) 60 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. TRADE
cc645-7
1. Exports/Imports 810 words
cc647-9
2. Monopolies and Mergers Commission 1,055 words
c649
3. Competition Act 1980 142 words
cc649-50
4. European Community (British Exports) 468 words
cc650-1
5. Motor Vehicles (Imports) 603 words
cc651-2
6. Spain (Balance of Trade) 454 words
cc652-3
7. Inter-regional Air Services 496 words
cc653-4
8. Multi-fibre Arrangement 464 words
cc654-5
9. Balance of Trade 538 words
cc655-6
10. Film Industry (Review) 712 words
cc656-7
11. Balance of Trade 218 words
cc657-8
12. Heliport 292 words
cc658-9
13. Origin Marking 658 words
c659
14. Balance of Trade 316 words
2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
cc660-2
1. "Common Crisis" 1,239 words
cc662-3
2. West Indies 463 words
cc663-4
3. Somalia 579 words
c664
3. MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL [Lords] 15 words
cc665-750
4. European Community Budget 49,944 words, 1 division
c750
1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 23 words
5. Orders of the Day
cc751-72
1. Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) 11,288 words, 1 division
c772
1. INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT CONVENTIONS BILL [LORDS] 53 words
2. WAYS AND MEANS
c772
1. INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT CONVENTIONS [MONEY] 60 words
c772
3. PLANT VARIETIES BILL [LORDS] 69 words
cc773-5
2. Plant Varieties [Money] 1,335 words
c776
3. Statutory Instruments, &c. 32 words
c776
1. EXPORT GUARANTEES 95 words
cc777-84
4. Bedford-St. Pancras Railway Line (Electrification) 3,614 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 February 1983 Series 6 Vol. 37

1. SCOTLAND
c295W
1. Hawick 96 words
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2. Home Improvement Grants 335 words
cc295-6W
3. Council House Sales 171 words
c296W
4. Consultants (Fees) 121 words
cc296-7W
5. Judicial Salaries 160 words
c297W
6. Cervical Cancer 31 words
c297W
7. Electoral Boundaries 110 words
c297W
8. Highlands and Islands Development Board 155 words
2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. United Nations Development Programme 93 words
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2. Nigeria (Expelled Workers) 104 words
c298W
3. Overseas Aid 99 words
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4. Information Technology 160 words
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5. Angola 56 words
c299W
6. European Community Development Fund (Contributions) 59 words
c299W
7. Non-governmental Voluntary Agencies 116 words
c299W
8. Turks and Caicos Islands 63 words
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9. Bangladesh 55 words
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10. Ghana 46 words
c300W
11. "Common Crisis" 58 words
c300W
12. Gross National Product 90 words
c300W
13. Falkland Islands 67 words
3. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Tower Hamlets (Crime Statistics) 1,189 words
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2. Metropolitan Police 106 words
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3. Mental Patients (Voting Rights) 188 words
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4. Haldon Open Prison 221 words
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5. Missing Persons 216 words
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6. Prison Allocation Procedures 101 words
c305W
7. Open Prisons 100 words
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8. Criminal Justice Act 1982 226 words
4. TRADE
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1. Blank Recording Tape 51 words
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2. Motor Vehicles (Imports) 190 words
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3. Doorstep Selling 51 words
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4. European Community 65 words
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5. British Airways 87 words
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6. Exports 98 words
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7. National Economic Development Organisation 61 words
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8. Tourism 176 words
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9. Merchant Shipping 190 words
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10. Company Directors 72 words
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11. Balance of Payments 51 words
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12. Investors 37 words
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13. Unsafe Electrical Goods and Dangerous Toys 111 words
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14. Car Components Industry 52 words
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15. Monopolies and Mergers Commission 105 words
c309W
16. Local Authorities (Anti-competitive Practices) 102 words
c309W
17. Multi-fibre Arrangement 91 words
cc309-10W
18. Petrol Sales 92 words
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19. Overseas Projects (Aid) 74 words
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20. Aerial Advertising 96 words
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21. Citizens Advice Bureaux 206 words
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22. Galecron 63 words
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23. Manufacturing Trade 88 words
5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Mr. Mark Anthony Hart (Court of Appeal Case) 69 words
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2. Ipswich (Crown and County Courts) 110 words
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3. Secure Tenancies 226 words
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4. Judicial Salaries 114 words
c312W
5. HMS Edinburgh 75 words
6. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Blind Persons (Interview Arrangements) 121 words
cc312-3W
2. European Community (Budget) 105 words
c313W
3. Disabled Persons (Commonwealth Secretariat Recommendation) 101 words
c313W
4. Press Embargoes 46 words
