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Commons Sitting of 9 December 1985 Series 6 Vol. 88

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. WALES
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1. Patients (Statistics) 642 words
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2. Coking Coal 358 words
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3. Housebuilding Land 339 words
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4. Welsh Language Education 334 words
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5. District Councils (Capital Funding) 361 words
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6. National Coal Board (Enterprise) Ltd. 381 words
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7. West Glamorgan and Dyfed (High Technology) 460 words
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8. Labour Statistics 852 words
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9. Economic Prospects 1,080 words
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10. National Health Service 387 words
11. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
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1. Clergy Wives and Widows 529 words
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2. Dilapidations and Other Works 431 words
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3. South Africa (Investment Policy) 181 words
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4. Redundant: Churches 253 words
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5. Redundant Churches 200 words
12. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Weekly Information Bulletin 280 words
13. THE ARTS
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1. Financial Promotions (Retained Receipts) 522 words
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2. British Film Institute 292 words
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3. Sponsorship 617 words
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4. Fawcett Library 175 words
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4. Strategic Defence Initiative 6,529 words
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5. Austin Rover (Redundancies) 362 words
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6. Strategic Defence Initiative 336 words
7. BILLS PRESENTED
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1. TELEVISION ACT 1964 (AMENDMENT) 95 words
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2. DOG FIGHTING (PENALTIES) 58 words
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8. Channel (Fixed Link) 45,812 words, 1 division
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9. Hormonal Growth Promoters 9,215 words
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10. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS &c. 35 words
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11. SOCIAL SECURITY 45 words
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12. AGRICULTURE 19 words
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13. CONSUMER PROTECTION 19 words
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14. FORESTRY 37 words
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15. Dangerous Goods (Imports) 4,209 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 9 December 1985 Series 6 Vol. 88

