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Commons Sitting of 21 December 1988 Series 6 Vol. 144

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. SCOTLAND
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1. Bus Companies (Takeover) 609 words
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2. "A Claim of Right for Scotland" 1,314 words
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3. Council House Sales 366 words
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4. Nurses (Regrading) 733 words
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5. Fisheries Ministers 513 words
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6. Education Bill 1,061 words
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7. Scottish Special Housing Association 556 words
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8. Electricity Industry Privatisation 687 words
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9. Rating Reform 618 words
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10. Inward Investment 459 words
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11. Scottish Enterprise (White Paper) 804 words
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12. Local Authorities (Economic Development) 239 words
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13. Single Market 296 words
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14. South of Scotland Electricity Board 270 words
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4. Points of Order 133 words
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5. Meat Imports 2,921 words
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6. Points of Order 1,539 words
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7. BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR FRIDAY 20 JANUARY 15 words
8. BILLS PRESENTED
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1. PROTECTION OF PRIVACY 87 words
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2. RIGHT OF REPLY 107 words
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3. NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD 83 words
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4. SUNDAY SPORTS 130 words
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5. CONTROL OF POLLUTION (AMENDMENT) 104 words
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6. CITIZENS' COMPENSATION 128 words
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7. ABORTION (AMENDMENT) 86 words
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8. ROAD TRAFFIC (BREATH TESTS) 108 words
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9. HEARING AID COUNCIL (AMENDMENT) 114 words
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10. INDECENT DISPLAYS (NEWSPAPERS AND WORKPLACES) 77 words
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11. DISABLED PERSONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 85 words
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12. FIRE SAFETY INFORMATION 106 words
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13. HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS (ACCESS TO INFORMATION) 106 words
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14. ALCOHOL ABUSE (SCOTLAND) 113 words
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15. DATA PROTECTION (AMENDMENT) 92 words
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16. CONTROL OF SMOKE POLLUTION 86 words
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17. PUBLIC SAFETY INFORMATION 112 words
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18. ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION (PARKING) 78 words
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19. INTERNATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY ORGANISATIONS (REGISTRATION) 71 words
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20. DEFINITIVE MAP MODIFICATION 64 words
9. Orders of the Day
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1. Official Secrets Bill 49,497 words, 1 division
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2. Air Crash (Scotland) 459 words
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3. European Community Structural Funds 11,965 words
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4. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c 18 words
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5. Housing 30 words
6. PETITION
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1. Stansted Airport (Aircraft Movements) 178 words
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7. Nurse Grading (Greater Glasgow) 4,669 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 21 December 1988 Series 6 Vol. 144

