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Commons Sitting of 24 January 1983 Series 6 Vol. 35

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. TRADE
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1. Airline Operators (Viability) 548 words
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2. Loyalty Arrangements 575 words
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3. Balance of Trade 647 words
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4. Manufactures (Imports) 526 words
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5. Doorstep Selling 343 words
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6. Counterfeit Products (Taiwan) 727 words
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7. Aircraft Noise (West London) 352 words
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8. Video Cassettes 544 words
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9. Hong Kong 316 words
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10. Manufactures (Imports-Exports) 357 words
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11. Exports (Statistics) 218 words
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12. Balance of Trade 528 words
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13. Visible Trade (Balance) 543 words
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14. Advertising (European Community Directive) 185 words
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15. Package Tours (Advertisements) 504 words
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16. Merchant Fleet 233 words
2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Club Méditerranée 620 words
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2. Angola 431 words
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3. India 380 words
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4. Employment (United Kingdom) 213 words
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4. Metropolitan Police (Reorganisation) 45 words
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5. Water Industry (Dispute) 3,705 words
6. BILL PRESENTED
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1. DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES 53 words
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7. Statutory Instruments, &c. 102 words
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8. Opposition Day 15 words
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1. Regional Impact of Unemployment 22,321 words
cc710-35
2. Epsom and Walton Downs Regulation Bill [Lords] 15,553 words
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3. Airey Houses (Repair Grants) 14,840 words
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4. PIG INDUSTRY LEVY BILL 42 words
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5. Initial Teacher Training (Dartford) 3,164 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 24 January 1983 Series 6 Vol. 35

