Sitting of 24 November 1986

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Commons Sitting of 24 November 1986 Series 6 Vol. 106

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
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1. Coal Industry 384 words
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2. Electricity Meters (Remote Reading) 169 words
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3. Nuclear Waste 569 words
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4. Electricity Supply (Connections) 389 words
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5. Efficiency Schemes 713 words
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6. Coal Industry (Investment) 741 words
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7. Sizewell B (Report) 785 words
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8. Coal Industry (Output) 289 words
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9. Power Station Construction 424 words
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10. Renewable Energy Resources 696 words
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11. British Coal Enterprise Ltd. 364 words
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12. Coal Conversion Schemes 223 words
13. THE ARTS
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1. Public Libraries and Museums Act 845 words
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2. Arts Council Funding (Eastern Area) 232 words
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3. Arts (East Midlands) 334 words
14. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Rayner Scrutinies 751 words
15. THE ARTS
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1. Arts Council Grants 1,082 words
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4. Quotations (Question Time) 218 words
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5. Ministerial Statements 617 words
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6. Standing Order No. 20 148 words
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7. Civil Servant (Briefing) 794 words
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1. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 58 words
8. Orders of the Day
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1. Petroleum Bill 24,131 words
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2. PETROLEUM BILL [MONEY] 88 words
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3. PETROLEUM BILL (WAYS AND MEANS) 63 words
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4. European Community Budgets 25,193 words, 1 division
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5. Altrincham General Hospital 3,924 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 24 November 1986 Series 6 Vol. 106

1. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Security (Publications) 51 words
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2. Westland plc 45 words
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3. Sir Robert Armstrong 109 words
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4. "Their Trade is Treachery" 74 words
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5. Mr. Mordechai Vanunu 31 words
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6. Security Services 82 words
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7. Mr. Peter Wright 121 words
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8. Post-Chernobyl Review 243 words
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9. "Protect and Survive" 50 words
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10. AIDS 61 words
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11. Coal Industry 128 words
2. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. VDE Mark 446 words
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2. Electrical Goods (West Germany) 329 words
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3. Departmental Initiatives 81 words
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4. Greek Cement 116 words
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5. PCRL Radio Station 90 words
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6. Counterfeiting 360 words
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7. Gas Consumers Council 86 words
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8. Shipbuilding (Aid) 57 words
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9. British Telecom 148 words
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10. Business Improvement Scheme (West Yorkshire) 341 words
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11. Bankruptcies 79 words
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12. BSC (Ravenscraig and Dalzell Works) 114 words
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13. Information Technology Staff (Training) 75 words
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14. Rolls-Royce plc. 195 words
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15. Insider Dealing 288 words
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16. AE plc (Share Dealings) 59 words
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17. Mr. I. Boesky (Share Dealings) 65 words
3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Peter Wright (Court Case) 48 words
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2. Security (Publications) 62 words
4. ENERGY
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1. Coal Production 270 words
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2. Home Heating 92 words
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3. Alternative Energy Sources 71 words
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4. Power Station Construction 45 words
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5. Northern Region 98 words
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6. Substitute Natural Gas 43 words
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7. Wind Energy 81 words
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8. North Sea (Exploration and Development) 138 words
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9. Opencast Mining (Manchester) 74 words
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10. British Coal Enterprise Ltd. 42 words
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11. Industrial Gas Prices 58 words
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12. Energy Efficiency Year 164 words
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13. Energy Conservation and Efficiency 143 words
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14. Nuclear Energy 47 words
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15. Combined Heat and Power, Leicester 51 words
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16. Sizewell B (Report) 52 words
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17. Electricity Demand 65 words
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18. Area Electricity Boards (External Audit) 81 words
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19. Coal Industry (Capacity) 49 words
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20. Tidal Energy 144 words
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21. Nuclear Power (Co-operation and Exchange of Information) 96 words
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22. Nuclear Generation 152 words
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23. British Gas 68 words
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24. Electricity Demand 89 words
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25. Energy Monitoring and Targeting 106 words
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26. Energy Efficiency Office 45 words
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27. Fast Breeder Reactor Programme 104 words
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28. Nuclear Generation (Manpower) 131 words
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29. Land-fill Gas 107 words
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30. Renewables Programme 83 words
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31. British Coal (Scotland) 45 words
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32. Chernobyl 60 words
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33. Coal Mines (Vale of Belvoir) 50 words
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34. South Wales Coalfield 58 words
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35. Coking Coal 46 words
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36. Power Generating Plant 50 words
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37. Drilling Rigs 64 words
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38. Plutonium Export Contracts 38 words
5. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Mr. John McCarthy 65 words
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2. Anglo-Irish Agreement 36 words
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3. Royal Mail Ship St. Helena 66 words
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4. Visa Applications 588 words
6. WALES
