Sitting of 17 February 1986

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Commons Sitting of 17 February 1986 Series 6 Vol. 92

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. ENERGY
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1. Coal Industry Dispute 515 words
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2. Wind Energy 359 words
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3. Alternative Energy Supplies 881 words
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4. Coal Industry (Private Investment) 635 words
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5. Gas Flaring 180 words
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6. Gas Industry (Privatisation) 699 words
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7. NCB (Enterprise) Ltd. 557 words
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8. Union of Democratic Mineworkers 470 words
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9. Coal Industry (Colliery Review Procedure) 648 words
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10. Oil Production 368 words
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11. Energy Efficiency 158 words
2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Members' Facilities 668 words
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2. Palace of Westminster (Cleaning) 300 words
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3. Anglo-Irish Parliamentary Tier 394 words
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4. Members' Offices 195 words
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5. Press Accommodation 202 words
3. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Ethnic Minority School Leavers 564 words
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2. Westland plc (FDA Representations) 995 words
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4. British Leyland 3,441 words
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5. Exceptionally Severe Weather Payments 3,360 words
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6. Colliery Review Procedure 538 words
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7. Conventions of the House 348 words
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8. News International Plant, Wapping 787 words
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9. British Leyland 515 words
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10. Royal Assent 53 words
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1. COMMONWEALTH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BILL [LORDS] 16 words
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11. Gas Bill (Allocation of Time) 24,898 words, 1 division
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1. Committee 85 words
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2. Report and Third Reading 204 words
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3. Procedure in Standing Committee 148 words
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4. Conclusion of proceedings in Committee 26 words
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5. Dilatory Motions 46 words
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6. Extra time on allotted days 127 words
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7. Private business 99 words
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8. Conclusion of proceedings 423 words
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9. Supplemental orders 149 words
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10. Saving 79 words
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11. Recommittal 76 words
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12. Interpretation 106 words
13. Orders of the Day
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1. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Bill [Lords]: 17,604 words
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2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 25,034 words, 1 division
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3. ANIMALS (SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURES) BILL [Lords] [MONEY] 44 words
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4. ANIMALS (SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURES) BILL [Lords] [WAYS AND MEANS] 31 words
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5. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 18 words
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6. AGRICULTURE 35 words
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7. MEMBERS' INTERESTS 40 words
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14. Acklington and Castington Prisons 4,665 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 17 February 1986 Series 6 Vol. 92

