Sitting of 13 May 1985

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Commons Sitting of 13 May 1985 Series 6 Vol. 79

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
1. HASTINGS PIER BILL
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2. STREATHAM PARK CEMETERY BILL 7 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. TRANSPORT
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1. London Regional Transport 703 words
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2. Road Maintenance 876 words
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3. British Rail (Investment) 1,009 words
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4. Bypasses 446 words
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5. All-purpose Trunk Roads 222 words
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6. Dartford Tunnel 431 words
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7. North Devon Link Road 244 words
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8. Roads Programme 420 words
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9. London Passenger Transport Group 311 words
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10. London-Ramsgate (Road Communications) 445 words
2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Commercial Cases (Trials) 291 words
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2. 24-hour Duty Solicitor Scheme 576 words
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3. Barristers (Misconduct) 461 words
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4. Construction Industry (Latent Damage) 294 words
3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Publicity and Public Relations 367 words
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2. Nepal (Visit) 202 words
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3. Third World (Investment) 246 words
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4. Chile 238 words
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5. Ethiopia and Sudan 434 words
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5. Football Grounds 11,465 words
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6. British Aerospace 1,328 words
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7. Board and Lodging Allowance 443 words
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8. Civil Liberties 17,152 words
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9. Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill 23,623 words, 2 divisions
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10. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 29 words
11. Orders of the Day
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1. Surrogacy Arrangements Bill 7 words
1. Clause 1
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1. MEANING OF "SURROGATE MOTHER", "SURROGACY ARRANGEMENT" AND OTHER TERMS 9,895 words
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12. Prosecution of Offences Bill [Lords] 7 words
1. New Clause 1
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1. EXPENSES 228 words
2. Clause 11
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1. TRANSFER OF STAFF 173 words
3. Clause 12
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1. STAFF COMMISSION 76 words
4. Clause 16
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1. DEFENCE COSTS 152 words
5. Clause 20
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1. REGULATIONS 87 words
6. Clause 22
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1. POWER OF SECRETARY OF STATE TO SET TIME LIMITS IN RELATION TO PRELIMINARY STAGES OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS 568 words
7. Clause 23
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1. DISCONTINUANCE OF PROCEEDINGS IN MAGISTRATES' COURTS 224 words
8. Schedule 1
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1. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS 1,690 words
9. Schedule 2
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1. REPEALS 3,860 words
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10. PROCEDURE 38 words
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11. Great Britain (Economic Divide) 3,892 words

Commons Sitting of 13 May 1985 Series 6 Vol. 79

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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1. Royal Assent 59 words
2. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. YORKSHIRE WATER AUTHORITY BILL (By Order) 15 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Economic Activity 676 words
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2. Job Creation 482 words
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3. Foreign Exchange Markets 297 words
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4. Public Bodies (Bulk Buying) 225 words
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5. Unemployment Costs 430 words
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6. Revenue Raising 414 words
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7. Taxable Income 398 words
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8. Overseas Private Investment 448 words
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9. Commonwealth Games, Edinburgh 218 words
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10. Coal Industry Dispute 344 words
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11. Privatisation 609 words
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12. Service Employment 539 words
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13. Inflation 195 words
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14. Government Receipts 164 words
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15. Employment (Tax Relief) 135 words
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16. Sterling M3 220 words
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17. Public Sector Borrowing Requirement 128 words
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18. Indirect Taxation 118 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Engagements 1,695 words
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2. GCHQ, Cheltenham 510 words
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4. Business of the House 3,787 words
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5. Back-Bench Members (Rights) 276 words
6. BILL PRESENTED
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1. RATING (REVALUATION REBATES) (SCOTLAND) 54 words
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7. Immigration Control Procedures (Report) 23,584 words, 1 division
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1. Greater London Council (General Powers) Bill (By Order) 20,570 words
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8. ARRANGEMENT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS 379 words
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9. Old Trafford Post Office 4,065 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 May 1985 Series 6 Vol. 79

