Sitting of 11 November 1985

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Commons Sitting of 11 November 1985 Series 6 Vol. 86

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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1. PRIVATE BUSINESS 55 words
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2. LOTHIAN REGION (EDINURGH WESTERN RELIEF ROAD) 50 words
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3. PETERHEAD HARBOURS (SOUTH BAY DEVELOPMENT) 49 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. TRANSPORT
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1. Concessionary Fares 803 words
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2. M25 553 words
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3. London Regional Transport 765 words
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4. Road Maintenance 730 words
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5. Inter-city Services 730 words
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6. Dial-a-ride Services 536 words
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7. A1 (Safety) 338 words
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8. National Roads Programme 235 words
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9. Motorway Safety 345 words
2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. City Fraud 410 words
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2. Middlesex Crown Court Buildings 165 words
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3. Police Officers (Prosecution) 440 words
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4. Drug Smuggling 473 words
3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Africa (Emergency Aid) 552 words
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2. Contingency Fund (Aid Budget) 166 words
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3. Ethiopia 245 words
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4. Africa (Agriculture) 827 words
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4. Suspension of a Member 1,998 words, 1 division
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5. Statutory Instruments, &c 171 words
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6. Ten Minutes Rule 119 words
7. Orders of the Day
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1. Debate on the Address 78 words
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2. Social Security and Education 46,891 words
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3. Trafford Health Authority 3,286 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 11 November 1985 Series 6 Vol. 86

1. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Urban Development Grant 197 words
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2. Defective Council Housing 61 words
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3. Owner-Occupiers (Mortgages) 66 words
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4. Homelessness 178 words
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5. Housing Capital Allocation (Brent) 194 words
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6. Planning Appeal No. APP/A5270/A85/31065 51 words
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7. Established Use Certificates 102 words
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8. Amey Roadstone 253 words
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9. Empty Properties 42 words
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10. Acid Rain 1,100 words
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11. Haringey (Direct Labour Organisation) 80 words
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12. Rehousing Agreements (London) 87 words
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13. Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission 134 words
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14. Waste Regulation and Disposal 195 words
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15. Draft Property Transfer Orders 173 words
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16. Local Government Reform 522 words
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17. Atmospheric Pollution 142 words
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18. Radioactive Waste 252 words
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19. Canary Wharf Site, Isle of Dogs 174 words
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20. European Regional Development Fund 113 words
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21. Further Education (Report) 91 words
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22. Local Authority Manpower 72 words
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23. Commissioner for Local Administration 103 words
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24. Grants (Cumbria) 94 words
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25. Development Commission 146 words
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26. London (Trust) 146 words
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27. Public Accounts Committee (Treasury Minute) 217 words
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28. Building Control 90 words
2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Northern Ireland (Trial Delays) 78 words
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2. Legal Aid 278 words
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3. Official Secrets Act 86 words
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4. Jury Trials 83 words
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5. Duty Solicitor Scheme 93 words
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6. Falklands War (Cabinet Deliberations) 81 words
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7. Celaton Laboratory Research and Jacobson Chemicals Ltd. 133 words
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8. Mr. Costas Elenas 210 words
3. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Jury System 132 words
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2. Boards of Visitors (Applicants) 76 words
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3. Police (Uniforms) 104 words
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4. Section 11 Grants 242 words
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5. Police (Liverpool) 100 words
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6. Drunk-driving Offences (Wales) 114 words
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7. Dwarf Throwing Competitions (Government Policy) 168 words
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8. Cinematograph (Safety) Regulations 155 words
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9. Immigration (Entry Refusals) 269 words
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10. Deportations (Hon. Member's Interventions) 177 words
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11. Operation Julie (Sentences) 248 words
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12. Commission for Racial Equality 382 words
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13. Night-Clubs (Certificate Fees) 61 words
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14. Mrs. Shreela Flather 72 words
4. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Aid Budget 63 words
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2. Famine (EC Contingency Reserve) 74 words
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3. Developing Countries 62 words
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4. Sudan 89 words
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5. Developing Countries (Agriculture Aid) 111 words
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6. Developing Countries (Agriculture Aid) 71 words
