Sitting of 21 October 1985

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Commons Sitting of 21 October 1985 Series 6 Vol. 84

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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1. DEATH OF A MEMBER 50 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. WALES
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1. Labour Statistics 1,674 words
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2. NHS Staff (Pay) 705 words
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3. Council House Sales 495 words
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4. Secondary Schoolchildren 704 words
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5. Labour Statistics 467 words
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6. Wages Councils 528 words
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7. NHS Expenditure 547 words
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8. Courtaulds Plant, Greenfield 362 words
2. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
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1. Parsonages and Bishops' Palaces 193 words
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2. Stipendiary Ministry (Pay, Pensions and Housing) 421 words
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3. St. Alban's Church, Teddington 192 words
3. WALES
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1. Labour Statistics 506 words
4. THE ARTS
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1. Regional Arts Associations 656 words
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2. Private Sponsorship 391 words
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3. National Heritage Fund 271 words
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4. Private Sponsorship 329 words
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4. Palestine Liberation Organisation 2,213 words
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5. Oral Questions 593 words
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6. Business of the House 1,868 words
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7. Inner City Disorders 8,974 words
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8. Board and Lodging Payments 4,119 words
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9. Steel Industry 666 words
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10. Design and Innovation 11,294 words
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11. Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill 22,309 words, 1 division
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12. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 46 words
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13. Housing Bill [Lords] 1,841 words
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1. HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS BILL [LORDS] 18 words
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2. HOUSING (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL [LORDS] 17 words
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3. LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL [LORDS] 17 words
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14. Weights and Measures Bill [Lords] 88 words
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15. Dartford Tunnel 3,970 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 October 1985 Series 6 Vol. 84