1. ENERGY
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1. Atomic Energy Authority Special Constabulary 245 words
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2. Atomic Energy Authority (Privatisation) 60 words
2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Written and Oral Questions 141 words
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2. Research Assistants (Passes) 105 words
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3. Secretaries (Passes) 128 words
3. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Asbestos 124 words
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2. Publications (Subsidisation) 51 words
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3. Security 299 words
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4. Employment and Trade Union Legislation 95 words
4. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Former Prime Ministers (Pensions) 223 words
5. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Coppermill Lane Waterworks 105 words
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2. Hazardous Chemicals 50 words
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3. Construction Industry (West Midlands) 241 words
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4. Earnings (Wales) 119 words
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5. Wages Councils 58 words
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6. ILO Convention 26 52 words
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7. Information Technology Centres 114 words
6. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Swansea Prison 48 words
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2. Mrs. Nasdeen Shahid Ali 81 words
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3. First Offences (Imprisonment) 157 words
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4. Lancashire Police Force 99 words
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5. Metropolitan Police (Road Accidents) 359 words
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6. London Football League Clubs (Police Services) 412 words
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7. Holloway Prison 321 words
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8. Refugees 243 words
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9. Deportation 170 words
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10. British Nationality 72 words
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11. Travel Documents 101 words
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12. Sunday Trading 157 words
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13. Mr. Salah Najem 70 words
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14. Great Ape (Experimentation) 132 words
7. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Vosper Shiprepairers Ltd. 85 words
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2. Support for Software Products Scheme 185 words
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3. Manufactured Imports 276 words
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4. Trade Statistics 282 words
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5. Telecommunications Advisory Committee (Scotland) 114 words
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6. Steel Industry 102 words
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7. West Midlands (Inward Investment) 447 words
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8. Nuclear Reactor (Chile) 107 words
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9. Scott Lithgow 180 words
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10. Official Receiver (Private Sector Accountants) 64 words
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11. General Electric Company 80 words
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12. British Shipbuilders 321 words
8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Non-proliferation Treaty 145 words
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2. Sellafield 96 words
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3. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty 323 words
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4. E1 Salvador (Officer Training Facilities) 31 words
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5. Gibraltar 77 words
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6. North Atlantic Assembly (Delegation) 115 words
9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Ethiopia and Sudan (Food Aid) 125 words
10. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Coal Industry Dispute (Prosecutions) 85 words
11. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Smith Houses 54 words
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2. Faulty Sewers (Pollution) 120 words
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3. Lesnes Abbey Site 71 words
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4. Multi-occupied Dwellings 99 words
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5. Listed Buildings 329 words
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6. Right to Buy 142 words
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7. Local Government (Finance) 131 words
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8. Nurseries 706 words
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9. Structure Plans 457 words
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10. West Yorkshire Structure Plan 125 words
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11. Rate Poundage 50 words
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12. Rates (Agriculture) 104 words
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13. Defective Housing 71 words
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14. Asbestos (Faslane) 243 words
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15. Heat and Power Feasibility Studies (London) 58 words
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16. Homeless Persons (West Midlands) 582 words
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17. Home Improvement Exhibition (Upper Waiting Hall) 111 words
12. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. EC (Budget) 279 words
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2. £1 Notes 81 words
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3. Post-war Credits 148 words
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4. £2·50 Note 48 words
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5. Customs and Excise 124 words
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6. North Sea Oil (Revenue) 48 words
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7. Fiscal Adjustment 222 words
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8. Public Sector Assets (Sales) 64 words
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9. Insolvency 74 words
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10. EC (Budget) 125 words
13. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. NHS (Pay) 34 words
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2. Doctors (Contracts) 50 words
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3. Dental Technicians 66 words
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4. Supplementary Benefit 153 words
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5. NHS Patients (Private Treatment) 110 words
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6. Dr. Charles Entwhistle 53 words
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7. North-Western RHA (Resources) 291 words
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8. Hospitalisation Index 225 words
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9. Attendance Allowance 73 words
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10. Patients (Discharges) 64 words
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11. Cremations (Form B) 53 words
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12. Organidin Syrup 62 words
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13. St. Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth 111 words
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14. General Dental Service 51 words
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15. Limited List Prescribing 278 words
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16. Mr. Alexander Haddow 130 words
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17. Coal Industry Dispute (Social Security Payments) 115 words
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18. Public Health Laboratory Service 77 words
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19. Legionnaire's Disease (Stafford) 125 words
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20. Children Act 300 words
14. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Olive Oil 160 words
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2. Sheepmeat 230 words
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3. Seed Oil 573 words
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4. Peas and Beans 242 words
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5. Hill Farming 101 words
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6. Surpluses 63 words
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7. Pressure Stock Licences (Freezer Trawlers) 55 words
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8. Northern Ireland Milk Quota 82 words
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9. Agricultural Holdings Act 71 words
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10. Annual Review White Paper 177 words
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11. Farmers (Income) 119 words
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12. Agricultural Land 99 words
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13. Sherry 142 words
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14. EC (Warehouses) 50 words
15. WALES
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1. Broadleaved Woodlands 63 words
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2. Labour Statistics 173 words
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3. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances 360 words
16. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Departmental Committees of Inquiry 2,673 words
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2. Inter-authority Education Costs 76 words
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3. Adult Post-experience Courses (West Midlands) 200 words
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4. Students (Tuition Fees) 288 words
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5. Student Numbers (West Midlands) 178 words
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6. Universities 178 words
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7. Foreign Language Teaching 637 words
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8. EC (School Visits) 118 words
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9. Advanced Supplementary Level Examination 147 words
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10. Burnham Committee Teachers' Panel 58 words
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11. Drug Abuse 411 words
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12. Full-time Education (Statistics) 221 words
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13. Expenditure 68 words
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14. Education Act 1981 (Appeals) 141 words
17. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Ethiopia and Sudan 155 words
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2. Chile 49 words
18. SCOTLAND
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1. Elderly Persons (Assaults) 54 words
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2. Environmental Health 71 words
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3. Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Bill 39 words
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4. Sea Fisheries Offences and Salmon Poaching 220 words
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5. Children (Education Costs) 61 words
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6. Broadleaved Woodlands 173 words
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7. Shipbuilding Industry 46 words
19. DEFENCE
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1. Greenham common and Molesworth (Byelaw Offences) 307 words
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2. Type 23 Frigate 37 words
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3. Rosyth Dockyard 60 words
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4. Asbestos 40 words
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5. Oberon (Refitting) 133 words
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6. Royal Dockyards 109 words
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7. "Crown Jewels" 52 words
20. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
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1. Mr. Steven Owen 88 words
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2. Parliamentary Questions 370 words
21. TRANSPORT
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1. London Regional Transport 172 words
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2. Tolls 55 words
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3. European Community (Shipping Cabotage) 86 words
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4. Pedestrians and Cyclists (Accidents) 46 words
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5. European Community (Shipping Policy) 136 words
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6. Rural Areas (Subsidies) 95 words
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7. A650 Airedale Route 47 words
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8. M1 Motorway 76 words
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9. Untaxed Vehicles 83 words
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10. West German Waters (Cabotage) 120 words
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11. British Rail (Electrification) 103 words
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12. Cars (Lead-free Petrol) 184 words
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13. British Rail (Investment) 75 words
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14. Europe (Air Service Deregulation) 86 words
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15. Transport Bill 47 words
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16. Air Traffic Control 102 words
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17. All-purpose Trunk Roads 39 words
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18. North Circular Road 66 words
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19. Vehicle Parking Restrictions 139 words
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20. Midlands Link Motorways 128 words
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21. Motorway Repairs (Grout) 82 words
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22. "Highway Code" 60 words
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23. Docks (London and Liverpool) 1,292 words
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24. Roads Programme 64 words
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25. Consultants 227 words