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7. Sub-Saharan Africa 51 words
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8. Aid Programme 106 words
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9. Famine (Aid) 138 words
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10. Developing Countries (Debt) 61 words
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11. Central America (Aid) 89 words
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12. The Gambia 140 words
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13. Share-Scholarship Scheme 84 words
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14. St. Helena (Airfield) 93 words
5. WALES
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1. Amey Roadstone 56 words
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2. Unemployment Statistics 657 words
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3. European Regional Development Fund 53 words
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4. Welsh Language 92 words
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5. Health Expenditure 1,142 words
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6. Local Authority Manpower Watch 114 words
6. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Sub-postmasters 448 words
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2. Electronics Industry (United States Inspectors) 143 words
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3. Auctions 121 words
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4. Business Statistics (Questionnaires) 194 words
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5. Reveivership (East Anglia) 191 words
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6. "The Observer" 357 words
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7. Human Tissue 58 words
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8. Audio and Video Recording Tape 146 words
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9. Cement 93 words
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10. Football (Television Coverage) 116 words
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11. British Telecom 104 words
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12. Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and Sealink (Merger) 110 words
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13. Gross Domestic Product 215 words
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14. Secondary Schools (Enterprise Activity) 241 words
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15. Rolls-Royce Ltd. 102 words
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16. European Steel Council 214 words
7. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Steel Plating Mill (Mexico) 187 words
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2. Farm Produce (Fraud) 150 words
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3. Draft Emergency Legislation 96 words
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4. EUREKA Project 185 words
8. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. International Youth Year 85 words
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2. CERN 54 words
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3. Open University 84 words
9. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Labour Statistics (Wandsworth) 92 words
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2. Trade Union Rule Books 469 words
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3. Labour Statistics 952 words
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4. Gas Explosions 99 words
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5. Small Businesses 117 words
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6. Labour Statistics (Birkenhead) 1,476 words
10. ENERGY
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1. Semi-submersible Tharos (Incident) 294 words
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2. THORP 123 words
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3. Plutonium 210 words
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4. British Gas (Money Exchanges) 71 words
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5. Nationalised Industries (Accounts) 109 words
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6. Gas Levy 42 words
11. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Land Classification 167 words
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2. Crop Spraying 147 words
12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Gibraltar 229 words
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2. Libya 39 words
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3. Hong Kong and Singapore 136 words
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4. Singapore 78 words
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5. Indonesia 157 words
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6. Afghanistan 86 words
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7. Falkland Islands (Film) 55 words
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8. Plutonium 147 words
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9. Non-proliferation Treaty 232 words
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10. Commonwealth Commission (Membership) 71 words
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11. Immigration 138 words
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12. East Timor 112 words
13. SCOTLAND
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1. A68 Bypass 61 words
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2. Peterhead Prison (Incident) 86 words
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3. Housing 236 words
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4. Amey Roadstone (Contracts) 43 words
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5. Meningitis 797 words
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6. Acid Rain 108 words
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7. Drug Dependency Units 80 words
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8. Labour Statistics 431 words
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9. Youth Training 58 words
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10. Earnings 152 words
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11. Campsie, Baldernoch Local Plan 40 words
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12. Amphetamines 152 words
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13. Drugs (Hospital Admissions) 45 words
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14. Manufacturing Industry (Decline) 64 words
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15. Manpower Watch 65 words
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16. Cash Limits 144 words
14. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Officers and Staff (Negative Vetting) 53 words
15. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Value Added Tax 64 words
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2. Demand 48 words
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3. Export Bank 321 words
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4. Oil and Gas Revenues 74 words
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5. Asset Sales 229 words
16. TRANSPORT
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1. Testing Stations 88 words
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2. London-Weymouth Line 39 words
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3. British Airlines 51 words
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4. Channel Fixed Link 357 words
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5. Goods (Rail Carriage) 43 words
