Sitting of 29 October 1984

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Commons Sitting of 29 October 1984 Series 6 Vol. 65

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. KINGSTON UPON HULL BILL [LORDS] 47 words
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2. ALEXANDRA PARK AND PALACE BILL 344 words
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3. HEREFORD CITY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] 314 words
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4. WORCESTER CITY COUNCIL BILL [LORDS] 313 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. ENERGY
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1. Petrol and Diesel Fuel (Prices) 421 words
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2. Coal Industry Dispute 2,481 words
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3. Coal Stocks 1,225 words
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4. Onshore Oil Production 313 words
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5. Coal Industry 269 words
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6. Coal Conversion Scheme 198 words
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7. Waste (Recycling) 134 words
2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Office Accommodation 143 words
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2. Sitting Times 294 words
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3. Parliamentary Recesses 425 words
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4. Public Gallery (Enlargement) 492 words
3. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Ethnic Monitoring 389 words
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2. Civil Service Unions 508 words
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3. Financial Management (Report) 249 words
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4. Departmental Security (Privatisation) 268 words
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4. Coles Cranes (Purchase) 1,852 words
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5. Attorney-General 836 words
6. Orders of the Day
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1. Police and Criminal Evidence Bill 4 words
1. New Clause
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1. IMPROPERLY OBTAINED EVIDENCE 12,928 words, 1 division
2. Clause 73
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1. CONFESSIONS 544 words
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3. New Clause 12 words
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1. Confessions by mentally handicapped persons 2,127 words
4. Clause 78
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1. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE POLICE COMPLAINTS AUTHORITY 13,230 words, 1 division
5. Clause 90
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1. CONSTABULARIES MAINTAINED BY AUTHORITIES OTHER THAN POLICE AUTHORITIES 192 words
6. Clause 95
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1. DISCIPLINE REGULATIONS 17,635 words
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7. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 49 words
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8. Police and Criminal Evidence Bill 3,838 words
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2. Police and Criminal Evidence Bill 5,785 words, 1 division
1. New Clause
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1. FUNCTIONS OF SEPCIAL CONSTABLES IN SCOTLAND 92 words
2. Clause 106
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1. APPLICATION OF ACT TO ARMED FORCES 90 words
3. Schedule 2
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1. PRESERVED POWERS OF ARREST 136 words
4. Schedule 3
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1. PROVISIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO SECTIONS 65 AND 66 86 words
5. Schedule 4
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1. THE POLICE COMPLAINTS AUTHORITY 104 words
6. Schedule 5
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1. SERIOUS ARRESTABLE OFFENCES 78 words
7. Schedule 6
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1. CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS 192 words
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1. Sexual Offences Act 1956 (c. 69) 6,155 words
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2. Theatres Act 1968 (c. 54) 111 words
8. Schedule 7
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1. ENACTMENTS REPEALED IN CONSEQUENCE OF PARTS I TO V 219 words
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3. Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill 22 words
1. Clause 4
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1. ASSISTED AREAS AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 5,961 words
2. Schedule 1
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1. NEW REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 508 words
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4. Rent (Scotland) Bill [Lords] 14 words
1. Clause 85
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1. PROHIBITION OF PREMIUMS ON GRANT OR ASSIGNATION OF FURNISHED LETTINGS 179 words
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5. South Bank, London 3,984 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 29 October 1984 Series 6 Vol. 65

1. TRANSPORT
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1. Public Service Vehicles (Test) 130 words
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2. Aerial Crop Spraying 106 words
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3. Disabled Persons (Parking Badges) 64 words
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4. New Cars (Safety Wheels) 91 words
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5. Bridges and Tunnels (Toll Charges) 58 words
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6. Reading Material (Departmental Expenditure) 52 words
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7. A38 (Saltash Bypass) 122 words
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8. East London River Crossing 293 words
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9. Cycles 275 words
2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Legal Advice Centres 79 words
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2. Court of Appeal 153 words
3. EMPLOYMENT
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1. IFSSEC Ltd. (Conference) 195 words
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2. Asbestos Licensing 526 words
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3. Small Businesses 151 words
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4. Unemployment Benefit 111 words
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5. Labour Statistics 678 words
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6. Knitwear Industry 127 words
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7. Youth Training Scheme 102 words
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8. Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate 52 words
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9. Community Programme 113 words
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10. Industrial Relations 65 words
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11. Dispute Procedures 120 words
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12. Benefit Claimants (Jury Service) 135 words
