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Commons Sitting of 9 December 1991 Series 6 Vol. 200

c591
1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. ENERGY
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1. Coal Mining (Productivity) 294 words
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2. National Grid Company 493 words
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3. North Sea (Capital Investment) 568 words
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4. Straw 557 words
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5. Nuclear Generation 868 words
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6. Sizewell B 159 words
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7. North Sea Oil 615 words
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8. Combined Heat and Power 430 words
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9. Oil-related Fabrication Sector 395 words
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10. Oil and Gas (Irish Sea) 215 words
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11. Opencast Mining 533 words
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12. Wave Energy 189 words
c602
13. Combined Heat and Power 167 words
2. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Legal Profession (Recruitment) 442 words
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2. War Crimes 414 words
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3. Crown Prosecution Service 478 words
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4. House of Fraser 197 words
3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. East Timor 1,015 words
cc607-8
2. OECD 263 words
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3. Global Environmental Facility 205 words
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4. Rail Crash (Severn Tunnel) 2,921 words
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5. Bus Plant Closure (Workington) 503 words
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6. Points of Order 1,339 words
7. BILLS PRESENTED
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1. COMMONWEALTH OF EUROPE 47 words
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2. CHEQUES 72 words
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3. Statutory Instruments, &c. 33 words
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4. RATING AND VALUATION 22 words
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5. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE 25 words
8. Orders of the Day
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1. Aggravated Vehicle-Taking Bill 38,372 words
9. Clause 1
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1. NEW OFFENCE OF AGGRAVATED) VEHICLE-TAKING 4,449 words, 1 division
10. Clause 2
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1. OFFENCE TO BE TRIED ONLY SUMMARILY IF VALUE OF DAMAGE IS SMALL 262 words
11. Clause 3
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1. OBLIGATORY DISQUALIFICATION 2,684 words
12. Clause 4
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1. SHORT TITLE, COMMENCEMENT AND EXTENT 1,011 words
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2. Teachers' Pay and Conditions 2,261 words
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3. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c. 37 words
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4. DOUBLE TAXATION 280 words
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5. VAT (BUILDINGS AND LAND) 55 words
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6. CUSTOMS DUTIES 55 words
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7. CRIMINAL LAW 29 words
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8. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS 15 words
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9. INDIRECT TAXATION 287 words
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10. Ex-Service Men 3,919 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 9 December 1991 Series 6 Vol. 200

1. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Government Legal Services 46 words
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2. Solicitors (Disclosure of Information) 42 words
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3. Charities 28 words
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4. Prosecutions 61 words
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5. Immigration Appeals 131 words
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6. Bailiffs 85 words
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7. Maxwell Communication Corporation 103 words
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8. Paintball Guns 87 words
2. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Zionism 185 words
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2. United Nations 66 words
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3. Non-proliferation Policies 77 words
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4. Arms Sales 188 words
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5. United Nations 102 words
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6. Non-proliferation Treaty 188 words
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7. Disabled People 146 words
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8. Maastricht 73 words
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9. Sterling 110 words
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10. "Faith in the Countryside" 48 words
3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
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1. Yugoslavia 73 words
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2. Finance Ministers 88 words
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3. Mauritius 77 words
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4. EC Aid 50 words
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5. EC Development Council 87 words
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6. Contract Legal Personnel 202 words
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7. British Virgin Islands 127 words
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8. South Africa 124 words
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9. Ozone-depleting Substances 168 words
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10. Aid Review 50 words
4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. EC (Visits) 145 words
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2. Director General of Telecommunications 77 words
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3. Operation Scotcheck 56 words
5. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Pesticides 131 words
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2. Dumping at Sea 122 words
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3. Wind Energy 131 words
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4. Set-aside Scheme 270 words
6. WALES
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1. Expenditure 469 words
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2. Training and Enterprise Councils 47 words
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3. Minor Works Grant 45 words
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4. Public Rights of Way 66 words
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5. Health "Customers" 99 words
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6. Service Contracts 207 words
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7. Welsh World Trade Centre (Grant) 126 words
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8. Standard Spending Assessments 74 words
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9. Rural Initiative 59 words
7. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Poll Tax 50 words
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2. Terrorist Suspects 118 words
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3. Private Security Industry 220 words
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4. Correspondence 44 words
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5. Metropolitan Police 190 words
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6. Hepatitis B (Prisons) 259 words
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7. Mr. Ian Borovikov 110 words
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8. Police Statistics 2,071 words
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9. Alleged Police Assaults 188 words
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10. Data Protection Registrar 199 words
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11. Police Batons 73 words
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12. Electoral Registration 75 words
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13. Prison Escapes 131 words
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14. Local Government Finance 108 words
8. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Pupil Exclusions 152 words
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2. Science Research Fellowships 85 words
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3. School Meals 344 words
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4. GCSE 259 words
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5. Elmbridge Road School, Gloucester 198 words
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6. Teachers' Pay 141 words
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7. Costs and Allowances 341 words
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8. Budget, Wolverhampton 56 words
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9. Reading Standards 76 words
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10. Research Councils 101 words
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11. Pupil Testing 118 words
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12. Exclusion from School 82 words
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13. School Governors 58 words
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14. Higher Education 108 words
9. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. BT (Share Sale) 671 words
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2. VAT 127 words
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3. National Insurance 601 words
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4. Income Tax 625 words
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5. Third World Debt 193 words
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6. Operation Scotcheck 133 words
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7. Public Expenditure 45 words
10. TRANSPORT
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1. Air Fares 218 words
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2. Multi-airline Business 192 words
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3. Marine Accident Investigation Branch 353 words
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4. Ocean Hound 94 words
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5. Motorway Lighting 116 words
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6. Marine Pollution 94 words
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7. A1 (Upgrading) 271 words
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8. Rail Crossings 191 words
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9. Road Contracts 658 words
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10. A13 (Lane Closure) 80 words
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11. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency 49 words
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12. East London River Crossing 89 words
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13. Driving Licence Fees 231 words
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14. Provisional Car Licences 45 words
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15. Road Advertisements 73 words
11. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Priority Homeless Statistics 296 words
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2. Inland Waterways Amenities Advisory Council 101 words
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3. Noise Abatement 61 words
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4. Housing 597 words
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5. Disabled Facilities Grant 120 words
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6. Environmental Conferences 78 words
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7. Toxic Waste 116 words
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8. Rents into Mortgages 149 words
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9. Household Waste (Burning) 168 words
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10. Corine Programme 130 words
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11. New Town Housing, Warrington 350 words
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12. Local Government Finance 1,246 words
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13. River Pollution 71 words
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14. Homelessness 119 words
12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Subsidiarity 80 words
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2. United Nations 162 words
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3. Western Sahara 119 words
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4. Zionism 202 words
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5. Japan (Plutonium) 144 words
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6. Ukraine 238 words
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7. Romanian Children (Adoptions) 160 words
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8. Pakistan 80 words
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9. Iraq (Nuclear Scientists) 34 words
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10. Pearl Harbour 98 words
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11. Lockerbie 176 words
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12. Nuclear Tests 118 words
13. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Government-funded Projects 42 words
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2. Contract Law 65 words
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3. Catholic Maintained Schools 146 words
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4. Women-only Employment Courses 116 words
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5. RUC Holding Centres 60 words
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6. Non-traditional Skills 96 words
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7. Ms. Pauline Quinn 137 words
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8. Information Service 48 words
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9. Right of Silence 85 words
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10. Schoolchildren (Statistics) 85 words
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11. Northern Ireland Block 88 words
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12. SERPS 484 words
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13. Social Fund 107 words
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14. English Teaching 174 words
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15. Children at Risk 321 words
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16. Travellers 378 words
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17. Housing (Security Improvements) 144 words
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18. One-Parent Families 75 words
14. HEALTH
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1. NHS Charges (Exemptions) 356 words
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2. Adoption 310 words
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3. Cot Death 211 words
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4. Quest Cancer Test 66 words
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5. NHS Trusts 72 words
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6. GPs (Computers) 54 words
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7. Expenditure Statistics 615 words
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8. Meat and Bonemeal 120 words
15. ENERGY
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1. Oil Industry 84 words
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2. Coal Industry 232 words
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3. Wood 86 words
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4. Waste Incineration 56 words
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5. Energy Conservation 66 words
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6. Coal Mining (Productivity) 52 words
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7. Energy Efficiency 100 words
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8. Pylon Lines 108 words
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9. Domestic Heating and Insulation 113 words
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10. Energy Prices 109 words
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11. Redundant Pipelines 80 words
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12. Wind-generated Electricity 144 words
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13. Energy Policy 105 words
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14. Nuclear Facility Attachments 94 words
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15. Euratom Safeguards 69 words
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16. Energy from Waste 69 words
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17. Euratom 116 words
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18. Nuclear Energy 86 words
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19. Nuclear Industry 129 words
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20. Monktonhall Colliery 165 words
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21. Sizewell 247 words
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22. Nuclear Waste (Accidents) 60 words
16. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Tourism 106 words
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2. Training (North-West) 135 words
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3. Youth Training 186 words
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4. Public Holidays 194 words
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5. Redundant Mineworkers 41 words
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6. Iraqi Nuclear Scientists 90 words
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7. Special Needs Training 134 words
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8. Accident, Isles of Scilly 69 words
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9. Mr. A. A. Binns (Accident) 157 words
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10. Earnings 660 words
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11. Health and Safety 105 words
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12. Schools 102 words
17. SCOTLAND
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1. Haddington Bypass 203 words
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2. Schoolchildren (Statistics) 555 words
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3. CAP 88 words
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4. Crime Rates, Strathclyde 571 words
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5. Stobhill Hospital 70 words
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6. Catholic Schools 60 words
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7. Disability 103 words
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8. Knitwear and Textiles 105 words
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9. Capital Expenditure 243 words
18. DEFENCE
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1. Verification Demands 84 words
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2. Scientists Against Nuclear Weapons 117 words
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3. Nuclear Testing 241 words
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4. Environmental Exhibition 82 words
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5. Non-proliferation Treaty 72 words
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6. Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve 72 words
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7. Royal Naval Reserve 114 words
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8. Household Division 47 words
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9. Armed Forces (Injuries Compensation) 57 words
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10. Pearl Harbour 96 words
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11. HMS Revenge 38 words
19. SOCIAL SECURITY
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1. Means-tested Benefits 222 words
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2. Cold Weather Payments 117 words
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3. Pensions 212 words
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4. Housing Benefit 173 words
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5. Carer's Premium 82 words
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6. Disability Benefits 186 words
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7. Invalid Care Allowance 89 words
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8. Family Credit 69 words
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9. Algebra Group 99 words
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10. Income Support 98 words
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11. Young People (Benefits) 1,001 words
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12. Attendance Allowance 155 words
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13. Social Fund Manual 228 words