1. THE ARTS
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1. Public Funding 55 words
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2. London (Arts Provision) 41 words
2. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. European Community (Exports) 353 words
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2. European Community (Export Rebates) 104 words
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3. Salmon 42 words
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4. Wine 214 words
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5. Animals (Ritual Slaughter) 116 words
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6. Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 375 words
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7. Badgers 427 words
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8. Bovine Tuberculosis 182 words
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9. Nuclear Waste 41 words
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10. Moorland 92 words
3. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Value Added Tax 255 words
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2. Trustee Savings Bank (Scotland) 53 words
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3. Premium Bonds 87 words
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4. Gross Domestic Product 63 words
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5. Treaty Shopping 71 words
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6. Departmental Expenditure 136 words
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7. Business Expansion Scheme 275 words
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8. Venture Capital 133 words
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9. Cable and Wireless 133 words
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10. Prime Ministers (Pensions) 184 words
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11. Budget Council 304 words
4. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Appeals 76 words
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2. Microelectronics Education Programme 67 words
5. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Middle East Visit 182 words
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2. Northern Ireland 72 words
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3. Broadcasting (Programme Content) 177 words
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4. Departmental Expenditure 97 words
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5. Commonwealth Conference 40 words
6. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Parliamentary Pensions Acts 65 words
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2. Pahoomal Family 97 words
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3. HMS Conqueror 147 words
7. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Politicisation 70 words
8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. BBC and IBA (Competition) 277 words
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2. Shipbuilding (Intervention Fund) 166 words
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3. Shipbuilding (Restructuring) 187 words
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4. Soft Loans 80 words
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5. Flue Gas Desulphurisation 117 words
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6. Safety of Goods 76 words
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7. Consumer Protection 125 words
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8. Draught Beer 102 words
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9. Departmental Staff 84 words
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10. Telecommunications Industry 110 words
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11. Telephone Sales 144 words
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12. Companies (Research and Development) 72 words
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13. Overseas Contracts 183 words
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14. Tape Imports 91 words
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15. Johnson Matthey Bankers 99 words
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16. Trade Statistics 186 words
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17. Polychlorinated Biphenyls 189 words
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18. Alvey Programme 125 words
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19. European Space Agency 97 words
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20. Private Sector Employers 105 words
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21. Capital Investment 242 words
9. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Aid and Trade 164 words
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2. Grenada 118 words
10. ENERGY
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1. Wave Power 133 words
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2. Experimental Boreholes 132 words
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3. Uranium 583 words
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4. Energy Managers 108 words
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5. Coal (Cost) 243 words
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6. Flue Gas Desulphurisation 92 words
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7. Departmental Expenditure 54 words
11. DEFENCE
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1. Hercules Aircraft 170 words
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2. Military Service 72 words
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3. Salisbury Plain 77 words
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4. Land Acquisition (Stainmore) 90 words
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5. Royal Dockyards 508 words
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6. Defence Industries 44 words
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7. Multi-launch Rocket System 104 words
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8. Land-Air Operations 234 words
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9. Strategic Defence Initiative 99 words
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10. HMS Antrim 54 words
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11. Departmental Expenditure 124 words
12. TRANSPORT
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1. Road Safety 234 words
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2. Manchester-Blackpool Rail Link 117 words
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3. Wellan Green Railway Station 84 words
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4. Transport Spending 353 words
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5. British Rail (Wales) 53 words
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6. Road Planning 195 words
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7. Departmental Expenditure 126 words
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8. Docklands Light Railway 94 words
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9. Isle of Dogs 31 words
13. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Telephones 27 words
14. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Community Programme 87 words
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2. Gas Safety 55 words
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3. Employment Statistics 661 words
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4. Unemployment Benefit 309 words
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5. New Businesses 279 words
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6. Sex Discrimination 262 words
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7. Departmental Expenditure 102 words
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8. Youth Training Scheme 81 words
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9. Wages Councils 89 words
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10. Employment (Discrimination) 24 words
15. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Violent Crime 112 words
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2. Rape Victims 103 words
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3. Prevention of Terrorism 750 words
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4. Alcoholic Liquor Licences 169 words
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5. Alcohol (Retail Sales) 84 words
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6. Council of Europe Convention on Pet Animals 70 words
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7. Litter 112 words
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8. Animals (Illegal Imports) 540 words
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9. Murder Statistics 103 words
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10. Offences Against Young Persons 527 words
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11. Fighting Dogs 78 words
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12. Police Officers (Code of Conduct) 187 words
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13. Metropolitan Police (Ethnic Membership) 52 words
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14. Dog Fights 93 words
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15. Racial Attacks 249 words
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16. Scarman Report 108 words
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17. Commission for Racial Equality 396 words
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18. Metropolitan Police (Equipment) 205 words
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19. Women (Prosecutions) 136 words
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20. Drug Offences 53 words
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21. Metropolitan Police (CS Gas and Plastic Bullets) 313 words
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22. Metropolitan Police (Troop Support) 31 words
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23. Water Cannon (Crowd Control) 83 words
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24. Departmental Expenditure 185 words
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25. Metropolitan Police (Firearms Injuries) 197 words
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26. Metropolitan Police (Firearms Training) 123 words
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27. Liverpool 44 words
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28. Toxteth (Disturbances) 257 words
16. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Board and Lodging 46 words
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2. Private Hospitals 179 words
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3. Competitive Tendering 242 words
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4. Health Authorities (Catering Services) 66 words
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5. NHS (Catering) 182 words
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6. Health Authorities (Private Laundries) 123 words
