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Commons Sitting of 6 February 1984 Series 6 Vol. 53

c585
1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
c585
3. NEW WRIT 17 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. TRANSPORT
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1. Airport Competition Policy 524 words
c586
2. Motor Insurance 217 words
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3. British Rail 935 words
cc588-9
4. British Rail 625 words
cc589-90
5. Heavy Lorries (London) 534 words
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6. Estuarial Crossings 863 words
c592
7. A12 (Upgrading) 213 words
cc592-4
8. BR (Southern Region) 914 words
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9. Air Travel Reserve Fund Agency 459 words
c595
10. London Transport Executive 247 words
2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Director of Public Prosecutions 247 words
cc596-7
2. Nationalised Industries 305 words
cc597-8
3. Legal Aid 730 words
cc598-9
4. Law Society 235 words
3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
cc599-600
1. India 691 words
cc600-1
2. International Development Association 593 words
cc601-2
3. Aid Programme 347 words
cc603-7
5. Lebanon (United Kingdom Force) 2,590 words
cc608-11
6. Mr. Mhatre 1,592 words
cc612-9
7. Housing Benefit 4,315 words
cc620-1
8. Bogside Mine, Fife 646 words
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9. Oman University (Prime Minister's Conduct) 460 words
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10. Foreign Secretary (Statement) 336 words
cc624-7
11. Official Report 1,906 words
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1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 23 words
cc628-744
12. Opposition Day 3 words
cc628-56
1. Northern Ireland Agriculture 16,584 words, 1 division
cc657-92
2. Dartford Tunnel Bill [Lords] 21,212 words
cc693-715
3. Northern Ireland (Electoral Commissioner) 12,909 words, 1 division
cc716-37
4. Northern Ireland (European Assembly Elections) 12,105 words, 1 division
1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.
c737
1. CONSUMER PROTECTION 41 words
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2. COMPANIES 43 words
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2. AGRICULTURE 30 words
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3. HOME AFFAIRS 30 words
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4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY 31 words
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5. Community Programme 3,537 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 6 February 1984 Series 6 Vol. 53

