Sitting of 5 March 1998

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Commons Sitting of 5 March 1998 Series 6 Vol. 307

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
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1. TRADE AND INDUSTRY 9 words
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2. Commercial Debt 734 words
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3. Export Credits Guarantee System 853 words
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4. Financial Services Industry 338 words
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5. Space Exploration 358 words
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6. Utility Regulators 728 words
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7. Corporate Governance 1,183 words
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8. Objective 1 Areas 556 words
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9. Competitiveness 838 words
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10. Export Contracts 373 words
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11. Scientific Careers 451 words
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12. High-technology Companies 497 words
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13. Small Businesses 886 words
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14. Investment (Developing Countries) 432 words
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15. Economic and Monetary Union 348 words
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4. Business of the House 6,026 words
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5. Points of Order 1,275 words
6. BILLS PRESENTED
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1. PORTS OF ENTRY (SPECIAL STATUS) 97 words
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2. RECYCLED CONTENT OF NEWSPRINT 86 words
7. Orders of the Day
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1. European Parliamentary Elections Bill 13 words
8. Clause 5
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1. COMMENCEMENT 301 words
9. Clause 6
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1. SHORT TITLE 41 words
10. New clause 2
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1. CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS (TRAINING OF ELECTION STAFF) 4,171 words
11. Schedule 1
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1. NEW SCHEDULE 2 TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ACT 1978 5,989 words
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2. Schedule 2 9,465 words
12. Schedule 3
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1. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS 75 words
13. Schedule 4
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1. REPEALS 49 words
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14. Prevention of Terrorism 14,077 words
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15. Owen Oyston 4,849 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 5 March 1998 Series 6 Vol. 307

1. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
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1. Millennium Compliance 1,487 words
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2. Departmental and Agency Plans 98 words
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3. Tree Preservation Orders 169 words
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4. Business Parks 128 words
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5. Leaseholders 104 words
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6. Hedgerows 88 words
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7. West Coast Main Line 125 words
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8. Deputy Prime Minister (Car) 227 words
2. SCOTLAND
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1. Business Parks 88 words
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2. Hepatitis C 79 words
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3. Ambulance Service 375 words
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4. Students 196 words
3. PRIME MINISTER
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1. News International 66 words
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2. Ministerial Visits 99 words
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3. "Britain in Europe" 126 words
4. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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1. Iraq 349 words
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2. Homelessness (Russia) 219 words
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3. Surveys 74 words
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4. Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord 154 words
5. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Ethnic Minorities 86 words
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2. Remand Prisoners 94 words
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3. Birds of Prey 567 words
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4. Alcohol Sales 74 words
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5. Allowances 587 words
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6. Private Prisons 252 words
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7. Information Technology 79 words
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8. World Cup 147 words
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9. Asylum Seekers 829 words
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10. Special Secure Units 199 words
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11. Prison Medical Service 141 words
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12. European Elections 73 words
6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Gulf Crisis 42 words
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2. Camel Jockeys 71 words
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3. Human Rights 111 words
7. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Members' Tea Room 40 words
8. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
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1. Child Abduction 1,039 words
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2. Guardsmen Fisher and Wright 70 words
9. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
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1. Millennium Compliance 416 words
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2. Works of Art 152 words
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3. Green Transport Co-ordinator 79 words
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4. Television Licence 90 words
10. TREASURY
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1. Insurance Premium Tax 592 words
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2. Scotland Bill 181 words
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3. Pensions Mis-selling 80 words
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4. VAT (Artisan Golf Associations) 109 words
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5. Green Transport Co-ordinator 96 words
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6. Teachers (Income Tax Relief) 71 words
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7. Pensions 339 words
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8. VAT (House Renovation) 90 words
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9. Betting Duty 66 words
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10. VAT (Continence Products) 67 words
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11. Business Taxes 187 words
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12. Income Tax 670 words
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13. Millennium Compliance 49 words
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14. Tax Harmonisation 151 words
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15. Duty Free 97 words
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16. Windfall Tax 195 words
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17. Sea Empress 93 words
11. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Schools (Funding) 310 words
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2. Organophosphates 201 words
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3. Housing Executive 848 words
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4. European Structural Funds 95 words
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5. Schools 105 words
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6. Toll Roads 79 words
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7. Green Transport Co-ordinator 79 words
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8. Car Parking Spaces 98 words
12. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Central Science Laboratory 339 words
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2. Fisheries 258 words
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3. Calshot Oyster Fisheries 123 words
13. SOCIAL SECURITY
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1. Pensions 56 words
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2. Child Support Agency 176 words
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3. Benefits 1,601 words
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4. Welfare to Work Scheme 270 words
14. WALES
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1. Higher Education 339 words
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2. Land Deals (Merthyr Tydfil) 182 words
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3. International Rail Freight Terminal 47 words
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4. Merchant Designs Manufacturing (Machynlleth) 390 words
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5. Welsh Development Agency 226 words
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6. Public Bodies 104 words
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7. Far Eastern Industries 61 words
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8. Land Use (Housing) 151 words
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9. Rural Roads 89 words
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10. European Structural Funds 107 words
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11. Millennium Compliance 204 words
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12. Business Parks 140 words
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13. NHS Trusts 177 words
15. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Company Law 61 words
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2. Corporate Governance 91 words
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3. Newspaper Industry 123 words
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4. European Regional Development Fund 55 words
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5. Exchange Rate 74 words
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6. Regeneration 73 words
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7. Economic and Monetary Union 85 words
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8. Rural Post Offices 62 words
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9. Commercial Debt 82 words
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10. Businesses (Best Practice) 103 words
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11. Utility Regulation 155 words
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12. Competition 48 words
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13. Employment Tribunals 43 words
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14. Foresight Panels 76 words
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15. Competitiveness 76 words
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16. Electrical Retailing Industry 47 words
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17. Genetic Engineering 116 words
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18. Retail Petrol Industry 275 words
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19. Barings and BCCI (Reports) 189 words
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20. Multilateral Agreement on Investment 81 words
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21. Telecommunications Council 179 words
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22. Minimum Wage 52 words
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23. Business Performance 102 words
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24. Bus Competition (Scotland) 66 words
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25. Departmental Salaries 50 words
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26. Export Licences 423 words
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27. Office Refurbishment 159 words
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28. Levitt Group of Companies 84 words
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29. Wickes 156 words
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30. Limited Liability Partnerships 88 words
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31. Ministerial Meetings 170 words
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32. Management Consultants 88 words
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33. Correspondence 50 words
16. MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO
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1. Millennium Dome 89 words
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2. Millennium Experience 176 words
17. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
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1. Student Loans 550 words
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2. School Expenditure 88 words
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3. Film Industry 76 words
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4. Special Educational Needs 76 words
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5. Specialist Teachers 144 words
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6. Ministerial Meetings 86 words
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7. Conferences 77 words
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8. After-school Clubs 179 words
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9. Teachers 78 words
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10. Inspectors' Ratings 191 words
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11. Competitive Tendering 85 words
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12. Physical Education 108 words
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13. Training 288 words
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14. Jobseeker's Allowance 258 words
18. HEALTH
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1. Acute Service Beds 93 words
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2. London Hospitals 49 words
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3. General Practitioner Budgets 158 words
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4. Food Poisoning (Milk) 663 words
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5. NHS Boards 230 words
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6. Voluntary Sector Funding 229 words
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7. Hospitals 108 words
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8. Private Finance Initiative 63 words
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9. Advertising Contracts 371 words
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10. Hepatitis C 92 words
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11. Pay 58 words
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12. National Health Service Real Estate Sales 94 words
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13. Medical Research 269 words
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14. Germ and Chemical Weapons 69 words
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15. RNAS Yeovilton 99 words
19. DEFENCE
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1. Defence Diversification 59 words
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2. Ministerial Visits 192 words
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3. Nuclear Accident Exercises 409 words
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4. Reynolds & Dean 55 words
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5. Nuclear Weapons 87 words
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6. Army Legal Services 91 words
20. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
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1. Departmental Buildings 441 words
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2. Overseas Travel 64 words
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3. Market Research 757 words
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4. Periodicals 200 words
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5. Consultants 234 words
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6. Departmental Contracts 73 words
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7. Departmental Expenditure 183 words
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8. Surplus Property and Land 561 words

