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Commons Sitting of 18 December 1985 Series 6 Vol. 89

c283
1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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1. PRIVATE BUSINESS 21 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Nicaragua 687 words
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2. South Africa 960 words
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3. Middle East 482 words
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4. General Belgrano 288 words
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5. Jordan 441 words
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6. Israel 507 words
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7. Middle East 1,061 words
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8. Stockholm Conference 493 words
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9. South Africa 1,623 words
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10. Iran-Iraq War 330 words
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11. British Council 308 words
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12. United Kingdom High Commissions and Embassies 495 words
cc298-300
13. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1,088 words
cc301-9
4. Foreign Affairs Council 4,284 words
cc310-30
5. Rate Support Grant (England) 10,842 words
cc331-40
6. Rate Support Grant (Wales) 5,281 words
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7. Westland Helicopter Company 368 words
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8. Points of Order 2,204 words
9. BILLS PRESENTED
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1. FINANCIAL SERVICES 118 words
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2. TOBACCO SMOKING (PUBLIC PLACES) 80 words
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3. Pensioners' Right to Heat, Light and Communications 1,387 words
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4. PENSIONERS' RIGHT TO HEAT, LIGHT AND COMMUNICATIONS 63 words
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5. Adjournment (Christmas) 24,504 words
10. Orders of the Day
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1. CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL 57 words
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2. Channel Fixed Link 10,996 words
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11. Juries (Practice for Challenge) 11,101 words
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12. City of London (Fraud) 23,498 words
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13. Low-paid Workers (Incentives) 12,105 words
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14. Ports of Entry 7,884 words
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15. Drunken Driving 8,068 words
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16. Copyright Infringement 5,228 words
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17. Industrial Tribunals 4,719 words
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18. Cornish Tin Industry 2,524 words
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19. Maternity Provision (Greater Glasgow) 3,792 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 18 December 1985 Series 6 Vol. 89

