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Commons Sitting of 4 February 1985 Series 6 Vol. 72

c595
1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUESINSS
c595
1. DARTMOOR COMMONS BILL 7 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. TRANSPORT
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1. Association of Metropolitan Authorities 486 words
cc596-601
2. Buses 2,610 words
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3. Trunk Roads (Inquiry Procedures) 368 words
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4. Long-distance Coach Industry 249 words
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5. Airports Policy 701 words
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6. Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse 232 words
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7. A127 and A13 289 words
c605
8. Road Crossings 389 words
2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. North London Polytechnic 445 words
cc606-8
2. Coal Industry Dispute 795 words
c608
3. Legal Aid 324 words
3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Ethiopia 601 words
cc610-1
2. Sub-Saharan Africa 484 words
cc611-2
3. Sudan (Drought) 362 words
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4. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 107 words
cc613-728
5. Opposition Day 3 words
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1. Coal Industry Dispute 52,638 words, 2 divisions
cc705-21
2. Immigration 9,531 words, 1 division
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1. COMPETITION 50 words
cc722-8
3. BBC External Services 3,467 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 4 February 1985 Series 6 Vol. 72

1. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Official Secrets Act 27 words
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2. Terrorist Offences (Statistics) 120 words
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3. Day Centres (Attendance) 324 words
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4. Prison Statistics 58 words
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5. Probation Orders 61 words
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6. Drugs Misuse 131 words
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7. Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984 88 words
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8. European Assembly 45 words
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9. Television Licences (Evasion) 189 words
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10. Probation Officers (Reports) 102 words
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11. Charities 61 words
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12. Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 56 words
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13. Experiments on Living Animals 96 words
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14. Abortion 211 words
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15. Winson Green Prison 402 words
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16. Horses 55 words
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17. Assisted Visits Scheme 60 words
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18. Women Prisoners 88 words
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19. LD 50 Poisoning Test 80 words
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20. Advisory Committee on Animal Experiments 37 words
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21. Animal Experiments 282 words
2. ENERGY
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1. National Coal Board (Finances) 158 words
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2. Mr. Ian MacGregor 68 words
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3. Libyan Oil 76 words
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4. Sleipner Gas 58 words
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5. Coal Industry (Assets) 69 words
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6. Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant 64 words
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7. Thermal Energy 97 words
3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Agricultural Production 98 words
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2. Agricultural Development 688 words
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3. South Pacific (Cyclones) 68 words
4. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Judicial Review 103 words
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2. Official Secrets Act 35 words
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3. Terrorists (Evidence) 595 words
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4. Land Registry Fees 48 words
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5. Jury vetting 418 words
5. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Foreign Exchange Markets (American Intervention) 37 words
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2. Manufactures 167 words
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3. Chemical Warfare 54 words
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4. Channel Crossing 59 words
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5. GCHQ Cheltenham 304 words
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6. Falkland Islands and South Georgia 104 words
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7. Plutonium 121 words
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8. Ministerial Cars 41 words
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9. Correspondence 491 words
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10. Falkland Islands 242 words
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11. Press Briefings 214 words
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12. Information Officers 149 words
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13. Parliamentary Questions (Forestry) 140 words
6. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Natural Environment Research Council (Chairmanship) 80 words
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2. Alpha Research 78 words
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3. Educational Needs (Statements) 38 words
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4. Value Added Tax (Publications) 92 words
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5. Nottinghamshire (School Milk) 133 words
7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Sugar Products 96 words
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2. Telegram Service 76 words
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3. Software Products (Double Licensing) 56 words
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4. Manufactured Goods (Import Substitution) 71 words
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5. Manufacturing Output 128 words
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6. Metrology Report 69 words
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7. Coal and Fuel Oil (Trading Deficit) 218 words
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8. EC (Trading Deficit) 92 words
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9. Materials Advisory Group (Report) 246 words
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10. Weights and Measures 181 words
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11. Grants and Aid 112 words
