Sitting of 24 February 1998

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Commons Sitting of 24 February 1998 Series 6 Vol. 307

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
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1. LLOYDS TSB BILL [Lords] 15 words
4. Oral Answers to Questions
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1. HEALTH 6 words
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2. Telemedicine 832 words
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3. Dental Services (Shropshire) 180 words
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4. Tobacco Advertising 677 words
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5. Young Women 412 words
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6. Partnership (NHS) 1,143 words
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7. Public Accountability (NHS) 738 words
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8. Health and Social Services 525 words
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9. Medical Staff Recruitment 550 words
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10. Private Finance Initiative 345 words
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11. NHS Trusts 515 words
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12. Aricept 486 words
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13. Patient Care 519 words
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14. Primary Care 501 words
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15. Community Hospitals 337 words
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16. Iraq 220 words
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5. Iraq 7,671 words
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6. Voluntary Personal Security Cards 1,011 words
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7. VOLUNTARY PERSONAL SECURITY CARDS 47 words
8. Orders of the Day
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1. European Parliamentary Elections Bill 12 words
9. Clause 1
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1. NUMBER OF MEPs, ELECTORAL REGIONS AND ELECTORAL SYSTEM 43,676 words, 2 divisions
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10. Farmers' Incomes 4,279 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 24 February 1998 Series 6 Vol. 307

1. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
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1. Anti-Drugs Coordinator 149 words
2. TREASURY
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1. Official Residence 59 words
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2. Ministerial Directorship 79 words
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3. European Investment Bank 110 words
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4. Housing (VAT Rates) 87 words
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5. Public Borrowing Targets 56 words
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6. Retirement Relief 202 words
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7. Advertising Contracts 57 words
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8. Universal Benefit 75 words
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9. Nursery Schools (Deaths) 188 words
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10. Statistics 160 words
3. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
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1. Ministerial Visits 69 words
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2. Overseas Travel 191 words
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3. Official Hospitality 117 words
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4. Conferences 56 words
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5. Oil Spills 288 words
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6. Planning and Water Directorates 45 words
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7. House Building 478 words
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8. Housing 168 words
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9. New Drivers 387 words
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10. Fluoride 82 words
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11. Maritime Rescue 391 words
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12. Electricity Pylons 132 words
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13. Waste Management 80 words
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14. Minerals Conference 86 words
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15. Olympic Airways 101 words
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16. Toxic Substances 329 words
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17. Strategic Environmental Assessment 161 words
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18. Wild Bees 192 words
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19. Council Houses (Chelmsford) 82 words
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20. Health and Safety Executive 548 words
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21. Asbestos 303 words
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22. Health and Safety (Prosecutions) 329 words
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23. Agenda 21 292 words
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24. Capital Receipts 114 words
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25. Bull Bars 95 words
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26. Drug Driving Tests 75 words
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27. Dial-a-ride 101 words
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28. Air Operations of Europe 83 words
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29. Power Stations 102 words
4. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
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1. Victoria and Albert Museum 69 words
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2. Museums and Galleries 507 words
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3. Museums (Macclesfield) 96 words
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4. Cash Limits 158 words
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5. National Lottery 566 words
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6. Old Vic Theatre 53 words
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7. TV Dreams 95 words
5. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
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1. Office Refurbishment Costs 115 words
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2. Civil Justice Council 656 words
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3. County Courts 1,030 words
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4. Magistrates Courts 234 words
6. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Dietary Supplements 58 words
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2. Sri Lanka 80 words
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3. Energy Deregulation 63 words
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4. Taiwan (Whisky) 296 words
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5. Utility Bills 64 words
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6. Departmental Buildings 66 words
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7. Departmental Employees 282 words
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8. Departmental Expenditure 57 words
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9. Departmental Contracts 75 words
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10. Radioactive Waste 71 words
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11. Departmental Child Care 191 words
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12. Scientific Research 240 words
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13. Inward Investment 54 words
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14. Corporation Tax 111 words
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15. Business Taxation 58 words
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16. Advertising Contracts 149 words
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17. Prepayment Meter Scheme 100 words
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18. European Research Council 529 words
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19. Export Sales Lead Service 104 words
7. DEFENCE
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1. Bull Point, Plymouth 141 words
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2. EUROFOR 148 words
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3. Precision-guided Weapons 57 words
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4. WE-177 Bomb 48 words
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5. Gibraltar 77 words
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6. Arms Exports (Iraq) 88 words
8. HEALTH
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1. Primary Care 80 words
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2. Hypertension 87 words
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3. Asthma (East Sussex) 70 words
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4. NHS (50th Anniversary) 84 words
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5. Diabetes 79 words
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6. Birmingham Health Authority 75 words
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7. Suffolk Health Authority 36 words
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8. Accident and Emergency Units 94 words
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9. Waiting Lists 85 words
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10. Public Health 106 words
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11. Dental Services (Swindon) 59 words
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12. NHS Charter 83 words
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13. Redbridge and Waltham Forest DHA 47 words
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14. Rationing (NHS) 47 words
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15. NHS Performance and Efficiency 241 words
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16. NHS Cuts (Cornwall) 99 words
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17. Bed Blocking 60 words
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18. Integrated Care 79 words
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19. Immunisation 253 words
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20. Primary Care (Nurses' Role) 99 words
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21. St. Vincent's Declaration 156 words
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22. Private Finance Initiative 57 words
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23. Suicides 231 words
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24. NHS White Paper 57 words
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25. Dalton Report 159 words
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26. Aricept 91 words
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27. Pharmaceuticals 156 words
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28. Nursing Homes 88 words
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29. Diabetes 288 words
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30. Hormone Replacement Medication 111 words
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31. NHS Dentists 430 words
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32. Health Authority Deficits 159 words
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33. Social Services 94 words
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34. Psychologists 66 words
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35. Cosmetic Surgery 136 words
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36. Social Care Council 37 words
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37. Meningitis 490 words
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38. NHS Trust Boards 862 words
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39. Dissolved NHS Trusts 120 words
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40. Medicinal Drugs (Driving) 115 words
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41. Community and Acute Hospitals 57 words
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42. Millennium Compliance 101 words
9. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Prevention of Terrorism Act 373 words
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2. Laboratory Animals 434 words
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3. Handguns 360 words
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4. Immigration 1,304 words
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5. Sexual Abuse 165 words
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6. Police Surgeons 235 words
10. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Departmental Removal Costs 196 words
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2. Slaughter Proposals 108 words
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3. Beef on the Bone 105 words
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4. Countryside Protection 221 words
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5. Sheep Dip 67 words
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6. Farm Values 102 words
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7. Fishing Vessels 213 words
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8. Fishing (EU Finance) 365 words
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9. Fishery Quotas 59 words
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10. Genetically Modified Rapeseed 146 words
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11. Integrated Administration and Control System 143 words
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12. Poultrymeat 299 words
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13. Milk 72 words
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14. Beef Imports 52 words
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15. Animal Experiments 192 words
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16. Fishing Industry 642 words
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17. BSE 359 words
11. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Absenteeism 203 words
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2. Correspondence 81 words
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3. NATO Headquarters, Gibraltar 56 words
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4. Iraq 108 words
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5. Defence Exports 134 words
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6. Israel 286 words
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7. Caribbean (Nuclear Waste) 90 words
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8. International Criminal Court 165 words
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9. Diego Garcia 226 words
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10. Kuwait 85 words
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11. Bosnia 180 words
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12. St. Helena 80 words
12. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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1. East Africa 174 words
13. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. RUC Officers 96 words
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2. Bombings 57 words
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3. Queen's Counsel 67 words
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4. RUC, Antrim Road 465 words
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5. Police (Personal Equipment Purchases) 148 words
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6. Seapark Complex 657 words
14. SCOTLAND
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1. Ministerial Visits 64 words
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2. Private Water Supplies 107 words
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3. Children's Hearings 222 words
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4. Land Reform Policy Group 144 words
15. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
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1. Teacher Training 171 words
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2. Grammar Schools 37 words
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3. Higher Education 385 words
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4. Welfare to Work 202 words
16. WALES
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1. Empty Properties 89 words
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2. Official Hospitality 80 words
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3. St. David's and Glan Hafren Secondary Schools 89 words
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4. Bill Boards (Schools) 65 words
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5. Inward Investment (LG) 72 words
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6. Flax 66 words
17. MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO
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1. Junior Board 94 words
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2. Millennium Experience 207 words
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3. Ministerial Meetings 71 words
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4. Sponsorship 182 words
18. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
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1. Freedom of Information 89 words
19. SOCIAL SECURITY
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1. State Pension 240 words
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2. Pensioner Incomes 67 words
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3. Lone Parents 287 words
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4. Appeals 589 words
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5. Overseas Travel 75 words
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6. Ministerial Transport 131 words
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7. Brain Injuries 191 words
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8. State Pensions (Women) 98 words
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9. Incapacity Benefit 81 words
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10. Working Mothers 154 words
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11. Welfare Reform (Wales) 62 words
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12. Benefits Take-up 178 words
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13. Jobseeker's Allowance 82 words
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14. Tribunals 732 words
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15. Social Workers 134 words
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16. Benefit Registration Period 142 words
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17. Income Support 125 words
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18. Correspondence 101 words
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19. Adoption 117 words
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20. Disabled Cars 336 words
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21. Disability Living Allowance 817 words
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22. Welfare Reform 83 words
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23. Reduced Benefit Directions 238 words
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24. Fishermen (Redundancy Fund) 46 words
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25. Women's Issues 120 words
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26. Habitual Residence Test 114 words
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27. Social Security Expenditure 275 words
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28. Women's National Commission 439 words