1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Crown Prosecution Service 305 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Nuclear Tests 157 words
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2. Reprocessing Plant, Dounreay 44 words
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3. Strategic Defence Initiative 93 words
3. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Cleaning and Maintenance 136 words
4. SCOTLAND
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1. NHS (Privatisation) 209 words
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2. Civil Servants 71 words
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3. Ambulance Drivers 169 words
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4. List D Schools 188 words
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5. Road Works (A92) 129 words
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6. Woodlands 91 words
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7. Health Boards 85 words
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8. Tayside Health Board 22 words
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9. Shipping Services (Islands) 661 words
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10. North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board 113 words
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11. National Health Service (Revenue and Expenditure) 1,799 words
5. WALES
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1. Bone Marrow Transplant Unit 85 words
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2. Hospital Beds 84 words
6. TRANSPORT
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1. Motorway Safety Barriers 68 words
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2. Airfields (Public Buildings) 90 words
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3. Pilot Boat R Regulations 55 words
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4. Public Transport Plan (Manchester) 137 words
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5. Light houses 72 words
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6. Transport Supplementary Grant 464 words
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7. Manchester International Airport Company 122 words
7. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Police Manpower 195 words
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2. AIDS 80 words
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3. Prison Population 178 words
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4. Prison Population 114 words
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5. Life Sentence Prisoners 315 words
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6. Plastic Bullets 130 words
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7. Metropolitan Police 145 words
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8. Prison Statistics 89 words
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9. Police, Fire and Civil Defence Authorities 207 words
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10. Police, Fire, and Civil Defence Authorities (Precepts) 189 words
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11. Inner City Disturbances 99 words
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12. Animal Experimentation 96 words
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13. Foreign Visitors 289 words
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14. Fire Precautions 208 words
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15. Greater Manchester Police Board 56 words
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16. Premises (Lighting Standards) 242 words
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17. Sports Grounds (Safety Certificates) 126 words
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18. Immigration 313 words
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19. Local Voluntary Sector (Paper) 216 words
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20. Prison Design 387 words
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21. Civil Defence Adviser 140 words
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22. Police Manpower 386 words
8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. UNESCO 216 words
9. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Plessey-GEC (Merger) 69 words
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2. Job Creation 2,279 words
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3. Insolvency Act 1985 146 words
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4. Strategic Defence Initiative 90 words
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5. Insider Trading 71 words
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6. Multi-Fibre Arrangement 69 words
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7. Morocco (Phosphate) 139 words
10. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Education Welfare Officers 92 words
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2. Inner London Education Authority 100 words
11. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Prisoners (Strip Searches) 130 words
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2. Construction Industry (Subcontractors) 72 words
12. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Wolverhampton 287 words
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2. Youth Training Scheme 483 words
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3. Victims Support Scheme (Kirkby) 45 words
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4. Factory Inspectors 133 words
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5. Copeland 72 words
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6. Labour and Social Affairs Council 410 words
13. THE ARTS
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1. Greater Manchester 123 words
14. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Public Expenditure 44 words
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2. PSBR, Assets Sales and Oil Revenue 186 words
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3. Fraud 39 words
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4. Income Tax 66 words
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5. Labour Statistics 59 words
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6. Customs Officers (North-East) 191 words
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7. Non-Residents (Taxation) 160 words
15. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Turkey 84 words
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2. Foreign Ministers Meeting (Luxembourg) 101 words
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3. Falkland Islands 217 words
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4. British Council 50 words
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5. British Subjects (Arab Gaols) 99 words
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6. Middle East 452 words
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7. Council of Ministers 61 words
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8. USSR 50 words
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9. Strategic Defence Initiative 240 words
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10. South Africa 784 words
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11. Chemical Weapons 115 words
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12. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 267 words
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13. European Community (Political Union) 396 words
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14. Philippines 166 words
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15. Argentina 388 words
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16. Disarmament 95 words
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17. Chile 142 words
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18. Zimbabwe 96 words
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19. Latin American Governments 63 words
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20. Iraq 58 words
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21. European Parliament 107 words
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22. Nicaragua 73 words
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23. European Community (Majority Voting) 480 words
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24. El Salvador 35 words
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25. European Community Budget (Foreign Ministers Council) 83 words
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26. Sri Lanka 88 words
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27. Palestine Organisations 54 words
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28. Yugoslavia 37 words
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29. Arab Countries (Visitors) 132 words
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30. Syria 60 words
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31. Arms Control 71 words
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32. Exports 107 words
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33. European Parliament (Elections) 56 words
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34. Intermediate Nuclear Forces (Europe) 88 words
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35. Afghanistan 67 words
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36. Third World (Debt) 56 words
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37. Saudi Arabia 59 words
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38. Contadora Process 92 words
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39. Japan 66 words
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40. Namibia 186 words
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41. USSR (Emigré Groups) 85 words
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42. BBC External Services 187 words
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43. EC (Policy Development) 60 words
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44. Israel 67 words
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45. Iran-Iraq War 156 words
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46. Terrorism 141 words
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47. GCHQ, Cheltenham 81 words
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48. EC Budget (Portugal) 44 words
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49. Honduras 48 words
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50. Budapest Cultural Forum 118 words
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51. Africa (Democratic Institutions) 54 words
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52. Women"s Rights 113 words
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53. Space Weapons (Treaties) 97 words
16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Milk Quotas 117 words
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2. Severe Weather Payments 155 words
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3. Waste Disposal 418 words
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4. Butter 144 words
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5. Priorities Board 240 words
17. DEFENCE
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1. British Army of the Rhine 122 words
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2. L9A1 Gas Spray Gun 132 words
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3. Seismological Research Group 99 words
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4. Falkland Islands 25 words
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5. HTLV III Virus 68 words
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6. Trident 117 words
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7. South Africa 146 words
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8. Foreign Forces (Training) 29 words
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9. Royal Air Force Police (Public Displays) 94 words
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10. Strategic Defence Initiative 640 words
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11. Defence Contracts (Excess Profits) 265 words
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12. Royal Navy 78 words
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13. Spare Munitions 64 words
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14. Service Personnel (Signals Regiments) 107 words
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15. Retirements and Redundancies 86 words
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16. Nuclear Tests 352 words
18. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Housing Expenditure, London 217 words
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2. Housing Investment Programme 132 words
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3. Council Accommodation (Costs of Provision) 180 words
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4. Dogs 127 words
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5. Nature Conservancy Council 144 words
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6. Housing Statistics 191 words
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7. GLC (Stress Boroughs Programme) 362 words
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8. Rate Limitation 150 words
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9. Water Supplies (Leeds) 227 words
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10. London Docklands 110 words
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11. Radioactive Waste 637 words
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12. Planning Appeals 230 words
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13. Local Government Reform 375 words
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14. Pollution 888 words
19. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Post Office (Lost Business) 132 words
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2. Hospital Closures 144 words
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3. Benefit Claimants 119 words
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4. Students 618 words
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5. North-East Thames RHA 233 words
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6. Lipoflavanoid 64 words
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7. Clinical Complaints 974 words
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8. Leeds General Infirmary 222 words
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9. Nurses (Uniforms) 173 words
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10. Hospital Fires 39 words
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11. Health Services (London) 42 words
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12. NHS (Capital Schemes) 216 words
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13. NHS (Patient Care) 152 words
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14. Inpatients 104 words
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15. NHS Staff (Disciplinary Proceedings) 85 words
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16. Private Contractors (Standards) 173 words
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17. NHS (Private Contractors) 102 words
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18. Patients (Special Beds) 99 words
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19. Local Government Reform 155 words
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20. Voluntary Organisations 45 words
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21. Child Health 253 words
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22. Cost Improvement Programmes 41 words
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23. Budget Spectacles 51 words
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24. NHS (Resources) 192 words
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25. Cervical Cancer 165 words
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26. Share Fishermen 147 words
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27. Board and Lodging 149 words

