Sitting of 25 March 1985

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Commons Sitting of 25 March 1985 Series 6 Vol. 76

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. WALES
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1. Energy Policy 755 words
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2. A55 Northop Bypass 436 words
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3. A465 (Glynneath-Aberdulais) 166 words
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4. Labour Statistics 919 words
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5. Private Schools 561 words
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6. Voluntary Organisations 566 words
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7. Labour Statistics 752 words
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8. Education Expenditure 315 words
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9. Labour Statistics 278 words
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10. Measles, Whooping Cough and Poliomyelitis 397 words
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11. Teachers (Pay Dispute) 497 words
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12. NHS Patient Records 265 words
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13. Coal Industry Dispute (Consequences) 278 words
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14. Labour Statistics 174 words
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15. Departmental Policies (Job Creation) 237 words
16. THE ARTS
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1. Private Funding 570 words
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2. Arts Council Drama Panel 309 words
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3. Arts Performances (Funding) 229 words
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4. Northern Arts 383 words
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5. Europa Nostra (Departmental Co-operation) 169 words
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4. Questions to Ministers 376 words
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5. South Africa (Shootings) 2,629 words
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6. Foreign Affairs Council 2,778 words
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1. ENDURING POWERS OF ATTORNEY BILL [Lords] 18 words
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2. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL [Lords] 16 words
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3. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS &c. 68 words
7. Orders of the Day
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1. WAYS AND MEANS 10 words
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1. AMENDMENT OF THE LAW 126 words
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2. Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation 48,578 words, 1 division
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1. 2. SPIRITS 94 words
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2. 3. BEER 109 words
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3. 4. WINE AND MADE-WINE 257 words
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4. 5. BLENDING OF WINES SUBJECT TO DIFFERENT DUTY RATES 369 words
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5. 6. CIDER 83 words
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6. 7. TOBACCO PRODUCTS 117 words
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7. 8. HYDROCARBON OIL 2,290 words, 1 division
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8. 9. HYDROCARBON OIL (MIXING) 49 words
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9. 10. VEHICLES EXCISE DUTY 6,274 words, 1 division
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10. 11. GAMING MACHINE LICENCE DUTY 45 words
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11. 12. VALUE ADDED TAX (NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENTS) 120 words
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12. 13. INCOME TAX (CHARGE AND RATES FOR 1985–86) 233 words
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13. 14. INCOME TAX (PERSONAL RELIEFS) 189 words
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14. 15. RELIEF FOR INTEREST (LIMIT FOR 1985–86) 93 words
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15. 16. ADVANCE CORPORATION TAX (RATE FOR FINANCIAL YEAR 1985) 35 words
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16. 17. CAPITAL ALLOWANCES (MACHINERY AND PLANT) 44 words
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17. 18. CAPITAL ALLOWANCES (DREDGING, AGRICULTURAL LAND AND HOTELS) 91 words
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18. 19. CAPITAL ALLOWANCES (SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH) 44 words
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19. 20. INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSITS WITH BANKS ETC. 33 words
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20. 21. SECURITIES 49 words
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21. 22. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES 169 words
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22. 23. OFFSHORE LIFE ASSURANCE 36 words
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23. 24. BUSINESS EXPANSION SCHEME 51 words
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24. 25. PARTNERSHIPS (BASIS OF ASSESSMENT) 34 words
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25. 26. LIMITED PARTNERS (RELIEFS) 41 words
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26. 27. LONDON REGIONAL TRANSPORT 76 words
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27. 28. VALUATION OF OIL (INCOME TAX AND CORPORATION TAX) 54 words
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28. 29. COMMODITY FUTURES, FINANCIAL FUTURES AND TRADED OPTIONS 52 words
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29. 30. CAPITAL GAINS (RETIREMENT RELIEF) 67 words
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30. 31. CAPITAL GAINS (SERIES OF TRANSACTIONS) 44 words
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31. 32. CAPITAL TRANSFER TAX (CONDITIONAL EXEMPTION) 35 words
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32. 33. STAMP DUTY (TAKEOVERS) 806 words
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33. 34. STAMP DUTY (VOLUNTARY WINDING UP: TRANSFER OF SHARS) 781 words
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34. 5. STAMP DUTY (GIFTS INTER VIVOS) 377 words
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35. 36. STAMP DUTY (TRANSFERS IN CONNECTION WITH DIVORCE ETC.) 295 words
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36. 37. STAMP DUTY (DEATH: VARYING DISPOSIIONS, AND APPROPRIATIONS) 376 words
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37. 38. STAMP DUTY (REPEAL OF CERTAIN FIXED DUTIES) 435 words
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38. 39. STAMP DUTY (ABOLITION OF DUTY ON CONTRACT NOTES) 127 words
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39. 40. STAMP DUTY (EXCHANGE RATES) 48 words
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40. 41. OIL TAXATION (LIMIT ON TAX PAYABLE) 46 words