1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Audit Commission 102 words
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2. Judges (Masonic Bodies) 106 words
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3. Steventon Stagg Inquiry 74 words
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4. Corporate Management Planning Ltd. 102 words
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5. Sex Monitoring 238 words
2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Commonwealth Development Corporation 45 words
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2. Falkland Islands 163 words
3. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Detained Persons 150 words
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2. Police Officers (Masonic Lodges) 124 words
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3. Immigration 118 words
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4. Concessionary Television Licences 31 words
c420W
5. Medical Records (Confidentiality) 206 words
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6. Sex Monitoring 87 words
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7. Youth Custody 253 words
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8. Police Authorities 60 words
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9. Chief Constable of Humberside 69 words
4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. ompanies Register (Files) 137 words
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2. Companies (Annual Returns) 235 words
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3. Company Registrations 41 words
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4. Industry (Educational Requirements) 98 words
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5. Higher Education (Advisory Board) 63 words
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6. Investor Protection (Gower Report) 69 words
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7. Company Statistics 497 words
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8. Loan Guarantee Scheme 76 words
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9. Oftel (Director General) 100 words
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10. Sex Monitoring 102 words
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11. Companies (Accounts) 98 words
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12. Messenger Group (Accounts) 435 words
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13. Companies House (Staff) 113 words
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14. Footwear (United States Exports) 151 words
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15. Nissan Motor Company 195 words
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16. British Technology Group (Regional Boards) 91 words
5. PRIME MINISTER
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1. GCHQ, Cheltenham 36 words
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2. European Community Budget (UK Contributions) 152 words
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3. Confidential Material 103 words
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4. Falkland Islands 40 words
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5. Civil Servants (Disciplinary Proceedings) 53 words
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6. Counter-Intelligence Operations (Publication) 110 words
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7. Local Government 158 words
6. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Open University 403 words
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2. School Equipment (Lead Content) 162 words
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3. Textbooks 92 words
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4. Socially Deprived Areas 99 words
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5. Science Teachers 117 words
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6. Higher Education 112 words
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7. Pupils (Teaching Costs) 404 words
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8. Secondary Schools 231 words
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9. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 111 words
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10. Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth 111 words
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11. Sex Monitoring 80 words
7. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Departmental Powers 149 words
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2. Building Societies 92 words
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3. Income Tax 199 words
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4. Hoteliers 101 words
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5. Pound Sterling 82 words
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6. Productivity and Exports (Incentives) 53 words
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7. Value Added Tax (Agents' Commissions) 205 words
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8. Cable Television 122 words
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9. Unpaid Taxes 60 words
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10. Fraud Investigation 198 words
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11. Tax Evasion 74 words
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12. Income Tax 53 words
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13. Freeports 55 words
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14. Age Allowance 53 words
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15. Sex Monitoring 45 words
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16. EEC (Rebate) 82 words
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17. Tax Return 56 words
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18. Moonlighting 135 words
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19. Pay-as-you-earn and National Insurance 116 words
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20. Schedule E Taxation 89 words
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21. London Dressmakers and Allied Contractors' Association 322 words
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22. Benefits (Taxation) 56 words
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23. Family Income 936 words
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24. EEC (Rebates) 130 words
8. TRANSPORT
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1. Vehicle Excise Duty 81 words
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2. Concessionary Fares 176 words
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3. London Regional Transport Bill 86 words
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4. Cyclists 123 words
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5. Express Coachway 34 words
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6. Heathrow Airport 79 words
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7. British Rail (Flexible Rostering) 43 words
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8. Motorway Signs 203 words
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9. Motorways (Lighting) 152 words
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10. Severn Crossing 46 words
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11. London Transport (Fares) 60 words
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12. Road Construction 75 words
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13. British Rail (Mileage) 33 words
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14. A329(M) 76 words
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15. Air Ambulance Operators 83 words
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16. British Rail 70 words
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17. Bypasses 162 words
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18. British Rail Engineering Ltd. 55 words
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19. Advertising Campaigns 173 words
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20. National Bus Company 62 words
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21. Heavy Lorries (London) 138 words
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22. British Rail (Property Disposal) 95 words
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23. Principal Roads 60 words
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24. London Regional Transport 97 words
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25. Road Accidents 86 words
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26. BR (Passenger Services) 79 words
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27. Rail Electrification 89 words
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28. Rural Areas (Bus Services) 86 words
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29. Severn Bridge 68 words
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30. "Transport Services" 83 words
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31. BR (Line Closures) 91 words
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32. Lorries (Overloading) 70 words
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33. BR (Stations) 44 words
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34. Vehicle Registration Marks 93 words
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35. Motor Cars (Dim-dip Regulations) 213 words
c450W
36. National Air Traffic Services 52 words
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37. Air Transport (Europe) 73 words
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38. A65 (Addingham Bypass) 35 words
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39. M11 (Loughton) 143 words
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40. A20 (Improvement) 75 words
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41. Sealink UK Ltd. 219 words
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42. Kaptan Beksak 111 words
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43. Dangerous Goods (Accidental Deaths) 42 words
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44. Dangerous Goods (Regulations) 84 words
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45. Windsor Link Scheme 25 words
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46. British Rail (Investment) 33 words
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47. Sex Monitoring 184 words
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48. Roads 125 words
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49. Brooks and Williams Ltd. 221 words
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50. Weedkiller (North Sea) 371 words
9. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. National Emergency (Appointments) 76 words
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2. Hill Farm Subsidy 143 words
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3. Land Settlements 52 words
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4. Food Industry 144 words
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5. Food Labelling 56 words
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6. Agricultural Derating 74 words
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7. Milk 103 words
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8. Agricultural Statistics 85 words
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9. Agricultural Production 113 words
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10. Crop Acreages 82 words
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11. Weedkiller (North Sea) 415 words
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12. Sex Monitoring 161 words
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13. Agricultural Undertakings (Property Taxes) 73 words
10. ENERGY
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1. Electricity (Export-Import) 145 words
cc458-9W
2. Domestic Supplies 489 words
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3. South Devon Fuel Surgeries 251 words
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4. Sex Monitoring 158 words
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5. Energy Efficiency (Advisers) 225 words
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6. South Africa (North Sea Oil Exports) 86 words
11. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Housing 112 words
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2. Empty Properties 433 words
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3. Rates 76 words
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4. Homeless Persons 194 words
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5. Asbestos Cement Water Mains 128 words
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6. Water Authorities 81 words
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7. Nuclear Material (Accidental Discharge) 69 words
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8. Local Authorities (Finance) 244 words
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9. Improvement Grants 177 words
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10. Local Authorities (Manpower) 103 words
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11. Housing Associations 236 words
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12. Council House Sales 79 words
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13. Housing Benefit Scheme (Lambeth) 154 words
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14. Palace of Westminster (Clocks) 104 words
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15. Urban Programme 277 words
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16. Charities 142 words
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17. Rate Equalisation Scheme 132 words
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18. Local Government Reorganisation 208 words
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19. Merseyside (Ministerial Visit) 80 words
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20. Shire Counties 51 words
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21. Clayton Square, Liverpool 91 words
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22. Gleneagles Agreement 204 words
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23. Village Shopkeepers 359 words
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24. Local Authorities (Expenditure) 85 words
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25. Sex Monitoring 205 words
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26. Block Grant 959 words
12. DEFENCE
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1. Quality Assurance Directorates 235 words
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2. Falklands Airport 74 words
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3. Greenham Common 49 words
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4. Neko 140 Corvette 79 words
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5. Trident 58 words
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6. Sex Monitoring 224 words
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7. United States Communications Centre, Menwith Hill 62 words
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8. Royal Ordnance Factories 305 words
13. THE ARTS
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1. Sponsorship 60 words
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2. Army Printing Survey Service 70 words
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3. CS Gas (Animal Experiments) 205 words
14. WALES
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1. Council Houses 56 words
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2. Gipsy Sites 208 words
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3. Caravan Sites Act 74 words
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4. Welsh Housing Association Council 50 words
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5. Agriculture and Food Research 70 words
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6. Rates 57 words
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7. Training (Resources) 164 words
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8. Sex Monitoring 165 words
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9. Right to Buy (Discount) 85 words
15. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Social Security Fraud 298 words
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2. Prison Officers 149 words
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3. Schools (Denominational Proportions) 63 words
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4. Remedial Teaching 383 words
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5. Irish Music (Teaching) 311 words
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6. Ulster Museum 62 words
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7. Sex Monitoring 40 words
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8. Western Education and Library Board 548 words
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9. Housing Repair Grants 103 words
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10. Prison Service 75 words
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11. Housing Executive 99 words
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12. Her Majesty's Prison, Maze 287 words
16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Cyprus 141 words
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2. Straits of Hormuz 107 words
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3. Outer Space Treaty 310 words
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4. Esprit Research and Development Programme 99 words
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5. USSR (Visit) 79 words
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6. GCHQ, Cheltenham 674 words
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7. Sex Monitoring 111 words
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8. Nuclear Weapons 448 words
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9. Falkland Islands 103 words
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10. Civil Servants (Trade Union Membership) 94 words
17. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Independent Motor Trade Wholesalers 76 words
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2. Wages Councils 328 words
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3. Legal Aid 102 words
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4. Community Programme Schemes 102 words
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5. Labour Statistics 84 words
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6. Unemployed Persons (Interview Costs) 221 words
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7. Rochdale 139 words
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8. South Devon Fuel Surgeries 69 words
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9. Community Programme 127 words
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10. Youth Training 558 words
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11. Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 53 words
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12. Industrial Disputes 142 words
18. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
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1. Sex Monitoring 59 words
19. SCOTLAND
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1. Orlit Houses 956 words
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2. Road Safety 191 words
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3. Conveyancing 94 words
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4. Central Regional Council (Director of Architecture) 64 words
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5. Cumbernauld (Employment) 233 words
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6. New Town Development Corporations (Chairmen) 79 words
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7. Local Authority Officers (Legal Expenses) 67 words
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8. Pharmacists (Payments) 72 words
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9. Bridge of Allan (Flooding) 40 words
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10. Grampian Region (Weather Conditions) 70 words
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11. Electricity Disconnections 76 words
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12. Highland Health Board 102 words
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13. Sex Monitoring 88 words
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14. Planning Appeals 86 words
20. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Benefits 166 words
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2. Housing Benefit 996 words
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3. Geriatric Beds 177 words
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4. Supplementary Benefit 821 words
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5. India Welfare Society 67 words
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6. Health Strategy (Oxford) 70 words
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7. Weather 300 words
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8. Specialist Claims Unit 191 words
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9. Homoeopathic Medicine 75 words
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10. Newcastle upon Tyne (Demography) 59 words
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11. Operations (Waiting Lists) 86 words
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12. Mr. M. V. Reynolds 65 words
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13. Young Unemployed 70 words
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14. Voluntary Unemployment Deduction 129 words
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15. Cardiologists 217 words
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16. Coronary Bypass Graftings 443 words
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17. Supplementary Pension 83 words
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18. Non-dependent Deductions 111 words
cc509-10W
19. Fuel Benefits 126 words
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20. Doctors' Deputising Services 290 words
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21. Chest Patients (Wythenshawe Hospital) 67 words
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22. Invalidity Pension 98 words
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23. Sex Monitoring 212 words
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24. Juvenile Offenders 181 words
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25. Health Authorities (Use of Buildings) 180 words
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26. Fraud 142 words
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27. Services (Local Authority Charges) 408 words
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28. Family Expenditure Survey 364 words
cc514-5W
29. Nurses 140 words

