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Commons Sitting of 14 February 1985 Series 6 Vol. 73

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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3. PRIVATE BUSINESS 18 words
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1. FELIXSTOWE DOCK AND RAILWAY BILL (By Order) 15 words
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2. GOSPORT BOROUGH COUNCIL BILL (By Order) 44 words
c463
3. YORKSHIRE WATER AUTHORITY BILL (By Order) 15 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
cc463-4
1. Home-produced Food (Consumption) 207 words
cc464-5
2. Dutch Horticulture Industry 611 words
cc465-7
3. Beef and Sheepmeat 1,083 words
cc467-8
4. Drainage 558 words
cc468-9
5. Agricultural Smallholdings 419 words
cc469-70
6. Protein Crops 346 words
c470
7. Potatoes 322 words
cc470-2
8. Milk Quotas 1,067 words
cc472-3
9. Caribbean (Ministerial Visit) 422 words
cc473-4
10. Farm Incomes 709 words
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11. Sheepmeat 213 words
c475
12. Milk Quotas 160 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
cc475-80
1. Engagements 2,131 words
cc481-90
5. Business of the House 4,757 words
cc491-2
6. Coal Industry Dispute 577 words
7. BILLS PRESENTED
c492
1. INTERCEPTION OF COMMUNICATIONS 81 words
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2. RE-ACQUISITION OF PUBLIC ASSETS 80 words
c492
3. REFORM OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS 65 words
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4. CONTROL OF POLITICAL EXPENDITURE 62 words
8. Orders of the Day
cc493-521
1. Representation of the People Bill 12 words
1. Clause 12
cc493-518
1. DEPOSIT BY CANDIDATES AT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 14,147 words, 1 division
2. Clause 15
cc518-9
1. POSTPONEMENT OF POLL AT PARISH OR COMMUNITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS 744 words
3. Clause 18
cc519-20
1. TIMING OF ELECTIONS 705 words
4. Clause 20
cc520-1
5. ORDINARY ELECTIONS OF PARISH AND COMMUNITY COUNCILLORS: INSUFFICIENT NOMINATIONS 532 words
2. Schedule 3
cc521-42
1. MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT 12,123 words
3. Clause 27
cc542-5
1. CITATION, COMMENCEMENT AND EXTENT 1,665 words
4. New Clause 27
cc545-6
1. AMENDMENT OF OTHER ENACTMENTS 126 words
5. New Clause 1
cc546-73
1. PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION 15,466 words
cc573-84
6. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL 5,595 words
7. Representation of the People Bill
1. New Clause 2
cc585-98
1. ABOLITION OF MULTIPLE REGISTRATION OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS 7,799 words
2. New Clause 15
cc598-602
1. RIGHT OF A VOLUNTARY PATIENT TO REGISTER 2,297 words
3. New Clause 19
cc602-5
1. ADDRESSES OF PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES NOT TO BE REQUIRED 2,194 words
4. New Clause 25
cc606-11
1. PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS TO BE BRITISH CITIZENS 3,237 words, 1 division
5. New Clause 28
cc611-7
1. COMPULSORY VOTING 3,725 words
6. New Clause 29
cc618-22
1. THREATENING LANGUAGE 2,106 words
7. Schedule 4
c622
1. REPEALS 80 words
c622
8. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 18 words
c622
1. WINE REGIME 56 words
9. PETITIONS
c623
1. Human Embryos 276 words
cc623-4
2. Molesworth Airbase 405 words
cc625-32
10. Air Transport (Government Policy) 4,232 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 14 February 1985 Series 6 Vol. 73