Lords Sitting of 5 March 1998 Series 5 Vol. 586

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1. Preamble 21 words
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2. Engineering Skills 1,268 words
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3. Overseas Territories: Administration 1,144 words
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4. Paintings on Loan from the Tate Gallery 1,165 words
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5. Turkey: Human Rights 798 words
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6. Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] 59 words
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7. Competition Bill [H.L.] 43,040 words, 2 divisions
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8. Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill 13,266 words
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9. Appropriation (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 13,857 words
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10. Financial Provisions (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 841 words
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11. London Local Authorities Bill 20 words

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

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1. Professor John Hobcraft and Dr. Neil Price 204 words
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2. EU Council: Forthcoming Business 1,884 words
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3. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Police Restructuring 117 words
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4. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Exhumations Programme 128 words
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5. Iraq: Testing of Biological Agents 49 words
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6. Israel and Occupied Territories: ICRC Access to Detainees 222 words
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7. Indonesia 133 words
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8. Pyrethroid Sheep Dips: Pollution Incidents 349 words
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9. Contaminated Land 148 words
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10. Noise-induced Hearing Loss 350 words
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11. Beef on the Bone: Home Killed Beasts 138 words
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12. Defence Diversification: Green Paper 55 words
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13. N.I. Medical and Dental Students' Tuition Fees 152 words
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14. European Union: Educational Material 191 words
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15. Student Loans: Portfolio Sale 558 words
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16. Phyllis Bowman v. the United Kingdom 60 words
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17. Electoral Register: Format 80 words
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18. Stoke Heath Young Offenders Institution: Report 135 words
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19. Whitemoor SSU: Second Report 172 words
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20. Nazi Victims: Restitution of Assets 152 words
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21. Museums and Galleries: Social Profile of Visitors 278 words
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22. Government: Use of Works of Art 140 words