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Commons Sitting of 30 November 1988 Series 6 Vol. 142

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Chemical Weapons 1,106 words
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2. United Nations 1,439 words
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3. Caribbean 305 words
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4. Chile 591 words
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5. Palestine National Council 1,103 words
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6. Angola 921 words
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7. Council of Ministers 1,411 words
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8. United States of America 357 words
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9. Persian Gulf 247 words
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10. South Africa 393 words
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11. Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe 438 words
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4. Scottish Transport Group 7,810 words
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5. Prime Minister's Statement 2,776 words
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6. Proceedings of the House 2,616 words
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7. Ballot for Notices of Motions for Friday 16 December 262 words
8. BILLS PRESENTED
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1. ELECTRICITY BILL 223 words
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2. OFFICIAL SECRETS BILL 70 words
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3. TRANSPORT (SCOTLAND) BILL 91 words
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4. EMPLOYMENT BILL 166 words
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5. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 73 words
9. Orders of the Day
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1. Petroleum Royalties (Relief) and Continental Shelf Bill 16,837 words
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2. Procedure 23,111 words
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3. Milk Quotas 10,924 words
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4. New Zealand Butter 11,704 words
10. PETITIONS
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1. Settle-Carlisle Railway 557 words
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2. Council House Sales (Torbay) 186 words
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3. Settle-Carlisle Railway 392 words
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4. Seals 243 words
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5. RAF Upper Heyford 4,475 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 30 November 1988 Series 6 Vol. 142

1. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Emission Controls (Crown Immunity) 78 words
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2. Nursery Schooling and Child Care 95 words
2. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Schizophrenia 61 words
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2. School Meals 139 words
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3. Slaughterhouses 88 words
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4. Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast 61 words
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5. Public Expenditure 577 words
3. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Lobster Stocks 98 words
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2. Research and Development Budget 119 words
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3. Warble Fly 211 words
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4. Butter 60 words
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5. Food Firms 249 words
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6. Sellafield 178 words
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7. Honey (Safety) 103 words
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8. Emission Controls (Crown Immunity) 74 words
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9. EC Sheepmeat Regime 72 words
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10. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 222 words
4. WALES
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1. Planning Law 592 words
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2. Council Housing (Rents) 65 words
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3. Emission Controls (Crown Immunity) 75 words
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4. Midwives 285 words
5. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. British Dependencies 147 words
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2. Fines (Non-payment) 41 words
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3. Cell Toilets 77 words
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4. Women's Prisons 75 words
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5. Police (Leicestershire) 129 words
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6. Fire Safety 134 words
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7. Immigration 445 words
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8. Asylum 297 words
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9. Visitors (Entry Refusals) 157 words
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10. Emission Controls (Crown Immunity) 76 words
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11. Car Phones 92 words
6. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Poland (Visit) 280 words
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2. Greenhouse Effect 238 words
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3. Arms Control 333 words
7. TRANSPORT
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1. Dangerous Substances 81 words
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2. Sewage Works (Perry Oaks) 116 words
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3. Road Accidents 145 words
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4. Emission Controls (Crown Immunity) 73 words
8. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Satellite Information Services Ltd. 102 words
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2. Manufacturing Industry 487 words
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3. Inward Investment 71 words
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4. Scottish and Newcastle Breweries 48 words
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5. Single European Market 94 words
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6. Japan 64 words
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7. Emission Controls (Crown Immunity) 76 words
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8. Takeovers 101 words
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9. Post Office Users Council 78 words
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10. EEC 190 words
9. SCOTLAND
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1. Health Boards 46 words
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2. Pacemakers 124 words
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3. Whitley Council Procedures (Appeals) 108 words
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4. NHS Ancillary Services (Privatisation) 90 words
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5. "The Scottish Health Service" 49 words
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6. Health 500 words
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7. Emission Controls (Crown Immunity) 120 words
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8. Rating Reform 407 words
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9. Blood Tests 127 words
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10. Schizophrenia 315 words
10. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Emission Controls (Crown Immunity) 57 words
11. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Aid 407 words
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2. Lomé Talks 128 words
12. HEALTH
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1. Home Chiropody Service (Nottingham) 117 words
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2. Eye Tests and Dental Examinations 63 words
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3. Miss Sharon Campbell 120 words
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4. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis 53 words
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5. Brain Tumours 84 words
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6. Childhood Cancers 40 words
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7. Nurses (Grading) 137 words
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8. Stone Old People's Hospital 33 words
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9. AIDS 581 words
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10. Retirement Homes 175 words
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11. Seriously Injured Patients (Deaths) 155 words
13. SOCIAL SECURITY
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1. Housing Benefit 93 words
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2. Lone Parents 113 words
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3. Retirement Pensions (Australia) 176 words
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4. Benefit Offices 219 words
14. DEFENCE
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1. President Waldheim (War Record) 118 words
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2. Anglo-Egyptian Relations 59 words
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3. Tendering Procedures 77 words
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4. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 51 words
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5. Statistics (Non-Communist Countries) 100 words
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6. Soviet Chemical Weapon Capacity 62 words
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7. Uranium 34 words
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8. Warsaw Pact Forces 63 words
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9. Agency Status 108 words
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10. Soviet Weapon Capacity 88 words
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11. INF Warheads 65 words
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12. NATO 186 words
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13. Emission Controls (Crown Immunity) 56 words
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14. Nitroglycerine 49 words
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15. Royal Ordnance 146 words
15. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Domestic Spending 181 words
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2. NHS Ancillary Services (VAT) 47 words
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3. Value Added Tax 116 words
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4. Interest Rates 83 words
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5. Mortgages 88 words
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6. Taxation 112 words
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7. Money Supply 665 words
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8. European Community Grants 52 words
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9. Privatisation 135 words
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10. Security Service Personnel (Pensions) 44 words
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11. Inflation 97 words
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12. Business Expansion Scheme 97 words
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13. Oil revenue 188 words
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14. International Monetary Fund 82 words
16. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Labour Statistics 97 words
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2. Local Employer Networks 73 words
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3. Job Clubs 108 words
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4. YTS (Clothing Industry) 103 words
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5. Training 41 words
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6. Equal Pay 68 words
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7. Age Discrimination 37 words
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8. Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 98 words
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9. Emission Controls (Crown Immunity) 83 words
17. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Local Self-government 63 words
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2. Right to Buy 268 words
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3. Football (Arrests) 103 words
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4. Identity Cards 99 words
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5. Wildlife (Protection) 121 words
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6. Greenhouse Effect 148 words
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7. Vehicle Emissions 342 words
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8. Methane 36 words
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9. Chlorofluorocarbons 434 words
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10. Carbon Monoxide 128 words
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11. Planning Consent 119 words
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12. Mrs. Ana Maria Quick 50 words
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13. Air Pollution 353 words
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14. Radioactive Waste 512 words
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15. Ozone Layer 137 words
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16. Water Supply (Cuts) 255 words
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17. Fauna, Flora and Habitats 71 words
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18. Emission Controls 81 words
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19. Electric Bulbs 48 words
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20. Brundtland Report 146 words
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21. Nature Conservancy Council 140 words
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22. Rating Reform 48 words
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23. Local Plans 214 words
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24. Private Sheltered Housing 101 words
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25. Mersey Basin 254 words
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26. Azores 39 words
18. ENERGY
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1. Magnox 227 words
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2. Energy Efficiency (Housing) 128 words
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3. North Sea Installations 71 words
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4. Nuclear Safety 256 words
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5. Euratom 40 words
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6. Hinkley Point C 137 words
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7. Parliamentary Questions 67 words
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8. Light Bulbs 175 words
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9. Nuclear Fuel (Electricity Reactors) 60 words
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10. Nuclear Accidents (Compensation) 64 words
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11. Emission Controls (Crown Immunity) 82 words
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12. Electricity Supply (Privatisation) 74 words
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13. Plutonium 131 words
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14. Fawley B Power Station 175 words
19. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. US President-elect 44 words
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2. EC (Social Cohesion) 100 words
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3. Dr. Jonas Savimbi 66 words
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4. Namibia 142 words
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5. Chile 227 words
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6. Gibraltar 72 words
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7. Drugs (Caribbean) 73 words
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8. Human Rights 731 words
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9. Council of Ministers 216 words
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10. Vietnamese Refugees 283 words
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11. Kampuchea 143 words
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12. Southern Africa 385 words
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13. United Nations 128 words
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14. Soviet Union 194 words
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15. Italy 51 words
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16. Israel 46 words
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17. El Salvador 210 words
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18. Afghanistan 153 words
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19. France 49 words
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20. Fiji 70 words
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21. Africa 70 words
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22. Señor Jorge Montes 50 words
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23. Angola 376 words
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24. Hong Kong 62 words
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25. United States of America 131 words
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26. United Arab Emirates 53 words
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27. Cyprus 83 words
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28. Central America 45 words
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29. Palestine National Council 178 words
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30. Gulf States 91 words
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31. Kurds 447 words
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32. Human Rights Declaration 105 words
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33. Iran 144 words
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34. Lebanon 76 words
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35. Qatar 45 words
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36. Turkey 181 words
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37. Middle East 179 words
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38. Chemical Weapons 83 words
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39. Eastern Europe (Human Rights) 129 words
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40. Departmental Staff 112 words
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41. Caribbean (Health Services) 76 words
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42. Poland 92 words
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43. Rain Forests 76 words
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44. GCHQ 103 words
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45. Mr. George Samoilovich 106 words
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46. Occupied Territories 70 words
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47. Canada 44 words
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48. Single European Act 72 words
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49. Pakistan (Ambassador) 63 words
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50. Bombay High Commission 68 words
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51. Western European Union 91 words
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52. Sub-Saharan Africa 55 words
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53. Soviet Union (Cultural Agreement) 121 words
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54. EC Internal Market 91 words
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55. Baltic States 95 words
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56. Esquipulas II Agreement 96 words
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57. Cuba 30 words
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58. Mr. Adolpho Calero 61 words
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59. European Single Market 90 words
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60. EFTA-EC Relations 95 words
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61. Arms Control 100 words
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62. Falklands 92 words
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63. South Georgia 95 words
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64. Exit Visas 115 words
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65. Algeria (Riots) 59 words
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66. Refusniks 33 words
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67. Visa Applications 896 words
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68. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 174 words
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69. Nuclear Safeguards 99 words
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70. Entry Applications 3,150 words
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71. Emission Controls (Crown Immunity) 78 words
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72. Political Prisoners (Iran) 82 words
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73. Pakistan Foreign Minister 52 words
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74. Environment (International Action) 56 words

Lords Sitting of 30 November 1988 Series 5 Vol. 502

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Lord Mackenzie-Stuart 43 words
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3. Gazumping 1,406 words
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4. Uranium Imports: Classification and Use 748 words
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5. Provincial Airports: Policy 1,411 words
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6. Take-over Bids 936 words
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7. Business 115 words
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8. Prisons and Alternatives to Custody 38,069 words
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9. Brent 12,025 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 30 November 1988 Series 5 Vol. 502

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1. SUBMARINES: COLLISIONS WITH SURFACE VESSELS 67 words
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2. SUBMARINES: CRUISING DEPTH 116 words
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3. BODILY SAMPLES: USE IN SCOTTISH COURT CASES 142 words
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4. BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPALOPATHY 232 words