1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Medical Research Council 110 words
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2. Oxford University 296 words
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3. Natural Environment Research Council 104 words
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4. Student Unions 54 words
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5. Teachers (Industrial Action) 493 words
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6. Handicapped Children 1,231 words
2. WALES
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1. Psychiatric Hospitals (Detainees) 276 words
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2. Tourism 92 words
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3. Disabled Students 132 words
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4. Housing Starts 76 words
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5. Council Housing 52 words
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6. M4 (Repairs) 134 words
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7. Housing Statistics 73 words
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8. Homeless People 247 words
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9. Cefn Mably Hospital 60 words
3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Legal Aid 282 words
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2. Judges 65 words
4. PRIME MINISTER
c228W
1. Journalists (Briefings) 31 words
c228W
2. York 29 words
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3. Auchenshuggle 24 words
c229W
4. North Mymms 29 words
c229W
5. Civil Defence 74 words
c229W
6. Basildon 23 words
c229W
7. Engagements 160 words
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8. Vice-President Sergio Ramirez of Nicaragua 98 words
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9. Minister of State for the Armed Forces 45 words
c230W
10. Official Secrets Act 119 words
c230W
11. Second World War (Anniversary) 210 words
5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Industrial Development (North-West) 89 words
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2. British Steel Corporation 139 words
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3. Isle of Man Steam Packet Company (Merger) 81 words
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4. EC (Insurance) 245 words
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5. BL (Privatisation) 42 words
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6. BL (Strategic Objectives) 113 words
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7. Small Firms 254 words
6. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Prison Houses (Isle of Wight) 142 words
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2. Remand Centres (Suicides) 74 words
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3. Licensing Laws (Scotland) 56 words
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4. Spain (Extradition Treaty) 60 words
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5. Flats (Lighting) 193 words
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6. Crime Prevention 41 words
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7. Leicester (Rallies) 102 words
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8. St. Lucia (Police Visits) 94 words
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9. Coal Industry Dispute 127 words
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10. Multiple Occupation Dwellings (Safety) 288 words
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11. Summer Time 115 words
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12. Lowdham Grange Youth Custody Centre 49 words
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13. Notifiable Drugs 183 words
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14. Metropolitan Police 198 words
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15. UN Decade for Women 132 words
7. ENERGY
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1. CEGB (Coal Purchases) 59 words
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2. Energy Statistics 177 words
c238W
3. Combined Heat and Power (Newcastle upon Tyne) 88 words
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4. North-Eastern Electricity Board 66 words
cc238-9W
5. Petroleum 112 words
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6. North Sea Oil 157 words
8. SCOTLAND
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1. Blind and Partially Sighted Persons 69 words
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2. Trout Protection 93 words
cc239-40W
3. Fish Stocks 223 words
c240W
4. Forestry Policy 47 words
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5. Stephen Anthony Godden 75 words
cc240-1W
6. Hypothermia Thermometers 160 words
c241W
7. Police (Drug Squads) 342 words
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8. Farm Prices 96 words
cc241-2W
9. Farming (Capital Grants) 294 words
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10. Variable Premium Scheme 97 words
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11. Annual Ewe Premium 111 words
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12. Broadleaved Woodlands 180 words
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13. EC (Aid) 55 words
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14. Drug Abusers (Hospital Beds) 88 words
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15. Drug Clinics 84 words
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16. Drug Misusers (Services) 64 words
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17. Dental Undergraduates 53 words
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18. Bonnybridge/Denny Morbidity Review 231 words
9. THE ARTS
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1. Croxteth Hall, Liverpool 57 words
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2. Speke Hall, Liverpool 58 words
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3. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool 59 words
10. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Power Presses (Injury Statistics) 363 words
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2. Labour Statistics 864 words
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3. Income Maintenance 299 words
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4. Sex Monitoring and Positive Action 93 words
cc249-50W
5. Youth Training Scheme 421 words
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6. Pesticides 146 words
11. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Salaries and Allowances 1,137 words
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2. Trade Union Members 114 words
12. TRANSPORT
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1. Highway Construction Programmes 154 words
cc253-4W
2. Traffic Statistics 166 words
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3. Minister's Letter (Costs) 82 words
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4. Coal Industry Dispute 99 words
13. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Milk Quotas 289 words
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2. Horticulture Industry 78 words
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3. Food Prices 73 words
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4. Dairy Farmers 84 words
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5. CAP Intervention System 90 words
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6. Agriculture Industry (Subsidies) 62 words
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7. Agricultural Prices 119 words
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8. British Food Products 108 words
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9. Sheep Scab 74 words
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10. Sugar 51 words
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11. Farming Land (Trusts) 34 words
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12. Farm Capital Grants 88 words
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13. Department Services (Privatisation) 84 words
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14. National Diet (Improvement) 83 words
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15. Dairy Quotas 304 words
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16. Environment Improvement (Financial Support) 73 words
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17. Wildlife and Countryside Act 63 words
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18. Outgoers Scheme 108 words
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19. Soil Survey 58 words
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20. Drainage 132 words
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21. Caribbean (Ministerial Visit) 52 words
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22. Beef and Sheepmeat 98 words
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23. Farm Incomes 78 words
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24. Agricultural Research 109 words
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25. Dutch Horticulture Industry 53 words
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26. Beef Cow Herd 43 words
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27. Food Products (Contents) 116 words
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28. Winter Wheat 45 words
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29. Fishing Industry 62 words
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30. New Zealand Dairy Produce 194 words
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31. Hill Farmers (Compensatory Allowances) 697 words
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32. Meat (Export Refunds) 156 words
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33. Dumping at Sea 198 words
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34. Food Imports 64 words
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35. Food Manufacture 64 words
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36. Food Supplies (Warfare) 128 words
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37. Nuclear Blast 88 words
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38. Crops (Cold-resistant Strains) 34 words
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39. Warfare (Food Distribution) 147 words
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40. Warfare (Food Stocks) 57 words
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41. Warfare (Livestock) 40 words
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42. Solway Firth (Salmon Netting) 114 words
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43. Aircraft Usage 151 words
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44. Pesticides 608 words
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45. Departmental Vote (Cash Limits) 113 words
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46. Seal Population (North Sea) 313 words
14. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Prescriptions 159 words
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2. Limited List Prescribing 57 words
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3. Short Brothers, Belfast 427 words
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4. Industrial Development 89 words
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5. Capital Grants 59 words
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6. Dental Undergraduates 31 words
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7. Remanded Persons 185 words
15. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. No-passport Excursions 155 words
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2. Embassy Staffs 210 words
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3. Diplomats 99 words
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4. Iranian Consulate General, Manchester 48 words
cc271-3W
5. Helsinki Final Act 1,091 words
16. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. EC (Departmental Officials) 364 words
17. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Home Helps 477 words
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2. Young Persons (Training Schemes) 86 words
c275W
3. Housing Benefit 126 words
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4. Supplementary Benefit 378 words
cc276-7W
5. Limited List Prescribing 486 words
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6. Prescriptions Charges and Drug Costs 148 words
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7. Elderly People (Health Provision) 88 words
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8. Geriatric Beds 94 words
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9. Elderly People (Private Nursing Homes) 58 words
cc278-9W
10. Birmingham General Hospital 105 words
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11. AIDS 211 words
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12. Heating Allowances 161 words
cc279-80W
13. Hospital Waiting Times 124 words
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14. Supplementary Benefit Appeals 133 words
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15. New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton 68 words
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16. Severe Weather Payments 72 words
cc280-1W
17. Dental Undergraduates 68 words
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18. NHS (Ancillary Services) 1,064 words
18. ENVIRONMENT
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1. United Nations Decade for Women 128 words
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2. Home Improvements 288 words
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3. Insulation Grants 110 words
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4. Local Authority Services (Competition) 405 words
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5. Haringey Borough Council (Expenditure) 53 words
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6. Rate Limits 58 words
19. DEFENCE
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1. Defence Equipment (Sri Lanka) 116 words
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2. Nutrition 80 words
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3. Heart Disease 98 words
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4. Illegal Radio Stations 80 words
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5. Forces (Entertainment) 371 words
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6. Sri Lanka 85 words
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7. MCV80 (Subcontractors) 123 words
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8. Trident 75 words
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9. Nuclear Tests 64 words
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10. HMS Conqueror (Log) 95 words
cc287-8W
11. Eastern Bloc Countries (Imports) 173 words
20. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Taxation 464 words
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2. Customs and Excise (Manning Levels) 192 words
c289W
3. Inland Revenue (Taxation Cases) 88 words
cc289-90W
4. Income Tax 119 words
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5. Industrial Wage 128 words
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6. Pound Sterling 67 words
cc290-1W
7. European Monetary System 156 words
c291W
8. Corporation Tax 110 words
c291W
9. Value Added Tax (Frontier Collection) 90 words
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10. Gilt Issues 87 words
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11. EC Finance Council 103 words
cc291-2W
12. Investment Income 46 words
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13. Allowances 94 words
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14. Housing Expenditure 56 words
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15. Education Expenditure 54 words
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16. Customs Staff and Posts 156 words
cc292-3W
17. Pensions and Publications (Taxation) 75 words
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18. Economic Policies 70 words

