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Commons Sitting of 24 July 1986 Series 6 Vol. 102

c575
1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
1. BRITISH RAILWAYS (No. 2) BILL
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2. PONTYPRIDD MARKETS FAIRS AND TOWN HALL BILL 6 words
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3. MILFORD HAVEN PORT AUTHORITY BILL 41 words
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4. MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BILL [Lords] 6 words
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5. FELIXSTOWE DOCK AND RAILWAY BILL (By Order) 15 words
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6. BRITISH RAILWAYS (STANSTED) BILL (By Order) 13 words
7. TEIGNMOUTH QUAY COMPANY BILL (By Order)
8. SHOREHAM PORT AUTHORITY BILL (By Order)
9. PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order)
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10. BEXLEY LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL BILL (By Order) 15 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
1. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Criminal Damage 635 words
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2. "Black Widow" Catapults. 695 words
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3. Sunday Trading 568 words
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4. News International Dispute 974 words
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5. Airborne Radiation 392 words
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6. Long Lartin Prison 1,091 words
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7. Civil Protection (Local Authorities) 950 words
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8. Peacock Report 423 words
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9. Civil Defence 162 words
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10. BBC News Broadcasts 166 words
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11. Birmingham Pub Bombings 277 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
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1. EC (Agricultural Spending) 668 words
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2. Engagements 1,304 words
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5. India (Drug Liaison Officers) 1,908 words
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6. Points of Order 558 words
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7. Business of the House 5,954 words
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8. Severn Crossing 5,146 words
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9. Royal Ordnance plc 6,036 words
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10. Unipart and Leyland Bus 4,242 words
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11. Nuclear Waste (Compensation) 428 words
12. Orders of the Day
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1. Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill 57 words
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13. Adjournment (Summer) 25,410 words, 1 division
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14. Building Societies Bill 360 words
1. Clause 12
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1. CLASS I AND CLASS 2 ADVANCES: SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS. 2,022 words
2. Clause 82
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1. AUDITORS' DUTIES TO COMMISSION AND RELATED RIGHTS 1,066 words
3. Clause 98
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1. REGULATED TERMS ETC.: DISTRIBUTIONS AND SHARE RIGHTS 685 words
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15. Civil Protection 462 words
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1. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 10,527 words
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16. Housing 12,861 words
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17. Sheep (Radioactivity) 12,145 words
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18. Gipsies 4,744 words
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19. British Rail Engineering 10,129 words
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20. Debt (Government's Voluntary Code) 6,336 words
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21. Birmingham Public House Bombings 12,674 words
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22. Aspirin 4,734 words
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23. Chile 5,328 words
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24. School Buildings (Lancashire) 233 words
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25. Waste Disposal (Down District) 3,353 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 24 July 1986 Series 6 Vol. 102

1. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Office, Secretarial and Research Allowance 86 words
2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Westland plc 353 words
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2. Race Relations Act 1976 57 words
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3. Mr. Kevin Taylor 91 words
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4. Mr. Manus Nunan (Recordership) 110 words
3. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. National Seed Development Corporation and Plant Breeding Institute 351 words
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2. Expenditure 471 words
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3. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 1,150 words
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4. School Curriculum 147 words
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5. First Degree Students 524 words
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6. Students (Languages) 192 words
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7. School Textbooks 78 words
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8. Assisted Places Scheme 112 words
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9. Higher Education 210 words
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10. Students (Funding) 123 words
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11. Natural Environment Research Council 143 words
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12. Schools (Collective Worship) 440 words
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13. Mental Health 218 words
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14. Spina Bifida 102 words
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15. Women (Neural Tube Defect) 196 words
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16. Marine Science and Technology 126 words
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17. Building Projects (Performance Data) 127 words
4. THE ARTS
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1. Property Services Agency 613 words
5. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. "Civil Servants and Ministers: Duties and Responsibilities" 63 words