4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Mineral Exploration Grant Scheme 111 words
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2. Microelectronics Consultancy Programme 57 words
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3. Leg Irons and Shackles 58 words
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4. Citizens Band Radio 79 words
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5. Microchip Production 172 words
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6. Product Testing (Labelling) 57 words
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7. Safety of Goods 217 words
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8. London Taxis (Design) 95 words
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9. British Telecom 208 words
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10. Regional Policy 48 words
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11. Eastern Europe 104 words
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12. British Steel Corporation 435 words
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13. Regional Development Grants 50 words
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14. Premier Consolidated 59 words
5. PRIME MINISTER
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1. General Belgrano 2,733 words
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2. Oleg Bitov 176 words
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3. Security Services 71 words
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4. Ethiopia 58 words
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5. Reading Material (Departmental Expenditure) 58 words
6. ENERGY
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1. Power Generation 71 words
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2. Highland Fabrication and Construction Yards 79 words
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3. Tidal Barrage Schemes 53 words
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4. Coal Industry (Planning) 88 words
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5. Coal Industry Dispute 197 words
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6. Energy Research 137 words
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7. Energy Prices 59 words
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8. Oil Industry (Employment) 71 words
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9. Coal Conversion Scheme 65 words
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10. Energy Sources 41 words
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11. Coalmining Subsidence 36 words
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12. National Energy Policy 48 words
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13. Coal Stocks 69 words
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14. Sizewell Inquiry 47 words
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15. Miners (Voluntary Redundancy) 61 words
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16. Coal Stocks 56 words
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17. Mersey Estuary (Oil Drilling) 537 words
7. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Local Authority Expenditure 206 words
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2. Residential Homes 527 words
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3. Labour Statistics 286 words
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4. Milk Quotas 93 words
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5. Milk Outgoers Scheme 126 words
8. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Mass Lobbies 609 words
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2. Member's Correspondence 336 words
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3. GOVERNMENT'S OBSERVATIONS ON THE FIRST SPECIAL REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON EUROPEAN LEGISLATION: 1983–84 SESSION 983 words
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4. Suspension of Members 67 words
9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Ethiopia 868 words
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2. Overseas Aid 132 words
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3. Dependent Territories 681 words
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4. Zambia (Pension and Interest Payments) 233 words
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5. Zimbabwe (Pension and Interest Payments) 207 words
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6. Lomé Convention 101 words
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7. Gibraltar (Commercial Shipyard) 374 words
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8. Falkland Islands 128 words
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9. St. Helena 86 words
10. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Employment (Liverpool) 54 words
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2. Trade Unions 39 words
11. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. School Buildings 95 words
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2. University Entrants 156 words
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3. Schools (Daily Worship) 101 words
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4. Professional Engineers 508 words
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5. Council for the Accreditation of Teachers Education 349 words
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6. Disabled University Students 34 words
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7. Heriot-Watt Pharmacy School 53 words
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8. Trauma (Clinical Research) 208 words
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9. Church of England Schools (Peterborough) 77 words
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10. Welsh Plant Breeding Station 244 words
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11. Students (Travel Grants) 100 words
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12. Geomagnetism 290 words
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13. Students (Mandatory Growth Scheme) 147 words
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14. School Closures 30 words
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15. Universities and Polytechnics 163 words
12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Chemical Weapons 173 words
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2. Central America 170 words
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3. Embassies and Consulates (Sanctuary) 113 words
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4. United Kingdom Nationals (Deaths Overseas) 121 words
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5. Dependent Territories 201 words
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6. Ethiopia 266 words
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7. Mr. David Gottfreid 162 words
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8. United States (Death Penalty) 106 words
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9. Ascension Island 42 words
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10. Poland 231 words
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11. Falkland Islands 164 words
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12. Public Record Office 29 words
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13. Tristan da Cunha 71 words