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12. Farm Produce (Exports) 49 words
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13. Cleveland 271 words
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14. British National Space Centre 131 words
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15. European Space Agency (Meeting) 321 words
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16. Small Master Antenna Television 52 words
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17. Gartcosh Steel Plant 39 words
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18. COCOM 79 words
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19. Electrical Equipment (Standards) 154 words
8. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Mortgage Interest (Relief) 756 words
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2. European Council 128 words
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3. Bank of England 237 words
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4. Pension Funds 68 words
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5. Privatisation 229 words
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6. Income Tax Thresholds 186 words
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7. Value Added Tax (Free Newspapers) 106 words
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8. Value Added Tax (Food) 54 words
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9. Unemployed Persons (Revenue Loss) 148 words
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10. Taxation Categories 270 words
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11. EC (Agriculture Expenditure) 67 words
9. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Republic of Ireland 75 words
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2. Belize 78 words
10. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Young People 114 words
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2. Grants and Aid 142 words
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3. Industrial Tribunals 475 words
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4. Industrial Relations 174 words
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5. Free Newspapers and Magazines 67 words
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6. Inner Urban Areas (Unemployment) 82 words
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7. Labour Statistics 309 words
11. WALES
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1. Bypasses (Anglesey) 74 words
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2. Expenditure 4,800 words
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3. Home Office Services 308 words
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4. Inner Urban Areas Act 173 words
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5. Mid-Glamorgan 128 words
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6. Council Houses 87 words
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7. Limited List Prescribing 201 words
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8. Empty Dwellings 83 words
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9. Labour Statistics 63 words
12. ENVIRONMENT
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1. North West Water Supplies (Pollution) 82 words
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2. Local Authority Expenditure 121 words
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3. Rent Officer Notes 64 words
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4. Rent Officers (Documents) 72 words
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5. Rent Assessment Panels 202 words
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6. Local Government Reform 238 words
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7. Planning Appeals 82 words
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8. Homes Insulation Grant Scheme 119 words
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9. Office Building (Cleveland) 47 words
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10. Nottinghamshire (Grants) 53 words
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11. Palace of Westminster (Pesticides) 186 words
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12. Caravan Sites Act 1968 152 words
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13. Gipsies 310 words
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14. Association of Metropolitan Authorities 34 words
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15. Housing (Inquiry Report) 60 words
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16. London Docklands Development Corporation (Compulsory Purchase) 92 words
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17. Mr. Edward Berman 191 words
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18. Local Government (Interim Provisions) Act 1984 99 words
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19. Owner-Occupiers 222 words
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20. Liverpool (Housing) 116 words
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21. Local Government Bill 117 words
13. SCOTLAND
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1. Kidney Patients 126 words
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2. Housing Defects Act 1984 191 words
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3. EC Grants (Edinburgh) 241 words
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4. Broadleaved Woodlands 236 words
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5. Scottish Hospital Advisory Scheme 82 words
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6. Psychiatric Hospitals 56 words
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7. Homes Insulation Grant Scheme 94 words
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8. West of Scotland Science Park 214 words
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9. School Examinations (Disruption) 589 words
14. TRANSPORT
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1. London Regional Transport 135 words
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2. Channel Link 45 words
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3. British Rail 95 words
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4. EC (Civil Aviation) 75 words
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5. Buses 335 words
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6. Motor Vehicles (Lighting) 80 words
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7. Gatwick Airport (Noise) 58 words
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8. British Rail (Purchases) 52 words
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9. Air Traffic (UK-Netherlands) 83 words
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10. Motorways (Lighting) 80 words
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11. Dartford Tunnel 64 words
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12. Transport and Road Research Laboratory 42 words
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13. Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse 92 words
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14. A19 151 words
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15. Driving Tests, Basildon 35 words
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16. Manchester International Airport 55 words
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17. St. Pancras-Sheffield Line 31 words