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2. Ethnic Monitory 95 words
6. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Departmental Cash Limits 149 words
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2. Gibraltar Shiprepair Ltd. 97 words
7. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Small Firms 71 words
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2. La Belle Discotheque (Bombing) 102 words
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3. Customs (Prosecutions) 59 words
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4. Engagements 120 words
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5. Dr. Kurt Waldheim 83 words
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6. South Africa 79 words
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7. Inner Cities 94 words
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8. Royal Wedding 114 words
8. SCOTLAND
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1. Scottish Health Education Group 26 words
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2. Spittal Quarry, Caithness 51 words
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3. Lorimer and Clark's Brewery (Closure) 80 words
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4. Chernobyl Disaster (Food Imports) 68 words
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5. Hypothermia 100 words
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6. Tourism 1,052 words
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7. Goods and Services (Contracts) 269 words
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8. Housing Action Area, Edinburgh 82 words
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9. Police (Complaints) 140 words
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10. Leisure and Recreation (Management Training) 150 words
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11. Gaelic Language 47 words
9. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Action for Jobs Campaign 163 words
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2. Gas and Oil Fields (Workers) 83 words
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3. Community Programme 93 words
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4. College of the Air 98 words
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5. Factory Inspectors 161 words
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6. Departmental Freephone (Cost) 90 words
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7. Health and Safety Executive 294 words
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8. Industrial Hazards (Control) 109 words
10. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND
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1. Mr. Willie McCrae 128 words
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2. Procurators Fiscal 122 words
11. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Copyright 504 words
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2. F. W. Clews (Furnishers) Ltd. 137 words
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3. Midland Ideal Homes (Holdings) Ltd. 99 words
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4. Central Service (Kettering) 116 words
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5. M. B. P. Russell and Co. Ltd. 76 words
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6. Audio Tapes (Levy) 96 words
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7. Scotch Whisky (Japan) 96 words
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8. Goods and Services (Contracts) 249 words
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9. GEC-Plessey 118 words
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10. Counterfeiting 98 words
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11. Egypt (Trade) 635 words
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12. British Shipbuilders 242 words
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13. British Steel Corporation 193 words
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14. Iran (Car Kits) 71 words
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15. Company Law (Reform) 120 words
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16. Register of Companies 291 words
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17. Small Companies (Financial Information) 157 words
12. ENERGY
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1. Sellafield 417 words
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2. Nuclear Reactors 127 words
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3. Plutonium 410 words
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4. South Africa 69 words
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5. North Sea Oil 67 words
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6. Severn Barrage 61 words
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7. NCB (Enterprise) Ltd. 239 words
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8. Community Programme 113 words
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9. British Coal (Northern Area) 197 words
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10. Goods and Services (Contracts) 257 words
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11. Coal 597 words
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12. Nuclear Power Stations 62 words
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13. British Gas 142 words
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14. Electricity (Revenue Collection) 1,067 words
13. WALES
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1. Acute Surgery (Waiting Lists) 182 words
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2. Sheep (Radiation) 213 words
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3. Chernobyl Incident (Environmental Information) 59 words
14. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Nuclear Test Ban 116 words
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2. Cultural Representation (USA) 124 words
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3. Chemical Weapons 305 words
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4. Hong Kong 203 words
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5. Chile 167 words
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6. E1 Salvador 94 words
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7. President Reagan 80 words
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8. Caste System 78 words
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9. Egypt 86 words
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10. Chemical Weapons 196 words
15. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Rates 177 words
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2. Planning Permission (Revocations) 142 words
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3. Waste Management (Report) 66 words
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4. Durham Beaches (Colliery Spoil) 664 words
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5. Goods and Services (Contracts) 126 words