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1. Private Patients 633 words
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2. Health Services (Privatisation) 1,482 words
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3. Deaths and Discharges 276 words
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4. Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes 193 words
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5. Patient Care 131 words
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6. Consultants 270 words
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7. Council House Sales 47 words
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8. Assisted Places 150 words
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9. Housing 145 words
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10. School Meals 141 words
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11. Primary Schools (Closures) 47 words
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12. Students (Financial Support) 156 words
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13. Drains and Sewerage 191 words
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14. Jobs 71 words
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15. Truancy 39 words
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16. Special Educational Needs 116 words
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17. School Buildings 62 words
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18. School Books 66 words
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19. Disabled Students 29 words
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20. MSC Schemes 138 words
7. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Clinical Academic Staff 131 words
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2. Departmental Initiatives 252 words
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3. Rural Schools 95 words
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4. Student Grants 116 words
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5. Primary and Secondary Education 89 words
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6. Leicester (Ministerial Visit) 98 words
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7. Further and Higher Education 144 words
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8. Brixton, Plymouth (New School) 60 words
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9. Schools (Closure) 106 words
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10. Institute of Marine Biochemistry 197 words
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11. O-Level Examinations 46 words
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12. A-Level Examinations 46 words
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13. Leukaemia 96 words
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14. Personnel(Morale) 96 words
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15. Redundant Maintained Schools 56 words
8. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Advertisements (Control) 104 words
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2. Planning Appeals 967 words
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3. Departmental Initiatives 280 words
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4. Housing Revenue Account 435 words
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5. Local Authorities(Capital Receipts) 199 words
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6. Council House Sales 136 words
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7. Schools (Assistance) 62 words
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8. Severn Barrage 94 words
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9. Killer Whales 105 words
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10. West Yorkshire (Development Fund Assistance) 234 words
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11. Falkland Islands (Machinery Auction) 132 words
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12. Privatisation 116 words
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13. Birmingham (Parish Proposals) 58 words
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14. North Sea Conference 48 words
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15. Local Authority Housing 352 words
9. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Prison Statistics 229 words
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2. Smoke Detectors 62 words
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3. Prisoners 165 words
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4. Wandsworth Prison 270 words
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5. Stocken Prison 1,043 words
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6. Metropolitan Police 90 words
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7. Leeds Prison 46 words
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8. Prisoners (Cell Sharing) 123 words
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9. R. v. Ayres 160 words
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10. Traffic Offences 215 words
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11. Peace Convoy 100 words
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12. Channel Tunnel (Immigration Control) 109 words
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13. Wheel Clamps 285 words
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14. Polling Booths 190 words
10. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Restart Scheme 355 words
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2. Departmental Initiatives 253 words
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3. Labour Statistics 383 words
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4. Asbestos 205 words
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5. Benefits 649 words
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6. Departmental Publicity 90 words
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7. Disabled Persons 89 words
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8. Job Training Schemes 731 words
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9. Portsmouth 101 words
11. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Manioc Imports 167 words
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2. Green Pound 149 words
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3. Pressure Stock Licences 120 words
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4. Departmental Information Technology Staff 52 words
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5. Milk 186 words
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6. Consultants (Fees) 83 words
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7. Pesticides (Temik) 317 words
12. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 28 words
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2. Private Patients 797 words
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3. Hospital Statistics 509 words
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4. Patient Care 145 words
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5. Private Hospitals 78 words
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6. Consultants 163 words
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7. Maghberry Prison 163 words
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8. Housing (Newry and Armagh) 166 words
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9. Labour Statistics 64 words
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10. Redundancy 295 words
13. TRANSPORT
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1. Seat Belts 61 words
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2. Roads 205 words
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3. Passenger Ships 445 words
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4. Bus Deregulation 96 words
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5. M25 88 words
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6. Parking (Schools) 48 words
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7. Drink Driving 148 words
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8. Severn Bridge 55 words
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9. Settle-Carlisle Line 56 words
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10. Search and Rescue 55 words
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11. Roads (London) 125 words
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12. One-Person Buses 131 words
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13. Travel Concessions 68 words
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14. Bus Routes (London) 126 words
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15. London Regional Transport 39 words
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16. British Airways 283 words
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17. Lorry Ban (London) 99 words
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18. Ministerial Visits (Leicester) 184 words
14. DEFENCE
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1. Wintex 307 words