Lords Sitting of 14 February 1985 Series 5 Vol. 460

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1. Preamble 29 words
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2. Water Authorities: Charges 1,437 words
cc306-7
3. Cruise Missiles in the UK 554 words
cc307-8
4. Agriculture: Environment Co-ordination Unit 532 words
cc308-10
5. Africa: Aid 909 words
cc310-1
6. Business 239 words
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7. Poole Borough Council Bill [H.L.] 15 words
c311
8. Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Bill [H.L.] 11 words
cc311-2
9. Companies Bill [H.L.] 431 words
c312
10. Business Names Bill [H.L.] 66 words
c312
11. Company Securities (Insider Dealing) Bill [H.L.] 55 words
cc312-3
12. Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Bill [H.L.] 63 words
cc313-73
13. Prosecution of Offences Bill [H.L.] 33,270 words, 1 division
cc374-6
14. Redundancy Payments (Variation of Rebates) Order 1985 1,318 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 14 February 1985 Series 5 Vol. 460

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1. SECOND WORLD WAR: COMMEMORATION 210 words
cc377-9WA
2. HELSINKI FINAL ACT: SOVIET IMPLEMENTATION 1,078 words
c379WA
3. COMMUNITY RADIO 112 words
cc379-80WA
4. BOARD AND LODGING BENEFIT 144 words
c380WA
5. HEATING ALLOWANCES 208 words
cc380-1WA
6. THE MENTALLY SUB-NORMAL: HOSPITAL FACILITIES 251 words
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7. POLICE FORCES IN SCOTLAND: STRENGTH 193 words
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8. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION 258 words
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9. CORMORANTS: DETERRENCE 126 words
cc382-3WA
10. CORMORANTS: LICENCES 117 words
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11. FISH FARMING: REGISTRATION SCHEME 125 words
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12. ISLE OF MAN-LIVERPOOL FERRY 80 words