1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Criminal Trials (Fees) 183 words
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2. Westland plc (Immunity from Prosecution) 160 words
2. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Common Fisheries Policy 93 words
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2. Pelagic Fishing 33 words
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3. Fishing Nets (Mesh Size) 162 words
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4. Surplus Foodstuffs 293 words
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5. River Mersey (Silt) 271 words
3. WALES
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1. NHS (Finance) 320 words
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2. Beef Production 97 words
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3. Beef Variable Premium Scheme 85 words
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4. Agriculture 38 words
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5. Capital Expenditure (Holyhead) 96 words
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6. Perinatal Mortality 73 words
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7. Re-Chem, Pontypool 64 words
4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Select Committees 89 words
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2. Adjournment Applications 94 words
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3. Departmental Staff 34 words
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4. Staff Inspector 203 words
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5. Official Report 85 words
5. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Olga and Alexi Lusnikov 97 words
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2. Enterprise Zones 346 words
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3. Civil Servants 99 words
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4. Westland plc 761 words
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5. Civil Service 347 words
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6. Select Committees (Witnesses) 159 words
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7. Nationalised Industries (Chairmen's Salaries) 331 words
6. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Tobacco Industry 71 words
7. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Schools (Insurance) 394 words
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2. Inner London Education Authority 504 words
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3. Student Places (Financial Allocation) 175 words
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4. Secondary Education 113 words
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5. Research Grants 87 words
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6. GCSE Examinations 78 words
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7. Students (Grants) 65 words
8. SCOTLAND
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1. Scottish Development Agency 54 words
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2. Electricity Generation 56 words
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3. Coatbridge Project 148 words
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4. Accident Statistics 310 words
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5. Regional Assistance 484 words
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6. Tain-Golspie Line 101 words
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7. Highlands and Islands Development Board 323 words
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8. Rents 72 words
9. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Hazardous Installations (Wales) 46 words
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2. Brightside Lane Warehouse Fire 513 words
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3. Regional Directors (Functions) 132 words
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4. Regional Enterprise Units 116 words
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5. Labour Statistics 295 words
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6. News International (Wapping Premises) 50 words
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7. Community Programme 78 words
10. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
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1. Accountant in Bankruptcy 142 words
11. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Civil Servants (Initiative Rewards) 163 words
12. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Ethiopia 1,430 words
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2. Commonwealth Development Corporation 62 words
13. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Vietnamese Refugees 665 words
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2. Human Rights (Poland) 282 words
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3. Russian Jews (Emigration) 279 words
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4. Philippines 64 words
14. ENERGY
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1. Energy Efficiency Demonstration Scheme 80 words
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2. Oil Prices 110 words
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3. Energy Efficiency 390 words
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4. Polkemmet Bing 52 words
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5. Combined Heat and Power Schemes 192 words
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6. Housing (Insulation) 66 words
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7. Coal Industry (Productivity) 77 words
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8. Offshore Supplies Industry 74 words
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9. Coal Industry 441 words
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10. NCB (Enterprise) Ltd. 54 words
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11. Wind Energy 78 words
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12. Industrial Energy Costs 50 words
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13. NCB (Reorganisation) 67 words
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14. Energy Projects (EC Assistance) 88 words
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15. Coal Industry (Pit Closures) 130 words
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16. Offshore Supplies Industry 172 words
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17. Coal Industry (Colliery Review Procedure) 55 words
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18. North Sea Oil 124 words
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19. National Fuel Distributors 58 words
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20. Colliery Accidents 173 words
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21. Colliery Manpower 78 words
15. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Local Authorities (Tendering) 61 words
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2. Association of Metropolitan Authorities 78 words
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3. National Parks 209 words
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4. Welfare Benefits Project 67 words
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5. News International (Wapping) 92 words
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6. Home Ownership 87 words
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7. GLC (Grants) 142 words
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8. Green Belt 70 words
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9. Voluntary Bodies (Transitional Funding) 84 words
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10. Housing Defects Act 749 words
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11. Polychlorinated Biphenyls (Shipment) 101 words
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12. Local Income Tax 73 words
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13. Chatham Dockyard 168 words
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14. Nuclear Waste 165 words
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15. Building Research Advisory Services 121 words
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16. London Docklands Development Corporation 45 words
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17. Council House Sales 111 words
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18. London Boroughs (Transitional Funding) 315 words
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19. Nature Conservancy Council 83 words
16. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Crime Statistics 208 words
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2. Citizenship 651 words
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3. Holloway Prison 76 words
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4. Drunkenness 171 words
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5. Police (Complaints) 137 words
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6. Sexual Offences Act 1985 155 words
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7. Gloucestershire County Constabulary 80 words
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8. Neighbourhood Watch Schemes 84 words
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9. Oakham Police Station 124 words
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10. Passports 691 words
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11. Prison Workshops 115 words
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12. Magistrates Courts (Case Delays) 108 words
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13. Prisons (Drug Abuse) 164 words
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14. Prisoners (Training) 139 words
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15. Immigration 330 words
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16. Police (Expenditure) 160 words
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17. Community Radio 340 words
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18. Citizenship 91 words
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19. Policing (Humberside) 86 words
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20. Victim Support Schemes 145 words