1. PRIME MINISTER
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1. European Parliament 83 words
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2. Crime Prevention (Downing Street Seminar) 81 words
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3. European Community 160 words
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4. Economic and Monetary Union (Luxembourg Summit) 159 words
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5. Small and Medium-Sized Undertakings 75 words
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6. Illiteracy 169 words
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7. Energy Policy 150 words
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8. Bishops 71 words
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9. Pensioners' Charter 49 words
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10. Television (Obscenity) 512 words
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11. UNESCO 72 words
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12. European Charter of Self-Government 53 words
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13. Public Bodies (Appointments) 116 words
2. ENERGY
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1. Hinckley Point (Gas Leakage) 154 words
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2. Plutonium 265 words
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3. Coal Mining Subsidence 49 words
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4. National Coal Board 180 words
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5. Coal Mining Subsidence 89 words
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6. Coal Firing Scheme 187 words
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7. British National Oil Corporation 310 words
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8. Gas and Electricity (Disconnections) 64 words
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9. Coal Industry (Redundancies) 67 words
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10. British Gas 45 words
3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Contempt of Court (Sequestration) 104 words
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2. Fraud 87 words
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3. Fraud Investigation Group 99 words
4. TRANSPORT
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1. British Railways Board (Property) 665 words
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2. Vehicle Testing 70 words
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3. M25 140 words
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4. Motorways (Lighting) 79 words
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5. Drink Drive Campaign 62 words
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6. Ribblehead Viaduct 70 words
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7. Channel Fixed Link 338 words
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8. Nationalised Transport Companies (Purchasing Policies) 68 words
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9. Civil Aviation Authority (Meteorological Services) 198 words
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10. Driving Instruction 238 words
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11. Garscadden (Grants and Loans) 296 words
5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Durham, North (Grants) 107 words
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2. Hull (Regional Aid) 249 words
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3. Regional Grants (Scotland) 366 words
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4. Equal Opportunities Officer 104 words
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5. Alvey Programme 54 words
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6. Life Assurance and Unit Trusts 102 words
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7. Insurance Claims 56 words
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8. Pharmaceutical Products (Patents) 130 words
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9. Multi-fibre Arrangement 72 words
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10. Textiles and Clothing (Imports) 234 words
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11. Trendhart Limited and Odestage Limited 63 words
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12. Grants (Northern Region) 391 words
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13. Carpets 395 words
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14. Multi-fibre Arrangement 254 words
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15. Anti-dumping Legislation 105 words
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16. Westland Helicopters 98 words
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17. CR6 Taxi 134 words
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18. Imports and Exports 170 words
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19. Grants (Job Creation) 1,642 words
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20. Live Aid Concert (Pirate Video Recordings) 86 words
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21. Lloyd's Syndicate Bellew, Parry, Raven 36 words
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22. Textiles and Clothing (Yorkshire and Humberside) 162 words
6. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Construction Industry 84 words
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2. Armagh Prison (Strip Searches) 298 words
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3. Anglo-Irish Agreement 51 words
7. WALES
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1. Road Maintenance 82 words
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2. National Health Service 57 words
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3. Welsh Development Agency 79 words
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4. Rhuddlan Promenade (Caravan Parking) 116 words
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5. Hospital Waiting Lists 62 words
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6. Pig Industry 81 words
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7. Cardigan (Job Creation) 68 words
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8. Health Service (Powys) 61 words
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9. Rural Pharmacies 63 words
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10. Cardiff Harbour Barrage 69 words
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11. Home Dialysis Machines 47 words
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12. Housing Defects Act 112 words
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13. Mentally Handicapped Persons (Gwynedd) 78 words
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14. Disabled Children (Education) 83 words
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15. Small Firms (Liquidations) 75 words
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16. National Coal Board (Chairman) 80 words
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17. Morriston Hospital 99 words
8. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
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1. Clergy Stipends and Pensions 45 words
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2. Residential Flats, Edgware Road 101 words
9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Gibraltar 104 words
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2. Copyright 90 words
10. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Universities and Polytechnics (Student Places) 194 words
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2. College Building Modernisation 242 words
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3. Students (Drop-out Rate) 122 words
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4. Vocational Qualifications (Review) 153 words
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5. CERN 56 words
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6. Initial Teacher Training 1,312 words
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7. Open University 248 words
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8. Student Awards 86 words
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9. Children with Special Needs 116 words
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10. Religious Education Teachers 169 words
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11. Academic Tenure 87 words
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12. Poundswick School 488 words
11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Falkland Islands (Fisheries) 64 words
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2. Education Expenditure 195 words
12. SCOTLAND
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1. Police Interviews (Tape Recording) 117 words
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2. Road Maintenance Condition Survey 136 words
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3. Licensing (Scotland) Act 133 words
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4. Construction Industry 129 words
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5. Dental Charges 89 words
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6. Rate Support Grant 97 words
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7. Forestry Commissioners 313 words
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8. Childhood Cancer 71 words
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9. Higher Education 536 words
13. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Foreign Visitors 910 words
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2. Police (Raids) 125 words
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3. Police (Drivers) 68 words
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4. Departmental Broadcasting Unit 65 words
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5. Brixton Prison 338 words
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6. Leo Walker and Judith Bennett 85 words
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7. Greenham Common (Police Vans) 117 words
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8. Departmental Objectives 138 words
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9. Dr. Sathananthian 44 words
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10. Electoral Rolls 208 words
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11. Civil Defence 362 words
14. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Water 393 words
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2. Sewers 206 words
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3. Council House Sales 122 words
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4. Sporting Events (Sponsorship) 128 words
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5. Construction Industry 374 words
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6. Municipal Housing (Rent Arrears) 95 words
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7. Kirklees (Empty Council Properties) 82 words
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8. Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 62 words
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9. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 52 words
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10. Council Houses (Maintenance) 89 words
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11. Housing Statistics 236 words
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12. Local Government Reform 169 words
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13. Smith Houses 101 words
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14. Waste Disposal (Newham) 98 words
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15. Canary Wharf 93 words
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16. Norfolk Broads 164 words
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17. Waste Disposal (West Yorkshire) 389 words
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18. Local Government Finance 1,664 words
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19. Legislation 466 words
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20. Northumberland Wharf (Transfer Station) 86 words
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21. County Hall 80 words
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22. Queen Elizabeth II Centre 58 words
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23. Greater London Enterprise Board 570 words
15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Soil Survey 320 words
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2. Intervention Stores 110 words
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3. Food Act 1984 159 words
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4. Subsidised Alcohol 141 words
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5. Toxic Waste 70 words
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6. Advertising 243 words
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7. Glyphosate 414 words
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8. Common Fisheries Policy 641 words
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9. British Freezer Vessels 44 words
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10. North Sea (Aggregate Dredging) 51 words
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11. Falkland Islands 96 words
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12. Polluted Wine 102 words
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13. Field Drainage 265 words
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14. Internal Drainage Boards 89 words
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15. Broads Grazing Marshes Conservation Scheme 175 words
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16. Surplus Butter Sales 684 words
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17. Surplus Wine Alcohol 108 words
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18. French Turkeys 115 words
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19. Brucellosis 96 words
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20. Bovine Tuberculosis 139 words
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21. Badger Control 209 words
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22. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance 426 words
16. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. NHS (Merit Awards) 134 words
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2. Lancashire (District Health Authorities) 416 words
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3. Spectacle Frames 88 words
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4. Limited List Prescribing 78 words
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5. McColl Committee 86 words
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6. Cervical Cancer Screening 132 words
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7. Consultant Waiting Lists 104 words
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8. Scoliosis 301 words
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9. Senior Registrars 63 words
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10. Health for All Strategy 90 words
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11. Health Care (Social Inequalities) 61 words
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12. Single Payments (Edinburgh) 124 words
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13. Dental Charges 88 words
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14. Cancer 463 words
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15. Health Education Council (Budget) 85 words
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16. Opticians (Fees) 63 words
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17. National Health Service (Red Alerts) 70 words
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18. AIDS 158 words
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19. National Insurance Contributions 115 words
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20. Residential Homes 58 words
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21. Residential Homes (Hampshire) 162 words
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22. Childhood Cancers 53 words
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23. Child Abuse 181 words
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24. Poverty (Definition) 74 words
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25. Acheson Report 36 words
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26. Prescriptions 81 words
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27. National Health Service (Annual Report) 1,413 words
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28. Private Practice 18,657 words
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29. Renal Failure 533 words
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30. Personal Social Services Research Unit, Kent 57 words
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31. Advancement of Women 100 words
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32. Cervical Cancer Screening 280 words
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33. Alphafetoprotein 92 words
17. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Race Relations Act 485 words
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2. Equal Opportunities Officer 92 words
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3. Gravesham 161 words
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4. Advertising 257 words
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5. Long-term Unemployed (Pilot Scheme) 84 words
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6. Labour Statistics 173 words
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7. Wages Inspectors 36 words
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8. Wages Inspectorate 37 words
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9. Construction Industry 160 words
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10. Health and Safety Inspectors 61 words
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11. Labour Statistics 177 words
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12. Factory Inspectors (North-West) 187 words
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13. Abbeystead Pumping Station (Explosion) 86 words
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14. Long-term Unemployment (Government Experiment) 257 words
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15. Youth Training Scheme 130 words
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16. Job Release Scheme 78 words
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17. Labour Mobility 141 words
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18. Gas Installation (Safety) 100 words
18. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Youth Training Scheme 83 words
19. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Inland Revenue (Enforcement Powers) 55 words
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2. Taxation Revenue 57 words
20. THE ARTS
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1. Musical Entertainment (Expenditure) 186 words
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2. Disabled People 109 words
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3. Funding 94 words
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4. Libraries (Audit Commission Recommendations) 42 words
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5. National Museums and Galleries 89 words
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6. Business Sponsorship 57 words
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7. Southern Arts 50 words
21. DEFENCE
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1. Royal Aircraft Establishment, Oakhanger 70 words
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2. Service Men's Children (Education) 97 words
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3. Westland Helicopters 68 words
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4. Royal Dockyards (Privatisation) 125 words
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5. Civilian Pay and Records Office Department, Portsmouth 36 words
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6. Nimrod Advanced Early Warning Project 201 words
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7. South Africa 224 words
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8. Meteorological Office 201 words
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9. Procurement Contracts and Projects 65 words
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10. BARPLAN 156 words