Lords Sitting of 9 December 1991 Series 5 Vol. 533

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Lord HolmPatrick 14 words
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3. Iraq: Policy 1,045 words
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4. UN Secretary General 592 words
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5. Speed Limits: Enforcement 1,154 words
cc459-61
6. Baltic States: Western Assistance 1,096 words
c461
7. Business 55 words
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8. London Docklands Railway Bill 13 words
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9. Further and Higher Education Bill [H.L.] 34,186 words, 3 divisions
cc525-33
10. Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Bill [H.L.] 4,087 words
cc533-84
11. Further and Higher Education Bill [H.L.] 25,839 words, 2 divisions
c584
12. Aire and Calder Navigation Bill 15 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 9 December 1991 Series 5 Vol. 533

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1. FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL, 2nd DECEMBER 347 words
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2. POLITICAL UNION: MINISTERIAL MEETING, 2nd and 3rd DECEMBER 192 words
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3. BURMA: CONTROL OF HEROIN 69 words
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4. BURMA: ARMS CONTROL 97 words
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5. BURMA: UNIVERSITIES 109 words
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6. BURMA: REFUGEES 152 words
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7. BURMA: ALLEGED USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS 76 words
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8. NORTHERN IRELAND: ARTS COUNCIL GRANT 58 words
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9. VEHICLE BRAKING DISTANCES 165 words
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10. LONDON UNDERGROUND TRAINS: VERTICAL HANDRAILS 201 words
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11. CROWN COURT CENTRES 58 words
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12. EX-SERVICE AFFAIRS: PROPOSED DEPARTMENT 55 words
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13. COMMUNITY CARE: TRANSFER OF RESOURCES TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT 129 words
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14. EMERGENCY TREATMENT BY GPs 430 words
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15. GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL STRATEGIES REPORT 70 words
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16. RUSHCLIFFE BOROUGH COUNCIL: BUNNY HALL BARNS PLANNING CONSENT 104 words
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17. ASSISTED PLACES SCHEME: SEN CHILDREN 74 words