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14. Kurdistan 36 words
13. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Prisons (Cannabis) 69 words
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2. Drug Abuse (Prisons) 88 words
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3. Illegal Drugs (Prison) 82 words
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4. Prisons (Common Working Scheme) 56 words
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5. Probation Service (Merseyside) 96 words
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6. BBC Board of Governors 49 words
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7. Official Secrets Act 35 words
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8. Shop Hours 74 words
14. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Classified Information 115 words
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2. Vehicle Taxation 185 words
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3. Taxation 114 words
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4. North Sea Oil and Gas 119 words
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5. Vehicle Excise Duty 84 words
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6. Keith Report 49 words
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7. Exchange Rate 62 words
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8. National Health Service Consultants 89 words
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9. Public Sector Borrowing Requirements 51 words
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10. Value Added Tax (Gas and Electricity) 66 words
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11. Value Added Tax 375 words
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12. European Community (Own Resources) 52 words
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13. European Community Budget 75 words
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14. Official Report (Price) 90 words
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15. Extra-statutory Concessions 98 words
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16. Motor Cycle Testing (VAT) 137 words
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17. Child Benefit 237 words
15. SCOTLAND
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1. Manufacturing Industry 103 words
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2. Agriculture Holdings 99 words
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3. Housing Tenure 200 words
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4. St. Enoch Station, Glasgow 103 words
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5. Housing Defects Act 111 words
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6. Orlit Houses 1,074 words
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7. Kilmarnock Sheriff Court (Legal Aid) 203 words
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8. Unemployment Statistics 512 words
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9. Closures 82 words
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10. Selective Financial Assistance 84 words
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11. Milk (Outgoers Scheme) 79 words
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12. Drug Dependence 122 words
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13. Electricity Supply 187 words
16. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Retired Members (Pensions) 102 words
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2. Secure Psychiatric Units 146 words
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3. Supplementary Benefit 301 words
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4. Occupational Health and Hygiene 215 words
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5. Family Doctors (Safeguards) 149 words
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6. NHS (Pay Settlements) 665 words
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7. Hospitals (Vaginal Examinations) 100 words
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8. Diabetes 163 words
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9. Medicines (Labelling) 99 words
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10. Pharmaceuticals (Parallel Imports) 118 words
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11. NHS (Therapeutic Services) 127 words
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12. Dental Charges 61 words
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13. Child Benefit 124 words
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14. Nutrition Education 139 words
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15. Newcastle Computer Dispute 145 words
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16. Cervical Cytology 184 words
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17. Nurse Education 91 words
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18. Intestinal Failure 213 words
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19. Community Health Councils 322 words
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20. Health Authorities (Commercial Contracts) 139 words
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21. Hospitals 67 words
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22. Nursing Homes 172 words
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23. Private Residential Homes 469 words
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24. Health Authorities (Private Practice) 106 words
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25. Health Authorities (Income) 48 words
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26. Private Patients (Fees) 54 words
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27. Personal Social Services (Waiting Times) 44 words
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28. Health Authorities (Resources) 114 words
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29. Coal Industry Dispute 119 words
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30. Prostheses (Manufacturers) 241 words
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31. Housing Benefit 678 words
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32. Drugs (Monitoring System) 179 words
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33. Pharmaceutical Services 161 words
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34. Hospital Ancillary Services (Privatisation) 87 words
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35. Good Hope Hospital, Birmingham 125 words
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36. Local Offices, Birmingham 190 words
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37. Supplementary Benefit (Appeals) 119 words
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38. Christmas Bonus 40 words
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39. Attendance Allowance 57 words
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40. Falkland Islands 145 words
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41. WHO (Drugs Conference) 55 words
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42. Cadaver Kidneys 168 words
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43. Drugs (Controls) 90 words
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44. Mobility Allowance 81 words