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41. 42. OIL TAXATION (EXPLORATION AND APPRAISAL EXPENDITURE) 77 words
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42. 43. RELIEF FROM TAX (INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL CHRGES) 54 words
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43. PROCEDURE RESOLUTION 263 words
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44. FINANCE 56 words
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45. National Health Service (Charges) 13,560 words, 1 division
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3. Mineworkers Pension Scheme 6,459 words
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4. Nurses and Midwives (Pay) 4,076 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 25 March 1985 Series 6 Vol. 76

1. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Common Agricultural Policy 935 words
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2. European Community (Food and Wine Exports) 366 words
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3. European Community (Surplus Foodstuffs) 90 words
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4. Farmers (Diversification) 53 words
2. THE ARTS
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1. Budget Implications 120 words
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2. Arts Council (Administration) 33 words
3. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Local Authorities (Capital Receipts) 540 words
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2. Environment Ministers Council 456 words
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3. Housing 150 words
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4. Local Authorities (Housing Revenue) 111 words
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5. Local Authority Expenditure 90 words
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6. Lead Shot 85 words
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7. Rivers (Pollution Control) 282 words
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8. Housing Corporation and Housing Associations 127 words
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9. Conservation (Management Agreements) 56 words
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10. Birds of Prey 569 words
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11. Local Government Finance 39 words
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12. Homeless Persons (Voluntary Organisations) 359 words
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13. Litter Act 1983 65 words
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14. Housing (Hyndburn) 222 words
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15. Building Act 1984 54 words
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16. Nitrates 73 words
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17. Football 34 words
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18. Marsham Street (Repairs) 83 words
4. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Official Business 110 words
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2. Chief Scientific Adviser 129 words
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3. United States Navy 75 words
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4. Falkland Islands 117 words
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5. MI5 149 words
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6. Local Revenue 70 words
5. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Crimes of Violence and Vandalism (Convictions) 66 words
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2. Government Property (Damage) 80 words
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3. Prisoners (Correspondence) 326 words
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4. Victim Support Schemes (Funding) 96 words
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5. Intex 85 98 words
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6. Prisoners (Segregation) 223 words
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7. Gloucester Prison 32 words
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8. Murder (Sentencing Recommendations) 136 words
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9. Prisons (Food Hygiene) 73 words
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10. Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 44 words
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11. Penal Institutions (Education Classes) 282 words
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12. Featherstone Prison 67 words
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13. Off-sales Licences 48 words
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14. Security Operations 97 words
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15. Police (Dental Treatment) 72 words
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16. Diplomatic Immunity 160 words
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17. Women Prisoners 58 words
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18. Animal Laboratories 204 words
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19. Strip Searches 53 words
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20. Lynn Barlow 94 words
6. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Tourism Policy 90 words
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2. Information Technology (Small Firms) 91 words
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3. Sanitary Ware (Imports) 389 words
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4. EC (Manufactures) 525 words
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5. EC (Steel Industries) 86 words
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6. Inner German Trade Agreement 474 words
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7. Night-clothes (Flame Resistance) 164 words
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8. British Aerospace 73 words
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9. Research Establishments 123 words
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10. Franchising Contracts 116 words
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11. Trade (Departmental Promotion) 124 words
7. WALES
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1. Hospital Waiting Lists 120 words
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2. Primary Schools (Expenditure) 65 words
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3. Personal Social Services 99 words
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4. Mid-Wales Development 55 words
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5. Road Improvement Programmes 91 words
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6. Welsh Language 126 words
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7. Livestock and Dairy Farming 90 words
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8. Highmead Home, Cardiff 85 words
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9. Students 99 words
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10. Job Creation 129 words
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11. Teachers (Pay Dispute) 154 words
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12. Milk Quotas 140 words