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2. Nuclear Weapons (Storage) 72 words
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3. Defence Arms Control Unit 138 words
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4. Cruise Missiles 75 words
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5. NATO 338 words
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6. US Submarine Nathanael Green 279 words
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7. Holy Loch (Submarines) 80 words
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8. Royal Fleet Auxiliary Fleet List 336 words
15. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. VAT (Auctions) 101 words
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2. Civil Service (Payroll Giving) 54 words
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3. Duty-Free Allowances 94 words
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4. Hospital Radios 89 words
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5. Direct Cosmetics Ltd 279 words
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6. Counterfeit Goods 45 words
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7. Currency Depiction (Works of Art) 95 words
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8. Value Added Tax 331 words
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9. Finance Act 1975 54 words
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10. Channel Tunnel (Customs Control) 43 words
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11. Financial Management Initiative 57 words
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12. Short Term Bills 175 words
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13. Departmental Publicity 118 words
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14. Pensions 108 words
16. THE ARTS
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1. EC Library and Information Matters 93 words
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2. Arts Council (Funding) 168 words
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3. Newspapers 113 words
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4. Public Library Service 58 words
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5. VAT (Auctions) 68 words
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6. Arts Council and Scottish Arts Council 164 words
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7. Value Added Tax 173 words
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8. Regional Arts Associations 194 words
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9. Leicester (Ministerial Visit) 83 words
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10. Marketing Initiative 71 words
17. SCOTLAND
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1. Abortions 355 words
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2. Expenditure (Roads) 60 words
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3. Road to Mallaig 94 words
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4. Sewerage System 139 words
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5. Housing (Scotland) Act 1986 63 words
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6. Expenditure (Schools) 168 words
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7. A7 Road 169 words
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8. Private Patients 1,168 words
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9. Hospital Patients 163 words
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10. Patient Care 307 words
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11. Private Hospitals 1,038 words
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12. Consultants 282 words
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13. Chiswick Report 143 words
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14. Education Authority Bursaries 114 words
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15. Glasgow College of Arts 117 words
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16. Forestry 216 words
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17. Sheep Premium 61 words
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18. Laminate Manufacturers 176 words
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19. Industrial Grants 41 words
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20. Green Belt 598 words
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21. Hazardous Cargoes 212 words
18. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Hospital Waiting Lists 533 words
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2. Cancer (Treatment) 81 words
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3. NHS (Drugs) 469 words
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4. NHS (Beds) 3,647 words
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5. Paybeds 175 words
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6. NHS (Operating Theatre Costs) 101 words
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7. Ancillary Staff Reimbursement Scheme 120 words
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8. Housing Benefit 61 words
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9. Joint Replacement Operations 87 words
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10. Supplementary Benefit 309 words
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11. Home Nursing 105 words
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12. Health Education Council 28 words
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13. Attendance Allowance 66 words
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14. Breast Cancer (Screening) 58 words
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15. Adjudication Regulations 289 words
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16. "The Health Service Today" 63 words
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17. Mesothelioma 178 words
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18. Hospital Closures 1,156 words
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19. NHS Hospitals 3,791 words
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20. District Health Authorities 118 words
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21. Health Authority Banking 162 words
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22. Organ Transplants 377 words
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23. Finance 147 words
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24. Private Hospitals 2,394 words
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25. Hospital Expenditure 170 words
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26. Health Authority Tendering 407 words
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27. Patient Care 452 words
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28. Medical Boarding Centres 2,823 words
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29. Special Medical Boards 115 words
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30. Asbestos 76 words
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31. Asbestosis 178 words
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32. Claimants (Statistics) 95 words
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33. Industrial Disablement Benefit 176 words
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34. Industrial Death Benefit 481 words
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35. Hospitals (Statistics) 165 words
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36. Secretarial Agencies 68 words
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37. Kidney Transplants 220 words
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38. Kidney Disease 382 words
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39. Nursing and Residential Homes 65 words
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40. Merton and Sutton Health Authority 58 words
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41. Saffron Walden (Hospital Facilities) 52 words
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42. Oval Office (Relocation) 68 words
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43. Broadstairs and Chatham (Staffing) 277 words
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44. Chiropody Treatment 112 words
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45. Hip Replacement Operations 70 words
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46. Long-term Oxygen Therapy 219 words
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47. St. Helens 216 words
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48. Parliamentary Questions 68 words
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49. Hospital and Bed Closures 1,096 words
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50. Sick Pay 248 words
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51. Information Technology Staff (Training) 88 words
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52. Child's Special Allowances 69 words
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53. Social Security Expenditure 391 words