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21. Remembrance Ceremony, Whitehall 59 words
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22. Dr. Frank Skuse 39 words
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23. Prevention of Terrorism Act (Sikhs) 60 words
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24. Leicestershire Constabulary 192 words
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25. Paul Hill 278 words
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26. Interception of Communications Act 1985 67 words
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27. Drugs (Offences) 182 words
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28. News International (Work Permits) 69 words
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29. Drug Addict 45 words
17. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Public Expenditure 217 words
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2. Mr. E. Harvey 263 words
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3. Mr. Anthony Miller (Correspondence) 56 words
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4. Ticket Sales (VAT) 42 words
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5. Nationalised Industries 51 words
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6. Taxation 128 words
18. THE ARTS
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1. Voluntary Bodies 343 words
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2. Liverpool (Ministerial Visit) 34 words
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3. South Bank Board 75 words
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4. The Arts (Merseyside) 191 words
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5. Ethnic Minority Arts 67 words
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6. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 27 words
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7. Liverpool Philharmonic Hall 85 words
19. DEFENCE
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1. Research 77 words
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2. Aircraft Sales (Saudi Arabia) 199 words
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3. Tucano Trainer Aircraft 32 words
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4. ROF Birtley 125 words
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5. Jordan (Armaments Contract) 85 words
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6. RNAY Fleetlands 98 words
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7. RN Captain (Pay) 117 words
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8. RIMPAC Naval Exercise 254 words
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9. Ships Containing Chemical Weapons 45 words
20. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Widows' Allowance 113 words
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2. SERPS 193 words
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3. Health Care (Costs) 136 words
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4. Grant Claims (Walthamstow) 129 words
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5. Constant Attendance Allowance 81 words
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6. Special Hardship Allowance 942 words
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7. Kidney Patients 143 words
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8. Speech Therapists 83 words
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9. Helping the Community to Care Scheme 68 words
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10. NHS (Ancillary Workers) 65 words
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11. Pensions and Benefits 185 words
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12. Advisory Committee on Drugs 128 words
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13. Disablement Benefit 119 words
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14. North-West RHA (Membership) 49 words
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15. Cadaver Kidneys 217 words
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16. Victim Support Schemes 92 words
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17. Severe Weather Payments 115 words
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18. Young People (Drinking Patterns) 70 words
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19. Specialist Claims Control 132 words
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20. Benefit Fraud 52 words
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21. Under-age Girls (Contraception) 530 words
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22. Single Homeless People 97 words
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23. Earnings-related Pensions 308 words
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24. General Medical Council (Chairman) 29 words
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25. Social Security Reform 470 words
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26. Mentally Ill People 102 words
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27. Psychiatric Service 46 words
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28. Wrights Vaporising Equipment 85 words
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29. Post-operative Infections 284 words
21. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Induction Loops 86 words
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2. Literary and Artistic Works (Convention) 40 words
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3. Audio Tapes 269 words
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4. HOTOL Project 161 words
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5. Cotton Textiles 936 words
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6. Textile Industry 1,417 words
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7. Electricity (Resale) 116 words
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8. COCOM 108 words
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9. US Export Administration Act 140 words
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10. US (Scientific Material) 145 words
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11. Regional Aid 319 words
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12. Protectionism 119 words
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13. Tractor Imports 202 words
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14. Distillers (Takeover Bids) 219 words
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15. Imperial Group 298 words
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16. Channel Tunnel 95 words
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17. Westland plc 128 words
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18. Sub-post Offices 62 words
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19. Polychlorinated Biphenyls (Shipment) 48 words
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20. Engagements 69 words
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21. Men's Suits (Romania) 385 words
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22. Man-made Fibres 292 words
22. TRANSPORT
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1. Aviation Safety 108 words
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2. Rail Services 153 words
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3. School Vehicles (Checks) 42 words
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4. Public Service Vehicles (Tests) 339 words
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5. Vehicle Examiners 751 words
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6. Chemicals (Conveyance) 100 words
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7. British Rail (Grants) 111 words
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8. News International (Rail Freight) 70 words
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9. British Transport Police 113 words
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10. Channel Tunnel 56 words
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11. Tachograph 98 words
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12. Drink-driving Offences 266 words
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13. Okehampton Bypass 89 words

Lords Sitting of 17 February 1986 Series 5 Vol. 471

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Royal Assent 45 words
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3. "Jane's Defence Weekly": Article 743 words
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4. Coal Industry: Output and Productivity 1,189 words
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5. Unemployment: Rural Communities 382 words
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6. Company Shares: Beneficial Ownership 1,362 words
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7. Business 92 words
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8. Gull Island Protection Bill [H.L.] 13 words
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9. River Humber (Burcom Outfall) Bill [H.L.] 9 words
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10. Bromborough Dock Bill [H.L.] 9 words
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11. Procedure of the House 4,289 words
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12. Taxation and Male/Female Equality: ECC Report 2,512 words
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13. British Leyland Subsidiary Companies 4,334 words
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14. Severe Weather Fuel Payments 3,450 words
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15. Taxation and Male/Female Equality: ECC Report 21,446 words
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16. Law Centres 12,805 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 17 February 1986 Series 5 Vol. 471

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1. LEGAL AID SCHEME: CHANGES IN OPERATION 411 words
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2. EQUITIES: AVERAGE ANNUAL RETURN 169 words
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3. CORRESPONDENCE WITH HOME OFFICE 45 words
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4. ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL, BELFAST: COAL CONSUMPTION 164 words