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Commons Sitting of 25 November 1996 Series 6 Vol. 286

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
1. TRANSPORT
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1. Road Freight 879 words
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2. National Bus Network 338 words
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3. Traffic Reduction 505 words
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4. Transport Expenditure (London) 600 words
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5. Congestion (London) 923 words
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6. Fishing Vessel Safety 354 words
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7. Vulnerable Road Users 538 words
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8. Speed Cameras 343 words
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9. Rail Privatisation 738 words
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10. Industrial Action (London Transport) 575 words
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11. Congestion Costs 176 words
2. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Renovations 380 words
3. TRANSPORT
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1. Departmental Rail Investment 431 words
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2. Driving Licences 197 words
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3. Bus Services 187 words
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4. School Transport 221 words
4. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Parliamentary Questions 292 words
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2. Adjournment Debates 237 words
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3. Overseas Development Questions 241 words
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4. EMU Regulations 12,735 words
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5. Household Projections 7,869 words
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6. Points of Order 623 words
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7. EMU (Documents) 360 words
8. BILLS PRESENTED
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1. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) 73 words
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2. HUMAN TISSUE (AMENDMENT) 97 words
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3. RESIDENTIAL HOMES 72 words
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4. PARKING PENALTY CHARGE 69 words
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5. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 17 words
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6. SOCIAL SECURITY REGULATIONS 82 words
9. Orders of the Day
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1. Social Security Administration (Fraud) Bill 33,842 words
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2. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (FRAUD) BILL [MONEY] 113 words
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3. FIREARMS (AMENDMENT) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME) 67 words
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4. WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE 29 words
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5. WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE (SITTINGS) 37 words
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10. Former Mine Shafts (Kingswood) 4,238 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 25 November 1996 Series 6 Vol. 286

1. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Records (Royal Palaces) 67 words
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2. Arms Export 146 words
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3. Public Interest Exemptions 192 words
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4. Open Government 93 words
2. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Prison Population 362 words
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2. Prison Service (Redundancies) 208 words
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3. Prison Escapes 422 words
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4. Firearms 675 words
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5. Al Fayed Brothers 228 words
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6. Thorn Cross 173 words
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7. Doncaster Prison 221 words
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8. Asylum Seekers (Zaire) 90 words
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9. Fire Safety 174 words
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10. Prisons (Costs) 221 words
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11. Dogs (Tail Docking) 34 words
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12. Departmental Decisions (Appeals) 83 words
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13. Bradford Commission 42 words
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14. Prison Service (Quantum Project) 435 words
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15. LIST A 122 words
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16. LIST B 25 words
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17. Prisons (Smuggling) 513 words
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18. Full Sutton Prison 147 words
3. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
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1. Lecturers 796 words
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2. Students 248 words
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3. Youth Counselling and Information Services 221 words
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4. Higher Education 312 words
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5. Fovant School 43 words
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6. Employment Contracts 122 words
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7. Teachers (Early Retirement) 127 words
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8. First Aid Training (Pupils) 92 words
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9. Assisted Places Scheme 293 words
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10. School Exclusions 82 words
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11. Selective and Modern Schools 2,736 words
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12. Youth Training 138 words
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13. Training Schemes 198 words
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14. Departmental Decisions (Appeals) 46 words
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15. School Deficits 97 words
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16. Grant-maintained Schools 1,001 words
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17. Pre-School Provision 957 words
4. DEFENCE
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1. European Union 124 words
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2. Rosyth Dockyard 201 words
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3. Employment Contracts 786 words
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4. Implementation Force 179 words
5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Nuclear Power Industry 92 words
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2. Small Firms (Exports) 69 words
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3. Business Links 238 words
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4. Mobile Telephones 126 words
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5. Industrial Relations 148 words
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6. Institute of Patentees and Inventors 110 words
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7. Research 168 words
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8. Freelance Inventors 101 words
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9. John Innes Centre 83 words
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10. Mine Shafts 78 words
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11. Arms Trade 170 words
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12. Mil-Tec 58 words
6. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
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1. Employment Contracts 792 words
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2. Departmental Decisions (Appeals) 44 words
7. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Air Pollution 77 words
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2. Employment Contracts 106 words
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3. Construction Skills Certification Scheme 77 words
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4. Departmental Decisions (Appeals) 93 words
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5. Building Research Establishment 313 words
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6. Bradford Commission 150 words
8. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
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1. Publicity 166 words
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2. Rwandan Refugees (Zaire) 89 words
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3. Sudan 83 words
9. WALES
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1. Environment Annual Report 97 words
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2. Teachers 186 words
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3. Berwyn Mountains SSSI 462 words
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4. River Dee Crossing 51 words
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5. Women Professors 48 words
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6. Employment Contracts 237 words
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7. Pupil Exclusions 95 words
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8. South East Wales Ambulance NHS Trust 279 words
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9. Secondees and Consultants 108 words
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10. Cardiff Bay Barrage 133 words
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11. Departmental Decisions (Appeals) 44 words
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12. Millennium Celebrations 136 words
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13. Play Wales (Funding) 180 words
10. SCOTLAND
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1. Glasgow Southern Orbital Road 150 words
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2. Glasgow Royal Infirmary 305 words
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3. Rottenrow Maternity Hospital 87 words
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4. Legal Aid 84 words
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5. Women 381 words
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6. Prisons (Costs) 144 words
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7. Employment Contracts 727 words
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8. Crown Office Properties 288 words
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9. Government Borrowing Requirement 1,069 words
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10. Public Sector Finances 411 words
11. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
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1. Drug Dealing 77 words
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2. "Tackling Drugs Together" 86 words
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3. Employment Contracts 182 words
12. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Procedural Reform 71 words
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2. Domestic Committees 53 words
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3. Statutory Instruments 92 words
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4. Question Time 42 words
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5. Departmental Decisions (Appeals) 51 words
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6. Refreshment Department Staff 57 words
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7. Whisky 71 words
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8. Refreshment Facilities 209 words
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9. Official Photographer 64 words
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10. Investors in People 120 words
13. TRANSPORT
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1. Motorway Sound Barriers 59 words
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2. Crossrail 96 words
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3. School Transport 63 words
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4. Road Accidents 80 words
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5. Slots (Heathrow) 52 words
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6. European Airline Subsidies 77 words
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7. Rail Privatisation 106 words
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8. Rail Freight 115 words
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9. Rail Services (Grimsby and Cleethorpes) 32 words
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10. London Underground 258 words
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11. A34 220 words
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12. Emergency Towing Vessel 174 words
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13. M1 441 words
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14. Environmental Auditing 197 words
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15. Train Protection Mechanisms 223 words
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16. Cowden Collision Inquiry 98 words
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17. Buffer Stops 135 words
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18. Bull Bars 98 words
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19. Roadside Exhaust System Tests 154 words
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20. North-eastern and North-western Traffic Areas (Merger) 252 words
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21. Air Traffic Control 173 words
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22. Road Tax Offences 51 words
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23. Women 122 words
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24. London to Birmingham Motorway Journey Times 74 words
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25. Parking Regulations (Traffic Flow) 105 words
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26. Employment Contracts 79 words
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27. Channel Tunnel 752 words
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28. Vehicle Numbers 84 words
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29. Lorry Weights 44 words
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30. Departmental Decisions (Appeals) 88 words
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31. A27 (Worthing) 47 words
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32. Air Services (Liberalisation) 53 words
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33. Regional Traffic Control Centres 170 words
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34. Bypasses 103 words
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35. Air Freight 152 words
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36. Road Haulage Association 224 words
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37. Wyre Piddle Bypass 95 words
14. TREASURY
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1. Allowances 106 words
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2. Partnership and Closed Company Registrations 518 words
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3. Revenue and Expenditure Balance (Scotland) 150 words
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4. Labour Statistics 587 words
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5. Private Finance Initiative 323 words
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6. Inheritance Tax 109 words
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7. Industrial Action 283 words
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8. Golden Shares 114 words
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9. Unemployment 299 words