1. TRANSPORT
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1. London Underground (Safety) 140 words
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2. Light Dues 67 words
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3. Ports 184 words
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4. Network SouthEast 95 words
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5. London Regional Transport 72 words
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6. Railway Lines and Motorways (Usage) 114 words
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7. Lead-free Petrol 91 words
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8. Vehicle Sales 242 words
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9. Vehicle Sales 173 words
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10. M77 Extension 103 words
2. ENVIRONMENT
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1. "Living in Terror" 95 words
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2. Government Offices (Cambridge) 94 words
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3. Housing 170 words
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4. Drinking Water 97 words
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5. Conservation 153 words
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6. London Dockland Development Corporation 74 words
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7. Waterways (Maintenance) 334 words
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8. Local Authorities (Development Powers) 752 words
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9. Planning Inspectorate 106 words
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10. Ozone Layer 95 words
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11. Rate Support Grant 281 words
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12. Rating Reform 61 words
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13. Food Poisoning 89 words
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14. Water Authorities 271 words
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15. Bristol Channel (Pollution) 99 words
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16. Fire Service 58 words
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17. Hazardous Waste 85 words
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18. Local Authority Debt 158 words
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19. Weedkillers 139 words
3. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Food Production and Safety 65 words
4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Identity Cards 39 words
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2. Tobacco 36 words
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3. Post Office 454 words
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4. Inner City Task Forces 72 words
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5. Advisory Panel on Deregulation 261 words
5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. British Steel (Privatisation) 174 words
6. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Identity Cards 71 words
7. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Security 112 words
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2. South Africa (Military Service) 83 words
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3. Human Rights 117 words
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4. Namibia 81 words
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5. Foreign Affairs Council 315 words
8. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Civil Service Pensions 357 words
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2. Civil Service Manpower 47 words
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3. Business Expansion Scheme 62 words
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4. Electricity, Water and Steel 1,295 words
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5. Inland Revenue (Staff) 69 words
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6. EC Budget 270 words
9. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Litter Offences 62 words
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2. Graffiti 71 words
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3. Exclusion and Attendance Orders 121 words
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4. Student Visas 226 words
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5. Delia McCall 86 words
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6. Prisons (Food) 36 words
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7. Prisoners (Suicide) 336 words
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8. Non-metropolitan Areas (Policing) 243 words
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9. Armley Prison 299 words
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10. Racial Harassment 57 words
10. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Schools (Weapons Collectors' Catalogues) 99 words
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2. Degree Courses 120 words
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3. Mature Students 231 words
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4. Assisted Places Scheme 115 words
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5. Teachers (Secondary Schools) 208 words
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6. 16 to 18-year-olds 132 words
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7. Childcare Provision 109 words
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8. Capital Expenditure 1,697 words
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9. Antarctic Survey 190 words
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10. GCSE 310 words
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11. Students 198 words
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12. Meningitis 249 words
11. ENERGY
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1. Chapelcross and Calderhall 95 words
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2. Subsidence (Compensation) 64 words
12. WALES
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1. Physically Handicapped People 74 words
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2. Welsh National Opera 153 words
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3. School Governors 180 words
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4. National Museum of Wales 58 words
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5. Current Affairs Programmes (Presenters) 90 words
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6. Elderly People 46 words
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7. Housing 110 words
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8. Eggs 268 words
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9. Rent Arrears 324 words
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10. Primary Health Care 176 words
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11. Welsh Language 235 words
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12. Housing Benefit 315 words
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13. House Purchase 109 words
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14. School Doctors and Dentists (Language) 95 words
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15. STC (Redundancies) 113 words
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16. Health and Personal Social Services 235 words
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17. Valleys Programme 417 words
13. SOCIAL SECURITY
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1. Transitional Benefits 148 words
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2. Income Support 536 words
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3. Tax Allowances and Benefits 267 words
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4. Family Credit 160 words
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5. Working Mothers 317 words
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6. Nurses 670 words
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7. Supplementary Benefit/Income Support 403 words
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8. Aged Persons' Homes 49 words
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9. Housing Benefit 346 words
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10. Unemployment Benefit 57 words
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11. Invalid Care Allowance 81 words
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12. Social Fund 64 words
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13. Single Payments 212 words
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14. Benefits (Appeals) 90 words
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15. Child Benefit 47 words
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16. Child Tax Allowance 220 words
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17. Lower Paid Families (Tax Rates) 111 words
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18. Housing Benefit (War Widows) 50 words
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19. Staff Reductions 76 words
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20. Official Publications 67 words
14. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Further Education 159 words
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2. Ulster museum 74 words
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3. Nurses (Pay) 102 words
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4. Nurses (Grading) 727 words
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5. Invalidity Benefit 63 words
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6. Retirement Pensions 63 words
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7. Expenditure 195 words
15. HEALTH
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1. AIDS 469 words
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2. Cervical Smears 110 words
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3. Residential Homes 341 words
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4. Salmonella (Eggs) 570 words
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5. Salmonella 102 words
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6. Transplants 659 words
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7. Children (Cleveland) 77 words
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8. NHS Expenditure 2,005 words
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9. Nurses (Grading) 2,944 words
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10. Royal Liverpool Hospital 81 words
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11. National Health Service Beds (Nottingham) 152 words
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12. Hospital Incinerators 131 words
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13. Insulin 275 words
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14. Insulin 264 words
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15. Single Market 42 words
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16. Food Poisoning 95 words
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17. Disability Survey 77 words
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18. Prescriptions 372 words
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19. Special Hospitals 177 words
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20. Hepatitis B 44 words
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21. Midwives 166 words
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22. Breast Cancer (Screening) 58 words
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23. Retired People 62 words
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24. Young Drinkers 179 words
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25. Cervical Cytology Screening 110 words
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26. Abortions 76 words
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27. Adoption 175 words
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28. Research Priorities 170 words
16. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Unemployment Benefit (Adjudication) 232 words
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2. Environment and Safety Information Act 60 words
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3. Tourism 92 words
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4. Work Permits 82 words
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5. Skills Training Agency 76 words
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6. Rehabilitation Centres 151 words
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7. Employment Training 3,222 words
17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Identity Cards 95 words
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2. Egg Inspectors 185 words
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3. Deer (Tuberculosis) 229 words
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4. ITB Pension Fund 72 words
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5. Food Poisoning 187 words
18. SCOTLAND
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1. Tourism 60 words
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2. Rating Reform 476 words
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3. Tenants (Transfers) 107 words
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4. NHS Patients 59 words
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5. District Councils 36 words
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6. "Keep Warm this Winter" 54 words
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7. Manufacturing Exports 86 words
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8. Local Government Act 1988 76 words
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9. Labour Statistics 123 words
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10. Bus Companies (Takeover) 43 words
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11. Scottish Homes 201 words
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12. Single Market 60 words
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13. Newbattle Abbey College 143 words
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14. East Coast Railway Line (Electrification) 103 words
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15. Kyle of Lochalsh and Kyleakin (Road) 90 words
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16. Electricity Bill 70 words
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17. "No Turning Back" 114 words
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18. Convention of Scottish Local Authorities 52 words
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19. Damp Housing 233 words
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20. Health Boards (Appointments) 68 words
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21. Health Boards (Tendering) 112 words
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22. Electricity Industry Privatisation 56 words
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23. Constitutional Convention 49 words
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24. Dog Pollution Schemes 94 words
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25. Manufacturing Exports 47 words
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26. Bus Industry (Buyouts) 62 words
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27. Constitutional Reform 57 words
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28. Nurses (Regrading) 103 words
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29. Channel Tunnel 151 words
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30. Scottish TUC 55 words
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31. Education Reform 65 words
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32. Post Offices 117 words
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33. Drug Abuse (Govan) 105 words
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34. Electricity Boards 54 words
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35. Power Stations (Coal Burn) 64 words
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36. Renfrew, West and Inverclyde (Employment) 237 words
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37. Education Bill 65 words
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38. Bus Companies (Takeover) 82 words
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39. Council House Rents 236 words
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40. Tayside Health Board 40 words
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41. Electricity Boards (Capital Debt) 67 words
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42. Business Rating Practices 165 words
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43. Scottish Development Agency 95 words
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44. Scottish NFU 73 words
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45. Employment Training Scheme 44 words
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46. Scottish Bus Group 80 words
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47. Donor Cards 89 words
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48. Transplant Surgery 290 words
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49. Elder Cottage Hospital 107 words
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50. Special Housing Association 116 words
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51. Hospital Medical Staff 158 words
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52. Water Pollution 54 words
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53. Criminal Convictions (Alcohol) 120 words
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54. Emigration 249 words
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55. Police (Recruitment) 312 words
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56. Police (Manning Levels) 172 words
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57. Trunk Routes 61 words
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58. Mouthbridge Inquiry 57 words
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59. Arctic Tern 820 words
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60. A94 65 words
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61. Grampian Health Board (Grading) 145 words
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62. Farm Woodland Scheme 146 words
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63. Less Favoured Areas 72 words
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64. Town and Country Planning 695 words
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65. Adoption Allowance Schemes 129 words
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66. Shipping Subsidies 441 words
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67. Pacemakers 129 words
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68. Foresty Commission 129 words
19. DEFENCE
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1. Tucano Aircraft 37 words
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2. Radar Contracts 63 words
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3. Trident 101 words
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4. Foxhunter Radars 47 words
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5. Identity Cards 69 words
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6. Nuclear Submarines 62 words
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7. HMS Dreadnought 54 words
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8. Boeing (Offset Report) 97 words