1. ENERGY
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1. Sizewell Inquiry 97 words
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2. Namibia (Uranium) 73 words
2. TRADE
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1. Textile and Clothing Industries 229 words
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2. Argentine 131 words
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3. Lloyd's (Meeting) 47 words
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4. British Airways 189 words
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5. Non-oil Exports and Imports 51 words
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6. Japan 66 words
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7. Motor Vehicles (Imports) 98 words
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8. Merchant Shipping 1,586 words
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9. Imports and Exports 119 words
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10. Multi-fibre Arrangement 237 words
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11. London (Airports) 101 words
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12. Oil (Visible Trade Balance) 73 words
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13. Video Piracy 56 words
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14. Companies House (Visit) 29 words
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15. "Tribune" Newspaper 76 words
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16. Farm Prices (Meeting) 60 words
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17. Air Services (Deregulation) 51 words
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18. European Community 89 words
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19. Film Industry 44 words
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20. Product Liability 83 words
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21. Steel Imports 180 words
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22. European Community (United Kingdom Exports) 107 words
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23. Air Routes (Appeals) 71 words
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24. Companies Acts (Consolidation) 90 words
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25. Malaysia 113 words
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26. Businesses (Formations and Liquidations) 446 words
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27. Citizens Advice Bureaux (Glasgow) 65 words
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28. Arab-British Chambers of Commerce 84 words
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29. Electricians (Insurance) 41 words
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30. Namibia 69 words
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31. Wine Measures 110 words
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32. Taiwan 33 words
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33. People's Republic of China 49 words
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34. Consumer Councils 402 words
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35. Consumer Credit 68 words
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36. Electric Shock Equipment 40 words
3. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Metropolitan Police 721 words
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2. Custody on Remand (Monitoring) 87 words
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3. Armed Robberies (Statistics) 330 words
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4. Russian Visitors 80 words
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5. Birmingham Prison 191 words
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6. Mr. Ian Ball 595 words
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7. Video Cassettes (Copyright Offences) 172 words
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8. Police (Salary Scales) 124 words
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9. Racist Attacks 31 words
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10. Parkhurst Prison 409 words
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11. Criminal Statistics 158 words
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12. Courthouse (Port Talbot) 228 words
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13. Post Offices (Armed Robberies) 121 words
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14. Norfolk County Constabulary 113 words
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15. Police (Firearms) 80 words
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16. Greenham Common 46 words
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17. Equal Opportunities Information Project 71 words
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18. Bingo (Prize Money) 53 words
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19. Attempted Murder (Bail) 38 words
4. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Treasury Cases 221 words
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2. Police (Complaints) 271 words
5. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Cruise Missiles 55 words
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2. Intelligence Services 172 words
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3. Equal Opportunities 98 words
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4. Security Services 56 words
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5. Security Commission 87 words
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6. Falkland Islands (Citizenship) 120 words
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7. Rates (Religious Bodies) 126 words
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8. Franks Report (Press Briefing) 84 words
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9. Falkland Islands 65 words
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10. Alcoholism 33 words
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11. Unemployment 1,008 words
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12. Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 195 words
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13. Security and Intelligence Agencies 104 words
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14. Pershing Missiles 64 words
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15. Multilateral Disarmament 245 words
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16. Dunlop Ltd. 116 words
6. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Departmental Staff (Costs) 463 words
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2. European Monetary System 78 words
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3. Stamp Duty 78 words
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4. "Taxation of International Business" 59 words
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5. Upstream Loans (Taxation) 107 words
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6. Coins (Metal Composition) 93 words
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7. Public Sector Fixed Capital Transformation 139 words
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8. International Monetary Fund 153 words
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9. British Firms (Argentina) 140 words
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10. Riyadh (Ministerial Visit) 76 words
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11. Trustee Savings Banks 268 words
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12. Sovereign Loans 83 words
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13. Paris (Ministerial Meeting) 218 words
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14. Mortgage Interest Payments 69 words
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15. Offshore Roll-up Funds 41 words
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16. World Banking System 209 words
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17. Industrial Buildings Allowance Act 96 words
7. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Irish Republic (Gas Supplies) 70 words
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2. Council for Educational Development 100 words
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3. Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 41 words
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4. Youth Training Programme 162 words
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5. Assembly Committees (Information) 61 words
8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Commonwealth Development Corporation 52 words
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2. Zimbabwe 39 words
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3. London School of Tropical Hygiene (Grants and Scholarships) 62 words
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4. Palestine Refugees 64 words
9. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Regional Health Authorities 801 words
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2. State Pension 89 words
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3. Hospitals (Equipment Supplies) 326 words
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4. Vaccine Damage 301 words
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5. Federation of Alcoholic Rehabilitation Establishments 104 words
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6. Specialist Claims Control Exercise (Norwich) 61 words
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7. "Fields of Recruitment" 118 words
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8. Benefits 37 words
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9. Neonatal Intensive Care Cots 40 words
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10. Medical Research (Funding) 120 words
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11. Cigarettes (Carbon Monoxide) 1,980 words
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12. Invalid Care Allowance 53 words
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13. Supplementary Benefit 66 words
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14. Community Service Volunteers 208 words
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15. Greenwich 769 words
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16. Hearing Aids 77 words
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17. One-parent Families 75 words
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18. National Health Service (Catering and Domestic Services) 50 words
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19. Widowed Mothers' (Allowance) 111 words
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20. St. William's Hospital, Rochester (Cobalt Machine) 124 words
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21. Chrysoidine Dye 137 words
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22. Cervical Cancer 115 words
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23. Mentally Handicapped Persons 346 words
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24. Earnings Rule 165 words
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25. Retirement Pension 157 words
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26. Geriatric Beds (West Midlands) 352 words
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27. High View Hospital, Exhall 121 words
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28. Voluntary Redundancy (Unemployment Benefit) 195 words
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29. Supplementary Benefit Regulations 71 words
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30. Pensions 217 words
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31. Mental Health Tribunals 130 words
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32. Housing Benefit (Birmingham) 108 words
10. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Convention on the Law of the Sea 93 words
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2. Vietnamese Refugees 186 words
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3. Brasilia (Ministerial Visit) 90 words
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4. Passports 140 words
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5. Falkland Islands (Franks Report) 463 words
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6. Mr. Davidoff 97 words
11. WALES
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1. Departmental Forms 2,214 words
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2. Remedial Teachers 170 words
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3. Disabled Persons (Housing) 232 words
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4. Welsh Language (Ombudsman) 75 words
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5. NHS (Consultants and Registrars) 77 words
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6. Industrial Projects 105 words
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7. Companies (Financial Assistance) 319 words
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8. Hospital Waiting Lists 51 words
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9. Mentally Handicapped Persons 121 words
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10. Disabled Persons 163 words
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11. Housing Corporation (Development Programme) 146 words
12. SCOTLAND
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1. Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries 63 words
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2. Scottish Health Education Group 106 words
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3. Children Act 1975 113 words
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4. Electricity Disconnections 120 words
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5. Building Control Regulations (Review) 197 words
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6. Census 150 words
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7. Unemployment Statistics 100 words
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8. Sub-cellular Sub-unit Vaccines 35 words
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9. Meals Service 99 words
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10. Elderly Persons 217 words
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11. Psychogeriatrician Consultants 323 words
13. SCOTLAND
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1. Home Helps 187 words
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2. White City Greyhound Track 131 words
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3. Glasgow College of Technology 128 words
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4. Harris 134 words
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5. New Towns 158 words
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6. 16 to 18-year-olds 629 words
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7. A80 195 words
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8. Offensive Weapons 92 words
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9. British Rail 147 words
14. INDUSTRY
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1. Industrial Assistance (Welwyn and Hatfield) 187 words
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2. Shipbuilding 77 words
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3. Labour Costs 73 words
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4. Research and Development (Government Funding) 127 words
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5. Telephones 189 words
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6. British Shipbuilders (Steel) 56 words
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7. French Industry (Loan Conditions) 115 words
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8. Post Office Closures 126 words
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9. Sector Working Parties 73 words
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10. Steel Industry 279 words
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11. European Community (Bulk and Carbon Steels) 595 words
15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Nursery Education 68 words
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2. Clinical Depression (Research) 106 words
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3. Subcellular Sub-unit Vaccines 68 words
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4. Sex Education 209 words
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5. Examination Statistics 55 words
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6. British Library (Boston Spa) 50 words
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7. Gifted Children 46 words
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8. School Meals 175 words
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9. Sex Role Differentiation Project 65 words
16. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Unemployment Statistics 377 words
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2. Youth Training Scheme 61 words
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3. Unemployed Persons (Training) 103 words
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4. No-strike Agreements 64 words
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5. Training Schemes (Statistics) 125 words
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6. Enterprise Allowance Scheme 82 words
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7. Youth Opportunities Programme 280 words
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8. Wider Opportunities Courses (Women) 90 words
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9. Factory Inspections (Yorkshire and Humberside) 119 words
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10. Health and Safety 484 words
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11. Manpower Services Commission (Schemes) 116 words
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12. Job Splitting Scheme 119 words
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13. Equal Pay Act 56 words
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14. Dock Workers (Severance Payments) 118 words
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15. Night Shifts (Women) 61 words
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16. Training Schemes (Discrimination) 156 words
17. TRANSPORT
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1. Serpell Committee 139 words
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2. Rail Crossings (Staffordshire) 207 words
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3. >M54 (Birmingham) 71 words
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4. Motor Coaches (Speed Limits) 152 words
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5. Departmental Staff 200 words
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6. National Road Maintenance Condition Survey 70 words
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7. Road Maintenance 189 words
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8. Hayes Bypass 101 words
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9. Heavy Goods Vehicle Testing (Privatisation) 126 words
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10. Ports of London and Liverpool 142 words
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11. M1 36 words
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12. Lead-free Petrol 120 words
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13. A57 91 words
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14. Holyhead (Post Facilities) 112 words
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15. Serpell Report 85 words
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16. Public Inquiry (Inspector) 59 words
18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Humber Laboratory 102 words
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2. Land Settlement Association 424 words
19. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
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1. Animal Welfare (Protests) 154 words
20. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Nature Conservancy Council (Management Agreements) 113 words
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2. Tenant's Exchange Scheme 501 words
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3. Home Ownership 52 words
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4. Welwyn and Hatfield (Vacant Land) 147 words
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5. Kings Court Estate, Waterloo, Merseyside 69 words
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6. Housing (Multiple Occupation) 265 words
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7. Derelict Land 172 words
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8. Housing (Newham) 145 words
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9. Housing Associations (Shared Ownership Purchase) 301 words
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10. Departmental Staff 74 words
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11. Property Services Agency 56 words
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12. Exclusive Brethren 149 words
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13. Welfare Rights Centre (Liverpool) 124 words
c346W
14. Local Government Audit Commission 92 words
21. DEFENCE
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1. RAF Aircraft (Accidental Losses) 44 words
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2. Expenditure 884 words
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3. Assisted House Purchase Scheme 49 words
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4. Fuel Expenditure 137 words
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5. Defence Budget 43 words
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6. Stanley Airfield (Shelling) 54 words
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7. Port Stanley (Bombing) 58 words
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8. HMS Sir Galahad 74 words
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9. Falkland Islands (WRAC Personnel) 51 words
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10. Goose Green (Hotel Meals) 79 words
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11. Task Force Personnel (Driving Licence Fees) 129 words
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12. Falklands Campaign (Royal Fleet Auxiliary Employees) 551 words
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13. Falklands Campaign (Hardship Allowance) 32 words
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14. RFA Fort Austin 199 words
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15. Ascension Island—United Kingdom (Vessels) 53 words
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16. Falkland Islands (Danish Vessels) 49 words
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17. Safe Domina 63 words
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18. Falkland Islands (Vessels) 238 words
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19. Phantom and Chinook Purchases 90 words
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20. Falkland Islands (Engagements) 51 words
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21. Polaris 109 words
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22. Public Relations 63 words
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23. Nuclear Tests (Radiation Compensation) 164 words
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24. RAF Lindholme 72 words
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25. Falkland Islands (Franks Report) 157 words
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26. Zimbabwe 56 words
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27. Falkland Islands (Military Contingency Plans) 49 words