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6. Royal Docks (STOLport) 95 words
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7. Rate Support Grant 330 words
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8. Birlsbury Wood 68 words
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9. Croxteth Hall and County Park, Liverpool 256 words
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10. Homeless Families 228 words
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11. Housing Investment Programme 416 words
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12. Housing Improvements Grants 188 words
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13. Hazardous Waste 69 words
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14. Victoria and Albert Museum 904 words
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15. Merseyside Development Corporation 107 words
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16. Community Programme 66 words
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17. M25 (Shopping Developments) 99 words
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18. County of Avon 233 words
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19. London Docklands Development Corporation 81 words
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20. Isle of Dogs 89 words
16. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Sunday Trading 163 words
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2. Licensed Premises 106 words
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3. Victims of Crime 100 words
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4. Civil Defence 474 words
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5. Birmingham Pub Bombings 608 words
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6. Racially Motivated Crimes 215 words
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7. Public Order Legislation 86 words
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8. Crime Prevention 212 words
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9. Burglary 78 words
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10. Plastic Bullets 66 words
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11. Drug Misuse 487 words
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12. Crimes of Violence 115 words
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13. Immigration 450 words
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14. Dr. Frank Skuse 87 words
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15. Commercial Vineyards (Sampling) 94 words
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16. Police Officers 133 words
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17. Roskill Report 52 words
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18. Neighbourhood Watch Schemes 77 words
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19. Community Radio Stations 128 words
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20. Kidnap Insurance 47 words
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21. Metropolitan Police District 46 words
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22. Crime Clear-up Rates 118 words
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23. Drug Abuse (Merseyside) 43 words
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24. Trespass 54 words
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25. Peacock Committee 78 words
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26. News International Dispute 446 words
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27. Risley Remand Centre 130 words
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28. Air Weapons 45 words
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29. Mr. John Stalker 116 words
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30. Metropolitan Police (Strategy Report) 69 words
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31. Jury Age Limit 129 words
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32. Airborne Radiation 127 words
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33. Prison Officers Association 134 words
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34. Greater Manchester (Chief Constable) 59 words
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35. Motoring Offences 118 words
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36. Prisoners (Statistics) 1,544 words
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37. Asylum 155 words
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38. Citizenship 350 words
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39. Overseas Visitors 998 words
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40. Chilean Nationals (Asylum) 125 words
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41. Mr. Dharminder Singh 157 words
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42. Prisons (Education Equipment) 74 words
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43. Prisoners (Literacy) 121 words
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44. Mr. and Mrs. Tariq Mahmood 106 words
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45. Mr. Majid Hadjarpour 77 words
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46. Prisons (Drugs) 348 words
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47. Acklington Prison (Construction Work) 119 words
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48. Visas 103 words
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49. Job Applicants (Police Records) 443 words
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50. Child Carers (Criminal Records) 152 words
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51. Child Abusers (Therapy) 69 words
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52. Immigration Services (Interpreting Facilities) 94 words
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53. Prisons (Reclassification) 127 words
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54. Child Abuse (Voluntary Groups) 95 words
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55. Crime Statistics 136 words
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56. Police (Complaints) 81 words
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57. Research Councils 157 words
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58. Juvenile Courts (School Reports) 241 words
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59. Passport Fees 106 words
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60. Metropolitan Police 282 words
17. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Minoxidil 364 words
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2. Limited List Prescribing 71 words
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3. Housing Benefit 123 words
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4. NHS (Administrative Stall) 125 words
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5. Supplementary Benefit 12,749 words
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6. Benefits 467 words