Lords Sitting of 18 December 1985 Series 5 Vol. 469

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1. Preamble 30 words
cc797-8
2. Product Safety in European Community 582 words
cc798-800
3. Health Authorities: New Management Structure 1,130 words
cc801-3
4. Poundswick High School 1,193 words
cc803-4
5. Cabinet Discussions: Alleged Dislcosure 681 words
cc804-5
6. Business 134 words
c805
7. Swansea City Council (Tawe Barrage) Bill [H.L.] 11 words
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8. Business of the House 45 words
cc805-6
9. House of Lords Offices 740 words
cc807-22
10. Community Education and Employment 9,019 words
cc823-32
11. Rate Support Grant 4,983 words
cc832-47
12. Community Education and Employment 8,487 words
cc847-78
13. Aid to African Agriculture 17,192 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 18 December 1985 Series 5 Vol. 469

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1. DRUG ABUSE: NEURO-ELECTRO THERAPY 210 words
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2. NURSING STAFF: RECRUITMENT 119 words
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3. PATIENTS' MEDICAL PARTICULARS: DISCLOSURE TO POLICE 92 words
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4. HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES: INSURANCE 207 words
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5. CAENLOCHAN NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE: SKIING DEVELOPMENT 154 words
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6. DUICH MOSS SSSI: PEAT CUTTING 281 words
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7. CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION SCHEME: SEXUAL OFFENCES AND CHILD MAINTENANCE 92 words
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8. RAPE STATISTICS 393 words
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9. SOVIET AIRCRAFT CARRIER: MONTREUX CONVENTION 82 words
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10. GUYANA: MEMBERSHIP OF COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION 62 words
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11. WASTE DISPOSAL ARRANGEMENTS 418 words
cc883-5WA
12. RATE SUPPORT GRANT IN LONDON 1981–86 1,204 words
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13. GLC AND MCCs: PROPOSED FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS ON ABOLITION 384 words
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14. INNER CITY POVERTY 184 words
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15. GLC: PAYMENTS TO BOROUGHS 381 words
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16. NCB PITS: CLOSURES AND EFFECTS 99 words
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17. BRITISH OIL: CURRENCY OF PRICING 52 words
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18. COMMON LAND IN WALES: DEVELOPMENT WORK 88 words
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19. PRIORITIES BOARD: REPORT 231 words