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13. Brynhyfryd Hospital, Forden 51 words
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14. Pen y Ffordd Bypass 110 words
8. TRANSPORT
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1. Road Construction 111 words
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2. Rail Electrification 80 words
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3. Passenger Transport Authorities 120 words
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4. Road Construction 194 words
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5. Archway Road, London 52 words
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6. East London Road Assessment Study 186 words
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7. Helicopter Accident (Isles of Scilly) 179 words
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8. Liverpool Airport 187 words
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9. Wharves and Inland Waterways (Grants) 66 words
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10. Motor Cyclists 232 words
9. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Supergrass Trials 134 words
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2. District Councillors (Allowances and Expenses) 589 words
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3. Terrorism 198 words
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4. Students, Apprentices and Trainees 146 words
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5. Armagh Women's Prison 147 words
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6. Kilroot Power Station 72 words
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7. Scheduled Offences 91 words
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8. Contracts 67 words
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9. Orlit Houses 41 words
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10. Strabane (Housing) 40 words
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11. Housing (Resource Allocations) 97 words
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12. Capital Grants Scheme 86 words
10. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Televised Proceedings 74 words
11. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. British Telecom 90 words
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2. Legal Aid Act 157 words
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3. Criminal Proceedings 81 words
12. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Industrial Injuries (Inquiries) 83 words
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2. EC (Social Fund) 87 words
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3. Labour Statistics 140 words
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4. Budget (Job Creation) 105 words
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5. Strikes 79 words
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6. Balloting Procedures 50 words
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7. Youth Training 666 words
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8. Mines and Quarries Act 54 words
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9. Maternity Pay Fund 152 words
13. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. UN Development Programmes 145 words
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2. Famine Victims 43 words
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3. Ethiopia 52 words
14. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Visual Display Units (Pregnancies) 982 words
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2. Birth Defects (Research) 130 words
15. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Discretionary Grants 1,119 words
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2. General Certificate of Secondary Education 81 words
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3. Teachers 122 words
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4. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 218 words
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5. Student-Staff Ratios 208 words
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6. A-Level Biology (Animal Dissection) 304 words
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7. School Leavers (Further and Higher Education) 365 words
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8. Pupil Statistics 162 words
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9. Schools (Expenditure) 634 words
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10. English Teaching 69 words
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11. Assisted Places Scheme 3,949 words
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12. Higher Education 4,059 words
16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Santo Domingo 95 words
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2. European Community 363 words
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3. Restored Historic Buildings, Leningrad (Exhibition) 68 words
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4. Diplomatic Representation 4,128 words
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5. Diplomatic Immunity 548 words
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6. Gibraltar 71 words
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7. Peter Nadin 133 words
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8. Inner German Trade Agreement 138 words
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9. Human Rights Conference 205 words
17. SCOTLAND
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1. EC (Agriculture Structure Plan) 75 words
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2. Women Prisoners 128 words
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3. Protected Areas 79 words
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4. Tranquillisers and Sedatives 411 words
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5. Strip Searches 88 words
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6. Local Authorities (Expenditure) 173 words
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7. Agriculture (Research and Development Funding) 54 words
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8. Council House Sales 185 words
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9. Hospital Waiting Lists 206 words
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10. Grampian Health Board 131 words
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11. Labour Statistics 407 words
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12. School Meals 71 words
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13. Tourism 202 words
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14. National Farmers Union (Meeting) 89 words
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15. Roads Programme 199 words
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16. Teachers (Dispute) 455 words
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17. Road Construction 120 words
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18. Replacement Hip Operation (Cost) 67 words
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19. Teachers (Pay) 259 words
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20. Urban Aid Programme (Glasgow) 99 words