Lords Sitting of 24 February 1998 Series 5 Vol. 586

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. WEU Parliamentary Assembly 568 words
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3. Women's Refuges and Support Services 1,144 words
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4. British Indian Ocean Territory 934 words
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5. Scottish Parliament: Voting System 1,565 words
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6. Business 38 words
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7. Crime and Disorder Bill [H.L.] 5,467 words
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8. Iraq 7,148 words
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9. Crime and Disorder Bill [H.L.] 23,698 words
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10. Northern Ireland: Integrated Education 8,190 words
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11. Crime and Disorder Bill [H.L.] 20,290 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 24 February 1998 Series 5 Vol. 586

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1. International Criminal Court Proposal 154 words
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2. DFID: Consultants 250 words
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3. UK Round Table on Sustainable Development Report: Response 197 words
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4. Travellers: Eviction 97 words
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5. London Taxicabs: Administration and Enforcement 413 words
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6. London Private Hire Vehicles: MoT Test Frequency 87 words
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7. London Dial-a-Ride Service: Financial Target 91 words
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8. Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989: Operation 385 words
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9. Northern Ireland: Prisons 100 words
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10. Northern Ireland: Young Offenders 43 words
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11. Northern Ireland: Children and Young People Centres 90 words
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12. Northern Ireland Training Schools: Assessments 135 words
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13. Export Sales Service: Tender 97 words
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14. Civil Justice Council: Membership 171 words
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15. Forestry Commission: Planting 209 words
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16. NHS Trust Boards: Membership 884 words
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17. Millennium Dome 75 words
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18. Millennium Experience: Sponsorship 183 words
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19. The Pound-US Dollar: Purchasing Power Parities 295 words
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20. Comptroller and Auditor-General and the National Audit Office: Powers 92 words
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21. The Blind: VAT Relief on Aids 103 words
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22. Unemployment Benefit: Percentage of Average Earnings 262 words
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23. War Pensions Agency: Medical Advisers 149 words
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24. Social Security Bill: Estimated Benefits Savings 501 words