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Commons Sitting of 28 January 1985 Series 6 Vol. 72

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. ENERGY
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1. Coal Industry Dispute 5,759 words
2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Accommodation 434 words
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2. Souvenir Kiosk 476 words
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3. Statutory Instruments 264 words
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4. Parliamentary Proceedings (Televised Broadcasting) 487 words
3. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Post Office Counter Services 286 words
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2. Consultancy Inspection Review Services 610 words
4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Dining Rooms (Smoking Ban) 349 words
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4. Frigates (Orders) 3,395 words
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5. Business of the House 1,381 words
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6. Coal Industry Dispute 1,575 words
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7. Secretary of State for Transport 475 words
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8. Interest rates 386 words
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9. Sub Judice Rule 253 words
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10. Standing Committees on Statutory Instruments, &c. 266 words
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1. STANDING COMMITTEES ON EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 25 words
11. Orders of the Day
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1. Education (Corporal Punishment) Bill 44,984 words, 2 divisions
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1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 23 words
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2. EDUCATION (CORPORAL PUNISHMENT) BILL [MONEY] 54 words
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2. Brunei and Maldives Bill [Lords] 3,351 words
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1. BANKRUPTCY (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords] 26 words
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2. BANKRUPTCY (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords] 18 words
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3. FAMILY LAW (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords] 27 words
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4. FAMILY LAW (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords] 18 words
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3. VE Day (40th Anniversary) 3,574 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 28 January 1985 Series 6 Vol. 72

1. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Ethnic Surveys 155 words
2. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Dipper Population 160 words
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2. Birds of Prey 174 words
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3. Multiple Occupation Properties (Fire Regulations) 79 words
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4. Water Authorities 271 words
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5. Water Charges 73 words
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6. Radioactive Discharges 150 words
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7. Agricultural Holdings 123 words
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8. Stolport, Newham 363 words
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9. North Pennines 56 words
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10. Falkland Islands 69 words
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11. Publicly Owned Land (Sales) 216 words
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12. Water Act 1973 113 words
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13. Planning Advice 189 words
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14. Brent Labour Group 49 words
3. WALES
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1. Children's Books 49 words
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2. Areas of Special Scientific Interest (Designation) 115 words
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3. Housing Authorities (Revenue) 295 words
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4. Homes Insulation 986 words
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5. Welsh Water Authority (Staff) 92 words
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6. Heath Hospital, Cardiff 170 words
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7. Road Accidents (Statistics) 107 words
4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Confidential Papers (Disposal) 75 words
5. TRANSPORT
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1. Minister's Letter (Cost) 39 words
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2. Coal Industry Dispute 89 words
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3. Scheduled Air Services 35 words
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4. Fog Detection 74 words
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5. Airports 152 words
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6. North-West (Ministerial Visit) 76 words
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7. Sinclair C5 208 words
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8. Manchester Airport 167 words
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9. Manchester (Outer Ring Road) 220 words
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10. Crash Barriers 127 words
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11. Road Accidents (Statistics) 313 words
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12. Aerial Spraying 370 words
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13. Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways (Report) 57 words
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14. Train Accident (Rugby) 185 words
6. SCOTLAND
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1. Scottish Tourist Board 274 words
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2. Dialysis Machines 71 words
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3. Hospital Closures (Lothian Region) 138 words
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4. Community Nursing Services 40 words
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5. Mental Illness 154 words
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6. Terrorism 105 words
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7. West of Scotland Science Park 57 words
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8. Postal Voting 61 words
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9. Traffic Accidents 93 words
7. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Youth Training Scheme 75 words
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2. Low-paid Workers 174 words
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3. Wages Councils 42 words
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4. Labour Statistics 386 words
8. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Shop Hours (Auld Report) 42 words
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2. Lambeth (Targeting and Surveillance) 90 words
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3. Khat 57 words
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4. Police Officers (Rent Allowances) 142 words
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5. Ms. D. S. Gelleburn 63 words
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6. Electoral Registration (Mental Hospital Patients) 80 words
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7. Brent Labour Group 171 words
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8. Society of Civil and Public Servants (Meeting) 93 words
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9. Foxley Corner, Wiltshire (Incident) 161 words
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10. Fire Regulations 127 words
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11. Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 123 words
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12. General Election Statistics 72 words
9. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Malaysia (Visit) 47 words
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2. Limited List Prescribing 35 words
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3. Museums and Galleries Commission (Chairman) 58 words
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4. Permanent Secretaries 79 words
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5. Coal Industry Dispute 71 words
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6. Chile 403 words
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7. Argentina (Arms Sales) 94 words
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8. Diego Ramirez 40 words
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9. Adelaide Island 96 words
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10. Nuclear Materials 231 words
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11. Flight Lieutenant Richard Thomas 92 words
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12. Falkland Islands 46 words
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13. Scientific and Military Co-operation 59 words
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14. Uneconomic Farms 24 words
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15. Personal Taxation 182 words
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16. Public Relations Consultants 42 words
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17. Ministerial Cars (Parking Offences) 47 words
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18. Local Authorities (Government Grants) 3,874 words
10. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Deaf Children (Teachers) 110 words
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2. Open University 289 words
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3. Student Grants 468 words
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4. Primary Schools (Toilets) 56 words
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5. Rajneesh School, Suffolk 99 words
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6. European Organisation for Nuclear Research 155 words
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7. Manchester (School Governors) 141 words
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8. University Grants Committee (Scotland) 124 words
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9. General Certificate of Secondary Education 144 words
11. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. World Bank Special Fund 137 words
12. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 58 words
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2. Official Secrets Act 1911 81 words
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3. PROSECUTIONS UNDER SECTION 2 281 words
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4. PROSECUTIONS UNDER SECTION 1 124 words
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5. Jury Vetting 173 words
13. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Non-Proliferation Treaty 268 words
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2. Iran-Iraq War 135 words
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3. Operation Moses 107 words
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4. Irish Foreign Minister 109 words
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5. Foreign Governments (Representations) 79 words
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6. Falkland Islands 106 words
14. ENERGY
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1. BNOC (Oil Prices) 68 words
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2. Polkemmet Colliery 27 words
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3. Standing Charges 61 words
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4. "Cold Comfort for the Poor" 78 words
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5. National Coal Board (Membership) 27 words
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6. Coal (Subsidies) 69 words
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7. Coal Industry 477 words
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8. Privatisation 44 words
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9. Electrical Appliances 101 words
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10. Uranium (Namibia) 63 words
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11. Combined Heat and Power Schemes 44 words
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12. Sleipner Gas Contract 156 words
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13. Natural Gas Reserves 70 words
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14. Gas Consumption 59 words
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15. National Coal Board (Public Relations) 40 words
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16. Nationalised Industries (Contracts) 52 words
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17. Alternative Forms of Energy 67 words
15. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Retailers (Discounts) 70 words
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2. Companies (Liquidation Law) 166 words
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3. Civil Defence 92 words
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4. Electric Batteries 76 words
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5. Books and Journals 89 words
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6. China (Trade) 134 words
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7. Pharmaceutical Products (Exports-Imports) 38 words
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8. Shipbuilding (Privatisation) 253 words
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9. Second-hand Cars 197 words
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10. United Medical Enterprises 64 words
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11. Post Office (Counter Services) 70 words
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12. Radio Wavebands (Consultative Document) 505 words
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13. Outward Mission Scheme 166 words
16. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Pesticides 105 words
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2. Warble Fly 440 words
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3. Sugar 424 words
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4. Aspartame 48 words
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5. Milk 267 words
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6. Butter (Intervention Stores) 127 words
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7. EC Agriculture (Financial Guidelines) 92 words
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8. Veterinary Investigation Laboratories, Itchen Abbas 52 words
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9. Ministerial Visit (Caribbean) 197 words
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10. Bananas 381 words
17. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Board and Lodging Payments 302 words
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2. Residential Accommodation 107 words
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3. Infant Mortality 79 words
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4. Ambulances 78 words
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5. NHS (Charges) 52 words
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6. Tendering 198 words
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7. Fluoride 580 words
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8. Prescribed Medicines 190 words
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9. Surgery Closures 115 words
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10. Family Practitioner Committees 70 words
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11. Milk and Welfare Foods (Entitlement) 58 words
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12. Health Authorities (Funding) 350 words
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13. Drugs (Safety) 56 words
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14. Departmental Staff (Assaults) 264 words
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15. Limited List Prescribing 461 words
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16. Human Embryos 198 words
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17. Croydon District Health Authority 142 words
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18. Abortion 476 words
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19. Hospital Waiting Lists 94 words
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20. Doctors (Benefit Claims) 109 words
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21. Kidney Patients 281 words
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22. Ophthalmic Services 325 words
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23. Supplementary Benefit Appeals 92 words
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24. Fuel Bills 208 words
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25. Housing Benefit 316 words
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26. Benefit Claimants (Criminal Records) 174 words
18. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Interest Relief 187 words
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2. EC Budget 86 words
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3. Investment 50 words
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4. National Economic Development Council 63 words
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5. Savings Certificates and Government Stock 131 words
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6. Civil Service (Financial Incentives) 159 words
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7. EC (Own Resources) 84 words
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8. Public Expenditure 63 words
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9. Board of Inland Revenue 32 words
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10. Value Added Tax 173 words
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11. Capital Transfer Tax 32 words
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12. Married Man's Allowance 118 words
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13. Personal Tax Allowances 100 words
19. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Orlit Houses 107 words
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2. Strip Searches 329 words
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3. Benefits and Allowances 58 words
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4. Pluralist Society 68 words
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5. Security 127 words
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6. Farmers 118 words
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7. A-level Curriculum 201 words
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8. Scheduled Offences 168 words
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9. Remanded Persons 236 words
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10. Housing Executive (Tenancies) 177 words
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11. Shooting Incident (Belfast) 210 words