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7. Organ Donors 176 words
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8. AIDS 450 words
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9. Attendance Allowance 1,539 words
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10. Claimants 401 words
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11. Children (Clinical Research) 65 words
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12. Goods and Services (Contracts) 159 words
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13. Disabled Persons (Discrimination) 52 words
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14. McColl Report 86 words
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15. DHSS Staff 269 words
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16. Medical Boarding Centres 1,213 words
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17. Disablement Benefit 309 words
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18. Pneumoconiosis 167 words
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19. Meningitis Vaccine 86 words
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20. Mesothelioma 85 words
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21. Doctors (Diagnostic Services) 46 words
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22. Inglehurst Nursing Home, Blackpool 101 words
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23. Pharmacists 654 words
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24. Pharmaceutical Society 50 words
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25. Incontinence 92 words
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26. Waiting Lists 253 words
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27. Health Professionals 87 words
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28. Health Education Council 63 words
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29. London Ambulance Service 581 words
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30. Drug Abuse 273 words
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31. Disability Prevention (Expenditure) 62 words
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32. Child Abuse 119 words
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33. Mr. Victor Paige 129 words
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34. Rates 135 words
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35. Epilepsy (Report) 156 words
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36. Custodianship Allowances 86 words
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37. School Leavers (Benefit) 178 words
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38. Health Authorities (Documentation) 206 words
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39. Diabetics (Syringes) 205 words
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40. School Meals 321 words
18. TRANSPORT
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1. Roads (Lighting) 382 words
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2. Redevelopment (Hammersmith) 168 words
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3. EC (Ports Competition) 186 words
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4. Goods and Services (Contracts) 206 words
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5. Road Accidents 194 words
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6. Speed Governors 134 words
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7. M40 (Ardley Service Area) 128 words
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8. Heathrow Airport (Fifth Terminal) 99 words
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9. Motor Cycles (Noise) 138 words
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10. Driving Test 138 words
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11. Seat Belts 81 words
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12. Northern Lighthouse Board 110 words
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13. Stansted Airport (Rail Link) 169 words
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14. Public Utilities Streetworks Act 1950 (Review) 586 words
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15. Airports Act 1986 580 words
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16. British Airports Authority 707 words
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17. Road Traffic Control Equipment 95 words
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18. Manchester International Airport 130 words
19. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. VAT 593 words
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2. EC (Budget Council) 90 words
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3. Income Tax 626 words
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4. Taxation 68 words
cc464-5W
5. Incomes and Taxation 410 words
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6. Wife's Earned Income Allowance 600 words
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7. Personal Taxation 405 words
cc467-8W
8. Mortgage Interest 328 words
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9. Taxation 303 words
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10. Taxation (Tobacco) 75 words
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11. Wife's Earnings Elections 122 words
cc469-70W
12. Taxation (Benefits) 245 words
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13. Pensions 156 words
cc470-1W
14. Principal Scientific Officers 299 words
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15. Customs and Excise 479 words
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16. Obscenity 124 words
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17. Government Supplies and Contractors 123 words
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18. Goods and Services (Contracts) 617 words
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19. Income Tax (Refunds) 316 words
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20. Crown Estates Commissioners 90 words
20. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Royal Ulster Constabulary 77 words
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2. Drugs 91 words
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3. Security 2,851 words
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4. Police Complaints System 449 words
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5. Terrorism 882 words
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6. Modern Language School Assistants 81 words
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7. Blackwater Drainage Scheme 175 words
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8. Arterial Land Drainage 65 words
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9. Sectarian Intimidation 280 words
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10. Orange Order Marches 86 words
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11. Irish Language 138 words
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12. Foreign Languages 53 words