Lords Sitting of 24 January 1983 Series 5 Vol. 438

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Land: Vacant and Under-used Acreage 672 words
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3. Motor Bicycles and Riders: Conspicuousness 1,024 words
cc5-7
4. Seat Belts: Accident Statistics 841 words
cc7-9
5. The South African Embassy: Security 822 words
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6. The Water Industry Dispute 43 words
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7. Water Bill 12 words
cc9-20
8. Mobile Homes Bill [H.L.] 6,693 words, 1 division
cc20-5
9. The Water Industry Dispute 2,607 words
cc25-59
10. Mobile Homes Bill [H.L.] 19,775 words
cc59-92
11. Agricultural Marketing Bill 18,941 words
cc92-116
12. ECC 1st Report: Trade Marks 12,954 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 24 January 1983 Series 5 Vol. 438

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1. THE METROPOLITAN POLICE COMMISSIONER'S REPORT ON PROBLEMS AND PRIORITIES 744 words
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2. DIOXIN: LIMITATIONS ON USE 172 words
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3. AVRO VULCAN EXHIBIT AT RAF MUSEUM, HENDON 81 words
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4. REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES: FINANCIAL ALLOCATIONS 811 words
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5. FALKLAND ISLANDS GARRISON: MULE TRANSPORT 72 words
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6. CIVIL DEFENCE 90 words