Sitting of 1 December 1987

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Commons Sitting of 1 December 1987 Series 6 Vol. 123

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
1. PRIVATE BUSINESS
1. GREATER MANCHESTER (LIGHT RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM) BILL [Lords]
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1. GREATER MANCHESTER (LIGHT RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM) (NO. 2) BILL [Lords] 13 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Education Reform 1,518 words
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2. University Dental Schools 229 words
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3. ILEA (South-West Quadrant Review) 420 words
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4. Primary and Secondary Schools 581 words
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5. City Technology Colleges 674 words
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6. Higher Education 615 words
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7. Education Reform 505 words
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8. Student Grants 219 words
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9. Education Reform 252 words
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10. Schools (Local Firms) 180 words
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11. City Technology Colleges 270 words
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12. School Closures 202 words
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13. Education Reform 779 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Engagements 2,222 words
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4. Girobank 747 words
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5. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 21 words
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6. Elimination of Poverty in Old Age Etc 1,223 words
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7. ELIMINATION OF POVERTY IN OLD AGE ETC. 439 words
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8. Education Reform Bill 745 words
9. Orders of the Day
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1. Education Reform Bill 55,208 words, 2 divisions
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2. Education Reform Bill [Money] 8,638 words, 1 division
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3. Northern Ireland (Appropriation) 11,462 words
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4. SCOTTISH GRAND COMMITTEE 38 words
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5. IRA Bomb Damage 3,858 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 1 December 1987 Series 6 Vol. 123

