Sitting of 30 March 1983

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Commons Sitting of 30 March 1983 Series 6 Vol. 40

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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3. Oral Answers to Questions 17 words
1. SCOTLAND
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1. Employment 1,258 words
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2. Unemployment Statistics 634 words
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3. Diabetes (Treatment) 355 words
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4. Fraserburgh and Peterhead (Unemployment) 434 words
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5. Teacher Training 402 words
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6. Ayrshire and Arran Health Board (New Laundry) 515 words
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7. Glasgow (Geriatric Beds) 494 words
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8. Forestry Plantings 655 words
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9. Scottish Development Agency 334 words
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10. Construction Industry 705 words
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11. Confederation of British Industry 969 words
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12. Information Technology (Schools) 289 words
2. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
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1. Bail etc. (Scotland) Act 1980 514 words
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2. Prosecution Policy 921 words
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3. Police and Criminal Evidence Bill 406 words
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4. Overseas Students (Awards) 3,014 words
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5. Bolsover District Council 260 words
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6. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Demonstration) 656 words
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7. Wytch Farm (Sale) 534 words
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8. BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR FRIDAY 15 APRIL 64 words
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9. Anderson Strathclyde (Prevention of Take-over) 1,420 words
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1. ANDERSON STRATHCLYDE (PREVENTION OF TAKEOVER) 51 words
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10. Local Authorities (Expenditure Powers) Bill 17,594 words
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11. Merchant Shipping Bill [Lords] 376 words
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12. International Transport Conventions Bill [Lords] 39 words
13. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.
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1. RATING AND VALUATION 49 words
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2. SOCIAL SECURITY 43 words
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3. LEGAL AID AND ADVICE 134 words
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4. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE 50 words
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14. Standing Orders (Revision) 12,692 words, 1 division
15. PETITION
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1. British Citizens (Right to Vote) 160 words
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16. Merchant Shipping 13,862 words
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17. Buy British 2,137 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 30 March 1983 Series 6 Vol. 40

1. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
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1. Churches 63 words
2. TRADE
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1. Portugal 184 words
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2. Manufactures 380 words
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3. Coal Merchants (Code of Practice) 83 words
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4. Companies Acts (Investigations) 291 words
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5. Exclusive Purchasing Agreements 45 words
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6. Falkland Islands (Merchant Ships) 83 words
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7. Light Dues 117 words
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8. Estate Agents Act 1979 314 words
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9. British Airways (Financial Target) 149 words
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10. South Africa (British Companies) 176 words
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11. L. Landers Ltd. 88 words
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12. Consumer Credit Act 1974 68 words
3. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Disabled Persons (Employment Regulations) 98 words
4. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Departmental Staff 55 words
5. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Life Sentence Prisoners 105 words
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2. Portsmouth Prison 117 words
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3. Live Animals (Experiments) 133 words
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4. Foreign Nationals (Asylum) 790 words
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5. Solitary Confinement 59 words
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6. Brixton Prison (Report) 221 words
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7. Tactical Intervention Force 190 words
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8. Mr. Papusoiu 63 words
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9. European Parliament (Elections) 241 words
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10. Detained Persons 160 words
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11. Prisoners (Drugs) 88 words
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12. New Scotland Yard 284 words
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13. Mr. M. S. G. (Immigration Appeal) 65 words
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14. Civil Defence (Volunteers) 49 words
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15. Ex-drug Dependents (Prisons) 78 words
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16. Vehicle Parking (London) 140 words
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17. Refugees 179 words
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18. Polish Nationals 124 words
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19. Royal Observer Corps (Monitoring Posts) 146 words
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20. Race Relations 56 words
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21. Draft Civil Defence (General Local Authority Functions) Regulations 1983 80 words
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22. Animal Welfare 127 words
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23. Racial Attacks 322 words
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24. Greenham Common 273 words
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25. Metropolitan Police 862 words
6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Diplomatic Service (Recruitment) 162 words
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2. Executions 106 words
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3. Uganda (Asian Refugees) 159 words
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4. Gibraltar 43 words
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5. Falkland Islands 53 words
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6. Rev. Dr. Philip Morgan 67 words
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7. Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council 143 words
7. ENERGY
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1. Standing Charges (Gas and Electricity) 84 words
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2. Nuclear Power (Employment Implications) 91 words
8. WALES
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1. Ophthalmology (Waiting Times) 280 words
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2. Health Authorities (Consultants) 969 words
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3. Patients (Waiting Times) 257 words
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4. Steel Industry 110 words
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5. Medical Students (Hospital Duties) 94 words
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6. Public Expenditure 98 words
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7. European Regional Development Fund 126 words
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8. Statistics 138 words
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9. Voluntary Projects Programme 157 words
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10. Enterprise Zones 92 words
9. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Live Food Animals 381 words
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2. Animal Welfare 184 words
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3. Fishing Industry 209 words
10. SCOTLAND
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1. Scottish Sports Council 60 words
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2. Mr. Ken Murray (Political Speech) 143 words
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3. Sewerage System 47 words
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4. Economic Growth 45 words
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5. Pupil Costs 100 words
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6. Unemployment Statistics 223 words
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7. House Building Programme 109 words
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8. Paraldehyde 44 words
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9. Employment Prospects 78 words
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10. Colleges of Education 71 words
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11. Remand Statistics 59 words
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12. Edinburgh 57 words
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13. Rating System 47 words
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14. Small Business Sector 60 words
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15. Employment Creation 114 words
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16. Tayside (Tourism) 125 words
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17. European Community (Jobs) 121 words
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18. Housing Stock (Statistics) 67 words
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19. Directors of Social Work 54 words
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20. Bonnington Mills 123 words
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21. Job Losses 64 words
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22. Newbattle College, Midlothian 158 words
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23. Home Improvement Grants 246 words
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24. Emergency Planning Staffs 85 words
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25. Higher Education 25 words
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26. Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill 69 words
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27. Rhenigidale, Harris (Road Construction) 57 words
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28. Whisky Distilling Industry 105 words
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29. Local Authorities (Capital Allocation) 121 words
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30. Government Expenditure 86 words
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31. Industry Act 1972 (Assistance) 262 words
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32. Drug Dependants (Hostels) 87 words
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33. Students (Diabetic Allowance) 64 words
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34. Electricity (Standing Charges) 72 words
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35. School Books 393 words
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36. Milk Prices 297 words
11. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
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1. Illegal Caravan Parking 96 words
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2. Hospital Patients (False Imprisonment) 54 words
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3. Radar Guns 97 words
12. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Members of Parliament (Salaries and Allowances) 944 words
13. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Cyclists 40 words
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2. Stockport (Ministerial Visit) 68 words
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3. Non-traditional Dwellings 39 words
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4. Building Materials Industry 79 words
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5. Conference Centre, Storeys Gate 153 words
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6. Elderly Persons (Home Repairs Exhibition) 71 words
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7. Residential Houseboats 84 words
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8. Assured Tenancies Scheme 157 words
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9. Domestic Central Heating 155 words
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10. Midland Hotel, Manchester 29 words
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11. Domestic Rates 87 words
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12. Building Regulations 147 words
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13. Home Improvement Grants 81 words
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14. Housing Expenditure 368 words
14. TRANSPORT
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1. London-Birmingham Railway (Exhibition) 68 words
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2. Cycling (Accident Rates) 709 words
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3. Abandoned Vehicles 337 words
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4. Roads (Expenditure) 517 words
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5. Transport Supplementary Grant 147 words
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6. British Rail (Borrowing Limits) 94 words
15. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Value Added Tax 78 words
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2. Building Societies 492 words
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3. Rateable Values 40 words
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4. Taxation and Rates 3,343 words
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5. Cohabitation (Taxation) 111 words
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6. Budget Proposals 867 words
16. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Secondary Schools 108 words
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2. Student-Staff Ratios 173 words
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3. Nursery Education 227 words
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4. Overseas Students 161 words
17. INDUSTRY
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1. Computer Aided Design Centre 84 words
18. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Unemployment Statistics 48 words
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2. Trades Unions (Membership) 155 words
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3. Disabled Persons 533 words
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4. Divers 132 words
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5. Wages (Underpayment) 38 words
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6. Jobcentres 487 words
19. DEFENCE
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1. Port Stanley (Harrier Crash) 142 words
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2. Unemployment Statistics (West Midlands) 126 words
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3. Arapaho 58 words
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4. Hunt Class Vessels 59 words
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5. Departmental Staff 152 words
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6. Ex-senior Officers (Employment) 180 words
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7. Air Publications and Forms Store 510 words
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8. Sir Tristram 94 words
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9. "World in Action" (Service Personnel) 58 words
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10. Censorship 112 words
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11. War Correspondents 44 words
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12. Telemines and Torpedoes 180 words
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13. Harrier Aircraft 77 words
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14. Journalists 156 words
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15. Berlin (Military Government) 71 words
20. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Benefits 889 words
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2. Pancreas Transplants 57 words
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3. Weekly Spending Power 184 words
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4. Abortion Clinics (Counselling) 197 words
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5. Abortion Act 1967 (Monitoring) 172 words
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6. Hospital Bed Norms 75 words
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7. Medication (Prices) 97 words
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8. Taxis 76 words
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9. Child Benefit 49 words
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10. National Health Service (Efficiency) 364 words
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11. Operational Strategy (Working Paper) 588 words
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12. Disabled Persons 113 words
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13. Children in Care 384 words
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14. Contraception 195 words
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15. Westminster pastoral Foundation 180 words
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16. Family Planning Clinics 101 words
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17. Welfare Foods 176 words