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10. Capital Gains Tax 161 words
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11. Births 211 words
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12. Taxation (Tobacco and Alcohol) 612 words
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13. Customs and Excise 190 words
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14. Resource Accounting 104 words
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15. Arms Sales 58 words
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16. Landfill Tax 105 words
15. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Seal Cull (Russia) 243 words
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2. Sri Lanka 300 words
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3. Cyprus 63 words
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4. EU Committee of the Regions 461 words
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5. Land Mines 90 words
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6. Employment Contracts 161 words
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7. Rwandan Refugees (Zaire) 167 words
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8. Departmental Decisions (Appeals) 145 words
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9. Gibraltar 82 words
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10. Sudan 1,092 words
16. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Environmental Auditing 85 words
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2. Lenient Sentences (Complaints) 137 words
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3. West Midland Serious Crime Squad 359 words
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4. Departmental Decisions (Appeals) 45 words
17. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
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1. Deregulation Task Force 404 words
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2. Civil Servants (Secondments) 614 words
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3. Human Rights and Political Prisoners (China) 44 words
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4. Equal Opportunities (Civil Service) 125 words
18. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Band Competitions (Policing) 59 words
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2. Firearms Licences 84 words
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3. RUC (Suicides) 299 words
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4. Social Security 260 words
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5. Higher Education 69 words
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6. Young People (Qualifications) 625 words
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7. Department of Education (Administrative Costs) 54 words
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8. Post-16 Full-time Education 47 words
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9. General Practitioners 81 words
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10. Heart Surgery 93 words
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11. Manufacturing Industry 59 words
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12. GCSE Mathematics 184 words
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13. Means-tested Benefits 80 words
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14. A-level Mathematics and Science 405 words
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15. GCSE Examinations 59 words
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16. GP Fundholders 56 words
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17. Unemployment 89 words
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18. Civil Service 145 words
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19. Health and Personal Social Services 155 words
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20. Employment Contracts 95 words
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21. Class Sizes 78 words
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22. Homework Centres 132 words
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23. Ambulance Response Times 493 words
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24. Education and Library Boards 190 words
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25. In-work Benefits 134 words
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26. Child Care 188 words
19. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Organophosphate Warble Fly Dressing 307 words
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2. Rabies 64 words
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3. Badgers 309 words
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4. Poultry Meat Inspection 119 words
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5. Butter 113 words
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6. Environmental Auditing 247 words
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7. Surplus Beef 57 words
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8. Planning Constraints 83 words
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9. European Union 51 words
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10. Food Surpluses (Storage) 66 words
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11. Arable Area Payments Scheme 598 words
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12. Culled Cattle Storage 119 words
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13. Departmental Decisions (Appeals) 49 words
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14. Horse Sales 172 words
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15. Live Animal Exports 266 words
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16. Southall Horse Market 64 words
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17. Lydden Lairage (Incident) 86 words
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18. Hedley Loams Ltd. 61 words
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19. ADAS 259 words
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20. Arable Area Payments 114 words
20. SOCIAL SECURITY
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1. EDS Ltd. 136 words
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2. Departmental Costs 330 words
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3. Incapacity Benefit 463 words
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4. Benefits Agency 388 words
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5. Environmental Auditing 186 words
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6. Child Support Agency 148 words
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7. Public Caller Offices 130 words
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8. Invalidity Benefit 304 words
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9. Child Maintenance 220 words
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10. Retirement Pensioners 399 words
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11. Anti-fraud Campaign 107 words
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12. Employment Contracts 566 words
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13. Fishermen 424 words
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14. Departmental Decisions (Appeals) 45 words
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15. Low Incomes 80 words
21. HEALTH
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1. General Practitioners 491 words
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2. NHS Trusts (Finance) 153 words
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3. Mathematicians (Research Groups) 89 words
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4. Health Authorities (Finance) 137 words
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5. NHS Executives 149 words
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6. Former Mental Hospitals 145 words
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7. British Medical Association 50 words
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8. Dental Services 555 words
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9. NHS Pay Negotiations 106 words
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10. Waiting Times 187 words
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11. NHS Management Trainees 124 words
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12. Private Finance Initiative 188 words
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13. Tuberculosis 359 words
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14. Paediatric Beds 61 words
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15. Prescriptions 745 words
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16. NHS Pension Scheme 55 words
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17. Nurses 218 words
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18. National Blood Authority 75 words
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19. Special Registers 31 words
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20. Efficiency 39 words
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21. VAT 130 words
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22. Hospital Information Support Systems 121 words
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23. Network Scheme 87 words
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24. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome 69 words
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25. Drugs Expenditure 247 words
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26. Inappropriately Prescribed Drugs 40 words
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27. London Emergency Helicopter Service 52 words
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28. Elderly Patients (Hospital Beds) 177 words
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29. Health and Personal Social Services 171 words
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30. Employment Contracts 314 words
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31. Accident and Emergency Departments 78 words
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32. NHS Trusts (London) 57 words
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33. London Ambulance Service 103 words
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34. Health Authority Funding (London) 304 words
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35. Departmental Decisions (Appeals) 44 words
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36. Community Health Councils 235 words
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37. NHS Pension Scheme 129 words
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38. North West Regional Health Authority 81 words

Lords Sitting of 25 November 1996 Series 5 Vol. 576

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1. Preamble 23 words
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2. Care in the Community 1,796 words
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3. Aircraft: Safety Standards 1,068 words
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4. West Coast Main Line Railway: Investment 1,743 words
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5. Business 38 words
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6. Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Bill 4,215 words
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7. Economic and Monetary Union 6,852 words
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8. Dental Auxiliaries (Amendment) Regulations 1996 509 words
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9. Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996 9,704 words
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10. Information Society: Science and Technology Committee Report 23,992 words
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11. ADAS 7,000 words

Grand Committee Report of 25 November 1996 Series 5 Vol. 576

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1. Official Report of the Committee on the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Bill [H.L.] 26,188 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 25 November 1996 Series 5 Vol. 576

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1. Schools: Section 11-funded Schemes 62 words
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2. Prison Boards of Visitors: Chairmen 67 words
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3. House of Lords Shop: Portcullis Motif 54 words
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4. Children's Journeys to School 157 words
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5. Buses: Registration Data 107 words
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6. Rail Passenger Quality Indicators 309 words
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7. Malathion 100 words