Sitting of 21 February 1985

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Commons Sitting of 21 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 114 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Medium-term Financial Strategy 596 words
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2. Imports 296 words
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3. Infrastructure 567 words
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4. Capital Investment 247 words
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5. Job Creation 658 words
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6. Public Expenditure 538 words
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7. Economic Growth 1,049 words
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8. Manufacturing Output 213 words
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9. Value Added Tax 705 words
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10. Job Creation 410 words
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11. North Sea Oil 444 words
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12. Value Added Tax 258 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Engagements 2,424 words
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5. Coal Industry Dispute 4,648 words
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6. Business of the House 4,873 words
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7. Prime Minister's Question Time 372 words
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8. Limited List Prescribing 5,681 words
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9. Skillcentres 5,448 words
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10. "20:20 Vision" Programme 531 words
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11. Royal Air Force 32,130 words
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12. Terrorism 12,688 words, 1 division
13. PETITIONS
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1. Torture 257 words
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2. Human Embroyos 224 words
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3. Liverpool 4,314 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 February 1985 Series 6 Vol. 73

1. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Exports 224 words
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2. Arms Exports 63 words
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3. Corporate Debt 112 words
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4. Manufactures (Export Prices) 122 words
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5. Departmental Services 63 words
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6. Soviet Union 45 words
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7. Pesticides 134 words
2. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Select Committees 58 words
3. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Port Powers (Report) 97 words
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2. Coal Industry Dispute 76 words
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3. Private Functions (Policing Costs) 79 words
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4. Metropolitan Police Services (Payroll Facilities) 143 words
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5. Leeds City Council (Staff) 193 words
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6. Departmental Services 629 words
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7. Interception Warrants 231 words
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8. Seat Belts 67 words
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9. Civil Defence 135 words
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10. Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (Incident) 341 words
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11. Parole 161 words
4. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Young People (Training) 107 words
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2. Community Programme 321 words
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3. National Freight Corporation 84 words
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4. Wages and Jobs (Research) 214 words
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5. Motor Vehicle Industry 77 words
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6. Youth Training Scheme 140 words
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7. Departmental Services 299 words
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8. Power Stations (Demolition) 78 words
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9. Pesticides 304 words
5. WALES
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1. Civil Defence 51 words
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2. Hospital Statistics 1,675 words
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3. Families (Aid) 147 words
6. ENERGY
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1. Gas Demand 63 words
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2. Gas Reserves 103 words
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3. Power Stations (Emissions) 273 words
7. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Administration of Justice Bill 61 words
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2. Mr. Clive Ponting (Trial) 67 words
8. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
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1. Drug Offenders 62 words
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2. Fixed Penalty Notices 157 words
9. PRIME MINISTER
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1. West Balgrochan 35 words
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2. General Belgrano 65 words
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3. Parkhead 37 words
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4. Welwyn Garden City 36 words
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5. Dartmouth 34 words
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6. Engagements 103 words
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7. Civil Servants (Duties) 132 words
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8. Falklands War (Rules of Engagement) 58 words
10. DEFENCE
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1. Falkland Islands 109 words
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2. Nerve Gases 54 words
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3. Defence Expenditure (Statistics) 128 words
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4. Recruitment 74 words
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5. Procurement Spending 74 words
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6. South Atlantic Campaign 51 words
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7. Departmental Services 226 words
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8. Teachers (Overseas Schools) 271 words
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9. HMS Fearless and Intrepid 176 words
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10. Cadet Force Officers 95 words
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11. Gateway House Hotel, Brize Norton 55 words
11. TRANSPORT
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1. Seat Belts 191 words
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2. North Devon Link Road 68 words
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3. Rail Accident, Severn Tunnel 100 words
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4. Departmental Responsibilities 685 words
12. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Education Expenditure 212 words
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2. Engineering Undergraduates 93 words
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3. Higher Education 341 words
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4. Secondary Education (Rochdale) 61 words
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5. Primary Schools 84 words
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6. School Closures, Staffordshire 110 words
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7. Manchester (Education Capital Allowance) 124 words
13. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. St. Helena 81 words
14. ENVIRONMENT
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1. National Heritage 405 words
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2. West Midlands (Industrial Land) 91 words
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3. Lead Pollution 264 words
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4. Council House Sales 87 words
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5. Property Disposal 95 words
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6. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 87 words
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7. Metropolitan County Councils (Revenue Costs) 264 words
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8. Local Authority Expenditure (London) 73 words
15. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Anti-terrorist Measures (Co-operation) 121 words
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2. Ascension Island 116 words
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3. Foreign Affairs Council 214 words
16. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Scheduled Offences 194 words
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2. Roancabin Ltd. 106 words
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3. Oxygen Supplies 127 words
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4. Strip Searches 978 words
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5. Prison Staff (Code of Discipline) 121 words
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6. Primary, Secondary and Grammar Schools 4,557 words
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7. Human Rights 336 words
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8. Terrorism 118 words
17. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Customs and Excise (Staff) 69 words
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2. Budget (Representations) 55 words
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3. Public Expenditure and Taxation 88 words
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4. Value Added Tax 231 words
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5. Economic Growth 39 words
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6. Married Man's Tax Allowance 40 words
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7. Coal Industry Dispute 67 words
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8. Income Tax and National Insurance 100 words
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9. Interest Rates 41 words
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10. EC (Budgetary Discipline) 81 words
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11. Unemployment (Labour Costs) 61 words
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12. Mortgages (Income Tax Relief) 53 words
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13. Shipping Industry 40 words
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14. Exchange Rates 288 words
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15. Minimum Lending Rate 190 words
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16. Economic Activity 50 words
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17. Government Spending 59 words
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18. Pensions 78 words
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19. Manufacturing Production 46 words
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20. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 49 words
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21. Industrial Premises 37 words
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22. Black Economy 75 words
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23. European Monetary System 66 words
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24. Inflation 109 words
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25. Drink and Tobacco 28 words
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26. Keith Committee (VAT) 82 words
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27. Social Security Expenditure 291 words
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28. Local Authority Capital Investment 57 words
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29. Debt Rescheduling 80 words
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30. Unemployment 302 words
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31. Privatisation 85 words
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32. Manufacturing Trade Figures 123 words
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33. Share Option Scheme 84 words
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34. Direct and Indirect Taxation 36 words
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35. Gas and Electricity Industries 72 words
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36. Pools Betting Duty 60 words
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37. Economic Trends 47 words
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38. Manufacturing Investment 70 words
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39. Employment and Wages 289 words
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40. Investment 51 words
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41. Infrastructure 75 words
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42. Capital Investment 63 words
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43. Banking (Advertising) 187 words
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44. Minimum Income Level 259 words
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45. Polling Stations (Portable Ramps) 248 words
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46. Wage and Profit Statistics 147 words
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47. Statistical Information 66 words
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48. Exchange Rate (Deutschmark) 185 words
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49. Wages (Employment Effects) 115 words
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50. Taxation Changes (Job Creation) 322 words
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51. Indirect Taxation 54 words
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52. Income Tax 116 words
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53. Pound Sterling 42 words
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54. Private Health Insurance (Tax Allowance) 96 words
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55. Fringe Benefits 99 words
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56. Benefits (Taxation) 42 words
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57. EC (Cash Flows) 243 words
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58. EC (Rebate) 62 words
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59. Taxation Changes 25 words
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60. Disabled Persons 56 words
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61. Mortgage Interest Relief 104 words
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62. Northern Region 139 words
18. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Strangers Gallery (Demonstrators) 87 words
19. SCOTLAND
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1. Ministers (Overnight Stays) 90 words
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2. Glenrothes (Regional Development Grant) 136 words
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3. Housing Grants 123 words
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4. Legal Aid 35 words
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5. Asbestos 341 words
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6. Acid Rain 190 words
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7. Forestry Commission 376 words
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8. Tourist-related Projects 396 words
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9. Local Authority Finance (Tourism) 71 words
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10. Small Firms 144 words
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11. EC (Aid) 358 words
20. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Milk 342 words
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2. Pesticides 433 words
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3. Farming Techniques 34 words
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4. Cereals (Fungal Diseases) 111 words
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5. Herbicides 56 words
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6. Animal Feedingstuffs 182 words
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7. EC (Agricultural Exports) 104 words
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8. Common Agricultural Policy 82 words
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9. Sheepmeat 57 words
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10. Agricultural Prices 273 words
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11. Agricultural Production (Costs) 262 words
21. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Attendance Allowance 204 words
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2. Resettlement Units 74 words
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3. Limited List Prescribing 257 words
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4. General Practitioners (Over-prescribing) 223 words
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5. National Staff Committee for Nurses and Midwives 110 words
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6. Sex Education 89 words
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7. Hospital Services (East Anglia) 246 words
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8. NHS (Administrators) 119 words
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9. Pharmaceutical Companies (Return on Investment) 123 words
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10. AIDS 101 words
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11. Inequalities in Health 83 words
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12. NHS (Administrative Costs) 49 words
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13. Wheelchairs 210 words
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14. Child Benefit 62 words
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15. Hexafluorosilic Acid 36 words
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16. Aluminium 162 words
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17. Organophosphorous Warblecides 143 words
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18. Pesticides 100 words
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19. NHS (Ancillary Services) 6,852 words