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6. Severn Bridge 148 words
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7. Roads (Greater London) 81 words
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8. National Bus Company 70 words
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9. Driving Tests 133 words
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10. Perry Oaks Sludge Works 73 words
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11. M25 (Hertfordshire) 50 words
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12. Taxicard Scheme (London) 71 words
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13. British Rail (Locomotives and Rolling Stock) 64 words
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14. Midland Links Motorway 132 words
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15. Regional Airports 65 words
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16. Drivers (Alcohol Limit) 37 words
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17. Motorways (Safety) 127 words
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18. Concessionary Fares 100 words
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19. British Railways Board 57 words
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20. Manchester International Airport 80 words
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21. British Rail Engineering Ltd. 176 words
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22. A127 (Accident Statistics) 153 words
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23. Motorways (Contraflow Systems) 57 words
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24. Roads Programme 104 words
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25. Transport and Travel Consultancies 79 words
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26. Roundabouts (Priority) 77 words
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27. A629-A650 (Airedale Route) 74 words
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28. Lorries (City of London) 187 words
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29. Shipping Policy 45 words
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30. British Airways 25 words
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31. British Rail (Investment) 33 words
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32. Tachographs 60 words
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33. British Airports Authority 43 words
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34. Dial-a-ride (London) 52 words
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35. Air Services (Europe) 143 words
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36. BR (Track Maintenance) 39 words
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37. London Airports 69 words
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38. Docklands Light Railway 64 words
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39. M1 (Traffic Flows) 126 words
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40. Brampton Bypass 44 words
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41. M25 (Repair Costs) 391 words
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42. A38 (Crash Barriers) 60 words
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43. British Rail (Electrification) 39 words
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44. Lorry Ban (London) 102 words
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45. Amey Roadstone 107 words
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46. Motorways (Contraflow Systems) 187 words
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47. M1/M25 126 words
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48. Traffic and Transportation Engineers 132 words
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49. M66 46 words
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50. British Rail (Privatisation) 48 words
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51. Woolwich Ferry 35 words
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52. Thames Bridges and Rotherhithe Tunnel 201 words
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53. Blackwall Tunnel 37 words
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54. Urban Traffic Control (London) 44 words
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55. Metropolitan Roads 83 words
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56. Bus Services (Leicestershire) 67 words
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57. North Devon Link Road Inquiry 192 words
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58. Public Transport (West Yorkshire) 37 words
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59. Pilotage 132 words
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60. Hire Cars (London) 118 words
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61. Aircraft Safety 156 words
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62. Dartford Tunnel 135 words
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63. Cash Limits 123 words
17. DEFENCE
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1. Lieutenant-Colonel Boyle 37 words
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2. United States-United Kingdom Lines of Communication Agreement 121 words
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3. NATO (Logistical Resources) 79 words
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4. United States-United Kingdom Logistic Plans 40 words
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5. GCHQ, Cheltenham 215 words
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6. Rosyth Dockyard 283 words
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7. Defence Jobs 93 words
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8. Cash Limits 131 words
18. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Laryngectomy Speech Aids 115 words
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2. Consultants 508 words
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3. Community Care 124 words
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4. Dental Care 70 words
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5. Nurses (Accommodation) 125 words
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6. Supplementary Benefit 221 words
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7. Orthopaedic Surgery 1,282 words
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8. Human Tissue 261 words
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9. Ethical Committees 37 words
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10. Board and Lodging Allowance 96 words
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11. NHS (Beds) 313 words
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12. Social Security Reform 87 words
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13. Stanley Royd Hospital (Salmonella) 30 words
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14. Hospitals (Wartime Measures) 225 words
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15. Severe Weather Payments 131 words
19. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Youth Training Programme 29 words
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2. Liverpool (Benefit Payments) 81 words
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3. Expenditure Statistics 387 words
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4. Library Services 85 words
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5. School Governors 157 words
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6. Mr. Fred Crozier 54 words
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7. Cash Limits 314 words
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8. Quarterly Joint Manpower Watch 65 words