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45. District Health Authorities (Share Ownership) 171 words
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46. Nurses 335 words
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47. Private Patients 68 words
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48. St. Thomas's Hospital (Lithotripter) 250 words
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49. Homeless Persons (Basingstoke and Deane) 112 words
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50. NHS (Contractual Arrangements) 74 words
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51. Drug Dependence (Working Group) 396 words
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52. Cervical Smear Tests 133 words
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53. Health and Safety Executive (Staff) 111 words
17. DEFENCE
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1. Red Sea and Gulf of Suez 136 words
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2. Coal Industry Dispute 51 words
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3. Nimrod (Contracts) 46 words
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4. VC Tanker Conversions 80 words
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5. Reading Material (Departmental Expenditure) 115 words
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6. Nuclear Tests 177 words
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7. Nimrod (Radar System) 69 words
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8. Cruise Missiles 201 words
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9. Nuclear Weapons test Programme 333 words
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10. Falkland Islands 98 words
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11. Long-range Missiles 298 words
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12. NATO 472 words
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13. Nuclear Artillery Shells 97 words
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14. Coal 99 words
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15. Heavy Goods Vehicles 87 words
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16. Royal Ordnance Factories 208 words
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17. Ulster Defence Regiment 55 words
18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Tuberculosis 252 words
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2. Nuclear Explosions 183 words
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3. Radioactive Waste 67 words
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4. Fishing Quotas 744 words
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5. Milk Quotas 95 words
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6. Milk (Price Control) 116 words
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7. Ministerial Information 65 words
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8. Scotch Whisky 51 words
19. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Isle of Dogs 208 words
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2. Water Authorities 335 words
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3. Local Government 123 words
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4. Small Businesses 222 words
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5. Ratepayers (Information) 118 words
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6. Local Authorities (Land Disposal) 116 words
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7. House Starts (West Yorkshire) 125 words
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8. "Protecting the Ratepayer" 55 words
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9. Rate Equalisation Scheme (London) 139 words
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10. Reading Material (Departmental Expenditure) 71 words
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11. London Docklands Development Corporation 235 words
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12. Private Nursing Homes (Rate Relief) 29 words
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13. Bison Wall Frame Buildings 294 words
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14. Radioactive Waste 238 words
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15. Local Government Reform 409 words
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16. Rates (South Yorkshire) 51 words
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17. Furnished Tenancies 91 words
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18. Rates Act 61 words
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19. Home Improvement Grants 96 words
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20. St. George's Hall 118 words
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21. Rates 35 words
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22. Radioactive Discharges (Leukaemia) 227 words

Lords Sitting of 29 October 1984 Series 5 Vol. 456

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. NATO 1,846 words
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3. British Airways: Reduction of Loans 1,008 words
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4. Housing for Disabled People: Right to Buy 605 words
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5. Population Control: Mexico Conference 1,024 words
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6. Greater London Council (General Powers) Bill 183 words
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7. Leicestershire Bill [H.L.] Oxfordshire Bill [H.L.] Surrey County Council Bill [H.L.] Valerie Mary Hill and Alan Monk (Marriage Enabling) Bill [H.L.] 388 words
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8. Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill Merseyside Development Corporation Bill 269 words
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9. Environmental Pollution: Air Pollution—Reports 27,671 words
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10. Western European Union: Re-activation 12,375 words
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11. Hereford City Council Bill [H.L.] 317 words
cc427-8
12. Worcester City Council Bill [H.L.] 313 words
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13. Alexandra Park and Palace Bill [H.L.] 351 words
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14. Kingston upon Hull Bill [H.L.] 26 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 29 October 1984 Series 5 Vol. 456

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1. DE LOREAN MOTOR CARS: GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM 39 words
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2. PARKING BAY SUSPENSIONS AND PENALTIES 143 words
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3. ROAD ACCIDENT BLACKSPOTS 111 words
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4. CEGB AND COAL PRICES 136 words
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5. WESTMINSTER ABBEY: TOMBSTONES 83 words
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6. WINE: PRE-PACKED CONTENTS 97 words
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7. UN SECURITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS: ETHIOPIAN CANDIDATURE 60 words
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8. HONDURAS AND ANTI-SANDINISTA FORCES 88 words
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9. "OFFICIAL REPORT": PRICE 91 words