Lords Sitting of 21 December 1988 Series 5 Vol. 502

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1. Preamble 22 words
cc1359-60
2. Pelicans in St. James's Park 663 words
cc1360-1
3. London Underground: Safety Recommendations 560 words
cc1362-3
4. Marine Nature Reserve 762 words
cc1363-4
5. Companies Bill [H.L.] 217 words
cc1364-428
6. Historic Buildings and Treasures 35,589 words
cc1429-48
7. British Rail Privatisation: Policy 10,307 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 21 December 1988 Series 5 Vol. 502

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1. M.40: WEST LONDON JUNCTION IMPROVEMENTS 113 words
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2. BOARD AND LODGING PAYMENTS: INFORMATION TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES 100 words
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3. HOSTEL DWELLERS: INCOME SUPPORT 46 words
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4. SELECTIVE INVESTMENT BROKERS LTD. 139 words
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5. KATYN MASSACRES INQUIRY 66 words
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6. OZONE LAYER: MONTREAL PROTOCOL RATIFICATION 91 words
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7. INLAND WATERWAYS REPORT: IMPLEMENTATION BY BWB 323 words
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8. LEAD IN PAINT IN HISTORIC HOUSES: BAN 317 words
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9. HISTORIC BUILDINGS PROTECTION AND THE EC 34 words