Lords Sitting of 21 February 1985 Series 5 Vol. 460

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1. Preamble 29 words
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2. Falklands Campaign: Cost 565 words
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3. Overseas Aid and UK Exporters 621 words
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4. North Sea Oil: Production 635 words
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5. NATO Exercise: WINTEX-CIMEX 448 words
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6. Business 104 words
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7. Child Abduction and Custody Bill [H.L.] 74 words
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8. Land Registration and Law of Property Bill [H.L.] 95 words
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9. Trustee Savings Banks Bill 12 words
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10. Valerie Mary Hill and Alan Monk (Marriage Enabling) Bill [H.L.] 1,200 words
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11. Milk (Cessation of Production) Bill 2,196 words
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12. The Miners' Strike 1,710 words
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13. Milk (Cessation of Production) Bill 3,513 words
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14. Shipbuilding Bill 3,962 words
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15. NHS: Drug Prescribing 4,969 words
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16. Skillcentres 3,200 words
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17. Shipbuilding Bill 4,535 words
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18. Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1984 (Continuance) Order 1985 15,644 words
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19. London Regional Transport (Amendment) Bill 27 words
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20. Films Bill 19,129 words
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21. Town and Country Planning (Compensation)Bill 10,621 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 21 February 1985 Series 5 Vol. 460

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1. SUPREME COURT ACT 1981: SECTION 42 ORDERS 203 words
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2. JURORS: POLITICAL VIEWS 312 words
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3. PAROLE: OPERATION OF NEW POLICY 161 words
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4. NATIONAL HERITAGE MEMORIAL FUND 385 words
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5. INCOME TAX 42 words
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6. PRIME MINISTER'S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS 65 words
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7. BRITISH OFFICERS: SECONDMENT 170 words
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8. STRATEGIC STUDIES 149 words
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9. BRITISH AIRWAYS: FREE TICKETS 99 words
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10. SOUTH ATLANTIC CAMPAIGN MEMORIAL 95 words