1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Zircon 97 words
2. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. South Africa 127 words
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2. Commonwealth Development Corporation 54 words
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3. St. Helena 48 words
3. TRANSPORT
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1. Speed Limiters 142 words
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2. Primary Route Network (North-West) 84 words
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3. Preston Bypass 47 words
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4. Motorway Network, Lancashire 92 words
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5. A19 (Crash Barriers) 82 words
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6. A19-A1 Network 61 words
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7. Waste Paper 55 words
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8. Railways (Investment) 192 words
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9. Trolley Buses 143 words
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10. Unleaded Petrol 50 words
4. WALES
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1. Initial Teacher Training 108 words
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2. Housing 86 words
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3. Job Creation 183 words
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4. Business Closures (Redundancy) 82 words
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5. Part-time Employees 123 words
5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Bookmakers 80 words
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2. Cigarette Imports 190 words
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3. Shipbuilding Industry (Redundancies) 137 words
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4. Film Industry 320 words
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5. Consumer Arbitration Agreements Bill 90 words
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6. EC (Liquid Containers) 136 words
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7. Shipbuilding Industry (Merseyside) 72 words
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8. British Telecom 102 words
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9. Regional Policy 66 words
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10. Batchelor plc 87 words
6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Daya Bay Power Plant 180 words
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2. Hong Kong (Vietnamese Refugees) 106 words
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3. Hong Kong Futures Exchange 127 words
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4. Namibia 98 words
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5. Nicaragua 51 words
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6. Disarmament 282 words
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7. Council of Ministers 749 words
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8. Chemical Weapons 131 words
7. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Information 264 words
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2. Loans Guarantee Scheme 148 words
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3. "Trade Unions and Their Members" 271 words
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4. Restart 236 words
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5. Redundancy 87 words
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6. Industrial Language Training Service 136 words
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7. Unemployment Benefit 551 words
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8. Asbestos 621 words
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9. Health and Safety 969 words
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10. Job Training Scheme (Dundee) 241 words
8. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Risley Remand Centre 92 words
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2. Fire Services 121 words
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3. Registration 71 words
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4. Prisoners (Drugs) 401 words
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5. Sex Shops 106 words
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6. Rampton Hospital 197 words
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7. Sidney John Manley 237 words
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8. Crossbows 85 words
9. PRIME MINISTER
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1. South Africa 30 words
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2. Butter Surplus 93 words
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3. EEC (Shipbuilding Intervention Fund) 68 words
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4. Research Assistant (Security Pass) 47 words
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5. London Docklands Development Corporation 223 words
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6. Plutonium 58 words
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7. Saladin Security and Keenie Meenie Services 202 words
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8. Engagements 120 words
10. ENERGY
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1. Electricity Industry 279 words
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2. Energy Efficiency 71 words
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3. Nuclear Power 99 words
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4. Electricity Supply Industry 97 words
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5. Collieries (Wage Earners) 385 words
11. SCOTLAND
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1. Hazardous Waste 192 words
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2. Tobacco Industry 55 words
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3. Education Expenditure 147 words
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4. European Council Meetings 87 words
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5. Travel Grants 59 words
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6. Assured Tenancies 106 words
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7. Council House Sales 150 words
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8. Housing Finance 855 words
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9. Homeless Persons (Housing) 112 words
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10. Legal Aid 85 words
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11. Rating Reform 1,752 words
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12. Housing Statistics 98 words
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13. Mortgage Arrears 48 words
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14. Regional Development 311 words
12. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Inner London Education Authority 29 words
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2. Association of Metropolitan Authorities 84 words
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3. Polytechnic Designations 59 words
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4. Further and Higher Education Institutions 90 words
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5. Rural Schools 71 words
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6. Scottish Universities 97 words
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7. National Curriculum 348 words
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8. Secondary Education (Epping Forest) 122 words
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9. Higher Education 53 words
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10. "Strategy for the Science Base" 69 words
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11. Home Economics 128 words
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12. Inner London 160 words
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13. Ethnic Minorities (Swann Report) 147 words
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14. Education Reform Bill 385 words
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15. Association of County Councils 155 words
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16. University Technicians (Pay) 118 words
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17. Education Reform 146 words
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18. Schools (Local Authority Control) 85 words
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19. Universities (Recruitment of Women) 53 words
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20. Academic Freedom 113 words
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21. Teesside (City Technology College) 49 words
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22. O-Level Passes 152 words
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23. Students (Financial Support) 82 words
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24. Aberdeen University (Funding) 115 words
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25. Tertiary Education 72 words
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26. Expenditure 63 words
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27. Polytechnics and Colleges (Funding) 135 words
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28. Testing and Assessment 97 words
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29. City Technology Colleges 50 words
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30. Contract Researchers 60 words
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31. University Grants Committee 138 words
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32. Foreign Languages 101 words
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33. Parent-Teacher Associations 57 words
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34. Grant-aided Schools 51 words
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35. Religious Education 66 words
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36. Church Leaders 72 words
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37. Pupil-Teacher Ratios 96 words
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38. Truancy 35 words
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39. Schools (Business Links) 65 words
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40. University Veterinary Schools 66 words
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41. Science 217 words
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42. Shortage Subjects 694 words
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43. GCSE 144 words
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44. Undergraduates 60 words
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45. MENCAP 81 words
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46. Save British Science 201 words
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47. Indiscipline 126 words
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48. Sports Injuries (Pupils) 151 words
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49. Waste Paper 101 words
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50. School Building 107 words
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51. School Governors 175 words
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52. Students (Travel Costs) 353 words
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53. Inner Cities 234 words
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54. Further and Higher Education 976 words
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55. Student Awards 55 words
13. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Dead Sheep 124 words
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2. Pigmeat 86 words
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3. Sheep (Radioactivity) 193 words
14. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. North Sea Oil 126 words
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2. Public Service Messages (Television) 120 words
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3. EC (Own Resources) 95 words
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4. Personal Searches 50 words
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5. Waste Paper 143 words
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6. Commercial Banks (Debt-Relief) 143 words
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7. Taxation 141 words
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8. Thin Capitalisation 150 words
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9. Cigarettes 74 words
15. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Children (Sports Teaching and Coaching) 123 words
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2. Sport 155 words
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3. Housing Authorities (Project Control) 292 words
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4. Housing (Unit Cost Limits) 144 words
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5. National Parks 128 words
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6. Tyne and Wear Planning Forum 104 words
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7. Polychlorinated Byphenyls 58 words
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8. Housing 84 words
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9. Members' Tea Room 69 words
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10. Rating Reform 240 words
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11. Urban Regeneration 863 words
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12. Housing 154 words
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13. Loft Insulation 447 words
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14. Wildlife Protection 490 words
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15. Waste Recycling 239 words
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16. Raptors (Licences) 472 words
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17. Nuclear Waste 78 words
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18. National Rivers Authority 213 words
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19. Sewage Works 116 words
16. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Haemophiliacs 866 words
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2. Blood Products 228 words
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3. Haemophilia Society 59 words
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4. Glaucoma 292 words
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5. Nurses and Midwives 205 words
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6. Organ Transplantation 217 words
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7. Medical Laboratory Scientific Officers 122 words
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8. Hospital Beds (York) 159 words
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9. Haringey Health Authority 373 words
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10. Benefits 528 words
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11. West Midlands (NHS Budget) 82 words
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12. Departmental Research 236 words
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13. AIDS 170 words
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14. Community Care 206 words
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15. Dental Care 205 words
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16. Attendance Allowance 48 words
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17. Disabled People 60 words
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18. Benefit Fraud 184 words
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19. Nursing Homes 201 words
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20. Private Health Care 226 words
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21. Students (Benefits) 77 words
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22. Benefit Claimants 102 words
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23. Housing Benefit 153 words
17. DEFENCE
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1. Missile Defence Systems 48 words
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2. Disarmament 56 words
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3. Cruise Missiles 78 words
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4. Brecon Beacons (Military Exercises) 100 words
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5. Armilla Patrol 122 words
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6. Submarines 119 words
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7. Military Balance 42 words
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8. FI-111 Aircraft 77 words
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9. Boeing (Contracts) 93 words
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10. Northern Waters (Maritime Activity) 57 words
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11. Nuclear Tests 79 words
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12. Doctors and Dentists (Pay) 177 words
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13. Howitzers 296 words
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14. Arms Control Unit 61 words
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15. House Purchase 87 words
18. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Facsimile Machines 83 words
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2. Members (Bribery) 100 words

Lords Sitting of 1 December 1987 Series 5 Vol. 490

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Lord Jenkins of Hillhead 36 words
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3. Industry and Higher Education R&D 505 words
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4. Manufacturing: Service Sector Employment 461 words
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5. Irreversible Brain Damage: Compensation 711 words
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6. Poverty and Unemployment Traps 1,183 words
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7. Criminal Justice Bill [H.L.] 40,222 words, 1 division
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8. Farm Land and Rural Development Bill [H.L.] 18,072 words, 1 division

Written Answers (Lords) of 1 December 1987 Series 5 Vol. 490

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1. FOREIGN AFFAIRS: LIAISON 163 words
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2. BAHA'I COMMUNITY IN IRAN: HUMAN RIGHTS 147 words
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3. MENTALLY DISORDERED PRISONERS: REPORT 316 words
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4. UK-CYPRUS: WORK PERMITS 174 words
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5. GOVERNMENT STATEMENTS: AVAILABILITY 74 words
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6. STORM DAMAGE: COMPENSATION 980 words