Lords Sitting of 6 February 1984 Series 5 Vol. 447

c879
1. Preamble 22 words
c879
2. London Docklands: Transport 310 words
cc879-82
3. NHS General Practitioners: Training and Employment 1,070 words
c882
4. Housing Benefit 327 words
cc883-4
5. Hospital Development in Wales 773 words
c884
6. Business 108 words
cc885-901
7. Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill 9,465 words
cc901-5
8. The Lebanon 1,785 words
cc905-7
9. Mr. R. H. Mhatre 1,062 words
cc907-16
10. Housing Benefit 4,915 words
cc916-32
11. Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill 9,182 words
cc932-7
12. Town and Country Planning Bill 2,734 words
c937
13. The Lord Byers 63 words
cc937-42
14. Town and Country Planning Bill 2,814 words
cc942-55
15. Tourism (Overseas Promotion) (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 7,446 words
cc955-92
16. Welsh Plant Breeding Station 19,809 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 6 February 1984 Series 5 Vol. 447

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1. SPONSORSHIP COSTS: TAX DEDUCTIBILITY 42 words
c993WA
2. TELECOMMUNICATIONS BILL: CABLE INSTALLATION 112 words
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3. SVALBARD ARCHIPELAGO: NATO COMMITMENT 85 words
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4. SUBMERSIBLE CRAFT: LEGAL STATUS 189 words