Lords Sitting of 30 March 1983 Series 5 Vol. 440

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Lord Gallacher 27 words
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3. University Grants Committee and Student Intakes 1,565 words
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4. Vandalism on School Premises 688 words
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5. EEC Directive on Water Quality 903 words
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6. Wartime Supply Requirements 1,060 words
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7. Overseas Students' Awards 31 words
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8. Lotteries (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 65 words
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9. Telecommunications Bill 12 words
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10. Lloyds Bowmaker Bill [H.L.] 11 words
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11. House of Lords Offices 610 words
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12. Pet Animals Act 1951 (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 11 words
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13. Divorce Jurisdiction, Court Fees and Legal Aid (Scotland) Bill 881 words
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14. Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) Regulations 1983 2,014 words
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15. Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations 1983 33 words
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16. Legal Aid (Scotland)(Financial Conditions) Regulations 1983 34 words
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17. Legal Advice and Assistance (Scotland)(Financial Conditions) Regulations 1983 34 words
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18. Overseas Students' Awards 3,112 words
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19. Pig Industry Levy Scheme 1983 (Confirmation) Order 1983 1,944 words
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20. Agriculture and Horticulture Grant (Variation) Scheme 1983 1,634 words
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21. Farm and Horticulture Development (Amendment) Regulations 1983 29 words
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22. Agriculture and Horticulture Development (Amendment) Regulations 1983 29 words
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23. Valuation (Communal Accommodation) (Scotland) Order 1983 3,713 words
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24. Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 1983 1,143 words
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25. Upholstered Furniture (Safety)(Amendment) Regulations 1983 2,351 words
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26. Mines and Quarries (Valuation) Order 1983 1,354 words
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27. Level Crossings Bill 1,539 words
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28. Truck Acts (Repeal) Bill [H.L.] 9,706 words, 1 division
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29. Licensing (Occasional Permissions) Bill 4,244 words
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30. Motion For Adjournment 307 words
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31. Ashridge (Bonar Law Memorial) Trust Bill 17 words
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32. King's College London Bill [H.L.] 17 words
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33. Commons Registration (Glamorgan) Bill 25 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 30 March 1983 Series 5 Vol. 440

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1. DATA PROTECTION BILL: IMMIGRATION CONTROL 362 words
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2. WANDSWORTH PRISON: EXTRA VISITS 134 words
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3. PRISONERS IN POLICE CUSTODY 272 words
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4. ST. KITTS AND NEVIS: CITIZENSHIP 135 words
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5. EC INSTITUTIONS: NON CIVIL SERVICE APPLICATIONS FOR SENIOR POSTS 102 words
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6. EC INSTITUTIONS: UK STAFF NUMBERS 116 words
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7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: JOINT ACARD/ABRC REPORT 116 words
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8. STOKE MANDEVILLE HOSPITAL: MEDICAL CONSULTANT APPOINTMENT 65 words
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9. HEPATITIS A 138 words
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10. SMOKING: GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING 140 words
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11. IONISERS: USE IN NHS ESTABLISHMENTS 99 words
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12. RESERVOIRS ACT 1975: IMPLEMENTATION 100 words
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13. COMMONWEALTH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: PHILIPPINES LOAN 237 words
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14. SOVIET UNION NORTH-FLOWING RIVER REVERSAL SCHEME 187 words
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15. WATER BILL: CONSUMER REPRESENTATION 535 words
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16. THE INTERNATIONAL AIR PASSENGERS' ASSOCIATION: REPORT ON BRITISH AIRWAYS 165 words
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17. BRITISH AIRWAYS: FINANCIAL TARGET 138 words
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18. MONETARISM: AN ALTERNATIVE 133 words