c313W
5. Falkland Islands 128 words
7. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Output 253 words
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2. Employment Census 68 words
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3. Earnings 304 words
c315W
4. Leukaemia 360 words
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5. Manufacturing Earnings 46 words
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6. Community Programme 136 words
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7. Unemployment Statistics 620 words
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8. Unemployment 574 words
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9. Unemployed Young Persons (West Midlands) 227 words
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10. Redundancies (West Midlands) 134 words
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11. Youth Training Scheme 73 words
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12. Unemployed Persons 155 words
c320W
13. Apprentices 107 words
8. WALES
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1. Public Expenditure 4,175 words
c327W
2. Employment Offices (Closure) 106 words
9. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
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1. Telephone Tapping 42 words
10. ENERGY
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1. Fuel Debts 93 words
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2. Collieries (Safety) 79 words
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3. Onshore Oil 100 words
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4. Severn Barrage 61 words
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5. Opencast Mining (Statutory Objectors) 238 words
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6. Management Information System 57 words
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7. Oil Stocks 170 words
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8. Fuel Consumption (Scotland) 98 words
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9. Electricity (Bulk Industrial Tariff) 335 words
11. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Job Creation 271 words
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2. Overseas Promotion 206 words
c332W
3. Republic of Ireland (Talks) 96 words
12. INDUSTRY
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1. Financial Assistance (North-West) 81 words
cc332-3W
2. Industrial Production 247 words
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3. British Telecom (Exhibition) 66 words
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4. Cellular Radio System 325 words
c334W
5. Westlands Helicopter EH101 106 words
c334W
6. Industrial Production 98 words
c334W
7. Output 86 words
13. TRANSPORT
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1. Roads Construction 239 words
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2. M25 (Traffic Flows) 302 words
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3. Private Cars 109 words
c336W
4. Publicity Expenditures 72 words
cc336-7W
5. Consultants (Fees) 473 words
c337W
6. A33 (Winchester) 95 words
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7. British Railways Hotels 115 words
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8. Midlank Link Motorways 128 words
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9. Dim-dip Regulations 327 words
c339W
10. British Railways Workshops 111 words
14. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Output 230 words
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2. European Community (Own-resources Base) 201 words
c340W
3. Travel Costs 101 words
c340W
4. "Capital Taxation and the National Heritage" 84 words
cc340-2W
5. Tax Revenue 1,059 words
cc342-3W
6. Public Sector Debt 208 words
c343W
7. Economic Prospects 104 words
c343W
8. Spalding Report 44 words
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9. Retirement Pensioners (Mortgage Repayments) 79 words
cc343-4W
10. Companies (Rate of Return) 57 words
c344W
11. Age Allowance 64 words
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12. Keith Committee (Report) 41 words
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13. Retirement Pensioners (Health Insurance Premiums) 37 words
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14. Ben Johnson Limited 43 words
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15. Her Majesty's Stationery Office 190 words
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16. Scotch Whisky (Revenue) 48 words
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17. Trustee Savings Banks (Shares) 160 words
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18. Income Tax 294 words
15. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Pearson Report (Recommendations) 117 words
c346W
2. Retirement 170 words
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3. Specialist Claims Control Units 90 words
c347W
4. Drugs (Expenditure) 132 words
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5. Pensions 227 words
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6. Supplementary Benefit 104 words
c348W
7. Triazolam 321 words
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8. Retirement Benefit 145 words
cc348-9W
9. Retirement Pensioners (Earnings Rule) 137 words
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10. Fuel Direct Scheme 155 words
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11. Drugs Advertisements (Prosecutions) 187 words
cc349-50W
12. Pharmaceutical Prices Regulation Scheme 50 words
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13. Transfer Pricing 71 words
c350W
14. Greenfield Report 49 words
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15. Children in Care 48 words
cc350-1W
16. Medical Research 204 words
c351W
17. Census (Welsh Language) 57 words
c351W
18. Consultants (Fees) 203 words
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19. Long-Stay Patients 232 words
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20. Occupational Pension 83 words