Lords Sitting of 9 December 1985 Series 5 Vol. 469

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Helicopter Operations: Safety Procedures 482 words
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3. Swimming Tuition in Schools 941 words
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4. International Terrorism: Government Strategy 1,224 words
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5. European Lakes and Forests: Environmental Damage 996 words
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6. Business 105 words
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7. Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (No. 1) Order 1985 5,345 words
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8. SDI Research: British Participation 4,178 words
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9. Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (No. 1) Order 1985 6,438 words
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10. Fraserburgh Harbour Order Confirmation Bill 31 words
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11. Fraserburgh Harbour (No. 2) Order Confirmation Bill 31 words
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12. Fraserburgh Harbour (No. 3) Order Confirmation Bill 31 words
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13. Marriage Bill [H.L.] 13,799 words
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14. Incest and Related Offences (Scotland) Bill [H.L.] 3,694 words
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15. Southern Africa: Soviet Involvement 11,834 words
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16. Lothian Region (Edinburgh Western Relief Road) Order Confirmation Bill 33 words
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17. Greater London Council (General Powers) Bill 21 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 9 December 1985 Series 5 Vol. 469

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1. AIR WEAPONS: USE IN CRIME 80 words
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2. PUBLIC SECTOR CAPITAL SPENDING 549 words
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3. NEW PRODUCTS: "STATE OF ART" DEFENCE AGAINST LIABILITY 140 words
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4. THORN-EMI SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT DIVISION: TAKEOVER IMPLICATIONS 147 words
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5. PUBLIC RECORDS: EXTENDED CLOSURE OF DOCUMENTS 97 words
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6. BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS: TRIALS 226 words
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7. NUCLEAR WEAPONS: USA/USSR BALANCE 63 words
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8. PORT AND COASTAL DEFENCES 61 words
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9. ARMED FORCES: SEA TRANSPORT FACILITIES 57 words
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10. CHANNEL FIXED LINK: SAFETY OF NAVIGATION 105 words
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11. JAPANESE TUNNEL PROJECT 64 words
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12. UN FUND FOR POPULATION ACTIVITIES 32 words
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13. HOMELESS SINGLE WOMEN: ASSISTANCE 232 words
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14. AIDS: FUNDING OF TREATMENT 178 words
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15. MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: SUGGESTED WARD CLOSURES 39 words
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16. LOCAL AUTHORITIES: GOVERNMENT CAPITAL GRANTS 653 words
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17. WASTE DISPOSAL: BOROUGH OF BEXLEY 307 words
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18. GREATER LONDON ENTERPRISE BOARD 571 words