Lords Sitting of 28 January 1985 Series 5 Vol. 459

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1. Preamble 23 words
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2. NHS Drugs: Pricing 1,127 words
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3. Pound Coin: Colour 1,025 words
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4. Heathrow Underground Station: Luggage 952 words
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5. Neighbourhood Watch Schemes 897 words
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6. Frigate Orders 35 words
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7. Mineral Workings Bill 5,366 words
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8. Frigate Orders 2,186 words
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9. Mineral Workings Bill 1,871 words
cc467-87
10. New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Bill 11,188 words
cc487-534
11. Charities Bill [H.L.] 25,259 words
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12. Food Imitations (Safety) Regulations 1985 1,161 words
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13. Employee Involvement 7,166 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 28 January 1985 Series 5 Vol. 459

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1. FALKLAND ISLANDS: CONSTITUTION 42 words
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2. BRITISH PASSPORT-HOLDERS DETAINED IN ZIMBABWE 46 words
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3. UN INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF PEACE 101 words
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4. FORESTRY: NEW PLANTINGS 1956–80 87 words
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5. PRISON SENTENCES AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH 232 words
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6. PRISON AND POLICE CELL BLANKETS: LAUNDERING 91 words
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7. NCB/UNION CONSULTATIVE MACHINERY 82 words
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8. CIVIL SERVICE: ETHNIC SURVEYS 151 words
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9. FACTORY CONSTRUCTION: GRANT AID 268 words
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10. HEATING ALLOWANCE PAYMENTS IN SEVERE WEATHER 980 words