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21. Deaf Children 89 words
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22. Nurses (Training) 158 words
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23. Retirement Age 67 words
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24. Retirement Pension 52 words
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25. Cervical Cancer 34 words
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26. National Health Service Hospitals (Consultants) 241 words
cc353-4W
27. Home Helps (Cambridgeshire) 170 words
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28. Kidney Patients (West Midlands) 733 words
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29. Opencast Mining (Nuneaton) 256 words
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30. Private Practice 119 words
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31. Neo-natal Mortality 75 words
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32. Health Budget 333 words
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33. Family Income Supplement 81 words
cc357-8W
34. Social Security Budget 178 words
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35. Sexual Equality 56 words
cc358-9W
36. Private Patients (Supplementary Benefit) 302 words
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37. Elderly Persons (Injuries) 138 words
c359W
38. School Leavers (Supplementary Benefit) 143 words
c359W
39. National Health Service (Expenditure) 83 words
cc359-60W
40. Pharmaceutical Products 157 words
c360W
41. Drugs (Cost) 111 words
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42. One-parent Families 206 words
cc360-2W
43. National Health Services (Inner London) 664 words
16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Antarctic Mineral Regime Negotiations 109 words
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2. South Georgia 52 words
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3. Brandt Report 59 words
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4. UNIFIL 78 words
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5. Angola 123 words
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6. Falkland Islands 407 words
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7. Palestinian Prisoners (Israel) 146 words
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8. Malta 81 words
17. DEFENCE
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1. Falklands Garrison 209 words
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2. HARM and ALARM 64 words
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3. Port Howard 46 words
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4. Arms Sales (Chile) 51 words
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5. Cruise Missiles (Dual Key) 224 words
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6. Multilateral Disarmament 53 words
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7. Falkland Islands 73 words
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8. Task Force (Food) 120 words
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9. Floating Arms Exhibition 73 words
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10. Gibraltar 92 words
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11. Major-General Thorne ("Panorama") 49 words
18. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Royal Parks (Traffic Flows) 77 words
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2. Housing Repair and Improvement Grants 66 words
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3. Derelict Land (North East) 180 words
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4. Council House Sales (Leicester) 69 words
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5. Ordnance Survey 56 words
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6. Property Services Agency (Auctions) 197 words
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7. Water Supplies (Company Closures) 111 words
cc368-9W
8. Tenants Exchange Scheme 545 words
cc369-70W
9. Minis System 32 words
19. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Special and Independent Schools (Regulations) 71 words
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2. Higher Education (Library Expenditure) 433 words
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3. Schools (Parental Choice) 174 words
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4. Emergency Circuits (Payment) 82 words
cc371-2W
5. Special Schools and Classes 315 words
c372W
6. "The Legal Basis of Further Education" 53 words
cc372-3W
7. Handicapped Children 124 words
c373W
8. Micros in Schools 151 words
20. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Livestock Farmers (Assistance) 114 words
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2. "English Gin" 111 words
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3. Food Prices 270 words
c374W
4. Welsh Whisky 89 words
c374W
5. Cereal Prices 135 words

Lords Sitting of 21 February 1983 Series 5 Vol. 439

c499
1. Preamble 22 words
cc499-500
2. Water Meters 674 words
cc500-2
3. Crown Agents Tribunal 1,104 words
cc503-5
4. CT High Resolution Scanners 1,024 words
cc505-6
5. Ghanaian Refugees from Nigeria: UK Aid 604 words
cc506-7
6. Agricultural Marketing Bill 693 words
c507
7. Pig Industry Levy Bill 6 words
cc507-47
8. ECC 2nd Report: Socio-Structural Policy 22,544 words
cc547-76
9. ECC 20th Report: Strategic Minerals 15,829 words
cc577-602
10. Immigration Rules: Statement of Changes 14,028 words
cc603-18
11. The Commission on Energy and the Environment 8,129 words
12. Lloyds Bowmaker Bill [H.L.]
c618
1. Parkeston Quay Bill [H.L.] 36 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 21 February 1983 Series 5 Vol. 439

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1. PASSPORTS AND COMPUTER RECORDS 266 words
c619WA
2. IMMIGRATION AND COMPUTER RECORDS 456 words
cc619-20WA
3. WANDSWORTH: RUBBISH REMOVAL 103 words
c620WA
4. CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 1982: IMPLEMENTATION 205 words