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18. Airports (Snow Clearing) 162 words
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19. British Rail Services (London) 53 words
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20. Roads (Expenditure) 60 words
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21. Road Safety (Report) 62 words
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22. Trunk Road Programme 113 words
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23. M25 (Epping Forest) 85 words
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24. British Airways 55 words
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25. Local Government Reform 28 words
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26. Concessionary Pass Schemes 136 words
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27. Highway Corridors (London) 129 words
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28. Road Traffic Act 1974 35 words
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29. Channel Crossing 76 words
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30. Visibility Monitoring Sensor 76 words
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31. Tanker Havens 317 words
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32. Electrically Assisted Cycles 209 words
15. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Assembly 59 words
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2. Compensation Payments 411 words
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3. Fair Employment Agency 55 words
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4. Scheduled Offences 85 words
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5. Homes Insulation Grant Scheme 955 words
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6. Education and Library Boards 199 words
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7. Kidney Patients 182 words
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8. Family Income Supplement 131 words
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9. Supplementary Benefit 70 words
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10. Value Added Tax 49 words
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11. New Jobs (Strangford) 66 words
16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Research and Development (Expenditure) 69 words
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2. EC (Import Levies) 270 words
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3. EC Expenditure 74 words
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4. Foodstuffs (Price) 100 words
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5. Skimmed Milk Powder 290 words
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6. Central Bristol Channel 357 words
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7. Suffolk Small Woodlands Project 79 words
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8. Parliamentary Secretary (Caribbean Visit) 394 words
17. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Limited List Prescribing 670 words
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2. Homeless Persons 87 words
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3. Circular HDC(77)1 180 words
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4. Furniture Payments (Inquiry) 145 words
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5. AIDS 292 words
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6. Blood Products 72 words
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7. Blood Donors 91 words
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8. Statutory Sick Pay 136 words
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9. Housing Benefit 69 words
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10. Alder Hey and Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital 103 words
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11. Mobility Allowance 90 words
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12. Private Patient Changes 85 words
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13. Overseas Patients 68 words
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14. Overseas Medical Services 88 words
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15. Doddington Hospital 351 words
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16. Registered Mental Nurses 78 words
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17. Mrs. Clarke (Attendance Allowance) 89 words
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18. Heating Allowance 330 words
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19. Pharmaceutical Industry Branch 265 words
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20. Population and Pensioners (Statistics) 156 words
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21. Employment Offices (Computers) 47 words
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22. Computerisation (Staff Losses) 79 words
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23. "Poverty" 91 words
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24. Doctors (Medical Experience) 125 words
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25. Supplementary Benefit 97 words
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26. Abortions 658 words
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27. Merseyside Take-up Campaign 1,830 words
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28. Single Payments 51 words
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29. Drug Prescribing (Policy Revision) 117 words
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30. General Practice Finance Corporation 100 words
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31. West Midlands RHA (Review) 53 words
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32. NHS (Drugs Bill) 91 words
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33. Surrogate Motherhood Agencies 47 words
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34. Portable Cordless Telephones 159 words
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35. Prescribed Medicines 124 words
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36. AIDS (Nurses) 45 words
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37. Drug Prescriptions and Hospital Treatment 56 words
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38. General Practitioner Surgeries 196 words
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39. Amenity and Pay Beds 1,813 words
c468W
40. Ex-prisoners (Accommodation) 96 words

Lords Sitting of 4 February 1985 Series 5 Vol. 459

c825
1. Preamble 22 words
cc825-8
2. Unemployment Figures 1,510 words
cc828-9
3. Travellers' Duty Free Allowance 363 words
cc829-31
4. Disarmament: Proposed EC Conference 1,123 words
cc831-3
5. Higher Education and ILEA: Request for Inquiry 816 words
cc833-4
6. Business: Proceedings on Insolvency Bill [H.L.] 726 words
cc834-5
7. Companies Bill [H.L.] 112 words
c835
8. Business Names Bill [H.L.] 34 words
c835
9. Company Securities (Insider Dealing) Bill [H.L.] 36 words
c835
10. Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Bill [H.L.] 36 words
cc835-90
11. Insolvency Bill [H.L.] 28,558 words, 1 division
cc890-906
12. Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 8,532 words
cc906-32
13. Insolvency Bill [H.L.] 13,469 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 4 February 1985 Series 5 Vol. 459

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1. LEA UNITS FOR DISRUPTIVE PUPILS 115 words