Lords Sitting of 13 May 1985 Series 5 Vol. 463

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1. Preamble 23 words
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2. Gas Industry Privatisation Policy 1,504 words
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3. M.1: Proposed Lane Closures 568 words
cc889-91
4. Social Security: Green Paper 815 words
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5. Cinema Films: Copyright Infringements 1,107 words
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6. Business 125 words
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7. Durham City Council Bill [H.L.] 11 words
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8. Glensanda Harbour Order Confirmation Bill 3 words
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9. Local Government Bill 13,633 words, 1 division
cc918-29
10. Football Grounds: Safety 6,413 words
cc929-34
11. British Aerospace: Share Offer 2,773 words
cc935-57
12. Local Government Bill 12,322 words, 1 division
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13. Films Bill 30 words
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14. COMMONS REASON FOR DISAGREEING TO THE LORDS AMENDMENT 15 words
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15. LORDS AMENDMENT 214 words
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16. MOTION TO BE MOVED ON CONSIDERATION OF COMMONS REASON 5,085 words, 1 division
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17. Local Government Bill 22,020 words
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18. Berkshire Bill [H.L.] 8 words
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19. Charities Bill [H.L.] 14 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 13 May 1985 Series 5 Vol. 463

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1. EASTERN BLOC CITIZENS: IMMIGRATION 124 words
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2. PRISONERS' LETTERS: POSTCODES 43 words
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3. NORTHERN IRELAND: COMPENSATION FOR WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT 57 words
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4. NORTHERN IRELAND: STANDING ADVISORY COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 116 words
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5. NAVAL FORCES AND ARMS SYSTEMS: UN STUDY 92 words
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6. SEA-BED RESOURCES 128 words
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7. MPs AND MEPs: SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES 532 words