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21. Peterhead Prison 60 words
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22. Revaluation 86 words
18. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Attendance Allowance 264 words
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2. Polish Home 183 words
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3. Board and Lodging Payments 618 words
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4. NHS (Private Patients) 58 words
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5. NHS (Spectacles) 135 words
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6. AIDS 60 words
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7. Inequalities in Health 180 words
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8. Community Health Councils 126 words
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9. Drug Misuse 38 words
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10. Tranquillisers and Sedatives 100 words
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11. Severe Weather Payments 1,027 words
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12. North-West RHA (Membership) 83 words
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13. Private Nursing Homes 259 words
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14. Dental Treatment 77 words
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15. Therapists 77 words
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16. Limited List Prescribing 78 words
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17. Legal Aid 168 words
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18. Earnings-related Pension 44 words
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19. Child Benefit 76 words
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20. Supplementary Benefit (Young Persons) 92 words
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21. Youth Training 58 words
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22. NHS (Pay Scales) 940 words
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23. Cohort Studies (Funding) 248 words
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24. Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme 796 words
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25. General Practitioners (Income and Expenses) 376 words
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26. VDUs (Health Hazards) 149 words
19. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. EC (Shipping Investment) 145 words
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2. Shipping Industry 94 words
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3. Technological Equipment (Tax Concessions) 53 words
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4. Civil Servants (Pensions) 233 words
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5. EC (Contributions and Receipts) 144 words
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6. Whisky and Fuel (Duty) 220 words
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7. Development Land Tax 267 words
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8. Civil Servants (Pay) 47 words
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9. Tax Exemption 40 words
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10. MIRAS 63 words
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11. Youth Training 57 words
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12. Revaluation 49 words
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13. Johnson Matthey 67 words
20. DEFENCE
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1. West Midlands 33 words
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2. Royal Artillery Units 53 words
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3. Artillery Ammunition 64 words
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4. Royal Artillery Guns 44 words
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5. Dassault Falcon 125 words
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6. Forkhill Military Base, Armagh 107 words
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7. Insurance Business 299 words
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8. Nuclear Weapon Testing (Cavanagh Report) 64 words
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9. Claims Commission (Contract) 78 words
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10. Animals (Experiments) 144 words
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11. Departmental Scientific Staff 147 words
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12. Atomic Control Office (London) 95 words
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13. Nuclear Bases 61 words
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14. Drug Misuse 372 words
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15. Chief of Defence Procurement 61 words

Lords Sitting of 25 March 1985 Series 5 Vol. 461

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Civil Defence Film 542 words
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3. Transport Bill: Consultation 391 words
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4. Luncheon Voucher Allowance 679 words
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5. Guy's Hospital: Heart Surgery Unit 1,397 words
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6. Business 93 words
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7. Essex Bill [H.L.] 4,553 words
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8. Education and Training for New Technologies 2,941 words
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9. South Africa: Shootings at Uitenhage 2,221 words
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10. Foreign Affairs Council 1,649 words
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11. Education and Training for New Technologies 28,194 words
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12. Parental Leave and Leave for Family Reasons: ECC Report 12,137 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 25 March 1985 Series 5 Vol. 461

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1. ENTERPRISE ALLOWANCE SCHEME 201 words
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2. SALMON CATCHES IN NORTHUMBRIA 115 words
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3. EC TRADE MARKS OFFICE 138 words
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4. TOUR OPERATORS' PRACTICES: INVESTIGATION 185 words
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5. TOUR OPERATORS: CONSUMER PROTECTION 165 words
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6. EC CONSUMER POLICY 252 words
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7. ATMOSPHERIC CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR EXCHANGES 102 words
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8. MR. IAN BRADY 58 words
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9. OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS AND LOCAL INTEREST GROUPS 56 words
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10. CONSOLIDATION OF ENACTMENTS 86 words
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11. WOMEN REPRESENTATIVES IN NATIONAL LEGISLATURES 182 words