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13. Newry (Army Patrols) 34 words
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14. RUC (Catering Establishments) 76 words
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15. Michael Tighe (Tapes) 62 words
21. DEFENCE
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1. Plessey—GEC 316 words
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2. Community Programme Schemes 69 words
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3. Nimrod Aircraft (Operational Training Flight) 81 words
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4. Chile 66 words
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5. Service Training 218 words
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6. Royal Ordnance plc 60 words
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7. Mr. J. Kay (Pension) 45 words
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8. Dr. Kurt Waldheim 121 words
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9. Ulster Defence Regiment 105 words
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10. Northern Ireland (Force Levels) 147 words
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11. Falkland Islands 81 words
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12. DROPS Equipment 492 words
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13. Ministry of Defence Police 623 words
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14. Royal Yacht Britannia 82 words
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15. United States Air Force (Weapon Storage) 60 words
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16. United States Air Force (Weapon Deployment) 48 words
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17. Binary Chemical Weapons 292 words
22. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Sugar 140 words
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2. Agricultural Support 278 words
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3. EC (Food and Wine Sales) 177 words
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4. Food Surpluses 385 words
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5. Milk Marketing Board 31 words
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6. Sugar (Mauritius) 68 words
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7. Silage and Slurry 70 words
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8. Wheat 98 words
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9. Sea Defences (Walton-on-the-Naze) 92 words
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10. Sheep (Radiation) 603 words
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11. Animal Farms (Fur) 96 words
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12. Swine Influenza 232 words
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13. Aujeszky's Disease 179 words
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14. Brewing Industry 77 words
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15. Animals (Ear-punching) 183 words
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16. Supply Estimates 326 words
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17. Bass Fishery 546 words
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18. Radioactivity 105 words
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19. Spain (Imports) 112 words

Lords Sitting of 24 July 1986 Series 5 Vol. 479

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1. Preamble 74 words
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2. European Airlines: Competition 891 words
cc377-8
3. Food from Britain Campaign: Support 540 words
cc378-9
4. Boeing 747 Aircraft Inspection 648 words
cc380-2
5. Community Radio Scheme 981 words
c382
6. Business 148 words
cc382-3
7. Second Severn Crossing 399 words
cc383-4
8. Unipart and Leyland Bus 430 words
c384
9. The Summer Recess 66 words
c384
10. Exeter City Council Bill [H.L.] 11 words
c384
11. Social Security Bill 71 words
cc384-91
12. LORDS AMENDMENT 3,919 words
cc391-409
13. AMENDMENT MOVED ON CONSIDERATION OF COMMONS AMENDMENTS 9,520 words, 1 division
cc409-15
14. The Royal Ordnance Factories 3,589 words
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15. Social Security Bill 9 words
cc415-6
16. LORDS AMENDMENT 192 words
cc416-21
17. LORDS AMENDMENT 2,851 words
cc421-34
18. LORDS AMENDMENTS 7,351 words, 1 division
cc434-6
19. LORDS AMENDMENTS 782 words
cc436-42
20. Public Order Bill 3,597 words, 1 division
cc442-7
21. British Council and Commonwealth Institute Superannuation Bill 2,546 words
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22. Dockyard Services Bill 25 words
c447
23. COMMONS AMENDMENTS TO LORDS AMENDMENTS AND COMMONS CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO THE BILL 11 words
cc447-56
24. LORDS AMENDMENT 4,902 words
cc456-7
25. LORDS AMENDMENT 645 words
cc457-8
26. CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS 756 words
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27. Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill 34 words
cc458-78
28. Public Order Bill 11,055 words
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29. Dyfed Bill [H.L.] 22 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 24 July 1986 Series 5 Vol. 479

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1. FAMILY DISPUTES: NEW ZEALAND STATISTICS 59 words
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2. FAMILY AND DOMESTIC JURISDICTION: REVIEW 206 words
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3. WASTE MANAGEMENT: ROYAL COMMISSION REPORT 58 words
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4. DOG LICENSING 164 words
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5. CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT: RADIOACTIVITY LEVELS REPORT 52 words
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6. NORFOLK BROADS: PROPOSED LEGISLATION 63 words
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7. ENTERPRISE ZONES: CONTINUATION OF PLANNING PERMISSIONS 246 words
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8. RADIOACTIVE WASTE: SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT 45 words
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9. STANSTED AIRPORT: RAIL LINK 150 words
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10. AIRPORTS ACT 1986: IMPLEMENTATION 569 words
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11. GIBRALTAR SHIPREPAIR LIMITED: AID GRANT 84 words
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12. MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 128 words
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13. SEED AND PLANT RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS: PRIVATISATION 338 words
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14. MEDIA AND THE GOVERNMENT: RELATIONSHIP STUDIES 152 words
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15. CHEMICAL WEAPONS: STORAGE 102 words
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16. SHEEP: MOVEMENT AND SLAUGHTER CONTROLS 486 words