Sitting of 28 July 1983

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Commons Sitting of 28 July 1983 Series 6 Vol. 46

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. LLOYDS BOWMAKER BILL [Lords] (By Order) 8 words
2. SHREWSBURY AND ATCHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order)
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3. TEES AND HARTLEPOOL PORT AUTHORITY BILL (By Order) 15 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Cereals (Export Subsidies) 429 words
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2. Poultry Producers (Wheat Supplies) 443 words
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3. Vermin Control 472 words
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4. Pig Farming 1,095 words
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5. Agricultural Net Product 863 words
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6. Poultry and Egg Industries 451 words
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7. Marginal Land 400 words
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8. Wash Shell Fisheries 259 words
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9. "Food from Britain" 417 words
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10. New Zealand Lamb 217 words
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11. Fishing Quotas 211 words
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12. Soft Fruit Pulp 369 words
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13. Forestry Commission Land 184 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Engagements 2,157 words
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5. Anglo-Irish Forum 1,231 words
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6. Business of the House 2,813 words
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7. Royal Air Force (Defence Suppression Weapon) 3,939 words
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8. Fisheries Council 4,956 words
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9. British Shipbuilders 2,881 words
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10. Ministerial Statements 865 words
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11. Local Government (Audit Practice) 13,978 words
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12. Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) 6,792 words
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13. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 18 words
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1. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES 114 words
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14. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 18 words
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1. ROAD TRAFFIC 28 words
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2. HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS' FUND 47 words
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15. PARLIAMENTARY CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS FUND 52 words
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16. Asbestos (Power Station) 10,407 words
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17. Community Programme 3,549 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 28 July 1983 Series 6 Vol. 46

1. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Miss Rhona Ritchie 4,005 words
2. ENERGY
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1. National Coal Board 530 words
3. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Radioactive Waste 394 words
4. SCOTLAND
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1. Cash Limits 287 words
5. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Engagements 723 words
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2. Searches 136 words
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3. European Community Budget 58 words
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4. Civil Servants 227 words
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5. Employment Statistics 210 words
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6. Inland Revenue 344 words
6. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Revenue Departments (Enforcement Powers) 85 words
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2. Foreign Currency Deposits 260 words
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3. Drugs 988 words
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4. Customs and Excise (Rummage Work) 461 words
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5. Public Sector (Capital Assets) 296 words
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6. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 255 words
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7. Value Added Tax 171 words
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8. Public Expenditure 51 words
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9. Casual Workers (PAYE) 52 words
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10. Insurance Companies (Employees) 49 words
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11. Import Levies 58 words
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12. PAYE (Pilot Study) 242 words
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13. Capital Taxation and the National Heritage 166 words
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14. Building Societies 564 words
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15. Pension Funds 116 words
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16. European Community (Budget) 357 words
7. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Public Appointments 163 words
8. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Theft 77 words
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2. Firearms 340 words
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3. Postal Voting 53 words
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4. Terrorism 503 words
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5. Licensing Laws 39 words
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6. Albany Prison (Disturbances) 195 words
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7. Wormwood Scrubs Prison (Incident) 149 words
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8. Citizenship 315 words
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9. Stateless Minors (Registration) 84 words
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10. Crime Statistics 63 words
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11. Women Prisoners (Holloway) 179 words
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12. Life Sentences 79 words
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13. Radar Speed Check Devices 86 words
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14. Christine Scott 78 words
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15. River Avon Estuary (Byelaws) 97 words
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16. Winter Hill (Booster Aerial) 157 words
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17. Police Probationers (Training Report) 291 words
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18. Metropolitan Police (Royal Protection Department) 129 words
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19. National Association of Victims Support Schemes 129 words
9. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Universities (Clinical Academic Salaries) 82 words
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2. School Closures 84 words
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3. Corporal Punishment 332 words
10. THE ARTS
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1. Arts Council 57 words
11. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Horn of Africa (Famine Relief) 149 words
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2. Voluntary Service Overseas 101 words
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3. Development Education Policy 108 words
12. ENERGY
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1. Gas Flaring 151 words
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2. Gas Network 110 words
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3. Gas Meters 91 words
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4. Gas Showrooms (Sale) 79 words
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5. Combined Heat and Power 63 words
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6. Coal Industry (Redundancy Payments) 172 words
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7. Tredomen Engineering Ltd. 217 words
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8. Liquefaction (Point of Ayr) 204 words
13. TRANSPORT
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1. Marine Pilots 520 words
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2. Aircraft Noise 30 words
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3. Commuter Railway Stations 78 words
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4. Bus Services (Recommendations) 482 words
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5. Vehicle Testing 392 words
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6. Roads (Severe Weather) 111 words
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7. Road Construction (Contracts) 49 words
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8. Roadworks (Public Utilities) 79 words
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9. Broadcast Travel Information 143 words
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10. Roadworks (Advance Notice) 93 words
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11. A1(M) (Lane Closures) 153 words
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12. A64 (Acceleration Lane) 111 words
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13. Road Signs 151 words
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14. Roads (Expenditure) 282 words
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15. Road Accidents (Statistics) 268 words
14. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Housing Stock 265 words
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2. Dog Licences 76 words
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3. Council House Sales 124 words
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4. Anglian and North-West Water Authorities 204 words
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5. Building Research Establishment 152 words
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6. "Lead in the Environment" 395 words
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7. Cartographic Services 52 words
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8. Sport and Recreation 190 words
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9. Buckingham Palace (Photographers) 109 words
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10. Housing (Capital Allocations) 146 words
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11. Brookwood Lye, Woking 53 words
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12. Pollution 160 words
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13. Apartheid in Sport 220 words
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14. Council House Rents 70 words
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15. Double Glazing 56 words
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16. Council Housing 128 words
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17. District Auditors 88 words
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18. Design Costs 66 words
15. DEFENCE
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1. Research and Development 231 words
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2. Nuclear Deterrent 67 words
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3. Crusader 80 300 words
16. LORD PRIVY SEAL
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1. Civil Service Pensions 109 words
17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Antarctic Minerals 70 words
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2. South Georgia 88 words
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3. British Antarctic Survey 69 words
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4. Special Quota Vouchers 205 words
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5. Entry Clearance Officers 177 words
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6. Coaches (Safety Regulations) 155 words
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7. Turkey 79 words
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8. Argentina 144 words
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9. North Atlantic Assembly 53 words
18. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. Council of Ministers 816 words
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2. Engineering Products (Exports) 243 words
19. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Quick Frozen Products (Imports-Exports) 84 words
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2. Investment 392 words
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3. Turkey (Imports) 91 words
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4. Small Businesses 206 words
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5. Telephone Equipment 485 words
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6. Steel Industry 108 words
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7. Capacity Working 96 words
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8. European Community Legislation 657 words
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9. Statutory Auditors 38 words
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10. Consumer Credit 99 words
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11. Telephones (Routeing Equipment) 634 words
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12. Radio (Amateur Licences) 109 words
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13. British Shipbuilders 77 words
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14. Design and Test Equipment Support Scheme 54 words
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15. Consumer Durables 75 words
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16. British Steel Corporation (Resources) 116 words
20. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Anglesey Aluminium Powder Company 103 words
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2. Steel Industry 141 words
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3. Industrial Safety (Exhibition) 75 words
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4. Asbestos 182 words
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5. Community Programme 83 words
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6. Youth Training Scheme 58 words
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7. Average Earnings 183 words
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8. Construction Industry 126 words
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9. Security Firms (Insurance) 159 words
21. WALES
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1. District Authorities (Assisted Areas) 549 words
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2. Kidney Transplants 50 words
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3. NHS (Financial Provision) 173 words
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4. Road Signs 60 words
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5. A487 (Flooding) 60 words
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6. Llanfairpwll Bypass 42 words
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7. Departmental Cash Limits 250 words
22. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Family Practitioner Service 163 words
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2. South London Hospital for Women 82 words
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3. Mobility Allowance 60 words
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4. Telephone Design (Hearing Assistance) 103 words
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5. Company Pensions (Early Leavers) 94 words
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6. Hospital Visitors (Secrecy) 107 words
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7. Hospitals (Computers) 175 words
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8. Bone Marrow Transplant Service 46 words
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9. Wheelchairs 790 words
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10. Telford District Hospital 79 words
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11. Abortion 502 words
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12. Birth Rate 381 words
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13. Kidney Transplants 52 words
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14. Solvent Abuse 251 words
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15. Asbestos 71 words
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16. Invalidity Pension 78 words
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17. Geriatric Services 320 words
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18. Community Hospital, Jarrow 63 words
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19. Nutrition and Health Education 67 words
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20. Housing Benefit 235 words
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21. Farm Labour (National Insurance Deductions) 118 words
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22. NHS (Expenditure) 51 words
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23. World Population Conference 138 words
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24. Medicines (Safety) 138 words
23. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Agricultural Surpluses (Financing) 91 words
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2. Pigeons 46 words
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3. Farm Price Review 79 words
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4. Fruit Trees 68 words
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5. Food Prices 74 words
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6. Common Agricultural Policy 273 words
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7. Upland Areas 87 words
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8. Soft Fruit Industry 98 words
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9. Prefabricated Agricultural Buildings 46 words
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10. Food and Agricultural Commodities (Imports) 165 words
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11. Horticulture 75 words
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12. Farm Incomes 94 words
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13. Heather and Grass Burning 226 words
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14. Milk 210 words
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15. Council of Fisheries Ministers 132 words
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16. Fishing Fleet 205 words
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17. Foodstuffs (Labelling) 87 words
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18. Butter 85 words
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19. Eggs 63 words
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20. Fishing Quotas 59 words
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21. Fisheries Inspectorate 320 words
24. SCOTLAND
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1. Housing (Capital Allocations) 1,383 words
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2. Housing Expenditure, Strathclyde 77 words
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3. Drug Addicts 391 words
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4. Nursery Education 95 words
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5. Drug Offences (Sentences) 134 words
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6. Labour Statistics 1,298 words
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7. Deaths (Glasgow) 83 words
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8. Hypothermia 219 words
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9. Assisted Areas 301 words
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10. Kidney Transplants 56 words
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11. Domestic Fires (Fatalities) 90 words
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12. Edinburgh Airport (Car Thefts) 68 words
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13. Klondikers 75 words
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14. Heart Patients 82 words
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15. Fisheries Inspectorate 207 words
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16. Tenants Rights, etc. (Scotland) Act 1980 235 words
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17. Potatoes (Imports) 124 words
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18. Council House Sales 134 words
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19. Schools (Corporal Punishment) 223 words
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20. South of Scotland Electricity Board 1,356 words
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21. Sheltered Housing 882 words
25. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Irish Conference of Catholic Bishops 31 words
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2. Exclusion Orders 278 words
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3. Terrorism 971 words
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4. Security Statistics 2,017 words
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5. Mentally Ill Persons 205 words
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6. Psychiatric Day Hospitals 88 words
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7. Sheltered Workshops 146 words
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8. Confused Elderly Persons 256 words
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9. Pollution 359 words
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10. Domestic Fires (Fatalities) 71 words
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11. Ulster Museum 42 words