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7. Gas Poisoning 140 words
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8. Fire Deaths 238 words
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9. Drownings 196 words
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10. McColl Committee Report 153 words
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11. Invalidity Benefit 613 words
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12. Limited List Prescribing 180 words
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13. Supplementary Benefit 372 words
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14. St. Mark's Hospital, Maidenhead 192 words
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15. Rhodesian Service Pensions 148 words
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16. War Pensions (Staff) 143 words
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17. Departmental Expenditure 155 words
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18. Christmas Bonus 159 words
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19. Mr. Paul Escott 58 words
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20. Supplementary Benefit 179 words
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21. Feverfew 160 words
17. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Salmon 98 words
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2. Deaths and Injuries (Statistics) 875 words
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3. Demonstrations and Processions 129 words
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4. Royal Prerogative 165 words
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5. Belfast City Hospital 212 words
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6. Maze Prison 327 words
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7. Scheduled Offences 45 words
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8. Regional Assistance 391 words
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9. Public Expenditure 401 words
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10. Rates 217 words
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11. Recreational Facilities 184 words
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12. Education (Funding) 262 words
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13. Housing (Funding) 160 words
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14. Teachers 66 words
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15. Mr. John De Lorean 64 words
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16. Youth Training 104 words
18. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Treaty of Rome 108 words
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2. Constitution 74 words
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3. Non-proliferation Treaty 141 words
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4. Royal Highland Show 129 words
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5. Departmental Expenditure 224 words
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6. India 92 words
19. WALES
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1. Capital Grants Scheme 156 words
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2. Labour Statistics 107 words
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3. Rural Development, Powys 72 words
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4. Common Agricultural Policy 99 words
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5. Roadworks 139 words
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6. House Building 66 words
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7. Bankruptcies and Company Liquidations 70 words
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8. Sunday Trading 56 words
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9. Home-School Liaison 180 words
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10. Parrot Corporation 214 words
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11. Public Housing (Sales) 123 words
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12. Defective Housing 222 words
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13. Mineral Resources 550 words
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14. Welsh Voluntary Trust 55 words
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15. Children (Eczema and Diabetes) 84 words
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16. Local Education Authorities 61 words
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17. Road Maintenance 144 words
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18. Hotel and Catering Trade 240 words
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19. Dangerous Drugs (Advice and Counselling) 143 words
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20. Housing 317 words
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21. Education (Parental Contributions) 65 words
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22. Council House Rents 645 words
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23. Rates 64 words
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24. Hospital Statistics 46 words
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25. O and A-level Examinations 230 words
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26. Play Groups 130 words
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27. Alpha Steel 75 words
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28. Community Programme 71 words
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29. Welsh Development Agency 626 words
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30. Job Creation 146 words
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31. Derelict Land Reclamation 364 words
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32. Agriculture 95 words
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33. National Health Service (Pest Control) 71 words
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34. Voluntary Work 71 words
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35. Employment Statistics 2,331 words
20. SCOTLAND
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1. Drinking Water 281 words
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2. Generic Medicines 150 words
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3. Forestry Commission (Regional Advisory Committees) 159 words
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4. Re-Chem Plants 119 words
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5. West of Scotland Agricultural College 104 words
21. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Housing Expenditure 105 words
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2. Housing Investment Programme (Walsall) 81 words
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3. Birtenshaw Farm, Bolton 68 words
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4. Rate Support Grant 76 words
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5. Water Authorities (Privatisation) 103 words
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6. Lifts (Emergency Telephones) 122 words
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7. Homes Insulation Scheme 379 words
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8. Sand and Gravel 64 words
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9. Radioactivity 363 words
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10. St. Barnabas Community Centre 89 words
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11. Water Authorities (Official Communications) 63 words
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12. Water 1,090 words
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13. Private House Building (London) 151 words
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14. Pollution 1,394 words
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15. Land Disposal (London) 78 words
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16. Isle of Dogs 378 words
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17. Greater London Council 74 words
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18. London Residuary Body 1,501 words
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19. Waste Disposal (London) 556 words
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20. Nuclear Waste 68 words
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21. London Ecology Centre 30 words
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22. Departmental Expenditure 139 words
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23. London Co-ordinating Committee 51 words
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24. Planning (London) 259 words
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25. Rates (London) 164 words
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26. London Docklands Development Corporation 69 words
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27. Unitary Development Plans 62 words
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28. Radioactive Mud (Disposal) 124 words
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29. County Hall 39 words

Lords Sitting of 21 October 1985 Series 5 Vol. 467

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Strategic Defence Initiative: NATO Discussions 611 words
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3. Aid and Trade Provision: Administration 960 words
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4. Armageddon: US Leaders' Statements 1,453 words
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5. GLC: Transfer of Functions 430 words
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6. Business 67 words
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7. Associated British Ports (Port of Ayr) Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.] 3 words
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8. Church of Scotland Trust (Amendment) Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.] 3 words
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9. European Union: ECC Report 11,024 words
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10. Civil Disorders 6,437 words
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11. Board and Lodging Payments 2,445 words
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12. European Union: ECC Report 20,601 words
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13. CAP Reform: ECC Report 26,652 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 21 October 1985 Series 5 Vol. 467

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1. BBC STAFF: SECURITY VETTING 116 words
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2. UK IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION STATISTICS 303 words
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3. EMPLOYMENT: COMPARATIVE PERCENTAGE INCREASES 248 words
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4. DIRECT BROADCASTING BY SATELLITE TO USSR 82 words
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5. PERFORMING ARTS: PUBLIC FUNDING STATISTICS 176 words
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6. ECOLOGICAL ADVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) 234 words